Weigman's POV
After we all finished getting ready for our mission, we all met inside the briefing room to go over our game plan one more time. Right now, the only people in the room at the moment were Tali, Sean, Thomas and myself.
"Guys, I came up with something while I was reading earlier." Sydney announced as she walked into the room. "Something I think you'll all like."
"What's that?" I asked, looking at the datapad she was holding.
"Since we're going to be attacking Cerberus, and we're trying to stay under their radar, I came up with codenames we could all use over the radio during missions." She explained, plopping herself in the seat next to me. "Since their name "Cerberus" is part of Greek mythology, I found it fitting to do the same with our codenames."
"Well, this sounds interesting." Thomas commented, leaning on his hand.
"Let's hear it." Sean asked, sounding curious.
"Alright, this it what I had in mind." Sydney started, looking at the datapad. "Sean, your codename would be Zeus, Thomas's would be Lapetus, and Allen's would be Tartarus."
"Cool, so I get to be the god of thunder and lightning, huh?" Sean joked with a smile. "Nice."
"Who's Lapetus?" Thomas asked, looking confused.
"He's was the Titan of Mortal Life, and the father of Prometheus, the creator of mankind." Sydney explained, looking over her notes.
"Who's Tartarus?" I asked, getting in on the idea.
"One of the guardians of the Underworld, or Hades." She replied, not even looking at the datapad while answering me.
"Well, what about us?" I asked afterwards.
"You're codename is Eres, mine is Athena, and John's is Helios." Sydney answered, reading off the datapad.
…
Thomas's POV
"Alright, I'm hooked up." I said, tugging on the rappel cord for good measure.
"Same here." Allen repeated, looking down the ventilation shaft.
"Alright, on my mark." Sean ordered, holding up his hand. "...MARK!"
All of us activated our rappels at once, allowing us to jump down into the shaft leading into the Cerberus Base. Once we made it about mid way, Allen burned off the grating leading into the large cave that contained the base, and entered.
"Wish me luck." He said with a smile.
"Just don't blow yourself up." Sean commented, giving him a thumbs-up.
"Hey! It me!" He said with a smile, grabbing one of the supports and scaling it.
"That's what frightens me." Sean replied softly, looking at me. "Come on, Lapetus. We need to keep moving if we want to catch them off guard."
"Understood, Zeus." I replied, slightly mocking, as we rappelled deeper down the shaft.
Eventually, Sean, or "Zeus" entered the vent that led to his objective, while I pried a panel off the wall that led into the primary maintenance shaft. I crawled around for a while, looking for the comm line, when suddenly I heard a whine in the distance.
I looked down, seeing a repulsor platform ascending towards me. I quickly squeezed myself between several of the cords, effectively hiding myself. The platform stopped near where I pried the panel off the wall to enter the shaft. There was a man dressed in light armor, with a series of tools handing off his belt. He stared at the panel for a while until he pressed his earpiece.
"Yeah, I found the hole." He said, rubbing the edge of the hole with his index finger. "Looks like a drop in pressure blew it off."
He paused for a few seconds, then glanced around the shaft from where he was.
"No, of course not, you idiot!" He yelled, his voice echoing. "Nobody knows we're here! How the fuck could we have an intruder if nobody knows were out here?"
He paused for a few more seconds, relaxing.
"No, it's alright. I forgot you and the others were new." He apologized to the person on the other line, dropping his shoulders. "...yeah, let me fix this panel and I'll be back."
The man let go of his earpiece, taking out a torch and grabbing a new piece of plating.
I slowly reached for my sidearm, the same one I've had since our first trip to the Citadel, and unfolded it. I then attached a silencer to it, making sure it was screwed on tight.
I then aimed directly at the back of the man's head, putting one shot through the back of his unshielded head. He slumped down, almost gracefully, on to the repulsor, dead. I activated my encrypted comm.
Now that the threat was gone, I searched a little more, finally finding the line.
"Greece, this is Lapetus. I have located the main communications line, and it appears that the facility recently received newbies."
"This means they have no experience?" Helios questioned.
"Essentially." I answered.
"This is great news, Lapetus." Sean replied. "Cut it, Zeus out."
I extended an Omni-Blade that I had bought with a smile, smashing it into the line and cutting straight through it with a shower of sparks.
"Line is cut, outside communications are down." I announced. "Moving along to rendezvous point."
…
Sean's POV
I could immediately tell the communications had been cut without Thomas's comm. The operators inside the Comm Room were instantly confused as they started adjusting options, attempting to fix the problem.
"What the hell just happened? I just lost all internal and ground side communications." One of the technicians questioned, suddenly snapping to attention as if he had been jolted.
While the techs were distracted, I quietly removed the cover to the vent, dropping down silently. I quickly grabbed the tech closest to the back of the room, covering his mouth and stabbing him through the spine with my arm blade.
I quietly placed his body on the floor, moving on to the two other techs in the room. They were both at the same console, trying to diagnose what caused the blackout.
I tapped both of them on their shoulders at once, leaning back and extending my blade. By the time they had turned around to face me, the blade had sliced both of their necks, sending them falling into the console they had been working on in a heap of blood.
"Greece. This is Zeus. The Comm room is clear." I announced quickly, looking around the room. "Moving to rendezvous point."
I quickly ran to the door, opening it cautiously. I glanced down both ends of the hallway, making sure it was clear.
I quickly ran down the hallway towards the elevator. I was reaching for the control panel when I suddenly heard the doors open. It contained five Cerberus troopers.
"...it's just a better-" One of them said, turning to look at me in surprise. All of them suddenly raised their rifles to fire at me.
I quickly fired off a burst of biotic energy out of my organic hand, knocking the Cerberus troopers off balance. I quickly took this opportunity to take my Plasma cutter off my hip and shoot them all in quick succession.
They quickly went down in response to the five sharp puffs that came from my pistol, slamming into the floor, their heavy armor smashing against the hard surface. I carefully glanced around the area, making sure no one had heard the shots. After I was certain that our cover had not yet been blown, I smiled at my silencer modifications and hopped into the elevator, punching in the primary storage area.
...
Weigman's POV
I crawled through the ventilation shaft, slightly disoriented by the size of the vent compared to me. Sean, the big tall guy, get's the wide-open maintenance vents, when I get the tiny air ones.
Sean had just disabled communications, meaning I was free to move to my target.
I had to infiltrate the labs to find evidence of the unethical operations Cerberus was conducting here, then set charges on the backup servers so it would all be destroyed when the facility went boom.
I finally reached my entry point, quietly unscrewing the vent cover and jumping down. It was a simple storage room, filled with various boxed and chemical containers. I looked closely as several of the labels, many of which were marked oddly. The oddest thing I could find were samples of Thresher Maw and other various poisons, but other than that, I couldn't make out what the function of the other chemicals were.
When I looked at the boxes, they were labeled with things like "Muscular Enhancement" and "Bone Ossification". I knew from Advanced Biology ossification had something to do with regeneration and strengthening of bones, but I still couldn't figure out what this was meant for.
I opened the door, revealing a hallway filled with medical equipment. As I walked down, I spotted two guards standing besides a door that lead into one of the operating rooms. I hid behind a crate.
"So...you think it'll work this time?" One of the guards asked the other, sounding bored.
"I don't know." The other guard replied, sounding annoyed. "I wish I would though. I'm getting sick and tired of hauling the rejects out to the disposal area and shooting them. There's no fun in killing something that can't fight back."
"Well today's your lucky day." I said, causing both of the guards to jump in surprise.
I quickly ran from cover, emitting my Omni-blade as I ran towards the guards with my pistol raised. I stabbed the closest guard in the abdomen, and shot the other directly in the head. Since his shields hadn't been activated in time, the upper half of his helmet, along with his head, practically exploded.
The guard I had stabbed fell to the ground, yelling in pain as I took the two rifles and removed the ammo blocks.
"Well, you asked for it." I said, expression blank, as I took his pack of Medi-gel and threw it and the blocks back down the hallway.
Curious to what they had been talking about, I entered the room that they had been guarding. What I saw made me feel sick.
There were two doctors inside, both working on a woman who was almost completely naked and attached to a large chair. They were giving her needle after needle, as she screamed in pain, thrashing. She was making so much noise that the doctors didn't even hear me come inside.
"No, give her another shot in point B!" One of the doctors shouted, handing the other a needle.
"Stop!" I shouted, briskly walking over and pushing the two men away. I quickly started taking all the needles out of her as fast as I could.
"Who in the FUCK are you?" The first doctor shouted, trying to stop me by grabbing my arm. I pushed him off, taking out my pistol and shooting him in between the eyes. He let out a quick scream, falling down onto the floor.
"Get down on the ground NOW, unless you want to lose your head too." I shouted to the other doctor, pointing my pistol at him. He promptly obeyed, dropping straight to the ground.
I finished pulling the needles out, I quickly applied Medi-gel to her legs, trying as hard as I could to cover all the injection areas. She finally started to calm down, but was still breathing heavily.
"...wh...who...are...you?" She asked weakly, wincing in pain.
"I'm working for Admiral Hackett." I reassured, undoing the restraints. "Are you alright?"
"No." She replied, looking up at me. "I...can't feel...my legs."
"Who are you?" I asked her, trying to keep her comfortable as I undid the last restraint.
"Private Emily Shaw." She replied, grabbing at the edges of her legs. They were red and swollen, most likely because of the injections. "Are you here to save us?"
"There are of more of you?" I asked in surprise. "Tell me exactly what happened."
"We were heading...to the planet Intai'sei, delivering...weapons to the Alliance...garrison there...when...we were ambushed by these...people..." She explained, taking deep breaths as she spoke.
"You were kidnapped by Cerberus." I told her, looking back at the doctor who was still cowering on the floor. "What did you do to her?"
"We...we w-were experimenting with h-human augmentation." He answered, stuttering in fear. "W-we injected Carbide Ceramic onto the surface of her l-leg bones, hoping to s-strengthen them."
"You kidnapping people then using them in EXPERIMENTS?" I yelled in outrage, aiming my pistol directly at him. "You are not leaving this room alive!"
"Wait, NO!" He shouted as I shot him in the neck. He fell against the wall, gurgling on his blood as he died.
"How many of you are left?" I asked Emily, lifting her up by one of her arms so she could walk.
"When they took me here for testing, only...six of my squadmates were left." She replied as I helped her across the room. "I don't know where they are from here though."
"I'll find out." I told her as I walked over to the Cerberus trooper I had stabbed earlier. He was attempting to crawl away, towards his rifle and ammo block. I set Emily down, walking over to the trooper. "I'll be back in a bit."
"I see you didn't get far." I said, causing him to flip over to face me. I stuck the barrel of my pistol into his wound, causing him to groan in pain. "Let's start out with a few questions, shall we?"
"Fuck you!" He yelled defiantly, trying to punch me. Before he could even raise his fist, I twisted the barrel of my pistol at a sharp angle, sending another burst of pain through him.
"You don't get a choice in the matter, douche." I said with rage. "Now, tell me where I can find the rest of the prisoners."
"N-no!" He shouted, causing me to stick the barrel in deeper, and turn. He shouted in pain, convulsing.
"No the answer I was looking for." I said with intimidation. "Where are they?"
"Their down the hall, to the left." He answered, finally giving up.
"Thank you." I said with sarcasm, shooting him three times in the wound. He died in seconds.
I walked back to Emily, helping her up onto her feet. I handed the pistol to Emily as I touched my finger to my earpiece.
"Greece, this is Eres. We have a snag." I said calmly as I guided Emily down the hallway.
"What's wrong, Eres?" Sean asked, sounding concerned.
"It turns out Cerberus wasn't just stealing the weapon shipments, they were stealing the crew, too." I explained as we reached the end of the hallway. "They've been running experiments on them. I've got a wounded woman here, and there may soon be others too."
"Shit, I hadn't expected this." Sean cursed. "Alright, get them out of here, and get them to the rendezvous point. We'll evac them along with the artifact."
"Understood. Eres out." I agreed, cutting the line.
…
A/N: I'm uploading this half of the mission now since it's been a while since I posted a new chapter. I hope you guys liked it, I tried not to use as much dialog this time around, and I think it worked out.
BTW, in case your wondering, I will NOT be going by the end of ME3 for my story, and my characters will be a big part of it. And when I say big, I mean BIG.
In other news, I;ve reached my 100 reviews milestone! Thank you all for your support this great year!
Mass Effect 3 – 9.5
Sorry, ME3. You missed the last .5 of your score for having a shit ending.
Remember to write a review and fav my story! This is GIR, signing out!