Shepard slammed against the rock of the canyon and if it wasn't for the biotic barrier shielding him, the impact would have certainly killed him. As it was, the Vanguard only found himself sore, as well as being embed a foot within the stone. The rocks surrounding his impromptu crater began to crumble away and with a grunt, the Vanguard once again willed himself towards his opponent.
As he did, he felt his combatants bionics press against his own and before he could halt the charge and or redirect his momentum, found himself once again soaring through the air to slam - this time upside down - against the stone of the far side of the Canyon.
Shepard grunted and stopped himself from falling on his head with an outstretched hand. Rolling forward using his planted arm as an anchor, the Vanguard seized a rock knocked loose by his impact. As the commander rose he spun and sent the projectile flying through the air, putting all of his momentum and a blast of biotic energy behind the archaic missile.
His combatant's own biotic barrier absorbed the impact and turned the rock into a shower of shards and dust. As the dust settled around her, Shepard's opponent could sense his approach behind the visual barrier, and directed her biotics to once again turn the commander's momentum against him to send him flying. This time, however, Shepard did not bring himself nearby for a melee attack, and as she felt the biotic charge abrubtley halt, Shepard's opponent's eyes widened as a blast of biotic energy ripped through her own and sent her flying through the air.
Before she could begin to control her flight, the Commander's biotics once again lashed out at her, this time pulling her back towards him so suddenly that it was almost as if a hand possessed of impossible strength had plucked her from the sky. As she flew, Shepard's opponent twisted her body while she intertwined her own biotics into the Commander's, increasing the speed of her approach. Shepard had sense her influence on his pull, but before the Vanguard could react, his combatant was already within striking distance, completing her spin and sending an armored foot slamming into the side of his head. Behind the strike was the combined power of her momentum, as well as a healthy degree of biotic energy.
Its a good thing I'm not holding back. Shepard mused, careening through the air to slam - face first - against a natural pillar of stone.
The pillar began to fall, and Shepard's opponent's blue eyes widened in alarm and apprehension. She started forward, but froze as the falling pillar began to move awkwardly. Her already wide eyes grew wider still as blue energy began to flicker around the mass of rock and it, inexplicably, pointed directly at her. The dust around Shepard's impact site cleared, and the Asari saw the commander holding the stone pillar above his head as if it were a tithe of the weight it actually was. Obviously it was not simply his muscles keeping the weight aloft, that would be impossible, but the Asari's heart raced at the spectacle of sheer power that was Shepard at this moment.
An instant later she realized the pillar was moving again. Shepard had thrown it at her. "Really..." the Asari muttered under her breath.
A burst of her own biotics kept the pillar from smashing her into the ground, and its impact turned the dry shale of the canyon floor into a billowing cloud of dust and debris.
Liara collected herself, dropping into a ready stance and relying more on her biotic awareness and her hearing than her sight to detect any approach. In the distance she heard a burst of sound and turned toward it, pushing more of her power into her barrier as she did.
For seconds there was only silence, and then instead of a missile flying towards her, Shepard himself appeared, flying out of the dust above her with an almost gleeful roar. Instead of using his biotics to charge into the cloud, apparently the Commander had bodily hurled himself into the air. The image of Shepard soaring through the air, arms outstretched with complete abandon, was one Liara would not soon forget, and she felt herself smiling even as she enveloped the Commander in her biotics and sent him smashing against and into the ground. Shepard's impact sounded with a hearty thud and his ferocious roar ended abruptly with a muted grunt.
Moments passed in silence, Liara standing ready above Shepard's prone form.
Shepard's chest piece began to shake, and Liara realized that the man was laughing - muted and muffled. Whether it was the sheer ludicrousness of his own maneuver or the abrupt landing imposed by Liara, the Commander was laughing at the situation, harder than she had ever seen him laugh before. She felt herself smiling after a moment, a moment later giggling, then sitting beside Shepard and rocking his body with one hand as her own laughter burst from her lips.
Shepard's chest piece stopped moving and his extremities began to shift slightly. "I can't get up," the Commander's muffled voice stated plaintively, drawing a fresh peal of laughter from the Asari beside him.
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