Anderson looked at Shepard, not really standing before him, more, being held before him by her two friends. He grabbed a passing medic saying, "Take care of the Commander."

"Sir." The medic said and turned to Shepard saying,"Alright Commander, where are you... ah the wrist, well I can give you some medigel, to help with the pain, and all the bleeding, but there's not much I can do about a broken wrist, at least not on the field." The medic said to Shepard, as he began to apply a layer of medi gel to her wrist, then she knelt and applied a layer to her torso, where blood was slowly dripping from Shepard's left side.

Shepard winced as she felt pressure being applied to her chest, and tried not to move too much, to let the medic go about his work in
relative peace. 'Well as much peace can be had in the middle of a war.' Shepard thought to herself, nodding her thanks to the medic as he moved off to check on the other injuries. Shepard looked at Anderson and asked, "Sir, what's going on, have we gotten anyone up onto the Citadel yet?"

Shaking his head, Anderson looked out from where the group were hidden from the worst of the fighting. He sighed and said, "Every time we try for the beam, we lose more men. Harbinger itself is blocking our way. If we could somehow entice it away from the beam just long enough for even a small squad to make it on, that might be enough, we've been getting reports that there may still be survivors on the Citadel."

Wrex stomped up just then, he like Grunt, was covered in gore, "We could get you there Shepard." He said and motioned for the clans that were following him to more forwards and start to press towards the beam. As the krogans moved past him, Wrex looked at Shepard and said, "Lets give them a kick in the quad they won't ever forget!"

Grunt looked over his shoulder at Shepard, grinned at her and followed his clan leader, pulling the Graal from his back and reloading before he charged into the fray, bowling three husks over as he smashed into a brute. The two wrestled, rolling over and over on the ground. Soon Grunt was on top of the Brutes back, his shotgun placed against the back of its head. A single pull of the trigger, and he was splattered with the blood and brains of the brute.

The Krogans around and about Grunt were doing equally amazing feats of strength, none of which Shepard saw, as she was carried along towards the beam, and the Citadel. From off to the small group's left, a wailing sound came, and soon a Banshee was slowly walking, floating over the debris, making for Shepard and her party. A loud bang, and its barriers were dropped, then the chatter of an assault rifle, the Banshee staggered, from behind it came reinforcements in the form of Ashley Williams and James Vega. The Banshee turned on them, and unleashed a biotic pulse, that when it hit them drained their shields. It biotically charged to where they were, reached for
Ashley, only to have a N7- Crusader shoved into its open mouth. The blast from the gun, literally shredded the Banshee's lower jaw. "Just go Commander! Don't worry about us!" James shouted to Shepard as she turned, almost as if she were about to go back and help them.

"Come on, Jen, they said they'll be fine." Liara said to Shepard, as she half carried half dragged her along. She knew that Shepard's sense of duty would most likely keep her here, where the fighting was, but that wasn't where she would be of any use at the moment. Garrus just kept Shepard moving towards their objective.

They were soon walking into the light and they all disappeared from the vision of both the ground forces and the people right next to them.
Next moment, they were on the Citadel, in fact they were standing in the Zakeara Wards. The dim lights of fires burning shed some light on the area around them, bodies lying in the streets, and not just the remains of civilians, but also of Reaper forces that must have invaded around the time the Illusive Man had told the Reapers that the Caytalyst for the Cruible was the Citadel.

Shepard slumped in the arms of her friends, so they gently hauled her over to a bench, while Anderson tried to raise anyone who was still alive over his radio. Soon a reply came back, "Ah, shit. hello? Anderson? Admiral its Commander Bailey, with C-Sec. I've got one hell
of a problem on my hands and I hope to hell you've got some good news for me sir." the voice said.

"Bailey! We've got to get the arms of the Citadel open, so Admiral Hackett can dock the Crucible. We used that beam that the Reapers have set up in between the Citadel and London to get aboard. We've ended up in the Zakera Wards, level... 26. We've got Commander Shepard with us, but she's in no great shape to fight."

"We're at C-Sec Headquarters, we could have a shuttle out to you in minutes, but it'll be a dangerous ride for both you and the officer." Bailey said over the radio.

"Negative on the evac, we can make it on foot. We'll keep you posted, Anderson out." He said, and looked back to Shepard and her squad, who were letting her rest. She looked up at him, the fire in her eyes burning with a passion he knew was burning hotter than ever, with the end in sight, he knew he couldn't let her down. Holding out his hand, he took Shepard's left hand, pulled her to her feet, steadied her and said to the three before him, "This is it, this is the final push, and we can finally call it quits. So lets go out there and kick some Reaper ass."

Back on Earth:

Wrex and Grunt surveyed the killing field around the base of the Reaper object, the ground was choked with the corpses of the dead, and dying from both sides. The Allied forces had pulled back a short ways, so they could catch their collective breath before they charged back into the mass of Reaper forces. Wrex had already killed five Brutes by himself, but not to be outdone by the wily Battlemaster, Grunt had taken down his own share of Brutes as well. They patted the other on on the back, and side by side, they went careening down the slope at the head of a Krogan lead charge, backed by the Turians, with Asari Commando's and Human Marines providing a base of fire, for the Krogans to return to when they need a pause in the battle.

As wave after wave of Reaper forces were smashed to pieces by the Allies, the leaders of the Allied races on the ground realized that Harbinger had not moved once, since it had blasted Commander Shepard,some, like Primarch Victus and Wrex, wanted to throw their forces at the inert Reaper, in hopes of taking out the supposed leader of the Reapers. Others such as Major Kirrahe, and several Asari Commando's were against this idea, as they were unsure what damage, if any they could do to the colossal Reaper. Eventually it was agreed upon to let Wrex take a hand picked squad of just under 100, of the best fighters from every species and attack Harbinger, in the hope to, if not destroy, at least keep it occupied long enough for the Reapers to be destroyed.