As she continued to fire round after round from her pistol, she continued to move forwards, her desire to see the beings that would, given the chance, turn the entire Galactic population into primordial sludge, and have them become a Reaper. She wouldn't allow that to happen, she swore to herself as she stepped into the blast of fire and shrapnel.
The Crucible began to pulse with a reddish-orange light, that steadily began to grow until it enveloped the entire Citadel, then began to spread through the space around the station and pulse reached London before it hit any of the Reapers in space, and it shut them down, as they stopped moving they began to fall over onto their sides. The ground forces started to cheer, they were victorious. As it touched the Reapers in orbit, they began to shut down, one by one, and stop fighting.
The red pulse gathered in on itself, and fired straight at the Sol relay, which fired to the Arcturus, and then on and it continued to chain throughout the Mass relay network. As soon as the beam had fired from the Crucible, it began to self destruct with the massive influx of energy and power to one focused point. As the beam hit the Sol relay, Jeff "Joker" Moreau was already headed out of the Sol system, making for Arcturis, and some other relay beyond that one. As the pulse catches up with the SR-2 Normandy, Joker hands move in a blur of motion, trying to maintain his current bearing, despite the jolting and rattling of the ship. "Come on baby, hold together." He mutters under his breath as the thrusters on the Normandy became engulfed in the pulse of red light. The starboard thrusters blew out, causing alarms to blare on the ship, which Joker ignored as they suddenly dropped out of the jump.
The Normandy lay upon a rocky outcropping that was surrounded by trees and grass, untouched by the Reapers, almost as if no one had ever found the planet. The Normandy's hatch on its port side slid open, and Joker stepped out, raising a hand to block the sunlight that streamed down and temporarily blinded him. He stepped down off the ship and looked around him, grinning, glad to be alive. Liara T'soni and Garrus followed Joker out fo the Normandy, both of them happy to be alive, as they looked around them at the enviroment.
Shepard's chest swelled as she breathed in deeply, coughed and slowly opened her eyes, everything around her was a blur, her vision still not back despite having been knocked unconscious for a minute, the beam from Harbinger had thrown her away from the beam up to the Citadel, that much she could make out. Suddenly she saw a blue face appear before her and distantly heard her name being called, several times, before she shook her head and reached up with a bloodied hand.
Liara stared down at Shepard, anxious that at first she gave no sign of life, then she saw her had stir and breathed easier, only slightly though, Shepard was a dreadful sight, her N7 armor almost completely blasted off. The chest plate that protected her upper torso was more intact than the rest of her armor, for which Liara was thankful. Looking over at the Turian that was knelt on Shepard's left, Liara spoke softly to both of them saying, "Alright Garrus, we have to move her from here. Just hold still Jen, it won't be long and you'll be back on your feet. okay. Just hold still while we get some of this rubble moved. Grunt can you come over and move this cement from her legs!" She called over to the young krogan that was blasting the incoming Reaper forces with his Graal shotgun, and huge grin plastered across his face, his armor literally dripping in blood and pieces of Reaper forces that he had torn apart.
Shepard eyes focused and she looked down at her legs, where Grunt was already shifting a large cement slab that had somehow fallen across her legs at such an angle as to only trap them underneath without doing any more damage than had already been done to her body. 'Speaking of my body... Okay I'm not missing anything, that's a start, but it feels like I've broken at least one rib, maybe two, and I know my right hand is broken.' She thought to herself. Looking over at the Asari standing protectively over her, she smiled and knew that Liara had seen her glance her way when she looked down at Shepard and said softly, "It'll be alright we'll have you out of there in a moment."
Grunt pulled the final piece of cement away from Shepard and let Liara past him, as she got on her loves right side, motioning Garrus to take her left. They pulled her upright, letting Shepard lean against them as Anderson came over looking Shepard up and down, saying, "Looks like you made it to the foot of the beam Commander."
"Yeah I guess I did Anderson, what do you want me to do now sir?" She asks, groggily, still not quite back up to speed with everything around her. She shakes her head and blinks several times then straightens up, only to bend over grimacing in pain and saying, "If you've got any medigel handy I could use some right now, since I've got at least a broken wrist." She nodded towards her wrist, which is hanging limply over Liara's shoulder.