Recap: 'When you wake up, you are going to lead me to the next group of slavers and from then on I will track them down until I reach your main base of operations, slaver!' Ghost thought as he looked at the unconscious slaver, dark thoughts swirling in his head.
Now
2170, Omega, Shepard's pad
Shepard in his Ghost outfit was looking at his prisoner. He had to admit it took awhile with taking all those guys like that. In using his Tactical Cloak to take out those vorcha and batarians. That vorcha, Kreol, had almost got him, missed his head by about 2 inches. If he had used his omni-bow on one of them Kreol would have seen him and shot him. He was also very relieved that his parkour wasn't rusty otherwise he would have had fewer hiding places. He knew immediately that the lead batarian would go to the cage as soon as he saw the krogan was down. Probably thought he could use them as hostages, talk about careless. Shepard was two steps ahead of him from the beginning.
Though it had been troublesome to get all those crates of weapons + mods, and red sand to his pad as well as his prisoner. Luckily, he had Isaac hack the slavers cars so they could transport the slave payment to his pad. He is now the owner four cars with 10 crates of red sand that he planned on selling along with parts from the slavers cars. The weapons + mods on the other hand, he planned on keeping the best for himself then selling the rest. He had to make a profit after all as well acquire and maintain weaponry. Right now though he had a prisoner to interrogate. He had strung up his prisoner by his foot over a ledge with very deep drop.
"Ughh" the batarian grumbled.
"You're finally awake. Good." Ghost stated.
"Who are you! What did you do to my property?! Why am I upside down?!" the batarian demanded.
"In that order: I am Ghost, I freed those people who you like to call your property, and as for why you are upside down, well I'm interrogating you." Ghost explained. Ghost grinned at the look of pure horror that came across the batarian's face.
"YOU FREED MY SLAVES! WAIT, YOUR INTERROGATING ME!" the batarian screamed
"Yes! Now we're on the same page!" Ghost chirped. Then he turned serious "Now we are going to play a game. It's called Honest Drop. Tell me the truth and I drop you down to the garbage pile down there and you are free, tell me lies and I will shoot you dead. Understand." Ghost threatened.
The batarian knew Ghost wasn't joking if the sokolov x shotgun beside Ghost was any indication.
"Okay, I'll tell you what you wish to know just don't kill me like you did the others." The batarian whimpered.
"Good boy, now tell me how did you guys come to Omega." Ghost asked
"By our ship, it's a prototype given to us by the Hegemony, the blueprints were stolen from the Turians and Humans for the stealth system. It is docked in dock 42." The batarian confessed.
"Excellent! Where is the main base that is coordinating the slaver attacks?" Ghost asked.
"I don't know where it is all we have are outposts in various systems that act as drop off points. We aren't aware of the other bases locations or actions, I swear!" the batarian admitted.
"Thank you for the information. You've won your freedom! Safe landing!" Ghost said as he let the rope go. He watched the batarian fall, screaming into the darkness. Ghost kept listening until he heard the batarian hit the garbage down below. And then the screaming came.
"You know that was heartless right?" Isaac said. He had been watching the whole exchange since Shepard came back.
"What? I kept my word. He was free and I didn't kill him!" Shepard defended as he took his mask off.
"Yeah, but the pile you dropped him on was a rabid vorcha nest!" Isaac refuted.
"But I was true to my word. Besides he was a slaver. He was going to go after others anyway." Shepard explained. He wasn't going to let scum like that live.
"Well what are going to do about that ship he talked about?" Isaac questioned.
"It looks like I finally found my ship that is going to be taking us across the galaxy." Shepard said with a grin.
"Us?" Isaac asked confused.
"Yeah you are coming with me on this journey. You are linked into my suit right?" Shepard asked looking curious.
"Yes I am why?" Isaac asked wondering why Shepard would ask such a question.
"Because we are going to inspect the new ship." Shepard said putting his mask back on ready to inspect his new ship.
Omega, Dock 42
'So this is it, huh' Ghost thought looking at the ship. It was a Kowloon class freighter likely used for heavy cargo shipments. Ghost entered the ship with his tactical cloak on unsure if there were any other crewmembers aboard. After an extensive search all that he could find were crates of different cargo of various resources including food, minerals, red sand and weapons.
"Well, Isaac we are going to have to sell all of this to improve the ship's armor, weapons and shields. I've taken a look at the engine and it is pretty advanced in comparison to current starship engines." Ghost said to Isaac through the comm. And so Shepard and Isaac sold all the cargo gaining a very hefty profit of 500,000 credits which they used to buy starship armor, upgrade the shields as well as weapons and even more mechs to help speed things along. After all of it was done Shepard marveled at the ship he had spent time working on. He had managed to put Isaac's mainframe into the ship so that he could help out at a closer, but safer distance and with the mechs onboard he had a full crew.
"Shepard, I've been looking through the files in the ships log and found the base that the batarian mentioned. Think you should check it out." Isaac said with his new VI avatar hologram operational.
"I understand Isaac, please punch in the coordinates so we can go hit them!" Shepard said ready to test out the ship and put her through her paces.
"Hey Shepard, before we go did think of a name for the ship yet?" Isaac inquired. After working on the ship it was only appropriate to name it after all.
"Thanks for reminding me Isaac. I think I'll call her… Judgment. Yes that's perfect." Shepard said smiling like a madman.
Omega Nebula, Fathar System, Lorek
"So this is the planet?" Shepard, now in his Ghost outfit, said to Isaac. "Yes it is. I've detected several life signs on the planet in one spot. It appears to be an underground base." Isaac replied.
"Okay, swoop down to the surface and drop me off." Ghost said equipping an Rosenkov materials assault rifle X, Sokolov X shotgun, Volkov Sniper Rifle X, and a Karpov X pistol. These weapons were military grade weapons and second only to spectre gear. Ghost knew he was going to have to probably use most if not all of them.
After being dropped off just outside of their scanners, Ghost made the trek up the closest hill with the best vantage point to scope them out. He noticed that there were 3 guards outside and sniped the one furthest from the other two. When the first dropped, the other 2 came running to the dead man. Because the one he shot was closer to the wall the other 2 had their backs turned and were running single file basically, so Ghost lined up his second shot and fired killing both with a single shot. After walking up to the outpost he noticed the guards were batarians.
'Guess this is the place.' Ghost shrugged. He then took out his assault rifle ran through door and all hell broke loose.
Ghost quickly took cover, just barely dodging around 10 enemies firing all kinds of attacks at him. He decided to put his tech armor on and when shooting stopped Ghost shot up and performed a Spray n' Pray sweep motion on his enemies taking out 4 of them easily before having to duck back down.
'Okay that's 4 out of 10 out. That leaves 6 left and they spread out because of my little stunt. Great' Ghost thought. He then saw one of them trying to flank him. The guy almost had him, but thinking quickly he used incinerate on the guy before he could fire at him.
'That's 5.' He peaked around the corner and noticed one of the slavers standing next to a canister. Ghost then used overload on it causing it to explode catching the slaver in the explosion killing him.
'That's 6.' Ghost switched his assault rifle for his pistol and ran out of cover firing at the remaining enemies catching 3 in the head, but missed the other by an inch.
'Damn that makes 9, almost had him!' Ghost thought mentally kicking himself. All of the sudden he heard the guy running toward him. Quickly, he switched his pistol with his shotgun, turned the corner and shot the last slaver squarely in the chest, instantly killing him.
'And that makes 10.' Ghost then walked over to the main office in the back and found a password protected computer. Looking at the computer he hooked up his omni-tool to the computer and began to hack it. After awhile, his omni-tool beeped. He looked at the password and sweatdropped.
'Seriously! Khar'shanis#1! That is not a password!' Ghost thought exasperated at the stupidity of it. After looking through the database he found credit accounts, star system maps with various planets selected, and a list of deals.
'Well I'm going to be busy for awhile. Time to hit these guys where it hurts and find the ones who attacked Mindoir!' Ghost thought, finally ready to begin his own crusade against the slavers.
