Recap: "Alright people, into the mako! Let's go move it!" Shepard ordered as he felt the ship shutter from entering the atmosphere. With the last one in he jumped into the drivers seat and prepared to do his first real combat drop.

Now

The Normandy was now heading in low for the drop off. Her garage doors opened and the mako with Shepard and his squad came tumbling out. As the mako fell hundreds of meters down, the thrusters were ignited to slow it down. On the inside, things were a little more lively with the squad's reactions.

"AAAHHH!" Tali screamed, holding onto Kaidan, since it was her first combat drop. Kaidan in return was looking like he was about to pass out from being crushed.

"WOOOHOOO!" Shepard whooped as they went down.

Wrex was asleep, snoring as the whole thing went down.

Garrus and Ashley were holding onto their seats for dear life trying desperately not to laugh at Tali crushing Kaidan. They finally touched down with a few thuds. Tali was shaking like a leaf, Wrex was now awake and looking around, Kaidan was desperately trying to fill his lungs with precious oxygen, while Ash and Garrus were dying of laughter. With all this going around, Shepard was going "Let's go again, let's go again!"

"NO!" Tali and Kaidan shouted at him for obvious reasons.

"Aww" Shepard groaned at their reaction. Ash, Garrus and now Wrex were chuckling at Shepard's expression. Joker's voice cut through their chuckling however.

"Shepard, I'm picking up some strange readings. Really strange, like off the damn charts. It looks like it's coming from an underground complex a few klicks away from the drop zone." Joker said.

"Looks like we have a location now. Awesome, thanks Joker." Shepard as he began driving. After a few minutes passed, along with a lot of bumping into various potholes and ditches, Shepard's squad decided to voice their thoughts.

"Dammit Shepard where did you learn to drive?!" Garrus said after hitting his head for the fifth time on the inside of the mako.

"On Omega, when I stole my first car at 16." Shepard said casually. Now every one of his squad was looking at him as if he was creepy. Shepard noticed that they were all silent so he turned around to see all their shocked faces.

"What?" Shepard asked as he turned back to watch where he was going. Garrus then spoke first.

"You were a criminal?" He said in a even tone.

"No, not when you are on Omega. Stealing a car on Omega is pretty much stealing from a another thief, especially if it's a good car." Shepard explained.

"What kind of car was it?" Tali asked her quarian engineering senses tingling. Shepard pondered it for a while then responded.

"It was an X3M skycar. I stole it from one of the local drug lords so it was pretty new. After that I modified it a lot." Shepard said. Now Tali was wanting know what he did to modify it.

"What did you add to it?" Tali asked eagerly.

"Well, I gave it a new paint job, added a stealth and camouflage system into it. Made sure it had a comm link with an ID Disguiser, tinted windows that can take all different kinds of rounds except missiles or rockets. Also even added armor and weapons too. Also a chip to make it go faster." Shepard listed off about his car. He figured Tali was drooling at the thought of seeing his car when he told her that.

"Shepard could you show it to me some time? Please?" Tali said sweetly. There it was!

"Ehh, I'll think about it." Shepard said smirking at her.

"Damn Shepard! Stealing, taking on slavers, becoming a millionaire and becoming somewhat famous in the galaxy. What haven't you done?" Kaidan asked.

"Well, I haven't saved the galaxy from huge enough threat." Then Shepard snorted. "Yea like that'll ever happen." Shepard said shaking his head. (Yea keep thinking like that Shepard) Everyone silently agreed with him.

"Well Shepard I don't thi-" Ash began to say till the mako was rocked by something.

"What the hell?!" Ash said. Shepard looked around for any sign of where the attack came from and noticed something further away. A light suddenly appeared from it, then 2 others from the left side of it and they seemed to be getting bigger. Tali must have seen them as well.

"Geth turrents!" she exclaimed. Shepard hit the thrusters just in time to dodge the shots which flew under them.

"Someone get on the gun and return fire!" Shepard said as they landed. Ash had immediately hopped on it and used the mass accelerator cannon, but missed. Shepard dodged several more geth shots while Ashley kept firing and missing. Garrus then moved her out of it and tried his turn with the cannon and scored perfectly. He did it again with the other 2.

"Whew, damn gun could use some calibrating still." Garrus said as he turned and saw Ash giving him a look.

"Sorry Williams, it's just I thought I should have a go at it." Garrus said as she relented with it.

"It's fine Garrus, I guess you should use the cannon." Ash said after a minute. That was when Shepard cut in.

"Okay, here's how things are going to go while in the Mako: Garrus uses the cannon since he is more precise while Ash uses the machine gun since sustained rapid fire weaponry is her forte, Tali and Kaidan will do any repairs necessary while Wrex rides shotgun with me in case we need someone to go outside and beat the hell out of something. Seem fair?" Shepard said explaining their new stations. Everyone nodded since it did play to there strengths. With that everyone continued on in the mako, encountering groups of geth, including armatures, and geth turrents until they came up to something. It was a stonghold of some kind that had 3 geth turrents right in front of it.

"Only a fool punches a nathak in the mouth. We should sneak around and pull its tail." Wrex said looking at the turrents in front of them.

"Yea lets go around through this way on the right." Shepard said as he drove to the path going around the stronghold only to come face to with a geth turrent. They quickly used the cannon and the machine gun to destroy it. They then made their way to the point where they could see the inside of the stronghold.

"Look at all the geth." Shepard said seeing a few troopers and Juggernauts.

"Yea and they have a lot cover to use." Garrus said seeing the places inside that could provide cover.

"Any ideas on what to do?" Ashley asked.

"Why don't we just fly in there, guns blazing?" Wrex said.

"You mean drive in there, get out of the mako and start shooting at every geth insight?" Kaidan said deadpanned.

"Yes." Wrex said with an excited nod.

"I got a better idea." Shepard said gunning the accelerator. The mako charged right into the open, running over geth troopers. Ashley turned the machine gun on further geth away. Then when the machine gun overheated, Garrus took over with the cannon and shot any Juggernauts, completely destroying them. As the fighting ended, Shepard got out and went to activate the door leading further out. He then got back in the mako and drove everyone out of the stonghold. They continued on fighting more geth units of several kinds. Shepard's sixth sense picked up on something.

"Something big is up there." Shepard said sensing a lot of electric energy in one spot.

"How do you know? The scanners don't say anything." Tali said confused as to why Shepard said that. He looked at her for a second and realized that she wasn't with him when he told everyone about his sixth sense.

"I have an ability to sense a sizable amount of electric or biotic energy. If geth units, or powerful biotics, are close enough I can sense them. From this distance though it has to be big for a geth if I can sense it from here." Shepard explained to her. Like everyone else before she was shocked at how strange Shepard was. He then continued.

"Tali, you know the geth better than any of us. Is there anything big for the geth that it generates a huge amount electricity needed to power itself?" Shepard asked her. Tali pondered it for a few seconds thinking of what kind of geth tech could use a lot of power.

"If I had to guess I would think it'd either be a geth colossus or a geth drop ship." She said.

"We've seen a drop ship, but what does a colossus look like?" Wrex asked. Everyone nodded their heads wanting to know as well.

"Do you remember the armatures we took out earlier?" Tali asked them.

"Yea." Wrex said for everyone.

"A colossus is a bigger, stronger version of that." Tali said.

"Well, its a good thing we are in this then." Wrex said. Shepard could only nod as they drove forward and sure enough they came face to face with a Colossus.

"Damn, that better be the biggest ground unit the geth have otherwise we might be in trouble." Kaidan said aloud. Before anyone else could say anything Shepard floored the mako right at the Colossus.

"What are you doing Shepard?!" Ash yelled out.

"Giving us an opening!" Shepard yelled back. He drove the mako to dodge the energy balls the colossus shot at them and rammed it, knocking it over.

"Fire everything!" Shepard told ordered. As soon as they heard that, Garrus and Ashley unloaded everything until both weapons overheated. In the end, the colossus was down for good riddled with bullet holes. Shepard then drove into the nearby tunnel when Kaidan decided to speak up.

"So Shepard why were you on vacation anyway?" he said trying to make idle conversation.

"What do you mean?" Shepard asked.

"Well I just thought guys like you do not really take vacations, they just go home and take a few days off." Kaidan explained.

"Oh that? Well I needed to get off Omega for a while and Aria offered me some time away." Shepard said.

"Why did you need to get off? Bounty Hunters?" Ashley asked. Wrex looked at her with an annoyed stare.

"No." Shepard said.

"Assassins?" Garrus asked.

"Nope." Shepard responded.

"Alliance Recruiters?" Kaidan spoke up.

"No, if it was them, they would be the ones leaving." Shepard said.

"Then what?" Tali asked.

"Bad break up." Shepard said simply. When he said that, all of them had their full attention on him. Light shined back into the mako as they came out of the tunnel.

"What?" Wrex asked this time.

"I went on vacation because I was depressed about my girlfriend and I breaking up." Shepard said simply.

"Wow, she must be something if you and her were together." Kaidan said wondering who could've gotten Shepard to be in a relationship. Ashley and Tali were both relieved and slightly jealous when they heard about this woman.

"Yea she was." Shepard said simply.

"So who broke up with who?" Ash asked bluntly. Shepard didn't speak for a full minute causing everyone, even Wrex to worry about him. Ash was about to say he didn't have to say anything when he spoke up again.

"She broke up with me." Shepard said with voice holding his sadness.

"What! Why?!" Tali blurted out.

"I honestly don't know." Shepard said.

"Did you 2 fight a lot?" Kaidan asked.

"No."

"Were you too clingy?" Ash asked.

"No that was her actually."

"Did you abuse her?" Garrus asked staring intently at Shepard.

"Never!" he snapped causing Garrus to apologize.

"Did you both mate a lot?" Wrex asked. Everyone but Shepard looked at him. Shepard was blushing a little though.

"Yes." Shepard said in a soft voice.

"With each other?" Wrex continued.

"Yes." Shepard said looking offended.

"Did you cheat?" Wrex asked.

"Completely faithful."

"She might have cheated on you." Wrex said.

"Thought of it, asked her mother since she has a lot influence and ears on Omega. So that's a no." Shepard said. Wrex hmmed for a minute.

"Blackmail?" Wrex offered.

"Checked it, nothing."

Wrex then looked thoughtful again for a few minutes with everyone looking to see what he came up with next.

"Wait you said her mother had a lot of influence on Omega?" Wrex asked.

"Yes."

"The only other thing I can think of is that she might have been pregnant and broke up with you to protect you." Wrex said. Shepard slammed on the brakes hard when he heard that. So hard that Wrex hit his head on the metal dashboard and everyone else was disoriented, save Shepard. Shepard slowly turned his head over in Wrex's direction with Wrex seeing Shepard's stare. Everyone else noticed and were a little scared for Shepard and Wrex. Shepard because this news was serious and Wrex because Shepard could snap and kill him. Their fears were unwarranted when Shepard spoke up.

"Okay after this Saren business is over I'm making a b-line to Omega and finding out what the hell happened." Shepard said as he started driving again. Everyone was silent as he continued to drive on noticing how deep in thought he was. Ash and Tali were both staring at him, worrying about what he could find out. Both women were also jealous of the woman who Shepard was in a relationship with and were relieved and mad at the woman to. Tali had a little crush on him since he had saved her and was nice to her in comparison to how others treated quarians. To her, Shepard was something special. For Ash, she had started to get stirrings when he seemed to be not as strict as other people were when they found out who her family was. In fact he showed he thought of it in a positive way. She also noticed that Shepard had way about talking to others easily as well as being concerned for everyone, with himself being last on the list. Plus he had a nice body she couldn't help but admire so that was a bonus. But for now it wasn't any real romantic feelings for him, not yet anyway. After driving for a little while longer and encountering a few more pockets of geth, they came up to an obstruction.

"There is no way we are going to drive the mako through or over it." Garrus said seeing the rock that blocked them.

"Yea, only way through it is on foot." Shepard said putting his helmet on.

"What's with the helmet Shepard?" Kaidan asked noticing it.

"The way I see it, we're going to go through a narrow passage that doesn't have a lot of room to maneuver through, and there could be geth on the other side. I don't know about you, but I want all my bases covered." Shepard said. After hearing that everyone, but Tali put there helmets on thinking it was a good idea to follow Shepard's lead. Even Wrex did it even though it wouldn't kill him if the geth got him in the head, it would still hurt like hell. Everyone exited the mako with their weapons out.

"Okay Wrex I want you in front of everyone when we go through. Garrus your in the back to take out any long range targets. Ash, your behind Wrex to take out any closer targets. Tali and Kaidan, you 2 stick together and provide support for Wrex and Ashley." Shepard said taking out his sniper rifle.

"And what will you do Shepard?" Tali asked tilting her head in curiosity.

"Me? I'll be testing out my new sniper with Garrus." Shepard said holding his sniper out to emphasize his point.

"Oh, okay." Tali said nodding in agreement.

"If I didn't know any better Shepard, I'd say your scared." Wrex said teasingly. Shepard just smirked at him.

"Believe me Wrex, I wish I was the one going first, you heard what I did on Elysium." Shepard said. Wrex nodded at that. Then Shepard added on, "Besides, Garrus can't cover everyone and you alone. You make a big target." Shepard said smiling.

"Very funny." Wrex said. They all walked through the passage and were immediately under fire when they came out. They all took cover as they pushed on with Wrex and Ashley taking care of the ground troops with Tali and Kaidan weakening other units using overload and warp respectfully. Shepard and Garrus both saw geth snipers and rocket troopers on the towers and higher ground. Both took their shots hitting a few. One rocket trooper fired at Shepard who also fired a round, hitting the rocket which caused it to explode in mid-air. Shepard then took the second shot and nailed the geth right in front light. Garrus whistled when he saw that.

"Damn Shepard that was a nice one." he said.

"Thanks, it would've been batter if I only used one shot though." Shepard responded.

"That would be awesome." Garrus said.

"I know." Shepard said smiling. Everyone was looking at the two talking about sniper rifles and awesome shots they could use and couldn't help chuckle at them. Garrus and Shepard looked at them, noticing their laughter.

"Well, we'll talk about it later. Now let's get moving and don't let your guard down." Shepard said taking the lead, switching his sniper with his assault rifle. Everyone got serious as they followed keeping their eyes out for anything that could be waiting for an ambush opportunity. They finally came to some kind of structure that appeared to be the entrance to a mine with several platforms holding crates. That was when Shepard felt something.

"Hey hold up. I think there's a geth nearby." Shepard said carefully looking around. Everyone else looked in different directions trying to find what Shepard was sensing. Shepard then pinpointed the direction it was coming from.

"Above!" Shepard yelled as he saw a geth hopper fall and then jump to somewhere else. He and everyone tried to shoot it, but it was too quick to get a decent shot in. That was when Shepard felt a huge electric signature coming there way from behind, quickly. Shepard turned only to see a geth drop ship fly over and pass them. The ship's hangar bay opened and several geth units dropped down. Now Shepard was a little nervous as was everyone but Wrex who looked like a kid in a candy store. Shepard wasn't nervous because of the troopers or the rocket drone or even the hoppers. No it was because of the Colossus that was dropped off and they weren't in the mako.

"Take cover!" Shepard yelled out as he dove behind the nearest crate, everyone else did so too narrowly missing the storm of bullets and rockets flying at them.

"Now it's getting fun! HAHA!" Wrex said laughing.

"Glad your having a good time Wrex." Shepard said over the explosions. He then tried to come up with a decent strategy to take out the enemy. 'This amount of ground troops would be easy if it weren't for that damn Colossus. How can we take it without having to worry about the other geth though?' Shepard thought to himself. He then saw the structure to left which was easily higher than the Colossus was. 'That'll work.' Shepard thought having a plan in mind.

"Hey guys distract the geth while I sneak around and take care of the Colossus." Shepard said fiddling with his omni-tool.

"And how do plan to that Shepard?" Ashley asked.

"You'll see." Shepard said activating his tactical cloak. Now cloaked, he moved over to where the structure was and quickly climbed the ladder-like part of so he could get on top. As soon as he did he walked over to where the Colossus was standing. By that time the cloak had deactivated, but the geth where still focused on his squad. They however noticed him.

"What is he doing?" Kaidan said putting his barrier up.

"Not a clue." Wrex said as he fired off a few more shoots.

"He's not going to jump on it is he?" Tali said worried while taking cover.

"I think he just might." Garrus said using overload on a nearby hopper.

That's insane." Ashley said waiting for her new rifle to cool down. They all then noticed Shepard was holding something in his hand, a biotic light.

"What is that?" Tali asked. Everyone else saw it and realized what Shepard was up to now.

"He's going to use that move on the Colossus." Kaidan said realizing what was going to happen. Shepard had now charged up his Power Strike to its current max, indicated by it glowing almost pure white with a shallow purple aura around it. He then jumped off the platform he was on toward the Colossus and slammed the Power Strike right into the back of it. It's shields held up for a while but were quickly overwhelmed by the destructive mass effect fields within the attack. Then the metallic carapace groaned and screeched until it to was completely warped. Finally the attack hit the Colossus' core, causing the attack and it to explode sending Shepard back. When he landed he quickly looked to see everyone, including the geth, looking at him shocked. He took advantage of the situation and used his dual omni-bows to fire 2 omni-bolts at the 2 remaining geth hoppers. The other geth, turned their weapons on Shepard perceiving him to be the bigger threat. (Very true.) Shepard quickly put his barrier up in response.

"Light em up!" Shepard roared to his squad who quickly got out of their stupor and destroyed the remaining geth units who turned their backs to them. When the fight was over Shepard got up and walked over to everyone. Wrex was the first to speak.

"Shepard that was crazy." he said with everyone nodding.

"Yea I know." Shepard said with a knowing smile.

"After this we are going to have spar." Wrex said grinning. Everyone, but Shepard looked at him shock. Shepard just smiled.

"After this mission is over and I have nap, fine." Shepard said as he and Wrex walked towards the mine. Everyone looked on for a few seconds until Kaidan spoke up.

"I got 20 on Shepard." he said.

"I'll put 20 on Wrex." Garrus countered.

"I'll join in with 20 on Shepard then." Tali said not wanting to be left out.

"I guess I'll put 20 on Wrex." Ashley said feeling like she chose the wrong person to bet on. After the bets were made they ran after Shepard and Wrex who were already heading down into the mine. The group continued on until they came to an open-air walkway. That was when Shepard took out his shotgun and quickly fired over the railing hitting a sneaking geth hunter right in the head, killing it. Then 2 troopers came out of cover which were taken care of by Tali and Garrus. They continued on silently as they came to an elevator and piled in going further down into the cavern. The came to another walkway which led to another elevator going further down. As they walked over Shepard switched to his pistol and aimed ahead and fired hitting the middle one of the 3 side by side geth drones that rose up. The other 2 were shot down by Kaidan and Wrex quickly. They all then noticed a section of the prothean ruins uncovered.

"Sterile white. The protheans sure built things homey." Wrex said aloud. The other didn't really pay attention to it as they all piled into the next elevator and went down. This time though the elevator came to screeching halt and opened up midway. Shepard looked out and noticed that the walkway that should've been there was destroyed. He then jumped out with everyone following in two's keeping an eye out for anymore geth. As they continued on Shepard suddenly felt a biotic signature when they all heard a voice.

"Uh hello? Could somebody help me? Please?" the unknown feminine voice said. It sounded like it was directly below them so they walked off toward a more stable part of the walkway and came face to face with an asari floating in some kind of energy bubble.

"Can you hear me out there? I'm trapped and I need help!" the asari said a little frantic.

"I can see that. Are you alright? What happened?" Shepard asked studying the asari before him. She was beautiful for one in her younger years as far as he could tell. Yea, Shepard knew a little about the asari culture and some of things about asari themselves. It happens when your dating one and under the employ of another.

"Listen, this thing I am in is a prothean security device. I cannot move, so I need you to get me out of it. All right?" the asari asked.

"I'm guessing your Dr. Liara T'Soni?" Shepard asked.

"Um yes, how did you-" Liara tried to say until Shepard started asking more questions.

"How did you end up in there anyway?" Shepard asked. Liara stuttered a bit before answering.

"I was exploring the ruins when the geth showed up, so I hid here. Can you believe that? Geth! Beyond the Veil!" Liara explained

"Yea we ran into them on the way over." Shepard said, then he gestured her to continue on.

"I activated the towers defenses. I knew the barrier curtains would keep them out. When I turned it on, I must have hit something I wasn't supposed to. I was trapped in here. You must get me out. Please." Liara said pleadingly.

"Before I do anything I have to know something." Shepard said.

"What is it?" Liara asked confused.

"Your mother is working with Saren. Whose side are you on?" Shepard asked eyes boring into her.

"What are you talking about? I'm not on anybody's side!" Liara said a little shocked.

"Really." Shepard stated.

"I may be Benezia's daughter, but I'm nothing like her! We haven't spoken to each other in years. Please, just get me out of here." Liara pleaded again. Shepard stared at her trying to find any deception, but found none. He then smiled.

"Okay then. Well, Liara it looks like this ruin is some kind of prison to me so we are going to need to find a way through or under it." Shepard said stating what he was thinking. Then he started powering up his Power Strike all the up again.

"Uh Shepard? I don't that'll work here." Garrus said. Shepard looked at everyone.

"I would suggest you back up." Shepard said. They all scrambled to get a good distance away from him. Liara looked shocked at what he was doing.

"Wait what are you going to do?!" Liara demanded getting scared of the apparently crazy human in front of her.

"Don't worry sweetie, just be quiet and watch." Shepard said smiling as he drove his attack at the barrier in front of him. The barrier and the Power Strike clashed in a brilliant display of light. Shepard's attack was strong as the barrier started to ripple at the amount of force it was dealing with from the unnatural biotic attack, but held strong. This continued for a minute until the barrier finally won and caused Shepard's Power Strike to explode the shockwave sending him back 3 yards away.

"Damn, that barrier's tough. I can see why the geth haven't broken through it yet." Shepard said getting up with everyone coming back.

"W-W-What was that? I haven't seen anyone, not even Matriarchs do that! And they're the most powerful biotics in the galaxy!" Liara said in shock at the move she just witnessed. In her hundred and six years of life, she had never seen anyone even speak of an attack like that, let alone use it. She knew not even a mass accelerator round from a tank could cause the barrier curtain to flash, let alone make it ripple. Yet somehow this human used a biotic technique that did it. A move like that was incredibly dangerous. Not even the asari had ever made anything like it. The closest thing to it would have been reave, but only a few could ever learn to use it. How interesting that this human had this ability.

"Oh my Power Strike?" She heard the human say. It was called Power Strike? An appropriate name for it. She nodded at his question. "I got the idea for it one day when I used warp and singularity against a Thresher Maw to scare it off with the resulting biotic explosion." the human, Shepard, said. She urged him to go on.

"I'll explain it later after we get you out of there." Shepard said finally getting up. Liara mentally slapped her head for forgetting what was going on.

"It's a prothean barrier curtain. I knew it would keep me safe from the geth. But obviously I'm trapped now." She said a little embarrassed at the situation.

"Any ideas?" Shepard asked.

"There is a control in here that should deactivate this thing. You'll have to find some way past the barrier curtain. That's the tricky part. The defenses cannot be shut off from the outside. I don't know how you'll get in here." Liara explained to them.

"Don't worry, we'll find a way around it." Shepard reassured her. She couldn't help but smile at him.

"Be careful. There is a krogan with the geth. They have been trying different ways to get past the barrier." Liara warned.

"Don't worry we 'have one to. Bigger and tougher probably." Shepard said jerking his thumb towards Wrex who nodded grinning. They then went further into the cavern where they came face to face with more geth. It wasn't a lot so it was easy to finish them. That was when Shepard noticed the huge mining laser pointed toward the ground in Liara's general direction.

"Tali, I want you to activate this. We may be able drill under the prothean structure to get to Liara." Shepard said. Tali quickly nodded.

"I'm on it." she said. After a minute with tinkering with it the laser activated and shot through the ground and into the prothean structure. Tali turned it off shortly after and found a newly made entrance.

"Nice one Tali!" Shepard praised.

"Thank you." Tali said blushing. Luckily Shepard was looking at the new passage and not her specifically.

"Let's go." Shepard said walking in with the rest following. They came up to a platform with a console. Shepard felt a wave of nostalgia hit him instantly as soon as he saw and started typing on it in a trance-like state. The platform moved showing it was an elevator as it carried them to where Liara was. Shepard then moved next to her and started messing with the computer.

"How... how did you get in here? I didn't think there was anyway past the barrier!" Liara asked happy.

"Blasted through with the mining laser." Shepard said as he continued typing. Realization donned on Liara.

"Of course, yes. That makes sense." Liara said. Then she continued, "Please..get me out of here before more geth arrive."

"Done and done." Shepard said as he pressed the final button. The barrier curtain deactivated letting Liara go.

"Any idea how we get out of this place?" Garrus asked.

"The elevator back that way should take us out of here, come on!" Liara said as she started to move towards it with everyone walking with her. As they walked over Liara began talking.

"I-I still cannot believe all this. Why would the geth come after me? Do you think Benezia's involved?" She asked Shepard.

"Saren's looking for the Conduit. Your a prothean expert. He obviously wants you to help him find it." Kaidan answered for Shepard.

"The Conduit? But I don't know-" Liara began to say until she was cutoff by a tremor. They all looked around to see the place shaking.

"What the hell was that?" Ash said.

"These ruins are not stable. That mining laser must've triggered a seismic event." Liara answered.

"You mean like an earthquake?" Tali asked. Before Liara could answer Wrex did it for her.

"No, its more like a volcanic eruption." he said.

"Great." Shepard sarcastically said.

"We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in!" Liara said as she started the elevator up. Shepard decided to have an escape plan just in case.

"Joker! Get the Normandy airborne and lock in on our position! On the double mister!" Shepard ordered scaring the hell out of Joker who was reading comics in his pilot seat.

"Aye, aye, Shepard. Secure and aweigh. ETA eight minutes." Joker said as he moved the Normandy. Shepard and co. then rode the elevator up to the top floor when Shepard felt a biotic signature and multiple electric signatures.

"Guys weapons out!" Shepard ordered. Everyone took out there weapons except Liara who looked confused. Her confusion disappeared when she saw why they did it as soon as they got to the top. In front of them was a krogan and few geth standing between them and the exit. The krogan stepped forward.

"Surrender, or don't. That would be more fun." the krogan said.

"In case you haven't noticed this place is falling apart!" Shepard growled out.

"Exhilarating isn't it?" the krogan said smirking. That was when Shepard started charging up a Quick Power Strike in his left hand with adrenaline flowing in his veins.

"I don't have time for this shit!" Shepard roared as he darted toward the krogan before anyone could move. He quickly got in front of the krogan before he slammed his attack in the krogan's face, instantly killing him. Shepard then used the residual energy from the power strike to create a fast but powerful biotic repulse, killing the geth near him. He then turned to his stunned squad.

"This is no time to stare! We need to leave now!" Shepard yelled making them dash for the exit. Shepard was in the back going slower than rest since he used so much of his biotics today. The Power Strike takes a lot of energy to charge and control and the biotic repulse he did a few seconds ago didn't help either.

'If I somehow live through this, I'm going to have Raviolis and a nap. So come on John. Raviolis and a nap! Raviolis and a nap!' He thought to himself. He could see they were close to the exit when Liara stumbled and fell. He quickly picked her up bridal style and ran as fast as he could. Liara on the other hand was blushing a dark shade of purple with how Shepard was carrying her. The both of them made it out as the last ones. Shepard set her down gently on her feet. Everyone noticed he was panting very hard.

"Hey Shepard are you alright?" Wrex asked.

"Yea." Shepard said breathlessly. Then he passed out.

"Shepard!" Tali said as Garrus caught him. Kaidan took a look over to see what was wrong. He then smiled.

"He's fine. Just exhausted." he surmised.

"Maybe we should get Dr. Chakwas to see him just in case." Ashley offered worried about Shepard.

"It would be best to let a medical officer look him over just to be safe." Liara said adding her two cents.

"Yea okay we'll send him to Chakwas." Kaidan said just knowing Shepard was going to wake up with a heart-attack when he saw he was in Chakwas med-bay. He silently apologized to Shepard as he watched the Normandy pass by over them.

(Whew! Tell me what you think! Good? Bad? In the middle? C'mon I need to hear from you to know what your thinking!)