Memories: The Escape

It was about thirty minutes left to the station explode, when someone called me:

"Is this the infiltration team?" Looked a Turian saying.

"Yes, which side are you?"

"I am the captain of the assault team, we are retreating, most of my men are dead and only the Krogan and I are left, we have time?"

"You have about thirty minutes, I am with Benny Price's son, he is injured, but I am at the hatch, your priority are escape with your lives, I cannot leave Junior here, his arm is a no down."

"Aye aye, we will be out as faster than we can, but I can't leave my men to protect your other guy."

"I have a small ship, I can attain to our own safety, don't do any damage; I don't want no one else dying in this operation."

"Aye aye, I am out." He turned it off, but before I heard him yelling orders.

"Benny, put your mask."

I put my breather on, and when Junior put his own I destroyed the hatch. My ship was far away and the only way to go was by jumping, so I tossed Benny out the airlock and told by comm:

"Can you pilot?" I had to check.

"Not with one arm." There is no other way, Matt was on his own and didn't have much time.

"Dammit." There was little time left.

Therefore, the only way to go was jumping, and Benny had reached the door, I opened it with my Omni-tool, and head off the station for the final time. It was the strongest jump I could do, and don't took so long to me reach the ship. When I entered, the first thing I did was turn it on, and then I called Matt:

"Matt where are you?" He needed to be at least near a hatch.

"I am cloaked but I can't find a way out."

"Where the hell are you I can open a way out."

"In the Core's locations, I will send my coordinates."

He was only down a bit when I shot and Matt called speaking in a desperate tone:

"What the hell, luckily I was with my breather, you could have killed me."

"The station will explode come now."

"I am close, just a little closer...- He was calming but the desperation was there yet."

I picked him up and began getting far away; the armory did had a hatch open when the captain called me again:

"Infiltration team, we are out and away from the station, are the three of you safe?"

"Yes, we managed to get out in time. - But something was not right."

"Why the station isn't going down."

"The explosives, someone must have disarmed them." Matt said to through the channel.

"I will shoot them."

Someone said something but this time I was already aiming my sniper, a Black Widow, never used in real combat when I found the open hatch. I didn't had concentration mod, so I had to calculate my shot, the open I did was making the station go down. When I found the right spot, I didn't even think about it, just fired.

The explosion was massive, bigger than expected, I almost fell in space when I heard someone, I couldn't hear, but the lips of Benny was forming one word repeatedly:

"Eezo, Eezo, Eezo..."

So suddenly, I remembered Benny had rigged the Eezo core to increase the station mass over time. I looked the station and it wasn't going down, was slow, more than before but not enough, so I tried to remember where the trigger was, when I remembered:

"Benny, use the trigger." The station had to blow.

He had it in his broken arm, I took it from him and pressed it, there was no opened hole, but the station began to accelerate. It worked, the station was going down and the explosion wasn't enough, like Matt said, but after I found Benny, this wasn't important, he did my job after trying to impress his father killing the captain, or the other way around, impressing him destroying the station. However, like I said, now I had to get out and find a father for an idiot, but I wasn't going to leave him yet, we were heading to Omega and when he recovered, he told me that he owned his life to me and stuck with us for after a year.

Later he told me why he tried his stunt, and he really was trying to impress his father killing the captain, but just that, he didn't told me about his father.

He stuck with us until I started dating a Quarian in her Pilgrimage for a long time, until we stole a Carrier together, but that is a history for another time, and don't ask, she survived...