Anastasia cocked her head as Jemarr whispered "Keelah." Her violet eyes fixing on the Quarian as he continued.<br/><em>"I think this is a pre-mass effect race. Fighting the geth. How is that even possible?"</em><br/>Pre-Mass Effect? She thought to herself as she looked back to her console so are they primitives? The pictures didn’t really show anything that would make the technology level clear.<br/>“Curiouser and curiouser.” Anastasia said as she turned to Commander Shepard as she gave the order to prepare to board the Geth commandeered freighter.<br/>“Aye! Commander” She replied as she shifted her chair back from her station she needed to kit up in her armor if they were going to pay the Geth a visit. She smiled as looked back to Jemarr and the others.<br/>“I’ll be ready in 5 mikes.” She said as she jogged off to retrieve her combat armor and weapons.<br/><br/><br/>The Normandy accelerated rapidly closing in on the Batarian freighter. Joker nimbly maneuvered the Normandy closer to the target ship.<br/>The original plan to use the ships standard boarding airlock was nixed as it was never designed for a hostile docking any change in the Freighter's course would either rip it apart or send the ship into the Normandy.<br/><br/>The new plan was almost as risky even more so for the crew actually attempting the boarding.<br/>Anastasia looked to Jemarr as she check her tether to the ship, she flashed him a reassuring smile as two Alliance Marines were completing the setup of the grapple launcher in the cargo hold.<br/>She had read the Alliance Special Operations Manual for hostile boarding operations and most of the scenarios depicted involved using a specially designed breaching shuttle to either dock or cut it's own way into the ship; this wasn't in the manual.<br/>Still with any luck it should work...<br/><br/>The new plan was to match velocity with the freighter, maneuver beneath it and using the the magnetic grappling cables in the hold link to the freighter and gain access to the ship via the engineering escape airlock. From there they could shut down the ships drives as well as its weapons.<br/>Commander Shepard, and Ashley were checking their weapons as they prepared for the risky operation. Anastasia was to go first as since she had the most time in Zero G operations followed by Commander Shepard, Jemarr and Gunnery Sargent Ashley.<br/>"Ok, Ready or not," Jokers voice came over the comm, "were ready to move into position for the dock err..boarding. co-mincing roll and velocity match." the pilot said.<br/>The Normandy began a slow roll along its long axis the sensation disconcerting as the ship inverted then accelerated dropping under the Batarian freighter.<br/><br/>The Team looked to each other the crew sealing their suits as the cargo bay was sealed off and depressurized.<br/>"There will be gravity for about a meter or so outside the ship on the ramp after that Zero G." Anastasia said over the teams comm channel as she clipped her harness to the line attached to the magnetic grapple. each of the team were secured by a tether to the Normandy and if all went well one to the Freighter once they were secure on the freighters hull they would cut their tether to the Normandy.<br/>"if the Freighter is still running gravity it will be reversed to us since were on the underside of the their ship, so if your not ready when you enter the hatch, you will actually fall to what will seem like the ceiling but is actually the floor." She continued as the cargo bay doors began to cycle open.<br/><br/>After what seemed to be too long Joker's voice came across the comm again.<br/>"You better go now, I don't want to scratch the paint." came Jokers voice the strain of concentration on keeping the Normandy in its dangerous position evident in his voice. Anastasia nodded to Shepard as the bay door fully opened and the cargo ramp extended; the silence eerie about the team as they gazed out into open space, the hull of the Batarian freighter seeming to simply be hanging below them. The Marine operating the launcher located the target airlock and fired the grapple towards the freighter. The woven poly cable spooled out silently behind the grapple as it crossed the 100 meters to the freighter the Marine signalling a clean contact, the winch pulling the cable tight. Anastasia checked her EVA harness one last time and started off down the landing ramp towards the freighter.<br/>She dove off the end of the ramp seeming to dive head first towards the freighters hull her lithe form pulled close to the tether as she rapidly descended, she nimbly spun at the halfway mark, her EVA cable descender slowing her 'fall' towards the freighter. Her boots touched down on the ships hull her knees bending as she absorbed the last of her momentum.<br/>"I'm on the hull, mag boots engaged," Anastasia's voice came over the comm breaking the silence, " Tethered to Freighter; I'm hacking the airlock now." She said, the team could make out her standing adjacent to the airlock door.<br/>Commander Shepard stepped up clipping herself to the same line that Anastasia had used even as the Marines readied a second line and Grapnel for Jemarr.<br/><br/>"Fuck!"  bright flashes began to appear about Anastasia on the freighter's hull, "Geth! There are Geth on the freighters outer hull!" she yelled back into the comm as she dropped down as much as she could, drawing her SMG and returning fire.<br/><br/>