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The tendril holding him broke off and fell apart. The creature growled and brought the captain lower to where he could not be reached. "Ah. Ah AHHHG." The captained screamed as he was taken down. "Do not try to change what has already begun. But I will not deny you your fates." Throwing Garrus into the air the massive creature seemed to give them a moment to escape.

Palpus managed to slow his decent with his rocket, snagging his helmet once he got the chance. Garrus landed on the ground with a thud. "Let's get out of here."Palpus said. "Agreed." Garrus said getting up. The two quickly made their way out.

The flood in the tunnels were not as aggressive this time for some reason. Garrus and Palpus managed to get up enough to get a radio signal. "Garrus? Garrus is that you?" A voice came over the radio. It was a krogans voice and gunfire could be heard.

"Yes it is. What's wrong?"Garrus asked.

"The ship. The Salvation's engines are coming online the ship is going to take off. We can't stop it. We are under attack from massive amounts of these creatures. If we don't get out of here soon we are dead." The communication starts to go fuzzy as a wet splashing sound is heard after some tearing noises.

"Hello? Hello? Damn it...."Garrus groaned. "So that thing was talking about getting off the planet?"Palpus asked. Garrus nodded. "I think so. Archangel, this Garrus. Do you read?"Garrus asked over the comms. *Vvvvzzzzzt* Yeah, barely th*Vvvvvvzzzzzzzt* Why?"The pilot asked. "Don't let the Salvation leave the planet!"Garrus ordered. "*Vvvvvzzzzt* what?"The pilot asked. "SHOOT DOWN THE SALVATION!"Garrus repeated. "*Vvvvzzzzt* I've got n*Vvvvvzzzzt*ea what you're say*Vvvvvvzzzzzzzt* I'm los*Vvzzzt* your signal, get some wh*Vvvvzzzzzzzzzt*"The pilot said before his signal was lost. "DAMN IT!"Garrus swore angrily. Soon the pair came across the ravine they were at before being taken by the gravemind. Flood corpses had been shoved off the ledge into the ravine, riddled with bullet holes. "Bout time. Where were you two?"Threskgar asked."Threskgar, get down here and get us out of here! HURRY!"Garrus ordered. Within a few moments Threskgar shot himself to the ground with a biotic charge. "Where did you go anyways?"Threskgar asked. "I think we found the leader of those weird parasites."Garrus said. Soon Threskgar had gotten the two back up on the ridge as they headed out of the tunnels.

The Salvation took off the ground. Flying up and getting above the trees it turned to face the sky. The engines flared and any biomass near them burnt off. The ship was still space worthy and with a short range warp drive it would be able to escape to a near by mass relay and go anywhere. Inside flood manned the controls. There were thousands of infection forms and hundreds of carrier forms. The escape pods were filled to the brim with flood ready to be used like bombs. With the ships size it would not be able to be shot down by the Archangel in the time it would take to escape. But he could damage something important. He could destroy most of the escape pods limiting their 'bombing' capabilities. Or he could hit the cargo bay on the lower side. That was filled with roughly sixty percent of the infection forms and twenty five percent of the carrier forms. This would lower their numbers in the primary ship.

Once the trio were above ground again Garrus immediately contacted the Archangel again. "Shoot the Salvation down! NOW!"Garrus ordered. "We can't, we don't have enough fire power to."The pilot replied. "Well then damage it as best as you can!"Garrus said, glancing up at the ship. "Aim for its engines, don't let it get to the mass relay!"Garrus ordered.

As the Salvation exited the planet's atmosphere, the Archangel positioned itself behind the Quarian vessel and opened fire. It missiles flew into the ship, exploding on contact. The engines were hit. Though they were hit, the engines continued to function, with the warpdrive having been disabled from the explosions.

The ships warp drive was shot and damaged. Activating the thrusters the ship went into it;s maximum speed without the warp drive. Flying towards the mass relay it would have roughly ten minutes before it reached it. With any luck some contact could be made to damage the ship. Going at full blast the ship soon existed the system it had been in. The flood inside where numerous and desiring hosts. With it's current trajectory it would reach a human colony world called Karum. Karum was a small dwarf planet but a mineral rich one. It would have several ships and a few thousand people allowing easy prey for the flood.

"We hit it, but it got away."The pilot said. "Alright, well come down here and pick us up."Garrus said. "Also contact that banker's ship."Garrus ordered. "Alright."The pilot said.

The Bankers ship was in orbit by this time after getting some of he panicked transmissions from the others. "What in the world is happening down there. Why is the communication channel in such a frenzy?" A Salarian says getting on comms.

"I dunno. Maybe they just ran into a violent group of natives?"A human suggested, before getting a comm request from the Archangel. "What is it?"The human asked. "We've been requested to ask you to land."The pilot of the Archangel said. "We ready to leave?"the human asked. "Yeah, just pick up your guys. And be quick about it."the pilot said before cutting communications. Soon the Archangel and the Crimson Varren landed allowing their troops onto the respective ships.

On the edge of the system the infected Salvation approached the mining world of Karum. The planet was dark brown and had frequent sand and dust storms but it had massive supplies of raw material. Of course being a back end mining base it had little security and little contact with further colonies. The flood ship would arrive in two minutes.

Soon the Crimson Varren docked in the Archangel's hangar as the Archangel headed off to hunt down the Salvation.

Soon the Polyanthus and the Cromwell came out of the Mass Relay and was quickly approaching Karum to grab fuel before continuing to the unknowingly flood infested world.

The flood infested Salvation was soon entering the little atmosphere of the dwarf planet. The intercom came up. "This is Karum ground control. Please state your intent and you will be directed to a hanger." A mans voice came over the intercom. The flood simply growled at the microphone and continued to fly over the rather large mining base. Hitting buttons next to the escape pods they activated and began dropping. Their were twenty four drop pods in total. Twelve on each side. Each one had a couple dozen fleas and four of five carrier forms. The pods crashed over the facility. Being reinforced the ones that hit windows broke through. One hit the communications tower. Some of the infection forms died but most of them lived. As fires were all over the crash sites alarms where ringing and fire crews went to extinguish the flames. Most of this station was human but there were several Turians and a few Krogan. By the time fire crews arrived flood were escaping and infecting people. The Salvation continued flying soon being past the planet and heading for the mass relay. The Polyanthus and Cromwell would have been landing as the pods dropped out.

Soon the pilot owner of the Cromwell, a trooper known as banshee, exited the ship, followed by his crew, an Asari, a Geth, a set of twins in matching armor, and a Vorcha. "Where is everyone?"one of the twins asked. "I'm sure they're just busy. After all a bunch of escape pdos just crashed onto the planet."His sister replied.

After a mere four minutes of being on the planet the flood had infected the majority of the population. Screams could be heard inside the facility as well as small arms fire. Over at the communication tower the man who contacted the Salvation got on an emergency broadcast on all channels. "Somebody. Anybody help us. We have some kind of parasite. It. It's braking in." Gun fire was heard followed by screaming and the sounds of bones braking, flesh tearing and blood spilling.

"Why would a quarian ship drop escape pods on a colony?"The male twin asked. The female shrugged. "I dunno. Cargo maybe?"She suggested. "Quiet, both of you. Trying to listen to a broadcast I just got."Banshee said.

From inside a hall way a carrier form waddled out towards the crew. It's bulbous body and floppy arms almost made it look funny from a distance but as it approached behind it could be heard scurrying noises. Soon two dozen infection forms leap out to attack the crew. With them several combat forms all infected humans. One of them had a pistol and fired it roughly in their direction.

Banshee immediately opened fire once he saw the carrier form. "Grub, burn 'em."Banshee ordered. The Vorcha ndoded and stepped forward. His omnitool activated and out of it came a jet of flames. It hit several of the infection forms, and spread rapidly killing them off quickly. Grub managed to ignite some of the combat forms as well.