It's been over a month now and we still haven't gotten assigned a mission to perform, so we have decided to simply travel to Omega and do a bit of recon. This is also our commander's way of figuring out the jobs we are best suited for and seeing what we can do. Currently the commander has Tib and Maxus out on the field to balance each other out and see how they mix, so for the moment I'm just working on my own projects which is currently my multi-purpose drone I so dearly call Flint. I'm focused on modifying and fine tuning his settings making sure he can produce what I need him to when I suddenly get approached from behind.
"Hey what are you working on there." I turn around in my seat to see Destia staring down at me working on my omni-tool as I accidently push a button and Flint spazzes and sparks. "Shit!shit!" I panic for a moment before fixing it taking a deep breath before recalling him and stopping my work, I then finally respond to her. "I was working on Flint, I started work on him once I got assigned here and I almost have him finished, the only thing I need to finish is the shield for the drone." Destia gives me a confused look raising a brow causing me to chuckle since confused Turians are a hilarious sight. "I have only about three things I designed for him, a fast firing gun, a targeted overload and the trickiest thing being the shield I'm attempting to have him create which would him project a shield in front of whatever I order him to." She nods and pulls a chair next to me. "Want some help? I actually know a bit about tech armor and shields, in fact I even made a bit of tech armor for myself to boost my defense." "HELL YES." I say extremely excited as she tells me that she can help since I had been struggling for a while with this stupid shield function for a while.
For the next few hours before Polnia and the others get back we spend time working on Flint's shield, we not only got a rough finish on it but she also taught me more about shields. As I look at the time, I see that many hours have passed and I get a message from Polnia saying that their little team test and training has wrapped up and they should be back in the next two hours. So, we decide to relax for a bit and chat with each other. "So, Destia what got you interested in tech anyway?" She leans forward in the chair before speaking. "It's mainly because of my father, he was an engineer and spent a lot of time with ships though that didn't stop him from spending days after days of time working on ways to improve his tech. He would take me to the garage portion of our home and let me stay and sometimes help on whatever he was working on, whether it be armor, vehicles or omni-tool weapons like a cyro blast, what about you Velius?" I smirk seeing her speak so happily about her father and tech since over the past month she always seemed very... secluded.
"Well I always just had an interest in tech due to the fact I feel like there's so much we still haven't explored with what we have." She nods before speaking again. "I like that way of thinking leaves a lot of room for the future." I give a smile as we continue to get to know each other and share our experiences.
I finally get an alert from the ship's VI telling us that Polnia has returned with the others. "It's a shame we have to end this early but let's go ahead and greet the returning party." She agrees as we walk to the door that is already closing behind them as Polnia orders the two to get some rest now. "Hello ma'am how was the training?" I say curious of how it went. "It went very well and I think I got a good read on everyone by now since I've already taken you and Quirinus out into the field, so you should expect an actual mission to come in any time soon, but for now you're allowed to do as you like for now just don't injure yourself or each other." As she says this, I can see just how tired she looks, eyes dim with metaphorical bags under her eyes. "Yes ma'am!" Everyone responds before going off to do their own thing.
Three months later
It seems we finally got our first mission. "Alright everyone, I just got an assignment for us that's detailing we have a bit of a hijacking situation on a ship. We're currently traveling to the coordinates given, our enemies seem to be Batarian pirates and true to form they seem to be seeking to take the people on board as slaves to sell." I shake my head taking a deep breath as I glance around everyone still laser focused on what we will do. "When we arrive and board the ship, I want us to move quick and efficiently along with this I'm taking only two others with me due to the small size of the ship and areas inside. Ursiril, Vakarian, you're coming with me so get suited up and get prepared, we'll be arriving in approximately 30 minutes." I nod and Tib gives me a thumbs up as Polnia gives her attention to Maxus and Destia. "Now I don't know what's going to happen so I want you two suited up and ready for any order I might call and give to you, I want everyone ready for the worst! Now you're all dismissed get moving!"
Tib and I get moving to our lockers and I pull out the armor I was assigned. "Spirits I've always hated this armor, so damn bulky and it never sits right." I can hear Tib chuckling as I rant to myself, sometimes I want to smash that cheeky bugger's face into the ground."
By the time were done getting prepared I look at what I have to make sure everything's on. Full eye visor like Vetra's? Done, my two omni-tools online and fully function? Done, I then check for my weapons, my Katana shotgun and Avengers rifle that I modified to increase its punch though I had to sacrifice it's cooling for it so it takes a bit longer to cool down than normal.
"TIB!" I yell out to him since we are about to arrive and I have no idea where the hell he is. Tib sprints down the hallway out of nowhere startling me. He stands in his black and green striped armor that he's proud of. "What were you doing?" He pauses and catches his breath from the sprint. "I realized I forgot my little lucky charm." He holds up a tiny broken off talon that I recognize quickly. "Can't just leave my father behind, now can I?"
We finally arrive at the ship as the pilot quickly turns and gets us in a position to board, Tib and I simply wait for our orders from Polnia taking a deep breath and preparing for the fight that's to come. Polnia finally walks over to us as I see she's outfitted in black armor with her helmet at her side. "Alright get ready you two, cause one I give the order I'm going to need you to haul it on board since it's not unlikely that we'll have an immediate ambush once we board." I raise a hand up as I call out Flint my trusty little guy modified to have a smaller form in the shape of a bird, something I designed so he wouldn't be as noticeable. "I can use Flint to shield us as we enter the ship ma'am, however I'll have to call him back after for a moment since it takes a lot of power from him, he'll have to recharge for a minute but we'll have a buffed up shield as we go straight into a death trap." She says nothing and simply nods for me to use this plan. "Your time to shine little buddy."
It's finally time as Polnia motions for us to move we get to the door and quickly run in as it opens, as we get into the hijacked ship, we see that surprisingly there's no ambush and no enemies, there's... nothing. "Well this is a welcoming atmosphere." Tib makes a small comment and I can't blame him the scenario is unnerving. Polnia leads the way as we search the ship, keeping our abilities and guns ready for any enemy to appear.
As we search the ship I can about the possibility that the pirates that boarded the ship might be extremely small in number. Polnia suddenly raises her hand for us to stop as she peeks around the corner. "Alright it seems like they decided to hold down, there're holed up the command room and cockpit, Ursiril go around and flank from the second entrance Vakarian and I will attack from this entrance, notify me once you get to the second entrance." Tib nods before running off and going around to the other side.
Polnia finally gets notified as she starts a timer on my visor and Tib's Hud, counting down, five, four, three, two, one! We blast in and rush inside quickly dispatching of the only enemy inside. "Something is wrong here." I say as I see the one killed Batarian on the ground two shots in the chest and one to the head, I have to take a deep breath as I see him, still struggling with my mind's push against me whenever it comes to killing and fighting but defiantly better.
As we look around Polnia and Tib get to work on freeing the captured people which consist of mainly Salarians and Humans. My brain is working on overdrive as I look around and I can see the other two still tense as well, I mean what the hell is going on, we would ask the crew of the ship but when we got here everyone was unconscious and, the world suddenly shifts becoming blurry and disorientating my body feels like it will collapse into itself as I suddenly feel a hard hit to the head looking at Flint who just banged against me. Shaking my head as I see Tib passed out and Polnia completely zoned out seeming like she isn't even here, I quickly put my breathing mask on as I get a breath of fresh air quickly searching the room as I rush over to Polnia grabbing her helmet as I put it on her head letting her catch her breath as I see multiple flickers in the air.
"Shit!" I quickly work my omni-tool focusing a mass overload into the room shorting out and disrupting all enemy equipment, by the time I see four Batarians get knocked out of their cloak Polnia recovers. Two of the Batarians are stuck in shock due to their equipment backfiring and doing damage to them. I pull out my shotgun as Polnia rushes forward and pulls out a sword which from the look of it I can only assume is a Talon and stabs into one of the non-stunned Batarians as I aim at the other one and take him down with a single shot due to the lack of shields. As the other two recover I attempt to take one of them down as he rushes towards me knocking my shotgun blast away just in time before the shot let off. We start our small brawl; my armor manages to do its job and block a knife stab from him but fails on the second try as he finds an opening in my side causing me to grit my teeth as I grab his shoulders and lock him in place before kicking out his feet from under him quickly following him to the ground and slamming my fist into his face as I feel a crack from the hit wasting no time as I pull out my own small combat knife and slam it into his neck sealing his fate as it drives through. He struggles and attempts to move as I get off him but to no avail. I look to my left panting as I see Polnia already took care of the last guy.
I retrieve my knife from the now corpse and focus on getting everyone out of here, putting a hand to my side as I feel the knife is still thankfully in my side as I help Polnia grab Tib and haul him to the ship. "Sulilin help me get all the crew members off the ship, Vakarian go to Destia and have her check the wound. "I completely forgot that you're our doctor on this ship." I carefully take my armor off, avoiding the knife as I lay down on one of the beds in what amounts to a shirt and pants as I see Destia rush over and takes a look at the wound, already gathered the necessary materials. "Ow! Spirits couldn't you have been gentler with it?" I say as she puts down the knife, she just tugged out of me. "Well it's out now and it didn't hit anything important so I believe that's what matters isn't it? Though it seems like these guys poisoned their knifes. Luckily it seems weak" I grumble as she gets to work doing normal stuff simply disinfecting it and injecting the wound with something, I'm assuming will take care of the poison and then putting Medi-gel over the wound. "There good as new, should be healed up in a few days, but I'm going to have to ask for you to stay for at least an hour since I have to make sure the antidote, I cooked up worked.
"Thanks, I'll admit I'm almost completely useless when it comes to first aid. Most I can do is put some Medi-gel on someone and hope for the best." I'm exaggerating a little bit; I did get forced into taking basic first aid in my days as a marine but some of it is outdated now. "Why did you go down the whole medicine route in the first place? Most Turians know would rather fight or solve crimes." I sense a small grin at the question as I look at her. "Well I'm no pacifist but I always found more enjoyment in things like tech and healing and I know that even without being in service there are places that I can use my knowledge and places I can go to help communities." I didn't expect that, many Turians seem like they want to get into the action and serve so much almost comparable to Krogans, though I suppose I forget that not every Turian follows the norm. "That's a great goal Destia, hope you get to where you want to be in time." I say as I see her body relax, not even noticing that it was tense before.
Hours later Polnia calls us into a meeting. "Alright lets quickly go over what happen in there." She gives a brief rundown up to the point that we took all of them out. "Now these pirates were more skilled and prepared than average, their equipment was nothing to scoff at, they were dressed in white armor and helmets." Tib stands up and speaks up. "I think I know who these guys are, my mother actually told me about these guys they call themselves The White Death. Not only is their armor just like the ones I was told of, but they also fit the memo in terms of how they kill their enemies." Tib continues to explain as he takes in a breath. "They despise all species and mainly Turians, there aren't a lot of them and that's likely didn't know about them ma'am."
The meeting doesn't expand much more for us, Polnia simply dismisses us and keeps Tib to get more information. But The White Death, must be something unique or something taken care of since it never showed up in the games, we got lucky today and I can tell even if we didn't get effected by the gas that was in the air they probably were ready to adapt, I'm just glad I caught them off guard with the overload which is likely what saves our asses. All I know is that we need something that will prevent us from getting caught off guard like that again.
It's finally time for us to rest as our daily cycle comes to an end, I lay down comfy in my bed though wincing at the healing wound while I see Tib walk over to his, as his body is slumped and his feet drag across the floor. "Tib, what's the matter?" He sits down on his bed and lets out a sigh, his sub-harmonics sounding distressed. "These White Death guys, they aren't just another enemy Vel, this group is horrible, I've seen what they do in a lot of cases, they don't capture and sell off slaves, they simply kill and kill, no survivors. I already can tell what's he saying, he must have had a run-in with them before boot camp and nearly died as I can imagine. "I can only thank my mother for getting me off that ship as fast as she did, thanks to her we both escaped that horror." After he says that we both just take a moment to gather our thoughts as we lay back and both understanding this isn't going to be the last we see of them.