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Mass Effect 3: Aftermath	By : Royality Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 3529 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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It was now Liara’s turn to be amazed by the sudden storm of information that flooded her omni-tool while both Kyo and Kaidan seemed used to the display. With a bewildered look upon her face, she stared over at the two men before realizing how foolish her gapping mouth actually looked. Furrowing the drawn-on eyebrows, the woman finally began to concentrate on accessing the information that she had been given, but became flustered when her hacking skills only allowed her to access the less encrypted files. The images that she did manage to pull up at least lowered Kaidan’s defenses, who then leaned over to get a closer look. “Is that…what I think it is?” he asked as an index finger pointed at the digital screen. Kyo was interested as well, moving over to look. The Sergeant’s face then expressed a look of remembrance.
“That’s the tube I found Shiro in,” he stated as his own finger to pointed out certain features. “All those wires and tubes were everywhere. It looked a little different though and had fluid in it, but yeah. That’s it.”
“Are you sure? I mean, are you positive?” the Major asked. Kyo gave a stern nod causing Kaidan to be weary.
“What is it, Kaidan? What’s wrong?” Even Liara seemed to be concerned with the expression on his face.
“You don’t remember? Well, I guess you weren’t down there,” Kaidan began as he ran his fingers through the front of his already pushed back hair. “Remember when Shepard went down with that Geth, Legion, to help him out? Legion put him in a tube like that to interface directly with the Geth Consensus. I think that’s the exact same kind of pod that Shepard went into.” Pointing at the screen, Liara’s expression also changed.
“That’s right…,” Liara spoke as she tried to remember the finer details. “The Geth improved on the Cerberus Project: Overload for direct neural interface with virtual intelligence. I wasn’t with Shepard when he freed that man from the original project, but his descriptions were…gruesome.” Tapping at her screen, it turned off quickly. “It’s possible that they had more than one test going on. Perhaps this one was done afterwards…or before. That at least explains the interfacing with our omni-tools and being able to control the systems at the base on Mars.” She paused then to look at the sleeping man on her sofa. “I would hate to jump to conclusions about this test subject, but Shepard said the one he encountered was driven insane.” Kaidan considered the option while looking to Shiro as well.
“But Shepard came out fine from one with the Geth.”
“True enough, but I’m more concerned about this formula.” Liara then tapped the screen on again in order to pull up a rather detailed plan that was loaded with several lines of equation codes. Kaidan looked over it, but wasn’t really sure what it meant. He was neither a scientist nor mathematician, after all.
“Hm, Doctor Chakwas said that he’s in the Collector’s paralysis stasis field. Do you think this is what Cerberus used?” Liara scrolled through the screen with a shrug.
“It’s possible, but I’m not a scientist. However, these are very simplified plans…and I…”
“And?”
“And I have one of those tubes in my basement.” Kaidan stood silent for the moment that he was in shock.
“You have what in your what now?” Cracking a knowing smile, Liara moved back to her desk to sit down in her office chair. After interlacing her fingers, she used her hands as a chin rest before speaking again.
“I managed to salvage quite a bit of Geth technology for research purposes and those willing to pay a marketable price,” she said with a slight bragging tone to her voice. “With these plans, I could synthesize the formula and inject it into the machine.”
“And that would wake him up?” Kyo’s question was filled with interest. He seemed happy about it, even borderline excited. “Hear that Shiro? We’re gonna wake you up.” However, Kaidan all but groaned.
“We don’t know if that’s safe yet, besides I can’t ask Dr. T’soni for that kind of help.” Kyo then shot a prompt ‘what the fuck?’ look towards him, however Liara spoke up in defense before the young Singer even managed to get a word out.
“If it’s for Shepard, we should at least try it Kaidan. I’ll even waive my fees.”
“I agree with the Asari. We should at least try, Kaidan,” Kyo’s voice came out both gruff and annoyed, which got a nasty glare from the older man.
“Her name is Dr. Liara T’soni…and that’s Major Alenko to you, boy. “ As Kyo and Kaidan stared each other down, Liara gave a small laugh.
“Please, Liara is fine and it appears you’ve been outvoted, Major.” She made sure to add that extra tease to her voice when calling out his rank.
“Outvoted? This isn’t a democracy!” the Biotic exclaimed, clearly flustered from being teamed up against. “As curious as I am, I still don’t quite trust this Shiro person. He’s a Cerberus Agent and do you even remember what The Illusive Man was doing to his troops in the end? They were practically Husks themselves.” Standing up, the Asari Doctor walked up to the Major to place a white-gloved hand upon and caressed the slightly stubbled face. There was that tension again as he stiffened up, but kept his gaze on her large blue eyes.
“Please, Kaidan, if this can help us find Shepard…” His hazel eyes looked away as the pair of dark bushy eyebrows slowly lowered themselves in conflict. The Major’s hand carefully came up to gently run his fingers over Liara’s touch before pushing it away entirely.
“Fine.” After another forced smile, Liara then nodded as she took as step back.
“Come, we’ll use my private elevator. It’s over here.” Watching her back, Kaidan eventually followed to stand next to the Doctor just behind the large desk. Kyo stood as a bystander, watching the awkward pair shuffle to keep their distance from one another in such a small space before gathering up Shiro in order to carry him over. Once everyone was in place, Liara then reached under the desk to hit a secluded button that began the descent to the lower levels by using a built-in platform. The drop was fast and surprisingly deep. The hole above them closed over which activated lights along the tunnel’s walls. The speed of the drop slowed down right before reaching the bottom, where automatic lights activated all around. They were now in some sort of cave-like basement with crates everywhere that were marked with various hazard symbols and warnings. “Follow me.”
The humans looked at each other before turning to the Asari. Along the walls were lines of mechs and various pieces of Reaper tech. What caught Kyo’s eyes was the line of Geth Primes that were stationed up like giant red dominos. “Creepy. Good thing you can’t see this place, Shiro,” he whispered technically to himself.
“Are you sure this stuff is safe, Liara? I mean, Reaper tech is still Reaper tech…” Kaidan not only sounded weary, but he also posed his question in a suspicious manner.
“There are shields in place based on Dr. Bryson’s improvements. They have been inert since Shepard activated the Crucible. Ah, here we are.” Liara stopped to turn on a switch with activated the human size tank. It lit up brightly, showing off just how many wires and tubes were connected to this thing. With it finally visible, Kaidan then realized that it wasn’t the same as the type as from the Geth base.
“This…isn’t what I saw,” he said, both equally relieved and disappointed.
“But it’s what Shiro was in. I’d remember that thing anywhere,” Kyo stated afterward. Liara took a moment to activate her omni-tool and tapped away at it.
“I see,” she mumbled as she typed. “So, I was wrong then? This is Cerberus tech after all?” Kyo gave a nod to her, carefully walking up to it. With a hiss of the release of cold pressure, the front panel opened up for him.
“Alright Shiro, here goes nothing.” Everyone but him took several steps away from the tube as Shiro was fitted inside. When Kyo also took a step back, the panel closed itself and began to fill up with a clear-green liquid. Liara stood fascinated for a moment before coming to her senses and begin to type away at the omni-tool once again. She continued to replace the formula, which caused a few different chemicals to flow inside from the connecting tubes and change the color of the liquid to an almost blood red. Meanwhile, Kaidan stood back and watched, but eventually turned away while shaking his head to how much of a bad idea this was. As he wandered off, his own omni-tool began to beep with an incoming message.
“Kaidan here,” he answered as he kept his voice low.
“Major? It’s Joker. Man, getting a signal to you has been rough. Where the heck are ya?”
“I’m underground with a lot of tech here. What’s up?”
“Yeah, well you know how you told me to get a hold of Miranda?”
“Yeah…”
“Well, I told her about our mysterious body and she seemed freaked out. She wanted me to warn you not to wake the guy up and she was headed to your location.” The Major looked to the filling tube now.
“…Did she say why?”
“No, something about a hunter? I don’t know. She was flippin’ out with that funny accent of hers.”
“There that should do it.” Liara’s voice interrupted Kaidan’s call which caused the Major to look over.
“Oh no.” Pulling out his side arm, he held the pistol steadily towards the tank.
“Step away from him, Kyo. He’s dangerous!” The Sergeant looked over at the armed Spectre, raising an eyebrow.
“What the hell are you doing?” The glass door opened and released a flood of chemicals that rushed over Kyo’s armored feet and once again, Shiro’s body started to fall out. Ignoring his orders, the Sergeant instead hurried over to catch the young unconscious man just like before. So far, there wasn’t any sign of change which caused him to shake the body, trying to coax a revival.
“I said step aw—,” but Kaidan’s voice was interrupted by the sound of an explosion above them which caused the entire cavern to shake. Liara’s arm suddenly lit up with multiple alerts. It wasn’t quite an attack, but looking in the distance, she soon narrowed her eyes towards the glowing biotic figure coming towards them.
“You could have knocked, Miranda.” Stepping into the light, the curvy ex-Cerberus agent walked forward as her heels clicked lightly against the stone floor. Her weapon was also drawn, pointed directly at Shiro and, indirectly, also at Kyo. This time, the Sergeant drew his own pistol as well. It was an interesting stand-off as Kaidan had turned on Miranda, Miranda on Shiro and Kyo, and Kyo on both his Superior and the ex-Agent. The only one who wasn’t holding a gun was an irritated Asari, who was upset about the break-in.
“Step away from that creature, boy. You don’t know who you’re dealing with.” Miranda seemed to ignore Kaidan entirely as her fiery gaze glared at the still passed out, white-haired male under Kyo’s arm.
“Shove it up your ass, lady,” was Kyo’s immediate response to her demands.
“Stand down, Miranda. I can handle this.” Miranda then turned on Kaidan.
“Handle this? You have NO idea who that is, Major. We call him Hunter for a reason, he…” The brown pair of eyelids began to flutter for a second; a slight groan came from Shiro’s direction as they opened to reveal the pair of bright emerald eyes. The pile of wet white hair then turned to look at Kyo before looking around the room. Kyo dropped his guard in order to help the waking man stand and moved quickly to catch him when Shiro stumbled with his still numb body. “Oh God, it’s too late!”
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