"Shepard? I need to show you something." Miranda bumped into John when he was walking out of mess hall.
"Okay..." John hoped this wasn't another try to hit on him.
As they walked into Miranda's office she quickly a datapad and gave it to Shepard.
"I've been following a few leads about Illium. To make sure even Cerberus has nothing on Oriana now. I managed to secure this - it's some kind of recording between two agents of Shadow Broker. Your friend Liara might be interested." Miranda spoke.
Shepard slightly clenched his teeth at mention of 'friend' and 'Liara'. The wound was healing thanks to Tali but still...sore spot and a scar to be. John managed to put this behind him and be objective.
"Yeah, I'm sure...Tell you what. I'll set a course to Illium. We'll have some shore leave, then I'll give Liara that data. You also take some time with Oriana." John smiled at prospect of date with Tali.
"Agreed, crew could use some down time I guess."
"Keep melting that ice down miss Lawson. It's good for you." John chuckled and left.
Miranda couldn't supress smirk. It actually felt good. "Ass" she slurred and went back to writing reports.
/.../
Making a jump into Illium's orbit was uneventful. Except incident when Miranda fell on her face while walking out from her office. Right in front of Tali.
"Are you okay Miranda?" Tali asked and leaned towards operative helping her get up.
"Y-Yes I think-" Lawson couldn't catch balance and toppled again.
"How you managed to fall?" Quarian asked then glanced at her legs and started laughing. Miranda looked down. Her high heeled combat boots were no longer high heeled.
"Looky here...I think this is what they used to call Karma." Max showed up with mischievious smile.
Miranda's eyes narrowed. She carefully inspected her boots. Heels were undercut in the middle, leaving just enough to last for a few steps and crack.
"You bloody-" she started but Max interrupted her.
"I told you I would get even for instigating that fight with Logan. I'm a man of my word...And I could always add itching component inside of your catsuit right?" Harlequinn was on the roll.
Miranda clenched her teeth and wanted to say something but then she felt an itch. All over her body. Her eyes widened. In lightning speed she limped into her office to get out of extremely itchy catsuit.
"Whoops...I did it again." Jester giggled.
"Good thing I wear my suit all the time..." Tali shooked her head. That would be disastrous on her.
"And suit is filled with sensors. Starting from various smells, to death from tickles...possibilities are endless!" Jester reached new heights of grin.
"Don't even think about it!" Tali yelled.
"Oh come one Tals...I only fight eye for an eye... And being my brothers girlfriend AND bff's with 'Sumi...You'd really have to work hard to unleash Harlequinn's Wrath" Max chuckled "Come on, let get something to eat. I'm sure Garrus had stashed here some dextro coffee he will share with you..."
/.../
Finally arriving at Illium, John had a feeling in his gut and decided to have a shore leave, along with date with Tali and then give Liara's the intel. Interactions with ex, one way or the other would sour his mood.
Coming back from mall trip, John carried a bag with few gifts he bought for Tali while they were there. Pragmatic quarian was very against it on the outside, but felt overwhelmed that John surprised her again and again, aquiring exactly things she always wished to have.
'Thanks Max" John muttered when he learned that his brother's advice about 'decoding women' was dead on target. He wondered where Jester slipped with his little kleptomaniac. Once John got back to Normandy and let Tali loose to play with her tech mods and few accessories, he steered towards mess hall. Whole day of walking and shopping with emotional quarian was tiresome. Fantastic but tiresome.
"Logannn, my maaaan!" Max shouted at John using a voice of a stoned rastaman.
"Huh? You're high?" John walked up chuckling. " Hey Kass."
"Ohai!" hooded thief chirped. John glanced at her, something was off.
"Kasumi, do you have...cat ears on your hood?" John raised his eyebrow. Kasumi only let out a loud purrr in response.
"Warm kitty, soft kitty, little ball of fur..." Max sang like a lullaby then laughed. "We've been browsing through stores, and 'Sumi found a pet shop. Knowing that there is no way to smuggle a kitten here for her enjoyment, I had to think of some consolation."
John choked on his coffee. This ship was a flying circus of insanity. Bar none. "So Kasumi doubles as a kitten now?"
"Oh she was always a hellcat, know it's more obvious only..." Jester earned himself a swat in the arm and giggle from Kasumi. "Have you seen Miranda lately?" he asked with sweet innocence.
John felt a sting of dread. "No...Actually half of the time through transit I didn't...What have you done?!"
At this Miranda walked in, definietly not in the mood. Wearing a new, black catsuit with gold accents, to opposition of her usual, white and black one. She only snorted like angry panther at Max and went back to her office carrying a plate. John stolen a glance at her new attire. Her boots also seemed new, sturdier and thicker than previous ones.
"Why she looks like you put laxatives in her food and set her clothes on fire?" John turned back to Max.
"Somebody undercut her heels...she fell face first almost tripping me over." Tali said sitting next to them. She postponed playing with new omni-tool and upgrading her suit to spend some more time with John.
"And Somebody put some itching component in her catsuit" Kasumi grinned.
"Somebody?" John gazed on Max.
"Don't know why y'all lookin' at me..." Max played coy.
"Kheelah..." Tali dropped her jaw seeing that Jester was unknowingly scratching Kasumi's hood adorned with little ears, earning a giggle from her. "What are those?!"
"Cat ears, Tals..." John only sighed. Max pulled cruel double prank on Ice Queen...Well she had it coming when he warned her of his retribiution. "Kasumi wanted a kitten from a pet shop, and Max changed her mind, for what I'm grateful by the way, so she settled for a cat ears on her hood and doubling as kitty."
"Never heard about...cats." Tali realized she was reaching to scratch Kasumi's cat ears and put hand down feeling she's blushing. Kasumi winked at her and let out sweet 'meow'
"Oh they're a small pet animals with character of devil. Basically Kasumi and Max bundled up. Add soft fur all over along with a tail and there you go." John spoke then dreading at the squeel Tali let out.
"They must be so much fun!"
"Yeah, but you know...those two at least sometimes listen...real cats don't."
"After mission maybe we'll get one?" Tali's enthusiasm made John shiver. Not her too.
"Tals, they have claws, they'll rupture your suit." Max stated. Playful 'Sumi was one thing, but losing his position as Kasumi's resident cuddling toy to an animal? No way.
"They breed ones already declawed" Kasumi chirped delighted with banter around her new accessory.
"We'll talk about it if we survive this. After saving the galaxy I'll survive even a kitten..." John gestured in surrender.
"You know you just jinxed? You'll surely survive just to buy Tali a damn pet and endure it's terror?" Max laughed.
"That's it, I'm done." John stood up. "I gotta do some business with Liara back in the Port. See ya later."
/.../
John taken a deep breath and entered Liara's office. He messaged her earlier, to let her know he'll be coming with some intel.
"Hello Shepard." Liara welcomed him with faint smile. "Please have a seat."
"Thanks." John sat "I recently aquired some intel regarding Shadow Broker." he said and gave Liara datapad. She gripped it while watching some conversation between salarian operative and an asari. She quickly tapped at her terminal and sift through some data. She played the recording again.
"Goddess...He's alive..." she whispered.
"Who's alive?" John raised his eyebrow.
"Feron...He helped me recover your body from the Shadow Broker."
"Woah, time out please...Shadow Broker had my body? For what?"
"He was going to sell you to the Collectors..." Liara looked down. "I managed to ran away with...you, but Feron covered my escape. I thought he died."
"You got me out of the dodge...Then how I ended up in Cerberus hands?" John tried to connect the dots.
"They gave me intel and Feron's help to get you out...In exchange of giving you to them. They promised to bring you back to life..." Liara was struggling to keep it up.
John felt awkward, he blamed her distance on time and his connection with Cerberus along with irrational thirst for vengeance, now it turns out that Liara saved him from being sold to Collectors and turned into husk.
"Well...All I can say is thank you. I'd be a dead meat, or a husk if not for you." he finally managed. Liara smiled faintly again then sighed.
"This data you provided matches the info from hacked servers...You also helped me uncover that my assistant, Nyxeris, was a double agent...She would kill me if not for this intel. Thank you Shepard."
"Just first step in repaying debt I guess. What will you do now with this intel?" John pushed back on the subject.
"I don't know...I think I'll go home, cross-refference with anything I have...It changes everything."
"How so?"
"For two years I've been plotting revenge...Now I have a chance on rescuing Feron..."
"I sense you and Feron knew each other." John carefully prodded. Maybe then he won't feel like slight jerk being with Tali if Liara had somebody in the meantime.
Liara chuckled. "Well you can say that...He was double dealing with everybody around...betraying everybody for the highest bidder...But in the end he saved me. He was...special." Blush flashed through Liara's face. John was sure of it. So they're even.
"I'll be going home, Shepard. Drop by in few hours, I'll tell you more about the plan." Liara stood from her desk.
John said his goodbyes and went back to the Normandy. He felt tensed at the thought of another tough mission, but relieved that some personnal things are in better state than he thought.
/.../
John had to very carefully and in full detail explain to Tali what he was doing alone in Liara's office. He thought she spied on him but turns out, quarian girl simply connected the dots about Illium and Miranda speaking of some intel she gave to him.
Fortunately Tali was clingy but patient enough to listen. Once she heard the part about Feron and John's theory about him she exhaled and sounded relieved.
"You're still a bosh'tet for going in a place like this alone! And not telling me!"
"I did told you in the mess hall. You were so enamoured with Kasumi playing kitten that you didn't heard."
"Oh...You did? Really? Kheelah..." Tali blushed. John could sware she looked like a puppy after being spanked for pissing on the floor.
"It's okay Tals. Besides, I'm taking you with me in an hour to meet Liara. She wanted me to come to her apartment. Even if you are jealous, which is fine by me 'cause it's cute, then you'll be there all the time."
"Um...Okay, John." Tali nodded. "Only us?"
"I've been thinking of Max and Samara too. This won't be another date with us, sorry. We're all business there."
"Honestly, even better." Machinist lightly chuckled.
/.../
John exited skycar with his crew and walked up to the adress Liara sent him. A police line was established, and cops roaming around spacious apartment.
"This area is sealed off." Asari officer spoke to Shepard.
"Sealed off? Why?"
"Someone was gunning down your friend...Commander Shepard." A purplish asari in expensive, azure armor walked up to John.
"Your people are dismissed, Officer." She spoke to the cop. "Now." she pressed. Officer only shaken her head then motioned on her men to leave the apartment.
"Tela Vasir. Special Tactics and Recon." Asari introduced herself.
"Another Spectre? They're cloning you guys?" Max scoffed.
"I'm glad you're back Shepard. Not enough people are doing good work these days." Vasir spoke friendly. John noticed her cold eyes. Liar.
"So I guess you had some business with your friend here? Liara T'Soni?" she inquired.
"Yes. I was to discuss some intel." John trusted people, not badges. And Vasir stank despite being Spectre. If she really was one.
"Well, then you were lucky. About twenty five minutes ago somebody took a shot at T'Soni. Notice the bullet holes" she pointed at panoramic window.
Max walked up to it. "Hyper velocity rounds, small caliber. Armor-piercing. Three shots in line. Burst fire. Incisor Rifle."
"Very good." Tela nodded.
"Very good and very expensive...Not many can afford for this rifle. Even less can afford for someone using this gun. It requires skills to not miss with it. Specially on long distance." Max finished.
"You are correct. Still, T'Soni must've had a barrier up. There's no blood, no body, apratment is trashed. But more likely by her when she fled, than by someone else." Vasir commented.
"I'll look around, I knew her, perhaps I'll find some clue." John hoped Vasir would get the message and disappear. She didn't.
John started looking around while Tali taken over scanning for hidden computers, Max played ballistics and Samara contemplated whole scene, apparently working theories in her mind.
"That's...back plate of my armor." John spoke staring at glass case.
"I heard you were close once...She kept a souvenir?" Vasir quipped. John stifled a groan. And hoped Tali didn't heard.
John saw a diploma hanged on a wall, he approached it but the lettering was Asari. Translator worked only on sounds, not on letters.
"A doctorate degree from Serrice University of Thessia. Archeology. Interesting." Vasir spoke standing behind him. John felt that she was watching his every move.
"John, look! Ilos!" Tali pointed at large painting on the wall. John glanced at it. Yes, the style of ruins was unmistakeable. Ah, memories...When he was a hero...No wait, he stole the Normandy, belayed Council and flipped a bird to Udina. Not so different than now, only that now he has Max with him. And Tali in his heart.
Shepard chuckled and went upstairs. He saw a huge bed, and a nightstand there. A framed picture picked his interest. A picture of SR-1.
"Sentimental girl..." John muttered and picked up the frame. At this, picture changed into a prothean dig side on Therum. He remembered that place so good...
"The picture must've been encoded to you. A hint no doubt." Vasir walked up. "She has some prothean relics here...Maybe she hidden some back ups in them?"
John fought urge to ask Max for little diversion, maybe some itching compound inside Vasir's suit?
He smirked and glanced around the room. He approached one the artifacts in glass cases, an obelisk with symbols on it.
"Must we worth a fortune...Why she hoards it up? There is no such thing as too much money..." Vasir mused. She was too enticed with herself to catch a glance that Max made on her. Jester smelled trouble.
John leaned on the glass trying to collect his mind. At this he heard a click and hidden compartment opened in the base of the case, a shuffle with small disk inside.
"Memory disk! So she did left you something. Let's try it on the computer." Tela spoke.
John had bad feelings about it but he only nodded and played the recording while team gathered around him.
"Sekat, what've you got?" Liara spoke.
"I can narrow it down to cluster...maybe even system. Price was high for this and still you're willing to raise that kind of trouble?" other voice answered. Sekat.
"Yes I will. When can you give me that data?"
"Very soon. Come to my office. Baria Frontiers, Dracon Trade Center."
"So she did found it..." John muttered.
"What?" Vasir got very interested.
"That intel, she was piecing together something...for me." Shepard didn't trusted Vasir. despite her being a Spectre. Saren was a Spectre too.
"Well one way or another, she's playing dangerous game. But we have lead wher she might be. I'll give you a lift. We need to find her." Vasir spoke.
/.../
They landed outside Dracon Centre. Walking up to the doors, John saw a neon covering three floors, stating Baria Frontiers.
These floors just exploded. Shockwave toppled whole team. John felt shellshocked and groggily stood up. Swaying on his feet he glanced around. Fire, dead bodies, screams of wounded, glass and concrete everywhere. He heard some voice, saying something.
"John! You alright?" Tali shakened him again. Everything jumped back to normal.
"Yeah...Yeah I'm fine Tals."
"Someone just taken out three floors! All to get T'Soni dead!" Tela yelled. "I'll take the skycar and secure top of the building!"
"Okay, We'll go from here." He motioned at the team.
/.../
Team walked into demolished lobby. Elevators were down, and no alarm ringing.
"No alarms, power, that's not average bombing." Tali commented.
"That Spectre, Vasir, hadn't stated her business with Liara yet" Samara piped in. "It's suspicious"
"You don't say?" Jester pulled up his omni-tool. "The ballistics didn't matched. Sniper used shredder rounds. And I said armor-piercing, she confirmed. When said how hard it is to use Incisor and you have to be really good she almost pissed herself with pride. That damn thing is VI assisted... Beside that, have you checked her gear and I don't mean front plate?"
John shooked his head.
"Asari shotgun, custom made, utilizing biotic infused slugs. And an Incisor rifle. Once I said that, she kept her back hidden from me so I won't notice the gun."
"Coincidence?" John gritted his teeth.
"You better hope so. I'll set my gun for disruptor mode but this won't break biotic barrier that easy." Max fiddled with his gun and gripped it harder.
"We better hurry and find Liara, then we''ll see who's who."
/.../
As the squad entered first floor they saw a lot of bodies.
"Explosion blast..." Samara spoke then picked up something from the floor. "That's familiar..."
"Smoke grenade. Terminus origin. Eclipse uses them sometimes." Jester took it in his hand and examined. "Unless they had a wild party here, we have troubles with military grade hardware."
"This body has bullet wounds..." John examined one of corpses. "Hired guns, good ones."
"Just keeps getting better."
Tali was reaching for a few tubes connected to a datapad when Max screamed. "DON'T TOUCH THAT!" he ran up, swatting her hand off.
"IED. Big one. Unarmed..." He let out a sigh of relief "Careful next time Tali, we'd all be splattered on the walls." He leaned down and examined the bomb. "Hmmm...Crude but effective, quick work. It was set up but some sloppy hand connected it wrong. You do that when you have to work fast. Lightning fast."
"What do you mean?"
"Like when you have around fifty minutes on the clock to enter, murder everybody and set the bombs, then disappear. Because that was how long we were riding from Liara's apartment to here." Max scowled.
"You're saying that Vasir..."
"You're the saying type. I'm sure she has some dirty business here. She's a good killer, very confident in her acting skills, but she honestly sucks at anything else than murder." Max picked up his rifle.
"Be ready for anything. Everybody beside Liara can be an enemy." John warned them hoping Max was right.
/.../
They entered Baria frontiers office. Sprinklers were working so that meant close quarters combat, in pouring rain and on the time pressure. Peachy.
"Contact!" Max stated and started shooting at two mercenaries in grey armors. John took cover and glanced around, there was half of dozen of them, all identical. A hit squad.
"A bunch of mercs! Standing in puddle..." Max threw a grenade on them. Instead of explosion, John heard a crackle of electricity and screams. He glanced at four mercenaries reeling from electricity.
"Well that was..." Max made a motion of putting glasses on "A shocker." Then laughed loudly firing a burst, killing one mercenary who overcome paralisys.
John ran up to them. One was still alive.
"Who sent you?!" John shooked wounded merc. He only mumbled unitnelligible. Max walked up to him, shoved John to the side and gripped hitman's throat.
"Speak!"
Mercenary coughed and spat two words "Shadow Broker..." Max headbutted him with his face mask and stood up.
"So we're in the clear here." he stated ignoring quizzical looks from rest of the squad. This display of violence was mildly disturbing.
Squad ran towards the office. Tali heard a gunshot right before doors opened. They saw a dead hitman, Vasir with smoking gun...and salarian with hole in his head.
"Damn it! Few seconds faster and I would stop them!" Vasir spat. "That had to be Sekat."
"Dead end." John commented keeping his gun and eyes close to Vasir.
"Speaking of dead...You see T'Soni's anywhere?" Tela glanced around.
"This body?!" A cold voice spoke from darkest corner. Liara walked out of it wearing light combat gear, and aiming at Vasir with SMG.
"Woah...you had a rough day, so I'l pretend you didn't pointed gun at me...put that thing down!"
"Shepard! This woman shot at me in my home! I back tracked so I saw her breaking into my apartment!" Liara roared.
John gripped his gun harder. So Jester was right. So was his gut.
"So what this was all about Vasir? You're peddling for Shadow Broker?" John spat.
"She took Sekat's data!" Liara taken a step forward but Vasir glowed blue and made window behind her explode.
"Pretty good for a filthy human and pureblood slut!" Vasir yelled and jumped out the window. Following instinct, John launched forward, catching her in the air, they both started falling four stories down below. Vasir managed to punch Shepard in the face. At this moment he regretted not waring full helmet but a visor. They both fell on the skycar parked below, crashing it. Vasir was on top so she got to her senses faster. She probably would finish off Shepard but next to them Liara landed with a thud, supressing fall with biotics.
"Bitch..." Vasir scowled and ran away. Liara followed her. John only watched how two asari run, he couldn't get up.
Three sets of boots landed near him with thud. He felt hands lifting him up.
"John, you okay?" Tali asked.
"H-How?" He mumbled shaking cobwebs from his vision. Max only chuckled and pointed at rope hanging from the building.
"Name one thing you gonna need that stupid rope for..." he mocked John's words about him carrying it around.
"You've seen that in some movie huh?" John regained fully.
" 'The Eiger Sanction' with Clint Eastwood...And it worked like a charm!" Max laughed nervously. He hated when somebody found out about his inspirations. He picked up John's Mattock from the ground. "Looks undamaged." he said slamming it into Shepard's hands.
"We have to go, Liara is chasing Vasir...and we have company." Samara kept her zen voice despite everything.
Another unit of hitman's entered the plaza they were in. Twenty seconds, three bombs and one heat sink later, Shepard was running like all hell to catch up with Liara and Vasir.
He found them on the parking lot. Vasir was pinning Liara down with fire, but noticing Shepard she only glowed her biotics and jumped off the ledge. Right into skycar that was waiting for her there.
"Damn it! We need to go after her!" Liara yelled.
"Then get in!" Max pointed at functioning skycar he just hacked. He jumped behind steering controls. "Hang on tight. We'll drive it like we stole it!" He laughed and started flooring.
"Tali, Liara, get me coordiantes on Vasir's skycar!" Max yelled. John was astounded at these brief moments where Max turned into bossy leader. He was good at it.
"Got it!" Both women shouted. On HUD of skycar, one of of vehicles got flagged as target. Max rerouted something and vechicle flew even faster.
"Hang tight!" Max announced and started diving between traffic, Vasir was doing her best to loose them, but Max turned out to be as good skycar driver as with Hammerhead.
"I'm not letting her escape with that data!" Liara barked clenching her hands.
"Would be easier if you would clench that hand somwhere else darling!" Max spoke through gritted teeth. Liara looked down at her hand and immediately took her away.
"Goddess!"
"I would turn into one if you wouldn't stop squeezing!" Max exhaled and cut through traffic again, tailing Vasir's car. She flew into a tunnel. And caused an accident. Big one.
"Careful!" Liara and Shepard yelled but Max only spun the skycar making a corkscrew manouver avoiding any wreckage.
"You spin me right round baby, right round!"
"You are enjoying this aren't you?!" Liara glanced at Max. Shepard was crazy in a good way but this man was just insane and high on adrenaline. She'll have to ask him who the hell is this.
"Too bad 'Sumi can see this!" He only yelled in response smiling. "Hope one of you monkeys are recording this!"
Once they levelled with Vasir's car, she attacked them, trying to push into other cars.
"Woah! Bad girl!" Max responded and hit her skycar in similar manner. She hit back again.
"Oooh hell no! You're getting spanked big time!" Max engaged thrusters in overclock and hit Vasir's car hard enough to get her into crash course with a sky...truck. Spectre's vechicle bounced from it and crashed down into nearby loft with a huge balcony.
Max landed there quickly but Tela was gone. Screams coming from inside meant she's going through.
/.../
As the team ran into the building, they crossed corridors with many rooms. One of them had blasted open doors. As team followed they saw panicked naked asari who was mumbling to herself.
"Goddess please let me live. I will do mantras every week. I'll give to charity. I'll go back to Citadel and stop shaking my ass I swear..."
Max bursted into laughter not slowing down as they passed through. "Maybe some good will come out of it? Besides anatomy lesson?"
"Fond of blue curves? Something Kasumi should know?" John quipped, then feeling stupid being in company of his asari ex girlfriend, and quarian current one, both armed and cranky. Not to mention Samara...and her curves. Now John recalled how Ken Donnely got scolded by Gabby for musing out loud is asari bust is growing throughout all life. There might be some truth to that theory...
"Nope, you're the big guy who goes big with characters and assets" Max chuckled breaking through another doors. "I'm enthusiast of more...compartment specimen, or speciwomen,to be more accurate" At this weird compliment both Liara and Tali felt little heat on their faces.
Tali couldn't but laugh. Another near death situation and these two discuss what bodied women they like...Then she recalled Liara was with Shepard, and now he's with her. Things got awkward inside her head. Specially since John complemented her...curvature, and she had it more than Liara...
"Okay I gotta ask... What is this place? I mean, hotel rooms, naked asari all the way..." John needed to come clean before brain will catch up with mouth.
"Azure...hotel with an 'edge'...As 'Azure' is a slang regarding certain part of asari body in some areas of Illium." Liara responded slightly disconnected, still digesting madman's weird compliment about her body. It did felt nice, though awkward, regarding whole situation.
"Where?" Max asked. He was always happy to learn new things.
"Lower reaches. Near the bottom." Liara replied.
"I mean where on asari body but..." Max felt he pulled to far.
"So did I." at this response Max's eyes went wide behind his mask.
"Let's go before I'll hear enough to need bleach my brain." John motioned as Tali broke the lock on corridor doors.
Squad ran through onto the outer balconies. Samara spotted a blood trail.
"Purple...And here I though all those grape jokes about you were uncalled for..." Max muttered chuckling. John didn't even wanted to know. As they followed the trails, they heard gunshots and screaming.
"Double time!" Shepard ordered.
John saw Vasir, bleeding and in amok, aiming at scared patrons of some party. Befor he could think of something, Liara screamed at her.
"Vasir!"
Spectre turns around and grabs some human woman as a shield. Damn it.
"You have nowhere to run Vasir...Why you did all that? Why doing hits for Shadow Broker?" John tried to get some time and think of something. "Just for money you'll betray the Council?"
"Council doesn't care what we do as long as their stay clean and get their errands done. You want Broker down! He gave me a lot of intel over the years! Good intel! The one that saved many lives! So once he offers me to kill a snooping bitch, I will do it!" She yelled in answer.
"Come on...Why so serious?" Max quipped in a way that told Shepard to keep playing. Jester has a plan...
"So what? You don't care what I'm doing out there? If Shadow Broker would'n be stopped, he would sold me to the Collectors!"
"Like I care about you a filthy human! You all animals! Shouldn't be allowed to live!" Vasir spat squeezing her meatshield harder. A shot rang, hitting her in the face. A concussive round toppled both Spectre and her hostage to the ground, with Vasir being seriously groggy due to blood loss from her injury.
Liara ran up and kicked her in the face. Then she quickly searched her pockets for memory disc.
"Got the disc!" she stated taking a step back from Tela, taking her pistol away. Shotgun and Sniper rifle must've been lost during crash.
"Ugh...you won't defeat Shadow Broker...He's been here for decades...Nothing can stop him" She tried to get up, spitting blood.
Max walked up to her taking his hood off. "As you can see...humans won this round. You should know..." He said pulling little device from his pocket. "To never bet against Shepard." he stuck the device behind her collar.
"Let's go." He motioned. John realized what will happen and hurried everybody out. Once they were behind the corner, a muffled explosion rang.
"Find peace in the embrace of the Goddess..." Max stated repeating Samara's line. Everybody glanced at him, specially Justicar.
"I hope asari have some kind of hell for traitors like her..." he only said putting his hood back on.
"Shepard! I have the exact location of Broker's base...It'll be few hours at least before he'll know that Vasir failed...We need to get there!" Liara almost grabbed Shepard. "Otherwise he will kill Feron!"
"Alright...not like we were on a shore leave..." John replied and praised his gut for rounding up everybody before he went to Liara...