Alright I'm back, and ready for some action.

Followers of my Teen Titan story I am writing up a chapter right now and will have it posted soon.

Disclaimer: I don't own jack besides my characters.


"This ship is absolutely amazing," Tali gushed from beside me, "The drive core alone is better than anything that we have on fleet. Who knew that humans could build such an advance ship." She continued to go on and on about the different specs of every part of the ship's engineering in great detail. I let out a quiet chuckle.

I always love it Tali becomes animated about like this. Kal and I would always tease her about her being part machine. I shake my head to get back to my task of upgrading Tali's shotgun with the upgrades that I gave her at the start of her Pilgrimage.

Since we're going against Geth I decided to add a Shredder Mod and Disruptor Ammo capabilities to help pierce shields. Those upgrades plus an upgraded heat sink and recoil dampener should keep her safe on the battle field. I put the shotgun back together with speed that was hammered into me by my mother and her training.

"Here you Tali," I said holding out her shotgun, "I added a Shredder Mod and Disruptor Ammo, that Shepard bought on the Citadel, along with the upgrades that I gave you." Tali took her shotgun and turned towards the shooting range, and with precision and speed that would make a Krogan blush with jealousy, put all six shots into the holo-targets.

"You did a good job as always Ja-Ja," Tali said cocking the shotgun ejecting the thermal clip. "Just a 'good job'," I said in mock hurt, "I always do the best work."

Especially when it's your safety that's on the line.

Tali turns around and says something, but I didn't hear what she said because I was too busy staring at her reflective silver eyes. Oh how I could stare at them…..

"Hello Jay?" Tali said waving a hand in front of my visor snapping me out of my daze. "Huh…yes Tali?" I said shaking my head a bit as Tali looked at me with a concern look. "Are you okay Jay?" she asked to which I answered with a nod. "Yea, just got lost in my thoughts," I said hurriedly praying that she couldn't see me blushing. I decided to quickly change the subject I asked her what she wanted. Tali cast one last worried glance at me before turning back to her shotgun, "I wanted to know how to switch to disruptor rounds."

"Oh yea," I walked behind her and showed her which buttons to press. Tali followed my directions causing a blue holo-lights to surround the base of the gun with the disruptor emblem glowing off to the side. "Thanks Jay…," I heard her muttered causing to worry. I turned towards her, "Tali are you…," I trailed off when I found out what she was staring at, which was…me. My eyes bore into hers while she did the same to me.

Time seemed to come to a stop, and the outside world didn't seem to matter. Right now there was nothing wrong; there was no Saren, or Geth, or mission of galactic importance. Right there and then, it was just me, and her. I felt like something clicked into place right then. Tali leaned back into me as I snaked my arm around her waist our gaze never breaking. Tali lowered her shotgun on the table and moved her hands so they were resting over mine. Something from the very depths of my mind pushed forward causing me to speak, "Tali'Zorah nar Rayya fel'tuk…" Somebody coughed behind snapping us back to reality.

Eyes widen, we separated faster than a person running to the showers after latrine duty. "So," Garrus said with a Turian equivalent of a smirk, "getting cozy aren't we?"

"I-we-um," I began stuttering, my hands crushing themselves together. I looked over to Tali who had her head hidden in her hands. Fortunately we were saved by Commander Shepard, "Ground team suit up and assemble in the hanger." Her voiced echoed from the ship's intercom.

"Oh would you look at that," I said in high speed, "Time to get going." And without a second glance I sped out of the firing range.


I quickly made my way to the armor lockers and pulled out my sniper rifle, assault rifle, and pistol strapping them to the correct spots on my suit.

What was that feeling back there? That primal instinct, those words they sounded like— I shook my head. No it's impossible I can't bond with anybody, especially with another Quarian. I'm not even a Quarian, well not fully. Besides Tali wouldn't want to be with me… she wouldn't want to be with a science project a…. freak.

"I have a shotgun," an agitated Tali said as she and Garrus made their way towards me. "He asked about your immune system didn't he?" I asked. Tali nodded her head, "And Garrus, that threat about the shotgun is no joke," I said to the Turian. "We don't call her the Shotgun Princess for nothing," I chuckled before I got smacked in the head by Tali, "I told you to never call me that. EVER. Got it," she barked slapping her pistol to her waist. She then took her hands and rested them on her hips. I nodded my head quickly for fear of retaliation.

"Good," Tali said with a nod. She turned around and walked away. As soon as she was out of hearing rang, or at least I hope it was, Garrus muttered to me, "You know humans have a saying." He looked at me before pointing at Tali, "I believe it went like this: Look at dat ass."

The temperature in my suit shot up, and I couldn't help but look at Tali's…uh…supportive hips and… nice plump….

Oh Keelah help me…

"I didn't take you as an ass man Garrus," Shepard said from behind us cause me and Garrus to jump in surprise. I spun around quickly and addressed the human Specter, "Oh by the Ancestors Shepard, I wasn't, I mean, I'm not, is it hot in here?" I said quickly as the temperature continued to rise.

Jenifer giggled, "Don't worry Jay, I know that your innocent," she turns to Garrus and slapped his shoulder, "And stop trying to corrupt him. Even though I find him flustered quite cute I don't want his innocence corrupted." I could not help but stare at my strange commander with wide eyes.

What have I gotten myself into? I mean what kind of Commander is she? I've never met someone like her. She kinda reminds me of my mother only less…um… school girlish. I think I said that right. I shook my head before making my way towards the Mako.


"We'll reach the drop point in 5 minutes Commander," Joker said through the Mako's speakers. Commander Shepard turns towards us; her childish behavior swept away, and was replaced with a professional soldier. "All right listen up team our mission is to locate and secure Dr. Liara T'Soni. Intel says that she is located at a Prothean dig site 10 clicks from the LZ. We also have picked up Geth between the LZ and the target," Shepard finished her briefing and turned her seat back forward.

"Are we expecting hostilities from the V.I.P?" Ash asked checking her pistol. Shepard just shakes her head and says, "No, but be prepare for anything. We don't know where her loyalties are at right now."


One Air Drop Later….

'That was fucking insane,' I thought frantically as I held a death grip on the harness that I was in. I was taking deep breaths trying to calm down my racing heart. "Jay, are you okay?" Tali asked beside me. I shook my trembling head as she tried to pry my hands from the harness. "Its okay Jay its over," she said softly, her voice soothing me enough to relax my grip a bit. Tali took advantage of that and slipped her hand into.

Much to my surprise I didn't freak out like I did back on the Citadel. I guess that I'm still trying to calm down from the Mako drop, or it could be this warm feeling that I'm…well feeling.

I turn towards Tali, "Thank you Tali," I said enjoying the moment.

"Get a room you two," Garrus snickered making everybody chuckle. "Keep it PG back there," Shepard said jokingly.

"Oh Shepard you should have seen them in the shooting ran-," I cut Garrus off with a flick of my finger sending a light biotic push to the back of his head, which was the equivalent of a smack. His head shoots forward a bit, "She has a shotgun," I said pointing at Tali before pointing at myself, "I have biotics." Garrus doesn't say anything as he rubs the back of his head.

"Shepard," Joker voice said through the Mako's speaker, "I'm getting some strange readings. Like off the damn charts." Shepard turn towards us and told us to be ready. "Incoming Geth drop ships," Garrus said from the gunner's seat, "They just dropped two Armature class tanks."

I looked over to see Kaiden's face drain of all color. He whispered, "Oh boy," before tightening his safety harness. "What's the matter LT?" Ash said as Kaiden grabs his harness and said, "Shepard's driving is terrible, she prefers to…" he was cut off by the tank jolting like something huge slammed into it, "…run everything over." The human biotic flinched as he was the Mako jolted again.

"Shepard," Garrus cried out, "How am I suppose to shoot anything if you keep running things over?"

"You don't," Shepard said plainly, "You just sit there and look sexy, or stare at my ass if you like."

That shut everybody up and made them stare at the Commander and the Turian who had a blue tint on his face. Interesting, Turian's blush blue, who knew. I heard Tali mutter, "Oh Keelah." As there was another jolt. Oh Keelah sound just about right.


After who knows how many run over Geth, we arrived at an outpost of some kind. Quickly dispatching the Geth forces and opening the gate we spent almost ten minutes trying to convince Wrex to get in the Mako.

Personally I'm with the Krogan. I'm pretty sure that the Mako was not made to do barrels rolls. The only way to get anybody back into that monster was Shepard using her 'Commander' voice. Quickly saying my prayers to the Ancestors, the Mako took off heading towards the dig site. I spent most of the trip with my eyes closed, and praying.

I felt the Mako come to a stop. "Looks like we'll have to go on foot from here," Garrus said looking through the gunner's sights.

"Naw," Shepard said with an accent, "It can fit." Ash gets out of her seat and moves to the driver's area, "With all due respect ma'am. Fuck that I'm walking." The soldier leaves the tank followed by Kaiden. Garrus gets out of the gunner seat and held up his hands, or claws, to show how narrow the path is. I turned and stared at Tali who was doing the same to me, and we both made a silent decision.


So, after prying the commander out of the Mako, we decided to leave behind the Mako and continue on foot, even though we didn't really leave the commander much of a choice.

"Alright people," Shepard said turning back into the Commander, "I want Wrex, Ash, and myself upfront." She turns to Kaiden, "LT, I want you and Tali to support us with Tech and Biotics. Garrus I want you and Jay to provide sniper support." I nodded my head along with everyone else. We each pulled out our respective weapons. I pressed a few buttons on my modified Mantis to activate the disruptor mod, causing a blue hologram to appear around the body of the gun. I looked over to see that Tali did the same, "Do you think that you can do that to all of our guns?" Shepard asked. She quickly added, "And what about your biotics? What can you do?"

"For the guns, yes just give me the parts, and for the biotics I can only do the basics," I said bouncing on the balls of my feet. "Biotics are extremely rare on the fleet, and all we have to teach our biotics are out dated Asari manuals. So all I can really do is pull, push, and a small barrier. I have practice on holding things in the air as well, because that is what I usually use my biotics for," I explained while Shepard placed a finger on her chin. "Alright we'll work on that later for now stick to sniper support. All right team move out!" Shepard orders, leading the way flanked by Wrex and Ash, who was followed by Tali and Kaiden, with me and Garrus closing the rear.


Everything was fine until we got to some rocks that came up to our waist. That is when my first fire fight began.

"GET TO COVER!" Shepard yelled out as bullets came whizzing by. Following orders I ducked behind cover with Garrus. Strangely my mind became clear and focused, which is odd considering that this is my first true battle.

I pushed these thoughts aside as I came out of cover and lined up my rifle with an advancing shock trooper's head. I fired one shot, and thanks to the upgrades that my mother and I placed in the gun, the Geth's head exploded in a shower of sparks and white lubricant. "Nice shot," Garrus said firing a round of his own while I reloaded, "Think you can make my gun punch like that?" I didn't answer but I nodded my head.

I went out of cover and spotted an Assignation beam pointed at Tali's head. I growled fiercely as I followed the beam and took out the Geth sniper. It still managed to fire, but thankfully the round went way off. 'That sounded like a Widow,' I thought while reloading. Pulling out of cover I found out that the battle was over, and everybody was coming out of cover slowly their guns sweeping the area for any active Geth. Feeling a slight tap on my chest l looked to see Tali in front of me, "Thanks for the save back there. I thought that Geth had me." I smiled behind my visor, "I'll always watch your back Tali," I said enjoying being near her wishing that this moment would last forever.

"Just make sure that you keep your eyes up, Ja-Ja," Garrus said in mock affection.

And the moment gone, thanks a lot Garrus.

"Let's go people," Shepard said marching forward, everybody quickly followed. But not before Tali kicked Garrus in the shin when she pasted him. When we got close to where the sniper that I had shot before was at, I broke off and quickly ran to the Geth unit and found, much to my pleasure, a M-98 Widow.

Testing it's weight, knowing that I'll have to fix it up later, I collapsed it and stored it on my lower back. After rejoining the others Garrus looks at my new toy, "Nice," he said with a smirk. "Thanks I'll have to modify it so I can shoot it, but I think it would be worth it in the end." I said as we came up on the entrance of the Prothean ruins.

That is when things went downhill, as the saying goes. A Geth drop ship swooped in and drop a small group of Geth along with an Armature. Without saying a word the team dove for the nearest cover. "Concentrate on the smaller units first," Shepard barked over the sounds of war. She pulls a rocket trooper with her biotics, which Garrus and I filled with assault rifle rounds. I threw a glance over to Tali to see her blow away a Geth trooper.

It was only then did I notice the Armature charging it's main gun.

I watched in horror as the blast flew to the box that Tali was using for cover. I heard her scream and saw her fly over me where she landed in a heap.

She wasn't moving.

She didn't make a sound.

I clenched my teeth and picked up her shotgun that landed by me.

I turned towards the Armature.

I let loose a scream just as my world turned red.


Sorry for the shortness. I was going to do the whole mission in one chapter, but I thought that you guys had waited long enough.

fel'tuk- I'll let you guess on that for now.

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