By Your Side (A Shakarian fanfic)(On hold until further notice)

Chapter 21

HIIII, I'm so sorry that I dropped off the radar for almost a year but I've been really busy with school and other personal stuff. But, I'm back and I will try to update the story more often, at least every two weeks or so. I really appreciate the nice comments you guys have been leaving me. Thanks for sticking around, even through my sucky updating skills. Love you guys❤

Let's just say the mission didn't start off as planned.

James, Garrus and I piled into the shuttle and as soon as we entered the planet's atmosphere, we were being shot at.

"What the hell? Who's shooting us??" James shouted.

"Oh I don't know, maybe the bad guys that want us dead?" I said gripping onto the wall as Cortez attempted to dodge the attacks.

The shuttle lurched forward followed by an emergency alarm going off.

"Cortez, what's going on??" I asked.

"One of our main thrusters has been blown out, Commander. I'm gonna have to find a place to make an emergency landing." Cortez said.

"Just drop us off over there and get somewhere safe" I told Cortez.

"Yes, ma'am." He said banking towards the spot. I jumped out of the shuttle and immediately started shooting.

"Come on, Lola. Save some for us" James said jumping down and started shooting.

I chuckled and aimed at the back of a guys head, only for a red dot to appear on his head and within seconds he was dead.

Garrus jumped down behind me and I glared back at him.

"What?" He asked innocently.

I walked ahead and looked around. I held my hand up, signaling the area being clear.

Garrus and James followed close.

I turned around the corner and immediately had a bad feeling.

I glanced up at the balcony from the corner of my and, just as I suspected....a sniper.

I motioned for the boys to get to cover as I stepped into the line of view of sniper. I gave Garrus a nod and looked behind me. He seemed to get the signal cause he had a red dot on the snipers forehead within seconds.

"Hey pal! You know I can see you up there. Why don't you come on down? I don't bite." I called up to the sniper.

The sniper didn't budge.

"Or you can stay up there, that's cool too. I don't wanna hurt you. You see, me and my buddies here are looking for your boss. You can either show us where he is or my boy here can put a bullet between your eyes. Your choice, man" I said playing with my gun.

"He's not my boss" the sniper spoke. It was a female.

"Well well well, you do have a voice. Well, whether he be your boss or not, I still want to put a few bullets in him, so you mind telling me where he is?" I asked.

"Why the hell should I? You're just gonna kill me either way and from my perspective, I think I have the better end to this, despite your boyfriend aiming at my forehead." She called back.

"Now, that may be true, cause I kill bad guys, that's my job."

"I'm not a bad guy"

"No offense, chica, but you're kind of aiming at our commander. How exactly is that a good guy thing?" James spoke up.

The sniper did something and suddenly, I wasn't the only one with a red dot on my head. How in the...

"How did you do that? Where did you get that kind of gun?" I asked.