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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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After watching Bowers's grisly fate, Delaana ordered the vorcha to patrol the ship, and search for any more of the "mutineers." As much as it would have been nice to have a team of vorcha watching their back for what was to come next, Liara doubted they'd be able to convince even these dim beasts to attack the Shadow Broker. Both because they knew he was supposed to be the commander above Delaana, and mostly out of the varren's natural instinct towards self-preservation.

They were going to have to do this next part on their own.

She felt her mind flashing back to this moment from the last time. Stepping into the Shadow Broker's office a month ago, no idea what she was about to face, and nervous about the possibilities.

Now, she was even more scared. Because it wasn't just her petty revenge on the line now. It was the life of herself and the woman she loved.

When they stepped into the room, the Shadow Broker was waiting for them, in the same chair he had been in when they had entered the first time a month ago. He seemed calm in the face of their arrival, his eight eyes locked on them as they advanced.

"It seems Bowers and his team were not up to the task," the Shadow Broker observed casually. "I will need to take more care in my recruitment efforts the next time."

"There isn't going to be a next time," Liara exclaimed. "You're finished."

The Broker let out a deep rumble, probably his species' version of a laugh. "I seem to remember you expressing a similar sentiment the last time we met, Dr. T'Soni. What makes you believe that you will fare any better this time around?"

"You killed my friend Feron," Liara snapped. "You turned people I cared about into your playthings, brainwashed them into your slaves. You tried to take everything away from me, even my own mind!" Liara bared her teeth at the hideous monster. "The last time I entered this room, I wanted to defeat you. This time, the only thing I have left to live for is to see you dead!"

"Your courage is admirable, in the face of what has been done," the Broker said. "But I'm afraid it's time to put your escape attempt to an end. You may have killed the rest of them, but I still have one more tool at my disposal."

The door on the platform behind the Shadow Broker opened, and Liara felt a chill as she saw who emerged.

Stepping to the ramps on either side of the platform, the Shadow Broker's last two soldiers descended onto the field of battle. Miranda from the left side, and Shepard from the right. Each of them still naked with their collars, and each of them with an assault rifle in their hands.

"Drop your weapons," the Shadow Broker said, as the two human women joined him at his sides. "Or I will order these women to open fire upon you. Unfortunately, I have little doubt your weapons would tear their unprotected bodies to shreds if you would decide to return fire upon them. Or you could let them kill you, if you prefer."

Delaana looked over at Liara. "Let me take the shots. I can incapacitate them without killing them, I promise."

"No," Liara whispered back. There was no 100% certain disabling wound. She wasn't going to take the chance of Delaana accidentally killing one of them.

"Well, what the hell are we supposed to do, then?" Delaana asked. "There's no damn way I'm dropping my weapon for this bastard. Not when we've come this far."

Liara turned back to the Shadow Broker, the horrid monster calmly sitting while Shepard and Miranda stared at him lovingly, waiting for his orders. The whole sight of it disgusted Liara more than she could have ever imagined.

"So, after all this, this is how you claim victory," Liara finally said to the Shadow Broker. "Hiding behind women, too afraid to face us yourself."

The Shadow Broker stared at her intently. "Your attempts to goad me into a fight will not work this time, Dr. T'Soni. I have already shown my superiority to you once; I feel no need to demonstrate it again."
"Is that really what it is?" Liara put a caustic tone to the question. "Or is the truth that you just got lucky the last time? You had me in your clutches then. Right in the palm of your hand. A simple squeeze, and I would have been dead, and you would have had only Shepard to contend with. So now I'm wondering: did you make Shepard drop her gun because you wanted to show her she'd already been defeated... or were you worried that if she didn't, she was going to kill you?"

The Shadow Broker let out a deep breath. "You would do well not to provoke me, T'Soni. If I wished, I could reach my hand out right now, and snap your Shepard's neck without a second thought."

"But then you wouldn't have a defenseless woman to hide behind anymore," Liara said, her voice filled with disgust. "Tell me, is that how you defeated the previous Shadow Broker? Cowering behind a human shield?

Standing up from his chair, the Shadow Broker let out a deep, guttural snarl. "You have ten seconds, before I tell these women to shoot! Drop your weapon right now."

"Fine," Liara said, tossing her pistol at her feet and glaring at the Shadow Broker. "But no matter what happens to me or my friends, I'll go to whatever fate I'm destined for knowing that you couldn't defeat me. That for all your claims of superiority, you are worse than a slave. Worse than a pet."

Liara took a step towards the Shadow Broker and spat out the last words. "You're a coward."

With a furious growl, the Shadow Broker charged at her. Liara dropped down to scoop up the pistol at her feet before rolling away, the Shadow Broker hitting the wall behind her and seeming to shake the whole ship with the impact.

"Take this, you bastard!" Delaana yelled out, pouring bullets into the Broker's kinetic shield as he recovered from the impact. As her thermal clip was exhausted, she grabbed one of her two remaining grenades and flung it in the Broker's direction. By this time, however, the beast had recovered, and he triggered his omnishield and ducked behind it, the blast going off harmlessly around him.

"Aim carefully!" Liara yelled to Delaana. "Don't hit Shepard and Miranda in the crossfire!" She looked over in concern at the two human females, who simply watched and waited for the next orders from their master.

"Hit him with a singularity," Delaana called out. "I'll try to take down his shield with disruptor ammo!"

Liara nodded, firing off the biotic pulse and watching in satisfaction as the Shadow Broker reared back in pain. Delaana fired off several short bursts, and by the time her next clip was gone, her shots had overloaded his shields and impacted against his body armor.

Liara's feeling of elation at their progress turned sour, however, when she saw the Broker trigger the powerful shield he had used in their previous battle. Delaana's shots bounced off the protective barrier, and Liara watched in horror as the beast reached behind his back to pull out his M-76 Revenant and swing to point it at Shepard. "Now, T'Soni, you will watch as I kill the woman you love!"

"NO!" Liara screamed, her body flooding with adrenaline as she charged at the Shadow Broker. Cocking back her fist and charging it with all of the biotic force she could muster, she sent a punch straight into the side of the Shadow Broker's head. It might have been the combat enhancer, or just the fear for Shepard, but whatever it was, it put enough power into her blow to send the Shadow Broker reeling.

"This is for what you did to Shepard!" Liara cried out, throwing another fierce, biotically charged punch into the monster's face. "And this is for Miranda!" she threw another blow, the Shadow Broker taking a step backwards from the impact. "And this is for Feron!" Liara charged in with another strike, and the Broker snarled as he felt the force of her fist.

Her punches were working to keep the Shadow Broker at bay, but she couldn't keep this up forever. She could already feel the rush of the combat enhancement drug starting to wear off. There wasn't much time left.
She swung at the Broker again, but she was too slow, and the Broker took a step back to evade her blow, leaving her off-balance. Before she could react, the Shadow Broker raised up his omnishield, ready to bring it down onto Liara's head.

"Watch out!" she heard Delaana cry out, and then Liara was shoved aside, the Broker's blow just barely missing her and sparking off the metal deck. Delaana's desperate push left her and Liara sprawled on the floor, and before Liara could regain her feet, she could see the Shadow Broker grab Delaana off the ground and dangle her in the air.

"A familiar situation we find ourselves in, Dr. T'Soni," the Shadow Broker said, holding the helpless Delaana aloft and putting her on display for Liara. The asari mercenary kicked in the air, clawing ineffectually at the fingers around her throat. "Now then: drop your weapon and surrender, and I will allow you and your comrade here to join Shepard and Miranda as my slaves, rather than kill you as you deserve."

"Shoot the fucker," Delaana choked out from the Broker's grasp. "Don't worry about me. I saw..." Her next words were cut off by the tightening of the Broker's fingers around her neck.

Liara aimed her pistol at the Broker, but her aim wavered. "Shoot him," a voice in Liara's head urged. "You have to save Shepard. Don't worry about her. She's just an Ardat-Yakshi."

"No," she said under her breath. "I can't do it."

Delaana saw Liara's hesitation, and her expression turned mournful. "Liara, listen to me," she barely managed to say as the Shadow Broker squeezed on her throat. "I'm happy I got to know you. And I'm so sorry for everything I've done. To you... to everyone." She saw tears start to flow from Delaana's eyes as she said. "And I know you could never feel the same way... but I love you."

And with that, Delaana reached for her belt, pulled off her last grenade, and shoved her hand as far as she could into the Shadow Broker's throat. "Suck on this, you fucker!" she screamed, as the Broker's teeth clamped down on her arm and bit deep into her flesh.
Liara got to her feet and watched helplessly, as the Shadow Broker snarled and choked around Delaana's arm thrusting down his esophagus. The yahg released his grip on Delaana, but she grabbed with her other hand onto the side of the Broker's face, clinging with all her strength while the Shadow Broker desperately tried to shake her away. Her blood dripped down the Shadow Broker's chin in sick purple spurts, as the yahg's vicious teeth cut deeper into her arm, still buried down his throat.

Raising her pistol, Liara tried to aim a shot at the Shadow Broker. But he was thrashing around wildly, Delaana dangling from his face and in Liara's line of fire, and Liara suddenly realized that her hands had started to shake.

"The combat drug," Liara thought. "It's wearing off!" Even now, she could feel the sense of euphoria and power that had flooded her earlier, start to dampen and recede. Her legs felt weak under her, as a month's worth of muscle atrophy started to catch up with her.

As Liara fought against the weakness, trying to get a good aim on her enemy, the sound of crunching bone echoed across the walls of the Shadow Broker's office. With a spurt of blood, Delaana fell away from the Broker's scissoring maw, a ragged stump where her arm had been severed by the Broker's teeth, just above the elbow. Grabbing onto her with his free hand, the Shadow Broker yanked her limp form away and tossed it across his office. Delaana hit the ground in a heap and laid still.

Staring over at Liara, the Shadow Broker leaned back and spat in her direction. Liara took a quick step back, just as Delaana's dismembered arm struck the floor in front of her in a pool of purple fluids.

"And now, Dr. T'Soni, you will..." the Shadow Broker started to say, then followed Liara's gaze down to Delaana's arm.

The severed limb's hand was empty.

The Shadow Broker had time to look back up at Liara with a snarl of anger, before the grenade went off inside of him. The explosion was muffled, and contained within the yahg's thick skin, but the Shadow Broker roared in pain nonetheless. Liara stepped toward the moaning monster, watching with satisfaction as the Shadow Broker fell forward onto his knees. Groaning through his death throes, the Broker clutched at his insides with one hand, while using the other to...

Liara took a step back in shock, as the Shadow Broker weakly managed to raise the Revenant still in his hand. "You..." the dying creature spat out blood and liquefied bits of his entrails as he took aim at Liara. "You... may have defeated me, Dr. T'Soni. But... you... you won't leave this ship... alive..."

In vain, Liara tried to raise a barrier against the shots. But the combat drug had almost completely worn off, and her shield fizzled and died almost as soon as she summoned it. She felt drained, too weak to even try and dodge the incoming bullets. The Shadow Broker steadied his shaking hand and, with his last bit of energy, he made to pull the trigger.

"Shepard, I'm sorry," Liara said, closing her eyes and waiting for it. "I came so close..."

Shots rang out, and Liara waited for the sting of the bullets. It was a second before she realized that she felt absolutely nothing. She opened her eyes to see the Revenant drop out of the Broker's hand to the floor. With one last dying gurgle, the Shadow Broker pitched forward and fell dead. Liara saw several smoking holes in the fabric of his suit as he fell, bullets having struck him from behind.

And standing behind him, Shepard lowered her assault rifle. "Liara," she said, dropping the weapon and rushing towards her in concern. "Are you okay, Liara?"

"Shepard," Liara said, before feeling herself weakly tumbling forward. All of her strength was gone, but as she felt Shepard catch her mid-fall, the realization of it all filled her with waves of relief.

It was over. They had actually won. She started sobbing into Shepard's shoulder, almost unable to believe that they had succeeded.
Mustering her strength, she managed to pull slightly away from Shepard and stare at her in wonder. "But... I thought the Broker had you under his control."

"He did," Shepard said numbly. "I would have done almost anything for him." She smiled weakly. "But I could have never let him hurt you. If he had given that order, I would have shot myself before I would have even considered firing on you."

Tears streaked her face, as she raised a trembling hand to stroke Shepard's cheek. "Shepard, I... I lo..."

"You killed him," they heard a voice behind them, and both of them turned to see Miranda standing over the corpse of the Shadow Broker. "You killed the master." She stared up with anger in her face, her own rifle still clutched in her hands. "You ruined everything!"

"Miranda, listen to me," Shepard said, making sure that Liara was steady on her feet before walking towards Miranda. "Just drop the gun, and calm down."

"But he was going to take us to the facility!" Miranda cried out, face twisted with sorrow. "We were going to be his favorite pets! How could you do this?"

Shepard raised her hands. "Miranda, I want you to think about who we were before all this. Remember the Collectors, the Reapers. Remember our mission, to save the galaxy."

"But I don't want to remember," Miranda protested, shaking the rifle in her hands like a petulant child with her favorite toy. "I just want to fuck. I'm so horny, Shepard." She looked down to leer at Shepard's body as she approached, and lazily smiled. "Will you fuck me, Shepard? It's been too long since I got to eat your pussy. Come on, let's fuck."

"We will," Shepard said, now standing close to Miranda. "Just hand me the rifle, and I promise that we'll fuck later."

Miranda pouted. "Aw, why later?" she said, but nonetheless handed the assault rifle over to Shepard. "Don't forget, you promised to fuck me."

"I know," Shepard said. "Now, how about we..."

"Shadow Broker, this is Operative Murat," said a voice from the direction of the other side of the room. All three of them turned to see a series of holographic displays hovering, showing voice connections with the Broker's various operatives. "Awaiting information on current directives. Can you confirm status?"

"Operative Shora requesting update," said another voice, female. "Are you still there, Shadow Broker?"

A few voices soon turned into dozens, voices from the galaxy waiting for further orders from their master.

The Shadow Broker's entire information network, waiting for him to respond.

Liara took a step forward.

"Liara, what are you doing?" Shepard asked, as she and Miranda watched Liara stumble weakly toward the array of communication displays.

In that moment, even when all she wanted to do was lie down and rest... she knew what she had to do. It would be hard work. And she and Shepard would have to be apart for some time. That was the hard part of making this decision.

But if Feron's death... Delaana's death... all of their suffering was going to have any meaning at all, she would have to do it.

After agonizingly forcing her weakened body to step up to the panels, Liara tapped a display and opened a line of communications to all of them simultaneously. "This is the Shadow Broker," she said, her voice being distorted and carried out all across the Shadow Broker's network. "An urgent situation required my attentions elsewhere. However, it is now under control. Resume standard procedures. I want a status report on all operations within the next solar day. Shadow Broker out."

It was done. Liara terminated the connections and then fell to her knees. Shepard's arms wrapped around her from behind, and Liara leaned back into her embrace.

"You sure about this, Liara?" Shepard said softly. "After all we've been through, you think you'll be able to manage all this?"

"I have to," Liara said, trying her best to sound strong despite the weakness in her limbs. "We still have a war to fight out there. We can't afford to forget that. And with the Shadow Broker's contacts, I can do more damage in this ship than I could with a gun out in the field. I need to do this, Shepard," Liara turned slowly to face her as she added, "And I want to do this."
"Okay," Shepard said. "We should get a message off to the Normandy. Let them know to come get us."

Liara nodded. "We will. But first... help me to my feet," Liara stumbled a bit, but she managed to keep upright as Shepard lifted her up from the floor. "There's something else I have to do first."

She walked across the room, past the still remains of their tormenter and captor, to the crumpled form of Delaana up against a wall. Kneeling down, she laid a hand on Delaana's shoulder. "Thank you," she said. "You may have done some terrible things in your life. But we all owe our freedom... our lives to you. May you find peace in the embrace of the Goddess."

"Wh... while I appreciate the thought," said a weak, strained voice from the floor, "Right now I think I'd find a lot more peace with some medigel and the strongest fucking painkillers on the ship."
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