Chapter Twenty-Five: I'd Break It

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Previously:

"Is there another reason you need both of us?" The Sangheili asked watching as Demon picked up his apple and took a bite.

"Aria had a message sent to me about needing some help with something. I am going to find out what that is and see how I can be of some assistance." Shepard answered looking at the eight foot alien in the eye.

The Sangheili nodded in understanding and looked back at the Chief, "Demon, you may need to show me their weapons since we have been focusing on ours." The Chief nodded and continued to eat his apple.

Now:

As Arbiter and Chief made their way back to the elevator to get to the Cargo Bay the door opened to show Miranda walking out. She seemed to look at the Sangheili with curious eyes. She looked like she wanted nothing to do but ask questions upon seeing him. The Alien gave a polite nod before walking onto the elevator with the human man. The woman walked off just as the door closed allowing the two of them to be alone for the most part. "Who was that?"

"Miranda Lawson, she's the reason I put the device on the outside of the door."

"I see. So she's the woman that works for this Illusive Man you were telling me about." Arbiter said tapping his arm in thought. Master Chief didn't respond as it was not needed. The Sangheili didn't know how he felt about the woman but he could tell he would have to be careful around her.

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Miranda sat on her chair her mind going over the new alien. The Illusive Man was really interested in him. His species was not something they had ever seen. However the way that he had given her a polite nod told her she would not be able to get anything out of him. 'He will be just as hard to crack as the Chief. But I can defiantly see a lot a military training from the way he carries himself. Thinking of Chief…' She took a couple of calming breaths before she continued her thought process, '…that device he put on the outside of the room is impossible to crack without knowing anything about his universe. And he's not even close to allowing me to that kind of information. If I try I will only end up breaking it.' She pinched the bridge of her nose, "This is going to be a nightmare."

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Arbiter and Chief walked in entry hallway of Omega behind Shepard. At the end of the hall they saw a man talking to an alien neither of the two behind Shepard had seen with their own eyes. "Okay." Liam said to himself as he walked forward to hear what was going on.

Once they were close enough the guy kicked the Batarian that he was talking to making the alien slide to the ground. Chief and Arbiter watched without any reaction as they had both seen this kind of behavior before many times. The Batarian spoke to Liam, "Please, you got to help me."

"No one said you could talk jackass." The human man said.

Arbiter grunted out in his language, "That alien is lucky that he's not dealing with me. I can be a real jackass." He shook his head as he thought to himself, 'Damn I've been around the humans too much.'

Liam ignored the Sangheili thinking to himself and said, "Are you Zaeed Massani?"

The man turned around showing that his right eye blind, "Yeah, that's me. You must be Commander Shepard. I hear we have a galaxy to save."

"I assume you've been briefed?" The red haired human said looking the man in the eye.

"I've done my homework." Zaeed replied.

This made John narrow his eyes and said in his helmet where only Cortana could hear, "This man makes me on edge." His freed emotions making it a little hard to keep it from showing but he managed not to show what he was feeling other than glaring. Arbiter able to pick up on what Chief was feeling and understood why he felt the way he did about Zaeed. He did not like this kind of man either he reminded him too much of the Jackals.

"Cerberus sent me everything I needed to know." Zaeed looked at Chief and Arbiter as if to study them then looked back at Liam.

"My contacts told me I was picking up one man not two." The green eyed human said as conversationally as he could.

"A Batarian delinquent, pissed off someone rich enough to higher me to go after him. And for me bring him in alive rates even." The Mercenary replied.

(Oh, defiantly a mercenary.) Cortana said causing Arbiter to nod his head in agreement. The Sangheili had be updated on what was happening to her so she was free to be in his ear piece as long as she wanted but was careful when it came to Liam. "May he burn in hell."

Arbiter raised an eyebrow and looked at the Demon discreetly. The armored human just shook his head as if to say, 'Yes, that is what we were talking.'

"Please, I didn't do it." The Batarian pleaded with the mercenary.

Zaeed kicked the downed alien in the face saying, "I said shut it." Then the man turned and looked at Shepard, "Tried to lead me on a chase all over the systems, he should have know better. These people always run to Omega."

"What is your relationship to Cerberus?" Liam asked changing the subject.

The man walked forward to stand close to Shepard. This made Chief go stiff and put his right hand on his Katana Shotgun while Arbiter stood up tall eyeing the man dangerously, "Easy, Cerberus is paying a lot of money for me to help you on your mission." He looked at Chief, "What's with your friend?"

"Back down Chief. It's okay, he won't hurt me not even if he wanted to." Liam said looking over his shoulder.

"No offence Commander but I don't trust him so I will not back down till he does." Master Chief responded his helmet focusing on the mercenary standing too close to his Commander.

Liam shook his head, "Perhaps you could back up just a bit. It will help more than you think."

Zaeed gave a nod and took a couple of steps back, "Interesting company you are keeping."

"Not many mercs take a suicide mission for the pay." The red haired human said changing the subject as Chief put his hand by his side but didn't unstiffen much like Arbiter didn't unharden his eyes.

"Most mercs don't get an offer like the one Cerberus sent me." Zaeed answered peeking over at the alien next to the armored man. 'The alien barely moved during that exchange almost as if he knew his friend was all that was going to be needed.' He could see that the unknown alien looked quite dangerous, his eyes daring him to move like that again. The way he stood showed he looked just as ready to attack if he had been needed. It didn't help that Zaeed had no clue what alien he was in the first place. And that alien was defiantly taller than him. Though lean he looked like he packed quiet a punch. After his observation he turned away, "This mission doesn't sound like good business, but your Illusive Man can move a lot of credits." Zaeed looked back at Liam.

Arbiter glanced at the Chief, 'The Demon needs to calm down. We could kill this man in our sleep.' While he himself was not fond of mercenaries he was not just going show that it bothered him just that, that man did not want to mess with him.

"Good to have you Zaeed, we have a lot to do." Liam shook hands with the mercenary.

"That's what they tell me." The mercenary grabbed his gun and pointed it at the Batarian, "I assume the Illusive Man told you about our arrangement."

Shepard shook his head, "No, I guess he decided to leave that information out of the Dossier."

"Good thing I asked." The half blind man replied and walked forward but not enough to make the Chief to reach for his gun again, "I picked up a mission a little while back just before I signed on with Cerberus. I thought you might be interested. Ever heard the name Vido Santiago?" Liam shook his head, "He's the head of the Blue Sun's."

'Blue Suns?' Arbiter asked with his eyes to the Spartan.

Cortana piped into his head set, (As far as we are concerned a crime group.)

"Ah." The Sangheili replied listening back to the conversation.

"Runs the whole organization. Seems he recently captured a L felt refinery on Zorya and he is using their workers for slave labor. The company wants it dealt with.

"I'll make sure we get that done." Liam replied much to Chief's relief.

"Good, get it out of the way so we can concentrate on being big cut hero's." Zaeed said, the next thing they knew was the Batarian got up and started to run only he didn't get very far as he was shot in the leg. "I better turn this thing in before it starts to think. I'll be locked and loaded the next time you're ready to get some killing done."

"Tell me Chief, what was that?" Liam asked as they watched Zaeed walk off with the injured Batarian.

"I don't trust him Commander."

"In what way?"

Arbiter looked at the Chief as he answered, "My gut tells me so."

"Do you think I would be hurt by him?"

"No. I just don't trust him." Master Chief responded clenching his fist.

"On this mission he needs to have done, do you want to tag along? I can bring someone else."

"No, bring me along. I need to save those people." The Spartan responded looking at his Commander in the eye.

"Fair enough, I just needed to know if your gut was telling you if I should trust him." 'He didn't even apologize for his reaction. He feels not guilt in his feelings.' Liam responded walking away, "This way, Aria will be in the club."