A/N Hi guys! This is Casper! I'm graduating in May as an engineer and my semester is exceptionally easy! So I have a lot of time and plan on trying to finish some of the stories I started and stopped while busy in the past few years! If this story gets noticed and people want me to finish it then I will move it to the top of my list!

Disclaimer: I do not, sadly, own any part of Mass Effect. Kat, Iz and my later OC characters I'll mention are mine.

Edit: I put up these stories just to see if people were interested! Now that at least a few are I'm fixing the format of them! When I wrote them they weren't designed to go online! Thanks to all who read these before I fixed them!

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The night was cold, one of the coldest that Kat could remember. She was crouched quietly watching the entrance of Dante's, the most exclusive club in downtown Seattle. The only sound was Kat's even breathing and the occasional crunching underneath her boots when she shifted. She was currently waiting for Rane Crava, gang leader of the Templars. Kat was excited, this was currently her 3rd big time assignment for the Reds, a major player in the gang war in Seattle.

Katherine Shepard, or Kat, and her twin sister Isabelle, or Izzy, joined up with the Reds when they were 8. The Reds took pity on two starving girls wandering the city. Kat and Izzy haven't any clue who their parents are and now they don't care. The Reds are their family now. As soon as Kat and Izzy turned 10, the Reds started asking for them to do minor assignments, tailing people, pick pocketing and serving as distractions. But recently the assignments have been dealing with more prominent people such as the person that Kat was waiting for right now. Izzy was waiting on the backside of the club in case Rane went out the back. Kat was prepared to toss up a biotic throw in case Rane came out the front, this would serve as a message to Iz and Iz was prepared to do the same.

This was the one thing that Kat and Iz kept a secret from the Reds. Biotics were seen as strange and abnormal, essentially alien as it had only been 9 years since the First Contact War with the turians and since then an anti-alien wave swept the planet. Kat and Iz had been taught that the government couldn't help anyone and that's why the Reds were so important. The Reds were just forced to help the people where the government couldn't. As a result, Kat and Iz kept quiet about their biotics from everyone. Their powers first started appearing when they were 8 or so. Kat believes that this is due to the stress of being on the run for stealing and without a place to stay. This was right before the Reds took them in. At first their abilities were about the same. Minor barriers and weak throws. But quickly they discovered that if they didn't practice harnessing their abilities then sometimes they would accidentally do something. Biotics access their powers using something called physical mnemonics, basically certain hand or arm gestures does some sort of power. Not understanding this at first Kat and Iz would inadvertently cause something to happen. After the first few times they decided to practice their abilities, quickly they saw that while Iz had very little issues controlling her powers, they were infinitely less strong then Kat's. Kat had a lot of trouble learning to control her powers but as she progressed, her powers became much stronger and she picked up on a few new things as well.

Kat was brought out of her reminiscing by a group of people yelling as they came out of the bar. Straining her eyes to see if Rane was among them she almost missed Rane walking out the bar behind the large group. He was also wearing different clothes than before so he was obviously hiding something. Checking cautiously around her for people, and after being satisfied that there were none around, Kat threw up a biotic throw as her message to Iz and then she stood up and began to tail Rane. How he got to be the leader of the Templars is beyond Kat because he didn't stop to check for a tail once. Kat's assignment was to follow Rane and discover where he was to be tonight so the Reds could come in and destroy the Templars base once and for all. After about an hour Rane finally stopped at a warehouse only about 5 blocks away from the main hideout used by the Reds. When after a half an hour Rane still hadn't reappeared Kat quickly ran and informed everyone of where Rane was.

As everyone quickly prepared, Stuart, a higher up in the Reds, came and told Kat and Iz that they were to come as well. Within 15 minutes a majority of the Reds started making their way to where Rane was hiding. When they got there Kat and Iz were told to go and find Rane and to tail him should he make a run for it.

Everything was a blur after that. It was the first major fight that Kat and Iz had gotten into but they saw Rane and focused on just him, they quickly followed him into a back room only to have Iz grabbed by a man next to the door.

Rane turned around and said "I've known that you were following me since I left Dante's, I wanted you to lead the Reds here and as pretty as you and your sister are, I'm going to have to kill you both."

Rane grabbed Iz from the other man, held her in front of him and put a gun to her head. Quickly so no one would see Iz opened up her palm and winked at her sister. Seeing that Rina was using one of their emergency signals, Kat took a deep breath and let a minor shockwave out through her palm. The minor shockwave enabled Iz to drop to the ground and roll away just as Kat let out another shockwave that knocked Rane into a wall, took out every window in front of her and threw back every one of Rane's men in the room.

Iz quickly got up to calm Kat down because she was glowing blue and when Kat turned around they saw a majority of the Reds' members at the warehouse staring at them. Kat looked at Iz quickly before turning to their audience and saying "we can explain."