Chapter 12

-And here is my next installment at long last, sorry for the wait guys. I wish I could chuck these chapters out faster but I'm getting pretty busy with school work and everything and I refuse to rush something out for the sake of uploading. I'm not abandoning this guys, not in a million years. I'll also stop posting updates on my profile since it's a pretty stupid idea so if I have any new updates from now on I'm updating the lastest chapter. Cheers guys for reading! :)

-Frostbrandt

Throughout the next few days Garrus and his team had begun to work more hastily on their work to apprehend a Styx Company agent. Garrus knew there was one on the piss hole of a station people called Omega, he could feel it in his gut just like when he was investigating Saren. Most of the team's time was spent gathering whatever information they could but since Garrus was the only tech expert there most of the computer work was left to him while Thane and Zaeed just acted as backup in case there was a task they could accomplish for him. Eventually Garrus came across a piece of information that the Shadow Broker herself would have been willing to pay for inside an old a seemingly abandoned station room; an entire conversation between someone within Styx Company and some form of higher agent.

"How is the research?" asked an anonymous voice, though Garrus remembered the voice from when he accompanied Shepard to destroy the human reaper. He knew it was the Illusive Man.

"Splendid, the biotics are showing remarkable power, but we need more funding," a mysterious voice replied grimly. Neither Garrus of his team were able to identify this person using his voice alone.

"Granted, we need those upgrades. Omega should be more than efficient for now," the Illusive Man replied triumphantly. The team heard exactly what they needed to hear.

"How old is this recording?" Thane asked.

"A day old," Garrus replied, "and all I had to do was recalibrate a few electronics."

"For fuck's sake Garrus, even off the damn ship," Zaeed complained.

"At least now we know Styx Company has a presence on Omega," Garrus informed, "I'm going to try and dig something else up." He scrounged through audio file after audio file but no matter how hard or how long he searched there seemed to be nothing else about Styx Company he could listen in on. He closed his omni-tool expecting to be able to get up after his putting his back through torture kneeling down as he did but suddenly he felt the barrel of a gun right against the back of his head just under his fringe.

"Hold it right there alien scum," a rough human voice bellowed calmly from behind. Garrus was shocked to hear the voice and who was holding the gun to his head; Zaeed Massani.

"Hold it right there turian," the mercenary calmly demanded. Thane tried to round house kick Zaeed's pistol out of his hand but he ducked and elbowed him in the head with full force. Thane was tough, but even he couldn't overcome the head trauma that Kepral's Syndrome gave him and that blow to the head was all that was needed to leave him dazed on the ground.

"You're a clever son of a bitch Garrus, I knew that once you came to Omega Styx Company would be in for a blast," Zaeed complimented maliciously.

"And here I was thinking I finally met a trustworthy merc," Garrus replied sarcastically, seemingly unthreatened by a gun to the back of his head, and completely unsurprised that Zaeed had been a member of Cerberus the entire time.

"Shut it alien," Zaeed commanded as he grabbed Garrus's head fringe with his empty hand and pulled his head back to expose his throat, "Styx Company is the vanguard of Cerberus, and Cerberus is the future of humanity, we will rise to the very top of the bloody galaxy… and no traitorous symbol of our race or his turian dog is going to stop us!" Garrus was used to being put down, but his fury was reaching new levels from being betrayed once more, and he had the nerve of insulting Shepard. Garrus killed Sidonis, executed him like the traitor he was, and he had made up his mind that Zaeed was going to suffer the same sudden end. Zaeed was going to die. In one quick movement Garrus spun around on his ankle and knocked Zaeed's pistol out with his arm and then proceeded to punch him in the scar with his other hand but he deflected the blow and the two began trading an endless series of strikes and parries. Eventually Garrus nailed Zaeed in the cheek hard enough to send him spinning 180 degrees just after Thane had recovered, who then roundhouse kicked him back in the other direction and he landed on the ground face first. He tried to get up slowly but Garrus pressed him down with his foot to stop him, relishing in Zaeed's frustrated grunt at his shoulder being smashed into the cold ground of the space station.

"I trusted you Zaeed," Garrus declared disgusted as he reached for his heavy pistol, "but you're going down." Just as he aimed his gun at the traitor's head a bullet crashed through the window and destroyed his kinetic barrier in a single blow. Garrus looked up in the direction where the bullet came from with widened eyes and a mouth gaping open for a split second before running behind the wall next to the window.

"Where did that window come from?" Garrus asked sarcastically, "when did Omega start having windows!?" As he was distracted Zaeed fled from the room right passed Thane who would have been able to assassinate him in that instance if it weren't for his lingering dizziness from having been struck in the head before. He quickly snapped behind to the other side of the window, opposite of Garrus, making sure none of his body was revealed through the window and withdrew his viper from his left shoulder plate. Garrus drew his trusty mantis while carefully sticking his pistol out with his off hand. As expected, it was shot out of his hand and left on the ground in little shards.

"Shepard, you there!?" Garrus shouted into his omni-tool. There was a bit of a ruffling sound accompanied by a "where's my visor" before he got the response he desperately needed.

"Garrus? What's wrong?" Shepard asked calmly.

"We're getting sniped on Omega! Zaeed turned on us!" He shouted into his omni-tool as he quick-scoped Styx Company sniper that was off in a distant skyscraper.

"Zaeed betrayed you?" Shepard asked shocked. There was no way to hide the surprise in his voice.

"Just get over here quickly, Thane and I probably won't hold out on our own for much longer," he responded with a steady voice. He glanced at Thane for a brief moment to see him fire off two shots into the distance, both of which nailed two shock troops charging in attempting to crash through the window Garrus swore wasn't supposed to be there. "Scratch that we can hold out for quite a while but double time it anyway!"

"The Normandy's coming Garrus, just hang in there and score some headshots," Shepard ordered, and he cut the signal. Garrus smiled to himself in his cover and tightened his grip of his mantis. Shepard would make it. He'd land, rip the enemy up with his biotics and save him from the jaws of death like he did every time they fought together.