CH4

(Great news guys, I am officially quitting all my writing for approximately 5-6 months and I may not even be back after that.)

Well it was fun while it lasted, and I do hope to write to all of you again in the future, I will be still posting a handful of things, and I might finish adding all the new stuff before I leave. To all I say, have a nice day!

BTW There's one last thing I will give to all my readers, go to the new series: Halo Origins: Path to Salvation and it will give you all the need to know, and also because I need to do a rewrite for some of the major stories I have.

Revelations: RW

Halo's Call: RW

Fate is never set: RW

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Tonight… tonight…

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The transit to the lower wards was short, though Shepard couldn't help but feel as though she had forgotten something. A hyper velocity round punched through the air where she had been standing, and another trade of bullets were exchanged.

She turned about to fire on the assassins; her rounds punched through one and struck another in the shoulder. Things had not gone exactly to plan, she expected things to be interesting but not in the manner that she was dodging bullets left and right.

She pulled her M51A Short hand rocket and fired directly at a cluster of turians behind a wall, the obvious lob of the shell sent the squad scattering, but not fast enough, the round detonated shredding the squad to pieces.

The other Spartans began killing the rest of the assassins off, Jovi had managed to get close enough to start ripping them apart with blades. His MKVI Security armour held off the barrage of MA rounds as he began to tear and maim the poor assassins. His first victim was a one who had a rifle half way up found that putting his rifle in front of his body wasn't going to save him from a 15 inch resonating blade.

The blade cleaved the rifle and then passed through the cranium and downwards of the turian; he fell down with a massive line and blood spilling from it.

"You ready?" He called out as he killed another.

The battle then ended abruptly as the remaining turians died from gunshots to the head, Shepard and her team looked about to face a surprisingly young looking soldier, though he had white hair and plenty of scars he looked like he was only 20.

"So, you must be Shepard I take it? They were right when they said that trouble tends to follow you." The slightly military/casual dressed man said.

"Yes well, never thought a washout Spartan could hit like that." She replied.

"We surprise even ourselves commander, I heard you might have been looking for me, thought I'd find you myself, I'm Christian." He saluted.

"Good to finally meet you." She said walking over to the ex-Spartan.

"Like wise commander, I thought you might come looking for evidence on Saren, though we better talk inside of my shop, don't want people to hear anything." He gestured.

They all went into the shop the Spartan owned; the impressive building looked nice, if not a bit dull, there was a number of things inside the shop that anyone would want, though some looked older than the UCA and UNSC. There were weapons and antiques as well as more up to date technology and gear.

"This is my life's work, setting a good price and example, I owned this shop about a year after the first contact war, and it has done me well after." He said getting behind the counter.

"So you want to know where a certain C-sec officer went." He asked.

"Yes, Garrus Vakarian, we need him to aid in our investigation of Saren Arterius." She explained.

"Right, well you can find him at Dr Michel's office on the second floor of the wards, she has a clinic where you can visit, but I do advise that there might be some trouble on your way there. Also I heard about a recent bounty hunter that has gone up against that certain spectre you spoke of, his name is Wrex I am sure you'll find him sometime sooner or later." He explained.

"Thank you Christian." Shepard said.

"Oh, by the way, you can come to me if you need upgrades, or modified gear, I can fix you right up and quick." He offered.

"We'll consider your offer, but not now." She said respectfully to the Spartan.

The team caught their large transport and pushed the coordinates for the clinic in, they all headed to the second floor of the wards in a matter of moments. Upon arriving they found another transport parked outside with a C-sec signature.

"Let's hurry we might have made it in time." Shepard said.

The team entered to see that there were 7 armed men holding the doctor up, she was panicking as they pointed guns at her, though they didn't notice the turian hiding behind a desk with his pistol drawn.

"Garrus better not know of anything doctor, or else you might have an unfortunate accident."

The noticed long enough and pointed their guns in Shepard's direction. "Who are you?"

Shepard used her fast reflexes to fire on the leader easily, he never even stood a chance as the kinetic barrier failed as the hyper velocity slug that weighed 10grams punched through and killed him instantly.

Another thug that had the doctor was dead as Garrus appeared and with a single shot killed the man with ease.

"Shit, it's Garrus." One yelled.

They backed off as the turian approached, then it all went into a blur of lights, Shepard and team struck with precision and blunt brutality. Garrus remained in his position firing off as though nothing could harm him, he clipped a good group as a tank of flammable ionised gas in the rear of the room detonated from his shooting, the group of hired thugs were shredded by the blast.

The fight only lasted 30 seconds before everyone was sure the thugs were dead, Shepard went over with and said.

"Garrus Vakarian I presume?" She asked placing her pistol back into its holster.

"Commander Shepard?"

"Yes, that be me, it seems as though you enjoyed the fire fight?"

"Sorry, about that, perfect timing though, the thugs were giving me a hard time to surprise them."

"Yeah, well you might want to mention that to the doctor."

"Oh… Doctor Michelle, are you alright?" Garrus asked the frightened woman.

"I'm fine, but those men, they were after the guardian and his sister." She said hastily.

"Who?" Jovi said confused.

"A guardian and his quarian relative, that's who, remember back in the academy, the UCA had called for guardian volunteers to aid in pilgrimages for quarians of age, they were selected as family from generations past. They exchange protection for nothing, and only when one or the other dies does compensation occur." Alexis explained.

"So, a quarian and her brother were here?" Shepard asked.

"Yes, though the brother was injured, he came asking about information in exchange for a safe house, I thought to put him in touch with the shadow broker, but he declined as he said it was dangerous. He said something about another place, as a safe house that his family located in the wards, but those thugs can be anywhere, especially since Fist began siding with the shadow broker."

"So, it seems as though, were going to have to pay Fist a visit, did the guardian say anything else?" Shepard asked.

"No, he just said that and made his way out, but he had mumbled something about a recent attack on Eden Prime."

"Well that settles this; we need to find the guardian and his quarian charge."

"But where do we start, the entire wards can be filled with safe houses, remember there's over a million pilgrims from the guardians that come visit here every year, and they pass family knowledge on to others, the safe house can be somewhere between this end to level 200."

"That's why we're going after Fist; he should have the better view, seeing as he put most of his forces out into the open to scour the wards."

Shepard and her team was about to leave when Garrus said. "Wait, commander, I know that you might think this rushed, but I can help."

"Help how? We have an entire team of Spartans and marines on the wards, we also happen to have years more experience Garrus."

"Yeah, I know, but I can help, I know the wards better than anyone else, and I do have a sharp eye for sniping."

"Well considering you got that thug at half glance, and our sniper here is a little lazy on the eyes…"

"Hey!" Dominic said.

"…we'll be happy to have you along, though just remember, our business now is just getting the guardian. I'll need a background check as soon as we've completed our task here."

"You won't regret this." He said following behind.

"I surely hope not." Ellen replied.

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The team appeared at the club, this time armed with as much available fire power they could pack, Jovi hefted his MA9A [M], the shock rifle held tightly in his grasp, and the modified rifle was purchased back on Arcturus. Jovi never explained the complicated procedures of modifying the gear, only he and Christian were the only people Ellen had met that actually could.

Ashley and Kaiden were also packing some firepower, with Ash holding her standard MA9A and her M6A with laser sight; she also carried a number of different grenades and explosives. Kaiden packed a hefty number of biotic tools, including bio-amps and bio-nodes; he was ready for a fight.

Ellen had her M6 [S], the silenced magnum was useful for precision and range, but also for headshots, the thugs and hired goons weren't exactly hard to deal with. Garrus had his assault rifle, an MA7A, the standard for all non-alliance military and only used in council space, these weapons were obsolete by the UCAF standards in fire power, though were still useful as practice, C-sec and most other military factions used these older models, purely for cost effectiveness.

The rest of the team had their own rifles drawn, with the exception of Dominic, Ian, Selena, and Alexis. Dominic carrying his BR-MA-55 and DMR-M9 along with his M7A [S], Ian was an Adept, his pistol and SMGs were slung to his side, but the glow in his eyes was a born factor that he didn't need weapons. Selena had dual pistols and a shotgun, an E-ICQB F-12 series, the shotgun was also known as the 12 gauge 'shotty' and a standard M6 [A].

Alexis carried by far the most unique weapons in the squad, her rifle was a M50-ICWS Rifle, the 'Vulcan Carbine' as they were known as, the rifle had an unlimited supply of ammunition and had one of the most advanced cooling systems available in the galaxy. Her side arm was the M7S [V], the 'Viper' as the SMG was known as, was the same SMG that was modified to cut a swath through any armour or shields in existence, it was also the most accurate, it was a next to none type of weapon.

Shepard exited the shuttle along with the squad; they turned to the open sidewalk where the entrance to Chora's Den was, only to be stopped by a rifle shot that blew by Shepard's head by mere inches.

The hired turians on the other side had been waiting for some time for the commander and her squad, they fired with concentrated bursts, and these were the same turians hired by Saren when Ellen was going to meet with Christian.

"So, I guess we finally met with Saren's private army?" She said sarcastically.

"Yeah looks like it, though they lack numbers." Jovi replied.

The turians went down faster than a varren chewing apart a steak. The team reached the door to Chora's den and began to hack the door.

"So, what kind of resistance do you think we're going to face?" Garrus asked.

"Not much, just a few guards, probably a krogan or two, but there shouldn't be too much of an issue in dealing with these thugs." Ashley replied.

"Yeah, hope your right." Jovi said grinning.

The door slid open, and it took seconds as dozens to hundreds of rounds punched through the doorway, Ashley came up with a plasma grenade and cooked the grenade before tossing it in. She had a vague idea of her targets, but still managed to hit the thug behind the counter.

The thug only had moments before he and whoever in his vicinity were vaporised or melted by the extreme heat. With the thugs distracted from the sudden damage, Ellen and her team rushed the room, she used her M6 to pick off two thugs on the platform above the bar, and Jovi went into a rush to tackle the krogan, Selena used lift and pull on the left flank and her brother reaped them of their blood.

Garrus snipped whatever remained and Kaiden was on clean up, the others stayed at the doorway for Shepard to negate her way to fist, and ensure that there weren't any surprises waiting for them on the way out.

Ellen jumped the remaining corpses, and then with Jovi who had finished ripping the skull of the krogan bouncers head off, and Alexis, who came into the room after them, gathered to the door to fists office.

Upon opening the door she was confronted with two grunts and an human worker.

"Freeze." One grunt yelled.

"Dock workers, looks like all the real guard are dead." Jovi commented.

"You boys better scram, or you might end up like your fellows outside." She gestured to the amounts of bodies littering the floor.

"Right, never liked fist, this job is way too much." One dock worker said jogging off.

"Hey wait for me!" A grunt yelled.

"Never would have thought to do that." Alexis said.

"Violence isn't always necessary." Shepard replied.

They continued on, first searching through some crates before they checked Fist's locked door, she began hacking the door. Green, red, red, yellow, and then green, Shepard always wondered if the citadel security was this crappy, or that was just part of the entire council and terminus space.

Once the doors slid open she could hear Fist yell. "When you need something done right, you need to do it yourself."

He began to fire at the squad, Shepard signed that she was going ahead; she looked about the corner when rounds began to pepper her shields. She knew that there was probably in built security systems to stop or hinder intruders.

She pulled her a plasma charge and carefully cooked the explosive, with more advanced armour these days, a person could hold a plasma charge for 3 seconds longer. Aiming it at the wall, she lobbed the grenade.

A loud scream from Fist and a following explosion told her that she got close enough to him. She signalled for the rest to follow and they stepped out, guns aimed at what was left. Shepard noted immediately the two drones and a Loki mech, all damaged or destroyed.

Fist was ducked on the left side of his desk, gripping a burn from the plasma wash, Shepard quickly apprehended him.

"Hey, I give up alright." The man said in a panic.

"Where are the quarian and her brother?" Shepard asked threateningly.

"Not here, they were supposed to be brought back here, though Saren's men had other plans, they located the safe house and were on their way there. They also took Loki mechs and a YIMR heavy."

"Where's their safe house?" She asked.

"It's on level 30, down by a number of quarian shelters; the place was perfect for any quarian wanting to escape."

"Now, what should we do with you?" Shepard asked.

"Let me go and never see me again?" Fist suggested.

"You know, he might be right, I'd want him taken to C-sec though." Garrus said.

"C-sec ain't safe enough for anybody especially me, the Shadow Broker will go after me as soon as he hears I survived."

Shepard decided. "Fine, get the hell out of my sight before I change my mind."

Fist did so and hurried to the door on the left side of the room.

"Do you think it was a good idea for us to let him go?" Garrus asked.

"Better that than the Shadow Broker to get to him, we better hurry, those quarians aren't going to like what's about to happen." Shepard said heading out.

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The team had some resistance as they exited to their shuttle, Saren's men had decided to buy their comrades some time for them to succeed, in their mission, however they didn't anticipate that 4 Spartans and a range of specialists could do damage.

Once they were on their shuttle once more, Shepard punched in the coordinates for level 30, they travelled across through the wards to the quarians own sector on the Citadel, the seedy sector called 30. Infamous for once being a hive of crime, the UCAF was allowed to build a quarian sector there; the UCA sent their best trained security and had all their gear to construct a massive hexagonal structure called 30.

It was the only place that quarians seemed to have peace, and quiet, most other races still try not to affiliate themselves with the quarians and thus only granted them this small amount of breathing space since the war.

Shepard piloted the shuttle into the lower levels of the massive hexagonal structure and landed next to some other transports. Securing the shuttle the team headed out, but not before they were greeted by a krogan in red armour.

"I'm guessing that you're Shepard?" He asked.

"Yeah why do you need to know?"

"I'm Urdnot Wrex, I have given in a bounty from getting to Fist, because I was hired to kill him."

"You work for the Shadow Broker?" Shepard said.

"No, he just hired me for the bounty, and you got to it first, so yeah, not much else."

"And the not much else being Saren?" Shepard asked.

"You have a knack for knowing people, yes, Saren, the Shadow Broker put out a large sum for his head as well, I was planning on going after him, but I decided to ask for some help."

"You need us?" Shepard asked.

"Yes, first because I think that you have some potential in getting your job done, and second because I honour that kind of hell bent destruction you seem to pack."

"Great a krogan with the love of explosives, what else do we need?" Ash said.

"Well we are going to need as much help in dealing with our enemies, what skills do you have?"

"I was raised as a krogan warlord, what else is there to know?"

"Okay then, seeing as we're about to hit Saren's men, you can join."

"Good choice Shepard, I'd like to see how this is going to work." Wrex said walking alongside them.

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Once they reached the location where the safe house was, Shepard signalled the teams to stop, she observed the entire region. There was a large open road and buildings on both sides, Saren's men appeared on her scanners to have lodged themselves in on the other side of the road.

She motioned for Jovi and his team to secure the middle building closest to the house, while Ash and Kaiden were with Wrex and Garrus closer to the back, she and the others were going to go in the middle between the two, so they can spread the offensive easily.

"Anyone see the quarians yet?" Shepard asked.

"Not yet, but I have movement." Jovi replied.

Jovi, was a specialist in hunt and kill tactics, so it made sense he had higher resolution on his scanners, bringing his shotgun and grenade launcher, he primed the rounds on the movement.

The door opened to the house, and stepped out two people, one being quarian and the other almost like, the teenage male was probably the guardian, seeing as he was armed to the teeth. While the other being truly quarian, as she was shorter than her brother and more pronounced in her quarian figure of being two toed.

"Tali come on, we need to hurry to the ship, and once we're back with the UCA I think we can find some safety back home." The male said.

"I know Kale, just hold on." The female said.

Then there was blinding lights, the two held back, until their visors polarised, Kale quickly pulled his MA9A and put Tali behind him, he shouted.

"Who's there?"

"Ah, so there you are, Tali Zorah and Kale Zorah, please I think you should come with us, we don't want any accidents now do we?" The turian in black and red armour said.

"Sorry, but I think not." Kale said as he pulled out a trigger.

The turian realised the mistake he made when they arrived at the shelter, quarians always bobby trap them…

"BOOM"

The entire level was shaken by a massive explosion, the piping and nearby vehicles detonated, sending shrapnel and debris flying into Saren's men; they registered what had happened after the initial shock and awe.

Tali and Kale ran in the opposite direction and headlong into Shepard and her team, Kale drew his rifle and aimed.

"Hold it, we're not here to harm you, I'm with the UCA forces, and these are my team members, I'm Commander Shepard."

"Commander Shepard, you mean Ellen Shepard of the Blitz?" Kale asked.

"Yes, that's me."

The teen lowered his rifle. "Finally some help, I'm Kale and this is Tali Zorah, we were looking for the forces hopefully to be in the region."

"Well we're here to help."

"You can start by getting rid of those guys." Kale pointed.

"That's why we're here, and nice trick." Shepard said.

"Thanks."

The teams began to fire at the remaining forces of Saren, the turian in charge reformed his squads and ordered to attack, and Loki mechs began deploying in large force and began to fire into them. Jovi waited as the troops got closer.

"Jovi, go now!" She signalled.

The Spartan acknowledged and ran out from his cover, his blades out from their sheaths and in the open; he embedded two knives into the skulls of a couple of turian troops, while he took to the field under fire with what he had left.

"Ash, take their left flank." Shepard ordered.

"Roger that." Ash said as she ran about.

Wrex and Kaiden used their biotic powers on the left flank, the glowing blue energy knocking back a substantial amount of mechs. The YMIR began to attack, and Ash pulled out a grenade launcher, while Garrus sniped for the head.

The grenade shell was laden with an EM energy charge that shut the massive mech down, it was enough for Garrus to pinpoint its head and remove it with ease. The YMIR exploded seconds later sending down other units to the floor.

Alexis and Dominic were next to Shepard firing off their rifles and carbines into the slowing troops, Ellen then decided to use an EM grenade, the lob landing in between one of the squads and the mechs.

It took seconds for the two marksmen to take both troop squads down, and allow for Selena and Ian to use their biotic combo, the void vortex. All things within the area began to get sucked inside the vortex of biotic and psychic energy, and then violently energised and then, in a spectacular display, detonated.

The end result was a burnt hole in the ground where all the troops had been standing in, the last of Saren's men were cleared out by Jovi, who seemed to overjoy in ripping into the rest of the turians with his two blades, which unsettled Garrus.

The team regrouped, far away from the combat zone, they arrived in the docking bay where their shuttle was waiting, the teams getting into the shuttle first before the others.

"So, where are we going now?" Kale asked.

"To the presidium, we need to speak to Udina and Anderson, my CO and sort this out, once then we can head to the council with the evidence that you were able to attain."

"Very well." Kale said.

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When they arrived back on the presidium, they landed at the UCA academy/embassy, where Udina was speaking to the Speaker for the alliance.

"Shepard, you are not making this easy on me, worse two accounts of fire fights and an all-out warzone in the wards, what do you think this is?"

"Getting your evidence?"

"What do you mean?" Udina asked nearly fuming.

"We have here are one quarian engineer, and her guardian brother." Shepard explained.

Udina looked at the two.

"What evidence do you have that we can present to the council and its representatives?" Udina asked.

"We have this sir." Kale said.

A small image of Saren appeared he spoke out in a slightly distorted voice.

"The attack on Eden Prime was a success, soon we shall be able to locate the conduit, and end the council, rejoice my warriors, soon shall a new era dawn, where the fools will end, and were the forerunners shall fall. And darkness shall engulf the galaxy."

"That's it, that's all the evidence we need." Anderson said.

"But there's more." Tali said.

The voice reversed to the near end and then. "And so the reapers shall return."

"Whose voice was that?" Anderson asked.

"No idea, we can probably assume another ally to Saren and his forces." Shepard said.

"We should get going, our meeting is bound to start, Shepard, take your team along with the quarians and protect them at all costs, those two are our highest witnesses in this case. And I'm sure that having an extra pair of hands on the Normandy can't hurt." Anderson said.

"Yes sir, we'll meet you there." She replied.

"So, a turian, quarian and an asari walk into a bar with six humans."

Jovi said.

"Don't start."

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They arrived at the tower once they had managed to clear their priorities, Shepard led the team into the interior of the chambers where the councillors were awaiting their return, and the most troubled look was on Tevos.

Udina had presented the case to the council and was in the process of getting them to acknowledge the threat that Saren posed to them all.

"This cannot be ignored, Saren has gone rogue, and for a faction that is willing to eliminate the council species and most of the galaxy." Maelon said.

Valern looked somewhat displeased that after all these years that their best had finally gone to the deep end and against all of his work Valern shouldn't probably mention of what kind of work Saren had been doing though.

"Agreed, this situation has gone out of hand; Saren will be stripped of his spectre status and will be placed on all our wanted lists for the region." Valern stated.

"That's not enough, you can take his status, but he's already fled into the traverse, we need to go after him." Anderson said.

"Send a fleet after him, impossible, especially since the treaty held in place to stop the alliance from forcefully expanding their territory out of the jurisdiction of the council."

Shepard decided to intervene. "Then I propose that I should go after him, under the provided support of the council."

Tevos looked at Ellen and looked to the others.

"No, it's too soon."

Anderson added. "Shepard has been on the viewing for almost three months, and since the blitz, she's the best that the alliance can send out."

But then there was a surprise. "And I support." The huddled figure of Nihlus said.

"You're up and about already?" Shepard asked.

"Yeah, thanks to the medical ingenuity of the alliance, they got me up and about in no time." He said happily.

"Well, those in favour?" Maelon asked.

It was cut short as Tevos remained undecided, the crowds remained surprised that Tevos would do such a thing, many were surprised.

"I shall allow for the vote; however I do need to confirm one thing."

"And that is?" Shepard asked.

"I'd like to send my son along with you, he had been on the investigation for the same reasons and he only just returned, Thom, could you please confirm?" Tevos asked aloud.

There was a shimmer as the mysterious person materialised next to the councillor.

"I can confirm that the commander's evidence is authentic and that it is valid, I have been after Saren's corruption charge since four years ago." He said calmly.

"Wait who is this?" Anderson asked.

"This is Thom-S2199, he was given to the council over forty years ago, we had him as a special investigation and operations, and well I did." Tevos explained.

"And when were you going to tell us that you made your son into a private investigation, without the council's permission?" Valern asked.

"I did have that option however Valern, I would not be speaking considering how much Thom had uncovered about past incidents." She spoke coldly.

The turian councillor shut up immediately, knowing what she had been referring to.

"Will you accept the aide of my son in your apprehension of Saren?" Tevos asked.

"I shall." Shepard replied.

"Very well." Tevos said.

Thom stood back a few paces and waited as the official announcement was made.

The room was already packed, with elites and humans along with almost every race.

"Under the decision of the council, Commander Shepard of the United Colonial Alliance that you shall be vested the powers and duties of the Special Tactics and Reconnaissance division of the council."

"Spectre's are not born, they are chosen, forged from the fires of service and duty." Maelon said adamantly.

"Spectres represent the council and its interests for all races, and strive to improve upon." Valern said.

"And Spectres prove their ability through courage and honour and through their will for all in their command." Thom finished.

"Congratulations Commander Shepard, you are the first human spectre." Tevos announced.

"I have been awaiting this honour, and I proudly receive it." She replied.

"You shall be sent to apprehend or terminate Saren, who has escaped into the Traverse, you have the permission of the council to proceed at will." Valern said.

"This meeting is adjourned." Tevos announced.

The crowds began to dissipate and go off into their own directions, Tevos and Thom however came down to meet with her.

"Commander Shepard, I do wish that you'd watch for my son, I do wish you both well in your missions." She said.

"Thank you councillor, I shall do what I can."

"Mother, there's no need to do such things, I'm more than capable by myself." Thom said.

"I know; however, now that you have been announced into the public, people will look to you through me, please take care."

Tevos walked off.

"Welcome aboard the team specialist Thom." Shepard saluted.

"It is an honour to be with you commander."

"We'll be gathering back at the ship, I expect you'd gather you're things and meet us there."

"Yes sir." He said before vanishing.

She turned her attention to Anderson and Udina.

"Well Shepard, looks like you've done what we thought was going to take more than just a routine mission." Anderson said.

"Yes, well we need to get you a ship and a number of things set in motion, I need to go speak with the colonial panel and see what we can provide, I'm sure ONI has something to say along with most of them." Udina said before walking off.

Nihlus appeared behind her. "Ungrateful bastard didn't even thank you." He said tired.

"Well, I haven't done anything yet, so, how will you be?" She asked.

"I'll be fine, just in the hospital for another two weeks and then I'll be back with you and the rest."

"You want to join us in our mission?" Shepard asked.

"No, I'm going to the front lines, the council has been under pressure to help the UCAF defend the traverse from any invasion attempts made by the geth. Well good luck to you Shepard." Nihlus saluted.

Shepard turned to her team.

"So, who's ready to get going?"

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That's all folks, I'll be going away for another few weeks and I might not be back.

So love to all my readers.

BTW Check out The New series: Halo Origins, I started it for those who are curious about the origins of the Alpha Spartans!