Chapter 8: Urdnot Wrex
Date: 2186
Location: Earth - London
The scared up face of the krogan leader Urdnot Wrex glared at the tiny human female as she glared right back at him. In all his days only Shepard had the balls to do so. This made this human either crazier than Shepard or just plain nuts. She was a doctor, so it was probably the later of the two. The woman's blonde hair swayed as she yelled at him for leaving the medical ward and that he'd either do as she said and get back into the ward or shed find a gun and shoot him in both his livers just so she could make him stay in one place longer than five minutes. He snorted. This human was more annoying than Chakwas. Ignoring her he pushed his way out of the makeshift hospital, making sure to stay clear of the salarians, but caught a few teasing glances of an safari or two. He chuckled to himself at the ironic feeling of having those pretentious bitches looking at him that way. He needed to get back to his homeworld, to Eve, as Mordin had once called the female krogan. Thinking of the old salarian doctor made him think of Shepard once more. The female had lead the final charge against Harbinger and most, if not all, synthetic lifeforms were now dead. She did what she promised. He mused as he looked up into the ash covered skies. One of the few beings who actually stuck to their word. He turned his head as he watched several of his men begin kicking something on the ground and frowned. Just as he was about to reprimand them for acting like children his comm went off.
Stealing shuttle had been easy, especially since the entire world was still in chaos in the aftermath of the reaper's attacks. Finding a marauder body here or there when driving it was even more fun. As the reaperfied buggers were now dead and easy target practice he found himself ramming a few just for fun, something that Grunt would've done.
He pulled up to another makeshift hospital where Miranda was waiting for him. Her voice broke the silence he'd been enjoying for most of the ride. "These are the coordinates that Jack gave me." She said typing them into the co-pilots console. He snorted but remained silent. He had found that when Faith had come down to his world with this woman that it was best to not speak to her unless he wanted to get into a word fight with this woman. He loved fights, but not ones that turned into a war of words. That was just annoying.
Miranda on the other hand showed no outward signs that his silence bothered her, because they really didn't. She left the co-pilots seat and left the flying to the krogan as she went over the medical supplies once more. She had to be prepared for anything, especially since Shepard was nearly made up of forty percent synthetic parts and since the relays stopped working when the pulse was released by the citadel it left her wondering if Shepards less than organic parts would be destroyed or if they would perfectly functional.
Once the arrived at the citadel landing area Wrex zoned in on Jack's signal. A young human girl was waving at him near a safe landing area. As they landed he grabbed his weapon from the ground as Lawson opened the shuttle hatch. "Where is she?" was his only question for the human girl who swallowed nervously at him.
"Clan leader!" a familiar voice broke through the squeaking of metal.
Wrex smirked as he saw the tank-bred krogan. "Grunt." The two gave each other a wrist grasp in a greeting. "You found her?" Wrex inquired.
"Yes." The young krogan stated as he turned back where he'd come from.
"I'm Rodriguez." Wrex heard the young human say to Lawson. "I'm one of Jack's kids. She's taught a lot of us how to do things with our biotics." She paused. "Are you a biotic?"
"I am." was Lawson's reply to the girl.
"Good." was the girls similar reply as they came to a trench that went straight down. "Because you're gonna need them." A blue light wrapped around both Grunt and the girl as they dropped downward and landed somewhat softly.
Wrex snorted once again before following the example of the youths.
It took thirty minutes to reach their destination, something that they hadn't expected. Wrex chuckled causing the humans to look at him. "We're in c-sec headquarters."
"What the fu- took you so long to get here you ass- idiots!" came the yells from Wrex's second favorite human. Subject Zero, a.k.a Jack.
"Looks like you added a few new tattoos human." He commented causing the psychotic young woman to smirk at him.
"More the merrier right fu-" she began but was interrupted by Miranda.
"Where is Shepard?" Miranda interrupted Jack in her conversation with the krogan clan leader. She didn't have time for their nonsense.
"She ain't goin' anywhere." was Jack's reply as she took them down the ruined corridors of c-sec and came to what once was the c-sec leaders office. She pointed to the semi-conscious woman hanging from wires wrapped around her, metal surrounded her and some even looked to have pierced through her armor.
"Shepard!" Miranda yelled out as she saw the blood dripping from her forehead.
"Don't bother." Jack stated as she stepped forward. "She doesn't respond." She pointed to the people around them. "These people have been working for hours in getting her freed, but-" she pointed upwards causing both krogan and humans to look up. "That is just mere feet from dropping on her and killing her." Above Shepard hung precariously was one of Harbingers claws. The sharp pointed end pointed directly at Shepard. One wrong move and the savior of the galaxy would be cut in half before anybody could stop it.
Wrex did one thing. He cursed in his natural tongue. Leave it to Shepard to be hanging between life and death once more because she'd saved the same galaxy.
M-Angel: Sorry for the long wait on this chapter. Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving weekend. I sure did. Hopefully I'll be finishing this story by January. Reviews are welcomed!
