Memories: The two krogans, the mercenaries and a quarian, 2166

"Sam, now that Benny is working with his father again, we are alone again?" It was too soon for the drink start to make Matt sad, but he couldn't handle much liquor.

"What you mean alone, we are fine doing missions on our own."

"But we can use the help of a third partner, you saw how Benny make the job of killing people a lot easy." He was right, having someone else is helpful.

"A three people squad is good, but Benny isn't here anymore, his father called and he went."

"Yeah, I just wonder if we will ever find other person who own his life to us." He mention that as if someone owning his life to us wasn't important.

"We work mostly without drawing attention, maybe it's better if there are just us two."

"Maybe, I will just forget about Benny then." I could understand his feelings, having a third partner to rely while on battle was fine.

I don't even had time to talk again, when I heard a loud voice right behind me. I understood part of it. Aparently, there were two krogan looking for a quarian, and they have found her, I turned my head to see and the first krogan was using a white armor, brand new, the other had a black armor, used, with a lot of bullet marks. The one with the black armor was holding the quarian, she said:

"Let me go!" The krogan with the white armor said to his partner:

"Are you sure that's her Grovak?" Grovak answered angry:

"Yes, that's her Paxx, can't you see?"

"Not with this suit of hers, they all look the same to me." Grovak was getting angrier.

"I can tell the difference, you are too young. Can't even tell the difference between a pyjak and a varren in a hunt." Grovak was from Tuchanka, one of the few places you can find a varren and a pyjak for hunting.

"I never killed a wild varren, just the ones on the pit." Paxx looked really young, if you compare him with if you can distinguish age in krogans.

"Forget it, let just take the quarian outside and kill her." They were mercenaries, and they were going to kill her if I didn't do something.

I drank the rest of my whisky and I was feeling very corageous. Obviously, the drinks I had was making me feel that way, and, seeing how these krogan was discussing killing pyjaks, I thought everything was going to be resolved if I just talk to them, how I was wrong:

"Hey you two, let the quarian go." It sounded like a threat. Grovak just said to me:

"You better sit down human, this is our business." He was serious. It was better for me to go away, but I wasn't in total control of my mouth, so I said without thinking:

"I think it's better for you to leave her alone, she did nothing to you." This time who responded was her:

"You better go now, I don't want anyone dead because of me." Grovak was losting his patience, and said loud:

"You shut up, and you human if you say something I will hurt you bad." Paxx was quiet, but this time was he that break the silence.

"Grovak, let it go, we will kill her outside." Against my better judgement I answered.

"No one will kill her." It was time to finish my heroic line before everything went from bad to worse.

Grovak let the quarian go, I just had time to see her running to the door when I suddenly felt two hands grabbing my chest. I was being held over Grovak's head when he tossed me out the air. I fell behing the bar, breaking bottles of every liquor of the galaxy. I hitted my head and was hearing a buzz. I was still dizzy when I got up and saw Grovak taking me again and throwing me in the open floor. This time the adrenaline sober me up, and I turned around in time to see Paxx coming to my direction.

I was ready to fight and kicked Paxx in the stomach, or what the krogan had for a stomach. While Paxx was holding his belly I start to throw punches in his face. I heard somemone screaming and turned around again, Grovak hitted my face, than my stomach, but when he was going to hit my face again I dodged. The mad krogan was trying to hit me but I continued escaping his punches. I was getting close to thewall, if I got there, Grovak was going to hit me until I die, so I had to react.

Grovak was trying to hit me, so every time he missed was my turn to attack. It was dodge and hit for me, but the krogan don't quit a fight. I was getting tired, while he wasn't showing signs of being hurt. I caught something with my peripheral vision, movement from Paxx. I heard something and Grovak stopped punching me, he turned around and yelled:

"No, he is my pray."

Paxx was holding a pistol but hesited to shoot. So I took my old Predator from the time on the Alliance and aimed at Paxx. I was still dizzy, because the bullet hitted Paxx's right arm, making him drop his pistol. Suddenly Grovak hitted my pistol with a Claymore, leaving me unarmed. But he didn't shot me, he was going to kill me with the knife attached in his shotgun. Luckly I realized that and jumped to the side when he tried to attack me. The knife got stuck in the wall so I kicked the shotgun, breaking the knife and throwing the shotgun away.

Grovak was faster than me, he was choking me. I kicked between his legs, but he didn't let me go, instead he just throw me to the ground and was holding my neck with both hands. I was dying, but I saw a knife in my left side, the knife from Grovak's shotgun. I took the knife and stucked it in the frontal plate of his head. I ripped the plate and stuck the knife in his brain.

He was dead, so I got his body to the side and get up. Paxx was holding his right arm, he was bleeding and walking away from me. I took my Predator from the ground and Paxx said:

"You killed him, how you did it?"

"If you really want to know I can do it again." He began walking away again.

"No, I don`t want to die today." This time he was running to the door.

So I remembered, Matt wasn't in the bar and the quarian was somewhere outside. So I headead out and heard shooting in a alley nearby. This time I was holding the "Shiny" and was going near the sound of the firefight.

I saw what appeared to be Eclipse mercenaries shooting in the end of the alley. I was behind them, so I shot the closest person a few times. One of the mercs turned around, so I overloaded his shields and shot him too. I found some cover and the Eclipse mercs began to shoot me. I heard a explosion noise, sounded like a Cryo tech power, so I got out from the cover and saw three frozen mercenaries. I used Incinerate and since they were frozen, the energy from the two powers created a explosion, destroying the other two mercs.

I went where Matias and the quarian was, still holding my rifle. But it looked that they weren't hurt, so I holstered my weapon and asked Matt:

"Where were you while I was fighting two krogans alone?" This time I got angry.

"Sorry Sam, I was following Faesa." So that was her name.

"Who are you and why the Eclipse is after you?" She answered, looking guilty.

"I am Feasa'Saar nar Jisal, I tried to steal technology from a salarian named Asirn Caess, but he contracted the Eclipse to kill me, he will do it again if we don't do something." I asked her.

"We? We just saved your life." Matt said right when I ended my phrase:

"Samuel, the guy have money. Faesa said that if we kill him we can have what he have in his hideout." It was tempting but not enough.

"Maybe, but what is your stake in this Faesa?"

"I just want his research on immune system." If the guy was salarian why he was studying the quarians?

"Is he a scientist?" Faesa hesited, but responded.

"He killed a lot of people trying to boost the immune system." That was enough to make me go after him.

"So, where is he?" I couldn't let him kill people, even if they are subjects of a research.

"He is running a lab on Omega."