A/N: WOW! It's been a WHILE! I started writing this chapter back in october, and the last chapter I uploaded was god knows when. Well, to everyone still following this story, here's a late Christmas present for you. Merry Christmas! BTW I noticed I completely messed up with the name of the centre Liara was supposed to meet her contact at: it's actually the Dracon centre. Oops...

"You found him yet?" asked Nate Liara trough the comms.

"Wait… yeah. He's here. Get over here, quick," she replied.

"Copy."

Nate opened another door to reveal a close by SB merc.
An omni-blade stab later he was no longer a threat. He moved on, stopping only to scope in and headshot an approaching attacker. It was a routine, he knew he should care for the people he killed, but this was different. Liara was in danger.

Nate took a quick rest on one of the windows. As he turned around, he noticed Shepard, Thane and a quarian nearing the building. Shepard was wearing her N7 combat armor with a breather helmet. It was dyed yellow with a few black spots. Thane looked... different. He seemed happier than ever before. Well, not like he was smiling or anything, but he sure was not like he was worried about his impending death. The quarian looked like any other he had seen before. That uniform sure was tight... He cleared his head and muttered: "'Bout time,"

The assassin neared the room in which Liara was supposed to be.

The door slid open and Nate faced an asari he knew he had seen somewhere. She was standing away from Liara and seemed a bit annoyed.

"Nate… the mercs killed the contact. We have no more leads," Liara complained.

"We do," he smiled his usual clever and a bit annoying smile. He knew something she didn't.

The other asari twitched slightly at this. At the same time the door opened again, to reveal Shep & co. marching in.

"Any luck?" Shepard asked.

"The contact is dead," Liara replied.

"Nice to see you got here in one piece," the stranger said to Shepard.

"Nice because you can now kill her yourself?"

"Nate! She's a spectre! What do you mean?"

"AND a Shadow Broker agent," Nate added, drawing a heavy pistol.

"Is that true?" Shepard asked.

"I saw her trying to snipe Liara. She's behind the plot to kill her, I'm pretty sure of it."

"Is that all you've got? I expected more. No one will believe you," Tela taunted.

"I will." Shepard drew her pistol, followed by the quarian pulling out a shotgun and Thane an SMG.

The SB agent unleashed a shockwave that threw the group off their feet, followed by a "You pure-blooded bitch!" shout.

"What's her problem anyway? Why does she care? If you want one-liners, call me!" Nate said getting up. The asari was already out trough the window. He jumped after her, biotically slowing his descent. A few SB mercs showed up forcing Nate to take cover. He waited for one to get close and pulled off a failure drill by putting two shots into the soldier's chest and finishing him off with another to the head. A vanguard and a regular merc remained. Nate moved silently behind cover, cloaked himself, and headed behind the enemies. The two baddies turned and aimed behind the cover he had been residing behind a few seconds ago. There was noone there. „Huh?" came a sound from the vanguard. He had been slapped hard across the back of his head with an omniblade.

„Let me go!" the other one begged.

„Okay. Go ahead, run." The mercenary looked behind once more and ran like the devil himself was after him.

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"She's getting into a cab, don't let her get away!" Shepard shouted. Nate and Liara hopped into another close by. The commander was forced to take a third one for her crew.

Nate pressed the gas down and the vehicle started with a bang. It accelerated rapidly with the g-force pushing the pair's heads against the seats. The other Asari's car came into view. So did an oncoming truck.

"It's a truck," Liara reported.

"Yup," Nate replied.

"It's a TRUCK!"

"Nice to know. I was just wondering," Nate went the sarcastic route. He narrowly dodged it, drifting right behind the truck and rushing after the enemy.

"She's dropping mines."

„I'm assuming this thing doesn't have any weapons," Nate asked.

„Other than a fare meter, no. The prices are pretty high nowadays."

„I have an idea. You're NOT going to like it."

„Let me guess: it involves jumping to her vehicle, hundreds of meters in the air and some kind of crazy biotics?"

„How'd you guess?"

„Logic."

Nate opened the roof and calmed himself. Everything was going to go fine. He will not fall. But the fear of heights started to kick in. „Here we go!" he shouted. Liara was now behind the wheel. She pushed the cab to it's limits and soon caught up with the Asari. Nate jumped. Everything seemed to slow down around him due to the effects of adrenaline pumping trough his veins. Tela was accelerating. He threw his hands forward and grasped the rear bumper. He had made it. The problem was that Tela had also noticed him. He had to do something and do it fast. He pulled himself up and applied an overload to the cab. It suddenly stopped in mid-air. Tela opened the door and hurled herself out. Nate didn't waste any time and dove after her. Nate used his biotic powers to speed his descent up. Eventually he caught up and grabbed Tela from behind. She tried to pull her gun on him and turned around so they were facing each other. Nate pushed the gun away and so narrowly avoided getting shot. He punched her in the face repeatedly. The Asari erected her barrier, pushing Nate away. The assassin finally got a chance to see the ground: it was right behind her.

The Asari smashed hard against the ground.

„OH SH**!" Nate also hit the sidewalk.

„Welcome to Azure," a pleasant female voice said over the speakers.