Miranda led Gabriel to a dark room, only illuminated by the system's twin suns. The light was dim, shrouding the room in a veil of darkness. In the middle of the room was a large chair, surrounded by holographic displays, with a lone line of smoke emerging from behind it.

Miranda stepped forward and said: "You wanted to talk to him, here he is."

"Well major, you are a hard man to find, though I must admit I expected to find you in hell, not the city of the dead." Came a voice from behind the chair. That voice caught felt so familiar to Gabriel, but he couldn't quite place it.

"Who are you? Why did you break me out?" He told the chair and whomever sat in it. By now Miranda had disappeared into the shadows to observe.

"I broke you out because we need your help, and as for who I am, I think you already know." He swung the chair around to face Gabriel and continued with a smug look on his face. "Hello Gabriel."

"What the… Jack? Jack Harper, you are the boss that I've heard so much about?" He said not quite sure whether or not he could believe his eyes. When Gabriel had last seen Jack, he was barely competent enough to be leading a small squad of infiltrators. Had anyone told Gabriel that Harper would be leading a clearly powerful and well funded organization, he would have laughed their asses off.

"Surprised Gabriel, or were you expecting someone else?"

"I don't know who I was expecting to be sitting in that chair, but I certainly wasn't expecting you. Now cut the bullshit WHY am I here?"

"I forgot how blunt you are Gabriel." He chuckled for a moment. "I'm afraid we brought you here under false pretenses, your daughter…" He waited for a moment letting the suspense get to Gabriel. "Is dead."

"WHAT, you bastard." He snarled, with his fists clenched and his nails dug deep into the palms of his hands. He glared at Jack wondering how he should kill treacherous bastard in front of him.

Jack smiled smugly, he knew how to get Gabriel angry, now all he had to do was to direct that anger and the collectors would have a powerful enemy. "Calm down Gabriel, I had nothing to do with your daughter's death, it was the collectors who orchestrated it." He pushed a button and a holographic screen appeared in between him and Gabriel, it was showing the Normandy… and his daughter.

Gabriel stared at the screen, his anger completely forgotten when he saw the commanding officer of the Normandy, his daughter, he recognized her from the files Miranda gave him on the Necropolis. His hands relaxed and revealed bloody palms. Tears began to form in his eyes and he started to smile. Jack pushed a button making the screen show a close up of the commander. Gabriel reached out and tried to touch the screen, passing right through it. "She looks so much like her mother." He said, barely keeping himself from crying.

Jack jumped the footage forward the collector attack and looked on as Gabriel watched the final moments of his daughter's life. Tears started flowing from Gabriel's eyes, he had never felt so helpless, he had just learned that his daughter had survived the disaster that ruined his only to see her die again. When the footage finally stopped he fell to his knees and cried.

"I can't offer you vengeance just yet, but I can offer you something better, we can bring her back."

Gabriel looked up in utter disbelief and said: "What? That's impossible."

Jack smiled smugly and said in a condescending voice: "You of all people should know how little that word means to people with vision." He activated more screens, showing detailed medical information about commander Shepard. "The human body is a self repairing organism, all it requires to do so is for the body's basic functions work."

"Are you serious? Even if you could get a dead body back you would still have the problem of a decomposed brain. "

"I am aware of that problem, and it has already been solved. During her mission for the council, Commander Jane Shepard's brain was affected by protean technology, to study the effects of her exposure her brain was mapped down to the molecular level. The scan was completed mere hours before her death, so we have a perfectly good baseline."

Gabriel got back up and collected himself. "Since you have everything covered, why do you need me?"

"The alliance never actually bothered to recover her body, it has since been claimed by the Blue Suns mercenaries who intend to sell her off to the collectors, we can't allow that."

"I presume that is where I come in."

"Exactly, we need a soldier who will do whatever it takes to find her, I think that's you."

"One thing still puzzles me, why are you doing this? What do you get out of this?"

Jack stood up and stared out into the void. "Humanity faces the greatest threat of our brief existence, when they come we will need a hero, a banner to rally behind, that why we need her, that is why we need to bring her back."

Gabriel nodded and said: "Just point me at them."

Jack pressed yet another button causing a hologram of Omega to appear. "They have brought her to Omega, we don't know where just yet but we will have that information when you arrive. Before you leave you will get a crash course in current affairs to bring you up to speed."

Gabriel studied the hologram for a moment before walking away. "I will see you when I get back."

"Talk to the guard outside, he will show you to the room we set up for you, I can assure you that it is more comfortable than your previous Accommodations."

When Gabriel had left Miranda walked out from the shadows and joined her boss by the window. "Are you really going to send him out without a psychological evaluation?"

"I have seen what I need to see." Miranda gave him a skeptical look and he elaborated. "Did you think I choose to show him those pictures at random? I had planned this encounter since before you boarded the Necropolis, I needed to know whether or not he still is the man I remember. I was hopeful when I heard what he did to that ship." With a smirk he added. "And now I know for sure, he is just like I remember him."

"He broke down crying, are you saying that that is the man you remember?"

With a smirk he said: "A perfectly natural reaction to seeing your daughter die, it shows me that he still cares, I am not worried."

Miranda shook her head and added: "But you are still sending him out unprepared."

"Give him a crash course in galactic affairs and the supplies he needs to bring the corpse back."

"And what about T'soni and Feron?"

"Don't inform them about the Major, I would like to see how good Ms T'soni really is."

++++Galatic codex+++++

Username: Herod

Password **********

Password accepted.

Welcome User: Gabriel.

Opening document: Major Gabriel Shepard.

Showing Excerpt: Legacy.

Historians today generally accept that Major Gabriel Shepard has had a much larger influence on the development of the pre citadel alliance than his rank might suggest, this is largely thought to be because of his close partnership with his longtime friend and superior General Williams. Along with General Williams he created what is now the Blackwater training facility on Shanxi and the many fortifications there. He and Williams were also instrumental in the development of the N program and they subsequently used the program's success to further its development into one of the finest Special Forces programs in the galaxy. Public perception of him varies greatly from culture to culture, in human circles he is generally perceived as a hero. In turian culture however he is vilified as one of the most dangerous terrorists ever, he is often compared to figures such as the Illusive Man or the krogan warlord Shiagur. He was even nicknamed by turian press as the "Scourge of Morran" a now common figure in turian folklore.

A knock on the door snapped Gabriel back to reality, he was sitting in a modest room containing only the essentials, a bed, a desk with a computer and closet containing whatever personal items he had left. Some might have called his quarters empty or unequipped, but compared to Gabriel's previous accommodations it was pure luxury. Dirty dishes littered one corner of the room, ever since Gabriel had left the Illusive Man's office he had been doing two things, eating and reading.

The door slid open and Miranda entered, walking around his room like she owned the place, which in some sense she probably did. However didn't really give it much thought, as most thoughts of privacy had been purged from his mind by years of imprisonment and 24/7 surveillance.

Miranda looked over at the stacks of dirty plates and said: "You have certainly kept yourself busy."

He swung the chair around and said: "Well now you know not to place an all you can eat buffet near a man who haven't had a proper meal in twenty six years."

She sighed and said: "I will keep that in mind, but we have more important things to discuss than your eating habits. In order to be successful on your mission you will need to be brought up to speed on galactic affairs. Get comfortable major, this is going to take a while."

Well to anyone who still cares here is some more The Elder Shepard. I am going to try to get one of these up around once a month, but dont count on it. (ME3 is coming out, like anyone who reads this wasnt aware of that fact)

And as usual every time you read and dont review Gabriel kills a turian.