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Turnabout-	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 7688 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This story takes place within Bioware's Mass Effect Universe, their creative property. I do not own any of Bioware's stories or characters or locations. The Author recieved no money from this story and is writing it purely for entertainment.

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Liara had shaken off the two guards that the Ambassador had order to drag her to Shepard. She moved down lift that would hopefully take her to the level that Cayle was on. She stood for a second and then decided the lift just might be the wrong idea. She opted instead to find a set of stairs that would take her down. As she reached the door she felt a bullet whiz by her head and spun around as she placed a barrier in front of her. One of the guards she thought was down was on one knee and firing.
Backing up to through the door she only lowered the barrier when she stepped through and sealed the door. She ran down the stair only making it half way before guards came up at her. She threw a warp in their direction and continued. She did not want to waste time. She had no idea what condition Cayle would be in. She was almost by when she felt an arm grab her around the waist. She struggled to get free, head butting the man in the face. She smiled as she saw blood flowing from his nose and thought she father would be proud of her, being part Krogan and all. Not that she would ever admit to it. She removed his shot gun and fired it into him.
She moved further down and out into a hall way and shot again as two Cerberus agent approached. Someone grabbed her from behind.
“That is about enough of that,” The man said, securing her hand. A few more guard approached from down the hall. “The Ambassador want her in the same interrogation room as Shepard.”
Before they could go any further she was suddenly covered in a wash of blood as the man’s head exploded. She turned to see several marine come from the stair way. One of them approached her.
“Ye sure pissed aff th' boss, missy. She had us gonnae foo tilt tae we fin' ye.” Liara raised a brow, he sounded an awful lot like Donnelly, Scottish, she was sure he had said he was Scottish.
“They have Shepard down here,” Liara said.
“Hauld it a moment, we'll check their computers, fin' it which room she is in,” he said held out his omni tool. He moved over to the console for the lift. “Am Major Gard by th' way.”
Liara was not interested in introduction. She moved to stand beside him. “Anything?”
“Gezz a minute,” The Major said as his biggish finger moved over the interface, “ Th' boss said we’ur tae brin' ye an' Shepard back in one piece, so please jist be patient.”
Liara was not interested in being patient either. Her arm crossed over her chest and she leaned back, biting her lip to stop her from saying something she might regret. The man and his unit were just trying to help. She started to tap her foot without even realizing it.

“Foond ‘er,” He said after a minute or two, he started to move down the hall with Liara and his unit following, “thes way.”

By the time they got to the door Liara could already sense her she was fighting and she was hurt.
“She’s in there,” she said to the Major.

“Ye jist stain back, lit us gang in an' clear th' room.” The Major said.
“I don’t think so,” Liara reached out and open the door before the major could protest and came face to face with Shepard. Her lover was breathing heavy and looked at her for a moment as if in a trance. Liara’s heart jumped as she looked, one eye was bruised shut and she was bleeding from her ears and nose. Blood even trickles from the side of her mouth. Hatred flared through Liara like it have never before. She would kill the Ambassador for what he did to Cayle.
“Liara,” Shepard whispered, barely able to speak. Shepard took a deep breath and then collapsed to her knees; Liara caught her before she crashed to the floor.
“I got you lover,” Liara said gently and guided her out of the room, Major Gard moved his men past her into the room to take care of the Cerberus troops that Cayle had been fighting. Liara could hear the battle muffled from behind the door.
“You’re here,” Cayle said and smiled.
“I had to come,” Liara smiled back and brushed her fingers over her forehead, moving her hair away from a cut. “You gave the order for us to come and get you.
“So you brought an army with you.”
“I brought them all, just for you,” Liara said and kissed her as she practically held Cayle on her feet.
“I love you, but I really want to get the hell out of this place.” Cayle said when their lips parted.
“I think that is a great idea,” She said and they continued to make their way back to the forward base of operation. Two of the marines went with them.
They managed to get half way back before Liara felt her feet taken out below her and she was floating in the air. Before she could say anything she was flying through the air and into a wall. Cayle fell to the ground when Liara was forced to release her. Cayle heard several shot and when she managed to stand it was The Ambassador walking towards her.
“That’s a neat trick you hid from me,” Shepard said, forcing herself to stand straight, “biotics.”
“There were a few things you did not need to know Cayle,” he said and moved until he was right in front of her. She looked into his eyes.
“I’m going to kill you,” Shepard said.
“Maybe, but not right now,” He grabbed her by the arm and motioned for his two bodyguards to grab Liara. They moved back into his office.
“I’m going to have to train those Marines how to clear out a room much better,” Shepard said as they moved. She looked back as one of the guards was carrying Liara. She had a bump forming on her head, and what appeared to be an older cut, but looked unhurt otherwise.
“Oh it’s not their fault,” The Ambassador said, “I have little tricks of my own and you showed me how valuable being cloaked can be.”
They moved into his room and he closed and locked the door behind them.
“Why did you not just get out of here when you could,” Shepard asked. She would have made her escape if she had been him.
“Not yet my dear, I still have a task for you,” he said and opened a large metal case that was sitting on his desk. Inside was a medium sized black box with blue lines, like electric bolts flowing through it.
“What is that?” She asked.
“That, Cayle, is my future, the control harness for Harbinger. You are going to tell me just what it control and how to use it,” He said.
“No,” Cayle started, “I don’t think I am.”
The Ambassador smiled and took her hands in his and placed them on the harness. For a few second nothing happened and Shepard looked up from the box to him with a sneer on her face.
“There you go, all this for not…” the blue streaks shot suddenly from the box and up through her arms. Her whole body went taut as the blue streaks flowed through her system. She had felt this before, the first time she had come in contact with the Prothean device on Eden Prime. Images flowed through her head making only a little more sense, but with the images came locations and solar charts and star systems she had never seen before. Like the original Prothean device there was pain and death and destruction but the races involved she had never seen before. The images and feeling hit every nerve in her body and the pain was sharp and unyielding for an undetermined amount of time. Then as quickly as it hit, it was gone and Shepard fell to the ground.
Her mind was a mess and she had a hard time putting it back in order as the images remained and haunted her. She struggled to stand.
“Shepard!” It was Liara, who was somehow at her side. “What did you do to her?”
“Well?” The Ambassador was looking for her to revel what she had seen but she was barely able to talk. Even if she could she had a bit of an idea of what the information was and there was no way she would ever give it to him.
“Go to hell,” She finally managed to spit out and Liara decided to oblige her and before the Ambassador could even respond Liara threw a singularity field at him. He barely managed to get out of the way, pulling out a pistol but Liara placed a barrier between them quickly.
“This ends today,” Liara said. Cayle moved to her feet, gathering as much energy she could. There were two guards to deal with; Liara could not take them all on herself. For the first time in her life she wished she had some sort of biotic abilities. She accosted the closest guard, attaching herself to his body and using her knees and elbows to work on him. Liara ignored the guard and went directly at the Ambassador.
Cayle managed to wrestle the pistol from the guard and jammed it under his neck and fired. She blinked only slightly as she was showered with blood, teeth and brains. She fell to her knees and turned on the other guard how was aiming at Liara. Shepard took no time to open fire at him but he rolled behind the desk. Shepard ran and slid over the desk landing on him on the other side. She quickly fired to shot into the top of his head, thinking only slightly that they were the kind of kills that Lissa would make. At this point it didn’t really matter.
She turned to the Ambassador gaining some energy; before she could fire though he threw her across the room. He turned to her firing she dove back behind the desk. This was far too small of a room to be having a battle in. Shepard grabbed the guards Omni tool. She came up while he was distracted by Liara and ran at him. He turned and threw her into Liara as she was about launch her own attack.
He blew out the window to his office and lowered himself to the ground. Shepard looked to Liara. “Catch me,” She said and jumped out after the man.
“Shepard!!” she called and ran catching the Spectre in her own field before she hit the ground. She lowered her gently cursing in her head. She quickly grabbed the harness and followed. The marines had obviously cleared the room and moved out. She watched as Shepard picked up and assault rifle and ran after the Ambassador. Liara quickly followed grabbing herself a weapon. She could help but wonder how Shepard could do. How even though it looked like she had nothing left to give she always found a way to give more.
She was slowly catching up to her lover when they turned into a room, she ran faster and as she entered the overly large warehouse type room, she felt a hand on her wrist and was pulled to the ground. Shepard covered her with her body as something exploded into the wall where the door had been.
“He found a Mech, or armour of some sort” Shepard said.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Liara took a second to look out, expecting to see an armoured vehicle. Instead the Ambassador was encased in some pink like glow, almost like the armour the tech armour Liara had seen Sentential use, expect this covered his entire body and she had a feeling it did more than just being an extra shield. “What the hell is that?”
“I really don’t know, some sort of light Mech like thing that has tech armour as well
Shepard brought up her omni tool and was disappointed but not surprised to note there were no tech programs on it. It did have the cloak program that the Ambassador had been so proud of earlier. “I can get on the other side of him. I shot a few times with the assault rifle but it was not very effective. We might have to get in close.”
“We have no over loading electrical surges this time,” Liara said with a slight smile.
“No but I have cloak and I can hack into the armour. I’ll get to the other side and bring the armour down and then we can attack.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Liara kissed her quickly, “For luck.”
Shepard gave her the lopsided grin that she loved so much and disappeared. The Spectre was using strength that she really should not have as she pushed off and moved as quietly as possible.
“Well Shepard, did you see?” The Ambassador said, spinning around as if knowing she was moving. “It’s the future and it needs to be ours.”
She wanted to tell him that he was talking too much but it seemed as though high ranking Cerberus officials were prone to that disease. The Illusive Man loved to hear himself talk, all the time, it seemed as though the Ambassador like to as well.
Truth was Shepard was not sure of what she had seen. She had an idea, but she was more than certain it was not what the Ambassador was hoping for. She needed time, perhaps to view the message again, or maybe even get Javik to look at it.
She moved to the other side of the room and brought the Omni tool up she quickly set to work, sabotaging the armour. She sent it off and then attacked. As she did the cloak dropped, she opened fire but groaned as the shield was still active. She was even more annoyed as the Ambassador turned in her direction and returned fire.
“Damn,” She grunted as she dived out of the way and then rolled for better cover. She cloaked again as Liara threw a singularity in his way. He walked threw it as if it was not there.
“The funny thing is, Cayle, this was to be Lissa’s armour. It’s a little slow but it has some amazing abilities, like a defence against hacking,” turned back to her, it was indeed faster than a normal large Mech, but then it was only a quarter of the bulk enriched with the tactical cloak and added in some extra fire power. It was more like an exoskeleton than a Mech. She wasn’t surprised; Cerberus had been making some great leaps in technology while the rest of the Galaxy was putting itself back together.
She moved quietly away from where she had taken cover.
“One other little surprise,” The ambassador continue and turned and forced Cayle into a corner. “Cloak is useless, it detects body heat.”
He opened fire a second later then it took Liara to surround Cayle in a barrier. She moved behind him, the anger taking her over completely. How dare this man even attempt to take away the woman Liara had just got back. It was bad move but she was not thinking clearly. She raised both hands and lashed them out harshly in his direction as he turned to face her blue wisps shot from them and surrounded him for a second before it lifted him into the air and threw him into the wall. She fell to her knees, drained.
Shepard took the opportunity and jumped on the Ambassador punching and kicking. The Ambassador responded in kind but Cayle was tapering in energy quickly and was not sure how much more she could take. She fell to her knees as the Ambassador hit her one again; she fell face down on the ground and struggled to get up.
“Well, it was a good try, Shepard,” the Ambassador said, “Even you could only take so much no one can blame you, and it was a good fight.”
The Ambassador grabbed a pistol and placed it against Cayle’s head. She had nothing left to push it away. She pushed herself to her knees and looked up at him defiantly.
“You forgot about something,” Shepard said breathing heavily.
As they fought Liara had climbed to a boom hanging from a catwalk and loosened a large beam that had been held up. It was connected to crane and as she disconnected the wire holding it to the cat walk the beam arced down. It took only a little biotic push to force it in the right direction. Cayle fell flat to the ground as the beam fell, striking the Ambassador and carrying him to and threw the wall. Shepard smiled up to Liara.
“Quick thinking Blue,” She said with a smile, “Now can you help me up.”
Liara floated to the ground and grabbed the harness as she moved and helped Shepard to her feet. The Spectre leaned heavily on her. They moved over to where the Ambassador had been thrown and looked.
The exoskeleton lay on the ground empty but the man was nowhere to be found. “Maybe he’s under the rubble?” Shepard asked.
“We can only hope,” Liara answered.
“Shepard?” Garrus limped into the room followed by the Marines from the Normandy. Shepard smiled to him.
“Garrus, you’re late to the party,” Cayle said with a smile. Garrus laughed.
“Judging by the looks of you it must have been quite the party,” he replied.
“I’ve been to better.”
“We got the harness,” Liara said and handed it to the Turian.
“Do we know what it does?”
“Oh, I think I have an idea.” Shepard said. “Let’s get it on board the Normandy and when we are feeling better, I’ll tell you all about it.”
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