Shepard, Drakus and Paul rounded the corner on the Cerberus ship, they had only met a handful of Cerberus operatives since their first encounter and every time they tried interrogating a survivor the survivor chose suicide rather than reveal what he/she knew, right now they were facing a hallway with a row of rooms on one side of the hall.
"Shepard, it's Tidoses, our ship is clear and there is no sign of Gillian, we have retrieved the evidence and we are returning to the Normandy." Tidoses told him over the earpiece.
"Thank you Tidoses, when you return to the Normandy assist the others in searching for bugs." Shepard ordered.
"Understood, see you on the Normandy." Tidoses said.
"Shepard, Mordin here, tech lab clear of bugs, moving on to the Armoury with Mrejius." Mordin said in his usual quick manner.
"Thanks Mordin." Shepard said.
"The more ships get cleared the more obvious it is that this is where there keeping Gillian." Drakus said.
"Let's not jump to conclusions, Ashley's team has yet to clear they're ship." Shepard replied. "Drakus, check the rooms for any operatives, if there are any kill them." Shepard ordered.
"Right and what if there are more hostages?" Drakus asked.
"Free them and see what they know." Shepard ordered.
"Got it." Drakus said moving onto the first room and peeking in through a window on the door, Drakus' eyes narrowed. "Found a scientist, probably from the Human Galaxy cell, he's experimenting on new born Krogan." Drakus said with clear disgust in his voice, he stepped back and kicked open the door and the scientist looked up and panicked.
"Please no! I can explain." The scientist said quickly surrendering upon seeing a pissed off Krogan battlemaster, Drakus went to fire his shotgun but Shepard stopped him.
"I understand your anger Drakus but he surrendered." Shepard said and Drakus grumbled.
"You're lucky that Shepard's here." Drakus said. "And you had better have a damn good reason why I shouldn't kill you for experimenting on new born whelps."
"I swear to god I'm not doing this by choice! Originally I was working on a Genophage cure but Cerberus kidnapped me and forced me to experiment on new born Krogan." The scientist explained.
"How many have you experimented on and what where the experiments?" Drakus said his anger subsided for the moment knowing that the scientist wasn't doing this by choice.
"How do you know it's Cerberus?" Shepard asked.
"I've...had dealings with them in the past." The scientist said.
"In other words you're a former Cerberus operative." Drakus said and the scientist shook his head.
"No, I worked on a project that was funded by Cerberus without my knowledge, when I found out I quit on the spot." The scientist said.
"What do you mean by funded by Cerberus, did you work for one of the front companies?" Shepard asked.
"I didn't realize it until now obviously but yes." The scientist said.
"We'll get you out off here." Drakus said.
"No, you don't understand, if I don't do any work for more than ten minutes I..." The scientist was suddenly mowed down by a hail of machinegun gunfire, they looked around for the killer but no one was in the hallway accept them, it was then that Drakus noticed something.
"Commander, over here, I've found the culprit." Drakus said and Shepard walked over and saw a security camera with an electronic timer and a mini turret attached.
"Whoever is in charge of the security cameras must have some way of keeping track of time, when ten minutes passed without work by the hostage he flips the switch..."
"And the poor bastard gets shot full of lead." Drakus finished for him. "If we see any cameras like this in the other rooms we'll need to destroy them first."
"Pity that we don't have anyone with us that's good with tech." Paul said.
"Well there's always the option of blowing them up." Drakus said. "First I need to check on the whelp the scientist was experimenting on." Drakus said walking over and sighed regretfully. "He was caught by a stray bullet to the head, never had a chance."
"Any idea what he was working on?" Paul asked.
"You're asking the wrong Krogan, my area of expertise is combat not science!" Drakus said.
"Good point, I'll have Mordin conduct an Autopsy when we return to the Normandy." Shepard said.
"From the look of it the experiments where internal, he's under anestetic and he's got surgical cuts all over him." Drakus said rubbing his chin.
"Commander, we've got a problem." Jacob said over the earpiece.
"What is it?" Shepard asked.
"I had a closer look at some off the bugs Mordin and Mrejius found in the tech lab, I recognised the design but they weren't made by Cerberus." Jacob said.
"What do you mean they weren't made by Cerberus?" Shepard asked.
"They were made by the Alliance." Jacob said.