Dust erupted and dispersed through the air as Shepard landed on the surface of the Collector base. She surveyed her surroundings briefly, then moved off as Thane landed behind her, followed by Grunt. The trio strode towards one of the massive openings in the ground, the caverns and entrances reminded her of an insect hive. Behind her, Kasumi landed on the ground with virtually no sound at all as she quickly made her way towards the ventilation shaft that ran along their route.

Shepard looked to her left to see Garrus at the head of the others, Jax at his shoulder, leading them forwards into the other tunnel, the promise of battle awaiting them. Garrus met her eyes and nodded, he was ready for this. Shepard continued to watch him until he disappeared from view entirely into the second main route, followed by the rest of her squad. The Normandy was a melting pot of personalities and personas, Shepard knew Garrus could command them as well as anyone, and certainly heralded enough respect from his time on the Normandy to do so. Whatever happen next would either break him or forge who he was for life, she prayed it would be the latter. The light of the eclipsed sun's rays faded as they delved deeper into the base, she saw a flash of black as Kasumi emerged alongside them, the master thief navigating her way dextrously through the ventilation shaft as she pushed forward ahead. Light from glowing egg sacs illuminated the way forward as cracked floors comprised of both natural and artificial joinery stretched out before them. The element of surprise was with them as Shepard claimed the first kill, sending a round hurtling through the back of a Collector's head with her sniper rifle. The rest sprang into action as Grunt and Thane joined her assault.

"Weak!" Grunt declared as he used a concussive shot to send a flying Collector reinforcement tumbling through the air in the other direction. A hexagon of green lay in front of Shepard at the end of the cavern, gaining her attention. It was leading into another tunnel.

"I'm stopped!" Kasumi called out, interrupting Shepard's train of thought. "Something's blocking me!"

Shepard was immediately alert, pushing forward along the ventilation shaft, looking for Kasumi. The vents would only be interspersed to lock down heat exchanges. If Kasumi was trapped for too long in a single section, she would be boiled to death inside the shaft. The careful infiltration plan had just become a race against time with Kasumi's life hanging in the balance. Her choice to send Jax with the other time in case of failure was suddenly disturbingly validated. EDI's scans of the shaft informed her there were more than half a dozen distinct sections of the shaft, she would be forced to stop and fight eventually as she proceeded towards the second vent gate. She could not allow the Collectors to slow her down. The few soldiers in resistance paid with their lives for such a mistake as Shepard leapt over cover and opened the second gate.

Assuming control.

Shepard stopped, she had heard that voice before. She looked up to see a Collector overcome with gold as it exploded with a burst of light and the aura of a presence from the Project that thwarted the Arrival. She had stopped Harbinger then, she would stop him now as she unloaded an entire clip of shots to the chest. This body is fragile, disposable. I will show you true pain.

Shepard watched as the body crumbled into dust, she had barely snuffed out a breath of Harbinger's power, influencing events from half a galaxy away. "There will be more" Grunt rumbled.

"Waiting on you Shep" Kasumi called in, bringing the Commander back into action. Shepard made a beeline for the next valve and opened it with a hiss of steam. Something was wrong, this was entire base and they were yet to encounter more than a dozen Collectors so far. Shepard activated her radio. "Second team, what's your status?"

The turian wrestled with a Collector before jamming his pistol firmly under its chin and pulling the trigger. The Collector went limp and slid down his body to the floor. The victor wiped the flecks of blood and brain matter off his face before radioing his reply. "Garrus here" he said, looking at the rest of the team who had similarly disposed of the foes they had targeted. The way ahead was clear. "We're making good progress, meet you on the other side of those doors."

Jax approached him, breathing slightly heavier, alien blood and ash streaked up one side of his face. "Way ahead is clear" he reported, "won't stay like that for long though."

"Then let's get moving" Garrus replied as the group pushed further on. Every battle, every skirmish even gave Garrus a greater appreciation for Shepard's role, how she picked abilities to compliment her own and her role in amongst how she employed them. Garrus found he was much less lethal as a leader, using concussive rounds to damage biotic barriers and directing others to take the kill as he offered fire support, choosing to rather focus on the entire battle at large as opposed to one singular enemy. "Nice shot!" Garrus yelled as Zaeed lobbed an inferno grenade and Legion blew it apart with a well-placed sniper shot, staggering Collectors caught aflame. Garrus directed Jacob and Samara's biotics, using them to pull husks off the ground and Jack's shockwave sending the weightless enemies hundreds of metres in the air, never to be seen again. Unbidden, Garrus felt an uneasy worm of doubt gnaw its way into its stomach. This was the majority of the team, the main lure. They should have had a swarm of Collectors trying to overcome them but instead there was… this. EDI had said there was no internal security network but Mordin had confirmed the Collectors were as much composed of Reaper tech as they were organic components, surely there was a way to alert them that wasn't being utilised. Unless it already has been Garrus thought. This base was a maze, an insect hive, the Collectors could be anywhere, everywhere even, waiting for an opportune time to strike. When would that be? Garrus moved forward and grabbed Jax's shoulder. "Make sure those breaching charges are ready" he ordered. "I don't want to be caught exposed against that door any longer than absolutely necessary."

Jax nodded and sheathed his pistol, cycling through the demotions' subsystems and arming them. Garrus pushed his pistol back into his holster and regathered his sniper rifle. "Move out!" He ordered, following the group deeper down the darkened tunnel. The way the walls were structured unnerved Jax, they seemed to bear down on them from every angle, slowly constricting towards suffocating them alive, forcing them to endure a growing darkness as the group were forced closer and closer together. Garrus' heart beat in his chest like a drum against his ribcage, wondering if this was the ambush he had been dreading to expect. He threw a look over his shoulder. He wouldn't let them be caught in a kill zone, he wouldn't lose his team, not this time.

The next series of moments could be read from the shadows of silhouettes were cast on the walls. The Collectors sent another skirmish down the tunnels. Guns were raised and the corridor lit up with the flash of small arms fire, casting the shadows on the walls which told the story of the next moments like hieroglyphics. Arms were thrust out casting ripples of biotic power or streaks of technological attack. Shields were broken, armour cracked and barriers torn in the skirmish but as the last Collector dropped to its knees, a sniper round-sized hole in its head, congealed blood oozing from the wound before toppling to the ground, the group continued forwards. The corridor widened up into a chamber which multiple tunnels feeding into it. At the end lay the imposing steel doors, a great vertical slit running down the middle. "Jax, get to work" Garrus ordered.

Jax ran ahead to obey, activating his omnitool to search for the circuitry through the walls.

"The rest of us, bunker down" Garrus ordered, "each of you take an entrance and keep your eyes on it. The Collectors know we're against the wall now, they'll be coming."

Rifle after rifle was mounted on top of cover, eyes staring down the sights on a dozen different passages. Garrus adjusted his scope as he took a rear position closer to Jax, keeping his eyes sweeping. A screech put his nerves on edge. "Take it everyone else heard that too?" Zaeed asked.

"Audio receptors determine the echoes came down multiple passageways" Legion reported. "Given the intricate nature of the structure, the forces approaching will be immense in number."

Zaeed grinned. "This reminds me of a time when-"

"No one gives a shit old man" Jack interrupted, her shotgun deadly still.

"Keep focused" Garrus barked. He looked behind him. "Jax, how are we coming along?"

"I've found the circuit breaker" Jax said without looking back. "Laying seismic charge now."

"Keep it moving" Garrus ordered.

"Contact!" Miranda called as a hail of fire rained down overhead. The inhuman chittering of the Collectors was audible as they descended from the tunnels overhead.

"We got more hostiles coming from ground level!" Jacob called.

"Husks!" Tali cried, blowing the closest one to literal pieces with her shotgun.

"Kill them all!" Garrus roared as he lined up a concussive shot, knocking three husks down with the single round.

An explosion that quaked the ground rumbled under Garrus' feet. He turned to see Jax reading an omnitool scan and a crater barely an inch deep. "What the hell was that?" Garrus asked.

"Microseismic charge" Jax replied, ducking a bullet. Garrus spun and drilled a bullethole into the Collector that had sent it. "Lets me know how far I need to go and the composition of the rock, like sonar that penetrates through solid matter. If I don't know how far I need to be blasting, I may as well be looking for landmines with a hammer."

"Then hurry it up" Garrus growled, replacing his clip. "Because they're not easing off."

The group's size made it difficult to flank but the Collectors seemed to have no hesitation at throwing themselves into a head-on assault. Every one that fell, another took its place. An unending swarm of husks and abominations continued to drag themselves out of the tunnels to attack. A shockwave from Jack sent a wave flying but they wouldn't cease. Mordin stumbled back, his shields overwhelmed. Samara gasped as her barriers began to decline. Zaeed cursed as a bullet ricocheted off his armour, grazing him.

"Jax!" Garrus yelled, pulling the trigger as fast as he could load; every angle he spied down the scope had an enemy in its path. "We need that door open now!"

Jax had applied the explosive, it should have been sufficient but he hadn't checked. "We're running out of time!" Jacob yelled.

"Shepard isn't picking on comms!" Miranda called. "We're cut off!"

A bullet hit the door beside Jax, throwing sparks in his face. The team was inside the potential blast radius, pushed back by the onslaught. "Fuck it" he cursed and detonated the breaching charge, holding up his artificial hand to shield a portion of the blast. Everyone's shields rippled as the charge exploded but the shaped mould directed the majority of the destructive force into the wall rather than at the team. "The circuit!" Jax spotted, "now I just need to-"

There was a burst of electricity as Garrus hit it with an overload and the doors sprung open. "Everyone inside!" He ordered as they retreated backwards. There was a haze in the air that caught his attention. "Look out! Seeker swarms!"

Kasumi was at the door, having breached the central chamber at the same time, working furiously to close it behind them as the squad bled through, explosions going off around them.

"We're in position" Garrus' radio suddenly blared. Shepard. Garrus looked around, she was nowhere to be seen, and the door on her side was firmly shut. "We need this door open now!" She called.

Garrus made a split decision. "Go!" He said, grabbing Kasumi's shoulder, "we'll cover you!"

Kasumi moved to follow his command as Tali set to work on their current door which the swarms were approaching. Their doors moved together, Garrus' team's door closing as Shepard's opened. "Fall back!" Shepard ordered her team, she needed fire support.

Jax moved quickly, taking a spot in the line-up as a dozen barrels pointed down the door corridor beyond Shepard. "Suppressing fire!" Garrus commanded, "don't let anything through that door!"

There was an explosion of gunfire as Collectors were riddled with bullets, unable to approach the door as it stuttered once, then closed.

Shepard allowed herself a breath, resting her hands on her knees. "Nice job Kasumi" she told the master thief. She made a point to also look at Jax. "I knew you wouldn't let me down."

"Shepard" Miranda's voice was soft from over her shoulder. "You need to see this."

Shepard turned and looked. Miranda was gazing at the ceiling, ropes of thick black pipes weaving amongst each other into strands ran across the ceiling, stretching as far as Shepard could discern in any direction. Some were smaller and others, Shepard could have taken the Mako down them. She watched as one shuddered, like a vein pumping blood. But what was their purpose? Shepard turned to the wall and saw a Collector pod. The front had been stripped off, leaving only a clear layer to see inside with. Inside was a woman. She was motionless, seemingly dead.

"Looks like one of the missing colonists" Miranda surmised, taking in her clothing. Gas wafted from the pod like steam as Shepard stood up to the pod and wiped clear the crystalline layer to see in more clearly.

The woman's features wrinkled suddenly, her head shook minutely in seeming discomfort. What was happening here?

"There's more" Mordin reported, "over here."

Shepard turned to see a Cerberus uniform. They had been right; their crew was being kept here after all. Something didn't add up though, Shepard could only see dozens of pods but so far, the Collectors had taken tens of thousands, maybe even more. Where were the others? A hiss suddenly from the colonist's pod suddenly grabbed Shepard's attention; a gas was being vented out. The woman inside's eyes suddenly snapped open, black marks appeared on her skin and grew rapidly. There was pink underneath it, her flesh Shepard realised as the woman looked around in horror and pain.

"Oh my god" Shepard realised, "she's still alive."

The woman frantically pressed her hands against glass, beginning to hammer when she realised she was trapped, her body quickly disintegrating before Shepard's eyes. Shepard grabbed at the edges, trying to pry it free but it held firm, sealed shut. The woman ran a hand down the glass and left a smear as it grew smaller and smaller, pieces began to fall off her. Her scream lost its pitch as the skin around her throat split open and more black bile vomited out of the holes in her chest. Shepard could only step back, stunned as the woman before her melted into a shapeless puddle of bile at the floor of the chamber. She looked at the others, her crew still in their pods. "Get them out of there!" She yelled, the crew sprinting to wherever they could find a pod.

Thane began ramming the butt of an assault rifle into the glass with bionically enhanced strength to free Hadley, Grunt used his head to breach the chamber with Gabby, Miranda was grappling with the chamber that held Chakwas. Jax spied a familiar face and ran, looking for a weak point anywhere in the pod. He looked up at Kelly's still image behind the glass, he couldn't imagine going on if the colonist's fate happened to her. Jax's fingers found a slight crevice where two pieces joined and his eyes narrowed. Pulling a small length of det-cord, Jax crammed it hard against the pod, slammed his artificial hand over it and ignited it. There was a glorious cracking sound as Jax jammed his fingers through the hole and pulled, allowing as much free air into the pod as possible. The cracks spread further and further until the pod gave up its resistance and opened fully for Kelly. She tumbled into Jax's arms, still unconscious as he lowered her to the ground carefully. He held her for a moment, fearing the worst.

Her eyes opened with a flutter. "Jax?" She asked in seeming disbelief. "Is it you? You came for me?"

"It's okay" Jax said, almost as much for his own reassurance as hers. "I'm here, you're safe." He buried his face in her neck, her glorious red hair filling his vision as her arms returned his embrace. Jax's face heated up as he felt a tear escape each eye. He quickly wiped them away as he helped back up, the rest of the crew gathering themselves.

"No one gets left behind" Shepard said, helping Chakwas to her feet.

"Thank god you got here in time" Kelly said, "a few more seconds … I don't even want to think about it."

Jax slipped his biological hand into hers and gave it a squeeze.

"The colonists were… processed" Chakwas explained. "Those swarms of little robots, they… melted their bodies into grey liquid and pumped it through those tubes."

Shepard's nausea was overtaken by a wave of anger and resolve. "Whatever the Collectors are doing, it ends here" she assured them.

"We've done well so far" Miranda agreed, "let's hope we can finish the job."

Shepard surveyed her crew. All the Cerberus crew were weary, shaking on their feet, clearly suffering all sorts of physical effects. She had to get them safe, and where to move from here. "Joker?" She radioed, "can you get a fix on our position?"

"Roger that Commander" Joker confirmed, "all those tubes lead into the main control room right above you. The route is blocked by a security door but there's another chamber that runs parallel to the one you're in."

"I cannot recommend that" EDI interjected, "thermal emissions suggest the chamber is overrun with seeker swarms. Mordin's countermeasure cannot protect you against so many at once."

"Yes" Samara replied, "I might be able to generate a biotic field to keep them at bay. I won't be able to protect all of you but I could get a small team through if they stayed close."

"I could do it too" Miranda agreed, "in theory, any biotic could handle it." She turned to Shepard. "Who do you want to maintain the field?"

Shepard thought for a moment, she had two biotic juggernauts on her team but while both wielded astronomical power, one was far more interested in expelling rage, the other was a picture of serenity that would serve them both better. "Samara and I will take a small team through the seeker swarms. The rest of you provide a diversion by going through the main passage. We'll open the security doors from the other side and meet you there."

"Who should lead the diversion team?" Miranda asked. To an unfamiliar ear, it would seem as if she was still trying to achieve self-promotion, still only accumulate accolades to adorn her own shoulders but Jax realised she was merely prompting Shepard to say it, they all knew who the leader was, that leader just needed to hear the show of support in his nomination. Jax wondered how long he had mistaken Miranda's subtle motions of support for those around her as expressions of narcissism, and admonished himself for judging her so harshly.

"I'll keep the defenders busy" Garrus suddenly said unprompted, surprising all of them. He knew his duty, the faith they all had in him. It was time he repaid them for it. "Meet you on the other side of those doors."

"What about the rest of the crew Shepard?" Chakwas asked. She gestured at the weary, swaying bodies. "We're in no shape to fight."

"Commander?" Joker came through on the radio. "We have enough systems back online to do a pick up but we need to land back from your position."

"We can't afford to go back Shepard" Miranda put bluntly. Jax swayed back over towards his disgruntlement with her but knew she was right. "Not now."

Shepard shook her head in refusal. "You'll never make it without help" she said, "I'll send someone with you." She looked at her doctor, the one whom the crew needed most right now.

"Joker," Mordin said, "need location of landing zone, will meet you there." Jax felt a pang of distress at the thought of watching Kelly go again but knew it was right. This mission demanded his feelings be put to the side, strong as they were, and Kelly would never survive if they didn't complete the job they had come here to do.

"We've all got our assignments" Shepard said as the crew filed off into their separate directions, again Grunt and Thane at her side. "Let's move out."

Jax stood unmoved watching Kelly leave the chamber as she followed the crew behind Mordin before a hand grabbed his shoulder.

"You want to see her again, better focus up" Jack told him. She pulled two grenades out of his belt with biotics and primed them. "Ready for a rough ride?" She said with tone of budding excitement, tossing them back over.

Jax caught them and gave her a grin, her madness infectious. "Let's stick it to them."

The next scenes were a frenzy of coordinated bloody madness as the team ripped through a mass of Collector flesh. Jax tossed a group of grenades as the biotic crew members smothered them with Collector bodies, Miranda bringing one down on top of the pile with a slam as an explosion shredded them into mincemeat. Jax tossed another grenade only to watch it get turned by a biotic throw into a bullet that blasted six inches wide holes through two Collectors and leaving a husk in pieces before lodging in the flesh of a scion and detonating. Jax had spent his life unnerved by biotics, convinced of their unnatural nature and now here he was, their compliment of his style ruthlessly, bloodily efficient. This journey had been a catalyst to changing him into the man he was meant to be, he had to be that person for everyone who had sacrificed for him, relied on him and had trusted him. Suddenly, Jax realised, he had accumulated another reason to live.

The slaughter was slow going, eventually proceeding through a tunnel to the last door. Garrus gave it a quick hammering and waited for a moment. The door stayed shut.

"Guys?" Kasumi asked, "we've got company."

"Incoming hostiles detected" Legion confirmed.

Garrus stepped forward to survey their surroundings. It was a long, narrow tunnel with virtually no discernible cover. Archangel had used places like this on Omega as kill zones, lure gangs in with a chase and cut them to shreds with no hope of survival, and now they were standing right in the middle of it.

"Anyone else feel like this was exactly their plan all along?" Zaeed asked, pulling out a cigar and using a red hot ejected thermal clip to light it.

"Anyone with biotics, we need a barrier;" Garrus ordered, "now." Jack, Miranda and Jacob quickly followed his order, the shimmer of a blue field was visible. "Firing line" Garrus ordered. The clicking of numerous weapons was audible as multiple sights were aimed back down the passage. The collector's chittering seemed to echo down the passage at them. "Shepard?" Garrus asked, "do you copy?"

The scratchy sound of radio static served as his only reply. Seeker swarms he surmised, they must be interfering with radio contact.

There was a pained moan as three scions emerged at the end of the tunnel.

"Please tell me she copied" Jax said.

"Open fire!" Garrus ordered, "cut them down. We need hold out as long as we can."

A hail of fire passed over the scions as they motioned and sent shockwaves in reply, slamming into the barrier and, making it flare angrily with ripples.

"How long can you hold this?" Garrus asked Miranda quietly.

Miranda grunted as a beam lasered the barrier before a sniper bolt from Legion ended that Collector's assault. "It'll take more than that to overwhelm me. I'm not the biotic you should most concerned for though."

Garrus turned and saw lines of exertion already beginning to appear on Jacob's face. "Keep it up as long as you can." He turned back to the door and activated his communicator. "Shepard, come on, we need you, what's your position?"

"Any time now!" Tali called shrilly, her shotgun robbed of its effectiveness by the range was not particularly helping stem the tide.

Garrus gritted his teeth and doubled his calls, diverting energy from his shields to boost the signal strength on his communicator. "Where are you Shep, we could really use a hand here!"

A bullet punctured through the barrier, ricocheting and sending spark flying off the door.

"Jacob!" Miranda called out worriedly.

"Giving it all it I got" Jacob managed back, "but I don't know how long I can handle this much heat!"

Garrus rounded with his sniper and blasted a hole through a Collector's forehead, letting drop limply in a heap, anything to lighten the load. "Where are you?" He repeated. "Come on Shep!"

"I read you!" Shepard's voice suddenly blared black, a bursting ray of hope against the encroaching darkness. "What's your position?"

"We're outside the doors!" Garrus yelled back, "we're pinned down, taking heavy fire!"

"We're coming!" Shepard called, "just hold on!"

"Jax!" Garrus yelled, "we're getting out of here, can you cover a retreat?"

Jax nodded, grabbing a volley of grenades and rotating them to the new cycle he had been working on during their trip before they had hit the relay. He tossed three with strong throws, reaching halfway down the corridor into a group of charging husks. The grenades erupted with thick, luminous plumes of smoke that obscured the end of the hallway.

"Fall back to the door, tighten the circle!" Garrus yelled, bringing everyone back to the central seam of the door, begging it to open. A husk staggered forwards out of the smoke, light was shining from its mouth and out its eyes. Garrus narrowed his eyes before the husk toppled over, more pieces of light sizzling away at its flesh. "What was that?" He asked Jax.

"White phosphorus" Jax replied, "one of the worse things to come out of human warmongering innovation but I figured current circumstances lifted the regulations on the ethics of chemical weapons."

"Useful" Garrus had to agree, the smoke prevented them from being seen and also was a horrific death for anything trying to charge through to find them. It did not however, prevent the Collectors from shooting through randomly trying to get lucky, which the ramped-up hailstorm of bullets suggested they were trying. The door slid open behind them and Garrus' crew bled through one by one, Thane and Samara adding their strength to the barrier as Garrus staggered through last. It had been a close call, too close again. He thought of the casualties they could have suffered, how every moment could force him to step over this team's bodies like his own. The memory pushed an unwelcome blade of nausea into his gut, forcing him to lean against the door to steady himself. Shepard moved to him quickly, checking for bullet wounds but he waved her off; he was ready to fight again. They were all safe, but what of the others?

"Joker?" Shepard radioed, "are you at the rendezvous point?"

"I'm here Commander" Joker replied instantly. "Chakwas and the rest of the crew just showed up."

"Mordin's group just arrived Shepard" EDI confirmed, "no casualties."

Jax allowed himself a sigh of relief.

"Excellent" Miranda agreed, "now let's make it count. EDI, what's our next step?"

"There should be some nearby platforms that will take you to the Main Control Console" EDI replied. "From there you can overload the system and destroy the base."

"Commander?" Joker interrupted, a hint of concern in his voice. "You've got a problem; hostiles massing just outside the door. Won't be long til they bust through."

Shepard thought of her options, took in the surroundings they had. This door was the only way through to their location, a perfect choke point and now they had the cover to defend it ably. She resolved on a strike plan. She stepped onto the platform to see all of her crew. "A rear guard could defend this position and keep the Collectors from overwhelming us."

Miranda nodded, clearly having the same thought. "Pick a team to go with you Shepard" she suggested, "everyone else can bunker down here and cover your back."

Shepard thought long and hard about what she would need with her; a fighter ready for anything, even death. She thought of Garrus briefly but it was a suggestion from her heart; the rear guard would need defensive organisers, and Garrus' experience on Omega would be invaluable here. "Thane" she ordered, he had been with her every step so far, he would accompany her again. "And Jax."

"Me?" Jax asked abruptly, taken aback. He didn't count himself amongst Shepard's best by a far stretch, probably amongst her worst if there was total honesty.

"I need someone to make sure this place blows up properly," Shepard pointed out, "we only get one shot at this."

Jax nodded and took his place at Shepard's side, opposite Thane. She looked him and he nodded. "I'm ready for this Shepard."

"As am I" Thane affirmed.

"Anything to say before we do this?" Miranda asked.

Shepard looked down, considering their journey, the toll it had taken, the changes they had all endured since its inception. "The Collectors, the Reapers, they aren't a threat to us" she said to her crew. "They're a threat to everything, everyone. Those are the lives we're fighting for. That's the scale." The eyes of her crew reflected with a vast array of different emotions. Anger, acceptance, ambition, determination, resolve, and also pain. "It's been a long journey," she admitted, walking down the platform past them, "and no one's coming out without scars."

Jax clenched his fist, the epidermis stripped away revealing its cybernetic nature.

"But it all comes down to this moment. We win or lose it all in the next few minutes. Make me proud. Make yourselves proud." She eyed each and every one of them individually, watching the will to fight swell in their eyes, like embers flaring into a raging fire, they were ready.

"Let's finish this" Miranda said grittily as the platform broke away and floated off towards the final chamber. This was it, Jax realised, his heart pounding in his chest. The moment the galaxy hinged on was now, and he was in the middle of it.