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Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Yeah sorry about that. I've just been busy for the last week :/.

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

"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."

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

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."

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

Elite there are 6 combat capable Turians right now. The rest of the Cabal is still with them.

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

Yeah you did just unknowingly take probably half of the combatants that the Council species had. Not to mention we have an injured Turian aswell. Not to mention that the hangers are probably heavily guarded. :/ Trying to get a call out to the Turian Crusier is still viable I suppose.

The Depths of Deception

I mean he would probably like it :P. Would certainly be a fit of dramatic Irony.

The Depths of Deception

"Well." Shuo said slightly apprehensively."I suppose if we're going to be spending much time on the Human homeworld we may aswell get acclimated to the uh...food." Now that Shuo thought of it he began wondering how dry the Human homeworld was. He knew they liked it dryer than Masulu and even Tempu but he wasn't sure by what degree. When Rareth started listing off names of foods he had never even heard of it reminded Shuo of another Human food that had been recommended to him before by people returning from shore leave.

"Whatever that there was something I heard the Humans make with their fish. It is called something with a long s sound. Suuuuush I think? I'm not sure what it is called exactly but I'm sure they'll know what I'm asking for. But it would be best if we went to the place, considering we'll not have anything to do here for the next couple of days anyways." Shuo said gesturing around the room then placing his hands on his knees.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

I've had a few good fight collabs. Though those only usually happen if both people are willing to hurt their characters. Atleast in my experience anyways.

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

Dong & Cactus

Donny looked around the hall nervously. It seemed like everyone else had no idea what was going on. He looked back at Eleanore who seemed calm, but was furiously swiping at her datapad. Without thinking he called out to her. "Ambassador, are we too early?" She looked up at down and scowled. Looking back down she shut down her datapad and put it into her purse. "Yes we are. We should-" That's when one of the soldiers gasped. The geth just smashed the head of a turian.

Shit hit the fan pretty fast after that. Almost immediately after the Geth attacked each of the bodyguards drew their guns and formed a protective wall around the ambassador with their bodies. They aimed their weapons at the other guards, largely turian, uncertain of what to do. But they had one objective, and they were going to carry it out: Protect the ambassador. Alexander took charge almost immediately. "Dong, Briar, Scope, with me. The rest of you take the Abasador somewhere safe. That geth opened up the only exit, go now!"

Training kicked in immediately for the others. Donny, Rosemary, and Aman were going to be with Alexander "Steak", and immediately they started shooting at the potential hostiles to cover the escape of Eleanore and the others. The two adepts formed a biotic barrier to cover the door, sustaining it only long enough to get everyone out. Everyone except Alexander and his crew. It seemed like they were going to stay and fight. "Move! Activate shields and use suppressing fire!" And suppressing fire is exactly what Rosemary offered. kicking into an adrenaline rush she whipped out her personal firearm, the M-96 Mattock. Donny never saw a bullet spitter like that before, and just a brief moment he thought Rosemary was a gun turret. She alone laid enough suppressing fire to cause everyone on the ground floor, including Donny, Alexander, and Aman, to get low to the ground. Aman took the opportunity to take out his rifle, the M-97 Viper, and took pot shots at the turian guards who didn't try to immediately take cover.

That's when Alexander snapped Donny back to reality with an order. "Dong, with me! We can't let them ease up for a moment!" Alexander was practically halfway across the room mid charge when Donny activated his own right behind him, tampling anything that Alexander missed. This was a mess and he didn't know how long they were going to last before they'd get peppered by bullets. On the bright side the ambasador was at least out of here.

"CONTACTS!" Sura yelled over the comms and into the room aswell. She was with two others next to the diplomat when the weapons fire began erupting all over the room as the Humans drew their weapons. He heard biotics begin to be tossed around the room by his allies and whatever the hell the enemies were. A massive biotic bubble popped up around the diplomat they were protecting supposed to be protecting. Sura and the other two were pressed close against diplomat shielding him with both biotics and their bodies. They began moving towards the door as the crowd in the room began running or attempting to take cover on the floor.

Tacticus threw a weak biotic barrier over himself and pushed a human in front of him forcefully to the ground with his left hand and drew his Ursus pistol from his plain clothes holster. Rounds began whizzing past him as he attempted to shoot at what appeared to be an Asari firing at the crowd. Unsure if any of his rounds were even hitting quickly turned his head to see that the bubble was moving for the one exit in the room. He turned his head back to the Asari who was moving towards the door and still firing pot shots into the crowd. Tacticus let biotic energy flow freely through his body and decreased his mass significantly. He catapulted himself bioticly at the Asari and flew across the room and delivered a punch to her head. The blow landed but barely broke her barriers and hit her open faced helmet only hard enough to dent it slightly. She swung her rifle around before Cactus could fully recover from the large expenditure of energy and hit him with the butt of the rifle in his shoulder.

Her retaliatory strike was luckily off hand and only really served to push Tacticus away from herself. Being pushed off balance by the strike and out of arms reach, he threw more biotic energy into his right leg and brought it around for a kick. Using her own biotics the Asari deflected his leg away from herself with her forearm. Realizing his kick was a failed endevour Tacticus put the remainder of his energy into one final punch with his pistol wielding hand downward onto the hunched over Asari's back. Finally connecting a punch he brought down enough force to put the Asari into the floor and breaking her shoulder and back armor. He began pulling the trigger on his heavy pistol as fast as he could possibly manage before a force knocked him off. It sent him flying and several feet away from the Asari and onto to the floor back first. He arched his back in pain for a moment on the ground before he heard someone yell over the comms at him.

"CACTUS! Get your ass to the door now! We are leaving! Everyone regroup at the elevators and we'll figure a way off this dump!" Holding his back for a moment Tacticus scrambled to his feet and exhausted began sprinting to the open door barely holding onto his pistol. Several rounds whizzed by him and a few even impacted his barrier and dropped it for a moment. Without his barrier he was rather vulnerable so he dove for the ground for the last few feet to the door. Pushing himself just a little to make it all the way to the door where most of the crowd was now running through or atleast attempting as they were being picked off. When he came to the edge of the door he grabbed it and threw himself with his remaining momentum up to the inside of the large door. Where he began taking pot shots back out at the betrayers.

The room was getting cleared of both enemies and bystandards. Though frankly with all the chaos going on, it was hard to figure out who was an enemy or who was a bystandard. The best they could guess was that anyone protecting a diplomat probally wasn't their enemy, but they could be like Dong and his ground and purposely left their diplomat in the hands of others to fend off these attackers. All in all, there was some miscommunication somewhere down the line.

Fortunately Dong's group was doing rather well for themselves. Rosemary provided substantial covering fire allowing less bullets being fired at Dong and Alexander, who put on pressure on individual hostiles. Aman picked off targets, but noticed movement topside. "Enemy reinforcements!" Alexander took notice as well, tapping Dong's shoulder. He motioned with one hand towards the door and tried to shout over the gun fire. "Dong, to the door!" Alexander pulled out his assault rifle, firing into a group of hostiles. He didn't intend to hit them, just get them to duck and cover. Dong took the opportunity to make a biotic charge strait towards the door, bowling over anyone unfortunate enough not to stand clear. He at least cut a path for Rosemary and Aman who followed him, shortly by Alexander bleeding from the mouth. Dong looked over to him and noticed a bloody wound on his abdomen.

"Steak! You're injuried!"

"Yeah, but I'll be fine. Let's keep moving, we got to find the ambassador."

That's when Dong and his group noticed a group of turians before them. Uncertain of their loyalty the group aimed their weapons at the turians, but Donny noticed something. Or someone. Someone familiar.

Tacticus felt warm blood spray into his face as one of the other several dozen Turian civilians in the room was shot and killed right in front of him. Tacticus almost fell over as the body slumped over into him. He quickly grabbed the body and threw it to the side of the door and out of the way of the running crowd. For a second he wondered who that was, but that was quickly pressed out of his mind as he ducked from several more rounds impacting next to him in the door.

When he popped his head back out he saw one of his squad mates blink into exsistance right in front of him and then also fall over and slide past him. He didn't hear him get up but he decided to keep firing and handle it in a minute. That was when he saw the face. The human from the dream. The one thing Tacticus had held onto from that dream and there it was, 20 meters in front of him running at him... weapon raised. The comm sprang to life with more activity this time it was Sura. "We got several Humans running at the door! Their inbetween the non-co's, hit em if you can!"

Tacticus immediately pressed his left hand to his throat and said. "Don't fire! Their part of the Human delegation!" He then moved his hand down and yelled at the approaching weapon wielding humans. "Don't fire we're friendly!"

Donny spoke out before his team could open fire. "Don't shoot them! They're not the enemy!" Donny emphasized this by lowing his own gun, turning his back on the turians to stand before his team. A risky move, but he had a... A gut feeling this was the right one. Alexander lowered his gun slowly, followed by Aman, and lastly Rosemary. They still kept their fingers near the trigger, ready for any violence. "I hope you're right Dong. We can't afford to lose anyone in this mission, more so since this was a trap." Alexander said matter-of-factly. Rosemary glared at the turians, almost as if she was shooting them with her eyes. "How can you trust them?! It's their people who fired on us first!"

Donny raised his hands defensively. He honestly had no real justification for why he did what he did. "Because I saw him in my dreams" was hardly a reasonable answer. But the fact he wasn't shot in the back at least proved that they weren't after the humans. "Briar, we can't risk making an enemy out of everyone on the ship because we lack intel. I want to know who our enemy is too, but I can't just go and assume every turian is the bad guy! Let's just find Eleanore and figure out how to get out of here before the entire firing squad shows up!"

That's when Alexander stepped in. "Hold on. Dong you're right that we lack intel. But we can't just stay with Eleanore and hope that the others would communicate with us. I want you to stay with the Turians for now, and feed us any information you can find out about this attack." Alexander then turned to the turians, his weapon now pointed towards the ground and his fringer away from the trigger. "I'm willing to take in and protect one of your men as well for the purpose of intek, if you'll allow one of my soldiers to accompany you. This way we can at least minimize friendly fire accidents."

Dong couldn't beleive he was getting volunteered to go with the turians. Sure he knew at least these guys weren't his enemies, but now he's being traded over with them? Not exactly his idea of a fun time. But now wasn't the time to make complaints. He had a vital role to fulfill and he was going to do his job. "Yes sir. But Steak, make sure you get that wound checked out." Donny turned to the turians, taking a deep breath, and took a step forward.

"Donny Yang, callsign Dong. Pleased to meet you. I promise I won't be a burden."

"Good to meet you! We don't really have time for pleasantries here." Sura yelled irritated with this whole situation. Flaring her nostrils and mandibles she yelled over the comms again over the gun fire. "Ruvea, you're gonna be with the Humans till we get out of this death trap! Keep us in the loop so we can avoid killing each other!" She quickly ran up behind Tacticus as weapons fire began to come down at an angle from above. "Hope you're right Cactus." She said then leaning out of cover and throwing a bubble of bitoic energy back out at the attackers.

As Sura slipped back towards the diplomats Cactus felt a wave of chills run down his spine as he realized how much trust Sura was putting in him. Then another voice called over the comms "Get everyone in I found a way to shut the door!" Tacticus looked across to the other side of the door where one of his brothers had ripped a panel off a wall and had his omni-tool activated.

"Everyone get in we're leaving!" Tacticus called out towards the few still running for the door. He leaned out of cover squeezing off several more rounds into a Human with tech armor. His few pistol rounds most likely making nare a dent in his shielding.

The Depths of Deception

Oh Sovereignty oh Sovereignty.