Maethia couldn’t help but mirror Darion’s excitement as he pulled some credit chits from the lockers they’d been searching.<span style="color: purple">“Lot of credits for a research station, huh?” </span>The Asari asked as she rooted through the lockers she’d took for her own to search. A few of her discoveries very nearly made her laugh that was of course until she found a few very… exotically shaped sex toys and though she refused to touch her discovery , even in sealed armor it didn’t stop her from letting out a small chuckle and quipping<span style="color: purple"> “ I guess one of the research team definitely had a love for Varren…” </span>The Asari’s own joking was however interrupted when she found a few credit chits just like Darion had. Maethia would take all of those she could, about five hundred and stash them throughout the unoccupied pouches of her suit as well before looking over to see Darion holding a lacy pair of black panties that looked more at home in a chic underground night club than at a research station.<br/><br/>The commando was definitely smiling broadly at her helmet at that point, even if Darion couldn't see it, or her slight flush. She’d definitely have to be getting a pair of something similar if she wanted to live up to ‘expectations ‘ then.<span style="color: purple">“ Oh I’ve definitely got something better, maybe you’ll actually get to see them.”</span>Maethia can’t help but wink afterward, all smiles and content to turn back to the lockers and continue searching once more before a loud and bone chilling screech was let loose, a screech that shook her to her core for a moment and despite the audio dampening system in her helmet actually very nearly hurt.<br/><br/>Suddenly the radio chatter was frantic and people were talking about things coming out of the damn walls, the last thing Maethia wanted to hear about a place like this. The glass was hit with a resounding thud and then a the splintering sound of many cracks happening all at once and that was all Maethia needed to tear her out of her momentary shock and for her soldier instincts to kick in. It was like the flipping of a switch, from  flirting and joking with Darion to leveling her rifle and taking aim at the horrifying zombie-like creatures in a ready stance with feet planted wide and the butt of her gun carefully  resting in the pocket of her shoulder.<span style="color: purple"> “ What the hell are these things, Darion? Fuck! Did they use to be human or something?!” </span><br/><br/>Darion didn’t respond , but his mattock did spit a few high caliber rounds into the oncoming ossified husks of whatever the hell they were fighting but they just kept coming, almost like they were oblivious to the wounds they were receiving despite the fairly grievous nature. “Watch out!” She yelled as a window shattered near him and a husk began crawling through but she had already turned her attention back onto the two approaching husks by then, walking forward calml<span style="color: purple">“Watch out!”</span>She yelled as a window shattered near him and a husk began crawling through but she had already turned her attention back onto the two approaching husks by then, walking forward calmly as she began to volley her shots , aiming right for their center of mass to maximize the stopping power of her rifle.<br/><br/>Calm three round bursts tore them apart, the thing’s electronic insides spilling out of them with sparks and the hellacious noise of their death rattles was almost bad enough to rival the bloodcurdling shrieks they had emitted earlier. As Darion dealt with his own intruder yet another pair rushed the former commando, shrieking as loud as they could, making the Asari scream back at them.<span style="color: purple">“ Fuck you! You aren’t scary, you got that!?” </span>Another three round burst tore at one’s chest and sent it sprawling before she stepped forward and performed a bold move that would have made her krogan father quite proud. Helmet met husk head with a resounding *snap* and Maethia groaned at the jolt to her neck but the husk fell down onto its back, sent sprawling by the attack and it only took the well-trained and drilled commando a second to capitalize her advantage. She emptied the last of her thermal clip into the… thing, ejecting the spent cherry hot cartridge before slamming another one home with the precision only a soldier could.  She reacts immediately to Darious command, heading out the window without a word, the staccato sound of her heavily modified mattock firing punctuating the screams shrieks and bloodcurdling cries of the machine-things so viciously trying to tear them apart.<br/><br/><span style="color: purple">“Darion, there’s a corridor up ahead, easiest route towards the airlock. I say we book it as fast as we can  and run low under the windows. We can take turns covering each other’s back as we advance.” </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>