She couldn't remember a thing. It was just cold, dark and lonely. Her leg was broken, body hurting to hell. How did this even happen? She remembered the Reapers attacking Horizon then... nothing.

Gemma rolls over in the rubble of the Citadel. Her breath came out like smoke, she was freezing, but alive at least. She looks down at her hands, her biotics not responding when she tries to activate them. What has happened?

The memories weren't there, she remembered seeing her mum being taken by those monsters then it all went dark. She should be on Horizon, but she was on this structure... a broken structure.

"Gemma," the cold voice called her. Her head snapped up to her left, there was nothing there but broken metal beams and smoke. Pulling herself up along the wall, she only falls again. Her leg throbbed, there was glass hanging out from it. What happened?

"Join us," the same voice called again. Gemma shook her head, she was just dehydrated and tired, she needed her biotics back. They could help heal her leg to at least stand-up. "YOU KILLED US!" the voice screamed.

"AHHHH," she screams as her hands fly to cover her ears. The world falls dark once again as her eyes are forced shut.

Garrus woke up from the surgery he didn't even know he was having. He felt better, no more pain from that thing he called his arm. It felt numb, he tried to move it, but nothing happened. He looked over at it... it was gone.

"What the fuck!" he shouts, alarming both Chakwas and a sleeping Thane. "Where's my arm?!" he demands as he tries to get up. His heart monitor spikes quickly as the anger overtakes him. Chakwas quickly rushes over to stop him from moving.

"Garrus, calm down. I'm sorry, I had to remove your arm," Chakwas explains as she pushes him back into bed and hooks the wires back up. He hisses under his breath, Thane catches the noise and offers supportive subvocal chimes. Humans couldn't hear this, most species couldn't besides Turians, Drell and Krogan.

"You couldn't save it?" he asks, now calming down and nodding slightly towards Thane. Chakwas grabbed her datapad, which barely worked. Even their datapads were less functional with the main backup power going to engineering to get the ship back online.

"No, it was too far gone. You'll be able to have a prosthetic... soon." Garrus laughs as he throws his head back into the bed.

"Yeah, if we get off this damn planet. Are Liara and James back?" Thane was also wondering that he was left out of the loop with constantly being in the med-bay. His only company was Chakwas and Shepard who was still in the coma.

"Yes, but Kaidan can explain that when he arrives. Would you like to see Shepard?" Garrus turned to the closed curtain next to him, hiding his sleeping girlfriend. He nods, Chakwas walks around his bed to pull the curtain free.

"She's not in good condition, be prepared," she warns. The curtain is pulled back and Garrus almost gasps at the sight of her. What happened to Shepard? He can only stare, but then a small tear formed in his eyes. Turians couldn't cry as humans could, but their subvocals expressed their emotions enough.

Thane heard the cries from Garrus, he could only shake his head sadly at his friend's suffering. Chakwas sees that is enough for now and she closes the curtain again. Garrus lays in the bed, staring at the white ceiling above him. He loved Shepard so much it hurt, but here she lay in a coma and he was now a Turian with one arm. What could they possibly do to help get everyone home?

Tali thought of herself as an expert on ships, she'd built and fixed enough. But the Normandy was something else, they'd been on this planet for just over a day and she was at her wit's end with it. Her hand slipped for the second time in twenty minutes before she threw the spanner on the floor, "bosh'tet," she shouts in anger.

"You okay?" Adams asks who was headfirst into the panel under his terminal. Gabby and Ken were inside the main drive core, trying to reconnect power from backup lights to the engines, but the power wasn't enough.

"No, we can't do this. We don't have enough power for the ship to even wake up." They needed Edi, but her body was still in the AI core. Joker hadn't been back since Kaidan was able to drag him from his pit of depression, spending his waking hours in the cockpit trying to get his ship online.

"We have to work with what we have," Adam says as he sits down against the panel, wiping the sweat from his forehead. He knew Tali was right, but giving up wasn't an option.

Tali got up, crossing her arms against her chest as she walked around the drive core, Gabby and Ken were too deep in work to acknowledge her. Then the idea hits her, she snaps her fingers and quickly turns around to face Adams, almost making him jump. "Biotics!" she shouts, causing Ken to bang his head in surprise.

"Jesus, Tali! Warn a man," he says as he rubs his head. Adam stands up, looking at her in confusion. What would biotics do with getting a ship online?

"You need some sleep, Tali," Adam says with a huff of laughter. Tali waves her hands as she runs to her terminal, ripping the panel out and pulling some wires out.

"Look," she says as she pulls Adam down to her level. "Normandy runs on mass effect fields, much like what biotics can do with enough control. If we can find some crew members that are biotic to create fields around the drive core as we reconnect power from backup platforms to our main ones, we could almost jumpstart the ship." Gabby, the one who was probably as smart as Tali jumped down from her ladder and rushed over to them both.

"That would work, we have Liara, Javik and Major Alenko who are all biotic, they could work together." Adams stood up, pushing Gabby towards the doors as he spoke in a rushed voice.

"Go and get the Major, tell him it's urgent."

"I was finally able to get the location from Joker's flight plan. We were heading towards the Omega system, here," Traynor says as she points out the drawn map of their flight plan. The Normandy had jumped from the Sol System to the Annos Basin, then Krogan DMZ before passing the Serpent Nebula, there were blown off track and forced into a sharp left turn.

"I thought turns at those speeds were impossible?" Kaidan asks from across the war table. He was shattered, he hadn't stopped since Liara came to get him nearly twenty-one hours ago. He needed rest and some food, the migraines he'd been getting were getting worse with each passing hour.

"They aren't, but we've never dealt with power like the Crucible. It's stronger than our mass relays, pushing us from one point of FTL to another. So we jumped out of it and were pushed into the Imas Frontier." Kaidan slammed his hands onto the table.

"Dammit, we are so far away. Did we at least get what planet we're on?" Traynor nodded and grabbed a datapad.

"As I went through Shepard's mission logs, I remembered her talking about one lush green world she visited during her time with Cerberus." The name sent a shiver down Kaidan's spine, he did also wonder what happened to the Illusive Man, was Cerberus even still around? "We are on a planet called Zorya, usually the Blue Suns' main headquarters are here, but we are miles out from where we would usually find them. That's why Liara and James returned empty-handed."

Kaidan wasn't surprised when Liara and James came back with nothing past some fresh fruit and water, it was all checked before they could consume it. Turns out the fruit is fine for everyone but Tali and Garrus and the water is only fine for them two. The planet had a mix of dextro and Levo sources, which was good, but they couldn't find water for the Levo species of the ship, and they were running out of what they had. The ship had a filtration unit, but it didn't work without the drive core.

"Major!" Gabby calls as she runs through the doors and nearly trips down the stairs. "We need you in engineering as soon as possible." Kaidan didn't waste a second before quickly leaving with Gabby as they ran through the ship.

She woke up again, still alone and even colder. Gemma hissed as the pain stung from her broken leg. There was still no response from her biotics, she couldn't even feel them.

"YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" the voice screamed. It was on repeat this time, louder and louder with each repeat.

"AHHHH," Gemma screams in pain. Her screams are so high pitched it echoes down the smoked halls around her. Then the blue came off her... biotics. Her biotics were finally awakened. They let out a hard pulse through her body and warmed her up, the pain in the leg quickly fading, but she still couldn't stop the voice.

"PLEASE," she begged as the words repeated. Her biotics sent another pulse that shattered some glass around her, the voice finally stopping. Gemma dropped her hands to her thighs, leaning her head back to catch her breath. She needed food and water, she wouldn't last much longer without it.

"Five more minutes," she whispers as her eyes flutter shut for a third time, her biotics almost try to keep her awake, but she is too far under to wake up now. Her world turns dark and cold.