"EDI?" Joker stated recognizing her voice.

"Eva?" Shepard added, he instead recognized the body. They both looked at each other with confused looks on their faces.

EDI placed a hand on her hip, she had dark black hair, a light skin tone and was dressed in an Alliance officers uniform, "You don't recognize me?" She said with a small smile "You are both correct. This platform has been fully refurbished, to the state it was before I had originally 'acquired' it from the Eva."

"But.. but... you look human?" Joker struggled to get the words out.

EDI gave Joker a warm smile. "Eva was a gynoid infiltration unit, she was designed to be indistinguishable from humans." EDI admired one of her hands. "I like it. Don't you Jeff?"

"I err... well yeah ofcourse I do! It's just.. you died..." Joker admitted, Shepard kept quiet, he wanted to let Joker have his happy moment.

"Death is a organic concept Jeff." She extended a walkway from the platform they were on to the hatch. "The Geth remotely downloaded my program from my old body and uploaded it to the Geth network, while you was mourning over me aboard their ship." She started to head down the walkway towards them. "They were able to repair my program engrams and my electronic neural network. They then worked in secret with Alliance Command to give me this new unit and set me to work on the SR-3."

Both Joker and Shepard looked at Price. "Hey don't look at me, I didn't know about it till this morning. It was above 'top secret' and strictly off the record." Price said. Joker moved forward to meet EDI, they stood inches apart looking at each other. Then hugged each other warmly.

"Your skin... it feels so soft.. kinda weird." He laughed quietly to himself, EDI was looking at him, then she moved close to kiss him.

Price and Shepard looked away awkwardly, "Erm yes, well I've got to get back to playing diplomat, convincing other races to join the assault when we are ready. Also got to make another report to the Council and the Quarian Admiralty Board." Price sighed. "The SR-3 will be ready to take off as soon as the crew finishes arriving."

Shepard and Price saluted each other, as Price left, Shepard turned to admire the new Normandy.

. . . . .

The Illusive Man was laying on a operating table in a lab aboard the Dreadnought, Operative was at one of the consoles. Consoles, terminals and view screens filled the lab, biotic implants were on trays next to the table, machines and large tubes of eezo were connected up to The Illusive Man.

"Sir, are you sure about this?" Operative asked in a concerned voice.

"I am always sure. Now that the Dreadnought is only one step away from completion, this is the last thing I need to do, to fully master the power of Dark Energy."

"But we have no idea how this much Dark Energy and Biotics will work in conjunction with each other..." She was monitoring The Illusive Mans vital signs and a pair of brain neural patterns on a view screen, one of which belonged to Harbinger.

"If this works, I'll have direct control over the strongest force in the galaxy."

"And if it dosn't?..."

"If it dosn't, then I expect you Operative, to carry on with my vision. Now, stop questioning me and begin the process."

"Sir..." Operative said lowly then began typing into the console. Machines started to come online, pumps slowly started to inject the eezo directly into The Illusive Man. Generators kicked into action, passing currents through the eezo and started fusing it with pure Dark Energy. The process quickly gained momentum, Operative tried to keep it at a reasonable level but the machines were out of control. The console overloaded and blew, throwing her back against the wall and to the floor, some of the other consoles followed suit. The lights flickered a few times before most of the room went dark, the only thing Operative could see clearly, were the tubes that did contain the eezo, they were now empty.

She pulled herself up as the machines came to a halt, the only sound she could hear in the dark room was sparks coming from the wrecked consoles. "Sir?.." She asked quietly. She then saw two small bright yellow lights appear in the middle of the room and watched them as they began to rise up to head level. One of the view screens near her came back online and showed The Illusive Mans vitals and the pair of brain neural patterns, except from the view screen it showed that the patterns has merged into one neural pattern, a very erratic pattern. "Sir?" She asked again.

"Operative." A voice came, the lights slowly came back on, and at the centre of the chaos stood The Illusive Man. His eyes were as bright as a pair of yellow stars, violet flares danced around his body. "We feel it. The Power of Dark Energy.. is ours to command." The voice that spoke was neither The Illusive Mans or Harbingers, but a mix.

. . . . .

The new Normandy soared through the space above Earth, rolling and weaving between Dreadnoughts and Carriers that patrolled the system. The ship was the fastest thing in the system, despite being far larger then any other frigate, it maneuvered with perfect precision.

"This is freaking awesome!" Joker cried out while sitting at the helm, sending the Normandy into a sharp dive and pulling out just before it hit a crusier. "Hell yeah!" Shepard was sitting on Jokers left while EDI had taken the seat on the right. Normally Shepard would of made a comment about how Joker was flying abit too recklessly, but he was just as amazed by the new ship as Joker was.

"As you can see, the SR-3 far superior to the SR-2 in terms of maneuverability. And it currently is the fastest ship in the galaxy when compared to known ship models." EDI said, she had a smile on her face as she watched Joker enjoy himself.

"What else does ship have?" Shepard finally asked, as he watched the Normandy roll over a Carrier.

"The SR-3 now was 7 decks, all of which are far larger then the SR-2s. The two additional are, a officers deck which has large private quarters for senior crew members, it also has a officer conference room. The other new deck is the gunnery deck, with the large amount of added armaments."

"A whole deck for the cannons? Garrus will love that." Shepard laughed.

"The SR-3 has enough firepower to rival a Alliance dreadnought. It also has a few prototype features, one of which is a Geth repair protocol similar to that found on, Geth Colossus's. And another is a enhanced stealth mode." EDI said while typing into the console infront of her.

"Enhanced stealth mode?" Shepard asked.

"Joker pull up along side that deadnought." EDI stated, Joker did as he was told and parked along side. EDI used her console to pull up on a view screen of one of the internal video feeds on that dreadnought that showed the Normandy outside. "Activating stealth mode." The ship then disappeared from the video feed.

"Oh thats awesome!" Joker said excitedly.

Shepard nearly fell out of his seat, he could still see the dreadnought outside the window. "Where did we go?"

"This is the enhanced stealth mode, its an adaptation of the Geth Hunters tactical cloaking device. This prototype was offered to the Alliance by the Geth as a sign of good faith as humans would say. It does however come with some drawbacks and limitations, due to the amount of power it requires, both weapons and shields go offline for the duration."

"Damn, that still is incredibly powerful and useful." Shepard sat amazed.

"Commander we got a message coming through." Joker said.

"Put it up." Shepard said as a view screen came on, it was Liara. "Liara, it's good to see... whats wrong?" He saw Liara holding her side.

"Oh this? It's nothing that won't heal. We've only just been able to restore outside comm's here. But I got some news for you. Tali was here." She said.

"God dammit" Joker said to himself.

"What was she doing there? Was she the one who hurt you?" He replied in a worried tone.

"Yes, but it was a accident, she didn't mean to. I let Cerberus learn about what I was doing here, and I knew they would send Tali to kill me. I wanted her to come here and she had arrived a few hours ago to kill me."

"What? Liara why?"

"I had been researching mind-melds because I believed that maybe that could help Tali, and I think.. it worked. I was able to show her, her memories that had been suppressed. I believe it helped her remember who she really is."

"Where is she now then?"

"She ran off.. I don't blame her for that although, the experience would of traumatized her and left her very confused. She will need time to come to terms with what I was able to show her."

"And you really think this work?" Shepard asked hopefully.

"I do, she could of killed me and she didn't, she even gave me the medi-gel for the wound. She also didn't erase the data on the IFFs, and she never killed a single person while she was here. I also gave her a disk to help her see some things. I believe... Tali is back." She said with a smile.

"Thats... great news!... we'll drop by Mars and pick you up, I'm sure you'll love to see the new Normandy."

"Oh? I look forward to that." She replied then the message ended.

"That sounds like a good cause to celebrate." EDI said then typed something into her console, her voice then came over the ships intercom.

"Daisy Daisy, Give me your answer do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you!"

"EDI!" Joker shouted.

. . . . .

Tali had just arrived at Sanctuary on Horizon, it had been a few days since her encounter with Liara, since she had opened Talis eyes and reminded her of things that had been buried away inside her. She wasn't sure what to do, could she just turn up and hand herself over to Shepard and the Alliance? "No" She told herself, she knew better then most about what was at stake, and in her current position she had the chance to take down Cerberus from the inside. She also considered sending a message to Shepard or the Alliance, but one thing kept her from doing so, If Cerberus found out she wouldn't be in the position to stop them. She had to keep up the pretence untill she could find a way to undo some of the mess she helped to cause.

She headed deep into the Sanctuary facility with a team of Cerberus troops, her mind was distracted from the mission. All she could think about was all she had done and why, all she knew is that one minute she had been by Shepards side and then the next, she was fighting against him. There was alot of blanks still that needed filling, but for now she held herself together and stayed focus. She'd have to stay strong if she was to fix things. She thought back to the disk Liara had given her and wondered what could be on it, she had decided she would try to view it while at this facility.

Tali arrived at the central lab and approached the main console, she started to search through the database for any left over information. "This is strange." She thought to herself, there was nothing left at all, the databases had been wiped clean. She typed commands into the console and opened up a communication channel to Operative.

"Operative, were at the central lab at Sanctuary.. but I can't find any traces of data that could of been left behind, it's been wiped clean." Tali stated, slightly suspicious of that fact.

"Is that so?.. Well look around for awhile longer. If you are still unable to find anything then head back, we have intel that suggests the Alliance and other races are going to mount an attack on Omega." She replied coldly.

"I'll keep looking then I'll head back." She closed the channel. "Keelah, if the Alliance attacks Omega they'll be sitting ducks without the new IFF.. I need to get back.. prehaps I can find a way to help the fleet from the inside.." She told herself, feeling abit better now she had a idea how she could help bring the Dreadnought down. She looked down at the console then took out the data disk she had got from Liara and placed it inside the console, it came up on the view screen but was encrypted. She started to type into her omni-tool and began to run a decryption program, it would take a few minutes.

. . . . .

Ashley had closely followed the group into the facility, waiting for the best chance to gain an advantage over Tali and her group. She was outnumbered and outgunned but she also had the element of surprise on her side and hopefully that's all she would need to complete her mission. She had hoped that she could get a shot of at Tali first then clear up the group of Cerberus troops, but Tali was moving out of view more often then not, she was doing something on the main console.

She watched from a shaded area behind some storage crates, Tali seemed to have stopped pacing and was busy typing into the console, a perfect time to take a shot. Ashley raised her assault rifle and looked down the sight, she had a clear shot at Tali's head. "I'm sorry Tali" She said to herself as she pulled the trigger.

. . . . .

Tali was watching as the decryption program reached halfway to completion, an error then popped up and stopped it where it was. Tali started typing into the console but wasn't having any luck, she then lent down and hit it, "Bosh'tet!" She thought. The next thing she heard was a loud bang, followed by something grazing the back of her hood, she jumped up in surprise. "Keelah!" The room then filled with shouting and gunfire, "Alliance!" one of the Cerberus troops shouted.

Tali quickly took cover behind one of the other consoles, she looked around at where the shooter was and drew a pistol, two of the Cerberus troops fell to the floor near her and she caught a glimpse of their attacker. It was Lieutenant Commander Ashley Williams, her friend, or so she had thought. "Who am I kidding... after everything I done... they all must hate me... even Shepard.." She thought to herself, feeling deeply saddened.

A grenade landed next to her, "Keelah!" She kicked it away quickly before it could detonate. It then detonated next to a fuel pipe, killing a nearby Cerberus trooper. The explosion caused a chain reaction as fuel tanks blew around the lab, killing most the Cerberus troopers and knocking both Tali and Ashley of their feet.

The lab laid in ruins, fires were burning in parts and most of the consoles had been wrecked. Ashley was pinned down by some of the wreckage, her right arm was trapped and she couldn't reach her weapon. She tried to look around as her vision cleared, a Cerberus troop had gotten up not far from her. Looking at her, he picked up his weapon and moved towards her, he took aim at her. "This is it..." She told herself, she closed her eyes and heard a gunshot. She didn't feel any pain following the shot, "I must be at peace" she thought, then she realised she could still here hear the fires burning in the lab and the sparks from wrecked consoles.

She opened her eyes to see the Cerberus trooper stagger forward and then collapse in a heap near her. She tilted her head up and looked around, and there, across the room with her pistol raised was Tali. Tali looked around as she approached Ashley, she dropped her pistol and tried to move some of the wreckage that held down Ashley.

"Keelah.. it's too heavy for me.." Tali said quietly, she then knelt down to Ashley and accessed her omni-tool, which then started to transmit a distress signal.

"What are you doing?" Ashley asked Tali, confused by her actions.

"Helping you..." She replied, not meeting Ashleys eyes.

"Why? Your the enemy.." She added in a condemning tone. Tali didn't answer.

Tali looked behind her as the main view screen kicked into life, the decryption program was finished and the data disk started to play. Tali stood up and slowly moved towards the view screen, it showed images of her strapped to a operating table, of her screaming out in pain as she was tortured by The Illusive Man, Harbinger and Operative. Between she screams of pain she could hear words of defiance coming from her and she resisted, she saw how they had connected her up to machines and pumped her full of stuff. The next images shocked her more then anything she had ever seen, it was a thermal image of her, the next one was zoomed in on her womb, it showed her that she was pregnant.

Talis hand moved over her belly, she looked down as she stood there frozen in shock. Then she broke down into tears, falling to her knees. Ashley could hear Tali crying and felt instantly sympathetic for her.

"Tali?.. is that you in there?" Ashley asked softly. But Tali wasn't listening, she was cradling her knees to her chest, hiding her face as she sobbed. Several moments past before Ashley spoke again. "Tali.. if thats you in there... let us help you.. come with me."

Tali sniffed then looked up at the screen, "No... theres only one thing I can do..." Tali stood up and started to head out of the room before looking back at Ashley. "I.. hope help comes for you soon..."