She’s not worth the time now. We’ll get to her eventually.65%
Fluttershy sat completely still for a couple of moments longer as she venomously glared at the asari. It’d be so easy to just fire her sniper rifle at her…
…And what then? The thugs in the immediate surroundings would without a doubt go firing in every direction in an attempt to hit her. Garrus would undoubtedly partake in the crossfire, and even though he was good, they would still be overwhelmed.
It simply wasn’t an option the longer she thought about it.
“You. Find out what that turian and other… thing are doing on my station. They’re up to something, and I want to know what,” Aria ordered one of the turians.
That’s good to know. Better warn Garrus to watch that guy.
Fluttershy slowly opened her wings and allowed herself to fall backwards off of the balcony, silently reorienting herself and gliding around the club until she saw Garrus had picked a table in a relatively dark corner of the busy nightclub. The pegasus smirked a little as she saw Garrus slide the chair away from the table as if inviting her to come sit there. Fluttershy flared her wings and came to a swift stop right in the middle of the chair.
“I was almost getting worried that you’d do something rash,” Garrus said as the wind from the displaced air washed over him. “Even though I despise criminals, we need her on top of Omega for the moment.”
“Why? Is she that important?” Fluttershy asked, genuinely interested in why he wouldn’t want to take out Aria.
“Yes, she basically runs Omega. If we took her out, the other major players of Omega would start to try filling the power vacuum, and whereas Aria at least maintains relative safety and stability over her holdings the Blood pack, Eclipse, and Blue Suns most definitely would not care as much about the civilians as she does,” Garrus explained.
“So what do we do?”
“We go after the three organizations I just mentioned. We disrupt their operations and attempt to destroy their command structure. After we’ve dismantled them we go after the Queen of Omega herself, the asari you’ve just met.”
“That plan sounds like a lot of work and will require a lot of luck to successfully complete,” Fluttershy casually noted as she tracked the turian who had gotten the orders to figure out what Garrus was doing on Omega. “Garrus, turian in grey armor at your two ’o clock, other side of the main bar.”
“I see him. What’s the problem with him?”
“Aria gave him an order to find out why we are here exactly,” Fluttershy answered, but before Garrus could respond they heard someone get hit really hard and saw a turian slide over the ground away from a krogan.
“Last one was yours, this one’s mine,” Garrus said as he made his way over to the red-clad krogan, a large white emblem of a skull and fist on his shoulder pad.
“I’m going to drink out of of your stupid turian skull!” the krogan roared, but before he could approach the dazed turian on the ground, Garrus’ fist collided with the side of his head. Not wanting to wait around, Garrus grabbed the downed turian and helped him up, guiding him to the exit through the crowd of guests. Fluttershy had quickly taken to her wings and followed the pair of them as Garrus escaped from the dazed and very angry krogan.
Walking for a while, Garrus led the other turian to an overhang that gave a good view of a large part of the station.
“Thanks for getting me out of there, though I’m pretty sure we could have taken him if we’d worked together,” the new turian said as he wiped away some of the blood that was coming from his nose.
“Most likely, but I was being watched by one of Aria’s goons. I’d rather have them thinking that I’m a coward who runs after the first punch than someone who finishes the fights he starts,” Garrus answered as he looked out at the station before him. “Just look at this place. Filled with criminals no-one can touch, doing whatever they want.”
“You’re right about that, but what are we going to do about it? I’m all for cracking some skulls, but there’s just two of us.”
“Three actually,” Fluttershy said as she decloaked next to the pair, the new turian jumped a good meter backwards in surprise at the sudden newcomer. The pegasus having a little bit of a grin under her mask as she’d successfully startled her first intentional victim.
I can see why Dash likes to do this so much every now and then. If I ever see her again, I’m going to see if I can scare the feathers off her wings.
“Okay, that scared the life out of me, but it doesn’t change the fact that three of us aren’t going to be able to take on Omega,” the turian said as he returned to the topic at hand.
“That’s because we’re not going to keep it as the three of us. We’ll develop a reputation and recruit anyone who’s sympathetic to our cause.” The explanation made the new turian think for a moment.
“Ah, why the hell not. It wasn’t like I was going to last long on this station alone for long anyway,” he chuckled, holding out his hand for a shake to Garrus. “Lantar Sidonis.”
“Garrus Vakarian.”
“Fluttershy,” the pegasus added as she sat down and looked up at Sidonis.
“Good to meet you two. Do you need a place to stay for a while?” he asked, Garrus and Fluttershy giving him a quick nod.
“That’d be appreciated. We’ll get to work somewhere tomorrow to try to find a good place to use as a base of operations,” Garrus informed the fellow turian.
“Good. I’ve got a few locations already that you might want to check out after you’ve gotten some rest,” Sidonis told them as he started leading them to his apartment. They were going to have an interesting few days.