Without another word, she and Lennata get back in the taxi and make their way up to the roof. Lewa and Iysis watch them rise up out of sight before giving each other a small wink as they walk in through the double doors at the entrance.

The taxi makes it way up to the roof and lands quietly. The door scissors upwards as Lennata and Lyra step out, their elegant forms silhouetted against faint neon white building lights among other colors. Lennata notices a door for roof access and walks towards it. She slides her hand against the cool metallic surface.

"The door is thick, maybe about a-" She taps the door, the sound echoes immediately back, "half a foot thick?"

She tries the handle in vain and laughs to herself before looking at Lyra.

"I guess they're smarter than they seem, It was still worth a shot."

She steps back and clenches her fists. Blue aura engulfs her, both in bright blue and white, as she summons it from her body. The hue of her blue eyes had become enhanced by it as she looks to Lyra.

"I guess let's let them know we're here."

Lyra tilts her head down and opens her hand towards the door in a "Be my guest" manner. Lennata, with a sharp fluid motion, launches her hand forward as she releases a biotic throw. The door caves in and Lennata uses her other hand to biotically tear the door out before letting it crash back down onto the roof, releasing her biotics. The alarms go off.

"I hope Lewa and Iysis are ready," she mumbles as she follows after Lyra.

Lyra reaches to her belt, pulling a headphone earbud from it. Placing it in one ear, she activates her omni-tool. Lennata can hear music coming from it. Lyra's head bobs to the beat of the rhythm. "Wait…..are you listening to music during an operation.", she asks incredulously.

Lyra gives her a wink over her shoulder as she pulls her Paladin from its holster. "Of course! Why? Don't you?", she asks sarcastically.

The alarm sounds reverberate down the stairwell. In the distance, Lyra catches the sounds of boots pounding up the stairs...maybe ten or twelve floors down. She turns to her partner. "Well, shall we go dance with these gentlemen?"

Lennata for a second couldn't believe what she was seeing. But after confirming that it actually did happen, she found herself liking the spectre all the more.

"If I had been some years younger, you might have well have already convinced me to want to have become a spectre."

Lennata walked beside the spectre, pacing themselves as they were about to greet their audience. Once more embers of blue and white rose from, not only her body, but from Lyra's as well.

"Those headphones waterproof?" Before Lyra could answer, Lennata threw a biotic blast at a fire alarm as they reached the bottom of the stairs. Water hailed down on them.

Lyra looked at Lennata, "And what if I said they weren't?"

"Well then your crap out of luck"

Lyra laughed, "Then luck must be on my side."

The Asari's body's glistened with coated water. Lennata loved the water, sometimes though she wondered if because of the Asari's ancient aquatic background, but regardless, she still enjoyed it. The cool touch of the liquid tasted sweet, as with the sound it brought with it to her ears. The sheets of water provided sound cover for their delicate steps as well as provided some illusion to their movements, and in a dimly lit, parking garage type of structure… it was perfect.

Lyra's mind took in her surroundings. This is what she lived for, the thrill of danger mixed with violence. She heard the orders coming from behind the door at the opposite end of the room.

"Security says we have two intruders. I repeat two intruders, asari by the look of them. Orders are to shoot on sight!"

Lyra frowns, "Well I guess they want more than a dance huh?"

She cocks her sidearm. The doors burst open and over fifteen armed security personnel charge into the room. Lennata takes note of the varying kinds of weapons: Everything from shotguns to SMGs. She looks over at Lyra and notices a kind of glow emit from her eyes.

"Well Lennata? Shall we?" she asks before turning to face the guards.

"Let's dance boys!" Without warning she's off like a rocket barrelling into two guards.

She slams them, HARD into the nearest column, sending spider-webs of cracks throughout the surface. Grasping their helmets, the spectre gives their heads a hard twist. The sound of bones breaking reaches her ears even over the sound of gunfire.

She feels their bodies go limp as she retrieves a Tempest SMG from one of the guards.

Lennata watches the spectre barreling across the room with sheer, brute, force. Lennata shakes her head as a soldier escaped around Lyra and tried to sneak up on Lennata. She pulls out her second phalanx from her right thigh and shoots him dead center in the forehead. The guard falls back and collides with the floor, causing water to jump up as if frightened.

She turns her head and looks down at him, "Your steps make too much noise."

She could feel it now, the hunt kicking in. She became a shark in a tank with a shoal of fish, who unwittingly assumed that numbers and a bunch of shiny "scales" would deter her. She biotically charged beside another guard, and swung her hand down, relieving him of his side arm, and permanently, incapacitating him.

Lyra feels the barrel of a rifle press against the back of her head as she crouched.

"Don't move!"

She smiles to herself, shifting her weight. In the blink of an eye, she twists, wrapping her arm around the rifle pointing it at the floor. Before the guard can react, she slams her head into his, shattering the visor. With a biotic strike to the chest, she hurls him into several of his colleagues. She opens fire with the Tempest, sending a horde of rounds into everything that moves in her line of vision.

Lennata finishes dropping another guard before she hears the pellet sprays of bullets, "Oh Go-" she sends her hands out in front of her, her body coating in a biotic barrier as the bullets ricochet off her body, ending up striking two more guards beside Lennata before the spray stops. Lennata lets her hands drop as she gives a glare at Lyra.

"Seriously?"

Lyra laughs, "If I knew you couldn't handle something like that I wouldn't have even attempted it."

"Oh really or was that-"

She turns and runs her fist through a visor of another guard as he tried to pummel her with a baton of some sort.

"Just your way of saying 'ah I'm getting bored with this shit, how about I just light the whole place up?" Lennata speaks upbeat, but noticeably not happy she got caught off guard.

Lyra winks at her before scooping up an Eviscerator shotgun from the floor, dropping the Tempest.

"Only five left. Hey boys? How's about you give up nicely and we'll let you walk away from this."

Her words are met with a hail of gunfire.

"I guess I'll take that as a no then."

She warps forward in the midst of three of the guards shooting one full in the chest with the shotgun. She twists, bringing her leg up around the closest guard's neck, dragging him to the ground before unloading another round into the third guard's arm. A jerk of her leg muscles crushes the windpipe of the struggling guard.

The last two guards watch as their fellow comrades are obliterated without as much as really testing the Asari dressed in red armor. They look to each other and cautiously step back, fingers on the triggers.

"I wouldn't do that, I mean… did you see what that shotgun she has did to your buddy over there?"

They both freeze as Lennata peeks her head in the middle of them, "oh and she's a spectre."

She moves back and grabs both of their helmets, crashing them together with immense force, aided by her biotics. They slump together on the floor and Lennata prods them with the tip of her boot their bodies lay unmoving. She leans down and searches their body if anything of interest, finding none, and returns her search to their helmets. She pulls off one of them and removes a radio ear piece. Opening up her omni-tool, which lights up a neon blue, she records the frequency before sending the frequency signal to Lyra. She then fits the earpiece into her ear.

Lyra's Orange omni-tool responds to the frequency. She catches the sounds of their target, Kalista Troia, giving orders.

"Alpha team, what's your status? Damn it! Alright Gamma teams move to floor 54, my office. The rest of you search the building! Do not let them escape!"

Lyra straightens up and drops the shotgun in the pooling blood.

"Guess we now know where she is."

She picks up a finely crafted Avenger series rifle.

"Let's go have a talk with her. Hopefully the others won't have any opposition."

-Meanwhile down on the ground floor-

Lewa and Iysis already had strolled right through the, probably bullet-proof, glass double doors with the name "Fenris" printed onto them. Iysis noticed the lobby room and went to the front empty greeting counter, leaning onto it. Papers were scattered everywhere as the person who sat there tried to escape as soon as possible, probably due to the alarm. Iysis learned down furthermore, her ponytail which already sat slightly at her left shoulder, now sliding up the side of her face. What she saw on the three computer screens caused her to snicker. The black and white security footage of Lyra and Lennata had glitched and distorted them slightly into wavy leaning figures as she caught them run off screen. She stood back up and looked at the crystal chandelier hanging above them.

"For a corrupt corporation they sure love interior decorating."

Lewa's eyes give a tactical sweep of the foyer.

"Those with too much money often do."

He walks over to the computer at the greeter's desk, standing next to Iysis.

"Let's see where we're heading." He sits down and begins to search the system for their destination.

"Level 1-7 Legal department….no…wait….here we go….sub-basement levels."

He glances over the descriptions. His fingers stop moving.

"Iysis...I think you should see this…" He turns the monitor to her. The sub-basement levels include labs for developing variations of illegal drugs, weapons development, and children testing.

"They are experimenting on children!"

Iysis moves forward, the screens mirroring in her eyes as she reads through it. Her eyes widen in horror.

"Radiation exposure... Skin regenerative testing... Lewa, these children are only six to eleven years old!" she shouts in disbelief.

"Humans, Turians, Asari... they practically are trying to hybridize different properties of different species!"

If she wasn't wearing gloves, the knuckles on her fists would have been white to the eye from clenching them so tightly in anger. She memorizes the basement level and her eyes tighten, vengeance blazing in them. She swiftly turns and runs towards the stairs.

Lewa was about to protest but Iysis paused and gave a steel cold stare at him, "Don't try to stop me and tell me no Lewa."

She returned to her course and reached the doors leading for down stair access.

"But I could really use your help though," she called quietly her eyes softening a little as she looked from the descending flight of stairs to his dark round eyes. She then took a step forward and the door closed behind her.

Lewa sighs and activates his omni-tool. "Lyra? We have a situation."

The spectre's voice responds in his ear. "Define…..situation."

"Well, Iysis has taken it upon herself to go exploring and may end up in….trouble."

"Where did she go?"

"Sub-basement levels, something about a lab that was running experiments on children."

A silence answers this statement.

"They're using children?"

"So it would seem. What should I do? Should I go after her or continue the mission."

"Keep to the mission for now. We're keeping tabs on their communications. If she gets into trouble we'll let you know. But for now, find that server!"

Lewa sighs and heads over to the elevator doors pushing the down button. The twin doors slide open and he walks in. Using the card reader, he swipes the keycard and pushes the button marked Sub-Level 3. The doors close and the elevator begins its descent.

Iysis skated down the stairs quickly till she came across a large military font printed "3" on the wall next to a door. She glanced over the door and noticed the keypad. Without the card Lewa had, there was no easy way in. Iysis grinned, despite the security; she has broken into places like this before. Her hand biotically charges and she smashes the keypad, shorting it, making sparks flicker and leap free. A malfunction screen popped up.

"Please enter override code," a artificial womanly voice spoke.

"Well, since you said please."

Iysis remembering a code from the monitor screen before punched in "4311."

The screen blinked yellow as it started unraveling the command then turned green.

"Access Granted, Welcome." The sound of mechanical locks behind the doors started to wind and click, popping the door open.

Iysis cautiously opens the door and peers out from behind it. The air was dark and cold and,

"Damp?" she mutters to herself confused as she pulls her fingers from the door, something wet coating them.

The lights flicker on at the presence of a being and Iysis almost gags. The room was harboring cylindrical tubes filled with green mucus like fluid, judging by one of the tubes that had already been shattered. She steps forward and shakes her hand free of the liquid when an eerie thought comes to mind. All of the tubes had some sort of body floating in them, connected to wiring and monitors except- "KLANK!" Iysis eyes darted to her right. A silver cup had rolled off a medical table and hit the ground. Iysis took a deep breath and let the door seal behind her. She watched everywhere, carefully.

She reaches for the right side of her hip with her left hand and grips the hilt of her custom made weapon. It was a baton that could effectively disorient and knock out someone if properly used instead of killing them, with electricity. The room was elongated and rectangular with either side lined up with the cylinders and four medical tables with various surgical tools spread out on them, in front of her. A shadowy figure passed her peripheral vision and she spun to her left, hand held out to her right, keeping no chances for openings. There was nothing. She cautiously walked over to the lockers at the far left of the wall which was situated by another door. As she moved forward she kept her back parallel to the wall.

"Iysis!"

Iysis screamed and covered her mouth, her back slamming unintentionally into the lockers, her heart racing a mile a minute. The voice had come over her omni-tool. It was Lennata.

"Iysis what the hell-"

"Hush!"

"Don't you tell me to hush, you just screamed in my ear! When I get a hold of-"

"Hush!"

There was a long pause. Iysis saw it, or at least part of "it." A small human like leg scooted out of view as quickly as it could behind one of the medical tables, the owner of the leg obscured.

"Okay I waited long enough. Tell me what's going on."

"Can you go one minute without nagging on me, I'm fine, go pick on Lewa for a while now."

"Nagging on you? We are on a mission and you're going to say I'm nag-"

Iysis dialed a few buttons and muted Lennata. Iysis walked forward and listened intently.

-Transmission End-

"She!" Lennata turned to Lyra in disbelief, "She!" she turned back to her omni-tool fiddling with it rapidly,"She hung up on me!"

Lennata growled as she tried to find a way to grant communication with Iysis. She cursed under her breath when she found none.

"Lewa!" she shouted into the earpiece. "Are you with Iysis now? Have you found her? She is going to jeopardize this mission!"

Lyra yawned a little, "You asked her to prove herself, well here is a great opportunity for her to do that. And if you keep messing with that omni-tool of yours any longer I'm going to start suspecting you actually are worrying about her."

Lennata immediately stopped and looked at Lyra.

"What! No! I just- she!" Lennata found herself unable to articulate words correctly.

She paused and took a breath, loosening her tongue in her mouth.

"She is going to jeopardize this whole mission."

Lyra shakes her head, "Actually, her idea to go 'exploring' will help us in the long run. Who knows? She might find something useful. So quit your bitching and let's keep moving"

Lennata folds her arms, "We're just now going into part of this mission unprepared-"

Lyra motions for her to be quiet. She points upwards at a sign. "Floor 54" the sign reads. She crouches at the corner of the hallway and peers around the corner. A small group of guards sit crowded around two large metal doors. CEO - Kalista Troia reads on a plaque above the door frame.

Lyra turns back to Lennata. "Guards ahead. I've got a plan. When I give you the signal, back me up."

Lennata hesitates, "Wait, what sig….." Before she can finish, Lyra rolls out of cover and strikes the ground with her biotics, sending a powerful shockwave rolling down the hallway. Not missing a beat, she dashes after the wave, rifle in hand.

Lennata had now completely lost her flow. She hated being unprepared, and the stunt that Iysis pulled had left too many variables open.

Lennata gritted her teeth, "I'll just have more of the pleasure of explaining that to her myself."

Lennata watched Lyra and then looked up. She noticed catwalks above probably for vent maintenance and biotic charged up to them. As she watched Lyra below a small smile crept upon her face. It reminded her of when she was being chased by Lewa. She launched a biotic pull at the door, ripping the door from its hinges, and collapsing it onto the guards.

Lyra smiles as she runs.

'Good girl', she thinks to herself as the combination of the two opposing biotic forces decimates the security forces. Sprinting over the fallen doors she slides into the room rifle in hand searching for a target.

An asari with dark blue skin sits behind a large old-fashioned oak desk. She gives off an air of superiority as she gives Lyra a cold stare and a sneer.

"What is the meaning of this?", she asks coldly. "You really think you'll get away with whatever you're doing?"

Lyra aims the rifle. "I'm a spectre. I'm above any kind of laws or crimes you'd try to pin on me"

"A spectre? Hmm. Then I guess there's no reason to play games. I was told you might be coming. I must admit though, I expected a bigger team. Let's be honest, two people? Hardly enough for a security force like mine."

Lennata leaps down from the cat walk, biotics reducing her fall as she sets lightly back onto the ground. She steps onto the makeshift carpet made out from the door and walks beside Lyra.

"You say that but we've already dealt with your welcoming committee and your door men, in fact they've now effectively made it their job to be the floor mat."

Lennata watches the Asari for a moment, classifying her to be no threat against the two of them.

"I want answers Kalista", Lyra asks calmly. "Who is Hyperion?"

Lennata stops at this. "Lyra, what are you talking about?"

Lyra shakes her head, "Not now."

Kalista gives the pair an evil grin. "You really think you can stop him? A single spectre against the might of Hyperion?"

Lennata raises her Phalanx at Kalista. "Will someone tell me what's going on here?"

Kalista glances over their shoulders.

"Skorch, would you show them out, the hard way if you would."

The floor shakes as a hulking figure approaches from behind. Lyra never wavers, but Lennata turns to face the newcomer. Black armor glints in the light of the overhead lamps. Its not until the Krogan gets closer that she notices the dark red that complements the black. But the most terrifying part is not his size or his stature; it's the tongues of flames that dance over his body.

Kalista rises from her seat and pushes a button on her desk. A door opens on the side of the wall, leading to a stairwell.

Lyra turns to Lennata with a sly smile, "I'll handle the bitch, you take care of the walking oven."

Lyra turns to the CEO and gives her a murderous look. "Time we had a talk."

Kalista turns on her heel and flees out the door. Lyra dashes forward and barely makes it before the door hisses shut.

Disregarding the fleeing SPECTRE, Skorch holds out his arm and the "inferno" billows forth at the surprised hunter. She back flips away, noticing the deep purple hues to the blaze.

"Wait, are those biotics?"

Skorch smiles in appreciation, "Ah, so you've noticed my unique talent. Good, scare tactics are so dishonorable."

Lennata pauses at those words. "Hmm….a noble krogan…that's not something you see every day."

The battlemaster nods, "My clan never understood why I chose honor over them. But the only remnant I carry are the fires from that day."

He raises his arms and the fire becomes more intense, radiating out from his armor.

"My brothers died that day, the flames left their mark upon me."

Lennata feels an odd sense of kinship to this warrior. The air around Skorch ripples as he warps in front of her, arms raised to strike

Moving with lightning-fast reflexes, she rolls out from under his arms, coming up on his right side. A flurry of punches rain down on his side…..but to no avail.

"Nice try, young one. But your punches need a little more "oomph" to them. Fiery tendrils coil and flicker their way out from his side.

'great, this again' Thinking fast, she throws a warp field out striking the fire.

The conflicting forces detonate with the force of a small bomb, knocking both combatants back. Lennata slams into Kalista's desk while the krogan barely flinches

He begins to walk towards her once more to finish her. She lowers her hands to her pistols.

"Why work for someone like this? You have to be aware of what they do here."

The krogan bows his head in shame. "I have no choice. It is the only way I can help those in need here."

"HOW is helping slavers and monsters supposed to help people?"

"The deal is that we don't deal in children. The young should never be exposed to this."

Lennata is taken aback, his voice rings with the truth. The Krogan has been manipulated 'Maybe he can help….if I can convince him'

"Is that really what they told you? They're lying to you Skorch!"

The krogan's flames dim suddenly. "….what?"

"They are lying to you! Children are being experimented on here! If you don't believe me, my "colleague" is down on Sub-level 3 right now, you can see for yourself."

Skorch brings his hands up to his scarred visage. "How could I have been so blind?"

The fists clench in rage, he throws back his head and roars! As if responding to his emotions, the inferno expands out throwing or crushing anything it touches. Lennata backs against the wall, the fires dangerously close to her face.

"Skorch! Please! Control yourself!"

The warrior takes a deep breath, controlling his breathing.

The fires once again respond to his will, retreating back to whence they came. Skorch lowers his gaze to the asari, "I'm sorry. The fire can be…..difficult."

The sleek hunter steps forward cautiously.

"I need your help. Do you know where that stairwell comes out?"

The Krogan nodded and turns out the door walking down the hall to the elevators. Shoving his hands deep into the seam, the old soldier wrenches them open. He stops, putting a hand to his earpiece.

"Security is on the way up. What's the plan?"

Lennata steps past the krogan leaping onto the cable. "Meet you at the bottom."

"Just remember that if you're lying to me Asari, we'll have to finish our quarrel soon." The Krogan calls after Lennata.

Lennata pushes the matter aside for now as she suspends herself from the cable, wrapping her left leg around it, freeing her hands, the guards in the elevator below unsuspecting of the terror above. Pistols out, she opens fire as she goes into freefall, legs providing balance on the cable as she slides.