Chapter 21: Welcome to the Citadel Part 2

Citadel, Lower wards, Docks

Urdnot Wrex finished his meal and looked around, just as he had thought, C-Sec had gotten bored with watching him do nothing, standing up and a few taps on his Omni-tool and began to head towards his target a human by the name of Fist, Wrex had a feeling things were going to get interesting, the thought was confirmed when he had overheard that a human commander had arrived and was going to see the Council accusing a Spectre of treason, something that did not come up often and try as they might the Council could not keep the news totally quiet. Smiling to himself Wrex wondered if this human commander was a friend or a foe.

Citadel, C-Sec, Docking bay

Logan stepped off the Normandy and cracked his neck and took a deep breath in "now let's get this over with" he said more to himself than anyone

Once he reached the elevator, the doors opened and he stepped inside as he looked around the elevator he sighed to himself "This day keeps getting worse though doesn't it?" he asked as he looked around "The Spectre who was evaluating me was killed, a human colony was almost blown up, a prothean beacon was destroyed and now here I am on my way to see how the Council is going to handle me telling them that their golden boy is a traitor and I'm stuck in a elevator with two marine's on a high protein diet" he said chuckling to himself, Kaidan and Ashley both laughed at that, the elevator stopped and the doors opened and they made their way to Donnel Udina's office before they were to meet the Council.

Citadel, Presidium, Council Chambers

Garrus had run out of time, but there was a very promising lead he had not been able to investigate yet, he only needed just one maybe two hours more but it looked as if Saren would get away with what he has done.

"I need more time, stall them" Garrus pleaded

Executor Pallin laughed out loud at that "Stall the Council?" he asked before shaking his head "Your investigation is over Garrus"

Garrus sighed and turned around just in time to see three humans walking closer, he knew the one the middle was Commander Shepard

"I'm sorry Commander, but whatever Saren is doing, I couldn't find anything" Garrus explained after he introduced himself.

Logan nodded "So you failed?" he asked sounding a lot more pissed off than he intended

Garrus shifted slightly "As a Spectre almost all of his actions are classified, but I know he is dirty, as you humans say I can feel it in my gut" he explained before nodding "good luck commander maybe they will listen to you"

Logan sighed and walked away towards the Council chambers, once at the top of the stairs he saw Captain Anderson.

"Come on the council is waiting" he simply said and walked into the chambers.

Just as he thought the meeting was a waste of time, Saren easily deflected any suggestion he had anything to do with it and with nothing to back it up, the Council would never believe them. Logan however spent the whole time staring at Saren and even threatened to kill him in front of the Council, they didn't like that and the meeting quickly concluded.

"I knew bringing in there was a mistake Captain, you and Saren have a past and they will use that against us" Udina said to all of them once they were back outside "what we need to do is find something solid to back up our claims"

Captain Anderson nodded looking disappointed but understanding of what was happening now "You're right, I will have to sit this one out"

Logan didn't like the sound of this, but kept his thoughts to himself "So what's next?"

Udina rubbed his chin and thought about it for a moment "Well there is the Turian Investigator; he may have a lead we can use"

Logan raised his eyebrows "He is a Turian, can we trust him?"

Udina nodded his head "Not all Turians are like Saren, Commander"

Logan rolled his eyes "Not what I meant, they are not old army buddies or something are they? I mean Saren does have a lot of friends on the Citadel after all"

Captain Anderson smiled "No, not this one, I have heard about him but of course to find him you would have to ask Harkin and he is a waste of time, The information brokers might have something as well" he explained.

Logan took it all in as Udina and Captain continued to talk about Saren, Captain Anderson seemed eager to stress about a monster Saren is, Logan knew that he needed more information "Ill let you know what I can find"

Citadel, Lower wards, Chora's Den

Wrex walked into Chora's Den and smiled as he saw a young krogan walk towards him, Wrex almost laughed, this whelp would be barely passed the Rite, but Wrex said nothing as the young Krogan threatened and made sure Wrex knew he was not getting in, but Wrex is a patient krogan and knew that he could just stand here until the young krogan did something foolish like try and fight him inside the club. However the young krogan was smarter than given credit for and made a point to say out that Fist will not see him, which was clearly a code phase as Wrex noticed a human bartender reach for a weapon as well as two asari dancers to the left of him glow a slight blue ready to attack. Wrex smiled of course there was asari Commando's in here, humans always seemed to hire asari and vice versa which Wrex knew that likely meant there was more then just those two in here.

"Tell Fist he will have to face me sooner or later" Wrex warned before turning around and ran into three human soldiers armed to the teeth, clearly here on business which made the whole thing even more interesting, "Out of my way humans, I have no quarrel with you" he said as he passed them.

"What was that about?" Ashley asked looking over her shoulder at the retreating Krogan.

"Who cares, lets just find Harkin and get out of here" Logan said before looking around and saw him in the corner "there" he said and walked over towards him, standing in front of him Logan stared at the man as if he had just stepped in something "I'm looking for a turian Investigator named Garrus Vakarian, I was told you could help me find him"

Harkin wiped his mouth on his work shirt and sat up and answered after he downed his drink "Oh really? Yeah I know where he is, still trying to prove Saren is guilty, looks like Anderson finally got someone to help him" Harkin laughed to himself before adding "not that it will help of course" Harkin leaned out of his chair so he could stare at a dancers ass as she walked past before turning back to Logan "Tell me did the captain tell you his little secret?"

Logan sighed and sounding bored as he said "Just tell me what I want to know and I won't kneecap you" as he stared into Harkin's eyes letting him know that it was not a bluff

"Fine" Harkin said "He was going to see that med-clinic near the markets you know the one? Or do I have to draw you a map?" he said before calling over a dancer "Ask Anderson about why he wasn't made Spectre" he said raising his eyebrows smugly.

Logan shook his head "C'mon lets go" he told the others and turned his back on Harkin he walked out of Chora's Den he ignored Harkin once he had the information he wanted.

"I never heard Anderson was to be a Spectre" Kaidan said once they were outside

"I never have either, wonder why he never mentioned it." Ashley asked out loud.

Logan shrugged "Maybe that's why the Council wouldn't listen to us" he suggested "anyway lets go say hello to a turian" he chuckled to himself before looking at the other two "maybe he can smell Saren's bullshit too Logan said.

Kaidan chuckled "Maybe on both points"

"So that turian is still after Saren, good to know" Logan said once they were sitting inside heading towards the med-clinic, having no idea what they would walk into.

Citadel, Upper wards, Med-Clinic

Garrus had just managed to avoid being spotted by the armed thugs that were in the process of making sure the doctor didn't tell him anything, well this is the best lead he had to find out where that quarian he had heard had gotten to.

A handful of thugs were talking to the doctor Garrus was moving into position when the door opened and in walked the human commander and in the next few seconds, one of the thugs had hostage.

"Who are you?" the thug yelled out to the Commander before Garrus stood up from his cover and fired one shot landing direct hit to the thug's eye.

Logan quickly his biotics to pull one of the thugs towards him before almost cutting him in half with his shotgun, Ashley put six rounds into the chest of another while Kaidan threw the remaining one.

Logan turned to Garrus "Nice shot"

Garrus nodded "Sometimes you get lucky" he said before he turned to see if the doctor was ok.

Logan looked at the men they had just killed "whatever you know you should tell us, they will kill you to keep you quiet" he warned

Dr Michel nodded "They wanted to me be quiet about a quarian who had been shot, she said she had information for the Council but was being hunted and wanted to trade the information for protection"

Garrus looked very happy at that news "She must have proof Saren is a traitor, we have him now"

Logan corrected him "we don't have anything yet, anything else?" he asked looking at Garrus

Garrus nodded "Well I know that Fist has a bounty on his head at the moment, he was one of Saren's contacts on the citadel and Saren betrayed the Shadow Broker, so now Shadow broker is cleaning house" Garrus told him while looking at his Omni-tool "A Urdnot Wrex is hunting him"

Logan raised an eyebrow "A krogan?"

Garrus corrected him "a krogan Battlemaster" he said

Logan nodded before turning to Dr Michel "Do you have somewhere safe to be?" he asked

She nodded "Yes, thank you"

Garrus knew that now was the time to ask "I know this your investigation now but I want to join you"

Logan looked at Garrus and thought this Turian reminded him of one those short-lived honest cops that were on earth, the idea that a traitor could get away with whatever they were doing would drive someone like Garrus up the wall "Saren is a turian, why would you want to bring down one of your own?" Logan asked testing him.

Garrus had spent some time around humans, enough time that he knew the reason why the Commander was asking him a question like that, Saren could set human-turian relations back at least twenty years and the chance that humans would not forgive the turians again. Garrus knew that humans needed to be shown that Saren is a rogue element.

"Saren is a traitor and a disgrace to not only the Council but also to my people" Garrus said surprised himself how angry he got he expected the Commander to reject him but instead got a sly smile that told Garrus that he just confirmed something to the human.

"Welcome aboard, Garrus" Logan said offering his hand

Garrus looked down at the Commander's hand, he had seen humans do this of course, and shook his hand "Thank you, I won't let you down"

Logan nodded before turning to Ashley "Williams, return to the Normandy tell them we have a turian guest coming on board" he told her before he added "Oh and we may have a injured quarian as well" he said before turning away, not noticing Williams frown seemingly not liking the fact of being sent back.

Logan looked at the other two "Maybe we should see Fist before this krogan blows his head off" he told them as he raced out of the clinic with them behind him, he needed to get to that club before the krogan did.

"Where is the krogan now do you know?" he asked Garrus who nodded

"C-Sec, was bought in for questioning, but they won't be able to keep him there for long" Garrus answered

"Shit!" Logan swore as urged the car to go faster and once it stopped Logan got out and walked towards the club

"THERE HE IS, KILL HIM" A voice from the other side of the walkways

"Saren's men, they must be here to stop you from talking to fist" Garrus explained as he took out his rifle and opened fire

Kaidan just threw four men into the wall behind them, where a shotgun blast was waiting for them from Logan

"Clubs all closed up, that means no civilians, cut loose" Logan ordered

Kaidan shot another before answering "that means they are waiting for us"

Garrus moved forward, following the two humans into the club and as soon the two was open, the club exploded with gunfire, the two humans launched biotics in all directions; Garrus had not expected the other human to be a biotic as well and while Garrus was not used to fighting alongside biotics, he was smart enough to take advantage of the chaos the two humans left in their wake.

Logan had sent an asari flying off the bar, before shooting one in the face and throwing a grenade behind her sending another four flying into the air, the mercenaries inside the club were not prepared for a straight assault like this, outgunned and overmatched, the people Fist had employed to protect him fell within minutes.

Logan sighed and cracked his neck "Let's go say hello to Fist" he said as the door opened and standing there were two terrified workers both holding a gun

Logan looked at the two men with raised eyebrows "I just killed fifty bodyguards getting here, what you think I will do to you?"

The two men looked at Logan before looking back at each other "Fuck that, Fist isn't paying us to take on commandos" they said before leaving

Garrus blinked, he didn't think something like that would work, Shepard said the threat so casually it almost sounded like a joke, almost but not quite.

"I never would of thought of that" Garrus said honestly

"Shooting people isn't always the way" Kaidan said looking over at Garrus, a strange look in his eyes

Logan watched the two workers leave "FIST!" he yelled out "Let's make this easy shall we?" he asked, the sound of a shotgun being fired was his answer "no one ever listens" he said before pulling out his shotgun again, made a hand signal to Kaidan before he looked at Garrus and pointed at him before pointing at the wall on the left hand side then in the same motion pointed at Kaidan and pointed to the wall on the right side, Garrus nodded understanding, and rolled out of cover and fired into the auto turret Fist had set up, while Kaidan did the same to the turret on the other side.

Logan however went straight up the middle and used biotics to pull Fist towards him before slamming his shotgun into Fist's stomach dropping him to the ground "Now I need to know what happened to the quarian" Logan asked once the shooting had stopped

"Go fuck yourself, he will kill me if I say anything" Fist said and looked like he was going to say more but was interrupted by Logan's foot slamming into his chin

"What makes you think I won't kill you now?" Logan asked when he got no answer he turned to Garrus "shoot him in the kneecap, maybe that will jog his memory"

Garrus went to get his rifle when Fist started talking "There is an alley not far from here, she is there but it's not the Shadow Broker she'll meet, they are going to kill her and take the information off her" Fist said looking from one to the other

Logan nodded "Thanks but I can't let you walk away" he said and before Fist could protest shot him in the face and spraying his brains out. After quickly searching the safe, Logan knew he had to get a move on "Let's go, see what this quarian has"

Four blocks away

Tali was nervous standing there waiting, for Shadow Broker to show up when she saw a group heading towards her, two turians and four salarians, Tali had a bad feeling about this "Who are you where is the Shadow Broker?" she asked right away

"Relax, he will be here" one turian said as he ran a claw alongside her helmet "you got the data?" he asked

Tali slapped his hands away "That's it deals off" she said and went to walk away, the turian reached for her shoulder, not noticing the shotgun had disappeared off her back and was now in her hands, two squeezes of the trigger and he was dead.

Tali looked up just in time to see a salarian slam into a wall from biotics, turning she saw two humans and a turian, Tali couldn't help but be in awe of the human leader, he made everything look easy and within seconds he had killed them all. Please let them be friendly Tali thought as the human leader turned to face her, with a strange look in his eyes, Tali knew that he wanted her for something.

"Fist set me up, I am going to kill him" Tali said pacing back and forth

The human leader stepped forward and looked her in the face "I am Commander Logan Shepard and you have something I want and you're going to give it to me" he said with no hint of a disagreement "Oh and Fist is dead, I killed him before getting here

Tali shook her head "What? Wait?" she suddenly knew what this Commander wanted he had hunted her down, killed Fist and the assassin's sent after her now he was here for her "Thanks for taking out Fist but I can't just give you the information I have, it is the only insurance I have"

Logan smiled as if she had said a joke "I think your misunderstanding me, I killed Fist and I am going to be killing Saren as well, however I need the information you have" Logan said before walking closer "I am offering to be your friend, you do not want to be my enemy" he said calmly, the threat hanging in the air like a bad smell

Tali swallowed before what he said occurred to her, he wants Saren not her, but he would kill her if he had to "You're after Saren? Then I can repay you" she said before looking at her Omni-tool and pressing play "Listen to this" she said

Author's note: Sorry for the long delay I am still working on this