Disclaimer: Anything that belongs strictly to the Mass Effect universe is Bioware's; Sally, Vicky, Healion, Emil, Sakkara, Nula, and Agaric are mine and any other named characters you don't recognize beyond this point unless I say so.

CE 2176…2100 hours…February 9…Illyria, Elysium

"There, finished." Agaric said as he pulls his Omni-tool back from a metal backpack looking object on one of the only tables left on the bottom floor of the club, sliding it over to three identical packs also on the table.

"Yes! Great job Lieutenant Denarius!" Sam pats the turian on his back causing a momentary look of pride as he flexes his mandibles before his stoic composure returns and he thanks the commander for her compliment. She turns and walks to the only other table which was moved to the middle of the room, sitting next to it is the twenty foot tall pylon that is the jammer that Agaric and Healion worked together to build using various electronics in the room for the circuits, and several chairs and tables for the foundation and body of the device, using Omni-Gel made from the damaged armor of the dead krogan battle master to hold it together.

"Okay everyone, form up on me!" Sam yells to the group of people scattered through the room.

After everyone is gathered she calls Nula to the table along with Sally, Agaric, Healion, Sakkara, and Emil to the table itself and the other soldiers in the crowd to gather behind. Some in the crowd were still a little wary of Sakkara, though now it was mostly because of her blunt personality rather than because she assaulted the place thanks to Emil, who the group had warmed up to, spoke well of her before he had the idea to crawl through the vents to the roof to do recon up until a half hour ago.

"Ok guys, this is what I got, Nula, bring up the map." Sam says.

Nula uses her Omni-tool to activate a holographic map of the whole city that covers the table.

"Now the three places we need to go are all in different directions, there is a bunker I want to get all civilians in down this road here," Sam points and the map quickly zooms in to the bunker, "it is ten clicks away from where we are now, that is too risky a walk fifteen civilians that far but according to Emil's intel, there are some enemy Mako Tanks in a garage a click towards that direction." She waves her hand over the map and it moves down the street to the garage, "If we send a small squad to take them and bring them here we can load up the civilians and get them to the bunker, who here knows how to operate a Mako?"

Two humans in the group of soldiers raise their hands, "We know how Commander." They say in unison

"Good, let's see…" Sam looks at the group around the table, "Sally, Healion, you two are going with them. We need those Mako's but I don't want to lose anyone so if you can't take them fall back."

"From what I could see they should be fine, especially since Sally has that armor from that dead asari fixed up, though I still think you should have taken it Shepard." Emil says.

"Yes, I added another layer of protective armor to it as well, we will be fine Shepard." Healion adds quickly.

Sam nods, "Good thinking Healion, and I don't need it as much as Sally does, I can make my own so having another layer is kind of redundant and since she is a Vanguard she needs the extra cover more than I do."

Sam waves her hand over the map once more, pulling it to Xenosis before she lifts her hand to zoom it out slightly, "Now that is west into the city, so you guys are going right once we leave. You," she says pointing to a turian with red face paint who had a Mantis he found on one of the batarians Sam had thrown over the side of the railing earlier, "You are going with Nula and Agaric to the Comms Tower in the south, We need to contact the Alliance, otherwise these criminals are going to overrun us eventually."

"Yes Ma'am, Commander." He says as he salutes.

"Lastly, we have the defense turrets, Sakkara and Emil; you're with me on that, it's five clicks away so prepare for a long walk."

Sakkara cocks her Claymore, "Got it Shepard."

"Yes, time to go pop some heads." Emil says as he pulls out his Viper sniper rifle.

"Ok then, you two," Sam says pointing at the only two soldiers left, a human and a salarian, the human with a rocket launcher he found in his hands, the Salarian, a Predator in his hand and an Avenger on his back, "I need you to stay here, don't let anything get through that door once everyone leaves unless we radio back, Agaric did give one of you a quick rundown on how to use the comms unit?"

"Yes, Commander." The salarian answers.

"Good, Now I know this is going to be dangerous, but we can't give up, no matter what. There is never a guarantee about these things but I'm going to push on. I'm going to fight till there is nothing left of me to save this colony, and I hope you all are ready to do the same." Sam says proudly to the group.

Everyone in the room, including the civilians, salute her as she makes her way to the other table, Sakkara and Emil close behind. She picks up and tosses Emil one of the four comm packs and then activates her Tech Armor before heading towards the door. They are tailed by all the other teams as they go down the corridor to the entrance. Once there Sam turns back to Healion, who pulls up his Omni-tool and, after pressing some of the holographic buttons, the red door control turns green. Sam touches the door control and the door slides open down the middle. The red sky was now replaced by an eerie yellow orange as twilight drew near. The light colored the streets and the bodies on them with a somewhat supernatural hue that sent a short chill down Samantha's spine. The teams then split up and head down their respective streets.

Author's note: First I am sorry I haven't posted a chapter in a chapter in a while for the people that like reading this, I actually have up to twelve chapters done but my internet has been on the fritz so I couldn't keep the internet up long enough to post anything. Second I want to let everyone who is looking forward to the actual crossovers I'm going to do them in in the years between the end of ME1 & 2 so I have a while yet to get to them, and I got stuck on chapter thirteen up until when I am posting this so I have a way to go, sorry. I hope you'll keep reading anyway and I'll get as far as I can before I hit another rut so that you'll have something to read until then.