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Tali was down in the engine room staring at the holographic console, her three fingers soaring across the screen. She had spent two days stuck down there updating all the system and fixing all the mistakes her human engineers did.
“Hey Tali, we missed you down here,” Engineer Adam’s joked off to her right, “Did we really mess up that bad,” he asked.
“Remember Adams, I am a Quarian, what you guys did wasn’t wrong, it’s just I can do it better,” she remarked in a dead serious tone.
“Okay, you got Tali!” She smiled in her helmet as she had complete dominance over him, in a friendly manner of course. “We I bet I could beat you in a wrestling match Tali. You do know that I was number at my high school back on Earth.” Tali spun around and stared at Adam’s grinning face.
“I didn’t know you knew how to wrestle,” Tali’s interest peaked.
“He doesn’t,” one of the engineers said, “He got his ass kicked by Chief Williams that one time!”
“She doesn’t count! That isn’t a woman, she is a fire breathing dragon,” Adam’s yelled back. He turned to Tali and rolled up his sleeves. “If you win, I will cal you the best engineer alive. If I win, then you have to call me King Adams the Great!” Tali crossed her arms and stared at him.
“But you already know that I am the best engineer,” Tali responded in a playful tone.
“Ouuuhhh, are you gonna take that Adams!” His face turned beat red.
“Is there a fight about to go on in here,” Garrus’s head peered through the door.
“Tali is going to wrestle Adams!” Garrus’s head disappeared from the door.
“Wrex, Ash come here! Tali is going to fight Adams,” Garrus’s distant voice said. In a matter of seconds Wrex lumbered through the door, shortly followed by Ashley who was wiping her hands on an oily cloth.
“Come on Tali, I won’t rupture your suit, I promise to be careful,” Adam’s teased Tali as he lowered his stance.
“I am more worried about you Adams,” Tali seriously remarked with a sloppy grin over her face.
“Oh my God Adam’s, she is already kicking your ass,” Ash boomed.
“I have two-hundred credits on Adams,” Wrex stepped into the conversation, “I can’t imagine Quarians are good at close combat.”
“Three hundred on Tali,” Ash threw a bet in next, “Adam’s can’t wrestle to save his life!”
“Shut your hole Williams!” Tali unwrapped her arms and shook her head.
“Well lets do it.” The small crowd erupted with applause and whistles.
“Come on guys, let’s give them some room,” Garrus said pushing everyone back. They created a ring and left plenty of space for the two to have at each other. Tali noticed Adams hands shaking.
Is he scared or just excited. “Whoever taps out first loses,” Garrus announced, “Tali, you ready,” she shook her head getting low to the ground and moving her legs back away from Adams reach. “Adams, you good to go?” He nodded.
“Kick his ass Tali,” Ashley yelled.
“Fight!”
Adams charged at Tali, which caught her off guard. His arms wrapped around her waist and he slid them down towards her thighs obviously going for her legs.
Damn, I didn’t think he would be this aggressive. Her teeth clenched as she searched for an opening around his neck, but he had his shoulders crunched up. Her back crashed up against the railing and Adams lifted her up.
“You see what I told you,” Wrex remarked clearly unimpressed
. Okay, time to show him. She let go of Adams and clutched onto the railing. She slipped her powerful legs out from Adams grasp making him recoil back several inches. Taking advantage of this she pushed her body forward using the railing as a platform. She wrapped her leg around his and used her forearm to push his torso back, shifting his center of gravity. Adams crashed to the floor but Tali was right on top of him pressing her knees into his arms.
“You like that Adams,” she said out of breath and crossing her arms over her chest taunting him.
“Oh damn,” Ashley commented with her fist over her mouth.
“The view from down here is nice,” he fired back smiling as blood rushed to his head. Tali gasped and quick as lightning was off of him and grabbing his arm and twisting it behind his back. She forced her knee into his back.
“Tap out now or else,” she leaned over and whispered into his ear.
“No, I want to be called King Adams the Great!”
“Okay,” Tali pressed all of her body weight into his back popping his shoulder out of place.
“AW DAMN IT,” Adams yelled.
“Get some Adams, get some,” Ashley yelled. Adams slammed the floor with an open palm.
“Okay, okay, okay! You are the best engineer in the whole wide galaxy,” she shouted with his face pressed against the floor. Tali let go of his arm and stood up. “Did you have to really do that!”
“I warned you Adams.” She held out a hand to lift her defeated opponent from the ground.
“Someone owes me some credits,” Ashley punched Wrex in the arm.
“Damn, that really hurts,” Adams said trough teary eyes.
“It’s my turn,” a voice called from behind. Shepard came walking down the ramp. Everybody turned and stared at him. Tali’s heart stopped at the three words. She turned around to meet Shepard’s face, a smirk was wrapped around his lips.
“Wh-what,” Tali stuttered at him.
“Wrex is unfair to fight, I am afraid to wrestle Garrus because I don’t feel like losing an eye, Laira would crush me with her biotics, and Ash, well, you know.” Shepard cracked his knuckles.
“Show me what you got. It’s fine to let off a little steam,” he reassured Tali.
“I have 1000 credits on Shepard,” Adams blurted out. Everyone around them began to make bets. “There is no way out of this one Tali,” Adams shouted through the buzz.
Oh Keelah, what have I gotten myself into!“Okay, everyone quiet down,” Garrus was now standing on a crate. A few more faces appeared in the room as he explained the rules. Tali’s heart was beating incredibly fast. The powerful man in front of her tucked his shoulders in and got really low.
Ok, I imagine he will be fast out of the gate, come at me with persistence and speed. Oh what am I doing! “Are you ready Shepard?”
“Yep!”
“Tali?”
“Not really,” she said hesitantly as she dug her feet into the ground. The crowd all chuckled.
“Go!”
Shepard was sprinting at full speed towards Tali.
Okay, now! She dropped down to the ground as low as she could extending out her shin attempting to trip the commander. She felt his foot catch but her caught himself from falling. She stood up as hastily as she could attempting to get on Shepard’s back. He was already turned around tough.
Damn he is fast, what now! He was already coming at her again.
Run! She turned around and ran towards the wall, but was cut short by a powerful hand clenching her ankle. She slid to the floor and reached for the hand around her ankle, but it didn’t come off. She turned on her back and began kicking. He let go and stood over her making sure not to get kicked in the head by her flailing legs.
That’s right Shepard! His hands were batting like a cat attempting to grab her foot. His lightning fast reflexes payed off as her grabbed her foot and he threw his body at the Quarian.
No! She launched her leg into the middle of his chest, her foot sinking in deep. He stumbled back gasping for air
. Now is my chance. Tali launched herself at the defenseless commander inserting his neck into the fold of her arm and she squeezed with all her might.
“I got you Shepard,” she whispered into his ear. His leg got in between her though and he kicked sending them both hurdling towards the ground. Tali didn’t let go of her sleeper though. She felt a hand slap against her thigh. The crowd erupted with a round of applause as Tali let go of Shepard’s neck. He turned around and stared at Tali, his face purple and his eyes red.
“Oh my God Tali,” he said through a gasp of air. He patted her on the shoulder respectively.
“Commander, did I just see what I think I saw,” Joker came in over the speaker. He nodded his head as his hand grabbed his neck. “You know I called you a ninja for a reason Tali,” Joker came through again.
“Joker, I still don’t know what a ninja is,” she yelled up playfully to the ceiling and over the angry betters voices almost out of breath.
“I will explain it to you later Tali,” Joker concluded. Shepard stood up and reached his shaky hand out for Tali to grab and hoisted her of the ground.
“Good game,” he called to her.
“That was fun, we should do this again,” she joked. Shepard coughed and shook his head.
“I need to work out more until we can do round two.” They both laughed.
“Shepard, sorry to break up the fun but I need you up here for a moment. It’s important,” Joker’s voice came through the ceiling.