Chapter 5

The next thing I remember was waking up in immense pain with Jane leaning over me applying medi-gel. I could barely think straight with how my chest felt like it was on fire, but I had the sense to try to drain something. Unfortunately Jane was kneeling beside me, so when I began (it appeared I could just drain from the station itself, there was wiring everywhere) she was hit with a few stray arcs. Her kinetic barriers took the brunt but a few got past after they shut off meaning she got zapped in the shoulder.

Jane jumped back and I sat up feeling ok, but my chest still felt tingly. After a few seconds she got up and offered me her hand. I took it and she roughly pulled me onto my feet. "How the hell are you standing you should be dead or dying?" She quietly asked me while reloading her mantis.

"Well the brunt was taken by the passive magnetic field I produce but a lot got through and ruined my shirt." I examined the hole in my shirt and healed skin while explaining. "I sucked a few mega watts to restore my chest and on this station I can drain anywhere… I think."

"Ok are you ok to fight cause we better get back, and I'll go on if you need to rest."

I just grinned in response and made my way back to Archangel. When we emerged from the stairs another door in the apartment was cut open revealing some tough looking Krogan. We dived into cover and Jane started returning fire with her Shrunken. Seeing the big one begin up the stairs I quickly formed a plan.

I fired some missiles at the other end of the room and caught one quicker Krogan in the face. As it looked like I was just a terrible shot the big guy headed up to the next level while I lined up my next volley. Instead I just shot a quick blast in his back so he was the target for the shots it looked like I'd missed. When they hit he was completely surprised and so he face planted… hard. I leaped from my cover and launched myself up the stairs. He shock his head and began to get up when I landed on his back pinning him there. I watched him struggle for a second before I restrained him. When he realised what I'd done he just started to below and insult me.

By the time I was done Jane and Miranda had pinned down the rest leaving Archangel to snipe them from above. It was over quickly with a few ice grenades to get them out of cover they soon succumbed to the mass effect rounds. When Jane came up the Stairs she noticed the Krogan wasn't dead and just restrained. She soon remedied that.

She talked with Garrus for a second before the gunship flew past the window and started offloading troops. We got behind cover and they quickly got into a fire-fight. I decide to help with some well placed grenades. The hail of fire though kept them from really taking advantage so I jumped up with an ice shield and ran for Jane who was behind a plant. This drew most of their fire allowing the others to kill a few and suppress the others. "You know I thought death would be more peaceful than this." I said to Jane while lining up a precision on an unshielded legionnaire's face. He didn't even scream.

"Funny how life works out." She replied finishing off their leader. With that we cleaned up the last of them before Garrus told us to get on the balcony to deal with some more that were rappelling down to the ground floor. I just jumped over the side and landed in front of them. They shot at me as I got to cover but still throwing a few ice grenades in their direction. Any that got hit were left for Miranda to pick of with her pistol. I decided to give Miranda some covering fire with twin bolt streams so she could join me. With two snipers and a few lift blasts we were able to clear them out quickly. As soon as it was over Garrus called us back giving me a particularly long stare.

Unfortunately before we got back into his room the gunship returned. A hail of bullets kept Jane from getting in giving me and Miranda time to catch up. We had to get down as a Vorcha decided it wasn't dead and started firing at us. He took Jane's shields down by half but we got into cover quickly. Miranda was the first to return fire in the form of a warp that gave an opening for me and Jane to riddle him with bolts and bullets.

I felt an explosion in Garrus' room, and we were able to rush in as the gunship had stopped pinning us in the door way. We got behind cover but quickly took turns at being pinned and firing. I was sitting behind a plant draining the lights when an explosion caused Miranda's cover to land on top of her. Realising then that I needed to finish this quickly now, I made my move.

I rushed forward with an ice shield protecting me from the rain of bullets. I launched straight at the cockpit and landed face to face with the pilot. The only thing between us as I smiled was a small piece of glass. I stood up on his ship and stuck my hands out to my sides and began to drain. Everything around me burst into arcing lightning. I was draining from the entire station.

There was lightning arcing from every surface hitting me and the gunship as it rocked around trying to dislodge me. I felt amazing every light exploded as it was filled with electricity. The gunship was being drained of all of its power too so it was beginning to fail. I stopped for a second and it was totally silent.

That's when I filled it with everything I just got. In that moment I could feel it running through every circuit, every wire and into its pilot. It took just a second for the huge surge to find the missile detonators, the element zero in the guns and the engine capacitors. All three simultaneously detonated just as I flipped backwards onto the roof.

"Cole" Shepard shouted from below me. I jumped into the smoke, dropped and then used my static thrusters to angle myself back inside.

"Come on Garrus" Shepard was muttering to herself as she knelt over her fallen ally. Miranda was out from under the table and next to Jane.

"Cole, you helped the Quarians. Help him." Jane pleaded while looking up at me. At that moment I knew she felt something more for this alien than anyone else. I knelt beside him rubbing my hands together building charge. Placing them on his chest he jolted and the wave caught both of the two women who I could tell felt its effects.

Miranda was summoning back up as I did what I could for him. I felt useless this was much more complex then what I was used to. He was burned and had multiple shrapnel fragments stuck in various body parts, I was used to just single bullet wounds or impacts to the head. He had all this and he wasn't even human.

I jumped down to clear the way as Jane applied Medi-gel and Miranda signalled some Cerberus marines from the Normandy. There were only a few left that I took great pleasure in dispatching. For most I used a magnum bolt to the head, I was still supercharged from my drain earlier so they were much more devastating than usual. For a few I got up close and used the AMP.I was finished with the small group by the door we came through.

The marines came in just as I swept one guys legs from under him, while blasting one that was recovering over a table. I led them through the rooms till they got to the house and rushed in.

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Lt Samuels had never seen anything like it. After visiting the latest colony to go missing they were now heading to the Citadel with what they picked up. A Quarian had left a message detailing how they found the colony and why they had been there. The team were annoyed by the fact their crime scene had been contaminated but they conceded they probably wouldn't have found anything anyway. They had made their normal search for survives and that's when they found her.

She was freezing, but it wasn't the cold, it was her. All her vitals were fine, it didn't seem to make much difference to her body that her core temperatures was just above zero. All attempts to raise her temperature had failed so they tried running her DNA through the database. Samuels sat by the containment pod wondering how they were going to wake her and find out how the hell she was still alive. The computer came back with the results of the search after a few hours but all they said was classified.

Meanwhile three people across the galaxy got sent a message detailing past events and a file on important people in those events. They didn't know where these messages came from but they all got much paler as they read the automatic messages and when they were set up, 2012.