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A/N: Alright, sorry for the delay, I've been fighting off a chest cold and ear ache and it left little room to be creative lol. But without delaying any further I bring you chapter six.

Chapter 6

Shepard and Co had finally caught themselves a lucky break. Shortly after leaving Feron behind to deal with the Shadow Broker they ran into only a single merc agent. He was quickly disposed of. He probably didn't even stand a chance against the trio. Shepard half wondered why he bothered to even try it.

Shepard reached a consol about ten or so feet from a closed door. It was a dead end, but with Liara's read outs on her omni tool she was sure that behind this door was central operations. They could all only guess that the Shadow Broker was within the room as well. "Well looks like the door is wide open, so to speak." Shepard commented as she glimpsed over the terminal.

Liara's expressions grew dangerous as she contemplated the many ways to kill the man who caused them all trouble, and few of them pain and suffering. Shepard caught glimpse of the look on the asari's face as she approached Liara. She rested a hand on her shoulder, in a silent attempt to calm her anger.

"Come on, lets get this over with. I'm ready to get out of here." Shepard then said as she loaded a fresh thermal clip into her gun as did Liara and Grunt. "I hope he puts up a better fight then those mercs." Grunt said with a sly krogan smirk. Shepard had hoped otherwise. She just wanted to get this over with, for many reasons.

They all approached the door, Shepard in front, Liara stood just behind her to the side on her right, Grunt next to Liara on her left. Shepard lifted her hand, just over the opening mechanism and pressed it. As the door opened up for the three, they stepped forward into a large room.

Inside the room there sat dead center was a large desk, with a large alien Shepard had never seen before. She had pictured many other races they could have come across.. Batarian, Turian, hell even a Quarian had passed her thoughts, but not.. this unknown being before them.

He sat there, calmly, his large arms and hands folded on the desk as he watched them enter the room. The three then raised their weapons at the.. man before them as Shepard glimpsed to Liara who starred with determination at the Shadow Broker. "I've monitored your progress, Shepard." he started with a deep voice. It was a rough voice, one that sounded like he spoke into a fan. Shepard's own voice ached briefly at how it sounded.

"Reckless to come here for a drell. Even for you, Commander Shepard." he said as he starred at the trio eerily calmly. Shepard shrugged as she kept her gun pointed at the Broker casually. She herself was calm despite the unknown enemy before them. "Reckless works for me I guess." she said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

The Broker did not show any outwards sign of amusement though Shepard wondered if he even could. He was huge, bulky, and unlike anything she had ever seen. His mouth full of sharp teeth, and unlike a "normal" mouth it took up half his face. The bottom lip, if you could call it as such, was a straight line like any other, but the upper half of his mouth split upwards in the middle. Looked rather uncomfortable even.

"Your confidence will be your downfall today, Commander." said the Shadow Broker as he sat up a little straighter. Liara grew angry with the comment, but she remained outwardly calm, and her cold exterior came into play once more. "Not today." She then said with a hint of protective danger in her voice. She wasn't going to allow him to do anything to Kate.

"Your interference caused all this, Dr. T'soni. If you had let the drell give me Shepard's body you wouldn't have caused him the pain and trouble he's in." the Shadow Broker said as he looked to the asari woman. She glared at him angrily. She was going to make him eat those words.

"You know, running an operation this big will be pretty difficult without a crew." Shepard interrupted. The Shadow broker looked back at the human woman. Indeed, her confidence was going to be her downfall, he figured. "They're replaceable. All you've done today is cause a miner interruption." he replied. His calm attitude irked Shepard a little. She was use to instilling fear into her enemies, yet he wasn't even worried.

"You're quite confident for a Yahg." Liara then said calmly. The broker looked back at Liara. He was beginning to grow mildly annoyed with all their talking. It was like they were stalling their own demise. "You travel with an interesting group of people. Thank you for bringing the krogan. His dissection will be quite educational." he shot back at the woman. "Not to mention what I could get for Shepard's body in the market." he then added.

"I wont allow you to touch them!" She yelled now. She would rather die then let him get his grubby hands on her Kate and her companions. She just wouldn't allow it. She then tried to calm herself as Shepard glimpsed at the other. "Lets end this here and now." Kate then said getting tired of all the talk herself. "If you insist." the broker replied as he slowly stood from his desk.

As he did so the group couldn't help but gawk at his sheer size. He was massive. Bulky as he was tall, he easily towered over Grunt. But before long he effortlessly smashed his desk in two as he picked up one half, letting out a beastly growl tossing it at the group. "Liara!" Kate called out as she made a dive for the asari, grabbing hold of her as they both crashed onto the ground.

Grunt wasn't as fortunate as he was hit by the flying object, knocking him back a foot or two as he landed with a loud thud onto the ground, debris falling on top of him. It knocked him out cold from the force he just got struck with.

Kate quickly pulled Liara to her feet before they made a dash away from each other taking cover behind different pillars. The Yahg drew a massive gun from his back as he pointed it towards Shepard and opened fire.

The pillar she stood behind began to crumble into pieces at the impact of each bullet. It could've easily shredded past her barrier and shields without effort. Liara quickly began to fire her own weapon at the massive creature who took to targeting the human trying to draw his fire away from her.

He turned and began to fire a storm of bullets at the asari who ducked behind her own pillar as she cursed out. One bullet managed to drain her barrier to half it's strength before she managed to take cover. Another shot like that and she'd be depending on a back up shield.

Liara then heard a crack of what sounded like thunder as the yahg growled out in irratation before a new spray of bullets rained on the Broker. Kate's biotic glow was intense as she tried to bring his shield down with the ballsy attack before he flung her away like a mere doll. She crashed into a wall with a hard thud as she slid to the floor a bit stunned by his sheer strength.

Now she knew why he was so calm. He could take them out easily with one screw up on their end. She now feared she just gave him that chance. He began to charge at her as he brought out a shield with his omni tool, ready to crush the human without hesitation. She tried to get up, to get out of the way but she found her limbs not working suddenly from the jolt she got.

But before he could get to her Liara flung a warp field at him which managed to knock him off his track a moment as he stumbled to keep his balance. He turned at the Asari as she now stood in the open, readying his gun to fire at her.

It was just enough of a chance for Shepard to gain herself again as she charged him on foot, squeezing the trigger of her gun hard to distract him with one hand, her other glowing a bright blue as she charged her own warp field. "Eat this, ass hole!" she called out as she flung it at his mid section hard before he could react to her.

This managed to knock him over onto his backside. Kate immediately lunged at him but he was ready for it. She landed on his shield as he used force to shove the human off himself. Once more she flew about five feet as she landed onto the ground rolling over a few times. Once more Liara took to shooting at him as he got to his feet.

They were stronger then he originally planned on, and he found himself on the defense as he felt another warp field hit his back as the Commander scrambled to her feet. He let out a roar of anger as he suddenly summoned a rather powerful shield that surrounded himself and glowed a bright white. Liara's bullets began to bounce off, not one breaking through it.

"His shield is too strong!" Liara called out to Shepard as she cracked her neck once working out a painful kink she gained as she had been tossed about. "Well then we'll do this the hard way." She muttered to no one in particular. Her own voice was growing angry as she cracked her knuckles as she walked towards the broker who looked frozen in his current state.

She then began to trot before she broke out into an all out run, bringing her right fist back before throwing her punch into his right jaw. He growled out in some pain as the fist connected hard with his face. She threw a second punch as his shield came down once more hitting her target as he stumbled back slightly.

Her assault continued as she once more swung her right fist at him knocking him back further. She began to run at him again as he caught his footing and throw a back handed swing of his shield as she leapt into the air for another blow. The force of his shield flung her back as she landed on her back side hard, knocking the wind out of her as Liara advanced, her own biotics surrounding her with a blue glow.

She threw a heavy biotic field at the Broker which caused him to stumble once more but he began to fire his gun once again. A heavy rain of bullets flew towards the asari and Spectre and Liara quickly dove behind another pillar as Shepard scrambled to her feet. She then took to diving behind a small wall.

She had dropped her submachine gun after that last trip through the air and quickly grabbed her shot gun before activating her incendiary ammo on it. She then pumped the cock before she quickly popped up from behind it shooting the weapon.

The Broker grew agitated as the bullets managed to pierce his normal shield and pieces of the buck shot managed to sink into his chest. But his skin, or rather hide, was thick and all it did was piss him off further. "Shit!" Shepard yelled out as he lowered his body shield in front of himself as he began to charge the woman.

"Kate!" Liara cried out as the cover she was behind was reduced to rubble after the yahg tore through it, lifting Shepard off the ground with the shield. He continued his charge though as he smashed her against the wall 15 or 20 feet behind it, earning him a cry of pain. He then backed off, aiming his weapon at the woman who had fallen to the ground, cringing in pain.

Just as he pulled the trigger he felt Liara jump onto him from behind pulling him back as he misfired missing the Spectre completely. He dropped his gun as he grabbed her from behind flinging her to the ground. This was all beginning to look bad for the pair as Liara slowly scooted across the floor to the Spectre.

"Kate?" Liara asked her own voice strained with the pain she felt from hitting the floor so hard. "Ya." Kate strained a grunt as she got onto her hands and knees. "If you can make him bring up that shield again.. I have an idea.." Liara muttered as she got to her feet, pulling Kate up with her from behind.

Shepard grumbled in doubt and her own irritation as she nodded at the woman. Right, like that would be easy. She quickly grabbed for the ray gun she once grabbed on Horizen as she spun around to face the broker who was grabbing for his own dropped gun. She then began to fire the weapon at his back side which earned her own cry of pain from him.

He skipped grabbing the gun all together as he quickly activated his shield again. Well maybe it was easier then she thought it would be. She quickly tossed the gun to the side as she began to run for him, fists clenched a biotic glow surrounding her. She then charged at him fast, leaving a trail of blue behind herself as another crack of "thunder" sounded in her wake.

She managed to hit him hard as he stumbled to side passing him by joining at Liara's side once more. She then began to run at him on foot as he regained his own footing. He lowered his shield as he once more began to charge the human but she learned fast as they ran at each other. Just as he swung his shield at her she rolled beneath it.

She quickly rolled to her feet as he turned to face her. "Do it!" she yelled out to Liara who was already glowing a bright blue. She quickly threw a biotic ball of energy towards the broker but before it hit him it shot up at a domed ceiling full of charged plasma. It hit it's target hard.

The dome cracked before the thick glass shattered above the Broker. He looked up in shock as plasma began to fall out of the dome and onto him. He fell to his knees as he roared out in pain and anger as he tried to charge Liara on all fours. But before he could get more then a foot over his body began to bake, pressure filling his body.

Then before he knew it his whole body exploded under the energy from the plasma, a shock wave flying out in all directions once more knocking Shepard back onto her backside. She groaned in pain as she lied there starring at the ceiling above her. As if she wasn't sore enough from her fight with the Collectors she was tired of being a rag doll with the Broker.

She continued to lie there, her entire body aching as she breathed heavily at the pain. She then heard feet rushing towards her and before she could react to it she saw a very concerned Liara fill her vision. Shepard slowly lifted her left hand before giving the Asari a thumb ups to show she was still alive.

Liara let out a breath of pure relief as she reached out to pull Shepard up to her feet. Kate groaned again at the resistance her body gave as she stumbled forward and onto Liara who caught her quickly. It took a moment before Shepard could regain her strength to stand on her own but she finally pulled away from the woman who just held her until then.

"Next time, leave the aliens at home." Shepard tried in jest but was at the same time rather irritated as she walked towards Grunt who pushed the debris off himself. Liara just gave an outward look of pure dismay at the woman's words.

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Alright.. o.O the fight with the broker is out of the way. Honestly I feared doing this chapter I really did. I hope it didn't suck, I'm horrible with doing fight scenes. I hope I didn't drag it out too long either. Anyways, please tell me what you think of this chapter. Next one will be once more character based vs action.

Later gaters.