A/N: Okay, so things are getting a bit more EXPLOSIVE with Nate around. Don't expect everything to be exactly like the LotSB DLC.
It was raining. Lightning boomed around. And Liara was scared. Not because of the weather, no, but because of the threat on her life. She knew that the Shadow Broker wouldn't stop at that. Liara looked around, searching for Nate.
The assassin was prone in front of the huge window. He was scanning the area for threats with his Incisor. "Go get some sleep. We don't want you tired when the fighting starts," Nate urged Liara to rest.
"You think they'll attack us?"
"Definitely. Let's hope not before Shepard shows up though."
Liara woke up at the sound of her private terminal beeping. She stood up and walked downstairs. There was a new message from his salarian contact. He wanted to meet her at the Ikouron centre, in an hour. She checked the time to find out that her old captain wouldn't be there for another hour and a half. She needed to leave her a message. The prothean statue? No. Computer? Too obvious. The picture of the Normandy? She smiled and proceeded to fill the disc with data.
Nate was looking for the slightest sign of movement from the rooftops. He had been doing that for nearly two hours and he was getting tired. The lightning struck once again, but this time to light up a corner in which was a dark figure. Only for less than a second, but for long enough for Nate to spot him. He scoped in and looked for the figure once again. Their eyes met trough the sniper scopes. It was an asari. For a moment the area around the foe lit up from a muzzle flash.
Nate rolled to the side and a moment later a bullet pierced the glass and hit the spot where he had been. That couldn't have been a random assassin, someone professional. And someone with knowledge about Liara's house. Regular bullets wouldn't pierce the glass, but this one went straight trough it. He scoped in again to find no one in the spot or around it.
"Liara! We've got to go!" he shouted.
"Wait… done!" she replied.
"Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Liara asked, running downstairs.
A second later the apartment door blew apart in a loud explosion. The shrapnel smashed the window and prothean statues completely.
"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Nate said.
He ran. And so did Liara. The window was smashed. They jumped just in time to hear another loud bang from a grenade going off.
The ground was nearing at dangerous speed.
They both applied biotic force to slow themselves down.
Liara somehow managed to fall into taxi riding by.
"State your destination," the VI ordered.
"Ikouron centre,"
Liara looked around for Nate.
What she did see was a Shadow Broker gunship speeding out of behind a corner. Wait, is that…?
Nate was hanging onto the gunship with one hand and shooting the onboard mercs with the other. He pulled himself up in time to see one of the pilots move into the cargo space to engage him. (A/N: imagine the gunship being something like the ones in SW: The Clone Wars, not the traditional ME gunship) The assassin omni-bladed him in the chest and kicked him off.
Nate proceeded to the cabin, pressed his gun to the chin of the pilot and shot him. The bullet happened to also break the cocpit glass, but the decompression wasn't powerful enough to cause anything but discomfort.
He pulled the body off the seat and took his place.
"Wish I took flying lessons," he muttered. Nate grabbed the wheel-like control device and used it to steer past a building. He also found a lever to control the height.
A holodisplay informed him of an incoming "friendly" gunship.
"Now which button fires the missiles?"
He saw Liara not far ahead in a cab.
"We'll take down the target. Provide cover," came an incoming transmission, most likely from the other gunship.
The vehicle passed Nate. He moved a stick-like control and a targeting reticule appeared.
"Say goodbye!" he taunted and pressed the button on the control. Two missiles flew out and obliterated the enemy gunship. It spinned out of control into a nearby building. In the meanwhile Illium security forces were approaching fast.
"Liara? Can you manually manuever the cab under the gunship?" he contacted her.
"Sure. Just be careful."
Nate set the gunship on a straight course and left the cocpit. Liara's vehicle had just reached the spot below Nate's gunship.
The assassin hang himself over the edge of the gunship. Liara was two meters below him. The taxi's roof opened. Nate let go and fell in just in time to escape the other vehicle's crash into a skyscraper.
"Let's hope they never figure out we were here. I'm NOT going to pay all the rebuilding costs and fines,"
"It was self defense, right?"
"If you count badassery as self defense, sure."
The Ikouri center was right in front of them.
"Get ready for a rough landing!" Liara shouted.
The pair almost crashed into the front door.
"Now we just need to find my contact," Liara said.
"And fight all these troops. Way more fun than talking to some hyper salarian."
The pair opened the door and walked in. The same moment a bomb went off knocking them off their feet.
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4 hours earlier-
Commander Jane Shepard had just taken a shower and was petting her miniature giant space hamster. The furry fellow just was so cute. She was interrupted by a loud chime.
"This is Liara T'Soni. Shadow Broker agents attacked us. We need to get out of here. Shepard, come quick, we're not at good odds."
"I'll send you an ETA as soon as the moodkiller elevator gets me to combat deck."
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20 minutes earlier-
"Thane, you're with me. Tali, you too." sounded Shepard's voice over the intercom.