Don't Leave Me
Chapter Ch.3
I've posted two chapters this time to make-up for the delays that I've been getting due to daily life, (You know how that works, ha!)
Here's the next chapter to the story! Hope you enjoy it!
Liara stood up in front of the beam after being in tears with memories of her and her love together. She clenched her hand with the ring on it. She was seriously dying to see her man again, She couldn't live without him. She turned to see Garrus walking up to her. He noticed her redden blue eyes from crying just moments before she stood up off of her knees.
"Liara, Are you alright?" He asked. He knew it was a stupid question, she was missing his best friend.
"No, Garrus," She told him, clenching onto the tags he's given her, "I am very deeply worried about him."
He put a hand on her shoulder, "You have to stay strong for him, Liara. He wouldn't want you to fall like this, worrying about him." He told her, trying to boost her morale.
Her mood hardened, "You're right, I need to be at my best when he needs me the most." She told her Turian friend while she pondered the thought.
He patted her on the back as he gave the Turian-style smile. He nodded to her then walked off to some of the troops of the Ninth Platoon.
Liara turned back to the beam, though she was not feeling any emotion at the point. She was willing to stay tough for her love. She pulled out her Hurricane and readied the weapon for any trouble that may pop up.
The Asari suddenly heard a sniper go off. She turned behind her as she looked in the direction of the shot. A sniper from the STG group nailed a cannibal.
"Another attack is incoming!" Said another Salarian.
"Repel the invaders!" Victus barked.
Liara sprinted to the frontlines to support her comrades in the fight. Biotics threw up biotic shields and Jack's students provided artillery strikes as they were trained to do while some close-combatants from the krogan kept any close enemy away from the students. Garrus was in his same spot as before, having fun, using his archangel skills he developed on Omega on picking his enemies off with his incisor. He heard a ship pass by overhead.
"We got reinforcements!" Kaidan spoke into his communicator.
Garrus watched as projectiles rained down on the base, but it wasn't missiles or anything like that. It ended up being Geth. One landed on Garrus's perch. To the Turian's surprise, it was a Geth Sniper, packing a M-98 Widow. The same gun, Legion used before it sacrificed itself to give the reaper code to all Geth.
"This unit is ready to provide assistance." It told Garrus before setting his Rifle on a low cover, taking out a marauder with a headshot.
"Impressive." He told the unit before turning to his own sniper and started shooting.
Tali watched in awe as fellow Geth landed on the ground behind the frontlines. She smiled behind her mask as two primes started up along with other varieties of Geth units. They replaced any wounded soldier as the wounded were dragged out of the battlefield to safety to be patched up. Geth Engineers set up turrets while Geth soldiers provided fire support. She turned to the fight and prepped her shotgun.
Jacob was having the time of his life as he fought alongside Wrex and Grunt as the trio downed reaper after reaper. His kill count was as high as the krogans' . He reloaded his Katana Shotgun and killed three husks along with a cannibal. Another one came out of nowhere and started to feed on his dead comrade. Jacob shot it and stabbed it with his Omni-blade. He resumed killing afterwards.
Miranda, Samara, and Liara combined their biotics as they tore apart reaper troops. A brute appeared on the battlefield and bull-rushed toward the three ladies. They all nodded at each other. Samara used hers to lift the brute into the air while Liara threw a singularity, and she applied extra juice to increase the range of the dark hole as marauders, Cannibals, and husks were drawn into it. The finishing touch was added by Miranda as she charged a powerful warp and unleashed it onto the core of the singularity. It exploded as bodily parts of the reaper troops were sent everywhere. The three ladies smiled to each other as they resumed killing.
Javik and Zaeed were ducked behind cover next to each other as they popped up in sync to kill. They downed about eight cannibals before Zaeed had to reload while Javik's Particle rifle overheated. After the guns were ready, they did it again and downed five more.
"Now, This is what I'm talking about! A good ole' fashioned ground war!" He told Javik.
"Yes, this is quite fun." He replied, giving a faint grin.
They went back to repelling invaders.
"Hell Yeah!" Jack yelled as she smashed two husks together before throwing the remains at another husk.
"Having a good time, Jack?" Kaidan asked her over her comm.
"Fuck yes." She replied as the Biotic downed another cannibal with her SMG.
"Don't steal all the kills." Kaidan told her.
"I can't guarantee that." She replied, grinning to herself.
Grunt rammed a marauder into a crumbled wall and shot its head in the grand finale. He turned to see a brute closing in on him.
"Wrex isn't getting my kill this time!" He yelled as he charged toward the monster.
Grunt went hand-to-hand with the reaper. The more he was pushed back, the angrier he got and started pushing back. At one point in the pushing, he pulled his claymore out and blasted the brute's face and it fell to the ground, not moving.
"Too late! Now You're Dead!" He bellowed as he went to hunt more targets.
Wrex hit cannibal after cannibal with biotic punches as he plowed through his enemies. He even picked one up and threw it at another. Killing both of them. He turned around and saw that ten or more husks closing in on him. He punched a few before he got overwhelmed, the husks climbed on the massive battlemaster as the clawed at him.
Garrus scanned the battlefield for trouble spots and he found one. Wrex was being overrun by husks, and Garrus went ahead and started sniping them off of his old friend. One by one.
Wrex threw husk after husk off and stomping them but they kept coming. Then they started falling off of him as they were hit with three quick shots in each of them. He turned to see Garrus sniping the reapers off of him.
"Thanks, Garrus. I owe you one." Wrex told him through his communicator.
"No problem, Wrex. Didn't want you to die yet." He chuckled.
"Ha, You're funny, Vakarian. Now, if you excuse me, I've got guests." He told him as he saw more cannibals moving toward him.
Liara kept fighting as wave after wave of reaper troops poured through. Her Biotics were wearing out and she was running out of ammo. She was sure others were the same way. She lifted one cannibal and slammed him down on top of a large spike sticking out of the ground. She downed another to her right with her SMG.
"What's that!?" Asked a soldier from the Alliance.
Liara looked up into the air and saw a wave of orange energy in a spherical shape come down from, what it appears to be is the Crucible. The wave swept over the land, killing any reaper there was, downing any reaper ship that remained on Earth. The empty ships fell to the ground. The wave dissolved any reaper troopers on the ground.
"Something's happening to the beam!" Another soldier from The Ninth Platoon spoke.
Liara turned toward the beam, it was flickering. Liara's Emotions got the better of her and she started running to the beam.
Garrus saw her, "Liara! Don't!" He yelled to out her.
She ignored him and continued running down the ramp, trying to reach the beam before it went out. Just before she could jump, it disappeared.
"No!" She screamed at the place where the tower of energy once was.
Liara raised her hands to her face as she started sobbing uncontrollably. She fell to her knees as tears overwhelmed her tear ducts.
"John…John…John!" She yelled at the sky, "You promised! You promised me you would come back to me!" She spurted out as tears flooded her face, "Please, Goddess! Please let him live! She prayed aloud.
Members of John Shepard's team, old and new caught up with Liara. When they saw her on her knees crying, their own emotions about their beloved Commander were invoked within them.
"Damn it!" Garrus cursed as he turned from the beam, he just lost his brother and best friend.
Tali had tears swelling up in her eyes behind her mask, just moments before she couldn't hold them back. She burst into tears, "Keelah." She told herself.
Javik stood there with Zaeed, emotionless, it was hard to tell his facial expression, but it seemed it was made of sorrow. This cycle has lost its Avatar.
Samara was praying, that the man who has blessed her, might live. There were a few tears in her eyes.
Jacob stood there, like Javik, He didn't know what to say. They just lost the man who gave his wife and unborn child a reaper-free future. He owed the man more than his life.
Miranda was wiping tears away from her eyes. The man who saved her sister twice, along with saving her by telling her about Kai Leng. She owed the man heavily.
Jack stood by Miranda, she was crying on the inside, she wasn't going to break down in front of her students.
Grunt stood there, with his head low, staring at the ground. He'd just lost his father, Battlemaster, and friend. He raged, throwing his Claymore Shotgun to the ground as he paced back and forth.
Wrex stood there, also. He just lost his brother, a man who was equal to a Krogan. A friend of Urdnot Wrex and Bakara. The Man who gave their species a chance to rebirth and recover from the Genophage. The man who helped him recover his ancestral family armor. Wrex was slowly going into a blood rage, but he held it back.
Kaidan was next to Liara, he had a hand on her shoulder as she was on her knees. Pleading her goddess that John will live. Kaidan was doing the same thing in his head, praying that his best friend, his brother would live to see another day.
Cortez had his head low as he thought about the Commander who didn't return. The Man who has given him a reason to live again. The One who helped him move on for Roberts. He spawned a few tears as he thought about what the Commander has done for him.
Liara continued to sob as she looked up toward the sky. When She looked down at where the beam disappeared, she couldn't believe it.
You know what she saw. If not, it's in the next chapter!
Thanks for reading! The next one is worth it! I've made changes to some of it, but it's good!
I need some reviews! I need someone to point out any flaws to help my writing, if any!