Chapter 22: Garrus Vakarian pt. 3
Garrus, Anita, and Herter made their way to Dr. Michel's clinic in the wards. As they were about enter, they heard a female cry inside. "Please don't."
Garrus motioned that he will take another entrance and that they should enter to get them off guard. The two nod as garrus went to the back snuck his way into the clinic to see three male humans cornering a female human. One of the male humans was within arms distance from the female. "Now doc, if anyone comes asking about the suit rat you tell them you saw nothing." He threatened putting a gun to her head.
The doctor tried to back away scared. "Okay please don't hurt me." She begged crying.
The front door to the clinic opened in an audible hiss. The three thugs turned towards the door to see Anita and Herter enter their guns drawn. The thug threatening the doctor grabbed her holding her hostage. "Don't move or the hostage dies!"
Before the hostage taker could do anything, a bullet went through the back of his head. The two other enforcers turned ready to fire on Garrus only to be shot down by Anita and Herter. "Dr. Michel are you alright?" Garrus asked her to check on her.
"Yes, thank you." The doctor said gratefully, a blush on her face.
"Why were those men threatening you?" Herter asked trying to keep his stress down.
"They want me to keep quit about a quarrian that came into my clinic a few days ago." She answered. "I tried to get her to make a report to c-sec, but she refused and asked me for a way to contact the Shadow Broker."
"Who did you direct her to?" Anita asked.
"To Fist." Dr. Michel answered simply.
The three c-sec officers looked at each other in concern. "We need to get to Cora's Den!" Anita said urgently.
"Why?" Chloe asked her.
"Fist betrayed the Shadow Broker." Garrus said quickly before sending a quick message to the executor.
"Is Fist stupid?" She asked.
"Shouldn't we wait for backup?" Herter questioned.
"We have no evedinse that Fist had anything to do with the incident or that he was the one that put our quarrian friend in danger." Anita argued. "We'll talk with him if we can, but we might have to start canvassing the area if we want to find who we're looking for."
Garrus stared at Anita bewildered at her reasoning. "Right, Detective Salvisis, why don't you stay with Dr. Michel until officers arrive to process the scene."
"Wait the two of you are going in by yourselves?" The other turian asked.
"Yeah, like Detective Bogart said, we don't have cause to go in guns blazing."
Herter sighed. "Alright, I will message you when more officers arrive here."
"We should be back fairly soon; we will let you know if anything changes." Bogart told her partner.
The two made their way out of the clinic as they made their way to Chora's Den. The two officers walked through and into the hallway that leads to the shady night club. Before they reach the door to the club, they hear gunfire behind it. Both pulled out their weapons and entered the club to see a variety of being firing upon a single scared krogan in red armor.
Garrus and Anita looked at each other confused. "What is going on here?" They both shouted.
Not knowing who they were, one of the krogan's opponents fired on the c-sec officers. They went to opposite sides for cover. "We just got cause!" Anita shouted.
"Yeah, we did!" Garrus shouted back before firing at his attackers.
After 15 minutes of fighting Garrus and Anita had their guns pointed at the battle hardened krogan. "So, what brings you c-sec pyjacks here?" He asked them.
"We are hoping to talk with Fist about a missing quarrian." Anita said.
"Really?" He asked skeptically.
"They have information on a target of c-sec interest." Garrus said.
"I will take your word on that." The Krogan said lowering his shotgun.
The c-sec officers lowered their weapon's. "What's your name?" Bogart asked.
"Urdnot Wrex." He answered.
"Nice to meet you Wrex, you want to guide us to fist."
"For the help, I will wait to kill him so you can get your information." He said. "The Shadow Broker want's him dead."
"Got it." She said heading for Fist's office.
They entered a hallway that leads to Fist's office only to encounter two backstage hands, unarmed. "Where's is Fist?" Anita asked menacingly.
"In his office." One of them said scared.
"Thanks, now beat it, you were never here."
"Right, never liked Fist anyway." The other worker said as they both left the club.
"You know it would have been easier just to kill them." Wrex said.
"For you, the paperwork would be long for us." Anita stated blankly.
"Sucks to be in c-sec." He grumbled.
"We are still on a time crunch." Garrus said running ahead.
The human and Krogan rushed to catch up to the turian. They approach the door to Fist's office, it opens to reveal Fist behind his desk with two turrets slowly revealing themselves. Garrus and Anita unleashed overloads destroying them while Wrex tackled Fist destroying the desk. The two c-sec officers calmly approached the club owner. The Krogan had his foot on his chest, shotgun pointed at his face.
"I take it, that you're Fist?" Garrus asked rhetorically.
"What's it to you?" He asked grunting in pain.
"A quarrian who was looking to make a deal with the Shadow Broker." Garrus told him.
"But she didn't know that you betrayed the Shadow Broker." Anita said. "So where is the quarrian?"
Fist sighed dejectedly. "The suit rat isn't worth this mess, I set up a meeting for her with the Shadow Broker."
"That's impossible, the Shadow Broker never conducts business in person, even I was hired by a middleman." Wrex said in disbelief.
"I know it's an ambush to make sure that her info dies with her." He said. "I arranged it at an alley nest to the walkway to my club."
"Thanks for the information." Anita said getting ready to head out.
Before they left however, a shotgun fired killing Fist. "What the!" Garrus shouted.
"I was hired to kill him and I complete my jobs." Wrex said. "Now come on we got a quarrian to save."
Unphased Bogart started running. "Come on Vakarian!" She shouted.
Garrus sighed before following his companions leaving a headless corpse behind. 'I'm in deep shit once this is over.' He thought.
Took me a while but I finally got another chapter done. I am happy to report that my next chapter will focus on Tali. Will the crew somehow get together… maybe please read to follow. Hope you all are doing well and thank you for reading.