Author's notes:

Well my friends I'm Back I know, I know I keep promising continuous updates and that they come sooner but with school and all these new games coming out I've had little time to write you guyies understand right!

No, alright look I'm gonna try my damnedest to get next chapter out quick and have it longer than this. I love this story and I want everybody who reads it to know that I will not give up on it. And for the people who review, follow and read my little story I love you guyies and I only wish you the best just know that I am taking everything you say into consideration:)

Now without further ado enjoy!

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Chapter 3(prelude)

Armali City, Thessia

Lower city

Benezia was tired, no that was too basic to describe her raw lack of energy. It was as if the Goddess her self had sucked all the life out of her with a straw. For the last few months they had been relocating from house to house all over Armali. Each one more disgusting than the last. The Matriarch's claimed that it was important that they didn't draw too much attention to themselves until they were in a more 'secure area'. Benezia scoffed at that idea, they were on Thessia for goddess sake, who'd try to attack them here. And besides if they really were in that much danger is anywhere truly safe. No, Benezia was sure that the Matriarch's just wanted to put them through the hoops and show them that they were in control. Benezia rolled her eyes, as if they didn't know that already. She looked into the little bundle of joy in her arms as it squirmed around, a ignorant smile tugging it's lips. Benezia was holding Athos this time, her and Aethyta deciding to switch every once and a while. She just loved to look at him, for being the first male Asari he looked a lot like Liara, just a little bulkier and he did have a fatter face. But the biggest difference was the light tints of red that were still all over his body, the doctors said that his skin will eventually turn blue, but why it was red in the first place was anybody's guess. She looked at him, there was so much she wanted to know about him, she still couldn't believe he was hers. She couldn't wait to see him grow up and see whose personality he would take on, how he'd think, how he act. Would he be a good person or would he be a hot tempered asshole like his father. She grinned at that and looked up her eye's locking on to the form of an Asari who sat across from her on some rotten couch that she didn't think ever deserved to be called furniture. In fact she wondered why in all the places in Armali, did the Matriarchs think this place was okay enough to live in. She'd bet her life the slums of omega where more clean than this place. When the Matriarchs told them they'd be some of the most powerful people in the galaxy she didn't imagine living in a garbage dump as part of the job description. It was even worst that they had to wait for there contact to pick them up. They had done it before but this time it was taking for ever. She looked at the clock on her omni-tool and frowned. 'Three hours, by the goddess how long are they gonna take.' She looked around the filthy room, there wasn't enough words in the dictionary to describe her disgust. Goddess was she bored. Maybe anxious was more like it, she just wished those damn contacts would hurry up. 'What the...is that a moonlight lily growing from the floor." Benezia shifted in her seat, she needed something else to focus on before she ended cleaning up this whole damn apartment. The low-lighting of the place didn't help her now active imagination from wondering what horrible disgusting abomination lived here before them. She probably didn't want to know.

"I don't think I've ever seen you think so hard." Aethyta looked up with a sour smirk, slightly annoyed at Benezia's childish demanor.

"Ha, very funny. I was just thinking about some things." Benezia, shifted in her seat again, trying to stifle the growing boredom and anxiety she felt.

"What 'things'." Aethyta frowned, she began to shift in her chair too, a sign that she was a little bored too or more likely she was just tired of her inquiring. She moved Liara,who was snugly placed in her arm, a little closer to her chest.

"Just things." Benezia sighed obnoxiously, shifting in her seat even more. Falling in to old habits and trying to avoid her irritation Benezia began to sing her favorite lullaby, much to Athos enjoyment. She looked at his little face as it lit up with each note she sung, he began to sway and move with the song growing very hyper active as she continued.

"You have a lovely voice." Benezia sprung up her hand reaching for her Acolyte pistol at her waste. Aethyta was quicker, her predator already in her right hand pointed at the intruder, Liara snugly placed in her left arm.

"Wow, this is what I get for giving out compliments!"

"Telara! Where the hell did you come from?!" The asari in question merely grinned her expression flushed with calm and a bit of playfulness, even with two pistols in her face.

"Calm down, Aethyta. I came from the back or did you two forget there's a back door." Telara rolled her eyes, "I should have known you two would be lost in your own little worlds with your children. Somebody could have walked in here and killed both of you with little resistance." Aethyta just scoffed at that and sat back down, her pistol lied down in front of her. Benezia holstered her gun and then gave Aethyta Athos. After that she made her way to the luggage, it lied on top of the dining room table, if you could call the little kitchen/dining room/living room a dining room.

"It's about damn time you got here, what took you so long." They didn't have much, after moving so many times, they found that there was only so many things that they wanted to carry with them. Things they considered priceless or irreplaceable they kept, everything else they'd just buy again. And when your practically given a blank check, well there wasn't that many limits to what you could buy.

"Air traffic was heavy this time of day. Oh and there was the whole trying to move around undetected thing too." Benezia sighed and moved the luggage to the door, as she did that Aethyta worked to get Athos and Liara settled into two mobile cradles. The cradles were mass-effect powered, so they allowed for them to work like air-cars, capable of ferrying small children around. Cradles such as these were the perks of living on such an eezo rich world. In fact most thing's on Thessia either used eezo or had some relation to it and because of that there was all kinds of crazy inventions. Benezia's personal favorite being the mass-effect power massage chair. A bottle of Thessian temple and a hour in that chair and her problems would melt away. Well at least until she got up.

"That's another thing I wanted to talk about. Why the hell are we even moving so much? And why is it that every place we move to looks like a Vorcha den ?" Aethyta turned around and grinned as if she was about to add a obnoxious remark to the conversation when the dimly lilted room was lit up by orange bathes of luminescent light that flooded from Telara's omni-tool.

" What the hell...no that can't be right."Telara furiously typed away at her omni-tool.

"What is it, have the matriarch's decided to finally get off there collective asses and do something for a change." Telara glanced up at Aethyta, a slight frown tugging her mouth,

"You do realize that your not a matriarch yet, Aethyta?" Aethyta merely scoffed as Telara continued her ferocious typing. Aethyta pushed the children's cradles towards Benezia, as Telara abruptly stopped her typing, and looked around pistols drawn. Benezia turned towards Telara her hand around her own weapon.

"What is it Telara. Is somebody here." Telara said nothing but motioned them to be quiet as she moved closer to the front door, then after a brief scan of the other side she vanished altogether. Benezia glanced at Aethyta, who in return gave a dumbfounded shrug. Benezia lowered her weapon a bit a began to step towards the door when a racket of gunfire erupted from outside. Both women raised their weapons at the door and backed away from the door as they did this a sharp scream emerged from outside.

"Telara!" Silence...Aethyta was about to shout again when Benezia covered her mouth. She could hear someone talking outside, she could hear them but she could make out the conversation, she tried to focus harder, but then they heard it, a low whistling noise that began to make the room vibrate, it began to get louder and louder-'was it getting closer'- Benezia thought. Aethyta must of realized what it was because she began to run towards her and the kids screaming something she didn't catch. By the time Benezia realized what it was she was on her back and the front wall was gone, their measly apartment open to the whole world.

Armali City, Thessia

Upper city limits

The Krogan glanced around the city, he been all over the galaxy, from the citadel to Omega and there still wasn't anywhere else in the galaxy that brings him to peace more than Armali city. Even through all the stares and glances he got he still could find joy here, and the best part is he is less likely to run into anybody stupid enough to fight him here. He glanced around the apartment room he was given, it was probably the best room he ever had considering he didn't really care for such niceties. But is employer insisted, claimed that on Thessia he should be treated like royalty. He scoffed at that as he continued to look at the magnificent view he had from the balcony. He could see hundreds of air cars buzzing and flowing about and for a while he just listened to the sounds of the city,the peace, the very sounds of urban nature. Strangely it reminded him of his youth, how long ago that was and of a time when the Tuchunka was more than just a dying ball of dirt. He shook his head no point in dwelling on that he was done helping a people who didn't even want to help themselves. He was here for a contract, and then he'd move on, he felt a bit of discomfort with the thought of having to leave but hey all good things only last so long.

"Urdnot Wrex I presume." Wrex slowly turned to the source of this new comer until he faced her, an Asari in a gray cloak that covered her body, but of course like most Asari attire it was form fitting and revealed only a little to draw your attention, but Wrex figured by the way she moved and her facial expression or the lack of one that she was here for more than to flirt. This was his contact.

"That's me, and you must be my contact." The Asari nodded and took the Balcony railing next to him. Wrex continued to look at the his contact analyzing her, most people tried to keep they're distant out of fear or simple distrust but her she just stood next to him as if he was one of her subordinates. He even had his Helmet on its red optics unfaltering in its glare towards the contact. She didn't seem intimidated at all.

"Do you like the view? My employer paid quite the sum for this room." He also noticed how he could see her face only a little and every time he'd try to get a better look she'd look away or turn her head slightly out of view.

"Hmm, I've seen better rooms than this, I don't know if I want to work for somebody so cheap." Wrex knew he was lying, she knew he was lying and if not he could tell she knew his game anyway.

"I'm sorry this room displeases you but it was the best we could allocate for you at such a short notice it was already a hassle to 'vacate' the residents that lived here before. But in truth this room wasn't given to you for your convenience, it involves your mission." Wrex was intrigued now, this contact was as sharp as she was mysterious. This was getting more and more interesting. The contact looked out the balcony and pointed out into the distance.

" Do you see that building, in front of us, the tall one." Wrex looked at where she pointed, it was a large building not as nice as the one they were in but it beats anything on Tuchunka. It looked pretty much like any other intercity building in this city, it showed a few signs of wear tear here and there on the left side and a few construction scaffoldings placed around the right side, but other than that he could find any thing that popped out. "In that building lies your targets, you are to retrieve and protect Benezia T'soni and her children, any one else is considered expendable." Wrex nodded as he began to move towards his equipment. He couldn't believe what he was hearing, he was called all the way from Omega to Thessia to protect some Asari and her children this was probably going to be his easiest job yet. Wrex rummaged through his equipment he figured he wouldn't need much, a shotgun, a pistol, couple of grenades and maybe some weapon mods, and he was ready. He continued to look for these items sorting them from his chest full of weapons and items he's garnered from his travels.

"Got any more details for me before I go in" Wrex continued to search his equipment until he found the last mod he wanted and placed it in it's holding place in his armor, near his waist. He attached his weapons into there correct places as well. Then he proceeded to walk back to the balcony where the contact remained.

"All relevant information has been uploaded to your omni-tool. As well as the initial payment you've requested." Wrex was glad that he had his helmet to hide his dumbfounded expression. Only one of his clients have ever payed his 'initial fee' most would complain and threaten to find someone else. This was interesting, this Asari women must be important to them to pay so much. He looked at his account with his omni-tool to make sure this wasn't a joke.

"I can ensure you that everything is there." Wrex glanced at her then his omni-tool then back. Wrex just scoffed.

"You know I never got your name." The contact this time looked at Wrex directly and she wasn't hiding a single feature of her face as she grinned at him. She seemed ready to talk when they heard the sound of something whizzing by. Wrex looked out the balcony and saw a single black A-16 Mantis gunship speed past their building. Wrex had seen that kind of gunship before, no insignia, or symbols, just black paint and a couple of M350 mass-accelerator auto-cannons. 'The Consortium what the hell are they doing here?'

"Names aren't important, the only thing that matters now is your mission." She then pointed again to the apartment across from them, the same place the gunship was speeding towards. Wrex cursed under his breath, he had to move and he had to do it now. He scanned his surroundings his options were severely limited, he could of course call for an air car but that would take to long, commandeer one, even longer. Nope that left only one option, it was probably the most dangerous, but it was the quickest too. He peered over the railing and looked downed. They were on the 36 floor of a 63 story building. He watched the traffic of the air cars that passed, he studied their speed and acceleration, if he was going to do this he had to be precise because if he missed well, it was a long way down.

"What are you planning?" Wrex merely grinned at the contact. "How to do my Job." He then saw his opening and jumped.

Armali City, Thessia

Lower City

'Okay Surri you can do this, you can do this. You can do this.'

"Mrs. T'vae I take it your finished with your test?" The Asari in question, a young Maiden barely a century old nodded as she handed her paper. Paper how archaic, the school claims it's to prevent cheating, but Surri was pretty sure there was another reason. "Alright lets see what you got." The professor a woman whom by her demeanor and the way she carried herself, seemed to be at least in her Matron stage if not her Matriarch stage. She was a pretty woman, although she has a few scars that says she wasn't always in a classroom giving lectures. After a few minutes of going over her paper, she looked up. By the way of her expression, Surri knew what she was going to say. "Surri I'm sorry..." Surri let out a quick unintelligible excuse, the only thing she could even manage to say at this point and left.

She couldn't believe that she failed again, this was her second time she took that damn test. She was tired, she didn't have the energy to take it again. Her entire family was counting on her to get her degree, to get a good job and pay off the insane debt their father owns the consortium. Capitalistic bastards, a collection of asari and volus run companies that like most multi-billion credit companies only care about money. But the worst part is that with all their pool resources they have a large network of pirates, mercenaries and all around thugs on their payrolls. Making anyone and everyone who either owns them or who ever has crossed them a slave or a dead man. She needs to just get away from all this. She made her way to her aircar avoiding every one who tried to stop her for a conversation. As she made it to her aircar her omni-tool lit up displaying she had a incoming call from her best friend. She could already see how the conversation was going to be and she didn't feel like going through it now, she immediately declined it and got inside her car. It was a blue and black X3M, it was a older model but it ran well, all thanks to her tinkering, she always was good with machines. She started the aircar up and ran it through it's paces. Once she was sure it wasn't going to break down mid flight, she took off.

Wrex would never admit to this but at this moment he was a little nervous. He could hear the air scream past him as he fell, he had only been falling for a few seconds but he felt as if he'd been falling for ever. He looked at his target, a blue and black aircar that appeared to have seen better days. He was coming in a little to fast, it was time to deploy his 'counter measures'. A small armor mod, he bought a while back, its primary function was simply put to slow down the user in a falling situation and help them land, it was by no means a method of flight, and as the vendor who was selling it told him it wasn't even tested on krogan.

So he still could fall to his death.

But at this point he had no choice but to try. Wrex pressed a single button on his omni-tool and four small thrusters on his boots ignited slowing his fall. The thrusters lasted for only a few seconds but it was all that he need to safely land on the aircar.

He immediately pulled up his omni-tool, he had another treat he bought from that same vendor, if Wrex could remember correctly he had called it a control V.I. It was design by some black market engineer to hack the low level systems such as aircars and terminals and take control of them. He activated the program with another button on his omni-tool. And in a instance he had control of the car. He directed the car towards the apartment, with a few inputs from his omni-tool. Wrex smiled, this was too easy. Wrex's smile faded as he heard the all to familiar sounds of gunfire. Wrex furiously typed at his omni-tool and made the aircar move faster towards the apartment. He could see the gunship now, it was definitely a consortium gunship. It was in the process of the revving its machine gun preparing to attack a apartment room. That must be the room that his clients were in, he had to act fast.

'But why the hell is the consortium attacking them?!' No time to ponder that now though it was time for action. So Wrex did the one the could think of that could work, the use of brash and unorthodox action, the best kind in Wrex's mind. He gave the command to the V.I, and prepared himself as the aircar was on a crash course for the gunship.

Living in the worst part of Armali city for a hundred years you end up seeing a lot things, sometimes you'd see things you'd prefer to never see but other times you'll see things you'd think you could live without seeing. But Surri never expected to see this. A Krogan in fulled armor just landed on her aircar, now he was doing something with his omni-tool. She didn't know where he had come from or what he was doing but she didn't care, she had more important things to worry about than some Krogan, she began to try and knock him off but found that her wheel was locked, she had some how lost control.

She looked at the Krogan and then it hit her, he took control from her. 'That bastard how the hell did he do that?" Krogan aren't well know for their hacking skills, well there's more than one way to kill a varren. She began to reach for her pistol when she heard a alarm go off. She immediately looked at the navigation computer it said they were heading straight for Varis Towers Apartment, it wasn't the best apartments but it was still more than she could afford. She always dreamed about being able to have her own little apartment there every time she passed it on her way to school.

'What the hell is going on here?' It was one thing to take her aircar, but it was another to take it with her in it. She picked up her pistol and examined it make sure it was still functional. It wasn't much to look at honestly, it was a rusted predator pistol, it had a few 'modification' if you could even call it that, it's really just a shell of a predator pistol jury rigged with a thousand scrap pieces. She readied and aimed it at the Krogan, she was about to fire when the nav computer began to blare yet again, louder and even more intense.

"ERROR, DIRECT COLLISION COURSE INPUTED, ABORT, ABORT!" Surri dropped her pistol and began to type furiously on her omni-tool. This krogan is crazy. She had to get control back now before it's too late. Then that's when a armored hand broke the glass on of her air car and grabbed her with such a force she could hardly put up any resistance.

"Let go of me you Krogan bastard!" Surri surrounded her self with a wave of biotic energy and kicked Wrex in the knee. It didn't do much damage but it caused the Krogan to loosen his grip on her. Surri immediately stepped towards the other end of the car she had to get away from that Krogan.

"Damn your a feisty one, but if I were you I'd stop running away from the Krogan who is here to save you." Surri just scoffed at that. "Your the one that's trying to rob me damn it!"

"Listen I'm not trying to rob you now take my hand before we both die." Through all the adrenaline and trying to fight the Krogan she forgot that she was on a speeding air car that was on a crash course with... she looked at the black gunship that was only a few dozen meters a head. 'A gunship I thought this was a restricted space!' She was thrown out of her thoughts by the sound of a single missile firing off, blowing a hole into a apartment section.

The krogan was now put into motion as he quickly scooped up Surri and dived into the newly created breech, his jump assisted by some kind of jump jets in his boots. Not seconds after they had landed in the apartment did the air car slam into the gunship effectively taking out both vehicle's and ensuring that neither would ever fly again. Surri, happy that she was still alive began to hug the ground, while the Krogan quickly began to rummaged through the ruined apartment until he found a single asari half unconscious.

"Who the hell is that?" The Krogan looked at Surri, then back at the unconscious asari.

"She's my client." He then picked her up and started to carry her to the still intact secondary exit when a large pile of rubble exploded, flinging debris every where. The Krogan with the asari woman still in his arms sprinted towards Surri and quickly enveloped them all in a barrier that protected them from the flying debris.

"PUT HER DOWN!" The Krogan was the first to respond by pulling a pistol on the direction of the voice. By the goddess, he was a quick Krogan. "Who are you people! Answer me!" With the dust from the debris finally clearing Surri could finally make out whowas talking. It was another asari probably the firsts bond mate.

"Listen I'm not your enemy I'm here to help." The asari seemed ready to yell again when the left wall exploded. Wrex sprouted another barrier while the other asari encased her self with her own barrier.

"Move in kill every in this room leave nobody alive!" A squad of soldiers clad in black armor stormed in. It was a diverse group, a three turians, a salarian and two asari. The Krogan went to work, he pulled the shotgun off his back and charged.

But his charge wasn't like the typical Krogan charge Surri had seen in the vids, for one thing he didn't go into a blood rage, no he was in a whole different zone, he shot at the lead soldier a turian, and brought his shields down, and that is when things really got interesting, as soon as the turian's shields dropped his jaw met the hard end of the Krogan's shotgun. And before the turian's body could even fall to the ground the Krogan moved on to his next target. It was the salarian trying to prepare some tech attack against the krogan. But he was too slow, the Krogan grabbed the salarian's left arm and twisted it into an awkward position, the salarian started to scream, but was cut off as the Krogan picked him up and threw him into the two asari troopers, and then in one fluid motion, the Krogan threw a warp right at the salarian's grenade belt causing a chain reaction that engulfed the asari's and the salarian. The last of the two soldiers, two turians, saw how quick Wrex took out their teammate's and ran.

"Some hit squad, the pyjack's!" The Krogan fired a few rounds at the figures of the fleeing turians, his blood thirst evident. "Alright now as I was saying-" The Krogan was cut off as the building began to shake violently.

"Everybody take cover-" For a second time the Krogan was cut off as his entire section of floor broke off and fell taking him with it. Surri didn't know who that Krogan was and he was the reason she was now in this mess but she still felt a tinge of sorrow to see him fall like that, she would have prayed to the goddess for him, if she wasn't falling her self.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX