Heisting 101
Chapter 4 - The Vault
Back in the elevator room, Kasumi looks to Sophie with a smile. "Well, the barrier's down. That's a start." she approaches the voice lock and enters a command onto her omni-tool. The word "Peruggia" plays as if Hock himself had said it. A green light appears on the machine and the thief moves on to the DNA scanner, she waves her omni-tool in front of it and after a few agonising seconds the scanner recognises the small amounts of Hock's DNA and another green light appears. The thief looks to Sophie and smirks. "I think you've been rather patient, so here." she taps another command into her omni-tool and the base of the Saren statue slides out, revealing Sophie's suit of black N7 armour and a pair of Shuriken SMGs. "I'll check for cameras. Go ahead and suit up." adds Kasumi as she takes one of the weapons before opening the door to the elevator. Stepping inside she looks into the corners, spotting just the one discreet camera. She disables it with a wave of her omni-tool.
"Feels damn good to be out of that dress." says Sophie as she finishes suiting up. The commander looks to Kasumi "Good to go?"
"Yeah, camera's down. Come on in." She replies, beckoning with her hand. Sophie quickly joins the thief and presses the lone button to take them down into the vault.
Upon exiting the lift and entering the spacious vault the two women start to wander around to get better views of the various pieces on display. Kasumi's mouth is practically watering as she speaks. "Wow...Michelangelo's David." there's a pause as Kasumi admires the statue, which is more than a little worse for wear. She looks to Sophie with a twinkle in her eyes. "Think we can get this out the door?" Sophie doesn't even get chance to respond as Kasumi gets a look at something else and takes off in a run toward the other end of the vault "My god! It's the Statue of Liberty's head!" Shepard catches up to the thief who's gripping onto a railing and staring up in awe at the weathered green head.
Sophie places a hand on the other woman's shoulder. "You do remember why we're here, right? You're like a kid in a candy store right now."
Kasumi collects herself and turns to face the commander. "Yeah, you're right. Let's look for the greybox." The petite thief reluctantly pulls herself away from the railing and begins to wander around the various displays in the vault, looking for her partner's greybox. Sophie follows along too. Having systematically checked every display the pair comes to the last one. A small table raised off the floor, on it sit a pair of SMGs and a device that doesn't take Kasumi long to identify. "Here it is. Keiji's greybox." she then notices the SMGs "And I'll be damned..is that a Kassa Locust? No...It's the Kassa Locust. The gun that killed two presidents. Looks like Hock had it copied." She hands one to Sophie before activating her omni-tool to check the status on Keiji's greybox.
She doesn't get far as a projection of Hock's face appears on the wall above the door at the end of the room. "Don't bother, Ms Goto. It's codelocked. I had a feeling that was you at the door. I knew if it was really you you'd get through anyway."
"You know me, I don't like to disappoint." is Kasumi's remark.
The projection of Hock's face show his eyes narrowing "I need what's in your greybox, Kasumi. You know I'll kill you for it. I'll admit your skills are impressive. You got into my vault like I'd left it open. But you're still going to die, screaming, like your old friend." Kasumi snatches the greybox from the table and Hock's projection vanishes, not before he issues a final order. "Kill them!"
The door opens and admits a squad of Eclipse mercs lead by a rather angry looking woman with short brown hair. Both Shepard and Kasumi dive for cover behind the nearby displays in the vault as the bullets start to fly. Kasumi peers over her cover to return fire, taking out one of the mercs. Sophie follows suit and unleashes a biotic throw which launches another merc into one of the large krogan statues which results in a sickening crunch. "Kill these fools!" is the enraged cry of the merc leader, Chief Roe. Shepard unloads the clip of the newly acquired Locust into Roe's shields causing Kasumi to notice the blue flicker around the armour as the shields struggle to recover and the thief takes the opportunity to activate her cloak to sneak behind the unsuspecting Chief and plunge her omni-blade into the woman's back before re-cloaking to seek cover. The remaining mercs are soon picked off as their leader falls.
Sophie exits her cover and looks toward Kasumi, the thief is already looking at her omni-tool. "Checking blueprints. There's a landing pad east of here."
"Good." Sophie says as she gets on the comm "Joker, send the shuttle. Now!" Both women waste no time in heading through the door the mercs came from.