Into The Mass Relays -A Mass Effect R/P -Chapter 2 U/C-

[Kroama]

TabAfter the input of the group, and the Geth's questioning her about what course of action should be taken her body seemed to twist nervously. Her mouth feelers seemed to desire to anxiously move but were dull by the cold, her tentacles themselves still out at their glorious twenty full feet of length as though ready for an attack, one that was still at least ten minutes out from them. Honestly, the Romus was closer than the Beagle itself, and that was her real mission... she'd been side tracked so much she'd feel like she were useless to the captain if she didn't visit the ship. However, greater than that was the understanding that the lives of the few survivors must be saved. Besides, according to them the ship itself would be beyond salvageable... something she'd still like to see but at the moment there were more pressing matters.

TabShe slowly began to move back in the direction she came. "We must hurry back to her! The Beagle may be in danger." In all honesty, she wasn't worried about the ship in the same way that she would have been for the Romus. It was a mobile fortress in its own right and kept manned at all corners but small workers. Still, better safe than sorry and the air sang songs that fed her anxiety... the Hopteron's long-heard echo felt as though a bad omen being woven in the midst of the constant light blizzard. In all honesty, she wanted to run full speed but at the moment her movements were dulled and the best she could come up with was a brisk walk that the others could easily keep up with. "It might be best to get back in to the sky for now."

A small time passes, the distance between the pod and the Beagle not unreasonable, but exaggerated by the blizzard and cold.

TabThey were still a minute or so off when a new wave of panic began to run through her, and her speed slowly increased beyond what should have been capable to her. Calling back to the others to pick up their pace as well, in the distance now visible was a small army of Hopteron, about thirty in numbers, coming from all directions. Black dots easy to spot on the white backgrounds but difficult to make out in the snowy wind. "The songs of my children tending to the main battery of the ship have gone silent! We... I should be able to hear them by now!" Her voice filled with worry, because now a whole slew of problems began to arise. The fact that she couldn't hear them through the rest of the Rachni coursing throughout the ship was implying that either they abandoned their posts The chance of that with workers being far less than 1% or something caused them to lose their voice. That the Rachni workers watching over the main battery of the ship in a situation such as this would disappear and the discussion of sabotage earlier... Clearly the admiral of the fifth fleet wouldn't have chosen suspicious staff... but then again, the Romus itself wasn't exactly working outside of the Council's guidance...

TabAt long last, her hard legs clicked against the metal. She wanted to take a moment of peace to revel in the wondrous sound but knew there were more pressing matters. Her voice rose and her cry rang throughout the ship. A song untranslatable, but one that seemed to pierce through even some of the more sound-proof walls. Her body warmed as she barreled through the halls of the ship, heading for level two and leaving behind the other three. Staff pushed themselves out of the way, her only comment was to tell them to send word to the bridge, and to security to get to the main battery as soon as possible, if possible get the ship ready to take flight. If her worry was on target then they would be better in orbit than now.

Outside turrets that finally became live began pouring bullets in to the white expanse, the Hopteron charged even though there were so few of them and they seemed to drop like flies. One of the large cannon batteries fully warmed up turned, aimed at a large group, and as though the loud roar of the huge gun was the trigger the entire ship went dark. Hallways lights, monitors, and guiding information on the main weapons went offline for a full thirty seconds before a dim red light began to fill the halls and the rest of the machinery began to grind away again. The turret fire continued but not failed miserably to target the small black outlines that were less than a minute from invading the ship, because its targeting systems had been shut down and all of the emergency backup power was being directed to life-support systems. The ship had effectively also been grounded because of the lack of energy. Someone had ultimately destroyed major wiring in the main battery of the ship as well as killing Rachni, engineers, and anyone else that might have noticed something amiss leaving nothing but a blood bath of mixed races with no visible culprit.

TabMaki wasn't alone by the time she got there, her cries now translating, "No, no! No!" She repeated, as though using the word meant that whatever was happening wasn't actually happening. A few medics worked to carry out bodies, checking pulses, a couple Rachni soldiers that heard the queen's cries and had begun helping move the workers while others scurried across the ship looking for any other possible dangers. She didn't have many soldiers because they were impractical to her, but she did know at least five were at the drive core protecting it from the same fate. The amount of damage here... it was fixable, anything more and the culprit couldn't have slipped out doing it but anything less wouldn't have her as worried as she was right now. Actually, the fact that they did so much damage, killed so many, and made it away where her noticing the worker's silence was the first implication of danger was impressive. The few engineers that were in the room offered almost a sort of admiration for the work of the unknown terrorist, they had known exactly what to hit to make it devastating. Listing off a few of the necessary things to make the repairs her arms and tentacles began to work, "Hurry, bring us the necessary materials!"

[NeverAging]

► Kovina Melina
██████ Biotics Specialist



This was definitely a trap.

When the first shots were fired, Kovina's instinct told her to dash to the nearest cover. Kovina wasn't even in the room yet. She had been bringing up the rear, making sure no one pulled a sneak-back attack and butt raped them while they weren't looking. Reina had stepped into a stalagmite room and unleashed a battle. "I'm coming guys!" She hurried to catch up, the crouched down near the entrance. The captain, doctor, and krogan were all closer up to the fight than her, which put her on edge. Kovina had an assault rifle handy, but from her distance, she didn't want any stray shells to hit her teammates. Ugh, this was the last time she volunteered for back watch duty. She wanted to get in close and go for it.

"Yeah, the guns were definitely a surprise for me too." Kovina yelled back in reply to Azrat. For supposedly primitive bat dudes, they certainly had ammunition to back them up. Speaking of the medic, she had thrown a cryo-blast and slowed one of the Hopteron. Hey, this was her chance to get in close. Good job, medic, maybe you weren't such a lame jerk after all. Kovina darted into the room, blocking a few bullets with her biotic shield. As soon as Reina rolled between stalagmites for cover, Kovina unloaded a clip into the slowed Hopteron. The attackers switched their attention from Reina to the biotics specialist, and it was now her turn to get some cover. Kovina peaked out from behind a stalagmite while popping in another heat sink to her rifle. The Hopteron was down, but she couldn't tell if it was dead.

The Krogan charged.

The Krogan stopped charging.

Before Kovina even knew what was happening, Azrat's voiced buzzed in over the comm channel announcing the krogan's death. "WHAT?" How was that even possible? AN INSTANT KO? No, that wasn't right. Knocked back, maybe, but there was no way the krogan could have been killed in a split second. There was something they were missing here. "I'm going in!" Kovina charged.

And by charged, she biotic charged.

Her first target was slammed into so hard it flew into the cave wall and just splattered there, like an ant smeared on a bathroom stall door. She had her hands at another's Hopteron's chest before it could blink an eye...if they even had eyelids. Kovina pulsed, sending a nova of energy through her fingertips and into its body. The Hopteron convulsed, then fell to the ground. Two down.

Aaaaaaand, now Kovina was all out of juice.

She was still mentally and physically pumped with adrenaline, but her biotics needed to recharge. Good thing there was still a very angry Hopteron standing less than three feet away from her. She was totally in its reach. Times like this, Kovina was SO glad she had teammates. The asari dropped to the ground faster than a volus collecting spare credits on the ground. She covered herself with a biotic barrier and either Reina or Azrat or both of them took the other one down. Nice shooting ladies. The Hopteron guarding the other exit of the room started to move in as the second wave. Kovina scrambled to her feet, but she wasn't fast enough to get to cover.

Something hit her so hard she literally went flying. Past Azrat. Past Reina. Past the dead krogan body and back out of the entryway they came in.

Thank goddess she still had her biotic barrier up.

She slapped the ground with her body, then rolled to a stop. She was back in the narrow passageway. What. Her body vibrated from the inside out. Whatthe. WHAT. WHAT WAS THAT. GODDESS. Kovina tried getting up, but her muscles were tensed from the current moving through them. Holy cow, how had that even happened? She was there, and the next minute she was done. Out of there. KO'ed.

The krogan.

Kovina balled her fingers into a fist, then released them, slowly regaining control of her body. "Captain! Azr-" How did she pronounce her name again? "Medic!" Nice save. Kovina got to her knees, breathing hard. "I think I'm mostly fine but." Whatever had just hit her would have immediately liquidated her insides if she hadn't been protected. If she could describe it, it was like she had been smashed into by a headbutting krogan, had her whole body quiver from the impact, then the shear force of it bouncing off of her had tossed her body across the room like a rag doll. Kovina was no expert on combat tactics of unknown species, but she might as well throw it out to the whole group. Kovina switched to the comm channel. "I think." The asari slowly got to her feet, her knees wobbling. "I think these guys have echolocation." She winced. "And it hurts."

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ooc: lol, I hope its okay that I gave the Hopteron a cool little non-biotic-but-kinda-similar-idk power.

[K Handerlan]

--------------Leah "Hawkeye" Stefansson


Leah merely sighed as she followed the group. A simple boring dark cave so far but she wasn’t dumb enough to think about that for long. Soon enough they were ambushed by some of the hopteron, not shocking all things considered. She quickly pulled out a gun and shot a couple in good spots. She was too focused on what was in front of her to notice what was going on with her two companions. She stopped when Ryuu asked where Quintas was. She froze and looked around. “uh….opps?” She smiled sheepishly. One would think that she wasn’t taking this seriously at all but she was in heart. Being lost in a cave in a foreign planet wasn’t a good thing, nope, not at all. This was going to be a big problem in the long run if Quintas wasn’t found. Captain would have their asses for it and she didn’t want the hassle of a lecture. Besides, Quintas couldn’t have gone too far right?

The women nodded as Ryuu confirmed the captain’s orders to continue on and look for him. As they went forward, she noticed Ryuu turning on her cloak, prompting her to do the same. It was dark as hell but it wasn’t too much of a problem, the only problem was the random sleeping Hopteron. They had to be careful to not cause attention. Soon enough, they found something that caught their attention. A castle? All the way down here? That was very odd to say the least but it seems they found the base of operations for the most part. Best get more of the team in on this information before jumping in blindly. Ryuu went ahead of her and Leah sighed lightly, or not. She followed quietly, her gun at her side just in case. The place was nice and big, no surprise since it was a castle. What was surprising though was the sight of a human among the Hopteron. She raised an eyebrow but kept quiet and kept close to the wall. This was becoming a little too close for comfort. She stayed back as Ryuu went in for god knows what reason. What was she doing?! Then the other girl kicked a pebble, making them both freeze.‘s**t, please don’t take notice.’ She thought as she watched and reached for her gun. This wasn’t going to end well huh, such as the life of a solider.

[Kroama]

Oung Bapto
De facto leader of the individual Hopteron states.

TabThe Hopteron sitting at the table continued to snack every now on then on the blue glowing fruits, of the plants that layered the farms at the base of the cavern. He jumped upon hearing something kicked, and immediately began looking around. Everything he said was inaudible by anyone else but the single human with the power of translation, that human in a dark cloak in his corner calmed the Hopteron, his speech was however understandable. "Calm yourself, Bapto." The human spoke, his eyes seeming to stare directly to not where the rock went, but where it originated. It was as though he was looking directly at Ryuu, though a normal Human's eyesight would never normally allow him to see her in such darkness, particularly an infiltrator.

TabDespite this, it almost seemed as though he'd purposely ignored her. Them. He smiled and turned back to face the demonic bat, "Continuing what i was saying earlier, we at Orthrus foster the same ideals as your people, and will give you our fullest support." He began moving closer, in the way of the view of the Hopteron and the hidden two. "We've been in the dark for a while, but understanding your plight I believe it is time to bring light to this galaxy. We'll make them understand the failures of inter-species contact, you will be left alone safe from them." There was purpose behind the human's actions. He was purposely giving out information, almost feeding it to the two, if they noticed his actions.

TabStaying in position, the Human continued to layer it on. This time he spoke of things that the bat wouldn't dare understand, if they were to ever figure out he knew they were there, it was now. "There is a major point of interest for us, known as the Citadel. It acts as a center of intergalactic converse, trade, and politics. Our intentions lay here, after we finish setting up the entire citadel will be blown to nothing but pieces of space dust. It won't be much longer, and when all is safe even i will leave you in the peace of your home." He started moving back to his corner, giving a slight cough. "Actually, i think you should call those guards after all. There is something nearby, i sense, and i fear for its safety should it remain here any longer." The bat seemed skeptical, confused almost but complied and opening its mouth some clicks and a pitch far higher than any humans could hear called all of the guards in the castle to their vicinity.

[Afro Crusader]

Abbacus began walking briskly with the rachni towards the ship. He soon heard the sound of weapons being fired in the distance. He couldn't yet tell if they were coming towards his group or not, but seeing that Maki kept her pace, he chose to let it pass until they got nearer the ship.

As soon as he had a clear visual of the attackers, which was longer than he liked, due to the blizzard, he spotted one of the few with a weapon. Abbacus stopped only for a moment to tap at his omni-tool, firing off a sabotage to disable the weapon. An assault rifle he noticed, nothing high grade. A simple but reliable weapon system, something one would probably get from the black market, possibly a terrorist group. The creatures were clumsy with the firearms, but considering their vision, they couldn't do much better than spray and pray anyway.

Abbacus cleared the hangar door just as the ships turrets began tearing through the attackers.The corridors were still pretty clear following the rachni coming through at top speed, so keeping his rapid clip, Abbacus inquired out loud to anyone who cared to answer for directions to the med bay.

As Abbacus entered the med bay, he was a little shocked at how well stocked it was. He then laughed a bit to himself, remembering that this ship was already staffed. He was used to being a ships medical officer, and being able to store things where he wanted when he boarded. He then noticed the science officer from the Romus sitting on the patients table.

"You couldn't be the medical officer here, could you? No self respecting solarian would have his tools organised like that." He said pointing to the bedside tables assortment of first aid equipment. Abbacus turned and put his supply bag on the nearest empty counter, and opened it. All he could do now as mentally prepare for any injured crew member, or the medical officer to get back.

[Ruler_of_all_vampires]

██████████████ RYUU ★ Vanheart █ █ ████
Weapons Specialist【HUMAN】Infiltrator ➸

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Ryuu muscles locked up then the Hopteron jumped up on the table saying something she couldn’t understand. She mentally sighed when her translator couldn’t translate it. Her eyes shifted to the Human when he began to talk. “Bapto? So this bat has a name.” She thought to herself moving her arm slowly to her Omni-tool hitting the record button to record the conversation. She raised an eyebrow when she heard the human speak of a group called Orthrus Foster. It sounded familiar but she couldn’t place her finger on it. She was a little bit confused at this human. He was just giving them information. He had to know they were there, so why was he saying all this? Ryuu watched the human move between her and the Hopteron almost like he was shielding him from her view. She slowly reached her hand up singled for Leah to fall back hoping she could see her hand sign, since Leah was at the door still she could get away faster and have a chance at not being caught. Her eyes widen slightly when the human mentioned blowing up the citadel. Why would a human want to blow up the citadel?!?!

Ryuu was pulled deep from thought when the human told this “Bapto” to summon the guards. “S***! I have to get out of this room!” Ryuu thought to herself as she quietly as she reached over turning off the recorder and sending the recording to the captain just in case she couldn’t later. She slowly backed up watching her steps to make sure didn’t trip or hit anything on her way backwards, but also keeping an eye on the Hopteron and the Human, making sure they didn’t spot her while she moved. Ryuu was almost at the door when she heard the guards closing in on the room. “Crap this isn’t good. I hope Leah made it out.” She though to herself as she looked around for another way out. Her eyes looked over to the canopy that over looked a field of what looked like glowing plants, that was her way out.

Ryuu started making her way over to the canopy quickly and quietly. She was almost to the canopy when her Tactical cloak wore off. Worst part of it was the guards arrived as soon as it wore off, and one of them spotted her. Ryuu quickly pulled out her pistol and shot at the Hopteron that charged at her killing it. At that point Ryuu gave up stealth and ran towards the canopy getting ready to jump off it when one of the Hopteron guards manage to land an attack on her back. She stumbled forwarded before she regained her footing and jumped over the edge of the canopy and onto the ground below. She ran through the field using one of her Omni-gels on her back to kill the acid (She would have to deal with the wound itself later,) before looking over her shoulder to see how many were following her. “Crap.. Today is not my day.” She said quietly to herself firing a few more rounds at the Hopteron following her. “Well at least we know for certain that the Hopteron don’t want to be friends.” She said almost laughing to herself as she took cover behind a rock reloading her weapon. “I wonder if everyone else is having this much fun.” she said before popping out of cover to fire at the Hopteron.


OOC: Yay a post! :3

[Redisuu]

Reina peeked over from her cover. She could hear where all the action has taken place since after she took her first shots at the Hoptron.

"The Krogan is dead, Reina.."

"Ugh.. Great that's not going to look good in the report blah leave it to Reina to get a KROGAN killed in her first assignment" she whispered to herself as she jumped over her cover. She had her aim on the same Hopteron that she shot at in the arm.

"Using concussion shoot" She yelled out firing at the Hopteron breaking down its shield. She quickly switched to her rifle aiming it at its head. Blowing it clear off.

"Alright head shot! ...How are you doing Melina!?" She called out to the Asari after she flew passed Reina.

Kovina voice was shaky like the breath was taken out of her. Through the com channel Reina heard her saying something they had Echolocation. Like the earth bats and dolphins? She thought to herself.

Reina was about to jump back behind her cover but was pushed back by an attack that had hit her against the cave's wall. It wasn't biotic attack but something similar it was like a wave of power.

She had reinforced armor on and managed to escape barely from such a strong impact. She keeled hiding behind some rock. Rock formation looking over to Kovina and Azrat good they were still alive.
Reina looked over her cover from the original five that was there it was not down to one. She waited for her shield to regenerate to 100%. She jumped over her and dash straight into the creature releasing her omni tool's blade and aiming for the neck. The Hopteron was taken off guard by the boorish attack. It had tried to shoot but it's clumsy handling of the gun made the Hopteron panic in a desperation trying to lunge at Reina to take bite at her. Reina smiled devilishly seeing her opening and slicing into his neck.

"Humph that takes care of that!, How you guys holding out?" she channel to her team. She waited for them to recover.

There was a passage that led into another tunnel like hallway. She led her team forward into the next room keeping her guard up but saw that it had two passages. One had led into a more open part it looked like the path had turned into a bridge that lead to large formation of rocks that looked like a building but rather crude and prehistoric. A castle maybe she thought to herself. The one on her right seem to be more enclosed like a room. Reina wanted to check out the room before heading. She stepped inside the room and was taken back by what she saw.

The rest of the crew of the Romus. Some were hung by hooks, others on tables with cut open with their insides pulled out. It was in the far back of the room in a corner was mound of bodies. One for each race.

"It looks like the rest of the crew given by the number of bodies here...They must of been experimenting on them." She spoke coldly. It disgusted her to see such a scene. A truly barbaric...why would they have considered uplifting these monsters.
Disgusting, didn't council think they could be just another Yahg race. Her anger was building up as she punched in a wall to release her frustration. She look at her right arm that was used to smashed into the wall and saw a light blinking from her omni tool. It was a message a recording. Reina played it out loud for her other team mates to her.

"...i was saying earlier, we at Orthrus foster the same ideals as your people, and will give you our fullest support...We've been in the dark for a while, but understanding your plight I believe it is time to bring light to this galaxy. We'll make them understand the failures of inter-species contact, you will be left alone safe from them....There is a major point of interest for us, known as the Citadel. It acts as a center of intergalactic converse, trade, and politics. Our intentions lay here, after we finish setting up the entire citadel will be blown to nothing but pieces of space dust. It won't be much longer, and when all is safe even i will leave you in the peace of your home....."

"What the hell is Orthrus?, l'm pretty sure it's the name of a two headed dog in Greek mythology. Kinda like... Cerberus....It must be some kinda of Terrorist group. They said it was sabotage do you think they had their people in the Romus and now turning the Hopteron against us? but why..." She lowered her arm down as she pondered for minute looking to her team mates with any answers.

She had to get a hold on of them let her know what they're walking into.
"TEAM TWO REPORT, Where are you? I think we're about outside the Castle structure." She spoke into her Com trying to get hold of Ryuu or Leah. She was hoping they were both still alive.

Xander was jumping out of his chair as soon as the power went out and forced into the backup generators. Everyone from with in CIC had been telling Xander one thing after another.

"Sir, Turrets are offline"

"Sir, Core is offline"

"Sir, Defense Shields are offline."

"Sir, Radar, Scans are offline."

"s**t!" Xander yelled out in frustration.
Running over to every console that had been shut down by the power loss except for a few that were used to monitor life support and ship internal systems.

"Try to reroute what power we can. To bring the turrets back on...if at least to manual."

"Sir if we do that then we lose keeping the ship temperature regulated, we'll freeze to death"

"HA That won't happen right away, we just got to make sure we kill all those bastards, I don't want to end up like the Romus crew."

"Right.... Trying to reroute power...we still need someone to go up there and manually operate them"

"Sir the crew in the hangar are not reporting in. Someone left it open! They're coming in!"

"s**t, I'll see who's available to operate the turrets, and I'll hold off what I can and check on the core."

Xander ran out of the CIC into the Elevator going down to the second level. He noticed everyone was gone as he got there even bob was not in his kitchen, great he thought to himself. He went to check on Javed and the Salarian they picked up earlier.
As he approached the Med bay. From the outside glass he saw the Salardian sitting on top of the table and another talking to him. Who the hell is that he thought as he open the door to the MED bay. He made eye contact with the light blue Salarian but turned his attention to the on the table.

"Good timing you're up, are you good to walk?" He asked the injured Salarian.

Meanwhile...


Bob was down below in the hangar trying to keep those creatures at bay. He knew something wasn't right the moment the power went out. He made haste below and was surprised that the hangar was left open and some of the creatures made it inside. With the overflow of creatures the crew had no time to prepare and were taken down. Only a few were able to grab a hold of guns trying to fight back.
He his only defense against the creatures was swinging his massive arms and his biotics to throw back the creatures as hard as he could against the walls knocking out some. Luckily some of the crew that was fighting back saw bob fighting as they run over to cover him. With the Brief distraction he was able to make to the armory station few feet away from the elevator door. Hanging on a hoist above him was his IV Tank. Using his Biotic he was able to bring it down and mouth on his self. Now armed and Dangerous.

"Badassfully: You have messed with the wrong Elcor" he quoted a line from his favorite movie.

Using his Tank he was able to keep some at bay, When he saw that Maki had returned he had ceased fire to let them through but quickly started again to cover them.

"Badassfully: I got this, go and get the power back on."

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edit added where heard the message from ryuu

[Ninj4-C4dill4c]

"Do I sing? No. Why do you ask?"

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Dr. Volari Arnola|||||||||||||||||||Science Officer

Alarms. Voices. A ringing in his ears. Volari's head was being bombarded with a variety of different things all at once and it was hard to take in for a moment. The voices he heard sounded like they were on the other side of a wall. They were flat, muffled, and it didn't help that the alarms going off. The salarian took another long swig of water and looked up to the approaching human who seemed to be addressing him. He had to run the question through his head a few times before he finally could comprehend it. "Good... Good enough... To what? Walk? Good enough to walk? Oh!"

After a moment of looking like a deer in a headlight, Volari nodded to the human. "Yes. What do you need from me?" he asked. Slowly but surely he was getting back into the swing of things. He looked to the other salarian in the room, recognizing him as part of the SSV Romus' crew. Volari gave a polite smile and nod to his comrade and then looked to the turian who had asked him questions earlier, though Volari was still too out of it to really understand what he was trying to ask. "My apologies, turian, but I don't know what you were asking. Perhaps we can talk when the situation is under control."

[xT]

Jake Anthony Mastre

Human Adept - Biotic Support

Jake couldn't help but jerk his head towards the LOKI mech in surprise when the thing actually spoke, having not expected that. LOKI mechs weren't exactly known to be chatty. Rather, as security mechs, they tended to only have enough programming to utter warnings and simple instructions towards intruders and other hostile persons. Getting a full update from the mech was a surprise but before Jake could question it, the rachni stressed a sudden need to move as apparently the ship that was supposed to be Jake's rescue vessel was under attack.

Great, just like last time, the biotic thought sourly. Checking to make sure that his Phalanx was at the ready, Jake double-timed it with the rest of the group towards the vessel.

The sight that greeted them must've been what the Romus crew encountered when the Hopterons had invaded. Fortunately, this Beagle seemed to be holding out better as, despite the charge of aliens, the automated guns were blasting away at the approaching tide while Jake took refuge in the vessel. They didn't get far from the hangar before Jake found himself alone save for the LOKI mech; the rachni having rushed off elsewhere and the salarian having gone.....somewhere else.

He could feel the turrets still booming outside and just when Jake thought that they'd be able to hold out and wondering how the Romus could've fallen so easily to the Hopterons...the power went out. Lights shut off, emergency lights came on, and the guns were completely and utterly silent. Not good.

Not thinking about how oddly suspicious the power just happened to shut off at such an inappropriate time, Jake only asked himself one question: where was the fight and how should he get there? There was nothing he could do about the power - he was a biotic, not a tech -, so locating the fight was all that mattered. So what would be the biggest opening that the Hopterons could-

The hangar. If the power had went out and they didn't shut the hangar after we came in...

Gunfire confirmed it. Grabbing his pistol, Jake immediately sprinted back the way he came. The sight that greeted him upon entering the hangar was probably similar to the one that the crew of the Romus witnessed; Hopterons pouring in, defenders fighting valiantly against them before they fell.

Not again, Jake thought as his eyes narrowed...and then glowed blue. In just a moment his whole body started to resonate a blue, wavy glow as Jake started to tap into the dark energy that his biotic abilities allowed him to manipulate. There was already resistance; the crew of the Beagle having obtained weapons and this included an Elcor decked out in full tanking mode.

And now there was going to be a biotic to add to the defense. Stepping forward, Jake pulled a hand back where he concentrated the dark energy, a ball of it collecting and forming in his palm. When gathered, he thrust it forward, the ball launching straight into the center of the hangar door where the Hopterons were emerging from. The ball collided into two of the aliens and, upon contact, the ball expanded, started to swirl with power that emitted a anti-gravitational grip that seized the two Hopterons as well as any other stragglers before being lifted and dangled in the air.

As the blue aura disappeared from around Jake, the human started moving forward to join the defensive line, raising his Phalanx in a two-handed grip; one hand supporting the other as he fired. He didn't aim for the dangling Hopterons, instead letting the rest of the crew aim for them. Instead he shot towards the flanks of the charging Hopterons. He wasn't the greatest pistol marskman, at the very least a little above average, and the larger Hopterons made it easy with their reckless charge. Aiming down the sight, Jake put two bullets into the chest of a Hopteron and, immediately swiveling towards another target, he fired two more shots which evolved into a three when one of the two shots only burst through the "wing" of one Hopteron while the other hit the shoulder.

The blue aura flared around Jake again as he turned back to his biotics. Thrusting his hand forward, it was not a ball of dark energy that shot towards the charging Hopterons but, rather, a series of explosions as the Shockwave pulsed and blasted forward. Any Hopterons that got in the way would be smashed to the sides but, they were not Jake's target.

The Shockwave smashed into the still-swirling Singularity...and the collision of two biotic powers caused an explosion of dark energy that would not only slay the two Hopterons that were caught in the Singularity - if they were still alive -, but would kill or smash into any of the surrounding aliens that were too close.

The aura faded from Jake again and, for a moment, when he brought up his heavy pistol, his arms felt momentarily weak, his gun sight swaying to the side for just a moment. He recovered though, used to the draining effects of using such powerful biotic abilities back-to-back. It was just a minor discomfort that could really be debilitating if used too much too fast but, right now Jake was fine to continue to fight.

[Ruler_of_all_vampires]

██████████████ JAVED ☣ Scipio █ █ ████
Lab Assistant【TURIAN】Sentinel ☢

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Javed looked over when he heard the med-bay doors open to see another salarian walking in. Javed raised watched him as he walked over setting his bag down on the table asking the other salarian a question. “Um no the medical officer is currently on the surface.” Javed said to him before his eyes again drifted to the door this time seeing Xander walk in. He watched Xander walk over to there wounded friend asking if he was good enough to walk. Javed listened the Doc respond before Javed shacked his head. “I would advice against him doing anything he still pretty injured and to the look of it still not fully with us.” Javed said to Xander, waving his hand in front of Dr Volari face seeing how fast he would respond. “I recommend he stay here in the med-bay.” Javed said turning back to look at Xander.

OOC: @.@ its short...but its to the point @.@

[Ruler_of_all_vampires]

██████████████ RYUU ★ Vanheart █ █ ████
Weapons Specialist【HUMAN】Infiltrator ➸

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Ryuu ducked back into cover reloading her weapon before peering around the rock to see how many more Hopteron there were. She quickly ducked back behind the rock barely dodging a bullet from one of the guns that they had. This was getting bad and fast, her reactions starting to become slow. Ryuu had manage to used the medi-gel to kill the acid but not before it done its work. Her back was going numb and it was affecting her movements. She popped out from behind the rock again shooting another one down before ducking for cover again. Just coming out of cover was becoming a chore, she was already a bit out of brethe. She was about to pop out again when she heard the captain over the intercom asking for a report. Ryuu reached her hand up to her com pressing the button to turn on her mic so she could respond.

“Ryuu reporting in. Leah and I got separated, I don’t know where she is.” Ryuu said before pausing to take out another hopteron that manage to get close to her. “I’m some where outside the castle but I’m pinned down. These Hopteron are relentless.” She said attempting to catch her breathe. “There leader name is Bapto, and an interesting fact, there a human that’s working with them and he can understand what there saying.” Ryuu mentioned before unleashing a few more bullets at the Hopteron. “With any luck they may still be in the castle if you want to introduce yourself to them.” She said activating her tactical cloak so she could buy herself a few seconds while she reloaded. “If your headed into the castle I suggest going now. I have some of the guards attention. Thoe I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up. So I suggest moving quickly.” She said slightly panting giving herself another dose of Omni-gel before firing at the Hopteron again. This mission was getting less fun as the time went on.

[Malcom Perth]

"Zyrack Thulim"
Hanar Gunnery Chief

Zyrack prayed to the Enkindlers, its body pulsing with invisible light beneath the murky void of a pond It had decided to use as a hiding place from the Hoppertons. Since Zyracks arrival it had witnessed so much death dealt by the hands of these creatures that it could no longer think of them as anything more than monsters, monsters which it must avoid. Rising from the depths, the Hanar peaked out over the water, sensing the world around it. Indeed, the ship that had landed here days ago was still there, and many loud and sharp noises permeated the air. Zyrack pondered Its chances of survival if it fled towards the ship, and Came to the conclusion that It should wait for an opening, some sort of door or perhaps even a compartment in which It could climb and emerge only once It was sure the Hoppertons would not be around to attack. Zyrack drifted to the Edge of the pond, watching the intense fighting between the crew and the Hoppertons. Zyrack shifted its attention to the Open hanger bay, an easy opening for entry, but it was flooded with Hoppertons. If I was to try it, I would surely be killed before I would arrive, perhaps if the humans clear a hole I will make a run for it. Enkindlers guide me, I should have never taken this commission in the first place! Zyrack lamented in Its mind, slipping back towards the abyss it had called home for what felt like weeks.

Zyrack's keen hearing detected the sound of a biotic blast, something it hadn't really heard since the Reaper conflict. Zyrack took a long pause, and then surged to the end of the pond, looking for cover to hide behind. After much debate, the Hanar bolted up from the water and towards the Rocks, turning on its personal mass effect field generator to compensate for Hanar's distinct lack of land based mobility. Almost Immediately Zyrack was assailed by a lone Hopperton, who broke off from the group in search of a drink from the pond. It ran at Zyrack wildly, growling in anger and intent on tearing it apart with ease. Zyrack, however, had another plan. It Quickly turned the nob on its Generator, making its tentacles feel heavy as lead. In one deft movement, Zyrack whipped its front right tentacle at the Hopperton, wrapping tightly around it's throat. The Creature, not expecting to face resistance from a jellyfish of all things, was caught completely off guard. "This one seeks revenge for its comrades your people have slain, It hopes you will find peace with the other souls of your misbegotten kind." Zyrack said in the closest thing to angry that a Hanar can sound. With that, the Empowered Hanar flung the Hopperton head first towards the water of the pond, releasing the creature's neck only long enough for it to wrap its tentacle back around the creatures leg, and swing it hard towards the rocks on the right of the pond. The Creature slammed into the rocks chest first, its equivalent of ribs shattering and its lungs filling with blood, on top of having its skull cracked wide open. "Enkindlers forgive this one if it has taken a life unjustly." The penitent Hanar whispered, rushing off towards the rocks nearest the Hanger entrance.

(( For the Love of God! Do you know how hard it is to Italisices each and every "It" that refers to Zyrack!? I almost wish Bioware had just outright said if there is or isnt male and female Hanar))

[K Handerlan]

--------------Leah "Hawkeye" Stefansson

This was getting more and odder as more time went on. It seemed like the human knew of this race and was working with them on something. For what was the bigger question. She caught the word ‘Citadel’ in the conversation but she was too far away for her to make out what they were really talking about. She could even really move at the moment as she could give them even more away. She noticed the hand signal from Ryuu and was going to respond when clicking was heard. Leah was no animal scientist or anything but it seemed to her like guards were being called. ‘And that’s my queue to haul a** to base, we can’t take on all of them in here.’ She thought as she moved away, still cloaked. The women liked to fight sure but she preferred it on fair grounds and this wasn’t fair ground. ‘So much for we come in peace.’ She thought sarcastically as she moved. This wasn’t something she expected from this, it’s a conspiracy!

She took cover, avoiding the guards when The Captain called in and Ryuu replied. Oh, so that’s where she was. “Sorry about that Ryuu, heading your way right now so hold on.” Leah said into her communicater as she turned back, not bothering to cloak herself now. “Oh and captain, its best now not to storm the castle. Bats are everywhere, I repeat, bats are everywhere. Just saying” She said as she shot a couple of Hopteron who were lunging at her. This was getting dumb, it was dark, bats were everywhere and she was separated from her teammate. So much for a good first impression for the team. Soon enough, she reached the location where Ryuu was, killing a couple of Hopteron for her. “You ok? “ She asked as she looked the other girl over. “I’ll cover for you, we need to get moving.” She said, aiming her gun and shooting a couple of bullets. “Goddamn bats.” She muttered. Leah was a culture blind girl but even she can insult people at times.

[Redisuu]

Xander stared at the Salarians and the Turian that was with them. Javed as is name and he was acting scientist on the Beagle. He wasn't sure if they could fight. He sighed and nodded his head.

"We're trying to get power back on, some of things got on board. If I know the admiral well he made sure there was hidden compartments among the rooms." he spoke them as he walk passed them looking around the Med Bay.
His Admiral had told him of different compartments in the ship in case of sudden take over of the ship. His way of trying to protect is princess now that he wasn't around. He look down and saw from under the sink there was a miss color panel on the floor. He quickly pulled out a small pocket knife that he always carried with him to clean his fingers nails. He skillfully stuck it in tracing it along the square panel. It help loosen it and popped it out. He then retrieved two simple pistols with some Thermal clips.

"Here I'm sure every Turian had some type of combat training." he hands one of the pistols to Javed noticing the light blue Salarian had a gun already. He kept the other one for himself but left the clips with them.

"Alright I'm going down to the core and see whats up. Also I have to Turrets above ship that needs to be Manually operated. If one of you can make it up there It would greatly reduce their numbers." He was more like asking but wasn't expecting much from the salarians. He was sure once he makes to the lower levels he can find someone to help.

He leaves them as he took the elevator down to the core main room.
Upon reaching he heard muffling and banging from a storage crate lined up against the wall.
Xander was confused and cautious when he approached the crate. Using his foot he kick it open pointing his gun ready to fire for whatever surprise he'll fine.

"Wha the Hell!, who did this to you?" He asked as he was really was surprise to see the volus was tied up inside. He was more surprise he was able to fit completely inside.

"Do you know what happen here, what they do to the core?" He asked again as he started to untie him and help him out of the box.

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Alright, if i mess up somwhere let me know

[Kroama]

Amon Juu Yeoman
Male, Volus, Engineer
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

TabAs Maki was busy messing with the mess of a battery to allow the ship full power once more, Amon was stuck with a conundrum of his own. A crate of his own anyway. He'd been stuffed in to one of the maintenance supply crates, the emptied contents pushed somewhere in to the dark corners of the core room while his container was slid with the rest. It happened so suddenly he didn't even realize what was going on before it happened. He'd actually been going to the battery room only to find dead bodies everywhere, and two cloaked figures messing with some wires. The next thing he knew, the figure had cloaked, and he was tied like a hog. Presumably he didn't know/didn't have the time to effectively kill the Volus without making it sound like a grenade going off. So he'd been hog tied and one of the two took him elsewhere and stuffed him in the crate.

TabAlthough to be honest, from the sounds of hell, and people running all throughout the ship it seemed like he was in one of the safest places possible. He was thankful for that, if nothing else. That being said, he was starting to get rather uncomfortable and claustrophobic, weird for a Volus, and started making noise. Some time someone finally answered his call, soon finding himself freed from his cursed wooden cell and presented with a barrage of questions. Most of which felt irrelevant, since the core was in no danger. Hell, looking over it was guarded by a small legion of Rachni and ship security should any Hopteron dare make it on to the ship. The drive core was one thing nobody would like to see sabotaged.

TabFrom the lights he could tell that's what had happened. Those figures and the dead bodies made it obvious that the two people were setting up the ship so that it would kill its power at the worst time. They weren't Hopteron though, he could tell that much. In fact, the little he could glimpse they both seemed Human but he couldn't tell for sure. "*Kssht*Human-clan, what are you doing down here?!" He asked, surely without power his ability to assist the ship was limited as apposed to being up at the bridge but it was clear to Amon that these two cloaked figures were still aboard the ship. And if they wanted off, where would their escape route be? "Nothing is wrong with the core, *Kssht* but you have to get back up to communications! There were two people... human-clan i think, at the battery... *Kssht* They called me a complication and said they were contacting the main force for an early retrieval and detonation. *Kssht*"

TabThinking about that for a moment, he began to jittery, panic. Detonation? They said detonation right or did i remember that wrong? He didn't even know what was going on anymore. The figures were obviously not a 'team' of the Beagle and didn't look like they were from the Romus either. "*Kssht* I think there's a bomb on the ship!" He said in a panic, pushing himself up and wobbling a bit trying to find balance. "Someplace where the small insect-clan wouldn't catch it, *Kssht* or would if not distracted by the power outage." What was going on? Why was he trying to order people around... maybe because his life depended on it and it felt right. Yeah that's it. No money to be made in an explosion big enough to destroy the large frigate. "Watch the skies for any signal if you can and anyone trying to leave the ship! *Kssht*" Easier said than done in such a panic as there was with the fighting off the Hopteron. "I doubt they would set it before they had a chance to get flown away, *Kssht* meaning somebody is coming to pick them up."