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"Hey, welcome to the clubhouse. Lokea Zhu at your service."

"Taria Lucimus," Taria announced tersely but with a friendly air to it. Pausing a moment to look at the damage to "Stompy's" face, she hoisted her beloved M-95 out of its casing at last, loading a shell into the breech and snapping it into place with the ever familiar pump-action. As much as she wanted to pause to acquaint herself with her favorite tool of the trade, she was still in a combat zone and acted as such, dropping the launcher down in one hand and drawing her sidearm as the drones closed in. A few well-placed if hasty shots scrapped one drone, and the burst gave her the time to dive into cover near the unusually green Asari named Lokea.

"Sorry for the small openings, I wanted to make it harder for them to shoot missiles at us."

"I'm not complaining, hard to shoot back if you're getting blown up by a missile," Taria shouted, flinching as a burst of drone fire came within inches of her face. She responded with another burst of pistol fire and the drone crashed to the ground in another fireball. 

"You might get a decent firing arc from that angle though." the Asari said, blasting down more drones as Taria loaded a new clip. "Good to have a biotic with us though. The more barriers the better!"

"Likewise," Taria said, smiling as she let her biotic shields glow a bit more visibly. "Though I'm not much of a barriers user, my biotics are a bit more..."

Taria glanced upward as a drone suddenly swooped in from the side. Thinking quickly, she grabbed onto it with her biotics and pulled it in, sending the helpless drone speeding towards her before she smashed it to pieces with a biotic-powered punch.

"...aggressive." Taria said, shaking the debris off her hand. Turning her focus to one of the gunships dropping off more mercs, the turian holstered her pistol and took aim with the M-95, drawing a bead on the craft and scanning for an opening. She cracked a slight smile as she pulled the trigger, the launcher giving an audible thunk as the payload sailed across the warehouse and impacted one of the engines of the gunship with a metal 'clank'. A couple seconds later the engine exploded, the gunship quickly losing control and careening towards the far end of the warehouse, away from the action. "Scratch one," Taria announced, popping open the breach and depositing another explosive in the M-95. "How are we fairing against the-FUCK!!!"

Taria only just managed to bioticly dodge out of the way as a burning gunship careened towards her, shaking the ground as it impacted the ground and tore a deep gash through the floor of the hanger.

"Hey, anyone want some free cover?" someone shouted once the smashing died down.

"An outfit full of comedians, huh?" Taria mused, opening fire at some more drones rushing in, shaking off the rust of prison years and feeling that old excitement of a tactical operation coming back. She couldn't help but crack a smile. She missed Csec of course, and this was probably never going to give her the same kind of feeling that SRD did, but this team already had one thing going for it over the admittedly stuffy and militarily precise Csec.

They knew how to have fun!