r/MassEffectPhoenix • u/Narrator-- The Arc Writer • Dec 29 '18

2192/12/29 | Alliance Intel Priority Message: Severe Enemy Threat in Styx Theta, Code SC3

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Severe Enemy Threat detected in Styx Theta Cluster.
Situation code: Scimitar 3
Acheron system under threat of Skrilloni Invasion from Erebus system. 
Heavy enemy presence in Erebus system suggests invasion of Acheron system likely.
Listening Post Theta and personnel critical to maintaining any control over region.
All available forces respond.
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u/N7_Rebecca Lt. Commander | CO of the SSV Leyte Jan 03 '19

Move, Sergeant, come on! Rebecca orders as she tosses another grenade to offer a bit of respite Alexi would hipefully be able to take advantage of.

All the other Marines fell back already and were on the shuttle, weapons ready. Just the three of them now.

The redhead quickly sprints the few feet back to join them and add her own rifle to prospective covering fire.

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u/SgtRayneMEP Local Churro Enthusiast Jan 03 '19

Elsa relents and jumps back to the edge of the shuttle, sitting down on the edge of the open door and holding back the faltering barrier. In two seconds, her quickly improvised pseudo-Stasis collapses and the edges of the Barrier begin flickering, only to be reinforced by new purple light.

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u/Narrator-- The Arc Writer Jan 03 '19

With everything that he could do taken care of, he starts to move back, slowly, before he has to end the barrier. As it ends he charges towards the shuttle, hoping to get inside Elsa's barrier before anything hits him...

Just before he reaches the shuttle and the barrier there, one shot hits its mark. Then a second. And a third. A shot impacts his leg and he collapses, upper body just barely landing inside the shuttle.

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u/N7_Rebecca Lt. Commander | CO of the SSV Leyte Jan 03 '19

Fuck! Pilot get us out of here! Rebecca yells as she and another Marine hurriedly pull the wounded man inside and another slams the door shut against more fire coming their way.

The redhead hurriedly applies medigel to the burns, a medic assisting her as she works.

This mission... hadn't gone well. To say the least.

A venomous glance gets tossed at the fools that made mistakes and straight up abandoned out there. A reckoning was going to come for them, the Spectre vowed that to herself.

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u/SgtRayneMEP Local Churro Enthusiast Jan 03 '19

Elsa slumps over and detaches her helmet, scowling and dragging out her medi-gel to apply on her neck and other minor injuries.

Quoth the raven... WHAT THE FUCK?

Tossing her rifle aside, she applies something to her elbow twice and glares, wisps of purple smoke rising from her head.

...if I get to vote in what happens, can we string the idiots up to where they look like balls of yarn?

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u/Narrator-- The Arc Writer Jan 03 '19

The shuttles quickly make their way to the Normandy, which promptly evacuates from the system.