Prompt: Wild Ride
"This is loco."
Kaidan shook his head. He wondered how many times Vega had said that while he'd been away. At Shepard's shit-eating grin, Kaidan assumed "a lot" barely covered the surface.
"Take point, Lieutenant," Shepard ordered. Vega bit off something in Spanish that the translator didn't pick up and slogged through the glowing lichen and liquid water to take point.
Kaidan narrowed his eyes at that. When Vega was being an asshole, he would use a different accent to throw the translator off. It was a wonder the younger man had gotten as far as he had up the ranks. But his actions on Fehl Prime had almost guaranteed him any post.
Kaidan shook his head and focused on the mission, increasing his pace to match Shepard's. "You really think it's the rachni?" he asked quietly.
"Full circle?" she asked in return, meeting his gaze briefly as they pressed on through the caverns. She shrugged. "No clue. It'll be a wild ride either way."
He chuckled at that. "Not too loud, Shepard. You'll scare the lieutenant."
"Already did that, amigo," Vega countered. Then one of the egg looking things popped on him. "They explode?" he demanded as he brushed at the goop covering his armor. "Really?"
He looked and sounded like he wanted off the ride.
Kaidan was amused until the smell hit him. "Ah, damn it."
"Huh," Shepard said, nose scrunching. "Rotten turnips." She cranked up the juice on her Firestorm. "Hold your noses, ladies."
Rotten turnips is a reference to Kaidan's character quirk in Redundant. I'm more inclined to think the gestation pods smell like decomp or something just as gross - if not more so.