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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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It was roughly twenty feet out from the base’s door when another message ticketed across Kyo’s visor.
Oxygen levels at 40%.
Crap.
In the midst of finding the half-dead body, Kyo had all but forgotten about his broken helmet’s valve and his dangerously low supply of leaking breathable air. Maybe it was from the friendly reminder, but suddenly he could feel that the dizziness was setting in. It also didn’t help that there was a noticeable heat increase that came with walking across the barren wasteland while carrying a passed-out creature on his back. “Just a bit longer to the shuttle, Shiro. Don’t worry though, I’ll get us there.” Another friendly reminder popped up.
Oxygen levels at 25%.
The extra weight was causing Kyo to breathe more heavily than he would from just simply walking on his own and was shortening his air supply at an alarming rate. Finally, up upon a large dune, he spotted the shuttle. “See, look. I told you I’d get us there…I…” Collapsing to one knee, the young man grunted in pain as he started to feel his chest burn. “Fuck, come on! The shuttle is right there! The…shuttle…Why is the shuttle moving?” From a distance, a cloud of sand that had kicked up from the jets of the transporter could be seen as ship started to take off. It made a vertical assent into the sky before flying over and landing neatly in front of the pair only after a few seconds. The hatch door opened to an unusual, but welcomed sight. Pushing himself up, Kyo ran at full sprint with his arms tightly wrapped around Shiro’s legs over towards and finally inside of the ship. After eyeing the shuttle’s seat, he was surprised to find it empty, despite the console being active and running. Once the hatch closed, the haul filled with fresh air.
Shiro was all but tossed down into an empty passenger seat as the awake solider removed the suffocating helmet in order to breathe in deeply. The fresh cold oxygen burned as it filled his lungs, but it was fine by him. Still, there was the matter of the shuttle flying itself. Sitting in the driver’s seat, Kyo tapped away at the controls trying to figure out what the hell just happened. “Auto-pilot reprogrammed to land at these coordinates? How did it know where I was going to be? And at that exact time?” Looking over his shoulder, the dark eyes suspiciously looked at Shiro’s limp body, though they weren’t even going to pretend to know what was going on. All that mattered to Kyo was that he was still alive and secured the target package. As far as he was going to concern himself with, it was a successful mission and a closed case.
“This is Admiral Hackett. Come in ground team. Do you read me? Over.” Turning back around, Kyo punched in a few commands trying to clear up the static.
“This is ground team to Hackett. Package secured, but we took heavy losses. I’m the only one that made it out. ”
“Hackett to ground team, did you manage to find out what was causing those signals? Can you rendezvous with the fleet? Over.” Now there was a question that Kyo was about to have trouble in answering.
“Ground team to Hackett. Uh, I think I grabbed what was in the Cerberus base, but this isn’t any kind of technology. It’s…” Heavy static filled the airwaves on both ends of the transmission as page after page of partially encrypted files started to manifest themselves onto several monitoring screens. What wasn’t encoded provided lists of names, locations, and projects in which Cerberus had either taken control of or conducted in secret. Either by good fortune or not, some of the names were all too familiar to the Admiral’s eyes. As the elder man stood to watch and read, there were certain keywords that caught his attention the most. These included dossiers on Kaidan Alenko and the rest of the Normandy team, as well as breakdowns of Reaper technology, Project: Overload, Codename: EDI and Project: EVA. Finally, the last file to pop up was Codename: Project Lazarus. When the screens finally ended the transmission, it only left the original channel open and a red blip on both Kyo’s and the Admiral’s galaxy maps. “Admiral? Hello? I just had a power surge with all these names come up? Do you read me?”
“I’m here, soldier. Tell me exactly what you found on that base. Over.” Kyo turned around in his chair to look at Shiro’s crumpled body once again.
“Uh…it’s a person, I think. A young human man, but his looks are a bit…iffy. He’s got all these implants and he’s out cold. Completely non-responsive, but his vitals are good. He was in a self-perseveration tank in the lab.”
“I see. Well, whatever it is just filled our servers with almost every piece of Cerberus information from the past five years, at the very least. Some of it is heavily encrypted, but I know a few of these names. Listen, what’s your name, kid? Over.”
“It’s Takashi, sir. Sergeant Kyo Takashi. I was reassigned to this mission because I wear…”
“The new N7 Paladin armor, right? You use to be some kind of intergalactic singer before the attack, am I right? Didn’t go into hiding like the rest of the celebrities?” Kyo pressed his lips together before answering.
“If I hid on the Citadel, I’d be dead by now, sir.”
“True enough. Tell you what soldier; I need you to follow that red blip on your map. There’s a makeshift docking port just outside of Jupiter right there. No idea what you’re looking for, but keep an eye out for Human Spectre Major Kaidan Alenko. He’s out there training some Biotic recruits and gathering supplies. I have a feeling you’re being put on a scavenger hunt.” This stunned the young Sergeant, delaying his response.
“Kaidan Alenko? Why would he bother talking to a grunt like me? I’m not even a Biotic and didn’t he use to work with Commander Shepard?”
“He did. I’ll tell you more when we know more. You have your orders.”
“But sir, I…” The transmission ended and caused Kyo’s eyes to narrow. “What about this damn body in the back of my car!? Shit!” Punching the console, the frustrated singer sighed. “I didn’t mean it, Shiro.” No response. “Right. To Jupiter then…”
The fifth planet from the sun was covered in noxious gases where only miners went to gather liquid metallic hydrogen while wearing strong hazard suits and operating hovercrafts. Despite the actual dangers of the planet itself, the sixty-six moons, however, made for great tourist spots. At least, that’s what the brochures would say. In reality, it was a haven for dozens of shady slum bars full of mercs that were from the bottom of the barrel. For humans who were looking for a quick way out of the Sol system, either alive or in a body bag, the moons of Jupiter was the spot to go. Even Kyo, who often went to underground trashy places like these to get his Creeper or Hallex fix before the Reaper invasion, had never stepped onto one of these bases before. On the shuttle’s control panel, he pulled up the galaxy map which was now displaying that annoying red blip that seemed to now dictate hiss life. It was firmly located on one of the smaller moons.
Since the invasion, many of the rundown cantinas and dives had been taken over as outlooks and small base camps. With any luck, this particular spot would be least somewhat friendly to the Alliance military by now. “So we’re looking for this Kaidan Alenko guy? Hm, any idea where he might be, Shiro?” Turning the pilot chair around, Kyo looked to the unconscious man for some sort of sign. “Geesh, you really need to do something. Blink once for yes, twice for no? Wave your arms around? Nothing?” There was a beeping noise that suddenly came on Kyo’s omni-tool which may have indicated that something he had just asked for. Holding the arm up, its pop-up screen displayed an image of the missing Major as a small animatronic voice spoke.
“Scanning. Scanning. Found.” In the place of Major Alenko’s face was now an arrow that kept pointing in the same direction no matter where Kyo moved, much like a compass.
“…Well, that’s convenient,” Kyo said to himself loudly, indicating that he was hardly surprised that this sort of weird shit kept happening anymore. The chair was then turned back as the solider tapped at the console up front. “This is Sergeant Kyo Takashi, Alliance Military, requesting permission to dock. Authorization code: Alpha Romeo four-two-niner.”
“Copy that Sergeant, dock in bay 4-H. How many are in your landing party?” A gruff manish voice spoke over the radio in response to the hail.
“Just myself…and a…uh…drunk friend. He’s passed out, you know, rough night.”
“Ha, copy that. Clearance for two approved. Welcome to Base Turanga.” The shuttle shook as it landed in the twisted metal of the thrown together docking bay that was littered with more than just a few ghost ships which had been stripped down to their frames for parts. When the hatch opened, Kyo had Shiro repositioned onto his back as he was saluted by a bearded dock worker. “Wow, when you said you had a friend passed out, we didn’t think you meant it. You want to head to the med bay?”
“Nah, he’s fine. Hey, have you seen or heard from Major Kaidan Alenko? I heard he’s on this rock somewhere.” There was a slight pause as the worker looked away. The shifting light brown eyes underneath the mess of mouse-blonde hair and Alliance baseball cap called his bluff long before an answer escaped the thin, dry lips.
“O--Only thing I know is that he was there for the final push with Commander Shepard. Shepard saved him before he…you know…”
“Yeah, I heard that too. Well, thanks anyway. Where can I get a drink around here?” The worker perked up immediately.
“Oh, take the path inside on the left and follow the lights. You can’t miss it. Only place that isn’t really dead around here. “
“Thanks, pal. Come on, Shiro.” Shifting his weight, Kyo made sure he had a good hold on Shiro’s thighs since the body was lying limp against the armored back. Out of sight, the Sergeant held up the omni-tool again. Turning, the arrow seemed to fixate in the same direction as the bar. It was a wonder why the Major was hiding in a place like this. It was all too hush-hush for Kyo’s tastes, personally. While the streets seemed to be littered with various races, a good number of them were still human. There was a make-shift clinic being run by some Asari and Salarians, while Krogans and Turians patrolled to keep the mercs in line. There were even a few Quarians about, which was no surprise since this place was a giant scrapyard.
“Hey! Someone stop them!” The muffled yells of an older Quarian male were heard, causing Kyo to turn around as two suits ran by him in a dash.
“Keep your mouth shut and I’ll give you thirty credits!” It was from the voice of a female suit that was then followed by a slightly smaller male one.
“Hey, hey you! Human!” The owner of the older male voice was seen. “Have you seen two kids around here. Quarian kids. They just ran off with a box of my tools and some Geth parts. They…”
“Sorry, I didn’t see anyone. Was watching that fight over there.” Pointing, Kyo motioned to the opposite direction of a Turian and Krogan having it out over what appeared to be either over an Asari or a pissing contest.
“Kelaah, another one. Well, if you see them I’ll give you some credits if you can get my tools back.”
“I’ll keep an eye out, sir.” Waving the human off, the Quarian went back to his workbench in despair. When out of sight, Kyo moved to look down the alleyway where the younger pair had taken off to. Curious, he kept walking until he spotted them hovered down and going through their new stash. “Hey.”
Startled, the female jumped to her feet holding out what appeared to be a sonic screwdriver. “Stand back, I know how to use this!”
“…It’s a screwdriver.” So it was.
“Yes, but it can be very dangerous! I…” Laughing, Kyo used a free hand to try to motion that he wasn’t about to start a fight.
“Look, I’m not going to hurt you or shake you down. What the hell are you two doing anyway?”
“Fixing our Geth.” The younger boy spoke up very clearly since he was obviously too busy in whatever he was doing to be concerned.
“Shut up, Chekov! Keelah, I told you to keep your big mouth shut.” Chekov then turned to the female as his head tilted.
“But Leliah, we are…”
“Shush!” Kyo had stopped to watch, trying his best not to laugh which triggered a nervous laugh from Leliah, herself.
“Ha…haha…I’m Leliah and this minor, big-mouthed annoyance is my little brother, Chekov. We…are…just…well.”
“Stealing parts to fix Geth, but you know they were wiped out from the Crucible, right? All the AI went dark and even VI flickered out from the EMP blast.”
“Went dark, yes, but they are software. Software doesn’t just ‘die’. The program may be damaged or can’t be read, but we can’t just believe that they all died.” There was sadness to her voice, along with a sense of longing. “We had Geth in our suits when the Crucible was fired. We felt them, you know? It’s like they just went to sleep. If we can find a way to turn even one back on, then they can help with the others. They were helping us adapt and were our friends.” Kyo looked to her helmet before the omni-tool went off again.
“He’s on the move. Look kids, stop stealing and I have to go.”
“Huh? A VI?” Before he knew it, Kyo’s arm had been hijacked and started to be tapped away at by the curious girl. “Hmm, a biometric reading? Seems like it’s in The Black Hole bar. No, this is wrong.”
“Hey! Kid! Let go!” The struggle to pull away while carrying another human being without hurting the lady Quarian on accident seemed to be too much for Kyo to do right now. Instead, he just held still.
“There, the map is actually reading underground. I’ve updated your Nav-Point to show the underground tunnels. There’s a training camp down there for human Biotics, so you should be able to find this Major Alenko or whoever the heck that is.” Pulling up his own tool, Chekov began a search.
“Major Kaidan Alenko, Human Spectre; second most popular to Commander Shepard, especially since they started a romantic relationship. Continuing search on how Human males procreate with other human males…”
“Hey, you’re a little young for porn, kid! Especially that kind!” Kyo all but face-palmed as Chekov seemed to be a bit too serious for his own age. “So, how do I get underground?”
“Well, I could show you…but…” There was a devious pause from Leliah.
“But?”
“You’ll have to take us with you.”
“No.”
“Oh, come on! Look, we have these mechs programmed to fight for us and you’re a little…preoccupied carrying that thing behind you. Not to mention, when you find this guy, you have to take us with you. We can’t stay here on this rock forever!”
“I said no.”
“You’ll never find a way underground without us.”
A heavy sigh escaped Kyo’s lips and he turned. “Fine, but stay behind me and keep out of sight. I can fight with one-hand whatever giant sewer rats are down there and I’m dropping you off at the first major port, you got me?”
“Yes! Chekov! Get your stuff and ready the rocket mechs!”
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