Sophie Shepard: K.I.A
Chapter 4 - Death
Sophie looks around, the ship's mess hall is a wreck. Fires have started and there's pieces of debris strewn about. She has to get to Joker on the bridge. As she stumbles up the familiar steps to get into the CIC she spots the large section of the hull that has been blown away, leaving the CIC exposed to the vacuum of space. Her suit locks down and her boots magnetically attach to the floor. She continues slowly through the debris, the Normandy barely holding together.
"Joker! What the hell are you doing!?" she shouts as she reaches the pilot who is still trying to save his ship.
"I can still save her! I won't abandon her!" Joker pleads
"You should've been on the first escape pod! The Normandy's lost and throwing your life away won't change that!" Shepard tries to make Joker see reason.
"Fine.. " he finally surrenders. Shepard's hand grabs his arm and she helps him to the bridge's escape pod. "Ow! watch the arm!" Then he notices it. The enemy's back in range. "They're coming around for another attack! Shepard, get in!" he cries and reaches out for his commander who's struggling to maintain a foothold. She hits the release for Joker's pod as she is lifted off of her feet and as the door closes he watches as the vessel makes one final shot, which tears the bridge apart and knocks Sophie into a bulkhead and out into space.
Sophie regains consciousness as her suit's HUD flashes all kinds of warnings at her. The one that's most prominent however is that her supply of oxygen is dropping fast. She reaches for the back of her helmet to find the connections severed. The pipe has been bent out of shape by the impact against the bulkhead. She tries frantically to reattach it as she slowly suffocates. Her struggles stop as precious oxygen runs out and the last thing she sees before blackness is Liara.