Shepard:

Shepard walked into Chora's Den and saw utter destruction. There were bodies everywhere, and not many of them in one piece. Though she'd been somewhat expecting that when she saw the way the door had been blown open- it looked like a rocket, or a very powerful grenade.

"So, where did you guys get the heavy explosives to blow the door open?" She asked, seeing the two sitting at a table not far away.

Ty was holding an ice pack to his head and smiled. "I just used my head."

"Really fast really tough armor." Bourne clarified, tossing a knife from hand to hand, seeming bored.

Shepard raised an eyebrow at their comments. "I don't get it."

"He basically turned himself into a human rocket- head first." He stood up, and looked around at all the chaos. "So, are you going to chew us out for being reckless or not waiting for you or something? Because if you are, you may want to wait until Ty's in a state to really take it in."

Shepard let a genuine smile cross her lips. "Can't argue with what is effective. If he has to be shit faced to make a bar look like this, I'll stock up on tequila."

"Well, to be fair I did a lot of the work too- he basically just ran around and I threw guys in his path so he'd liquidate them." He gestured to one particular spot. "Though I figured doing that with the Krogan wasn't such a good idea, so I just went with the old fashioned way on him."

Ty laughed. "Bow chikka bow wow."

Bourne rolled his eyes. "Anyway, you didn't exactly say what you came here for."

Shepard looked to the hall that split off the main bar, "We are here for Fist."

"The ladies gave him that name." Ty said again, obviously too drunk to control his already out of control attitude.

"I wonder if any of these mercs had something to gag him with." Bourne commented, turning to glare at him for a moment. "Anyway, I'm guessing this guy's got info on Saren, or else he can lead us to someone who does?"

Ty stood up and patted Bourne on the back making his armor shift to an ugly green and purple plaid. "Lets just go with them and stop asking questions."

"You know, despite those drinks, I'm still sober enough to kick your ass if you don't put my armor back to normal in the next five seconds."

Ty smiled and poked Bourne in the chest making the armor revert back to it's basic form. "Shepard, got any of that sober up juice that Chakwas has? I really don't want to deal with the hangover this is going to cause."

She reached back on her belt and pulled up a syringe, "Sure, I always keep it on me for late nights."

"Good, can you-", She cut Ty off by moving behind him and jabbing the needle into the side of his neck. She saw his pupils dilate and then contract back to normal. He suddenly didn't look so lazy but instead looked in pain.

"Yeah, remember what I said about him hitting the door head first? I meant that literally." Bourne said.

She bit her lower lip after thinking about it. "Ouch, must have hurt."

"He's lucky he was drunk at the time." He glanced over at the door. "To be fair, it was somewhat my fault since he expected me to open it, but he didn't give me much warning before he started running towards it at mach four."

Shepard lowered her head and just shook it, "You guys are like two year olds. Never thinking ahead and instead focusing on what's cool and peaks your interest. C'mon, if this Fist job goes well then you can come back on the Normandy."

Ty threw his arm in the air and yelled, "Yea- ouch ouch ouch." He kept his arm there and Shepard looked at him in question.

"You going to put that down?"

Ty looked up at it and had a pained look on his face, "It hurts to hold up but the pain of putting it down could be worse. Also, you said fist job."

Bourne walked over to him. "Full disclosure, it is really tempting to make some "let's find out" crack and yank it down, but we've got work to do." His pistol flew into his hand as he turned back to Shepard. "So I say we go pay Fist a visit."

Bourne walked towards Fist's office and was just out of earshot when Garrus leaned into her ear. "You sure you trust this guy Commander?"

Shepard looked back to Garrus questioningly, "What's wrong?"

Garrus never took his eyes off Bourne, "Something about him doesn't sit right with me. It's like I had a fight with him or something, but don't remember it. I can't really describe it."

Shepard just walked forward and made a mental note to talk to him about it later. Ty and Bourne were stacked on the door and ready to go. She pointed by them and had Kaidan and Ashley go right and Garrus go left with Ty.

"Not to be pessimistic, but unless he's completely deaf, he knows we're coming." Bourne commented, pistol at the ready. Shepard noticed that it was pretty heavily modified, but put that aside for later as well.

"Then I guess we better not disappoint." Shepard said, nodding to Garrus to hit the control to open the door.

Ty stepped forward with his pistol aimed at the two guards, "Freeze, hands in the air."

Shepard face palmed at the fact he was still holding his arm above his head.

"Stay back or we'll-"

Bourne cut him off. "Buddy, it's 8 on 2. Those'd be bad odds if you knew what the hell you were doing, which I can tell by the way you're holding those things, you don't. So how about you drop the guns before one of my friends he does something you'll regret...and seriously, how do I keep ending up being good cop?"

Shepard rolled her eyes at them, "I don't have time for this." With two quick shots she dropped both the guards and marched past Bourne and Ty- Pulling Ty's arm down to stop the stupidity from continuing.

"Oh yeah, that's why." Bourne muttered as he followed.

Shepard looked over to the side and saw a weapon's locker. She stepped over to it and hit a few quick buttons to open the locker. It shot open and she saw an assault rifle, a sniper rifle and a shotgun.

Bourne whistled softly. "Damn, you've gotta teach me how to do that."

Shepard looked over at him and tossed him the shotgun. Then she handed Ty the assault rifle and took the sniper rifle for herself. Now she had a Banshee V instead of a simple Avenger.

Bourne took out his previous shotgun and compared them. "I'll be honest...not really good with comparing these things. I lost my custom shottie a while back, so I just took this off one of my targets."

Shepard looked from the shotgun he was holding and the one she just threw him. "The one I just gave you is a Scimitar IV. It's a lot better than your Storm III."

He looked at them and shrugged. "I'll take your word for it." He said, sliding the new one onto his waist. "Think I'll hang onto the other one though, just in case I need a club." He caught her look as he slid it onto his back, where a sniper rifle would usually be carried. "What? It's worked before."

"Sorry, I've only seen pussies not use a sniper." Her tone was cold and she really meant it. She was from the N7 sniper division and that was where they separated Adults from children. One of her friends that was in that switched to being a Vanguard. Poor bastard.

If he was actually insulted, it didn't show. "Yeah, well, I'm a pretty piss poor shot with one of those- and I'm probably being too generous." He shrugged. "I tend to prefer to get close anyway- not hard to do when I can cover a couple hundred meters in the blink of an eye."

Shepard pulled her pistol up and took position next to the door to Fist's office.

"So, do we want to be subtle and try taking him by surprise, or do we just kick the door in?"

"Good question. How about we use a diversion?"Shepard replied looking at Ty.

Ty took a few steps back and put his hands up as far as they could go without hurting. "Stop, injured guy remember? Can't Kaidan or Bourne do it? They have barriers after all."

She nodded and looked at Kaidan, "You can consider that a standing order. Now, get ready to run in once I open the door."

"But Commander I-",Kaidan cut himself off quickly when she gave him her death glare.

"If you're too scared to do it Alenko, I think I can pull it off on my own anyway." Bourne said with a smug grin.

Kaidan took it as a challenge and puffed up, "Okay, everyone out of the way."

Ty leaned over to Bourne and whispered, "Look who's balls finally dropped."

Bourne simply walked next to Alenko. "Alright, I'll go in first and throw out a couple Singularities. You throw a couple warp fields into those, and we have an explosion that ought to deal with whatever security Fist has left."

Kaiden put his hand on Bourne's shoulder and answered with a sour tone. "Thanks Bourne, but I got this."

"Uh huh." Skepticism dripped from his tone. "Shepard, hit the door."

She leaned over and hit the button. The door hissed and then died quickly. She looked back at the others and looked to see if someone knew what had happened.

Garrus spoke first, "Maybe sabotage. Wouldn't be the first time I've seen it."

"It could be, then again on Eden Prime some doors were on a circuit with others and if you broke a door four more wouldn't work", Ashley followed up with.

Everyone looked back at Ty. "Uh, sorry?"

Bourne sighed. "Alright, plan B." He raised both hands, aimed at the door. "You may want to stand back a bit unless you like getting blown up."

Ty looked at Bourne with a smile, "Oh, you know how to use flare?"

He didn't even look his way as he replied. "It's a work in progress. Seriously Shepard, you should move back."

She looked at his face, which for once held a look of determination, and decided that listening was probably wise. "Okay, just don't kill yourself."

"Yeah, not on today's agenda." He said as she got behind him.

He closed his eyes for a moment, then they shot open, blazing with light, and two almost identical orbs flew from his hand, one a fraction of a second behind the other.

Shepard could see the Warp field for a moment before the other orb hit it, causing a detonation that blew the door inward, fragments sliding across the floor.

"Yeah, a flare would have been cooler. But you still get style points for the explosion", Ty commented.

"How many style points would- forget it." He moved through the doorway, holding his pistol at the ready, taking cover at the edge of the wall.

"Do I have to do everything myself?" Shepard heard someone complaining. "Time to die little soldiers!"

"Yeah,that was pair of defense turrets." Bourne said, popping his head around the corner and hurriedly yanking it back. "I'm not going solo on this one."

Ty rushed in first just screaming, "Today is a good day to die!"

Bourne stopped him cold, waiting until he couldn't dodge to stick out his arm, and driving him back against the wall. "How about we actually take advantage of the fact that there's this many of us?"

Ty pulled the assault rifle off his back and looked angry. "God, you have the uncanny ability to ruin good chances to quote media without people knowing about it."

"Cry me a river." Shepard said, moving through the door as well, followed by the rest. It was actually a bit cramped with that many of them. "Okay, Kaidan, left turret. Ashley right...GO!"

Ashley pulled out her shotgun and dove out into the open blasting the first turret with a carnage shot. At that moment, Kaidan copied Bourne and fired off a Warp followed by a throw.

Bourne swung himself around the corner, a few shots bouncing off his barrier as he threw out a pair of warp orbs of his own, making sure the turrets were destroyed. As he walked forward, he he yanked his arm backwards, and a pistol flew past him and hit the wall.

"Well, looks like you're having a shit day, eh Fist?"

Shepard stepped in and passed Bourne, "Okay, now tell me what happened to the Quarian."

Fist just about pissed himself as he put his hands in the air, "I don't know where she is, that's the truth."

She glanced at Bourne. "Are you going to try that stupid good cop bullshit, or can I just put a round in his leg?"

Bourne chuckled. "Actually, I had a new idea. You be bad cop-" he stored his pistol, and pulled his shoulder knife out of its sheath. "And I'll be worse cop." He took a step towards Fist, who back peddled until he was against the wall.

Ty marched past both of them and put his hand on Fist chest with a skip in his step, "And I get to be the cop from hell."

Slowly red energy- which to Shepard looked like a bunch of ones and zeros- flowed around Ty's hand and then began to flow over Fist's chest. Fist began to struggle and scream as the energy continued to spread. Then, when it was covering his entire body but his mouth Ty spoke in an insane tone that sounded more like his true self than anyway he had spoke before.

"Now, I can really make it painful from here or we can go get the Quarian. Which I know you know the location of."

"Huh. I was just going to threaten to castrate him or cut his eyes out or something, but I think your way works better." Bourne commented, putting his knife away.

Fist's pain had fully taken over and he began blurting everything, "She is in the alley near here but you will never make it there in time. My mercs are going to kill her any second."

"Wanna bet?" Bourne said, turning and sprinting out the door. Shepard had to admit he was fast.

She turned to ask Ty if that was typical, but he was also gone now- as was the energy that had been surrounding Fist.

"What do we do with-"

Shepard cut Kaidan off by putting a bullet through Fist's head. "Come on, let's get over there and back them up. Fist neglected to mention how many guys he sent."

"You could have asked him that before you killed him." Kaidan muttered, apparently not thinking she'd hear.

"Hey, Lieutenant Alenko, do me a favor and head back to the Normandy so you can start writing up the report for this event."

Bourne:

As I exited the office, I saw that reinforcements had arrived, but I didn't stop to deal with them, knowing that the others could handle it. I just charged into one, bounced off him, and charged into the one nearest the door. He stumbled back, and I threw a knife into his head before running out the door and towards Tali.

Man, Cecilia does not fuck around. I didn't even think about the fact that she'd probably kill those two workers. Though I'm guessing Wrex is going to owe her a few credits for killing Fist- unless Ty kills him with that weird Matrix code first, in which case I may have to put him in Stasis to get him to shut up about it.

I rounded the corner that I knew would lead to the spot, and what I saw was pretty close to what I expected, Tali standing in front of a Turian, a couple mercs trying to sneak up on her- the only problem being that instead of a pair of Salarians, they were a pair of Krogan.

I'm going to slap the shit out of Ty for this I thought as I quickly considered my options. Tali hadn't seen them yet, but she would in a moment. And her trick with the tech mine would only piss them off.

I gritted my teeth, and charged at the closest one. "Watch out!" I shouted to her as he stumbled into his friend. She turned- which meant she couldn't see the Turian pull out his hidden gun.

I prepared to put her in Stasis to protect her, right as one of the Krogan aimed his shotgun right at my face. Either out of dumb luck or the universal AI thing, Ty suddenly came head first out of a blue rift in the wall, fast, and went directly into one of the Krogan. It was knocked into into the next one, causing them both to stumble, disoriented.

I took advantage of the distraction and yelled at Tali to duck as I threw a knife past where her head had been. It took the Turian in the shoulder, and he aimed his gun at me in anger. I just hit him with a throw orb, knocking off his feet, and out of the fight for a moment.

I whipped back around to the Krogan, right as one slammed into me, running me into the wall and knocking the breath out of me.

"Looks like you're not so tough now human."

I responded by sending my boot knife into my hand, and ramming it home at the spot his head plate met his face before he could react. His eyes widened a moment before I angled the knife up, and yanked. He howled in pain and rage as his brow plate came off, and he dropped me, clutching at it in horror. I pressed my pistol to the gaping hole that revealed his skull and fired twice point blank. The explosive rounds were more than enough to finish him off.

I looked to see if Ty needed help, but the other one was nowhere in sight- though I saw a few pieces of ice that hadn't melted yet and figured he'd cryoblasted him.

I turned around and saw Ty standing over the Turian working my knife into his shoulder; making him scream as he did so. At first I thought it was to get information but after a second look I saw it was just for the hell of it. Something just didn't seem right.

It was a bit too close to Iron's motivations for my comfort, so threw a second knife- this time hitting the Turian in the head and putting him out of his misery.

Ty turned around and I saw he had that red cybernetic viens - matrix code, I knew now- crawling up his face and stopping at his right eye. His face held an angry look, and his eyes were suddenly a patterned blue. Something that hit very close to a certain Turian that happened to have killed Nihlus back on Eden Prime.

Something tugged at the back of my mind- remembering him saying how Saren had almost merged with him. It was enough to get my gun in my hand, and aimed in his general direction.

Ty took a step toward me, and I shifted my aim so I'd hit him in the head if he tried something. On his second step, something changed in his eyes and he took an imaginary shot to the face and turned his head with it. When I saw his face again it was normal, though it lacked the usual stupid grin.

I slid my pistol back onto my hip, though I did keep a hidden knife in my other hand. Looks like we have yet another thing to worry about now. Fantastic.

I suppose it's somewhat refreshing to not be the one worried about being taken over by a lunatic, but I'd rather have just avoided the whole institution all together.

I turned to Tali, who'd gotten to cover nearby when I took down the Turian. "You alright?" I asked.

She looked at me with some wonder, like she was trying to find her words. It got awkward after a few seconds but luckily Ty made a cough that brought her back. She shook her head and spoke.

"Thanks to the two of you." By the way she included Ty, I got the feeling she hadn't seen his odd behavior and appearance- though I wasn't going to complain if it meant avoiding having to explain it to her. I myself was going to get it out of him later with violence or alcohol. Or maybe both.

"Who are you?"

"Bourne. Jason Bourne." I saw Ty's head whip towards me, and a grin appeared on his face.

Great. Of all the times to make the Double-Oh-Seven intro, I had to do it around him.

Ty laughed and put his hand out for a handshake, "And my name is Riddick."

I glared at him. "Actually, that idiot is Ty Anderson. Feel free to ignore anything and everything he says. It might save you a headache or three."

She looked at me, then back at him, and then back at me. Even with her face behind a mask, I could tell she was a bit confused.

"I, uh... He's just... You can... I'm Tali'Zorah Nar Rayya."

I saw motion to my left, and whipped around, holding the knife ready to throw. I relaxed as I saw Shepard approaching, and slid it back onto my arm.

"What took you so long?" I commented, though my tone was light.

Shepard's answering tone was not. "We had to fight through all the mercs you left behind."

"Well, we saved the Quarian", Ty gloated.

She glanced around and saw the Krogan I'd ripped the plate off of. "I noticed."

She walked up to Tali. "You have evidence that can tie Saren to the Geth?"

Tali glanced my way before nodding to Shepard, "Yes, I got it from a Geth hard drive."

"Hand it over then." She demanded, her tone causing the Quarian to take a step back.

"Ease up, will you?" I hissed into her ear, and she turned to glare at me, fists clenched. "She nearly got her head blown off, and Ty didn't exactly help by introducing himself as a character from a book or something. You being a hardass is fine with criminals and stuff, but for god's sake she's just a kid."

Having learned a thing or two about her by now, I tensed for the imminent punch, but after a moment more of glaring she nodded. "Alright, can you come with us to the council chambers and present your evidence. I.. will... make sure the Alliance awards you for your help."

Ty let a chuckle, "It's hard for you to play the good guy, Isn't it Shepard?"

She turned to him, and I winced as her fist went into his stomach. "Any other comments?"

Clutching his stomach he smiled, "Nope. Have to say though. The dominatrix thing isn't sexy."

Seriously, is he just suicidal, or is he actually that dumb? Or both, because that'd be about the worse possible way to die.

Shepard looked like she was going to hit him again but she just lowered her head after a moment. Without a word she looked to Tali for an answer. Tali nodded and Shepard began walking ahead of us.

I gave Ty a look. "Dude, do me a favor and stop trying to get her to kill you. Because I don't have the cash to pay for your funeral."

He looked at me with what looked like regret, "I think I took it too far."

"Gee, why would you ever get an idea like that?" I asked sarcastically. "Come on, let's get going before she decides to just leave you here."

Ty walked next to me and rubbed the back of his head, "I guess I have just been around a ton of bros lately and forgot that this Shepard is a..."

"Crazy murderous bitch?" I suggested.

"You idiots know you left your com channels open, right?" Her voice suddenly was in my ear. Well... we're fucked.

Ty pulled the comm up and spoke, "Shepard I'm-"

"Don't apologize, you can't take actions you are sorry for. And if you do, you have to live with it." She hung up abruptly, before either of us could respond.

"I'm just going to go ahead and blame you for this." I said, reliving the last time she'd hit me- and the time before that. Perfect memory can be a real pain sometimes- literally.

"You think she likes vodka or whiskey?"

"At this point, I think our best bet may just be to jump into a vat of acid. It would be less painful than what she'll do to us."

"I'll meet you guys back on the ship", he said before turning and walking toward the shops.

"Oh, sure, way to be a total bitch about it." I said, hoping he'd fall for it and come with us. I figured there was a slight chance Shepard wouldn't be as likely to murder me if he was there to take some of the heat off.

Ty just kept walking with his shoulders down and looking actually sad.

Great. But, it's not like she can hit me any harder than before- I hope. I took off after them, right as their rapid transit cab took off.

"And she just left us behind. Great." I sighed and turned back to where I'd seen Ty. He was gone.

Well, this is just perfect. Argh, I guess I better head for the Normandy then. At least that way if Shepard looks like she wants to murder me, I can just jump off the side and maybe get away.

I've had some bad days, but I think this one may have just slid its way into third.

(Damn, those guys really screwed up calling her that, huh.)

T117: This coming from the idiot who-

(Who was written by you as basically 1/3rd of your psyche?)

S7: Can we just hurry up and clear the air with some problems that people apparently have?

T117: Yeah, like the fact that they apparently seem way OOC to people. You already talked about Ty's reasons for seeming 'off', so let me address Bourne the same way. Considering all the crap he went through at the end of SiaWoF, it'd be bound to have worn down his sense of humor at least slightly. As far as him being more reasonable goes, or being more of a hardass- he's being compared to Ty in this case. Everything's relative.

S7: As well, the person with the () is Iron. I thought that that was obvious.

T117: I was wondering about that too- maybe the comments don't like ~ marks, or they hit the wrong thing.

S7: Oh, the ~ marks. Ah, no, we can't tell you until you until the person comes in.

~Why not? They won't even know who I am until like Virmire!~

T117: Same reason I had such evil cliff hangers. *Insert troll face here.

^Typical, you always need attention.^

~I do, nobody probably even remembers me.~

(Should've been funnier/crazier then.)

S7: Iron, shut up or else we will sit you down and make you watch the lego movie.

(Dude, that looks awesome. It has the goddamn batman, how could it not be awesome? And Morgan Freeman voicing that one guy! That's like...impossible to not be awesome!)

S7: Because it is about good people and nothing close to gore.

(Meh, even I want to watch something different once in a while...Seriously. The goddamn Batman. And Morgan Freeman.)

T117: Focus. Other issue- "I don't like Ty/ Users" "I prefered SiaWoF"- note that I read/typed that in a high pitched and mocking voice. It's a crossover. And we've been working on this for over a month- maybe two, I don't remember offhand. We've got a plan here...or rather, we have it planned out now, for the most part, so…

(You kinda suck with words sometimes.)

S7: Well, to be fair, we did intend for our two continuities to rub up against each other like they are duct taped together in a closet until they became friends. At least in this beginning.

(Duct taped together in a closet?...That kinda made it sound like they're playing for the same team as Raptor.)

S7: Asari?

T117: Hah hah, you're both hilarious.

~To be honest, I think this should just turn into a slash.~

^Fuck you! Fuck this! Anything to add to this before we end this Bourne?^

)...Yeah, I'm all for equal rights and all that, but that ain't going to happen…righ-(

T117: No, it's not going to be turned into a slash fic...not for you anyway. If Iron keeps pissing me off on the other hand...Wrex seems to be a little lonely right now.

^You know, he was the one I was worried about turning this into a slash.^

S7: Yeah, though I was going to assume it was going to be some more female slash.

T117: Been there done that with Raptor.

S7: Trust me, we all know.

(Yes, yes we do.)

T117: Shrug. Anyway, you got anything else, or should that wrap this up?

S7: Should I do Monday Friday updates on Users: Prime or just one day a week updates?

T117: Depends on how fast you can get them done. Don't want to go too fast and screw something up.

(Cough, Spelling and grammar, cough.)

T117: Would you like a cough drop Iron?

S7: You know, I am going to gut you once I am out of this cast.

(You know, I'm just saying- He's the one typing this, not me.)

T117: Don't shoot the messenger. Unless it's Iron, in which case Bourne would let you borrow his Assassin.

)Definately.(

S7:Oh, can I sign out this time. I think I have a good one.

T117: Am I going to regret this?

S7: Ego vobis valedico.

(I don't even know what language that is.)

^Oh, I took a class on it. It's latin.^

T117: Meh, I like my version better.

S7: Fine, I'll keep searching for a sign off then.

)He had "Keelah Se'lai" going for a while there. Seemed to work.(

^Fucking Quarians. How about just saying later?^

S7: It doesn't seem fancy or special.

^Then, 1473I2.^

S7: So do later but in 1337? I like it.

(Cough. Nerds. Cough.)

^Cough. Fuckface. Cough.^

T117: Cough. Sayonara. Cough.

S7: Cough. 1473I2. Cough.