Esone poked his head up over the wall, face covered in door and minor burns. His maniacal smile gleamed brightly as he surveyed the destruction he had wrought, until the looming Reaper wailed. Instantly, his smile wilted.<br/><br/>"Oh, What the frakk."<br/><span style="color: #000000">That is one big baby.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">"DUST THIS BITCH!"</span><br/><br/>As soon as Del Pilar uttered his prayer, the Lieutenant dived back under the barrier. Normandy's heroes opened fire a second after he hit the deck, the barrage searing off a small patch of his buzz-cut.<br/><br/>"Why, oh why didn't I bring  a gun..." The primordial birth cry of the Reaper rose an octave as bullets shredded it's soulsteel form. Shepard's projectiles trailed elemental fury, devouring and ravaging long after impact. 042 unleashed a spray of Jade, a crystalline curtain of bullets that drummed a tattoo into the thing's hide. Del Pilar's attacks were blinding golden eruptions, vaporizing wide swaths with every shot. The Reaper screamed and stumbled back, it's heavy patchwork form collapsing into the bulkhead behind it.<br/><br/>Esone jumped upright, narrowly avoiding being shot. His eyes were wide, his hands clamped desperately over his ears. As the wall of the Collector Base began to groan, the Lieutenant spun on his heel. In the blink of an eye, Esone was dragging Del Pilar, Shepard, and 042 back towards the rest of the Normandy. He had the Commanders each by the scruff of the neck, while 042 had been unceremoniously clotheslined and slung over the arm carrying Del Pilar. Esone would be lucky to get out of this with a dislocated shoulder.<br/><br/>"Time to go. I told you I was going to blow out the back of the ship."<br/><span style="color: #000000">Honestly, I'm surprised the structural integrity lasted for so long after Total Annihilation. Time to Race Vitaris?</span><br/>"Roger."<br/><br/>Something erupted from Esone's flesh, a paradox of blinding light made into wind. The outpour rocketed them forward, covering clicks in seconds. He didn't slow,even when they reached the rest of the crew. Instead, he began to run circles around them.<br/>"C'mon, wegottago wegottago wegottago wegottago wegottago wegottago wegottago"