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(Sigh)

Man,am I glad to finally have this out of the way. It should not have taken this long.

I'm vowing right now to do a much ebtter job with the next chapter and to not get distracted.

I won't be disapointed if this chapter is baldy reviewd frankly. It definitely isn't my best.

But hopefulyl there are some redeeming features.

Sorry for the long wait, folks.

YEAR 2, The Criminal Element

2174: 18 months after the battle of Elysium

14 Years Before the Battle of Arkadia

"It took almost 3 months for Traxus' assets to be completely disbanded. It seemed we were dealing with some of the worst kinds of criminal. The ones who wouldn't go down easily without their assets making things difficult. Anyway, our next mission would take us partly into the jungle, into space, and I would soon encounter one very aggressive biotic..."

Chapter 7

The Tattooed Pirate

With all of Traxus' assets and connections taken care of, Alpha could finally move on to the next crime lord, a Vorcha named Korrick. He was currently docked at a small space port on the other side of the planet's jungle. To stay out of range, Alpha would have to land on the jungle's outskirts, near a very high cliff.

"This isn't going to be easy." said Sandra as she observed the holo map. "The object of our attention is Korrick's ship currently docked in the port on the other side of the jungle."

"Well, getting there won't be that hard, and we can handle any patrols. It's when we get there that it'll be more challenging." said Austin.

"What's more, we have to act before his ship takes off. If it does, it'll take us a long time to track him down again." said Xun.

"Well then, we'd better get moving." said Ventra as he loaded up his bow.

As the drop ship hovered low enough, everyone hopped out.

"Good luck out there, Alpha. I won't be able to track you through the jungle." said Alex through the comms.

As the dropship flew out of range however, everyone suddenly noticed a problem. They'd been dropped off at the beach, at the foot of the cliff.

"What the..."

"Ah. That's going to be a problem." said Alaara. None of them were really meant for climbing, especially with all the weight of their armour and weapons.

"Who chose this drop off point?!" Kraan groaned.

Ventra it seemed was the only one not irritated by the fact that they were stuck. He casually pulled an arrow from the quiver on his back, drew it back with the bow, and released. The arrow went all the way to the top and embedded itself deep in the rock. A rope had also been attached to the end. Now Alpha had the means to properly climb the cliff.

"There. That should do it." he said, trying not to sound smug. He could tell that everyone was a little lost for words that he had thought about that first and they hadn't.

The Turian then simply attached the cable to a small device on his belt and it slowly began pulling the cable in, pulling him up with it.

"Going up."

Once he reached the top, he then let the cable uncoil back out of the device and back to the bottom where the others. One by one, they all repeated what he had done until only Kraan was left.

"Errrr, guys?" Kraan called up to them. "Mine's not working."

Despite many attempts, Kraan's device just wouldn't pull him up. It wasn't powerful enough to take his weight.

Everyone gave a frustrated sigh as they all grabbed the cable and began pulling as much as they could. Fortunately, the combined strength of all the Helldivers was enough to lift the heavy Krogan.

"Two words, Kraan. Lose weight." Dash panted as Kraan reached the top.

"Are you calling me fat?!" said the Krogan angrily as he got up and prepared to punch Dash.

Before a fight could even start though, Austin quickly pushed the two apart.

"Hey! That's enough, both of you!" he said sternly.

"Sorry, Commander." Kraan groaned.

The others turned back to the jungle. Judging from where they were, they still had some ground to cover.

"Keep your eyes open. Chances are they're gonna have a few guards in the jungles." Austin advised.

"I'll scout ahead. See if I can pick a few off even." said Ventra.

"Good idea. Just leave some for us." Austin agreed. "And don't get seen."

"Worry not, Shepard. I will be as a fly ont he wall, a grain of salt in the ocean. I will slip amongst them like a transparent..." Ventra paused as he struggled to find the right word. ..."thing."

"Dude, even I would've come up with something better than that." said Dash.

The Turian went ahead of the squad and began using the trees while they stayed on the ground. He and his bow could do far more damage from the high ground and he'd be unseen, even without his cloak.

"Time to do some hunting." the Turian smiled to himself.

Within just a few minutes he caught sight of a few guards. Not a problem at all. Three quick arrows, one to each head would do the trick.

Rather than do one at a time, Ventra decided to at least attempt 3 arrows at once. He selected 3 at once from the quiver on his back, drew them all back, lined them up with their intended targets, and released.

To his surprised, the tactic actually worked. All 3 guards fell in perfect synch with each other.

"Hmm. Okay I must remember to practice that more often." Ventra said to himself as he continued through the trees.

After some time and an awfully longer than expected trek through the jungle, Ventra finally caught sight of the space sport.

"Commander, this Ventra. I have a visual on the space sport."

"Roger that, Ventra. Hold position until we catch up." said Austin.

"Copy that. I'll wait for you here." said the Turian.

While Ventra waited for the rest of his squad to turn up, he scanned the rest of the area using the drone. That way they'd know exactly where every guard was and they'd have a clear path to Korrick.

The Turian couldn't help but let his mind flash back to those long days when he'd been stranded in a jungle, left with nothing but his own survival instincts to help him.

One particularly fond memory he'd had was after he'd quite by accident actually went over a waterfall. He'd been so sure he'd die, but he didn't. That was before he had a run in with a particularly large reptile however...

FLASHBACK

Ventra gasped and took in as much air as he could as he broke the surface of the water. Finally as he felt the air rush back into his lungs he started breathing properly again. He had a to cough and splutter a few times due to the water in his throat, but that was but a minor inconvenience. He'd survived. Against all the odds there were of surviving a waterfall, he'd lived.

"I'm alive." he spluttered, still shocked that he wasn't in some afterlife or anything like that. Finally his mind accepted it and he began laughing. "I'M ALIVE!"

The moment the last word left his mouth however, something very large gently rose out of the water right beside him, and it was too green and scaly to be a tree trunk.

The Turian was only just able to react in time as the massive Crocodile lunged at him. Remembering a few vids he'd occasionally seen of humans wrestling with these creatures, he quickly grabbed whatever he could to keep away from the mouth and teeth.

At first it was a huge struggle, especially with the Crocodile thrashing about all over the place in an attempt to shake him off and get him in a position where it could bite him.

Eventually though, he finally managed to get onto the Crocodile's back where it could reach him at all. Still it continued trying to snap at the Turian, but he dared not let go.

As the Crocodile continued thrashing in and out of the water however, something within Ventra began to change. At first the shock and fright of the Croc's attack was simply making him hold on, but now the adrenaline was beginning to take over. He began to enjoy this. Soon he grew brave enough to grab onto the Crocodile's upper jaw and began to ride it like it was a horse.

"Yeehah!"

Finally, the Crocodile managed to shake him off. Rather than attack him again though, it instead retreated back to dry land. Ventra however wasn't done. The Adrenaline made him want more, especially since he now had the upper hand over this lizard.

"Oh no you don't!" he said as he grabbed the Crocodile's tail and dragged it back into the water. "Don't start what you can't finish!"

The Crocodile attempted to retaliate in defence, but Ventra didn't give it the chance. He suddenly rolled it onto it's back and brought his elbow into it's stomach and continued wrestling and punching it where he could. One of his taloned fingers even accidentally gave it a deep cut above it's right eye.

He then grabbed it again and shoved it beneath the water, keeping it there by force as if he were trying to drown it. He had no intention of killing the Crocodile, obviously, but the adrenaline of this fight had made him a bit hyper.

"Water tastes good, yes." he laughed. "Glub glub!"

Finally, the Crocodile shook free and retreated again. This time though it stayed in the water and swam away as fast as it could.

Ventra simply watched it vanish from sight as he felt himself start to calm down and the adrenaline began to fade.

"You started it!" he panted.

END OF FLASHBACK

Even today, Ventra was still a little surprised at himself for managing to do that. Not only had he actually managed to swim very well, especially when it was considered Turians weren't particularly good swimmers, but he was probably the first ever Turian to actually wrestle and fight with a Crocodile and win. Even among humans who had more experience with that sort of thing, it was still an impressive feat.

Finally, Ventra saw the rest of his squad come up behind him.

"What've we got?" Austin asked.

"Too many guards to all kill without being noticed. I took out a few that wouldn't be noticed, but that's about it." said Ventra.

Sandra meanwhile worked on hacking into the enemies comms. She soon picked up a rather interesting one among all the other guard chatter.

Korrick was right at the far en of the spaceport where hsi ship was docked.

"How much longer until we ready to leave?" the Vorcha snarled.

"A few minutes, sir." one of the guards replied.

"Good. Grow tired of this place. Not enough to feed on." said Korrick.

"Everyone catch that?" Austin asked.

"Yep." Dash replied. "We gotta get on that ship."

Quickly activating all their cloaks, Alpha moved through the space port as quickly as they could without the others noticing them.

Korrick's ship slowly began to take off as all the doors and hatches sealed themslves. There was just one bit left though that had the landing gear slowly retreating back into it.

Everyone managed to get in, but Dash ended up falling behind by accident.

"You can make it! Jump!" Sandra yelled.

Dash immediately broke into a run and jumped. Kraan just managed to catch him and pulled him up.

"Well, I guess that's the difficult part out of the way." Dash panted.

"We still have to get to Korrick." said Xun.

"Well what are we waiting for then? Let's go get him then." said Kraan.

"Not yet, Kraan. We should wait until this ship clears the planet's atmosphere. That way they won't get a chance to land and call for reinforcements when we make our move." said Austin.

"If you say so." said Kraan as he sat on one of the crates, ignoring the fact that it was almost becoming crushed under his extreme weight. "Anybody got something to eat?"

After a few minutes of patient waiting, Alpha finally felt certain they were in the clear.

"Alright. Let's get this over with." said Austin as he picked up his rifle.

As soon as everyone else stood however, the whole ship suddenly shook so violently that everyone lost their balance and fell.

"What the bloody hell was that?" said Austin. "Everyone alright."

"Yeah. I landed on something quite soft." said Dash.

"Torres... get off me!" Kraan groaned.

Dash quickly noticed he'd actually landed on top of Kraan and immediately got off before he made the Korgan lose his temper.

Then the sound of gunfire could clearly be heard. Someone else it seemed had boarded the ship.

As soon as Alpha exited the room they'd been hiding in, they quickly found the source of the fighting. Korrick's mercs were engaged in a fierce firefight with a band of pirates.

The two sides quickly took notice of the Helldiver and opened fire. Now the battle turned into a 3 way.

"Dào. Wèishéme tā bìxū shì hǎidào?" Xun groaned in Chinese.

"Wooooo! This is fun!" Dash laughed as he fired like mad with his pistols.

"Americans." Austin and Sandra sighed.

Dash's enjoyment of all the shooting however was quickly interrupted when a sudden blind shot from a pirate hit him right in the crotch area. Although his armour absorbed the blow, it had been a armour piercing round and as a result did leave a deep dent, deep enough to cause some pain.

"OW!"

Dash almost immediately fell to the floor, clutching his crotch plate in pain.

"Ooooh! Right in the baby maker." Alaara chuckled, unable to hold back some of her laughter.

Krann on the other hand didn't even bother trying to hide his.

"Heh heh. Now that was funny." he laughed, pausing quickly to blast another pirate.

"Screw you, Kraan!" Dash groaned in pain. "Oh god, my balls."

"Suck it up, Dash. Or perhaps you want me to use biotics to make them feel better?" Alaara suggested, almost in a threatening manner.

"Oh fuck that!"

Dash almost immediately got back up and resumed firing.

"Ha! I'm starting to like you, T'onrack." Kraan smiled under his helmet.

A Leena gunned down another pirate, she spotted one seperate and at the last moment just vanish through the door. She had a feelings he knew where that oen was going.

"One of them's heading for the bridge after Korrick." she said.

"We can't risk them killing him. Cover me, I have to get to him first." Austin ordered as he bolted out of cover in the direction of the door.

When Austin finally got to the bridge he found it completely deserted save for two figures, Korrick and one pirate who had her back to Austin.

The figure had Korrick at her mercy as she stood over the badly beaten and bleeding Vorcha.

Austin's first instinct was to raise his gun, and he did just that.

"Freeze!"

The figure slowly turned. Her forearms and what was visible of her torso had a fair amount of tattoos on it. Not enough to cover her skin completely, but still more than you would expect to find on any human. She also seemed to have a completely shaved head save the very short strands of hair that had likely grown back. She wore a visor over her eyes and even had brass knuckles on each hand. It was no wonder Korrick looked like he'd been beaten half to death.

"First pirates, now Helldivers! Need better security!" Korrick coughed as he spat blood.

Austin had to admit, he didn't like the look of this. Whoever this woman was, she clearly was no pushover. Obviously he had his armour, but that didn't stop him from feeling as though this woman was trouble. A database scan of her didn't help either. It came up with very little. Her only known alias was Subject Zero and she had quite a few criminal activities on her record.

For a long time there was silence. Neither Zero nor Austin said anything until finally he broke the silence, still keeping his gun trained on the pirate.

"I don't want any trouble. My squad and I just want that Vorcha. Let him go, and there won't be any trouble." he said.

Zero still remained silent. Then one of her hands curled into a fist and, to Austin's surprise, started to glow with biotics.

"Now now, miss. Let's not fight." he said, doing his best to suppress the nervousness in his voice. True he could take a biotic, but this woman looked aggressive, plus it was just her and him all alone.

Finally, Zero said something.

"No actually, let's!"

Zero immediately threw a biotic attack right at Austin which he narrowly dodged. As he rolled out of the way he then opened fire, only for the rounds to stop as Zero blocked them all with a barrier.

"Damn biotics!" Austin mumbled to himself.

Still keeping the rounds in midair, Zero slowly turned them around until they now aimed directly at him.

"Oh shit!"

Zero let the rounds fly again at their normal speed, to fast for Austin to make a move. Instead, and rather to Zero's surprise, he stood his ground. Each round hit him... and simply bounced off his armour. It was times like this that Austin was glad he remembered his Araknes had created the Helldiver armour to resist any kind of fire, even gunfire from their own weapons.

"You'll have to do better than that, darling." Austin said smugly.

Zero though was quick to respond to this though by charging right into him with her biotics and then punching him so hard that it sent him smashing right into the wall so hard that he literally dented it.

"Okay, that one did hurt... a lot." Austin groaned in his head.

Seeing now that this biotic was no pushover, the Helldiver drew his sword. He would just have to hope it didnt' get broken. He would never forgive himself if that happened.

As he took a swipe at Zero, she threw up a biotic barrier around her arm to block his blade like a shield. She then delivered a swift biotic punch to his helmet. Not hard enough to cause any significant damage, but still enough to make the Helldiver's optic feed to go static for a moment.

The temporary disorientation was enough for Zero tog rab his blade arm and attempt to make hims tab himself. Austin was just able to recover in time that he coudl angle his arm enough that blade wouldn't impale him, but the sudden push surprised Austin so much he failed to react in time and the blade ended up cutting through some of the armour around his neck and giving him a rather long cut across the side of his neck.

Just as Austin was pushed into a spin by this however, he turned this into an attack. As he finished the spin he suddenly swung at Zero's neck.

The biotic managed to block it, but not enough due to the suddenness of the attack. Excalibur ended up giving her an almost identical deep cut on the neck. Both opponents staggered back, their hands flying to their wounds and examining the bleeding. Zero was a lot more angry and in pain from hers than Austin was.

"One all." he said.

"Right... now you've really pissed me off!" Zero growled, her biotics now flaring even more fiercely than before.

The battle became even more feirce as the two excahnged punches, blocks and many other blows to each other. Almost by the end of it, Austin's armor was so damaged and dented he looked like he'd been run over by several tanks.

Zero on the other hand looked only brusied and had a few cuts here and there. Plus it didn't look like she was tiring any time soon.

Overall, the odds weren't in Austin's favour. And soon they got worse.

As Austin attempted an attack from up high, Zero blocked it with her forarm. Before the Helldiver coudl react in time she suddenly punched him in the ribs with a bioticly charged attack so hard that it literally frcatured one of his ribs and dented the armour in so much that it nearly tore apart.

The suddeness, extremness of the pain and the shock of having a fractured rib was an awful lot for the Helldiver to handle and he fell to his knees, his left hand clutching the rib while the other dropped his sword.

"Aw, did I fracture a rib?" Zero asked mockingly as she charged up her first for a final blow. "Good. Because that's just the beginning. I hope you've got enough room in that armour for my fist, because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn spine!"

Right before Zero thrust her first forward however, Austin suddenly grabbed it in both his hands.

"Not today!" he groaned.

With that, he then gave her whole arm a violent twist so hard that there was the unmistakable sound of bone being broken.

Zero almost immediately gave a cry of pain and backed away, clutching her now broken arm.

"You broke my fucking arm, you asshole!" she swore.

Before the fight could continue any further, the door was suddenly blasted open and the rest of Alpha swarmed in, guns at the ready. Knowing now that she was completely outnumbered, and with her arm broken, Zero was in no condition to fight a whole squad of well-trained Helldivers, especially a Krogan and a Quarian as large as a bodybuilder.

She quickly threw a massive warp at them, which gave enough time for her to retreat through another door, sealing it in the process as she disappeared through.

Knowing that Zero and what was left of the pirates would be long gone by the time they got the door open, Alpha instead headed over to their injured Commander, and Korrick.

"You alright?" Leena asked.

"Fractured rib. Nothing too bad." Austin winced, still clutching his side. "I'll live."

"I suppose nothing hurts you." said Xun.

"Only pain." Austin replied.

"You no take me alive, Helldivers!" Korrick snarled. "I kill you first."

He reached for a fallen pistol, only to suddenly find Ventra aiming one of his arrows directly at his head.

"You can either come quietly, or we knock you out... or you take an arrow in the knee. Your choice." said the Turian.

"Drop dead!" Korrick snarled.

"We don't do requests."

And with that, Ventra knocked the Vorcha out with a swift punch.

"Who was that biotic?" Leena asked as she slowly helped Austin up, taking it slow so as not to cause him anymore extreme pain.

"I don't know." Austin replied, doing his best to breathe through the pain.

"The word's "dangerous bitch" come to mind." said the Quarian. "I mean she did break your rib with just her biotics even though you're wearing tough armour. I wouldn't want her as an enemy, or even an ally for that matter."

"Never judge a book by its cover, Leena."

Hopefully the next one should be more interesting.

I'm planning for that one to invole Alpha having to go intoa mission without their armour. Plus, first kiss for two characters. So I have faith that one will be better and I'll also have more motivation this time to really put some proper effort into it.

Right now I jsut have to stay focused on doing this and don't get so bogged down that everyone else is left in the dark for so long.

See you soon.
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