A/N: So, it's been an awful long time since I've submitted anything new on here, never mind update my other main fiction, however, I try as and when with the little free time I have. Mass Effect has currently taken over like, everything, so, I hope you enjoy this fiction, and if you happen to be a Legacy of Kain fan too, please feel free to check out my other work. Enjoy! Oh, and also, I don't own Mass Effect in anyway, etc, etc.

Going Viral

Prologue

"Commander, go, just go! Take the kid, and run. I'll deal with this."

"Major, I am not leaving you behind! We can get you and David out of here, stop being so stubborn damn it!"

I rip the pin out of a grenade with my teeth, launching it between the on coming Geth forces. "If you don't get the shuttle back to the Normandy now, you will not only be overrun by the Geth, but Cerberus troops as well." I crouch back behind cover, and glare at the Commander. "You should have known we couldn't trust Dr. Archer from the start, and you know damned well the Illusive Man will not be happy that his research subject has been 'rescued' from one of his facilities."

Shepard growls, exasperated. "I refuse to leave you here Enzo! They could hook you up to that same damned contraption that David was in, who knows what they'd do to you in his place. It goes against everything I stand for, and I order you to get your ass back to the shuttle, now!"

We glare at each other for a few seconds, tempers rising, adrenaline pumping. I know the risks, I know what could happen, but to risk the Illusive Man turning on us before we hit the Omega 4 Relay, no, I can't let that happen. For the crews sake, for the entire galaxies sake. I take my eyes off Shepard, the desperation in his eyes making this choice so much harder. I notice, out of the corner of my eye, an emergency lockdown button just off to the left. I breathe in, and exhale slowly. This is it. "I'm sorry Commander, but I cannot comply." I aim my pistol at the lockdown button, and shoot.

Alarms blaring, almost deafening, causing David to cry out in pain as the noise becomes unbearable for him. "Please, the noise, make it stop…" He curls up on the ground, in a ball, hands over his ears.

"God damn it!" Shepard curses at me, realising that the emergency doors were now beginning to close down in the facility, potentially locking himself, Tali and Garrus inside. I looks at David, and places a comforting hand on his back. "We'll get you outta here kid." He turns his gaze back to me, eyes narrowing.

I stand up, turn, shoot a couple more Geth in the head, before turning back to the Commander. "I'm sorry Shepard, this is the only way." I look behind Shepard, noticing Tali and Garrus running up the corridor towards us. I smile, and lock gazes with Shepard. "Take David and get the hell outta here Commander." I salute him briefly, before turning back to take down more Geth. "And good luck out there, with the Collectors. I know you'll bring those bastards down."

I briefly turn and look back and see Tali, her and Garrus stopping halfway down the corridor, trying to override the lockdown. I rip my tags from my neck, and throw them at Shepard. "Give these to Tali. Tell her… Tell her I love her, and I will always be there, watching over her."

I smile, and in that split second of losing focus, I take a slug in the shoulder, forcing me down to one knee, gasping. Ha, should teach me to never let my guard down in future. I moan in agony, grasping my shoulder. "Shepard, go!"

He grabs David, fireman lifts him over his back, and looks at me, his fierce eyes piercing my own. "I will come back for you Major, I promise. We will get you out of here." I nod, then wince at the pain in my shoulder. Damn, that's gunna leave one nasty ass scar.

I hear the sound of Shepard's footsteps running away from me, getting fainter with every second. If only I remembered to ask him to leave me some medi-gel before he left. Damn, guess going to have to man it out now.

As release my hand from the bullet wound, most of the major bleeding having stopped. I look at my blood stained hands just as I hear the doors shut, the lockdown completed. I smile, and push myself back to my feet, throwing my pistol to my right. "I'll see you soon, Shepard." I throw myself over the metal barrier I was crouched behind, staring at what seems to be millions of Geth surrounding me. I pull out my shotgun, loading a thermal clip. "Now, show me what you've got you overgrown flashlights!" I launch myself at the synthetics in a blaze of bullets, part of me knowing that the Normandy and its crew will never come back for me, and that this is the place where I, Major Enzo Darius Johnson, will draw my last breath.