Chapter 3: Year one
AN/ This chapter is all in Shepard's point of view and next chapter will be written in third person like the first two chapters.
The year is 2201 and I'm Hazel Shepard. I've been taking out salvers, space stations and batarian bases for a little more than a year now. I've been using a retired alliance frigate. It was the councils way of telling me good luck on my mission. The vids call what I'm doing a crusade to end to batarian violence against humanity and I'm a valiant protector for the human race. But the Batarian Hegemony call this a mad quest for blood and have said that I will be killed on sight. They both might be right on their own merits.
In the last few weeks I've followed a pirate band to a remote planet in the Terminus systems. I've landed my ship miles away so I cannot be detected. The walk was a bit much but that's out of the way and now it's show time.
They've got two guards standing watch on a platform over looking a rather large camp the pirates set up. I go into a tactical cloak, I climb up the ladder to meet the two guards head on. I take the first one out by slicing open the throat of the guard closest to me. The second turned around, I whip my knife at the pirate hitting him between the eyes before he could make a sound.
My cloak deactivates and I draw my rifle. I set up explosives around the camp before I got to the platform. I set off the first set of explosions, every thing is going according to plan. I snipe the first few guards that came to investigate the explosion. After awhile of aimless shooting the pirates stop when they can't find me and run to their ships and vehicles. That's when the next set of explosives came in.
The pirates that where closest to the blast died instantly, the others were hurt...but would be dead soon enough. I get off the platform and grab my pistol popping off a few rounds into the wounded mercs. That's when I found one alive enough to talk.
"Please...don't kill me!" the pirate rasped
"I'll consider it but you are going to answer some questions!" I tell him
"If it's about the slaves..."
" I never mentioned any slaves!"
"I'll...I'll take you to them" he said
I could tell some thing wasn't right. I barley said any thing and he was ready to cooperate.
"It's right here." he said opening a large container.
The container opened and when it did a flood of pirates came out and surrounded me.
"Ha ha!" one of the pirates laughed
"We knew you would be here Shepard!"
"And now we'll collect the reward the on you."
"I kind of figured this would be a trap." I said calmly activating my omni tool
"What are you doing?" one of the pirates questioned
I answer him with a smile. "Bringing down the sky."
In seconds you could here my ship roaring over head. Shortly after the ground was trembling in response to the air strike I called around the camp. The pirates scrambled, I shot down two of them before I found some cover. Then I heard several other shots coming from behind me then...the shooting stopped.
"Shepard are you alright?" I heard a voice call out.
I looked over to see who it was. It was Garrus and one other person I didn't recognize.
"Shepard!" he yelled on more time
"I'm fine Garrus and what are you doing here?"
"I want to help you Shepard." Garrus asked
"You are the executor of C-sec and you quit all that just to help me?"
"Every one is tied up in their own agendas and personal gain on the Citadel and I'm sick of it!" Garrus growled " And you shouldn't have to fight this battle alone."
"Thank you Garrus but if I may ask who is your drell friend?"
"Oh um... you know."
"It's me...Kolyat..." he interrupted
"Garrus what the hell are you thinking!" I scream at him. "You wanna come along fine, but I don't want Kolyat to have any thing to do with this mission!"
"I came because it's what my father would have done if he where here!" Kolyat yelled " I was tired of all the political bull shit on the Citadel and you wont admit it but you need help!"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The same kid all those years ago who I helped stop from killing a man, was know an adult who was willing to follow me.
"Fine it's you're life kid." I said
I turn around, I see that one of the pirate is still alive. "If you two can excuse me for a moment."
I got some information on a space station in the system. It served as a bit of a way point between Alliance outer colonies and batarian space.
"I didn't know you could fly a ship Shepard." Garrus said
"I can." I answer
"And Joker made it seem like he was the only one who could fly a ship properly." Garrus chuckled
"We've boarded." Kolyat said
"So that ship ID you got from that pirate worked after all." Garrus said
"Get ready the dock crew is on their way."
The plan was simple. I would be bait, Garrus and Kolyat would pretend to sell me to the captain in charge of the station. Then when Garrus and Kolyat would leave and wait for my signal to come back and get me.
"This is her?" a turian asked Garrus
"This is her." he replied forcibly lifting my head up to meet eyes with the turian.
"Ok the man at the gate will give you you're credits."
The turian dragged me through the station. On the way to where ever I was going the crew of the station heckled and shouted some very vulgar things about my...physical attributes and saying various different things in their native languages.
"So you are the famous Hazel Shepard?" Another turian questioned
"Did you figure that out all by yourself." I said
The turian glared at me. "You really shouldn't tempt me Shepard."
He walked over to me and kicked me harder than a charging krogen.
"Take her to my quarters!" The turian ordered
I got dragged into an elevator and the two guards decided they wanted to initiate conversation.
"You really shouldn't have upset the boss like that." one of them a salarian said.
"Know he ain't gonna be so nice to ya." the other one said.
"Lucky me." I sad dryly chuckling
They bring me to my feet when the elevator opened. They drag me a bit more and toss me into a room on the upper deck. I wait around a bit and then the doors swing open.
"I'm sorry for my behavior earlier." the turian said
I don't say any thing back to him.
"If any thing I owe you my life." the turian said
"Some one I saved?" I asked
"You might not remember me but I was once part of a team with Garrus."
"Sidonis?"
"Correct Shepard."
"So you decide to waste the lease on life I allowed you to have by slave trading?"
"I had to find work some how, C-sec wouldn't arrested me and I needed money."
"Garrus would be real proud of you Sidonis."
The turian growled, he picked me up by the throat. "You don't say his name around me!" he shouted throwing me to the floor.
"He should of killed me on the Citadel and because of you I still have to live with the faces of the men that died because of me!"
I give him a smile. "If you still regret it so much take these shackles off and let me kill you."
Sidonis growled, he walked over to me and unlocked my shackles. I get up and went in to punch the turian, but he caught my fist and slammed me head first into a wall on the other side of the room.
"You're getting slow in you're old age Shepard." he laughed
"Fuck off!" I rasp in pain.
Sidonis walked over to me and picked me up by my throat.
"You'll beg me to kill you when I'm done!" he snarled " Then you'll know what it was like to live with the same guilt that I've lived with for ten years!"
"Garrus was here." I said weakly gasping for air.
Sidonis let me go. His eyes were wide and he wasn't speaking.
"He was here?" he stammered.
"Yes." I said to him while rubbing my throat.
"Get him back here!" he shouted
"I will if you take me to the control room to send him the message."
"How do I know this isn't a trap?" he questioned
"Because he was the very turian who brought me here and he's waiting for my message." I said
Sidonis paused for a second. "Fine I'll take you." he mumbled.
We left his quarters and went into the elevator. We didn't speak the entire time, the elevator doors open and he drags me by my neck into the stations control room.
"Do it!" he ordered walking in front of me to the controls, signaling every one in the room to get out.
"Only because you asked so nicely." I replied sarcasticly, while I grabbed a guards shot gun while he was on his way out.
I took out the guard with a shot to his back. Sidonis whipped around and charged me. I sent him to his knees when I shot him in his leg. While he screamed in pain I put the shot gun in his mouth.
"Now Sidonis we are going to play a game." I tell him.
"You ever play hang man?" I ask him with a very satisfied smile, while the turian shook his head no.
"Well what I'm about to do right now is a little like it." I said glaring at the turian. "You are going to answer all my questions and if you don't...I blow off a body part."
The fear in the turians eyes where undeniable now.
"What are the access codes for this station?" I question him taking the gun out of his mouth.
"Fuck you!" Sidonis cried out.
"No thanks." I said while I shot his other leg.
Sidonis screamed a savage sound possibly in turian and then he answered.
"I'll...I'll send...send them to your omni-tool!" he struggled to say.
"Good now give me all the data on every shipment that passes through here." I ordered.
Sidonis nodded and then fired up his omni-tool again.
"O...Okay now plea...AH!" I shot him again this time it was his hand that was reaching for a pistol.
"That wasn't smart." I think to my self shoving the shot gun back into the turians mouth.
No longer needing the turian for anything else I finish him off, the blast sending bone and meat splashing on the floor.
I flash my omni tool at the door behind me. Locking it so no one else could get in. I walk to the terminal and signal my ship.
"Yes commander."Garrus answered
"I've got control of the station and in ten minuets this station is going to blow."
"Yes ma'am!" he replied cutting connection.
The stations alarms sounded off that the self destruct was initializing and those aboard needed to evacuate.
I knew that every one would be scrambling to get off the station now and this was the perfect time for escape.
Back on the ship.
"That was close Shepard." he sighed
I gave him a laugh. "That was nothing, remember when that last reaper went down!"
"Yeah those where the days." Garrus said
Garrus put his hands on my shoulder. "It's good to be on a ship with you again."
"Nice to have a friend with me." I grunted in pain at Garrus touching my bruised shoulder.
"Are you okay ?" Garrus asked with a worried expression on his face.
"The leader of the base got a litte touchy...he wont be touching anything anymore." I said, not telling him about Sidonis.
"If you say so."
"I think it's time I move my plan ahead a little faster." I thought out loud.
"What are you planing?" Garrus asked
"Do you know how to kill a god?" I ask him.
Garrus looked confused.
"You make them bleed and people will stop following this god...killing it."
"I'm not sure what you mean." Garrus said confused by what I meant.
I give Garrus a very sinister smile. "We are going to kill a god or...queen if your feeling dramatic."
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