The door opened into another large room. "Holy…crap." The walls were covered in those cylinder shaped vaults.

"Shepard." Mordin pointed.

"Atlas on the walkway!" Wrex shouted what we were both thinking.

"And me without a rocket launcher."

Liara: "Team Mako here, we're on it!"

Team Mako rushed in shooting on the same walkway as the Atlas.

The Atlas turned focused solely on me and jumped down. I wobbled a little hurrying to kneel behind some boxes. "Can this day get any worse?"

"This is a great day!" Wrex charged. "I can't wait to punch it!"

"No medi-gel for broken hand." Mordin warned.

I was slapping in some disruptor ammo when there was another loud explosion and bits of Atlas clattered around me. "The hell?" I stood up finding the remains of a still smoking Atlas.

Garrus: "Try to help out your friends and you end up in a mech fight. You're welcome, Team Mako."

"Heh, heh." Wrex checked his shotgun turning to wait for me. "Love watching those things explode!"

"Did you punch it so hard it exploded?" I asked.

Mordin shook his head. "Shot power source."

"Hey!" Liara called from the walkway not far above us. "Do you have any spare handgun clips? Brooks is out."

"Sorry." She smiled sheepishly down at us.

I took out a couple and tossed them up one at a time. Brooks caught the first, but missed the second. EDI easily snatched the dropping second clip.

"Show off." My team and Team Mako said in unison.

Glyph showed himself again. "Commander, a large contingent of soldiers calling themselves 'Razor Squad' is just ahead. They wish to inflict bodily harm on you."

"Who doesn't?"

"Also, I discovered an elcor mating totem in vault 347B. Fascinating."

"Okay, Mordin."

"What?" Mordin asked looking confused. It was so cute when he did that. Good thing I only thought that.

"Never mind."

'Thankfully' more mercenaries showed up.

Garrus: "Team Hammerhead here! Showing Team Mako how it's done!"

Tali: "Mako here. Only because you're copying us! You bosh'tets!"

A drone flew overhead and I almost shot it, but realized, at the last second, that it was Tali's. Why do drones all have to be the same color? Couldn't Tali make her's purple like her or something?

Garrus: "Hammerhead here! If we were, we wouldn't be hitting anything!"

Javik: "This is Team Prothean! I have a higher body count than all of you combined!"

Everyone but Javik: "That's Shepard's claim."

A large platform started to raise with several heavy mercs.

Cortez: "Heads up! Looks like they're getting serious!"

James: "Oh yeah, Esteban? So maybe start hitting something for a change."

Cortez: "Biggest target I see around here is your mouth, Mr. Vega."

I ripped a grenade off my waist and lobbed it onto the platform as it continued to raise. "Would you two stop flirting." BOOM! "And kill these bastards please?"

That shut them up fast.

Wrex shot the last CAT 6 mercenary point blank in the face. "I've fought volus bankers tougher than that!"

Javik: "We appear to have killed all the enemy primitives."

"Looks like I saved everyone's ass again." Wrex let lose a deep laugh.

I ignored him going towards yet another door. "Hammerhead and Mako, keep pushing ahead."

Brooks: "Right! I might throw up a little bit now if that's okay with everyone!"

"Take deep breaths between expulsions." Mordin offered.

Tali and Liara: "Ew."

EDI: "Staff Analyst Brooks, what did you ingest to make that unique color?"

How the hell was I going to explain all of this? As the others would probably say, blame it on the clone.

Though the large room we entered seemed empty, I could hear gun fire in the distance. "Come on!" We took off at a run.

"Commander." And Glyph was back. "The other you wishes to pass on a message: Shepard, save yourself the trouble. Once I have what I came here for, you won't matter anymore. Now go drone! Deliver it!"

"I've been told that before." I said shooting one of the mercs in the head as he tried to jump back over railing.

Something blueish shot by me and some poor bastard was frozen in place. Seconds later, Wrex barreled through him sending little icy bits of human. Either that was the most messed up team work I've ever seen or some really bad coincidence.

Glyph: "It appears the other Commander has a bad temper. Collateral damage does not concern them."

Well, duh.

"Shepard, this way." Mordin waved me over standing next to…another door. At least stairs were on the other side instead of an empty room.

I took the steps two at a time. "Team Hammerhead, we're headed to the next level. What's your location?"

Nothing.

"Hammerhead, do you copy?"

"Team Mako!" Mordin pointed ahead.

The group of girls were ahead of us.

Brooks: "We'll try to clear a path, Commander! Hammerhead's gone ahead!"

"Don't get too far a." Wrex yanked me back just as a bullet whizzed by.

"Pay attention yourself, Shepard." Wrex gave me a shove.

I almost snapped a smartass remark his way when another bullet whizzed between us hitting a CAT 6 merc in the chest. "Should follow own advice." Mordin changed gun clips.

Heavy mercs appeared from the shelving. With my disrupter ammo loaded, I didn't bother going around the large shields and simply blew through them. There is something very satisfying about watching one of those shields explode. Must be what Liara feels when an Atlas explodes.

Stepping though a holo-data thing, Wrex and I shot the snipers at the same time from opposite sides.

"The hell, Wrex? You could have shot me."

"Nah. My aim was true. You've got nothing to worry about."

"Shotgun, Wrex! It sprays!"

"Odds of shotgun spray being lethal from Wrex's distance with snipers in the way. Low." Mordin nodded "Not to mention armor and shield protection. Area appears clear."

Tali: "We see the clone, Shepard! Mako going in!"

"And another set of stairs. Why isn't there an elevator?" Wrex asked.

"Sitting on throne can create laziness." Mordin responded with a slight grin.

"Team Mako, we're coming up behind!" I tried not to laugh. "What's your status?"

Brooks: "We're under-"

And it cut out.

"Mako, where are you?"

Nothing.

And here's the big empty room I'd just finished wondering about.

"Yeah, sure." I mumbled. "Who doesn't want to go through an empty hallway only to enter an empty 'L' shaped room?"

"I have to agree with Shepard on this one." Wrex punched a box and either it was empty or he was just that strong, but the box went flying. "I'm not done shooting things."

"More mercenaries ahead." Mordin assured him. "Probably."

"Unless it's yet another empty room." I muttered activating the lock.

Brooks: "Commander, do you copy?"

"What's your status?"

Brooks: "The other you is jamming our radios! Hammerhead and Mako are trying to get ahead and cut your clone off."

We entered another small empty room.

Computer: "Biometric identification required."

Brooks: "But I've been hit and need help! Please hurry!"

That seemed a bit off. I couldn't imagine Liara, EDI, or Tali leaving her all alone expressly if she was injured and no combat training. I'd bet credits Tali at least would have stayed. No, something wasn't right. My guy was trying to warn me.

And there weren't any mercenaries hiding in the room we were just in. None.

Did we kill them all?

No, that was improbably

Were they retreating? Regrouping?

Maybe.

Something smelled fishy and I don't like fishy smells.

Computer: "Spectre access is authorized."

And the door opened. Mordin and Wrex kept going so I followed.