David made his way to the bridge in order to meet up with EDI, he was hoping that she was able to transfer all the data they managed to snag from the Cerberus base.

EDI looked up. "Ah, David, I was about to call you."

"Why?" David asked.

"I've managed to decrypt more information about Cerberus," she said as she went through the data. "I've managed to find some more Cerberus bases which I have sent to the Alliance."

"Any idea how they operate?" David asked.

"They seem to operate as they did in the past. Several cells working on said certain projects and transmitting their data to the Illusive Woman. However, what intrigued me more is how they are funded."

"Go on," said David.

EDI looked up at him. "I can't be certain, but they seem to be funded by black-market corporations."

"I doubt that any corporations out there that are willing to work with Cerberus," said Joker. "I mean those guys nearly killed everyone in the entire galaxy."

"Should we be concerned about this?" David asked.

"I cannot answer that with certainty at this present moment. Although I can inform you that Cerberus has been around for many years."

David looked intrigued. "You mean they were created what five years ago or something?"

"And that would appear to be the case," said EDI. "Trying to ascertain the Illusive Woman's identity has not been easy. Cerberus forces commit suicide rather than submit to questioning, which makes information gathering extremely tedious."

"I'll see if Ishil has any more information," said David.

David then made his way to the cargo hold and found that Ishil was already talking to someone and he recognised the voice as Liara T'Soni, her mother.

"My agents have reported that there is more Cerberus activity over the past week," she said.

"Not surprising considering that every species in the Citadel space are after them," said Ishil.

"So, how is David shaping up?" Liara asked.

"He seems to be a very driven man these days," said Ishil. "Though I get the feeling that he wants to prove something to his father. Hannah on the other hand appears to be pushing far away from her father and has veered off in a different direction."

"Believe me I know the feeling," said Liara. "The same thing happened to me and your grandmother, many people believed I would follow in her footsteps but I chose a different path instead."

"Have you tried talking to her?" Ishil asked.

"I have, but she is a stubborn as her father and she's got her mother's temper."

"Well, I better carry on with my work, mum," said Ishil sadly.

"Okay, but try and stay safe Little Wing."

Ishil groaned. "Can you start calling me that?"

"Just take care of yourself."

Ishil leaned back on the console and shook her head.

"Am I interrupting anything?" David asked.

Ishil looked up and saw him hanging around the doorway. "David? You heard that?"

"Didn't mean to eavesdrop."

"No, it's fine," Ishil assured. "I had just sent my report my mother, she is deeply troubled with recent Cerberus activity. And she is concerned for my safety."

"EDI managed to decrypt some of the data," said David wanting to change the subject. "Apparently they found some more Cerberus bases in the galaxy."

Ishil knowledge she went through the data. "Yes, my mother's is gathering as much information as he can on these bases. She's was amazed that Cerberus was able to stay under the radar for five years."

"They must be waiting for something," said David folding his arms. "Why else would they come out of hiding?"

Ishil nodded. "The question is what? The last time they came out of the dark was the discovery of the Reapers."

David didn't like that prospect. "Let's hope it's nothing as being, I've watched enough vids to know that I don't want to tangle with those Reapers."

"The only thing I can suggest is that we keep on attacking the Cerberus bases and hope that something crops up," Ishil suggested.

David nodded. "I'll advise Captain Vega."

"I just hope that it's not to put Cerberus down for good," said Ishil.

David then went to check on Nato, who looked up from the console he was working on.

"So we were pretty much wiped out an insurgence of krogan," he said with a smile. "Though I imagine trying to take out the quarian separatist is going to be much harder."

"Have you found anything else on them?" David asked.

Nato nodded. "This is to be a few protesters on the Citadel fighting against synthetic rights, most are quarians."

"That can't be a coincidence," said David.

"AI has been illegal for centuries, the geth uprising only strengthened that and let's not forget about the Reapers," Nato reminded. "It was only thanks to your dad that all synthetics were wiped out."

David shrugged. "Talking to both EDI and Legion opened his mind to new possibilities. Plus discovering that the geth aren't hostile to organics probably helped."

"Mum is doing everything she can to quell these protesters, but unless were able to find the source I'm afraid there's nothing we can do," said Nato.

"So how do we find?"

"I suggest that next I was on the Citadel we investigate these protesters. They might know something that could help us taking down these separatists."

David nodded. "Sounds like a plan."

"Until then I'll just keep on searching through the reports and receiving from mum until we find a hit."

David nodded it was probably their best chance of hunting down the separatists.

David made his way to the forward battery and found that Seiba was tinkering with the main gun.

"How's the calibration going?" David asked.

Seiba looked up from her work. "A few tweaks here and there, but otherwise it's all right."

David leaned against the gun as he watched her work. "Got any word from C-Sec?"

"They're concerned that Cerberus might try and put a few agents in C-Sec," said Seiba gravely. "That's how they managed to kill so many within the crew during the Reaper War. No one likes it, but they have to question all the humans in authority positions on the Citadel."

"But that's going down well," David sighed.

"C-Sec is doing it quietly, but it's very difficult to know what to look for. Cerberus is known to cover their tracks and since they commit suicide rather than submitting to questioning it very hard to pinpoint agents in said positions."

"Any idea how we can find these agents?" David asked.

Seiba looked up from her work. "Ideally we need to identify some leaders, find Cerberus recruiters."

"And willing to bet that most of the Cerberus soldiers are indoctrinated children that they kidnapped."

"That is very likely, Seiba admitted. "However, recruiting more famous human figures is another thing entirely. If we find out how they got recruited them with a find out more."

"Any suggestions?"

"Illium, would be an ideal place to start. It's on the very edge of the Terminus System, with many corporations and everyone their skirts the rules."

David nodded. "Our suggested to Captain Vega."

"I'm not saying we'll find anything, but it's worth a shot."

David submitted the suggestions of the crew to Captain Vega and with very little on their plate they decided to make their way to Illium.

"Don't we have to pay a docking fee?" Sam asked.

"My mother pulled a few strings," said Ishil.

"How to manage that?" Sam asked.

"Because she's an information broker and she's one of the best," David answered as they exited the ship.

"So what are we looking for?" Clara asked.

"Anything that could point us in the direction of Cerberus," said Seiba

"My mother's offices close by, she could point us in the right direction," said Ishil.

With that they started to make their way to Liara's office as they walked they began to look at the city. Many buildings were still ruined due to the Reaper invasion, but just as many were being rebuilt or were already finished.

"This place got hit by the Reapers pretty badly in the war," said Clara. "It's amazing able to be build itself quickly."

"Illium has a powerful economy, you can get a lot of black-market material here, even indentured servants," said Nato.

Sam narrowed his eyes. "Slavery?"

"Not quite," said Ishil. "It all depends on the contract for the servant and they must take responsibility of their well-being and care until there services completed."

"Call it whatever you like it still sounds slavery to me," Sam spat.

They immediately made their way to Liara's office and found the asari already wrapped up in work. She was looking at several holographic terminals and was rearranging them as he scanned through the data.

"Mum," said Ishil.

Liara looked up and smiled. "Ishil." Immediately she got up and hugged her daughter, who hugged her back. Once she released her she looked at David and smiled at him. "It's good to see you again to David."

"You too, Liara," David nodded.

"Though I have a feeling that this is not a social call," said Liara as she sat down.

"No, we're trying to gather more information about Cerberus," said David.

"I heard rumours that there were that there was a Cerberus recruit here," Seiba explained.

Liara immediately began looking through the data. "Yes, I've been keeping a close eye on him. His name is Harry Hendrix, he's 30 years old and has already been arrested for smuggling red sand. His father died in the Reaper War on a recon mission and his mother died five years ago, he now spends most of his time in a back room in a bar called Blue Demon and apparently all the people he sees are human, mostly young teenagers."

Seiba stared. "You have that much information on just a split second?"

Liara smiled. "I'm a very good information broker."

"Didn't you act upon it?" Sam asked suspiciously.

"My job is mostly trying to find information so I can send to the Shadow Broker," Liara explained. "Though I do know that they sent a few agents to investigate but none ever came back. They are still after all recovering from losses the Reaper War."

Ishil nodded. "And the Shadow Broker is always very careful who they recruit as agents. I myself had to prove myself quite a bit before I was an agent, though I'm concerned that he was able to subdue these agents without the firefight."

"That is very concerning," Liara nodded.

"I take it they were all human," Sam assumed.

"Naturally, you wouldn't send a turian to infiltrate a pro-human terrorist organisation," said Liara.

David frowned. "Did my dad mention that they installed Reaper implants into their footsoldiers to make them completely obedient?"

Liara nodded. "During the Reaper War the abducted civilians and implanted them with special implants to make them a fast and efficient fighting soldiers. Believe me the results were not pretty, I saw what they look like without their helmets. Of course whether this new Cerberus is using the same means is unknown, as the best of my knowledge all Reaper nanobots were completely destroyed."

David folding his arms. "I think it's time we meet this recruit for ourselves."

Seiba looked at him. "I prefer to be with you, this is my mission after all."

David shook his head. "I'm afraid he will only see humans, but you can monitor us and if anything seems a bit hairy you can jump in."

Nato looked at Seiba. "I don't like it any more than you do, Seiba. But our human companions are the only ones that can get entry."

Seiba sighed. "Fine, but we'll just be outside."

"Wouldn't have it any other way," said David.

They made their way to the Blue Demon, as expected it was mostly asari run and the customers were bit thuggish looking.

David saw a guard standing next to a back room, a human guard. "That must be it," he said looking at the others. "Seiba. You, Ishil and Nato wait here, at first sign of trouble you jump in. If you don't hear from us in five minutes you jump in anyway."

"Got it," Seiba nodded.

"Just walk up to the garden say, 'I'm here to meet the guardian of death,'" said Ishil.

"Sounds very ominous," said Sam.

"Let's go," said David.

They started to make their way towards the guards who immediately stop them.

"Who are you meeting?" he asked.

"We're here to meet the guardian of death," said David.

The guard nodded and then held his hand out. "No weapons."

Reluctantly David and the others handed their weapons to the guard and once he had received all he opened the back door and they made their way inside. When the end of the back room they found a man in his 30s sitting at the table looking at them with a careful eye. He also noticed two bodyguards standing next to him and they looked particularly muscular.

"Greetings friends," he said with a smile. "I am Harry Hendrix, I hope that you found us all right."

"Finding new wasn't particularly easy," said David.

"My organisation has to keep a low profile, many people get the wrong impression of us," said Harry.

"You mean the fact that the old regime was run by a madman who believe that he could control an ancient synthetic raise capable of controlling others," said Sam raising an eyebrow.

The man narrowed his eyes. "Yes, the Illusive Man was a fool and it cost us dearly. However, we have new leadership that will not make the same mistakes evolved and soon our people will be running things."

Clara looked at him. "And how do we get to be part of his action?"

"Oh, very easily," he smiled.

Immediately there bodyguards raise their pistols, but before single shaft to be fired the door blew open and Seiba and the others emerge. Seiba and Nato immediately killed the two bodyguards and Ishil kept a pistol trained on Harry.

David smiled as he leaned in towards him. "Now you're going to tell us everything you know about Cerberus."

"Like hell I will," he said and was about to bite his mouth shut when Seiba fired a tranquilizer from her gun.

Immediately he collapsed and fell to the ground.

"He should be out for a few hours," she said.

"Then let's take to questioning," said David.

Harry opened his eyes and suddenly found himself strapped to a chair and directly in front of him was Captain Vega, David and Seiba.

"How nice nap?" James asked.

"Where are my and who are you?" he demanded.

"I'm Captain Vega, captain of the Normandy and you are my prison," said James plainly. Harry quickly tried to bite down on his teeth, but nothing happened. "Our doctor remove that suicide pill from your teeth. You won't be killing yourself any time soon."

Harry glared at them. "You'll get nothing from me."

"I beg to differ," said Seiba. "I don't have to remind you how bad this is, not only are you working for a terrorist organisation, but as you demonstrated to Lieutenant Shepard you have proven yourself to be a kidnapper. At the moment we are your only hope were lenient sentence the one you're going to get an Alliance prison."

"If I tell you anything they'll my head," said Harry.

"There were soon you've already told us something," said Seiba as he walked around him. "The moment they hear that you're in prison, they'll know that you dissipate orders to kill yourself. That means when you tell us something or nothing they're going to try and kill you."

"On the other hand if you do tell us something will make sure that security around you is more secure," said David.

Harry looked at and sighed. "Yes, I work for Cerberus as a recruiter."

"And what was the point of the kidnapping?" David asked.

"That's how we recruit," he said. "Despite what your father did most humans are still persecuted and many want to get back at them. That's where I come, we spread word around that Cerberus is recruiting and they come looking for us."

"Then you knock them on the head and drag them away," said James folding his arms.

"Not always, it depends on the look of them," said Harry looking at them. "For instance when I saw you I could tell from an incident that you will then be very hard to converts so I took the initiative and attempted to knock you out. For others I merely recruit them on the spot, depending if they have any wealth that they can spend to support us."

"What you do with those you kidnap?" David asked.

"That's not my area of expertise, but I imagine that they are brainwashed until the 100% loyal to Cerberus."

With that the three of them that the interrogation room.

"You might hold more information," said James and turned to Seiba. "Seiba I want you to get as much information out of them as possible before we transfer him to prison."

Seiba nodded. "Yes, sir."

He then turned to David. "Good job out there Lieutenant."

"Thank you, sir."