I jumped off of the Normandy down onto the almost burned-looking hard brown ground.

Jane and Kaidan were waiting for me next to Jenkins and I ran over.

"How's he looking?" I asked, fear causing me to go a little cold while I crouched next to him and medics surrounded us all.

A medic answered before either Jane or Kaidan had a chance to.

"His pulse is weak but stable, he needs immediate medical treatment."

I stood up and nodded at Jane.

"We gonna do this or what?" I grinned with uncharacteristic glee that I didn't really feel.

"After you, Commanders." Kaidan said with a scowl that made me rethink my grin.

Jane and I nodded simultaneously and started walking next to eachother, leaving the medics behind.

We walked in silence for a few minutes, Jane and Kaidan were obviously very tense from what happened to Jenkins, yet it didn't seem to affect me.

I started getting a little worried about my total emotional deadness when suddenly my barriers were getting hit and I instinctively jumped behind a nearby rock calling out, "Behind cover!"

Jane and Kaidan didn't hesitate and were jumping behind their own boulders as I drew my pistol and sent a warp towards the nearest of two little droids shooting at us.

Kaidan threw the second droid into the rock wall, smashing it to pieces while Jane shot the other in what appeared to be a small sensor that was functioning as an eye, causing it to collapse to the ground and stop functioning.

I turned to Jane and opened my mouth to say something when more shooting was heard in the distance.

"Someone else is here!" Kaidan shouted and I instantly turned and ran towards the sound, remembering what happened to Jenkins and refusing to let that happen to someone else, anyone else.

Hah, looks like you're feeling it now, doesn't it?

I ignored the thought and started sprinting towards the sound.

And that was when a woman ran round a corner straight into me.

I was almost instantly back on my feet, pain subsiding as I was once again filled with adrenaline and my biotics flared in both hands, replacing the pistol that I dropped when I fell.

There wasn't any droids around us.

I frowned and looked again but all I saw was-
Oh.

"Are those Geth?" Jane shouted as she started firing.

I lifted one and slammed it as hard as I could into a second with a force easily enough to crush a man's bones and they just stood back up.

"Fuck.. aim or their eye!" I shouted, looking around and grabbing my pistol before hiding behind an empty crate.

Almost instantly after that one of the Geth went down by Ashley's gun while Jane and I aimed at another, causing it's head to blow almost completely off.

It seemed to be going well until I felt a shooting pain in my right arm and I shouted, going back under cover.

I slowly applied Medi-Gel, wincing as I applied pressure to the new hole in my arm.

A few seconds later Jane walked over. "Looks like someone wasn't watching their barriers again, bro."

I ignored her and moved over to the woman.

"We saw you in the distress call.." I said.

"I'm Commander Nervars and this is.."
"Commander Shepard." The woman said, nodding.

"I'm Chief Williams," she said.

"Though most of the people here had taken to calling me Ashley."
I frowned slightly. "Ashley, if you don't mind us asking..." I started.

"What the hell happened here?" Jane finished.