After breathing a sigh of relief at making it through that first ordeal, we turn to see some of those weird ass pod things and oh god there’s a person in that one! We rush over and realize that it’s one of the colonists. I stare at the pod confused for a bit when suddenly the colonist wakes up and starts screaming at me and pounding the inside of her pod and then she melts.
What. in the hell.
I finally take a moment to glance at a pod besides that one and see that the rest of them are filled with the Normandy crew! Ooooh fuck! I finally figure out how to open the damn things (a button on the side?) and we get them all out, even those people that are always just sitting around at the table doing nothing.
Dr. Chakwas is super happy that I’m there to save them from the literal melting pot that they were about to become a part of. We look at all the tubes and decide it’s time to split up again, and also get the crew back to the ship. I send Mordin with them, since I figure they might need a doctor and Chakwas might be all dehydrated and woozy and stuff. I thought about sending Jacob to get him out of my way and to give him something to do, like, here ya go lil’ buddy! But he has angered me too much.
Next I need to take a small team of like, two people through an area filled with swarms and I need a biotic to shield me. I pick Samara, as she’s major badass but not kinda freaky unstable like Jack often is. I take Thane and Grunt with me and send everyone else with Garrus again. I will miss you sweetie!
Samara’s got her big bubble going and tells me she doesn’t know how long she can hold it as she is walking through the area with me in practically slow motion. I am at the very front edge of this bubble going “C’mooooon c’moooooooooon” and she is telling me to hurry. We stop for a moment to kill some collectors and then again to kill some husks but finally make it to another door where we meet up with the other team.
We rush through, and Samara works to close the door while everyone else shoots back the collectors. The doors slam shut and Garrus steps back holding his side.
GARRUS!
I run over and he’s like “HA! GOTCHA!”
The fuck dude! Don’t fucking scare me like that ever a-fucking-gain!
Everybody laughs at Garrus’s hilarious joke and I stomp to a platform to pick my team for the final fight and do some rousing speeching.