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Slaves of Cerberus	By : NakedOwlMan Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 138070 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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"Jenny, wait up!" Lauren hissed, as she barely managed to keep up with Jenny's hurried dash after Jack. It was a good thing that Jack was so obviously focused on her meeting with Commander Shepard. Even with no shoes on to make noise, Jenny and Lauren were hardly being subtle as they followed in Jack's path.

Lauren considered what she had witnessed in Jack's office, the message from Commander Shepard. Like everyone, she had seen the news stories, the videos that had been released of Shepard claiming to have rejoined Cerberus. Could Jack be right? Khalisah at Westerlund News had assured the viewers that the videos had been authenticated, but everybody still remembered the Gazi Station debacle from last year, when a so-called "eyewitness source" turned out to be lying his ass off. But still... people can change. Maybe Jack didn't know Commander Shepard as well as she thought she did.

In any event, they were going to find out soon. After a little bit more running, Lauren reached the door leading out to the shuttle pad. As before, Jack hadn't even bothered to close it behind her as she made a hasty exit outside of the facility, and cold night air blew through from outside.

Lauren stepped out of the door, which opened out to a metal staircase leading up to a rarely-used landing pad. She had never been in this part of the facility before, and was surprised to see that the pad dangled out from the side of the building over a steep drop, several thick metal supports keeping it suspended over thin air. From the looks of it, it hadn't been part of the original building's design, and was probably hastily secured to the side of the building as a backup landing area. Lauren walked cautiously up the shaking metal stairs, trying her best not to look down at the dizzying drop below her.

Shivering slightly in her PJs as she reached the top of the stairs, Lauren looked around the illuminated landing pad, searching for Jack and Jenny. She spotted Jack first, her back to the facility as she stared out at the night sky and awaited Shepard's arrival. Nearby, behind a row of fuel barrels along the edge of the pad, Jenny crouched and watched Jack.

Moving low, Lauren kept as quiet as possible as she moved to join Jenny. "What the hell are we doing here?" she whispered.

"Shepard's coming here, Lauren," Jenny said, her hushed voice tinged with excitement. "All those stories that Jack used to tell about her... and now she's going to be right here!"

"Yeah, and she's bringing that Cerberus woman here," Lauren said. "Jenny, I don't know if you understood what they were saying back in the office, but when Jack gets her hands on somebody who used to work with Cerberus..."

Jenny sighed and rolled her eyes. "I'm not stupid, Lauren. I know what she's going to do."

"And that's really something you want to see?" Lauren asked her. "Our teacher torturing someone for information? And after that, you know she'd never let somebody from Cerberus walk..."

Her classmate let out a gasp. "It's coming! Look, up there!"

Lauren followed her pointing finger and saw the landing lights descending. Jack saw them too, her nervous pacing coming to a stop as she watched the shuttle slowly coast to a landing. As Jack let her hand rest at her side, Lauren shuddered as she saw a long, wicked-looking knife clasped in her fingers.

Lauren was beginning to regret proposing that they follow Jack tonight. Jenny might have a fascination for their teacher and her dark past, but the thought of watching Jack cutting up a defenseless woman, and probably enjoying every second of it...

Coming to a rest on the pad, the shuttle's engines started winding down. There was a hiss of air, and the side entry door slid open. Stepping out of the shuttle, Commander Anna Shepard gave Jack a warm smile. "Hey, Jack. Been a long time," she said.

"Too damn long," Jack said. "You oughta come by more often, Shepard. I'm sure the kids would get a charge out of seeing a living legend in the flesh."

"Tell you what, Jack," Shepard said with a smirking grin. "Once we've cleared this matter up, and I'm not a fugitive from justice anymore, I'll stop by and give your class a real biotics demonstration. Not the kid's stuff you've probably been showing them."

Jack laughed. "Fuck you, Shepard. You may have made me go a little soft, but don't think I couldn't still kick your ass if you ever challenged me."

"Well, maybe we'll see about that sometime," Shepard said, a peculiar smile on her face as she said it.

Jack glanced around Shepard into the shuttle behind her. "All by yourself? Figured you'd at least have some of your old crew watching your ass through all this. Don't tell me they all believed those bullshit videos and left you trying to beat back Cerberus all by yourself."

"Nah, I've got a team backing me up," Shepard said. "They're pretty close by, actually. But I didn't want them to show themselves just yet." She cocked her neck to the side. "Might try to break up the party, you know?"

Jack nodded. "Yeah, I remember. Garrus, Tali... good enough in a fight, but doubt they'd have the stomach for what's going to happen here. Speaking of which... we're wasting valuable time, ain't we? How about you bring out the Cerberus bitch, and she can meet my best friend here?" Jack brandished the knife, and Lauren shuddered as she saw the blade glint in the landing lights.

"I couldn't think of a better idea," Shepard said. Stepping over to the front of the shuttle, she knocked on the side of the cockpit. "Bring her out."

The cockpit door opened, and the woman from Shepard's vid-call was shoved out of the shuttle by a small, brown-haired woman. Jack watched eagerly as the shuttle pilot directed the woman, hands secured behind her back, to stand in front of Jack.

"Jack, meet Maya Brooks," Shepard said. "I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about."

"Damn right," Jack said, as she moved in close to Brooks. "So. You're the one who ordered the attack on Grissom Academy."

"No, I swear, I didn't..." Brooks started to protest, only for her words to cut off in a terrified squeak, as Jack brought her knife up and held it in front of Brooks's face.

"Deny it one more time, bitch, and I'll take your pretty little nose right off," Jack snarled. Next to her, Lauren heard Jenny's heavy breathing. Jesus, she's getting off on this, Lauren thought to herself.

"Now, then," Jack said, as she took a step back. "We can either do this the easy way, or the hard way. The easy way is, you tell us everything you know about Cerberus, and where we can find the evidence to clear Shepard's name. And after that, I slit your goddamn throat and kick you off the side of this landing pad to let the local wildlife chew up your body and shit you out."

Bringing her knife back up, Jack brought the tip of it a few inches away from one of Brooks's wide, terrified eyes. "Or the hard way, where I see how many pieces of you I can cut off before you tell us everything anyway. Think I'll start with one of your eyes. Pity you're a human supremacist bitch and not a batarian, or you'd still have three spares after that. And once that's done... well, we'll see where the mood takes us."

Pulling the knife away, Jack stepped back and crossed her arms. "So, what's it going to be? Easy way... or hard way?"

As if a switch had been flipped, the terrified expression on Brooks's face suddenly vanished, replaced by a smug smile. "How about instead, we do things... my way."

"Now!" yelled Shepard, and the space around Jack began rippling and shimmering. Jack whirled around just in time to see a circle of armored women with swords in their hands deactivating their cloaks, having surrounded her while she was busy with Brooks.

"What the fu..." Jack said, not noticing Brooks behind her. The supposed captive brought her completely unsecured hands out from behind her back, and quickly reached up to lock a collar around Jack's neck.

Whirling around with her knife, Jack tried to slash at Brooks's face, only for the Cerberus operative to catch her attack. With a twist of Jack's wrist, the knife dropped out of her hand and clattered onto the shuttle pad.

"No," Lauren heard Jenny gasp beside her.

"Sorry, Jack," Shepard said, moving to stand next to Brooks. "Turns out I don't need to have my name cleared after all. Because when it comes to me joining Cerberus... I'm fucking guilty as charged."

Jack snarled, and Lauren could see her straining to use her biotics on her attackers. Brooks let out a vicious laugh. "Like your new fashion accessory, Subject Zero?" she mockingly asked. "Biotic inhibitor collar. Should keep you nice and harmless, for when we start up your new round of experiments."

"I'll kill you," Jack furiously growled. "I'll rip your goddamn throats out!"

"Charming," Shepard said. "Load her up, ladies. We've got a lot of work still to do, and Subject Zero has an appointment with..."

"NO!" the cry was suddenly heard, as Jenny sprang to her feet. "LET HER GO, YOU BITCHES!"

"Jenny, no!" Lauren tried to grab her, but Jenny was already moving, charging at the Cerberus group and firing off biotic bolts that impacted harmlessly off the armored women's barriers.

Lauren watched in horror as Shepard moved to stand in front of the group. She held out her hand, and Jenny's feet left the landing pad as she was pulled into the air. The forward momentum of her charge sent her flying forward, until one of the armored women reached out a hand and caught her helpless hovering body by the neck.

"Aw, look at this!" the armored woman with the grip on Jenny's neck said. "You picked the wrong night to stay up past your bedtime, little girl."

"Let... let her go..." Jenny gasped, struggling to breathe with the woman's metal gloves gripping onto her throat.

"You hurt her, and I swear to fucking God I'll kill every last one of you!" Jack yelled, now being held by each arm by two of the other Cerberus soldiers.

"What is you were saying earlier, Jack?" Shepard said, as she bent down to pick up Jack's knife from the ground. "About the easy way and the hard way?" She handed the knife to the woman holding Jenny. "See, we can't afford to have any witnesses report what happened here, and I'm afraid we don't have time for the hard way. Morgan, if you'd do the honors?"

Lauren wanted to shut her eyes, but she was too scared to make even that small of a movement. The woman holding Jenny started bringing the knife up to her throat, as Jenny struggled and sobbed.

"Aw, can't we keep her, Morgan?" said one of the women holding Jack's arms. "It'd be a shame to let such a sexy little thing like that go to waste."

The woman holding Jenny let out an annoyed grunt. "Rena, dammit, could you stop thinking with your clit for one goddamned second in your life?"

The other woman, Rena, turned her helmeted head to Brooks and Shepard. "Come on. If we're just gonna kill her anyway, what's the harm in bringing her back? Would do good things for the team's morale to have this pretty little thing around for entertainment."

Brooks looked at Shepard, who shrugged. "Whatever, doesn't matter to us. We didn't bring another collar, though."

"Not a problem," said Morgan, the one holding Jenny. She shifted her grip on Jenny's neck and clamped down, compressing the blood vessels in her captive's neck. After a few seconds, Jenny's eyes rolled back in her head, and when Morgan released her grip, Jenny fell limply to the deck, unconscious but still breathing. Two of the other women picked up her unresisting body and carried it back into the shuttle, while the two women holding onto Jack pulled her, yelling and screaming, behind them.

Lauren's mind was reeling. She felt faint, and placed a hand on the barrels in front of her to keep herself from falling. But her hand didn't find the edge of the fuel container, but a large wrench on top of them. Jenny gasped as the tool shifted under her hand. Despite her frantic efforts, it scraped against the surface of the barrel, and then fell down to the deck with a loud clatter.

Morgan's head snapped to the sound. "What was that?" she said, pulling her sword out of her back sheath and holding it at the ready.

"Check it out, but do it fast," Shepard said from inside the shuttle. "We stay here much longer, somebody else besides a helpless teenage girl is going to notice we're here.

Stepping cautiously towards the noise, Morgan raised her sword in a striking position. Her steps were nearly silent as she approached the row of fuel barrels at the edge of the landing pad. Inhaling deeply, she aimed, and thrust her sword into a downward stab, point gleaming as it sought a warm body to penetrate.

But instead, the sword let out a metallic clang, as it impacted against the empty deck behind the barrels. Morgan stared at the vacant area in confusion. "The fuck? Could have sworn I heard..."

"Morgan, we've got to go!" Shepard called out from the shuttle.

Bending down, Morgan picked up the fallen wrench, staring at it as if it held all the answers. "Must have been the wind," she muttered to herself, before angrily tossing it off the side of the shuttle pad and spinning back to head towards the shuttle.

Lauren gasped, as she watched the tool plummet past her and disappear into the darkness. She clung onto the metal support under the landing pad with all her strength, trying her best not to think about the long fall that awaited her if her strength gave out. By the time she heard the shuttlecraft's engine fade into the distance, she barely had enough energy to pull herself back up onto the pad, before collapsing down onto the hard metal floor in a dead faint.
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