They had done the impossible. Not only had they flown through the Omega-4 relay and survived, but they had managed to destroy the mythic collectors and there base. They also to Thrax's enjoyment managed to royalty piss off the Illusive man, Thrax had taken a sort of twisted pleasure at that. Now they were on there way to Illium, Shepard had some intel he needed to give to the asari who helped them before, Liara.
"Liara I have something for you." Shepard said.
"What's this?" She asked before she looked at it and her eyes widened "Feron?!" She exclaimed sounding shocked.
"Who's Feron?" Garrus had asked.
"He's a friend, he worked for the Shadow Broker and he helped me get Shepards body from the Shadow Broker." She explained.
"He betrayed the Broker?" Thrax said in disbelieve. Thrax had done a lot of things but one of the few things that had scared him was the Shadow Broker. With eyes and ears everywere the Broker was without a doubt one of, if not the most powerful forces in the galaxy.
"Yes, although he tried to betray me a half a dozen times before he decided to betray the Broker." Liara said with a small laugh.
"Any friend of yours is a friend of mine, and if you want to take down the Shadow Broker I'm with you." Shepard said.
"Me to." Garrus said.
"What the hell. I've done a lot of suicidal things before, why not take down the most powerful organization in the galaxy?" Thrax said.
"Thank you but this is still a lot to take in, could you meet me at my apartment later?" Liara asked.
"Sure." Shepard said before he hugged her.
LIARA'S APARTMENT
Shepard Thrax and Garrus were right outside Liara's apartment, the only problem was that it was roped off as a crime scene. What the hell's going on here?" Shepard asked.
"Someone tried to kill your friend Commander Shepard." An asari said as she descended the stairs. "Tela Vasir, Special Tactics and Reconnaissance." She said.
"A Spectre?" Thrax and Shepard said together. Spectre's only deal with high profile things, attempted murder of a VIP, war, unexplained phenomena like the geth reappearing, or to hunt down another Spretre, but not something as small as attempted murder, Thrax was instantly suspicious, this asari was hiding something.
"A Spectre?" Shepard said.
"Heard you were reinstated too, your our most famous member, I might even get you to sign my chest piece." She said with an obvious flirtatious tone.
"Why are you investigating an attempted murder?" Thrax questioned.
"Liara T'soni is Illium's best information broker" she said, avoiding the question expertly.
"What's the story?" Garrus asked going into his C-SEC mode.
"Approximately a half hour ago, someone fired three shots aimed at Ms. T'soni it penetrated the kinetic barrier on the glass but she had her barriers up, paranoid but it saved her life." Now Thrax was even more suspicious, how did she know that Liara had her barriers up?
"Liara knew I was coming she would have left me a message." Shepard said.
"Well you know her best, free to take a look around." The Spectre said.
Shepard started to take a look around and Thrax said to Garrus "hey Garrus, tell me something, do get a weird vibe from the Spectre?"
"Good so your not the only one." Garrus said sounding relived.
"You felt it to?" Thrax said.
"Yeah for one why would a Spectre be investigating this, even for the second best information broker in the galaxy?" He said in a quiet tone.
"Yeah, or how she knew Liara had her barriers up." Thrax said equally as quiet.
Just then Shepard came over and said "we're heading to the Baria Frontier office."
"My skycars parked here I'll drive you." Tela Vasir said.
BARRIA FRONTIER
They had just exited the skycar and hadn't walked more than ten steps when an explosion occurred and obliterated three floors. "What the hell?" Garrus,Shepard,and Thrax yelled all at once.
"Someone just blew up three floors! Probably to kill your friend." The Spectre said with faked concern and shock.
"You go from down here, I'll go from the top." She said. Shepard nodded and activated his barriers and grabbed his assault rifle.
They moved through the lobby and up the only stairs in the area and saw a mortally wounded human talking about mercs. Once they got near the offices Thrax could hear the whining of a flashbang grenade and pulled Shepard and Garrus out of the way and covered them from the flash with his body. Once the flash had came and went Garrus and Shepard went to cover and Garrus went to cover and Thrax stood out in the open drawing fire. "Vasir mercs, and they're well armed!" Shepard said.
"Say hello to the Shadow Brokers private army Commander." Vasir said sounding like she was gloating.
Garrus switched from his sniper rifle to his assault rifle, a collector assault rifle, and started shooting with pin-point accuracy, Shepard grabbed his and started shooting with even greater accuracy. Thrax on the other hand was basically a giant target, shooting his claymore (that Grunt returned only after swearing to build him one, and after he wrestled it away from him) at anything that moved and using his biotics to cause hell.
Garrus finished off the last merc with an shot to the head and said "I love this thing."
"Your welcome." Thrax grunted.
They moved through the floor they were on and after a few more ambushes they came to an office and heard a gun shot they went to the source and saw Vasir shoot one of the mercs and said "damn if only I'd been faster!" She swore again with fake emotions.
"Well Siket's out of the question." Shepard said.
"Yeah, by the way, did you ever find your friends body?" Vasir asked it a suspicious way.
"You mean this body?" A voice behind them said. Turning they saw Liara with a sub machine gun pointed at Vasir.
"Liara? What are you doing?" Shepard asked.
"This is the person who tried to kill me!" She exclaimed.
"She's a Spectre T'soni." Thrax said.
"No she's the one who tried to kill me. After I got shot o fled but doubled back I saw her!" She said managing to convince Thrax, who turned and pointed his shotgun at the Spectre.
"You just used us to help you find T'soni!" Thrax growled.
"Nothing personal but I knew she would leave a message for you Shepard." Vasir said smugly.
"She tried to kill me and she murdered Siket, and I bet she's got the data on her." Liara said as she approached Vasir.
"Very good, you PUREBLOOD BITCH." Vasir yelled before she shattered the glass window behind her and used her biotics to throw it at the group.
Thrax quickly threw up a barrier that stopped the glass and Shepard quickly ran after her and tackled her out the window. Garrus, Liara and Thrax ran towards the window and saw Shepard and Vasir struggling in midair, descending slowly. Vasir got the upper hand and managed to kick Shepard off her and he fell roughly fifteen feet. Thrax saw the Spectre land and approach him, biotics ready to finish him off. Thrax, throwing caution out the air lock jumped out the window and showed everyone how awesome a krogan air drop was. He landed in front of Vasir and punched her across the room. She got up slowly and behind her a door opened and several mercs came flooding out. Thrax put up a barrier to cover Shepard and Garrus (still up in the office) started picking them off with his sniper rifle. Liara on the other hand jumped down and used her biotics to slow her descent and checked on Shepard when she saw he was alright and could fight they got up and wiped out the mercs that Garrus couldn't get.
"Hey boss." Garrus said from above "you three go on ahead I'm going to make sure there aren't any more mercs in the building."
"Alright but call in someone from the Normandy to help." Shepard said before he turning and ran in the direction Vasir ran in, with Thrax and Liara close behind him.
"What's on that data anyway asari?" Thrax asked while they were running.
"The location of the Shadow Brokers ship." She said simply.
They reached the lobby and were attacked by mercs. Thrax saw for the first time the asari's biotics. Impressive, not as good as his or Samara's but better than every other human's on the Normandy (with the possible exception of Jack). She launched a singularity that lifted several mercs before Shepard launched a warp that caused an explosion that took out several enemies. They rest Thrax finished off with a flare or Liara's shock. "I've never seen a biotic flare as powerful as that."
"What can I say I'm special." Thrax said with a laugh at her face.
They saw Vasir approach a skycar and when she saw them fired at them. Shepard and Liara went to cover but Thrax just kept running and was in arms reach of Vasir before she hit him with a powerful biotic kick that sent him flying into another skycar shattering the glass of the windshield. His vision cleared in time to see the Spectre take off. Liara managed to hack another skycar and said "get in!" "I'm fine by the way." Thrax grumbled.
They took off in pursuit and Thrax learned why Tali and Garrus always made fun of Shepard's driving. He was terrible. A drunk, blind pyjack would have been a better driver. When they finally managed to knock Vasir's skycar out of the sky, Thrax tore a door for himself and launched himself out of the skycar and threw the contents of both his stomachs. "Shepard. You are without a doubt the worst driver I have ever known!" Thrax roared before he felt his stomachs grumble and said "I'll be a moment." And threw up again.
After Thrax was done throwing up several small skiffs landed and on them were several groups of mercenaries. Thrax managed to destroy a few of the skiffs before they landed but many still landed the mercs were tough, especially the engineers with there damned drones and there incinerate tech attacks but they were no match for the three of them. Once they were finished off Thrax forced open the door and they approached Vasir's fallen skycar. She wasn't in it but Thrax saw a trail of purple blood. "Blood trail. Looks like she was hurt in the crash." Thrax said. They followed the blood trail and they found Vasir slowly limping past a group of people who were oblivious to her problem. "Vasir its over!" Liara said causing the humans and the Spectre to turn and look at her.
"Oh, I don't think so." She said before she pulled one of the humans towards her and placed her in front of her and said "what's your name sweet thing."
"Maryann." She said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm going to end you Vasir. Liara said
"Please I have a son!" The human, Maryann said with a sob.
"Really? You hear that pureblood? A son. Do you want him to grow up without a mommy? Thermal clips on the ground. Now!" She said.
Thrax discreetly used his biotics to lift a nearby table as Shepard tried to bluff. Thrax made a pulling motion with his arm and the table he lifted had struck Vasir and caused the human to fall, Vasir went flying into the nearby fountain. She charged out with her biotics and started firing at them. Thrax hurled a powerful warp at her but she slid out of the way and started firing a vindicator at the group. Thrax was doing his best to deflect the warps away from the other two but occasionally some would get through and would be left to them. Thrax managed to get close to Vasir and got ready to launch a biotics punch but Vasir countered with her own. The biotic force of the two were pushing against each other but Thrax managed to overpower her and delivered a punch to her face which definitely shattered her nose. "You krogan bastard!" She shrieked before he launched a powerful uppercut which launched him into a wall.
Thrax got up slowly and saw another skiff come flying down and grabbed it with his biotics (thankfully it was no where near as heavy as a collector platform) and he hurled it at Vasir, who had just thrown Shepard and Liara back from her. She saw the skiff flying towards her and she caught it, with strain visible on her face and Thrax saw his chance, he used his biotics to throw her into a column and she just lay there. Thrax went over and helped Liara and Shepard up before he was sent flying and his water.
Once he regained his sences he surfaced and saw Vasir was dead and Shepard was talking to Liara before he said "Thrax we got a location! What the hell are you doing playing in the water?"
HAGALZ
"Hagalz, the oceans boil during the day then snap freeze ten minuets after sun down." Liara said to Shepard and Thrax.
"How the hell can anything live in that?" Thrax asked.
"There's a constant lightning storm where the hot and cold air collide. That's where we'll find the Shadow Broker." Liara said. "What's the plan?" Shepard asked. "The hangers locked down. We'll have to search for an external hatch." She explained before she put on an oxygen mask.
Thrax was a bit uneasy, he owed the Broker a lot. Not only has he,she,it, given him excellent info over the centuries, but because of the Broker Thrax was able to get revenge for Cary's death. They exited the shuttle and landed on the hull of the ship. They walked towards the front of the ship. Along the way they ran into mechs. Thrax shot the first mech in the head before he ran forward and shoulder checked another off the side of the ship. Liara and Shepard took care of the rest. Moving along they were attacked by soldiers of the Broker, they came from hatches. Thrax went over to one hatch that hadn't opened yet. Once it did the soldiers were greeted by a shotgun wielding krogan. They moved forward Thrax saw that capacitors that discharged build up lightning and that gave Thrax an idea. He grabbed Liara's pistol and fired at the capacitor which caused the build up of lightning to discharge, spreading from one merc to the next until they were all charred husks. Thrax grinned before he returned the gun to Liara and said "those are energy capacitors, they're calibrated to discharge lightning. As you can tell shooting as an amazing effect."
They moved past the charred remains of the mercs and moved forward. Now having to worry about the lightning capacitors as well as the powerful wind and getting shot. They came to a small gap with mercs on the other side and two capacitors to there left. Thrax took an opening and shot the capacitor closest to the mercs and launched a shockwave at the mercs that were farthest from the lightning discharge, and took the least damage. When they finally came to a door Liara activated a device Thrax didn't recognize. "There that should open it in a few minutes." "You sure about that kid?" Thrax asked.
"That device is illegal on Illium,Omega, and even Turchanka. It didn't come with a warranty." Liara said.
Out of the corner of his eye, Thrax saw movement and he quickly shot it. An asari dropped dead, now missing her head, and several more mercs started swarming them all. Thrax tried to draw most of the fire away from the other two by doing what he does best. Rain hell. "Come on you weakling!" Thrax said before he blew the head off of a turian "I have enough shots of all you ass hats!" Thrax grabbed a salarien and threw him off the side of the ship before he created a blade and cut down three asari that were getting ready to attack him together. "Come on! That all you got?" Thrax roared as he crushed an asari head in his hand and threw the body towards a salarian.
"Thrax! Doors open!" Shepard yelled as he finished off a turian with an omni-blade to the heart. Thrax walked backwards and fired his shotgun until he was in and the door shut. "Whoo! That was fun!" Thrax said and fist bumped Shepard while Liara looked serious.
"Come on we should be close to Feron."
They stormed the ship killing any resistance in there way. Along they way they saw Feron sitting on a chair and was attached to several different wires. Hearing the sadness in Liara's voice Thrax went up to the door and smashed it down before he went to the terminal in front of the drell and started to hack it. Once Thrax thought he cracked it the chair shot an arc of electricity right into Feron causing him to scream. "Goddess Feron what did the Broker do to you?" Liara asked.
"This chair is linked directly to the Shadow Brokers network try to disable it in any other way except on the bridge and it will fry me." Feron said in a raspy voice.
"That son of is bitch is to arrogant!" Shepard said with gritted teeth.
"He's right. I try and disconnect him any other way and he dies." Thrax said from the terminal.
"Let's go. Don't worry Feron we'll be back." Liara said.
"I'll try not to move." Feron said sarcastically.
They made there way to the Brokers office and standing right outside of it was a krogan, almost as big as Thrax and carrying a hammer that was as big as Shepard. "I'll take care of him once he's out of the way I'll help you deal with the Shadow Broker." Thrax said before he charged the krogan who to his surprise launched a warp.
"Hmm, that warp was way to weak for him to be a battlemaster, he's got to be a warlord, a krogan injected with ezzo nodes at birth, less powerful than a battlemaster but still powerful." Thrax thought and shrugged the warp off and continued charging. Once he was in arms reach the other krogan delivered a brutal punch to Thrax's face which sent him sprawling backwards and he moved just in time to avoid a brutal overhand smash from the hammer that would have definitely shattered his spine. Recovering Thrax dodged another attack and managed to deliver two fast but strong punches to the krogans face before he felt an intense pain in his stomach and went flying into a wall. Feeling like he'd just had his stomach run over by a tomkaha Thrax let out a groan but he still got and and launched a warp, the same time the warlord did. Thrax's, being more powerful, overpowered the warlords and hit him right in the chest. Stumbling back because of the warp Thrax pressed the attack, he knocked the hammer aside and delivered a powerful uppercut to the warlord, who was now bleeding from the mouth, and a swift kick to the gut before he returned with a punch to his face. Thrax got up and spat out a wad of blood and shot a blast of biotic energy which sent the warlord back into a wall. Then he did something that surprised Thrax, his fist glowed blue with biotic energy, but instead of launching an attack he grabbed the hammer and it started to glow blue. The krogan slammed the hammer onto the floor and sent an extremely powerful blast at Thrax and was sent through a bulk head and into another room. Getting up he took stock of his injuries.
"Ok two broken ribs, left arms completely useless for the next day, broken foot, and possibly leg. I've been in tougher spots." Thrax mumbled to himself.
Seeing that the room he was now in was full of furniture, lifting the heaviest thing in the room, a bed, Thrax hurled it at the other krogan when he stepped through the hole. The krogan was sent flying and dropped his hammer, Thrax took advantage and closed the distance and used his biotics to pull the hammer and, with a one-handed overhand strike brought the hammer down on his face with a roar. Once the hammer made contact Thrax was silent for a moment. He waited for the krogan to move. After a moment when he didn't move Thrax let out a sigh of relieve. He went back through the hole and into the Shadow Brokers office in time to see Liara say "Shadow Broker out."
"What the hell?" Thrax said.
"What the hell?" Shepard repeated looking at Thrax. "Krogan Warlord, granted biotics artificially, not as powerful as a natural biotic but still powerful enough to put up a fight." Thrax explained.
"You gonna be ok? I know your tough but some of your injuries." Shepard said sounding concerned.
"Honestly don't worry about me what about the kid?"
"I trust her. If she says she can handle this power then she can." Shepard said firmly.
Just then the door burst open an in pops Feron with a pistol and looked around. "Goddess of Ocean" he said.
"Hey Shepard what happens when you start to black out?" Thrax said calmly "does your vision start to go black."
Thrax started swaying. "Why are you asking?" Shepard asked.
"There's a hammer back near the warlords body do not get rid of it!" Thrax said firmly before he fell to the ground.
Well boys and girls, here is Lair Of The Shadow Broker, I was going to have Thrax present for the first against the Broker but I wanted him to have the hammer a Krogan warlord has (in the multiplayer) for when I start ME 3. Now I plan on doing a chapter that has Thrax helping out Liara, I'm going to try and see if I can make Thrax into a Father figure for her. And for those of you who are worrying I'm going to have Thrax join up with Shepard the same time Liara is on Mars. Now before I go remember. Read,review,follow,favorite in that order.
Until next time
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