The elder Shepard chapter 3.

The Prison's control room was a small one, staffed by only one crewmember. With the recently acquired state of art equipment, one technician could monitor the entire ship at once. This also meant that you only had to kill one person to get access to the ships systems. Allerya was one of the few asari on the ship who was not an inmate, she had gotten the thankless task of monitoring four thousand cells. There was always one guard in the room with her, today it was a turian. From her position behind the control station she yelled at her guard: "Hey Hallian, get me some coffee will ya?"

The turian answered, in a quite annoyed tone of voice: "Go get your own dam coffee, I'm not your fucking maid."

Allerya did not have much time for entertainment with the importance of her job, so she took her amusement where she could. Tormenting the guard assigned to the control room was usually easiest way to get a good laugh. With the most innocent voice she could manage she said: "Fine, I'll leave my post to get my own coffee, I'll leave four thousand inmates of the worst kind without surveillance. What a shame that no one help me, and make sure that no inmate will be without surveillance."

Hallian rolled his eyes and sighed: "Fine ill get your dam coffee." He left the room muttering insults under his breath. That was the last time she ever saw him alive, and the last time anyone saw her alive for that matter.

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Gabriel had feared that his skills had been dulled during the long years he had been imprisoned, his fears were unfounded, he was now, as before, a living breathing weapon of mass destruction. He hadn't lost his ability to memorize large amounts of information either, he knew exactly where he needed to go, the control room. As he approached he heard a turian cursing loudly, the curses were getting louder. Gabriel quickly took cover behind a corner. As the turian came closer, it became increasingly evident that Gabriel had chosen the wrong place to hide, the turian was mere moments away from walking right past him. Gabriel decided that one corpse in a hallway wasn't going to matter much in a few minutes, so he stepped out right in front of the turian and planted his fist square in his face. Before the turian could react he grabbed hold of his head and snapped the turian's neck. Gabriel consulted his mental map and dashed off towards the control room. None of the guards who stood in his way proved to be much of a challenge.

As he walked into the control room someone spoke up: "You get my coffe? Took you long enough."

He walked up next to her, pointed a pistol at her face and said: "No coffe, I got a bullet for you instead." The muzzle of Gabriel's pistol was the last thing Allerya ever saw.

Gabriel pulled the corpse off of the chair and sat down in front of the console. He chuckled at the horror he was about to unleash on the prison guards. Gabriel was no stranger to hacking, it was one of the first things they taught at the N program, and he had designed the N program. As he scoured through the console he found many interesting commands, commands like turret targeting parameters and cell controls. A wicked smile crept across his face as he began to reprogram the ships systems. He realized that if he were to escape the ship, he would need a distraction, a rather large one in fact, so he decided to work with what he had at hand, full access to the systems of a ship containing some of the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. He reprogrammed the turrets to target the beacons instead of ignoring the people who carried them. About five seconds later Gabriel remembered that he had stolen one and quickly threw it away. To complete his diversion he opened every single cell in the prison and engaged all of the elevators.

Gabriel laughed a bit and said to nobody in particular: "Operation breakout has begun." He sifted through some drawers under the command console and found some OCD's. "These'll come in handy." He hooked one of them into the console and downloaded everything. When the download was done he took the OCD's and left. As he stood in the door he turned around and shot the console. They were not going to be able to use that any time soon.

As he left the room he muttered: "It is good to be back."

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Gabriel was a very good shot, and he was very tough, but he wasn't invulnerable, one guard got the jump on him and managed to shoot him in the gut. This meant that he had to make a detour to the infirmary. He was more than a little pissed at the turian who shot him, but the turian did not live long enough to know that. He ran towards the infirmary with one hand putting pressure on the wound in his gut and the other on his pistol. As he approached the infirmary he heard a scream, at turian scream of horror, not something you heard very often in this end of the galaxy.

As he entered the infirmary he saw the source if the screaming, it was a turian girl, and turian prisoner was in the process of ripping her clothes off, his intent obvious. He recognized the girl, she was a nurse, she had recently gotten transferred to the prison, likely as a part of her education. She was hardworking, well meaning and embarrassingly naïve. She believed that there were something good in everyone, even the people in here. Since Gabriel was a regular at the infirmary Gabriel had talked to her once or twice. While Gabriel did harbor a certain hatred for the turian race, he was still an honorable man and this girl had done nothing to him, or anyone else for that matter.

He stepped into the room and yelled: "Hey fuckhead keep your dick in your pants."

The turian looked up and growled: "What the hell are you doing here human?"

Gabriel pointed his gun at the turian and said: "Don't growl at me boy." Gabriel fired once and hit the turian in the neck. The turian grabbed his throat in a vain attempt to quell the torrent of blue blood coming from the gunshot wound. Seeing that the turian remained standing Gabriel shot him again, this time in the head, the turian died.

The female turian pushed the corpse of her would-be assailant off of her and said in a very unsteady voice: "What do you want?"

Gabriel removed his hand from his wound and pulled up his shirt revealing the wound to the turian. "Where do you keep the Medi-gel?"

The girl stumbled to her feet and ran over to a medical cabinet. She grabbed a Medi-gel dispenser and threw it to Gabriel, who rapidly emptied the dispenser into the wound in his gut. He made a very satisfied sigh and said: "Thank you."

She looked puzzled at him and said: "Why did you Help me? You are a prisoner here you didn't have to help me, you could just have ignored me, taken the Medi-gel and gone on you merry way."

"Well first of all I didn't really like the guy, secondly I need the biosignature of live employee to access the escape pods."

The moment she heard his intentions she snarled at him: "You are not taking me anywhere."

With a voice totally cold and emotionless he said: "I suggest keep your tone civil girl, I would hate to have to repeat myself." He gestured towards the corpse on the floor. He guided her towards a window and pointed at some combat on one of the lower levels. "You see that down there? That's the armory, your colleagues are about to lose control over it and when that happens all hell is going to break loose."

The girl stared at the combat below with horror, her mandibles vibrating madly, she tried to say something coherent but failed. He put a hand on her shoulder and said: "Are you willing to reconsider my offer?"

She nodded silently.

"Good, now let's find an escape shuttle and get the hell out of here."

The thought of escape of this terrible conflict seemed to calm her down a bit, she took a deep breath and said: "I have already tried it, but the warden has shut them all down to prevent escapes."

Gabriel sighed and with an annoyed look on his face said: "What's your name girl?"

"Tania." She replied, afraid that the anger on his face would be directed towards her.

While inspecting his pistol he said: "Well then Tania, let's go pay your boss a visit."

So he has found a companion. I wonder what will happen when he finds the warden. And remember every time you read and don't review Gabriel kills another turian.