The elder shepard chapter 2
That night Gabriel sat in his cell thinking about what the alliance representative had told him. He sat on his bed with his face in his hands, just like twenty-six years ago on Blackwater. He wondered how he should escape, during his long stay in the prison he had learned just about everything there was to know about the prison, when the guards changed shifts, where the turrets were placed, even access codes to the elevators, the only obstacle barring his way to freedom was the door on his cell, and even mass effect field reinforced steel and Plexiglas could be broken with the right weapon, and the guards did not know that the previously broken and tame wolf in the cell, had awakened and was hungry for blood.
A few years back he had noticed that his bed was beginning to rust, yet when he informed the guard of this he was ignored. Gabriel thought it delightfully ironic how their mistreatment of him would lead to his escape, as an iron pipe would be exactly what he would need to escape.
The guards usually reacted quickly when inmates trashed their cells, as the cells were expensive to build and with an ever decreasing budget all damage to the cells effectively came out of the guards pay. Understandably the guards usually became quite angry when you attempted to damage your cell, and usually responded quite quickly. His escape plan required a guard's keycard and weapons, he would need to overpower a guard and claim his keycard and tracing beacon. The keycard would give him access to the rest of the ship, and the beacon would make the many turrets on the ship ignore him.
A few hours after lights out, he sat his plan into motion, he grabbed hold of one of the iron pipes that his bed was made of and tore. A few moments later his bed was broken and he stood with an iron pipe in his hands. He now found himself armed, although with a quite primitive weapon, but armed nonetheless. He began trashing his cell, and with great efficiency, as he had over two and a half decades of bottled up rage to fuel the destruction.
His plan had worked, three guards quickly responded with predictable force. They ran down towards his cell, thinking him easy prey, they were wrong. He had put the bed up vertically, covering about half of the door. He made himself ready for the inevitable charge.
One of the guards, a turian thinking himself invincible, ran through opening in the door, assault rifle in hand. Gabriel vaguely remembered playing baseball in his youth, smashing the guards skull felt strikingly similar, and quite satisfying. The assault rifle flew from his hands, right into Gabriel's. Gabriel kicked down the bed, pinning one of the guards under it, and before the other guard could respond he became the unfortunate recipient of multiple headshots. Hearing moaning under the bed, he fired a shot in the approximate location of the guards head, moments later large amounts of blue blood began to flow out from under the bed.
One of the guard's communicators began to make noise: "Hey, what happened, anyone there?"
Gabriel cleared his throat, and began making his best salarian impersonation: "I have three men down, the prisoner and two guards, send a cleanup crew down here. One more thing, the prisoner destroyed my beacon, I can't get out unless you disable the turrets in the corridor."
After a few moments the guard on the other end of the comm. responded: "Affirmative, disabling turrets in corridor delta, you got three minutes before they go back online."
Three minutes was far more than Gabriel needed, he took a keycard from one of the guards and ran for the elevator.
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"Ahhh I am so tired of this job Halian, they pay and hours suck, and we have to deal with these scumbags on a daily basis."
"Look on the bright side, once we're done here we move up a citizenship tier and we're off to administrative work." They passed a corner and reached the elevator to corridor delta. "Hmm that's odd the elevator is headed up…" The last thing the two turians saw was the very angry human in the elevator.
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Gabriel had forgotten the rush of combat, the feeling of the adrenaline running through his veins, the cold steel of a weapon in his hands, it felt good to feel those things again, he could not possibly describe how much he had missed that feeling. He stepped over the corpses of the two unfortunate turians who had gotten in his way mere moments ago. To his right he noticed a map of the ship. He scratched his head and said: "What? They put up a map… next to the elevator to maximum security?" He began laughing, they assumed that no inmate could get up here so they didn't implement any safety precautions, their loss, their loss indeed.
So he is finally out, of his cell, let's see whether he can manage to get out of the ship.