Everybody in Wraith's office stared at Wraith, former Daniel as if they were afraid of him. The Geth Daniel who was on the ground was still sparking, but not dead. Wraith decided to move away from him and proceed to the next step.
"What is happening? He's not attacking…" Grunt asked silently.
"Daniel managed to calm him down, Grunt." Garrus said.
"Wraith… Daniel… I'm sorry. That what you had to go through, it was not right. But what you are doing isn't right either." Shepard said, regret in his voice.
"You don't understand! You don't know anything!" Wraith started shouting, "Ever since I got in this century via cryogenic stasis, I was lost! I didn't know what to do! You helped me, Shepard! You and your people were family to me! Legion gave me hope! He saved me from committing suicide! I trusted all of you! I wanted Legion to be happy so I transferred myself in that Geth but I was hoping that I would never wake up from coma! Once I woke up, everything was as before I met you, Shepard. And it was you who caused it!"
"Dan? Why don't we just forget about all this? Why can't we return back?" Tali asked.
"Tali, you never experienced what I had to. If I didn't revive Thane, I wouldn't be here today. He was helping me, talking to me and that way he was keeping me alive. This pain, this horrible pain that feels like spears sliding through my heart is going on for too long. It's you who want me to say 'Yeah, let's go and forget about this.' but I cannot forget."
"Wraith, I always sensed that you were honorable man. Your words are pure, and I know Shepard's words are the same. He can help you." Samara said but Wraith shook his head, feeling a tear pushing out of his eyes.
"Shepard he's…"
"I know, Liara… he is still in there." Shepard said and Wraith came to the window.
"So… do you all want to know what I want to do? Why are stars green?" Wraith said and most of them nodded, "I said that my goal is to make galaxy silent. No crime, no evil, completely pure galaxy. When my people were completing missions, I always supplied the ship with an infection."
"Infection?" Garrus asked.
"Yes. When the ship was near star, it released a package that melted in the star. What do you know about tumor from biological side?"
"Tumor? That is when a cell doesn't work properly. It keeps reproducing itself but in the way that it's unhealthy. It creates unnecessary mass of tissue and it can cause cancer." Liara explained.
"Indeed. This infection does the same to the star. It doesn't reproduce cells, but it reproduces inner mass within the star. It creates mass, while the volume is constant."
"And what you want to reach by this?"
"Remember when I said that this star will never become black hole before time? Not in the natural way of course because it doesn't have the mass yet. But there is a catch. Every matter can become a black hole when…"
"When you crush the object under its Schwarzschild radius." Tali said.
"Yes! This is the case. I cannot crush the star under its critical radius, but when the growing mass causes the star to became dense the way its volume cannot handle it, it will collapse into singularity and will create black hole!"
"So your plan is to create black hole from each star within the Milky way? Why?" Kasumi asked.
"Chaos! Sagittarius A*, the central supermassive black hole of Milky way keeps the galaxy spinning. When there will be trillions of black holes in the galaxy, chaos will be set. Planets will be swallowed by black holes or they will be destroyed by each other as the strong gravitational field will pull them away from their original orbit. Nobody will survive. Not even us."
"And this is making the galaxy silent, I suppose." Kolyat added.
"Indeed." Wraith said, pulling out a control, "This control can revert what my infection has done already. However, I will not use it." Wraith said and continued with watching the star. Everything became silent.
"So this is the end?" Shepard asked.
"No way, Shepard. We cannot give up yet." Garrus said. Suddenly they all noticed as somebody else entered the room.
"Wraith! Stop!" Thane said as he entered the room.
"Thane?!" Jack asked and Wraith turned to face Thane.
"Why are you here, Thane? I thought you left." Wraith asked.
"I cannot leave! I saw who you are when we were talking to each other! You don't need to do this! You are not this!"
"I have already made my decision."
"No, listen! There is somebody who needs to see you!" Thane said and David Archer came from behind, "Go on, David…"
"Who is he? Shepard? What's that supposed to mean?!"
"That is David Archer. He is autist, like you. He is talented in mathematics, like you. He hates noise, like you. I brought him so you could talk to each other."
"What?! If you think he can convince me-"
"Dan, it's ok. Everything is silent now. Before you did this, I was hiding from noise. Now when I look at how planets look, the noise is minimal. I am happy and I'm proud to know it was you who did this."
"The galaxy isn't entirely silent! There is still… much to do." Wraith said, losing words.
"Dan. What is the limit of one over x when you approach with x to zero?"
"The limit does not exist because one-sided limits are different…"
"How is Euler's constant defined?"
"It is a limit. Limit as n approaches infinity from one plus one over n all of it to the n-th power…"
"What does the derivative stand for?"
"Rate of change. Infinitesimal change between two points. Slope of a curve a point…"
"What are they doing? Shepard?" Garrus asked.
"They have found common topic. Maybe David can change him!" Shepard said.
"Hyperbolic sine of x is…" David continued.
"e to the x minus e to the minus x all over 2."
"Homothetic transformation with coefficient equal to -1 is…"
"Point reflection…"
"Integral of one over one plus cosine x is…"
"Tangent of–" Wraith was about to say when the sparking Geth decided to speak.
"x over two…" the Geth said.
"plus C." David added and smiled.
"plus C… you forgot about your dx, the teacher said." Wraith said, smiling back at David. Then he looked at the ground, biotic shackles were released and everybody was free.
"Daniel?" Shepard asked as Wraith rose the remote controller.
"Shepard, I give up. I cannot do it…" Wraith said and deactivated the disease in stars. The star behind him was slowly becoming yellow again. He dropped the remote controller, destroying it with his biotics. Wraith went to the wide window, activating vid-com to all commanders of each fleet, "Here is Wraith! All commanders, hold the fire! Resurrected Cerberus no longer exists! To all the batarians, return to your planet…" Wraith said and the vid-com was shut down. Daniel turned around to face the others but he didn't expect Legion to rush at him and hug him tightly.
"I knew it wouldn't end up like that! I knew you were still in there, Daniel!" Legion said as he firmly grasped Wraith, now Daniel again within his hug. Daniel hugged Legion back and rested with his head on Legion's shoulder.
"Ew… never thought I could see shit like organic fancying synthetic… and dudes!" Jack said and others laughed.
"So, it's over, Shepard?" Jacob asked and Shepard nodded, smiling. At that moment, a laser rushed through the room and through Legion's repaired armor in Daniel's chest. As Daniel wasn't concentrating, the laser slid through his chest, making him cough out blood.
"Daniel?" Legion asked him and spotted the hole in Daniel's chest.
"Nothing is over!" Enraged voice sounded from the entrance as everybody spotted batarian soldiers.
"What do you want?! You received your orders!" Grunt grumbled.
"This man promised us total extinction of life in the galaxy! He broke the promise, now he's going to die!"
"We'll see about that!" Garrus said and all of them loaded their guns when abruptly, a throw attack passed between them to batarian soldiers, causing them to fly back. Everyone looked back at Daniel who was held by Legion while holding the wound.
"Use… use the time… there will be more and they will come for me…" Daniel said, breathing hardly.
"You're going with us, Daniel! I'm not making the same mistake again!" Shepard said.
"Shepard but-" Daniel tried to say as he fell on knees, the blood dripping.
"Legion, take him. We will take care about Geth Daniel." Shepard said and Garrus with Grunt took the Geth Daniel, "Everyone on board of Normandy, now!" Shepard ordered and everyone ran to Normandy. Legion carried bleeding Daniel who wasn't making struggles anymore. Before any other batarian ships could arrive, Normandy was away. Shepard contacted admiral Hackett and counselor Anderson via vid-com.
"Commander, we don't know what you did but batarians stopped with attack and changed course back to Terminus systems. We are grateful to you." Hackett said.
"Do we know who was Wraith?"
"It was Daniel Husk. We managed to change his attitude and so it's his act of ending the war. Now he's on board of Normandy, but in bad condition."
"Good work, commander. Do you know what you'll do with Daniel?"
"We already know what is the best place for him." Shepard said and continued with reporting the state of his mission.