I inhaled sharply, my eyes barely open. Ash, wreckage, debris was surrounding me from what I could see. What had happened? I couldn't remember. I was barely conscious. My head hurt. There was a violent ringing in my right ear. My arms felt numb along with my legs. Everything hurt once I could start to feel. My surroundings screamed of war and rage but I could not remember the events that had just occurred. My heart was the only thing I could hear, it was steady.

I started to feel a pain coming from my right arm quickly as I regained consciousness. I took a look at my surroundings. I was in the underneath a rather large of wreckage and debris. As I attempted to move my right hand up to pull myself off of the sharp piece of metal that was poking my back I realized I couldn't, it wasn't until I slowly moved my head only to see my right arm was crushed by a piece of wreckage that went up to my elbow. As quickly as I could with the pain in my neck I looked down and saw my left hand covering a spot on my waist. With a powerful shake only coming from my left hand I lifted it up to see what my hand was covering was a deep and bloody wound that had torn off some of my armor. My armor. I could see to my bicep on my right arm and skin showed until my forearm on my left, it was all torn apart. I looked down at my chest and saw a good portion of my armor from my torso was gone. But one thing was still there. Wrapped around my neck were the dog tags Liara had retrieved for me. My tags. Liara.

'Oh shit'. Everything hit me like a hard smack on the cheek. 'Liara, Joker, Garrus… Anderson. Oh god. The Illusive Man. All of them. Anderson is dead… and that kid! He told me to choose and I did.' I thought quickly as everything rushed back into me. A name quickly past my mind. 'Jack.' I stopped in my tracks. 'Jack, I have to find her, where is she.' Jack and I had been together ever since I 'worked' with Cerberus. In the beginning of our relationship she was skeptical, and didn't want anything to do with me, until one night Jack unexpectedly showed up in my cabin. She told me everything. Everything she felt and wanted. And we just laid in bed together talking that night. I held her as close as possible to me that night and ever since then we've been a perfect pair.

Through the physical and emotional pain I quickly attempted to stand up but merely slid right back down, remembering that my right arm was stuck. "Help! Someone please help me!" I screamed out with fury. "Please!" I yelled out once me. "Please." I whispered to myself.

Realizing my surroundings I found it odd that my back was flat and not crushed on debris. I turned my head as far as I could, red, the flat surface was red. Much like the red on the inside of a Reaper. Oh god. "What the fuck!" I yelled out when I noticed that it was glass from a Reaper. "Someone please help me!"

I grabbed the large piece of metal that had my arm stuck and tried lifting it up with all the strength I had. I put everything I had into it, and it worked. I had lifted the hunk of metal far enough that I slid my arm out. It was all covered in a dark red substance, my own blood. I carefully examined my arm and found a giant naught on my wrist, it was broken.

With everything I had I stood up. It was a bad choice. My entire left leg was numb, probably broken. I screamed out in pain as I grabbed onto a piece of wreckage. Another bad choice. The wreckage I held onto started to shake, I looked around me as everything started to shake, this whole place was going down. I saw a small opening and too my chances, moving sharp and rough pieces of metal as I created a path for myself. I started to run on both feet once I heard the sound of metal starting to hit the ground. I ran, and that's when everything started hurting again. The blood coming from my waist was coming out into my hand that was covering it. I saw a harsh and while light come from a crack in between two large chunks of metal. As fast as I could I ran to it and pushed one of the hulks of metal aside. Too focused on trying to get out I tripped over a piece of debris. Falling onto my face I crawled my way to the light. It was a white bright light, and when I came closer and closer to the beautiful light it seemed to get brighter.

I reached the bight beautiful light, it was the sun. The lower part of my body was still underneath the large amount of metal but I could see. I slowly looked up, the sky. It was an awful dark blue with smoke and rubbish floating around. Buildings were around me, all seemed to be burned, the grey building in front of me was half gone, the wreckage I was in must have been the other half. The only thing was a Reaper was underneath all that wreckage, the Reaper must have died before the building came down.

"Hello!?" I yelled out as I dragged the rest of my body out and slowly stood up only to lean on the building. "Is anyone there?"

Suddenly I remembered the ear piece I had to communicate with Normandy. I quickly pressed a little button on it and pushed it against my ear to hear it better. "Normandy? This is Shepard do you read?" I stopped to listen but only heard a crumbling sound. "Shepard to Normandy do you copy?" I yelled. After listening to static for a few minutes I started shaking with anger, I didn't know how it came over me but suddenly I wanted to hit something. I grabbed the ear piece out of my left ear a slammed it on the concrete ground "Fuck!" I yelled out. It wasn't until the ear piece crashed onto the ground and everything went silent I heard my voice echo throughout the city.

It only took a second before I heard what sounded like a low growl. I looked around me but saw nothing, thinking I was okay I moved and pressed my back against the crumbling building. When my back made contact with the wall I felt it on my skin, putting my hand to my back I realized that a good part of my back was exposed. I sighed as I slammed my fists to my sides. I'm all alone. Or so I thought.

At about the same time my hands hit the wall heard the growl again, but it was closer. I looked around me but still saw nothing. Until a rather large varren popped out of the rubbish I had crawled out of. I cussed to myself as I saw him crouch down and stare at me. "What do you want? Huh?" I yelled out as the creature snarled at me.

'I just stared death in the eyes, I'm not dying from a fucking varren' I thought as I flicked my omni tool open, but nothing happened. I could feel my eyes bugging out of my head as I kept flicking my wrist to get it to work, but it never did. "Shit. Shit. Shit." I whispered under clenched teeth. From behind the large varren two more crawled out that weren't as big as the first one standing next to it. I looked around me for anything to use as a weapon. Next to my foot was a dagger-shaped glass shard, I slowly bent down and picked it up making sure I didn't slit myself with it. I held it out in front of me, "Stay the fuck back." I said sharply. One varren snarled showing his pointy teeth at me. The three of them slowly made their way towards me as I couldn't move at all. "I said back the fuck up!" I yelled out. Before I knew it one varren on the far left ran to me and without thinking I did the same. It jumped onto my torso as I stabbed the glass shard into its chest. As it fell to the ground the larger one had snuck up behind me and pounced on my back, I could feel its claws dragging down my back as it pushed me onto the ground. I feel face first onto the concrete.

A picture of Jack flashed through my mind, the memory of her when she walked into my cabin. Jack's head looking down to the floor of my cabin, her makeup smeared down her cheeks, it looks like she has been crying black tears. I lift her head up placing my hand on her chin and wipe the black tears away gently, her brown eyes staring far beyond mine looking into something deeper than just my eyes. Her hands found their way onto my shoulders in which they slowly trailed up to the back of my neck. She unexpectedly pulled my head down to hers and kissed me, it wasn't rough and fiery like Jack always is it was soft and passionate. I felt everything Jack wanted but couldn't explain to me in that one kiss, every emotion Jack felt was poured into my lips. When the kiss was over I only smiled like an idiot and Jack only made fun of me for it, though she had the same smile planted on her face. My Jack.

"Get off!" I yelled as I swung my arm back and my body. I managed to push the varren off of my back and a few feet away from me but lost the glass shard in the process. Meanwhile the last of the smaller ones pounced on my left leg. I squirmed and quickly tried to kick it off. By now I was screaming and yelling not from anger anymore but from pure pain. I was then again pushed onto my back by the larger varren and stayed there. The varren got onto my back and pinned me down, the only thing I could do now was cry for help.

With the left side of my face pressed against the grown I felt everything start to go black and blurry. 'This is it. I'm going to die.' I thought to myself. By now I accepted the fact, I've been alive for too long, now is as good as ever to go.

My eyes began to flutter shut while the varrens did their work that I could no longer feel. From a distance I thought I could see two bodies, two bodies running, it was too blurry to tell if they were running away or towards me. I narrowed my eyebrows, I still wasn't able to see who or what it was. It wasn't until I shook my head slight I could see well. The two figures were human, the first one looked to be a man and the other a women. They were running towards me.

I swung my arm back and got both of the varrens off of me. I crawled backwards away from the two while watching the larger one getting ready to pounce. The large creature jumped in the air but only came crashing down to the ground, another varren had jumped onto it in midair. I crawled back, "Fuck!" I yelled out as I watched the varren attack. First it pinned down the bigger on and stuck its teeth deep into its neck, it was dead when the varren first touched it. The varren then turned over to the smaller one, fearlessly I watched him use biotics to shock the varren which threw him into the air and came crashing down. I knew that move anywhere.

"Eezo?" I said to the varren, he only trotted up to me like nothing happened and sat in front of me panting, almost looked like he was smiling.

"Eezo who is it?" I heard come from behind me. I was too weak to look back but I could hear loud stomping coming closer to me. It wasn't long until a pair of boots was in front of me, the hand that belonged to the boots put a gentle hand on my shoulder.

"Oh my God. Prangley! It's Shepard!"

'Prangley? Is that Rodriguez? Jacks kids?' I thought but thinking too much was hurting my mind.

The body bent down eye level to me, it was Rodriguez. "Shepard can you hear me?"

I tried to speak but my throat was as dry as the dirt I was spread out on. "Please…help…" I tried leaning my head up but my head felt like it weighted nine-hundred pounds and crashed into the concrete.