Ok I'm back and I have a few things I need to put out there before y customary greeting...
So to start for all you Kaidan fans i'm sorry about how he acts in this story...I personally do not hate Kaidan but in my story he is the eldest of all the characters and doesn't take too kindly to being ordered around by a younger officer and a younger woman at that...mind you Mai has a reputation for being a terrible Alliance officer.
Also yes I am changing up parts of the story in a hope that the story is new enough to hold the interest of both non-Mass Effect fans and Mass Effect fans.
So here's to hopping and enjoy this story.
Suffering on the Battlefront
By: Me of course XD (EzeikelShepard)
"Jenkins!" Mai's pain filled voice could easily be heard over the chaotic din of battle. Forgetting about personal safety Mai vaulted over her cover to slam her fist through one of the flying drones that had shot the corporal. "Get over here!" Using her biotics she yanked the other drone out of the sky and smashed it into the ground five times to make sure that it died.
"Varðr! What are you doing!? Do you have a death wish!" Kaidan ran out of his cover to attempt to give her some covering fire only to find that both the drones were not only destroyed but reduced to piles of scrap.
"Jenkins come on don't die! Kid don't you dare die on me!" Mai ran up and plugged her computer into Jenkins armor systems so that she could assess his injuries and attempt to stabilize him.
"Lyall! He is dead there is nothing more you can do!"
"This is Varðr Crimson Lyall I need an emergency medevac at the silver flare!" She reached for her belt and grabbed the third cylinder from the left of her belt buckle. After twisting off the cap she aimed it towards the sky and sent an electrical current through it causing a silver orb to shoot up into the sky and eventually into orbit around the planet.
As soon as the flare was out of sight five fire balls came down from orbit impacting the ground in a circle around Mai and her squad.
"Varðr…let us take him and continue your mission we will patch him up so rest assured. Now go!" The Healer grabbed Mai by the shoulder and shoved her farther down the pass. "Get to it!"
With a barely suppressed series of sniffles as she calmed down a little, after seeing the healers secure Jenkins and march off to the medevac transport that had just landed back behind the rise, Mai shook herself to steady her emotions. "Alright Lieutenant let's get moving we need to secure the artifacts then help the colonists."
"Varðr our mission is only the securing of the artifacts. Nothing more-Gah!" His statement was cut short by Mai's armored hand slamming into his faceplate as she dragged him down into cover via said faceplate. He tried to get back up but she forced him down with a gesture signaling that he needed to remain quiet.
Mai peaked over the rock formation she was using for cover to see a female marine, in white armor with pink edgings, come charging around the bend and run in their direction. The marine's face was filled with panic and her armor was spattered with blood and the blueish white substance that the drones had sprayed out when Mai destroyed them. Mai quickly ordered Kaidan to stay put and stood up from her cover and signaled the marine to get to where she was standing. The marine saw Mai and made a dash for her but tripped causing her to fall over and lose her assault rifle and the grenade strapped to her belt.
"Shit!" Mai vaulted over the rock formation and dove onto the grenade in case it was primed. After a few seconds her armors scanners told her the grenade was inert so she jumped to her feet and pocketed it. After checking her surroundings Mai ran to the marine and started to check her over as her scanners started to data mine the marine's armor computer systems. "Are you alright Gunny?"
"Yes but…who- how- why are you here?"
"Breath Gunny, just take a deep breath and tell me you name, rank and deployment…" Mai helped the Gunnery Chief up to her feet and picked up her rifle to examine it.
"Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams of the 2nd Frontier Division of the 212 stationed on Eden Prime. Ma'am…" informed the marine as she stood at attention.
"Three battlefield promotions in one day…that doesn't bode well for the battle." Mai muttered as her armor informed her of the data it had recovered from Ashley's armor.
"How do you know that!?" Ashley's voice was filled with shock and distrust.
"Sorry all Wolvendon armor is equipped with supercomputers designed for data gathering…and well I was looking for internal bio-monitoring readouts…and that information came with it…" Mai had the decency to look abashed at her intrusive actions.
"Enough of that we need to complete our mission!" Came Kaidan's annoyance filled voice.
"Kaidan you need to fall in line! And Gunny…it appears that your rifle broke…" Mai held up the rifle as it started to fall apart. "So…here…"
"What manner of gun is this?" Asked the Gunnery Chief as she accepted the pistol from Mai.
"It's a Wolvendon DRIVE-pistol…carful it has a bigger kick than the mass effect weapons you are used to." As Mai turned around to face the direction that Ashley had come from. "You two hide there and there! And do it now!"
Ashley complied quietly while Kaidan took additional prompting until he could hear the sound of many footfalls. With a string of unintelligible string of curses he dove behind a low rock formation.
Mai initiated a sub-system in her armor that when started a thin layer on the outer shell of her armor starts up and refracts light around her causing her to disappear from the visible spectrum. Even though all her diagnostic systems say that the sub-system was initiated properly and running just fine she was clearly still visible. "F my life…"
As the top of the shadows of the enemies approaching from around the bend started to become visible Mai reached to the small of her back where she holsters her pistols and drew them. "Huh?" Looking to her left hand all she saw was her hand griping air. "Son of a-"
"What's the matter?" Ashley poked her head out of the cover of a fallen tree.
"Well…" Mai began with embarrassment lacing her voice. "I…kind of never learned how to fire a single pistol…"
"Um…is that even possible?" Kaidan yelled sarcastically as he popped up from the rock cropping.
"Kaidan! Shut up before I shoot you…" came the annoyance filled voice of Mai as she ran for the nearest cover. "I can't fire a pistol alone…I never learned how…I just jumped in with two…"
With a sigh Mai peaked around the large pine like tree she was hiding behind to get a good look at the approaching enemies. What she saw sent chills down her spine. They were distinctly humanoid and there were three different types of species. The first looked like a reanimated human mummy with lights for eyes, a bluish skin tone and numerous electrical wires and tubes crisscrossing its entire body. The second looked like a pale human with extremely elongated canines but also had the bluish tint and the cybernetic enhancements and also carried a rifle like weapon. The third looked like some sort of synthetic designed around the form of some bipedal organic. Its limbs had the look of muscles and had fluid transporting tubs crisscrossing them. And its head was similar to a serpents neck minus the head in its place there was a cylindrical eye that glowed.
"What the hell! The Geth aren't hostile towards anyone not even the Quarians!" Mai's astonished voice was barely above a whisper.
"What?! Geth!? Here!?"
"Yes Ashley…the synthetic one is a Geth and the other two I have no idea what they are but they are obviously the enemy."
"So what's the plan, Varðr?" Kaidan couldn't keep the distain out of his voice as he called her by her rank.
"Fine go get your ass shot of as a distraction for us then Leftenant!" Mai could barely contain her rage.
Ashley and Kaidan both stared at Mai as she vented her rage on the tree in front of her. The end result looked like a wild beast had taken a chunk out of the tree trunk.
"That does it I'm going in you two provide me some cover!" Mai ordered as she tossed her pistol at Ashley to free up her right hand so she could draw both of her ninjatos.
"What!? Varðr are you seriously going to fight them in close quarters!" Ashley asked as she fumbled with the second pistol hat had come into her possession.
"Yes but I will have backup if you are willing…" Spinning her swords Mai jumped onto the nearest rock formation which happened to be the one Kaidan was hiding behind. "And as for you bleyða! I would rather you just stay here and not shoot me in the back!"
"What was that?!" Kaidan couldn't keep his anger out of his voice.
"Just sit tight." With that Mai activated her biotics and launched herself at nearly the speed of light at the enemy knocking over the first few of the husk like mummies. With a hiss a few of the fanged husk like humanoids raised their rifle's and open fired at Mai as she flipped over their heads in an attempt to take them out from behind. With a series of guttural grunts, hisses and clicks the fanged husks surrounded Mai and prepared their own version of biotics in an attempt to hold her down so it will be easier to finish her off. Luckily for Mai Ashley had finally managed to get the pistols under control and release the old fashioned safety mechanisms allowing her to fire them. Using the now ready pistols Ashley ran out from cover firing them both at the group of enemies trying to corner Mai.
"Damn! You learn fast Gunny!" Came an unknown mirth filled voice echoed over the radio.
"What the hell! Who the hell are you and why are you on this radio frequency!?" Kaidan yelled into the radio.
"Jinx? How the hell did you get here?" Mai yelled out as two of the mummy like husks were blown to pits by a high caliber round tearing through their chests. Mai took this opportunity to drive her two swords through the eyes of two of the fanged husks killing them instantly and creating an opening for her to escape through.
"Hahaha. Just blame your father and leave it at that ok?" Jinx shot another mummy husk as he stood up from his sniping perch.
Mai dove through the breach in the enemies' lines she had just made only to face plant into the chest plate of the Geth. "Ouch…" Mai grunted in embarrassment.
Jinx whistled as he sighted down his scope and saw Mai's blunder. "Almost as bad as that one back on-uff"
Mai's hand flared with the silver wisps of electricity and smoke like tendrils unique to her form of biotics as a rock slammed into Jinx's stomach knocking him over. "Finish that statement and I'll make you permanently mute…" Mai glared at him through the polarized faceplate of her helmet.
"What is wrong with you woman?!" Kaidan yelled as he got up from his cover and shredded the last fanged husk with his biotics.
"Huh…so that's what a warp looks like…wait…Leftenant did you- Leftenant! After this mission hand in your rank insignias and report to the brig you got that?!" Mai ordered as she drove one of her blades through the last mummy husk. Turning to the Geth Mai just sat there staring at it waiting for it to make its move but when it did nothing she activated her data mining programs. What she found in its coding made her gasp is shock and horror. "What have they done to you little one…"
"Ma'am? These flashlight heads killed all of my squad so why are you showing it mercy?" Ashley asked as she slowly approached.
"Then kill it already!" Kaidan ran over to them charging up his biotics preparing to smash the synthetic to peaces.
"Jinx…do it…" Mai heaved a sigh as she removed her helmet and gave the order to Jinx. A second later Kaidan was struck in the back with a paralysis round dropping to the ground twitching occasionally.
"To answer your question little miss Gunny… Wolvendon has been in contact with the Geth for years and they have on more than one occasion expressed a desire to know we organics and to come to a peaceful resolution." Jinx informed as he slid down the rise he was using as his sniper perch.
"So they lied!" Kaidan attempted to yell out but he only managed to gutturally grunt it out seeing as his face was planted in the dirt.
"THEY DID NOT LIE! Geth do not lie! They have no need to." Mai quietly said as she continued to remove the exterior plating on her armor so that she could access the electrical systems directly. "Hey Jinx call in a re-equip box for me please…"
"What could you possibly need a re-equip box for- oh…" Jinx stopped dead in his tracks when he saw what she was doing.
"I'm going to burn out all my computer systems trying to save this poor soul from its suffering…" Tears were beginning to form at the corners of her eyes. Mai then pulled out five transmitter receivers from her belt and placed them around the Geth's body at the various data ports. "The box on the way?"
"Yes it is alright you know the drill grab the Leftenant and turn around got it?" Mai then started to remove the rest of her armor standing only in a pair of combat fatigues and a light tunic. Much to Ashley's dismay she even took of the fatigues and stood there in the tunic and a pair of military issue undergarments.
"Is this really necessary?" Ashley asked as she tried to make sure that no one was looking.
"Well…yes and no…for the hacking I'm going to do it's not but after it's done I'll need to change into something else seeing as all the electronics on this armor," Mai taps her knuckle against the spinal plate for emphasis, "will get burned out during the attempt…plus it's refreshing to feel the breeze against my skin…"
With a sigh Ashley took up a position near the bend so that she can keep watch and possibly prevent the enemy from sneaking up on them. "This is so not the time for this…"
After successfully freeing the Geth and clearing out all the enemies they have come across. The Alliance marines and the Wolvendon soldiers had finally managed to fight their way to the dig site only to find that the artifacts had been moved away from the site. "Son of a-"
The Geth unit came up behind Mai and sent a text document to her. "Yeah Flashy I know that it wasn't your previous masters who moved it…the footprints say colonist scientists where the one to be here last."
"What the hell…" Kaidan groaned as he finally started to regain feeling in his extremities as the paralysis wore off. "I am going to report you for this!"
"Shut up you bleyða you disgrace that uniform you wear!" Mai glared at him.
Ashley shuffled up close to Mai so she could whisper into her ear. "You are going to have to explain that thing I saw you try to hide after taking off your armor…"
"Trust me if you are going to serve with me and if I can get to trust you I will tell you everything. PS you are already well on the way for that just ask Jinx over there." Mai nodded in his general direction as she readjusted the fastenings on the new set of armor she was wearing. "Damn this set is too loose…well at least this duster is armored as well…"
"What is with this archaic design to your gear?" Ashley asked as she looked Mai up and down studying her equipment. Mai was wearing simple combat fatigues with combat boots and a matching set of armor plating over the tunic and fatigues. She also had an old western duster that was a deep crimson almost maroon in color. Mai wore a pair of high-tech goggles that completely hid her eyes and also she wore a metal laced leather hair fastener that covered the top of her head down the sides, thus covering her ears, and around the neck.
"What?" Mai's left eyebrow raised up over her goggles. "This is standard issue colony defense force gear…trust me it's really good."
"So you don't equip your colony defense forces with out of date gear?" Ashley asked as they continued to search the entire dig site and its surrounding compounds.
"The gear might not be environmentally sealed but that doesn't mean that it's out of date…the armor itself is just as strong as the new environment gear…" Mai said as she checked all her weapons once again. "Let's keep moving-"
The sound of a single gunshot rang out over the entire compound causing Mai and the rest to charge over the last hill right into the waiting arms of the enemy.
"Just to make sure…The mummy like ones it's been agreed on that we shall just call them husks because that's all they are right? So then what about the ones that seem to be actually fully intelligent?" Jinx asked as he ran to the nearest high ground to prepare for the coming onslaught.
"How about…Fanged Ones? No too long…hm…then how about Fangs?" Mai asked as she readied her ninjatos and looked to her squad mates. Ashley nodded her approval as she drew both the pistols she had received from Mai. Jinx signaled his approval by sending two clicking sounds through the radio. Kaidan just glared as he prepared for battle by activating his biotics creating a field similar to Mai's. Kaidans biotics, like most everyone else in the galaxy, were blue in color and acted like a small electrical storm around his hand as he charged it. "Ok slaughter them all! Show no mercy to these abominations against all life!"
Mai led the charge as her entire squad laid waste to the husks. Although the Fangs looked like they were weak they took much more time to kill than their weaker comrades. Even when they blew a hole in their chests the Fangs just kept attacking.
"Damn it!" Mai tried to decapitate two Fangs but only managed to knick the spine between its shoulder blades on the one to her left. With a growling roar the Fang to the right smashed its fist into her chest sending her skidding backwards into a nearby build demolishing it to the point that it collapsed on top of her.
"Varðr! You are going to regret that!" Ashley slammed her shoulder into the husk in front of her so that she could get a clear line of sight on the Fangs that had been engaging Mai. When she got them in her sights she unloaded on them blowing everything from the waist up to bits. Stomping the head of the husk she had just knocked over Ashley looked around for any more enemies. All she saw was the last three Fangs exploded into chunky bits.
"Yeah! Chunky Salsa!" Jinx yelled as he got up from his perch. "This couldn't be easier!"
Mai just managed to get out of the rubble only to see a missile streak its way across the sky. "JINX!"
Jinx turned around to see the missile just as it was coming down from its arc. "Son of a bitch…me and my big mou-" The missile impacted the ground at his feet detonating into a massive fireball sending a charred Jinx ragdoll flipping through the air.
"JINX!" Mai screamed as she ran over to where he had landed. "Damn it Jinx…how many times do I have to tell you not to open your big mouth…" Mai started to check his vitals on the off chance he survived.
"Is he alright?" Ashley asked as she came up beside Mai covering her back.
"…JINX! Damn it do not scare me like that!" Mai grabbed his helmet and ripped it off to reveal a coughing Jinx. "Damn Jinx I knew your voice was grating but seriously you need to go see a doctor for that face…"
Jinx's hair was blue with silver streaks and his left eye was gold while his right eye had a solid black iris. He also had a knife scar that ran up the side of his face ending at his temple and dipped below the neckline of his under suit. His facial structure was angular and lean while still retaining the boyish features that is personality hinted at. All of this could barely be seen through the bruising, cuts and blood splattered across his face.
"Ashley I need you to grab the cylinder strapped to his belt and twist off the cap and send an electrical charge through it…also aim it upwards…" Mai ordered as she checked the rest of Jinx's body for any major damage. After finding seven cracked ribs a punctured lung and a broken leg she determined that he will live if the medics got there soon.
"All Alliance military and colonists this is the leader of Wolvendon! You are all ordered to stand down we will take it from here. Stay indoors! Defend yourselves when you get attacked! Get away from the main battlefield. The Golden Phoenix is here and we shall take up the fight!" Every radio frequency on the planet blared the message.
"This is Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams of the 212 I am with Varðr Crimson Lyall we have a soldier down! Codename Jinx has been shot by a missile. He is alive but we need medical assistance now! The flare marks the site." Ashley fired the flair into the sky.
"Roger that Gunnery Chief. I have to ask how is little miss Lyall?" Came the leaders voice as the medical team dropped in from orbit.
"Freaking out…but now that the medics are here she is doing better." Ashley informed as she was helping Mai get back up and coax her towards the direction they were heading before they ran into the enemy.
"I'm all right…let's get going." Mai shook herself and readied her mind for the task at hand. "We need to finish this and get out without anyone else under my command getting hurt…"
"You can't even go more half an hour without getting someone severely injured or killed!" Kaidan intoned as he walked by.
"Hey Kaidan!" Mai yelled to get his attention, once she had it she punched him so hard that his helmet shattered. "You need to fall in line! You can't even fight!"
"What the hell you bitch!" Kaidan yelled as he nursed his bruised jaw.
"Just fallow or stay I don't give a rat's ass what happens to you now…" Mai marched off in the direction they were heading.
"Fuck you! I'm leaving and sending a report if this to Udina!" Kaidan fumed as he marched in the opposite direction that Mai and Ashley were heading.
"Like I care I don't answer to him!" Mai yelled over her shoulder as she marched off.
"Are you sure it's alright to send him off?" Ashley asked as she followed Mai.
"Yep let him- Shit Nihlus!" Mai ran up to the form of a downed turian with a large pool of dark blue blood expanding around him. "Damn it Nihlus not you too…"
"Is it just me or does the hole in that helmet look like it doesn't go that far in?" Ashley asked as she examined his wounds.
"That is because there is an additional plate in my helmet…" Came the flanged voice of Nihlus muffled by the helmet.
"Damn it do not scare me like that!" She sat Nihlus up and rapped a knuckle on his helmet enticing a moan from Nihlus. "Alright go back that way," she points in the direction she left the medics with Jinx. "and tell the medics to check your head."
Mai pat Nihlus on the shoulder as she got up. She signaled Ashley to check behind the crates to her left. With a nod Ashley grabbed her weapons and vaulted over the crates to land on a colonist trying to hide behind the crates. "Get off me I'm human just like you!"
"Why are you hiding behind these crates like a rat?" Ashley asked as she helped the dazed colonist.
"Trying not to be found by those weird things along with those blasted synthetics…" he trailed off when he saw Mai's head snapped around to stare at him. "What?"
"There are still more enslaved Geth!?" Mai glared at the colonist.
"Geth! There are Geth here? Then who was that turian? He seemed to be giving the Geth orders…he was the one that shot him." The cowardly colonist pointed at Nihlus who had just managed to get to his feet shakily. "They seemed to know each other…"
Mai turned to Nihlus with her eyebrow raised. "That is true. I know him but he has betrayed the Council and is running this ill begotten attack."
"Alright head back and get treated and ask for evac on the grounds that you have important intel and need to get to the head intelligence officer a.s.a.p." Mai instructed as she looked towards the sky when a series of sonic booms caught her attention. "Well it seems they are finally entering hell…"
"What was that?" Ashley had a look of confusion on her face as she too looked up to the sky. "Oh…why are they on fire?"
"They are called Phoenix Troopers for a reason…they rise from the ashes and are damn near impossible to kill…" Mai said as she stood up and helped Nihlus get his bearings. Sending him on his way Mai turned once again towards the colonist. "Now do you know where the artifacts were moved to?"
"The things the dug up over the hill? I knew they were trouble when the first announced that they found them…" the colonist grumbled to himself until he caught sight of the glare that Mai was giving him. The colonist was thoroughly scared of this small statured woman who didn't even come to his chin. "Th-That way…they took them to the spaceport…"
"Thank you," smiling sweetly Mai kicked the crate in front of him slamming it into his groin causing him to double over in pain. "Now give me those grenade mods you are hiding back there with you. And before you ask my scanners picked them up."
"Ok ok here take them I just want to forget all of this anyways…" the colonist handed over an experimental heat pressure explosive compound.
"Now get out of here before I decide to put a bullet in you…" Mai ordered as she turned away to face the tramline that leads to the spaceport.
"Would you do it?" Ashley asked after she saw that the colonist had ran away.
"No, not that he needs to know that…" Mai shook her head as she led the way to the tramline. "Now how do I start this damn thing…"
"Um the big red button…" Ashley said as she pointed to the large glowing button in the center of the console.
"Oh…" Mai blushed as she hit the button sending the tram down the line. "Now…what will we run in-…to…Oh shit…"
"'Oh shit' is right…" Ashley dove for cover when she saw the large hunched bipedal creature carrying a massive mini-gun. "So…an idea's on how to take this thing out?"
"Well give me a sec I'm going to modify this grenade," Mai pulled out the grenade she had snagged earlier from when Ashley tripped.
"Um…have you seen that gun? It will punch through the cover you are using…" Ashley yelled over the sound of gunfire as she unloaded into the creature.
"Hence why I asked you to provide me some cover- damn you, you peace of shitty technology! Sorry this grenade is a piece of shit…" Mai grumbled as she tore apart the entire device to get to its core.
"Pfft hahaha really you can't even mod a simple grenade?" Ashley nearly fell over from laughter.
"Gunny the fight? Ahha I got it looks ugly as hell but it should get the job done." Mai jumped up with a triumphant yell and threw the mass of grenade parts and wires. It landed at creature's feet as it turned and fired its mini-gun at Mai hitting her square in the chest when it suddenly burst into a searing concussive wave that left its strangely metal skeleton behind.
"What the hell did you add to that grenade?" Ashley asked as she got back up after being knocked over during the blast.
"Well that's a secret." Mai grinned as she left the tramline and continued into the spaceport only to find a nasty surprise waiting for them. "Oh fu-oof" Mai was launched backwards from yet another impact to her chest plate.
"Varðr! Are you alright?" Ashley ran over to check on her only to find a very pissed of Mai.
"I! Am! Not! A! Punching! Bag!" Mai ran over to the bomb and tore out it's detonation device making it inert. "Get back here you bastards!"
"Varðr! Don't run on ahead!" Ashley yelled as she ran after Mai, while she tried to check all the bombs that littered the entire spaceport. Mai seemed to tear all of them apart as she made her way to the loading docks in a hope of getting to the artifacts before they get taken of planet.
"We need to hurry!" Skidding around the corner Mai slammed into the chest plate of another Geth unit. "Ouch…"
With a series of clicking sounds the Geth turned around and stared at Mai as it lowered its weapon. It then dropped down on its knees presenting its data ports.
"Don't worry little one I'll free your soul…" Mai gently cooed as she plugged her wrist computer into its data ports and initiated the program she perfected in the previous attempt to free the Geth. "This will only take a few minutes."
Ashley finally caught up to Mai only to run past her to gun down the few husks guarding the docks. "You finished yet?"
"Yes lets go get these artifacts…Wait let me make a call first ok?" Mai turned and looked out towards the burning city and opened her radio to all frequencies. "To all Wolvendon warriors the Geth in the field are all enslaved! I am transmitting a program that can free them from the slave programs!"
Mai then tapped a few keys on the screen of her computer and sent the program out to all the Wolvendon computers on or around the planet. "Now let's check on those artifacts…"
"Woah that's a Prothean beacon…" Ashley trailed off as she stared up at the rather large device. It had a wide base and a large cylindrical column that stood almost four meters tall. It also had a greenish field similar to biotics.
"And this is the other artifact?" Mai crouched down to look into what looked like a cage with looked like a miniature liquid metal wolf gnawing at the bars. "Wow this things kind of cute…"
"What do you think this thing contains? Maybe all the accumulated knowledge if the Protheans?" Ashley mused as she slowly approached the beacon once she got within a meter and a half the beacon came to life and started to lift her up into the air. "Lyall!"
Mai immediately turned around when she heard her name yelled out with great urgency. "Ashley!" Mai ran over to Ashley and jumped into the air to grab ahold of her. Using her momentum Mai launched Ashley away from the beacon only to get caught within its field. With a scream Mai was launched back into the cage. The little wolf was released when the cage broke and instead of running away it decided to bite Mai in the shoulder, tearing through her armor, to then flow into the wound and throughout her body enticing another blood curdling scream from Mai.
"I'm sorry Lyall…What do I do? Who do I call?" Ashley freaked out as she held onto an injured Mai.
"Call…the…Normandy…" Mai coughed out as she started to spit up blood.
"Normandy! This is Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams! Varðr Crimson Lyall has been grievously injured during the course of this mission! We need a medevac at the spaceport! We are out of flares!" Ashley yelled into her radio as she frantically searched for anything to mark their location for the medevac. Finally she found an unmodified grenade that she threw at the beacon destroying it and creating a smoke trail that was green in color. "The green smoke is the marker! Get here a.s.a.p.! Lyall is dying!"