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Turnabout-	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 7688 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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NOTE: Combat and battle scene like this are not my strong suit, feel free to send me suggestions on how to improve it cause I do really really suck at it. Just note also, reviews make me all warm and tingly inside so please leave some.

Lissa was still struggling to understand how Kai Leng had any friends. She had known him for almost three years and although they had started to become friendly, he had blown it by jumping on one of her jobs. She knew he had been trying to help and that he had wanted to impress her. She still remembered how proud he looked when he had run told her. She knew he liked her; he had been following her around for a while. In their line of work it was hard to find someone compatible to try and share some time with. Kai Leng obviously thought that he had found somewhat of a companion in her.
He had been wrong. She scowled as she pulled her ship of port and headed towards the Mass Effect relay. She was more than certain that her shoulder was eventually going to give out, but she knew where the assassin was now and she wanted to end this. She hated leaving a job open for too long and Kai Leng had been making her dance through hoops to find him. The worst part was she got the impression he wanted her to do so.
She had landed on Illium two days ago. The Ambassador had contacted her with information that Kai Leng was there. He had also reminded her that he did not suffer failure well, a stark reminder that he was a harsh man. He had once stabbed her in the hand with a knife when she had attracted too much attention by shooting a target instead of cutting his throat. She had almost been arrested and his thugs in C Sec had covered her tracks. He hated owing them anything and he made sure she was aware of that fact. She did not want to see what his punishment would be if she failed to get the device back from Kai Leng, and eliminate him in the process.
She grunted in discomfort and she used her injured arm to flip through maps until she landed on Shadow Sea. Why the hell anyone would want to go to that curse placed was beyond her. Knowing Kai Leng, he probably had a house and a cottage. He was partial to misery and Horizon had certainly seen its unfair share of it.
She had not been a part of Sanctuary. That had been the Illusive Man’s pet. He had built the facility as a trap. He needed people for his inhumane experiments and what better way to get line ups then to offer them safety. The Illusive Mans greatest achievement had been the downfall of Cerberus.
When the Alliance had found the structure, not only had the Alliance and its allies been outraged, many of the Cerberus benefactors had been as well. It had taken The Ambassador five years to get things in order again. To convince the investors that he did not condone the mass murder the Illusive Man had committed, that the Illusive Man had gone beyond his reach in this endeavour.
Not that The Ambassador or any of the investors were beyond the ends justifying the means, it was just hard to justify when the means was that big.
Illium had once been a beautiful planet. You could still see some of cities that the Asari had built, but they were few and far between. Nos Astra was one such city that had been rebuilt since the Reaper attack; however it was a shadow of its former self. The safety one used to seek in a place such as this was gone. It was no longer a simple step up from Omega. It had fallen to par and somewhat even less.
Lissa hated it even more then she hated Omega. At least on the Asteroid you knew what you were getting into. There was no pretense that it was a pleasant place. Illium was still trying desperately to maintain the image that they were safe. There were certainly pockets that were protected but for the most part it was no better then it’s poorer counterpart.
Lissa had decided that after the most recent encounter that she hated Illium.
The Ambassador was rarely wrong and he had assured her that Kai Leng had been on the Asari planet. She had even been able to track him down, and Kai Leng had been, at one point, hiding in an old secret Cerberus facility just outside of Nos Astra. He was long since gone by the time Lissa arrived, but he did leave a few little presents, like he had been expecting her. The building he had been “staying” in had been trapped from one end to the other and ended in a room that held three of those Phantoms he was been so fond of.
She had entered a room cautiously enough, even though she had realized at that point Kai Leng was gone. She had to, in good conscious; finish a complete search. She should have expected something but she was stupid enough to let her guard down slightly, slightly enough that she had not even seen the slight ruffle in the background as the Phantom came out of cloak and stuck that stupid sword of hers through Lissa’s shoulder.
Lissa had retaliated by grabbing the woman’s hand and pulling it, pushing the sword deeper but bur bringing the woman closer. At the same time she snapped her hand up and under her chin, hitting it point blank with her incinerate. It reeled back but didn’t go down. Of course it didn’t, it was almost like half machine. When the hand came towards her Lissa moved out of its way and used the Phantoms own momentum. She grabbed the woman’s wrist as it went by and twisted pushing her almost through the wall with her good arm. It was not a life stopping manoeuvre but it would allow her time to get some distance between them.
The other thing that worried her was Kai Leng had five or six of these things in his employ. She needed to make sure that this one was alone. As the Phantom recovered Lissa exited the room at top speed as she withdrew her pistol. She swung around and opened fire but the Phantom had cloaked.
This time she was more aware of what she was up against and the Phantom was not the only one with cloaking technology. She cloaked herself long enough to remove the sword from her shoulder, although she was certain her screaming gave away her position. She had never thought the sword would hurt more coming out, but then she did not have time to make it gentle.
The blast from the Phantom hit the ground just to her left and she rolled and began to run again. She had been training in martial arts from some time with Kai Leng, but the Phantoms were almost bred for this sort of thing. Only a fool would stand toe to toe with them at close quarters.
She turned into another room and was about to fire again when a second phantom came out of cloak and attacked. This time Lissa was not interested in playing. Again she moved out of the way of the attack dropping the sword she had been carrying. Her fingers clenched down on a sticky bomb and jammed it into the woman armour and dove as it exploded. As she turned to face the first Phantom she found herself covered in blood and things she really didn’t want to think about. She opened fire again only to have the woman dance out of the way. She hated these things.
Again she narrowly missed the blast from the woman’s hand, diving to the ground. She placed her hand down for balance and found it resting on the hilt of the sword she had abandoned. She crawled backwards as the Phantom came at her, letting it close the gap just enough. When she was in range Lissa flung the sword as hard as she could and watched as it sunk into the woman stomach. It stopped her in mid attack as she fell to her knees. Lissa lifted her pistol and shot twice for good measure.
Once the Phantom fell Lissa allowed herself to collapse back to the ground. She realized that Kai Leng was gone and this was his attempt to kill her. She was not sure if she was angry at him for trying or angry at herself for getting injured. Either way she would take it up with him when they met.
She was struggling to get up when she heard the Phantom she had just shot sputter. Lissa raised a brow and struggled to her knees and moved over to the woman. She reached down and removed the mask, making a face. These half human husk always seemed to make her sick.
“Where is he?” She asked. The Phantom just stared at her through half dead eyes. Lissa winced on the inside and pushed her thumb hard against where one of her bullet had gone into the woman chest. The woman screamed and Lissa almost stopped, but she had a job to do. “You owe him nothing for allowing this to be done to you.”
Again there was no response. Lissa sighed and stood up. She knew these things were not really human, not anymore, more of a program than anything else. They were horrible when they were creations of the Reapers. Knowing that a human had done this made it even worse. This was never what Cerberus intended, they did not want to bastardize humanity; they wanted to make it stronger. Lissa shot the woman last time, making sure her suffering was over.
This had forced her to have to visit Teim Nam and she could not stand Teim as a matter of fact if there was one race she certainly did not like it was the Volus. She liked them even less than she liked the Vorcha. She was not sure if it was the breath they took in the middle of every sentence, or that most of them were dirtier than a mud bath.
Teim had made her give him a song and dance for the information he gave her about Horizon. As usual everything he did with her, or any female of any race, was laced with a million sexual innuendos. Suffering him was akin to suffering salt in a wound.
He had given her the information, and after a picking up some packages he wanted delivered she had been on her way. She had just wished she had taken the time to go to a medical centre. Her should was hurting something fierce. She had used medigel but that was no better than a bandage.
As she approached the relay she entered the co-ordinated of where she wanted to go and headed for the Mass relay. She was struggling to bind her wound by herself. It was no small task. She had no talent working with just one hand.
She looked up as the familiar pulled ended and she paused activated the FTL drive. A few moments later she found herself in orbit of Horizon and coming face to face with two ships that were already there. She froze as she looked out to them, a bandage hanging out of the side of her mouth as she had been trying to tie the gauze down. She knew the first ship to be a Mantis A-71. It was a powerful ship in its own right. The Cerberus Griffon that she flew was only slightly more powerful. The other ship she did not recognize right away. With her good hand she did several quick checks.
“T’Soni.” She spit out the bandage, giving up with it. She had bigger concerns at the moment, like two to one odds. She opened fire quickly, hitting the M-71, targeting the Mass accelerators before the ship could get its kinetic barriers up. It was more than obvious that the two ships were not expecting company. She fired at T’Soni as well but the Asari was fast. The A-71 was out of the battle but the Shadow Broker was not. She threw out a torpedo which Lissa was able to counter. The small fight then turned into a chase as Lissa headed into the planet’s atmosphere. T’Soni raced after her.
Lissa made a quick turn and headed towards a canyon she had spotted. T’Soni’s ship was bigger but faster than the Griffon but the small Cerberus ship had maneuverability. The Shadow Broker launched an attack and Lissa was forced to concentrate to avoid being hit. If she made one wrong move now and she would simply is a stain on a cavern wall. As she flew through the canyon she spotted a long covered tunnel. She could head through that and get behind the larger ship. It would certainly change the semantics of the chase and put her more in charge of it.
She looped them around and hit the tunnel at top speed. As she entered the covered canyon she slowed down for a few second and then gunned it again, enough that when she came out of the canyon she would be in a better position.
She flew out and was surprised to find that the Shadow broker had thought of the exact same thing. The only problem now was Lissa had nowhere to manoeuvre to as she plowed into the back of the bigger ship, causing them both to make an awful noise. She quickly powered her ship down as it was now attached to Liara’s ship. She let the Asari have the control, to fight for it would only mean an instant crash and burn.
She cursed to herself. This was the second time in one day she had made a bad choice. She could hope that this one would not get her killed. As it was it was going to be painful. They were going to crash; there was no doubt in that.
She had to admit Liara was a talented pilot as she got them out of the canyon and two a wooded area and some height to boot. For a few seconds Lissa actually thought maybe they would make it. Then the loud tearing sound filled the air as her ship tore away and began to fall.
“Oh, shit.” She said and attempted to power the Griffon back up. It didn’t start. She could see the Shadow Brokers ship plummeting as well. She thought about ejecting but they were far too close to the ground for that. Instead she did her best to level the ship out.
She landed once but the ship was not stopped yet. As a matter of fact it launched into the air again and skipped like a rock in the water. Lissa had no idea of how many times it did this as object were blowing up around her. She had hit her head twice and as with all bad karma, everything that was loose in the cockpit hit her already injured shoulder. When the ship finally came to its resting place the only thing Lissa was thankful for was she was alive. Everything else felt horrible.
She sat in her chair, which was actually lying sideways on the floor, for a few moments as she collected her thoughts and bearings. The first thing she needed to do was find her arms and armour. She reached down with her bad arm and released the clasp that held her in place. She unceremoniously fell to the ground.
She grunted with effort as she stood and proceeded to the cargo hold part of the Griffon. She grabbed a med kit and did her best to fix what she could, but the pain still remained. It took her a few minutes to realize there was a slight greenish blue cloud filling the room, coming from Teim’s packages. As she inhaled the fumes she realise the Volus was having her deliver some sort of drug. She stared at it for a long moment observing just how beautiful the cloud was.
She shook her head trying to clear her thoughts. She found her armour and quickly changed into it and grabbed her Black Widow and pistol. She always felt so much better when her widow was with her. She cradled it in her arm and stroked it as if it was a baby. She smiled as she left her ship, everything was starting to blend together in a very colourful way and her pain slowly dissipated to a dull roar.
She shook her head again and inhaled the Horizon air, hoping that would get the drug out of her system. Then it truly hit her.
“Oh wow.” She said looking up into the blue sky and falling back to the ground. Lissa had never once taken a drug before; neither was she particularly a drinker. Sure there were a few times during her training she had gotten drunk and done really stupid thing but they were few and far between.
She kept licking her lips, they were so smooth and the motion of her tongue on her lips was almost euphoric. She paused and shook her head again trying to shake this, wonderful, feeling that seemed to be taking her over. Her heart was racing and she felt like she was floating. She rolled on to her stomach and forced herself to stand, still cradling her Black widow like a baby.
“Need to clear my head.” She said and frowned as she looked over her omni tool. There was nothing there that would help her, but it did look particularly shinny today. She scratched at her face as an itch began to bother her. She knew she should be concerned for her health and she knew that she had a job to do; she was just finding it a little bit hard to care.
She could hear someone approaching and froze, her eyes darting around. She spotted a bush by a tree and bolted for it, however before she even made it a figure stepped out in front of it and she fell slightly. She looked up as the sun seemed to shine solely on the woman that looked down to her. She was like a Goddess, standing there with concern in her beautiful big blue eyes. They stared at each other for a long time. Damn, but Lissa really had a thing for the Asari people.
Without thinking she stood and approached the woman. Before the Asari could do anything Lissa cupped her chin and rubbed her cheek with her thumb. “You are beautiful.” She whispered and leaned forward and kissed the woman. The moment their lips touch all sorts of sparks started to explode and she felt as if this kiss was right in so many ways. The Asari resisted for a second but then found herself drawn into the kiss as well. Lissa felt her hands on her waist, pulling her close. It was as if they were meant to fit together in some strange way. Either that or the drug was a hell of a powerful thing.
“Liara?” Someone called and Lissa opened her eyes and realized who she was kissing. She jerked away quickly.
“What the hell?” She sputtered.
“Cayle.” The Asari whispered and reached out for her. Lissa jumped back as if the woman’s hand was on fire and slapped it away. The world was spinning around her and she needed to get away. She turned and stumbled, not really sure where she was going, just knowing that she needed to get away from these Asari that were at her ship.
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