The plan was going reasonably well so far. Jaerdi and Mark had entered the precinct with relative ease and accomplished their objective (of course, Jaerdi always accomplished the task he was being payed for). Jaerdi also accomplished his own objective - hacking into the C-Pat system and installing a worm that would systematically remove him from the systems before deleting itself. He hadn’t designed this program himself, he wasn’t really that kind of engineer, especially when he had the capital to get other people to do it for him. In fact it was all going rather too well for his liking.

No sooner had he finished that thought, than a far off blast could be heard from the direction of the administrators office. He quickly checked his omni tool for the status of his fellow team-members. Sleuth’s vitals were in a bad way. Normally Jaerdi’s instinct at this point would be to get away from the witless police force while that was still an easy task, but as much as it pained him to admit it, Sleuth was probably worth some daring heroics to at least attempt to save. Unlike the Quarians, Sleuth was a definite asset to the team and Jaerdi was not in the business of wasting good assets.

Of course he would also make sure to swing everything significantly in his favour before doing anything actually dangerous. His contract said ‘by any means necessary’ after all.

Tapping into the C-sec system once again, he located the squad that was attacking the office. Once he had typed a message into his omni-tools voice synthesiser, he thumbed through the list of voices he had on file. He initially thought of ‘soon-to-be-broke Volus,’ but went past that one when he realised the administrator was not really in a position to be giving orders. From there the next one down was conveniently ‘angry Batarian boss.’ While he didn’t know if the troops boss really was Batarian, it was likely enough that he went for it. The message was simply telling the troops to capture their targets alive rather than kill them, all delivered in a delightfully furious Batarian drawl. Whether it worked or not, it would at least confuse them for a short time.

With that, he took his Locust SMG in both hands, stood straight and in his best impression of a staunch Salarian infantrymans voice exclaimed “Time to hold the Line!”

It didn’t take him long to reach the scene of the battle. He was swift on his feet when he needed to be, one of the advantages of wearing nothing but a stylish suit. Leaping into cover before he was seen, he poked the tip of his omni tool out from behind the wall to observe the troops. The Quarians were giving a good accounting of themselves, all things considered. Not enough to win on their own of course, but they’d definitely slowed the killing momentum of the C-pat troops. His position behind the frontal assault focused group allowed him the perfect chance to deal some serious damage. He attached his gun to his belt for a moment, though didn’t shrink it, and pulled two fat, disc shaped objects out, one in each hand. Fusion grenades.

In one fluid motion, he swung around from his cover and flung first one grenade - frisby style, into the furthest cluster of troops, then the other, an underhanded throw into the closest pair of soldiers. Rather than bouncing, the Grenades stuck at the locations they first landed. Once back in cover, he yelled out “Depp fried cops coming right up!” and tapped the button to detonate the grenades. A throaty roar erupted from around the corner, a ruddy red glow visible from the corner of his eye. What fusion grenades lacked in radius, they made up in sheer capacity to erase things from existence. When Jaerdi poked his omni tool around the corner this time, he noticed three less C-pat men, with the survivors all in varying states of singed but alive and capable, all moving to adapt to his position. That was unfortunate, he had managed to encounter some actual effective C-pat troops. This is why he usually left well before cops arrived. Worse, Sleuths vitals had flatlined in the time it had all taken. Keying his coms to the Quarian pair, he spoke quickly “I think we’ve held the line enough today. Time to go, before they recover!”