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Thanks to DN7 for his betaing work.
Arriving in my office I locked and secured the room before sitting down in my chair. Booting up my terminal I saw that the transmission was from CARLA. Cocking an eyebrow I opened up a channel to her. As soon as I saw her face I knew something was wrong. She looked worried which was a bad sign. "What is it CARLA?"
"We have a problem. Olympus failed their mission. Darius got away." That was bad news. Darius was a human warlord who had been supplied by the Alliance to strike at the batarians. Unfortunately he came across a source of element zero and was now making demands. The Alliance had contacted CryNet in order to eliminate him and I had sent Inquisitor team Olympus to deal with it as they were closest to him and we knew that he had plans to move to his stronghold in the Hades Gamma cluster.
"Fuck!" I hissed in anger. "I told them that they could not fail. Fucking hell. How did they fail?" I asked. I thought that I already knew the answer but I wanted to make sure.
"Rhea was sent in to infiltrate the building that Darius was in before the rest of the squad would assault. They had decided to have the assault commence and have Rhea shadow Darius until the rest of the squad would make their way there. Unfortunately Rhea tried eliminate Darius before the squad could make it in and failed to kill him. She was injured and the team was forced to split up. Hephaestus and Artemis stayed to stabilize Rhea and get her out while Cronus and Hermes went on to try to kill Darius. They were unable to however due to the amount of guards in their way and Darius made his escape."
"I knew it." I muttered angrily. Olympus was a problematic team. They would be extremely good at their jobs if they would work together. Unfortunately they had two in their number who were loners. Hermes and Rhea. Rhea was ex-Alliance Black Ops and had become extremely cold. If she could see a way to complete the mission she would take it, even if she would be ignoring her orders or putting the rest of her squad in danger.
Sighing I took of my mask before turning to CARLA. "Patch me through to them. Remember to hide my Nanosuit from them." I told her. CARLA would edit the video to make it look like I was wearing my regular suit rather than my Nanosuit in order to keep my identity of Wraith hidden from them.
"Transmission initiated. Please wait for them to answer."
"They better answer soon. I'm in no mood for their crap right now." I muttered. Luckily I didn't have to wait long for all five Inquisitors to appear on my terminal infront of me.
Their team leader Cronus, a krogan with a scar traveling down from the corner of his left eye to his chin and a red crest, was standing in the middle of his team. To his right was a pale human with short blonde hair who was bandaged around her right arm and right side of her torso. She was Rhea, Olympus's second in command. On her right was a batarian Hermes. On Cronus's left side was the asari Artemis and a tall human, Hephaestus.
"Olympus. I would ask what happened there but I already know the answer. It's clear to me now that it was a mistake tolerating your missing teamwork this long. You've been able to get the job done until now so I let it slide. But now you failed. You let a high priority target escape when if you had worked together you would have eliminated him. I know what happened Rhea. You fucked up the chance to eliminate the target and for what? So that you could get the privilege of killing him yourself?"
Rhea was unaffected by my words merely stating, "I saw an opportunity to eliminate the target and I took it."
I sneered at her "Wonderful. You're able to successfully find opportunities in the field. Maybe next time you'll be able to see whether they are worth taking or not. The safest move would have been to go with the plan that had been laid out before the operation where you would have had five Inquisitors all in killing range of the target. But apparently you know better than your team leader. By pulling a stunt like that you not only allowed the target to escape but you also put the rest of your team at risk. This is not acceptable."
"Hey! I don't see you in these situations! Being forced to make decisions like those. No, you just sit in you're chair all cozy like while people like us do all the work for you!" I narrowed my eyes at the speaker, Artemis, while noticing Cronus's posture changing to one of annoyance.
"Silence" I hissed angrily. "Do not presume to know me Artemis. I've seen and done things that you can only dream of."
"But she has a point though." The soft voice of Hephaestus said causing me to shift my glare onto him causing him to shrink back slightly. "I mean it is difficult to make decisions like that in the field. She may have thought that our original plan would have failed had she not acted." Throughout both Artemis's and Hephaestus's speeches Rhea looked on expressionlessly.
"Unfortunately the data doesn't correspond with that assumption. The original plan would have worked flawlessly unless there was something else there that isn't on the report?" I asked to which Rhea shook her head.
"No Sir."
I nodded "I didn't think so." I said exhaling angrily through my nose.
Artemis decided that now was a good time to give her opinion again "Alright, you know what? You want Darius dead, we'll kill him. We'll hunt him down and take him out."
I shook my head once "No. No more operations. As of right now you are pulled off of active duty. You will return to the Prism immediately and only be placed back on active duty when I deem you ready."
Three different reactions greeted that statement. Cronus and Rhea seemed unaffected while Hermes just shrugged. The loudest reactions came from Hephaestus and Artemis.
Raising my voice I overrode their protests, "You will do simulations until you learn the value of teamwork. That decision is final."
When Artemis and Hephaestus continued to protest Cronus shook his head angrily before growling at them "Enough! You heard the Director. We will head back to the Prism immediately."
"You're not actually accepting this are you?" Artemis asked him shocked, only to shake her head in disgust when he nodded "Well fuck that!" She growled turning and walking out of the holographic field. Hephaestus hesitated for a second before following her.
Rolling his eyes Cronus motioned for Rhea and Hermes to leave. And when it was only him and me left he sighed deeply. "I should have expected that something like this would happen. I also made the mistake of tolerating Rhea's independence and unwillingness to work properly with her team if she thinks of a better plan."
I nodded slowly "Then you understand why I have to pull you from active duty?"
Snorting softly he nodded "Yes. I believe its for the best. Maybe this will allow us to work better together and become even stronger."
"I sure hope so Cronus. Olympus has strong members, but the sum of the parts is less than the whole in this case."
"What will you do about Darius?" He asked me.
I sighed "This is no longer something Inquisitors can handle, even if we had an available team. I'll send a Phantom team to take him out. Provided the Aalliance doesn't make things difficult for us."
"Very well. I best leave you too it then. Olympus, out."
Cronus was an interesting krogan. He was exactly the opposite of most krogan, being polite and preferring to think about his actions before carrying them out. Those traits made him a perfect team leader.
Unfortunately for me, it was then that I received a message from the Alliance expressing their annoyance at our failure at killing Darius. I grimaced as I realized that I probably wouldn't be getting much sleep today as I would have to be performing damage control.
A whopping ten hours and many messages and transmissions later found me heading up to the bridge.
Needless to say the Alliance was not happy that we failed the mission as now Darius was blaming them for the attack. It may have been correct but this could severely damage the Alliance's reputation. Fortunately for the Alliance, they had managed to convince Darius that CryNet had acted without their knowledge. Unfortunately this meant that CryNet had to take the heat which, once certain news companies got wind of the failed op, mainly Westerlund news, began to grow. While everyone knew that CryNet performs black ops around the galaxy, that didn't matter when the news companies began spinning their own tale of what happened.
As it was, the Council decided to jump in and berate us on "An operation that could have sparked a war with the Terminus systems." While it would be unlikely that the Terminus systems would go to war over this, the Council would take any opportunity to get some leverage against CryNet. Needless to say, I was rather irritated and eventually after ten hours the situation had stabilized enough for me to let me take a break for a couple of hours. My suit had already long since started pumping me full of hormones to keep me awake and alert.
Arriving on the bridge I was greeted by Joker "Hey Wraith, don't see you up here much, still got that super suit on?"
"Obviously." I said curtly looking out the window at the distant stars.
A couple of minutes passed in silence until Joker spoke up again "So. . . what brings you up here."
I glanced over at him "I am merely taking a break."
"I see." Joker fell silent again.
Five minutes later the silence was broken by Shepard's voice. "Joker, Status report."
"One hour out from Binthu commander."
"Excellent. Activate the stealth systems before we reach sensor range. I don't want them knowing we're there until they're dead."
"Copy that Commander."
Moments later Shepard's voice sounded again, this time over the intercom "Ground team report to the briefing room, I repeat ground team to the briefing room."
"I guess you heard her Wraith?" Joker asked me.
"Of course." I said turning around and heading towards the briefing room. I entered the briefing room to find Shepard waiting for us. I greeted her with a nod "Shepard."
"Wraith, had a good nights sleep?" She asked.
Shrugging noncommittally I sat down in my chair without answering causing her to narrow her eyes at me. Before she could say anything the door to the briefing room opened and the rest of the ground team filed in. Once everyone was sitting she started the briefing.
"I hope you've all had some sleep." She said glancing over at me, "Because we're an hour out from our next target." A holographic representation of Binthu popped up in the middle of the room. "This is Binthu. Located in the Yangtze system of the Voyager Cluster. We've received intelligence of a pro-human terrorist base located here. This terrorist organization goes by the name of Cerberus, they were an Alliance Black Ops organization before they went dark. There is evidence connecting them to the marines that we found wiped out by Thresher maw's on Edolus. Our objectives are to raid their bases here and find out what they are doing."
Shepard continued, inputting a command in her omni-tool that caused the hologram to zoom in on a quadrant in the northern hemisphere of the planet. "Intel puts three Cerberus bases on the planet. All of them are located in this quadrant here." The locations of the three bases appeared on the map. "We'll be dropping in the mako for this op as well as inserting Wraith via orbital drop. There's the possibility of AA turret coverage so we'll be dropping the mako about five clicks north of the quadrant. Wraith however will be dropped from above the AA coverage screen allowing him to be dropped directly on top of the southernmost base. He will then infiltrate the base and take it out while we are assaulting the northern base. When finished with the bases we will head on to the last base which will be a joint assault. Wraith you will infiltrate the base and hit them from the inside while we commence the assault. Understood?"
"Got it. 40Km drop, set up for infiltration, phasic rounds." I said.
"Oh my, forty kilometer drop?" Liara asked shocked.
I chuckled dryly. "I forget that you haven't been with us long Liara. Yes, I'll be using a HALOM pack to lower my mass before impact."
"I see."
"Alright, now since the mako only seats three I'll be taking Liara and Kaidan on this mission. The rest of you will stay suited up in case something goes south. Any other questions? No? Well then lets suit up. Cargo bay in thirty. Dismissed."
Standing I immediately headed out of the briefing room and down towards my office. Arriving I began checking and modifying all of my equipment. Grabbing my Nova pistol, I fitted it with a suppressor and exchanged out its standard heat sink for a rapid cooldown. Taking the barrel off I fitted it with another high caliber barrel while setting the ammo system to create specific shredder rounds that would disintegrate on impact and deal massive damage to soft targets. Finally I added the Phasic effect to the ammo which would allow it to bypass shields and armor at close ranges. At longer ranges the phasic envelope would wear off leaving the round without any special effect.
Finished with the Nova I grabbed my SCAR and did the same, except I exchanged its barrel for a shorter low caliber one. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to use my sniper that often I decided to leave my DSG-1 here, instead opting to go down and take a K-Volt Electrostatic Pellet Gun from the weapons cache that I had brought on the Normandy instead. The K-Volt would however require specialized batteries to operate so I reminded myself to take nine of them. Finished with my weaponry I grabbed two AEC's just in case and strapped my HALOM to my back. Completely finished with my equipment I headed out of my office towards the elevator which took me down to the cargo bay. During this time SECOND was interfacing with the HALOM and was calculating the drop. Before I had reached the elevator SECOND had finished its calculations and I spent the ride down reviewing them.
Upon reaching the cargo bay I was greeted by the usual hustle and bustle as everyone got themselves ready for the mission. The mako had been moved into position and Garrus was performing last minute checks. Kaidan and Liara were both armored up standing next to the mako while Shepard was standing on top of the mako itself looking down upon the rest of us. Upon seeing me arrive she jumped down and walked towards me. "You ready?" She asked me.
"Yup. Everything is good to go. HALOM altitudes and times are set up and good to go. Its actually pretty similar to a drop on Earth funnily enough. Gear is set up for covert infiltration."
"Excellent." She checked her omni-tool. "I should get in the mako, we'll be dropping soon." She said turning towards the mako "Alright! Liara, Kaidan in the mako! Kaidan take the gun."
As they climbed up into the mako Shepard turned towards me once more "Well this is it, we'll be seeing you planetside."
"Understood."
I stood to the side as I watched Shepard disappear in the Mako and close the hatch behind her. "Alright, engage VI link." Shepard ordered. Almost immediately text popped up on the right side of my visor.
GHOST VI link engaged.
Syncing with Sable squad, stand by. . .
Issuing codenames. . .
Lieutenant Commander Shepard, Sable one.
Staff Lieutenant Alenko, Sable two.
Liara T'Soni, Sable three.
Phantom Operative Wraith, Wraith.
Sync complete.
"Alright Commander, we're approaching drop point one." Joker's voice told us over the comm.
"Copy that Joker, we're ready." Shepard responded.
"Alright everyone in the cargo bay, go strap yourselves in, we only want to drop the mako here." Everyone headed over to the seats and strapped themselves in on Joker's command. "Everyone secure? Excellent. I'm starting my approach." The cargo bay door opened to give us a view of the brown planet with some uninviting green clouds. The kinetic barrier over the open door protected us from the winds and toxic clouds. "Commander, begin your drop in five, four, three, two, one, now!" With loud revving Shepard hit the gas and the mako drove straight out of the Normandy. Immediately after, we felt the Normandy pull out of its dive and the door closed.
A minute later we heard Shepard checking in "We've landed. We're heading on to target alpha."
Joker responded "Copy that Commander. Wraith, I'm preparing my approach, get ready."
I unstrapped myself from my seat and headed to the door "Understood, I'm getting in position." Reaching the door I grabbed hold of the railing as the door opened once more.
"Approaching drop point two. Commence drop in five." I felt the Normandy starting to slow. "Four." The feeling intensified "Three." Taking a couple of steps back I prepared myself "Two." I activated power mode as the Normandy came to a complete stop. "One." I sprinted forward and jumped out of the Normandy.
The familiar feeling of the freefall greeted me as I tucked my arms to my side as I accelerated until after forty six seconds I reached a max speed of 350 meters per second, smashing through the sound barrier as I did so. From here I began to slow by air resistance and started being buffeted by wind. Feeling my nanosuit compensate for the turbulence, I watched as the timer on my HUD until the time my HALOM would activate tick down to zero from three minutes and forty seconds. I tensed as I noticed the small dot that was my target base on the ground grow bigger and bigger as my countdown timer neared zero. A moment before my HALOM activated I spread my arms to my side while keeping my legs together for the moment. This caused me to start righting myself as the HALOM activated. Three seconds after the HALOM had activated I was righted. Two seconds later I hit the ground with a dull thud, sinking into the ground as I stabilized myself with my fist.
"Wraith has landed. Infiltrating target bravo now." I said.
"Copy that Wraith. We're almost at target alpha. ETA ten minutes."
"Roger that Sable one. Going dark." I closed the comm channel and jumped up on top of the building looking for a way in that wasn't through the front door. Luckily for me I found a way in, in the form of a vent. While it was locked SECOND made quick work of the firewalls and opened it without being detected. Lowering myself into the vent silently my nanosuit quickly altered it's boots outer surface to mute my footsteps, allowing me to traverse the vents undetected.
"Nanovision enabled."
Instantly my visor switched to Nanovision mode allowing my to see perfectly in the darkness of the vent. Nanovision was an advanced vision mode that combines many types of imaging types, ranging from infrared to UV allowing me to both see in darkness and through thin walls. Nanovision would also allow me to see if the vent was built into the walls or if it was hanging from the ceiling presenting the danger of the vent's failing under my weight.
Eventually I found an exit to the vent. Pausing to let SECOND open it noiselessly, I cloaked and poked my head out of the vent to find myself looking out from the top of a corner in a large room. In the middle of the room were four pillars with glowing blue kinetic barriers stretching between them. Looking around some more I noticed a terminal along with two scientists who were manning it.
Pulling myself forward I reached up and grabbed the ledge above the vent and pulled myself completely out only holding on to the ledge with a single hand. Letting go I dropped noiselessly to the ground. Crouching I moved along until I was right behind the two scientists.
"The specimens are showing no changes to the latest experiment." The scientist on my left said.
"At least we were able to capture that Admiral. The Illusive man was not happy with his snooping."
Seeing that my energy reserves were dwindling I uncloaked, wrapped my arms around the two scientist's necks and snapped their necks. Lowering their bodies to the floor I waited for a couple of seconds for my suit to recharge.
Once my energy reserves were full again I turned towards the terminal and seeing a button to lower the barriers pressed it. Immediately cloaking I saw as what I could only classify as zombies immediately began running towards some more scientist's manning another terminal. A moment passed before the scientist's could recover from the shock of seeing the barriers drop. By that time the zombies were already on top of them and began to tear them apart. Some of them even were throwing up on the scientists. They were spewing acid on the scientist's causing them to scream in pain as they were dissolved. A few moments later when a door opened behind the scientist's and some guards came rushing out, only to be met head on by the zombies.
They never had a chance. The zombies, not being burdened with the ability to feel pain charged straight into the guards. It seemed that the only way to kill them was with shooting them in the head, but the guards never caught on. As such they were all torn to pieces or dissolved by acid. After a few minutes of fighting, the last guard was torn apart leaving only me and five zombies left. Realizing that I should probably get rid of the zombies I drew my K-Volt and set the charge to lethal. While the zombies didn't feel pain, they still had a nervous system and I figured that hitting them with a couple thousand volts a bunch of times would be enough to kill them.
Taking a breath I uncloaked and immediately began unloading into their midst. Like I thought the zombies were only able to take a couple of pellets from my K-Volt before falling to the ground permanently dead. It didn't take long for me to mop up all the zombies. With the zombies dead I walked over to one and crouching swiped my head across some of its green blood.
"Tissue sample detected. Activating interface. Stand by. . .
Processing. . .
Assimilation complete. DNA profiling complete. Target DNA shows human genetic base with large amount of modification. Enlarged gastrointestinal acid glands allow for disgorging of a dangerous acid."
Nasty, acid spewing zombies. Fun. I thought dryly as I began sweeping the facility for any information on what they were doing. Finding a terminal I let SECOND interface with it. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any information from it. Snorting in frustration I made my way out of the base and as I reached the surface of the planet again I contacted Shepard "Sable one, it's Wraith. Target bravo cleared."
"Copy that Wraith. We're just about finished here. We'll meet you at target charlie."
"Understood Sable one." I said activating power mode and began running towards the last base. After about ten minutes of running I arrived at the plateau on which the base entrance was located. The plateau was littered with boulders which would allow me to sneak up on the entrance, undetected by the turrets. "Sable one, I should be able to infiltrate the base undetected if you hold off your assault."
"Copy that Wraith. You are cleared to proceed, we will hold off our assault until you are in position."
"Affirmative. Going dark." I said shutting off my comm and cloaking. Sprinting forward I slid behind a boulder and uncloaked. Waiting until my energy reserves were filled I ran to the next boulder. I was able to make it to the base in this manner and just like with the last base I was able to enter the base through a vent at the top of the facility, but not before placing a little surprise on the turrets. Making my way through the vents I eventually came out on the ground of a small room that looked like the sleeping quarters for the facility.
Luckily for me the room was empty and I made my way on to the door. The door slid open as I neared it and I slipped through it, coming out in a hallway. Continuing down the hallway I made my way to a bend and immediately cloaked upon seeing a Cerberus guard standing with his back to me. The guard was facing a door doing something on his omni-tool and as I crept up on him he stopped whatever he was doing and walked through the door. Slipping in past him I found myself in a large control room.
I was able to find a terminal that was out of sight of all the people in the room and was able to hack it and get the facility map. This was when I contacted Shepard "Sable one, this is Wraith. I've infiltrated the base and downloaded the facility map."
"Understood Wraith. Shall we engage?" Shepard asked.
"One moment Sable." I said hearing something in a discussion happening between two guards near me that caught my attention.
"Are you sure we're safe from whoever attacked Beta and Gamma bases?" Guard no.1 asked.
"Positive, Foster. We've set up explosives in the air lock. I just need to set them off from my terminal when they enter it." Guard no. 2 answered.
"But Harris, what about whoever took out Beta?" the guard, Foster asked.
"Bah, he had to have come in through the airlock there as well. He probably just did it covertly. But I'll be watching the airlock closely. If a fly so much as peers in I'll blow it up."
Having heard enough I responded to Shepard's original question "Negative Sable. Do not engage I repeat, do not engage. Explosives have been set in the airlock. I'm going to deal with them but you're going to have to get ready to attack on my signal."
"What about the turrets? What d you have in mind?" Shepard asked me.
"Don't worry about it Sable. Just get ready to engage." I said before shutting down my comm. Taking a moment to let my energy reserves recharge I pulled out a flash bang. Priming it a waited for a moment before tossing it into the middle of the room. The 'tink' of the grenade hitting the ground caused all of the Cerberus personnel in the room to look up, right as it exploded in a blast of light and sound. My suit protected me from the flash and the explosion allowing me to raise my SCARAB and start gunning everyone down.
They never knew what hit them as I gave Shepard the signal to attack and detonated the explosives I had placed on the turrets. The sound of the turrets exploding echoed throughout the base as alarms started sounding. Rushing over to the terminal, I deactivated the explosives in the airlock.
Having deactivated the explosives I cloaked and ducked behind a desk just as a couple of Cerberus guards charged into the room. They skidded to a halt upon seeing the bodies littering the room. They hardly had any chance to react as I popped up, uncloaked and nailed them straight through their heads, phasic rounds tunneling straight past their shields and into their brains. Glancing over at a monitor I saw that Shepard, Kaidan and Liara were entering the facility.
Deciding to join in on the fight I raised my SCARAB and headed through the door leading into the room that Shepard would soon be entering.
"Maximum armor."
Activating armor mode I walked through the door just in time to see Sable squad enter a door on the other side of the room. Ten Cerberus guards stood between us, and none of them had noticed my entrance. A moment later and all hell broke loose. Shepard flared blue for a second before charging into their right flank, killing guard number one. Liara caught guards two, three and four in a singularity which detonated a moment later when Kaidan hit it with a warp. I fired a burst into the back of guard five even as Shepard blasted six away with her shotgun before smashing seven into the ceiling with a throw. Swiveling I nailed guard eight through the head as Shepard grabbed nine with her biotics, yanked him towards her and then hit him with a biotically fueled punch which sent him flying towards me. Jumping over the flying guard I raised my fist back over my head and as I came down slammed it into the ground beside the last guard knocking him off his feet from where he was finished off by Kaidan.
"Nice timing Commander." I said shaking out the slight pain in my hand "We took 'em down clean."
Shepard regarded me for a moment before nodding. "That we did" She said chuckling. "What did you find at the other base?"
I grimaced behind my mask. "A bunch of acid spewing zombies. I also heard two scientists talking about having captured an Alliance admiral. Did you find anything?"
She shook her head "No Alliance admiral, just a bunch of suicidal acid bugs."
"What's with this place and acid?" I grumbled "Acid zombies, bugs and this all connects with acid spitting thresher maws?" I shook my head in disgust. "Whatever it is we put a stop to that. Do you think they were talking about Kahoku?"
"Possibly. But I haven't found anything here."
"Commander!" We both turned to look at Kaidan who was standing at an open door leading on to a hallway.
"We didn't see that. Good work Kaidan. Where does it lead?" Shepard asked.
Kaidan already had an answer ready for her. "It leads on to the holding cells."
"Well if they do have Kahoku here, he'll be in there." Shepard mused grabbing her SCAR and raising it to her shoulder. "Form up on me. Lets go."
Walking through the door we headed on until we reached a locked door. "Kaidan, can you bypass it?" Shepard asked.
"Sure thing commander. One moment." Kaidan said as he drew his omni-tool and set to work hacking the door. Half a minute later the lights suddenly switched off plunging us into complete darkness. "Shit." I heard Kaidan swear quietly.
"Nanovision enabled."
"Activate infrared." Shepard ordered before asking "What happened?"
"Power went down. I'd guess it was done remotely. They probably know we're here." Kaidan said.
"Well can you open the doors?" Shepard asked.
"Well, good news is that with the power outage the magnetic seals would have been released. Bad news is that the doors won't open by themselves. We'll have to force them open." Kaidan told her."
"Here, I'll do that." I brushed past Kaidan and pried the doors open far enough to fit my fingers through them. From there it was a simple matter of pulling the doors apart using my suit's strength.
The bright red heat source from a body stood out against the grey background. Raising my SCAR I aimed it at the body. Before I could do anything else I heard a weak voice say "Who's there?"
"Wait." Shepard said placing her hand on top of my SCAR, lowering it. "Commander Shepard, Spectre."
"Commander Shepard? Oh thank goodness."
"Voice Identification confirmed. Admiral Kahoku."
"Admiral?" Shepard asked shocked "What are you doing here?"
"I got caught soon after I sent you my message. Thank goodness you received it." the admiral coughed.
"Let's get you out of here Admiral." Shepard said stepping forward towards the cell. Grabbing a bar she yanked it back and tore it off. She continued tearing off bars until she had made a large enough hole to get Kahoku out.
"Are you alright sir?" Shepard asked.
"I've been better," Kahoku mumbled. "It would be nice to be able to see though."
"Here." Kaidan turned on his flashlight on his Omni-tool "This should help."
"Ah, thank you." As Kahoku stepped into the light we saw that he had been tortured, judging by the extensive bruising on his face and arms.
"Damn, we need to get you to Dr. Chakwas." Shepard muttered "Sable to Normandy, Sable to Normandy do you copy?"
"I hear ya Sable." Joker answered.
"Inform Chakwas to prepare for a patient."
A/N: Well there you go. Slight different than canon as Kahoku doesn't die. That may have some fairly large changes later down the line. . . Just saying.
Also thanks toSomeGuyOverHere for Inquisitor squad Olympus. Kinda sorry that they had to be introduced like that, but it will play out later on. I needed to show that CryNet is not all powerful and that they do fail every now and then.
Anyway, that's that. Please leave feedback and ask any questions you may have.
Other than that I'll be seeing you guys on the 30th.
