"I knew she was trouble, she registered here recently, after that we had reports that there was a huge firefight with the Eclipse. My Superiors have recently ordered me to detain her, but her code indicates that if I take her into custody, she'll be forced to kill me. I'll be glad if you can take her away from here, because I'm currently in a lose-lose situation."
"I plan on doing that, can you point us in the right direction?" Shepard asked.
"Just pass the police line, I'll send word to let you in, but be careful, the Eclipse have been shooting at anything that moves, not that you wouldn't be prepared for it."
"Thanks, we'll be going now." We left Anaya's office.
"She seemed a little annoyed." I observed.
"She was in a bad situation, I don't blame her, let's get going." Shepard said.
We passed the police tape without an incident, but then we had to fight the eclipse in the alleyway, which was no sweat. I cloaked while Shepard provided covering fire, Tali forced the mercs out of cover with her Combat drone, and then Jacob would annihilate them with his biotics. I sniped two mercs while in cloak, mainly the ones that would've been trouble otherwise. The fight lasted around a minute.
Shepard silently motioned to move forward, and we all ascended the steps, where a handful of mechs and Eclipse were, the resulting firefight was completely one sided, and they were eradicated from existance. As soon as we approached the door Shepard stopped us. There a lot of sounds in there, mainly gunfire and biotics.
"Alright people, breach and clear!" Shepard shouted before hitting the door, I got front row seats to seeing that one Lietenant getting thrown out the window.
"You'd never compare to the things she'd do to me, you're nothing!" The merc spat.
I didn't watch as Samara broke her neck, that was a bit much for me, since it was real life not a game, so it was a little more gory then I expected.
"Who are you? These mercs were not a challenge, but I see four well armed people before me."
"I'm Commander Shepard, and I need you on a suicide mission."
"I would be able to help, but I can only leave once the code has been satisfied."
"Well unfortunately I'm going to have to take you into custody then, my superiors have ordered me to." It still puzzles me to this day how Anaya manages to get here without anyone noticing.
"I can help you with that, what does your code need?" Shepard said.
"I need to find the name of the ship a dangerous fugitive left on, if you can find the name of that ship the code will be satisfied."
"You can discuss this in my office, get a move on people!" Anaya said impatiently.
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I'm glad the walk back was uneventful, my sniper rifle was jammed, so I had to spend my time fixing my rifle instead of paying attention to the conversation. I hated it when guns jammed or broke, it was annoying, and it could be deadly in a firefight, which is why I paid a lot more attention to my sniper then anything else for a little while, good thing I managed to re-align the thermal clip in there just as we got out of the office.
"So, we need to get into that elevator right?" Tali conveniently asked, wait how did she know that? I missed a crucial tibbit of information in the dialogue, dang my gun jamming at the wrong time.
"Yes." Shepard said. "Can you guys hack it?"
"Oh please, I do this for fun." I said confidently, I pressed a button, waited for the door to deny access, then I made my move. This was one of the newer things I had learned and I enjoyed it too, before long we had access to the door, no problem.
"I could've done that." Tali said.
"I know, passwords are easy to hack now, so that wasn't an issue." We entered the elevator and it started accelerating right to the top floor. I'm glad this elevator is nowhere near as cramped as the Normandy's, I had a nice amount of space, the comfortable amount. The elevator ride felt like it took forever, but I didn't care, I liked the feeling when you were accelerating at a fast pace.
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We exited the elevator, and after turning a corner instantly saw a couple Eclipse. There were only two of them, patrols I guess. The battle was down in an instant, because Shepard instantly drew his shotgun and shot them both, like the gung ho badass that he was. I've always wondered who would win in a battle, Commander Shepard or Master Chief? I can dream.
We walked along, killed a lot of mercs, and a lot of mechs. Then we got to the area where all those red sand containers are. Oh man, I'm telling Shepard that this stuff is poison, because no one deserves to die from chemical warfare, that's just brutal.
"Uh, guys? We might want to be a little careful in the next few firefights we have." All the attention was on me now. "I've seen this from several shipments when I was doing my vigilante work, what it does is boost your biotic power, but if you stay in it too long you'll die a painful death from too much tissue death, and believe me, it's not pretty, I've seen it happen before." That was only a half lie, I'd accidently gotten a game over screen for staying in the stuff for too long.
Shepard was about to say something, but he was interrupted by a couple asari mercs who had just walked into the area and started shooting at us. I shot one of them, because I was expecting them, and Tali shot another asari who wanted to get too close. Jacob blew up a red sand container near two eclipse mercs, who unfortunately for them, didn't know that it would kill them after too long, eventually they died from total organ failure.
"That's pretty brutal." Sure is Jacob, Captain Obvious.
"Keep moving!" Shepard said.
We were pretty close to the Eclipse leader now, it wouldn't be too too far. That's when Shepard opened the side door to where Elnora was. I could see Shepard knew immediately that someone besides us were in the room. All of us knew too, we were just pretending, good thing she couldn't see our bad acting, only our footsteps were heard.
I guess Shepard had enough of it. "We know your here, get out of cover!"
"W-wait! I only pretended to kill someone while the Eclipse recruiter was watching but I didn't really do it! Please, I'm innocent I swear!"
Shepard looked at me. "Tom, anything you can find on her?" This was going to be pretty cold, but sadly, I didn't take requests from murderers. I looked up a Shepard from my Omni-tool.
"She's suspected of murder. A Volus. Shepard, she's a liar." I said coldly.
"Screw that bastard, and screw you!" She fired one bullet which pinged off of Shepard's shields.
"My turn." Shepard shot her right in the face with a shotgun. We all left that room with the pleasure of having killed a murderer, or at least just me. That's why I got into the whole vigilante business anyway. We slowly made it to the door where the Eclipse Leader was, but I guess there was no experiments because that Volus wasn't there this time, not that I wanted to see him of course.
"Who are you?! Doesn't matter, I'll destroy you!" The Eclipse Leader screamed in rage. Before throwing one of those red drug containers.
"Spread out everyone! Otherwise she might maul us with a shockwave!" Shepard shouted, and everyone was in a hurry to follow his orders. I just took the cheat way, and activated my tactical cloak. And while everyone else was fighting for their lives I snuck right up to the Eclipse Leader. She was about to Maul Tali with biotic attack, whose shields were down, and it looks like I wouldn't make it in time, but then an idea popped into my head.
"DIE SUIT RAT!" She shouted before throwing a warp right at Tali, which went right for me and made me tank a hit that was meant for Tali, it jammed my cloak and disabled it and did significant damage to my shield, then she followed up with a throw, detonating a biotic explosion which tossed me like a rag doll to the far side of the room.
"Nice try, but I won." She said with confidence. She was cut down right after saying that though, since Shepard had just ordered everyone to focus fire on her.
"Tom, you okay?" Jacob was standing over me. My vision was blurred and I was having trouble staying awake. I passed out shortly after he asked if I was okay.
Clearly, I was definitely not okay.
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Why did Tom have to be a hero? It almost got him killed. Lugging him to the elevator back was difficult, but not impossible. I was glad Samara sweared the oath when we came back. I'd had enough labour for one day. She helped with her biotics and we managed to get him to the Normandy's medbay quickly after that.
"Is he going to be alright?" I asked Chakwas.
"The prognosis indicates that he may have damaged his ribs, but no major surgery will be done, I'll make sure the bruises heal properly and that he gets a good rest, you should go get some sleep, I can see this day was stressful, and you need to come up for air every once in a while, don't forget to take a moment for yourself occasionally."
"You're right, I think I'll get some sleep, thanks Doc."
"Just doing my duty, Shepard, just doing my duty. I'll inform you when he wakes up."