Wheel of death: (me 1)
Shepard had been tasked to take out a mercenary gang that had taken over a smaller colony. The mercenary where so entrenched that Shepard had to split her people into two teams. Then was having to go door to door to clear out the town. An arduous five hours in and they were finally in the last building. Williams, Wrex, Tali and Liara were clearing out the next building over. The locals who town it was had been run off. Shepard was not sure how the mercenary managed that, but she was grateful for it.
Shepard, Alenko, and Vakarian were in an office building of some type. The term cubicle farm kept popping into Shepard's head. There were a lot of gray half walls, occasionally broken up with flowers or a randomly placed brightly painted wall. It still felt depressing. Shepard sneaked a quick look around the corner. The long hallway was lined on one side with machines, the other side with refrigerators and sinks. She motion Alenko towards the door on the other end of the hallway, trusting Vakarian to watch her back. Alenko sprinted to the other end of the hall way sliding to a stop. He peeked around the wall and looked back and forth for any enemies. After a few seconds Alenko indicated the all clear.
"Not as fun as that antique store we just fought through." Shepard muttered under her breath, as she head for the other end. But something in one of the machines caught her eye and she hesitated in front of the machine.
"Hey Chex Its!" Shepard eyed the machine for a moment before ordering the two men to stand down. "I think we can take a quick break, Vakarian set the perimeter warning." Vakarian shook his head wondering at the absurdity of the human solider. But set up the warning system.
"Commander, this is not a very defensible location." Alenko replied still standing guard at the door.
Shepard smiled then pressed the button to see what was in one of the other machines. Her eyes quickly flicking up and down as the machine turned. Finally she bit out, "Stupid wheel of death, nothing good in it." She turned back to the snack machine that initial caught her eye and swiped her card. Pressing the button for the bag of chips, it started to fall...then got caught. She ignored the snickering.
"You know we have field rations, ma'am." Alenko pointed out dryly.
"Shut up." Shepard replied busting the glass with the butt of her rifle. She ignored the look Vakarian gave her. Alenko just shrugged rolling his eyes. Shepard smiled opened the bag and downed it in a few bites. Moving to the next machine she once again swiped her card and pressed a button this time the machine dumped her drink (perhaps it had seen what she had done to the other machine?). She twisted off the cap, upended the bottled and chugged the whole thing in one go.
"Ahhhh." she sighed in the universal response to a cold tasty drink. Holding the drink next to her face she looked at Alenko. "After a long hot battle I drink Dr. Pepscola, it's tasty, refreshing, and gives me the pep to keep battling." She flashed a cheesy grin, "I am Commander Shepard and I approve of this drink." Once again she ignored the snickers from her two companions, expertly tossing the bottle in to the recycling bin she waived in the direction they had been heading.
"What are we standing around for? Let's move out."
an: :) I would like to once again thank all my reader who have stuck through this with me. Also a shout out to... Pookie-Da-Wuzzle :) and their story Nightmares.
alast I am still beta less, :( I am still trying to get a beta reader.