Leena's POV

"Well shit you got yourself a Cerberus vessel consider me impressed," I told Aria. "But then again you are the Pirate Queen and no one f**ks with Aria"

Aria smirked as Bray brought in Shepard. The Commander and I were dressed in our armor and ready to kick some ass.

"Let me guess you're planning on infiltrating the enemy fleet" Shepard stated as Aria brought up a projection of Omega.

"Exactly we position ourselves to strike a crippling blow and then my forces join the fun" Aria confirmed before telling Bray to go ahead through the relay. The cruiser made the relay jump and soon we were coming upon Omega Station.

Aria commanded for the cruiser to be directed toward the command ship. A voice came over the intercom demanding identification and Bray played a recorded message that obviously came from a former Cerberus soldier.

"Let me guess he chose the hard way to say that?" I asked Aria.

"Yes," she confirmed as the cruiser was getting closer to Omega. So far things were looking promising and then Aria ordered for the cruiser to fire and the ship ahead was torn to shreds. Then the rest of Aria's fleet came through the relay.

"We're being hailed by the general" Bray informed his employer.

"This should be interesting put him through"

Shepard and I followed the Pirate Queen as the projection of Petrovsky appeared.

"Aria I knew this had to be you, you'll never make it, call it off now"

"Cocky bastard" Cy growled from my shoulder.

I agreed with the Metal Dragon.

"You're barking up the wrong tree General, but maybe you can convince my partners"

Petrovsky took notice of the Commander along with Cypher and me.

"Commander Shepard I've heard great things about you along with the shifter and Metal Dragon"

"We have names you asshole!" I spat. Cypher and I then shot the general the bird while Shepard added.

"My partner doesn't have much to say for you"

He nodded at Aria when he spoke.

"She's not used to being defeated it clouds her judgment, a pity you and Leena left Cerberus, we all sabotage ourselves in nefarious ways perhaps deep down you fear success, and Aria clearly thinks seeing you will unsettle me now it's my turn"

The cocky general rambled on and I rolled my eyes. The bastard advised us to turn back but Aria had enough and the transmission ended. Next, she ordered for the cruiser to be rammed onto Omega and we were told to be ready for impact. Shepard wasn't fond of that idea but it suited Aria in my opinion. It wasn't long until the cruiser was being shot at with Omega's lasers and the plan to crash land went up in flames.

Upon Shepard's advice, Aria ordered for the escape pods to be prepped and we all hauled ass.

"This sucks! I was hoping to avoid another ship crash!" Cypher protested as I entered the escape pod along with Aria and Shepard. The escape pod ride was a rocky one but it eventually landed.

"Can I please make the first kill? I really need to burn off some stress"

"Burn them to ash Cypher" Aria consented just as we got out of the escape pod.

At the first group of Cerberus troops, Cypher took flight from my shoulder and burned down the bastards. He then activated his illusion gift before continuing his scorching while Aria, Shepard, and I took cover along with firing rounds. Aria explained our target, for the time being, was the Defense System Station. It had to be shut down so Aria's ships could land.

With Cypher's help, we brought down the first wave of troops easily.

"OW! F**K YOU!" I roared when a round hit my armor hard enough it hurt. After the first wave, Shepard used a panel to open the blast door. Another wave of Cerberus soldiers was waiting on the other side. Like the first wave, we killed the troops via our guns, grenades, biotics, and Cypher's dragon fire. We had a brief break in an elevator and Aria communicated with Bray.

The Batarian explained that only six pods made it through the crash and Aria told him where to go along with the survivors. After the elevator ride, we dealt with more waves of Cerberus troops. They were persistent bastards and definitely skilled in combat. At one point Aria said we were getting close to where we needed to go. We followed Aria to a machine and she worked on it for a minute before we followed her to another area. She explained the next spot needed to be repressurized.

While she worked Shepard and I killed any Cerberus bastards who were determined to slow us down. The repressurization didn't take long and soon we continued onwards. Cypher returned to my shoulder so he could get some rest. We passed one of the escape pods and eventually got to the Defense Station.

As expected there were more Cerberus troops here and after they were killed Shepard hurriedly got the defenses down and Aria ordered for the surviving ships to converge at the rendezvous point.

"Hang on a second," I told the others before getting my gun out and shot down a nearby camera. "Sorry but I'm sure you didn't want General Cocky Bastard to overhear about this rendezvous point"

"He might already know about it," Aria said. "Hence we need to continue moving and I like Petrovsky's nickname, it fits"

"He is a Cocky Bastard" Shepard agreed.

"And said bastard will learn not to f**k with us" I finished.