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Mass Effect 3: Aftermath	By : Royality Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 3529 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Kaidan walked slightly behind his new companion as he made good on the order he was given; which was to keep as silent as possible. The humidity in the lower levels of the Geth facility was extremely high as the steam that came from various smaller pipes and holes clouded their helmet visors every so often. It was also quite moist and sticky, which made Kaidan a bit grateful that he couldn’t see what he was stepping in very clearly. The Sniper remained quiet as well as he led them both by the light of the small, white VI droid that floated above his left shoulder. Still, the Major was not quick to trust, no matter what sort of help was being offered. He soon attempted to break the ice, politely of course, as not to seem too invasive. “So, what merc group do you belong to? Blue Suns? You don’t really seem like the Eclipse type.”
Ducking under a few large hanging wires, the Sniper then held them up for Kaidan to walk under as well. “…My armor is red.” It sounded like the most obvious answer in the world since the mercenary groups were usually color coded. The Biotic moved to duck under the dripping black metal loops that were courteously held out of the way then nodded with thanks.
“You’re not a Krogan or a Vorcha under there, are you?” It was a teasing response, at best, with a nice bit of annoyance mixed in.
“I’m not a merc, alright? And you’re doing really badly at that whole, ‘No Talking’ thing.”
“Hey, you said not to be loud, not, ‘don’t talk at all’,” Kaidan chuckled softly as he stepped over some sort of green gelatinous puddle. “Besides, how am I supposed to thank my rescuer if I don’t even know who he is?” The Sniper just looked away as Kaidan then imagined that the gesture was, in fact, an eye roll.
“Do you really thing that if I was really a merc or a Vorcha, that I’d admit that to a Spectre?” The Major’s feet stopped in their tracks for the moment as his tone changed from its usual playfulness to something more monotone.
“So, you do know who I am.” The Sniper turned around again to stare for a moment before looking back down the dark tunnel.
“Everyone knows who you are.” After walking a few feet away from Kaidan, he suddenly stopped to duck behind a small barrier created from part of the tunnel being bent at an angle. After the rifle was removed from his back, it then unfolded on its own so that the scope could be used. “Shit. Hey, stop standing there like an idiot and come take a look at this.” With a hand, he beckoned behind himself in Kaidan’s direction. The Major sighed, but again ended up doing as he was told. Moving close into a tight snug next to the other man, he then stooped down to one knee. After leaning over, he was finally able to peer into the scope himself.
“Holy shit, what they hell are those things?” Through the lens was a small pack of what looked like giant pink maggots with circular rows of shark-like teeth. As a mob, they were devouring the remains of what looked like used to be a varren or two. As they ate, their tails then secreted steaming green ropes of feces that resembled what they had been stepping over, and even sometimes stepping in, since they had entered the tunnel. Pulling his face away from the gun scope, Kaidan glanced over at the Sniper for his question to be answered. His gaze was returned, but only briefly.
“Those are just the babies.” Pulling the gun away from Kaidan, the Sniper then lined up the scope back to his own visor. With several silenced shots, there was only a small hiss from each larva before they died. “We need to move before the others smell the bodies. They don’t get mad or anything, but they do smell the fresh meat. They’ll be feeding here again soon in a frenzy.” Standing up, he raised a hand to point towards the ceiling. There, just above their heads, was a grated duct vent. “Boost me up so I can pull that cover off. We can climb through there to another drop point to avoid more of those things.” After looking up, Kaidan only smiled.
“Nah, I got it,” he said as he began to glow blue while reaching out. His hand mimicked that of grabbing ahold of the grate. He then yanked it down, but was at least smart enough not to toss it. Instead, he made sure that it instead levitated down slowly to the ground with only a slight rattle as it was dropped. The Sniper watched, shaking his head as Kaidan then offered a boost with his hands, but was ignored again. Instead, the other man took a few steps back and made a running leap to grab the ledge with his hands. He then used his own strength in order to pull himself up in an impressive display of athleticism before crawling inside. The rifle was then lowered down to pull Kaidan up, but the Biotic instead disappeared briefly to reappear practically on top of his now startled new friend. “Told you, I got it.”
“When did you…right. You can get off me now.” The Sniper attempted to scoot back as Kaidan shifted his own weight. It was a tight squeeze as both men were forced to crawl on their hands and knees through the dirty water that was leaking out of this pipeline. Every so often, the Sniper would check the map and make sure he was going the right way at certain crossroads with the Major following closely behind to stay within the light of the drone.
“Hey, if I guess who you are, will you tell me if I’m right?” Once again, Kaidan couldn’t remain quiet. This caused the Sniper to sigh as he slid down a level to another twist in the path. Kaidan followed, causing them to bump bodies yet again for at least the fifth time since they met. “Alright, so judging by your armor and personality, you’re definitely not a typical Alliance solider. I’m also guessing by your little droid there that you have skill in engineering and hacking, but you know how to take care of yourself.”
“So?”
“So, my guess is that when the war started, you were a freelance hacker who was offered immunity by the Alliance to join the war effort and after the war, you then went AWAL to do some scavenging of Geth tech here on Rannoch to make some easy money. How close am I?”

The Sniper then stopped to turn his head as best he could to look at Kaidan. “You call this easy?” After pulling up another grate that led to a short drop below, the Sniper then waited patiently for Kaidan to come down before answer anything else which he had been accused off. “First of all, stop staring at my ass.” The response unnerved the Major, who took offense to the accusation of his own.
“Uh, I was crawling behind you. I wasn’t looking on purpose…”
“Secondly, you’re wrong…but not far wrong. You really came up with all of that just looking at my gear? Huh. Well done, Spectre Alenko.” The Sniper then pointed down the tunnel where the last bit of sunlight before nightfall was peeking through yet another grate. “That’s our exit. We should hurry.” There was a smirk and a sharp turn made as he started to walk in that direction. Kaidan stared a moment, standing still as he tried to figure out which parts he was wrong about. Unable to do so on his own, he instead opted to hurry over so that he wouldn’t be left behind.
“What do you mean by ‘wrong’? You mean all of it was wrong or just some parts?” The Sniper only chuckled, giving an innocent shrug. It didn’t take long for them to reach the final grate. Both men grabbed the center and give it prompt tug, which popped the hinges rather easily. Once it was open, the Sniper crawled out first and pulled the Spectre out by the hand into the setting sunlight of Rannoch. Relieved, Kaidan removed his helmet to take a breath of fresh air. Even through his filters, the stenches of worm shit could still be smelled when they were still underground. Turning to face his hero, he suddenly noticed that there was an awkward distance and shuffling them.
“So, which part was I…,” the Major started to ask, but was surprised when the Sniper had turned to walk the other direction. Jogging over, Kaidan placed a hand on the man’s shoulder but was once again pulled away from.
“Look, I got you out, but don’t act like we’re friends. Your team should be coming in from the north, so start walking.” As the sun set just a little more, the two men stood at a distance on the ledge of a golden, rocky cliff. Kaidan turned to look just for a moment before looking back to the Sniper.
“Yeah, alright. I get you.” Nodding, he took a step back. “You did your job and now you’re done. I was just trying to…”
“It wasn’t a job, you were in the way,” the Sniper pointed before slicing his hand through the air in the gesture that his part was over with. “That’s all there is to it and…” The ground shook fiercely again and interrupted the conversation. As both men were rattled from it enough to try to maintain their balance, from the bottom of the ravine emerged a giant pink worm, armored with hardened scales of flesh and had countless rows of razor-shape teeth. It was similar in size and mass to that of a Thresher Maw, but more in the shape of an earthworm crossed with a centipede. More importantly, it was coming down to crush the two arguing humans underneath it. “Shit! Run! Run!” the Sniper cried out. Nodding, Kaidan began to run alongside the other male, tossing out Biotic attacks where he could. The Sniper managed to activate his omni-tool, transforming his simple light source droid into the attacking version that fired sparks and rockets where it could.
“How do we kill that thing?!” Kaidan yelled as he took cover with the Sniper behind a small rock formation.
“We don’t. They get startled easily and go back underground.” He then nodded up to a higher cliff where the rocks seemed to be looser. “I’ll help you bring down those boulders. The noise will send it retreating. Trust me, I’ve done this before.”
“Have you really?” It seemed a bit farfetched, even to what Kaidan had seen before.
“You calling me a liar?”
“Well, yeah.” At least one of them laughed about that and it wasn’t the Major.
“You got a better idea then?” But before he could answer, the Sniper then turned to start firing precision shots at the rocks. “Too late.”
“Damnit!” Kaidan grunted as he came out of cover to do the same with several tosses of Biotic explosions. As predicted, the rocks came crashing down one after another, shattering the ground upon impact. The scream from the worm could be heard for miles around, but it did retreat back into its underground dwelling.
“I can’t believe that actually worked…,” sighed an amazed Spectre, who looked quite drained from using his powers so much. The Sniper stood there smugly, turning to look at how exhausted Kaidan had become. A hand reached out as if to comfort him, but the ground shock one last time as the worm could be felt tunneling underneath. Above, more loose rocks rumbled until a few began to landslide down towards them. Looking up, the Sniper saw how close they were.
“Kaidan! Look out!” The weakened Spectre was pushed out of the way just in time to see the other man buried underneath the rubble.
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