AN: So here chapter 5. Im planning to put up a chapter up a every Monday (try to).
Thank you Sapphiros for explaining what Communities are and I might just give Andrew that nickname.
this chapter answers many of your questions Michae1ange1o and if your getting shot at and running for you life I think that anyone could miss some obvious things.
And Iv already said something to everyone else so it would be rude not to, thank you GentlestCobra2 (What happened to the first) for the comment.
This is the longest chapter so far so enjoy.
Chapter 5- Escaping the Blue Suns HQ
Loud club music played as the lights flashed and flared. A lone purple Asari with facial markings a slightly deeper shade of purple. Observed the nightclub, as it moved and lived. It patrons where made up of people from almost all races of the transverse. She watched them scurry around, drinking, talking and watching. The entire nightclub was circular in shape. Young Asari danced away the Maiden years on a large circular ring platform with hung from the above floor. A large purple holographic cylinder ran from the lowest floor all the way up to the ceiling on the third floor.
The floor the purple Asari was on had its outer edges turned into elevated platform going all the way around the club. Holographic screens ran the fall length of the wall showing images of flames, lights and dancers. The raised platform gave the patrons a place to sit and relax. The third floor was a balcony overlooking the second floor with like the raised platform on the floor bellow circled the entire edge of the club.
On the second floor opposite the main entrance was a private and heavy guarded lounge where the purple Asari could relax. Which she was inclined to do any as she just had a rough day and all but wanted to relax. She wore a white and purple half cut jacket, finishing just below her breasts. It had a purple logo on its back; it resembled a square like O with a line going from the middle and going down past the bottom of the O. The jackets sleeves finished just past her wrists and her hands where covered with black fingerless gloves.
Underneath her jacket she was wearing a black one piece suit that split down her front and reconnected just below where her jacket finished. Her sides where exposed showing her skin beneath and was only broken by three straps on each side. The material came together above her hips to form trousers covering her entire legs before dropping into a pair of high heeled boots. All her clothing was made of a material that was a cross between latex and leather.
She sat back on her couch, she reclined back slipping down it slightly before placing one of her legs over the other. A Batarian wearing black and white armour walked up the stairs and around the corner caring a data pad. The Asari let out a sigh of announce, she was not going to like the conversation. It would just be another report on some petty squabble, sometimes she just wished for a day off. She knew better than that, if she showed weakness for a single moment someone else would come along and take her throne. That's how it's worked here for as long as this place had stood and would continue long after she was dead. But she would not give her place up, she had ruled for just over 200 years and would still rule for centuries too come.
"Boss I have a report here from one of our informant in the Blue Suns" Said the Batarian.
The Asari sat up straight, clearly this was no petty squabble if it involved one of the three biggest merc groups in Terminus Systems. She nodded at him to continue.
"The Blue Suns HQ on Omega has come under attack." He paused for a moment to let it sink in.
"Who's attacking them the Eclipse or Blood Pack?" She asked showing no fear but underneath she felt worried, she could keep all the merc groups in line but if a full on war breaks out the one or two of them would be crushed making a huge power vacuum. She was not sure if she could keep a united merc force in line.
"It's not the Eclipse or the Blood Pack..." The Asari thought for a moment. If it is not one of the other two merc forces then who. None of the smaller merc groups would ever try to take out one of the big three. It would be like pitting a pyjak against a thresher maw. It would be impossible for them to win.
The Batarian continued " A single human man is attacking them"
"WHAT!?" She could not stop her outburst. She was hearing something so absurd, and then she began to laugh. All her worries drained way. "That human is either stupid or extremely brave. Or both, but he has peaked my interest. Now what do have on this human, Garka?"
"All I have at the moment I this report on him. He is a powerful biotic who moves quickly and has exceptional aim, which suggests he has extremely high levels of training. He is resourceful utilising the environment around him to his advantage. It also says here that he is not using shields or wearing any armour."
She was taken aback. Ok this guy was crazy, going in with no armour or shield was suicide. Her grin grew in size. Yes this was a person was the kind of crazy she liked. Garka continued his report.
"At the moment the Blue suns have taken at least 50 causalities and about half as many are injured. Large amounts of damage has been done to their merchandise and equipment in there warehouse." Garka said finishing his report. "There is also a vid of him in action"
"Play it" She said. Although her outside showed little emotion, inside she was excited, if the reports where true this guy was a one man army, someone who could get things done. And she wanted a person like that. Fidgeting slightly where she sat becoming impatient at how slow Garka was working.
Garka walked towards the Asari, his left hand lit up as it was covered in an orange hologram, waving his hand over the floor in front of her. His Omni-tool activated the monitor bellow the floor. Within moments the screen was out of the ground and showing footage from multiple security cameras.
It showed a man wearing clothes that looked strange to the Asari. He wore a pair of light blue denim jeans. He had a white short sleeved top on with the words 'I have a bad feeling about this'. His arms where muscular showing their strength but they were still small enough to not bulk him down which him agile and fast. The Asari could just make out his face. He had short straight black hair. With a strong jaw his face reverberated with rugged masculinity. His deep blue eyes swam with determination.
The man was hiding behind a container which was slowly being shredded by bullets fired by a YMIR mech. Much to the surprise of the Asari when the guy used biotics it was not the typical blue but a yellow-gold like colour instead. He unleashed a singularity at the mech with the other hand he sent a torrent of bullets at the YMIR. He ducked back into cover to dodge more incoming fire. She was confused by this move how would that work on something as large as that. What was he planning she wondered. Her entire focus was on the screen in front of her.
Each had glowed with biotics. What was he waiting for? Then it happened, the YMIR's shield could no longer hold under the unrelenting force of the singularly. She watching in glee (although did not show it) and was amazed at what happened next. It happened so fast that if she blinked she would have missed it. The man broke from cover firing a lift at the mech. shockingly it rose off the ground, he then fired a throw from his other hand which caused a biotic explosion when it hit the singularity. YMIR was sent flying into a wall, the man moved quickly over to the mech and put a few rounds into it.
The vid ended there. "That all I have Aria" said Garka as he waved his Omni-tool over the screen, this time sending back into the floor.
Aria T'Loak was still smiling even after the vid had ended. "Garka get together some men together, fast and get down to the Blue Suns HQ. I want you to tell the Blue Suns that Aria would like to speak to the intruder 'alive' is that understood?"
"Yes" Was all Garka said before disappearing down the stairs, typing into his Omni-tool as he went.
A few minutes prior in another part of Omega
"Now that's just great, how are we supposed to get out of here alive? I've got no Omni-tool to hack this door or any explosives and my biotics are useless against something like this."
"Could always biotic punch the door"
"I'm not Jack. I can't tear walls and doors apart with my bare hands"
"Yet" Tal'kia added
"Tal'kia that's not helping."
She looked at me "Just try a biotic punch." She voice had none of its normal jokey tone to it.
It was my best option at the moment so I had to try. My biotics flared around my right arm. I pulled it back twisting my upper body with it. If I was going to punch a metal door I was going to make sure that I hit it with everything I had. Poring as much biotic power I could muster into my fist. With one swift movement my fist slammed into the door with a huge amount of force. My hand hit the door and kept going for a moment before stopping.
I pulled my hand away to find that I had dented the door slightly. No gaping hole or a partially buckled and twisted sheet of metal. "Ok at this rate I'm not going to get through before the merc catch up."
"A warp could work. Might tear the door apart." Tal'kia suggested
"I don't know how to make a warp." I said back
"How have you used all the other biotic ability's then?" She asked
"I just used them."
Tal'kia didn't like my answer. "I will tell you how you used them then. You used them because you need them specially and once you used them once you could easily use them again. With the throw you wanted to get the Batarian away from you, a throw was the best option to you so you instinctively used it. You lifted the container so you could throw it at the mercs. And finally you switched a throw into a singularity in an instant to use against the LOKI mech because you knew that a throw would not work. You didn't just used them you used the best ones for the job. You knew how to use them before you used them. So if you can warp you WILL be able to do it"
"But I don't know how." I complained.
"Don't focus on warp focus on the problem. That is what you have been doing, using the best biotic to solve the problem. Now focus on destroying the door and your biotics will take care of the rest." 'Hopefully' Tal'kia added in her mind so I could not hear.
I did what she said, placing my hands on the door. I focused on the problem, the door is in our way. I need to destroy it. I need to tear it apart, not physically that would take to long. No I needed to rip it apart a different way. Atomically. My biotics twisted around my body, it focused into my hands and into the door. The door was slowly being infused with my biotics. The door started to shift and groan as it was being infused with a mass effect field that was constantly shifting.
"It's working" I shout out in glee. I could feel the material beneath my fingers being pulled and stretched, pushed and condensed. Slowly the metal was being shredded apart.
"Good one Andrew. Now continue what you're doing."
It had started off well but I could feel my biotics slowing down, becoming weaker as the moments went by. I was quickly draining what little energy reserves I had left. "Damn I'm soooooo tired. I would give anything for a piece of food right about now. I haven't eaten anything in ages." I thought back to the last time I had some food. "Shit I left my dinner in the oven. My apartment could be on fire right now."
"Andrew focus! Worry about that later. When we are safe." She shouted at me.
I had been slowly breaking down the door for a while now and a silly thought went through my mind."You know I kind of feel like Qui-Gon Jinn when he's using his lightsaber to melt his way thought a blast door, only for another set of doors to close on him." I looked around expecting another set of doors to close over the firs but luckily there were none.
I turned my attention back to the door. It was beginning to bend inwards now, the door around my hands would not be able to take this punishment much longer. Would I have enough time to do break the door? Probably not as bullet imbedded itself in the door centimetres away from my left hand. A sniper had come into the open area from the way I had entered, we was quickly followed my more mercs. Each of with wanted payback for what I had done to them and their friends.
The instant the bullet hit the wall I panicked, my heart rate went sky high. In that same instant my biotics flared with even greater life and ferocity then when I had started the warp. The doors centre crumbled away, rapidly exposing the room beyond. It only took a few seconds for the hole to become wide enough to let me through.
I dived through the hole as the mercs opened fire. Some of the mercs got some luck shoots in. Three bullets hit me. One graved my right arm. One imbedded itself in the shoulder of the same arm. But one found there way into my lower back, narrowly missing my spine. I screamed as excruciating pain washed over my body causing me to fall to the ground.
The pain I felt could not be described in easily. My body where the bullets hit felt as if they were burning. I felt frozen to the ground unable to move or even breathe. It felt as if my body was being cut open and my insides being ripped apart and pulled out of my body. I was sure that this was the end for me that I was going to die right here and now. I could feel the blood flowing out of my wounds and onto the cold metal floor. My eye lids felt heavy, my mind was hazy. My head lay against the ground, all I wanted to do was close my eyes because it felt as if my pain would go way if I did.
There was a quiet voice in the back of my head. It was telling me not to give up, not to close my eyes. It told me to get up, that I was not dying here. The voice was right I could not give up. I didn't want to die. If I died I would never see my family and friends again, I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, and lastly if I died I would take Tal'kia with me.
I concentrated on the voice as I kept my eyes open. My arms moved to push my body up, I was able to get myself into my arms. I looked ahead of me. There on a wall was a Medi-gel dispenser. The voice told me to keep going. So I did, dragging my numb body across the floor, inching closer and closer to my salvation. With each movement I made the voice became louder and clearer. It was a voice I could not recognise, it seemed a mixture of voices.
It felt like hours as I slowly inched my way towards the dispensers, it however was only a few moments. When I reached the dispenser the voice was absolutely clear now. At first it was a mixture of my voice and hers but now it only hers. Tal'kia was shouting at me telling me to move to grab the Medi-gel. I was successful in grabbing some, I quickly applied it to my wounds. Within seconds my pain was all but gone, the Medi-gel closed up my wounds and stopped the bleeding. Where I had applied it the skin was numb but I could feel tight pulling sensations from my wounds.
With the pain gone I could move my body easily again. The entire event after I got shot was only a few seconds in real life but felt as if they had been going on for hours. I was sure that the mercs would have caught up with me and killed me but they didn't. Looking back and could make out the shapes of the mercs moving towards the opening I made in the door. I pulled myself up and kept on going grabbing some extra Medi-gel on the way. I started out walking but as feeling retuned to my body it became a jog and then I was running.
I was moving swiftly through another corridor. This one however had a lot of doors running along it sides, each of which were locked. The locked doors where small in size and each had a number assigned to them. I ran past a door that was open to find it had some beds and lockers in it. 'so living quarters? Am I really heading out of here or just going deeper into it?'
There was only one door that was not locked and that one was ahead of me. I moved my hand over the door to open it. When it opened I was pleasantly surprised to see that the room was in fact a mess with a large number of empty tables lined up with chairs along them.
I was not happy to see that there were some mercs in here as wall. They were three human Blue Suns mercs and they were eating some food at one of the tables close by. They all looked up as I entered. Judging by how surprised they where to see me, I would have guessed that they never expected to see me.
They flipped over the table that they were sitting at; using it as cover they open fire at me. I was able to use the time it took to flip the table to get back into the corridor behind me and behind the door frame. I was so drained of energy by now but I managed to activate my biotics. I fired a singularity just behind the table. It lifted two of the mercs up. I broke from cover, shooting the floating mercs with precision shots to the head. I continued to advance towards the last merc.
"Drop the gun and come out of cover and I won't kill you." I ordered the merc, hoping I could end this quickly. The merc came out of cover aiming his gun at me. Bang. If he moved a bit quicker I would be the one with a bullet in them not him. His body fell back to the ground, which was followed by his two companions when my singularity ran out.
"Looks like they were grabbing a quick bit to eat while the others where sorting you out. Bet they never expected you to come charging in." Said Tal'kia moving over to one of the dead mercs. "Look there's still some uneaten ration bars here." I was not really paying much attention to her as I was looking back over my shoulder. The instant she mentioned food, I was over next to her in a second. Grabbing a few bars, stuffing two into my pocket a tore open the last with my teeth. I almost chocked as I practically inhaled the bar. I could already feel the food working as my body started to convert it to energy. Massive amounts of energy flowed through my body restocking my reserves and gearing me up for whatever was thrown at me next.
"Hungry?" Tal'kia asked. Which I replied with a simple nod. With all the biotics, adrenalin and being shoot my blood sugar level was low so of cause I was going to be hungry.
There was another door at the other end of the mess hall. "This better be the way out because I had enough of this place for a life time." I said as I opened the door. This time the room ahead was another corridor. It wasn't very big with only one door at the very end. I descended down it until I reached the door. The door opened when the holo panel was pressed.
What was before me could only be described as amazing. The room I had just entered was huge, it was a lobby of some sort with rows and rows of chairs, a few desks. My attention was on what was right in front of me. I walked up to a window the size of a lorry. Outside there was a crater covered rock above with dozens of large towers descending from the rock ceiling downwards. Smaller structures connected some of the towers together. Sunlight could be seen reflecting off and around some of the buildings. An occasional skycar whizzed past the window.
"I think I know where we are. I think we're on omega." I said still awestruck at what I was seeing. The games didn't do this place justice, it looked magnificent. Yes it may be the Terminus Systems lawless version of Citadel but it still looked nice.
"Yes Andrew we are on Omega."
There were many ways out of the lobby area. The most obvious exit to this place was only a little distance from me. Deciding that I had overstay my welcome, I went to the door with Tal'kia. The instant I placed my hand on the door I regretted it because inside the door wasn't the way out, it led into corridor. At the end of the corridor there where men dozens of them charging towards me. I instantly closed the door, not that I would help one bit but it made me feel better.
I was about to move to another door when Blue Suns mercs began to appear out of all the exits. I was back near the window that I was at before, looking out at Omega. I was not going anywhere and they knew it. That was why they didn't bother to fire at me. I had to think up a plan and fast. As they started taking positions around the room.
As I looked around the room for a possible exit I complained to Tal'kia "You couldn't have sent me to Afterlife, no instead of dropping me in the Blue Suns base."
"Sorry about that. I didn't mean to send you here, I planned to put you about twenty floors above this one." The look on her face was sincere but with her I couldn't be sure. Then I looked out at Omega, I got this far, I mean I've travelled into a game world, I've got biotic powers and now on an asteroid in space. Space yes, it wouldn't get me out of here but at least it would stop them from killing me. My biotics flared. The mercs watched me move ready to kill me if they needed to, I formed a Warp in my left hand and pointed it towards the window and my right hand held my gun at my side.
A single Batarian walked out of cover. His armour was unique compared to the rest, better quality which could mean he's a superior here or even the boss. He spoke to me he did not bother hiding his anger. "You Human. You come here kill my men, destroy my equipment and damage my base. We are going to kill you, slowly, and painfully for this" He made a signal and his men, they all aimed their guns at me.
Time to stop them from killing me. "Do you know that this is!" I shout. "This is a warp and it will tear through this glass in seconds, and then this entire place will be exposed to the cold vacuum of space. It's fully formed so if you kill me it will still goes off."
"Let's hope they value their lives" Tal'kia quipped, she smiled at me. I can never understand her, does she love violence and killing. "Maybe" was her only reply.
"You're crazy! Even If you do destroy it the barrier would stop the air from leaving." The Batarian shouted back.
"Are you willing to risk your life on it? Are you men ready to die with you?" There was some chatter between the men, some even lowered their guns completely. They were getting paid a lot but where they really willing to die with a man committing suicide.
"So what's the plan?" asked Tal'kia
"If you haven't realised I'm playing for time."
"And then what?"
"I have no clue I haven't thought past buying time."
"Maybe Shepard will swoop in and save you" I can't believe it Tal'kia is messing with me at a time like this. "Come on if you are going to die you might as well enjoy your last minutes. Die with a smile on your face."
"I've got more chance in making a Reaper cry then have Shepard saving me." I said playing her little game. Again Tal'kia had a point why die brooding when you can die happy.
"You know Shepard could make a Reaper cry." She shot back.
"HAhahahahaha your probably right" All the mercs watched me. They all must have thought I was crazy. Maybe I was, maybe this is all a bad dream and I will wake up any moment. No I'm wrong this is not a dream this is real life and I'm not waking up from this.
One of the merc move closer towards me. In return I moved the warp closer to the window. It began to tear into the window. Large crack appeared across the window. The merc backed away fearing what I might do if pushed. I returned my arm and the warp back to where they originally were.
"Don't worry you're not going to die today" Tal'kia said still smiling
"Oh really. Do you know something I don't?"
"I know many things that you don't and I know that things are moving and changing because of you. A single drop in an ocean that will cause tsunamis a great distances way. The things you have done today have set in motion a series of events that will make sure you survive." Why was she always so cryptic?
"I hope your right because I don't know how we're getting out of this."
"But I've been known to be wrong, sometimes." Just them more mercs appeared from one of the doors, this time they were all wearing the same black and white armour.
"Ok newcomers this is a fully formed warp, and if you do anything we are all going to be breathing vacuum" I gave them a shortened version of what's going not really wanting to repeat myself.
"Garka what are you doing here? This is a Blue Suns problem, it has nothing to do with you." Said the Batarian in charge. I couldn't help but wonder where I heard the name Garka. Was he from the games? Whatever not that important at the moment.
"I think these mercs don't see eye to eye maybe I could get away from them when there distracted." I whisper in a voice so Tal'kia could hear.
"You know I can read your mind. You don't have to keep speaking to me"
"It's just weird, and I think its nicer this way." It true I didn't like the idea that she could read my mind, that and conversations with her would be kind of one sided.
"People might think you're crazy if you keep talking to yourself." She said moving her index finger around in circles near her head to help make her point.
"Might be a good cover. People might overlook me a bit more then."
"Of cause it's our problem. Everything that goes on in this place is are problem Tarak." Said Garka. And I was pretty sure I heard of a person with the name Tarak in the games.
"You're not the one who has lost loads of men and have hundreds of thousands credit worth of damage done to his base." To be far not all of the damage was my fault, ok most but not all. And was there really that much damage?
"You did destroy like half of the warehouse." said Tal'kia
"Stop exaggerating! I only destroyed a few dozen containers." I said back. A few of the mercs still watched me. Probably hoping I wasn't insane enough to kill everyone here.
"I do not care about your men. Aria told me and I quote 'I want you to tell the Blue Suns that Aria would like to speak to the intruder alive'. You don't want to go against Aria's wishes do you Tarak?"
"Wait did he just say Aria wants to see me?" I looked over at Tal'kia.
"It sounded like that to me."
"Why does she want to see me?" I also had the idea she might want to kill me personally for all the mayhem I've caused today. Tal'kia had something else to say about it.
"I highly doubt she would go out of her way to kill a complete stranger. I would understand if she had something against you, but you have only been here for about an hour at best. The worst you did was weaken the Blue Suns making them easier for Aria to take over. See you have helped her, she might want to thank you in person."
"We both know that she won't thank me, she probably only seeing me because she thinks I might be useful."
"let's make sure your useful then" OK I'm going to have to work out how to be useful so I can get what I want. Hell I could use aria as a stepping stone to change the way everything is going to play out in the years to come. "That's a thought I know where we are but not when. When are we anyway?"
For a single and rare moment Tal'kia was straight with me. "The date is 20th January 2181 CE about 2 years before the beginning of the Eden Prime war." I wanted to complain about having to wait a few years before I meet Shepard but this might be for the best. It would give me time to work out what to do and put some plans into action for when the Reapers arrive.
Tarak looked defeated. He knew that if Aria wants something she gets it, but he can't just let the guy how made the Blue suns look like fools. "You can have him." He said to Garka. The next bit was directed at me. "But when your back is turned, when your guard is down your dead."
"I will sleep with one eye open from now on." I said back giving I'm a mocking grin. Tarak had to retrain himself from shooting me on the spot. He wanted to kill me so badly that he was almost willing to kill himself and all his men. That however would not remove the shame that had befallen the Blue Suns today.
Tarak marched off followed my many of the mercs, some stayed where they where making sure that I didn't do anything funny."You come with me" Garka said to me. I dissolved my warp, the yellow biotics slowly faded away into nothing. Garka and the other men with him escorted me out the door they came in. The door led outside the complex and into an open street.
Ahead of us were some skycars ready to take me to Aria."You do know you're going to have to work out a back story for you self." She was right Aria was going to want to know who I was, were I was from and what I was.
I moved up to the skycar and got in the back. "Let's hope I have enough time to think one up."