Garrus opened his eyes just in time to realize they were midair in the mako on the presidium. Holy shit, it worked, he thought right before they crushed a couple geth before rolling into a wall. He crawled out of the wreckage and went around to help Jane out and made sure she was okay.

"This may be your worst driving yet and that's saying something." He remarked as he helped her to her feet.

"Hey! That wall came out of nowhere. Besides we're alive and I even took out a few geth which is more than I can say for you." She replied with a chuckle. "Is everyone okay?"

"I'll be sore in the morning, but I'm alive. I think." Kaidan replied.

"Alright. Let's get to that main control." She said, grabbing her sniper.

They made their way towards the elevator when at least two dozen husks were dropped.

"You've gotta be kidding me. I hate these guys." He heard Jane mutter as she took out her pistol and started shooting. Garrus stayed back a distance and sniped at them as Jane and Kaidan went towards the horde.

"8, by my count I win." Garrus yelled as he sniped the last one in view. Just then he heard 2 squishy sounding pops behind him and looked up to see Jane holding her pistol.

"9. Ha! I win again, Vakarian." She said as she blew on the end of her gun. "This has got to be getting embarrassing for you."

"Seriously, you guys? I don't think this is the time for this." Kaidan scolded them.

"What? There's nothing wrong with a little friendly competition. Not that there's much of it." Jane smiled. Garrus just stood there thinking if anyone could beat him, it was her. Oddly, it didn't bother him though. And he thought for a moment that time didn't seem to move as they smiled at each other.

"Guys!" Kaidan yelled from a short distance.

"Right.. let's go guys." Jane just slightly shook her head as they ran to catch up to him. They approached the nearest Avina when she started saying they needed to evacuate the Presidium. As Jane spoke to her, she informed them that Saren was approaching the council chambers and C-sec was currently unable to respond to the threat. She also informed them that there were a lot of geth on the citadel which didn't surprise Garrus at all. Jane asked about the council members and Avina told them that they were evacuated to the Destiny Ascension along with nearly 10,000 citizens per emergency protocol.

"What about Caption Anderson and councilor Udina?" Jane asked in a panic.

"I am unable to find the location of individuals." Avina simply replied.

"Oh." Jane said, dejectedly.

"I'm sure Anderson is fine. He seems like a very resourceful and capable person." Garrus said as he gently patted her shoulder hoping to console her. She shot him a smile that he thought looked forced and said they better get on their way. They then got into the elevator to make their way to the chambers. A little ways up, the elevator shook and then abruptly stopped. Jane went up to the glass and glanced around.

"Suit up, we're going outside." She told them.

"What? Are you-" Garrus started then got interrupted by Jane shooting the glass.

"Damn. These repairs are gonna be expensive." She said before stepping out. They walked along the outer part of the elevator and kept going towards the chamber. Every so often they had to take out groups of geth in their way. Well, this isn't so bad, he thought just when they turned a corner and he heard Jane yell out.

"Fuck! Geth turret!" She cursed out and she dodged to get behind cover. After a few moments of silence, Garrus peeked around to notice it wasn't firing.

"I think it's inactive, Shepard." He laughed at her.

"Well, shit. How the hell was I supposed to know that. Do you have any idea how many of those things have shot at me in the past?" She said as she looked for herself.

"Yeah. I have a pretty good idea considering I was with you those times." He chuckled.

"Laugh it up, Barney." She snapped at him.

"Barney?"

"He's a purple dinosaur on a vid for kids." She told him.

"What?" He looked at her confused.

"Just- ugh nevermind. Let's go." She threw her hands up in defeat. Just as they went out into the open, a geth dropship appeared and unleashed geth onto them.

"Dammit!" He heard Jane yelled and saw her running for the turret console. He didn't even have to ask and just shot at geth to cover her as she went to the console and activated it. The turrets turned onto the dropship and it retreated after taking significant damage while they took out the ground troops. Then they made their way into the next area where they encountered 2 krogans. Well, I guess we didn't kill them all back on Virmire, Garrus thought to himself. They took them out and continued on. They reached another open area when they were shot upon by active turrets and immediately ran for cover.

"Fuck! Why is it always this arm?!" He heard Jane cuss next to him and when he looked he saw that she had been hit by a turret. He immediately took some medigel and applied it to her arm. She muttered a thank you and turned to look towards the battlefield.

"Okay. Garrus help Kaidan with that turret and I'll take out this one." She ordered him.

"But Shep-" He tried arguing.

"I'll be fine! My arm is a little sore but it's good now, so go!" She barked at him before tumbling through to a different area of cover. Garrus made his way to Kaidan and told him the plan.

"What about Shepard? What happened?" He asked Garrus.

"She took a hit to the arm but I gave her some medigel and she's okay." He told her.

"Good. If anything ever happened to her, I don't know what I would- I'm glad she's okay." Kaidan said before using his warp biotic ability on the turret. Same here, Garrus thought before shooting the turret down. When he looked over towards Jane, he saw her using overload to stun the turret before sniping it out. After a moment of catching their breath they continued on their way.

They finally made their way into the chambers where they encountered several geth.

"Seriously? I'm tired of all these goddamn geth!" Jane complained as she started opening fire on them. Garrus made a mental note to himself to never get on her bad side before joining the fight. After they took out the last geth, they ran towards the controls and saw Saren punching some buttons then he jumped onto his flying platform and threw a grenade towards them. They all jumped in separate directions to avoid the blast when Saren started talking to Jane.

He told her he was worried that she wouldn't make it in time to witness him help Sovereign take control of the citadel and bring the reapers back. Jane just continued to try to convince him that he didn't need to do this and they could still find a way to stop the invasion when he told her that he had been implanted and completely was committed to the reaper cause. He then admitted that he couldn't stop thinking about what she said on Virmire and Sovereign sensed his hesitation so it put the implant in him. He once again tried to tell Jane that the reapers couldn't be stopped and she simply just told him to fight his implants and there was still time. She told him she wasn't giving up and he shouldn't either. He simply told her it was too late and with a sad look in his eyes, put his pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. Jane tried calling out but it was too late and his body fell into a pit down below them. After a brief moment, Jane made her way to the console and used her omnitool to upload the data from vigil to gain control.

"Hurry up and open the arms." Kaidan told her.

"Wait!" Garrus interjected. "Open a comm channel and see how our people are doing."

As soon as she opened the channel, they got a mayday from the destiny Ascension saying their shields were failing and their engines were offline and they had the council aboard. Then they heard Joker cut in and he asked if he was contacting Jane. Once she replied to him, he told her they were with the Arcturus fleet and they could save the council ship if she opened the relays to the citadel.

Kaidan remarked they should save the council but Garrus told her they should help her own people because the council wouldn't do anything to help humanity and they didn't take her seriously this whole time. Kaidan argued that it was bigger than humanity and the reapers were a threat to the whole galaxy which led Garrus to say that was why saving the council would be a waste of resources. Jane told Garrus that they had to show they weren't just worried about themselves then told Joker to save the council. After a few moments, joker announced that the Destiny was all clear and Jane opened the arms to the citadel when they heard Admiral Hackett order the fleet to focus all their power on Sovereign. Jane told him and Kaidan to make sure Saren was down, so they jumped down and Garrus walked to his body and popped two shots into him to be sure while Kaidan radioed Jane that he was dead. Just then, they saw red lightning all around them as the building shook. Looking over, Garrus saw the lightning infuse inside Saren's body just before a large blast sent him and Kaidan flying. When he regained his brief loss of consciousness, he saw Jane laying in the pit with them among some rubble. His adrenaline kicked in as he got up and rushed over to help her up, then he saw that Saren's body was just a metal skeleton as it started unleashing attacks on them. He helped Jane to cover and they started fighting back. After a few moments that seemed like eternity, he used a concussive shot to break it's shield and Jane took the opportunity to snipe it's head resulting in it exploding and they watched the rest of its body turn to dust. They had just all climbed out of the pit when they looked out the window to see a gigantic piece of what look like part of Sovereign come flying towards them. Jane ordered them to run and they all ran to escape the impact. Just seconds later, Garrus felt the impact as everything turned dark.