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Miranda's POV
There had to be a good reason that he didn't tell Alex or me that Sally was here. He should have told me at least, this could have compromised the entire mission. Does he not trust me enough? No I'm his second in command, he trusts me…right? First I'm wrong about Sally's death and now I'm being kept out of the loop. What if I'm not meeting his expectations? No I'm meeting them, he'd inform me otherwise. I can't believe I'm second guessing myself because of Alex, or for Alex. I know she doesn't like being with Cerberus but we haven't treated her poorly, we've been very accommodating actually. I just…ARGH enough!
I do know that I need to speak with Alex about this so she doesn't get angry at the Illusive Man, or more likely myself, I don't need her turning Vorcha on me while we're working on the same mission.
Alex's POV
He lied to me. He fucking lied to me.
He KNEW that Sally was with the Quarians and he didn't tell me. How could telling me cause any harm to the mission, or in this case any harm whatsoever?
There's a reason why I don't trust the Illusive Man and this is the perfect example: he never tells his operatives jack shit. I may be his best for covert ops, but he has a habit of sending his people into high risk situations without all those important juicy details, yenno the one's that actually matter, the one's that keep you alive. Like I said, I'm one of his best, he should have told me dammit! I should have known about this, about my own damn sister! But no, he keeps me flying blind and that right there is the problem with organization. You get just enough Intel to feel confident going into your work, but if things take a turn for the worse, more like when they do, you end up dead…or worse. Ha, it seems like TIM likes the blood on his hands, maybe it makes him feel powerful, or maybe he's just gotten really good at fooling himself, either way if he didn't intend for human casualties then he'd have done a few things differently like oh I don't know...not getting his organization branded as a bunch of terrorists. But I understand, I mean, I realize that there's no room for trust in Cerberus because of the circumstances but this is supposed to be a human centric organization, it shouldn't compromise its people like this … or maybe I'm expendable. I'm half Vorcha after all. Maybe the Illusive Man thought Sally would be pissed to see me and would kill me right here, right now, instead of this long delayed hug that we both needed. Maybe he thought she'd greet me with a warm and cozy shotgun blast. I don't know, I don't care. I have my sister and I'm never losing her again.
"Where the hell have you been, what have you been doing, I can't believe you're alive – I saw you die, sorta but that's beyond the point, I watched Saren's lab getting sunk into the water with you inside! I have so many questions!" I gush, caressing Sally's face, her skin is rougher than I remember, but then again Sally's a rough chick, as demonstrated by her embellishments to the Cerberus logo on her extremities. "First tell me, where have you been, I'll start there"
"Tuchanka" Sally said simply but sharply, "I've been with Wrex on Tuchanka"
"Well, what have you been doing on Tuchanka then?"
"Oh you know, this and that. Giving Wrex and Wreav hell. Not much," Sally answered with a brief happy smile tinged with something else, I couldn't place, almost…satisfaction but mixed with sadness. She wasn't telling me something but I wasn't going to press the issue right now, she is with me. I'm no longer alone.
"Well what brought you to Tali's squad? Tuchanka too irradiated for you," I give her a smirk and a little nudge with my elbow. She seemed to lighten up little bit but this must be a lot worse than a fight or two.
"Yeah Tuchanka is irradiated as fuck. I had to sleep in the shuttle or I would have died, my healing factor wasn't quite strong 'nough for that shit hole." She replied, digging her foot into the ground. She was fidgety, I know my sister and fidgety means she's hiding something. Sally doesn't hide things from me, but then again we're also surrounded by a bunch of other people.
I hugged her again, I was so happy to be home.
Shepard's POV (ROSS PLEASE MAKE THIS SHINE)
While Sally and Alex had their little family reunion I got down to business.
"What are you doing here Tali?"
"I'm on a mission Shepard, or are you even Shepard?" Tali asked suspiciously, "It's hard to tell with that Cerberus logo on your armor."
"Remember thattime I caught you and Ross kissing?" I asked, hoping that Tai would realize it was actually me, I am alive. Tali's body language told me she remembered and since that was a very private ordeal, it did the trick.
"Oh my god, Shepard, it is you!" Tali excitedly said, it made me so happy to hear her voice again, "but why Cerberus?"
"I'm not with Cerberus, they brought me back to life and now I'm using the resources they so graciously offered to me. It's a one sided thing, they give to me and I take from them, I give them nothing in return," I replied, hoping that that Cerberus bitch was seething under her perfect little façade.
"Anyhow, what's the situation, what mission could possibly bring you here?" I asked, motioning around to the silence and cold food.
"We're here for Veetor, he's on his Pilgrimage and was her during the attack. We have to find him and bring him back…he's always been a bit unstable." Tali said cautiously
"Ha, unstable? Combine that with open air exposure and failure in his suits contaminants scrubbers and he's flat out insane right now" interrupted Prazza, Tali didn't seem too pleased with him right now
"That's beside the point," Tali tersely answered, "we jst need to get to him before anything bad happens."
Considering what was at hand, I decided we needed the help of Tali's team, and we teamed up, she went around the back with her team, I went from the front to surround Veetor so he couldn't escape.
"Be careful for the security drones, Veetor programmed all of them to attack on sight" Tali warned, and with that we were off.
Me, Jacob, Miranda, and Alex readied our weapons and exited the cabin. Upon exiting the cabin, we were met with a squad of security drones flying overhead.
"Security drones, take them down" I said. I quickly dispatch two of the drones with a few shot from my pistol. Miranda hit the rest of them with an Overload, allowing Alex and Jacob to take them out with their pistols. Once the drones were down, we proceeded into the next cabin, where we encountered and quickly dispatched a lone LOKI mech. We exited the cabin and were beset with another squad of Security Drones.
"Use Overload on them" said Jacob. Miranda hit the mechs with an Overload and the their shields dropped immediately. Once they fell, we unloaded on them, with me hitting them with a Incendiary Grenade, while Miranda, Alex, and Jacob blew them away with their pistols. So far everything seemed to be going fine, until:
"Shepard! Prazza and his squad rushed on ahead. I told them to wait, but they wouldn't listen." said Tali, "They want to find Veetor and take them away before you get here!"Of course they did. You know Just for once I would like things to go right.
"I should've expected that this would happen" said Miranda
"C'mon, we can still catch them!" said Jacob.
"This isn't going to end well" said Alex. As soon as we got that bit of news, we started running as fast as we could. We had to battle our way through another group of security drones, and wait till Tali hacked one of the larger doors to let us through. Once we got through, we saw Prazza's squad under attack by a large YMIR mech. The mech blasted Prazza away with it's machine gun arm, while crushing another Quarian trying to fight back, but as one could imagine, she didn't succeed. he second it saw us, the YMIR mech tried to blast us to pieces with a rocket, but luckily, we managed to dodge it just in time.
"Oh hell no. That thing did not just try to blow us up!" yelled Alex. She got up from the ground dusted herself of and tossed her guns to the side. Wait, she did what!? Alex began to approach the giant mech, and as she did, she began to change. She let out this nasty scream, then her hands began to change shape. They turned black, her fingers began to expand and become more sharp. "Alex crush you stupid mech, turn you into pile of scrap metal." Her voice, it sounds so... monstrous.
"A-A-Alex?" I asked, but I wish I hadn't. When Alex turned back to respond, she had transformed even more so than I though. Her eyes were as red as blood, and her teeth. There were numerous rows of teeth in her mouth, all rotten, but sharp.
"Not now. Alex has something to kill" she said. He turned her attention back towards the mech, "You! You dare hurt her." The YMIR mech raised it's guns, ready to blow Alex to pieces, but she stood her ground, cursing out the mech, "Now you face RIPPER!" Just as the mech began to open fire, Alex dodged it's gunfire and scurried up behind it. She pounced onto the mechs' back and started clawing into it's metal shell.
"What the hell did you do to her? She's a monster" I said.
"We didn't do that Shepard," said Miranda, "When we brought her to Cerberus, she was already like that." all the while we're talking, the mech managed to grab Alex and slam her to the ground.
"PIECE OF SHIT!" she yelled digging her claws into the mechs' arms, then she began to rip out its circuits and wires.
"Wow, she's really enjoying tearing into that thing" I said.
"That happens when her Vorcha side comes out, and once it does, there's no stopping it." Oh great, another hybrid. First there was Ross being half-asari, then there was Sally being Half-Krogan, and now, there's the half-vorcha psycho going head to head against a machine twice her size. Speaking of which, she managed to break free from the mechs' clutches and tore off part of it's arm. How the hell did she do that? She then pounced onto the mechs's chest and started wailing the mechs' head. She kept hitting it, over and over and over and over again, until eventually, her whole fist went straight through it's head. Once that was offline, the mech fell hard to the ground. Alex stood on top of it, roaring at the top of her lungs, clutching the mechs' head in one hand.
"Now I see why you call her the Ripper." I said. Note to self: Don't make this one angry.
"ALEX!" I looked across from where Alex stood to find Sally running onto the scene with Tali by her side, "GET OFF OF THAT THING. IT'S GONNA BLOW!" Sure enough she was right. The mech that Alex had defeated began to glow and hum. Alex was too busy gloating about her recent victory to notice.
"Oh shit, ALEX-" I shouted, this time she noticed, but by the time she did, it was too late, the explosion blasting Alex against the wall andsending whatever was left of the mech slamming onto her body, with one part of it beginning to dig itself into her body.
"ALEX" yelled out Miranda, and suddenly she started rushing to Alex's side, with a little bit of fear in her voice.
Alex's POV
Sweet Mary Mother of God, that piece of shit is heavier than it looks. Not to mention my shoulder hurts from the bullets I took, and there's a damn piece of metal digging into my pelvis. Other than that I'm actually pretty comfortable, I could sleep, not that I want to sleep…but I could.
"Who had the great idea to have that tin can self destruct with me right on top of it?" I yell from underneath the remains of the YMIR mech, but I don't think anyone heard me because I hear muffled screaming, and footsteps coming in my direction. It took my ears awhile to adjust from the explosion, but the ringing subsided rather quickly, and once I could actually hear who was frantically screaming my name…Oh it was music to my ears and I decided to lay still and silent to savor the moment of tenderness I wouldn't have otherwise. Hey, I take what I can get with Miranda. If I have to be buried under the remains of an YMIR and play dead, it's worth it to hear the love of my life concerned about me. Its pitiful now that I think about it.
Anyhow, a few minutes later I hear the group coordinating to lift the biggest piece of metal off of me, and it was about time because holy shit this thing is heavy. Finally I feel the weight lessen and a bit of rummaging above me, and I realized that my eyes had been closed this whole time. I opened them to see the beautiful face of Miranda hovering oh so close to mine. She was close to tears and struggling but failing to hide her emotions, and once she saw my eyes open she let out an excited breath and brushed a piece of hair out of my face.
"I thought you were dead!" breathed Miranda, who was quickly regaining her composure.
"Nope," I teased, "It will take a lot more than a mech to kill me." I shifted to try and get up and groaned. This is going to leave a mark…or 100.
At this point Miranda had her neutral façade back on her face, because Jacob and Shepard had now come back to investigate – yenno to see if I was dead, and she helped me back up onto my feet. I shot her a quick smile, which she returned then walked away to join the group. I was shocked at how she had reacted to my near death experience; is it possible that she has some feelings for me? Do you know how fucking exciting that would be?! My mind keeps wondering to the possibility of a relationship with Miranda, so I'm not paying too much attention to the group talking about what to do next, something about helping the wounded Quarians or just finding Veetor and getting outta this hellhole. I regain my train of thought and join the conversation when Jacob makes his suggestion,
"We should help Tali heal the wounded" Jacob said, did I mention that I don't like him much?
"We should find Veetor," I said mostly to contradict him , "Tali is capable of healing her people alone and we need Veetor to tell us what happened," which isn't a lie, and there's only like…4 of them left after Prazza decided to go rogue and fuck over the whole team.
"I agree" said Shepard, which surprised me, I thought she would contradict me, but then again Veetor's important to stop the Reapers. Shepard's only combative if it gets the result she needs and she needs Veetor's information.
"Okay we'll find Veetor, Alex can you please use your infrared vision to detect a heat signature?" asked Miranda without looking at me, which bothered me, she always looks at me when she speaks to me, dammit! No I need to focus on the mission, I don't need to get angry right now, and I'll just speak to Miranda when we get back to Minuteman station, I can't keep getting distracted by her right now.
Instead of answering Miranda I just press the button on the side of my head and scan the area. "Over there in that cabin," I flatly reply, "There's a singular heat signature," and I point to the cabin across from us. All of us headed in that direction in silence, hands on our guns in case of a surprise attack.
The door's locked but Shepard manages to get it open and we walk into a room with floor to ceiling screens playing back surveillance footage with a babbling Quarian who I assume is Veetor sitting in front of the monitors.
"Every other colonies' surveillance footage was destroyed, Veetor must have recovered this video piece by piece," observed Miranda.
At the same time Shepard activated her omnitool and turned all of the monitors off saying, "You're safe now Veetor."
Veetor turned around in astonishment and said more to himself than any of us, "You're human. How did you survive? They will come back for you, no one escapes, no one is safe. The swarms find everyone, they take you away."
"What aren't we safe from?" questioned Miranda
"Ya, who's 'they'?" said a very confused Shepard.
Veetor simply turned around and activated the monitors again to display a video of an insect like creature carrying a person and placing him into a containment pod. There we also thousands of flying little bastards, kind of like mosquitos but on crack and like 100 times as big. The whole situation seemed grim at best. "What are we supposed to do now, obviously humans don't stand a chance against these…these..."
"Collectors," said Miranda finishing my sentence. "They are Collectors."
"What the hell is a collector?" Shepard and I asked in unison.
Jacob answered me this time, "They live out through the Omega 4 relay, any ship that travels through that relay never returns. Not many people see a Collector and live to tell about it."
"Well, we don't have time to waste standing around here. Grab Veetor and call in a pick-up," ordered Miranda right as Tali entered the room.
'What?! You can't take Veetor, he needs medical attention, not a bunch of scientists probing him"
"Tali, I promise that he'll have proper medical care once we question him, we just need to know what he knows," reassured Jacob, but honestly who listens to him.
"No, Shepard you of all people can't let this happen. I'll give you his omnitool data, but please hand him over to us"
The answer from Shepard was obvious, she hates Cerberus. Veetor went home with the Quarians and we got his omnitool, Miranda was pissed though. So much so that she didn't even answer Shepard, she just made an irritated noise, kinda like she was clearing her throat but with a lot of strain and annoyance being pushed back down into her voice box. I wanted to comfort her more but all I said is, "We can always ask to speak with Veetor after he's been stabilized," supplemented by a reassuring smile and a light touch to her elbow, she didn't pull away.
Miranda looked at me and attempted a smile.
"Yeah, like they're going to let him speak to Cerberus," she huffed and walked back to the Kodiak shuttle, and on board the shuttle she insisted on piloting it back to the station, naturally she has to throw her little hissy fit after she didn't get her way. But I feel bad for her, she seems pretty damn dedicated to Cerberus, she just wanted to help humanity. However, I'm starting to question whether or not Cerberus is the best way to go about saving the galaxy…for now I'll trust that it is, but if that asshole TIM lies to me again I'm out, to hell with the assassins, I could kill them easy, and now I have sally by my side to help me. Pretty sure nobody dedicated to Cerberus wants to fuck with her right now, well unless they want to be put down.
An hour later on Minuteman Station – Alex's POV still
I sat next to sally on the Kodiak and as we landed in the shuttle bay I grab her hand in order to hold her back from disembarking.
"Sally, seriously, what were you doing on Tuchanka," I lay the question out bare, "I know you weren't just giving Wrex hell, otherwise you'd still be on Tuchanka considering that you're half Krogan and all. And you were fidgeting."
"What does it matter, Alex? I'm here now," she dodges my question, but I'm not giving up. She's the only person I have right now and I can't handle us keeping secrets.
"Because you're all I have, I'm all you have. I don't want to be your enemy, I just wa…"
"Ya well maybe you shouldn't have put that fucking mask on me then! Ever think of that? I get it I was fucking out of control, but really? You couldn't have thought of something else? Just letting them kill me would be better than this, than every fucking thing that has happened. We Paxton's are a fucked up duo, and don't you think we'd be better off dead?!"
I never thought that I'd hear her burst out like that, not right now when we'd just been reunited. I was appalled, "Sally! Don't say that! Remember what you told me all those years ago in the gutter? No matter what always find a reason to be happy. Well I want you to be happy."
"Well it's really fucking hard to be happy when the world's falling apart around you."
I didn't know what to say, what the fuck was I supposed to say? She continued at my , even if she was kinda yelling at me and looked like she might rip someone's skull in half.
"I joined Tali's squad after I was exiled from Tuchanka. I fucked up real good, killed Wreav on my Rite of Passage. Tore off his head plate and let a thresher maw nibble on his filthy ass. I didn't think about how Wrex would react. Didn't think he would be so pissed, guess he loved his brother deep down or somethin' because he almost killed me. A lot of the other Urdnot were pretty happy but their opinion doesn't matter. Wrex threw me off that crumbling rock faster than a pyjack steals some meat. The asshole disowned me too," Sally paused and took a few deep breaths to calm herself. "So I went to Omega to drink my sorrows away. I met Tali there at one of the bars, don't remember which one, doesn't matter anyway, the whole station is a fucking dump. She liked me I guess, must've been my arms that caught her attention, a faulty wire or somethin'. She wanted to fix it. I joined her and then I walked into the room and saw you. That sums up what I've been up to. Now why don't you tell me why you're still working for this damned organization?"
I gave a breathy laugh, "I don't know, I wanted some stability I guess. Is that too much to ask for after all the shit we've be…"
"Yes." She shot back, "With Cerberus yes, but I'm done with this conversation. I'm happy to have you back in my life again even if you are still working for the enemy." Sally smirked and gave me and awkward sitting hug and left the shuttle, leaving me to myself. I didn't really know what to do. I wanted to be with my sister, but she needed her space right now, especially on a Cerberus base, too many bad memories to weasel their way into her head again and I didn't want to provoke the Steel Beast. I realized I had been sitting alone in the shuttle for about 10 minutes at this point and looked up to see Miranda patiently leaning against the Kodiak waiting for me.
"Oh, uhh, hi Miranda. Sorry, I didn't realize you were waiting for me to leave, I'll go to my roo…"
"Actually," Miranda interrupted, "I was meaning to speak with you, I just didn't want to disturb you and make you angry with me."
Of course she'd go there, "Actually I'm pretty calm right now, I think it would be a lot harder than you talking to me to get me angry."
"Well, during the Lazaru…"
"NEVERMIND that damn project!" I stopped her before she actually made me mad, "What did you want to speak with me about?"
"The Illusive Man. I wanted to say that I am sorry that the Illusive Man didn't tell you about Sally sooner, and that he didn't tell you the whole truth when he did decide to tell you about Sally being alive." She said with sincerity in her voice. Like authentic sincerity.
"It's not your fault. I imagine you got pretty pissed off that he didn't tell you either, considering that you're second in command and never wrong and all that." I didn't really think before I said it, I'm so used to just being rude to her all the time because of my feelings for her that never would be reciprocated, but now…now something was different. She wanted to talk with me, I wanted to talk with her and she came to me on her own accord, not because the Illusive Man told her to, "Sorry, I didn't mean it like that, I meant that..."
"No, it's fine. I'm sure I deserve that for something I've said to you before. I just wanted to make sure that you didn't see me as the enemy, I'm your friend and I don't want you to feel attacked by me." Miranda said, but her face seemed surprised, almost like she didn't know what she was going to say until it came out of her mouth; her words had surprised her. It may just be my feelings distorting the way I perceived this, but I think Miranda is developing feelings for me, I mean she called me her friend. Her friend, her fucking friend, we were officially friends now, and the way she acted when she found out I was alive a few hours ago solidified in my mind that she has started to have more than friend feelings for me. She may not know it yet, because I doubt the bitch knows what true love it, but she's developing feelings, feelings for me. And she's not so ice cold around me anymore so maybe I should stop calling her the bitch...would you look at that, even a new nickname is in order. This is just the best fucking thing to happen all week, well except for finding out Sally is alive and then finding Sally…this is just the third best thing to happen all week!
"I could never see you as my enemy Miranda, I mean, you've had ample opportunities to kill me up to this point, and when you almost did on accident you flipped out," I said with nervous laughter as I took the chance to see how she would react to my advances, and I'm satisfied with the result, because hey, she didn't reject me.
"Well…you're unique and I wouldn't want to lose a friend after all," She smiled then said, "my only friend." She had this funny look in her eye, it was the look of discomfort and I understand why, she never does this type of thing, she never makes friends, it's uncomfortable being out of your comfort zone, but man did I love to hear her say it.
"Yeah, that would have sucked," I answered, rubbing my hands together, "Soooo, see you whenever? I really need a shower and some shut eye," stretching because I was legitimately exhausted.
"Ya, whenever," Miranda answered with a curt nod and she walked back to her quarters.
Miranda's POV
What the hell was that? Why did I tell her those things? Miranda you need to pull yourself together around her, don't let your feelings get in the way now, you've kept them secret thus far and you can keep them to yourself until this is over and we've parted ways. Just because you buried her alive doesn't give you the right to send the mission to hell and compromise the rest of the squads' lives, compromise the safety of the galaxy.
But she's so disarming. What even made me feel this way? I should have been offended when I saw her peaking at me changing during the Lazarus Project but I didn't mind. What is it about her that makes me feel so…alive inside?
NO. Don't let silly feelings get in the way of the mission.
But she's just so perfect.
Sally's POV – a few hours after landing on Minuteman Station
"I just dropped it off Sally, thanks for disabling the security for w few minutes" said Tali over my omnitool, "none of those bost'tets noticed us come or go" which sucked, I kinda of wanted to bash some head's together, anyhow I thanked her and restored the hangers security protocols, compliments of the Omega black markets. That pisshole has some perks.
I was about to run down and open the thing when I realized that Cerberus would find out soon enough that I had snuck something onto the station.
Dammit, I have to tell them. I can't keep this fucking capsule a secret, or whatever's in it. Not that it's really that big of a deal, I don't even know what's inside. Supposedly it'll be important to help the galaxy stop the reapers, but fat fucking chance there. It's just a medium sized box basically, damn heavy though. Could be a weapon, that'd be nice. But I've gotta tell them, might as well be now.
Walking into the main room where everyone else except Jacob was gather I broke the news to 'em.
"Hey so I have this capsule that I recovered from Neema, I don't know what's in it but apparently it's important, it was pretty heavily guarded," looking around I asked bluntly, "…do we need Jacob
"Yeah, we should probably grab him," replied Shepard and she typed a quick message to get his ass down here.
It took a few minutes, because he was down in the armory making sweet love to all the weapons he's constantly upgrading, and Cerberus protocol requires a bunch of security checks and shit before anyone can get out of there, but he finally made it after a couple minutes of awkward silence.
"So as I was saying before, I have this capsule, Tali just dropped it off in the shuttle bay," and I purposely added that bit just to see that Cerberus cheerleaders reaction. The bitch had this screwed up look on her face like… I don't know 'how the fuck did someone get in undetected' or as I call it 'the stick up your ass' look, but I have my ways, I can be slyer than her.
"Do you guys wanna pop it open now or should we wait 'nd christen it with champagne first?" I actually chuckled at my own joke, and Alex did as well, nice to see she's able to find something to smile about. The others can fuck off.
"Wait, you're telling me you stole a capsule from a Cerberus base without knowing what's inside?" asked the cheerleader, stating what I found to obvious. Cheerleaders are known to be brainless.
"Hell yeah"
"I can't believe you"
"So I take that as lets crack this fucker open and see what treasures lie inside? Anyone wanna place a bet on what's inside? 50 credits says it's a weapon to blow those oversized sentient tin cans back to dark space." Everyone mumbled various things, but most involved a 'yea' of some sort, so I led them all down to the shuttle bay. I was pretty excited actually, I've been pretty stoked to find out what's inside this piece of shit, and I mean I did reduce an entire Cerberus base to meat paste and shit to get it, so naturally I do the honors, with the flare of yours truly.
Anyone got some champagne? I like that stuff from Thessia, yenno, called Blue Da…"
"Shut the hell up and open it", said an annoyed Shepard, and I don't wanna get on her bad side.
"Okay okay," I walk over to the capsule and start messin' with the controls, whatever's inside has a controlled environment. Probably to preserve it, it must be an old Prothean artifact, but I'm making some progress to get it open, "3, 2, aannndd," I pause as I fumble with the electronics on the outside some more, I get annoyed with this piece of shit and slam my fist into it and rip the screen off, "one" and I open the now unlocked box and looked inside.
"Holy Shit" said everyone in unison
What the fuck have I just done?
