One year earlier

On an uncharted planet a battle between Batarian pirates and a squad of elite N7 rages in an abandoned ancient ruin which the Batarians hold sacred, pushed forward onto the pinned down squadron. "Oh shit…. Oh shit" yelled one of the soldiers. "We're gonna die, I don't want to die in this shit hole knowing those guys will rape our asses when we are dead." One soldier wearing a blue stripe grabbed hold of the soldier and slapped him silly with a sign of amusement from the others who is watching and holding off the advancing pirates. "Get a hold of yourself Williams or I have to drag you ass back to you hot ass sister who I don't think she would like to know that her own little brother pissed his pants against a bunch of four eye's". "Can it you two and Michael grab hold of your Mantis and not your dick so we can get out of here". The squad leader yelled out irritated that all Michael did was sit back and watch the pirates move on without firing a shot.

"Yes sir, Mr President Sir, I shall hold my Betsy and show you why I'm the best at the N7 sniper school." With a grin Michael aimed down his sights and waited for a second and fired a shot taking down two Batarians right between the four eyes.

"See guys have little patience and faith and I can take these dead fuckers on my own" Yelled Michael with a sense of amusement and arrogance in his voice. As the soldiers was annoyed with Michael's accomplishment they did not notice one Batarian slipped pass them, ready to knife Michael from behind and before the pirate made the killing blow, a pair of hands grabbed the Batarian and slammed him into the floor with a knife in hand and stabbed the pirate right between the eye's. Michael spins around to see a N7 soldier impaling the pirate with multiple stabs to the head.

"Jesus Alan you just saved me from being another sex doll to them sicko's" Michael exclaimed in surprise and a bit embarrassed that he left his guard down for an inferior alien with no combat skills was about to kill the greatest sniper ever!

"If you paid any attention other than having your head up your arse you would have known that you was going to get killed but as always I have to save it so I can finish the job for them" there was hint of anger in his voice because his own brother let a Batarian nearly had the drop on him but also fear because he was close to death. 'Good job I was paying attention as I did'.

"Sir! Why are we here?" Shouted Alan towards their squad leader. "I tell you guys once we deal with these pirates". "Yes Sir" They all shouted and obeyed the order immediately.

The Squad hold back the pirates and with Michael's sniper skills wiped out half of the pirates out. The squad Leader ordered the squad to push the remaining forces back with Alan taking the lead charging with ferocity with his Avenger Rifle in hand and took out the remaining pirate out with Michael taking the glory sniped the last Batarian before Alan can finish it with his signature killing move which was with his bare hands. As the battle finishes the Squad regrouped in the ancient ruins and waited to find out what their mission was.

"Right men" the squad leader said but paused for a moment because Michael was comparing rifles with another N7 soldier and boasting how he killed a Krogan with one shot in the eye. After Michael caught his don't push me stare he stopped and stand at attention and waited for orders.

"As I was saying, our mission here is to find some Intel about Cerberus passing mission reports and funding's to one of their ships. It is not the SR2 Normandy who is captained by Commander Shepard, The Alliance reported this to us as we know but there is another who is researching and doing experiments on alien so we are here and have to find out why." "Wait sir? Why haven't we been told about this at our debriefing and why would it be here? It sounds fishy to me about Cerberus Intel being in this shit hole." replied an N7 soldier who was comparing with Michael. The Leader rolled his eyes and thought for a moment on how to answer the idiot's questions. "Well soldier I may have to put it simple to you. 1. Reason why you guys have no not been briefed about it is because Cerberus has spies within the Alliance and do not ask me why or how because I do not know. 2. Cerberus is too sloppy with the Intel and we had an anonymous tip off that the Intel would be here. So men move out and search for any documents data pads you name it."

"Sir, Yes Sir" obeyed the Soldiers and they moved out searching high and low until they come to a room which made Alan and Michael whistle by looking at all the loot and possibly the Intel they are looking for. "Now this is what you call a gold mine, look at all this it's it's..." Alan was speechless and looked at the data pad. 'This must be the Intel we were tipped off about.'

Project Lazarus – Commander Shepard

Progress have been slow to rebuild and resurrect Commander Shepard but time will tell when the funding's and resources keeps coming in. ML

The project has come to a success and I have forward the results to the Illusive Man, I have recommended on planting a control chip in him but he says that he wants Shepard to be as he is before he died. ML

The Illusive Man wanted Shepard to investigate in the collectors and their involvement with the human abductions but the Illusive Man knows about this but he must have his suspicions correct before he can confirm it. He is also putting another ship together to preform experiments and research on Aliens that may help Humanity's cause against the inevitable Reaper invasion. ML

Alan was reading the data and thinking they already knew of this. Why would they tip the Alliance something they already know then he notice another data pad and he picked it up and read it. 'By God this is the Intel we have been looking for' "Sir I have it" Alan shouted which draws the attention of the squad leader who grabs and reads the Intel that was handed by his fellow solder. He read carefully and his face turned to surprise and disgust at the same time.

"My God, This has everything we need, it has the name of the ship the routes it takes and the planets it has been. Not a surprise they abduct on colonies and not the main cities Like Ilium and them important planets. By god there's more in this chest data pads, star charts and also experiments data. Men we have hit the jackpot."

"Woooo we definitely getting shore leave for this hell I might meet you sister Williams" Said Michael. Williams punched Michael in the chest which winded him and shouted "Fuck You Michael, that's my sister you're talking about".

"Pack it in you two and leave it for the bar fight when we get back" Shouted the leader. "Call in the Evac and tell them we got the data and a little something for the Alliance." He said with a grin, as does his soldiers who was helping their selves to the spoils. As they waited for the shuttle to arrive Alan and Michael was talking about what they plan to do when they get back and what to do with the credits they found,

"I think we should throw a huge celebration party back at the citadel and have lots of booze and maybe hookers and booze and hookers again." exclaimed Michael. "Or we could put together that prank bomb we been eyeing at that citadel shop." Alan said. "Wait better Idea. We use both our hard earned cash which we have gained from the loot we found a little bit of credits from the dead pirates who accidently rolled over and died with bullets in tem and we can throw a party and plant the bomb in the middle with us on the edge sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the view." As they both look at each other thinking out if it would work or not, they smiled "Hell Yeah!" they high fived each other as they entered the transport and started to plan Operation Party Pooper.