Hey, Users is back. Sorry it took so long, my weeks became very cluttered and full of stuff that the only time I had was devoted to sleeping. Anyway, this would have been postponed till Monday so I could write it over the weekend but I got something that lit a fire of inspiration. Fan Art!I would show it and post the link but I can't do that in FF sorry. If you want to see it then just PM me and I will send you the link. Though, I doubt any of you would care I just want to throw that out there. Now without further a due, Users .

Shepard:

Shepard looked around to where the voice was coming from. He couldn't pin point it from just hearing it once. Shepard kicked himself in gear and continued to move across the catwalk they had just come to. He got to the other side and saw three paths.

Shepard looked at the elevator to the ramp and over to a door, he had to choose one. Shepard thought for a moment and decided to head up. He came into a room full of cells that held Salarians. Shepard looked around to see if a guard was stationed there then over to the Salarians.

"Who are you, why are you in these cells."

"The voices, the voices, we are slaves to the voices. Here to do their bidding and follow their plan", was all that was replied from the cell.

Shepard looked from the cage to Liara, "Do you know what he is saying?"

Liara bit her lower lip and began rubbing her chin. She looked like she was having an argument inside her head and losing. Then she froze and nodded for a second then looked back up at Shepard.

"Remember what my mother said? Saren has weird power thanks to the ship. What is this is just the ship taking people's mind without Saren to help? "

Shepard rolled his eyes, "Please, a ship that is alive and can use telepathic connection to control people that's as ridiculous as-"

"A plant that can control minds and knows about an ancient robot that wiped out the prothians", Liara asked with an eyebrow raised.

Shepard froze for a moment then quickly regained his composure, "Alright, we won't rule it out. That being said, should we help them?"

One of the Salarians began banging the door and foaming at the mouth, "The voices want you dead! You must die!"

Garrus was the one who spoke first, "My vote is that we don't release the insanely homicidal Salarians."

Shepard nodded in agreement and headed back for the door out. The trio quickly ran back to the room and looked around. Shepard looked over to the exit beside the elevator and took off in that direction. Through the door was a small office with another exit.

Shepard rolled his eyes at how many rooms he had gone through so far. Shepard continued through a few more doors and to another cell area with another group of Salarians. Shepard looked at the cells and saw that these Salarians weren't talking but just standing around with tired blank looks on their faces.

Shepard just sighed at another wrong turn and began to leave when he heard someone speak, "Is anyone there?"

Shepard turned around and looked back at the holding cells, "Where are you?"

He saw a Salarian come up to the window of the cell and press it's face to the glass. It waved to them and was looking desperate. Shepard looked at the Salarian in the eyes and searched for anything that could show some sign of sanity still there. The Salarian gave a look that said 'are you coming?,

Shepard sighed and ran over to the Salarian, "Okay, what's your story?"

The Salarian sneered, "Speaking like that I can only assume you saw the others in the", he brought his fingers up to make air quotes, "test subjects. Well, it makes sense that you would be cautious around us down here."

Shepard raised an eyebrow, "Why would you be different down here?"

The Salarian pointed to the boxes next to him, "They were my team, we came here to rescue the last Salarians you saw. When we got to them they were screaming about voices and turned on us. We ended up getting captured and thrown in here. From what I could tell, they took my men to their ship and they came back like that."

Shepard turned to the others, "This guy doesn't seem like the rest, should we release him?"

Garrus looked at the Salarian then back to Shepard, "chances are slim here Shepard, let's leave him and head to Saren."

Liara spoke next, "The Salarian could be of use to us. I think we should let him out and bring him with us."

Shepard thought for a moment then came to his own conclusion, he then hit the button and opened the door for the Salarian, "Okay, this is your chance. I am letting you out but this is it. Start running."

The Salarian gave a half-hearted smile, "Release me and then tell me to run like hell. Guess it is a better chance of survival then I had in there."

Garrus spoke up before the Salarian could take a step, "You better run fast. There is a bomb on the way."

The Salarian gave a nod and then began sprinting as fast as he could. Shepard gave him a second to get out the door and then Shepard took off to leave too. He got back to the room and took the last exit that was still unexplored. Shepard got in the elevator and hit down.

The elevator raced downward faster than any other elevator Shepard had been on. The elevator hit the last floor so hard that Shepard fell to the floor and so did Liara and Garrus. Then the doors opened and revealed that the Geth had set a trap for them.

They were lucky because the Geth were aimed at where they would be standing instead of where they were now. This gave Shepard a chance to rip his assault rifle off his back and took aim. He unloaded the assault rifle and dropped the Geth in one sweep of fire.

Shepard smiled at how much his new rifle was coming in handy and got up. He looked back at Garrus and reached out a helping hand. Garrus slapped it away and stood up pointing ahead of them.

"You shouldn't waist your strength on me. We got more problems coming."

Shepard looked ahead of them and saw a swarm of Geth, Husks, and Krogan, "Shit."

Danny:

Danny and Ty stood back to back in a triangle court yard. There was an AA gun at every corner and Cody had taken a sniper position at the top of the north gun. The Salarians had begun to dismantle and cripple the AA gun while Danny, Ty and Cody were expected to keep the courtyard clear and allow for safe extraction after the guns were down.

Danny readied his omnitool in his right hand and a biotic throw in his left. It was at times like this that he cursed his power to manipulate weapons. Sure it was useful in a small fight but in a large one he had no chance at using it. That left him with the weapons on his back and his powers as a sentinel.

Ty one the other hand was gripping his wrist and readying to convert his armor at any time. It would take a couple seconds to convert like always but Danny would be able to defend Ty while the change took place. Once Ty was up and running the court yard should stay clear but it was up to Cody to keep the entrances into the guns clear.

Danny tightened his left hand, "You ready for this Ty?"

Ty chuckled, "In all honesty, no."

Danny cracked his neck and saw an elevator at the south ding as it began to open, "Well, I feel the same way."
The door opened up and revealed a squad of regular Geth troopers. Danny hit them with an overload and then sent in the throw to finish most of them off. He quickly pulled out his pistol and finished the rest off with a few quick shots from his Stinger VI.

Danny turned to Ty and saw he was gone and taking on Geth coming in from the North-West corridors in the HEV suit from Half-Life. Danny looked back to the elevators and saw that two more were opening up on the left and right in the five elevator chain. Danny quickly brought up his Omnitool and readied a sabotage.

The elevators opened and Danny had little time to react as five destroyers printed out of the gates and strait at Danny. Danny fired off the sabotage at the closest Destroyer which made it turn around and drop the shield of one to its right before the other Destroyers were able to take it down. This gave Danny a chance to hit the one with its shields dropped with a lift and now he still had three to deal with.

Danny aimed his pistol and was cursing at the same time. He could take down two but three would be a challenge. Danny began firing at them but they closed in too fast and Danny had to back pedal to buy himself some time. Danny continuously focused fire on the one in the middle and he dropped the destroyer but he lost all his time and the other two closed in and began hitting him.

Danny took two shots to the face and then one to the stomach, this caused him to double over in pain as the Destroyers continued to hit him. Suddenly, one of them dropped and the other was pulled away. Danny opened his eyes and saw that the one that dropped was missing it's head and the other wasn't pulled away but blasted as evidence by the hole in his chest.

Danny pulled up his comm, "Nice job Cody."

Cody answered his thanks, "That wasn't me. I'm covering the North-West end."

Danny pulled out his assault rifle and took aim at the elevators. Once he was sure that no threats were coming he got up. He looked around for a second sniper but saw none. Cody looked back at the elevator and saw the last two open up with Geth primes. Danny aimed with his assault rifle and started to fire.

He noticed sniper shots coming in and helping him by hitting the Geth. Danny overheated his gun and looked back to see a Salarian at the top of the ramp to the North gun. Danny made a retreat up to him and turned back to the Geth prime.

"Hey, thanks for the backup buddy."

The Salarian stayed quiet until both Primes were dead, "No problem, noticed you weren't taking any advantages that Shepard said you had. Thought maybe you were having troubles and needed help."

Danny patted the guy on the back, "Indeed I did."

The Salarian was about to say something but Kirrahe came over the comm, "All forces, retreat to the north gun. We are finished here, time to move on."

Danny looked and saw Salarians retreating from the other two guns and sprint to the North gun where he was standing. Danny and the Salarian brought up their guns and provided covering fire for the Salarians. Helped Ty who was about to be trapped by four primes and the Salarain backed up Cody with more sniping.

Thanks to Danny's sniping Ty was able to retreat back to the gun just as his power died and his armor shifted back to normal. Ty got up the ramp and used his pistol to help Danny with the Primes. They were about to be over whelmed by the Geth when the last Salarian got up the ramp and in the AA gun tower.

Danny patted Ty and the Salarian on the back and the three ran into the facility. Danny looked and saw that there was an elevator inside of the circle room that acted as the gun's control center. Kirrahe was directing the Salarians to place charges around the room and then take the elevator down. He finished instructing the Salarians and then turned to Danny and Ty.

"Okay, we are almost finished here. We just need to place the charges in this room and then head down on the elevator. Do you think you can hold the Geth long enough to let us get out?"

Danny thought for a moment then looked over to Ty who was searching through a crate. Ty pulled up a medium Assassin armor and a Tsunami V. He nodded at his find and then turned back to the Salarian.

"We are going to crash their waves."

Danny just face palmed, "That was the worst word play I have ever heard."

Alright, there's the chapter. Don't forget to Comment, review or PM me your thoughts about the story. It's what keeps me writing.