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<blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote">Ashana grabbed her helmet, putting it back on as quickly as she could without injuring herself, turning to see the husk already back up and moving toward her. She readied herself when the glowing blue ring in the husks gut sparked as a bullet punched a hole in it. The husk jerked, falling, its limbs spasming and jerking while it, slack jawed, looked at Ashana with those baleful blue eyes, in a half horrified half enraged shout. It tried to move, but its bodies communication had been interrupted by the shot, each individual component now struggling against every other trying to urge the attack on. <br/>
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Ashana stood quickly, looking down at the husk for a moment. She cocked her head slightly as Milenya asked a question, her attention locked on the husk, quietly looking at it, considering its form. She lifted her arm, curling her hand into a fist, focusing biotic energy. She dropped to a knee and drove her fist down in a single, fluid motion, hammering it into the top of the husks head, the contortion of gravity and induced mass of her fist channeled into it rippling through the grey flesh and warping the machine beneath, cracking and splattering it across the floor in a blue-black spray. The bodies volatile spasms reduced to an occasionally flopping, both nervous centers of the husk now destroyed.<br/>
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<span style="color: DarkOrchid">Good...</span> she breathed, standing, the feeling of the husk's head giving way lingering in her skin. They could be killed by biotics.<br/>
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The sound of cracking glass snapped her attention back to the world around her. A husk's arm was flailing about in the room, through a hole it had managed to put in the window. It bashed its shoulder against the opening, trying to widen it, then grabbed the broken glass edges and began prying them off, snapping off pieces and chunks, widening the opening, while the other two husks at the window also managed to gain enough of an edge to begin dismantling the reinforced glass by hand. <br/>
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<span style="color: DarkOrchid">Let's go!</span> Ashana yelled at Milenya making for the door, Firas and Darion both coming to the conclusion to fall back directly to the airlock over the comms. She left the office, and looked up, once again able to see the cavern walls around them. The husks were everywhere, like spiders, emerging from every crack and crevice, crawling down the cavern walls, skeletons of blue lights scrambling down to kill the intruders in the nest.<br/>
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<span style="color: blue">Confirmed, back to the airlock! Cover the exit ramp!</span> Firas yelled into the comms in response to Darion and the chatter of confusion.<br/>
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<span style="color: DarkOrchid">Shit... </span>She breathed, looking back around at the grey walls around them. <span style="color: DarkOrchid">Stay close!</span> She yelled and started back toward the airlock. <br/>
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</div>Milenya watched as Ashana tore the husk apart, her mind racing as she observed it 'die'.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"Twin control nodes, brain and belly. How'd they get so transformed so fast?"</span>Her question was rhetorical, as she was already moving to follow Ashana.<span style="color: #6495ED">"If you see anything alien that can be grabbed quick, do it!"</span><br/><br/>The sinking feeling in her gut made her pessimistic about the chances of grabbing something to analyze, something more than the datapads and books she had in her carrysack. She could almost see the find of a lifetime slipping out of her grasp, driven away by the stupidity and greed of the dig's former manager.<br/><br/>Ashana promptly replied,<span style="color: DarkOrchid">"To hell with the research, doc!"</span><br/><br/>The red flash and dull thump of a grenade going off nearby punctuated Ashana's words emphatically, as the asari hustled towards the ramp up to the airlock. Milenya stuck close despite her aching desire to salvage some actual alien material from the site.<br/><br/>As Ashana detonated the remains of one husk on another, Milenya spotted the husk trying to leap down on her from behind, in the rear-view display of her helmet. With a savage gesture, she 'assisted' the husk's leap biotically, ripping it through the air and into the husk charging from beyond Ashana, knocking them both down. Before the biotic field had faded, she'd followed up with a second, fast moving sphere to throw the pair of husks further away; the conflicting mass effects detonating just as she'd intended, knocking both husks out of commission for a while and bouncing the third off the floor again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"Goddess damn them!"</span>She still hadn't seen a good opportunity to grab something worthwhile, and the necessity of survival made it next to impossible to break from Ashana even for an instant.<br/><br/>Another pair of husks moved to block their escape, standing and moaning for an instant before orienting on the pair of Asari. Milenya's response was swift, instinctual. Four shots rang out in quick succession, her Teukria firing slightly faster than a Carnifex, two bullets shattering the 'gut orb' of one husk, the next two taking off the other husk's head as Milenya let the recoil guide her aim on target.<br/><br/>The ramp up to the airlock couldn't be far away. Perhaps once they made it to the airlock, they could channel the creatures into a withering field of fire, and have a chance of salvaging something useful. She hoped.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>