"Commander Shepard! Commander Shepard, can I ask you a few questions," Emily Wong said from outside the elevator for the Citadel Tower. She had a camera man next to her and had a small microphone attached to the front of her blouse.

Shepard responded, "No, sorry Emily, I don't have the time."

At the sight of Ms. Wong's obvious dismay Shepard said, "Tell you what, if things go well today I'll contact you for the interview of your career."

He strode with Legion and Garrus in tow into the elevator and activated it. "You two ready for this," Shepard asked.

Legion responded with a quick 'acknowledged' and Garrus said, "I'm with you Shepard. I'm ready for this."

"Good. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that but we'll see," Shepard said as the elevator slowed to a stop at the top of the Citadel Tower. The team began the short walk up the steps to the Council auditorium.

Once near the top they each checked their weapons and the bags full of heatsinks for problems and, finding none, proceeded to the Master Control platform where the four members of the council were waiting.

"Shepard, what is it this time," the Turian Councilor asked in his customary snide voice. "You better not be wasting our time with more delusional stories about the 'Reapers'," he continued.

Shepard shared a glance with Garrus before responding, "Well councilor, you asked for proof, and I've brought it. Take a look at these schematics." Shepard accessed his Omnitool and transferred the schematics EDI obtained from the Collector base to the terminals of all four councilors.

The four councilors spend a few minutes reviewing the information before Anderson says, "See, proof that the Reapers exist. We have to mobilize the militaries, inform the people!"

The Salarian councilor responds, "This is far from conclusive evidence, Anderson. For all we know these could be falsified, and we have only the words of an asari justicar and a salarian scientist to validate this. Both could be lying as they serve Shepard, and at least one of them could be senile. Hardly sound witnesses." He continued, "I have experience with reading schematics, and I see several warning signs that this information has been tampered with. Shepard is lying."

"What? Shepard brings you proof of the existence of the Reapers and you shrug it off as fake? That is ridiculous, I'm a member of this council and I won't stand for it," Anderson says, his anger clearly showing.

"You go beyond the rights of a Councilor, Anderson, and your history with Shepard makes your judgment suspect," the Asari councilor said in a level voice. She continued, "We recognize that you respect Shepard and that you trust him, but you are allowing your feelings to affect your actions as a Councilor. We cannot act on our own feelings, we must weigh all judgments with the evidence, and Shepard has presented no evidence we can trust."

Shepard and his team watched quietly as these exchanges went on; becoming more and more tense, preparing for what may become necessary.

"No evidence you can trust? He had a Justicar vouch for him councilor, you of all people should know what that means," Anderson said.

"As a member of the Citadel Council I have to let go of my cultural ties in order to make decisions acceptable to my station. I can't allow any one member of my species, no matter their cultural significance for my people, to affect how I behave," the Asari Councilor said.

"That's ridiculous," Anderson said in defeat.

Shepard said quietly to his team, "Plan B."

"Acknowledged," Legion said. With that he leapt across the space between the Council and Shepard's team.

"What the-" was all the Asari Councilor had time to say before Legion knocked her out with a blow to the head. He then fought the remaining councilors until all three were incapacitated. Then he shot each of them in the leg with his pistol.

Shepard tossed Legion a roll of rope from one of their bags which Legion used to tie up the three unconscious councilors.

The shocked spectators finally snapped out of it and began screaming and running for the nearest exits. The tower was empty within five minutes.

After he had tossed the rope to Legion, Shepard went to the balcony on the left of the council chambers and proceeded to climb it. Garrus did the same on the right side. They both hacked the doors on those levels to ensure they couldn't open. Legion crouched behind the Council pedestals, pulling out his Widow in the process. Once all members of the team were in their positions with weapons drawn, they waited.

Before long, sirens could be heard and the elevator at the end of the Citadel Tower could be seen moving from the outside. As soon as the doors opened to reveal a dozen C-Sec agents the first shots were fired. Garrus, Shepard, and Legion shot three men dead with their sniper rifles, and killed the remaining agents before they reached the first set of stairs. This was repeated for the next several minutes with dead C-Sec agents piling up in front of the elevator.

The Normandy had since gone silent and had slipped away from the Citadel Fleet to hide on one of the Arms of the Citadel. But the Normandy was soon to be the least of the Fleets worries.