The sky had become completely dark by the time the trio had arrived at Corin's warehouse. Shepard set the skycar down behind some crates half a mile from the warehouse. Ashley was the first one out. She pulled out her sniper rifle and began scoping out the perimeter of the warehouse.

"I don't see any guards patrolling the main entrance," she said, "but there are at least three cameras. They have one just above the entrance and one on each corner."

Shepard pulled out his sniper rifle and could see that Ashley was right. He then switched his scope to thermal mode. There were three orange figures moving around on the other side of the door.

"My thermal scope is picking up at least three hostiles just inside," he said, "if we're going to get in undetected we need to do something with precision timing."

"Do you have a plan skipper?" Ashley asked.

"No but that's why we brought the expert," Shepard said looking over at Kasumi.

"You always say the nicest things Shep," said Kasumi, "you are right about the timing. I can't take out all of the cameras before one of them spots us. If that's the case, then our best bet is to wait for the one camera I don't hack to start to turn away. Once it does we'll have about ten seconds for me to hack the other two so we can get through the door."

"And once we get through the door Williams and I will take out the three guards before they have a chance to react," Shepard added.

"Sounds like a plan," Ashley said, "let's do it."

They watched as the camera on the far left corner of the building turn to face towards the door. Once it did, they moved around the front corner and lined up against the wall. Kasumi was at the front. She peeked around the corner and looked towards the other camera at the far corner. She turned towards Shepard and held up eight fingers indicating they had eight seconds before they launched their plan. Shepard took one last look through his thermal scope. The guards were still in the same positions when he checked before they moved. He turned back to Kasumi as the last of her fingers folded down.

Kasumi quickly turned the corner and pulled up her omni-tool. After a few quick button pushes, the camera directly above her powered down. She pushed a few more buttons and then the camera directly above the door went down. Shepard tapped Kasumi's shoulder to indicate he and Ashley were coming around her. He and Ashley headed for the door. Once they were in position, Shepard tapped the button to open the door.

The guards inside barely had time to react to the door opening. Once it opened all the way, Shepard and Ashley already had their guns up and fired. Shepard took out two and Ashley took out the other. They kept their weapons up in case anyone came to investigate the noise. After a few seconds, no one else had entered the room. Kasumi was right behind them.

"I'm not picking up any alarms," she said, "I'd say we've had a successful infiltration."

"All right," Shepard said, "we continue according to plan, slow and steady."

"Copy skipper," Ashley said.

Shepard and Ashley began moving when Kasumi called out to them.

"Wait," she said, "I have to ask. You two are engaged but Ashley is still calling you skipper Shep. If anything I figured she would be one of the few people who called you by your first name."

Shepard chuckled, "We have an agreement that whenever we're on a mission we will be professional when we interact with each other. You've probably also noticed I've been calling her Williams."

"That makes sense but what are you going to do when you're married? I'm assuming Ashley that you are taking Shepard's name."

Ashley replied, "even though I'll legally be Ashley Shepard, I will still be called Williams in the field. Don't worry Kasumi we've thought of everything."

"All right people," Shepard interrupted, "let's keep moving."

The trio moved single file through the building. Shepard was on point. His gun leveled as he scouted for hostiles. Kasumi followed not too far behind them. Unlike Shepard, she was scouting for defenses. Ashley took up the rear watching their backs. For a while they hadn't run into any obstacles. Shepard figured it was because they were staying out of the storage room. Most of the guards would be there guarding Corin's merchandise. However he felt that once they got closer to Corin's office the security would get tighter.

They entered a stairwell to head to the third floor. Before Shepard could take the first step up, Kasumi suddenly reached her arm across Shepard's chest, stopping him in his tracks.

"What is it Kasumi?" he asked.

"Tripwires," Kasumi replied, "some of the steps have lasers going across them."

Shepard looked down. He couldn't see any lasers but that didn't mean they weren't there. A quick glance at the walls found the source. Corin was clever. He didn't put the source on the wall directly next to the stairs. Instead he put it on the opposite wall and placed it so it shone through gaps in the railings. Shepard glanced further up the wall. There were other laser sources scattered along it.

"Kasumi is it possible for us to simply step over the lasers?" he asked.

Kasumi's eyes scanned the stairs, "we would have to be really careful but I think we can. My guess is Corin purposely spaced them so that it his guards could walk through here without having to deactivate the lasers."

"I'll go first. Once I'm a couple of steps up, Kasumi follows then Williams. Let's give each other some space. We'll each take one step at a time, one person at a time so we don't bunch up."

"Got it," Ashley and Kasumi said in unison.

Slowly and steadily they made their way up the steps. It took them a few minutes for them to reach the third floor. Shepard was about to open the door when suddenly a noise came from below them. Everyone froze. Somebody else was in the stairwell with them. Ashley raised her rifle looking down the stairs waiting for them to come up. Shepard made a noise to get her attention. When she turned to face him, she saw him shaking his head. She realized that he was right. If she shot whoever it was, they would fall down the stairs and trip one of the lasers and the mission would be over. There was nothing they could do but remain still, quiet and hope that the guard didn't continue up the stairs to the third floor.

After what felt like hours, the sound of a door opening and closing echoed through the stairwell. The trio waited to be sure the guard was gone. When they didn't hear any other sounds, Shepard figured that it was safe proceed. He opened the door and exited the stairwell onto the third floor. Ashley and Kasumi were about to follow him out when suddenly Shepard came back in nearly knocking them over. He was breathing heavily.

"Camera down the hall," he said in between breaths, "it almost made me."

Kasumi activated her stealth cloak and stepped in front of Shepard and slowly poked her head out the door. She could see the camera mounted above a door in the hallway. She stepped further into the hall and saw that the door was to Corin's office. The sound of footsteps from behind her got her attention. When she turned around, she saw a guard had just turned a corner and was walking towards her. He infiltration cloak made her invisible but the guard would be able to hear her footsteps if she made a break for the staircase. The guard was now inches from her.

Suddenly, two hands reached out from the stairwell and pulled the guard out of the hallway. Kasumi heard what sounded like a brief struggle. Then the sounds ceased completely. Kasumi remained still waiting for someone to appear in the stairwell. Finally Ashley appeared in the doorway.

"Everything okay out there?' she asked.

"I think it is now," Kasumi replied, "everything good in there?"

"Shepard and I are good. I can't say the same for our friend. I think he's going to be out for a while."

"Good. I think we're all clear now."

"Roger that," Shepard said, "disable the camera and we'll head into the office."

A few button pushes later and the camera over Corin's office door shut down. The trio lined themselves up against the door. Shepard and Kasumi lined up on one side of the door and Ashley lined up on the other. Shepard gave Ashley a nod and Ashley tapped the button to open the door. The minute it was open, Shepard and Ashley walked into the office with their rifles raised. A quick scan of the room detected no movements in the office. Corin wasn't here. Shepard turned toward Kasumi and nodded towards the computer terminal on the desk. Kasumi headed to the desk and went to work on the terminal.

"I'm in," she said, "Pulling up his sales records and…got it. Take a look."

Shepard and Ashley stepped around the desk to look at the terminal. Kasumi stepped back to give them room. Suddenly a voice came from outside the office.

"Kasumi."

It was Keiji's voice again. Just like Kasumi heard back at her hotel room. Every fiber of her being was telling her to ignore the voice. Keiji was dead so there was no way he could be calling her name. All she had to do was just stay in the office and wait for Shepard to finish analyzing the info on the terminal.

"Kasumi."

The voice came again. It sounded louder than the last one, almost as if Keiji was out in the hallway walking towards the office. Then he appeared. Keiji stepped into the doorway. He stood there for several seconds before he raised his arm and used his finger to gesture Kasumi to follow him. He continued to make the gesture as he stepped out of the doorway back into the hall. Kasumi reached for her head to discover once again that this wasn't a graybox image she was seeing. Curiosity was starting to get the better of Kasumi and she started walking out of the office. Shepard was finishing pulling info from the terminal when he looked up to see Kasumi walking out.

"Kasumi?" he said concerned.

This time Kasumi didn't snap out of her trance. She assumed that the voice she was hearing was Keiji's.

"I'm coming Keiji," she called out.

"Kasumi?!" Shepard called as he raced around the desk to try and stop Kasumi from leaving the office.

He was too late.