2 Years Later. Back Alleys of Omega, Terminus Systems.
"Please, please I beg you just let me go." cried a woman. She, along with four other women, one asari and three other humans, were bound by their arms and legs and forced their batarian captors.
"Shut up bitch!" one batarian yelled, knocking the woman to the ground with one fell swoop, "You're not here to talk. If you want to stay alive you're gonna wanna keep your mouth shut!"
"YOU MONSTER" yelled the Asari captive, "LEAVE HER ALONE! WHAT THE HELL DID SHE EVER DO TO YOU?!"
"What did she do to me?" asked the batarian clutching the Asari's face, "Well, if you must know, she's one of them. She's a human! And just like every other human, she needs to pay."
"Are you talking about the colonization rights? Are you fucking kidding me?!" yelled another captive, "That wasn't our fault! The Council gave us those rights, we didn't steal them from you. If anything your issues are with them not us!"
"I said shut up" he said, this time punching his captive in the stomach, making her vomit all over the ground.
"ALEX! You son of a bitch! When I get out of these bind, i'm gonna kill you with my bare hands." said the girl next to her. As an added insult, she spat in his face, but that only made him angrier.
"*Chuckles* Please human, you couldn't kill me even if you wanted to. Not only are you bound by those chains, but you're about to be sold to some of the nastiest people in the galaxy! But even if you did manage to escape from them, you'll never be able to find me."
" You'd like that if it were actually true, but i'm quite persistent with many, and I mean MANY things. Especially if one of those things happens to be an arrogant four eyed freak who's too caught up in his own ignorance to realize he's just scared, weak little man." That earned her a punch to the face.
"Talk coming from a slave!" The grabbed the girl's long black hair and pulled it as hard as he could, "I think i'll take great pleasure in breaking you. Or maybe i'll have you chopped up and fed to a Thresher Maw."
"You'll have to wait awhile till that happens four eyes! Right now one of the Alliance's best teams is on it's way here, ready to take every single one of you out. But I hope they don't kill you, cause once i'm free, i'm gonna kill you myself!"
"Tough talk coming from a human. But then again what else is new? Shame you humans don't know how to do anything else."
"Oh yeah?" asked Alex, "Who kicked who's ass last time? As I recall you and a pitiful excuse for a terrorist group couldn't stand up to a handful of soldiers."
Shepard's POV, Right Outside the Building.
And one powerful biotic, I think to myself overhearing the conversation by Sally and Alex's hidden headsets. It was supposed to be a simple infiltration mission: Go in, get any intel regarding in any previously traded slaves, and get the hell out. We figured that the guy we saw back on Elysium had to be a former slave. What with there being no information about him anywhere, we figured that he had to have been captured as a child and forced into slavery at an early age. But we couldn't confirm it until we had solid evidence to back it up. SO for the past two years, we've been tracking every major slaver as far as the Terminus system, which ultimately led us to him:Kronis Dronperr, one of the nastiest batarian slavers in the Terminus System. Figured if anyone had any info on our target, it'd be him. It was going well, until that Asari showed up out of nowhere and compromised the whole mission. Now we have a hostage situation.
"As we speak, there are another couple dozen soldiers inside this building ready to take anyone out if they try to enter. Not only that, but the exterior of this building is covered head to toe in C4 explosives. You're not getting out of here unless it's in a body bag" Kronis said. Damn he's right. I can't get anywhere near that place without risking my team's the hell am I going to get them out of there? And why the hell is that Asari here
"*chuckles* I wouldn't say that if I were you batarian," That was the Asari's voice, " The Asari still have their best agent on this job, who as it turns out, isn't exactly fond of slavers like you." How's this Asari gonna be any different than her? She couldn't even beat my team, how are they gonna break into a building laced with explosives.
"Hehehehe, well that's just fine by me. Just another bitch to earn me some extra credits." Ugh, someone please put a bullet through this guy's eyes. "Or maybe I can just use her for my own pleasure."
"You're a sick fuck you know that!?" Next came the sound of Sally getting punched. That mouth of hers is always getting her into trouble, "OH come on you fucking pussy, IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" First there was the sound of a buzz, they Sally started to scream at the top of her lungs, nearly blew out my eardrums.
"WHat do you have to say now human bitch?" Sounded like Sally was starting to lose it. Her breathing became shallow, only short gasps of breath escaped from her mouth.
"*huff, huff, huff* When do I….get to..see….you die?" Come on Sally, don't keep egging him on. Then all of a suddenly, an explosion lit up the roof of the building, blasting it out of existence, and nearly me with with. A giant shard of glass came diving towards me, but luckily I managed to get out of the way in time. What the hell set off that explosion though?
"What the hell's going on up there you idiots?" Kronis said , probably talking into his comm, "What do you mean there's a hole in the roof?!"
NO POV
"Kronis what I mean is that there is a giant fucking hole where the ceiling used to be" said the batarian. The entire ceiling to the building had been blown completely sky high: jagged pieces of metal pierced the sky, broken water pipes where flooding their current floor, and shards of broken glass littered the floor. "Looks like some dumbass tried to land on top of the roof. Didn't realize the damn thing was laced with explosives."
"Ha, you here that Asari bitch? Like that 'top agent' of yours just ended up all over the wall. *laughs* Gormal, stay up there and secure the roof for the time being until I can send someone else later. I gotta finish breaking these 4 bitches before we sell them off."
"Got it boss. Man can you believe this? I can't believe this moron didn't think to survey the building before jumping right into it." said Gormal.
""Yeah, I know." said another batarian, "I mean I know humans are stupid, but I thought the Asari were supposed to be the smart ones. Oh man I wish I could've seen that bitch go up in flames."
"Yeah, but then we'd be dead too. And dead bodies don't collect credits."
"Fair enough. So how much do you think these new slaves are gonna make us?" asked Gormal, but he didn't get a response, "Hey Refin I asked you a question." he said, again he didn't get a response, "Are you gonna answer me or not?" Angry, he turned around and saw his buddy Refin standing as stiff as a board, with his gun on the floor. "Hey Refin you in there? What, you have a brain embolism or something? Say something!" he order. Rafin jolted a little bit, then he started to make choking noises. Soon, blood started to pour out of his mouth, making Gormal jump back out of caution. Suddenly, a blade came piercing it's way out of Rafin's chest.
"I'm not as stupid as you think I am batarian." said a male's voice, pulling the blade from the batarian's now dead comrade's chest. The blade belonged to a young man, looking to be about late teens-early 20s, blue hair, wearing a set of pitch black medium armor, with a pair of black and gold eyes. MOst unusual in a human. Gormal started firing at the human, but he threw up a biotic barrier and blocked every bullet fired at him, and smiled at the batarian's failed attempt to kill him. "Looks I right. My biotics are strong enough to survive an explosion that big." Gormal came at the man with an omni glove, but he dashed away, missing him in the process.
"WHat the hell? Where'd he-god damnit! Kronis we got a problem, there's another human in the building!"
"What?! How the hell did they get into the building?!" Yelled Gormal over the comm
"That explosion that destroyed the roof. Turns out that human was a biotic, and somehow he had managed to survive the blast and killed Rafin. Now I don't know where he is."
"Well find him then! If he can fucking survive an explosion powerful to blow the roof sky high, then he needs to be killed."
"I never left" In an instant, the man appeared behind Gormal, grabbed his neck and snapped it in one quick strike.
Switch to Kronis
"Gormal? GORMAL ANSWER ME DAMNIT!" ordered Kronis.
"Sorry dirtbag #1. dirtbag #2 is unable to come to the phone right now due to a Severe neck injury he sustained while on the job and won't be able to answer you. May I direct your call?"
"When I get my hands on you human, I'm going to rip your tongue out and shove it down your throat!"
"If an explosion can't kill me, what the hell makes you think you can do it?"
"You think it's Shepard Alex?" asked the other human.
"Are you kidding me? I mean I know Shepard's a tough soldier to put down, but even she couldn't survive an explosion. And she certainly isn't a biotic."
"You! Hey bitch I know you're still alive" said Kronis to a nearly unconscious Sally, "Who the hell is this guy?!"
"I-I-I have …..no idea..who that is. It was just me...my sister...Max over there, and our CO Commander Shepard."she said softly.
"Then then who the hell is he?! TELL ME! NOW!" he roars a mighty roar, aiming his gun at Sally's head, while the Asari prisoner at the far end started chuckling.
"He's one of us Batarian. A human that's embraced Asari culture." she said.
" Hell. Did you just say?" he asked.
"Yeah, what the hell are you saying squid head?" asked Alex
"*chuckles* he's one of the Asari's newest agents, and he's proven to be one of our most valuable ones as well."
As the Asari explained to the others, the man his way through the base, fighting his way through a gauntlet of batarian slavers. They unloaded their bullet after bullet, trying to hit him, but the biotic barrier he threw would be brake. Once the batarian's guns overheated, he lowered his barrier and pulled out his sword. "My turn assholes."
"For the last two years We've trained this human to use his biotic abilities to their fullest extent. We were surprised to learn how quickly he was able master his biotics. First few months he master the fundamentals, and according to last year's results, his power ranks up to that of an Ardat-Yakshi!" Without their guns, the batarians switched to their omni-gloves, which were as unhelpful as their guns were. The young man drew a black serrated blade from his and charged towards his opponents. The lead batarian collided with his blade, but he broke the stalemate and slashed the batarian's chest, instantly killing him, with his comrades following suit and meeting the same fate. " He was trained by the most powerful Matriarchs on Thessia. They molded into his mind and sharpened his soul. Before us he was just a scared little boy afraid of his own power, now everyday he embraces it." His arms lit up with biotic energy, making the other batarians he hadn't sliced up afraid to freeze up. He lept forward, roaring at the top of his voice, and slammed his fist onto the ground as hard as he could, sending his enemies flying towards in all different directions. The loud thumps could be heard right outside Kronis's interrogation room. From inside, Kronis turned his attention towards the door, hearing bang after bang coming from it, hoping that whatever's on the other side doesn't break through.
"H-h-h-how did he-" stuttered the batarian, he couldn't even finish his sentence.
"Because you were the target. And once he sets his sights on someone, he doesn't stop. Especially if that someone is a disgusting slave trader like you." Alex and the others look bewildered at her as she went on. They kept repeating the same things in their head, THis guy was trained by the Asari? This guy sounds like a traitor. When do I get to kill him? Okay, maybe that last one was Sally. Finally, the door broke and fell to the ground, but no one was standing at it's entrance. The cautious one, Kronis fired off a few rounds into the now darkened hallway, hoping that he hit him. Then out of the darkness came a batarian screaming as he's thrown into the room, snapping his neck as he made contact with the wall, killing him instantly, and distracting Kronis from the door, so he didn't notice when the human strolled in and said:
"You guys seriously need to upgrade your security systems instead of layering this place with explosives." He said standing in the doorway, his eyes lit up like two suns being eclipsed by the sun, smiling as he just won the lottery.
"Don't move!" Kronis said, aiming his gun at the intruder.
"Oh please" the latter said, Pulling the gun from the naive batarian's hand, "Cobra IV, not exactly the best type of weapon you could buy now could Kronis?" Kronis didn't even try to move, seeing as how he killed one of his men with ease.
"ABout time you showed up Ross. I was beginning to think you'd chickened out." said the Asari. Alex instantly recognized that name, along with those black and gold eyes, and softly whispered to her sister, It's Him!