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Into the Unknown	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 6761 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Keith wanted to stop; his lungs were burning and his legs were barely getting one foot in front of the other. He had not realized just how out of shape he had gotten in the last few years, but then no exercise and constant alcoholic binges did that to a person. His left ankle was piercing tiny blades through his whole body every time the left foot hit the ground and he cursed the fact that he had sprained it.
He had actually considered stopping and letting Alpha Protocol just take him but Elysia would not let him. She ran behind him and every time he slowed down she pushed him, kept him going. In truth had it not been for the Asari Keith just might have been dead. He could not help but wondered why she had even bothered to help him after how rude he had been to her and what he did. He felt a pang of shame settle deep in his stomach, something he was not used to.
Suddenly the ground slopped at an almost impossible angle. He slid to a stop but not fast enough as he fell hitting the ground hard with his shoulder, his momentum propelling him down the steep hill. He swore to god he hit every large rock on the way down as well, curses erupting from his lips as he did. When he finally stopped he fully expected that Elysia would have run off and left him at the bottom of the hill. Instead he felt her hands on his arms trying to haul him to his feet.
“No, I’m done,” He said through heaving breaths, “You go, save yourself.”
“Don’t be daft,” She said to him pulling harder. He stumbled to his feet, if that was even possible. She continued to drag him until his feet worked again. He heard gun shots behind them. The soldiers were firing from the top of the hill.
“Shit,” He cursed again.
“I got us,” Elysia said erecting a barrier. “Just keep running, we’re bound to lose them soon.” She was practically carrying him now. “Goddess, man, run would you.”
“I’m trying but my ankle is twisted,” Keith growled.
“Stop whining I’m sure a sprained ankle is walk in the park to a bullet in the head,” the Asari countered as they came across a river. She changed their direction and ran through the shallow water. They followed the water until it became too deep to continue. She hauled him out of it and into the steadily thickening forest, it mixed with the rock from the stream. They were already completely lost and Elysia could not help but wonder if they would ever find their way back to the others. As she ran she spotted the perfect hiding spot.
Without warning she whirled Keith around and shoved him into the rock face. He just barely fit and she squeezed in with him facing outwards. They continued to pant trying desperately to catch their breaths before the soldiers found them.
“Listen, I don’t know why you’re helping me after,” Keith started.
“Shut up,” Elysia snapped as she heard the running feet. They both struggled to control their breath. Keith closed his eyes to try and get control.
He really did have no idea why Elysia didn’t leave him behind, he totally deserved it.
They had started out the morning hunting the wedgit that Keith had seen. Not that it had threatened anyone but having it so close to where they were hiding was dangerous. They had decided that it had to go, that and Varra promised she knew some great recipes for it and Remes had found a great new use for the incinerate program on his omni tool. They still did not want to chance any more fires.
Keith had challenge the young Commando when he had said being a soldier had nothing to do with hunting so they both headed out in search of this creature. Varra had made them a bow and had started to teach them how to use it, she also mentions other weapons her people used such as spears and a slings. They were all struggling with the bow and the balance of it the semantic were different from what any of them knew. They were all used to point and click and this bow had too many things to think about. How far do you pull the string, elbow placement, hand placement, aiming.
It had been two days and Tanith still manage to drop the arrows in front of himself, the rest were at least getting the arrow shot off but the aiming was coming slowly. Of all of them Dharti was actually doing the best. She at least hit the target area. Keith refused to try saying he preferred his gun. Elysia had decided that she was going to learn the bow one way or another but no matter how much she had practised in the last couple days she was not even close to Dharti and her arms were now permanently sore.
She could not help but admire how easily the bow came to Varra though, how the native made it look graceful and easy and she hit the target every time. Varra had wanted to come with her and Keith but he did not want her showing him up.
He and Elysia had gone out with their weapons, a rifle that they had taken from the storage of the shuttle and Laius sniper rifle. Just thinking of fresh meat made Keith more than hungry. The only thing missing was some beer. He wasn’t sure if Elysia seemed to think the same as she and Dharti both seemed to really like the fish they had been catching. He himself preferred the red meat. It was hearty and delicious and he realised he was sounding like a commercial in his head.
They had traveled for a few hours without even a trace of the creature and they were both getting frustrated. Then they made the mistake of trying to talk to each other, or rather he had made the mistake of trying to talk to her.
“So like, what do Asari prefer, men or women?” He asked out of the blue. She looked at him as if he had two heads.
“It’s not about man or woman,” She said, “it’s about sharing something special.”
“Special, come one, your people sell sex all over the galaxy, there has to be a preference,” He said with a slight smile.
“Some of my people sell sex, but we don’t view sex the same way as you do, not like that anyway.”
“Like what then?” Keith asked. Elysia narrowed her eyes. She did not really know how to answer, she was not a traveled individual to begin with, and this had actually been her first trip off Thessia.
“Well we don’t get all flustered about our bodies, we don’t dance for sex, we dance because it makes money and we are more comfortable with our bodies then most other races.”
“Really, care to strip for me?”
“You’re an ass,” The Asari stated.
“Ok sorry, then what do you prefer, male or female, have you been with either?”
“None of your business,” She snapped, Keith smiled.
“You haven’t been with either, not even kissed and you’re over a hundred years old,”
“Keith,”
“No really, that’s amazing a hundred year old virgin. You are very sheltered for a Commando.”
“Just because we are comfortable with our bodies does not mean we are going to run out and just give it to anyone. When I find that special person, it will be there’s” She said, she knew Keith was trying to make fun of her but she saw nothing wrong with never being involved at her age. Most Asari do not get involved for a few more years yet. “And you don’t know me so who are you to judge.”
Keith smiled and without warning grabbed her around the waist and pulled her close kissing her. Elysia used to dream about her first kiss and it was always with someone she was in love with and it was gentle and firm and set of sparks. Keith’s kiss was anything but, it was forceful and the little hairs on his face scratched her, to make natters even worse he stuck his tongue in her mouth.
“Stop!” She shouted her arm quickly glowing blue as smoky tendrils reached out for the human and flung him into a tree. “What the…?” She looked to him, trying to wipe the feel of his mouth from hers. Keith laughed as he slumped to the ground.
“Oh come on, don’t be so uptight, I’m just playing with you.”
“Playing with me,” she shouted, she was covered in a blue wisps now, both arms glowing as her anger continued to grow, “Your nothing but an arrogant pig, you know that. That was wrong, what you did.”
“Ok,” he cooed, “ok that was wrong, I’m sorry I was just trying to get you going, I wasn’t going to harm you.” He said and touched her shoulder. Her hand came faster than he ever expected and slammed into the side of his face, he never expected her to be able to hit that hard either. His head snapped sideway and he actually spun slightly, his foot catching on a rock as he fell, he felt the ankle twist.
“Stay away from me, if you ever touch me again you’ll be eating through a straw for the rest of your life.”
“Wow, you can really hit,” he said impressed with the power of the punch, but he laughed slightly as he stood and tested his ankle.
“And don’t forget it,” She turned and started walking.
“Wait, where are you going?” He asked hobbling behind her.
“Back to the cave,” she answered.
“Wait I think you twisted my ankle.”
“Like I care,” the Asari seemed to move even faster.
“Elysia wait,” He called out and reached out a hand, only to find himself diving for cover as a gunshot echoed and the bullet landed too close for comfort. Elysia did stop this time and looked to him.
“Run,” She said and pushed him.
“My ankle,” He protested.
“It’s just pain, we can worry about the damage after we don’t get shot,” she said and pushed him again and then they had been on the run for what seemed like hours. Many times he had wanted to stop but the damn Asari would not let him.
The both seemed to hold their breath as a four sets of feet moved past them at a quick pace. It got even worse as another set came by and then stopped. He was calm, he had been through worse, but he could have sworn he could actually hear the Commandos heart beating faster. The man was talking into a head set.
“Yes Sir, we seem to have lost them,” there was a pause, “We can continue down the river to see if they went there or set up a perimeter and get the dogs…”
“Yes the Human and one of the Asari…”
“Ok, we’ll head down the river and them come back up and start a grid. I think the human is injured, he was limping…”
“Roger…” and with that the man moved on. Neither of them moved for a very long time.
“You see anything?” Keith whispered.
“Stay here,” She whispered back and headed out, “I’ll check out the area and if it’s safe we’ll get out of here. She stood up and reached for the rifle then decided against it and pulled out her pistol. She moved slowly using the trees for cover. She moved for about ten minutes and an arch and when she was satisfied she moved back for Keith, only to find him gone.
“What?” She looked around and heard a scuffle. She ran back the way she had come to find two soldier holding Keith to the ground as a third kicked at him.
“Enough,” She shouted, bring her arm up without even thinking, the man kicking Keith was flung through the air, his head splitting open on a tree. She had not meant to do that but at this moment she didn’t care. She just needed to get her and Keith out of danger. The other two started to rise and she fired hitting one of the quickly and he fell to the ground, the other one had a barrier up and turned and threw his arm underhand in her direction she dove quickly to the side as the shockwave traveled past her. She felt butterflies in her stomach. This was the first time she had ever fought another biotic.
As she rolled back to her feet she threw out another throw but the human biotic was running and turning back towards her with a pistol. She threw her barrier up quickly and returned fire. Before the bullets could even get close something slammed into the human and the man flew hard into a tree. She looked as Keith was still bent over but glowing. She had no idea he was biotic, obviously a vanguard. She tucked that information away as she finished of the human that had flown into the tree. She ran over and helped Keith to stand straight.
“Are you ok?” She asked letting him lean on her.
“And again you save my ass,” He said, “You Asari are strange.”
“No, just I, most Asari would have let them have you a long time ago. Me, I’m just stupid.”
They started to move and she heard gunfire from behind them and she fell to her knees, spinning around from the position she threw up her own aftershock in the direction of the soldier that was attacking, he flew off against the force of the attack and this time Keith finished him off. He looked down to her.
“Kid?”
“I’m good,” She said standing but then fell right back down.
“No, you’re not,” Keith said and picked up, cradling her in his arms as she finally realized she had been shoot, blood oozed out of her hip, he could feel his ankle screaming at him but it was no longer important. Elysia had carried him this far, he needed to get her out of there. He could see her small blue had slowly turning purple as her blood began to cover it.
He ran as fast as he could but he had no idea where he was going. He followed the mountains in front of him but even then he didn’t if it was the right mountains. He ran until he couldn’t run any more then he stopped and struggled to control his heavy breathing, hoping to hear if anyone was following him.
“Did we win?” Elysia asked.
“You were amazing kid, I think we lost them,” He said and gently placed her on the ground. He began to zip open her pants.
“Hey,“ she said, not thinking clearly.
“I’m not taking advantage of you, promise,” he said. “I just want to see what we have. He held her gently as he lowered her pants slightly and looked to the wound; the bullet seemed to have gone right through her, which was a blessing in disguise.
“Is it bad?” She asked as a tear ran down her cheek, she felt herself get angry, she needed to be stronger.
“It went right through, which sounds bad but considering we have nothing to pull a bullet out with, that’s a good thing.”
“I can hardly feel it anymore,” she lied. It was more a dull pain and numbness mixed together. She was beginning to feel tired.
“Don’t you fall asleep,” He said and pulled her to her feet, pulling her pants back up. He let her lean on him completely but made her walk the best she could. He was not a Doctor but he always thought that if they fell asleep when injured they would never wake back up. She grunted as she walked and he could not help but feel extremely guilty for toying with the woman earlier.
“Nope, wide awake,” She mumbled.
“Don’t move,” came a voice from behind. A string of curses flew from Keith’s lips. I want to see your hands.
“He wanted to see our hands,” Keith said, Elysia nodded to him. They both turned, Keith pulling the man into the air and Elysia hitting him with a throw to lift him even harder. They watched as he bounced to the ground. The only problem was others were coming towards them.
“Can you get a barrier up?” he asked, she nodded. Before either of them could do anything there was a fluster of movement and the first soldier fell to the ground several quills sticking out of his throat and face. Keith turned to see the others coming to their rescue.
“How did you know?” he asked as the large Krogans took down another soldier with his shot gun.
“Varra started going insane saying Elysia was in trouble,” Tanith answered. “She wouldn’t stop bothering us until we started moving.”
“Well, thank god she did,” Keith said, he picked Elysia back up in his arms. Laius and Remes finished of the remaining two soldiers.
“Apparently her people have links like the Asari but not quite like the Asari,” Laius explained.
“We didn’t have time to get all of the information, she was beside herself, we’ll figure it all out when we get back to the cave,” Remes said. Keith agreed with that statement.
“So, we won?” the Asari asked. Keith looked to Varra and nodded his own thanks.
“Yeah Kid, we won this time,” he said.

As soon as they entered the cave Keith laid Elysia on the ground, at some point during his run she had gone unconscious. Varra had run ahead of the rest of the group to let Dharti know what was happening and the older Asari had prepared. None of them were really doctors so the best they could to was pump the wound full of medi gel and hope for the best. Dharti had cleared the room to do what she had to do.
“So they were human? All of them?” Laius asked.
“All the soldiers we encountered were,” Keith answered.
“Soldiers or mercenaries?” this was from Tanith, she had been a little bit worried about who had come after them. Learning it was some human organization made her feel a lot better. It still wasn’t good, but at least nobody was going to try and get her back to Tuchanka.
“They were all wearing the same uniform, there were minor differences but the same, but that doesn’t mean anything either.”
“Cerberus?” Laius said looking at Keith’s foot.
“I don’t think so, they like their uniforms and these were not them,” Keith looked to his swollen ankle and bit his lip. Alpha Protocol might as well be Cerberus, he couldn’t decide to share what he knows about them or not. He still held on to the idea that he could at least get himself off the plant. He was not ready to share how he knew about Alpha Protocol.
“What do you think the threat level is?”
“I don’t know old man, we took out a squad today I think, we had one wounded,” Keith said.
“Two if you include you ankle,” Remes pointed out, Keith glared at him for a few moment, he knew Remes had no idea of why his ankle was sprained but it still made him feel guilty for his teasing Elysia.
“Yeah sure,” he said as Laius began to tape up his swollen ankle.
“I would say stay off your feet for a while.” Laius said. It grew quiet for a few minutes before Keith turned to Varra.
“How did you know we were in trouble?” he asked.
“I felt it,” she shrugged as if it was nothing. She had to admit it was the first time she had ever felt another’s emotions. Most of her people were able to feel emotions off each other but she had never really been close to anyone in her tribe. She felt more connected to the blue woman who had cut her from the tree then she had anyone else. When she first felt the fear and adrenaline rush she had thought she was going insane. Then she realized what it was but had a hard time convincing everyone else that something was wrong.
“So this is normal for your people?” Keith continued his line of questioning.
“Most of us yes, but it had to be someone we are close with, friends, family, loved ones.”
“Is there anything else we should know about you or your people?”
Varra had to think she didn’t know Keith well enough to say what was different between their two people. Her people, the Karthins, didn’t have those loud weapons, nor did they glow blue and had smoky wisps about their bodies. But then she had not seen that on anyone but Elysia. She thought about the Shaman, he was an exceptional healer. He had once explained to her he just had to envision a person healing from the inside out and it happened. That was about the only other special thing she could think of but she had no idea of this groups Shamans could do that or not. She shrugged her answer.
Dharti moved out of the cave and sat down with the rest of them, “There’s not much I can do, I cleaned it out, used the medigel, it’s going to leave a mark but I’m sure she’ll be fine. She just needs to rest, let it heal.”
It was quiet for a very long time as everyone seemed lost in thought. “We’re going to have to move on, we can’t stay here.” Tanith interrupted the peace. “We need to find a place where we don’t have to run. Right now they are a good tracker away from finding us, we don’t know the limit of their resource, and they might not even have a limit.”
“Do you think we’ll ever get home?” Dharti asked. She looked from one survivor to the next, no one really had an answer for that, but she imagined that they all thought the way she did. They were on this planet for the long haul.
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