Agree to the terms 62%
“I’ll do it,” Fluttershy said in resignation. The alternatives were too risky to consider. “But if I may ask, why are you doing this?”
The lady momentarily looked at Fluttershy as if she was trying to decide what to tell the pegasus, her voice changing from her previous playful tone to a much graver one as she spoke again. “A crime boss killed my… partner, and stole something from him. I want it back.”
Fluttershy didn’t know what to say to that, but, before she could give a reaction in the first place, the woman activated her cloak again and disappeared. Only where there previously was a shimmer, now it was as if she had vanished into thin air. There was no sound that accompanied her disappearance, not even the feeling of wind passing over Fluttershy’s coat. The pegasus would have sworn the human to be in the exact same place if it weren’t for the fact that she was able to walk through the spot she had just stood.
Fluttershy shuddered again as she was reminded that this lady had probably planned this out… and she was good, incredibly good.
A beeping sound from her omni-tool snapped her back to reality. Whatever block the lady had put on her omni-tool had shut off, allowing full use of the tool again. Looking at her call history, she found a whole list of calls from Shepard, and at some point Garrus had taken over in the attempts to get a hold of the pegasus again.
After pushing the necessary buttons, Fluttershy picked up the current incoming call from Garrus. “Uhm, hi?”
”Fluttershy! Where are you? What happened? We’ve been worrying ourselves sick over here.”
He worried about me? Does he care as well? Maybe… No, anyone would worry if someone just disappeared like that. It’s probably nothing.
“I had a, uhm, conversation with someone. I’m now making my way to the nearest shuttle dock,” Fluttershy answered as she plotted her route into the map on her omni-tool. Her flight gave her an edge as she flew over the crowds towards the nearest location.
”A conversation with who? The person that was spying on us?” Garrus inquired further. Fluttershy set down beside a shuttle, paid the small fee required to be taken to the docks, and jumped into the vehicle.
“Yes, she-” Fluttershy stopped as she wasn’t sure what to tell the turian. Yes the human had tricked her into following her and stolen the data on her omni-tool, but what did she really have on her? There was a chance that the medical data had already been leaked and anything else on the omni-tool could practically be written off as useless anyway. Looking back at the entire encounter it had seemed… desperate. Whatever this human had planned, she obviously couldn’t do alone but had no-one to fall back on. “-needed my help with something sometime in the future,” Fluttershy finished, leaving out the other events.
Garrus stayed silent for a moment, but when he spoke he didn’t press the issue any further. ”Can you make it back to the Normandy in time?”
Fluttershy checked the estimated time of arrival along with the amount of time they had left before Anderson would make his move. “It’ll be close, but I’ll make it.”
”Good, see you when you get here.” With that, Garrus closed the call and left Fluttershy with her own thoughts. The following twenty minutes she spent reviewing what little she had heard from the spy.
Even though she threatened to release the data she had gathered from the pegasus’ omni-tool, there really wasn’t anything else that could be held over Fluttershy’s head. But, on the other hoof, the pegasus had become curious as to what the lady had planned. She had been told that the thief's partner had been killed and something had been stolen from him, but the tone with which she had said partner suggested that it was much more than that. Whatever was taken from him had a lot of emotional value to her.
All those thoughts were pushed to the back of her mind as she saw the Alliance docks, and in turn the Normandy, coming up. The moment the shuttle door opened up Fluttershy shot out and made a beeline to the frigate, flying straight into the ship’s airlock. “Joker, I’m on board!”
”I was wondering when you’d arrive. Glad you made it.” Joker responded over the intercom as he closed the airlock and cycled it. ”Looks like you made it just in time. We’re cleared to leave!”
As Fluttershy stepped out of the airlock, she found the Commander standing in the cockpit behind Joker. The pilot quickly pressed various buttons and typed commands into the Normandy’s systems. “Engaging stealth drive,” he announced as he gunned the engines and sped out of the Citadel’s reach, the couple of vessels that had locked onto the Normandy immediately lost the vessel as it dropped off their sensors.
“Joker, get to the relay and take us to Ilos, ASAP,” Shepard said before turning to Fluttershy, who was still watching as the Normandy approached the Citadel’s main relay. “You. I don’t know who you talked to, but I want you to write up a report on what happened before we reach Ilos, understood?”
“Yes, sir!” Fluttershy answered and saluted with her wing.
“Good. Doctor Chakwas can show you how to do it. Dismissed.” Fluttershy didn’t waste any time making her way down to the medbay where she found Chakwas was already informed of the situation. Together they wrote up a report while the Normandy made its way to what was promising to be the final encounter with Saren.