Lazarus Project: Mass Effect 2 (Shenko)

Chapter 25

Milky Way/Attican Traverse/Lazarus Research Station

Earth year: 2185 CE --- April

"Miranda. I think she's waking up. Heart rate increasing, blood pressure rising. Brain waves are off the charts. I think she's coming out of it."

"Damn it Wilson! It's too soon, she's not ready. Give her the sedative! Now!"

"Shepard. Try to stay calm. It's all right. Just try to relax."

"I think the sedative's working. Her vitals are stabilizing, heart rate dropping, blood pressure returning to normal." A male voice said.

"Dammit Wilson! I told you your estimates were off! Run them again."

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"Shepard, you need to wake up! Your scars aren't healed, but this station is under attack. I need you to get out of that bed and get moving."

Callie groaned as pain shot through her jaw. Sitting up, white lights flashed behind her eyes, as a stab of pain lanced through her skull.

"Move Shepard!" Urged a faintly accented female voice. "We're running out of time! You need to get out of that bed. There's a locker nearby. Grab a pistol and get to cover! My name is Miranda Lawson and this station is under attack. I can guide you to the shuttle bay, but you have to hurry!"

Callie, confused and stiff with pain, struggled to follow Miranda's directions as several armed LOKI mechs began firing at her. In the distance, she could hear explosions and screams from elsewhere within the complex as she followed what the woman yelled at her.

Upon reaching a lower level, she lost contact with Miranda as the report of gunfire echoed through the comm before fading to static. Great, Callie thought, the only voice in this hell of wherever she was and now it was gone. She reached a third door that opened onto a walkway where she spotted a toned, dark-skinned man. He was exchanging fire with several armed LOKI mechs that were pouring through a door across a chasm adjacent to his position.

"Shepard?" He cried, as she took up a position beside him. "What the hell?"

Callie, confused and in pain was in no mood to pacify anyone. "Look, I need answers. Ever since I woke up, someone's been telling me where to go and what to do."

"Sorry. I forget this is all new to you." He said as several more mechs began shooting at them, pinning them down. "Look Shepard, if you help me take down these mechs, I'll play twenty questions with you all day."

"Fine." Callie agreed, gritting her teeth. Turning, she threw out what she thought would be Warp, but the power that shot through her arm nearly brought her to her knees with it's power. That was... unexpected, she thought as the man beside her pulled a mech off it's feet and shot it in the head. Since when could she do something like that without concentrating? What the hell was going on?

Callie shook herself, the sooner you take down those mechs, the sooner you get answers. Recovering from her shock, she sent out a Singularity. It too was stronger than her Warp, doubled in size from what she'd been able to do before and in no time at all, the mechs were destroyed.

"Right." The man said, as he moved to stand near the door opposite the one she'd entered from. "My name is Jacob Taylor. I'm head of security here."

"And where is here? This doesn't look like an Alliance facility."

"It's not. I can't say more about that. Sorry Shepard.. Next question."

"Fine. The last thing I remember was seeing the Normandy get destroyed. What happened to the rest of the crew? Did any of them survive?"