Carter arrived at the maximum security prison space station with Don, Darex, and Amuya with him. The two walked down the long hallway which was heavily guarded by the guards in the station. Once the reach the the end of the hallway they found the warden, Len waiting for them.
"Commander thank you for coming, if you will follow me I will take you to Brook's cell." Len motioned Carter and his team to follow him.
"Do you have any questions commander?"
"Whats going on? I was told about Maya Brooks breaking out?" Carter asks
"We are not sure yet, but we have reason to believe Cerberus may try to break out because she may contain valuable information on what they could be up to. We've been trying to interrogate her for whatever she may hold but we haven't got much result. We were wondering if you could try and talk some sense into her."
"Okay. I'll see what I can do."
As they walked passed by the cells men all over had eyes on Amuya.
(Prisoner) "Hey baby. I need some love tonight. Care to cuddle with me?"
(Prisoner) "Bring those tits over here baby!"
(Prisoner) "Come over here and I'll show you a real good time tonight!"
"These men are barbaric. Not surprising." Amuya calmly said.
"Hmph. Thank god I'm not here because they would be dead." Darex cracked his knuckles.
"Okay. Is this the cell?" Carter asking the guard.
"Yes sir." the guard asked.
The team looks through the the holo shield door and see Maya Brooks sitting on her bed. She sits calmly as if she was expecting them. When she took notice she smirked a little.
"So they send in Commander Shepard's replacement. They didn't even have to clone him to replace him. Just find some wannabe dumb enough to take the position." She said to them.
"Wow, I really wanna kill this bitch. Won't you say Carter?" Darex asked.
"Yes I do too but we need her at this point."
"Of course you need me at this point. After all what else is stopping you from sicking your krogan dog at me right now."
"Oh she's really asking for it now."
"Calm yourself brother. You can kill her if she tries anything."
"Hah. Good."
"Now we got questions for you."
"I know you but my question to you Commander Carter is why should I answer your questions. What's in it for me?"
"How about this? Tell me what I want to know about Cerberus and the reaper tech or I'll have Amuya rip your mind in half. Or I'll let Darex do that physically."
"None of you have the balls to do that. And if you did, go ahead. Because if you do anything on me you lose that information forever and you all get nothing. So in a way, I decide your fate
(Sighs) "Okay. Let's try this. Amuya time to play with her mind."
"Of course commander."
Amuya begins to read her mind but finds that everytime she does, she can only sense her experiences during the Identity Thief crises.
"One of the perks of being pro-human is we learn very quickly how to block our minds from Biotics. Try as much you want but your little blue slut isn't going to get anything out of my mind."
"What do we do now, Commander?" Don asked.
"I say let me go in there and beat the information out of her." Darex requested.
"What will it take, Maya?"
"Nothing you could possibly offer."
"What do you want?"
"Let me see, how about a release from prison."
"What do you guy's think?"
"Carter you know we can't release her even with Specter status. She's more crazier and sadistic then the Illusive man." Don warned.
"I would agree commander. I may not be able to read what is in her mind but I can sense that if she is let go she will continue what Cerberus left off before the Illusive man was indoctrinated."
"What's it going to be commander, release from prison or Cerberus kills you all like the piles of shit you people really are?" Brooks asks again.
(Taps comm to Kriat) "Kriat, how good are you in mind reading?"
He gets no response.
"Kriat come in what's going on?"
Suddenly the power to the entire prison station shuts off.
"That's not good." Don commented before suddenly all the prison cells where opened and the prisoners started breaking free and escape from their cells. They immediately attacked the guards and started a huge riot even the guards couldn't handle.
"Well brother?"
"Contain the prisoners. Don't let them escape. If they refuse kill them if you have to." Carter ordered.
"What about her?"
"Amuya keep an eye on her and don't let her out of your sight. Don, you and Darex are with me we're going to give the guards a hand on containing these crazy lunatics."
"Alright let's do this." Darex drew his shotgun and joined Don and Carter as they hopped down to the lower levels of the prison.
Carter sees five prisoners with rifles shooting at him as he takes cover and fires back. Carter throws a grenade killing the group as he continues shooting on.
"Captain Len what the hell happened?" Carter asked.
(over mic) "We have an intruder in the facility, she just shut down all the power and now all five hundred prisoners have been released."
"Damn that's alot of inmates." Don joked as he continued returning fire at some of the other prisoners.
"No time for jokes, Don. Smash all controls to the escape pods. We can't let them escape."
"Um where are those now?" Don asked,
"I have no idea Don." Carter asked.
(Over mic) "Commander I can guide Don to the controls to the escape pods but I need you and your Krogan to help assist my men in the east wing. They've taken hostages."
"Don go now. Darex let's go."
"Right behind you."
Darex and Carter make their way to the east wing while shooting through the prisoners who shot at them. When they arrived at the east wing they saw some of the guards pinned down and heavily injured from the overwhelming inmates attacking them.
"Darex, there's only one thing we can do here."
"What's that?"
"Do things Krogan style."
"Oh hell yeah!" Darex and Carter charges at the prisoners and starts shotgunning their way through them before Darex draws his hammer to smash through.
"Shit its a damn Krogan!"
"What the hell do we do?!"
"Take the oversize son of a bitch with us!" A Prisoner yelled as he fired his gun at Darex but Carter boosts in the air with his omni-blade and slashes the prisoner.
"Holy crap its commander Carter!"
"Who the hell is Carter again?" a prisoner asked.
"Wow, I'm surprised. You do know me." Carter shotguns him as he from left to right to others.
A hulking huge prisoner Yahg carrying a large mini-gun opens fire at Carter, forcing him to take cover as the prisoners started getting their footing again.
"Hey! Toe-Jam!" Darex yelled out to the Yahg. Darex tossed his hammer aside and got his fits up. "It's go time!"
The Yahg tossed the mini-gun aside and got in a fighting stance as everyone gathered in a circle to see the fight. They charged at each other till Darex grabbed his fist holding it as the Yahg pushes with brute force till Darex grabs his hand and threw him into the wall. The Yahg recovers quickly as he head charges Darex into the stomach and begins punching him in the stomach and Darex slowly backs off dodging the hook punches. Darex sees an opening and gives the Yahg a hard left hook in the face knocking him down. Darex picks him, puts him on his back like a wrestler and starts cracking his shell and lastly knees him in the back dropping him on the floor killing him.
"That guy was weak. Just like how I remembered him." Darex says as he cracks his neck and now all the other prisoners were beginning to back down from fear.
"That was amazing, Darex. If only Amuya could've seen you in action."
(Over mic) "It's alright commander I was able to see it through a nearby video. I must say Darex that was quite impressive even by krogan standards…"
Darex blushes. "Well you know…" (Chuckles)
(over mic) "Okay controls are down for the escape pods. How are things for you, Carter?"
"Darex just kicked some serious ass man you should've seen it. I think you're in trouble Don in that tournament Astok suggested."
(over mic) "I will see that for myself sir thank you very much…" Don grumbled.
(over mic) "Commander this is Jen, thank you for giving my men a hand."
"Of course. What's the status with the others?"
(over mic) "We're still facing heavy resistance on the south wing and east wing."
"I'm calling for back up. There's too much to handle."
"Sir that's going to be a bit of an issue…" Don answered.
"Oh now what?"
"They're currently busy trying to take care of the prisoners trying to take a hold of the ship. We're on our own for now."
"Ahh crap…"
"Well what now?"
"Amuya, how is Maya?"
(over mic) "She's not going anywhere, I got some back up with the station's guard. I can come assist if you want."
"No, keep watch on her. Don't let her out of your sight."
(over mic) "Yes sir."
"Well looks like it's us three versus a hell of allot of them." Carter mentions as he reloads his assault rifle.
"Well I haven't had this much fun in a long time." Darex picks up the mingun as it was still loaded and begins opening firing on the prisoners. Killing them off in a rapid short amount of time. "I'm definitely keeping this."
"Dammit how come he gets all the good stuff." Don asked as he fired back at the prisoners.
(Over mic) "Commander, you need to try and head to the power generator and turn the power back on. Only then will we be able to activate the station's security system that should help us contain the prisoners." Jen answered on Carter's mic.
"Alright Darex?"
"Don't worry. I'll be right here having the blast of my life. Go ahead."
"Ok, Don your with me."
Carter and Don head back to the upper levels and start rushing down the catwalk while returning fire to any prisoners shooting at them. The two made their way to the main generator room. However without knowing, a Cerberus Atlas comes out from the ceiling and lands in front of them.
"Ah crap not these guys again!" Don yelled.
"Be advised we have Cerberus Operatives invading the station, repeat we've got Cerberus Operatives invading the station! Carter alerts the guards and others on the station.
The Atlas fires a rocket at the two and forces them to take cover.
"What's the plan sir?" Don asked.
"Obvious. We have to fight it."
"Yeah but what's the plan?"
"Damnit Don just use your imagination and take it down however way you can!"
"Oh that plan. Thank you sir!" Don peaks out from cover and throws a grenade to knock its on its knees briefly. Don fires a carnage blast to knock it back a little more and do some more damage to its shield before firing at it with his assault rifle.
As the Atlas gets back up pushing Don off and Carter jumps on it's back and began shooting its systems and jumps off. The Atlas stumbles very little but shakes it off. It turns its attention back to Carter and Don and starts firing its machine gun at the two. The two take cover again as Don starts using his Fortification to try and reduce damage from the Atlas as he takes cover and tries to fire back at the Atlas. Carter activates his barrier and uses biotickenesis to throws a crate to get it's attention. He begins shooting the shields with his armor piercing ammo as the shields go down. The Atlas kneels as Carter jumps on it's back again and shotgunned it down till it was damaged enough and blew as Carter jumped off.
"That was fun."
(Over mic) "Commander do you see the generator?" Len asked.
"Yes I see it. How do I do this?"
(Over mic) "Alright do you see a switch close by?"
"Which one?"
(Over mic) "The one that's close to all the video cams."
Carter looks for the closet switch nearby the video cameras and found it.
"Okay I found it."
(Over mic) "Good now activate your omni-tool and try to hack back into the system before activating the switch. If you press the switch before issuing standard procedures you will be shocked on sight."
Carter activates his omni-tool and successfully hacks back into the system and activates the switch. Within moments the power returns and the Station's security systems activate to contain the rest of the prisoners. As for the prisoners that were out gets tasered by the security systems.
"Len, systems are back online."
(Over mic) "Great job commander security systems are back online."
(Over mic) "Commander this is Amuya I need assistance, Cerberus are entering the station bringing heavy firepower to back them up."
"On our way. Let's go."
Don and Carter rush back over to where Brooks' cell was at. Once they arrived they see Amuya and some of the prison guards under heavy fire from several Cerberus soldiers.
"What happened?"
"Cerberus just popped out of nowhere and started kicking our asses." One of the security guards answered.
"We were overrun within minutes. We've been holding them off as best we can but we cannot hold them off much longer. We need immediate assistance sir." Amuya said as she casts another Biotic sphere to give them defense and does a reave to kill one random Cerberus Trooper.
"Where's Maya?"
"She's still in her cell sir, however if these guys get through that won't be much for long. Need assistance please." one of the other security guards said
Carter opens fire assisting the guards.
"I can't believe they're this desperate to have this crazy bitch back!" Don yells while activating Adrenaline Rush to try and score more accurate headshots to taking out Cerberus Centurions.
Carter activates his Incendiary Ammo and begins opening fire on them as the blaze into flames. Amuya uses her biotic telekinesis to pick up multiple Cerberus Guardians, smack themselves, and then toss them at more Cerberus Soldiers. Carter uses his warp as he charges at the Cerberus sending them flying into the air and does the same to the other's.
(Over mic) "Carter, this is Darex, I need your help now! That Cerberus Woman Goddamn ninja on speed is here!
"She is? Shit."
(Over mic) "She just wiped out half of all the security guards that were backing me up and kicked my ass like I was some kind of Volus drunk on beer! I need help like real bad Brother!"
"Whoa, this lady has to be serious if she can make a Krogan ask for backup." Don mentions to Carter.
"Amuya you think you can handle the rest of these guys?"
"I'll be fine, just go help Darex."
Carter and Don rush back over to the area Darex was at where they find him laying on the ground bleeding from his chest and his legs..
"Darex, you okay?"
"Carter watch out she's got a sniper rifle!"
Carter and Don were barely able to dodge a sniper shot towards them.
"Oh shit!" Don yelled out.
From the corner of his eyes, Cater spots Marissa on the very far and top catwalks wielding a M-13 Raptor sniper rifle with a laser sight.
"Take cover!" Carter moves Darex because of fitness he is able to carry him to cover and Don followed. Carter gives Darex some Medi-gel to keep him healed for the moment.
"So you're the famous Commander Carter?" the group heard Marissa speak to them from her sniping position.
"Yeah. What's it to you?"
Carter felt her shoot through their cover and right through his armor and right through his side. Causing Carter to yell and grab his new wound. He quickly uses medi-gel to fix him up and take cover.
"Shit she's got armor piercing rounds!" Don yells.
"She was able to punch through my tech armor, barrier, and personal armor, and hide like I was wet toilet paper." Darex warns Carter.
Carter begins firing back as he got a lucky shot into the arm. She quickly applies medigel and disappears using tactical cloak.
"Oh damn." Don mentions.
"She really is a bitch to kill." Darex commented
"Yeah I know."
They dodge another a sniper shot from another part of the catwalk area above them.
"Could really use another sniper right about now."
"Hey Darex ever used a sniper rifle before?" Don asked.
"No."
"Well we're screwed."
"No because I know how to use one." Carter dodge rolls to the nearest sniper rifle for more ammo and fires back at the direction the last shot came from. He hits nothing.
"Just wish she stay still…"
Carter reloads the rifle and opens on fire getting a few shots into her armor that was beginning to break. Her cloak deactivates as she takes cover and shoots back at Carter. Carter uses his incendiary ammo on her as she catches on fire from the ammo. The shot she made was able to to hit Carter on the arm and force him to back to take cover. She quickly rubs the fire off her and disappears in cloak.
"Dammit, she's gone again."
Carter takes another shot in the arm but quickly fires back at the direction and hits Marissa. Causing her to decloak. Carter leans back on cover and finds he's out of medigel. Thinking quickly he just grabs a nearby dead prisoner's shirt, tears it half off and wraps it on his injury to stop the bleeding. He carefully peaks over cover to see what Marissa is doing and sees her talking to someone. She nods her head, gets up, and tosses her sniper rifle aside before hopping down at from the catwalk.
"What the hell is she doing?" Don asks.
Marissa pulls out a bomb, activates it and charges at them full speed.
"She's got a bomb!" Don yells. "Carter take her out, take her out now!"
Carter tries sniping at her but she either ignores the serious shots on her or dodges them.
"She's getting close!" Darex yells.
"Smile you crazy bi…" Carter shoots the bomb in her hand and blows her up in a large explosion.
The team jump out of cover to see if she's dead or not. To their surprise, the Marissa they just fought was not human, but a gynoid infiltration unit robot.
"You mean to tell me that bitch was a robot this entire time?" Darex asked very confused.
"Damn Carter that was some nice shooting."
Carter places his sniper rifle up but gets a call from his mic.
"Amuya what's up?"
(over mic) "Sorry to disappoint you commander but this isn't Amuya and you fought the wrong Marissa as well." Carter heard Brooks voice over Amuya's mic.
"What? You fucking bitch! What the hell did you do to her?" Darex yells when he heard this from Carter's mic.
(Over mic) "This asari slut is not my problem, should've had your guard dog Krogan kept a better eye on her otherwise she wouldn't be bleeding out on the floor right now and under my boot as I'm currently choking the air out of her."
"That fucking bitch is gonna pay for this."
"Let's move it." Carter and his team make a rush to where Amuya was last at. When they arrived all they can find is all the security guards who were helping her dead and Amuya's blood all over the ground. Yet both Amuya and Brooks were gone.
"Where the hell is she?" Darex yelled.
"Calm down Darex we'll find her." Carter tried to calm his Krogan friend down as he can clearly see he was becoming more enraged by the second.
"How can you tell me to calm down when she's gone missing?"
"Darex, I know. I'm furious as you are but don't let that anger get to you. If you let that in you get the best of you you'll probably get somebody hurt or even killed."
"I can't help it. Now I want to tear those bitches inside and out."
"Mutual feelings brother. But let's take this strategically."
(Sighs) "Alright. Where can we find them?"
"Len? Do you copy?"
(Over mic) "Yes commander I copy. While you were busy at the generators that blonde Cerberus ninja snuck up on me and cut me pretty deep but I'm ok. She was the one who turned the power off and let the prisoners out."
"I know. She took Amuya with Brooks. Do you know where they went?"
(Over the mic) "Yes Commander they're heading towards the escape pod area where they got a shuttle there ready to pick them up. You have to hurry they're halfway there."
"Let's move!" The team made a beeline for the escape pod area. They didn't need directions as they followed Amuya's blood trail which made Darex angry just by following it. Eventually the three found Brooks walking with a few Cerberus troopers while forcefully escorting a badly hurt Amuya who was bleeding pretty badly.
"Move it bitch." Brooks slaped Amuya face hard with the but of her gun. It seriously hurt Amuya however she just spits some of her blood on Brooks' foot.
"Go to hell…" Amuya weakly said to Brooks. Before she could continue, Carter shoots the gun from Brooks his hand. Carter, Don, and Darex aim their weapons as the Cerberus troops did the same.
"Well took you long enough. Did you track us from the blood trail this Asari slut bleed all over the place?' Brooks asked with a smirk.
"You bitch!" Darex aims his shotgun
Suddenly Marissa decloaks behind Amuya and holds her monomolecular sword close to her throat.
"I would tell that Krogan dog of yours to back off now before my friend slits this Asari slut's throat and makes him watch." Brooks warns the team.
"Darex, let's not risk this."
Darex grumbles in fury as he lowers his weapon and curses under his breath. Marissa took this as an opportunity to shove Amuya forward and follows with a spin side kick to kcik her right at Darex. Distracting him long enough for her to throw a few shurikens to his Darex in the face. Darex yells in pain to alert Carter and Don.
"Darex!" Don and Carter yelled.
Don and Carter were distracted long enough for Marissa to leap in front of them and knock them both on the ground with a spin low heel kick. After which she jump flips right back to Brook's side.
"As you can see Carter, you don't have anything that you could give in exchange for my information.
Suddenly Marissa draws her M-358 Talon heavy pistol and shoots Brooks in the knee cap to shoot her lower leg completely off. Brooks screams in pain as Marissa taps the side of her headset to extend her Cerberus Phantom helmet to completely cover her face. She turns around and aims her heavy pistol at the glass window and shots a large hole to shatter the window and open up the vacuum of space in the room. Marrisa as well as the other Cerberus soldiers activate their magnet boots to stay in place while Carter and his team are forced to hold on for dear life. Brooks grabs the handles and tries to hold on for dear life as well. Marissa calmly walks over to Brooks and slashes her left hand off, making her yell in agony while holding onto only one hand. She looks back up to Marissa as she stares back at her with her emotionless Cerberus Phantom helmet.
"I'm afraid Cerberus no longer requires your services Ms. Brooks." And with that said, Marissa slashes her last hand off and forces her to be sucked out of the room. She screams on her way out as she was sucked outside into space to her death.
Amuya begins to being sucked out as Darex dropped to save her as he grabbed her hand. Carter presses the emergency seal button it closes the hole. The Cerberus soldiers and Marissa watched Brooks slowly disappear in space. When she disappears from view, marissa taps her helmet to retract back.
"What the hell just happened?" Don asked
"Who cares. Amuya needs help now." Darex says caring her.
Carter gets up and aims his rifle at Marissa. Marissa calmly looks back at Carter before cloaking and uncloaking in front of him. She quickly disarms him of his rifle while knocking Carter off his feet.
"Go home Carter." Marissa coldly tells Carter as she dismantles his Mattock Rifle with her bare hands and tosses the pieces to him. "This war is no place for someone as young as you and your team."
Marissa begins walking off with the rest of the Cerberus Soldiers in the room following her as the board the shuttle and start taking off. Carter gets up and follows back with his team back to the ship. They go back to the ship to the medic bay as Darex lays Amuya on the hospital bed. Carter walks in to check on them.
"How is she, Kayla?"
"Well, the main damage she got was she lost allot of blood along with serious slashes on her chest, back, and a few broken bones on her leg and elbow. However from what I've read from her profile she has survived much worse and this is no stranger to her. With the right medical equipment and doctors which you have with you she will be fine." Kayla told Carter and Darex.
"Thank you, Doctor." Darex thanking Kayla
"You're most welcome Darex, if you need anything let my assistant Florolia know and she'll come get me right away." Kayla left to go check on something. Leaving Carter in the room with Darex and a still sleeping Amuya.
"Are you gonna be okay brother?" Carter asked as he placed a hand on Darex's shoulder.
"As long as Amuya get's to live another day. Then I'll be fine."
Carter takes a seat next to them. "Sorry about what happened down there."
"It's fine really. I'm just glad Amuya is still alive and that you kept me in line from losing my head."
"I'm glad you kept your rage in check as well." Carter sighs as he rubs his face. "Now with Brooks gone we not be able ever find what Cerberus is up to. That whole thing was all just so they could kill her. Unbelievable."
"Yeah. Tough shit isn't it. But don't worry we'll have other chances."
"You're right… Well I better go report in to Hackett, let me know when she wakes up or if you need anything Darex..."
"Sure thing."
Carter leaves the medic bay and heads down to the comm room. Upon entering a hologram of Hackett appears.
"Hackett here, something on your mind Commander?"
"Yes, we went to the prison where Maya Brooks was being held at but it didn't go as we thought it would."
"What happened?"
"We went to question her about Cerberus' plans with the reaper tech. Apparently it was no go from there. A prison riot broke out and figure out who was the guests."
"Cerberus?"
"You're right but there was a twist at the end of it. They killed her."
"Damn...they probably killed her so she could take the secrets she held to her grave."
"And you'd be right. I'll have to say this mission was a failure. I'm sorry sir."
Hackett sighs as he rubs his face.
"Well, I guess it's never possible to go through a career with every mission a success. Still you've had more successful missions against them then they have on you. So what they got one mission success. And besides, Brooks may have had information on Cerberus but she's not the only one who knew of their plans. All this accomplishes for Cerberus is by them a little more time that's all."
"I understand sir."
"In the meantime we'll see if we can find any more leads. Takes some time off you'll be needing it."
"Thank you sir."
"Keep me posted, Hackett out." Hackett's hologram disappears. Carter walks back to the elevator and went up to his cabin. He sits at his desk thinking about the mission.
(Speaks to himself) "I can't believe I screwed up on that mission. I had the leads and she was my only one too. I…"
Interrupted by Jade. "Commander, may I speak to you please?"
"On my way." Carter gets up from his seat and heads over to the pilot ship to meet up with Jade.
"Hey Jade what's up?"
"I heard about what happened down."
Carter leans back on a wall.
"Yeah… It was, it's not the first time I failed a mission before but the info Brooks had on her could've been vital. Now I don't know who could have the same information that she did."
"Well Commander if I learned anything is that. In life we do fail at some point in our lives but that's what makes us human. We were born to screw up and learn from it. I mean I'm not perfect and I screwed up a couple of times during my time at the flight academy. But you know that's me. You didn't know that was gonna happen. So don't beat yourself up on this. It's not your fault."
"Yeah, your right, its just its going to take me sometime to get used to this mess up. But I don't plan on letting it beat me up because I plan on hitting them back just as hard next time I encounter them."
"That's the spirit commander."
Carter smiled a little as he stood back up. "I gotta get some rest before the next mission. Thank you for this chat Jade."
"Sure thing Commander. Anytime."
Carter leaves the pilot seat as he goes back to the elevator to his cabin. He reaches the cabin as he does his daily routine before bed. He finishes as covers himself in the bed sheet and went to sleep.