Quietly sneaks this on and vanishes back into the ether.

As soon as Shepard opened the door to the Eclipse base a mech powered up right in front of her. Instinctively she whipped out her pistol and three rather loud reports sounded before the mech's head exploded and it crashed back to the ground.

EDI was quick to stifle the alarm, in fact it didn't even have a chance at all to think about sounding with the AI blanketing the internal security systems.

Shepard hesitated, listening for any sound of another response. She cringed at the shouts she could hear faintly through the door to her left. Silently cursing herself for not just getting EDI to hack the bloody mech she jogged over to the door.

"Shepard, six mercenaries and four LOKI mechs have been alerted to your presence. I have cut off their communication and silenced the alarm," EDI informed Shepard calmly.

"Thanks EDI, can you hack the mechs?" Shepard murmured, keeping her voice down for the time being. Ten to one were not favourable odds. She was good but she was also not the raging beast she was when Miri had been in danger and therefore more wary and cautious in her approach, especially with the threat of Minagen being let loose while she was without helmet.

"Certainly."

A moment later gunfire ripped through the quietness followed by screams and shouts of surprise.

Shepard took advantage of the confusion to slip through the door and dashed across the open ground to take cover behind some storage crates. Quickly scanning the scene unfolding she found herself on a small loading platform for smaller transports where it looked like nothing much bigger than a gunship could fit in here and there was quite a number of crates being prepped for transport.

Two mechs that had been moving crates with an Asari merc overseeing them had taken the Asari by complete surprise and her crumpled body still had small tendrils of smoke from where bullets had riddled through her armour. The mechs were now advancing on a group of three mercs who were caught between them and another pair of mechs that had been working the other platform.

A couple of the mercs had clearly been hit before they'd put up their barriers, they were all Asari and biotic afterall. The initial confusion was beginning to abate though and one of the mechs was shot down by a combined biotic attack.

Shepard had to move fast. First thing was to bring down those barriers.

XXX

This infiltration mission had been going rather well so far. Shepard's natural ability to move almost silently even in her armour really came into play as she crept passed Eclipse mercs who were loading crates that most likely contained the Minagen X3 into shipping containers. Shepard's skin tingled at the many, many crates of Minagen that lined the halls and every available storage space and she hoped the tingling was only a mental thing. Perhaps a hyper awareness of what was inside those storage containers and what it could do to her if one of them was cracked open in a fire fight.

EDI was making Shepard invisible to the security system, the motion detectors hadn't sensed her entry, the cameras were not seeing her black clad form sneaking through the initial warehouse. Shepard had even made her way into the second warehouse that served as more of a hangar that housed a good half dozen gunships without discovery.

The hangar was filled to the brim with crates of Minagen X3. Just what did Eclipse plan to do with so much of the drug? How in the hell had Pitne For managed to get his hands on all of this if it was an experimental drug still in development? Shepard scowled as she considered that thought momentarily but she couldn't allow herself to be distracted.

Currently she was crossing over a bridge that was above the automated delivery system that delivered crates from what Shepard assumed was a main storage area to here where they could be loaded into appropriate transportation. It was actually quite busy at the moment as Eclipse seemed to be in a hurry to get the Minagen X3 loaded and shipped out somewhere. This concerned Shepard but it was not why she was here. If she could get some intel while she was raiding the office for the police to investigate she'd gladly hand it over.

A concerned EDI snapped Shepard out of her dangerous musings, "Hostiles approaching from either side of the bridge."

Shepard mentally cursed. She had nowhere to go! There was nothing to hide behind and she had no stealth net to turn invisible! Looking around quickly she did the first thing that came to mind. She jumped over the rail. Knowing that the Asari would be able to feel biotics being activated she did nothing to cushion her fall other than to roll when she hit the deck, her reinforced skeletal system handling the fall with a little jarring but nothing significant.

Unfortunately she rolled right into a merc who squealed in surprise as something bowled her over and somehow ended up on top of her. That something turned out to be a someone, a human someone who looked just as surprised.

Shepard internally winced and managed a hesitant smile, "Uh you couldn't keep this between us could you gorgeous?"

"Get off me! Intruder! INTRUDER!" The Asari lit up her biotics to throw the human off her.

Shepard groaned as the Asari cried out her warning, "Figured." With that she snapped her hands to the mercs head and twisted sharply.

The merc went silent but others had heard.

Shepard was on her feet in a flash and took off at a sprint, "EDI kill the alarms and put the hangar security vids on a repeating loop, see if we can contain this long enough for me to get out of here without every merc on base coming at me."

"Complying."

The idea of trying to recover her stealth position was totally blown when the mercs up on the bridge spotted her and opened fire. Their guns roaring to life and those who'd only been a little alarmed at the warning cry now didn't hesitate in going for their weapons. Her shields took a couple hits before she managed to throw herself behind the cover of a shipping crate.

Weaving through the crates she didn't pause to take stock of how many mercs were closing in on her but she did need to contain the situation before they could get reinforcements. The gunfire had stopped, simply because their quarry was out of sight, but the shouts as the mercs rallied and sought her out bounced around the crates and walls.

Peeking out from behind a stack of Minagen crates she saw a pair of mercs up on the bridge and they had an excellent view of the warehouse from where they were. They'd need to be dealt with before she could break from cover. Charging up her biotics Shepard reached out and caught both mercs in a powerful singularity then before the swirling vortex of dark energy could collapse she ripped it apart with a warp that sent both mercs hurtling through the air from the biotic explosion. It also had all of the mercs turn their attention away from the crates for a moment.

Taking a big risk Shepard bolted from the cover of the Minagen crates and made for the exit. Not missing a stride she reached out for one merc who was taking cover behind a hastily erected barrier of empty crates and wrapped her in dark energy.

The merc dropped her gun, her eyes going wide as she was suddenly lifted from the ground. Then her stomach was left behind somewhere as she hurtled back towards the ground and her world went black with a sickening crunch.

Shepard smirked a little and thanked Miranda for that little move once again. The smile was quickly gone as she dropped and rolled under a crate of Minagen that was hurled at her head from off to her right somewhere. Barely missing a beat she was still in motion and dodged a second crate that flew at her a moment later. With her attention now to her right trying to locate the merc throwing things at her she didn't notice at first that the other yellow clad Asari by the exit she was aiming for had a present for her.

It was only her insane reflexes that saved Shepard from copping a crate to the chest, instead it struck her on the shoulder which threw her completely off balance so that when the next crate came from behind in caught her squarely between the shoulders. The force of the hit threw her forward and knocked the wind out of her. Reddish dust exploded from the broken container and encompassed her in a cloud of Minagen. She heard another couple crates get thrown around causing the cloud to grow and swirl around her, blocking out the rest of the world.

Her heart was pounding and the chemical particles that got up her nose caused her to sneeze which then started a coughing fit as she breathed in the Minagen involuntarily. Reflexively she put up her barrier which blocked out the incoming gunfire as the Eclipse mercs fired blindly into the red haze that surrounded her. Her eyes watered, her lungs burned, she could feel it seeping through her skin.

When the coughing fit of the female intruder stopped the mercs that had gathered around the scene cautiously ceased fire but their weapons remained pointed into the red haze.

"Did we get the bitch?"

"Why don't you go in and find out?"

"Anyone get an ID?"

"We lose anyone?"

"What the hell is that?"

All eyes widened at the pulsing glow that accompanied a sudden powerful drawing of dark energy. A feminine voice that was husky and empowered by something otherworldly resonated around them.

"Do you know what happens when you supercharge the biotics of an already powerful biotic?"

A couple of the Asari started backing up.

"You make her a biotic goddess," the voice snarled then unleashed a powerful shockwave that exploded in all directions bowling over all the mercs and clearing all of the red haze from the area. In its place stood a woman whose biotic aura was blinding to behold... not that any of the mercs in the vicinity noticed as most were either out cold or had been killed on impact as their bodies had been thrown like dolls into walls and solid containers and other debris.

Unsteady on her feet Shepard crouched where she was. It felt like she was burning up, the dark energy nodes throughout her nervous system were so over stimulated by the drug overdose she could feel the dark energy pulsing as though it was flowing through her very veins. More than that, she could feel the energy of the world around her so much more intimately, as though her mind itself had expanded beyond her physiology's limitations.

Stowing away the pain Shepard couldn't help but embrace the power that was flowing around her, harnessing it and in the back of her mind wondering if it was a really bad idea. Opening her eyes she found that her biotic vision was tinged with red and that she was unable to bring back her normal vision. The biotic power that was coursing through her was just too strong and overwhelmed the rest of her senses.

Hearing running feet Shepard cocked her head slightly at the familiar feel to the energy approaching and recognized the shimmering blue aura of Garrus and the breathtaking silver aura of Miranda.

"Stephanie!" Miranda gasped in shock at the very unstable woman who looked completely stunned and covered from head to toe in a rusty red coloured dust.

"Miri? Garrus? What are you doing here?" Shepard shook herself and started sneezing as that unsettled the dust around her nose.

"Couldn't let you have all the fun Shepard," Garrus smirked.

Miranda had out her omni-tool and was scanning Shepard quickly, her eyes widening at the readings that were coming back.

"Analyze it later Miri, we've gotta go." Shepard took off a dust covered gauntlet and tried to dust off some of the drug from her face which managed only to make her sneezing worse until Garrus stepped in.

"Here," Garrus chuckled and emptied his water flask on her face.

Shepard gasped and nearly choked on a mouthful of the cool liquid but it stopped the sneezing, "Gee thanks Garrus," she drawled as her hand came away from her face muddy.

"Any time Shepard," he nodded, his mandibles wide in a smirk as he capped the flask.

"Shepard you have hostiles approaching, I recommend continuing on the previous route through," EDI's voice chimed in all of a sudden.

"Right, let's go get this ship manifest, I really need a shower!" Shepard turned and jogged towards the door, squinting as the world was so strange and bright and glowing with her augmented vision.

XXX

As they made their way through the warehouse complex Shepard couldn't help but smile at the dreamlike state she was in as they tore through the vastly outmatched mercs. She had her best friend on her left and the woman she loved on her right and in this highly augmented biotic trance she was in she could feel them on a level she'd never been able to before. They pulsed in synchrony with her, she could anticipate their movements, what their next action was going to be through the way their energy flowed through their aura's.

With Miranda it was exquisite as they biotically danced together and Shepards heart raced even faster. She lost all track of time and barely seemed to notice that her vision was deteriorating, she just followed that breathtaking silver aura through the corridors and stairwells with no questions asked. Shepard didn't even realize that she hadn't heard from EDI since that warning in the large loading facility.

That delightful, hazy, biotic bubble was completely ruptured as the destructive trio worked their way through a large number of Loki mechs on a platform area joining the warehouse facility to the high level offices. While the mechs posed no threat themselves they did provide the necessary distraction for a pair of gunships to let loose a barrage of missile fire.

Shepard hastily erected an impenetrable biotic barrier as the fiery barrage struck the platform, however, Miranda who was on point and completely exposed to the blindside attack wasn't fast enough.

Shepards entire world narrowed to a singular point as that beloved and treasured silver aura flared to almost blinding and was sent flying through the air. She felt the sickening crunch as Miranda's body slammed into the solid framework of the building. Then her heart just stopped in her chest as that warm, powerful and oh so compelling silver aura was snuffed out.

Not dimmed.

Not injured.

Gone.

Shepard's scream of rage and anguish was a wave of biotic force and sound that shook the entire platform and even wrecked havoc on the gunships stabilizers.

XXX

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Are you absolutely positive?"

"Yes."

"Cos you know we could always just turn around..."

Ice blue eyes narrowed up at the forest greens holding her gaze.

The taller brunette let out a dramatic sigh, "Fiiiine. Shoulda just kept mah mouth shut god damnit." With clear resignation she closed those brilliant green eyes and concentrated, bowing her head slightly.

"What's our ETA?" The blue eyed woman called to the pilot of the small shuttle.

"We're coming up to the warehouse now, I'm not getting any chatter out of the ord... wait." There was a pause before the soft Russian accented voice continued, "I'm not getting anything out of the Eclipse base but everything else is normal. I am picking up a hell of a lot of weapons fire though Lieutenant."

The brunette stiffened all of a sudden, "Aw shit, this is a really fucking bad idea, whoever's in there just lost it."

"Doesn't surprise me if she was triggered earlier she's going to be unstable." The blonde Lieutenant shrugged slightly and glanced out the window at the Elysium skyline.

The brunette shook her head, "This one aint like anything I've felt before, and she's... wild."

"Backing down from a challenge? What, you scared?" The Lieutenant purposefully baited, the expression on her pale heart shaped face remaining a mask of calmness.

The brunette scoffed and looked at the woman opposite her sharply then smirked, "Not on your life Sunshine."

"Govno!" The Russian pilot suddenly swore and the shuttle jerked causing the two in the back to lose their balance and crash into the wall.

"What the hell Chekov?" The Lieutenant snarled at the injury to her dignity.

"We have a... situation. Something just took out two Eclipse gunships and knocked out our stabilizers. Setting down as close as I can to the target," the pilot, Ensign Halle Chekov, quickly regained control of the craft and put them down on a balcony below the damage zone from the gunship explosions.

The Lieutenant glanced at her companion who's normally bronzed skin had paled quite significantly, "What?" The demand was not teasing or playful as she could see whatever it was that was bothering the tall warrior was serious.

Forest green eyes opened and she swallowed, "Have I told you this plan is fucked up? Whoever this chick is she's just gone apeshit and I mean completely off her rocker and the power she's got... Shit Naz she makes me feel like a whelp."

"All the more reason for us to contain her before it's not Eclipse mercs she's massacring," the Lieutenant took a deep breath as Ensign Chekov opened the hatch. Pulling on her navy blue helmet and checking the seal was tight she shouldered her normal medic pack, clipped her collapsed sniper across the small of her back and with her powerful Carnifex hand cannon drawn she lightly jumped down from the shuttle.

"Ya it's the containing her that I'm worried about," sighed the tall warrior under her breath as she followed the marine into the seemingly abandoned complex.

It wasn't long before they came across the first bodies.

The brunette whistled through her teeth, "And I thought I left a mess."

Narrowing her ice blue eyes the Lieutenant quickly surveyed the bodies, "She's wasting energy, too much power," she kept her voice soft in case there were any survivors around, but she highly doubted it.

"Show off," muttered the brunette, leaving the bodies behind quickly and following the path of destruction up a couple levels then passed the balcony that was in tatters from the gunship explosions.

Moving quickly as there was no left from Eclipse to slow them down the brunette stopped them at the entrance to another large store room.

"She's in there, I don't sense anyone else," whispered the brunette.

The green panel on the door suddenly turned red blocking their entrance.

"Please state your business," a feminine voice suddenly sounded through their secured communicators.

"Who the... this is an encrypted Alliance channel, name and rank now!" the Lieutenant snapped, glaring as she looked around for any sign of the intruder.

"My name is EDI, I am acting under the authorization of Spectre Shepard. However, I am unable to reach her, she is in the room ahead of you and given her current emotional state it is inadvisable for you to enter at this point in time."

"Shit that's Shepard in there?" the Lieutenant cursed under her breath and suddenly understood why her companion was so concerned that not even her normal bravado was breaking through.

"Correct. I am unable to raise her on comms and she's showing no signs of calming."

"Edi was it? Did something happen earlier today, something similar?"

"Yes."

"How was she calmed?"

"I imitated the voice of her XO, however, she is not responding to that this time. I have made numerous attempts using the voices of the people she trusts and none have had an effect."

"You... imitated someone's voice?"

"Correct," this time EDI imitated the Lieutenants voice having enough of a voice print from listening in to their soft chatter since their arrival.

"Ok she's good," the brunette grinned at the flushed cheeks of the marine.

"Her vitals are extremely unstable, she has received an overdose of Minagen X3 from her confrontation with the Eclipse mercenaries. I have called in support which will be arriving shortly but they will not reach her in time." The lock on the door turned to green, "Please be careful Lieutenant."

The marine took a deep breath and removed her helmet, hoping that seeing her face and that she was human might make her less of a threat than the asari mercs. "I want you to hold back, only intervene if she attacks."

"Got it boss, she lifts a finger and I'll have her on her arse."

Cautiously opening the door the first thing that she noticed through the debris that was strewn across the huge room was the pockets of red haze that were still settling from the fight. Picking her way through the tossed crates and bodies she was very aware that the warrior behind her kept her distance but could biotically charge in to take Shepard by surprise in seconds. It didn't take her long to locate the Commander.

Commander Shepard, the hero of the galaxy, was standing over a bloody blue pulp that used to be an asari. Dark energy was swirling around her violently even though she stood still. The marine did pick up that Shepard was clenching and unclenching her hands, it was the only movement the woman was making.

Cautiously skirting around the side of the room so she didn't approach Shepard from behind but from in front she got within talking distance and her trained medical eye was analysing everything before her.

Shepards eyes were closed tight, her face was tear streaked through the dust that clung to her, the veins in her neck were bulging and she was straining fiercely against something unseen.

"Steph, can you hear me?" she asked softly.

For a moment there was no response.

Then confusion furrowed that red stained brow.

"Steph honey, look at me please," she kept her voice gentle and tender, her demeanour calm.

Unfamiliar glowing eyes opened and it was impossible to tell if they were focussed.

"I know you," Shepards voice was a broken husky croak.

"It's been awhile Steph," the Lieutenant nodded approached slowly, warily, watching for any sign of Shepard losing control, "Remember Elysium?"

Shepard snarled and her biotics spiked, "Batarians."

"We stopped them, you led the response on the ground and I patched you up."

Recognition had the biotics subside, "Keya!"

Lieutenant Keya Nastaran smiled and nodded, "You inspired me to join the Alliance. I'm an N5 now, combat med."

Shepard cocked her face to the side, "Why are you here?" The words were slow and ponderous as though Shepard was having trouble forming them.

"Where is here?" Keya asked carefully, stopping her advance within arms reach of the still incredibly dangerous being in front of her.

Shepard frowned and looked around as thought seeing the place for the first time, "I was... Justicar Samara..."

Keya watched those glowing eyes dart from side to side as though they were searching for the answers in her mind.

"Ship manifest to track some... ardat yakshi. But it all went wrong." The confusion on that stained, glowing face broke down into agonized despair, "I couldn't protect them Keya. Oh goddess Miranda!"

The biotic surge was a blast of uncontrolled power that flung Keya back over a desk and scattered a pile of datapads.

The brunette holding back at the door responded by charging in and slamming into Shepard.

This was entirely the wrong thing to do.

Shepard had already felt the charge and her hunters instinct had prepared for the impact.

The biotic clash was like a bomb blast. Everything that wasn't part of the floor was thrown to the walls in every direction.

The desk protected Keya from the worse of it but it still knocked the stuffing out of her and took a moment for her vision to clear and her breath to return. When it did she cursed her companion vehemently then snarled, "Satria if Stephanie doesn't kill you I'm going to whoop your arse!"

Watching the duel Keya lapsed into awed silence. She knew both women from personal experience were brutal in close quarter combat and that was when they were in control. Right now Shepard was out of control and Chasen Satria, the last known survivor of a very gruesome test regime, was very close to losing control herself.

They moved so fast it was hard to follow, Shepard was a dancer and could read aura's with such depth that Satria had a very hard time getting a solid hit on her but when she did it cracked like thunder and had the cybernetically enhanced woman wincing. What had Satria so close to losing it, however, was how overwhelming Shepard's power, speed and strength were compared to her own. The chemical induced boost to Shepards biotics went far beyond anything she'd ever faced before. Every hit Shepard landed broke something and that was with her barriers at full strength. Pain was threatening to push Satria over that last edge of control.

Shepard snarled viciously as an elbow grazed her cheek and she responded to the opening given by her opponent with a brutal open palmed upthrust, striking with the heel of her hand so hard the humerus bone of her attacker shattered.

Satria howled in pain and anger and at that moment completely lost control.

"Oh shit," Keya gasped, her eyes widened in fear, as until now she'd hoped that she'd be able to calm them down once they got the fight out of their systems.

Shepard felt the change in her opponent, watched as her strangely peaceful jade aura was overwhelmed by a dark red and black vortex of bestial rage, her very scent changed and the air around her charged with something other.

As blazing biotic eyes met fierce green their gazes locked and the fight became something entirely different.

For beast knew beast.

XXX

Keya was not biotic. She was not attuned to dark energy by any means. The building charge in the air, the heavy stench of ozone and the visible storm of violet and indigo and blue and black that swirled around both woman was terrifying her more than when they'd been in motion.

For right now they stood, frozen, Shepard still holding Satria's broken arm, Satria was half turned from Shepard from that blow that was supposed to break Shepards nose but she had not moved a millimetre from that painful grip. Their eyes were locked, their nostrils were flared, their chests heaving and their teeth bared at each other.

All Keya could hear was their ragged breaths and the pounding of her own heart. She had done enough research on the conditioning of Chasen Satria to know that right now the most endangered being in the room was herself. Hunters and prey. While the two hunters were locked in on each other they didn't notice her. However, should the worst happen, should one overpower the other, that would leave her with an awakened predator that had been bred to hunt something even they themselves had yet to understand.

That left her with two options.

One. She could try and sneak out of the room and lock the door.

Two. She could try and sedate them both at the same time.

Her blue eyes flicked to the door, judging the distance and whether it was possible for her to flee. Nope that wasn't gonna happen, it was just too far. Flicking back to the stationary duo her heart clenched painfully.

Shepards face was flushed but there were cracks in her skin that were blazing red and orange, that hellish glow was even burning through the blazing biotics of her eyes.

Their body language was subtly changing as well.

Satria though she was taller seemed to be shrinking and starting to shift back.

Shepard was in a full alpha dominating stance, somehow seeming larger and growing.

Whatever she was going to do, she had to do it fast, and extremely carefully.

XXX

Rage. Strength. Blood.

Teeth. Blood. Darkness.

Blood. Claws. Fire.

Instinct. Blood. Pain.

Ozone. Burning. Blood.

They tore at each other.

Lashed out in that dark plane.

Claws and teeth ripping through muscle and sinew.

Instinct.

Hunter.

Beast.

Burning.

Bloodied.

There was nothing else.

Only the fight.

Only survival.

Only each other.

Both wounded.

Both dangerous.

Both lost.

Black and blood red clashed with black and indigo fire.

The fire burned brighter, hotter, hissing with each spray of blood. Until the attacker came to understand that with every attack she came back more bloodied, more broken, more mangled. Her mind was on fire, she could smell it burning, tasted it. The burning was combined with the metallic flavour of blood so sharp it filled her senses.

Both pulled back.

Both were starting to become more aware.

Their eyes were opening to this strange dark plane that was flashes of colour, sensations, smells, sounds in the all encompassing darkness.

Sleek and powerful, one paced, back and forward, back and forward, limping on six mangled paws that ended in long claws that would be clicking on a hard surface but this plane did not hold that kind of physical form. Its black fur seemed to suck in the red crackling light around it and was marred by tears and bright red blood. A long, thin tail snaked out behind it, whipping from side to side in fury. It snarled through a mouthful of razor fangs and oversized incisors. Yellow catlike eyes with flecks of forest green never left the other form.

Indigo fire licked over the searing lava like skin of the figure crouched on two legs. Slender but muscular arms that ended in five sickeningly sharp talons were held close to her body, resting on the knuckles and giving definite aura of waiting. Wings coated in indigo fire were partially unfurled in readiness to change the very battlefield itself. The pointed oval eyes were large, black with burning amber pupils and saw much. Yet even this powerful being was not untouched by this battle of wills. Claw marks ripped through her skin but instead of liquid blood it was fire tinged with rusty red that dripped from her.

The pacing beast lowered its head slightly and snarled before leaping at the other once more, all of its power and strength put toward this one last strike.

The winged beast leapt, wings outstretched and soaring over the other. The darkness around them swirled with energy and movement and the clash of indigo and red. Those long arms reached down as she flew and raked the exposed back of the beast below her.

Howling in agony and defeat the one below somehow managed to twist, causing more damage to itself as the talons of the one above dug deep, however it was able to lash out with two sets of bloodied claws and ripped into the side of the beast above. It sent them both sprawling and crashing to the edges between the empty void and consciousness as the agony was overwhelming.

Parted and hovering in that place between they both found other senses returning.

Yellow, green flecked eyes darted to the other aura in the area, of soft, velvety roses.

Prey.

Black and amber eyes narrowed at the shift in the aura before her.

XXX

Keya had knelt and was very carefully getting out the strongest sedatives she had. A shiver trickled down her spine, cold and terrifying. Looking up slowly, her heartbeat racing and pounding even louder in her own ears, her world came to a stop. Unrecognizable green eyes locked on hers.

"Chasen..." she breathed in horror, eyes wide and unable to move as fear paralysed her.

Then it happened.

It was a blur of movement.

Keya blinked and Satria had freed herself of Shepards grasp, nearly losing her arm in the process, and was suddenly standing over her. Satria's normally beautiful face that held that infuriatingly lazy smirk was twisted in a hideous mask of bestial rage.

Just as suddenly Satria was gone in a rush of wind and biotics and was something burning?

Spinning on her haunches Keya turned to see Shepard bodily pinning Satria to the wall, wrenching that broken arm further until Satria screamed in submission.

Keya rose to her feet, this was it, this was her only chance. Syringe in each hand and still trembling as she tried to swallow her fear she ran.

Satria stopped screaming as Shepard lowered her head and was gasping for air breathlessly.

Keya came at them from the left side where both necks were exposed. Her mind didn't even cognize that Shepard was biting Satria at the point where her neck and right shoulder met.

The snap hiss of the syringes sounded almost explosively loud to the raw senses of pair on the receiving end.

Shepard jerked back and looked over her shoulder to where Keya was backing up quickly. Satria was falling limp in her arms almost immediately but Shepard herself was an anomaly when it came to medications of any kind and right now it only tingled barely perceptible to her already boiling blood.

Keya watched as those burning eyes widened and snapped to something now behind her, the fire dimming significantly and fury replaced by shock.