Present day

Omega is known by many different names to the other species, 'heart of evil, place of secrets, bloodhaven', but to humans it is simply Omega. A dark counterpart to the Citadel, though the Citadel is far from perfection. Omega has been a home for criminals to run free on for centuries.

Casey flew the Bat-fighter under the radar of most sensors using a sophisticated stealth system. It was still in trialing, but so far no one knew that Batman was heading to the most crime infested area in galactic space. He flew towards the mushroom shaped space station, near the freight docks, where there would be minimal people. Parking the fighter in a dark area, Casey put on his sealed bat helmet and released the hatch. He was not in an area with gravity and so he maneuvered in the zero-G environment.

He activated his jet boots to help him around as he made his way to the hull of the mined out station. His cape folded and swayed in the dark of space. His mag-boots made walking on the metallic hull easy and eventually he found an escape hatch. Quickly disabling the controls via his omni-tool, he slipped into the small room and closed the hatch behind him. Hitting more holo buttons on his omni-tool he equalized the pressure and let gravity settle.

On the metal grated floor now, he pulled up a map on his HUD to show that he was near the base of the mushroom-cloud shaped station.

"Alfred, show most likely spots for Aria T'Loak to sleep" Batman said under his breath, starting his way through the maintenance shaft.

"I have marked the most secure, logical places where Ms. T'Loak would rest her head when not being the Queen of Omega" politely said Alfred inside the helmet.

Batman studied the four locations marked by the artificial intelligence. "It's that one, in the top right, just above her nightclub." The dark knight made his way through the corridors, searching for a way up when he came to an elevator shaft. He looked down it and then up, noticing he had just missed one going up.

Quickly he equipped a grapple line to his left omni-tool and let it connect with the bottom of the elevator. He soared upward, flying behind the fast moving elevator, while slowly reeling in the grapple line. He was directly under the conveyer as he lifted himself so that he connected his mag-boots and gloves to that bottom. His cape fluttered as he ascended to the main level of Omega.

Batman tracked his progress on his HUD and when he was at the level of the nightclub Afterlife, he demagnetized his boots and gloves, causing him to free fall in the elevator shaft. Still having the grapple line equipped he shot it at the wall and swung himself in a ventilation shaft. He made his way so that he could see a group of people standing outside the exotic club.

Local time was 03:32am, but it seems this did not concern the would-be clubbers. The caped crusader shrugged and continued his way into the nightclub. The ventilation shaft ended and Batman slipped into the loud club's ceiling. There was plenty of cover and little light shining to the ceiling of the club, making it easy to move around. Batman perched himself on a metal beam and scanned the area.

Just below him was a large, circular stage where several asari were dancing in skimpy outfits, with a dance floor for clubber below them. The outer area had chairs and tables with a bar in the corner. Neon lights and loud music filled the air, making it a little difficult for Batman's light filters to adjust and see individual people. He maneuvered himself around and saw an upper lounge overlooking the dance floor.

He jumped a few beams and was directly over the lounge area, where he saw two armed batarians standing guard in front of a bench against a wall. This seemed out of place and after a scan through the wall; Batman saw a hidden elevator, likely Aria T'Loak personal conveyor.

Batman knew there were a number of ways to deal with this situation, but went with the easiest; he leaped down directly on the shoulders of one of the batarians. Before either of them could react, the trained vigilante flipped the batarian over using his feet placed around the alien's head. The one batarian landed hard on his back, out cold, while the other readied his weapon. While Batman was still on the floor, he swept his leg, tripping the other batarian.

No one heard any of the commotion over the music and with that cover Batman grabbed the second batarian from off the ground.

"Where's Aria?" yelled the deep voice coming from the black helmet.

The batarian struggled to get free from the iron grip of the man holding him, but there was no use. Batman got his helmeted face closer to the batarian's and he let his right hand free and held it in a fist. The blades on his forearm turned to face the batarian and started to glow dark blue.

"I won't ask again" growled Batman.

"Up in her suite," the batarian said hesitantly as the hidden doorway opened, "but she'll never let you in" he barked.

"She won't have to" Batman turned the batarian around and shoved him to the hidden doorway. "I'm sure you have an emergency override code, so do it" threatened Batman waving the glowing blades on his gauntlet.

The batarian sighed, knowing either way this wouldn't end well and punched in the code on a panel. The door way opened, showing an elevator. Batman put down his gauntlet and made his way to the doorway, shoving the batarian's face into the wall on the way.

The elevator automatically closed and started it's ascension to Aria's suite. On his way up, Batman could hear an alarm going off, undoubtedly for the emergency use of the elevator. When the conveyor arrived to the suite floor and the doors opened, Aria was waiting with dreary eyes. Her eyes widened quickly seeing Batman's armor lunge towards her.

Next thing she knew she was waking up, with her hands handcuffed behind her back in one of her own chairs. She looked around and seeing nothing, was about to break free using her biotics.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The deep voice came from the shadows.

"And why not?!" demanded Aria.

Batman emerged from a dark corner with his cape draped around him. "Do you feel that disc attached to the top of your back?"

Aria twisted her neck back and forth, feeling the metallic disc.

"That's a biotic disruptor. If you even think about using any biotics, it sends 10,000 volts through your body" Batman kept circling around Aria as he spoke.

Aria had a perplexed look and finally sighed, "What do you want?"

Batman only had half of the clues, but had a good guess as to what was really happening, so he filled in the blanks himself.

"Why are you paying tribute to the 'Poison Ivy'?" Batman said standing in front of her.

The mere mention of the name caused Aria to straighten up, she chose her words carefully, "They threatened to come here and take over if I didn't."

"And you agreed immediately?" questioned the dark knight.

"I didn't have a choice, Ivianna…Ivy sent her enforcer to persuade me, a krogan adept, one so powerful he nearly destroyed Omega."

Batman started to put the information together, "The red sand is for the krogan." Batman turned his back to Aria, thinking back to the red sand found during his encounter with 'Butch'.

"Do not underestimate the krogan….he is…smarter than he seems" Aria trailed off looking away to the side.

Batman broke his thought and turned back to walk around her. "I'll be watching you T'Loak" he said behind her.

Aria snapped back "Is that supposed to scare me?" She waited for an answer. After hearing nothing she got angrier and decided to risk the shock. Biotic power flowed over her body as she effortlessly tore the metal cuffs. She got up with a surprised look; she then grabbed the metal disc off her back to examine it.

She crushed the metal disc in her hand after realizing it was nothing more than a common bottle lid that Batman had stuck on her. Her rage fueled her biotic power blow a hole right through the elevator shaft, but it didn't matter, Batman was already gone. She had been duped and embarrassed on her own fortress.

Batman had made his way back to the main elevator shaft and was free falling down it with his cape extended out. He had the information he needed, though grim, he now knew that Ivy did indeed exist, he knew her real name and about her enforcer; an incredibly powerful biotic krogan that required large amounts of red sand. Not only that, but was able to scare Aria. With these facts, Casey would be able to more effectively find and track them down.

Batman slowed his fall by opening his cape and drifting onto an already descending elevator. His business on Omega was nearly done; he had one more stop to make.

It had been a short day. Each day seemed to be getting shorter, especially when the day is spent in a bar. But that's all Garrus felt like doing in the days after he learned his friend Shepard had died.

He couldn't shake the feeling that if he had been on the Normandy things would have been different. In reality he knew that had he been there, things would have gone the same. After he got word of the incident, he left C-Sec because of the politics and way things were run there.

He came to Omega for a fresh start. He went to a bar nightly and always got into a fist fight with some local thug. It was an anger relief and frankly made him feel better. Garrus had made a deal with a local about staying in a small apartment in one of the lower wards of the station. He stumbled off the elevator and brought his three fingered hand to his mouth, rubbing the fresh bruise on his face. To be honest, Garrus didn't even remember what the fight had been about, but it felt great while wailing on the other drunken turian.

He made his way to his small, one bedroom apartment and had the key card ready. He swiped the card and dragged himself in the dark room. Garrus waved his hand of a sensor to turn on the lights in the room, but nothing happened. He waved his hand on the sensor a second time, with the same result.

"Uh" he moaned as he ran his hand over his frilled head. He turned on his light from his omni-tool and swept it around the room. He saw his small bed roll and a cabinet next to it. More to the right was his armor stand with his favorite sniper rifle leaning on it. He swept it to the wall and thought he saw something glimmer when the light touched it, but saw nothing and so shrugged it off.

Blaming his paranoia on the alcohol, he shrugged and sat down on his bed roll. He sighed again as he leaned back and started to drift off to sleep.

"Garrus Vakarian"

Instinctively, Garrus sat up and snatched the pistol he kept under his pillow, and aimed it at the place he heard gruff voice from. He aimed the pistol and his omni-tool light at the opposite wall, where he saw the glimmer again as the wall seemed to morph into a black cloth.

A person stepped out from his tactical cloak to reveal himself wearing a black helmet with two points on his head. He was draped in a long, black cape.

Garrus didn't hesitate and squeezed the trigger on his side arm four times, before realizing the thermal clip had been removed from it. He carefully watched the person clad in black as he got closer and closer to where Garrus was sitting. The dark knight opened his cape showing his armor with a distinct bat symbol on his chest. He tossed the thermal clip to Garrus' gun to the turian.

Garrus caught the clip and then looked back to the caped man, "You haven't killed me yet, so I assume you're here for something else."

"I want to talk"

"Well you have my attention" Garrus said as he took a more relaxed stance on his bed.

"You were part of Shepard's team who tracked down and destroyed the Reaper known as Sovereign and the turian, Saren Arterius" stated the dark knight. Garrus only nodded with his eyes going to the floor when Shepard's name was mentioned. "I'm sorry about his death, he was a good man"

Garrus looked up at his dark helmet, "You knew him?"

Batman hesitated for a second and then lied, "No. But I did keep track of his team and especially you, because of your C-Sec and Spectre training." Garrus' eyes squinted, wondering where Batman was going with this. "Why did you leave C-Sec?" asked Batman.

Garrus took a deep breath, "I got tired of politics getting in the way of justice. Too much red tape, so I thought I could do more good on my own. I guess you know the feeling." Batman said nothing, but the turian's answer confirmed what he already suspected. "Anyway, it turns out it's a little harder to get started. I've thought about just going and shooting as many of the gang members as I can."

Batman pulled out several data discs from his belt and tossed them at Garrus. "I have a better idea. I need someone to watch over Omega. Those discs include data on shipments, activities, and tactics on the three major mercenary groups operating through Omega."

Garrus examined the discs, "How am I supposed to do this alone?"

"Prove you get things done and people will join."

Garrus nodded, "Like Shepard…okay" Garrus got up, went over to his armor stand and picked up his rifle.

"Killing is their way, not ours. No killing" a fizzing sound emitted from Batman's gauntlet as Garrus' light on his omni-tool went dark. Then the apartment lights turned on and Garrus was standing alone in his room. He looked around and saw that the Batman was gone, which left Garrus standing holding his rifle and the data discs. He thought about what Batman had said about not killing…for a second. He then lifted the sniper rifle, loaded a clip and started to make the proper calibrations.

I'll pull the trigger and I'll live with the consequences