Okay, this isn't the ending scene I mentioned, but I did like it all the same. I thought the other one was a little too depressing.
The set-up is Liara and Garrus survived the Harbinger's attack and make it into the beam. Garrus has a broken leg and a missing mandible from fighting his way in while Liara has lost a lot of blood and bullet rounds in her arm from when a marauder blindsided her. Also, broken ribs. They are waking up in the Citadel in this scene:
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Liara felt something at her arm, the one that got shot, but the sensation was outside her realm of consciousness, like a nightmare seeping into a dream. Something was being pulled from its very depth then something pushed in that felt like microscopic ants crawling through her bloodstream. Her heart fluttered once, twice, then stopped. Her limbs were heavy and unresponsive. It felt something heavy and comforting laid on her body.
The ache in her ribs dropped away, and even the right side of her face had hushed in its agony. Something thumped her on the chest. There were heated words, a raised voice, and the perception of something being shoved away from her.
Another thump on her chest, and Liara realized she was still alive.
She opened her working eye and gazed around. The piles of human remains around her made her wish she hadn’t.
“Liara, you all right?”
She sat up. “I think so. How odd. I feel better than before we entered the beam.”
Garrus was staring at her. “Yeah, that’s the funny thing.”
“What is it?” Liara looked at Garrus, blinked, and then gaped at the turian’s face.
His missing mandible had healed over and there was an odd prosthetic on it that bore an uncomfortable resemblance to the marauders. Her hand came up to explore the right side of her face. The flesh was foreign feeling and deadened. She couldn’t feel that side of her face.
“Garrus.” She looked at him in horror.
“I know.” He touched his mandible, disbelievingly. He pointed at something over her shoulder. “You can blame it on that thing.”
Liara turned. A Keeper hovered just out of arm’s reach, looking at her curiously with its head tinted to the side. She had never seen one up close, but she thought that there was a strange intelligence in its eyes, almost ancient and sinister all at the same time. It made her nervous.
It ducked its head and skittered a few paces back. There were odd tools in its hands, a syringe of some sort, a scanner, and a couple of things that were unidentifiable to the pair. One looked like a miniature version of the Dragon’s Teeth the Reapers used. Deftly, it took off its pack and carefully laid the tools inside, chittering all the time and keeping its gaze on them. It scampered back even farther, keeping a good distance on them while it plugged into a Keeper’s console.
Liara gazed after it, feeling somewhat uneasy by its constant glances at them.
“You know, this reminds me of the human Hell Shepard was trying to describe to me one time.” Garrus peered around. “I wonder where Kai Leng is.”
“Or the Illusive Man.” The asari shakily pushed herself up.
“He’s not dead yet.”
She helped Garrus up. “He will be.” Liara touched the side of her communication unit. “Shepard, come in? Shepard, are you there?”
Static crackled back.
“Shepard? Shepard?” Liara could hear her voice growing urgent. She couldn’t stop it. “Can you hear me?”
“Maybe she’s in a location where our radios don’t work.” Garrus tried to soothe her, although his eyes looked worried. “We need to get out to a better spot and try again.”
“This place is a nightmare.” Liara looked around the corridor with overhanging cords like the insides of the Citadel. There was a strange, disturbing tinge to everything the lights touched. She couldn’t walk a metre without stepping on what remained of a human, and the smell…
Liara covered her nose and inhaled shallowly with her mouth. She would not wish the experience of smelling the decomposition of hundreds of human corpses on anyone.
“C’mon. Let’s get going.” Garrus pulled ahead of her, and Liara’s eyes automatically gravitated downwards.
“Garrus, your leg…”
He turned around. “I know.” A kind of dull, blue metal reinforced the part where the bone had snapped. “Let’s get Shepard and blow the Reapers to bits.”
Liara nodded and followed after the turian. She ignored the odd Keeper’s lingering gaze on her back and hurried down the corridor.
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I liked this scene because it's wonderfully creepy and was supporting my Keeper conspiracy idea when I was desperately trying to rewrite the ending. There's also the horror of having your teammates start to be huskified that was enthralling to me. Also, EC soon.
Sooooooon >_>
Modifié par Icyflare, 26 juin 2012 - 06:31 .
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