M-Angel: Ahchoo! I hate winter!

HBHound: Not me! *covered in a warm blanket*

M-Angel: You suck...

HBHound: *laughs*

M-Angel: grrr ... Whatever! Enjoy this chapter everybody...

Chapter 24: When things go wrong...

Serena watched as Ann began ordering everybody back to their stations. John and his team had left to talk to the counsilors. Ann already knew what was going to happen which is why the Normandy SR-3 was going to attack Illos from above while two ground teams go take care of Saren. one team was to talk to Vigil, while the other was to take care of Saren's Geth. "Fourth minutes until we arrive Commander." came Jokers voice over the comm system. I looked at Ann from across the debriefing room. She took a deep breath. I then realised she was taking a moment before she was gonna tell us where each of us where to be.

"Fourty hours ago I never thought I'd be giving these orders a second time." she began. "We're stuck in this reality until either fate steps in or Mordin figures out how to get us back. We are going to Illos, again. This time it's to stop Saren or at least stall him. I want Kal Reager as the leader of team two. You, Serena, and Koylet are to go to Vigil and get those door activated. You won't come into too much resistance, and if you do Grim and Legion will have your backs." the krogan and Geth unit gave a nod at that. "Afterwards you're to make your way back to the Normandy." she turned her attention to the others in the room. "Garrus, Taylor, Fay, and myself will take the Mako we just aquifer and get through to the conduit and help John with Saren. I believe if we do this quickly we just might be able to stop him before he even gets to the control room of the Citadel. Then, of course, we have Sovereign to take care of. I've already sent an encrypted message to Admiral Hackett about the attack. Hopefully that damned fleet will be there to help save those idiots in the Counsil." she paused. "We have a thirty-five to fourth minutes until we hit the dirt, so I suggest everybody to get ready or rest up. It's about to be one of those days." with that everybody groaned as they left.

"So Serena," I turned at Ann's voice. "You gonna tell me what's going on?"

I took a deep breath. "It's a long story."

"We've got time." she nodded her head and we began walking to the elevator.

"Where do you want me to start?" I inquired.

"The beginning is always nice." she said just as Garruse walked in a touched the button for the elevator door to shut.

"Well, it all began with a wish..." I began as the doors shut us off from the rest of the crew.

Walking silently down the corridors of the SR-3 nobody would've guessed there was a cloaked assassin inboard. Usually her method of killing was by herbs and poisons. She also didn't usually work for two bosses at once, nor did she ever work for The Illusive Man, but this target was interesting because not only did the leader of Cerberus want her dead, but also the Shadow Broker. So before she was to kill this Serena Lavargus, she was going to find out why they wanted this seemingly innocent girl dead. Finding her was easy, getting her alone would be the trick. However when she and this 'Shepard' woman had gotten into the elevator with her she thought she'd struck gold. Not only that but Shepard was questioning her with a turian present.

"It all began with a wished." Serena had begun. "I was an average American girl, with a slight weight problem and hadn't decided whether to go to college or not. I have siblings who, as far as I knew had the American dream. I guess I was a bit upset at them for having lives and me still living at home with the folks. Then one night I made a wish. I wished for a future. One that forced me to be active, to need to be needed by somebody, and where I would have to make tough decisions like the ones from my favorite books.

Then I went to bed. When I woke up I was on the Citidel. From there things just...kinda happened. I ended up becoming a C-Sec field medic, where I then ended up with Mi and Spectre Y'Lara on Omega, where I ended up shooting Taylor." she sighed. "From there you know the rest." she looked at Shepard who seemed to actually believe her!

"How did you end up here?" the turian asked.

"A tear in the dimensions occurred in the fabric of time and space." she sighed. "I'm still mulling over it, so when I understand, you'll understand."

Shepard nodded. "As ridiculous as this all sounds, I believe you." the turian raise a brow plate.

"You believe that Ann?" he asked.

"Yes, for some reason I do." she looked at him. "Do you trust me Garrus?"

He growled before leaning his forehead against hers. "Always." he whispered.

"You can leave Serena." she sad never taking her eyes off of the turian.

I saw Lavargus smirk. "Aye Commander." she said chuckling. I quickly made my fast retreat to the elevator as well. Now alone with Lavargus I took out a seringe that was filled with my special truth mixture. It always made people speak truths. Using my omni-tool I deactivated the elevation between floors. "EDI?" she asked. "what just happened?"

"Unauthorized access to the Normandy mainframe has occurred within the elevator shaft Serena." came a disembodied voice. "Searching for the source right now."

"Great, ya have a bug." she grumbled.

"I do not." the voice said. My jaw would've dropped had I not been doing a job. I plunged the needle into her side. She gave a yelp from the pain, just as my cloaking device shut off. She turned just in time to see my face.

"Sorry," I appologised just as her knees gave out. "Just a small dose li'mikiea. It's an asari truth serium, with one small disabilitating property. You can't stand for the next four hours and you can't help but tell the truth." she looked scared. "What you just told you're CO, was it the truth?"

"Yes." she whimpered.

"Impossible." I growled. "Nobody could survive a tear unless..." my eyes widened. The prophesy! "It's true..." I said out loud. "Then you're a..."my eyes widened just as the elevator doors opened to reveal a krogan and a erelong. I acted impulsively and shot both with my only gun. I was dead before I fired my first shot. Death ain't as painless as most think, especially when you know what's waiting for you on the other side.

M-Angel: *sigh* Yes I killed a character made for me by somebody. Sorry! It kinda just happened.

HBHound: Your such a Saint

M-Angel: *smiles* Review!

HBHound: Review! you just killed a... fuck it *chases after her*

I know it's short, but 25 & 26 are gonna be so freakin' long so I don't care! LoL