'One, Four.'<br/><br/>'Four, One. What did you do this time?'<br/><br/>'Really, boss? Do you have that little faith in me?'<br/><br/>'John, things have a tendency explode around you.'<br/><br/>'Look who's talking.'<br/><br/>'Point. Sitrep.'<br/><br/>'Uh, we went full Michael Bay here, and, well...'<br/><br/>John leaned backwards, barely dodging Harbinger's swipe. The Soulsteel blade scraped across his breastplate, piercing his kinetic barriers and shredding the hardened ceramic plating, tearing into the armormesh beneath. He blink-clicked the warnings away on his HUD. Yes, Lambda, he thought, I know my enviro-sealing is compromised.<br/><br/>Grabbing the blade's blunt end with his free hand, John leaned forward again, ducking another of his partner's wild swings as he drove the N7 Eagle into Harbinger's dripping maw, metal hissing as acidic mucus corroded the weapon's metal parts. He pulled the trigger. The round's explosion knocked the Collector host's insectoid head back, breaking mandibles, vaporizing acidic mucus, and scattering Soulsteel shrapnel. In retaliation, the monster whipped its head back again, headbutting the Solar with the force of a bullet train. His visor cracked, John fell on his back. He rolled to the side as a Soulsteel daiklave lodged halfway into the deck plating and somersaulted backwards onto his feet. Harbinger stood its ground, dueling the Infernal. It couldn't move without opening itself up to Esone's assault.<br/><br/>John drew his shotgun with his free arm. With a static-laden flicker of light, the HUD manifested a second targeting reticle and ammo counter. John opened fire, letting his armor's recoil dampers and Solar-enhanced strength steady his aim. And to nobody's surprise, Harbinger had another trick up its bag of holding. With preternatural speed, it whipped around, keeping one blade on the Infernal and deflecting John's shots with the second. The Force was strong in this one. So was the Essence. Maybe Essence<span style="font-style: italic">was</span>the Force and dammit, John stay focused. One of those rounds detonated inside a wall console. With an almost cartoonish<span style="font-style: italic">bzzt</span>, power to the hangar deck's gravity cut out.<br/><br/>Hopefully, he hadn't shot out the deck's life support, either. Because man, that would be<span style="font-style: italic">really</span>inconvenient.<br/><br/>Shepard sighed. It almost was like she was facepalming right next to him. 'You woke up a boss battle.'<br/><br/>'We woke up a boss battle.'<br/><br/>John activated his mag-boots. Hopefully, his thruster pack still had fuel. Cue the fight music. Things were about to get crazy. Well, crazier.