Back on the Normandy, I don’t think anyone really wants me to turn this Geth back on.
Which means I’m doing it. Muahahahaha!
I’M COMMANDER SHEPARD! YOU CAN’T STOP ME! I DO WHAT I WANT!
I head down to the AI core which is through the med bay and is also very poorly lit. Some Cerberus guy is standing there guarding the uh…let’s just inactive Geth. I take a moment to look this dude over because I’m pretty sure I don’t remember seeing him on my ship before. Suspicious! Where did you come from? Are you normally supposed to sit at one of these seats upstairs that is always empty? I dismiss you from this post! Go to your seat upstairs!
I activate the Geth and talk to him, naming him Legion with EDI’s help and finding out that the chunk of N7 armor he has is mine. Because even robots love me. We have a nice chat, and I head upstairs to check with Joker on the Reaper IFF installation. And then over to Kelly to see if there’s anything else I gotta do while we wait on that.
She says Legion would like to talk to me.
Wha-
I was just down there.
I go back down the elevator and find Legion needs help destroying some other Geth that are planning to plant a virus in his Geth friends. Geth on Geth violence. Organics keeping ’em down. What have you.
All right, I say. Get your gun, I’ll let Garrus know and go point the ship in the right direction.
Once on board, Legion tells me that he’s found another option instead of just destroying all these Geth. We could reprogram the virus they had planned to use against Legion’s Geth and use against them instead. Apparently this is would be akin to brainwashing but I like to think of it more as releasing an update. Oh did Geth OS 7 drop? Let me check out the new features! I hope it’s less buggy than Geth WE. (Willenium).
I ask Legion what he wants to do and he tells me that I should pick.
No you pick Legion.
No you pick Shepard.
No. You.
No you.
GODDAMMIT. I DON’T WANNA.
We work our way through the ship to find our way to some core or something, as usual. Always working our way towards something we will program or shoot or blow up or all three or some combination of them. Legion and I are hacking geth along the way but usually all the Geth the hacked Geth might’ve shot are dead before they can kill much and then I have to stand there and shoot a couple of Geth that are just holding still.
Finally we get to the place to either blow up the Geth or reprogram them. Legion still wants me to pick so I pick reprogramming. He pushes a few buttons and then says that there’s gonna be a nice pulse right through the ship that’ll kill any organics. In like…3 minutes.
…awesome.
I am upset, but I can feel Garrus’s eyes piercing me from behind. You see Shepard. When you rig things to explode in like 10 seconds and then make us sprint away from it with no warning?
This is how that feels.
I’m sorrrrrryyyyy. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
The worst part is I know we’re gonna get back to the ship and Garrus is gonna tell everyone else about this.
*sigh*
We take off running and fight off a few Geth trying to stop us and make it back to the Normandy in one piece.
Is it time to fight the Collectors yet? Because I am taking a drinking break quick.