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[cmdr_renegade]

[The feed isn't as manicured as Shepard often prefers her video feeds to be, it's very clearly spur of the moment. The area behind her clearly a section of their base, a hallway in some building, and the wall behind her is splattered with a healthy streak of blue and a few stray impact holes. Judging by the freshness and the way that color had

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[gawdamn]

[ Somewhere, at an undisclosed location. Bleeding out, and semi-lucid. ]

The fuck did I do?

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[cmdr_renegade]

[The look Shepard turns on him is one she's only managed to use on Saren, the Shadow Broker, and a handful of very unfortunate Batarians on Torfan.]

If someone has already cracked that fuck-ugly skull of yours open and kicked some sense back into your corpse, I'll be sorely disappointed.

So you listen, Massani, and you listen hard: you set foor out in the open, and I will find you. When I find you, I'll make you wish you were dead. Until I've seen you lifeless under my boot, this isn't over.

[Shepard reloads her heatsink and turns. She's more pissy than usual, sure, but that corpse on the ground and the turian blood on the wall sure clear up the why.]

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[gawdamn]

[ lol y u mad though ]

I don't know why she's acting like she's out of her bloody mind. She's probably just scared.

[ Zaeed turns away from the camera, again looking (and conversing) with something that isn't there. ]

No, we can't leave yet. I know, I'm trying.

It's probably just something about the rifle cleaner.

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[cmdr_renegade]

[He'd made it out of the building and he was still off his proverbial motherfucking rocker. Shepard just grits her teeth. There's no notable landmarks behind him, no way to track which nondescript fucking zone he was in.

This shit is giving her a migrane and her head twinges just thinking about how much she wants to kick the shit out of Massani.]

I'm half tempted to gun you down once for safety, and again when you respawn, just for pulling this bullshit.

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[cohesions]

[ What the heck is going ooon. ]

...Acknowledged.

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[robots_omgh8u]

I'll keep an eye out for him, but I'm not shooting to kill.

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[cmdr_renegade]

Fine. [Shepard actually snapped at him?]

He's ambidextrous. Take out both shoulders unless you want a hole through your torso.

You wing him, contact me at once.

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[robots_omgh8u]

Noted, hopefully it won't come to that.

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[cmdr_renegade]

[At the moment, littler Connor (sort of), she finds your pesudo-peaceful optimism to be nauseating. She just nods curtly and disconnects. She has a merc to track and kill.]

[savor_last_shot]

[That looks very much like his blood. The last thing he remembers he was coming back from a sweep on the perimeter.]

...Shepard? What the Hell just happened?

[He's still on edge, still twitchy as all hell.]

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[cmdr_renegade]

[The camera jogs as Shepard stands. If that keeps it away from the view of his mangled corpse, it was purely coincidental. She's silent for a moment, her jaw tensed, and then she answers. She's trying very hard to keep calm, but she's got more than a little turian blood splatter on her own armor.]

Massani finally lost it.

If he runs past you, crack his skull open.

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[savor_last_shot]

I knew it.

[He knew would turn on them. Eventually. Should've killed him when he had the chance. Used his bare hands. Used-

Whoa. That was intense.]

Will do. You alright?

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[cmdr_renegade]

I will be when someone puts a bullet in Massani.

[That was an ominous sentiment, one she doesn't seem to be logically reconsidering. Shepard takes a short, punctuated breath and nods.]

Watch your back and [There's an awkward pause in her cadence, but her expression doesn't flinch.] keep your shields up at all times.

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[allianceman]

[Kaidan looks like he usually does when he's been keeping himself holed up because of his awesome L2 migranes. Tired and squinty, but he's alertish, at least.]

Understood.

[He doesn't really like the guy much anyway so he's not even going to question it. But he had to have heard the gunshots from where he's been holed up on-base, and he knows what color turian blood is. Still, there's a pause like he either doesn't know what to say or doesn't want to say it.]

Are you all right, Shepard?

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[cmdr_renegade]

Yeah, I am. [She answered that way too fast, almost reflexively. After belting that out she takes a look at him.]

Still out of commission, Alenko?

[If he was mid-migraine, he wouldn't be much help tracking.]

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[allianceman]

[He's just gonna. Stare at you for a second, Shepard. Even through his migrane he's got an I-don't-believe-you look on his face. But he won't press it.] If you say so.

[he clears his throat a little, and inclines his head briefly]

I'm feeling a little better. Should be ready for action in no time.

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[cmdr_renegade]

[If she weren't staring at him, she'd pretend not to notice that stare. As it was, she faltered for a split second. Once she realized she had faltered in her expression, the frustration it inspired turned to rage again and hardened her features.

There's a long, measured pause before she responds.]

Good. We may need you.

Massani's a founder of the Blue Suns; he's dangerous, unpredictable, and well armed.

Set your shields to permanent on...last thing I need is [There's a pause a she considers how to put this. She doesn't come up with anything particularly eloquent.] you getting shot up.