A/N: Ok, so I may have been a bit off on my World Cup guesses. Australia held their own for a long time, that game was close. The Croatians demolished Cameroon who played one of the dirtiest games I've ever seen, diving and actually punching one of the Croatians. Spain played poorly, which was surprising. Anyway, enough football for now, here's some story!

Chapter 14
-Ground Floor Please-

After another day, Aila hired another two asari workers to take my place in the warehouse and has interviews set up for everyone else's job today. In less than a week, Icarus Shipping Warehouse 01 will be run without the help of any of the CEO's.

Aila is practically skipping around the apartment in joy as she gets ready for work, unlike me who is groggily shuffling around drinking my coffee.

"Can you just, sit down Aila?" I mumble as I rub my eyes.

"No!" she says giddily as she prances from the kitchen into the living room. "This is so exciting! There are so many possibilities!"

"Yeah yeah." I nod, not really listening to her. "Possibilities, tons of em."

"And you!" she squeaks as she smiles at me. She walks up and sits down next to me before she pulls me into a hug, nearly spilling my coffee.

"What about me?"

"You did everything you said you would." She says gratefully, still squeezing me tighter.

"Yeah I do that sometimes." I smirk as I finish my coffee and set it down on the end table.

"I'm serious." She says as she lets me go. "You did so much for everyone here without asking for anything in return."

"I just haven't decided what I want yet." I say as I lean back and rest my hands on the back of my head, my smirk growing wider.

"Well I have an idea on how I can make it up to you." She smiles as she opens her Omni-tool. "How far are you in debt?"

"Aila…"

"No." she says sternly. "Tell me what you owe, right now Maverick!" she demands, scaring me a little.

"Ok!" I say, raising my hands defensively. "5,000 credits." Aila's eyes widen and her face grows sterner as she glares at me. "500,000." I admit. Aila types away on her Omni-tool and closes it before giving me another hug.

"Thank you." She says quietly.

"You're welcome." I reply as I hug her back.

"So." She says as she pulls back to her seat. "I was thinking about Pakiev's code, too close to the sun."

"What about it?"

"Does it mean something has gone wrong with the company?" she asks, a little unsure of her guess. "Or is it life threatening?"

"I would say its life threatening." I nod. "Everything else in the company can be fixed, lives can't be fixed."

"That makes sense." She agrees.

We both stand and head our separate ways in the apartment, Aila heading back to the kitchen to get something to eat and me grabbing my gel under armor and heading into the bathroom to change. I quickly strip down to my boxers and slide on the under armor. After I fasten the seals running up my chest I flex my body around to get used to the new layer of skin and then fold up my clothes before leaving the bathroom.

I walk out of the bathroom and start to head over to my armor cases that I tucked off to the side, as I walk to the cases I see Aila walk out of the kitchen with a bowl of some asari cereal, I don't remember what it's called. Asari loops or something, I don't know.

I start to giggle as I think about what the ads would be for asari loops when I hear a cough from Aila. I look over at her to see she is averting her eyes off to the side as she raises her hand at me.

"Goddess, I am eating!" she whines as I look around to see what she's talking about. My eyes eventually fall down at myself, my skin tight armor hugging my… self… tightly.

"Sorry!" I laugh as I jog over to my armor case, covering myself with my clothes.

"This isn't a locker room!" she yells in protest to my indecency.

"Hey!" I snap as I hop up and down trying to pull up my combat pants. "You were running around in a towel the other day so don't tell me this isn't a locker room!" I finally pull on my pants and tell Aila its all clear, to which she make clear she is thankful for.

"That was different." She says, now looking and pointing at me. "I shower every morning before we go to work, you should have been sleeping!"

"You should have known I was going out to buy weapons and armor and go out all night to guard drunken people!" I shout with a smirk.

"You're ridiculous." She says as she waves me off and goes back to her asari loops.

I scoff at her, pretending to be insulted as I place my hand on my heart. She smiles and I laugh as I go back to my armor.

I slide my feet into the plated boots and secure the shin plates and knee plates onto my legs. I quickly scoop up my vest and pull it over my torso, hanging the chest plate over my shoulders next and securing it to my vest. I pull out my pauldron and fasten it to the lip of my right shoulder plate and fastening the lower half to my bicep, rotating my arm to make sure it's on right. Lastly I pull on my gloves, flexing my hands to get a better fit before tightening the ends and rolling my wrists.

"All suited up." I say to myself as I start double checking fasteners and straps. I reach into my last case and pull out my helmet, tossing it in the air and catching it so it's looking at me.

I look at myself and then back to the helmet. My armor could use a bit of customization, the all black looks cool but it lacks something.

"What's wrong?" Aila asks, noticing me looking at my helmet. I walk over to the couch and plop down next to her. "You don't like your armor?"

"No I love it." I assure her as I shake my head. "It's just missing something, you know?"

"Well." She says as she scoops her legs under her bottom. I don't know why girls like sitting like that, it looks so uncomfortable. "You're technically you're an Icarus Contractor, why don't you put some logos on it?"

"That's not a bad idea." I nod. "Contractor huh, is that what I'm being called now?"

"If that's alright with you your highness." She smirks. "Yes, you would go wherever you're needed."

"Like a Spectre? Cool, though I'd rather operate with a team. Lone wolf seems, well, lonely." I shrug.

"Speaking of lonely." She brings up. "Where is your friend?"

"I don't know." I say as I cock my head. "Let's find out."

I bring up my Omni-tool and scroll down to Lorin's name, clicking on it and sending him a message.

Hey Lorin, where are you?

I'm almost there, calm down asshole.

What's wrong man?

You hosed me down with vomit bosh'tet!

And?

What do you mean, and?
I found another chunk of puke in one of my buckles today!

No way! Haha that's awesome!

Fuck you.

Hurry up.

"He's on his way." I smile as my Omni-tool fades.

"Ok." she says skeptically.

My Omni-tool suddenly beeps again, I expect it to be Lorin but I'm surprised when it's from the Alliance and the bank. I open the one from the Alliance first, it's a message saying my 500,000 credit debt has been paid. The one from the bank is just an automated alert saying that 600,000 credits have been transferred into my account and my remaining balance is 100,000 credits.

"Uhh, you hit the wrong number." I say in Aila's direction as I continue to stare at the bank statement.

"Nope." She smiles. "The extra 100,000 is to pay you for this job as well as some equipment and now you're armor paint job."

"You don't have to pay me for the job, you know that." I tell her as I close my Omni-tool.

"I know, but it was Haynes's personal money and you are also an Icarus Contractor so you need the money for expenses." She explains.

"Well thanks!" I nod with a smile. "I'll be sure to spend it wisely." I wink as I open my Omni-tool and search the extranet for some nice scotch.

"Yeah I'm sure you will." She says as she rolls her eyes. After a pause she looks back at me and asks a question. "You're friend, does he know where we are?"

"Yeah." I chuckle. "He defiantly knows."

Aila's brow rises as she gives me an uneasy look. "What does that mean?"

I quickly realize that Aila doesn't know about Lorin's little B&E, would she be mad if she found out he broke in while we were sleeping? "Uhh…" I stammer as I try to find the words that will make her go away. Her uneasy look transforms into a suspicious look, her blue eyes narrowing at me and her lips tighten into a scowl.

Suddenly the door to Aila's apartment swings open and Lorin walks in, covered in plates and combat ready.

"Lorin's here!" I announce as I jump up from the couch and slam my helmet on my head. He cocks his head at me as I rush over to him, skirting around Aila. "Let's go!"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" he says as he looks between me and Aila who is now staring at both of us with her arms crossed.

"Go, go go go!" I urge him quietly as I shove him back towards the elevator.

"Hey, watch it!" He snaps as he struggles against me. "I wanted to say hi to your friend, we never got to talk last time." He says loudly in Aila's direction.

"Shut up!" I hiss as I finally push him in the elevator. I turn back to Aila and give her a quick wave. "Bye Aila!"

"Nice seeing you again!" Lorin adds just before the elevator closes.

"What the fuck man?" I sigh as I turn back to Lorin, giving him a hard shove.

Lorin just laughs at me, quite pleased with his handiwork.

"You're a dick."

"Obviously." He shrugs, still chuckling. "What's the plan? What are we doing?"

"Breaking into a Blue Suns warehouse and stealing all the information we can and destroying what we can, all without getting caught."

"Childs play." He says as he leans on the wall of the elevator. "We headed straight there?"

I look at my Omni-tool, looking at the destination on my map. I see that Golum's Armory and Grash'shas Weapons is on the way to the warehouse. "Does Grash'shas sell explosives, and does Golum do armor customization?"

"Yeah." He nods.

"How long does it take to customize armor?"

"Five minutes if you know what you want."

"Cool."

I got my armor repainted at Golem's, it took just under ten minutes. He just had to enter in the design and put it in a machine and the machine paints the armor and dries it instantly. I got a large Icarus logo over my mouth, from where my nose would be down to my chin. Another small one was placed on my left collar bone and a larger one on my left shoulder blade. Lastly I got one on the plates covering the back of my hands. All of the logos are white, so they look good against the black plates.

Once I got that done we went down the block and we got some more gear. I didn't need guns so I instead loaded up on grenades, eight in total. I also got breaching charges and flashbangs, four of each. I was surprised when I found the breaching charges, they were never in the game but I guess there was never a need. Grash'shas said they were better than hacking the door, while they're louder they also scare the shit out of anyone standing on the other side letting you take out them out.

When it came down to it, I spent just over 3,000 credits, which seemed fair for the ordinance I received. Lorin and I decide to walk the rest of the way, it was only a few blocks away. We start talking about unimportant things, namely Lorin asking about the logos on my armor. We round a corner and I see the building off in the distance.

The building sticks out like a sore thumb, everything else on the Citadel is clean and metallic, this building is dirty and abandoned.

"Looks like something the Suns would buy." Lorin says as we make are way through the crowd towards the building.

"Yeah, a real fixer uper ." I laugh. "Let's switch to private comms." A small icon pops up on my screen and I look at it, activating the link to Lorin.

"-So what's the plan?-" Lorin asks through my helmet.

"Well." I say, looking around at the buildings near the target building which is about five floors. "Head offices are always at the top floor, so we can use that taller building to get at it." I say pointing at the ten story building next to it.

"-Ok sounds good, one of us can start copying over hard drives while the other scouts out the building for anything else of use.-" he says. "-You get the data, I'll do the recon. I'm better at it.-"

"How do you know your better at it? What if I was a infiltration master?" I bluff.

"-Because if you were you wouldn't call yourself an 'infiltration master' you idiot.-" he jeers. "-Don't worry, I did shit like this all the time on Omega.-"

"Yeah, sure." I say as I roll my eyes.

"-Hey I did plenty on Omega!-" he defends. "-I killed a krogan in zero-g combat!-"

"Pics or it didn't happen." I shrug.

"-I have witnesses.-" he tells me as we stop in front of the building. He looks over at me and I nod my head over at the next building and we make our way inside.

The building next door is a lot cleaner, luckily it's not crowded either. We make our way over to the elevator, no one stopping us as we walk, doesn't look like anybody cares. We walk into the elevator and I hit the top floor button. Once the door to the elevator we walk out and look around, Lorin gets my attention and points to an exit sign.

The exit lead to the roof which was completely barren, just flat metal, not even a railing. It only has the sunken in door and stairs leading up to the metal plateau.

"-So.-" Lorin says as we walk to the edge of the building that faces the target building. "-How do we get down there, did you get a zip line?-" he says as he leans over the edge of the building, looking down the five story drop to the next building.

I stand there is silence, preparing myself to savor the moment. Lorin looks back to me and shrugs. "-Is that a yes or…-" he says slowly, waiting for an answer. He stares at me for a while before looking back at the building, his head flicking back and forth in confusion. His entire body language changes as he realizes my plan and he starts shaking his head vigorously as he points at me. "-No.-"

"Yeah." I nod, a smile forming on my lips.

"-Nope.-"

"Yeah!" I nod more enthusiastically, laughing as I start to walk towards him.

"-I'll kill you.-"

"Then you'll die too."

"-So be it.-"

"It's happening, don't fight it!" I say excitedly, now only five feet from Lorin.

"-I swear Mav, I will kill you!-"

"Ground floor please!" I cheer as I rush towards Lorin, laughing manically as I reach for him. I close the gap faster than Lorin can move and I tackle him off of the roof, plummeting to the roof of the next building. I felt Lorin's body lock up in panic as we fall and I continue my crazed laughter as I lower our mass. We hit the roof lightly, rolling to a stop before Lorin scrambles away from me as I cheer.

"-You bosh'tet!-" he curses as he stomps the ground and flings his tensed hands at the floor.

"Oh man that was awesome!" I shout as I pump my fist in the air.

"-I regret being you friend.-" he says with his hands on his hips, shaking his head as he looks at the ground. "-I really do.-"

"Man up." I laugh as I pat his shoulder.

"-Man up.-" Lorin mimics before aggressively pointing at me. "-Fuck you!-"

"Let's go." I say as we walk over to the door on the roof. We walk down the few steps and come to a locked door, the giant red icon hovering in the center being a dead giveaway.

"-I've got this.-" Lorin says confidently as he reaches into a pouch on his hip.

He pulls out what looks like a small blow torch and levels the torch against a small panel next to the door. Lorin presses the tip of the torch against each of the screws, a quick hiss of sparks shooting out after each press. The panel falls down to the ground and Lorin stops it from making noise by stopping it with his foot. He messes with some wires for a few seconds and then the door slides open.

The muffled sound of music drones out from the open door and I look at Lorin who just shrugs at me. Lorin draws his rifle and I draw my shotgun as we start to creep our way down the stairs to the fifth floor.

I notice that this building is covered in dust, as I walk I run my finger along a wall, my finger gathering dust at a ridiculous rate. I look at the dust and then back to Lorin who is also looking around at the run down building, specifically the wiring hanging out of the ceiling panels.

"This place is a fucking shack." I mutter as we stack up against the first door down the stairwell. Lorin messes with the wiring on the door for a bit, and then holding his arm out with a thumb up. I lightly tap his on the shoulder, letting him know I'm ready, silently thanking my obsessive movie watching to know I had to do that.

Half a second later Lorin opens the door and we walk into the room silently, our weapons scanning the hallway for threats and finding none. I relax a bit as we start to walk, Lorin keeping up his combat stance a bit longer then me until he caves. Our weapons only slide up every time we pass an open door, looking into the small offices.

"-Head office up ahead.-" Lorin says as he points his rifle at a sign at an intersection. "-Looks like it's to the left, you head that way and I'll start making my way down to the other floors.-"

"Ok." I nod, checking the safety on my shotgun. "Don't get shot and die."

"-I'll try not to.-" he salutes as we part ways. " -I'll let you know what I find, any money says we aren't alone in here.-"

"Probably." I shrug as I walk towards the door to the head office, shotgun at the ready.

I hear the door Lorin went through close as I stop in front of my door, quickly realizing I can't hack through the door.

Shit.

I holster my shotgun as I look at the door, rubbing the back of my helmet as I try to thing about how I'm going to get in there. I suppose I could take a look at the wiring, I did go to engineering school for a year. Granted I couldn't handle the theory as well as I handled the practical work but I still like to think of myself as handy with shit like this.

I tap a warp coated finger on each of the screws before hooking said finger through the center of the panel, lifting it off its slot and placing it on the floor.

God damn biotics are handy, I can't imagine how much more annoying they would be if I needed to use gestures. I would have to just chuck a warp at the panel and hope it didn't melt through the wires. I guess I got lucky, though it did come with a catch. I need to get that medication sooner than later.

I look at the grouping of wires and start to root around in the fire hazard. I find the power and the grounding wire pretty easily, but I have no idea which wire controls the lock. I grab the panel on the ground, hoping it would have some sort of manual or list of wires but it doesn't. it just explains where the locking piston is on the door so emergency services know where to cut…

Locking piston… cut… biotics…

I stand up and build a warp in each hand, pressing the backs of my hands together and interlocking my fingers. I let out a breath before pressing the tips of my fingers over where I think the lock is, in a flash my fingers start sink into the metal, the warp rapidly disassembling the steel on a molecular level. I feel a resistance as I hit the lock, it has to be made out of something tougher then whatever this door is made of which compared to the lock might as well be paper.

Finally after about fifteen seconds, I feel my fingers wiggle free on the other side of the door and start to pull the door apart slowly but surely. I get it open enough and I slide my back against one half of the door so I can push it apart with both hands.

Once I'm in the office I wring my shotgun off my back and look around. The office has a shit load of monitors on one of the walls, a chair under a sleeping merc facing them. How is this guy asleep? It's like noon or something, at most noon.

Well, better wake him up.

I stroll over to the guy who I see is human as I get closer, and lean over his shoulder. I can see Lorin on one of the monitors, walking quickly as he peers into rooms now and then. Looks like he's on the fourth floor still, but he's on the opposite side of the building so he's almost on his way down to the third floor. Well, looks like the third floor has a few mercs on it, clearly Blue Suns except for one who is a turian civilian with another blonde human woman who looks like she's tied up.

"Lorin." I say as I press my two fingers against my ear, even though I technically don't need to.

"-Yeah.-"

"Skip the third floor, it's full of Suns." I say as I start looking at the other monitors. "Looks like a ransoms going down there, clear the other floors first."

"-Alright, we gunna deal with the third floor or leave it?-"

"Yeah we're going to help." I say as I notice people on the first floor, looks like a turian and a human. "We will meet in the middle and deal with them, just clear the other two floors. We've got visitors on the first floor though, probably here for the girl."

"-How noble.-"

"Yeah, they're going up the west staircase so avoid that side and come back up that when we deal with the mercs."

"-Well look at you, you're actually being useful.-"

"Yeah yeah, it warms my heart when you say these nice things." I say sarcastically. "Ass."

"-There should be a terminal in there with info, why don't you go two for two and copy its hard drive.-" Lorin suggests.

"Sure, keep in touch." I say as I reach into the pocket on the back of my thigh, pulling out a breaching charge.

The charge is actually a mat rolled into a cylinder, it's about ten inches long and just under four inches thick. "That's what she said." I chuckle to myself as I unfurl the mat and walk over to the merc.

I stand next to the merc and read the instructions on the back of the charge. 1, unroll the breaching charge. Kinda redundant, you can't read this with it rolled up. 2, place the breaching charge on the door, making sure the center is over the locking piston. 3, detonate the charge do not stand behind the charge!

I attach the charge onto the mercs chest, the magnets on the corners keeping it attached. I tap away at the small display on the charge, syncing it to my Omni-tool. I stand back and tap my finger on the mercs forehead, activating my helmets outer speakers so I can speak to him.

"Hggmm?" the merc moans as he swats at his forehead, blinking rapidly as he sits up.

"Hey there little guy!" I say as I wake him up. "How'd you sleep?"

The merc looks at me for a moment, unsure of my presence. His eyes narrow at he looks at the Icarus logo on my mouth and chest, then his eyes lower as I motion to his chest. His eyes widen like saucers as he sees the charge, his muscles freezing in place.

"So." I say as I clap my hands together and squat down. "You're going to go unlock that terminal, load the entire hard drive onto an OSD and give it to me." I say simply with a shrug. "Or I'll breach your chest."

The merc instantly makes his way to the terminal and I follow him there. Within seconds he hands me an OSD full of information, I double check to make sure it's all there. It all looks in order, a bunch of stuff from guy named Hoyts and more shit about the Suns, I download it all to my Omni-tool.

"Thanks man!" I say as I close my Omni-tool and pat his face.

"Please…" he whispers, clearly eyeing the charge.

"Do you see this?" I ask as I point to the Icarus logo on my mouth, ignoring his plea. "Look at this for me man."

"I don't…"

"Really look though." I say, tapping the logo.

The merc leans forward to get a better look at the logo and when he is about a foot from my face I drive my forehead into his. He staggers back a step before crumpling to the ground in an unconscious heap. It is way easier to do that with a higher mass and wearing a helmet then it is to do a few drinks in at a bar wearing a toque.

I lean down and start to peel the charge off his chest when I hear a shot ring out. I quickly navigate my HUD and start to open my channel with Lorin but he beats me to it.

"-Causing trouble?-"

"Just going to ask you the same thing." I say as I grab my shotgun and start looking through all of the monitors to find out what happened as more shots echo out. "Where are you?"

"-First floor, found a body, broken neck, I was just checking him for something useful.-"

"Ok, I'll wait in the stairwell on the east side." I say as I make my way to the stairs, more gunshots going off in the building. "I guess the heroes have found the girl, I hope they get her."

"-I'm putting money on the Suns, it's just two assholes who think their tough shit.-"

"Man." I say as I open the door to the stairwell. "Doesn't that sound familiar?"

"-What are you talking about?-"

"We're just doing the exact same thing dumbass." I sneer. "There's just no girl here, so they're one up."

"-Do you…-" Lorin hesitates. "-Do you want to steal the girl?-"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I say as I get to the third floor, the door is already open so I start to peer out into the hallway. "You on your way up Lorin?"

I wait for a response but I don't here one, just silence which is extremely unnerving when it's Lorin.

"Lorin!" I shout.

"-Fuck!-" Lorin yells, I hear him breathing heavily and feet hitting the ground in a sprint. " -Bomb! Get the fuck out NOW!-"

"Shit!" I curse as I start to make my way down the stairs. "Disarm it!"

"-It's too small to bring the building down, there has to be more around here somewhere!" He shouts as I hear him sprinting through the building. "-I'm out, where are you?-"

"I almost on the first flo-" I'm cut off when an explosion rocks the building violently, a bomb must have been in this stairwell because the force of a blast smashes me back up the stairs. My barriers fail as I get to the top of the steps and I feel the last bit of force shoving me back to the second floor. I come to a stop when I slam into a wall, my head cracking off the steel sending dust into the air.

"-Mmmrmm!-"

My body cries out in pain as I slide down the wall into a slump and a loud ringing noise fills my ears as I shake my head. I think I have a concussion. I definitely have a concussion.

"-Mmvrck!-"

I groan as I slouch on to my side, slowly putting my arms beneath me before crawling, I'm not sure where, just… anywhere, away from the pain.

"-Maverick!-" Lorin shouts as the ringing in my ears fades.

"Yeah…" I grunt as start to push myself to my feet, stumbling slightly before correcting myself. "Fuck…"

"-Are you alright?-"

"Stupid question…" I mutter as I reach for my Katana, straining as I bend down.

"-Good, get out of there!-"

"Sure…" I agree as I look down the stairwell which is now blocked with rubble. I hear another part of the building collapse and I slowly start to make my way through the third floor, hoping the other stairway isn't blocked either.

I'm halfway down the hallway when I notice someone else limp into a room, the way to the stairwell blocked by a collapsed ceiling. The guy wasn't Blue Suns so I'll see what he's up to, maybe he has a way out. I manage to reach the door only to find it's locked, why would this ass lock the door? Maybe it closed behind him, and this buildings wiring is pretty shitty. Oh well.

As I stagger to the door I slide a breaching charge onto the door, making sure it was centered before I activate my Omni-tool and scroll to explosives. I hit detonate and hear a series of beeps coming from the charge, slowly coming to a crescendo as it activates. Just before the last long beep goes off I look at the charge and read do not stand behind the charge!

"Fuck."

The charge works on three stages, though they're close enough to be perceived as one. The first stage is some sort of thermite detonation which melts through the locking piston the length of the mat. The second stage is a concussive blast that is right next to the thermite, the force dissipating the air so it sucks the mat in the slit made by the thermite. It also sucks me towards the door, very violently and suddenly. The third is three way directional blast, two forcing the door apart and a third blasting into the room which only accelerates me faster through the door.

I slide along the floor before coming to a stop, I somehow managed to increase my mass so I don't go far. I groan as I push myself back up, my arms quivering to lift my normal weight so I lower it.

"What the fuck…" I hear someone mutter as I stand up. I quickly look around and get my bearings. Ok, there's a window, a bed and a guy holding a bunch of bed sheets. I shake my head at the last one and walk over to the man, who has now dropped his bed sheets and is staring at me. I reach over and grab him by his collar, pulling him closer to me so I can get a good grip.

"What are you doing?" he says as he tries to push away from me.

"Ground floor please." I quip as I hurl the both of us out the window before he can grab onto anything. As we fall, some people screaming more obscenities then others, I lower our mass and wait for the impact.

We crash to the ground in an awkward heap and he quickly shoves me away so he can punch me, his fist connects with my helmet but he doesn't seem to care.

"Are you fucking crazy?!" he yells as he takes another swing at me. I push myself back onto my feet and walk over him, C-Sec will be here any second so I need to get out of here. "What the fuck is wrong with you?" he shouts, getting my attention as I check my weapons. I look at the man and immediately recognize him.

It's Ivan the bouncer, tattoos and all. He tries to get up from his feet but lets out a grunt and grasps at his leg, a bullet wound going through his thigh. He's tied a bed sheet around the wound to stop the bleeding, the white sheet now drenched in blood. He's not going anywhere on that leg that's for sure.

I turn around when I hear footsteps and I see Lorin jogging up to me.

"That was fucking crazy Mav." He says as he runs his hand over his head as he looks between me and the broken window two stories up. "Who's your friend?" he asks nodding to Ivan.

"One of the heroes." I say as I stumble towards Lorin who reach over to steady me. "Got any Medi-gel?"

"Yeah, only one though." He says as he opens him Omni-tool. "So your friend's outta luck."

"That's fine." I say, desperate for the painkiller. Ivan never did me wrong but he hasn't done me any right so I'll take the Medi-gel.

"Let's go." He says as he starts to help me out of the alley.

"Hey!" Ivan shouts as he starts to get on his feet with the help of a bench. "Give me a hand!"

I'm about to stop when Lorin stops me. "We're slow enough with you, let C-Sec take care of him."

"Yeah." I mutter as I we leave Ivan in the alley, letting him curse us out as we leave.

Lorin walks to the right as he nods to a terminal. "Get anything off the hard drive?"

"Just a bunch of emails and notices." I shrug as I key in the Warehouse 01 for a destination, stretching my limbs as my pain eases from the Medi-gel.

"Check the last few." Lorin suggests as we get into a random skycar. "They might tell us who was behind the bombing."

I nod in agreement as I open my Omni-tool, cycling down to the last couple messages. The last few are all about the Blue Suns and some guy named Norus, but the last one gets my attention.

"The last one has Haynes as a subject line." I say as I open it.

"Your dead boss?"

"Yeah." I say, remembering that as far as Lorin knows Haynes committed suicide.

"Read it."

I start to read it out loud, as per Lorin's request.

"Johan"

"I finally found that prick Norus was on about, I don't care who it is or what's it about. Just more family shit. But because I found him he agreed to help me get back at Haynes for what he did to me, what he did to us. He took a couple men to do his shit and gave the rest to me, only five guys but it should be enough. He went to set some trap at a warehouse while I'm headed down to…"

My voice trails off as I read the last of the message. I immediately start to curse as I rifle through the options on my Omni-tool. I finally find the massage app and highlight Aila, Broadway, Saylem, and Pac and send them all a message.

You're flying to close to the sun.

R/R

noone297: Thanks, I'm not sure I'll bring back Haynes, maybe a cameo but nothing much. Yeah, like any woman, Aila can be scary at the drop of a hat.

Michae1ange1o: I didn't know that actually, do they do anything cool? Some other reviewer said there was and Icarus that made busses. I thought about hydra but the only reason I didn't use it was because most people would associate it with Captain America, mainly me because I just watched that a month ago.

S33KR-HUN: Thanks man, I'm not sure I'll bring back Haynes, if I do it will probably be in passing. Huh, where abouts was that? In America somewhere?

Wolfshark: I doubt it, I already had an idea for a loyalty mission but it seems lots of people think Haynes is coming back. Ah you'll have to wait and see my friend, thank you!

Niras91: At halftime I definitely agreed, but the fifteen minutes after the half Spain had a huge burst of energy that I thought for sure they would bring it back. but when they didn't score and Chile started to push back I knew they were done, and so went the 2010 champs. Thanks man! I plan on doing a lot more with Mavs friends after ME1, I consider this just an introduction to the gang. Thanks for reading man, hope you enjoyed this chapter!

general-joseph-dickson: Thanks man, I appreciate the review.

OBSERVER01: Yeah, it's feels great when you plan everything out and it all works out! And yeah RWBY, by Monty Oum. While I'm sure with Mass Effects folding weapons it would be possible but I don't think I will, the weapons are just too ridiculous (and awesome) for Mass Effect. I might put it the "It's also a gun." quote though, I love that quote.

Spiritstrike: Yup, it all worked out. Jesus everyone is hell bent on me bringing back Haynes, I might but it won't be anything huge. I thought so, I went through so many names before I came to Icarus, I probably spent over three hours thinking up a name. I hope you liked it, I enjoyed writing it but that's probably more because of Lorin. I love writing dialogue between Mav and him! Yeah for sure, we talk about random stuff like that all the time, I guess you can say Lorin is based on my friend in a way. I don't know about that new Transformers movie, the other three gave me a lot of mixed feelings but it has Marky Mark in it so I'll probably see it. I know you're a huge fan of Transformers, I looked through some of your stories and got that impression! One story catching my eye in particular! ;)

XRaiderV1: Yeah, Omega's got a real nice school district I hear. Nice little community they've got on that rock! Thank you good sir!

V-rcingetorix: I was shooting for arrogant when I wrote Haynes, glad I hit my mark! I don't see why they would, but then again I'm not a cop so my knowledge is limited to the few episodes of Criminal Mind I've watched. At this point I don't think Mav would truly be able to kill someone like that, not this early in the game anyway, Mavs still an innocent little lad after all. Some Greek mythology is pretty interesting, I haven't read that much into Norse stuff though but I might give it a try. Well, there goes the debt problem for ya! Yeah, almost none of my friends are into soccer which sucks. Thanks man, I will! Go Jays!

CrimsonKnight117: Yup, ding dong the bitch is gone! Those damn Blue Suns, always getting their grubby little hands in everyone's shit. Once again, thank you for the review!