As soon as the doors of the Normandy opened, something rushed at Jarred and Tristan. A hard helmet knocked them both on the head as the creature engulfed them on a bear hug. Jarred's facial carapace protected him from getting hurt, but Tristan's fleshy human head made contact with metal.

"OW!" Tristan exclaimed as the hug grew tight, and finally released them. Jarred's mouth opened in shock.

"Amira?!"

The quarian woman named Amira'Zorah Nar Rannoch nodded, her helmet emitting a pair of glowing eyes, her three-fingered hands clasped together in her chest in delight. Even though the Geth have boosted the immune system of the quarians, they have decided to keep wearing the suits in case of some unknown viruses, but also as a cultural heritage. "Jarred! Tristan! It's been too long!" The mouth piece of her helmet glowed as she spoke.

"What are you doing here?" Jarred asked, as Tristan continued to rub the red mark on the side of his head.

"We're your new crewmates, of course." A voice said from behind Amira said, and a lithe-looking drell, Thanikah Krios, came forward, her sunset-colored eyes glinting with mirth, her light-green scales reflecting the light of the Normandy. "Tristan's father pulled some strings, and we were told that you needed new crew members."

"Thanikah?!" It was Tristan who spoke this time, "You came as well? I thought your immuno-booster shots for Kepral's Syndrome wasn't done yet."

"Fine now. Cure synthesized earlier than expected." Seven more people stood behind Thanikah and Amira, and four of them were familiar faces. It was a tall, thin, grayish salarian who spoke, and it smiled as it came forward and shook hands with the two of them. "Kolyat Krios' research team created cure. Need for life-long immuno-boosters for sufferers no longer needed. Kepral's Syndrome can be cured with one medicine."

At this, Thanikah scoffed, "Yeah. I'm cured. It hurt like hell though. I couldn't breathe properly for a month."

"Medicine intended for immunity and cure at same time. Slight alteration and genetic modification of lung tissue expected." The salarian named Nicholas Solus explained. "Discomfort a mere side effect. But, happy you are well now, Thanikah."

The drell smiled, "Yeah. I'm glad I'm cured too."

An asari and a krogan came forward then, and Jarred smiled, as he was familiar with them. "Edison, you should have told us they were coming."

The pilot shrugged as he smiled, and the asari came forward… the Shadow Broker herself, Liara T'Soni. "Kaidan asked us if we would be of some help to you. And we said yes."

The krogan named Grunt nodded, "Yeah. It's been getting boring at Tuchanka. Urdnot Shepard has been running things so smoothly, it's annoying. Wrex raised a good kid, but varren hunting every day is getting boring."

Jarred laughed and Tristan came forward to the three other people behind them. "And these are?"

"Engineer Chris Radley, Yeoman Jose Cruz and Private Leena Traynor." Liara said as she introduce the three humans behind her, and they saluted Tristan and Jarred. "I've hand-picked them myself. They are the best at what they do. They would be a good addition to the Normandy crew."

Tristan returned their salute, "Welcome to the Normandy everyone. Please get to your stations. We'll be leaving for Lesuss soon to pick up Councilor Samara."

"Aye aye, sir!" The three humans headed for their station, and Liara nodded, "I've set up my network again. I have missed working in the Normandy. It's been years. I am rather fond of this ship. Feron and my daughter, Kaira, are in my old ship, they'll be helping me as well." She sighed, "Well, I'd better get going. Come to me when you need me, Tristan."

He nodded, and Liara and Grunt went off. Tristan patted Jarred, "Well, I'd better go too, we need to get to Lesuss." He mentioned towards Edison, "Let's go, Ed."

Edison and Tristan went back to the bridge, and Jarred, Thanikah, Amira and Nicholas headed to the Main Battery, where Jarred stayed.

"I can't believe we are serving the same ship our parents did." Thanikah said, but shook her head in an afterthought, "Well, maybe not. It was my grandfather who was here. I heard Grandfather Thane was a good friend of Justicar Samara."

Amira nodded, "My mother mentioned him too. She said he was really confident, and he had remembered everything that ever happened in his life because of the drell's eidetic memory." She looked up at Thanikah, "Do you do that too, Nika?"

She shrugged, "Yes. It's something that drells are genetically programmed to have. But it's really hard when that happens." She shivered, "I don't want to remember the side effects of that Kepral's cure."

"But, cure useful. If cure wasn't synthesized before opportunity came, would have left her in Huerta Memorial Hospital instead of Normandy." Nicholas said.

Thanikah smiled, "Thanks for the reminder, Nicky. I'll make sure to thank Dad later."

Jarred smiled, and Amira looked up at him. "We're happy you're okay, Jarred. Sorry about your team, but our parents did say that serving in the military is hard."

He shrugged, "Yeah. They tell us that all the time, and yet here we are, still in the military."

Amira snorted under her helm, "Correction. I am on my Pilgrimage. Not the military. I plan on heading back to Rannoch once this is done." She stretched and nodded at them, "Well, I should head to the Engineering Deck. I'll see you guys later!"

Nicholas coughed a bit, "By the way, Thanikah. Mr. Krios asked favor. Medical check-ups once in Normandy, also scans of lung tissue and respiratory capacity as additional study for him." He shrugged, "Headed to Medical Bay to talk to your father. Coming?"

At this, Thanikah threw her hands, "Alright. Alright. Sheesh, sometimes I feel like a guinea pig for that Kepral's medicine." She waved goodbye to Jarred, "We'll see you later, Jarred."

"Bye, Jarred!" Amira waved enthusiastically as Jarred waved back as the doors of the Main Battery closed, and Jarred went back to work.