[IC] Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

[Fallenreaper]

Voira and Raa

Voira crouched down in front of Raa as she suddenly paused mid sentence. "Raa. Raa what's the matter. Talk to u-" That's when the Quarian blurted out that she had been shot. The Asari looked down in surprise. "We have?" Sure enough, there was a bullet hole in her shoulder, and a small stream of blood coming from it. Of course, when you finally notice the injury is when the pain starts. The Asari gritted her teeth, bringing her main hand up to feel out the damage. When she brought it back, smearing her armor with even more blood, she noticed her hand had more blood than was strictly necessary. A brief examination showed that a bullet had gone through there too. Still, there wasn't any time to worry about her own injuries. Raa took precedent.

"It's not that bad." She said dismissively, waving her uninjured hand. "We'll deal with it properly later." She felt around and finally found something that would have to serve as a makeshift bandage. A blanket she had picked up earlier, intending to find its owner or at least someone who could find its owner faster than her before everything had gone to shit. Quickly she tied it into a makeshift bandage around her shoulder, stopping the bleeding as best she was able. "You sure you're fine? Nothing more than bruises?" Voira brought up her omni-tool, taping briefly away at it. "Take our Medi-gel, just in case. No buts. We'll be fine."

Under her helmet, Raa's face white color grew as she watched the purple blood trickle down her protector's arm until it was finally wrapped. When the blood was removed from sight, the spell it seemed to cast evaporated and her head tilted upward to study Voira’s reaction. She noted the asari’s teeth gritting causing Raa to inwardly flinch in guilt. If her protector hadn’t been busy getting her sorry butt out of there then the wound wouldn’t have happened and for a moment, the Quarian wished she never taken this job now. She swallowed the spit collecting in her mouth as she struggled to speak.

Her head shaking rapidly to both verbally and physically making her words clear. "No, really I’m fine. Honestly, but I didn’t mean for you to get hurt. I should’ve done more…”

Raa cancelled the transferring of Omni-gel, having plenty of her own, and started to move on her own. She tried to ignore the subtle pain filling her skin’s surface, the darker bruises unseen, while she started to push herself upward. Carefully rising to her feet and mindful of her guardian's position, Raa managed to get upright without falling back down on her ass. However she failed to hide how much the event had rattled her because her body made minor trembling movements and threatened to make her crumble quickly.

"Other than minor scrapes and bruises naturally. I'm injecting antibodies through your suit into your body just to be safe. Next time, Voira, try to watch how roughly you handle her. Especially because I'm tried of her being manhandled by you and cleaning the mess up!" RK snapped suddenly, butting into the conversation between the pair.

Voira shook her head. "There was nothing you could have done. Some times it just happens in gunfights." She watched the Quarian with a worried look, easily seeing how rattled Raa was. She placed a gentle, not shot, hand on her ward's shoulder. "Sit down Raa. We'll be safe in here for a while yet, and you need to gather your strength. It'll be fine. We can rest, you can recover. Sit down. " She spoke cajolingly and softly.

She merely shrugged at RK's words. "Bullets were flying, and they were flying in her direction. Raa is no soldier, and she had froze," She smiled gently at Raa to take the sting out of her words, "so we got her moving. I'd rather she was bruised and you were angry than she was shot and we were panicking. Wouldn't you?"

"Correct. I would've siezed control over your firearm and shot the bastard myself if that happened." RK admitted, her words cold and blunt. She casted a brief look over the asari as she shrank her figure down to merely the bust, her expression still displaying a sour look.

Raa again shook her head no. "I'm fine, really."

She tried not to collapse when Voira placed her hand on her shoulder, her body screamed and fought to winch. Looking weak over some bruises were terrible while her friend was shot, still bleeding, felt awful to her. At hearing RK's comment, Raa shot her AI a sharp look only to hear Voira cast it off smoothly. Slightly surprised at the asari, she couldn't help but wonder why she treated the situation so lightly.

"What happened back there?" Raa couldn't help but ask, her eyes looked to Voira for the needed answers. Her body, unknowingly, had slumped back to her seated position giving into what her friend wanted. It took a moment to realize her heart had finally stopped beating against her ribs and her lungs had found a steady rhythm to pull in needed air. Shortly acknowledging her mistake, her head lowering and all she wanted to do was curl into a defensive ball, feeling like it was all she could do to make this terrible nightmare go away.

"Why did they do this?" She asked, more to herself then Voira.

Voira hid a smirk at Raa sitting down. She knew the Quarian was beat up and even felt slightly guilty about it. But right now all she cared about that Raa wasn't shot and would recover. She clenched her shot hand experimentally, wincing as she did so. It hurt like hell, but she could use it.

"It's relatively simple as to what actually happened." She said, applying Medi-gel to her hand, and shoulder, now that it looked like there was actual time to do that. "The local security tried to take all the diplomats hostage by sealing us in. Avatar saw one of them trying to do that and then took him out. There was a lot of suspicious activity before hand that made us nervous, so we put a barrier around you and then threw you out when shit hit the fan."

She shrugged at Raa's next question. "We can only guess. Bandits took over? They want independence? Control of the negotiations? Whatever the reason, it has to be something really good. The Council won't be pleased, when they find out." She tilted her head, listening outside. "Hmm. Gunfire has stopped. Probably a good sign."

"I don't know, I recall gun shots usually only stop when everyone's been pacified or dead..."Raa said in a timid tone, her voice muffled through the mask and her partly curled body. She wanted to vanish from this nightmare. Both her and Voira, walking up as if it was all a bad dream but she knew better. The pain was too real and it would've woken her up so it kept her wish from coming true.

RK noticed the shivering increasing and looked to Voira, her eyes gesturing to the damn asari to take are of the problem. Else she would and make the woman suffer later for failure.

The Asari holstered her pistol again not bothering to give a response, be it verbal or non-verbal, to the AI. She hugged Raa, gently so as not to aggravate her bruises. "We're so sorry you have to go through this Raa. We're gonna make it through this, we promise, and then we'll spend a long time doing something relaxing and safe. Like working on a ship. Or smoking a cigar. Perhaps both?" She let go of the Quarian, crouching down to look at her. "We know it hurts and you'd rather just stay here until it all blows over or we wake up. But we can't do that, not if we want to get off this station."

Raa nodded, her body winched for a moment and slowly melted into the comfort given by the touch. Her shakes faded while her mind collected itself, pushing past the fear once more. In reaction, her arms wrapped around Voira as to keep her from pulling away. When she finished her pep talk, Raa knew she had to let go when she felt Voira start to pull away. The quarian sighed at the lost of comfort but sat there listening, agreeing begrudgingly, to the common sense uttered by the asari. She couldn't hide forever despite how she wanted to.

"Alright, but promise me you won't take off. I worry about you."

The Asari stood again, reluctantly getting ready to make Raa move, casting another barrier over Raa as she smiled at the Quarian. "We won't take off or leave you. Promise. Stay close to us." With that, she drew her assault rifle and opened the door, warily sticking her head out. What she saw at first made her hopes for them escaping unscathed sink like a stone. There appeared to be a large group of turians and humans, discussing something. Luckily for all involved, before she started trying to sneak past and then shooting when someone inevitably saw them, Voira spotted Avatar. As the Geth appeared to be apart of the conversation rather than a prisoner, she relaxed, if only slightly. Still only keeping her head out, she called out to the group. "Hello down there! We're friends, not with the bastards who just tried to kill all of us, so please don't shoot us!"

Glancing back into the room she held a hand out to Raa. "Come on. Things just got a bit easier. We're going to yell at Avatar, by the way. We won't hit him, probably."

Raa's body made a gesture of relief, her breath sighing at things being easier now and Avatar's name. She had been worried, to a lesser degree, about the Geth. Partly worried he was killed during the assualt and she wouldn't get to meet him again. It never took long for Raa to bond to someone which made her easy to manipulate as well as most targetted for easy prey by thugs or bandits. It was habit she picked up thanks to the changes made within the several years since the Reaper Wars, making the race more trusting to outside help since the Geth's assistance.

She took Voira's hand with her own, allowing the woman to lead her outward into the crowd. Her nervousness returned among strangers and her fingers tightened about Voira, silently telling her anxiety in the matter. Unknown factors usually unsettled her, even being reasurred not everyone was out to get her, that made her side on the cautious route in interaction. Though some speices and beings, like the geth or other quarians, drew different reactions out of her.

[Lucius Cypher]

The chaos of the scene made things hard to figure out. He quickly recognized the uniform of the Cabalist, and focused fire at anything they were shooting at. Through, while he didn't want to admit it, he didn't exactly do a lot of fighting. Donny largely allowed the turians and the lone geth to deal with the assailants above while he tried to excuse himself by covering other parts of the hall. He debated setting up mines, but didn't. It was too dangerous and could potentially harm innocents then enemies. Soon the turians and the geth managed to get out and close the door, signalling to Donny a short moment of reprieve.

He didn't know how long he had so he contacted the rest of his team, Seraph first. She was the only one he knew who was with the ambassador when they left. There was a bit of lag at first, but eventually she picked up on her end. "Feather this is Dong, what's the situation? Over."

"Dong this is Feathers. The Ambassador ensured us an escape route with the shuttle we took to get here, however she suspects that the docks is under lock down. We believe there is a local control station that we could try to use to override the lock, but there is also a master control room somewhere within the ship. We can't do much if the master control room overrides everything we do, but we can at least try to liberate the docking bay. What is your status? Over."

Looking up at his rag tag group Donny really took in the kind of company he was now keeping. Before he was just a better-than-average human amongst really talented and skilled individuals. But now he was the only human amongst Turian botics, a geth, and soon after an Asari and Quarian. A moment of deja vu overcame him before he snapped back out of it. "I've been assigned to stay with a group of Turians, and we just acquired a Geth, Asari, and Quarian. Awaiting further orders. Over." Something caught Donny's eye when he saw the Asari, but he couldn't put his finger on it. She seemed injured however, and there were more pressing matters to attend to. The Geth, Avatar, projected a holographic map of the ship. Donny was confused about it at first so he pulled out his pamphlet and tried to get an idea of where they were at from it. That's when a message came through Donny's headset, this time from Alexander.

"This is Steak. Dong we need you to head over to the docking bay and help us secure the location. If you're still with those Turians, see if you can convince them to help. The shuttle can fit thirty passengers, so we might be able to bring them along if we can get the shuttle out of here. Over."

Dong tried to contact Alexander, but he wasn't opening up his line. He did hear faint gunshots in the background, but he wasn't sure where Alexander was. He might have already started to attack the docking bay, but surely they wouldn't start an attack without their full forces. Unless they were discovered. Coming to the realization that his team and Ambassador was in danger, Donny turned to the group gathered.

"Hey everyone, I just got some information from my crew. They're going to secure a shuttle in the docking area, but it's likely guarded. There's also a security station near we could use to get us to freedom, but the master control room might put a damper on those ideas. If we could meet up with my people, we could clear the docking bay, and if we have a tech specialist we could override the master control long enough to get everyone into the shuttle and get out of here. I know the way to the docking area... Sorta... But I know it's not too far!"

While he knew he had no authority over the group, Donny at least gave them a plan to try. Donny himself could see a lot of issues and mistakes that could happen, but it's not like he had any better ideas. And with a group like this, Donny felt confident that they could make it. Most of them anyways. He didn't want to think what happen if he's not like "most" of the survivors of this plan.

[Rtron]

Voira let go of Raa for only a brief moment after Donny stopped speaking. She took one stride towards Avatar, clenched her fist, and then punched him in his lightbulb. "You son of a bitch!" She spat, ignoring all the weapons suddenly trained on her. "'Highly unlikely' you said! 'No reason to investigate' you said! All we wanted you to do was run their names and faces through your database! How hard was that? But noooo, you had to be worried that we might cause offense! We could have kept Raa from that entire fucking mess if you had just bothered to deal with our paranoid gut feelings!" She glanced at the human who had spoken, speaking with relative calm. "We believe Avatar is the best suited for this situation. He should know how to hack far quicker than any organic would be able to. We'll be able to help clear a path to the shuttle, if necessary. We want to get a fair shot at the bastards, when there isn't a bunch of people in the way." She smiled, slightly bloodthirstily. She didn't like the fact that anyone who had tried to hurt Raa had largely escaped her vengeance.

"You lead us to the docking bay, we'll keep Raa safe and help you shoot any of the bastards that get in our way, then we'll all get on the shuttle and get the hell out of dodge. You can contact the Turian military," She nodded towards the turians around her, "Avatar can contact the Council, and you all can bring a lot of people far more equipped to deal with this situation while Raa and us go to Illium to relax and not get shot at." She looked around expectantly. "Sound like a plan?"

[EliteCommander]

Given that Avatar's platform felt no pain, had no pride, and had been entirely undamaged, it gave nothing in the way of a reaction to Voira. The only action it took was to modify its profile of her to include an anger management disorder and violent tendencies. As well, it made note of her seeming fixation on protecting Creator Raa'Kina.

As for their plan of action, Avatar quickly applied the new information given by the Human soldier, who a quick facial scan identified as Donny Yang, to its own projections of possible escapes. It seemed that the most of the surviving human forces, of which most of the allied security force consisted, had left without safeguarding the escape of other allied diplomats. Aside from the possible political ramifications of this action, it also meant that allied forces had been split into smaller groups which would be more difficult to evacuate unless they were able to reunite. Currently, there seemed to be four combat capable individuals in their group in addition to the Turian cabal, Donny Yang, Voira Sirosi, a Krogan it identified as Khel Zhar, and itself. There were only four diplomats which had survived an escaped with them: two Turians, one male and one female, an Asari, and Creator Raa'Kina.

"An alternative option would be to search for enemy shuttles in order to escape the station. There is approximately a 76% chance that hostile forces anticipate our return to the airlocks through which we arrived, so they will reinforce that area. Based on the schematics of this class of vessel, there are only two other possible locations for airlocks, which are located within close proximity of one another. I estimate this option to be 52% less hazardous; however, it would be more difficult to reunite with the Human forces who moved on ahead of us, and we would be unable to rescue the crew of the trapped shuttle. Although more dangerous, following Donny Yang's recommendation may allow us to save more lives." Avatar recommended.

At this point, the Turian male diplomat, a man named Tarak Sorinth, stepped forward, his expression showing a mix of anger and surprise. "Wait, the Humans left us? But they made up most of our security. You're telling me they just abandoned us? That Human diplomat, I know I saw her running. They just went off to protect her, didn't they? We...should just take the safe option and get out of here. Why should we save them after they left us like that?"

[Fallenreaper]

Raa hadn’t expected Voira’s reaction. That point was clear in when her body stopped in her tracks abruptly, her body flinched at the fist impacting the Geth’s faceplate and her hands jerked up to her face mask. Her eyes widened underneath her face mask as she watched her friend hit the Geth, hard. Several weapons drew upon Voira causing Raa’s heart to race within her chest and her breath held deep within, her words cried out in shock. “Voira! Stop, it’s not Avatar’s fault.”

Instinctively she reached out and placed her hand on Voira, likely to stop her from landing another hit while her guardian screamed at the Geth’s platform in fury. Trying to calm her friend down, Raa barely heard the human reporting through his earpiece to only what she could assume was his superiors. Or when he tried to collect their attention for options.

At the man's words, Voira immediately settled down to reply to him. For a moment Raa stood there shocked and looked to Avatar, questioning his thoughts as her guardian made choices for her. The Quarian found it hard to decide which choice was best as she thought about what both the human and Avatar said, her eyes darted around the current group that far smaller than the earlier one. Their numbers dwindled down.

After Avatar’s options were presented in usual Geth fashion, she was about to voice her thought before she was interrupted by a Turian diplomate. Tarak Sorinth moved in from behind her causing Raa to shift to the side, allowing him through to speak his thoughts. Naturally they made her uncomfortable as she shuffled in place, bring her closer to Voira instinctively. At the Turian’s bitterment she couldn’t help speaking up at his words.

“We can’t just leave the Humans to fend for themselves and to get slaughtered.” Raa blurted out against the diplomat's comment. “There has to be another way.”

Voira’s first responsibly was her after all, and her asari friend would pick her over others all the time. She could only guess these humans had done the very same thing.

RK piped in before the diplomat considered getting snippy with Raa’s words, her image appearing from the head to the shoulders. “The choice we make now reflects on us later in the future. I wonder how that looks if the local papers discovered a diplomat valued his own life over others. Would his reputation survive the slander? Raa, speak your thoughts cause I know you have something in mind after that little comment.”

Raa took a deep breath. Her next comment was a faint hope to take everyone’s mind off the VI’s brashness to the Turian and lessen the sting when she turned to the human, a male and the one who gave the best option in Avatar’s view. “Avatar might be ideal, though I can hack just as easily with RK and likely know the systems better. Though I doubt Voira will allow me to willingly put myself into danger but I don’t like Avatar going alone. If he gets damaged enough, that will delay us far longer. A danger we can’t afford.”

She looked at Voira and added. “What if you go with Avatar to keep him from getting shot? I’ll stay here with the diplomats and stay safe. The other option is I end up going to hack the systems myself and increase my risk of being shot, despite you being around. I don’t like either option really as with the shuttle as we’re condemning those left behind to die, but going after them could end up shedding blood with our already small group.”

An idea popped into her head when she glanced to Avatar. “I just hope the systems are as old as I suspect. RK and I can download a virus that could affect the security cameras for while, making anyone using them essentially blind to our activities. Though I need to get to a nearby security station to deploy it because just any terminal won’t work. Instead the virus would have to filter through the whole ship and that could take precious time for it to actually hit what it’s suppose to. Time we don’t have.”

[cqbexpt]

Tacticus was incredibly confused by the events that followed. First the Humans ditched them, then the Asari went berserk causing the Cabal to draw their firearms, then the AI began yelling at his diplomat. As the yelling began to stop Tacticus lowered his weapon but kept it in hand. But then their diplomat fired back his own words. "You would lecture me about leaving behind others to save my own skin? The Humans just did that! They willingly left us here to fend for ourselves! We stayed behind to help everyone history would look rather kindly on us.."

"Sir I would recommend..." Sura tried to stop the diplomat from going off on the Quarian even though he did have a point.

"...And lastly whoever decided to unban your ilk and produc.." The diplomat stopped when Sura put a hand on his shoulder.

More sternly this time Sura said "Sir." The Turian turned to her and growled briefly then threw up his hands and walked back over to the other diplomats knowing that arguing wasn't going to help the situation. She then turned back to the Asari and the Quarian. "Look if you absolutely must go after those...Humans you can, I'll loan you two of my guys if you must. But I cannot ask all the diplomats to unnecessarily risk their lives to go after them, it wouldn't be fair or right." She turned around quickly looking to her men all braced against the wall near the diplomats. "Numso Cactus, on the hop you're going human hunting."

Cactus and Numso exchanged looks and went up to either side of Sura. "We'll stick around for a bit before we try for the other transports." Sura said slightly hesitant of letting two more Cabalists go on what would probably be a suicide mission.

Tacticus thought this was a really dumb idea considering they were asking for it when they decided to ditch the group but there was no way he was going to argue with Sura. She was giving an order, Turians don't question orders. He looked at the Human Donny for a moment as if for a moment all this was his fault. He quickly pushed that out of his head and looked back to the group. "Well guess we're saving their hides."

[EliteCommander]

"Warning: this course of action is not recommended." Avatar said as Sura was giving her orders. To illustrate its next point, it highlighted in red on the schematics it was projecting the hallways which could connect to their current location from the room in which they had been ambushed. "This location is not secure, and it is improbable that we will find a secure location for civilians to wait. Hostile forces may converge on our location through any of these pathways within a minimum of 5.2 minutes. Additionally, I do not recommend dividing our combat-able forces. Since the local representatives agreed to allow security teams to carry weapons, it is probable that the enemy smuggled board the station a force of sufficient size to overwhelm our security forces, so heavy resistance is likely. If we divide our forces, it will increase the likelihood of complete mission failure by approximately 86%."

Pausing for another moment, Avatar highlighted several other pathways on the projection. Those leading to the airlocks and the human forces were highlighted in green, while those leading to the potential locations of enemy shuttles were highlighted in blue. Additionally, pathways that passed through security stations were highlighted in yellow. "We may join with Human forces and attempt to rescue and board their shuttle, or search one of these two locations for enemy shuttles to capture. However, attempting both options is not recommended. There are security stations in both directions we may attempt to access which could improve the probability of success, but will increase our time on the station."

[Rtron]

Voira's looked at Raa wearily as she made clear her position on the 'take the safe route and some people we don't even know die or take the dangerous route to save some strangers' decision. But she didn't protest against it, simply shrugging and adding her own two cents. "We agree with Raa." She didn't like it, but she knew there wasn't any way she was getting Raa to go along with the sensible plan. Especially not now. Her eyes watched the Turian diplomat carefully. She didn't care if he was in an argument with RK, the AI had a tendency to piss off most people she could talk to, but Voira had seen how some people consider Raa just another version of the AI and got angry with the Quarian. If the diplomat was like that, things would get very bad, very quickly. Fortunately for all involved, the diplomat was sent away before he could. As the Geth went against the idea, Voira spoke up again.

"We have to agree with Avatar. Splitting our forces is a bad idea. We could, and gladly would, kill as many possible with the forces we have. But if you and the diplomats meet resistance, you'll be outgunned and when we get to the hanger, we'll be outgunned. Especially since I'm protecting the Geth." She stared pointedly at Raa. "We don't like this. But you won't accept anything else, so we're doing it, reluctantly. Stay out of danger or we will abandon him." She glanced back at Avatar. "No offense. Do you have the details of where Raa can upload her virus to make things a bit easier on us? We'd rather not have their reinforcements be breathing down our necks the instant we walk into the hangar."

[Lucius Cypher]

Donny let the others debate amongst themselves about what the best course of action would be. He was tempted to talk back to the diplomat, but than memories of his lessons in dealing with civvies came to mind. While no doubt the diplomat was important, he was still a non-combatant and should not be involved in anymore fighting then necessary. Donny wasn't sure how this might apply to turians, but he figured that the diplomat didn't want to get into a firefight anyways, turian or not.

Soon the Quarian and Asari, Raa and Voira respectively, spoke their thoughts. Donny was one of the few who didn't draw his gun when Voira punched the geth, but only because Donny wasn't certain what was going on. Evidently Voira felt this was Avatar's fault which made Donny think: Could he have some involvement? But those thoughts were quietly put aside. "I need to focus on getting out of here first. We can solve this mystery once I don't have to worry about bullets getting into my head." One of the turians, likely the captain of the bunch, mentioned not wanting to get their VIPs in any danger themselves. She was at least willing to leave behind two of her soldiers behind, the familiar looking turian named Cactus and an unfamiliar one named Numso. Donny felt uneasy losing such a large number of guns, but he supposed that it wasn't just Eleanore that needed saving. Though he was certain they would have better success working together than separately. The geth and Voira spoke what Donny thought.

"And also..." Donny spoke out rather meekly. He felt so out of place, and it just suddenly dawned onto him how much was on his shoulders. He had no idea how his people were handling the hanger area, or if they were even alive. What if they needed him minutes ago, while he wasted time talking? The pressure was great, but all he could do was clench his fists and speak his thoughts. "We should go. If what the geth said is true, we have little time to debate. All I can say is this: I have no idea how you hack a ship, but I know that we have a shuttle in the hanger we could get into and get out of here ASAP. And unless you have one ready too, I doubt we have time to "Capture" one and get it ready to fly. The shuttle we took could fit thirty; more than enough for all of us including my team. We get on that shuttle, we get out of here, and once we're in safe hands we can figure out what happened and do something about it."

To punctuate his point, Donny tapped his armor and his helmet came over his face. He was going to get ready to fight, because now there wasn't much left to say. "I heard gunshots on the other side of the comms. For all I know they're dying right now. I'm sorry, but I have to go help them. Please, follow me!" Drawing his shotgun and gripping his knife, Donny turned around to leave. He walked at a brisk pace, careful so he doesn't walk into an ambush, but quick enough that he would hopefully arrive to the aid of his allies before it was too late. He'd like to have stayed and formed a plan a bit longer, but if the geth said they had about five minutes before they would get swarmed, than they needed to get there in four minutes.

[Fallenreaper]

Raa wasn’t surprised by the reaction the diplomate gave. In fact she was bracing to be the one he was going to be yelling directly at, her eyes closed and body tensed, forced to stand and take the verbal beating. It wasn’t the first time. Many aliens and humans assumed because RK was her VI, she was the creator. By default this made her responsible for much of what came out of the VI’s digital lips, most of it degrading and hurtful words. It rarely occurred to many races that RK was her own individual. Though the virtual intelligence’s voice was more snarky than yelling, the Turian immediately jumped on the comments. His first reaction was to defend himself.

Raa flinched as if he had hit her directly.

RK merely shrugged it off believing she was in the right and noting the other cabalist trying to calm him down. It didn’t seem to ever bother when organics lost their tempers and in fact. On the contrary, she found it more amusing than anything. Her head gave a cocky and sarcastic gesture that she didn't care. The only visible sign she was unfazed by his display.

Raa, however, took a small stepped toward her protector. Her eyes wary and unsettled as she noted Voira glaring at him, ready to do something. It wasn't until the Turian in charge spoke to them and seemed to dictate their rescue attempts suicide, giving them only two men and stated their names which brought them forward.

Raa nodded though she didn't like the fact they were splitting up and as Avatar mentioned, lowering their success. She noticed the look one of the turians flashed Donny, a blame she knew well after RK pissed off some people off.

She held tightly to her friend. It didn't surprise her Voira accepted her choice, she was too tender hearted to leave people to die and they both knew it. Her ears tuned out the rest of the conversation when Voira stared point blank at her causing the Quarian to brace herself for a small lecture. Then turned to Avatar for more details.

The human, his hands no longer busy with collecting information, spoke rather abruptly to push for his option. One which many agreed to take, his voice turned inward and drew more empathy from her. It wasn't easy she knew waiting for a decision to be made. However, when he finished he tapped on his helmet then twisted about to leave.

"Wait, stop. Don't go alone at least!" Raa shouted, moving faster than Voira expected. She easily evade the Asari's attempt to stop her when she took off after Donny, willingly putting herself at risk.

She couldn't let him just toss his life away after all.

[cqbexpt]

"Well looks like you guys are just intent on giving me no options." With a sigh she turned around and took a second to collect her thoughts while the Human and the Quarian began charging off. She said to the diplomats and her soldiers. "All Cabalists relinquish your secondary's to any diplomat that knows how to use it." She glanced hard at the two Turians who both accepted arms considering most if not all Turians knew how to fire a gun. "If the Humans get us all killed I'm sure someone somewhere will get a slap on the wrist. But for now all of you non-combatants stay behind my guys and cover the rear...or atleast tell us somethings coming. We're going with the emotional apes, considering they seem to value the them over all of us." Sura said with a slight bit of irritation. She turned to her men and added."Forward VIP cover and keep it tight, doubt these fools are going to be using big explosives in here." With that she primed her assault rifle and signaled with her hands to move out.

This garnered a "siryessir" from the relatively young Cabalists. Heart racing Tacticus yelled out at the leaving Human and Quarian "Atleast hit the sec station first... buy us time atleast..." Tacticus said as his voice trailed off into a murmur with a hint of annoyance. If he was feeling the pressure he couldn't imagine what this was like for Sura. He knew she was like a mountain facing a tidal wave when situations went up in flames like this but everyone had to have their limits... right? It also finally registered with Cactus that the Human had asked with a please that they follow him, "weird" he thought. Before falling out into the front of the formation Tacticus looked at the Geth for a second looking for anything that might reassure him that they we're not all gonna get killed by Human's. When he realized that he was looking to a robot for guidance he turned back to the group, and murmured under his breath "Right... close enough."

[EliteCommander]

Although not all of Avatar's allies seemed satisfied with their chosen course of action, they all remained together as a single unit, instead of splitting their forces. Since its weapon was not effective at long ranges, Avatar moved at the front of the group alongside Donny. As they started to move along, it made certain that all in the group were on the same radio frequency to ensure proper communication both in combat, and if they were separated.

Following Raa's suggestion, the group took a non-direct path to their destination which would lead past a security station. It was likely that they would avoid the hostiles which were attempting to intercept them, but since they were being watched by the station's cameras, the enemy would know which pathways to take in order to follow them. "The probability that we are being followed by hostile forces is close to certain. Once we find and capture the security station, we will be forced to defend it. If we do not capture the security station within sufficient time, hostile forces will have us surrounded and at a tactical disadvantage." Avatar warned as they moved along at a brisk pace.

The group did not encounter hostile resistance on the way to the security station, but as Avatar and Donny rounded the corner to the final hallway, they were met with a group of five hostiles consisting of four Turians and one Krogan, most likely a mercenary based on his armor, ten meters in front of them. The security station was on the left side of the hall with two entrances: one next to the hostile group, and another farther down. The hallway itself was long and open, with no cover except for the corner that Avatar and Donny were forced to retreat behind once the enemy opened fire. Avatar could hear the security station door open, but the Krogan quickly shouted out for his men to hold position. Peering around the corner for a brief moment, Avatar could see that the enemy was waiting with weapons trained on the corner. Most likely, they intended to prevent them from advancing until reinforcements could flank them. Allied forced did currently have a numerical advantage, but the enemy could start firing at full force much sooner if they tried to round the corner unprotected.

"Use of biotic barriers may allow us to establish a firing position." Avatar recommended, though there were potentially other options.

[Rtron]

Voira looked to where Donny was heading off before giving an exasperated sigh as he turned to leave. She was sure he was going to draw someone with a bleeding heart after him, and get them both killed, limiting their combat forces even further. Then her eyes widened with a sudden thought, her hand moving to snatch Raa back to her. Too little, too late, the Quarian was already gone and running after the human. Straight into whatever defense the enemy had set up for anyone trying to save their allies. And she hadn't even practiced that much at all with the new protocols she had gotten. "Goddess damn it Raa!" Voira snapped, more worried about the danger than angry with the Quarian, moving quickly after her. She vaguely heard the turian commander ordering her men to follow them, and the diplomats to stay behind at a safe distance. She caught up to Raa and pulled the Quarian behind her, letting the Geth and the human lead the way.

"Don't do that again, and stay with the diplomats." The Asari said, before drawing her Thunder assault rifle.

Of course, it didn't take much longer for them to get into another situation. This time it was a long, open, hallway with enemies waiting at the end of it, who were just waiting for them to peek their heads out of cover. Voira tilted her head at Avatar as he spoke, before holstering her thunder assault rifle again. She was the oldest here after all, aside from maybe the geth and the Krogan and she was sure neither of them could use biotics. "Okay. If anyone here has a grenade, tell us, and we'll let down the barrier long enough for it to be launched." She stood up and got in front of Avatar. "Ready?" She asked everyone, giving them a few moments to prepare themselves.

Then she stepped out from behind cover, quickly throwing up a straight barrier in front of her to catch the storm of bullets. Despite having done this dozens of times before against far more lethal odds, the Asari couldn't completely stop the flinch as the bullets smacked against her barrier. She only hoped it held long enough to get rid of the damn Krogan and his turians. "Lets go!"

[Fallenreaper]

Naturally Raa failed to hear the final decision when she took off after the man. Her attention was far more determined to catch him before he got himself killed than listen to the others, not realizing her choice might’ve tilted their hand to follow. Her feet with surprising quickness closed the gap between them. A arm reached out and her hand made to snag his arm, trying to bring him to at least slow his pace if she got a grip. It was unlikely she would be able to make him completely due to his determination. Either way, her words were trying to reason with the reckless human while keeping pace. “Please, just stop and think. I know you’re worried! However, you can’t help anyone if you’re dead. Please, please just stop a moment!”

She wasn’t sure if her words were reaching the man. Mainly because at that moment, something green and black came trotting into her side perception and immediately the Quarian stopped. Her hand retracted back as she realize, with relief, who had sudden pulled up beside them: Avatar. the Geth clipped rapidly and easily, pulling beside Donny in a second to pull out its own weapon for the possibility of hostiles. Raa didn’t know how to react.

A voice suddenly started to chide her when Voira’s came into view, her arm reaching for her Thunder assualt rifle. "Don't do that again, and stay with the diplomats."

Raa didn’t have much time to when Voira’s other hand wrapped about her arm and jerked the quarian back like a naughty child. She nearly fell into the asari, saved only her other hand whipped about to right herself for the moment. It was brief because she felt her gun pushed into her waist then pointed to the back of the group, namely where the diplomats were currently at. The engineer sighed slightly at the command but understood why. Grudgingly, she fell back to where the less experienced fighters at Voira’s request.

At first it seemed like the trip would’ve been easy. There was little sign of those who attempted to take the station hostage and they were smoothly drawing closer to the station, their weapons ready and waiting to fire when needed. Including Raa’s. It was short lived when several mercenaries, four Turians and a Krogan, came into view when both Avatar and Donny rounded the corner. Immediately bullets started to fly and those guarding the diplomats gestured for cover. Raa jerked to the nearest place for cover reflexively. She tried to make herself as small as possible while her heard, over the gunfire, Avatar speak. "Use of biotic barriers may allow us to establish a firing position."

Interested in what was happening, the quarian edged cautiously closer while she watched the pair. Avatar’s comment caused Voira’s ears to perk in a human way, putting her gun away and replying back. "Okay. If anyone here has a grenade, tell us, and we'll let down the barrier long enough for it to be launched."

Rising up, Raa watched Voira get in front of Avatar then turned to ensure everyone was ready. "Ready?"

Raa had RK already arming her weapon while it made a hissing click in her slow approach. Her fingers tightened about the gun when the asari stepped from her cover, causing her breath to still, tossing up a barrier for the bullets to bounce off of. Voira’s words echoed in Raa’s head as the asari signaled for Avatar to follow her. "Lets go!"

By this time, Raa was dangerously close to the front as she peered out from the corner. Pop, pop! Her head retreated instantly at the moment it was nearly clipped by two projectiles, her heart racing as she felt stupid for not thinking of it sooner. Her eyes had caught a glimpse of the mercenaries just when one lifted his hand to his communications. They were wireless which meant they were vulnerable and easy targets. She turned to her omnitool and tapped it, bring up RK’s head. “Can you create a high frequency to mess with their wireless signal? Mainly just to sabotage it?”

RK smirked. “Yes. And already working on it before you said something, Raa.”

When RK finished her sentence, a wide, disrupting signal went out from Raa’s omnitool. It would spread and begin to target the enemy’s communications, as well as any wireless devices. Its main aim was to make them hot to the touch and useless, crippling the enemy. Several enemies would be caught off guard by the surprise tactic and hopefully buy Avatar and Voira some time. Meanwhile, over Voira’s omnitool RK’s voice spoke in a smug way, loud enough for the pair to hear. “You’re welcome.”

[cqbexpt]

The eerie quite of nothing but their footsteps and air recylcers put Tacticus on edge. He felt as if they should have seen an enemy by now. After all they were being tracked around the ship. While he certainly was not complaining it seemed... odd. He guessed it was possible a good chunk of the guards were already engaged in combat with the Humans but that didn't bode well for them seeing as if there is a large enough force to overwhelm the Humans they we're not going to fair much better. Atleast if they were dead they got what they deserved thought Cactus with a bit of morbid satisfaction. Since the shoot out in the meeting area he had switched to his machine pistol seeing as being accurate in a hallway was relatively easy.

When the Geth and Donny rounded the final corner everything began moving at lightning speed. The two making up the spearhead of the group jumped back and pressed themselves against the corner abruptly as a hail of bullets were belched out of the hallway ahead of him. Sura Told the diplomats and now Quarian to stay as the Cabal formed around her. Then with the Asari jumping into the way of the bullets with a barrier thrown infront of her calling for a grenade. One of the female cabalists blurted out. "Are you insane? You'll kill us!"

This garnered a laugh from the Asari and a retort "You have a startling lack of faith in our ability to put the barrier back up before we all die." Sura shot her soldier a look for speaking out of turn, she then quickly shut her jaw hard and pressed her mandibles against her face even harder in shame.

"Warps then shields." Sura said grabbing the single grenade the Cabal had from her own waist. She then gave everyone a look informing them that she intended to use it. Everyone nodded and stacked up on the corner. Then all of the sudden Sura, Numso and another Turian jumped from behind the wall to either side of the Asari's barrier. All of three of them in sync charged themselves with biotic energy and ejected it all through their palms. Then two more Turians and Cactus jumped out from behind the corner aswell while the three original Turians fell back. But instead of throwing pure biotic energy out Tacticus jumped behind Voira's shield and the other two Turians threw up barriers of their own. Thus they effectively cover their part of the hallway from floor to ceiling with barriers. Sura then began glowing with biotic energy again and yelled. "Drop it!" Suddenly a hole in the barrier opened up towards the ceiling and Sura threw a grenade enhanced by her biotics towards the Turian's and Krogan. As the grenade cleared the barriers the hole quickly filled back in and Tacticus prepared himself to charge into the cluster of enemies and finish the fight. But first the field had to be plowed.

[EliteCommander]

Avatar started to move up as well once its allies advanced under the protection of the biotic barriers, but before rounding the corner and coming into the view of the enemy, it activated its tactical cloak to render itself mostly invisible. With its allies attracting the attention of the enemy, the probability of visual detection was below 10%. A tactic often employed by Geth platforms known as "hunters" was to use a tactical cloak to close in on the enemy with close-range weaponry in order to execute a lethal surprise attack, which was exactly what Avatar intended. As Sura was tossing the grenade, Avatar informed its allies of its intentions via their radios, as it had no need to speak aloud in order to communicate with them. "I will advance along the right wall." It warned to prevent friendly fire.

Once the grenade detonated, Avatar stepped through the barrier and rushed forward to close the distance to the enemy. The explosive had detonated just in front of the hostile group, catching two of the Turians within the lethal radius of the blast, while the other two Turians dove to the ground away from the blast. The Krogan behind them was within the blast radius, but the Turians had acted as enough of a barrier that only his shields were drained. As the surviving Turians tried to scramble to their feet, the Krogan reached to his belt for his own grenade, but by that point, Avatar was well-within range. First and foremost, Avatar concentrated on preventing the attack on its allies by aiming its shotgun straight for the Krogan's hand. Despite the armor he was wearing, the close-range blast mangled the Krogan's hand. This prevented his use of his grenade, but due to the pain-cancelling properties of a Krogan's redundant nervous system, he was far more angered by the attack than discouraged. In a rage, he let out a scream, which Avatar judged to be an attempt at intimidation, then charged at the Geth which had suddenly appeared in front of him.

[Rtron]

Voira was grinning, now that the original flinching of having bullets bounce off of her shield was gone it was an exhilarating feeling to stop bullets with nothing more than her biotic abilities. She waited patiently for the turians to ready themselves for the coming explosion, acknowledging Avatar's warning with a brief nod. Just kill the damn Krogan first shot. She thought, hoping the Geth would be smart enough to do that. Voira certainly couldn't activate her radio, unless they all wanted to be eating bullets.

As soon as the call for the shield to be dropped happened, the Asari let a hole in her biotic barrier appear. Her grin only grew as she saw the grenade bouncing into the enemies, shredding two Turians and seeming to the other two off of their feet. Unfortunately, the Krogan was largely unaffected. "Damn Krogans and their annoying tendency to stay alive far longer than they should! Why can't these guys have been cheap and not hired one of them?" Voira complained.

Even more unfortunately, Avatar didn't shoot the Krogan multiple times in the skull to stop the grenade throw. Rather, the geth opted to shoot it merely in the hand. Stopping the grenade, certainly, but merely inconveniencing the bastard. Voira immediately dropped her shield as she saw the krogan roaring and begin to charge. Voira biotically charged forward herself, slamming into the mercenary and stumbling backwards. Biotic powers or no, the damn thing had more mass and strength behind him. The Asari wasted no time, using her biotics to lift the Krogan temporarily in the air.

"Avatar, deal with the turians before they shoot us!" She snapped, pulling out her assault rifle and firing, hoping that she had put the anti-armor rounds in this one. "Poison rounds!? Shit. They'll have to do!" Voira cursed.

[Lucius Cypher]

Donny was rushing ahead of the group feeling rather anxious. Part of him thought that it was a bad idea to split up. Alexander, Rosemary, and Aman should have stayed with him and the group. Divided we fall and all that. Donny did get to go far however before one of the aliens caught up to him, the Quarian named Raa. To his surprise, he wasn't in fact going to walk to his death by himself. Raa, along with her bodyguard Voria, the Geth, and the rest of the turians were coming along. He was certain most of the turians would have gone their separate direction, but Donny wasn't going to make comments about it now. With everyone backing him, Donny allowed himself to jog a bit slower so that the rest could follow.

With Donny was the Geth, whom the human noted that he'll have to figure out his name if he had one. The two turned the corner just in time to see some turians and a krogan open fire. Fortunately they moved moved back into cover before they got perforated, but the situation was certainly sticky. However the group acted quickly with Voria creating a barrier and the turians chucking a grenade at the enemy, using their own biotics to enforce the barrier. The explosion killed two, but the krogan and a few turians still stood. While this was the first time Donny has ever "faced" a krogan, even he knew of their legendary durability. The Geth radioed in that he was going to stealth in, but Donny wanted to stop him. If he was going to go in he needed back up. Donny moved around the corner with his shotgun ready, shortly after the geth shot the krogan. Despite being hit point blank the krogan just seemed annoyed at his mangled hand and charged at the Geth.

Donny was making a mad dash towards the Geth, just barely avoiding Voria who charged down the hall and into the Krogan. She followed up by lifting the krogan off the ground and shooting him while he was helpless. By this point Donny was close enough to see each of the targets, and they were within effective range of his shotgun. He activated his Barrier and then a Charge strait towards one of the hostile Turains. With a shotgun loaded for Anti-Personal rounds, Donny sent one bouncing off the wall and shot other turian on the ground.

[WardenCelestine]

“I am honestly concerned for his mental health if he truly and strongly believes that the Hanar are going to be handed a political position on the Citadels Council, or any position at all for that matter. You do remember what happened when one of them became a Specter right? He was on the verge of starting a holy crusade for the Enkindlers. Thankfully the council stepped in and stopped the mass stupidity before it caused any real damage. If they want to be part of the council they need to put in the effort to show they are willing to cooperate with the other species and accept the fact that there are other religions in the galaxy.” Solares crossed his arms over his chest and let out a small chuckle, shaking his head back and forth a couple of time, remembering those more or less entertaining times. “Of course I remember those days, I honestly have to say I felt bad for him, almost felt bad for him I mean.” Aviza stood next to Solares, leaning over a table that had an interactive holographic image of the ExoGeni Corporation facility on Noveria. “Sorry to change the subject but did I mention that this facility is a cluster fuck? Then again what would you expect from a bunch of elitist Salarian Scientists who try their hand at architecture. Why would they make this facility a maze, are they trying to keep their employees locked inside?” Aviza spun the hologram clockwise with her hand to look at its main entrance.

“I was told they are working on renovating the facility, trying to make it more friendly and accessible, which is a sick joke coming from ExoGeni.” Solares walked over to Aviza and closed the hologram, “Honestly, it’s not important for now, once we arrive at Noveria we can ask for full blueprints of the facility.” Aviza opened her mouth to respond but was cut off by the sound of beeping coming from her personal Data assistant. “We have a message from command, there’s one assigned to you and one to myself.” Aviza forwarded Solares’s message to him within a couple of seconds. “You are here by ordered by AGTSAT to protect a diplomat of the highest importance with your life while discussions are made by him and fellow members of said party.” Solares shrugged lightly before putting his personal data assistant away and crossing his arms over his chest once more. “Did you get the same message or am I doing this mission alone.” Asked Solares before Aviza held up her own personal data assistant so Solares could read the message. “Classified Mission of top priority, report to AGTSAT with your ship immediately.”

He paused for a moment, letting the message sink in. “Sounds like they trust your skills and talents more than mine. Keep in touch with me if you can Aviza, seems like we should both head out immediately.” Not long after, the two of them could be found in the armory of their ship, gearing as quickly as they could. Aviza usually went with the darker colored armor, due to the fact that stealth played a major part while on a mission. Solares on the other hand, had a custom set of armor that was a urban digital camouflage across most it. Once they both had all of their equipment and gear ready, they embraced each other for a while then headed to the main deck of the ship where in only a short while each of them would depart of their own assignment. Hours would pass before Solares found himself upon the small executive shuttle that was heading towards the unnamed space station, with Diplomat on board. “You have guarded someone of my importance before, right? It is highly imperative that I arrive to the space station and remain unharmed and safe at all times until we arrive back where we met. It is only then that you will receive payment and confirmation to your Military that the mission was a success.” The diplomat seemed to glare at Solares, waiting for a reply.

“Yes sir, I can honestly tell you without any doubt that you will be safe, and that no harm will come to you as long as you follow my instruction and stay by my side. I spent many years of my life among Special Forces so you have nothing to worry about. It seems we will be arriving early so just tell me where I should be and I will follow your orders swiftly and to the letter.” Solares spoke as he looked over his weapon and then attached a holographic MK-17 scope to his high-powered pistol. “Why do you use a scope on such a weapon?” asked the Diplomat who seemed quite nervous about the whole situation. “It’s a Mk-17 scope, just helps me hit someone stupid enough to attack me.” The pilot of the shuttle lined the spacecraft up with the space stations docking port, and gracefully attached the shuttle before giving the Solares and the diplomat the all clear. “If a fight does break out, I hope these walls can withstand heavy fire, if they can’t well then we are going to be in deep shit.” The diplomat looked over at Solares with a concerned look on his face. “That was a joke, wasn’t it? Please tell me that was a joke.” Solares smirked at the Diplomat before nodding his head, “Yeah it was, it’s illegal to make anything out in space non-bullet proof, or at least that’s what I have been told. The council doesn’t like having to handle incidents where people are sucked out into space because something was poorly constructed.” The Diplomat shook his head at Solares, “That is not funny, I will inform your superiors of this, mark my words.” Holding his pistol to the left to make sure the sights were lined up correctly, he simply responded by saying “You go ahead and do that.”

A good amount of time would pass as the other diplomats boarded the station and walked past Solares, some making eye contact with him and others completely ignoring his presence. Once things started to progress with the assignment, Solares was ordered to wait down the hallway around fifty feet away from the meetingroom untill further notice, which was honestly fine with him. He leaned up against the wall behind and lightly tapped his left foot in beat on the hard metal surface below him while music played from inside of his armored helmet that completely hid his identity. The song Reapers played from the small speakers in his helmet as he observed his surroundings, noticing the abnormal events that unfolded around him with caution and paranoia. He was bracing himself for something to happen and would be prepared for it if all hell to break loose, if it came to that. A group of guards ran past him and started to lock down doors, or it at least appeared to be that way. Rather far away from where he stood, he watched a Geth quickly and efficiently incapacitate one of the guards before eliminating him. “Things just got interesting…” he thought to himself before moving out of the hallway and taking cover in a small room. He prepped his weapons and gear before turning off his music, and readying himself for combat, the way he had been trained by Aviza. Leaving the room, he headed down an alternate path and tried opening a door to get into the room where he now heard gunfire erupting from.

Kneeling down on one knee, Solares pressed himself against the door and listened to what was going on within. It would have been better to observe the situation before taking any action upon the hostiles but the door was locked. He came to the conclusion that flanking the targets would be the best course of action, and would help give him the upper hand in combat for at least a moment or so. Finely collecting himself he quickly pulled the sniper rifle from its position upon the back of his armor and attached a close range scope to its rail. Running down the hall to the left of him, he could now hear footsteps nearby. Quickly taking the corner, he came upon a group of what appeared to be friendlies outside of a security station, fighting back against the Turians and other hostiles that were not far from where they stood. Raising his weapon, he took careful aim and fired his Black Widow, the sound of it most likely causing everyone including the hostiles to turn their attention to him. The bullet would travel straight through his target before hitting the wall behind him and disintegrating. Placing the rifle onto the back of his armor, he quickly equipped his pistol and moved up alongside the others, taking shots at the hostiles.

[Fallenreaper]

Raa watched the others engage the turians and the single krogan, her visor taking in the scene. Voira had a wolfish smile on her pale lips, her eyes tighten in excitement while she was in her element, and her barrier holding off the bullets. The small popping sound and metal chunks ricochet off into the nearest wall. Raa pressed tighter into the wall as one nearly nicked her, the bullet stopped only her position and intention to keep still.

Instantly, Raa noted Voira drop her barriers when the head Turian female tossed a grenade through the gap. It flow almost beautifully and right into the enemy, sending two turians into lifeless corpses. The other two managed to escape the blast while the krogan merely shrugged off any minor damage, his shields dropped thanks to the drain. After the grenade was tossed, Avatar’s voice came over her radio causing her to look down, listening to his words before he suddenly vanished before her eyes. She had done some research over Geth hunters and knew partly of Avatar’s capabilities, though seeing it in action was another matter completely.

It all happened in seconds or at least, to Raa, it felt like it. Avatar suddenly appeared to the krogan’s side and let a blast fly from his shotgun, mangling the alien’s hand. He let out a fearsome and ferocious roar then charged. Naturally, her asari friend dropped her shield, creating a botic charge to distract the krogan. She was sent stumbling back and changed tactics, lifting the krogan into the air while getting her rifle. Shouting something, seemingly to Avatar, she started to fire on the enemy’s helpless form.

Meanwhile, the human had moved around the corner immediately after Avatar. Hsi body bolted for the Geth when it appeared the krogan was going to charge and nearly missing Voira. Raa’s body tensed, assuming the pair were going to collide, then forced herself not rush headlong into the fight. Inside the quarian knew the only reason Voira was protecting Avatar was because she promised to stick behind with the others, safe and sound. Inwardly she cursed her terrible fighting skills while she pushed herself small as she could get into the wall. She missed Donny activating his barrier and handling one of the remaining turian. He then unloading his anti-personal round into the wall and into a grounded turian, likely ending the struggle.

Raa thought the fight would end soon and all their surprises were over. She was dead wrong when a loud sound cracked from behind the diplomats. Her head jerked to the rear just when a bullet went flying past and then shot through one of the enemy down the hall’s other end. A turian, she determined by his armor figure and style, came rushing down the hallway with pistol in hand shortly after. His finger pulling the trigger to kill any remaining hostiles. She hadn’t seen him during the meeting or any time before, her eyes following his racing form rocketing down the hallway. Relaxing her fingers on her gun, she heard RK warn the others quickly over their radios.

“Not sure who the idiot booking his turian ass your way so might want to be on the defense boys. Considering he came from behind us, I don’t think he’s a hostile cause he came from behind us.”