A/N: So here's my first true SI. I had this scene in my head so I had to write it down. This story will update periodically along with the rest of the other's I'm writing. However this is the prologue so I should have the actual first chapter up in a few days.
Prologue: Tragedy
That was one of the few thing Bioware never got right. Watching Saren's flesh melt off his body as Sovereign took over his corpse is perhaps the single most disturbing thing I have ever seen. I looked over, Ashley and Liara were both pale, Wrex looked absolutely pissed, and Shepard had a grim look on her face.
"Get to cover!" Shepard yelled and we all dove.
I posted up next to a planter. One look at Saren's movement's told me that the Judge would be useless here. Like the Geth hoppers, Saren was just too fast for the mini turret to track properly. Instead I choose to look over my squad mates. As their shields dropped I used my omni-tool and gave them a boost.
I watched as Ashley took a particularly bad hit causing her shields to completely drop to zero. Saren, or rather Sovereign, saw his chance. He opened his mouth and I struggled to get my tool to recharge.
Just as Saren fired his main weapon from his mouth I watched in horror as Tali shoved Ashley out of the way.
"NO!" I was up and running before I even knew what was happening. Tali's shields had been near full strength when she got hit, but not even they could stop all that energy.
I slid down just in time to catch the little Quarian before she hit the ground. Spinning I stood up with her in my arms before anyone else could react. I ran over to a small alcove in the chamber.
"Liara I need you!" I screamed into my microphone.
"I'm on my way!"
I pulled up my omni-tool and quickly hacked into Tali's suit system's. What I saw practically made my heart stop. She was still alive, but just barely. Tali had second and third degree burns all across her chest and her suit was punctured in half a dozen different spots.
"Goddess." Liara said looking over my shoulder.
I didn't know what to do. I froze.
"Marcus."
"MARCUS!" I snapped out of it. Liara was shaking me. "Focus Marcus. Tali needs you now."
"Liara I don't know what to do. I'm an engineer for God's sake not a doctor."
"Then be an engineer! What do you need to do?"
I looked down and tried to ignore Tali's dropping vitals. "Joker! Get me a direct line to Chakwas."
"I'm a little busy at the moment."
"JOKER TALI'S BEEN HIT! NOW DO IT."
"Right."
"Marcus what's wrong?" Chakwas's face appeared in front of me.
"Tali's hit bad. I need help." I said desperately.
A brief look of concern flashed across her face before it was replaced with cold professionalism. "Send me what you have."
I forwarded her the scan from my omni-tool and waited.
"First thing I need you to do is inject as much medigel as you can directly into her blood stream." I raced to obey Karin as fast as I could. "Then put some in and around the punctures to her suit and make sure you get it in good. Now Tali should have a canister of disinfective spray somewhere on her person find it."
"Liara find the spray." I said. Meanwhile Shepard and the others continued to fight for their lives in another matter.
"I've got it!" Liara exclaimed.
"Good now spray around each puncture sight and then use omni-gel to form an air tight barrier."
As soon as Liara had finished with the spray I fired up my micro fabricator only to find out I was out of omni-gel "Shit!" I quickly grabbed my gun and melted it down and used it to seal up Tali's suit.
"Now what?" I asked. Tali's vitals were still low and her heart rate was slowing.
"Now you need to inject her with some anti-biotics there should be a port on her thigh that you can use."
"Okay." I fumbled around in my friends pockets as quickly as I could and found a couple of vials. "Are these it?"
"Yes two should do it." I quickly uncapped two of the vials and pushed them home into Tali's leg. She was going to be hurting when she woke up. I sat there watching as Tali struggled to survive. My heart was pounding in my chest. Suddenly her breathing stopped.
"Doctor!"
"Marcus her suit should have a built in adrenalin supplement in the even of cardiac arrest."
"Doctor her suit's so scrambled I don't know if that's going to work!"
"Then do the old fashioned way!" Karin screamed.
I looked over at Tali's helmet with out a second though I grabbed her visor and puled it off. I saw her face for the first time. She was so young. In a few years she would be beautiful. I could already see it. She seemed so peaceful, like she was sleeping. I pulled off my helmet and while a battle that would determine the fate of the galaxy raged around us. I kissed Tali'Zorah for the first time.
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