Jaroth wasn't one for superstition, Gods or the like. But the 8 people who stood before him changed that idea. After all, if you saw two versions of yourself with multiples of the people who you hate, you'd also think that someone or something was messing with you. The command room was silent as everyone looked at each other with equal amounts of confusion, anger and suspicion. Interest was also mixed in their given their differences. Tarak had the two biggest differences with his duplicates.

One had his right arm completely removed and replaced with a bulky cybernetic that clearly concealed some kind of weapon on the inside. His left eye had also been replaced by a three-lens optic that gave him a sort of bug appearance. The other was only different his armour by wearing rounded rectangles on his shoulders and wore a pair of swords on his hip. While the look was familiar, Jaroth couldn't place it.

As for his and Garms duplicates, at least one of them had clear cybernetics given their eyes and arms. But it wasn't them he was concerned about. While they did present a clear and present danger to his operations, it was the person at the head of the table that had all of their attentions. To say that this person was a 'person' was a bit of a stretch. They wore a long black cloak with a hood that covered their face. But that didn't matter as under the hood spun a series of multicoloured dots. They looked like stars, but it was hard to tell.

"My offer is quite generous," the figure said in a very disturbing voice. It sounded like multiple people, men and women, talking at once with an electronic cadence as an undertone.

It was almost like a VI's voice modulator glitching out, unable to find the right voice. But that didn't make things better.

"We know it is," one of the Garms said. "But we have a few questions,"

"Such as the power you intend to offer us," the Tarak with the sword said.

"The offer of having not one, but as many Omegas as we want is appealing but we need some… convincing," the cyborg Jaroth said looking at the others.

The other Jaroths nodded at the same time and in the same way. But eyes never left the person at the end of the table. The person chuckled and raised his hand. Two purple portals appeared next to him making them all, except the Krogan, jump as two 'offerings' walked out. The first human looking soldier walked though. The soldier wore armour similar to what they wore with but coloured purple with an odd-looking emblem.

What that was interesting wasn't the armour that it wore, but the inside of it. The 'body', if you could call it that, flickered and rippled with what could only be described as shadows and blackness. But the second one made the humans and Korgan drool with desire.

OOOOO

Ajax and Jane moved quickly down one of the alleyways of the slums. The cyborg Shepard holding a sniper rifle that somewhat resembled the M-29 Incisor, but more angular with red strips along the side. There was no visible scope, but it wasn't hard to think that Ajax was linked to rifle. Jane, on the other hand, carried a M-22 Eviscerator shotgun. She wanted the new crusader shotgun from the N-7 armouries. But that wasn't going to happen until the Alliance recognised her as being alive.

She looked to her 'brother' and wondered if he had the same problem, but stored that thought until later. The two of them moved over to an edge that over looked the slums market. Small flashes of light could be seen in the distance as the two Archangels took out the mercs getting close. But getting to them looked complicated as the area looked like a maze of tangled wires and broken-down machinery along with buildings made out of scrap.

Ajax's shades pulled back as he looked to Jane while pointing. "Looks like we need to take the east side to get there quickly. Problem is there's a lot of mechs in the way," he said pointing to the left side of the slums.

"Mechs…" Jane mumbled in annoyance. "Those are going to be a pain, at least they are dumb,"

Ajax nodded. "That's true, especially if we…." He started before Kelly came on.

"Sir, you need to look at this, sending video to your omni-link now," she said.

The cyborg Shepard opened up his omni-tool and watched as the video Kelly sent him played. It was of the two Archangels firing at some of the mercs in front of them. They did that for a moment before a third Archangel appeared with someone else. The two were fighting causing the other two to look back and help the new Archangel with the stranger. It didn't take the three long to take him down before addressing each other. Again, they removed their helmets with the new one being very surprised to see two more of himself there.

After a short discussion, they moved over to the ledge and pointed. They seem to some kind of agreement before leaving the area. Jane and Ajax cursed as the video went dead.

"Well, that complicates things," Jane said.

"Yeah," Ajax muttered before hitting his radio. "Kelly, did you see where they are going?"

"One moment," she replied as the radio went silent. "They seem to be heading to a garage close by, you'll be able to intercept them if you go though the west side of the slums,"

Jane looked to the right side and nodded. "We can use the roofs to make it along,"

"Can we get any air support?" Ajax then asked.

"Negative, they are too focused on containing the mercs and keeping them distracted," Kelly replied with a sigh. "Sorry Ajax, that's all I can do from here,"

"You did good Kelly, keep it up," he smiled before closing the comm before seeing Janes smirk. "What?"

"I know that look," she teased before hitting her own comm. "Did you guys hear that?"

"We heard," one of the Miranda's said. "We're already moving towards the garage,"

"Same here," one of the Jacobs added. "We'll get there soon,"

"Understood, keep in mind that there are three of them now," Jane added which was followed by silence before an 'understood' came from the pair of them. She then turned her comm off and looked to Ajax. "What do you think three Archangels mean?"

"My best guess is that three universes are colliding. Which also means that there's probably another Shepard and Solus," he said with a sigh. "Which also means that things just got complicated. But if we can get to the garage, we can hijack some transport to get to Solus,"

"Agreed," Jane said as she pointed towards the garage. "I'd say we should stick to the main plan and move. The faster we can, the faster we can get there,"

Ajax nodded and the two of them vaulted over the railing and landed on the roofs of the slums. Once landed they moved as quickly and quietly as possible. Ajax, being an infiltrator, hung behind keeping his sniper rifle at the ready. As they got a few meters way from their drop off point, Jane fell though one of the roofs and landed in a heap on an abandoned mouldy mattress. She got up with a groan as Ajax looked in.

He was about to say something, but that's when the gunfire began. Jane moved into cover quickly while Ajax vanished thanks to his invisibility module. Looking over her cover, Jane saw a group of blue armoured soldiers belonging to Blue Suns. Behind them was a group of Asari Eclipse mercs, it seemed that they were trying to co-ordinate with each other in trying to get them. They were about to move when a shot rang out and one of them fell. They looked around in confusion allowing Jane to move out of cover and towards them with her biotics charging.

They began to fire at her, but the rounds bounced off of her barrier before she pushed them backwards. The mercs fell backwards as a grenade joined them and Jane pulled back before it exploded. As the mercs began to recover, Ajax took out three of them before they could fully recover and Jane fired her shotgun taking out two. She was forced back into cover as the others recovered, they began firing at something. A second later Ajax appeared on the rooftop, his cloak module either destroyed or on recharge.

He grunted in annoyance as he switches to an SMG and began to fire at the mercs. But their attention was split between Jane and Ajax preventing the two from doing much. They were also well spread out preventing any area of effect attacks from being effective. But there was one thing Jane saw. Because of their split attention, that mean they couldn't focus their fire. That mean she could move. Smiling she looked around and a plan developed in her mind. Putting away her she grabbed her SMG and charged up her biotics.

She then jumped out of cover and ran to a wall on the opposite side. As she moved, she threw a shockwave at them forcing them to scatter while she ran up the wall and grabbed onto the roof. Pulling herself up, she then ran along the edge firing her smg in burst while arming another grenade to throw. While she was doing that, Ajax did the same. While the mercs were distracted with Jane's movement, he took the opportunity to take a few of them out before jumped up and tackled him to the ground.

The turrian growled at him as he began to slam his fist into Ajax's face. The cyborg Shepard responded with his own punch sending the turrian stumbling backwards and off of him. After a quick crack of his neck, he opened his arms out and extended a long orange glowing omni-blade on one and a concussion launcher on the other. The turrian, on the other and, extended a pair of gleaming silver claws before charging at Ajax. The cyborg Shepard responded quickly firing a concussion shot, which didn't hit, but did force the turrian to flinch allowing Ajax to push forward.

The turrian tried to act by holding it's claws up for defence, but Ajax went low and aimed for the legs. The Blue suns merc couldn't react in time and found himself falling to the ground. He didn't have time to regret his decision as a round ended his existence in this world. With that done, Ajax looked over the area and saw that all of the other merc were dead with Jane looking at him from across the way.

"Biotics help, but it seems so do augments," she smiled.

Ajax smiled too as he retracted his weapons. "Let's get moving," he yelled before jumping over to join up with Jane and the two moved.

OOOOO

Garrus had been though a lot of shit in the past two years. Leaving C-Sec, chasing down a drug smuggler, chasing down criminals on Omega, building his own squad then watching them die… a lot of shit. But now he had two more of himself to help him out and he wasn't sure how to react. At first, he thought it was some kind of psychosis. Being alone, fighting alone, surviving alone. But that seemed less and less likely by the second. If anything, he was glad to have someone, even if it was himself to deal with.

While they shared the same names, they didn't 100% share the same skills, looks or armour. The first one to appear was the one he called 'Cyborg Angel' given his cybernetic eye, right arm and legs. While the other he named 'Vulku'ran Angel' or, as humans would call him, 'Knight Angel' given his sword. They didn't ask about where they were from, not yet anyway, as they needed to focus on getting out of the slums.

Cyborg angel took point as he had augmentation that helped with long range scans and tracking. But the other two kept close behind just in case. The black armoured Garrus moved forward along the wall and leaned past the corner. His eyes glowed red as he took in all the information before him before pulling back and looking at the other Garrus'.

"Looks like they barricaded the garage," he said moving to the side allowing Vulku'ran and Garrus to look past him to see for themselves.

"Well, that's a problem," Garrus said.

"Doesn't look like there's a way in," Vulku'ran Garrus agreed.

They pulled back and the three of them huddled together. "So, what are we thinking?" Garrus asked looking at his two doppelgängers.

Cyborg Garrus brought up his omni-tool and showed a map of the area. "This is what I detected. They have these sections blockaded while this section isn't. We can assume that there is a trap there,"

"We can also assume that they probably have snipers in the garage and surrounding buildings to force us to go that direction," Vulku'ran Garrus added pointing to parts of the map where snipers would likely be.

"Snipers I can deal with," Garrus shrugged. "We just need to find a way to get into the garage while staying alive,"

The nodded before looking at the map again. "A diversion would be nice," Vulku'ran Garrus muttered a second a set of explosions caused the ground to shake.

The other two Garrus' looked to him with a questioning look before all three of them moved out from cover to look what was happening. Most of the guards moved to investigate leaving a token group behind.

"Well as the human say, 'the devil speaks'," Garrus muttered.

"I'm not sure if you got that right but, let's move and cover each other," Cyborg Garrus said as the three of them moved forward.

Garrus hung back a bit as he took out the merc snipers in a counter sniper dual while the other two advanced forward, taking on the guards in a surprise attack with well-aimed shots from their rifles. A couple of the merc in odd looking armour charged with swords drawn, but they were met with Vulku'ran Garrus as he drew his own sword to counter them. The Cyborg Garrus, on the other hand stood in between the two and covered them both, cycling burst fire from his rifle to keep the merc at bay.

But he didn't need to wait around log as Garrus took out the last sniper and helped the two of them take out the rest of the mercs on guard. Other than a few scrapes and bruises, they came off relatively fine. After regrouping, they moved into the garage itself.

"What are we looking for?" Vulku'ran Garrus asked.

"A combat truck, heavily modified. Me and my team used it as out operations vehicle," Cyborg Garrus said with a wistful expression that the three of them shared and understood.

Using the cars and trucks for cover, they slowly moved though the building. While it was empty, there were plenty of indications that someone else was here taking out the mercs. They had no answers until they got to the fourth floor where the sounds of voices made them pause.

"Yeah, we're here, but they haven't arrived yet," a voice from a human female spoke. "Understood, we'll stay here until they get here or you get her Commander,"

As she said that the Garrus' looked to one another before they peeked over the cat to get a good look at who was talking. Two human women stood there. Both wore a skin tight bodysuit and welded pistols, but that's were the similarities ended as one had short silver hair while the other hand long raven-black hair. They also differed in that their outfits, while similar, were different colours with the raven haired one having a white and black suit while the one with silver hair had red and black.

As the three turrians watched, Cyborg Garrus indicated to the silver haired woman. "I don't know what's going on here, but I think she is from where ever I'm from,"

"How can you tell?" Vulku'ran Garrus asked getting a good look at the two women.

"She's got augmentations and a biotic spine," Cyborg Garrus replied indication to his own augmentations. "Practically everyone where I come from has some form of cybernetic augmentations, either for combat or everyday use. She has several from what I can see, and she's a biotic due to the spine as only biotics can use the spine,"

The other two Garrus' nodded as they looked and Garrus got a good look at the emblem on the raven-haired woman's suit. "Cerberus," he growled.

"I take it you know them too?" Cyborg Garrus asked and the two nodded.

"Where I came from, they did experiments on soldiers. I'm not sure what they were trying to do," Garrus growled. "But me and some of the Normandy stopped them,"

"Same here," Vulku'ran added as he looked around the area. "We could surround them and take them out,"

Cyborg Garrus nodded before frowning as he got a look at the two women. "Wait," he muttered as they turned to look in their direction but didn't notice them. "I think they're the same," whirring sounded and his eyes moved slightly. "Yeah, they're definitely the same. Their faces, their movements… they're the same,"

Garrus blinked. "Like how we're the same person?" he asked and Cyborg Garrus nodded slowly.

"Which means that there's more going on than we now," Vulku'ran muttered. "Let's change the plan," he continued to mutter his plan to the other two.

OOOOO

Miranda looked at her cyborg self and not for the first time wondered what the hell was going on. Clones, impostors, cyborg lookalikes and realistic holograms she could understand. But alternate universes were a new one on her. Theoretically, it was possible, even The Illusive Man had a few projects looking into it. But seeing herself as a vastly altered copy was an odd experience. The Cyborg Miranda, as she had taken to call her alternate self, looked the same, talked the same, even had the same movement style.

But outside of the obvious, there was also odd little personality quirks and their origins. They had time to chat as they made it here and learned a lot. In that time Miranda had found out that her cyborg self was born naturally. Apparently, her father had made arrangements with a woman to give birth to a child. That child would then be owned by the father while the mother was given enough to live off of for the rest of her life. Said life turned out to be a month.

Miranda was then altered and heavily augmented over the years to become the perfect mix of cybernetics and beauty to become the perfect CEO. Cold, ruthless, business minded and able to defend herself. But she escaped in her late teens and found work with Cerberus. A 'black' Corporation, that dealt with anything and everything illegal. They even escaped with the same people.

They were and weren't the same. It was weird, but she liked it. It was like having a sister around to keep watch.

"Where do you think they are?" Miranda asked looking around.

"Either they haven't arrived yet, or they're planning to attack us," her counterpart said.

That's when Miranda frowned and looked at her emblem with an annoyed sigh. "Tell me, did a rouge outfit kidnap soldiers in your universe?"

Cyborg Miranda frowned for a moment before her eyes closed and she nodded. "They're planning an attack," she said as the two of them looked around. "How do you want to play this?"

Miranda was about to speak but couldn't as a flashbang quickly blind and deafened her. She didn't have time to comprehend what was happening as something slammed into her and pushed her to the floor. She and her counterpart yelled out as the hit the floor and their vision and ears began to clear. Looking up she could see the blank visage of a turrian helmet. Looking down at them.

"Why is Cerberus here?" he asked as he pulled out a pistol and pointed it at them. "Don't make me ask twice,"

"We're here looking for Archangel," Miranda said as she decided that telling them the truth would be better than a bullet to the face. "We're here to recruit you," she moaned feeling the pain began to fade.

"Recruit us for what?" one of the other Archangels asked.

"Human colonies in the traverse have been disappearing," Cyborg Miranda said though a groan. "They are being taken by a species called the Collectors. We're here with Commander Shepard to recruit specialists to stop them,"

Their reaction at the new was odd as the Archangels looked to one another. The head movement indicated that they were talking via helmet radio rather than the speaker. After what seemed like a moment, the turrian looked down at Miranda.

"Even if what you said is true about the Collectors, Shepard is dead," he said.

"He's not," Miranda grunted. "We found his body and brought him back,"

The turrian in front of them paused for a moment before taking his helmet off. The two Miranda's looked wide eyed at the grey skinned and blue painted C-Sec sniper in from of them.

"And why should I, should we, trust Cerberus?" Garrus Vakarian answered.