The Assassin’s Ordeal
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+M through R › Mass Effect
Rating:
Adult
Chapters:
7
Views:
1,671
Reviews:
1
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
Disclaimer:
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, Mass Effect is not mine. The characters, game content and materials are copyrighted to BioWare. Neither I, nor this story, are endorsed by or affiliated with BioWare, or its licensors or subsidia
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DISCLAIMER:
I do not own anything, Mass Effect is not mine. The characters, game content and materials in the following story are copyrighted to BioWare. Neither I, nor this story, are endorsed by or affiliated with BioWare, or its licensors or subsidiaries. I do not receive any monetary compensation from the publication of this narrative. All Rights Reserved.
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2: MISSING
“Any news on my father?” Kolyat asks, standing in front of Captain Baily’s desk.
“Son, your father is a grown man, and from what I’ve heard one of the most dangerous in the galaxy, I’m sure he is capable of taking care of himself. Besides with everything else going on I simply don’t have the resources to spare to search for a man who probably isn’t missing.” Captain Bailey said.
“My father is also a very sick man who has missed his doctor’s appointment, hasn’t contacted me in two days and is not at his apartment. He’s not at the morgue or at any of the clinics. Something has happened to my father.” The young Drell argues.
“Kolyat, you are one of the best members of my team, but you know as well as I that we don’t have the man power to spare. I will help you in any way that I can, but officially my hands and resources are tied.”
“So what am I suppose to do now?”
“Well, let’s look at some of his associates. He’s friends with Commander Shepard, right?”
“Yeah, they’re friends.” Kolyat scoffs, he knows of his father’s relationship with the human and he neither approves nor understands it. He is thankful that the two keep their relationship low key, and that it is one topic that Kolyat and Thane avoid…an impressive feat considering father and son speak every day.
“So, give me some time to compile a list of her known associates and we’ll see if you recognize any of the names. It will at least be a starting point. Once we have that if you need to take some time we can use your accrued vacation time to cover your absence, and then if necessary I can put you on leave. In the meantime finish out your shift; you have three reports that need to be filed.”
“Thank you, Captain.” Kolyat says, returning to his desk.
..~~~**~~~..
Several hours later Kolyat was reviewing a list of names of everyone considered to be an associate of Commander Shepard in one of the bars on the Citadel. He had no idea the list would be so long, was there anyone in the known universe that this woman did not know? Some names he recognized immediately due to either their political standing or notorious reputations. Other names he recognized from his father’s stories, but dismissed them as being either too far to help, too difficult to track down or in the case of Jack, just too dangerous. Finally he finds himself sending a message to the only name on Captain Bailey’s who is rumored to be in Citadel space, a Turian named Garrus Vakarian. He pays his tab and headed back to his small apartment located in the better part of the Wards. He stops along the way to pick up a few groceries, and to speak with a shop keeper his father had frequently mentioned.
With virtually no leads into Thane’s disappearance he sits at his small desk to review the surveillance video Captain Bailey had copied for him. He quickly finds Thane, and then sets about telling the computer to only show video of Thane for that day. While the system worked, Kolyat busies himself by making some tea and dinner.
Dinner eaten and dishes cleaned, his system was only 30% complete. Frustrated he crosses his arms and sighs. He knows his computer is trying scanning every security feed from the entire Citadel for a single person, but that didn’t help the anxiousness gnawing at him. He sits in his chair, staring that the monitor, willing the computer to go faster.
31% complete.
This is looking like a long night. Again Kolyat pulls out the list of known associates of Commander Shepard and starts a new list of associates he knows his father keeps. He breaks the list down into associates on the Citadel, those on Kahje, and those he shares with Shepard. He placed the Citadel list before all others, and priorities the list of names.
32% complete.
“Damn it.” He breaths, walking about his small apartment, desperately searching for some type of distraction, unable to find one he sits back down across from his monitor. He crosses his arms and leans back in the chair until the weariness of the late hours and his early morning shift catch up to him. Slumber takes him into its gentle embrace as he waits for any sign of his father.
..~~~**~~~..
I know you don’t know me, but you know my father, Thane Krios. He’s been residing on the Citadel for the past month, where we’ve been speaking every day, but now he’s disappeared and C-Sec cannot help me. It has been 2 two days since anyone has seen or heard from him and this is not like him. If you can, please help.
- Kolyat Krios -
Garrus rereads the e-mail carefully; it could be a trap after all he has made some powerful enemies. He triple checks the message source, using different methods each times, and every time it returns the same result. The message was indeed sent by Kolyat Krios, the would-be assassin who now works for C-Sec.
Garrus looked over at the human mercenary, Zaeed Massani. After defeating the Collectors Garrus promised to help him find and kill Vido. Zaeed and Shepard had gone earlier, but due to innocent lives being at stake, Vido got away. Garrus knows the satisfaction of hunting down and killing the one who betrayed you and he felt obligated to help Zaeed take down Vido. It took nearly 2 years, but the pair had managed to track down the Blue Suns co-founder.
Zaeed now sits in the co-pilots seat with his arms crossed over his chest, head leaned back and eyes closed, probably reliving Vido’s slow demise.
“What?” Zaeed asked, not bothering to open his eyes.
“Got a message from Thane’s son.”
“And?”
“Thane is missing, the kid’s asking for help.”
Zaeed opened one eye and looked at Garrus for about 45 seconds before closing his eye again. “I suppose you’re going to rope me into helping?”
“Yes, I was planning on it.”
“Good. That assassin saved my ass once, and I don’t like leaving my debts unpaid.”
“We should be there in about 5 hours. I’m going research Kolyat as well as Kolyat’s and Thane’s recent activities.”
“You’re not going to notify him that we’re coming?”
“No. We have too many enemies who might come across this message and set up an ambush.”
“Good thinking. I’m going to sleep. Wake me when we dock.”
I do not own anything, Mass Effect is not mine. The characters, game content and materials in the following story are copyrighted to BioWare. Neither I, nor this story, are endorsed by or affiliated with BioWare, or its licensors or subsidiaries. I do not receive any monetary compensation from the publication of this narrative. All Rights Reserved.
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2: MISSING
“Any news on my father?” Kolyat asks, standing in front of Captain Baily’s desk.
“Son, your father is a grown man, and from what I’ve heard one of the most dangerous in the galaxy, I’m sure he is capable of taking care of himself. Besides with everything else going on I simply don’t have the resources to spare to search for a man who probably isn’t missing.” Captain Bailey said.
“My father is also a very sick man who has missed his doctor’s appointment, hasn’t contacted me in two days and is not at his apartment. He’s not at the morgue or at any of the clinics. Something has happened to my father.” The young Drell argues.
“Kolyat, you are one of the best members of my team, but you know as well as I that we don’t have the man power to spare. I will help you in any way that I can, but officially my hands and resources are tied.”
“So what am I suppose to do now?”
“Well, let’s look at some of his associates. He’s friends with Commander Shepard, right?”
“Yeah, they’re friends.” Kolyat scoffs, he knows of his father’s relationship with the human and he neither approves nor understands it. He is thankful that the two keep their relationship low key, and that it is one topic that Kolyat and Thane avoid…an impressive feat considering father and son speak every day.
“So, give me some time to compile a list of her known associates and we’ll see if you recognize any of the names. It will at least be a starting point. Once we have that if you need to take some time we can use your accrued vacation time to cover your absence, and then if necessary I can put you on leave. In the meantime finish out your shift; you have three reports that need to be filed.”
“Thank you, Captain.” Kolyat says, returning to his desk.
..~~~**~~~..
Several hours later Kolyat was reviewing a list of names of everyone considered to be an associate of Commander Shepard in one of the bars on the Citadel. He had no idea the list would be so long, was there anyone in the known universe that this woman did not know? Some names he recognized immediately due to either their political standing or notorious reputations. Other names he recognized from his father’s stories, but dismissed them as being either too far to help, too difficult to track down or in the case of Jack, just too dangerous. Finally he finds himself sending a message to the only name on Captain Bailey’s who is rumored to be in Citadel space, a Turian named Garrus Vakarian. He pays his tab and headed back to his small apartment located in the better part of the Wards. He stops along the way to pick up a few groceries, and to speak with a shop keeper his father had frequently mentioned.
With virtually no leads into Thane’s disappearance he sits at his small desk to review the surveillance video Captain Bailey had copied for him. He quickly finds Thane, and then sets about telling the computer to only show video of Thane for that day. While the system worked, Kolyat busies himself by making some tea and dinner.
Dinner eaten and dishes cleaned, his system was only 30% complete. Frustrated he crosses his arms and sighs. He knows his computer is trying scanning every security feed from the entire Citadel for a single person, but that didn’t help the anxiousness gnawing at him. He sits in his chair, staring that the monitor, willing the computer to go faster.
31% complete.
This is looking like a long night. Again Kolyat pulls out the list of known associates of Commander Shepard and starts a new list of associates he knows his father keeps. He breaks the list down into associates on the Citadel, those on Kahje, and those he shares with Shepard. He placed the Citadel list before all others, and priorities the list of names.
32% complete.
“Damn it.” He breaths, walking about his small apartment, desperately searching for some type of distraction, unable to find one he sits back down across from his monitor. He crosses his arms and leans back in the chair until the weariness of the late hours and his early morning shift catch up to him. Slumber takes him into its gentle embrace as he waits for any sign of his father.
..~~~**~~~..
I know you don’t know me, but you know my father, Thane Krios. He’s been residing on the Citadel for the past month, where we’ve been speaking every day, but now he’s disappeared and C-Sec cannot help me. It has been 2 two days since anyone has seen or heard from him and this is not like him. If you can, please help.
- Kolyat Krios -
Garrus rereads the e-mail carefully; it could be a trap after all he has made some powerful enemies. He triple checks the message source, using different methods each times, and every time it returns the same result. The message was indeed sent by Kolyat Krios, the would-be assassin who now works for C-Sec.
Garrus looked over at the human mercenary, Zaeed Massani. After defeating the Collectors Garrus promised to help him find and kill Vido. Zaeed and Shepard had gone earlier, but due to innocent lives being at stake, Vido got away. Garrus knows the satisfaction of hunting down and killing the one who betrayed you and he felt obligated to help Zaeed take down Vido. It took nearly 2 years, but the pair had managed to track down the Blue Suns co-founder.
Zaeed now sits in the co-pilots seat with his arms crossed over his chest, head leaned back and eyes closed, probably reliving Vido’s slow demise.
“What?” Zaeed asked, not bothering to open his eyes.
“Got a message from Thane’s son.”
“And?”
“Thane is missing, the kid’s asking for help.”
Zaeed opened one eye and looked at Garrus for about 45 seconds before closing his eye again. “I suppose you’re going to rope me into helping?”
“Yes, I was planning on it.”
“Good. That assassin saved my ass once, and I don’t like leaving my debts unpaid.”
“We should be there in about 5 hours. I’m going research Kolyat as well as Kolyat’s and Thane’s recent activities.”
“You’re not going to notify him that we’re coming?”
“No. We have too many enemies who might come across this message and set up an ambush.”
“Good thinking. I’m going to sleep. Wake me when we dock.”