Mass Effect : Paragon Lost Page #6

Here! This is it!

Essex, Milque-port side! Lets go!

Yeah...! Come on! Who wants some?!

Here...! You like that?!

Paybacks a b*tch, huh?!

Behind us!

vega!

Thanks... Watch it!

Nice shooting... I think youre a naturaI.

Thanks.

Brood! Take out that drive core!

- On it.

- Sorry, I cant let you do that.

Buh-bye...

Dammit...!

Woo! Rise and shine, Doc!

This is the moment you dont want to miss!

From the sound of things, your colonys

just been reduced to a pile of ashes.

You made quite a mess down there,

and Collectors arent too big on evidence.

But hey, you fought the

good fight-right, Doc?

These guys usually dont face

much resistance. Dontt beat yourself up.

Youve been working for them...

How could you do this?

Ive saved more

than Ivve sacrificed, Doctor.

If you werent so hung up on

petty details, youdd realize that.

How dare you...?! Those are

innocent lives you destroyed, Messner!

They were your own people!

Look, everything Ive done has been

in pursuit of Cerberus goals...

After we figured out the Collectors were

the ones making off with the colonists,

I got in touch, I lured them out with a colony

that would be easy pickings, and voila.

That artifact among the ruins...

The one that jammed our

long-range communications...

You put that there!

You were summoning them!

But to what end?

What was Cerberus thinking?!

Frankly, that we might

learn something-and we have.

Guilt-trip me all you want, Ive gathered

data on their ships and weapons,

ascertained their strengths and weaknesses-

hell, I even know about their home base,

out beyond Omega Four relay...

Just think of all the knowledge!

Dont tell me that doesntt excite you!

All it does is sicken me!

None of that is worth the cost!

Gotta wonder, though...

Why are they juicing us...?

Theyre not using that DNA slurry

for food, I can tell you that much.

Tell you what... Im gonna let you

put that brain of yours to use, Doc.

Ive got a puzzle that needs solving,

and yourre just the asari for the job...

Figure it out fast enough, and you might

be able to save some colonists, hm?

And after I do... What then?

You paralyze me and pack me away?

Hey, Im just giving you a chance to

do something important with your life!

And as youre about to

find out... Imm not asking.

No! Let go of me! You wont

get away with this! vega! vega!

Oye! Feo!

Sweet dreams, a**hole.

Brood...? Brood!

vega...?

Im here.

Here... Take my power cell. Youll need it...

And what about you, big man?

Im finished. But maybe you can

still use it to fight your way out.

You freed me from that cage,

vega, and gave me the chance

to die with honor in battle,

the way a krogan should...

For that... I owe you a

debt I can never repay...

vaya con Dios, hermano.

So-no biotics... no guns...

AII Ive got is my

knife and a couple of grenades.

Same here. Were pretty

much dead in the water, huh?

Not quite. Brood gave me a

power cell for you, Essex...

Better yet... Weve still got the antidote, too.

Wait-but we never took it.

So why didnt we stay

paralyzed like the others?

Cmon, man... Why you

think our last drink tasted like sh*t?

You mean you just spiked

it without telling us?!

Seemed like a pretty smart move at the time.

Great... So whats our move now?

Free the colonists... and get the hell out.

Hm.

You, uh... really think its

going to be that easy?

No, no, but I think we can get the Collectors

processing system to do most of the work.

And how we gonna do that?!

They run the pods through here

on this conveyor line, right?

So what do you wanna bets on the other end?

The holding area we saw when we flew in...!

Right. So Ill rig

the antidote to disperse

and send the pod back down the line.

You guys get started on the people in here.

Smells even

worse than it tastes!

Here we go...

Pods away. Cross your fingers.

Hey, vega... So once

we wake everyone up...

Were already off planet...

How do we get off this ship?

April...

Earth to vega-you listening, man?!

I hear you, Milque.

Give me a sec... I just found April.

Tch...

Hey, soldier, youre gonna be alright.

Just one more thing I need

to do and then Ill be back.

Alright! Milque! Essex!

Time to move-lets go!

We need to get our hands on Messner.

This is Prothean technology, right?

Some kind of telepathic data repository?

I dont know what itss doing on a

Collector ship, but I want to find out.

I wouldnt have dragged you down

here except that, well, you see,

it doesnt seem to interact with

human minds all that well...

I threw some "volunteers" at it, just to be

safe, and it fried their cerebraI cortices.

But Doc, youre a whole

different breed of guinea pig...

Yeah... Youll do it willingly.

Cause maybe itlll tell you what

happened to your Protheans,

and maybe that information

helps you save some lives.

Cmon. You know you wanna.

You will submit.

You will ascend.

And you will serve.

Whatd you see?!

Liara TSoni... She was right all along

about the fate of the Protheans.

Fifty thousand years ago,

the Reapers wiped them out.

Why do the Collectors have this thing?

They are the Protheans...

remade by the Reapers to serve them.

I need to know why Collectors

are taking human colonies!

Ask it yourself!

Once I get this last piece of the puzzle,

Ill know all their secrets! I will own them!

- Do it again! And this time,

tell me everything! - No!

Theyre building Reapers... out of...

...our DNA.

Let me get this straight.

We swoop in, kick Messners ass,

grab Treeya, and bolt-thats the plan?

And one more thing: the intel

Messner has on the Collectors

will help Alliance Command

protect hundreds of colonies-

thousands, maybe millions of lives.

We bring it back, whatever it takes.

Takin a page from Shepardss book, huh?

Save the girI, save the galaxy,

go home heroes. That about right?

Maybe... But right now, Ill settle

for just getting us all home.

Ive done what you asked,

now let me go, this instant-

Ah, shut up.

Hah!

It recorded! Yes! Now I

have everything I need!

Take your hands off me!

Im on your side!

Why arent they attacking?

Itss like theyrrre not even looking for us.

Far as they know, were already juiced.

Probably never had anyone escape before.

Thatll change in a hurry

once the all colonists start waking up.

We need to get em outta here.

Yeah, and I think we might just

be in luck. Say, Milque. Youre up.

I am?! For what?!

Remind me... You started in

the pilots program, right?

Think I remember hearing that once.

Yeahhh...? And I got kicked out,

cause I couldntt fly for sh*t.

Whatre y-oh, f*** that!

Guess youre just gonna have to

learn in a hurry, arentt ya? Hop on.

Weve still got a fix

on Treeyass omni-tooI.

Thats where me and Essex are headed.

You get this bucket in the air

and come pick us up. Got it?

Okay, but dont complain if Imm late!

Just be there.

Sure, guys... but if I actually pull this off,

this time, free drinks for life

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