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Chapter 5: Wrath

Omega-Roan District

Kahlee and Anderson followed the info from the Shadow Broker, to locate Paul Grayson. When they got to the old warehouse, they found the carnage left by Paul. Multiple dead bodies, some with broken necks, and others with slit throats nothing was left standing. Anderson didn't know whether to be impressed or sickened.

"Is Grayson always this destructive?" Anderson said.

"This is nothing; you should have seen his work two years ago…" Kahlee said. Anderson was going to ask her what happened, decided against it, it was probably best if he didn't know the details. They made up to the top floor, where they found two dead Cerberus soldiers and a man in white, but no Gillian.

"Grayson must have gotten Gillian out, but why hasn't he contacted us yet?" Kahlee didn't answer. "Kahlee?" He looked at Kahlee, as she went over to the man in white.

"Toshiwa…"

"You know him?"

Kahlee sighed. "Dr. Jiro Toshiwa, he was an Ascension Project scientist" she said. "Or at least that's what he told us; really he was the Cerberus mole that took Gillian…" Anderson looked at Kahlee, her face showed nothing but her voice sounded pained. There was more to this….

"What was he to you?"

Kahlee looked at him and hesitated. "We…we were lovers…when I met him, he was friendly, good-natured man" she said. "Hell of a sense of humor, real popular with the students, Gillian especially trusted him" Kahlee shook her head. "But that was all an act…"

"I'm sorry…you deserve better…" Anderson said.

Kahlee smiled a little, the same beautiful that made the soldier fall for her twenty years ago. "Thank you…" Kahlee looked out of the corner of her eye and saw a man in black and grey armor…black and grey armor she recognized. "Oh god…" She ran towards the other room, with Anderson close behind, they found man bloodied and bruised with his armor pierced. They found Grayson.

"This explains why Grayson didn't call, but where's Gillian?" Anderson said. All of the sudden, Paul's omni-tool beeped and a female's voice came out.

"Paul? Paul…you bastard speak to me!" Anderson and Kahlee looked at each other, Kahlee opened her omni-tool.

"Hello?"

"Who is this?!" She snapped.

"Kahlee Sanders, Headmistress of Grissom Academy"

"I see…Paul told me about you, although he didn't mention you were in charge of the place also" She said. "My name is Liselle T'Loak, I'm Paul's girlfriend"

"Wait, T'Loak? You wouldn't happen to be…" Anderson asked.

"Yes, Aria T'Loak is my mother" she said. "Who's this?"

"David Anderson of the Alliance" he said. "Is Gillian safe?"

"Yeah, she's at Afterlife, she's under the protection of my mother's men" Liselle said. "What happened to Paul? He was supposed to meet me here…" Kahlee and Anderson went silent. "…Well?"

"I'm sorry…but Grayson's gone, he was killed…"

"What…? But that can't…" She took a deep breath. "Thank you for telling me…Gillian's in the VIP room, just drop my name and they'll let you in…" Anderson frowned; her voice was way too calm for the loss of a lover, until he had a sinking feeling.

"Liselle, don't throw away your life especially for vengeance" Anderson said.

"You just worry about getting the girl out of here…I will worry about Paul's murderer…" The com went off.

"Wait!"

Omega

The Cerberus assassin was in the shadows going after the girl; his fight with Grayson had taken more time than he thought as he was now making up lost time. Luckily, Toshiwa was smart enough to put a tracer on the girl, so now he could track her no matter where she was on Omega. However he had to stop when he saw some strange readings, the signal was moving towards his directions, were they really that stupid to approach him? Suddenly the platform under him gave way and he started to fall towards the ground. The assassin recovered and used his sword to slow his decent by stabbing it into the wall, just when he thought he was safe a blue flash struck him and he fell in the slums.

"Get up!" A voice said. The assassin looked up and saw the asari Paul was with glowing blue with a look of pure hatred on her face. "I said get up!"

The assassin got up and dusted himself off. He smirked. "Grayson's asari whore...clever using Toshsiwa's tracking device to track me" Liselle fired off a throw field, and the assassin dodged it and charge the asari. Liselle took out her shotgun, to blast the assassins head off; the assassin stabbed her in the arm and kicked the shotgun away. Liselle head-butts the operative, stunning him, she took the sword out of her arm and threw it away as she hit him with a shockwave. He smashed into the wall and landed on the ground, as his vison returned to him he saw the asari glowing with biotic power walking towards him. He seethed in anger, it would be a cold day in hell before he let a filthy alien kill him.

"Any last words before I turn you into a puddle?" Liselle asked coldly.

"Watch your step…" The assassin aimed his palm blaster at a busted transformer near her, fired causing it to go up in flames. Liselle rolled out-of-the-way of the explosion only for the assassin to rush her and hold her up by her head. Liselle was struggling to get out of his grip but he was too strong. The assassin gave a sickening grin. "You know out of all the alien's I've killed, asari have to be my favorite, I love the way you bitches scream when I dig my blade into you" He reached behind him and took out a combat knife. "It's almost better than sex…" The night sky was filled with the young asari's screams.

Omega-Afterlife

Kahlee and Anderson went to Afterlife to retrieve Gillian, the club was a blazed with colors, music, and dancing from patrons and the dancers. They went to the VIP room, where a turian and a batarian were guarding the room, they had to admit they weren't exactly comfortable with Aria's men guarding the human child; they were especially worried about the batarian due to the tension between humanity and the Hegemony. But Liselle assured them, they could be trusted, because they wouldn't dare cross the daughter of the empress herself.

"Who the fuck are you?" the turian asked.

"Kahlee Sanders and David Anderson, Liselle says my student is in this room" Kahlee said. The turian nodded and opened the door, where they saw the girl asleep on the bed. Kahlee went to Gillian, shaking her awake. "Gillian…comes on sweetie wake up…." She said gently. Gillian opened her eyes and got up.

"Miss Sanders!" The girl wrapped her arm around Kahlee, the older woman hugged her tightly.

"It's alright, Gillian, you're safe…we're here to take you home"

"No we can't, not without Daddy…" Kahlee looked at Anderson, they would have to tell Gillian that her father died, murdered. They didn't want to have to, it would break her heart, but she had to know no matter how much it hurt.

"Gillian…I'm sorry, but your father is gone…"

"He went away…?"

"No sweetie, I'm mean your father is dead….you won't see him again"

Tears welled up in her eyes; it was almost too painful to look at. "No…NO!" She started to cry hysterically as Kahlee held her tightly. Anderson stepped outside of the room while Kahlee consoled the child. "DADDY!"

Anderson clenched his fist, another life ruined by Cerberus. "Damn them…" His thoughts were then interrupted by shouting to the right of him. He saw a bunch of batarians ganging up on someone; it was getting quite a crowd. The first batarian charged first, but flew all the way across the table, the second came from the side and was thrown towards the bar. Two more batarians came in and a large figure smashed their heads together knocking them out. The figure spoke up.

"I told you fuckers I wasn't in the mood, now get the hell out of here pendejo!" he said angrily. The figure was revealed to be James Vega, after the incident on Fehl Prime, he disappeared never to be heard from again. He looked unhealthy, his clothes were a mess, his eyes were blood-shot probably from the heavy drinking, and he had dark bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. Vega went back to his table, taking another swig from a bottle of whisky. Anderson approached him. "Shit, another one…I told you to leave me alone!"

Anderson crossed his arms. "Is that anyway to speak to a commanding officer?" James looked to his side.

James snorted. "What's the esteemed Councilor of the Citadel doing in this shit-hole?"

"Admiral, not Councilor...not anymore, anyway I should be saying that…" Anderson said. "What's a good soldier like you doing here?"

James put down the bottle, and lowered his head. "A good soldier…what a joke…" James said softly. "A good soldier doesn't let thousands of civilians die for some fucking intel that turned out to be useless…." Anderson frowned; James was still hunted by his choice on Fehl Prime.

"Do you think you're the only one whose ever been faced with a hard choice?" James looked at him, as Anderson sat in front of him. "Everyone in our line of work has faced it, Shepherd and I are no different, but the important thing is to learn from those choices and grow to be the soldier humanity deserves" James stared at his bottle with a thoughtful look on his face, Anderson couldn't tell if he gotten through to him. Kahlee came up to Anderson, with Gillian in tow.

"Is she alright?"

"Yeah, it's going to be hard going forward, but I believe Gillian is strong enough to overcome this" Kahlee said. "We're ready to go when you are"

Anderson nodded and looked at James. "James, have you heard what's happening to Shepherd?"

"Yeah, who hasn't?" James said. "Why?"

"I wonder if you'll do me a favor, and guard Commander Shepherd on Earth…."

Next Chapter….we're going back to Shepherd, if you have any ideas, let me know!