Odd Little Shorts

by The Odd Little Turtle

Drabbles written for Wednesday Prompts at the ME Challenge LiveJournal. Short, badly written and mostly stupid. You've been warned. Features a good chunk of Joker, Ashley, Kaidan, Shepard, and James Vega but I make fun of other characters too.

14. Bugs

Prompt: Bugs

Thresher Maws were the worst kind of bugs, Shepard thought as she ducked behind a pillar as Grunt hooted in delight.

It was always bugs. And not just any type of bugs; it was always, always the kind of bugs that wanted to eat her.

Mindoir had a blood-sucking moth-bat that resembled a huge fucking earth mosquito but was fuzzy like a tarantula (and about the same size). The bite was poisonous to humans - if you were allergic and most were.

Elysium had spiders. Or the alien equivalent. Eight legs, chitin, mandibles, and spinnerets classified them as spiders to the human inhabitants. They were also blood-sucking.

Tuchanka, it seemed, not only had a huge-ass thresher, but had bugs that exploded when their innards mixed with oxygen. Those were fun. Calleigh missed having a payload of grenades. The fight wouldn't have lasted as long as it did.