Liara was jolted awake by a rush of adrenaline as the smell of smoke filled her lungs causing a burning sensation as the sound of alarms filled her senses. She imagined her hard-suits medical VI must have detected she'd gone unconscious and injected her she thought to herself as she groggily observed her surroundings, the red emergency lights were the only illumination in the tight space as she saw Wrex still groggily trying to make his way out of his harness. The straps on her shoulders were weighing down on her shoulders making it hard to focus with the straps of the harness pressing against her shoulders, she tried to make sense of it until she realized she was hanging upside down in her seat. She reached for the release on her harness grasping blindly for the button and a few seconds later her efforts were rewarded with a click as her harness released sending her tumbling to the ceiling of the Mako.
Pain surged throughout her body as she pushed herself up, she instinctively put her hand over her forehead. She brought her hand back down to her side though she could see the slight reflection come from a purple stain on her hand, noticing her hand was covered in blood, she cursed slightly at the slightly as she leaned against the curved wall behind her. After a few seconds her thoughts cleared the feeling of confusion quickly replaced by panic as her thoughts turned toward Shepard. She stood up quickly and stumbled over to the front of the Mako she made her way over to the cockpit where Shepard was hanging from his seat by harness. She shook him slightly though not causing a response, which only seemed to intensify her panicked state and the lighting was far too dim to tell what kind of condition he was in. She shook him again this time her desperation clearly evident, though to her relief a soft grunt came in response to her shaking, "Shepard!"
A loud thud came from behind her as she saw Garrus helping the now freed Wrex from off the ground. She turned back to Shepard as she noticed him slowly regaining consciousness she gently grabbed his shoulders and pressed the release on his harness as she pressed his shoulders against her stomach as the ninety-kilogram human shot downward causing her to fly back and hit the floor though she had absorbed most of the impact. His head was resting on her stomach as she lifted it and slowly sat his head back on the ground as she crawled back to her feet. Crawling over to his side she grabbed his hand and clutched it tightly, "Come on Shepard, wake up!"
She scrambled for the medical kit to their left and pulled out an injector of concentrated medi-gel. She tried to recall her brief study of human anatomy and injected the substance directly into his blood stream, thankfully asari and human anatomy were quite similar. After a few moments her efforts were rewarded as his eyes opened causing her to break away from him as she stood up and extended her hand out toward him. He grabbed it as she pulled him slowly onto his feat, "You alright," he asked no doubt noticing the dried blood that had tricked down her forehead.
"Yeah I'm fine," she replied as Garrus and Wrex came up behind them.
Shepard turned around and kicked the exit hatch, to her surprise it actually budged no doubt from the extensive damage they'd taken. He followed it up with a biotic push that sent the hatch flying out as the sound of alarms grew even louder. Shepard crawled out as she and the others followed his lead. Though before she was could climb out she heard gunshots ringing out causing her to speed up she emerged to find two geth soldiers lying on the ground beside Shepard. She checked her surroundings for any more geth as she scrambled into cover by the flipped over Mako, she reached for her rifle and pulled it off her back causing it to expand. Wrex and Garrus made their way out to join them finding cover beside her against the Mako.
"Two more incoming!" Shepard yelled back at them.
She saw the two Geth running at their position, she aimed her rifle at the closest one and pulled the trigger as short burst of bullets tore the unit apart the other one turned toward her and raised its weapon though before the unit could react she heard gunshots to her left causing the remaining geth to plummet to the ground. Shepard leapt over the cover he was using as he made his way to the elevator leading to the council chambers and motioned for them to follow him. She stood up from the Mako as she raised her rifle scanning for targets before dashing toward Shepard to catch up to him as the rest of the squad followed her. After a few seconds they were all in formation with Shepard leading the front, Wrex watching their back flank, Garrus watching the left flank, and her watching the right.
The carnage to the Citadel was quite unsettling to her, most of the presidium was up in flames. The once thriving and diverse flora from all corners of the galaxy now turned to ash or sprung across the ground and bodies of unsuspecting C-Sec officers and civilians littering their surroundings. To her the citadel was a symbol of peace and unity, to see it torn apart by conflict and blood shed was unnerving. She pushed the thoughts to the back of her mind as they approached the steps to the elevator, Shepard beckoned them inside as he stood guard outside the elevator.
"Saren's going to pay for this," Garrus muttered as they stepped inside the elevator with Shepard hitting the access panel once he was inside.