A/N: Yeah, I've got nothing to say up here. Move along. Move along.

As Shepard and his team left the elevator they stumble across a lone Eclipse merc talking with his boss over his helmet's radio. He continued to pace next to a glass window overlooking the other tower. They quietly moved up behind the merc without him noticing a thing as he continued his conversation with the other, "We don't need any reinforcements. I'll take care of it. It's under control. I'll go down there myself."

Everyone readied their weapons, Prudii had his bowcaster as Garrus targeted the merc's head with his sniper rifle and Tali powered up her omni-tool. As soon as the merc turned off his radio, Shepard gave the merc one warning, "Turn around, very slowly."

As the merc did, he knew he was screwed. "Damn it."

Shepard then asked the merc, "Have you seen the assassin?"

As Shepard moved closer the merc stepped back answering with his own question, "Why are you looking for him? You're not one of Nassana's mercs. Who are you?"

Prudii moved forward in front of Shepard as he tossed back the bowcaster behind him. Prudii was now helmet to helmet with the merc, "Answer the questions, and I'll let you walk. Haat."

The merc wasn't in the mood for talking, "Look pal, even if I knew where he was I wouldn't tell you."

Prudii wasn't too pleased with the answer, "Not looking good for your life expectancy."

The merc was overly confident he was going to live as he leaned against the glass, "Look, I've got nothing more to say to you, or your friend. If you shoot me, my team's right through there… they'll be all over you."

Prudii was tempted to end his life now but he didn't see the point. Instead, the commando used his intimidation to make the merc talk. Prudii rushed the merc with his left arm across his chest. The merc barley had the time to react as his right arm tried to stop him but to no avail, only adding his right arm to the pin against his neck. Now the merc was pinned to the glass and the force Prudii used only caused a few cracks in the window. As Prudii continued to apply enough pressure to keep the merc against the glass, it continued to make cracks. Prudii extended the vibroblade on his right gauntlet then gave the merc his ultimatum as he started to drag the vibrating blade close to the cracking glass, "Die now, or die much later. Chose."

The merc tried to swallow as Prudii continued to push him against the glass, "I…uh…OK, look…" Prudii started to ease up but continued to keep the merc pinned as he talked, "last I heard, the assassin was down on the mezzanine. But the teams on the bridge think they might've spotted him. Nobody knows for sure."

Prudii slammed the merc's head against the glass before finally releasing him telling him, "Get out."

The merc raised his hands as he walked straight toward the elevator telling them, "I'm going." The merc kept his hands raised until he was inside the elevator and activated it to go down.

As the elevator started to leave, Garrus turned to Prudii, "He owes you one. Anybody else would have killed him.

Prudii simply replied to Garrus as he grabbed his DC-17m and the assault rifle components, "Ijaa. I gave him my word; he talked so he lived. I have to keep my word. Honor demands it." As Prudii moved to the door right of the elevator, he found an OSD left on the floor. He examined the data and found it had the family history for a salarian lineage, the Kirosa family. Remembering how some of the salarian crew talked about how important this kind of information was Prudii stashed the data into his pack, hopefully he might encounter one of the Kirosa members and give it to them.

As the Mandalorian shuttle touched down next to the mine, Araniik found the medical droid IM-6 waiting next to the gunship. Araniik demanded answers from the droid, "IM-6, where are Dagger and the others?"

IM-6 politely answered the clone, "Dagger and the others are five meters within the mine awaiting your arrival."

Aran turned to the others, "Shaadla dayn traat'aliit."

As they slowly moved into the small confined tunnel, the squad heard a clicking of rocks. Aran threw up his fist, ordering the squad to hold position and ready their weapons. Soon a voice shouted out, "Tion'cuy?" The voice obviously belonged to one of the clones but the voice wasn't taking any chances.

Aran answered, "RC-2473."

The clone then demanded, "Kemir dayn werda."

Aran attached his DC to his leg and walked step by step out with his hands in the air. Aran heard the weapon click next to his head, but he did not flinch as he asked, "Mind not pointing that at me?"

Aay'han quickly lowered his WESTAR, "Wasn't taking any chances. After you said you were coming down those boltbrains tried to ambush us. The only reason we were ready was because of C3. The astromech seems capable of detecting them before they appear."

Aran saw one of the corpses, "Find anything else so far?"

Aay'han pointed to a bench off to the other end of the small cavern pocket, "Besides a warning left by some poor sod, and the mineral stash, nothing."

Suddenly a voice started to echo within their minds, Troopers, I have dire news you need to hear.

Everyone started to look around except for Aran and the other clones. Nyona was trying to find the sources of the voice when she asked them, "Where is that coming from?"

Rang quickly answered her with a pun, "An o'r gar kovid."

Aay'han responded, "We hear you General. What's the matter?"

Lissarkh explained, Arriving to this system I started to feel a disturbance in the Force, whispers beyond the ship's hull. Now that we have situated ourselves over the planet I can hear them clearly. Whatever these whispers are they are deep within the mine you are investigating. You mustn't stay down there too long or else the whispers will find their way into your minds. The whispers are tempters, trying to make you do its bidding by offering more. Whatever is causing these whispers cannot be allowed to survive.

Now a new voice started to speak. Professor Pyth, And Aay'han if it's at all possible, I'd like a few pictures to be taken, if the voices do in deed come from a device, before you destroy it. The whispers are starting to get on my nerves, odd as that may sound of me being that I tend to do that to others. Thank you!

Aay'han turned to Araniik, "Well vod, the mission objectives have changed rather drastically."

The commando patted his brother's pauldron, "Just like old times." Aran turned to the others, "We should establish check points. Make sure none of these bastards leave alive. Kix, Rang, you two keep watch of the entrance. I don't want to see a husk so much as leave this tunnel."

Dagger turned to his crew, "Swoop, Jak, you two should stay with them to give fire support and also to ensure someone can fly the gunship out."

Rang started to joke around with the others about the situation, "OK, so long as I get to blow up the tunnel before we leave."

Aay'han then made a suggestion. "Hey Aran, I think this is a good check point. You should have four-eyes and the kid hold here."

Aran agreed with the idea, "Forta, Tare. You guys up to the job?"

Tare nodded, "I won't let you down."

Forta shrugged, "Alright."

With everything in place the team started to move deeper into the mine. Moving on C3 suddenly detected another one moving toward them. Dagger asked the droid, "Where's it coming from?" C3 reported as Dagger warned the others, "Up high!"

As Dagger shouted one of the husks suddenly dropped from one of the higher support beams. Not even giving the husk a chance to recover from landing, the team opened fire on the thing before it could land, causing it to slum down as it fell.

Aran signaled C3 and Dagger to move up along with Beviin as support. C3 stopped as she detected more husk coming toward them. "Bev!"

The commando grabbed for the Geonosian pike he hung on his belt. Out of the muck a group of husk had crawled up next to a pair of gas filled canisters. Dagger saw this and fired on the two containers first. The blast was strong but their metal skin was harder. The two closest to the blasts went down but there were still three more and they promptly started to charge them. One of them stood out from the rest, the metal was a blood red color as it seemed to have 'ignited' itself, ready to explode or something.

The trio fell back as the husks continued to charge them. Beviin radioed the others for support, "Nyona. We need a Biotic Throw. Aim for the red one."

From around the corner the two clones continued to slowly back up as R4-C3 rolled up to the others rather quickly. The others soon saw what Bev meant as the husks continued to run after them. Nyona quickly unleashed a Biotic Throw sending the red husk against the cave wall. The red husk wasn't slammed that hard against the rock but something must have caused it to explode. Once that was dealt with Beviin moved in with the extended pike and mercilessly started to attack both husks. The clone commando demonstrated why he was the close-quarter specialist as each blow was executed with precision. Beviin extended the pike to half its normal size as he blocked both husks' attacks. Beviin pulled out his vibroblade and, when the opportune moment opened, rammed the blade into one of the husks' throat as he extended the pike to its full size as it skewered the other husk through the jaw and skull. Bev threw the husk off his pike and turned to the others. "Droid. Do you detect any more husks nearby?"

R4-C3 started to beep as Dagger answered. "There are a few more up ahead but they haven't detected us or they aren't moving. She's also detecting a large concentration a few meters ahead of us."

Aay'han instinctively told the others as he readied his weapon, "Alright people, let's keep moving and keep your eyes open."

Back in Dantius Tower, after a raging battle against three Eclipse mercs and four mechs, one of the mercs, an Eclipse vanguard, was wounded badly but still alive. As the asari struggled to crawl to her shotgun, Prudii stepped on her spine. In an act of mercy the clone fire a single round at pointblank into the back of her skull splattering brain matter and purple blood onto his legging.

With the area cleared, Prudii noticed a locked door. As Shepard and Garrus checked the large area for any hidden Eclipse, Prudii used hand signals to ask Tali to unlock the door. As the quarian hacked the lock, the commando had his weapon at the ready for anything. Once unlocked, Tali moved out of the way as Prudii pressed the holo-button. Once the door fully opened he move in cautiously, only to find a dead Eclipse merc on the floor and another group of three salarians hiding further in. Prudii returned the rifle to his thigh the moment he saw them, despite his training as one of the salarians, the brown skinned one in the maroon clothing, had a pistol in hand. Prudii tried to calm the situation down by not acting like a thug. "Everyone alright?"

As Prudii expected, the salarian panicked and drew the pistol any way. The salarian was nervous and obviously had little training with weapons as he only held the pistol with his right hand and his arm would twitch slightly as he waived it at both Tali and Prudii. He started to shout at the duo, "Get back! Get back…I'll shoot."

Tali tried to calm the panicked salarian down, "Put the weapon down! We won't hurt you."

The salarian continued to dangerously swing the pistol as he quickly shifted between Prudii and Tali, "I don't want to hurt you…but I will. I said get back! I'll do it!" The salarian then pleaded with them as he lowered his head slightly, most likely out of terror, "Please…don't make me do it."

Prudii could see this salarian has never stained his hands with the blood of others. The commando look to Tali and used his private comm. channel, "Don't shoot. I've got this." Prudii turned back to the salarian and activated his helmet's speakers, "We're not the bad guys. You have a name?"

The salarian seemed hesitant but willing to respond, "I…I'm Telon. Don't…come any closer," quickly raising the pistol directed at Prudii now.

Prudii nodded, "Telon. I'm Prudii. Mandalorian." Prudii turned to Tali, "This is Tali. We're not with the Eclipse. And we're defiantly not with Dantius. I don't want to hurt you. We're here to help."

Telon finally lowered the pistol in relief and exhaustion, "I…all right…" Telon turned the pistol over to Prudii, "here… I…don't feel so…" Telon suddenly collapsed, probably from the stress.

The salarian behind Telon in white with an identical skin tone moved to the collapsed salarian as he shouted, "Telon!" Through sheer combat training, Prudii aimed the pistol that was handed to him onto Telon and the other. The salarian in white looked up to Prudii as he explained, "He's my brother. I just want to see if he's all right." Such a commotion didn't go unnoticed. Shepard and Garrus moved in to try and help, only to find the situation already under control. Telon's brother then asked Prudii, "Are you the ones who…shot the merc?"

Prudii understood the drive that would make one defend their siblings no matter the cost and he could see that is what Telon probably did. Prudii uncharacteristically holstered the pistol and turned to the dead Eclipse. He then asked, "No. Not my kill. Telon didn't?"

Telon's brother answered, "No. Telon was standing here with me."

Prudii didn't like this. He turned to the salarian and asked for details, "What happened?"

Telon's brother explained without hesitation, "The merc found us and shouted at us to move. We panicked, and he shouted more. I thought he was going to kill us…then…his head just exploded. Telon picked up the merc's gun, but we were too afraid to leave. Then you showed up."

Garrus then muttered, "A perfect headshot with no collateral damage. Very impressive."

Prudii moved to examine the dead merc, as he did he whispered to Shepard, "All yours." The Commander started asking Telon's brother questions, about the bridge and so on. Prudii found the entry wound was directly on top of the medulla oblongata. The shattering slug must have caused the blood that escaped the head to appear in a puff making the impression that his head 'exploded'. Prudii started to use the entry point and the blood stains on the wall to imagine what had played out. Prudii stood where the merc once did, he turned his head toward where the entry wound was relative to facing the salarians. Prudii started to us his left arm to aim as he tried to find the angle the sniper round was fired. Prudii saw the perfect location, about fifteen meters from that spot, near the door they entered, about fifty-five degrees left of his heart.

After Shepard had finished asking his questions, the Commander advised the workers to leave. "There are still mercs up here. You should get to the lower levels."

Telon's brother stood up as he was more than ready to leave. "No need to convince me." He then lowered his hand as he awakened Telon, "Telon…come one, get up."

Telon was back on his feet and the others could see the 'excitement' has taken its toll on him. Telon simply lowered his head as he asked his brother, "Can we go home now?"

Telon's brother quietly answered him, "Yeah, we're getting out of here." As Telon and the other worker walked out of the room, Telon's brother stopped to express his gratitude as he respectfully bowed his head, "Thank you." He too soon followed suit and walked toward the service elevator.

Moving on, Prudii found an open comm. station as Nassana continued to shout through it. "Where is everyone? Will somebody please give me a report!" Prudii walked up to it and activated it. Nassana noticed it and shouted at him thinking he's one of her mercs, "It's about time! What's going on down there?"

Prudii replied to her, "Sorry. Your men aren't able to respond, Nassana."

"Damn it!" She quickly killed the connection in fear of being back hacked. The commando has seen cowards like her back on Coruscant, most were politicians but there were a few crime bosses that were stupid enough to side with the Separatist and openly use it. Climbing up the incline, Prudii wasn't waiting for Shepard or the others for back up. Prudii hugged the wall toward the center, keeping himself out of sight of those who might be up there.

Shepard, Garrus and Tali eventually caught up with the clone but Prudii gave them a signal to wait. He cloaked himself before moving on. In the immediate area he spotted two LOKI mechs and an asari vanguard on patrol. They must have heard the commotion down stairs as the purple asari with tech armor was intently watching the ramp way. Prudii never liked showboating but this one instant might be a good thing. Prudii quickly moved to cover before his cloak deactivated. Now behind a pill of sheet metal, Prudii contacted Tali over their helmet channels. "Tali. Two LOKIs and an asari vanguard. Maybe more around the corner."

"We'll be right there to…"

Prudii cut her off, "Give me a few seconds. I'll deal with the asari and the mechs." Now that his cloak was ready again, Prudii activated it and quietly moved up behind the Eclipse. As he did, the commando spotted two more asari with shotguns waiting. Prudii was in a tight spot but he soon found his saving grace, the pillar obscured the view for the two other asari. Ready, Prudii grabbed this purple asari by her jaw with his left hand and pulled her back behind the pillar. Prudii extended the hidden vibroblade on his right gauntlet as she fell onto it. The blade penetrated the armor and cut into her. As the sonic vibrations emitted from the tip started to rupture a number of her vital organs and blood vessels, Prudii twisted the asari's neck to the right and snapped her neck.

As Prudii's cloak deactivated the LOKI mech sensors detect the unknown presence and opened fire. "Hostiles detected." Now Prudii was using the dead vanguard as a meat shield as he grabbed his DC-15s pistol and returned fire. Shepard and his team found Prudii as he was finishing the last LOKI mech with five shots; three to knock down the shield, one for the weapon arm and a final round through the faceplate.

Prudii stayed behind cover as he warned them, "Vanguards up ahead." But the asari were already trying to attack him, launching a series of Biotic attacks and shotgun rounds toward the commando. Prudii continued to hide behind the pillar as the attack did not make direct contact, smashing into the thick pillar.

As the two asari were occupied with attacking the lone commando, Shepard, Garrus and Tali had moved up ready to help out. Tali activated her omni-tool as she spawned her combat drone, "They're all yours Chiktikka!" The purple and pink combat drone started to zip through the air as it started to target the two vanguards. This distraction would cost both asari, as Prudii moved out from behind the pillar; Shepard and Garrus targeted the closest vanguard. As her biotic barrier started to buckle, Tali fired upon the other vanguard along with Prudii. Chiktikka was too fast for either merc to keep up and the sustained assault from the team eventually dropped both asari. With that out of the way, they were one step closer to finding Thane Krios.

A/N: I know most people just push the merc out the window for the funny scene but I always like the threat better, make the merc piss his pants. In the caverns, Aay'han did the right thing(situationally speaking) when asking for confirmation and he doesn't know that husks can't speak. Cut the team some slak, the only husks they've ever fought against were on the Citadel(Sigma Squad only) and Horizon(only the basic husks, Scions and Praetorians).Yes Prudii used the Assassin's Creed assassination, but come on it's an effective means of ending a life. I let Prudii handle Telon because of his brothers. So, I'm starting to get in a rut but I'll try to push through it.

Mando'a Translation: Finnally back into the swing of it and using the Mandalorian dictionary!

Haat, Ijaa(Haht, i-JAH)- Truth, Honor(words used to seal a pact)

Shaadla dayn traat'aliit.(SHAHD'la dain TRAHT-ah-LEET)- Move out team/squad.

Tion'cuy?(Tee-ON-coo-EE)- Who's that? (often used as a challenge to identify someone - like "Halt! Who goes there?")

Kemir dayn werda.(KEH-meer dain WAIR-dah)- Walk into the light. (Lit: Walk out of the darkness.)

An o'r gar kovid.(ahn ohr gahr KOV-eed)- It's all in your mind.