With my team back to a reasonable three people, we take cover and fend off the incoming Cerberus troopers. Liara says I’m “gonna need more than guns” to kill these one dudes, but I thought the guns were doing a pretty good job. Finally I begrudgingly have her throw a singularity up there and we finish them off.
I think there was more bitching from Kaidan here? It really started to all blur together and I kinda stopped paying attention to it, honestly.
We work our way through this facility and see some security footage of a chick running around mighty suspiciously. Liara explains that it’s some Dr. Eva someone just got here last week. Yep. Mighty suspicious.
Liara also seems pretty distraught over stuff and I do my best to reassure her. There, there. Uh, we’re not all dead yet? Jeeesh god I suck at this. You wanna shoot things til ya feel better? Let’s do that.
We go through an area with no lights. I cloak and then turn on my flashlight. This…seems ineffective.
We get up to a big turret that we work our way around and disable. I have apparently learned some sweet parkour moves while black out drunk and I can tuckroll with the best of them now. After disabling the turret though, we realize that Cerberus has the tram we need to use locked down. Kaidan, in a surprise twist, gets a brilliant idea. We’ll find one of their helmet communicators and convince them that we’re totally Cerberus guys and – HEY WAIT A MINUTE. WAS THIS A TRICK TO SEE IF I KNEW LIKE CERBERUS LINGO AND SHIT? I SUDDENLY FEEL LIKE THIS WAS A TRICK.
Kaidan finds a communicator but inside the Cerberus dude’s helmet we see his face is totally GROSS. His eyes are glowing and it’s all black and shit like he’s becoming a husk or something. Kaidan asks if that’s what they did to me too. I sigh and just tell him yes this time.
Maybe if I start calling it “CerberTHEM” instead he’ll believe me.
We take the communicator and I call the Cerberus team on the other end of the tram. “Uh hey guys, it’s Delta team. What’s uh…up and stuff? You wanna give us a lift over there? We wanna hang out with you.” This sounds official right?
I half expect the guy to reply with “Who the …we didn’t bring any ladies on this mission did we? Guys, did we bring ladies on this mission? I’m pretty sure it was just us guys.” But instead he totally falls for it and away we go on the unlocked tram.
They wise up to our schemes and try to stop us but we finally get to the Prothean thing we were trying to reach. As we attempt to retrieve our information, I am suddenly greeted by a lovely hologram of The Illusive Man, wanting to chitty chat.
“Shepard, I see you’re shooting all my troops and trying to get this data for yourself. Not what I would’ve done but…”
We argue for a bit about his motives and his desire to control the reapers and make a big ol’ reaper army for himself and give all his troops creepy glowing eyes. I tell him he’s fucking nuts and not to call me anymore, god, it’s annoying.
After hanging up Liara notices that the data is being uploaded and we can’t get it and fuck, it’s happening nearby! It’s that Dr. Eva lady! I start chasing her through the facility and at one point actually get ahead of her for a split second but she’s all nimbly bimbly and I can’t catch her. She gets into a Cerberus shuttle and is about to take off when
DUN DUNNA DUNNNNNN IT’S JAMES!
And oh my god he’s crashing our shuttle into hers. Oh god he’s insane.
Her shuttle goes kablowy and we’re all pretty pleased with this. Suddenly she steps out of it though, body all charred and apparently a robot. Kaidan attacks her but she grabs him and starts just beating the shit out of him. I shoot her a bunch before she can finish the job, but Kaidan is fuuuuuucked up. I throw Kaidan over my shoulder, which is probably great for the punctured lung he probably has, and tell James to grab that robot thing. We all get back on the Normandy and decide what to do next.