Daniel was rested on the medical berth so doctor Chakwas could do a scan of what was happening. The tests were taking two hours and then Shepard came with Liara, Tali and Garrus. Doctor Chakwas noticed them walking in as the door opened.

"How is he?" Liara asked and doctor Chakwas stood up.

"I don't know how to start. I ran few diagnostics, scans, and the results are quite disturbing."

"Is it bad? I mean, he got hit like ten times to the head." Tali asked.

"No wonder if ten times. I think I should tell you what I know. So, he doesn't respond to any stimuli, no pain stimuli, no pressure, touch, heat, cold, nothing. He doesn't flinch when I snap fingers in front of his face, no reaction to light. As I scanned his brain activity, there are only rare signs of it."

"You mean, he's dead?" Garrus asked.

"Dead isn't the right word to use here, Garrus. He is in state of a 'deep sleep'."

"He's in coma?" Shepard asked.

"Yes."

"Is he ever gonna be ok again?" Tali asked, worried a little bit.

"I'd like to tell you certainly if yes, Tali. However, coma is state of absolute unconsciousness. It isn't known how long he can be like this. He can stay like this for few days, months, years… he may never wake up again."

"There must be something we can do for him!" Shepard said.

"There isn't much, Shepard. You have two options since he is not capable of participating in war. We can let him be connected to support machines but we need a free medical berth so he will be stored in a stasis pod."

"And the other option…?" Shepard asked, quite scared of the answer.

"Disconnect him. Euthanize him. He doesn't have to wake up so this is an option to let him die peacefully."

"How can we let him die just like that?! What about Legion?!" Shepard growled.

"Shepard, calm down!" Liara told him.

"You don't understand, Liara. Daniel came this far and being killed by a brute is not appropriate for him. Legion built connection to him! I cannot do that as long as Legion and him are part of our team!"

"Then let Legion decide, Shepard. If Daniel's closest friend was Legion, then he should decide what we will do." Garrus noted and Shepard nodded. He looked to the AI core where Legion was standing by the metal box. The door to the AI core opened and Legion knew it was Shepard standing behind him.

"Shepard-commander… how is he?"

"He's in coma."

"What does it mean?"

"It means he might not ever wake up, Legion."

"Oh… understood."

"I'm sorry, Legion. I know what he meant for you. There are two options for him and we agreed that it should be you who will decide what we will do with him. We can either let him live, connected to the support machines or we will disconnect him because there is small chance of him waking up." Shepard explained. A minute of silence passed until Legion decided to speak again.

"That is not my decision, Shepard-commander." Legion's answer surprised Legion.

"What?! But Legion, you loved him! It is your decision now!"

"I loved him, and I still do…"

"What do you mean, Legion? You cannot love Daniel if he cannot respond to you… he's practically dead."

"He isn't, Shepard-commander… let me explain. That time we found blueprints of project Soma, I and Daniel let you think that it was destroyed. We did that so you could concentrate on war. However, Daniel gave these blueprints to me and I transmitted signal to our ship to the other Geth so they could construct the scanning device."

"You mean… you were hiding this from me? Legion, that was stupid and irresponsible! How can I trust you?!"

"I understand your anger, Shepard-commander. Believe me, I and Daniel weren't proud of hiding this from you." Legion explained and Shepard rubbed his eyes, sighing.

"I… alright Legion. Cerberus doesn't exist so I don't need to be worried about this… tell me the rest of your plan."

"After our last visit on the Geth ship, Daniel let himself be scanned into a new body. Again, we weren't proud of doing this because one of us, the Geth, sacrificed himself for us. The thing that is behind me in the box isn't a console for the Geth network, but it's Daniel within his new body."

"So project Soma worked? And Daniel is here? You can activate him?" Shepard asked and Legion nodded, "Then… I guess only Daniel himself can tell us what we should do. Activate him."

"Yes, Shepard-commander." Legion said and typed code for opening the metal box. As it opened, a steam was released and deactivated Geth body appeared holding its knees. Legion kneeled down to it and placed arm on the back of the deactivated Geth. Suddenly, the body flinched and the eye started shining with bright light. It slowly adjusted its visor and looked around the AI core, focusing on Legion. Legion and Daniel in his new body stared at each other for a minute, then Daniel decided to speak.

"Legion…? Did it work?"

"Yes, Daniel. It worked. Welcome to your new body." Legion said softly and Daniel looked at his new, three-fingered metal hands, his synthetic Geth muscles and then he used his arms to wrap them around Legion. Legion did the same as he realized how happy Daniel felt.

"Legion! Finally, I can… be like you!" Daniel cheered, then his one eye registered Shepard standing there. He stood up along with Legion and let Legion go.

"Shepard it's you… what happened to my old body?"

"You're in coma, Daniel."

"Oh, coma. I didn't expect a death like that."

"There is a decision you need to make."

"Decision?"

"Yes. Only you can say what we should do with your body. Do you want to keep it connected or let you die?"

"Can I see it?" Daniel asked and Shepard nodded. All of them appeared in the medical bay and Liara's eyes widened.

"Project Soma…" she was amazed.

"Daniel? So it worked!" Garrus added.

"Well, I kinda find this form of you even more attractive than the human version!" doctor Chakwas chuckled and Daniel's faceplates adjusted in amusement, "I think you were introduced to the problem, Daniel. Just pull the cable off or let it be as it is. I'll be working on reports." She said and went to her table. Now there was a circle of Daniel, Legion, Shepard, Tali, Liara and Garrus around the berth with human Daniel in coma. Daniel was now thinking what he will do with his old body – let him live or let him die? That was the question.

It was a cruel question to let him decide. Long five minutes passed, everyone was watching Daniel, realizing how much thinking he had to do.

"So… death or possible life?" Shepard asked. Another minute of silence passed and Geth Daniel grabbed the cable.

"I've been thinking. It's hard for me. On one side, if I wake up, I'll be helpful twice as more. On the other side, I still have an option to wake up once, but what life is it gonna be then? Legion activated me because I am practically dead already. It will be as before for this Daniel. Anxieties, depressions, solitude… he would end up with suicide. I think… I think that I don't want to let myself to suffer from these feelings again." Daniel said, ready to pull the cable off. Suddenly Legion's hand appeared on Daniel's.

"No… Daniel, stop!" Legion said and Daniel looked at him with the Geth eye, "Now I realize it's also my decision. I don't want you to throw yourself away. I know why I saved you that day in Cerberus base. You are dear to me, you are worth living and it would be waste to see your former body just die and decompose. I think, we both need your original self so we can remind ourselves why we did all this. We must give your older self a new chance, to start new life when we're not here. Even we are mortal, Daniel. It doesn't matter whether you're synthetic or not."

Legion said, letting Daniel's hand be. Daniel thought once more, looking at his unconscious self. Then he let the cable be.

"You are right, Legion… I'll give myself a chance to live." Daniel said and left the cable connected, "Shepard, I'm not letting myself die."

"We'll take care of it, don't worry." Shepard said and Daniel with Legion left the medical bay together.

EPILOGUE

Daniel's former body was taken in stasis pod to the lower engineering room. Daniel and Legion found a pleasure via sharing mutual memories and tactile feelings. Shepard gave report to admiral Hackett about the readiness of the intergalactic alliance and so the war began. The ships and fleets of all races jumped to the Sol system towards Earth where Reapers were assembling and the battle started. Reapers were bigger, stronger but the alliance had strategy and numerical superiority with turians, salarians, asari, krogans and the Geth.

The alliance emerged victorious and the cycle of annihilation was stopped. Javik vanished after the war. James Vega joined the N7 training program. Shepard was left with Liara, Tali, Garrus, Daniel and Legion on board. The question is… what consequences will it make to let Daniel's former self live? Is it going to be as Daniel and Legion predicted or will something happen now that the space is safe from the Reaper threat?

THE END