Hey guys, what's up! I'll be honest I've been thinking about pairings and i think it'll be a Tali/OC with Zach, with Emily I'm still not sure on who will catch her fancy ;D

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After the skycar crash, Zach and Emily made their way to Dr. Michel's clinic to meet the good doctor and to make sure there was nothing they missed after the on the spot first-aid treatment. The duo trusted the red-haired doctor, even though she wasn't apart of the Brotherhood, she knew of the Assassins and their war after treating an Assassin and having the Templars. She did not wish to become apart of the conflict, but she respected the Assassins' goal and offered to patch them up free of charge should they need it, and though she insured that she did not need any repayment for the kindness, the Assassins had always provided the doctor with any supplies she needed to keep her business running.

So when the twin Assassins arrived at the clinic, the doors slid open and all Zach was able to register was a purple haze before he collided with whatever it was and both of them fell backwards. After a closer look, Zach realized he had just ran into a female quarian clad in the normal enviro-suit of their people, but with purple accents. After realizing he had been staring rather long ,and praying that his hood hid his blush, he quickly got up and offered his hand to the quarian.

"Oh...uh...sorry about that, I should've been watching were I was going," said Zach smiling, while mentally banging his head on an invisible wall for his stupidity. The young quarian very nearly knocked heads with Zach after accepting his hand and trying to get up so quick, and quickly began to rub her hands together and stumble over her words.

"Oh Keelah, I am so sorry, I should have been paying attention and I usually do, but I have a lot on my mind and now I'm rambling and you probably have more important things to do than here me ramble...and did I say I was sorry because I am...sorry that is!," replied the nervous quarian frantically looking at each of the two Assassins.

Emily just giggled slightly at the quarian's antics before answering, "Don't worry about it, my idiot brother wouldn't notice a skycar if it came flying right at him."

"Hey!"

"Well it's true so just accept it. Anyways, I'm Emily and my klutz of a brother here is Zach. You said you were in a hurry, everything okay?," asked Emily turning to a slightly concerned tone.

"Oh I said that? It's nothing you should bother yourselves with really, just personal issues, but as I said you shouldn't bother yourselves," said the quarian rather quickly before adding, "and my name is Tali'Zorah Nar Rayya, my friends call me Tali...not trying to say you aren't my friends- I mean I was trying to guess your intentions...actually I'll just be quiet now."

"Well Tali, my name is Zachary, but as my sister said you can call me Zach," said Zach pulling down his hood and offering his hand, at which the Tali just cocked her head and stared at. "Oh, it's a human greeting in which two people grasp hands and shake them up and down," explained Zach and Tali quickly took his hand and awkwardly and frantically shook his hand while Emily smiled politely, trying her hardest not to laugh.

"Sorry, I don't have much experience with humans," replied Tali sheepishly.

"It's fine really Tali don't worry about it," said Emily, "is Dr. Michel in, I need her to check Zach real quick." Tali looked back at the clinic before looking back at Zach before realizing the dried blood stain on his jacket.

"Oh Keelah, your clothes! Are you okay!," cried Tali.

"It's actually not as bad as I first thought, in truth it just looks worse than it actually is, just an accident with a knife," said Zach hoping to avoid the impending conversation.

"Yes, Dr Michel is in there, I should probably get going as well, I won't take any more of your time," said Tali, stepping to the side.

"Well it was nice meeting you Tali, I hope whatever it was you were in a hurry for turns out alright," said Zach smiling and giving Tali a farewell nod before heading inside the clinic.

"Same here Tali, I hope we meet again under better circumstances," said Emily, shaking Tali's hand.

"Yes and thank you both, I wish your brother luck as well," said Tali, the smile behind her mask audible in her speech. The young quarian made her way down the ward casting the occasional glance around her surroundings.

Emily made her way into the clinic only to see Dr. Michel cornering her brother with a scanner and fretting over his appearance in a very mother-like manner.

"I swear every time I've seen you you're hurt in some way, and it'snot making my life easier," said the good doctor in her fun accent, Emily always enjoyed listening to it. Zach noticed Emily and gave her a pleading look, which Dr. Michel noticed and turned to look at Emily.

"Ah, Emily it is good to see you, I see you appear to be in better shape than your brother, he tells me it was nothing, but I highly doubt it would you be as kind as to tell me as how he injured himself this time?," asked Dr. Michel.

Emily just smiled at her brother mischievously before replying, "Oh nothing much, he just decided to jump out of a speeding skycar."

The doctor just slowly turned to Zach before saying in a scarily calm voice, "You. Did. What."

"It wasn't going that fast and besides she isn't telling you the full story!," complained Zach holding up his hands in surrender.

"I don't care how fast it was going it was still extremely foolish!," said Dr Michel before turning on Emily, "and you how could you let your brother do this!"

Now realizing that the Dr's wrath was turning upon her, Emily quickly answered, "It wasn't by choice, Templar assassins shot us out of the sky and Zach only did it to protect us."

Dr Michel just pinched the bridge of her nose and loudly sighed, while Zach carefully inched away, only to be turned on by the Dr who forcefully sat him down on a table.

"Saving lives or not, you got hurt and I'll be damned before I let you leave without checking it over first," said the doctor resuming her scans of Zach.

"That reminds me, Emily we should probably let Anderson know about what happened, seeing as how he's still expecting us and all," said Zach as he suffered the Dr's gaze and pokes.

"Yeah you're probably right- for once, I'll contact him over the terminal," said Emily before walking over to the terminal and typing in Anderson's address. After a few seconds, an image of Anderson popped up.

"Emily? That you, I've been expecting you and Zach, where are you?," asked the old soldier.

"Yeah about that, are you alone?," asked Emily and after a quick nod from Anderson she began, "we were on our way, but we got ambushed by Templar assassins. They took out our skycar, but we lived, the Templars did not, anyway I searched their omni-tools and found a contract. Turns out Saren did some kind of favor for the Templars and he asked them to take out Shepard and us as a bonus."

Anderson only seemed a little surprised at the revelation, but after thoughtfully rubbing his chin he answered, "Damn, that makes things harder, the Commander knows to watch his back, he already ran into a few of Saren's people. Although I didn't expect Templars to get involved... seeing as how Saren attacked a human colony."

"Well maybe they don't know? I mean we only found out through you and, no offense, but the only evidence you brought up was a dock worker and a vision," said Emily.

Anderson just chuckled before answering, "None taken, hell I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't see it. Hopefully the quicker we get evidence, the quicker the Templars will kick Saren to the curb."

"Here's hoping and do you know what favor they were referring to?," asked Emily.

Anderson's face visibly darkened and he sighed before replying, "Yeah I do, some years ago I was put up for a Spectre position, would've been great for humanity and I was honored, both for humanity and the Brotherhood, we would've had more pull in the galactic community. Unfortunately, the Templars didn't want an Assassin to be given that much power, so they made a deal with Saren to get me thrown out. He didn't care much for the Templars seeing as how they have a human origin, but it gave him a bonus to have them owe him while he got to keep humanity out of the Spectres, I won't give you the whole sob story, but that's the gist of it."

"Well now that just makes it personal," said Emily.

"When do you think you'll be here?," asked Anderson

"No clue, Zach's getting patched up, nothing serious but the doctor isn't taking chances."

"Well we can wait a little longer, Shepard was waiting for an elevator and if the damn things weren't slow enough, his broke down."

Emily just burst out laughing and threatened to cry if she didn't stop. After a few minutes her laughter died down and she wiped her eyes, "That's why I prefer climbing wherever I go, it's faster."

After bidding goodbye to Anderson, Emily turned back to walk over to the doctor and her brother, she noticed the doors open and a group of men walk in. Emily didn't like the feeling she was getting and obviously neither did her brother, as he was glancing up from Dr Michel occasionally. Dr Michel turned to greet the group of men.

"Welcome to the clinic, as you can see I'm in the middle of treating a patient, I'll be with you shortly."

The man in front smiled, but it wasn't a friendly smile as he pulled out and pointed a pistol at the Dr. Zach jumped off the table and Emily stiffened visibly, but neither one could do anything without putting the Dr in danger.

"Oh I won't be long," said the man.

"Son of a bitch," muttered Zach, not noticing the door quietly open and a clue-armored turian sneak in.

~8~

Commander John Shepard was not having the best day. After returning from Eden Prime, being stonewalled by the Council, and knowing full well a rogue Spectre was loose in the galaxy with an army of geth, he could count this as a low point in his career. Now he was running around trying to scrounge up any kind of evidence he could use against Saren, after speaking to Barla Von, Shepard had recruited the krogan mercenary, Urdnot Wrex, figuring he could use a krogan battlemaster with nearly a thousand years worth of battle experience, even if he was a little cut and dry. Right now Shepard was heading to a med-clinic in the wards to catch up to a turian C-SEC detective by the name of Garrus Vakarian. He figured if Garrus was willing to take on Saren, he could use him. After all, his only lead was a quarian that had gone to Fist thinking he was still working for the Shadow Broker, but Fist had betrayed the Broker and now his only lead was in jeopardy. He most likely had to go on a full-out assault on Chora's Den and he wouldn't refuse another gun on his side. Though right now he was running stairs trying to get to the clinic since one of the elevators broke down and, strangely, this was a lot faster, but tiring.

"Shepard, I didn't sign up just to run stairs all day," said Wrex in between breaths, "besides I'm getting to old for this shit."

"Oh I don't know Wrex, I think it's good for you, keep you in top shape," said Shepard with a slight smile. Wrex didn't say anything he could hear just grumbling under his breath. Finally, they made it to the top and proceeded to the clinic. Upon opening the door, Shepard was surprised to see a number of things. First, he didn't expect to see Garrus crouching behind a low wall with his pistol pulled, second he didn't expect to see armed gunman in the clinic threatening who he presumed was the doctor, and finally he didn't expect to see two teenagers armed to the teeth standing on the side with arms behind their backs as two of the men held them. Before he could react, the man talking to the doctor noticed Shepard and pulled the doctor in front of him as a shield. Shepard and his team of four pulled out their weapons, but before he had a chance to negotiate, Garrus jumped around the corner and placed a precision shot into the skull of the thug holding the doctor, dropping him instantly. Two screams from the right drew his attention and he was pretty surprised to see the two teens had managed to break away from their captors, both holding bleeding wrists, before the boy had punched the neck of his thug and drawing a surprising amount of blood for someone without a weapon and the girl just went straight for the money and snapped her captor's neck with a sickening crack and both men went down. The others were so surprised they didn't have time to react before the soldiers in the room gunned them down.

Though that wasn't the end as the two teens drew their weapons, the boy's Mattock rifle and the girl's Carnifex, and pulled the doctor behind them. Garrus and Shepard's squad kept their weapons trained on the two, but the commander put his weapon up, hoping to appear friendly and defuse the situation.

"You can drop your weapons, we're not here to hurt you," said Shepard slowly and calmly. Both teens, the boy with short brown hair and the girl with dark red, just narrowed their eyes.

"You first," said the boy in and equally calm voice.

"Ha! You think you can make a krogan drop his weapon, I'd like to see you try," said Wrex, itching for a fight.

"You wouldn't be the first krogan we've killed," said the girl, neither backing down. Before Shepard could ask Wrex to stop helping the doctor pushed forward between the teens and pushed their weapons down.

"It's alright, this is Garrus Vakarian he's a friend of mine," said the doctor. The teens visibly relaxed and holstered their weapons. After all weapons were holstered, the turian Garrus came up to Shepard.

"That was good timing Commander, gave me a clear shot," said the detective excitedly. Though Shepard didn't share his enthusiasm.

"Clear shot? You could've easily hit the doctor and what about these two, if they didn't fight back they could've been shot by those thugs!," said Shepard, irritated at Garrus's disregard of the situation.

"I didn't- I just reacted, Dr Michel are you and your friends alright?," asked Garrus.

"I've got a crick in my neck and my left knee itches other than that I'm fine," said the boy sarcastically. Both the doctor and the girl slapping him upside the head.

"Alright smartass," said Ashley Williams trying to hide a smile.

"Moving on to the matter at hand," said Shepard loudly, realizing he was losing everyone, "Dr Michel I'm trying to find evidence against Saren Arterius, and I think these men are involved, is there anything you can tell me that will help put a stop to this?"

"A little while ago, a young quarian came to me, she had been shot and I could tell she was scared. She asked me if I knew how to reach the Shadow Broker, saying she had information she would be willing to trade for protection. I told her Fist was an agent of the Shadow Broker and sent her his way, those men came back to insure I'd stay quiet," said the doctor as she sighed tiredly looking back at the teens, "maybe that information had to do with Saren."

The two teens looked at each other eyes widening slightly, but Shepard brushed that off as nothing more than surprise at what they were hearing. "I'm sorry to say Doc, but Fist is no longer working with the Broker," said Kaidan Alenko, Shepard's second-in-command.

After starting to leave and hearing Garrus's offer of assistance, Shepard and crew begin to head out of the clinic before the two teens stepped in front of him, barring his way. "Commander Shepard? I'm Zach Rast and this is my sister, Emily, and we heard you plan to take on Fist, well you saved us so we want to return the favor by helping you take him down, besides Dr Michel is our friend and if Saren is the reason Fist sent these men after her, we want payback," said the brown-eyed teen, Zach, looking the Commander in the eye with a determined expression.

"I understand why you want this, but these men are armed and dangerous, they will kill you given the chance and your kids, I don't want to be responsible if you get hurt," said Shepard, trying to get the image of Jenkins lying dead in the field out of his mind.

"No offense, Shepard but we will follow you whether you want us to or not, you can't stop us," said Emily defiantly.

Shepard admired their courage, but they looked like kids, kids who probably got lucky taking down their captors and now felt they should help Shepard stop someone who hurt their friend, but Shepard wouldn't be responsible if the worst happened. "No, my decision is final, I appreciate your offer but you need to leave this to professionals," said Shepard finally, moving past the duo and out the clinic.

~8~

After walking for a bit, Shepard couldn't shake the feeling he was being tailed. After the clinic, Shepard swore he noticed two figures crouching in the catwalks above him, when he asked Kaidan if he saw anything, the Lieutenant looked at the commander strangely and said he didn't see anything. Shepard decided he was right, but had Kaidan bring up the rear and watch to make sure the kids weren't following them.

Finally they made it to Chora's Den, but it looked closed. "It's closed, probably setting up for a fight Shepard, I say let them come," said Wrex deeply pulling out his shotgun.

"Alright we all know the layout, Garrus and Ashley, I want you two hanging back and each of you cover a side of the club. Kaidan, you're with me, we'll take the right side and use you're biotics when you can, Lift them so the sniper can get a clear shot if you have the chance, and Wrex...well...Wrex you just do what you do best down the left side," explained Shepard and after a collective amount of nods and laugh from Wrex, they stacked up on the door, Shepard on the right and Wrex on the left. Shepard counted down from three with his fingers and hit the button on the door and all hell broke loose.

Gunfire of all kinds came to meet them, but they all fired at the same time and so they all reloaded at the same time. This was when Shepard and Wrex each tossed in a grenade, scattering their enemies and getting a few in the process. Shepard and Kaidan found cover in the shape of an overturned table on the right side. Both soldiers popping up occasionally and firing at the thugs whittling their shields down. Every time a thug's shield went down, their would be a loud BANG and they would go down, Shepard looking back to see Garrus laughing at his quick work. Sometimes Kaidan would manage to get an enemy caught in a biotic Lift, and a combination of gunfire between Shepard's Avenger and Kaidan's Carnifex would make quick work of him. Shepard could the screams of enemies on the far side of the bar be drowned out by Wrex's deep laughing as he charged straight into the fray, biotics flaring and shotgun exploding. Ashley was doing everything she could to not accidentally shoot Wrex. After a few minutes, the last of the thugs went down and the group linked up in front of the door heading to Fist's office. After opening the door, Shepard was expecting another group of guards, but he got something entirely different. Two full-grown men were slouched against the wall asleep and cuddling each other subconsciously, one was even sucking their thumb.

"Um, Skipper? It might just be me but I don't think these two just decided to take a nap in the middle of a firefight," said Ashley switching for her assault rifle.

"Either way they aren't a problem and I would just hate ruining a bonding moment," said Shepard chuckling and running his hand over his shaven head, "come on I don't wanna keep fist waiting."

Opening the doors, Shepard found himself in a small office, with the man he presumed was Fist in the middle. "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself," yelled Fist as he started up to turrets at the back corners of the room. Shepard and his team took up cover, but before they could get a shot off, the turrets sparked and just died.

"What the-! Piece of junk come on-," was all Shepard heard Fist say before a small grenade dropped from the ceiling and the room was covered in thick smoke. Shepard was coughing in the smoke before it died down and he saw the reason for it standing in the middle of the room with Fist on his knees and a blade to his neck.

"Drop your weapon, now!," said Shepard with force pointing his weapon at the assassin, before he recognized the girl's armor.

"Hold your horses, Shepard, I'm on your side," stated Emily with a giggle as it were obvious.

"Emily? What are you doing, I thought I told you two to stay back," said Shepard in half question half irritation.

"And I thought I told you we would follow," said Emily with a smile, "oh and Fist here sent the quarian to meet the Broker in an alley, so he could in turn kill her, but don't worry he's already on his way there now. Fist's files had the encryption of a three-year-old."

Shepard just stared dumbfounded before Wrex went up, grabbed Fist from Emily and blew his head off with a shotgun.

"Wrex what the hell! He had information!," cried Garrus, turning his weapon on the krogan.

"You heard the girl, she hacked his files. If we want the quarian, I suggest we move," said Wrex. Shepard just stared at Emily a moment longer before sighing.

"Well I guess I can't stop you, but I want to stay in cover as much as possible, okay?," said Shepard pointing a finger at Emily, who smiled and starting running ahead.

"Then let's go before my brother screw's something up!"

OH NO MY FIRST CLIFFHANGER! I kinda see why writers do it now, it holds so much power and boosts my ego to epic proportions. Anyway I won't keep you waiting to long, and I have an idea of putting short chapters in between missions in which Shepard will start to learn from the Assassins about the order and just Zach and Emily having fun with the crew, most mission chapters may be roughly around two, but it's ideas nothing solid yet and as thanks to you the readers I am open to suggestions for ideas from anyone after all I'm writing this for you guys as well. Stay Awesome ;)