Liara was quietly sitting at her desk, examining footage from all over Illium, when one piece in particular caught her eye. There, just a few miles away from her current location was a battle going on between two Spectres. Liara watched it, fascinated by the way the asari and salarian fought. Then, when the asari stopped moving, she recognized it as Vasir. 'Damn. It would have to be the one Spectre in the Shadow Broker's pocket.' she thought, as she grabbed her pistol, flared her biotics for the first time in months, and exited the building, killing Nixeris on the way out. She then walked to her skycar, and headed to her apartment. She had to prepare if she was going to get to safety before Vasir found her. 'Where do I go now? The Citadel itself has too many rules for me to properly do my job as an information broker, but, Operative Von is there, he's trustworthy. Feeding me intel even after the coup pulled by that damned yagh. Maybe it's time to pull on my resources who know what happened then. But, on the Citadel Vasir would be perfectly safe in an attempt to kill me, so I have to go elsewhere? Omega? No, everyone runs to Omega. Vasir would check there first. Thessia? No, too many rules, and also fairly obvious. Maybe Aethyta will know more. Though, she did say that she couldn't spend much time with me, saying it might make people think that I was just someone who was posing as the Shadow Broker. Earth? No, I'd stick out there. Wait, there's a planet she wouldn't expect me to go. Virmire. I'll have to arrange so that my contacts send it to the database there in a way that would be too much of a hassle to track through conventional means.'

-=0=-

Javik was looking closely at the little information Miranda had sent to the Normandy, and was surprised by the weapons that this Cerberus group was using. Why not just propel a small amount of material to the speed of light? It would do a considerable amount of damage. The prothean smirked as he thought of how they had resorted to such tactics when they were fighting the reapers in his time. Dozens of the capital ships had fallen to their ships flying into the Old Machines at ftl speeds. But, it had proven ineffective, as they lost a few troops every time that happened, and their numbers were already incredibly thin by that time. They'd spent years figuring out how to make ftl ships that didn't have the protective measures that the vehicles had always been built with.

After examining it for a few seconds more, the prothean asked, "Does Illium have any form of military?"
Joker replied, "Nope, Prothy, they don't have that, because it would make them less competitive with the Terminus Systems. Military means soldiers, soldiers means a powerful government, a powerful government isn't good for business. A strong government might put regulations on trade that are 'too strict to make Illium capable of competing with the goods of the Terminus Systems which have no regulations'. At least, that's what the government said."
The prothean nodded, then asked, "The synthetics of your time, the geth, why did they rebel?"
"They started to become self aware, so the quarians decided it would be a good time to kill them off. Thought they might rebel if left alive."
"Strange, the synthetics in my people's cycle did not behave as such. They understood why they had been created, that it was to serve, so they accepted it as their place in the galaxy."
"Did you guys never have rogue VIs.

"They were very rare. Before the reapers arrived, we thought that we had found a way to keep the peace between organics and synthetics. When the reapers arrived, and destroyed our society, it shook the galaxy to its core. The other races were absolutely astonished that the Citadel was lost so easily."

"Did you ever board a reaper and kill it from within?"
"It had been considered during the early stages of the war, but the risk of indoctrination was too high. We weren't willing to risk our best men to kill a single reaper. We believed we could kill them without such sacrifices. We were wrong."

"So, you'd endorse sending some of the best soldiers in the galaxy to their deaths in order to kill reapers from within?"
"Yes, if you don't make sacrifices, the reapers will win. There is no way to survive a war against the reapers without sacrificing your honor."
Joker just nodded, and made sure that the Normandy was ready to launch if need be.

-=0=-

Jessica walked down the tunnel, followed by Thane and Miranda. 'Kasumi died for this. Why did I send her in? We should have just gone in and taken care of it on our own. Or, we should have looked for another way for her to go in.' The team walked silently down the trash tunnel, dodging the cubes of trash fired every now and then. When they reached the end of the tunnel, there was no one at the other end, which struck Jessica as odd.

As the team moved through the empty base, they saw a single Cerberus operative dash around a corner. Jessica motioned for Thane to follow the Operative, while she and Miranda went down the other path. Through the silent hallway the two women walked, not encountering a single living Cerberus Operative. There were a few dead bodies in the base, but nothing more than that.

They slowly walked through the base, scanning the area slowly, making sure that there was no Cerberus Operative in the base.

Then, after what seemed like hours, they reached the base's CIC. Inside, there were three Cerberus Operatives, each armed with a predator pistol. Jessica and Miranda ducked into cover while the three turned to investigate the door opening, Jessica prepped an arc grenade, and tossed another one to Miranda. The two waited there quietly for a few seconds, then tossed the grenades towards the Cerberus Operatives. As the grenades detonated, electricity coursed through the enemies. As they spasmed where they stood, Jessica hit one of them with a cryo blast, Miranda warped another, and then they finished those two off with rounds from their Carnifex pistols. Then, Jessica hit the third guy with an incineration blast, and Miranda shot him in the heart. As he collapsed, Jessica walked up to the terminal, and said, "Miri, make sure that no Cerberus Operatives get in. I'm going to be working on making sure those nukes can't be fired."
"Be quick, we don't know how many mechs they've got here." Miranda said placing a biotic barricade on each of the entrances.

-=0=-

Meanwhile, Thane was running through the base, chasing the operative, when he saw that it was a wide-open area with the upper structure having plenty of space to move. The walls were smooth, so Thane typed a few commands into his omnitool, and the micro-fabricator created a small grappling hook and he used it to lift himself into the upper area. He followed the small Cerberus Operative, and watched as she walked past a pair of other Operatives. And then stabbed them with a pair of omni-blades.

'Could it be? No.' Thane thought as he moved through the rafters. He then dropped down and followed the woman through the hallway. However, she had quit moving. She was just standing in the middle of the hall. She said, "I didn't notice that you were following me until that last room. You're really good Thane." She turned around, and there was a small line of ink below her lower lip.

The assassin said, "Kasumi, how are you alive?"

-=0=-

A few minutes ago.

As the trash compactor slammed around her, her shields flared up, and managed to hold it off for a single second, just long enough to get out of the compactor. Her cloak crashed, she stabbed one of the shocked Cerberus Operatives. She then dove towards another one, and stabbed him too. She then pulled out her pistol and fired on the last enemy in the room. The thief looked at her clothes, and saw that the back was really badly torn. She shook her head, and quickly stripped down to her underwear and took the uniform of the female Operative she'd shot. As she got it on, she shrugged, and put the female Operative into the trash compactor with her own clothes. She looked disgusted as the compactor slammed shut, and the girl was flung out in two different trash cubes.

She then walked out of the room, and had to kill two more guys. Then, she was in the clear, after hiding the corpses.

-=0=-

Jessica was typing on the console quickly, when Thane contacted them on her omni-tool. The drell said, "Shepard, how are things on your end?"
"We've managed to take down the launch protocols for the nukes, now we're trying to get into the database to find where the thorian is. What about you? You catch the Cerberus Operative?"
"It wasn't a Cerberus Operative, it was Kasumi."
"What? We saw her crushed corpse."
Kasumi popped up on the screen and said, "Actually, it was a Cerberus Operative who I'd had to kill."

"You could have contacted us once you fired that thing out."

"Sorry, Shep, I was maintaining radio silence so Cerberus didn't notice their base had been found. Though, I'd say our cover's probably been blown."
"Probably, you guys should make sure that there isn't anyone else from Cerberus in the base."
"Got it. We'll also make sure that the others know that the nukes aren't a threat." Kasumi said as she and Thane moved out.

"Good to see that Kasumi didn't die like we thought she had. But, I'm a bit surprised her shields managed to hold long enough for her to get out." Jessica said.

"Seems like that upgrade was worth the cost." Miranda said.

Jessica nodded, and went back to hacking into the Cerberus database. It was quiet for several more minutes, then four Cerberus Operatives walked up to the barricade, and detonated a bomb on it. With the barrier gone, they entered, but Jessica had already turned and pulled out her Mattock rifle. Three of the Operatives looked like they had just crapped themselves. The other one looked slightly worried, but was confident. He said, "Get away from the console."

"If you guys don't put your guns away, I'll kill you before you can fire them once."
Three of them did as they were told, but the other asked, "What the hell are you doing? We can take her down!"

"Are you crazy? Remember what happened to all those bases she raided? Everyone died. What makes you think we have any more of a chance than those guys did?"
"We've got better firepower, and she's alone." he replied.

Miranda then said from behind them with a pistol to the head of the still holding the gun, "Actually, she isn't alone."

The guy dropped his gun and said, "Alright, I surrender. What do you want, Shepard?"
"What's the code to get into the database?"
"We don't know, we were security maintenance, so we just made sure the mechs were working properly."

"So, you don't know anything about this facility, or what was going on?"
"We know what was being worked on, but we don't have any access to the data."
"So, what exactly were you guys working on?"
"The scientists were studying a unique kind of life-form down on the planet. The scientists went there going in environment suits that had their own separate oxygen supply. They were worried it would take control of them like a reaper does."
"The way the thorian controls its thralls is different from Indoctrination. Where is it?"
"We were never told where it was. They seemed to be worried we'd just blow the thing up if we knew its location."
"Why did you have so many nukes here?"
"The Illusive Man was worried that we wouldn't be able to get what we needed from the storer before the reapers arrived."
"What is TIM trying to get from the storer?"
"I don't know. He doesn't tell anyone that. Except maybe for the new head of science division."

"I thought that all of the divisions had been put together into a single unit under the Illusive Man." Miranda said.
"It was that way, but for some reason he brought in some rich guy as the head of R&D."

Jessica looked suspicious, and asked, "What was this rich guy's name?"
"I don't know. They didn't share that information with me."
"Then how did you even know about it?"
"I overheard the scientists talking about it. Apparently he'd given them new orders on the ways to handle their research. Something to increase efficiency."
"You didn't hear a single part of his name?" Miranda asked, suspicion clear in her voice.

"They just said that they thought that he had used his trillions to get into the position. That's all I heard."
"Great. That reduces the number of people who could be in that position to about seven." Jessica said.

"Actually," Miranda said, "There are only six human trillionaires alive, and only two of them have Cerberus sympathies."
"How do you know that, Miri?"
"During my time in Cerberus I got into the habit of knowing who the richest humans in the galaxy were, and of those who had sympathies for Cerberus."
"Who are the two rich bastards?"
"One's my father, the other is a guy named Steve Harper."
"Where is this Steve Harper?"
"He lives on Elysium."

Then, the Cerberus guy said, "They said that it was a guy who lived on Arcturus, if that makes any difference."
"That can't be right, neither of them live on Arcturus."
"Just repeating what I heard."

Jessica cracked the security, quickly found the location of the thorian, and copied it into her omni-tool, before she connected EDI to the thing, and said, "Get as much data as you can out of this thing."

"I was beginning to think that you didn't trust me to do it." The AI said.
"Just doing what I could to keep my skills sharp."

"Understood. You didn't hurt my feelings. I'll have the entire database copied in fifteen."
"Good. Let us know what you find."
"I will." the AI said.

Then, Jessica walked over to the guy, and she grabbed him by the edge of his armor. She then slammed him into the ground, and kicked him into the ceiling. When he hit the ground, she asked, "Who is the head of Cerberus R&D?"

"I don't know. I just overheard the conversation between the scientists, who your friends killed."
"Quit lying."
"I'm not." he said.

Jessica glared at him, her eyes just starting to turn red, and she growled, "You're a terrible liar. You look around rapidly every time you open your mouth. Also, you swallow every third word."
"How the hell did you notice that?"
"Alliance N7 Marines are more than just soldiers. We're trained in espionage, interrogation- part of which is being able to tell when someone is lying- and how to push the rules without breaking them. But, now that I'm a Spectre, I don't have any rules binding me. If you don't tell me what I want to know, I can torture you with no punishment."

Miranda placed a hand on Jessica's shoulder, and said, "You're letting it influence you. Just relax."

Jessica nodded, and did as Miranda suggested. Then she heard the Butcher say, 'That bitch! I almost had you giving in to me! I was so close to being free. Kill her.'

'No, Butcher. And shut the hell up.' Jessica thought back at it.

'I am the only reason you're alive. The only reason that you draw breath, give in to me!'

'No, I'm alive because of Miri, not you.'

'You don't know what you're talking about, worm. Lazarus shouldn't have worked.'

'You're full of shit, Butcher. Why don't you go back into whatever black hole your reaper creators came from?'

'You know nothing of what you face, Shepard. Do you really believe you can defeat me? My kind have existed for millions of years. None of your kind have ever managed to tame us, I am beyond your understanding.'

'You're a side-effect of failure on the reapers' part. What makes you think that you can control me, when the reapers couldn't?'

'Because, I am more than just noise and conditioning. I am the darkness of your own heart. True, the reapers may have twisted me to be different from the darker impulses within you, but I am still a part of you. And, while there have been some who have been able to resist the Indoctrination from outside, none have resisted the Indoctrination from within.'

'I don't have time for you. So, shut up, I have someone to interrogate.'

The Butcher was quiet for a while, then said, 'You will not hear words from me, Shepard, but I will never be truly silent. However, I want to see how you handle this interrogation, so I will leave you alone.'

The guy was just staring at the way Jessica's eyes were flickering from red to their natural blue. Then, he said, "Alright, quit changing your eyes, the guy's Henry Lawson. I don't know why he took the job, but he did. He's made a lot of changes since he took over. That's all I know."
Jessica nodded, and then said, "If you get out of here now, I will let you live."
They nodded, and sprinted out, only to be shot by Kasumi and Thane as they got as they ran around the corner and saw the Cerberus Operatives.

Jessica nodded, and EDI said, "I have finished gathering the data."

"Good, We'll be heading down to the thorian's location once we get out of here."
"There is another situation you should be aware of, Shepard." Samara said.

"What is it?"
"I don't know the details, but apparently Bau got severely injured by an asari Spectre. He identified her as Tela Vasir."
"How long will it take for him to make a full recovery?"
"The doctors reported that it would take approximately twelve days for him to be able to work on the field."
"Got it. We're heading out now. All of the security has been disabled, so you should be able to send in the shuttle now."
"Got it." Joker said, "It should be showing up soon."
"Good." the Commander said.
Miranda asked, "Were you talking to the Butcher, after I stopped you from beating him?"
"Yeah, how could you tell?"
"Your eyes were flashing between red and blue. It looked really freaky. But, at least you were able to keep control over yourself."
"Yeah, it only shut up because it wanted to see how I was going to handle the interrogation."
Miranda just nodded, and when the team got into the shuttle back to the Normandy, she said, "Are you okay?"
"It said that it would be influencing me, even when it was silent. That it was a form of Indoctrination. And, I don't know if I can hold it off forever."
Miranda placed a hand on her shoulder, and said, "You'll be able to handle it. And, soon you should be free of that thing."
"Yeah. EDI, how far is the thorian from Nos Astra?"
"It is approximately three thousand miles from Nos Astra. It's in a remote area that hasn't had anyone living there for about a hundred years."
"Good." Jessica said, "We'll pick up Samara and then go and find the thorian."
"I will be in the cargo bay when you arrive on the Normandy." The Justicar replied.
"Good, we'll also need to get some more equipment for this mission. I've got a feeling the Illusive Man wouldn't leave such a valuable asset unguarded."

"Understood, Shepard. Is there anything you'll need in particular?"
"Kasumi could use a change of clothes." Shepard replied.

The thief said, "Hey, I like this stuff. It's comfy."

"Scratch that, she doesn't want one."

Samara said, "Understood, I'll have two boxes of thermal clips ready, as well as a box of grenades."
Miranda added, "Could you also bring some energy bars?"

"Of course."

A few minutes later, the shuttle flew into the Normandy's open shuttle bay, and Samara tossed in the boxes of clips followed by the energy bars. Then, she pulled in the grenades, and the shuttle then reversed out of the Normandy, and set out for the thorian's location.

It seemed to take hours to head to the place where the plant was. Then, they were hit by an emp while moving towards the thorian's final location. The kodiac crashed into the forest, a few miles from the location of the storer.

Samara said, "I'll take point. We don't know what is out here."
"Got it. Thane, you'll be guarding our left flank. Kasumi, you'll handle our six. Miri, you and I'll be handling the right side. Move out team."

"Understood." Samara said.

"Got it." The master thief cheerfully replied.

Thane and Miranda just nodded, and the team moved through the forest. Things were very quiet over the first few hundred meters. The team slowly walked through it, making sure that there was no ambush ahead of them. Then, as they slowly walked through the woods, Samara's foot sank through the ground. She stepped back, and said, "That's not the forest, it's just water."
"What? I'll send a scanner down there." Jessica said.

As the small drone fell through the water, her omni-tool showed what it was seeing. It wasn't much, just water, then, a tendril came out and tried to hit the drone. Jessica managed to move it out of its way, but another one caught it. Then, as the drone struggled against what held it, they saw a sign that it was indeed part of the thorian. Because, swimming towards it was a thorian creeper. But, it seemed to be different than the ones on Feros. The drone turned towards the creeper, and the creature asked, "Why do you come here, human?"

"I need information." Jessica said, using a micro-speaker on the drone that was there to use it as a long range communicator.
"I will not share any with you."
"I thought you were made to share information."
"We were created to store information, not to share it."

"When were you created? And by who?"
"If you defeat the reapers, then perhaps I will tell you who made us."
"Who made you? It's clear that it wasn't the reapers. They want to turn all organic life into more of them, not store information about them."
"The reapers came after us, and were given a mandate to leave us be. Sovereign understood that the creators would be displeased if they destroyed us."
"Who are the creators?"
"You do not know them. And, I will not share my knowledge with you."

"Why not? We managed to find you."
"That was mere luck. You should not have been able to find me, and if you did, you should not have been able to survive my traps."
"Why do you not want to share info? The other one was fairly willing to tell us some of what it knew."
"It has not seen countless civilizations come and try to use its knowledge to defeat the reapers. They all died, and did not win. They attempted to use the Citadel and the relays to destroy the reapers in one stroke, but they did not know what they were doing. It led to their demise because they relied solely on a single weapon, but they did not know how to activate it. The protheans attempted to use the device, but did not realize that to use it they would have to doom their empire, and all other species to come after them. Yours would follow into the end."
"What weapon? The device to stun the reapers?"
"I have no recollection of such a device. It was a weapon that destroyed the mass relays in order to release a massive amount of energy that damaged the reapers and all other synthetic lifeforms. But, they were unable to fire it. They were not able to assemble the technology needed to fire the weapon."

"We aren't interested in weapons to fight the reapers. We're here to learn about something else."
"What?" The thorian asked.

"I need to know how to handle a Butcher."
"You bear that burden?"
"Yes, what do you know about handling it?"
"That is not knowledge that can be shared through words. This is not a perfect way of communicating. If you want to learn how to make the Butcher not try and take you, I must have access to you so that I can place the knowledge directly within your mind."
"Where are you?"
"I am a hundred meters beyond your current location. Come there and I will begin the process of passing on the information."
"Why the sudden change in position?"

"The Butcher is an abomination. An accident created by the reapers failure. While I will not help you fight the reapers themselves, I will help you fight this creation of theirs. For it is more dangerous to the people of your cycle than even the reapers."
"Why is it more dangerous than the reapers?"
"Because, it can control people who are not tainted with it."

"Well, I suppose we should get to work then, thorian." Jessica said.

Kasumi asked, "Are you completely insane, Shep? I seem to recall what you put in your report about what the thorian did to that asari, Shiala? It had her completely under its control!"
"I know the risks, Kasumi." Jessica replied, "But I have to do this. I need to know how to take care of the Butcher."
Miranda said, "You're sure you can trust it?"
"No, but I don't have much of a choice. Miri, if I'm not out in an hour after I go in, I want you to kill it."

Miranda nodded, and they headed further into the forest. The holograms being made semi-solid by shielding. Then, they descended into the ground, and after what seemed to be hours, they reached the lair of the thorian.

It was the same as the other one, and there were a few creepers standing along each of the sides of the hallway to the thorian. One of them said, "You have arrived more quickly than expected."
"How long should this information transfer take?"
"The transfer will take two of your hours."
"Great." Jessica said, "Miri, you know what to do."

"I'll make sure that you get out of that thing in two hours." Miranda said.
Jessica nodded, and kissed Miranda, "For luck." she said, before walking up to the thorian. It reached down, and took her up into it.

-=0=-

Jack was meditating like Thane and Samara had told her to, when she heard her omni-tool beep, she looked down and saw that it was time to go to Kelly's office.

When the ex con got into the office, she plopped down on the chair she always took. Kelly then asked, "So, Jack, are you ready to talk about your time on Pragia?"
Jack was quiet for a few minutes, then said, "When I first got there, I didn't know what was going on. I was dragged to my cell, and told that they'd be back later to bring me my food. They didn't show up until the next day. They were testing the effect hunger had on human biotics. They found that it didn't have too much of one. It didn't add to the endurance, so they quit doing that after about a month."
"How did you feel during this time period?"
"I was a little kid, I don't fucking remember how I felt."
"Alright, please continue."
"Well, after that, they started making me fight the other kids. Whenever I attacked, they put drugs in my system."
"Do you still rely on drugs?"
"I got past it, but I still get warm feelings when I fight."
"I see. They conditioned you for combat."
"Yeah, but I'm done talking about it. That shit's not even the worst of what they did."
"I see. Is there any more detail you'd like to go into on it?"
"No, I've said all I want to about it now."
"Well, it is progress." Kelly said.

-=0=-

Tali and Lia were sitting in Kasumi's quarters, staring at the buildings of Nos Astra, then Tali said, "Let's go see what it's like in Nos Astra. There should be some changes in how things are due to the near-crisis on the moon."
Lia said, "Alright. I haven't spent too much time off of the Normandy since you guys picked me up."
Tali grabbed the other quarian's hand and walked out to the airlock. As they walked through the city of Nos Astra, Tali and Lia were looking at some merchandise, but then the asari shopkeeper said, "Why don't you quarians go back to your Migrant Fleet?"
Tali replied, "We're working for Commander Shepard on the Normandy SR2."
"Right. Why don't you quarians go away?"

Lia glared at the asari, which only made her glowing eyes appear to be just slits. She then said, "Tali was on the Citadel fighting the geth during the battle of the Citadel. She helped Shepard take down Saren. If it weren't for her, you might be dead."
"Leave now. I don't have time to waste on you lazy quarians."
Lia looked pissed, but Tali said, "Relax, Lia." She then turned to the asari, and said, "We'll be going now. But, you've just lost yourself a lot of business."
"Yeah right. You quarians don't know anyone other than your own kind."
Tali and Lia ignored her, and walked away. In Eternity, they saw Gianna Parasini, and Tali pulled out her pistol and aimed it at the human woman.

Parasini looked up, and ignored them, but Conrad Verner walked up to them and said, "Put that gun down!"

Tali looked at him and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm Commander Shepard's number one protegee. She taught me how to use a gun."
"I seriously doubt Shepard did that. Who are you really?"
"My name's Conrad Verner, maybe you've heard of me?"
"Nope, Shepard never mentioned you either."
"You've met Shepard too?"
"Yes, I was with her when she was fighting through the Citadel to stop Saren."
"Really? You were with her there?"
"Yes, now would you please leave us alone?"
"I can't let you do that?"
"If you try to stop me, I'll beat you to the ground and you'll be handcuffed to that cell in under a minute. I've been working with Spectres for over a year's worth of time. Watching them fight has taught me a hell of a lot on how to fight close quarters."
"Well, I was taught how to fight by Commander Shepard!"
Tali shook her head, and said, "You're delusional."

Conrad looked at Tali closely and said, "I was hoping you'd be intimidated by me saying that Shepard taught me how to fight."
"Well, having learned how to fight a bit from Shepard, you can't scare me with that." she replied.

Conrad lowered hanged his head, and walked away to order a drink.

Tali looked at the poor guy with pity, and she and Lia walked over to him and ordered a drink. Tali then said, "So, why are you out here, Conrad?"
"Oh, you wouldn't want to know." he sadly replied as he downed the third shot he'd ordered since he'd gone back to his seat.

"If I didn't want to know, I'd not be asking." she replied.

"Well, after Shepard died I felt like there needed to be someone going throughout the galaxy righting wrongs like she had. My wife helped me get this N7 armor, and I went around for a while, and decided to start working more seriously here on Illium. But, I'm no good at this. I should probably head home."
"Yeah, I'm sure your wife would like to see you after so long."

"You're right. I suppose that I'll be going home. Thanks for not being an asshole to me. Shepard pulled a gun on me when I first met her."
"That sounds like what I'd heard she'd been like shortly before I met her."
"What caused the change?"
"She found an old 'friend' who she'd thought was dead for years. And, that was around the time of when she'd thought her friend had died."
"Oh, so it wasn't personal."
"Yeah. You should get home to your wife, Conrad." Tali said, as she and Lia left the bar.

Outside, Lia said, "I didn't expect you to try and cheer him up."
"You saw how he was, it was pathetic."
"Yeah, I guess you don't like it when you see that."
"People shouldn't be in that kind of state. It just isn't right."
Lia nodded, and the pair of quarians walked to the shopping district, and saw a dent in the ground. Tali asked an asari, "What caused that?"
"It was this asari who was fighting a salarian. Shortly after she dropped him over the edge, she grabbed someone and slammed them into the ground, creating that."

"Why?" Lia asked.

"I don't know, but I feel sorry for the poor volus who had his suit rupture when he hit that."
"Wait, that was done with a volus?"
"Yeah, the rapid decrease in pressure caused him to explode."
The quarians looked like they were going to be sick, so they just went back to the Normandy- mainly because they couldn't get a skycar to go somewhere else.

-=0=-

A\N: So, the fifty-second chapter of Meus Mundus has been finished, and I'm nowhere near close to being done with the entire plot. Probably not even halfway through it. So you don't have to worry about this one ending anytie soon. Also, sorry for the longer wait, I've got a lot of stuff going on right now. But, I should be able to keep posting at least weekly. Thanks for reading and please let me know what you did and didn't like in this chapter, or earlier ones.