"Cleared." Mordin reloaded his gun. "Where's Shepard B?"

"It's pushing into the archives. Stay in your groups!" I ordered going towards the door. "Team Mako, you're on point!"

Brooks: "Right! What's a Mako?"

The door finally opened up to a room

Liara: "Something we could use right now."

Yeah, a Mako would be real nice right about now.

"Team Hammerhead, cover the flank!"

Cortez: "Got it! And the Mako's got nothing on the Hammerhead."

"Considering Shepard can't drive either, they're both terrible." I couldn't see it, but I knew Wrex shivered.

"Like you could have driven any better." I grumbled.

Garrus: "I have to agree with Wrex on this one. You were so bad, you managed to make a krogan throw up."

Mordin gave me a weird and curious look.

"I may or may not have flipped the Mako several times…every time." I tried to smile. "It wasn't really that bad."

"I got motion sickness, Shepard!" Wrex almost roared. "Never before and never again."

"Hush." I stopped the conversation. "Do you want Shepard B's team to hear us?"

"Too late for that concern." Mordin was right beside me.

We walked through a second door and found the wide open space.

"Huh, big place." Wrex stated the obvious.

"What're those circular things on the walls?" I asked.

"Archives contain vaults. Would suggest 'circular things' are vaults." Mordin answered matter of factly.

Sometimes I really hated him.

Tali: "Shepard, what do you think your clone is looking for in here?"

"At this point, anything's possible."

Garrus: "Like waking up and finding out you have a clone?"

"I don't want to talk about it." It was the sushi restaurant conversation all over again.

"Discussion will require copeus amounts of alcohol." Mordin was to the right of me.

"You drink?"

"Will now."

I glanced down over the railing. Good thing I didn't mind heights. That was a LONG way down.

"How are we going to find anything in this place?" Wrex looked around. He looked over the railing too.

How would we….Oh!

"Glyph?"

The blue ball appeared. "Yes, Commander?"

"Track the target. Give me updates on its location."

"What is the nature of the target?"

"It looks like me."

"Then I have located the target."

Mordin shook his head.

"No, Glyph. It's another me. Now get going!"

"At once, Commander!" And it was gone.

We couldn't really wait around for Glyph to return, so the only option we had at this point was to pick a direction and hope it wasn't too wrong. "We could really use a dog or something right about now."

"Varrens are much better than your Earth dogs." Wrex all but gloated. "And more vicious. A varren would rip your clone's leg off."

"Or Shepard's." Mordin cut in. "Same smell. Confuse…unintelligent creatures."

"I've always wanted a varren." I mumbled. "I could take it on missions."

I wonder what happened to the one on Tuchunka I befriended?

"Shepard!" Mordin pointed up.

A large flat elevator/platform dropped down. "There they are! The other Shepard's still alive!" One of the mecs pointed at us.

I popped a round into him before he had time to grab for his gun. For a high class mercenary group, they weren't very good or smart. It was actually a little insulting.

There was a load roar to my left and Wrex plowed by and body slammed the other merc off the platform. There was a long scream followed by a 'crack' and a 'thud' sound.

I cringed. "That was a bit much."

"Why waste ammo when I can do that?" He asked.

Garrus: "When have you ever cared about wasting ammo?"

"Just now."

Mordin peered over the edge. "Armor, impressive. Dead, but no mess." He looked to me. "Should invest in it."

I ignored him. "I don't see a way to move this from here."

Tali: "Shepard, step onto the platform and we can lower you from here."

And 'here' was?

Without warning, the platform went down one level.

"This is great guys, but how does." I stopped when I saw the vault between the two platforms opened and pushed out.

Brooks: "Now if you get into the vault, we can move you across."

I didn't bother to hesitate. I stepped into the vault with Mordin and Wrex right beside me. A blue field surrounded the vault and the whole thing slid back into its resting place.

Computer: "Accessing vault T91."

"Check this out." Wrex was looking into one of the cases. "Says this gun was part of the First Contact War. Year 2157."

"First meeting of turians and humans." Mordin explained. "Bullets exchanged."

"Thank you, Professor Solus." Street kid or not, I still went to school.

Computer: "Relevant data uploaded to research alcoves."

The vault stopped moving and the blue field vanished.

"Commander." Glyph flew to me. "The other you is searching for something 200 meters ahead."

"Got it."

We hurried from the vault and up a flite of stairs. Cautiously of course. I don't plan on getting ambushed. Again…again.

"Two Shepards." Mordin cocked his head in thought. "One Shepard amounts to enough trouble."

Javic: "But useful. If there is a task you don't wish to do, Commander, let them handle it."

"I don't have any in-laws yet." With no more walkway, I hopped down to run across the top of a vault.

Brooks: "So like a personal butler?"

"I don't want to talk about it." I stressed. They wouldn't think it was funny if the roles were switched.

"Right. So let your clone do it." Wrex helpfully added.

If more mercs hadn't shown up, I probably would have shot one of his testicles off. Hey, he'd still have three left or maybe Mordin could somehow reattach it.

Cortez: "Shepard B sounds like a real asshole."

"Understatement of the century." I ducked behind one of the merc's portable shields.

Brooks: "I'd quiet if they were my commander."

More mercs appeared to block the way.

"Circle around them via vault?" Mordin suggested.

Finally, something useful from the peanut gallery.

"Wrex, stay here and keep their attention. Mordin, you're with me."

Wrex just grunted as the two of us hurried off in a crouch towards the neighbor vault. The mercs seemed to have the same idea we did and were already making their way across.

"Cover me." I ordered. I slid over the top of the vault lip and ducked behind the next one.

Liara: "Team Mako moving ahead! We'll meet you on the other side!"

A merc popped up from the opposite side of the lip and shot right over my head. I had no idea he'd been other there and apparently he had no idea I was either. I reached up, grabbed him around the neck, pulled him over, and stabbed him through the chest with my omni-tool.

Tali: "Shepard! They've got us pinned down. We could use some help!"

"On our way!" I slid over the last lip and onto the walkway. It was a good thing there was really only one direction you could go on these things thanks to all the random boxes. I could hear Wrex running across the vault top I'd left him at and plowed through the boxes separating us. Mordin just managed to duck as a small one flew at his head. I glared at Wrex and he just smirked. "Come on." I motioned for them to follow me.

Team Mako was having a one sided shoot out with the mercs in a large cargo hold. I skipped going around to the steps and jumped down continuing forward. Across the way on another walkway I saw a sniper get into position. Without breaking stride, I raised my gun and shot him.

I jumped down again to their level. "Go!" I ordered. "I'll cover you!"

One right after the other, my team climbed the ladder. The only other way we had out.

"Move!" Some of the bullets were getting awfully close. I felt one wiz by my head.

Mordin was the last to go. "Disadvantage! Unable to shoot back!"

I backed up continuing to shoot. "This is Shepard! We need-"

A barrage of bullets rained down killing the remaining mercs and those that had just arrived.

Wrex laughed. "That's why I love hanging out with you guys! Why shoot something once when you can shoot it 46 more times?"

"46 bullets. 5 bodies. 9.2 bullets per person." Mordin nodded. "Positively dead."

I climbed the ladder quickly. "The…other me can't be far. Keep the pressure and we'll try to surround them. Let's move."

We broke off into our teams again.