A/N: I totally lost some of my chapter! I brought it up to type and poof… a whole page is gone. Bah! Anyway, I have now found out I am not all that good at writing action, I try not to ramble and try not to put too much in but I don't know how it turned out. If anyone has specific advice after reading this on what I could improve, please impart your wisdom to me. Anyway… here goes.
Sorry for the delayed update, but here is a long chapter to make up for it!
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Infiltration With a Little Boom on the Side
"Do not like the idea of how you know of us, our species, our workings from a… game. But I do believe you. Crazy and impossible though it seems, evidence was presented with phone and your words and Timult's," Davix says with a decisive nod and comes out fully, no longer halfway hiding behind Naryk.
"Your heartbeat was steady. Stayed steady as it could with your uh, fear and slight anger. You didn't lie and unless you are a deranged lunatic with incredible technology at your disposal, then you are telling the truth," Naryk says and finally lowers his gun.
I sink to my knees in relief. All my strength just gave out at hearing their answers. How could I not be in awe? Slight disbelief also harnesses its way into my thoughts but I rebuke it. 'I have… never been believed in like this. I… how… I can't even think straight' I think and laugh a little and I feel tears prick my eyes. Nobody else would have ever believed me. Locked me up, killed me, who knows what. Yet these two friends of mine have decided to believe in me putting everything they have, into my care. Right now it isn't much, but who knows what all this will lead to in the future. I could not ask for a better miracle. Who knew a cellphone would be the best proof?
I am so absorbed in my thoughts that I don't even notice Naryk until he is right in front of me, kneeling at eye level. "Sorry, this just… you two are incredible," I manage out stupidly. He gives me a small smile.
"We'll talk about it more later. For now, I really want to go back and see what happened and what Cerberus and the colonists are up to," Naryk says and I nod. He helps me stand up and I sneak a peek at Davix who gives me a reassuring smile. "Alright," Naryk starts, taking charge again, "we're not going in there weapons drawn and on edge. We will be aware, but we do not want to tip them off that we're hostile and assuming that they are as well." I nod and we start back and I listen to him explain his plan.
*That went well*
'Yeah but I never expected you to just tell them everything. You were so against it before.'
*The interactions you've had with them changed my mind*
'You can do that? Change your mind I mean. I thought it was all programming and VI can't change that. Are you positive you are a VI?'
*What you say is true and I was programmed as a VI*
'Hmm. Well then, can you tell me what happened to you when the blue wave knocked out our biotics?'
*I was caught in that as well. It does not target the 'biotics' part but the technology within the biotics*
'You could've died?!' I almost yell out.
*No, but I would've been seriously compromised. As it was, I hid and stored away but could not fully escape. Hence why we could not communicate. I was the equivalent of an organic 'knockout'*
I actually laugh under my breath when he says that with a small smirk. Naryk turns around to look at me and I shyly point to my head. He huffs and continues on.
'Do you think you could program a defense against that?'
*For myself yes; for your biotics? No*
'Darn. I'd rather have you than my biotics anyway. I felt pretty lost and lonely without you.'
*I am honored* I can still feel his smirk and would've answered, except we've made it back to camp. It's eerily quiet.
"Act natural," Naryk quietly says and I head toward the medical facility. I tense up when a loud rustling sounds from the north end of the forest.
"A'cria?" I yell out when the big cat runs from out of the forest. Her coat is sleeked in sweat and blood and she is panting heavily. Naryk runs to her and she collapses into his arms. Davix hands him a water skin and he makes her drink. Now, I run to medical fac to get bandages and medigel.
I almost scream upon opening the door. A choked gasp releases instead, a man is lying in a pool of his blood with a bullet in his head.
"Who would kill Campbell?" I ask out loud and close the medical helpers eyes. My hands are shaking and tears are pricking at my eyes, I have never seen a death like this before. This man had done so much good in the medical facility and helping Dr. Bretain day and night… Dr. Bretain? No. The thought makes me cringe but I saw how she walked out from here. Like she owned the place and had just won a giant prize. Like a cat who ate the canary. She had a Cerberus logo on her jacket. My mind could only reach one conclusion and I didn't like it. I filed it away under: find the facts then freak out.
I gather all the wraps and bandages and any medical antibiotics and creams I can find and throw them into a bag. There is no medigel. I don't know where it all went. I almost trip and drop the bag when I hear Davix let out an incredibly loud shout of rage with slight horror mixed in.
Running out carrying my bag with my only good arm, I can see Davix running toward us as well. We meet at Naryk who is still soothing A'cria and I must admit I have never seen Davix look so pissed off.
"Distress Beacon destroyed! Gunfire!" he hisses out and shows us some of the remains. Goosebumps adorn my arm. I totally recognize the part Davix is holding, it was very important. This only confirms my fears.
I can see the same thoughts going through Naryk's mind. It's written all over his face. So is his anger. "Why do you have more blood on you Melody?" Naryk asks and I look at my hands and shoes.
"Oh. C-Campbell is in the clinic. Dead. Shot right between his eyes. I closed his eyes, hoping that would help. I don't know how, it just seemed like the thing to do." Grief overcomes their faces and a pause as they all gather their thoughts and try to reign in their anger at this atrocious act.
"Yes, was right to do. Question is, who shot him?" Davix asks as he fiddles with the beacon parts. I am looking forward to seeing what he makes. Naryk cleans off and bandages the wounds on A'cria.
"Dr. Bretain," my mouth shoots out and they both look at me surprised. "I saw her coming out of the facility wearing a Cerberus insignia and looking smug about something, remember?"
"I do. I just… she was with us the whole time I don't understand what is going on or how she could be a part of it," Naryk says and finishes with A'cria. I merely nod. It makes sense; I don't want her having any part of anything nefarious either. When we get the facts we can all have closure and make those pay who performed these deeds.
"Should change those now, put on clean ones and properly clean wounds," Davix says and starts taking the 'bandages' from my arm. I help him and we quickly (and painfully) clean my wounds and re-bandage them. We again strap my arm to my stomach so I can in no way move it, but that works. I hear Naryk talking to A'cria and him somehow understanding her responses. I think body language has something to do with it. I don't get it at all though, I could never understand her.
"I told her to follow them and see where they went and she found them. She can lead us to them. Are you all ready for this?" Naryk asks and I nod.
"I can feel my biotics coming back too, that will be handy since I can't use a gun," I answer and stand up slinging my pack onto my good shoulder. Might as well bring all the medical supplies, we may need it still.
"Indeed. We are going in force this time?" Davix says and puts all the beacon parts, or really all the things he created with them, into his pockets.
"Yeah, we're going in force this time," Naryk says and stands up. "Let's go."
A'cria takes the lead and we head off. Apparently the shuttles made all the animals want to stay away and we don't run into any trouble.
There is a freaking base.
A BASE! A whole fricking building for these people! That means they have been here for a while and plan on staying a while more. What the crap is going on?!
I glare at the base that we are all staring at which blends in pretty well to the surrounding rocks. Yeah, it is embedded in the middle of rocks with some trees for company. There are approximately four guards outside. Probably just to scare away the wildlife since there are no other humans here. Well, except me. Hopefully I will cause enough trouble to make them wish they had put more guards out.
"Can anyone hack in?" Naryk asks and I ask Timult.
"We can't. He doesn't know how their security is set up and if his foreign presence were felt, he doesn't know what they could do to him and they would probably find us too," I think I over explained, but I am not good at explaining stuff.
'Dude we should totally practice.'
*Dude? Sigh. Yes, we should practice when we get the chance* Timult rolls his eyes at me.
"I can but I don't have enough range on here," Davix says and shows us his omnitool.
"Timult says he can give your signal a boost and hide his presence enough for you to get in, but he doesn't know for how long," I relay what Timult tells me as soon as he says it.
"Done," Davix gives his permission. He inclines his head to the side, "But how?"
*Activate the armor yourself* Timult answers.
'And how do I do that?'
*Push your thumb against your palm*
I do so and the armor links up from the bracer over my body, covering every part of me, including under my bandages. I didn't know I could do that. Super. Oooh, an interface has popped up as well. "I feel like Jarvis and Tony Stark," I say and laugh. Timult knows who they are from my memory data banks since I love the Avengers and Loki so much, but Naryk and Davix just give me a look. "I'll explain later, I totally hope they have those movies in this reality!"
"Why is your armor dark and not white anymore?" Naryk asks and I take a look. The armor is hematite colored, a dark dark steel with bright green runes and swirls instead of gold.
"It looks like my bracer. Timult is white and gold, so maybe it depends on who activates it. At least that is an easy way of knowing who is in charge at the time," I say. Naryk nods at the logic and turns to Davix.
"Ready?"
Davix nods and I hover my arm over his omnitool. I feel a jolt go through my arm when Timult syncs and I can tell the two of them are already at work, Timult hiding behind Davix's homemade code and hack.
"Have live security feed and schematics. Good enough?"
"Yeah. Hold there and let us see," Naryk orders and Davix brings up the footage. Timult slides back home and watches with us.
"Three floors, basement level, total of four floors," Davix says and then switches to cameras.
A long hallway with doors lining both sides and a guard walking back and forth.
"Do you have audio?" I ask and Davix tweaks a few buttons. Nothing happens. Bummer.
A door opens at the end of the hall and we see three people, two guards and a man in a lab coat, step out. Lab coat says something and the two guards open a door and disappear until they bring a man with them. The third guard darts to the door in time to catch the arm of a child as she tries to dash at the man just taken.
"Kana!" I gasp out, "Aberforth is the one…" Sure enough Aberforth turns around so we can see his face. He looks like he is desperately trying to tell her something. Kana, being no match for the guard is taken back into the room and Davix switches cameras.
"Daddy!" Kanna sobs into a womans arms. Looks like these cameras have audio.
"Nobody looks harmed," Davix says quietly and desperately. It seems like he is trying to find some bright side in this. I commend him.
We switch from room to room and find Hawkins, but not Dr. Bretain, Kroger, or Shawn.
"They were asking about her! She probably brought them here, it's that outsiders fault! Kroger was right!" A man I have only spoken to yells. They are blaming me again?! Ugh.
"That doesn't make sense. They didn't even know her name!" Another man interjects and I decide that I like that guy.
"She helped the Salarian with the Beacon! She could have called those people here!"
"This building proves otherwise!"
We leave the argument and go to the second level, the ground level. There is a big open space and really, this looks like the living quarters. People are milling about but nobody that we recognize. Onto the third floor, that is where all the tech is. Lining the walls, on desks, consoles are everywhere, including a security room. Fourth floor makes all of our anger and terror inflate.
Shawn. Shawn is in there, in a clear tube and he looks terrified out of his mind. Aberforth was taken up there as well, but he is unconscious. There are some guards milling about here, but most of the people here are scientists. Most of the people in the building were wearing lab coats and not armor. Lucky us.
Davix shuts off the feed quickly when we see the dead woman and the insane man in the same room being studied by doctors. "Am not turning back on. Have seen enough. Now what?" he asks Naryk and I look for instruction as well.
"I want to blow the place up," I say when Naryk takes too long to answer.
"I agree… now here is what we do…"
Naryk slides down the rock and slides behind a smaller one and the guard looks at all the debris floating down and goes to investigate. Naryk waits until the guard is upon him and then jumps up, hitting him on the pressure point on his neck. The man falls and Naryk hides him behind his rock and then moves up to the side of the building. Another guard comes around the corner, not looking at him yet and Melody sneaks up before severely hitting him in the same pressure spot.
'She always was quiet and sneaky,' Naryk muses and nods when Melody gives him a mock salute before disappearing for the next phase. He makes his way to the opposite corner and looks to see the guard Davix was to take out already on the ground. Counting 35 paces, he walks the length and stops and waits. All hell is about to break loose and he can't fail.
!BOOM!
His cue, he sticks his sticky bomb to the wall and moves over for it to blow. Boom. He doesn't even wait for the smoke to clear and he darts inside the empty room. The room is blue and white, very pristine. A guard meets him at the door and he punches the man in the gut and pushes him into the people gathering behind him. Kicking one getting too close he runs out the door and feels the building shake in another explosion from upstairs.
The guard raises his gun and Naryk shoots him in the leg. 'Gotta get rid of the guns first.' He has the most people to take care of on this floor and it is obvious when he finds himself surrounded.
Naryk moves as a shot goes off and it hits another guard behind him. He kicks out behind him, knocking a scientist back and sends a greenade in front of him throwing a guard back and making people flee from the small explosion. A man rushes him from behind jumping on his back. These people don't have guns and the armory is upstairs so all they can do is bulrush him. He grabs the man on him and swings him forward off him and in an arc, knocking back two more people. He bends down and elbows a lady in the gut and then bashes her head with another scientist intent on stopping him. They go out cold and he shoots out a couple of times making people dive for cover.
Finally the big security door closes, effectively keeping all the people behind it so Naryk can move on to the basement.
'This is the only building like this I have seen that has stairs to the basement level and not a lift. Makes things easier for me.' He runs down the stairs and points his rifle at the two guards who are still down here.
"I took care of just about everybody upstairs, put your weapons down," Naryk warns. One guy does but the other shoots. Naryk dodges and rushes the woman, bashing her into the wall. She slumps down the wall and doesn't move. "You will get these doors open for me and not cause any trouble, is that understood?" The remaining guard nods vigorously and runs to open a door.
Davix waits in a tree for Melody to initiate her mission. Having already taken out the security cameras and then two guards, Davix is anticipating and calculating his every move from here. Melody climbs the wall to the third level, a hard feat with only one arm, but the armor comes with advantages it would seem. Placing a sticky bomb upon the wall she slide down right under the small bomb and !BOOM!
She climbs into the opening and starts making a lot of noise. Gunfire is already heard but so are the smaller blasts of her greenades. Covering his sensitive eyes with his second eyes lids he jumps in after Melody and drops to his stomach, hiding under a table. Seeing a man bleeding from the original explosion, he quickly bandages him up. Naryk won't care if he has to kill somebody and Melody is so angry she will struggle with the want to, but Davix can't kill unless no other choice. More people run past the room and after Melody. He hopes she will be ok while she plays distraction, especially with her injured arm.
No other choice though. The people do not trust her and she cannot hack into the database and retrieve all the incriminating evidence.
"-came from in here!" A lady runs into the room with another with her, both in regular clothes but wielding guns.
'Going to try to block escape since it was entrance. Mistaken assumption but hinder my mission,' Davix crawls close to them and grabs their ankles, emitting an electrical charge and before the two can even scream they are down. 'Perfect execution,' Davix smiles to himself and then frowns as he gets up into a crouch. 'Poor choice of words. Not dead. No no no, must move on.'
He looks around the corner and sees that the hall has been cleared. 'Melody left a mess,' he muses and then nimbly runs to the main control room. The second he enters, gunfire greets him and cuts his leg, but he throws a tiny greenade at the tech, making him duck for cover.
Davix takes no chances and runs up to the tech's cover and grabs his shoulder sending another electrical charge. The man slumps onto the ground and Davix removes him from the room. He runs and sits in a chair getting straight to work, he closes and locks his door. Bringing security feed up he can now see Naryk and Melody's progress.
'Hmm… Naryk needs security door closed. Too many people to fight and get down to bottom level.' Davix closes the sectioned security on the main level and Naryk runs off toward the stairs. Melody is pinned down at the lift.
'Now to help Melody and find out what is going on. Oh Mechs. Perfect…' he hacks into those too.
My heart is thumping in my chest. Taking out the guard almost too late was almost a disaster because of my hesitation. I've always been good at being quiet and unnoticeable, because I can be lightfooted, but also my presence just doesn't scream 'I'm here!' I can sometimes be in a room for 20 minutes, unnoticed until I speak up. Now though, after flinging myself through the hole in the wall, all focus has been on me. Fighting people is different from fighting animals.
Luckily this armor repels some bullets. Some it doesn't. Davix made little bombs from the beacon parts and dug up the ones I accidently made earlier.
I am being chased by at least a dozen people, most with guns. Woohoo. Running around a corner I run into two guards, knocking one over. I kick the one still standing up and almost curse. He's wearing armor, a kick to the crotch does nothing! He grabs my good hand and contorts it behind my back as those following catch up.
Unlucky him really, I'm double jointed all up my arm. Twisting my wrist and elbow I hit him with a small greenade and the small boom sends us opposite ways. I almost fall into the twelve following me, but I roll out of the way and run.
I stumble a bit since my whole balance is off, but throw a minidisk behind me toward the crowd. They all dive out of the way. Finally reaching the lift, all I can do is find cover after hitting the button for it to come.
The crowd shows up and I throw out two more legit grenades as they too find cover again. One yells and starts firing the opposite way. Mechs come from behind and I smile to myself. 'Way to go Davix.'
The lift opens and I see it full of guards. I wave at them and they raise their guns. One charges and the door suddenly closes on them and I hear a resounding bang from sounds like the rushing guard hitting the door. Pfft.
The lift moves down a little and I make a run for it, hopping onto the top and giving the camera a thumb's up. The lift starts moving up to the final level and I steel myself for what will be up there.
The lift reaches the next level and I throw another minidisk. Boom and smoke is everywhere. I jump in and the lift starts its sickening up and down and up and down cycle, occupying the trapped passengers.
I try to slip through the smoke and people but someone starts shooting blindly. A man beside me drops once hit in the chest and anger swells within me.
"Cut it out! You're killing your own people!" I yell and dive for the one shooting.
'Timult what are some more things these biotics can do? Can I cover my whole body?' By now he is able to see what I am imagining, but there is no time for him to answer.
I'm still on top of the guy when a gun is pointed at my temple. Bullocks.
"Get up. We can study you alive or your corpse. Take your pick," the guard says and I scowl, though no one can see. I decide to try my idea as I slowly stand up.
Focusing on creating energy all over my body I can feel it gathering but it's very unstable. 'This is hard to control.'
*You've only practiced with greenades, of course this is going to be hard. If you really want to do this, don't lose concentration*
I am prodded in the back to move forward and I feel my anger spike. The energy spikes as well in accordance with my emotions. Not good. Suddenly as if by pure will, the biotics surround my body and blast out. People are tossed back and I feel off balance, but there are no explosions with this act, just a strong burst. A scientist reaches out for me but they are again blown back by a wave, and another.
'I CAN'T CONTROL THIS!' I yell at Timult and try to move away from the people. The waves are getting only a little smaller. 'I don't know what I'm doing, it won't stop! Make it stop!' I stumble as I feel myself grow weaker. This is just too much!
*You must stop it! I said do not lose concentration!*
'HOW?!' suddenly a ray hits me in the back and I fly forward from the impact, landing on my stomach.
Plus side? My biotics have stopped and I accidently knocked out the people around me.
Down side? I am completely exhausted and prone with someone armed behind me.
'Are you ok?' I ask Timult hoping he isn't affected by the energy again.
*Yes. We were hit by the blue energy ray again but honestly that is probably what saved you. No more of your experiments* He seems angry and I think it's me. Oops.
I haven't moved since landing and I think that is working out for me. Trying to muster up enough energy to move and gaining my bearings gives the person plenty of time to come up beside me.
And poke me with their foot. Excuse me but I am not some dead animal.
"She's out cold," she reports and listens to orders, "Yeah I'll bring her." I slowly stand up behind her. She turns around, a surprised look spreading across her face before I punch her, sending her down.
I take her ray gun, her real gun, and her holster to hold the ray gun. With new technology on my hip, her communicator, and her gun I set forth. Looks like they had the majority of the security meet me at the lift now it seemed I was being handed over. That should make things easier, but I am still shaking so I guess it really just evens the playing field. I can't even shoot the gun, this is just to look intimidating if need be and shoot if incredibly desperate.
I walk into the first room by the lift. It's empty. The next room however gives me a shock.
Kroger is in a tube like the one Shawn was in, except he's slumped on the floor. He looks up when I walk into the room after checking to make sure no one else was present. The man looks scared and when he sees me starts begging.
"Please don't give me another dose of that stuff! I don't like what it does. I'm not angry anymore so it shouldn't even work anymore right?" I move to the terminal and he whimpers a little bit, "Please, I already killed a girl. Please don't do it."
Reading the terminal I see that they had him prepped and ready for a dosage of the blue energy. Whathefu is wrong with these people? I turn to him and open up my face mask for him to see who it is. Recognition, then horror and shame replace the pleading face.
"You didn't kill me Kroger," I say and he stands up and presses against the glass.
"You're alive! I am so sorry- sorry guh, geez," he begins and seems to be swirling in misery and self-hate. I shake my head and give him a small smile.
"We need to go," I say and link my face mask back up and press the release button.
He stares at the open air but doesn't step out, "You're letting me go?"
"You are coming with me. We're breaking ever everyone out of here and then blowing the place sky high. You can help me with Shawn, Aberforth, and Tabor(the insane guy)," I start walking away and pick up a rifle. Turning back to look over my shoulder, Kroger stops in his tracks and looks from me to the gun and back. He looks worried. By all rights he should be, but not in this case.
"I don't blame you I blame them," I gesture to the downed guards and scientists. Throwing him the gun I tell him, "We're really not here to kill anybody. Yet. Just maim or seriously injure. Just follow my lead and finally trust me."
He nods, looking a little bewildered and I tilt my pistol upwards and continue sneaking to the next room. Who would've thought I would give Kroger a gun and then turn my back to him? Certainly not me.
A loud explosion shakes the whole building. That should be Naryk finishing his run but it could be something else entirely. "Forget sneaking let's go!" I yell and run into every room looking for Colonists. We find Aberforth walking from his room with a rifle in his hands. Looks like he already took care of the person who was studying him. I quickly explain that Naryk is getting the colonists out of the base and he accepts that Kana is fine. He follows and we run into Tabors room.
Tabor looks solemn when we walk in and Aberforth is immediately at his side. It doesn't take much to get him up and going, but he looks completely lost. I can tell Aberforth is going to not leave his side so we press on. Running into Shawn's room, he is still stuck in the tube and I am grabbed from the right as soon as I run in. The pistol is dropped and I can hear Tabor whimper at being manhandled. Kroger is fighting the two closest to him but when they draw a gun toward Tabor, he puts his rifle down.
A damn ambush.
I can feel a gun once again pressed to my temple and I curse. "What the hell is this?" asks a lady's voice and I feel like cursing again. Dr. Bretain is holding a gun to my head.
"You are full of surprises. Technology flowing through your body, biotics of unnatural beginnings, no emotional side effects, and now this… armor? Tell me, where did you get it?" I don't reply. There is nothing to say and I am no good at witty comebacks. At least not when other people's lives are at stake.
"Where were you when we came to get you hm? Nobody could find you anywhere and this lunatic said he killed you," she waves the gun toward Kroger.
"I was preoccupied with a hellion," I say truthfully.
"Yes you seem to be quite injured. Do you know why I wanted you the most? You are unique. The only success story except for the aliens. Are they the ones blowing up the base?"
"Hell yeah," I snark and she hits my head with the gun. It doesn't hurt because of the armor.
"I don't mind my other people escaping, where will they go anyway? They are going to die here on this planet with no beacon. I need you all though. Now get rid of your armor," she pushes me forward thinking that I have to manually take it off.
"Only if you promise to let them all go," I say and then she nods to one of her guard who shoves Tabor on the ground and puts a rifle to the back of his head.
"Now," she hisses and I push my thumb to my palm again. The armor clinks and slides away, back into my bracer. "Take them back to their rooms."
"You do know that this is going to blow in like, ten minutes?" I yell out and she stops. So do her guards. Even the colonists look at me like I'm crazy. "I have rigged every inch I have passed with timed explosives. We may not even have that long."
"Facility will blow in seven minutes. Please evacuate yourself and any of your people that are incapacitated," Davix voice comes over the communications.
Furious rage crosses over her face and she stalks toward me, gun out and presses it to my head. A blur falls from the ceiling, a gunshot, and Dr. Bretain falls into a heap on the floor. Davix stands over her, pistol in hand. The guards holding the other three let go and look at the crazed looking Salarian.
"Will kill if only choice," he says and sounds sad but justified. An alarm sounds and Davix voice comes over the comms.
"Six minutes to explosion. Please evacuate."
"You all need to go and get the people who are in the hallway and get them out of here. We don't anyone else dying do we?" I say and the guards shake their heads and leave to go retrieve their fallen brethren. Aberforth takes Tabor by the elbow and leads him out that way as well with Kroger keeping a gun on the guards. "I'll get Shawn out, make sure none of them are left in here. And thanks Davix. I'm sorry," I say sympathetically and clasp my hand on his shoulder. He looks me in the eye and tries to give a faltering smile.
"You are alright, so it is well. See you out there," Davix says and leaves the room. I feel terrible at getting into a situation where he had to do that.
"I'll get you out Shawn," I say and turn around to find his release button. This terminal is different from Kroger's and I have to recruit Timult into telling me what to push and what all the tech mumbo jumbo means. Finally the release option pops up and Shawn runs out and tries to go out the door. "NO!"
He stops at my yelling and we hear, "Two minutes until explosion, please evacuate."
"We don't have time to run through the doors. Can you land and roll well?" I ask.
"Um… I," he starts but obviously doesn't know how to answer that.
"Well this is how I planned on getting out all along," I say and bring out my biggest bomb. Still a small thing, but it has the biggest explosion. "Go to that corner."
He moves as I say and I stick it to the wall with a five second count down. Running to his side I dive under a desk as the wall explodes and rubble rains down upon us. I grab his hand and run to the giant hole. "We're going to jump?" He screeches out and I turn to him.
"We're going to jump! Just follow me!" I jump out toward a rock and grab onto it, holding my balance, but only barely. Stupid arm. Shuffling out of the way I see him hesitate and then jump when Davix last warning comes over the speakers.
Sliding down the jutting rock, I jump over to another one and slide down it. I hear him coming in behind me when the whole building explodes. We quickly splay ourselves upon the flat rock, hoping to avoid as much debris as possible. Some rubble hits my face and cuts my cheek, making me activate my armor again. I don't want to bleed anymore.
I hear Shawn yell out in pain and clutch his hand to his chest. Now I feel like a jerk for having armor. "You ok?"
"My hand just got crushed, but other that I'm ok," he says and nods and we start our descent again. Landing on the ground we don't see anyone else like we should have.
"Where is everyone else?" I ask out loud and Shawn shrugs looking around.
"Probably in the underground bunker where the last of Cerberus security is holed up and the shuttle hangars are located," a foreign voice says and Shawn and I turn around.
I recognize him right away. How could I not, I thought he was so cool when I met him in the game.
"Nihlus?"
