POV Jane Sheppard

"Well who the fuck are you?" was the question of the strange soldier.

"Commander Sheppard N7 of System Alliance. This is Staff Lieutenant Alenko and Gunnery Chief Williams. And you?" I answered.

"Private First Class 1st Battalion 3rd Regiment of United States Colonial Marines. Call me Rookie madam." he answered.

"OK Rookie now tell me what happened here." I asked.

"Madam we crash landed here, don't know how. Only survivors are I and my immediate superior corporal Aquila who in need of medical facility. And synthetic Katya is only one who can help my superior." he said.

I had to force my hand from my gun when I heard that there is synthetic. But others didn't have that self control as I. This Rookie also draw his sidearm up and hovered his other arm over some sort of button, probably activation button for this turrets.

"Williams, Alenko weapons down!" I ordered.

"But madam he has geth in there." Alenko argued.

"Firstly lieutenant he said synthetic not geth and seeing these dead geth over there I would think that this synthetic isn't an geth, right?" I said with the last part looking on the private.

He merely shook his head in no motion. Apparently he's the silent type.

"Good now what are the corporals injuries?" I asked.

"She has a parasite in her chest." he answered shortly.

"What type of parasite does she have that she has to be in stasis." asked Kaidan.

"A chestburster." he replied.

No one asked another question about this chestburster as its name is self explanatory. Williams actually looked like she was about to puke.

"Rookie the Normandy, that is the ship upon I serve, has a quality medical bay where we could treat your friend. So I am going to call them down okay?" I suggested.

He seems to consider that for a minute and then nodded.

"IFF." he suddenly said

"What?" I asked confused.

He merely pointed at the turrets.

"Ah. Okay."

I told him Alliance IFF and he typed it on the computer. Which seems odd since he could just send it through his Omni-tool but didn't comment on it.

Suddenly I heard strange beeping. The soldier looked on some device that was making this noise. He looked at us and simply told us.

"Prepare." and took his weapon out.

POW Rookie

Too easy I thought as we destroyed these 'Geth'. They were much easier to destroy then WY combat androids. Even thought they did have some sort of shielding, my rifle tore through them easily, while guns belonging to my allies were having harder time but then again they didn't have to reload as I did so they could fire longer than me. Apparently their guns were also more precise then mine but on the other hand I have bigger stopping power.

After few more of these Geth attacking us we finally destroyed the last one.

"Alright that all of them." said Sheppard then looked at me. "Normandy is coming right here and will be here in minute. Few service men will than bring pods to the med bay where they will release this synthetic under guard and then prepare for the removal of the parasite. Do you want to bring anything else on board? she asked.

"Just what is outside. Then blow the rest up." I responded calmly even thought I was happy that Tequila will be rid of that thing.

"Blow up, why?" asked Kaidan.

"Protocol."

Sheppard relayed the instruction to the Normandy and turned to me "Will you help us to secure our objective?" she asked while others kept watch "One of my soldiers was killed an hour ago. So will you help us?"

I though it through and then nodded, after all they helped me and will help Tequila. Colonial marine always repay his debts (after rereading I realized that its similarity to the Lannister motto).

Their ship arrived and opened its cargo hold. Several men got out and loaded my equipment and the pods on same hover board nodded at us and left. Quick efficient job as it should be in the combat zone. After that the ship lifted off and disappeared.

"Well than lets go set these explosives up and lets go." said Sheppard.

I just raised my hand holding detonator. She just nodded and motioned us to follow her.

POW Ashley Williams

I lead others to the dig site where is located that dammed beacon. This Rookie was on my right side. He didn't have that air as FNG and definitely didn't looked as one with these scars. Sure he was twitchy as hell but not the same way as the new guys, it wasn't nervous way but more of anticipation, anticipation that something is hiding in the shadow ready to attack at any moment of weakness.

As I observed him I thought that his pretty attractive. But immediately got my mind back to the situation at hand.

We finally arrived at site killed the Geth there and found that the beacon wasn't there.

"It must have been moved to the space port. It's right over the hill through the archeology camp." I said to the others.

"Right let's go." said commander.

POW Rookie

When we arrived at the camp we could see that it was hit pretty hard thought what attracted my attention were three spikes with bodies on them, sure we saw these before but these body looked almost robotic. I thought that one moved its head towards us but noted that to my exhaustion it was after all almost two days of nonstop combat, stasis doesn't count as a rest, but still kept my weapon ready.

Suddenly the spikes collapsed and the bodies rose up and charged at us. While the other were shocked at that sight I immediately started shooting at them. That got others to act a started to shoot too. Once again my weapons stopping power proved to be better as I killed one already.

But when I stared to reload one of them managed to get close to me, dropping my rifle and drawing my knife I managed to stab him through the head. But was it over? Nooo that bastard chose to imitate xenomorphs on fire and explode. Luckily it wasn't acid or a powerful explosion but weak one an mostly electric discharge similar to the EMP, so it didn't killed me but knocked me out last thing I heard was Sheppard calling for medevac.