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A Slave... Or A Pet	By : NakedOwlMan Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 94307 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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She fell asleep again at some point. When she awoke, the dream she'd had still lingered in her mind. A terrible dream, of her and Shepard. Both of them completely lost to the Shadow Broker's control, obedient slaves to his will.

It hurt all the more, knowing that it was a dream that was sure to come true.

The door to the cell was still open. She wasn't sure how much time had passed since she had fallen asleep again. It hadn't felt like long, but with no way to know the time, she wasn't able to...

"Get up," she heard the voice from outside her cell. So used to following orders by now, she obeyed almost immediately, before she even recognized the speaker.

Delaana darted into the cell. "Don't say a word," she said, tossing a large bag to the floor in front of Liara. "Just put this on and get ready. It isn't going to be long before the Broker figures out what's going on here."

"Delaana, I told you, I'm..." Liara started to say, but then took a second look at the asari merc. She had put on a set of battle-scarred armor, and was carrying an assault rifle strapped to her back. Several grenades hung from her belt, and she generally looked like she was ready for the battle of her life.

Delaana saw the look in Liara's eyes and gave her a rueful smile. "I've done a lot of stupid, suicidal things in my life. But this one's gotta rank near the top." She shrugged. "But what the hell? I never expected to live past my maiden years, anyway. And dying in bed is for fucking losers." She glared at Liara, who was still standing and looking at her in confusion. "Dammit, get ready! I only barely dodged Bowers on my way here, and once they figure out we're coming to rescue your friends, they're going to start shoring up their defenses!"

When she heard "rescue," it snapped Liara out of her startled trance. Quickly, she opened the bag, finding a suit of light armor, a pistol, and several spare heatsinks. She quickly donned the armor, the feeling of it against her skin odd after a month of forced nudity, but strangely calming. Even if she was heading to her own death, at least she would go out with dignity.

This made her think of Shepard, and she immediately chastised herself. "No, don't think like that," she thought. "You're going to win. You're going to save Shepard and Miranda. You have to."

After both of them had checked their weapons and activated their shields, Delaana extended a fist in Liara's direction, facing down. "Here," Delaana said.

Liara stared at the offered hand in confusion, but then awkwardly bumped her fist against Delaana's.

The asari merc rolled her eyes. "Open your hand, silly," Delaana said. Nodding in understanding, Liara placed her palm under Delaana's fist, and Delaana opened her hand to drop a small, white pill.

"Swallow it," Delaana said. When Liara looked back up at her questioningly, Delaana groaned. "Dammit, if you don't trust me by now... look, you've been sitting on the floor of a damn cell for a month. Your muscles are most likely shot, and I imagine your biotics aren't in great shape either." She nodded down at the pill in Liara's hand. "That's a combat enhancement drug. Won't get you back up to 100%, but it'll at least make sure I don't have to carry your ass the whole damn fight. Of course, you're going to be absolutely useless in about an hour or so, but I figure by that point we'll either have won, or we'll be dead. So, won't matter either way."

Liara took a deep breath, and tossed the pill into her mouth. "How long will it take to have an effect?"

"Five, ten minutes," Delaana said. "Hopefully before Bowers and the rest of them figure out what's going..."

Delaana's next words were cut off by the sudden drone of an emergency siren going off throughout the ship.

"Fate's just out to fuck me up the ass today, isn't it?" Delaana exclaimed ruefully to the heavens. "Come on. Let's show these motherfuckers what true asari strength is all about!" Delaana picked the bag with the spare heatsinks back up and slung it across her back, and the two of them readied their weapons and charged out into the hallway.
"Delaana, you traitorous bitch!" Liara heard Bowers yelling from the other end of the long passage. Shots whizzed past them, as she and Delaana took cover behind opposite wall outcroppings. "The Shadow Broker will have your head for this!"

"If he wants me, he'll have to come get me himself!" Delaana yelled back. "Not send pathetic flunkies like you after me!"

"You're finished, Delaana!" Bowers yelled back, over the sound of the heavy assault rifle fire. "You better fight until you're dead! Because if I capture you alive, I'm gonna give you to the men as a reward before putting the bullet in your brain myself!"

Delaana darted out to fire a burst of semi-automatic fire at the mercs. "In your dreams, you piece of shit!" she cried out, raising a hand to fire off a biotic bolt at the group before ducking back into cover. Taking a deep breath, she glanced over at Liara. "How you doing? Feeling that shit I gave you yet?"

"I don't know," Liara said, not sure if the light surge of energy she was feeling was because of the drug, or just the adrenaline of suddenly being thrust into the middle of a combat zone.

"Well, hopefully it'll start working soon, because otherwise we're fucked," Delaana said. "There's six of them, and only two of us. Not to mention they're already dug into cover, and they've got more weapons than us. I've faced worse odds before, but not by much."

Liara nodded. If she had been with Shepard and part of their usual three-person squad, it would have been a walk in the park. But as of right now, it was essentially a one-person team: Liara could hold up a pistol, but she doubted she could aim it all that well. And with the food they'd be feeding her giving her just enough energy to not pass out from hunger, her biotics were probably worthless, too.

"Gonna have to flush them out," Delaana said, reaching for one of the grenades on her belt. "Keep them scrambling so that they don't get the bright idea of charging us." She reached around to hurl the projectile blindly. Liara glanced around her cover to see the men ducking around the corner and behind wall protrusions, the projectile detonating without giving any of them a scratch. The sound of the explosion was still echoing across the walls of the corridor when the mercs were back out and firing, forcing Liara to duck out of sight again.

"We're too far away," Liara said. "You'll never be able to get them out of cover from here."

Delaana looked at her with a smirk. "Sure you won't change your mind about making a break for it with me? The shuttle bays are just back that way, you know?"

"I know. I downloaded the ship's layout when I got here the first time. And I told you before, I'm not..." Liara trailed off, as she thought back to the first time she had come here. An idea was forming. It was absolutely crazy, but in their current circumstances, crazy might be just what they needed.

She asked Delaana the question that had come to mind, and as Delaana answered, the look on her face showed she realized her former captive's intentions. Even as bullets whizzed past their heads, the asari mercenary couldn't help but laugh. "You tricky bitch!" she said, as she pulled out another grenade and got it ready. "Alright, let's go for it. I'm gonna throw this and give you some covering fire. As soon as it's out of my hand, you run, and you don't look back. I'll be right behind you."

Liara nodded in understanding. She was feeling a pleasant buzz in her head, a sort of euphoria filling her entire body. Again, she wasn't sure if it was the combat drug Delaana gave her, or the thought that maybe, just maybe, they just might make it out of this.

"Delaana, wait," Liara said, as Delaana readied herself to throw the grenade. "I just want you to know that, no matter how this turns out... I was wrong about you. You're not a monster."

Delaana gave her a sad smile. "No, just a starry-eyed idiot," she said. "Get ready to move," Delaana primed the grenade and tossed it down the hallway with all her strength. "Go!" she yelled as she fired off wild shots in the direction of their enemies. "Keep running!"

Liara did as she was commanded.
* * *

"They're falling back!" Grell yelled out, as the group of mercenaries came out of cover after the second grenade explosion. "Shit, they're probably heading for the shuttle bay."

"Let them," Bowers said, gesturing for the team to form up around him. "The Shadow Broker knows what's going on. He's engaged the security locks on all the shuttles. If they think they're going to escape that way, they're going to get a hard fucking lesson pretty soon." He made a gesture down the hallway. "Let's move. Take it slow, no need to rush. Let them wet their panties for a bit while they wait for us to come finish them off."

They moved in formation, Roth and Okoru taking point as they progressed cautiously down the hallway. Even as much as they outmatched their opponents, they weren't taking any chances: Delaana still had some grenades left, and they all knew she might just be waiting to set an ambush.

After several minutes of searching, there was still no sign of the two asari. Solvitis brought up his omni-tool, a holographic display of the ship's layout appearing in the air. "Scanning for life signs," he said, the team stopping for a moment as Solvitis searched for their quarry. "There!" he finally said. "They're in the recreation room." He zoomed in on the map, showing a layout of the room where they had spent much of their time over the last month, breaking in Shepard and Miranda. "Targets stationary. They're just standing in the middle of the room."

"Why the hell would they have gone that way?" Yuri observed in confusion. "There's no weapons down there, no real place to take cover. Just..."

Bowers smirked and interrupted Yuri's line of thought. "Doesn't matter. They're trapped. There's no way out of that hallway other than the way they came in. We've got them cornered like rats." He gestured with two fingers down the hall. "Roth, Okoru, move forward. We'll be right behind you. Try for non-fatal shots if possible, but don't hesitate to blow their fucking heads off if you've got no other option."

The merc team made their way down the hallway, weapons shouldered, ready for anything.

* * *

Liara took a deep breath as the door to the room slid open. Okoru and Roth were the first ones into the room, with the rest of the team following behind. When they saw what was awaiting them inside, all of them started to chuckle.

"Well, looks like we've got you cornered, little darlings," Bowers said from the rear of the group. "How long you think you'll be able to hold out there, huh?"

Liara stood in the center of the room, brow furrowed in concentration as she held up a barrier around herself and Delaana. The combat drug had finally hit her system, and she felt a surge of biotic power unlike she'd ever felt before.

"Long enough," Liara said, the confidence in her voice surprising even herself. "If I were you, gentlemen, I would start running."

"We should start running?" Bowers cackled in amusement. "Bitch, I think you overestimate your chances. All it's gonna take is for your concentration to slip, just a little bit. Once that happens, my men are gonna riddle you and that turncoat bitch with so many bullets, we'll be cleaning up what's left with a mop." He and the rest of the team relaxed, getting into position around the room and waiting in expectation for the barrier to fall.

"Kinda fitting it'd all end here, don't you think?" Bowers asked, as he strolled casually around the biotic shield. "Our favorite room on the ship, where me and my boys fucked those little cunt friends of yours and turned them into obedient little cumsluts. Can't wait until we're finished off you pathetic bitches, so me and the boys can go have another go-around with your buddies. Hey, maybe we'll fuck them over your dead bodies, that'd be a fun way to celebrate, huh?"

"He's trying to break your concentration," Delaana hissed to Liara. "Don't let him get to you."

"I won't," Liara said, smiling over at Delaana. "Besides, it won't be long now."
Bowers slung his assault rifle onto his back, disarming himself to casually cross his arms across his chest. "Of course, your friends are a little busy right now. The Shadow Broker's got them in his office, you know. No doubt he's buried balls-deep in your little sweetie Shepard right as we speak." He glanced over at Solvitis. "Solly, what did you say the Shadow Broker was?"

"A yahg," Solvitis said, pointing at Liara behind the barrier. "That's what she said he was. Some giant beast thing."

"Yeah, something that size, I'm sure he's got a cock big enough to split your horny little bitch's cunt wide open," Bowers vulgarly taunted Liara. "Hell, even if you did manage to somehow beat us and free her from the Shadow Broker... you really think she's gonna want to go back to muff-diving down into your little blue cunt? Nah, once a bitch like that's had a taste of a big hard cock, she ain't never gonna go back."

Liara cocked her head at Bowers. "Very descriptive. Oh, and you have about ten more seconds to talk before this is over, so please, consider your words carefully."

"What the hell are you on about, bitch?" Bowers spat out. Something about the utter calmness on display from Liara was putting him on edge. "What's gonna happen in ten seconds?"

But Liara ignored him, turning her attention instead to another member of Bowers's team. "Roth," she said to the bald headed human mercenary. "Your access code is 62779. You really should have chosen a better encryption algorithm. I just dabble in hacking, and even I was able to figure it out."

"What... what are you talking about?" Roth said, shooting a glance with his one good eye over to Bowers. "You don't think she..."

They all heard it then. The men turned to face the open door to the room, and watch as the door on the other side of the hallway beeped and automatically slid open. The room behind it was a storage room like the one they were currently in, and just like that room had been hastily re-purposed when the mercenaries had arrived.

Into a kennel.

"Sic 'em, boys," Delaana said in sadistic glee, as the recently freed varren slowly prowled out of their opened cages and across the hall, towards the surprised mercenaries.

"Shoot them!" Bowers cried out, a light touch of panic in his voice. The mercenaries grouped back up, their backs to Liara and Delaana, and aimed their weapons at the approaching animals.

Roth stepped forward in front of the group, blocking their shots with his body. "No, don't!" he said, moving to crouch in front of the team and stare down the two ravenous animals. "I can calm them down, trust me!" He put away his weapon and extended his hands to the two slowly approaching varren in a placating gesture. "It's okay, boys. Daddy's here. I'm not gonna let them hurt you, okay?" He smiled at the two beasts as their growling started to lessen in volume. "That's right." He turned to look back at the rest of the mercs with a smile. "You see? They're nothing but overgrown pu..."

And that was when one of the varren leaped straight at him, sending him down to the floor and locking its jaws around his throat. Before the rest of the mercs could even react, the varren had ripped through Roth's jugular, the mercenary's blood dripping from the beast's ferocious teeth.

"Now!" Liara yelled, and dropped the barrier to pull out her pistol. Delaana opened fire on the still disoriented mercs, her rifle shots hitting Okoru in the back and sending him limply to the floor. The surviving mercs turned to face the new threat, only to be blindsided again as the first varren leapt from Roth's bleeding body to target Grell next, while the second varren dodged around Solvitis's wild shots to tackle the turian to the ground.

"Dammit!" Bowers cried out, as he watched Yuri get hoisted into the air by Liara's biotic force, and turned into a defenseless target for Delaana's assault rifle. Looking to his side, he saw Grell shrieking hideously, struggling to grab for his shotgun with his left arm as a varren gnawed on his right arm. Solvitis had his hands locked around the other varren's throat, and was trying with all his strength to keep the beast's violently chomping jaws away from his face.
In the confusion, Bowers went to make a break for it. As he was almost to the door, he felt his leg get caught on something, and looked back to see Okoru on the ground, bleeding but still alive, gripping onto the end of his pant leg with his last remaining strength.

"Please..." he heard Okoru painfully croak out. "Help me, boss..."

"Get the fuck off me!" Bowers yelled, pointing his rifle down and firing shots into Okoru's face until the grip on his ankle fell away. He narrowly dodged a biotic bolt as he ducked out of the room and fled back down the hallway.

Delaana surveyed the remains of Bowers's merc team before turning to Liara. "He's heading for the Shadow Broker's office. We need to get moving."

Liara nodded, the two of them dodging around the bodies of the defeated mercs as they went to chase after Bowers.

Just as they reached the door, there was a growling noise to their left, and Delaana turned just in time to see one of the varren look up from Grell's body to stare down Delaana. The varren leapt, and Delaana belatedly swung her assault rifle around to fire a shot, when suddenly the varren was flung sideways into the wall, a sick crunch as the beast's back was broken. Delaana turned around to see Liara lower her hand, the biotic aura around her dissipating.

"Thanks, pet" Delaana said, and Liara smiled back at her. The moment was interrupted by the yells of Solvitis, who was still struggling against the remaining varren with his bare talons.

"Don't worry, Solvitis," Liara said, her voice bright and pleasant as she watched the turian fight for his life against the varren. "I'm going to bring a team back to rescue you. I promise," she gestured to Delaana, and the two of them turned their backs on Solvitis and stepped out of the room. Liara slamming her fist against the lock trigger for the door as they left.

* * *

They eventually caught up to Bowers just outside the door to the Shadow Broker's office. His weapon had apparently been dropped in his mad dash to escape, and he was unarmed as Liara and Delaana raised their guns. "Freeze!" Liara called out. "Turn around with your hands up."

Slowly, Bowers turned to face the two armed asari. "Well, well," he said, surprisingly calm in the face of the angry women. "Looks like you've got me dead to rights. Only I think there's one little thing you forgot."

"You're right," Delaana said, aiming down the sights of her assault rifle. "To put a couple of bullets in your worthless brain before going in there and taking down the Shadow Broker."

Bowers gave them a cocky smirk. "You think you've won, don't you?"

"Your comrades are dead," Liara said. "You're unarmed, and you're in our way. Maybe we haven't won the battle yet, but you're not making it out of this alive."

The mohawked merc gave a casual shrug. "Oh, I think I just might. And they'd probably agree." He pointed behind Liara and Delaana.

Liara turned and spat out a curse. Behind them were the six vorcha recruits, all armed and with their weapons trained on her and Delaana.

"So, how about you go ahead and drop your guns?" Bowers cockily commanded. "Before I tell these fellas here to open fire."

Delaana looked over at Liara in concern. "Any bright ideas? They're too close to use a grenade, and there's no way we'll be able to take them all down before they close in on us."

Liara couldn't think of anything. The vorcha started moving forward, Liara and Delaana taking a step back as the hideous beasts readied themselves for the attack.

"Goddess," Liara thought to herself. "Not when we were so close. Shepard... I can't have the last time I see you be that horrible encounter in the shuttle bay..."

And then she had it.

"Liara, what the hell are you doing?" Delaana hissed, as Liara placed her weapon on her hip and took a step towards the advancing vorcha.

"Halt!" she barked out. The vorcha, looking at her in confusion, came to a stop. "What exactly do you think you're doing?"

The vorcha glanced at each other. One of them, obviously the leader of the pack, pointed at Bowers. "He say you trying to escape. He say we supposed to kill you now."
"What the hell are you talking about, mister?" Liara said, her voice powerful and commanding. "When you were brought onto this ship, what were you told was your mission?"

"To protect ship for Shadow Broker!" the head vorcha proudly exclaimed. "And be de... decoys! Not know what decoys are, but we promise to do that good!"

"Why are you talking to her?" Bowers protested. "Just kill them already!"

Liara turned and pointed a finger at Bowers. "You shut the hell up, or I'll have Delaana shoot your cock off!" The sudden forcefulness in her voice even took Bowers aback for a second. Liara turned her attention back to the vorcha. "So, you're supposed to protect the ship."

"Yes, we protect ship!" the head vorcha repeated.

"And when you were told you would be protecting the ship... who were you told would be in command of the ship?" Liara said.

The vorcha cocked his head, scratching at his scalp with his claws. Finally, he pointed to Liara's right. "He say that she in charge of ship!"

Delaana, realizing what Liara was up to, quickly stepped toward the vorcha. "That's right. I'm your commander, and I'm here to help protect this ship!" She pointed back at Bowers. "But this man is trying to kill me, and take over the ship for himself!"

"You can't be serious!" Bowers exclaimed, as the vorcha discussed this new information amongst themselves. "I know the vorcha are idiots, but there's no way they..." he pointed a finger at Liara. "She's a prisoner of the Shadow Broker! And this bitch here is helping her escape!"

The head vorcha shook his head. "She not prisoner. She one of the team. You say so yourself."

Bowers stared at the vorcha in disbelief. "What? I didn't say that!"

"You and turian pull prank on little asari," the head vorcha said, his voice filled with pride at his reasoning skills. "Say that once you pull prank on her, she like part of family."

"That's right, I'm one of the team," Liara said. "You men are smart to not let this traitor try to trick you into going against your orders like that."

"Now, your real commander orders you," Delaana chimed in. "Kill this piece of human trash." As the vorcha stepped around Liara and Delaana to advance upon Bowers, Delaana quickly added. "Oh, and don't bother with the weapons. Do it with your bare hands. And teeth."

Bowers took a step back in fear, as the vicious vorcha horde advanced on him. "No, stop! I'm the Shadow Broker's second in command! I'm the one in charge here, not her!"

"Pretty asari call us smart," the head vorcha said. "You call us stupid. We no like be called stupid!"

"It was a joke!" Bowers said, taking another step back and holding his hands up. "Only a joke!"

"Human always joking. Pulling pranks. We no like jokes," the head vorcha said, as he gnashed his fangs. "Me show you what we like!"

"No, no! Stop, please!" Bowers fell backwards onto the floor, and the vorcha swarmed over him. "I'm in charge here, I'm in.... aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Liara winced. Bowers hadn't been wrong. What the vorcha could do with their teeth was not a pretty picture at all.
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