Paths to Vengeance
Chapter 30 plans, surprises and Geth part 2
Authors notes I don't own Mass Effect Bioware does, if I owned the ME3 ending would have been much better, and this fic is a slight crossover with the film War, just so you all know.
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Haestrom
As Rogue and the rest of the ground team headed for cover out of the sunlight they saw a nearby building and ran to it. Looking around for a way to open the locked door in front of them, Garrus and Kasumi want into the next room and found a dead Quarian, all he had was a pistol and an audio message saying that Tali'Zorah must be protected at all costs and that the Geth were here in force.
Garrus pressed a button on a nearby console and as the door opened several Geth showed up. Just as quickly as they showed up, the Geth were taken down and Shepard and his team moved on.
The squad encountered more Geth and took them down fast, as the last Geth Trooper fell to the ground Rogue said "The Geth are certainly here in large numbers. I wonder what the Quarian's are doing here?".
Shepard answered "All it said in the dossier was that there were researching Haestrom's sun. We can find out more when we find them". With that the team moved forward hoping to find some Quarian survivors and Shepard prayed that Tali would be among them.
The Citadel Zuckara Ward
John and Danny were heading to Sarah's house and when they arrived, they saw the officers assigned to protect the house were all dead, as Danny and John started looking around for any sign of Sara or Billy.
Suddenly John got a call on his Omni-Tool and as he answered it, he heard Sara's voice "John, I found them dead after I came back when I picked Billy up at school. I got back in the car and we're now heading to the docks as fast as possible".
John then said "Tell us which docks and we can meet up, I can get you both somewhere safe". Sara angrily said "Those C-Sec officers were supposed to keep us safe. We're getting out of here and we're never coming back!".
With that Sara hung up and John ordered Kono to find out which docks that Sara was heading to and if anyone was following them, as it might give them clues as to who was responsible for what happened at Sara's house, although he did already have a few suspects in mind, mainly the Roma 1 Mafia, or maybe Rogue.
Haestrom
Shepard grabbed the second charge that the squad needed to blast through the debris in the way to the research labs. As the squad headed back to the entrance, another Geth drop ship appeared in the sky and dropped more Geth forces onto the planet.
When the last of them was destroyed Shepard planted the charges while the rest of the squad hung back. Once the debris was gone, they entered the research labs and while Rogue and Kasumi stocked up on ammo.
Meanwhile Garrus and Shepard headed over to a nearby terminal where they saw a hologram of Tali who was requesting to speak to anyone at the labs, sadly there were no Quarian survivors there.
Shepard opened a channel to Tali before he said "Tali, this is Shepard, everyone here is dead".
Tali shocked said "Shepard, I'm not complaining but you show up at the strangest of times. I'm starting to wonder if its on purpose?".
Garrus laughed at the joke and said "Still got your very lovely sense of humour Tali. We were in the area and thought of having a Geth Barbeque like the old days. Your welcome to join us. So where are you right now?".
Tali replied "I'm in the observatory on the other side of the courtyard, but there are a lot of Geth here".
Shepard merely said "We'll take care of them".
With that the door leading to the courtyard was open and the team was moving forward. As several Geth Drone appeared in the sky, both Rogue and Garrus started to pick them off, one by one while Shepard and Kasumi took care of the rest of the Geth in their way.
As they arrived at the courtyard the four of them saw a Quarian marine behind cover who was looking injured and still firing rocket launchers at the Geth and in that same moment a Geth Colossus literally sprang up and opened fire on the team.
All of them now saw that this rescue mission just got a whole lot harder.
The Citadel Zuckara Ward
John contacted Kono and told him that a person matching Sara's description had bought two tickets to Thessia and the transport was scheduled to leave in a half hour from now.
As Danny heard this he contacted Executor Palin and told him to delay the launch of the ship, but he was told that it couldn't be delayed due to the Asari diplomat Kegr Daws who was onboard and scheduled to be back in Asari Space for a conference with diplomats from the Salarian Union and Systems Alliance.
Luckily John was close to the docks where the ship was to take off from and got there 5 minutes before it was to go.
As he and other members of the taskforce started to look for Sara and his son, John saw they about to get onto the ship.
John yelled out "Sara!". She ignored him and got Billy on board before she entered it herself and as the doors of the ship sealed and was about to leave, several rockets were fired from duplicable positions and hit the transport ship destroying it in a matter of seconds.
As John saw the ship in flames he fell to the ground in shock.
Meanwhile the attackers, members of the Blood Pack contacted Ganar Wrang and said "The ship is destroyed",
Ganar smiled as he heard the good news and hoped that Spectre John Crawford now knew the consequences for killing his only son in cold blood.
He knew this action would intensify the gang war going on right now and that made Ganar happy, he was spoiling for a good fight.
Authors notes well that's chapter 30 completed please let me know what you think of it, read and review no flames though ok.