"Well that was exhausting," Shepard said as she stepped into the CIC room.
They had gone after Okeer, but had only managed to retrieve his creation. Shepard had never liked fighting Krogan due to their faster healing, so having to fight several at a time was a trial.
As she passed Kelly she noticed her frightened look, "What's wrong?"
"The Illusive Man believes Horizon is about to get hit by the Collectors."
"Horizon, but Kaiden's there." Ashley said.
"Joker get us to Horizon now, I'm going to talk to The Illusive man."
"Got it commander."
Several hours later Ashley, Shepard, and Garrus stepped off the shuttle at the edge of the colony, "Ok Ash, you lived here for about a year what do you think we should do and where should we go?"
"Well we should first get the Collector ship to go away. EDI, if we connect the Normandy's systems to the array of defense cannons could you have them target the ship?"
"Affirmative, though it would take some time to fully bring them online but once they are they shall be under my complete control. However you will need to access the main communication array to allow me access."
"Ok everyone, lets head to the main communications array's console." Shepard said.
After several minutes they came to a large door with a fried circuit board, "I got this," Ashley said, moving to the side of the door, "The colonists made sure every door had a spare circuit board in case one got fried for some reason."
"Like what?" Shepard asked as Ashley began to replace the fried board.
"This planet has seriously intense Lightning storms, one of the colonists was devising a lightning tower grid that would store the energy and allow it to be used by the entire colony." Ashley said as she finished the replacement.
As they entered the building they heard a rustling behind some crates and a man stepped out from behind them with his arms up, "Don't shoot!" he said.
"Delan?" Ashley said.
"Ah, it's you. Damn it… of all the people…"
"Yeah fuck you too Delan."
"Ashley," Shepard said.
"Just so you know, Michel is still limping because of you."
"Well then he shouldn't have pissed me off."
"I take it he's the one you shot." Shepard said.
"Yep, let's get going, we need to find Kaiden."
A few minutes later they watched as the Collector vessel took off with half of the colony on board. After it left Kaiden found them with Lilith unconscious on his shoulder. After a good hour long conversation Ashley, Shepard, and Garrus boarded their shuttle and after a wish of good luck from Kaiden they took off.
"It was interesting to see Kaiden again. It looks like he's been doing well." Garrus said.
"It was nice, and he did look well," Shepard agreed.
"Well I think he could have been a little nicer to you Shepard," Ashley said.
"I can understand it though. Cerberus doesn't have a very good reputation." Shepard said.
"I still don't think he should have given you such a cold shoulder."
"If I let you 'make me feel better' later, will you brush it off?"
"Hmmmm, sounds like a good deal to me."
"You two do remember that I'm here right?" Garrus asked, making Ashley and Shepard laugh.
"You know, when you said I could 'make you feel better' I thought you were talking about sex, not a message." Ashley said as she continued to knead Shepard's shoulder blades.
"Uh, but you have such wonderful hands and can find all the right spots," Shepard groaned in ecstasy.
"Still, I was hoping to get a taste of-"
"Ugh, will you not go there," Kelly asked, "Look we don't have any pressing missions at the moment, so tomorrow the two of you can sleep in and try out those toys until you can't even move after I leave for the day to check up on everyone's mental health." *sniff sniff*, "And are you using one of those sex lubes?"
"It's the one that'll smell like chocolate covered strawberries after a while," Ashley said.
Kelly let out a sigh, "That's only after it comes into contact with sweat to lessen the smell of sex. Otherwise it just smells like bacon."
"Oh,"
Kelly stood from where she had been sitting on the couch, "I'll be back in twenty minutes, so quickly have some sweaty sex with that ejaculating strap-on, or… more like plug-in, in the bathroom to activate the scent of that lube, and to try the toy out," Kelly said, referring to how the toy was meant to slide into the vagina of the user to help endues pleasure and collect vaginal juices for ejaculation upon its user's orgasm, "When I get back you can tell me about it. Just DON'T give me ALL the details."
Shepard sat up and rubbed the back of her neck while a blush creeped up her neck, "I actually already tried it," she said with a smile.
Ashley looked at her, "When?"
"While we here heading to Horizon I was giving it a try to see if it fit properly and how it would feel, but we arrived earlier than I thought we would and I didn't have time to take it out, or turn it off, so I had to put my armor on over it."
"Is that why you were breathing so heavily? Because you were feeling the armor press against it?"
"More than just press, it was seriously rubbing. Why do you think that after I got hit by Harbingers warp attack I was so dazed?"
"Wait, so you had an orgasm in the middle of a mission?" Kelly asked dumbfounded.
"Yup."
"In that case you did great down there considering that half the time you were coming down off an orgasm." Kelly said as she headed to the elevator, "Remember… twenty minutes and in the shower."
Thirty minutes later they were settling down for bed, "Hey Kelly, what books did you bring with you?" Shepard asked.
"A couple romances, a few reference books in case I need to remember something, a few fantasies, and a few murder mysteries." Kelly replied, turning on a lamp.
"What kind of romances?" Ashley asked.
"They range from normal, to for the house wife, to filled with the occasional smutty bit."
"What do you mean 'for the house wife'?"
"So incase a child picks up the book and reads it, they won't read about two people having very detailed sex."
"Oh. Well goodnight."