Plava? Is that what you are calling yourself now?"

Same as you calling yourself Shepard after hiding the name for years. One name is as good as another, the deeds behind it are what matter."

"Says the Commando who served T'Loak for how long? Most run back to Thessia or an outer colony as soon as they can."

"Don't be so hard on Aria, Shepard. I know you never saw eye-to-eye but she has been fighting back in her own way for the past few years. I stayed to be the devil's advocate as human's say. The voice of reason, after she lost you and then her Turrian lover she needed someone to balance her out."

Shepard snorts derisively "She never HAD me. She tried to use me as a pawn and it didn't work."

"Oh please, you think she would have allowed Liselle anywhere near you if you hadn't been trustworthy."

Shepard gives a noncommittal snort looking over the snowcapped mountains again, lost in thought. The Asari had known Shepard before she had been Shepard. The now Commander against the Reapers had been a starving little street urchin when the assistant to Aria had first seen her. The pit fights and tranning had been Shepard's idea not Aria's but the Pirate Queen was never one to pass up an opportunity.

"And the other one? Shar? Don't tell me she is a concert Soprano too?"

"No she is very young, eager to prove herself to Aria but has to learn to take orders. You remember Liselle at 60? Same thing."

"Sex, guns and drugs. Awesome So why is she here?"

"Because we are not in a position to turn away help? Why she volunteered is another question entirely but provided your Justicar does not kill her and I don't feel the need to she will come in handy."

Shepard nods " Aerytha will be sending more of her own Commando's in a few days. Maybe she can integrate there?" The Asari looks over to Shepard questioningly.

"That did not sound like a command."

"That's because it isn't. Ask Major Alenko what he thinks, As of 0500 tomorrow this is his show."

Shar was sitting on a set of crates, her knees pulled up and her arms firmly wrapped around them. She was looking at Tali with an expression of awe as the Quarrian programed. Kaidan had said the young Asari should make herself useful with Gabby and Tali and would assign her to biotics training once things got more regimented.

" If you have something to ask do it. Don't just sit there wide-eyed you look like a Vorcha." Tali said with wry amusement. It was unusual to not be the youngest member of the team anymore. True the Asari was probably decades older but everything about her demeanor reminded Tali of herself when she had first been on her Pilgrimage back in the early days.

"Actually Tali'Zorah I have like a hundred but I think you would throw me out datapads and all if I just started blabbering away."

"You are nervous. Lots of people blabber when they are nervous. Try a few and see." God I sound like Auntie Raan.

"How can you program so fast with only three fingers?!" Well that certainly wasn't what Tali had been expecting. This girl was so young and somehow she had made it off Omega during the onslaught.

"Years of practice. I started learning before I could read and write." She replied truthfully.

" your suit. Does it really have a Geth inside it?"

Shar looked to the datapades she had spread out in a semicircle in front of her and grabbed one Tali had given her with specs of the upgraded Geth. She then looked back to Tali straining her neck as if the Geth would actually be hanging off her somewhere like a shotgun. Tali chuckles and shakes her head, her fingers still flying over the keys.

"Read that part already I see. Yes my suit along with several other Quarian volunteers have active Geth intergraded into them. It was kind of weird at first and embarrassing but I think it is a learning experience for both of us."

The Asari nods and begins typing notes into the pad. With a final command, Tali's omnitool bings and she pulls up what the girl had sent her. The Asari had managed to upload several key specs of the Reaper tech that she had managed to scan while the evacuation was going on. Much of the information about the Cerberus controlled Adjectants was blank but Shar had cross filled the monsters with other Reaper types for comparision. She had also included several files she had lifted from Cerebrus officers that would come in handy. All in all impressive stuff.

"Very nice. You are very resourceful." High praise coming from a Quarian but the girl did not seem flattered.

"Dad was a Salarian. My mother always said I took after him in everything but skin color." She shrugged.

"Is that the woman you came with?" An asari that would rather tech around than practice biotics in a camp set up for training Commandos, the Ancestors really had a sense of humor.

"Plava? Goddess no! She is more like the super-strict Aunt who you can't get rid of. My mother got killed years back. She and my father were both Talons, she got killed during some turf war or drug heist gone bad. Plava knew my mom and stepped in so I didn't wind up like all the other orphans on Omega- an addict, a prostitute or dead. "She looks up at Tali, a sad expression crosses her face.

"You know, I was born on Omega. Plava used to tell me if I didn't start working on my biotics and stop messing around she would send me to a training camp on Thessia. Now I guess I'll never get to go."

"It will be rebuilt. Who knows maybe some of the stuff we are working on here, right now will go to the reconstruction effort for your people. We already have Tevos and Aria onboard." Tali says optimistically. Shepard had taught her that no matter what people had to keep a sense of hope alive or else the Reapers would win.

"I guess. But here I am going to have to start taking biotics classes under her like I'm a thirty year old all over again. " She lamented in that way that only teenaged girls can lament. Tali chuckled and decided she liked the girl.

"Hey have you ever tried uploading Geth into other platforms?" Shar asked suddenly grabbing a pad in each hand.

A/N Happy Weekend all :) It has been a killer few weeks but I am still here. I decided I needed to flesh out my two OC a bit more before story goes much further. Also somehow my chapters got switched around when I made a much needed edit to chap 60.

And if anyone reading just so happens to be a Dragon Age fan as well I have started a Jowan FF called Blood that you might enjoy if you are as bioware obsessed as I am. Cheers -Raven