Love Is A Drug

Love Is A Drug Pt.3

(Warning: A LOT of angst and feels in this chapter.

As the gravity well lowered them down they saw thousands of dead and broken remnant. "What the hell happened here?" Peebee asked as she looked around. "Whatever did happen, we're going to get to the bottom of it." Scott reassured her. As they lowered further down, Ryder noticed something in the corner of his eye, one of the remnant moved, it was still alive. He decided not to worry about it too much. Even if it was still alive, it will die soon.
When they got to the bottom, they saw the resistance come down as well, "What the hell is point of two gravity wells that lead to the same place?" He thought to himself. "They lead to the same place......... Interesting." Jaal said quietly. A bright white light shined all around them, it was so bright they had to cover their eyes. The bright white light quickly became a bright red light. Ryder saw more of the remnant move, then he figured it out, the remnant weren't dead, they were playing dead, somehow they knew that they were coming and so they played dead until they reached the bottom wheir they could ambush them. "Ohhhhhhh Fuck!" He yelled slowly. "IT'S AN AMBUSH EVERYBODY GET TO COVER NOW!!! He Yelled Loud Enough For Everbody To Hear. He managed to snipe out some of them until he was out of bullets. He switched to his assault rifle mostly staying behind cover and using biotics and tech to take them out. Their were thousands of them, nobody dared go out of cover, not even Drack. Before he knew it he was out of bullets on the assault rifle too, so he switched to the last weapon he had that had bullets, and that was his sidewinder, does good damage but is shit from far range without a scope, had he known he would be surrounded by thousands of killer-robots he would have brought one, along with more weapons. He only had two bullets left but they were quickly gone when an observer decided to be an asshole and flank him. "Shit, i'm out bullets guys!" He yelled hoping one of them spare ammo he could use for his guns. "Here!" One of the angara yelled throwing a clip to him. It was for a sniper rifle, he tested it out and to his surprise it worked. "Thank you, I owe you one" He yelled before returning to the fight. It went on for what seemed like hours and they had only gotten half of them. He drew his attention to where he heard a loud crash, only to find three destroyers. "Oh shit, they released the big guns." He said in his head. "You doin alright babe?" he heard Peebee yell. "Im doing fine, everything good on your side?" He asked while bringing down one of the destroyers. "So far so good, keep hanging in there Scott" He didn't plan on dying, not while Peebee needed him alive. "How about you Jaal, are you good?" Scott yelled through gunshots. "I am doing okay for now, but I don't think we can keep this up much longer!" Jaal said as he punched a builder with the butt of his gun. "Just keep pushing, try to take the destroyers out!" He looked at Drack. "Doing okay old man?" "Oh hell yes!!" he said as he crushed a bot with his foot. Another hour passed and the remnant were almost completely gone, problem is another destroyer decided to join the party. His heart completely stopped as he watched it jump right behind Peebee.
It's center started glowing bright red indicating it was about to launch it's missile. Peebee was cornered by two other remnant. Scott ran as fast his legs would carry him to where she was at shooting and killing the two remnant cornering her while he ran.
A second before it shot Scott had pushed Peebee out of the way. The missile hit him taking the destroyer out as well from the proximity of the blast. The last thing Scott saw was Peebee looking confused and angry before everything faded to black. Tears fled down her face as realization slammed into her harder than anything. Scott had pushed her out of the way, taking the blast.
"No...... NO! please no." She sobbed as she ran over to him. Jaal and Drack helped move the pile of metal off of him. "Tempest this is Drack, we need a pick up right now! The Pathfinder is down." Peebee finally managed to get the last hunk of metal off of him.
She gasped and sobbed more violently as she saw him, he was on his stomach the back of his armour was completely burnt through leaving his bare skin,
His back was completely bloodied and raw almost all the skin was gone.
He was still barely breathing they had to hurry or else he was gone, she couldn't even handle the thought of him being gone from her life forever, and this.......this could be a reality. She was Not going to lose him not now, not after everything they've been through together. Drack scooped him up very carefully in his arms and they made their way to the back to the Nomad.