Chapter 1- Waking Up To A Mess
It was cold as consciousness had returned to Mackenzie, suddenly she was emerging in the Cryo-chamber which she had just stepped into just a moment ago. Though now it was like a boulder was resting on her body. Pain and dizziness slapped her mind around like a cat playing a mouse and she could not stop shaking from the cold.
"Where… What?" She muttered unable to see clearly. Her eyes were blurry trying to scan the bright white of the room and slowly started to come back into focus. The ringing of a telephone panged in her ear making her disoriented and scared. A shadowed figure broke the white light and approached her slowly coming into view. His visage of a scale grey-brown crown and deep dark eyes started to clear.
"Hey, there welcome to Andromeda Micky." The low vibrations of a turian voice broke through the ringing and her eyes focused on the blue painted metal face of her friend Dexarius.
"Dex?" She asked confused for a moment. She was still spinning but was never mistaken when it came to Dex.
"It's okay just the after effect of Cryo they will go away." His arm wrapped under her arm and he pulled the small human out of a cryo-pod.
"We're there already? Thought it would take longer." Mackenzie smiled as she stumbled out of the pod with his assistance and regained her footing looking around the chamber of the Nexus.
"Over 600 years? Yeah that's no time at all." Dex tried to smile but couldn't. He let Micky go as she leaned against the wall and took a deep long breath. "Just so you know… I'm sorry"
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Micky cocked an eyebrow at him.
So much had happened in the Andromeda galaxy when the Nexus arrived. How was he supposed to explain to his best friend what had happened and what they did without her?
"I've been awake for a year." He just blurted out.
It didn't register at first, but then it sunk in and Micky's smile disappeared.
"What do you mean you've been awake for a year! Why didn't you wake me up?" Micky shouted at the top of her lungs and her voice carried down the hall to the doctors were standing near by.
"I know, I know but I couldn't do anything Kandros remembered me from C-sec and needed help so he woke me up it wasn't my call!" Dex raised his hands and tried to motion to her to lower her voice.
"No! That is bullshit you're telling me that Kandros woke you up ahead of schedule and not the entire CYST squad?" Micky was quick to conclusions slapped his hands away not wanting her anger to be quelled.
"Micky Wait…" Dex tried to cut in gently.
"Plak is the squad leader if anyone he should have been woken up first!"
"Micky please I need to…"
"AND he would have fought for all of us to be up at the same time, we're a unit! Did I miss a year of missions with you? You left me out?!"
"I know but that's not what happened…"
"What was the point of banning us together and training for 2 years back in the milky way forcing us to live in the same run-down bunk. Where is Pak he I bet he will."
"Micky Shut Up!"
Dex's voice broke out of the the low tone and he snapped loudly at her. She stopped and locked eyes with him, he was serious. Too serious actually for you see Dex was the calm headed member of the group. A rarely raised his voice in anger.
"What happened." She asked calmly after a moment of silence.
"They're all dead but us." He replied sadly.
There was a silence between them thicker then a Krogan's skin. Micky's eyes widened in awe as the information started to seep in. Dex had to break away and then paced around himself breaking eye contact and feeling ashamed of himself. He waited for long to wake her.
"What happened," Micky said as her head sank down towards the floor. Her eyes stared down, there was a single tile with a smudge on it and in this moment with all the information coming at her. That smudge was what kept her clear.
"Their was an accident on the way here. The Nexus took damage and their pods were compromised. I was able to be woken up without a problem but the others. Well Something went wrong when they tried to bring them out and scientists decided to leave you alone until you were safe and in the clear. Your pod took damage too. They didn't…. I didn't want to risk losing you too. Trust me, you didn't want to be here anyways."
"I did…. I could have helped." Her stern voice returned and she looked at him as a breath of calmness took her. Her Task Force training kicking back in.
"We need you now… I'll fill you in. A lot has happened." Dex motioned to the doctors whom began to come forward. Micky sighed knowing the physical was first on her list of things to do. The second was trying to record the event of a year to memory quickly.