The Mako left the tunnel and raced forward, constantly turning towards the rocks. The loop of the road was surprisingly narrow in this section, and it was only half a kilometer to the other side of the gorge. A scattering of active points quickly appeared on the screen, a tower came to life overhead, and a rocket launcher boomed. The all-terrain vehicle bounced over a pothole, the wheels screeched, the car jerked sharply to the side, and somewhere behind us there was an explosion. The machine gun started firing. A pause, the launch of a rocket, another, an overheating squeak, the sharp voice of a Turian:

"Kayden, to the right! The tank is at the edge of a bend in the road! Shoot him down! To the right!" The car lurched, veering to the right. Garrus guided with short commands until it sounded:

"Now!"

The Mako jerked sharply to the left, slamming into a walking tank that suddenly appeared out of a snowstorm. Geth was thrown aside by the impact, our car shuddered all over, it skidded, Alenko, cursing, leveled off and drove towards the tunnel that appeared ahead. And behind him, the tower rumbled. The tank slid off the edge of the path, which it had so carelessly approached, and disappeared somewhere into the abyss. Kayden slammed on the brakes: a rocket flew in front of the windshield and whistled somewhere in the blizzard. The machine gun started firing.

"Slow down a bit." Garrus's hoarse voice was lost in the roar of the rocket launcher. "That's it, go ahead."

Some of the notes on the screen went out.

"The tower is ahead."

"See." Biotic replied, circling the smoking Geth tank in an arc.

"There are eight marks ahead." I reported when the locators worked out and brought the information. "Two large ones."

The Mako jerked, skidding away from two rockets and a blue pulse that exploded somewhere on the rocks behind us. The machine gun fired in short, stingy bursts: Garrus mowed down the Geth hiding behind the blue hexagons of the force shields as the rocket launcher rolled away. The click of a reload, the hum of a rocket rushing towards the tilted turret and this time completely silenced. The machine gun rattled again... The ROVER burst into the tunnel, knocking down stormtroopers and a massive geth in dark armor, and drove on without stopping while Garrus calmly shot enemies running after the car.

We reached Peak 15, breaking through from tunnel to tunnel. Twice, small avalanches descended behind us like a white veil, caused by Geth missiles. One day, a piece of road collapsed when the blue pulses of a tank stuck into the supports. There was nowhere else to go back to. And we drove only forward until the tower of the laboratory complex floated out of the snow.

We've arrived.

The Mako stopped at the gate, and Garrus spent another twenty minutes shooting at the Geth who were pulling up to us. Until, finally, all the markings on the locator went out. Only we were left outside the research complex. Turning off the rover's engines, we entered the complex, leaving the faithful Mako in front of the hangar gates blocked by the burnt-out ROVER. Somewhere inside this complex we are waiting for the Geth, the monorail to the station "Cleft", the matriarch Benezia and Queen Rachni. And the most important thing. The coordinates of Saren's base on Vermire, which Benezia knew for sure.

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