Day 20
We
had a short respite before the next attack came. WE sent out a distress call to
Rannoch asking for help and an escort. By the time the ship arrived we were not
receiving any communiqués from the Quarian ship. We got K-QO to scan the ship
and found no living thing aboard. Not one living soul. We then scanned the hull
and found nothing. This was greatly troubling.
K8
went to the hull of our ship to try to get a visual of the thing that we knew
must be somewhere. As he was surveying the ship he was decapitated. It’s a good
thing that he moved his core processing to the chest area. Then we knew that
there was something really dangerous after us.
We
hunkered down as best as we could. We found, through Aliya’s scanning and K-QO
systems, a way to track the machine, and increase the polarity of the hull to
try to slow the thing down, as it was moving incredibly fast. Artemis and I
went down to Engineering to protect Aliya. The Commander and the rest of the
crew were in the CIC to defend the main bulkhead.
The
thing was in the service ducts and heading for Engineering. Artemis and I
prepared ourselves as best as we could, considering we didn’t know what the
hell we were dealing with. Joe burst into engineering right before the thing
did. Aliya opened fire with her widow and took the shields down. Joe pulled out
his katana and struck the hand that also had a katana and disarmed him. The
machine still fired its silenced pistol at Aliya, she tried to duck, but wasn’t
going to make it in time, I charged her as soon as the gun was raised. I
tackled her to the ground. Good thing I did, the bullet embedded itself in the
ship right where her head was. Artemis then opened fire and blew the machines
head off with her Krysae. Nienna appeared then and contained the blast with a
barrier.
Something
isn’t right here. These assassins are all targeting Aliya. She must know
something, or have some invaluable intel if they can ignore the rest of our
crew (including me!). We must keep her alive, I must keep her alive.