Chapter 4

Warden Sinata sat behind the desk in her office directing the battle for the ship from there, and she was not doing well. She had called for reinforcements, but she knew that it was unlikely that they would arrive before the prisoners could escape. To buy her allies more time to arrive she had locked down the escape pods and shuttles. She prayed to the spirits that it would be enough. She had no idea how this could have happened, the cells were supposed to inescapable, the upper levels were supposed to impenetrable. She knew that many of the inmates were crafty, but none of them were supposed to orchestrate anything like this.

The path to the warden's office was surprisingly empty, and Gabriel avoided the few guards that were there, as he had no desire to give his companion any reason to turn against him. When they finally reached the wardens office most of the guards had been pulled away from the upper levels to contain the prisoners on the lower levels. The way to the warden was clear, so far there was only one loose end, her. He handed Tania a pistol and said: "Find a place to hide, you do not want to be near me when shit hits the fan."

She took the gun and with a very confused look on her face she asked: "What do you intend to do?"

Gabriel inspected his weapons while saying: "You're a turian, do you really expect her to back down and let me activate the pods?"

She shook her head and said: "No she wouldn't, she'd fight all the way, she would die before letting you out…" She stopped talking when she realized what he was going to do. She stared at him with a very frightened look on her face and said: "You're not going to kill her… are you?"

Gabriel walked over to a window and stared down at the fighting downstairs. "To be honest, before you entered the picture I intended to kill every single turian who would be unfortunate enough to get in my way." After seeing the look on her face he added: "Though in the interest of remaining civilized, I'll try not to kill her. There's a conference room about 50 meters back, go hide there, I'll come get you when it's all over."

Tania complied silently, not at all reassured that Gabriel would let her boss live.

Warden Sinata was angry, very angry, her men had lost the armory, she had lost contact with the control room and they were only hanging on by a thread at the engines and the elevators, in short things were not going well. She did not understand how this could happen, all of her guards were supposed to be hardened veterans, but they were crumbling under the attacks of the prisoners. And worst of all she had no idea how all of this had started, but before she could investigate the door to her office opened and revealed the identity of the mastermind behind this prison break, it the human.

From the other end of the room Gabriel said: "Hello warden." He raised his pistol, pointed it at her and shot.

The shot didn't hit, it was absorbed by a kinetic barrier. The warden reached under her table and pulled out a gun while saying: "I won't go down that easily Scourge."

Gabriel saw her reach under her table, he knew what she reached for. There was no cover in the room, the only way to get out of the potential line of fire, was to go back out the door, or go straight at her. Gabriel did the thing that felt most natural, he charged. He ran towards the table, used the chair in front of it as a stepping stone and leapt over the table, right into the warden. She was knocked off of her chair, and the both of them ended on the ground.

The warden was baffled, she had not expected savagery of this degree from a human, especially not this human. He had been lethargic and passive for as long as anyone could remember. Frankly she did not really care why the human had decided to take a more active role in prison affairs, she was more concerned with stopping him from killing her. She got to her knees and reached for her gun, when her hand was barely an inch away she was pulled away.

Gabriel saw her reach for the gun and yelled: "Oh no you don't." He grabbed hold of her collar, pulled her towards him and planted his fist on the side her face, and she was once again knocked to the ground. She began moaning in agony while rubbing her chin where he had hit her. She spat out a considerable amount of blood… and a tooth. In the meantime Gabriel had gotten to his feet. He walked over to her kicked her in the gut, knocking all the air out of her lungs. He circled her like a predator, awaiting its prey's next move and said: "You turians are a strange race, so much talk about being a military superpower, yet when the fighting starts you are always defeated by the rabble."

She didn't respond, she was too busy writhing in agony while trying to catch her breath. Apparently he had it sore spot or perhaps broken a rib or two. He once again grabbed hold of her collar and pulled her to her feet and growled at her: "Look at me when I am talking to you turian." Warden Sinata had not been truly afraid in a very long time, but looking into this human's face, an expression of pure fury, scared her. He dragged her over to her desk, slammed her face into it and said: "Enable the escape pods now."

She spat some more blood out while barely managing to say: "Fuck you."

With a snarl on his lips Gabriel slammed her face once again into the table. He pulled her face up next to his and said: "I didn't quite hear you. I suggest you do as I say, I can keep this up all day, can you?" When she refused to answer Gabriel said: "Ok fine, I guess I have to get rough."

To her credit he actually had to start ripping her mandibles off before she cracked, Gabriel was glad that it didn't have to come to that, tearing a turian's mandibles off was messy business. She typed in a command into her console, and shortly after a VI announced: "Escape pods activated." He jabbed one of the OSD's into her computer and transferred all files to them, when the download was done he removed them and said: "Thank you." He saw one of the camera buttons on her interface flash a bright red, out of sheer curiosity he pressed it. It activated the cameras in the engine room, where a between some guards and an asari was taking place. The guards were trying in vain to hold their ground against what could only be described as a very angry asari matriarch. She tossed the guards around like they were mere toys. One especially unfortunate guard was thrown directly into the core, with explosive results.

The alarms started wailing and a VI announced: "Core breach detected, engine and mass effect shutdown imminent."

Gabriel ran started running back to where he left Tania, but before he got out of the office entirely a voice called out to him. "You can't hide anywhere you monster, no matter where you run to, no matter where you hide, we will hunt you down, scourge of Morran ." It was the warden, her voice dripping with hate.

He slowed down, only for a moment and said: "You are welcome to try."

Tania was nervous, in truth she was hiding under a table shivering with fear, she never was a good turian. When the door opened she nervously pointed her gun in the general direction of the door, she lowered it immediately after hearing a familiar voice. "Tania, the ships about to blow, we gotta move."

She quickly got out from under the table and said: "What the hell did you do? The whole ship is shaking."

He pulled her to her feet and said: "This isn't my handiwork, an asari used one of your colleagues to destroy the core, and without it this ship will drop out of orbit." He ran out of the room with Tania following closely. The way to the escape pods were relatively clear, with only one or two prisoners getting in the way. The closer they got to the escape pods, the more obvious it became that the ship would not last long without its core. When they finally got to the pods, she put her hand on a scanner which opened the door to the pod. Gabriel shoved her in and jumped in after her. When both of them had strapped themselves in, she pressed the release button. As he stared out the window, watching the Necropolis burn up in the atmosphere of the planet it orbited, he realized: "I'm free."

On a shuttle a few thousand miles away Miranda Lawson were surveying the events on the Necropolis. She was impressed, in 6 hours the major had done what no other prisoner had done in twenty six years, he really was as good as his daughter. She opened up comm to the Illusive Man: "You were right, he is good. I am preparing a team for extraction."

Holy shit he actually got out of that damned prison, let's see how he goes from there. Thanks for the reviews btw, they are a real motivator. Can you please tell me if that fight scene between the warden and Gabriel worked?

And as usual remember every time you read and don't review Gabriel kills a turian.