I was trapped in the dark. My face hurt and I could feel blood running down my neck. And if I don't get to Shepard or find a way to stop this thing from hurting her then… life just can't be that cruel. And yet somehow it alway surprises me how ruthless it can be.

I grunted and made for the escape latter. Vents and heavy armour do not go together and the holo-display chip in my omni-tool seemed to of been damaged in the fight so there was no way I could use it for any light. I knew if I went feet first that there wouldnt be enough room to turn around,and if I went head first that's a six foot drop before it turns out. I could always take my chest armor off… if the seal hadn't also been damaged in the fight. There was just no quick way of taking it off. I cursed, it was as if I had a thousand little small things against me and the robot gets to run free. I could hear confusion beyond the door. They must be trying to prevent her from getting to the elevator… that is if the even knew what was going on. It didn't matter much and I didn't have time to question it; I had a vent to crawl through.

Head first it is.

"This is gonna hurt" I said and then I dropped in. I pushed my hands in front of me to absorb the fall and couldn't even see where I would land.

SLAM

I groaned "Yup, that hurt, ok keep moving" I had to wiggle around and get into a crawling position, the back of my armor kept hitting the top the the vent and each motion forward was accompanied by a rather irritated screech of metal on metal. I moved as fast as I could, I knew the next service hatch was just 20 feet away, that would put me right next to the elevator shaft and I could use the ladder to crawl up into Shepard's cabin. I made my way to the access hatch and busted it open. I hauled myself out and grabbed onto the ladder. right before I took even make a first step up the rungs; the Normandy lurched over and I could feel the artificial gravity shut off. I got slammed into the other wall, and I looked up and saw the elevator, making its way down.

Great… man if I die Shepard would be crushed.

It would really impact her.

Wait… what the hell? At a time like this?

I need to get out of here.

As the elvator slowly an omnisouly made its way closer to me, I worked on opening the door to the CIC while in zero gravity.

Thank spirits that elevator is so dammed slow

I opened the control box and messed around with a few wires. The base of the elevator was encroahing on the top of the door. As it made it's way past three quarters of the door I began swearing under my breath as I worked away at the control panel. Past half way I finally got it open, and I pulled open the doors, and Hauled myself out just as it closed the gap coming close to crushing my foot.

I re-orientated myself, and that's when I looked around at the CIC.

It was chaos.