Chapter One Hundred And Thirty-Five
Horizon Colony. Lera System.
Jack was having a blast. Finally her boss had let her off the leash so that she could do what she did best, which was make a mess of things. These Collectors fuckers were tough, but the laser weapons made quick work of them and most of the aliens didn't seem to worry about cover or suppressive fire, it was as if they didn't care if they died.
There was now a lull in fighting so Subject Zero took a moment to down some energy drink and a quick snack and using biotics really used up the calories, there was no such thing as an overweight botic, well at least Jack had never heard of one.
It was only because they'd stopped that Jack found something interesting that didn't involve killing aliens.
"Samantha, are you crazy?" she heard someone whisper loudly "Those things will hear us!".
Jack stepped into what seemed to be some sort of garage.
"We're here to help!" she called out.
From behind a console she could hear the shuffling of something, and then she saw a handgun, but it wasn't pointed at anyone, the person holding it was more of a danger to themselves than Jack or her team.
"Samantha Traynor" the woman said "I'm Specialist Samantha Traynor I mean. I'm visiting my parents".
Had Jack ever played Mass Effect 3 and if she the biotic would not have bothered to pay much attention, as such she wouldn't know that Specialist Samantha Traynor was the Comm Specialist aboard the Alliance Normandy SR-2, in ME3. She would be there serving in a similar role to that of her predecessor, Yeoman Kelly Chambers. Also she was a potential romance option for a female Shepard.
"Hey" Subject Zero replied "I'm here because my boss wants these aliens to die".
No one spoke for a moment.
"Who was talking to you?" one of the battle harem members asked.
Miss Traynor pointed to a dark corner.
"He's a colonist" she said "And I don't think he's coming out. Not that it matters. We don't know what's going on, except that the colony's under attack".
Jack didn't think either of these people were cowards, if anything she admired how smart they were to hide, everyone else had probably run around like a headless chickens when the aliens turned up.
"Anyone injured" Subject Zero.
She didn't actually care but her boss wanted her to pretend so as to help win over the colony.
"Yeah, we're fine," a man replied as he came out of hiding. "I was working in here when I heard the screaming, and Sam rushed in before I closed the door."
On what he had been working on he didn't say. Not that it mattered right now.
"I told you to keep quiet, what if these guys had been the slavers we heard earlier?" accused the man.
Jack wondered how could anyone have seen the Collector ship in the sky and the swarms and then come to the conclusion that this was a normal kind of raid?
"They aren't slavers," Jack explained "They're Collectors".
That got her some puzzled looks.
"They're this race of insectoid bad guys" she explained "They've been attacking human colonies, and taking everybody they can carry off somewhere. They're the ones behind the attack on Freedom's Progress, and some other places, we got intel that they were attacking this place next so we came to stop them".
Traynor seemed less surprised than the man she'd been hiding with.
"So that's why the Alliance had the Gardian lasers setup" she said.
07, one of the battle harem members, asked about that.
"The Alliance came in to set up some defences" the male colonist told us "They had some fancy Alliance officer here and a few techs, Williams her name is. She was outside when those bugs started attacking. She told me to run, and I did".
That wasn't a concern for her team; the Imperials had more than enough fire power.
"Okay we're heading out" said Jack, who by now felt somewhat recharged "You guys keep hiding while we go be heroes".
Subject Zero never thought she'd find herself doing something that she'd consider heroic and yet here she was.