What a perfect time for her shield belt to go on the fritz... apparently the explosion in her apartment, even delayed, had put too much of a strain on the capacitors and arrays.  The first couple moments she had spent working on the inner workings of the shield belt, figuring out just what was broken.  Why was her luck always this bad?  When she had hacked into the systems for some money to get off this god forsaken station, she had no idea her theft would have led to an assassination attempt.  And now her only real protection had broken down while in the middle of who knows how many dangerous mercs.<br/><br/>Her only fear right now really, other than a random bullet from a merc,  was that some assassin had found out she was still alive after a failed attempt and would put a bullet in the back of her head.  Well, that didn't seem to be a problem, the closest mercs to the darker skinned human was a Krogan and a not very dangerous looking asari in a lab coat.  Joy, but then a random assassin wouldn't very well get a good line of sight around those two.<br/><br/>The voice from the Krogan though made Kala pause and actually look back and study her...<span style="color: DarkRed">“Whoa, a female Krogan?  Odd, never seen one before.”</span>she muttered before turning back to her work to make sure she had working protection between her hide and a bullet.  That part would be easy, she would just have to configure the belt to use it's secondary circuit path for energy between the power cell and the shield arrays around it.  Not too hard, just took a little time.<br/><br/>It didn't look like she had much of what she needed before the speech from the boss man began... well boss alien.  She paused again to look up and follow the long speech as the turian began it,  she was curious what this job that offered so much money was about.  As it went on, she became a little more uneasy.<span style="color: DarkRed">“Assassination...”</span>she muttered again as she thought about that.  Wouldn't be too hard, with all these people she wouldn't even have to pull the trigger herself... hell, she would probably miss at point blank range if her experience with her tempest was any proof.<br/><br/>But, as the last lines from the turian reached her ears, Kala paled a bit.  Only 5 would be payed?!<span style="color: DarkRed">“What the fuck is this?!  Only 5 and you let this many mercs in?!”</span>the girl half yelled before she looked down at her inactive shield belt.  It seemed impossible for a girl with her darker tanned skin to actually pale even more, but when she realized that it was a competition and she had no shields at the moment, she became terrified.  Immediately she began furiously working on her belt to get it back operational.<span style="color: DarkRed">“Shit!  Shit! SHIT!”</span>was her mantra as she worked, rerouting the path of power in her belt.<br/><br/>It took her a short moment to finally get her belt working again as the lights turned back on, just as she heard the krogan chick say something about teaming up with the teal asari doc.  She could use a meat shield too, and the female Krogan seemed smarter than the one who was yelling about being smart and joining him... was he crazy?  He didn't even seem able to take care of his armor, which looked beaten all to hell.  The female at least looked like she knew what she was doing.  And the asari looked like she could patch them both up.<br/><br/><span style="color: DarkRed">“Hey, you two... think you could use an engineer?  I can hack most anything, and even have a few incinerate charges in my omnitool.”</span>she said, moving over to the pair as she snapped her belt back into place, and the blue glow flashed as her shields came back online for protection.  With those shields some color seemed to return to her face and she looked up at the pair, yes she had to look up to see them both.  The sub-machine gun on her right hip looked like it hadn't been maintained and taken care of for a while.  Probably not heavily used either.  But the omnitool's physical components seen on her left wrist looked like it was made up from parts of some pretty decent companies, none more than a year old.  It looked like parts of her cloths were a little charred and frayed, it was from the explosion of the failed assassination.<br/><br/>While she propositioned joining the female krogan and the asari doc, she looked over to where there were a pair of asari, one looking dangerous and also like a complete slut in her mind, the other about out of place as the doc here.  her armor looked store bought, and still had all the extras that were completely unnecessary but who people bought just because the sellers made it sound like they were needed.  the big breasted asari actually scared Kala a bit, and she hoped that if a shootout began, she didn't have to face that woman.  The armored one looked about as dangerous as the teal asari doc infront of her.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>