Azreal and Sendai make it back to their ship making their way inside. Sendai goes to jump down to the lower level and tells Azreal its her turn to fly who waves her hand at her in response. Sendai changes clothes as Azreal sits in the pilot's seat and sets to leave Illium and towards the Sol System. Sendai comes back and sits in the copilot. Azreal looks at her and smirks, "should I remind you to return the clothes later?"
"No, I'll remember."
"Will you now?" Azreal asks laughing.
"Oh shut up. So what is this job? You've still yet to give me the urgent reason as to why we're heading into Alliance space," Sendai asks.
"Carver called."
"Carver? Is everything alight?"
"He said he couldn't go into detail as to what was going on other than he needed our help again."
"You should have just said it was him to begin with."
"He said it was really urgent so I didn't want to risk saying anything that wasn't in person."
"Where are we meeting him?"
"Earth," Azreal says slightly flinching waiting for Sendai to lash out but is surprised she doesn't. "I really should have told you Carver needed our help first."
"Yeah you should have. I don't care where he needs us, even if it's right in the middle of an Alliance base, I'll go without hesitation."
"Good, thankfully we aren't going near any military base. You think it could be them again?"
"Who knows. They have been showing themselves a lot lately. They're starting to make themselves known throughout the galaxy little by little."
"But we're the only ones that know about them and what to look for. If this problem Carver needs our help with is them again then they're starting to take more drastic steps and the galaxy will soon be in big trouble."
Sendai lets out a sigh, "I know. But it's hard to warn people of a threat when you're the only one that knows what they are truly capable of. Trying to warn the galaxy about a group of people called The Order will be like Commander Shepard trying to warn the Citadel Council about the Reapers and she had proof. The only proof we have is ourselves and my word about my past."
"We have more proof than that. They attacked Hendrix and tried to put the blame of the colony exploding on you. Carver is the witness of that. We also have the ability to share our memories with others so it wouldn't just be your word about your past. Also the fact we're human and powerful natural biotics without the amps."
"Yeah and the only reason for that is because they killed and revived me continuously with eezo until my body finally bonded with it completely. I never would have thought you would have to same abilities being a clone of me though. Only advantage of that is that they don't know about you."
"Only advantage? That hurts."
Sendai laughs at Azreal and slightly pushes her gaining a grin, "You know what I mean. Oddly enough you're my best friend and 'sister' and you're a clone of all things. Even though you're my clone we are two entirely different people with different personalities and everything, so honestly you're not a clone to me but real family. No one can say otherwise either."
Azreal laughs and sets the controls to auto pilot, "I'm just glad you didn't kill me back then."
"Well honestly we probably would have both died."
"Well I'm glad to be alive and I actually like the scar you gave across my eye. Makes me look like more of a badass and helps a little more to differentiate us even with having my face altered slightly. The scar makes it a little harder to approach women though," Azreal says with a sigh sending Sendai into a fit of laughter and Azreal shoots her a death glare.
Sendai wipes her eyes from laughing and waves her hand at her apologetically, "You're hard to approach period Azreal."
Azreal lets out another sigh, "Yeah I know.." She then gets up and starts to head to the lower level of the ship, "We should probably try and sleep before making it to Earth. I have a feeling we're heading straight into a shit storm."
Sendai gets up and heads down as well making her way to her bunk, "yeah, this might be the beginning of an end."
"You sure this is the spot Azreal?"
"Yes I'm sure. I mean look at this place, not ominous at all," Azreal says with sarcasm covering her voice getting a scoff from Sendai. After standing around for a little longer a man appears waving at them and walks over.
"It's great to see you both, though I wish it were due to better circumstances," the man says hugging both woman.
"It's good to see you too Carver, no matter the circumstance," Sendai says with a smile with Azreal smiling at him as well.
Carver smiles at the reply but then gets a serious look and walks to the building behind them. "There have been people going missing from the near by town. I thought I would investigate myself first and it lead me here. This is just an old abandoned building but there is a huge facility down below."
"And how do you know that?" Azreal asks.
"I snuck in of course. I wasn't there for long nor did I get far but from what I could tell they are doing experiments on people, along with other races as well."
"By they you mean The Order, don't you?" Sendai ask clinching her fists.
"Yes."
Azreal and Sendai share a look then turn back to Carver. "Alright, so why are we standing out in the open?" Azreal says looking at the building.
Carver walks over to the building door, "because I believe something has gone wrong inside now. Before, men would come out every three hours for whatever reason. I called you after six and no one had appeared"
Azreal looks back at Sendai, "it took us about a day to get here as well."
"So an experiment gone wrong maybe?" Sendai says walking up next to Carver.
"Possibly, but the fact that there are other races in there could implicated humanity getting the galaxy to turn on us. Therefore, I called the both of you. Especially since you've dealt with The Order on many occasions as well."
Azreal and Sendai both nod their heads and speak simultaneously, "then lets go in."
The three make their way down in an elevator and spend what seems like an eternity in it. Azreal and Carver are waiting patiently to make it to their destination while Sendai hangs her head with her arms folded and taps her foot continuously. "The galaxy has ships that can travel through light-years of space in a matter of hours but the elevators are even slower than back then!"
Carver looks over at Azreal questioningly and she gives him a nervous grin, "she really doesn't like elevators."
"I see that," he says and both of them laugh but Sendai turns and glares at them getting Azreal to turn her head and stare off into the corner and Carver stiffens up and clears his throat. The elevator comes to a stop and they ready themselves. As soon as the doors open they're flooded with the stench of death and blood. They make their way out of the elevator and see blood covering most of the room.
"What the hell could have happened?" Carver says walking around cautiously.
"Where are the bodies for one," Azreal says pulling out a small sword attached to her back and her gun readying herself.
"Just keep your guard up." Sendai pulls out her dagger and gun readying herself as well.
The group hear a low growl off in the distance and take a fighting stance next to each other. They see what looks like a Krogan head peering out of the darkness. It comes into full view showing a long mutated body, arms and legs long and almost lanky, tentacles coming from its back. They all stare at it wide eyed.
"What the fuck is that!?" Azreal says just before it runs towards them at an extremely fast pace. It gets mere inches from them with its claws with Azreal barely able to jump out of the way and Sendai knocking Carver's feet out from under him getting him away from it but gets her left shoulder slashed in the process. The creature stands over Carver and basically roars in his face getting ready to attack but Azreal tackles it to the ground but easily throws her off into the wall. Carver gets back to his feet and takes out his gun shooting at it but seems to only be angering it. It goes to rush at him but Sendai comes from behind it with her dagger outstretched to a sword and attacks it. It dodges the sword effortlessly and kicks her back into the wall and tries to rush Carver again and then Azreal sends a shockwave knocking it back. Azreal runs to Carver standing in front of him as the creature quickly gets back on its feet and runs towards them. Azreal readies herself, blue aura surrounding her body, but Sendai charges with her biotics from the side and cuts its head off with her sword. The headless creature falls and they all take a huge sigh of relief.
"Carver, do you still have contact with people in the Alliance?" Sendai asks.
"Y-yes I do."
"Call everyone you can and get everything near this place evacuated and bring the Alliance here."
"What are you going to do?"
"Yeah what are we going to do Sendai?" Azreal asks turning to her.
"We're figuring out what they were doing down here and killing everything we find," she replies with a coldness in her eyes.
"But if the Alliance finds you then-" Carver goes to protest but is cut off by Sendai.
"Then they find us."
Carver just nods in reply and heads towards the elevator, "just be careful you two."
"Are you sure about this Sendai?" Azreal asks as the elevator door closes.
"Definitely."
"Alright then, I'm right behind you."