As well as game version of this conversation hasn't left me satisfied, I decided to write my own.

" No! Don't let them get away," mechanic screamed in nearly blaming tone.

" There's nothing we can do. They're gone," Shepard excused himself.

" Half the colony is in there! They took Egan and Sam and... and Lilith. Do something!"

" I didn't want to end it this way. I did what I could"

" That was a good fight, Shepard," Garrus ascertained weary but satisfied.

" Shepard? Wait, I know that name," mechanic wondered his sudden guess. "Sure, I remember you. You're some type of big alliance hero."

" Commander Shepard, Captain of the Normandy, a first human Spectre. Savior of the Citadel," Ashley appeared from the corner. "You're in the presence of a god, Delan. Back from the dead."

" All the good people we lost, and you get left behind. Figures. Screw this. I'm done with you Alliance types," ungrateful mechanic dumbass walked away.

" I thought you were dead, Shepard. We all did," Ashley came closer to give Shepard a nothing-else-matters-at-this-moment-hug.

After a few moments Shepard broke up the hug feeling that further conversation won't be easy.

" I was dead, Ash. Dead as can be"

" But now you're here and look pretty much alive. What would it mean?" Ash said with a bit of distrust

" Someone and somehow managed to bring me back to this world, cause of some good reasons that are going to destroy this galaxy."

" Now do you really hope it would sound like something convincing? Why you didn't even try to contact me, Shepard?" Ash blew up with a faint notes of fury

" I was dead. Dead. Can you blame me more for this?.. And guess what, when I was given a second life, my first move was to get to Anderson to know where you are, but he didn't tell. Now it's like all the Alliance and Council turned their backs on me. Again. They all are too busy trying to forget what happened to the Citadel and ignore the real threat, while Collectors are ripping our colonies," Commander almost burned out these words with fury and anger that he felt about all those political whores that never really do anything when it's most needed

" So it's true that you are with Cerberus now," she said with distrust and dissapointment in her voice. "As well as Garrus, I guess," She turned her eyes askingly to a fair turian.

" My intelligence does not allow me to tell what I think about you for now. But if you don't trust us after all we have been through, then just get lost, Williams," heart of stern turian was sinking, but his arms folded.

" I would like to believe you, but you two must have forgotten what a horrific experiments they were running back on Binthu and what have they done to Admiral Kahoku and his marines. And it's a least part of Cerberus' activities," Williams said knowing she was right about it all. "You're working with our worst enemies now."

Shepard switched off his to-EDI-transmitter and took a pause to prepare what he was going to say. Then he started.

" They are not worst, Ash. Worst enemies are pretty much ignored by all of your government pricks. And if you too are going to ignore what happened on your eyes back on the Citadel and here on Horizon, not even trying to listen to me and Garrus, so be it. I would like to blow up Cerberus with their narcissus-syndrome leader, but they are our only resource now and we need them to do what we must do no matter what."

Then there was a pause again and everyone was reconsidering what has just been said.

Then, when Ash were willing to turn her back and go away not saying any more word, Shepard suddenly asked.

"Hey, Ash. Remember Virmire?"

Ash turned her eyes on Shepard again, waiting what he would say.

"You still owe me one," sternly said Commander, turned his back and walked away to an oncoming shuttle.