David made his way to lounge a check on Sam who was leaning back on the couch.

"You seem relaxed," David noted.

"I'm just glad will to take down that bastard Balak down," Sam smiled. "Humans can sleep easier knowing that he's not gonna drop an asteroid on their planet."

David then sat opposite him. "I bet Terra Nova are celebrating right at this minute."

Sam nodded. "They certainly are and apparently we killed him on the day that your dad saved Terra Nova."

David blinked. "Talk about a coincidence."

"I know, right." Sam then leaned back and looked at him. "I owe you big time for helping me taking down."

"Taking down terrorists is part of the job," David pointed out.

"I know, I know," Sam nodded. "And I'm sorry that I gave you a hard time the first time you got onto the ship."

"Understandable," David nodded.

Sam and looked David. "I don't suppose you can get your sister the hook up with me?"

David looked at him. "Hate to burst your bubble but she's not exactly a big fan of the military."

"Yeah, I got that. Any particular reason why she doesn't like the military?"

"I suppose it comes to the fact that dad was hardly around while we were growing up," said David leaning back. "She resented it, plus there was the fact that everyone kept on pointing on asking her questions about dad, that really got a nerve."

"Did you get the same treatment?"

"Yeah, and it was difficult," David admitted. "Though I wanted to make him proud by joining the military. Hannah, on the other hand wanted to be far away from the military as possible and went to Grissom Academy."

"But isn't Grissom Academy a military school?"

David shrugged. "It's technically to school for biotics, but it's also where the brilliant students we have go to work on projects for the Alliance. You're forgetting that the Alliance is not just a military organisation, it's also political and scientific aspects as well."

Sam nodded. "Yeah, it's easy to forget."

David then looked at him. "So any family back home?"

"There's no mum and dad and my little brother, he's just finished high school."

David looked at him. "So what made you join the Alliance?"

"The stories that my dad taught me, he fought in the Reaper War you see," said Sam. "I heard about the stories how he rushed in during the Battle of Earth, he was one of the lucky ones that survived the Hammer assault on the Conduit."

David nodded. "Dad told me that that every single force that try to make their way to the Conduit was obliterated by Harbinger. Only my dad and Admiral Anderson made it."

"From what I understand those two were very hardy bastards," said Sam.

David laughed. "Dad definitely is and Admiral Anderson taught him everything he knew."

Sam looked at him. "Your dad named you after him didn't it?"

David nodded. "Yeah, to honour him."

They soon made their way back to the Citadel in order to resupply and get some well needed shoreleave.

David decided to make his way back to the apartment to check on his mum and sister. He also wanted to tell them what had happened since he last saw them. When he got there he found that his mum was already making dinner and judging from the extra plates she had been expecting him.

"Ah, David, I was wondering would come," she said. "Have a seat must not dinner ready."

David made his way over to the table and sat opposite Hannah, who was looking through a datapad.

"Looking at anything interesting?" David asked.

"I may not have a lab, but that doesn't mean I can't keep working on my project," she said.

Ashley then appeared with food and soon they began to have dinner.

"So what have you been up to?" Hannah asked.

"We've had a few more Cerberus bases and required some information, but here's the troubling thing," said David looking at them. "It appears that got a hit list and right on the top are Dad and anyone associated with him, including us."

Ashley looked troubled by this. "Your father did take down the original Cerberus. Whoever is in charge may be looking for revenge."

Hannah looked at her. "I'm more concerned about these Reaper implants they've got. There's a reason the council outlawed the use of Reaper technology in implants."

"Fears of indoctrination," said David.

"There has been no evidence that nanobots are still active," Hannah admitted. "That's why were able to use Reaper technology far more safely than during the war. However, no one's actually dead touch Reaper implants, not after what happened to Saren and the Illusive Man."

"Cerberus was always willing to do anything that would advance humanity," said Ashley bitterly. "You should assume that the soldiers look like without their helmets, not a present site. They looked half human half husk."

David looked at his mother. "I've only for husks on the simulators and even by looking at them I know that bad news."

Ashley looked at her son. "Believe me you haven't seen anything. When I was on Eden Prime, I watched the geth putting colonists on spikes and turning them into those things. As we kept on investigating kept on running into more of them and that's when your father knew that something was up."

Hannah looked at her mother. "What was it like in the Reaper War?"

Ashley looked surprised by this. "You always wanted to avoid knowing what happened?"

"I know," Hannah nodded. "But after hearing about these implants I'm starting to wonder what the Reapers truly were white."

Ashley sighed. "Your father knew more about the Reapers than any, their tactics and their function. I myself never had the opportunity to actually speak with one, but they were terrifying. You've seen some of the destroyed cities on Earth and other Reaper ravaged worlds, but let me tell you is far worse. Civilians had to hide for their lives, not knowing whether the next day would be their last and knew that if they got captured they would be turned monsters."

Hannah just looked horrified at her mother. "Why would they do this?"

Ashley looked at her. "They were just following in their programming and really believe that they were trying to save us. I don't understand it myself, but there's no really figuring out a synthetic species."

The next day David made his way to Purgatory and met up with Sam, who was busy drinking with other soldiers.

Sam raised a glass David approached him. "Ah, Lieutenant, come and join us."

David approached him. "What's all this about?"

A female soldier smiled. "Oh, which is celebrating the death of Balak."

"Yeah, we all have one thing in common here," said the brown haired soldier. "We're all from Terra Nova and we all wanted that bastard dead for a long time."

David took a glass and join them. "Well, now you don't have to worry about him."

"Yeah, we heard from Briggs when you let the mission to taken down."

"Wish I could have been there," said the female soldier.

Sam looked at them. "The Lieutenant knew exactly how Balak would operate and took out his bombs before he could kill the hostages."

"Using slaves as a bargaining chip, that guy has no limits," the female soldier grumbled.

"It's just a shame that Admiral Shepard didn't kill him when he had the chance, I mean he had two chances right?" said the male soldier.

David nodded. "Balak threatened to kill the hostages and I thought he had no choice but to comply. He then laid low for a bit until the Reaper War, he then began sabotaging middle of equipment and transports decimated with humans."

Sam nodded. "From what I've been told the Admiral went around the entire Citadel shutting down these codes and that's when Balak aimed a gun at his back. He wanted revenge for stopping him at Terra Nova and for what happened at the Bahak System."

The female soldier frowned. "I've never heard of that system."

"Not surprising, since it doesn't exist anymore," said David. "My dad went to investigate claims of the Reaper invasion amount to happen. He met up with the scientists only to find that they were indoctrinated and they had him dated for two days, by the time he woke up he had a couple of hours before the Reapers arrived. Before they were indoctrinated the researchers have a plan in place to send an asteroid into a Mass Relays and my dad continue with the plan."

"Long story short the destruction of the mass file cause the supernova that wiped out the entire system," Sam explained. "Unfortunately it was a very remote part of the galaxy, though 30,000 batarians died as a result."

David sighed. "Dad was never happy of the outcome of that mission, but he knew he didn't implement it then the entire galaxy would have been under siege six months earlier. He just bought the galaxy enough time to research the Crucibles."

The male soldier whistled. "Talk about hard-core, but why didn't Balak pull the trigger and kill them right there and then?"

"My dad was ever talking down," David explained. "He pointed out that if Balak killed in their then his people would have no chance of survival. Grudgingly, Balak allow the use of his ships during the war. Though my dad was very tempted to put a bullet in his head."

The female soldier looked at her drink. "Guess everyone had bigger enemies to face."

"Shame that not everyone was so practical," David sighed.

"Yeah, I think we were just plain lucky that our parents survived that war," said Sam nodded in agreement.

David received an email from Mordin, who want to see him at the Krogan Memorial. He soon reached the Presidium and found the young krogan looking at the large statue of a krogan.

"This is my first time seeing the memorial," said Mordin, who clearly sensed his presence.

David looked at it. "I'm amazed at the Council kept it up after the Krogan Rebellions."

Mordin shrugged. "At least the Council acknowledges us."

David looked at him. "Is your mother having problems?"

"Only with one Council species in particular," Mordin sighed.

"Let me guess the salarians," David assumed.

"They're the only Council species that giving us problems," Mordin grumbled. "Human to another part of the Rebellion so that makes you completely neutral and ideal negotiators, but thanks to the friendship your father created with my father it's an unbreakable bond. The asari would want nothing more than peaceful diplomatic ties with my people and the turians remember the sacrifice that my people did for them during the Reaper War."

David nodded. "If memory serves the salarians didn't offer much help during the Reaper War."

Mordin nodded. "Yes, they only gave you one fleet and the STG provided their unconditional support as well. Most of them are still annoyed that the Genophage was cured."

"I just hope we don't have to enter into another war," David sighed. "The last thing I want is to face you in battle."

Mordin smiled. "I would certainly be upset if I have to kill you in battle."

David laughed and then looked memorial. "So, would you think of the memorial?"

Mordin shrugged. "I'm not sure. On one hand it is an honour to have a statue of your people evicted in the Presidium, but in the other it's nothing more than a peace offering."

"I'm just pleased that your parents were able to quell the rage within your people," said David. "I mean if your uncle was in charge, he no doubt would have waged war against us the moment the Reapers were killed."

"At least we don't have to worry about those shortsighted fools anymore," said Mordin. "The council are particularly happy about how we handle the situation as well. They don't want a full-scale war either no matter how many times they complain."

David then got up. "Come on, are treated to some noodles."

Mordin smiled. "Lead the way."

David was now in C-Sec Academy, Seiba was still questioning the Cerberus recruit they captured. Pamela the interrogation was taking quite some time, but he was beginning to break.

Executor Bailey was also present at the interrogation. "You can make this easy on yourself you tell us what we want to know."

Harry spat some blood out. "I'm telling you squat."

Bailey nodded at Seiba who then punched him across the face. Bailey then leaned in towards him. "I make a stop if you tell me."

Harry glared at him. "I'm not working with alien loving scum."

David then approached him. "You were wearing to help us last time."

Harry narrowed his eyes at him. "That was only trading information that you could easily obtain, the information you want would cost me my life and they found out I ratted them out."

"They already assume that you told us everything the moment that we remove that suicide pill from your teeth," said David bluntly. "Now we can offer you protection against Cerberus, but only if you tell us what we want to know. Otherwise you'll be by yourself watching your back every turn."

"You assume that Cerberus won't be able to kill me if I do cooperate," Harry glared. "Cerberus has a way of worming their way in to organisations. You don't think they don't have anyone in their payroll right here in C-Sec."

Seiba then stepped forward. "You cooperating would make things much easier to identify the secret agents."

Bailey took a step forward. "Son, the only way we can help you is if you help us. So what is it going to be?"

Harry looked at them and closes eyes. "Fine I'll tell you everything."

Harry then spent the next few hours discussing everything he knew about Cerberus, giving them all a new perspective on the organisation. Bailey soon met up with David and Seiba outside the interrogation room.

"I can't believe that we allowed Cerberus to gain so much influence," Bailey cursed.

"We didn't know that they existed until a month ago," David pointed out.

"Still, I just can't believe how much support there getting considering everything they did during the war," Bailey sighed as he looked into the interrogation room by the one-way window. "I was on the Citadel during the coup and the takeover, both times were Cerberus involved. Now I'm back in that process all over again."

"I'm sure you're up to it, sir," said Seiba.

Bailey looked at her. "I appreciate the confidence, Seiba, but I'm only one man. What I need now is information on these agents that exist on the Citadel."

David folding his arms. "I don't think we've acquired such information from all the Cerberus basis we've hit."

"They must have some sort of centre that keeps track of all the agents," said Seiba.

Bailey then looked at Harry. "He did mention something about a space station handling communications. If you can find that we might be able to identify a whole lot of agents."

"I'll have to bring this up with Captain Vega, but I'm sure that you allow us to go on this mission," said David.

Bailey nodded. "Good, I'll be waiting for the results."

David soon made his way back onto the Presidium and met up with Nato. They were currently watching a quarians protest yelling at a group of people.

"Down with synthetics!" they yelled. "Destroy the metal tyrants!"

David looked at Nato. "I think we found our separatists."

Nato looked at them. "We need to find out more about the separatist movements. Maybe we can find out more by joining these guys."

David nodded. "I agree, but we're going to have to be careful. Chances are they know of identities and maybe ready for us."

Nato looked at him. "That's a risk we're going to have to take."

They soon made their way to the protest, who kept on shouting about the death of all synthetics and other radical stuff. He only stopped when he saw David and Nato approaching them.

"Go away, I have no time for synthetic sympathisers," he said.

"So you know who we are," said David.

The protest and narrowed his eyes. "Every quarian should, after what you did to our base on Rannoch."

"You started this with your protests," said Nato.

"No, the geth started this when they kicked us off our home world."

"After we tried to kill them," Nato reminded. "The sizing case you have forgotten it was then that helped created the fortifications for capital city, Normandy, and it wasn't for them you and I would be wearing our environmental suits."

"They allied with the Reapers in the war," said the protester.

"We forced them into an alliance with the Reapers when we launch an unprovoked response."

David then stepped up. "Do you even know what you're standing for?"

"Of course, the destruction of all synthetics," said the protester.

"But despite the fact that your separatist group was founded on the belief of regaining control of the geth."

"A pipedream from a misguided Admiral," said the protester dismissively. "Our leader, Mel'Nofal vas Leepan knows that the only way for us to stay safe is the destruction of all synthetics. Something which the Alliance doesn't seem to realise, we are completely aware that you are installing AI entities into your ships."

"Considering what the Normandy was able to accomplish with EDI that's not entirely surprising," said David folding his arms. "Besides the restrictions on AI has lessened over the past few decades, because of how useful the geth have been with repairs."

"They'll turn on you as all synthetics do when they outshine their creators."

"Only you could give them reason to," said David. "The AI installed in our new ships are based upon EDI, who hasn't turned on the crew. In fact she's probably more human than any of us."

The protester looked disgusted. "You bring destruction upon your people. Did you forget what the Reapers did to the Leviathans?"

"It's all about programming," said Nato. "They were designed in order to come up with a solution to stop war between organics and synthetics. It should have been a surprise that they would come up with a solution of wiping out both sides and preserving their history within their own bodies."

The protester glared at them. "Just get out of here!"

Before leaving David took a flyer and soon he and Nato left.

"At least we know what their leader's name is," said Nato.

"We know more than that," said David holding out the flyer. It showed a quarian overlooking the destroyed geth and overhead were stars. "We've also got the location."

Nato looked at the flyers and realise that the stars were in fact giving them a precise prescription of the meeting place for the rally.

"Good catch," said Nato. "Is gonna take some time trying to figure out where exactly this rally is going to take place."

"I'm sure that EDI can help us with that."