Once Glyph had freed everyone they made their way outside where they had already informed Joker of the situation. He soon landed and their position in a skycar, the only one that had not been stolen by the Brooks and the clone.

"I've got room for Shepard plus two," said Joker. "And figure it out fast, because the other Shepard is stealing my ship!"

Shepard was about decide who to take when another skycar landed much the bewilderment of everyone. Then when the doors opened they saw that Rick and Rose were inside it.

"John, what the hell is going on?" Rick demanded. "You haven't answered your comm and you're giving orders for the Normandy to take off?"

They gave both Rick and Rose the quick version of the clone situation. They didn't look as if they totally bought it, but since there were ten witnesses altogether it was hard to disprove.

"I can take two more," said Rick. "Rose has come with if we have any chance of convincing C-Sec the Normandy's been stolen by yourself."

Shepard nodded and soon picked his team which included Ashley, Garrus, Wrex and EDI. Garrus and Wrex went with Rick and Rose while Ashley and EDI went with Shepard and Joker. When Shepard sat himself down notice the others weren't quite as happy.

"What?" he asked.

"I sort of wanted to go," said Tali.

"As did I," said Javik looking insulted. "Fifty-thousand years later and I rarely get picked."

"Joker will come back for you. I promise," said Shepard.

With that the car doors closed and Joker and Rick began to fly towards the Normandy's dock.


Halfway there towards the dock and everyone was getting a bit anxious.

"This is why I hate shore leave," Joker grumbled. "I swear, you park the ship for five minutes…"

"Rick, can you contact flight control and get them to delay the departure request?" Shepard asked.

"I've tried," said Rick over the comm. "All the comm lines in the area are jammed."

"Probably to make it easier for them to steal my ship!" said Joker angrily.

"We'll stop them," Shepard promised.

"Shepard, your clone has entered the ship is attempting to—" She then began to shake around uncontrollably as if she had been electrocuted and then lay motionless.

"Uh, we've got a problem," said Ashley looking at EDI's motionless body.

EDI then sat up straight, but her holo-visor was gone and one of her eyes was lopsided. "I'm okay!" she said smiling at them.

Shepard and Joker just stared at her.

"Really," said Joker sceptically.

EDI then noticed one of her eyes were lopsided and straightened it out and smiled back at them. Shrugging Shepard and Joker turned their attention back onto the road.

"The clone has disabled my control of the Normandy as well as my sensory input," said EDI in a panic voice. "I cannot lock him out or counteract his commands."

"Don't worry, EDI. We'll get you back," Shepard promised.

"Thank you," she said gratefully.

"Well, whatever you do, hurry, if the Normandy gets to FDL, we may never see her again," said Joker.

"That's not going to happen," said Shepard firmly.


They finally reached the docks and soon landed just opposite the Normandy.

"Okay, Citadel systems are targeting the car. Any closer, and they opened fire," said Joker as he and Rick started to land onto the maintenance area.

"We'll have to leave the rest to you," said Rick as they opened the car doors.

Shepard and his team jumped out of their respective cars.

Shepard looked at Joker. "Get back and pick up the others. ASAP."

"Right," Joker nodded. "They can't have gotten far, unless they call a cab or something."

"I'll head straight to C-Sec and get it all sorted out," Rick assured.

Shepard then watch as the two of them left the docks and hoped that they weren't too late to say the Normandy. Unfortunately, their arrival hadn't gone unnoticed because the mercenaries were now making their way towards the maintenance way.

"Good. I needed to kill something," said Wrex as he got a shotgun at the ready.

They quickly made their way down to the maintenance area and quickly took cover and returned fire to the mercenaries.

"Damn it, they're going for the ship!" said the Lieutenant.

"I thought they were supposed to be dead," said a trooper, but then he was taken out by sniper fire from Garrus.

Wrex then charged at a heavy trooper and rammed right into the shield. The impact was so powerful that the trooper lost his balance and fell to his death when he accidentally stepped over the edge of the maintenance way. Shepard and Ashley kept on gunning down the mercenaries kept on advancing while Garrus picked up the leaders. EDI assisted by confusing the enemy using her decoy attacking them from the side.

Unfortunately, when they took out this group of mercenaries and pressed forward they encountered yet another group. There were more heavy trooper and this time there were making their way slowly towards them down a single line, but Shepard quickly fixed that by tossing a few grenades in their path. Without the heavy trooper giving support the other mercenaries soon followed.

With the mercenaries gone their path to the maintenance way that would lead them to the Normandy docking tube was clear. Unfortunately, the landing clamps on the Normandy was starting too detached.

"We've got to move!" Ashley yelled. "Normandy is about to take off."

They quickly climbed over the docking tube they were currently on and made their way onto the Normandy's maintenance docking platform.

"When we want to take off, there's a half an hour pre-flight checks!" Shepard yelled. "They just gun the engines and go?"

"Most of the checks are actually unnecessary," said EDI.

Shepard glared at her. "Thanks for letting me know!"

They soon engaged more the mercenaries and they were determined not to allow them entry to docking tube.

"Sending warning to the Normandy," the Lieutenant ordered his men.

"We can't! Comms are jammed, remember?" a specialist reminded him.

"Damn it!"

Shepard then tossed a grenade over his shoulder right at the feet and a few seconds later it exploded taking a good chunk of the mercenaries with it. Wrex used his biotics to push the rest over the edge of the platform.

"Let's move," said Wrex.

"I didn't come this far just to watch the Normandy leave," said Shepard as they made their way to the docking tube.


In the airlock, Traynor was just standing there holding a toothbrush perplexed. She had just been kicked off the Normandy, for whatever reason she couldn't understand.

"And I don't even…" She then turned around and stared at Shepard and the others ran round the corner. "Wait, what?" She then looked at Shepard furiously. "You were just on the Normandy. You… you fired me! Dishonourable discharge for conduct unbecoming! You kicked me off the ship with barely enough time to grab my toothbrush!"

It was clear that Traynor was shaken up because she would have realised that Shepard couldn't be in two places at once. He then marched his way up to and looked at a toothbrush. "That's a Cision Pro Mark 4. It uses mass effect fields to break up plaque and massage the gums," he said at the others made their way to the door.

"Yes, I told you that," she said still looking cross.

"And I remember, because I'm the real Shepard."

"And someone just threw me off the ship. If it wasn't you…" Traynor now was starting to get confused, which was understandable given what had just happened to him.

"Shepard's got a clone," said Wrex as EDI hacked the door. "Makes sense when you think about it."

"I can explain more later," Shepard promised. "For now…"

They made their way towards the airlock door, but despite EDI and Garrus' best attempts they were unable to bypass the security protocols.

"It's sealed!" said Shepard.

"They're about to take off!" said Ashley indicating they had no time to cut through the door.

Shepard then looked at Traynor. "Is there anyone still aboard who can help us?"

She shook her head. "No. I would only there because I helped with the Normandy retrofit back on Earth. Everyone else is on shore leave."

"Okay, you know the ship inside and out. Can you get me inside?" he asked.

Traynor bitterly her lip and then an idea popped into my head. "There's an emergency exit hatch for evacuations," she said as she bent down towards the floor. "It should be right… here!" She removed a piece of for to reveal a hatch in the floor.

Shepard bent down to examine it, but he wasn't able to get it open. "Manual lock, and it's only meant to be opened from the other side." He looked at the others. "Any ideas?"

"Triggering it would require extremely precise mass effect field manipulation," said EDI.

Traynor then walked up and held out a toothbrush. She activated and they heard the mass effect fields it was generating.

Using the toothbrush they were able to get a hatch opened and were crawling their way to the Normandy.

"If you'd told me this morning that the toothbrush was going to say the Normandy, I'd have been very sceptical," said Shepard looking at the others as they crawled.

They had just entered the hatch just in time, because the Normandy just left the docks.


The clone was now taking his position on the CIC at the mercenaries were operating the ship, Brooks was standing next to him serving as his XO and he was savouring his victory. Unfortunately, his victory was short lived when a lieutenant approached him.

"Sir!" he said. "Just before takeoff, normally registered a promoter access alert. One of the security hatches."

The clone turned towards him. "Him. Where?"

"Unknown. When we shut down the AI, we disabled a lot of security systems. Shepard could be anywhere on the ship."

The clone then marched up to the Lieutenant. "Shepard is standing right here in front of you. Are we clear?"

"It's better this way," said Brooks. "Wouldn't you rather take him down yourself?"

The clone followed Brooks to the elevator. "Armoury." He then looked to his men. "Find him! Slow him down."

The Lieutenant watched the door closed and he was starting to think that he chose the wrong side.


Shepard and the others had somehow found themselves below the corridor of the bridge. The could barely fit in the shaft and Wrex was finding it extremely difficult to move.

"Pretty sure we broke Tarynor's toothbrush is getting a hatch opened," he said looking at the others in a whisper. "Remind me to reimburse her for that."

"I'll make a note of it," said Garrus.

"Little cramped in here," said Wrex.

"Quiet," Shepard hissed and pointed up. "Can't risk them hearing us up top."

"Yeah, yeah, get off my tail," he said looking at Ashley, who accidentally stepped on it.

As they approached the hatch they heard the mercenaries talking to one another.

"All right, get a patrol going," the Lieutenant ordered. "Find Shepard. The real one."

"Hey, what'd mean by 'slow him down'? We're allowed to kill Shepard if we have to, right?" a trooper asked the Lieutenant.

The Lieutenant turned towards him. "He said 'slow him down' because he thinks we're cannon fodder."

"Oh. Well… shit."

They soon reached the stairway controls and Shepard quickly press down on the button. Instantly the stairs lifted revealing themselves to the mercenaries in the quickly fired catching them completely by surprise.

"Watch out! They're in the CIC!" the Lieutenant yelled.

Soon there was a massive firefight with in the CIC. Not the most ideal place to fight, but it was either that or let the Normandy to be taken by a self-centred clone of himself.

"One of my favourite places to fight!" said Garrus as he took up the Lieutenant with his sniper rifle.

Shepard stared at him. "The CIC of a warship?"

"Right there above the gardens and below the electronic shops," said Garrus, who noted the Normandy's course with the Citadel.

"And antique shops if I recall!" Shepard yelled.

"But only if they're classy!"

It in take them long to go all the mercenaries within the CIC and Shepard noted that EDI was wandering around in a daze.

"It is strange moving around the Normandy without sensory access or control," she said in a fearful tone. "I feel… blind."

"Don't worry. We'll have you hooked up again soon," Ashley assured.

"Thank you," said EDI gratefully.

Shepard then noticed a recycling bin and it contained all his staff. His mementos from previous missions, his model ships, even his personal pictures of his family and Ashley.

"This is from my cabin," said Shepard. "He's moving my stuff out of my cabin!" He then clenched his fist angrily. "Oh, now it's personal."


They then made their way to the elevator and saw the last coordinates were for the shuttle bay which was no doubt where they'll find his clone and Brooks.

"These people are showing disrespect to my home… my body. It is… unacceptable," said EDI angrily.

"You want to talk about it?" Garrus asked.

"I intend to kill Shepard's clone, Agent Brooks, and anyone else who gets in my way," said EDI.

"Deal," said Garrus.

Wrex looked at Ashley as she began to descend. "Remember all those years ago on the Citadel, when I asked who'd win in a fight between you and Shepard?" he said with a small smirk. "Remember how you thought it was a pointless question? Look at us now!"

"Yeah, yeah. You are right," Astrid groaned.

"Aah, look on the bright side," Wrex laughed. "In a few minutes, you'll have your answer!"

The elevator doors opened and they found themselves in the shuttle bay. They looked around at first there was no sign of anyone, but then Shepard saw his clone emerging from behind some crates. He was wearing his own set of N7 armour, but instead of red his was blue.

"Well, that's creepy," said Shepard.

The clone then fired his rifle at Shepard and quickly the five of them ducked for cover.

"You want to stop shooting at my ship?" said the clone.

"It's not your ship," Shepard pointed out.

"It will be! I've taken your name, your Spectre rank, even your fingerprints!"

Shepard saw that Garrus had moved into position to cover and he nodded.

Shepard stood up and made his way across the shuttle bay. "And then you let me to die… only I didn't. You think fake fingerprints are going to fool the Council? Or Hackett?"

Shepard made his way over to the crates and found that his clone had gone. He then turned his eyes upon the rest of the area.

"How's that big plan looking now?" Shepard taunted.

He then heard someone running towards him and quickly turned to find the clone charging towards him with his omni-blade drawn. Shepard quickly activated his omni-blade and just as the clone jumped off some crates they clashed. The clone was pressing all his weight against Shepard, but it ended up as a stalemate with both of them been pushed backwards.

Brooks then appeared with a shotgun and fired at Shepard. "Hatchet Squad to the shuttle bay!"

Mercenaries appeared to back up the clone and Brooks and soon a firefight was erupting across the area while the Normandy was in flight. The clone quickly activated his cloak so to sneak behind Shepard, but Shepard came up with the same idea.

"Hey, Loco. You copy?" James asked over the comm.

Shepard found a safe place to hide and deactivated his cloak to answer. "Loco here. You cut through the jamming?"

"We did," said Liara. "It was heavily defended, but we got through and disabled their tech."

Suddenly Brooks appeared and fired at Shepard. "You should have died at that damn sushi place!"

Shepard quickly roll to safety and fired several shots towards Brooks, but then the clone reappeared and raised his omni-blade, but Shepard blocked it with his own blade. He then kicked him in the stomach putting him back until quite a few blows to the head. He was about to finish the clone off, but Brooks fired a shell right into his back fortunately his shield protected him.

Ashley then fired several shots at work causing her to retreat and Ashley began to chase.

"Commander, the Normandy's prepping for a jump to FTL," said Cortez over the comm.

"Can you get to the cockpit? Like soon?" Joker asked.

"Negative," said Shepard as he shot a sniper. "I'm occupied in the shuttle bay!"

"Roger that, Commander," Cortez acknowledged. "We'll proceed with Plan B"

"Plan B? What the hell is Plan B?" Joker asked sounding slightly concerned.

Shepard knew what Plan B was and he was very confident that Joker was not going to like it.

Suddenly the clone reappeared and soon the two of them were in a wrestling match.

"I'm Commander Shepard!" he yelled in Shepard's face.

"Are you kidding me?" said Shepard in disbelief. "Conrad Verner is better at being me then you are."

"I am Commander Shepard!" the clone glared as he swung a fish that Shepard.

Shepard blocked it and then elbowed him in the face. "No. You're not."

Out of the corner of his eyes Shepard could see Ashley and Brooks still having a firefight with one another and Garrus soon joined to assist Ashley.

"You ruined everything! My plan was perfect!" Brooks roared.

"Better luck next time!" said Garrus firing a shot and knocked her shotgun and the hand.

Ashley was about to finish her off, but a heavy trooper appeared in front of her and block the shots. They then retreated back towards the crates with a heavy trooper still guarding Brooks.

"Arg, again with the pancreas!" Joker groaned over the comm.

"I'm overriding the skycar's safeties, Commander," said Cortez. "I'll obstruct Normandy's path, try to get their attention."

"We're bait!" Joker yelled. "Plan B stands for bait?"

His reaction was exactly how Shepard predicted.

Then suddenly a trooper tackled Shepard and they fell into maintenance holes. The clone got up and smirked at Shepard as he and the trooper were fighting one another.

"My team is just as good as yours!" he smirked.

Shepard looked up at him. "A team?" He dodged the fist from the trooper and then plunged his omni-blade into his back. "You have minions! And you're running out!"

The clone pulled out his rifle and was a minute down at Shepard.

"Moving in, Commander," said Cortez over the comm.

Suddenly the entire ship began to shake and Shepard took this as a perfect opportunity to activate his cloak and get out of the maintenance holes.


The reason the ship was shaking so much was because it was trying to get out of the path of a small skycar in its path. The skycar was piloted by Cortez with Joker as his co-pilot and every time Normandy moved they moved back into position preventing it from escaping the Citadel's space way.

"What the hell's going on up there?" the clone yelled over his radio. "Get out of the nebula and jump to FTL!"

"We can't," said the mercenary piloting the Normandy. "A skycar keep blocking our path!"

The clone realise that it must be more Shepard crew piloting the skycar. "Then shoot it!"

The pilot began firing Normandy's latest at the skycar, but it was far too small for it to get a decent shot. In fact the only thing he was hitting was the buildings they were flying overhead on the ward arms.

"We need to stay within 30 degrees of the nose to block course plotting!" said Joker to Cortez.

"That makes us a perfect target!" Cortez pointed out.

"No, that makes us the bait! You want me to drive?"

"No!"

Even despite being shot by a vastly superior ship Cortez was still able to manoeuvre in front of the Normandy to block it from leaving the Citadel.

"Damn it!" said the clone in frustration. "Launched the shuttle, and blow that thing out of the sky!"

The cargo bay doors opened and the shuttle launch outside. The oxygen shield kicked in the air from exiting out of the cargo bay. The shuttle began to chase down the skycar and shooting at it.


"Watch out! The cargo door's unsecured!" Ashley yelled as crates slid off the ramp.

To make matters even more complicated while the ship was shaking around they were still engaging his clone, Brooks and some of the surviving mercenaries.

Shepard club and bailed him and then the clone tackled him to the floor. Soon the two of them were trading punches as they rolled around uncontrollably.

"You're just cybernetics!" he roared as he punched Shepard in the face. "Scarred, worn-out Cerberus tech!"

The clone swung in for another punch, but Shepard caught his fist and then kicked him off him. "You know where I got the scars? Feros and Noveria and Virmire and Illos." The two men clashed their omni-blades with each other. "At the Collector base and Palaven and Tuchanka and Rannoch and Thessia!" He then pinned the clone against a crate that was still tied down. "I got these scars for protecting the galaxy! You got yours from a petri dish!"

He was about to finish the clone off, but Brooks then grabbed Shepard and kicked him across the face. She then looked at the clone. "You can do it! You're better than he is!"

"Get Dagger Squad in here!" he ordered as he reactivated his cloak.

Soon more the mercenaries arrived and they probably would have killed Shepard if Wrex can uses biotics to create a shield around Shepard giving him enough time to get out of the way.

"You're all blind!" Brooks yelled as he fired a shotgun at Wrex knocking him backwards. "You worship Shepard while the galaxy dies around us!"

She was about to shoot Wrex again, but Garrus by the perfect shot and disarmed. "Says the woman who made herself a clone!" he spat.

"This changes nothing!" she yelled as she ducked behind cover to avoid another shot from Garrus. "Once you're dead, we can explain everything!"

"The rest of my team has already got a message into Hackett by now! Major Ryder already knows the situation that informed C-Sec and the Council as well! It's over, Brooks!" Shepard yelled.

"You're backstabbing Cerberus traitor, Brooks!" Ashley snarled she shot a heavy trooper with her assault rifle.

"It was easy," said Brooks with a smirk. "You are so eager to help the lovable rookie!"

The clone then attempted to take out a weakened Wrex and punched him across the face. Unfortunately for him, Wrex was still standing and he glared down at the clone. "That's all you got? The real Shepard hit a lot harder—"

Wrex then punched the clone right across the room, breaking his nose. After that debacle the clone then try to attack Shepard once again.

"You're a figurehead!" the clone yelled as he ran towards him. "A decent soldier with a lucky streak!"

"Then how come you one being so badly?" Shepard asked before tossing a grenade into his face.

The grenade pushed him even further back towards the ramp and he landed right next to Brooks, who was starting to look furious.

"What's wrong with you? Do you want to win?" she yelled.

"Shut up and let me fight!" he yelled as he got back up.

Brooks was about to give orders to the other mercenaries, but then she noticed that all of them would debt now.

"Damn you all to hell!" she yelled.

"Should've stuck with comedy Brooks," said Garrus. "You don't have what it takes for the front line!"

Shepard then made his way towards the clone, who tried activate his cloak. Unfortunately for him, the clone was damaged when he felt he could no longer activated.

"I'm taking the Normandy back," said Shepard. "And honestly. I'm doing you a favour. 'Cause you don't have what it takes."

"I'm Shepard. Do you hear me, asshole? I'm Shepard!" he yelled slamming his fists against his chest.

Shepard then ran towards him. "No. You're not."

The clone was about to shoot Shepard, but Shepard beaten to it with his sniper rifle taking out his rifle. The clone then fired an incendiary knocking Shepard sniper rifle out of his hand. Shepard then ran into his clone and tackled him and they fell onto the ramp rolling towards the edge.

They stopped just before the edge with Shepard on top. He then punched his clone across the face drawing blood and it again. The clone then kicked off it and got to his feet a bit shaky. Suddenly the Normandy shock and both Shepard and the clone skidded across the edge and would have fallen if they hadn't cling onto the edge of the ramp.

Both of them were trying to call their way back up and the clone just glared at Shepard. "Look at you. What makes you so damned special?" he roared. "Why you are not me?"

"Shepard!" Ashley yelled as she and EDI rushed over to him.

"We have you," said EDI grabbing Shepard and Ashley held her steady.

The clone tried to pull himself up and saw Brooks in the distance, but instead of helping like Shepard's team was, she abandoned him. He soon realised that it was the respect of his team that made him who he was, he led with respect and loyalty something he knew nothing about.

"Thanks," said Shepard as they pulled him back onto the ramp.

"And the clone?" EDI asked.

Shepard couldn't abandon him, even if they did try to kill him. He got up and out stretched his hand at the clone. "Here, take my hand."

"And then?" the clone asked.

"And then you live!"

"For what?"

Then to their horror the clone released his grip and fell down towards the Citadel. They looked over the edge just in time to see them flying underneath the building and the clone disappeared from sight.


After the battle they regained control the Normandy and Joker and Cortez joined them in the shuttle bay as they went over the damage.

"Fortunately, they weren't here long enough to do much real damage," said Cortez. "Although I may need some help from James clean up the damage to the shuttle bay."

"Lastly overloaded the heat diffusion system firing at us," Joker added. "Not sure if you noticed, but Shuttle Guy here did some crazy stunt-flying to keep us in one piece."

"It's nice to fly something a bit more manoeuvrable than the Kodiak," Cortez smiled.

Shepard then looked at EDI. "How about you, EDI?"

EDI holo-visor soon reappeared. "I am once again in control of the Normandy. Thank you for asking," she said as the Normandy's pilot found himself surrounded by several security drones that was shocking him when they touched him.

"Glad to hear it," said Shepard. "What about the mercs? Any survivors?"

"Just one crappy-ass pilot and her," she said gesturing to Brooks, who was in holo restraints and escorted by Cortez. "Alliance is taking her to a high-security facility. Maybe she can get some dirt on Cerberus."

"I'll be more than happy to cooperate with the authorities," she smiled.

Shepard had seen that look too many times to know she was planning to escape. "Maya, I know that voice."

"Do you, really?" she said not sounding surprised.

"You're getting a chance to redeem yourself. Don't waste it," he said marching up to her.

Brooks was already hacking into the restraints and she knew she could free herself from them. "So serious. Admit it. Some part of you like having me around, looking up to the legend," she said with a false smile. Shepard then turned his back on and walked away. "We had some laughs. And who knows? Maybe we'll have more someday?"

"No, we won't," said Shepard marching up towards her and staring her in the eyes. "Because you're going to stay in your cell and do your time."

"Afraid, I'll escape, come back for revenge?" she smirked confidently. "He has the great Commander Shepard praying for his life?"

He then gave firmed expression that actually scared her. "I'm pleading for yours."

Realising that he was serious she stopped what he was doing with the restraints. "So thoughtful. Then I suppose I'm off to lockup." Shepard made his way back to his team, but Brooks called out to him again. "You know he wouldn't have let me live."

"You can't clone everything," he said simply.

Cortez then shoved Brooks to get moving.

"In the old days, we'd have just shot," said Wrex and sighed. "Good times."


The Normandy soon return to the dock and C-Sec have arrived to take custody of the prisoners.

"The rest of the squad's waiting outside, Commander," said Cortez. "We'll have a Normandy back in shape in no time."

The cargo ramp and opened up and there Shepard saw the rest of the crew standing there and smiling at them.

"Appreciate it," said Shepard as he and the others made their way down the ramp.

"It is shore leave always like this?" EDI asked.

Shepard laughed. "Come on. Maybe we can take some actual shore leave. No explosions or anything. Just us."

"Damn right," said Ashley.

With that they continue to enjoy their shore leave and hopefully the rest of it would be uneventful. Though Shepard had to admit that he was very positive that no one in the galaxy had ever had shore leave like this.


Rick was just finishing his report on what happened on the Citadel with the Normandy.

"So I take it they managed to retake the Normandy," said Hackett looking relieved.

"Yes, sir, and the engineers believe they can get it fixed up," Rick nodded.

Hackett rubbed his head. "If I had known this would happen I would never have given them shore leave."

"With all due respect, but I don't think anyone could imagine that the Cerberus clone of the Alliance's top soldier would appear to retake the place of the original."

Hackett nodded. "True enough. What of the clone?"

"Plastered against a building, but we captured the Cerberus agent that freed him and caused all this," said Rick. "I'll be assisting C-Sec with interrogation."

"Good. What about Shepard and the rest of his crew?"

"They're going to try and salvage as much of their shore leave as possible. If it is possible is another story."

"Good, after what they experience they need all shore leave they can get."

"They might need even more after this war, sir. Heck, every soldier would need shore leave after this war."

"I'll make a note of it," Hackett nodded. "Keep me posted. Hackett out."