Courtney, Garrus and Wrex made it to Flux, but with less medi-gel than when they left the Normandy. There was no way Courtney could go through a long dull conversation with Anderson without some alcohol. She completely ignored Anderson staring at her and waving for her to sit down and headed straight for the bar. Courtney waved for the volus to take her order now, she was an impatient person.

"Ah... –gasp-… Earth Clan! How may I service you today?" the short stubby volus' head barely was seen over the bar.

"Yeah, I want that blue shit you bartenders always serve me." Courtney just glared at Wrex, she was still mad at his mistake in the elevator. "Garrus, what do you want?"

Just as Garrus was making his order the volus cut him off with a snide attitude, "We don't serve your kind here, turian."

There wasn't a second pause. Garrus immediately snapped. He head-butted the closest person next to him, a female server named Rita. Blood gushed out of her nose as she dropped to the ground like a bag of sand. Garrus took Courtney's drink and smashed it against the bar creating a sharp weapon for himself and put it up to the volus' face. Like a shadow, Courtney was behind Garrus waving her hands behind his head mystically whispering and egging him on, "Yes, Garrus. Let the rage consume you."

The volus was quick to apologize after Garrus made himself perfectly clear he didn't like his attitude. They were all served free alcohol but Garrus demanded "I WANT SOME FREE CREDITS FOR QUASAR! It won't be good business if you have a BROKEN NECK!" until he was satisfied with the volus apology.

Afterwards the three happily walked over to Anderson who completely didn't acknowledge the bar brawl between Garrus and volus. "Shepard, we've got to get you and Shepard to Ilos and stop Saren!" Courtney was happily buzzed and nodding through the conversation. Garrus and Wrex went off to play Quasar. Anderson was mentioning something about a plan he had, she couldn't be bothered will all the details.

Jenna still had the weird shadow broker hostage situation still on her mind. She wanted more information on this and find out who was Pressley's savior? She considered asking the shadow broker for help. Jenna, Kaiden and Pressley were all done shopping for Jenna's personal needs and returned to the ship.

"Joker," Jenna walked into the front next to Joker. She paused for a bit thinking if Joker gets really bad butt-numbness from sitting in that seat for so long. "…Joker, it's time to take off."

"But Commander," Joker began to protest. "We're grounded and the Normandy is completely locked in."

"I don't care, not my problem. –deep voice- DO IT!" and with that Jenna began to leave.

"Commander! Buttney hasn't returned yet either."

"She'll catch up, go now. Go. GO!"

Joker didn't know exactly what to do.

Courtney and her crew were taking their sweet-ass time back to the Normandy.

"I honestly don't understand how you like this place, human." Wrex was going off with one of his complaints again in a grumpy mood. "Every corner we turn someone is asking for our help with simple, needless errands."

"Oh Tyrannosaurs Wrex." Courtney sighed admiringly at his scarred and rough turtle face. "You've been blessed with a simple mind!"

"He's not the only exception to his race, Commander." Garrus gave a taunting look to the krogan.

"You really want to start shit with me turian? I've got more balls than you, literally."

Courtney groaned, "again with the testicles? You two are always comparing each other's balls!"

The testicle conversation abruptly came to an end. A loud explosion was heard in the distance towards where they were heading. In fact it was exactly at the Normandy dock.

"An explosion at the Normandy dock!" exclaimed Garrus.

"…dammit Garrus… fucking Mr. Obvious…" muttered and sighed Courtney.

At the Normandy Jenna just detonated the explosions she set around the dock to free her ship. "Well, looks like we're free to take-off now. Anymore complaints, Joker?" After a discouraged Joker sighed he started the Normandy's engines followed by some banging on the side of the ship which gave Jenna a satisfied look.

Just outside the Normandy Courtney, Garrus and Wrex were banging on the door.

"DAMMIT JENNA! Let us in!" Courtney whined and continued to bang her hand on the door.

From inside Jenna's voice called out "what's the password?"

"I DON'T KNOW!"

"Wrong! Try again!"

"You're gay!"

"Nope, you're gay!"

At this point Wrex got fed up and slammed his entire body into the Normandy's exterior door denting it badly. The Normandy's exterior pressure VI had a lot of complaining because of this act. Jenna gave up and let them in to shut up the VI. The Normandy set out towards Ilos!

Days went by as they traveled to Ilos. Hackett and Anderson complained about Jenna's exit off the Citadel. As usual, Courtney spent her time with Garrus and Wrex harassing Tali whenever she tried to leave her assigned place. Jenna wandered the ship with Kaiden close behind. He enjoyed the abusive relationship, and Jenna felt it convenient to use him. No one is complaining though, it's Kaiden. Liara on the other hand was confining herself in her room and sulking. She made a pass at Courtney whom responded by complaining and moaning on how every lesbian tries to get with her. It completely embarrassed the asari ,so she became a recluse and seethed with jealousy. No one brings her or Tali on missions.

The recent Liara flirting brought terrible memories back to Courtney. "Garrus," she began to stutter in fear of her memories. "Remember when that one asari… she- SHE RAPED ME! Why didn't you help me?"

Wrex included himself into the conversation, "all of her other customers didn't seem to mind the rape." He smiled to himself thinking of the asari consort, Sha'ira.

Looking at Wrex, Courtney was reminded of something else. A fierce memory that brought sadness to her heart she couldn't let go. She looked at Wrex with a sad face and whispered slowly, "Wrex… remember in the ninja turtles when Raphael got beat up and was in a coma in a tub? You remind me of him."

"BAH! That was a terrible movie and I'm not a turtle!" Wrex was so offended he had to go back to the other side of the room and ignored the rest of Courtney's conversations.

Jenna and Kaiden joined Courtney and Garrus once they exited the elevator as Wrex continued to pout in his corner.

"Okay it's serious time, Courtney." Courtney just looked at Jenna in question and didn't like the way this conversation was starting. "Who the fuck am I going to bring as my second? You have Garrus and Wrex and I only have Kaiden."

Courtney didn't understand how this was a problem, "You don't want to bring Pressley?"

"Pressley is a NAVIGATOR! Not a fighter!"

"You were fine with it before…"

"In the Citadel, Pressley was used as a hostage and almost killed because someone made a certain betrayal to the shadow broker."

"It was scary," Kaiden added.

Courtney averted her eyes from Jenna "I can't imagine what that would be about-"

"Yes you do!" Jenna threatened to hit Courtney again if she didn't spill her guts about the shadow broker. After enough yelling and slapping Courtney finally gave in.

"Okay, I may or may have not sent out a new bioweapon plague to a batarian colony in hopes of their ultimate annihilation of their race." Courtney did not share one bit of guilt or shame.

"Courtney" Jenna said in a voice a mother would use in a not-so-angry way. She had a good chuckle over this one.

Garrus returned to the original problem, "Why can't we all just go in together? Instead of teams of threes like every mission we've done."

"Nope," Jenna responded.

"Impossible," Courtney concurred. "Listen just take Liara or Tali-"

"Are you INSANE?" Jenna was completely appalled by that idea. "Just let me use Garrus this once."

"NO!" Courtney began having a panic attack and thrashing around room slapping Garrus several times in the process. "I CAN'T LEAVE HIM!"

"Yeah… I'm taking him, bye." And with Jenna left Courtney alone with her freak out and Garrus.

Jenna, Courtney, Garrus, Wrex, Kaiden and Liara were crammed together in the Mako as it launched from the Normandy and landed violently thrashing everyone around on Ilos. They traveled together in the tank but once they exited they would go into their teams.

Courtney sat with her arms across her chest; she was on a team with Wrex and Liara. Liara stared at her with a hopeful smile the entire ride as Courtney frowned. It also didn't help that Jenna's driving was making everyone pretty sick. Kaiden was getting close and personal to Jenna this mission. Something suspicious must have happened before they landed on Ilos.

"They fucked." Wrex bluntly said staring at Jenna and Kaiden which caused everyone to awkwardly be silent.

Jenna rolled her eyes, stopped the Mako and said, "'Bout that time." This was always her way of saying she wanted people to exit or leave.

Courtney's team was the first to exit the Mako and immediately as they stepped out, Jenna drove the Mako off and ditched them. Courtney's team yelled and chased after them only to be outrun and left in the dust.

"ASSHOLE!" Wrex spat. "Your commander friend can't be trusted."

"Well the Mako is a shit anyways; we'll do better on foot and save our stomachs from vomiting." Courtney felt better already on land but taking one look at Liara's hopeful face made her queasy again. She led her team down the long hallway.

Jenna was still cackling at her recent joke on Courtney. Kaiden joined in the laughter to suck-up and was eventually told to shut up and smacked by Jenna. "You miss your ex-team leader, little Garrus?" Garrus was already used to Jenna's taunting and just made a nod. He was biased and more loyal to Courtney because they were both renegades. Jenna surprisingly was a paragon character. Courtney also gave him more attention of course. As soon as Jenna's group left the Mako and began to fight Geth, Jenna started her "get your fat ass out of my way, Garrus! Stop being fucking useless!" which always got him irritated. Kaiden was treated worse but he was too easy of a target and just enjoyed the yelling.

Being much further than Courtney, Jenna reached the prothean VI much quicker and was fitting the role as the savior of the galaxy much easier than Courtney.

Courtney continued her long walk through the hallway. Wrex complained how his feet hurt. Liara continued to watch Courtney and that just continued to creep Courtney out. "We haven't seen any damn geth to kill!" The krogan's patience grew thinner and thinner. He already had one breakdown with the Saren genophage which Jenna took control of and had to calm him down. Courtney no longer had the patience to deal with another fit from Wrex and would shoot him without hesitation. "What are we even doing here?"

"Looking for the conduit, Wrex," Courtney could hardly contain her irritation.

"Oh Commander," the asari's voice was on the edge of excitement and arousal which was giving Courtney a bile throw-up feeling in her throat. "I'll follow you to the end… you know… if anything goes wrong here." Liara took no notice to Courtney's sighing or mockery noises.

Jenna was already in the Mako again and on their way to the conduit. Kaiden's conscious was getting the better of him, "Shouldn't we turn back and pick up the second group, Commander?"

"I'm sorry, who's the leader?" Jenna paused for someone to answer. "Oh, that's right. ME!"

Garrus finally began speaking to Jenna again, "I agree with Kaiden, we can't leave them-"

Jenna cut off Garrus, "Blah blah blah; that's all I hear from you Pinky." Garrus was losing his temper. Courtney always encourages Garrus to "lose it" when he gets really upset. Jenna pushing his buttons may not be the best idea. He also hated his pink armor a passion. Courtney had it modified from Ashley's old armor. "Just because she was lame enough to die, doesn't mean we should waste good resources," she had told him.

"Commander, I think you need to be more reasonable. Courtney is your frien-"

"Wah, wah, wah; is that what I just heard? Am I correct on this Garrus? I'm sorry I don't speak baby. Did you either wet your pants or need something to eat?"

"No, Commander. What I'm trying to say-"

"You're trying to say you look like a retard in that helmet?"

At this point Garrus finally lost it and began tearing the Mako apart from the inside. He ripped terminals apart, weapons when thrown began to shoot by itself spraying bullets from within the tank, throwing Kaiden into one of the walls when tried to calm down as he yelled something about Kaiden not using his L2 implants when he has a BROKEN NECK. Jenna and Kaiden made it out of the Mako before Garrus got really violent and parts of the Mako began to explode or catch on fire. The explosions and duration of Garrus' violent fit attracted many geth.

Courtney and her team continued to walk and walk and walk. Liara made one last statement about how she admired Courtney and she finally snapped. She got out her rifle and just before she swung it to Liara she heard the geth. Wrex was hot to go into battle and charged forward yelling something about his krogan balls. He seriously has a problem about the testicle talk.

Courtney ran after her team mate and shot geth once at really close range with her sniper rifle in a continuous run and never aiming, because that's how she rolled. A large amount of geth were ahead and had swarmed Jenna's party entirely.

"Jenna, you bitch!" Courtney called out, still running around with Wrex looking like an idiot. Liara stayed behind just eating bullets and being useless like Kaiden.

"Wow, you're slow," Jenna showed no remorse for ditching the other team members. "Garrus fucking lost it while you were gone and attracted this horde of geth. Pressley would have never done that."

"Oh wow," Liara was stunned and amazed and not doing anything at all to help the fight, "is this what you guys do when you leave me and Tali on the ship? I just don't know what to do. I've never been outside the Normandy before."

"DAMMIT JENNA!" Courtney just shot randomly with her gun not even looking at what she was shooting and like a miracle, hitting geth. "This is why we needed to recruit more team members so we can avoid bringing this dumb bitch!"

Liara began to sulk, her heart was broken once more.

Thanks to Jenna, Courtney, Wrex and Garrus the geth were dead. Kaiden and Liara as always were just dead weight. They headed straight into the conduit and landed back on the Citadel.