Revival
Chapter 2 - How Long!?
"Wake up, Commander" Miranda's voice sounds over the wailing sirens and alarms. Sophie stirs on the operating table, unable to muster the strength to get up, her face bears a web of scars on her right cheek and singular one running off the web to the end of her jaw line. The scarring glows a faint orange. "Get up, Commander. This facility is under attack and you need to move." Sophie's eyes open and her hand goes to her jaw as she's met with a jab of pain as she tries to speak. "Your scars aren't healed yet, just grab the armour and pistol in the locker that's in the room." Shepard slides off the table, grabbing her side as another lance of pain hits her and she does as instructed, suiting up in the black armour that's in the locker quickly. As she takes the pistol in her hand the weight is most certainly welcome.
She bites back the pain as she speaks. "This pistol's empty."
"Then you'll need a thermal clip. This facility's mechs have turned hostile."
Sophie looks toward the med-bay exit and notices that a pair of canisters by the door are starting to rupture, a stream of fire erupting from one, she dives next to a nearby glass barrier to shield herself from the explosion. Miranda's voice sounds over the comm system "Damn, that was close. Someone's hacking security to try and kill you. You need to find a thermal clip and keep moving."
Sophie starts to move from the med-bay. She has no clue where she is, how she got here, or what's caused this attack but she'll listen to this woman on the comm for now. It isn't long before she finds a thermal clip on the corpse of one of the crew and she slides it into her pistol which gives off a click. She follows the corridors and enters a room and seeks cover against a low glass barrier as a group of three mechs funnel into the room from a doorway ahead.
"Seems the mechs found you. Time your shots and don't forget, you're a biotic." offers Miranda.
Sophie looks over her cover to see the mechs getting closer. She stands up and takes aim at the one closest to her. Her skills with a pistol have clearly degraded as she has to empty nearly a full clip to make the consistent hits against the chassis to make the mech explode. She takes several bullets to her shields from the other two mechs before she drops back into cover. As they draw closer she flares her biotics and stands up once more, only this time to let loose a biotic throw, shattering both mechs as they collide with each other violently. She picks up some more thermal clips from the mech's weapons. Reloading as she continues on.
"Commander. My name's Miranda and I intend to get you out of here. Meet me at the shuttle bay."
Sophie follows Miranda's instructions which guide her through the facility's corridors until her voice becomes distorted due to interference. "Shep.. doing fine..ke.. goi..shuttle..copy..losing.."
"Dammit! Miranda? Do you copy?" she looks around, seeing only one way forward through a closed door. As the door lets off a beep she enters to see a man ducked behind a glass barrier firing a shotgun at a group of mechs.
"Holy hell, Shepard? Things must be bad if Miranda's got you running around." He acknowledges her as she joins him in cover.
"I spoke to a woman named Miranda over the comm, she got me this far before interference kicked in."
"Miranda spent the last two years putting you back together, there's no way she'd leave you now."
"Two years? The last thing I remember is being spaced as the Normandy was destroyed."
"Yeah, the Alliance declared you K.I.A and your old crew went their separate ways after everything you discovered was dismissed."
"I don't like running around blind and this doesn't look like an Alliance facility." she looks around, noting the strange logo that she's seen dotted around the halls and on the doors.
"It's not, that's all I can say though for now. How about you help me take out these mechs and I'll play twenty questions with you all day."
Sophie looks over to see two mechs firing on their location, she flares her biotics and ensnares one of them, pulling it over a railing and toward her. Jacob stands and fires his shotgun at the helpless mech and parts rain down near them. Confident in her ability again, Sophie stands and fires at the other mech, taking its head clean off in only three shots.
"Alright, I promised I'd answer any questions." says Jacob as he stands and ships his weapon.
"How bad were my injuries?" asks Sophie. She shifts uncomfortably from foot to foot.
"When I first saw you, you were nothing but meat and tubes. Anywhere else and they'd have put you in a coffin."
Before she can ask any more questions Jacob's omni tool activates and a man's panicked voice says "Hello!? Anyone on this frequency? Hello!?"
Jacob's face lights up with recognition "Wilson? Is that you? Where are you?"
"Jacob, thank god. I'm over in D wing, but mechs have found me. You need to get here."
"Alright, Wilson. I have Shepard with me, stay on this frequency and we'll come get you."
"Just hurry." is the final word from Wilson as he cuts the connection.
Sophie appears to recognise the name at least as she adds "I remember a Wilson when I had a moment of consciousness."
"Wilson's the medical tech, answers to Miranda" adds Jacob, already heading to another set of doors and bypassing the lock with his omni tool. "Come on, D wing's this way."