After the Catalyst crashed on Earth, Major Coats, that had taken command after Anderson, had sent teams to scour through the wreckage. What surprised everyone though is what they found buried underneath.

Shepard was buried at the centre of the wreckage with a dome of biotic energy established around him. He seemed to be unconscious but the fact that his amps were still active meant that he was still alive. It took a few days but they eventually uncovered the Dome. Coats had informed Hackett of the fact that they had found Shepard. Knowing of his relationship with Miranda Lawson, Hackett had ordered his Comm Officers with raising the Normandy and relaying her a message.

It took another few days, but the Normandy had arrived at the Alliance Dry-dock. While Joker stayed behind in another effort to reactivate Edi, Miranda, Garrus, Tali and Doctor Chakwas headed for central London where Shepard still lay comatose.

Miranda immediately set to work, trying to find a way to break Shepard's barrier, without killing him. Chakwas, who had nearly been as eager as Miranda to see the Commander up and running again, had offered her services to Miranda to investigate ways in repairing Shepard's various implants. Tali, while unable to help Miranda's efforts had been working aboard the Normandy with Joker in an effort to reawaken Edi.

Days passed and still no break in the barrier. It had impressed Miranda that Shepard, while comatose, was still able to keep the barrier up but she also knew about the impact of what over-used amps could do to someone. At this point he would be dehydrated or malnourished and if they couldn't get it down soon, the amps would kill him. She knew of one way to burn out the amps, but it would have to be carefully done as it could kill him. It wasn't exactly preferable but she was desperate to wake Shepard, to kill him for putting her through this, she thought to herself.

After discussing it with the others, they devised that someone would have to try and absorb the energy being given out by Shepard's barrier in order to decrease the size of the Dome, then someone would attempt to hack into his Omni-tool, in order to issue the order for his amps to deactivate. She had volunteered to absorbing the biotic energy. One main problem however would be that of Shepard's Omni-tool. There were layers and layers of constant replicating code to break through. The security of his private tool, especially after the clone incident, had been improved by Edi and now it was almost impossible to break into.

Miranda was busy going over submitted prototypes of various high impact biotic implants that she would need to test in order to survive the energy absorption. What she didn't realise however was that Tali had arrived, looking to give her an update on the situation with the Normandy and Edi.

"How are the efforts going with trying to break the Barrier?" Tali asked.

Miranda's shoulders slumped a bit, but she still kept the determined look on her face.

"Slow, but we have to figure out something soon or otherwise it will have all been for nothing and Shepard will die." Miranda replied.

"Well, Edi's recovery seems to be coming along as well. It will hopefully be completed soon because as we both know, the only one capable of breaking into Shepard's tool is Edi. Joker is panicking constantly and has broken three fingers in the last hour, but we hope to have her online soon. Anyway, I just said I give you an update. I'll contact you with any big news." Tali told her, turning to walk out.

"Thank you, Tali." Miranda replied.

It didn't take long but Tali was back inside Shepard's ship. The Normandy was beginning to look like herself again as panels had been re-beaten and re-fitted, the electrical systems seemed to have been repaired and rebalanced and apart from the occasional blowtorch, the gentle hum of the Drive Core was the only noise that could be heard in the hallways. As the lift opened on deck three, Tali could clearly hear Joker, his voice coming from the direction of the A.I Core. As she got closer, Joker got clearer and he seemed to be even more pissed from when she had left.

"God damn it! Why aren't you coming back?! We found Shepard, We got back home! We need you.. I need you! Please come back Edi!" Joker shouted. Tali could see that he was rigid. He wanted to punch something to relieve the anger, but instead, broke down crying.

"Hey Joker? You ok?" Tali asked, running over to comfort him.

"Do I look ok? I've been here since we got back but nothing is working! There must be something to bring her back!" Joker said, through tears.

"Well, I'm here, so let me take a look..." Tali replied, desperate to help.

Tali could see just how badly Joker wanted to see Edi again. It was the same look she saw in Miranda's eyes as they were flying back to Earth. That look of intense determination. That want to see their loved ones again.

They got to work. It took around another 10 hours of constant hard work but Tali was hopeful that they could get Edi back online. Turning off the Normandy's main power grid, Tali had Chatika oversee the junctions and circuits, while she once again reconnected the A.I servers back onto the main systems. Once Chatika was finished overseeing the connections and had reported no fault, Tali quickly prepared a harmless virus to test Edi's firewall protection capabilities.

Giving the honour to Joker, Tali stood back as he attempted a reboot. The hum from the engine below them, told them that the power had been reset. Joker hung his head as he went to the controls. When the servers around him began buzzing with life again, he looked around him in hopeful anticipation. Tali introduced her virus and was happy to see that it had been snuffed out and destroyed almost as quickly as it had been introduced into the system hardware.

Joker slowly turned and stared at Edi's android body that had been laid out on the small table along the back wall. Grasping her hand as tight as he could, he spoke out.

"Edi? Are you there?"

There was no reply for a second. He asked again.

"Hello? Edi? Please tell me you're ok!"

Joker was just about to leave go of Edi's hand when she suddenly squeezed his own hand back.

"Hello Jeff. How are you?" Edi asked, in her familiar tone.

Joker smiled from ear to ear. They watched as Edi opened her eyes and sat up on the edge of the table.

"I notice system failures throughout the Normandy. Preforming Diagnostics... Hello Ms Vas Normandy, How are you?" Edi continued.

Joker left go of her hand and wrapped his arms around her. A loud audible crack followed.

"I'm so happy you're ok.. I really missed you Edi. Please don't ever leave me again." Joker said, crying slightly.

"It's ok Jeff. You really should be more careful though, It seems as though you have broken your arm." Edi replied. Joker placed a kiss on Edi's lips.

"Right now, all my frail bones don't matter."

Tali stood back and left them alone. Heading back to the airlock, Tali called out to Edi. As her voice came on again over the intercom, Tali asked her to report to the site on which Shepard still lay, telling her that her help was needed. As Edi told her that she would be there promptly, Tali then decided that she had to call Miranda and tell her the good news. Bringing up her Omni-tool, she quickly vidcalled Miranda.

"Good news to report Miranda. We got Edi active again and she's agreed to help us. I'm on my way to you now." Tali said, rather happily due to the fact that Edi was back.

"Good. But please hurry. The dome just shrank so that means that either the amps are beginning to die or worse, that there's nothing left in Shepard for them to work off of." Miranda told her, fear evident in her voice.

As Miranda hung up the vidcall, Tali now began to fear for Shepard's life and then not knowing when she started, she found herself running in the direction of the dome site.