Miranda's biotic aura intensified as she revved her right arm back with large, pulsating sphere manifested in her palm. Grunting, she tossed it with all her might. Pushing Shiro aside, Kyo dropped to a knee and positioned the large, orange digital shield, mounting it to the ground in an attempt to block the attack. "It won't be that easy!" she yelled, her accent was heavy from physical strain. Controlling the orb's direction, it curved to come in at an angle. Time slowed for the paladin, who wasn't fast enough to redeploy the barrier before it would hit the one he was trying to protect. Instead, he could only watch as Shiro slowly looked up as the fiery, white ball drew closer.

The green eyes reflected brightly from the oncoming hue, though did not appear frightened. White eyebrows furrowed in annoyance as pupils dilated in the bright light as his irises intensifyed into a neon glow. Slowing putting a hand up, a gloved open palm caught the biotic mass as if it were a mere firefly. Upon impact, it exploded and nearly knocked Kyo onto his rear. The shield he was attempting to create shattered from the blast and shorted out his omni-tool momentarily. As the blinding flare dimmed, he squinted to see Miranda's best attack had not only been captured, but was also being absorbed.

Blue swirls surrounded Shiro's body as he transformed them into a perfected second layer of energy, matching his eyes in color. Tightening the same hand which caught the sphere into a fist, his gaze turned to the woman who had bothered him with this mess in the first place. While smirking, it was pointed in her direction as the stolen power recollected. The magnitude, however, was highly amplified in both intensity and potency. If Miranda had sent over a cannon ball for her biotic attack, Shiro was about to retaliate with the equivalent of an AA gun. "No!" Kyo yelled as he grabbed the held out arm and turned it to the air. "Stop! What are you doing?"

Shiro stood stunned, immediately dispersing his field as he was told. "…Apologies." His accent was strange. It was a mix of old world BBC reruns typical to the current season of MI-55 or Dr. Where and Intergalactic Friends.

Kaidan, Liara, and Miranda remained silent from the situation of both sleeper agent's abilities and Kyo's handling of him. Leaning over from exhaustion, Shiro slowly collapsed against his guardian as he was still exhausted from the rude awakening. The sergeant scrambled to catch him before another fall and looked to Kaidan with concern, but the other biotic was too distracted to notice. He had never seen such power manipulated so easily before and hurried to check on Miranda. She stood there, shaking a bit before being spoken too.

"Are you alright?" she was asked. She turned to slowly nod. "Let's get back to the ship and sort this out."

Liara also nodded in agreement, following as Kyo assisted his newly awoken friend. It was on the table in the med bay where Shiro was being examined by Dr. Chakwas for a second time. The scans being taken were no longer blocked, but she still didn't quite know what to make of the readings. Sitting in a pulled up chair close by, Kyo was under heavy watch by both the shadow broker and the major as Miranda sat on the opposite bed as her eyes fixated on the medical images. As the doctor completed her work, she stepped away to give Shiro space to sit back up. He looked to his left, relieved to see Kyo before the dark, jade eyes focused on the two standing biotics looming him. Kaidan repositioned himself closer while keeping his arms crossed and stare narrowly fixated.

"Who are you?" he asked. The question was simple enough and was something that was on everyone's mind. The agent redirected his gaze to the bed as he tried to figure out a way to answer it.

"I," he paused having to cough several times to clear the unused throat and peered over to Kyo again. "…I prefer Shiro, though who I am isn't of any importance right now."

"Fine, then what are you?" Kaidan changed his question with no small amount of irritation. "Miranda ID'ed you as Ex-Cerberus and the lab we found you in…"

"That doesn't matter either. You want to know if I can help you find Shepard and the answer is yes."

"Straight to the point, then?" Kaidan uncrossed his arms and leaned over. "Fine by me, but if you're messing around, I'll toss you out the airlock first chance I get. Now, tell me where Shepard is."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't know where, exactly. I only know he's alive and I can help you find him."

"Don't trust him," Miranda protested from her seat. "He only wants revenge and to likely kill Shepard if given the chance. He was… used for Project: Lazarus." A nasty glare shot in her directly from Shiro made her visually flinch.

"Is that true?" Kaidan asked while thumbing his sidearm.

"Yes, I was part of his…remodeling," he was answered plainly. "But I want to save him."

"So, she's lying?"

"Misinformed."

"On?" Sighing, the white- haired male realized no matter how many short answers he gave, it would never be enough to satisfy this man's insistent line of questioning. Moving to stand, he gratefully used Kyo as a crutch despite only knowing each other for all of five minutes as a bond had already formed between the two. The singer doted over him while the agent's cold-shoulder attitude gave way to a warm sense of acknowledgement and thankful smiles. Once on his own two feet, he looked at Kaidan without that same sense of kindness.

"Miranda only knows what the Illusive Man told her and what data she had access to." He stopped to brush back the long strands of overgrown sliver hair from the dark- skinned face. "While it's true that I was the…base for Lazarus and the technology I have embedded on me did bring Shepard back to life, it only worked because…" There was a pause as he came to realize what he was saying and stopped himself.

"Because…?" Kaidan asked while trying to both believe what he was being told as well as process all the new information, but Shiro frowned as he gathered his thoughts.

"…Because…I wasn't forced to do it," he finally spoke up again while closing his eyes. "I volunteered." Kaidan's eyes widened in disbelief as did Liara's. In fact, the only one who didn't seem to be surprised was Kyo.

"Why…?" Kaidan hesitated to ask as he took a step forward, getting a better look at the face which stood nearly at the same height as his own. "Why would you do that?" This made Kyo look even smaller as he was the shortest of the three.

"What does it matter?" he asked as he wedged himself between the two biotics.

"It matters to me!" Kaidan growled. "Why would a total stranger risk his life with Cerberus to help Shepard?! It doesn't make any sense!"

"…I'm no stranger," Shiro muttered, though loud enough to be heard. "Besides, the Collectors needed to be stopped and only Shepard could do that. He stopped them and the Reapers. If you want him back, you'll have to help me. His implants are tied with mine, but I can't get a fix on the signal. He's being stubborn…I mean…They are. The implants," he corrected suspiciously enough and changed the subject away from the lost commander. "I'm going to need something extraordinary to boost a tracking program in order to pinpoint his current location." Liara forced herself into the conversation in frustration.

"And how to you propose we do that? We don't even know who or what you are!" Shiro turned his gaze to her.

"I'm…simply someone who owes Shepard a great debt, which can be said for most of the galaxy," he smiled. "And I need to go to Rannoch and interface with the Geth technology still on the planet. There are many hubs with still working signal boosters meant to transmit Geth programs at high speeds into deep space."

"But the Geth are dead," Kyo said as he moved closer to his friend's side. "That EMP took out all synthetics, Reapers and the rest."

"Doesn't mean what they built is broken necessarily, only powered down. The quarians can help us locate a hub that is still intact and assessable." Kaidan continued his strong lingering look of mistrust, however the sigh which escaped from his lips was just enough for the bushy black eyebrows to relax.

What choice did he have at this point?

So far, this entire runaround was to awaken this potentially deadly ex-Cerberus agent with off-the-charts biotic powers, who also had the unexplained ability to both track Shepard's location and interface directly with VI programs.

"Fine. Joker?"

"Yes, Major?"

"Set a course for Rannoch. Try to call Tali before we reach the destination."

"Aye, aye."

"As for you…" Shiro looked away from Kyo just long enough to acknowledge who was speaking to him. There was physically biting of his bottom lip as Kaidan held in a wave of ranting.

"Just…stick with him. Sergeant, don't let him out of your sight."

"Sure thing," Kyo shrugged before giving a smile to his newest partner. "Come on . I'll show you to our quarters." Turning back to his friend, Shiro gave a nod and followed behind as he was led out by his hand. His gaze met Kaidan's piercing stare only briefly in passing before neither one of them could stand looking at each other. Everyone had split off into pairs in some way or another. Vega and Cortez remained in the shuttle bay and armory, while the quarian siblings found a familiar refuge in the engine room. Joker and his bottle of scotch settled in for the long trip towards Rannoch in the cockpit. The last human spectre himself headed back to the captain's suite with Liara following closely behind as Kyo and Shiro headed to the crew quarters.