30 Day Mass Effect Challenge: Day 24

Prompt 24: Favourite Class (soldier, vanguard, etc.)

SPOILERS: Mass Effect 3

Warrior

London, Thanix Missile Trucks, 2186 CE

Kara Shepard threw herself behind the fallen remains of a red phone box and gasped for breath as the brute's hideous claws slashed the air where she had just been standing. The creature snarled at her and backed up for another charge, but she swung her particle rifle around and sent a beam of pulsing energy into its eyes.

"Garrus!" she yelled. "Little help!"

"Little busy!" he yelled back from his current vantage point, crouching at the windowsill of a decimated shop. "Two more on your six!" A burst of gunfire echoed behind her and she heard another brute growling.

"Shit," she muttered. Flinging a biotic warp at the brute in front of her, she saw Liara just beyond the missile truck to her left, doing the same.

The brute let out a sick gurgle and slumped to the ground. Liara came running, dropping a singularity behind her to pick up what looked like a small army of cannibals on her heels. "More brutes!" Liara called.

"How many ARE there?" Shepard gasped, throwing another warp, this time at the singularity, causing it to detonate and send reaper minions flying across the battlefield. Still more came running up behind them, leaping over the bodies of their fallen comrades and firing shots at her.

"Ungh," she heard Garrus grunt behind her. She turned quickly to see one of the brutes slam him against the wall of the destroyed shop, his rifle flying out of his hand.

Shepard saw red. She felt the first of the abominable husk creatures claw at her arms and she slapped her hand against her omnitool, detonating her tech armor in a violent blast that knocked every creature in her radius to the ground. She swung her fist down and the omni-blade slid through the cannibal's eyes and then she was charging across the battlefield, flinging another warp at the brute. "Hey, FUCKER."

The warp hit the brute in the back and it whirled, growling and flinging Garrus to one side as if he were made of straw. Shepard hit it with a burst of particle rifle fire before throwing another warp, and as it charged towards her she jumped to the side, letting it careen past her and crash into the missile truck. She spun around and activated her tech armor again, waiting a few moments to summon up another biotic attack. The brute growled at her and she grinned mirthlessly back at it, baring her teeth in a snarl.

"Get. Away. From. My. Boyfriend." she growled.

The brute charged and Shepard flung another warp at it, then assailing it with particle rifle fire as it crashed into her, knocking her back into the damaged shop and into a shelving unit. She groaned, tasting blood in her mouth, but to her left she saw Garrus getting to his feet, swinging around and hitting the beast with an overload attack. He gave her his best lopsided grin and ducked behind a shelf as the brute turned towards him once more.

"No you fucking don't!" Shepard yelled, activating her own overload attack, causing the brute to flinch and stumble forward. Running across the remains of the shop, Shepard activated her omniblade again and ran up the creature's heaving back, throwing all of her weight into her right arm. With a yell, she swung her arm down and drove the blade into the beast's brain, causing it to shudder and then fall still.

Shepard jumped off of the beast and deactivated her blade, grabbing Garrus's hand and helping him to his feet. They exchanged a short look, one that spoke volumes.

You're not allowed to fucking die on me Vakarian. Her pale blue eyes flashed.

Not a chance Commander, his eyes seemed to say back. Not a damn chance.

They both went for thermal clips in the shelving unit along the wall, knowing they weren't out of the woods yet.

"More on the way!" Shepard heard Liara yell. She was up near the second missile truck now, holding off another wave of cannibals and husks with a singularity and the fire of her machine pistol.

Shepard and Garrus both vaulted over the windowsill and saw three more brutes lumbering towards them. They exchanged another look, this one less serious but just as intense.

"Shall we?" Shepard asked, giving him a grin.

Garrus grinned back, reloading his assault rifle. "Let's give 'em hell."

Shepard turned back and stared down the beasts, preparing another warp in her hand. They just had to hold out a little longer.

I won't let them win this war.

"You hear that Harbinger?" She yelled to the sky, adrenalin and bloodlust fueling her words. "This is MY home! I am the sentinel of this galaxy, and so help me, I will protect it until every last one of you is fucking DEAD."

As if hearing her violent yells, the Reaper blocking the conduit shot a bolt of energy in her direction, which she barely dodged.

"Shepard!" Garrus yelled, ducking out of the way of another brute's claws.

The Commander flung her warp at the brute and then charged forward, her particle rifle on full burst.

This is our home.

I already died once to protect it.

I am the sentinel.

You WILL not win.

Answer: Sentinel

I know Sentinel isn't necessarily the prime fighting class, and honestly I think I have a little more fun playing Vanguard or Adept in things like multiplayer but, I played through all 3 ME games with Kara as a Sentinel, and this is how she would fight this battle. Protecting the galaxy no matter how many damned brutes she has to cut through to keep it safe.

Seriously though, brutes? Suck. Fuck those guys.