- Fragmented -

- Present day -

"Urgent. Need to talk to you now"

She ran towards Zakera Ward, constantly having to dodge out of peoples way as they ran around in pure panic.

"Garrus! I'm almost in position. What's your status?"

"We can't push through. Sources tells us Cerberus have taken control of all the docking stations. You need to open it up so we can dock. Patching Shepard through"

"Kasumi! I'm sorry we contacted you this way. You've been dodging my calls and I was afraid you'd ignore me on one this too"

Two cerberus soldiers took notice to Kasumi, dashing towards them and landed their sights on her. She quickly summoned her decoy running towards one of the guard while cloaking, spinning around behind the other and easily rendered him unconcious. The other guard kept shooting at the decoy, obviously confused by the bullets going straight through it. He turned around only go be greeted by a leg sweep and a fist to the side of his face. She placed a few scanners around and kept running.

"Hey, that's cool, Shep. Like, slapping yourself in the face and then blaming me that it hurts"

"I'm one in a million, what can I say. Have you reached the consols yet?"

"Almost there! It's times like these I realise that life would be much simpler if the bad guys didn't sport guns.."

She could hear Sarah scoff as she quickly dodged out of sight for the next set of guards running down the streets, passing her. She counted three guard watching the consols and gave one of the them a running kick to the face, spun around and grabbed the other soldier around the throat with her arm, spinning back around again to bend his back backwards and shot the third guard before he understood what was going on, snapping the neck of the one she was already forcing into an unatural position.

She stood back up, brushing some imaginary dust off of her arm and turned to the consols. She quickly hacked it.

"I'm in, Shep. You're welcome to dock, but hurry. My scanners tells me there's more guards coming this way and I'm a little short on fire power to handle them all by myself"

"We're coming. Just make your way to c-sec headquarters. We need to clear it from Cerberus if we want to retake control"

"Got it! I'm leaving you to clear the dock then since I'm assuming they're gonna get here before you dock. You know, cos you're so slow"

"Don't you mess with me, Kasumi!" Joker scolded.

She laughed and dashed out of sight before the guards arrived, leaving them for Shepard and the crew to handle.

"Shep! We're pinned down. I've got Bailey with me but he's been shot. Need help!"

"We're coming! Hold on!"

Kasumi was never one for camping in one place while under attack and now she found herself having to protect a much stationary Bailey. She cursed under her breath.

"I gotta be honest with you there, Bai. I'm not much invested in.. well.. heavy armor, sort of speak. I don't do well under direct attack like this" She paused and sent out an overload into the middle of the group of soliders, finishing them off with a few well placed headshots. "We need Shepard here soon or we're f.. well.."

"I get it. I can still hold my own, Miss Goto. Do your thing, we got your back"

Kasumi gave him a quick nod and bolted over the crate, cloaking herself, jumping into the middle of a larger group soldiers. A few hard kicks and shots to a couple of heads and her positon soon had the full attention of a very confused group of soldiers. She uncloaked, holding a charged grenade in each hand.

"Hello, boys!"

All eyes on her, it took mere seconds for Garrus, Shepard and the c-sec officers to snipe them all down before they even had a chance to move. Kasumi threw the granades into the next group of soldiers and jumped out of the way, leaving her decoy behind. Shepard and Garrus sniped the remaning soldiers effectivly and joined her behind the crate.

"Holy shit, Kasumi. Serious balls" Shepard gave Kasumi a quick pat on the shoulder.

"I'm one in a million, what can I say"

Shepard smiled at her and walked up to Bailey.

"Status report"

"They locked us out. We've been trying to get inside but not only are we under attack, the damn consols aren't even responding from this side"

Shepard nodded and pointed at Kasumi.

"Kasumi, you do you"

Kasumi swaggered up to the consol, cracking her fingers for show. She took out one of her toys and managed to light up the consol within a few seconds.

"I learned this trick while aquiring a batarian ceremonial headdress some time ago. My employer at the time wasn't very forthcoming with payment so I kept it for some time. Scary looking thing. Last I heard, Matheteu Pelery from the Blue Suns owns it. I was just glad to be rid of it" She paused for a few seconds. "Once this consol is avaliable, it's not all that difficult to hack. And besides, it's not the first time I'm hacking it"

Sarah couldn't help but to look over at Bailey, biting the inside of her mouth to keep herself from smiling. Kasumi glanced over her shoulder, giving Bailey a guilty look. She shrugged her shoulders and Baily just shook his head. She smiled and turned back to the consol.

"And.. we're in"

The group made it inside. Bailey threw himself at the terminal and started setting up a new communication channel for the c-sec officers. He soon found out about a salarian councilor being there for a meeting with the executor, quickly throwing guesses that she might be in the executor's office for cover. Shepard nodded, setting up a communication channel with Bailey.

"Let's move, people!"

They soon arrived at the office, spotting the councilor below.

"Liara, Javik. Get down to the councilor. Garrus, Kasumi. Find an advantage point. We need to make sure the area is safe, fast!"

Garrus and Kasumi made their way into the air ducts, climbing up to get abetter view point. They tried opening a few grids on the way but they were all wielded shut. Through one of the grids, Garrus noticed something move in the corner of his eye.

"Shepard! Keep an eye out, we saw movement"

Moments later, they heard Shepard smash a window. They hurried up to the closest grid and looked down to witness Shepard jump down to the councilor, facing off with an unknown attacker. They saw Liara and Javik soon join up behind her.

"Garrus! We need to get down there!"

"No, try and get the grid open, we need a clear shot, fast!"

"I'll climb further up. Maybe we can get in the same way he did"

Garrus nodded and brought up his omni-blade, trying to cut through the grid at his side. Kasumi climbed further up until the vent became horizontal and she got a clear view of the room below her. She tried to navigate herself to the same grid the attacker must have entered through when she suddenly saw someone familiar below her.

"Garrus!"

Garrus rushed up to her side.

"Garrus! We.. we have to get inside! Thane! He's.. he's fighting Kai Leng! I have to get to him!"

Both of them desperately tried and get the grid below them to open. Kasumi hands were shaking. She couldn't focus on what she was doing and kept looking down at Thane. Suddenly, he attacked and stoped right in his tracks. Kasumis heart stopped as she witnessed Leng pull out his blade, dripping red with Thanes blood. The color drained from her face, suddenly feeling dizzy to the point of fainting.

"THANE! NO!"