Memories: Unsettling methods

The preparations for the attack on Omega took three days. Faesa came with the idea to mask our approach. The solution: she and I incorporated Matt's cloaking device to my ship. I was surprised with her knowledge of mechanics. While I installed the device on the ship, she was capable of using the max capacity of the device. So, my ship could now be invisible for fifteen minutes. We were getting close to Omega, when Matt asked:

"So, remember me why we have to be cloaked to get there." Faesa answered first.

"Because if he see anyone coming he will run away." Matt wasn't satisfied.

"But we can infiltrate by ground." This time I answered.

"No, his thugs will see us. If we enter Omega close to his lab there will be no time for them to react."

"But the cloaking will hold only for fifteen minutes." Sufficient time for the entrance only.

"Sorry Matt, but you will have to be piloting the whole time." Sure he wouldn't like it.

"So today I am only the pilot." It was no good enter without Matt, but there was no other way.

"We will be quick. There will be just Asirn inside." Faesa looked to me and said:

"Asirn and his subjects."

I activated the cloaking close to the entrance. We were going to enter Omega in the lower levels and enter Asirn's lab the same way Faesa did before. The lab had three levels, a basement, and two floors. It was small, and unguarded. Asirn didn't want anyone seeing his work, afraid someone would stole it.

I had my breather on when the door of my ship opened. We entered through an airlock, used to toss the garbage out of that part of Omega. The lab had windows to see out of the station, but no one was going to see my ship now. I was inside with Faesa, Matt had already been gone. I closed the airlock, turned on the lantern of my rifle and was going to take off my brother when Faesa said:

"It's better if you don't do this now, look around." I followed her advice. We were standing in a open grave.

"Are they the failed test subjects?" There were bodies all around.

"Yes, he try to improve the immune system with a genetic treatment, then infect them with diseases to see if it worked." I was walking when I noticed, various species was there.

"Why is he experimenting with every species?"

"I don't know, but the answer is inside his lab."

We entered the basement, it had very little ilumination, but the lanters wasn't necessary anymore. I could see cages, inside them were turians, humans, batarians, salarians and asari. All asking for help. I headed to the console and opened all doors. Faesa turned to me and said:

"I hope you know what you are doing." I didn't know.

"I had to do this, Asirn was going to let them die."

"It was the right thing to do, now we have to find him before he finds out what happened. – We had little time."

"Let's go to the elevator."

The elevator opened in the third floor, we had our weapons at hand. It was Asirn's private lab. When Faesa walked outside the elevator I saw a hand grabbing her. I couldn't react on time, Asirn was holding Faesa, with a pistol in her head. The only thing I could now was aim in the right place and don't kill Faesa. Asirn was the first to talk:

"You again, I knew I had to kill you myself." He was going to kill her. I had to gain time.

"Stop, anyone else have to die." Not a good answer, but Asirn did not killed her.

"You brought help this time, get away or she die." I had to be careful.

"Look, i'm walking away, just let her go." I said the wrong thing.

"You both are trying to steal my research, I will kill you two." I couldn't do nothing, so Faesa said:

"I am just trying to help my people." Asirn was now laughing:

"Do you think I am trying to help someone?"

He was going to shoot Faesa, but she realized it and moved to the side. It was my chance to kill Asirn and I took it. He was down and Faesa was going directly to a console. I got close to Asirn, he really was dead. Faesa was at the console when I got there, she said to me:

"I was wrong, he is not trying to boost anyone's immune system, it only happened because he was trying to create a biological weapon." It took a while for me to understand.

"This was a sympton of the disease he was creating?"

"In the first stage, the virus infect cells responsible for the defense system, making them multiply. But after that, the disease can really act. The cells responsible for the imune system attack the person infected. It infect and kill the brain and heart's cells. It is a auto-immune vírus." This was bad for anyone infected.

"So the ones we let go..."

"We can't save them, there is no cure." They were going to die.

"In the end I saved no one. The mission was for nothing."

"This isn't true, you saved me."

She was approaching to me, the same movement when you try to kiss someone, but I heard a noise coming from the elevator, Eclipse mercenaries had found us. We took cover behind the equipment. I was shooting with my rifle and Faesa with her pistol. The more mercenaries we killed, more were coming from the elevator. We had only one chance of surviving:

"Matt, we need your help." He answered quickly.

"Just tell me what to do."

"Shoot the windows of the lab, we are surrounded." I was already seeing the ship's cannons.

"Get down now!"

Matt was shooting everything. Luckly I still had my breather on and Faesa had her suit. When the shooting finally stopped I ran to the broken window, the door of the ship was already opened and Matt was close, so I and Faesa jumped off Omega. In the first floor there were still some mercenaries left and more lab equipment. I said to Matt:

"Destroy this place."

The research of Asirn Caess was destroyed, but everyone he experimented on was dead, at least we stopped him from killing more. Faesa later told me that he was probably going to sell the biological weapon for money. If we weren't for her mistake trying to steal his research, the body count could be astronomical.

We were back on the Citadel and I got the chance to talk with Faesa. She really wanted to kiss me. So, we began to do missions together. The more I talked to her, more I could understand her. She told about the life in the flotilla, when she was a child. She even told me about the Pilgrimage and how she was looking for a way to help her people.

I trusted her and she trusted me. The ultimate act of her trust was when she took off her suit, risking her health to be with me. We stayed together for five years, I even stole a Carrier for her Pilgrimage. That is why she returned to her fleet.

So, this is how I killed a krogan and saved a quarian in the process, if you believe it is up to you kid.