Chapter 28: Noveria part 3
Luckily Ragan shot Sterling in the leg so that she can fall down. The fight was quick and bloody. Sterling was on the floor bleeding with John standing over her. He crouched down with a smug smirk on his face; there was no pity for the dirty cop.
"So you might be thinking now, 'Was the money worth it?'," John chuckled a little
Sterling gave a murderous gaze, "You little shit… What are you waiting for? If you're going to kill me, get it over with." She coughed up blood, Sterling wasn't going to make it after this.
John gave a smirk. "Nah, I wouldn't waste my time of my heat sink on a little bitch like you. But Ragan might."
Sterling eyes widen. Gone was the defiance and the misplace bravery in her eyes, only fear took its place. "N-no, you wouldn't. Do you have any idea what he will do to me?" She looked at Ragan who grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up. "Oh shit." Ragan bashed her head against the wall five times then threw her to the opposite wall.
"Yep, think of it as a nice way for you to reflect on your life, you before he brutally beats you to dead. See you later," John was laughing. Ash couldn't help but shudder as he said those words and Ragan was beating on Sterling. 'They don't call him the Butcher for nothing. And Ragan is called the God of War because he is brutal in like a Spartan when I read about them,' she thought. "Let's go," John ordered,
Sterling cursed at the top of her lungs as John and the team walked out, but left Ragan beating on her. They made their way back to the hotel. Parasini was there.
"Ah I see you're back," Parasini and sipping her cup of tea.
"I got your evidence, now the garage pass," John handed her the evidence on a data pad.
Parasini wagged her finger. "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Now you just need to get Qui'in to testify."
John glared at the woman. "That wasn't part of the deal, I got your damn evidence. Anything after that is on your ass."
Parasini rolled her eyes, "As long as I have the pass, you can't go and do your little mission, now do I say and get the Turian to testify," Ash palmed her face. 'This is not going to end well,' she thought.
John's eye twitched and he lifted the woman with his biotics. "No you listen to me you conniving little bitch, I don't take orders from you and your little board, you keep this up and I will show you why a Spectre is above the law, got it?!" Parasini nodded her head repeatedly. "Good."
John dropped her hard on the floor and Parasini gave up the key card. The team left the shaken woman. "Was that really necessary," Liara asked.
"No, but it was fun," Liara and Ash glared at him. John sighed, "Fine, if I ever see her again I'll buy her a fucking drink."
"I must keep my hands full with you," Tali said.
"I agree," Liara nodded.
John rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah." Grumbled something after that that didn't get picked up. The team made it to the garage; it was quiet, too quiet. "Stay close, I have a bad feeling about this," he said. A mechanical sound caught everyone's attention.
"What is that…" A further sound, all too familiar, answered the question: The distinctive cackling of Geth platforms. Two Geth destoyers, ghost, stalker, rocket troop, and shock trooper attacked them. A destroyed charged at them. "Shit," Ash blurted out. Everyone started shooting them.
"Garrus, get the ghost. Laira, stasis," The destroy froze in its tracks and the Geth ghost was shot in the head. The team took cover, Ash tried to blast the rocket troopers but it was too fast , unknowing to her, a second destroy charged at the Gunnery Chief. "Ash, behind you," John yelled out when Ash looked back too late and was on the floor with a rifle staring at her. John overloaded the destroyer and pushes it back with a throw field, when he got to her they were surrounded by shock troopers. Tali pumped her shotgun and started shooting at every Geth she was in range of.
"Happens to the best of us, don't worry about it," John quickly shot a destroyer in the head. "But I do wonder how are we getting out of this?" Ash looked around the room and saw a whole bunch of canisters littered around the garage. This place was bonfire waiting to happen, which was perfect for getting rid of annoying Geth.
"This place is full of flammable material, it would be a shame if it caught on fire, Skipper," she winked and pointed at the canisters. John nodded bak, the Spectre called Liara to run inferernce of the Geth, the Asari glowed blue and trapped them all in a huge singularity field. The agile ghosts and stalkers tried to escape but even they were trapped by the field. Near by a swirling vortex had picked up several canisters.
"Buh-bye bosh'tets," John said while smirking. John sabotaged the canisters while Garrus shot one of them. Wrex used shockwave on the canisters that were out of the singularity field. A huge explosion happened, so huge in fact, the alarms started to sound. Several guards came in to investigate. Matsuo was with the guards.
"What the… What are these things," Matsuo asked in the alarm. "Fan out and secure the area! No one gets in or out until a full sweep is meet."
"You're welcome," John said. "Those were Geth units. Now if you excuse us, we need a mission to get done."
"Okay, fine, go. Make sure that whoever sent them gets killed," Matsuo gave a diabolical smirk. John was crept out by that smile.
"Head to the Mako," John ran towards it and got in.
The team ran for the Mako. One of the guards that came in aimed at them but Matsou stopped him. The team had to use the Mako as cover when more Geth came out but was shot by Matsou's team. John threw a grenade towards where the Geth's position and set it on the lowest setting by omni-tool so he could stun them.
"Watch it, explosive!" As the explosive got the ERCS guards attention, the team went into the Mako and drove into the white snow wilderness. Once they left the Mako, gave a notification of a Level 1 Cold Hazard; limiting the teams exposure to the outside until they reached Peak 15. The ride was not to be uneventful, however as they approached the first tunnel; the Geth have placed a turret there. Which were reinforced with shock troopers, rocket troopers and regular troopers. In addition, the Geth have deployed personal shields near their positions.
John groaned. "I should've known they wouldn't make it easy for us," John search for a safe place to attack, going to blindly was going to get them killed. Ash activated the main gun and entered in sniper mode. Garrus got on the mini-gun turret and started blasting. Ash was able to take out two turrets before it could lock on the tank. Garrus' fire was to distract the Geth so Ash could destroy the turret. "You have to admit, Ragan knows how to outfit a tank with a good weapon," John was smiling.
"Geth incoming," Liara looked at the radar. Tali got on the machine guns and mowed down the geth. Some of the geth set down personal shields to the block the guns of the Mako, as they counted attacked. Suddenly the tank shook slightly by the rocket troopers. Ash shot the main gun and the Geth went flying, some off into the ravine. The Mako went on ahead; about halfway down the tunnel are four Geth rocket troopers. They were all shooting their rockets at the same time so it makes their shots easy to dodge. Thanks to the crazy driving of John, the rocket troopers were run over before they could get in another shot.
When they were out of the tunnel, a Geth armature was waiting for them and it also had some rocket trooper friends. This was a tough battle, when the rocket troopers weren't pounding them, the armature was.
Shields at fifty-two. Shepard, we can't take much more," Wrex then looked at a small hatch and opened it to find a rocket launcher. "Shepard, open the door. I got a rocket date for the armature." The door opened and Wrex fired but the rocket hit the rocket troopers. "Fuck this." The door then closes before a rocket flew through the Mako and went through the other side without exploding.
"Ashe, take out the rocket troopers, then start focusing on the Armature with Tali." Ash nodded and mowed down the rocket troopers with the main gun. The armature fired at the Mako, and the tank shook hard. "Status!"
"We lost twenty. We are at thrity-two," Wrex quickly was looking at the shields. John maneuvered around the armature dodging siege pulse fire until the tank got behind it. Before the Armature could turn, Wrex opened the door and shot the rocket at it while Ash blasted it with the main gun and Tali pleted it with the machine guns. Garrus then gets the mini-gun ready and tears the armor off of it. After a while the Geth succumbed to the damage and fell. They moved on until they reached the next tunnel, which was defended by more Geth which were wiped out quite easily. Now nearing the Peak 15 research facility, the only enemies were three Geth turrets. As the Mako made the first turn around the cover, was the first turret, if they were not careful the turret's missile would knock them off the cliff. John drove while dodging the missiles with Ash fired on the turrets, the Spectre was lucky Ash was such a good sharpshooter, because after the Gunnery Chief destroyed the first one, the second fired about halfway down the path form the first to the last turn. The Mako jumped, dodging the missile. Ash fired the main cannon, the tank's missile enters the nozzle of the second turret and was destroyed from the inside. The Mako was then hit on the side; alarms were buzzing and beeping loudly.
"Shields at twelve, one more and we're finished," Wrex closed the door and looked at the radar. "The third is above and to the left on the mountain." Ash targeted that position, and before the turret could fire once more, she shot it but failed when the missile lost guidance. Tali then shot it with a barrage of machine gun fire, the turret exploded. The path to Peak 15 was cleared.