"Asari, drop me in the path of the Husks. I'm big. I'll provide enough of an obstacle to slow them down. Improves your chances."

"[b][color=00aeef]Oh no, I will not let you die that easily![/color][/b]"

Vella called back over the come as Ellis drifted closer, before she pulled her arm back, yanking Ellis towards the assault team's fortified position and causing his metallic frame to slump unceremoniously down into the ground, safely behind cover with Vella and Tiberius.

"[color=00aeef][b]Instead, make use of the Krogan's lethal charity and hold the line, human![/b][/color]" Vella shouted at the fallen Ellis as she motioned towards the pile of weapons that Rykarn had so generously gathered for them, the pile in question reminding her more of some scene she had seen in a post apocalyptic movie but nonetheless welcome!

Vella then turned, priming her weapon with an audible electronic humming sound. She quickly searched her mind, remembering from previous experience fighting the Reapers.

[i]"[color=00aeef]Husks. Put Beam Intensity to 47%, that will ensure a one-shot kill as well as maximum ammo conversation.[/color]"[/i]

Her weapon primed and ready, Vella would pop back up from her cover, gazing through her blue holo sight at the incoming horde as it surged out of the door like an unholy tidal wave!

[i]First heartbeat:[/i] she centered her sights on the monstrous corpse of a bounding husk.
[i]Second heartbeat:[/i] she fired off a clean beam of white energy, disintegrating the center of its torso and causing it to drop dead!

And so she continued, faster and faster, her arms and hands moving automatically from target to target without a second thought; focusing center mass; snapping off a shot; and already moving on to the next target before the last target had even hit the ground! It felt like a blur before she had already fired off 17 shots, leaving 17 dead, and the inbuilt safety of her rifle kicked in with a beep, calling for a cooldown or new thermo clips before it would allow continued fire!

"[color=00aeef][b]The krogan is right![/b][/color]" Vella called out as she slotted a new clip with mechanical precision!

Vella had never viewed krogans as either science or philosopher materials, never held any high regards for their cognitive abilities. But she had always recognized their brutish, pragmatic intelligence, in much the same way one viewed the sharp cunning of an otherwise dumb predator; simple minded, yet able to read the situation; unable to write a classic, but more than capable of bashing your skull in in the most efficient manner possible!
She knew that even if every one in the party had landed a 100% of their shots with perfect accuracy, the capacitors of their weapons would fry out and melt long before they had even killed half of the husks. She saw only one way out of this situation, and that was to destroy the way out; trapping the husks inside for actual reinforcements to arrive!

[color=00aeef]"[b]PUSH THEM BACK! MAKE ROOM FOR THE DEMOLITION JOB![/b]" 
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Vella called out as she once again popped back out from her cover, and fired off another 17 shots. She had no delusions about stopping the wave with the party's guns alone, but she knew that for Rykarn's plan to work, they would need to keep the husks away from the entryway long enough for someone to place the explosives to blast the entrance!

[i]"[color=00aeef]All because Cerberus has to be the overachiever and build (mostly) blast-proof walls in their secret underground facility... [/color]"[/i]