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Mass Effect: Jumped In

Chapter 1

Just A Regular Day.
Not!

Citadel. Home of the galactic community. Many first timers would think that it is a perfect place which had almost no crime and everything was safe. But things aren't that simple, there were always some crazy bastard there with a murder in his/hers mind, someone with a ego size of a planet or just some thieves. Sharia T'Sumi was no stranger to these.

But after living about century on the station and about half-century working with C-Sec. You somewhat get used to it after living that long. But even though Citadel had these kinds of problems, they were always taken care of. In way or another.

Sharia looked at the moving transporters that levitated above her, carrying various people to various locations around the Citadel. She really enjoyed the watching the station through the Wards. The feeling seeing the Citadel and the space around it gave her somewhat, calming feelings.

"Sharia! Stop day dreaming!" Sharia almost jumped out of her seat when a turian named Garand, also working in C-Sec as a detective. "Damn it Garand! You are sitting right next to me!" she yelled back. "No need to make me deaf!"

The turian snorted at this as he returned back to surveillance the "traffic". "You do know what I think about this whole 'make sure that everything is alright' surveillance." Sharia complained, while doing poor expression of Palin. "Please, don't try to give more reasons to Palin why he should fire you." Garand sighted.

Sharia gave Garand a bored look. That told him that she didn't care that much. "Maybe this is one his ways to make sure that I do something like this, so he can fire my sorry purple ass." she mumbled.

"Please, don't start this." Garand sighted. He looked at the beeping meter, which showed that everything was still the same. Truth to be told, they had been here all day and nothing much have been happened. "Okay, what you say if stay here for couple more minutes and then head off?" Garand suggested. Sharia raised an "eyebrow" at this. "What's the sudden change?" she asked.

"Truth to be told, we've been here all day and nothing has happened. I'm sure Palin can find some other people to do this." Garand explained. Sharia smiled at this. It was so far the best idea in the whole day. "Okay and after that, we will hit Flux!" Sharia now sounded little excited.

Garand simply face palmed at this. "Sharia, you can't do this every time when you are off duty, you sure can do lot of more than just waist most of your time at night clubs." Sharia simply just shrugged. "Oh, sorry if I wanted have fun times…" Sharia didn't finish her rant when her Omni-tool beeped. "Now who that might be?" she wondered, but she already had a guess who it might be.

She activated her Omni-tool and saw rather familiar name on it. "What is it Palin?" she asked, as activating her communications. "Sharia, I need you back at C-Sec Academy. There is a 'new comer' and you need to question her."

Shaira sighted at this, she could already tell that the "new comer" was no other than quarian. She sometimes couldn't understand what people were thinking. Sure the quarians broke the rules of the Citadel by creating the Geth. But that was three centuries ago! And in her opinion, the quarians had suffered already a lot!

"And why you need me?"

"Since you've been somewhat dealing with them, you might get something out of her." Palin explained. "So, hurry up! And if you excuse me, I must be heading towards the Council Tower. Palin out." the communications then went dead.

Sharia sighted while Garand looked at interested. "So, what did Palin wanted?" he asked. "Palin wants me to return back to C-Sec, to question this one quarian that had arrived." Shiara explained. "So, would you take us to C-Sec right away?" she asked little impatiently.

"Sure, sure." he said. Soon they were on their way to the C-Sec Academy.

C-Sec Academy.

Sharia walked in the halls of C-Sec Academy, which was crowed as always. As she walked, she started hearing loud noises. "… you don't know what fun you might miss. I'm sure we can get this little 'misunderstanding' out of the way, if you would take my offer."

"There is no way in hell I'm 'going out' with you!" a feminine voice yelled back. Sharia could already tell from the accent, that this was their new quarian on the Citadel. The problem was that she had run into Derios Tallun, a turian who usually tried to "hit" almost every single female species he came a cross with. Human, asari, quarian and more. Although, Sharia hadn't seen Derios trying to hit on any krogan females. Now that would've been a sight to see and laugh about it later at Derios's face.

She soon arrived at the corridor, where a turian wearing a red lined marks all over his face and a quarian with dark purple/white enviro-suit. And judging by the body language and the voice tone, the quarian was little pissed.

"Back off Derios! You heard the lady!" Sharia said, pushing the turian away. "Should have known that Palin would send you here Sharia." Derios spat. "Get out of here!" Sharia said, pushing the turian away. Who muttered something about "… gona make you pay." but Sharia ignored that.

"Sorry about that." she now turned to quarian. "So, would you follow me to the interrogation room miss…?" that seem to make quarian pay little more attention to her. "Of course. And my name is Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. But you can just call me Tali."

"Sure Tali. I am Detective Sharia T'Sumi, but you can just call me Sharia." Sharia smiled. Wanting to make the quarian feel little comfortable. "Uh, sure Sharia." Tali sounded little still unsure. "And I must apologize about Derios, he act usually like that when seeing 'fresh meat' on the Citadel." Sharia explained, as they entered the room.

"It's okay, and thanks for getting rid of him." Tali said. "Sorry that I bring this up, but what exactly did he meant 'getting little misunderstanding out of the way'?" to this Tali snorted. "I just accidentally bumped into him and started accusing me of assaulting!" Sharia almost felt like face palming, how can Derios pull these kinds of things? Then again who would people believe more, a harassing C-Sec Officer or a newly arrived quarian?

"And after the other Officers came and had small argument, they took my Omni-tool and my weapons." Tali explained in annoyance. Sharia nodded at this. "I try to get them back to you after this is over. Does that fit for you?" Sharia asked as she sited herself. Activating her console, sending a message to make sure Tali would get her belongings back after their interrogation. "Alright." Sharia said, while pointing Tali to sit. "Let us being."

Later…

The interrogation had went rather well, the quarian answered all of her questions without any trouble and acquired her belongings after that back. After that, she decided to head for the changing rooms. Since Palin hadn't said that there could be anything else for her, she decided to call it for a day.

As she changed her regular C-Sec uniform, she heard some grunting on the closet to her left. "Damn it! Why won't you open!" the voice sounded little too familiar. "I should've knew this was too easy." as Sharia was getting closer, she heard some typing. She soon recognized the voice belonged to Derios.

"That damn quarian sure is careful." he muttered. Now this started smell suspicious. She quickly went to the door and forcefully opened it. Finding Derios inside, with his Omni-tool activated and some encrypted text running down.

"Okay, what the hell are you doing here Derios?" she asked, while mostly looking at his Omni-tool. "That's not your concern." he said, trying to sound casual. Sharia, decided to play a different game and see what Derios would try to do to cover himself.

So far it didn't look like he was showing any sights that she had heard him muttering something about the quarian. "Oh really?" she asked. Crossing her arms. "Then what are exactly doing here, of all places?" she, then tilted her head. Trying to look like she had no idea why he was here.

Derios sighted annoyed. "I was trying to open up this one file that we got from this gang while back." Derios explained. "Then why trying open that encrypted file, here of all places?" she spread her arms to make the point. Derios looked around, as if trying to see if there was anyone else listening or there was some sort of listening device was attached somewhere.

"I… I took this thing without permission. And thought that I should find a place where nobody wouldn't figure out to get me immediately." Derios explained. "And why sudden change of heart?" she asked in not believing tone.

"Uuuuh…" now she could see Derios was getting little nervous. As he again looked around, but this time little more hastily. Sharia decided to see if Derios would do what she was thinking. "You know what, forget it." she said with a sight. And started leaving. She hadn't reached far when she heard, Derios getting up and possibly drawing some kind of knife and quickly charged at her.

He knew that she knew what he was doing and needed to get her out of the way. After he would be finished with that damn file and other task, he would leave Citadel fast as possible. Since they would surely connect him and finding out what he's been up to. He just hoped that his boss would be generous as he said and make him disappear.

But before he knew, he was hauled at the rooms wall with powerful Biotic punch. The impact was hard enough to paralyze him for a short moment. But that was enough for Sharia as she lifted Derios up in the air and smashed him on ceilling, but not too hard that he might die. She then dropped him on the floor, unconscious.

"Now, let's see what you tried to open." she said, with a small playful smile on her face. She activated her Omni-tool and started hacking Derios's. It was rather hard work, he had dozens of fire walls and few other counter measures for hacking, but Sharia made it through.

After a long search, she found the possible file he had tried to open. She quickly proceeded to download it and then deleted it from Derios's Omni-tool. Sharia then quickly went back to her locker and changed her regular clothing back to her C-Sec clothing. She then locked Derios into closet. Making sure he wouldn't be able to escape any time soon.

She then started working on her Omni-tool while starting looking for the closest elevator. After a while her radio activated and before the person on the other side was able to talk, Sharia interrupted him. "Hey Chellick! I need you to sent someone to get Derios for interrogation!"

"Sharia what are babbling about? And did you really have call me? I'm in a middle of investigation." Checllick said annoyed. "You already heard me, I locked Derios in one of the closet's in the changing rooms. And I also need found out, where the quarian we held while ago went!" Sharia explained with rather raised voice.

There was long pause before Checllick answered back. "Don't start screaming, it doesn't do good for my hearing!" Checllikc snapped. "Only if you do what I just said! Please?"

"Okay, okay. I'll call someone to take a look on Derios and I'll quickly check the security cams." Checllikc sighted. "Thanks." Sharia said, like nothing had happened between them.

She finally reached an elevator, had to wait for it to come down. "Goddess, I HATE those elevators!" Sharia thought. After waiting about few minutes the elevator finally arrived. "Now I have to wait a bit longer…" she grunted.

As the elevator ascended, Sharia radio opened. "All right, I've sent some people to get Derios into custody and it looks like your quarian friend walked circles around the Presidium for a while and then seemed to receive a call After that, she took a cabin for the Wards." Checkllikc said with little bored expression. "From that I lost her, but I try to locate her best I can."

"Okay, thanks. I owe you." Sharia said with a smile. "You sure ARE!" Checllikc snapped before cutting the connection. "He sure has a temper." Sharia mumbled. "In other news, a human colony Eden Prime was heavily attacked by Geth forces, who hadn't appeared outside the Veil in three centuries." Sharia froze at this. "Although, it has been reported that the Geth forces have been pulled off. We are looking forward to gather more information on the matter later."

This was getting weird. A quarian shows up and Derios steals something from her Omni-tool. And it looks like there was a Geth attack sometime ago. What a interesting coincidence. The elevator finally reached her destination. She then started running towards the closest cabin she could find.

"Okay, it looks like she is heading towards Markets, I'm not sure what she is looking for there, but I suggest you take a look." Checliikc said. "That's all I can do for you."

"Thanks again, Checkllikc." Sharia said as she was finally able to catch a cabin. "Where would like to go?" a human driver asked. "To the Markets." she simply said. "And make fast. C-Sec business."

Drivers expression soon changed into shocked one. He simply nodded as the asari stepped inside and activated her Omni-tool. "A quit look wouldn't hurt anyone." she thought. "And the way will be a long one." she sighted. The file sure was one hard piece to crack.

"The quarian's sure a one heck of a mechanics." Sharia thought. The whole file was well encrypted. But she might be able to crack it, but wouldn't but Tali would need explain few things for her. Now she little understood why the quarian had been little nervous and little "protective" of her belongings. After a while, it she got something out from it. The file looked like some sort of audio file. "Probably having something to do with the Geth…" she thought.

Soon at the Markets.

After Sharia had discovered that file was some sort of audio message, she had let file being alone, sine it was sure that the quarian will answer to her. But now she needed to find her, which wouldn't be hard since there aren't many quarians at Markets. And she might recognize her, from her armor colors. After a while searching and finding nothing Sharia had asked if anyone had seen a quarian who might look like she was in a hurry.

After maybe forty minutes of searching she finally found some sort of clue. Some volus merchant had said that he saw a quarian heading towards storage room of "Morzza's Weapon Store".

Luckily it was only few minutes away. And when she reached the Stores backside she could already see the quarian about to enter. "Hey, hold on!" she yelled. That got quarian's attention immediately.

"Oh, Detective T'Sumi." Tali said, sounding really nervous. "What are you doing here?"

Sharia soon was with Tali, looking at her sharply. "Well, firstly I'm here to return something that might belong to you." she said. Activating her Omni-tool. "You mean…?" Tali asked. Not knowing how to say it. "… some strange audio file that might have something to do with the Geth? Yeap, that's the one." Sharia said, smirking.

Tali was right now shocked. She had hoped that no one would found out about it until she would be able to speak with the Shadow Broker. Somehow the info about her obtaining important information about the Geth attack on Eden Prime seem to spread fast. Tali inwardly slapped herself and quickly composing herself.

"How… how you did you found it out? Did someone tell you about it?" she asked, sounding little frightened. She was actually ready to use her shotgun, if the Detective has other plans in her mind.

"Just thought about it after hearing small news report about the attack." Sharia shrugged. "Oh, that gave you the idea?" Tali asked carefully. "Yeah. And if you are wondering, Derios was the one who stole your little file from your Omni-tool." Sharia explained. Expecting Tali to think that she was the one stole the file from her.

Tali looked at Sharia little confused, who seemed to noticed it from quarian's white eyes. "The asshole who flirted with you before I chased him off." Sharia explained. Now Tali remembered. "So, what would you say if we go back to C-Sec and talk about this." Shaira said. And it wasn't actually request.

Now Tali started feeling uncomfortable. It was already strange that someone from the Shadow Broker was going to meet her, even though she didn't have information about the Geth or Saren. And now the asari Detective was forcing her to return back to C-Sec, in where she might into trouble.

"No, I can't…" she was able to finish, when she was all of sudden pushed away. "GET DOWN!" the next thing she heard was a gun shot, a bullet piercing flesh, people screaming and Sharia activating her Biotics.

Soon a body of a salarian dropped between them. "Let's get out of here!" she was soon grabbed by her arm and she soon found herself running through the crowds. "You are hurt!"

"It's OK." Sharia said. Wincing while she put her right hand on her wound around her hips. But pain started making running rather difficult and she found herself few times almost falling. "Could you help me a little?" she asked.

Tali already knew what to do and placed her hand around Sharia's back while she placed her left hand around her neck. "We need to patch this wound!" Shaira panted. "Luckily I know a place where to go."

Description
I don't own Mass Effect or any other it's characters! They all belong to BioWare. I only own my OC's!

Mass Effect: Jumped In

Chapter 1

Just A Regular Day.
Not!

Citadel. Home of the galactic community. Many first timers would think that it is a perfect place which had almost no crime and everything was safe. But things aren't that simple, there were always some crazy bastard there with a murder in his/hers mind, someone with a ego size of a planet or just some thieves. Sharia T'Sumi was no stranger to these.

But after living about century on the station and about half-century working with C-Sec. You somewhat get used to it after living that long. But even though Citadel had these kinds of problems, they were always taken care of. In way or another.

Sharia looked at the moving transporters that levitated above her, carrying various people to various locations around the Citadel. She really enjoyed the watching the station through the Wards. The feeling seeing the Citadel and the space around it gave her somewhat, calming feelings.

"Sharia! Stop day dreaming!" Sharia almost jumped out of her seat when a turian named Garand, also working in C-Sec as a detective. "Damn it Garand! You are sitting right next to me!" she yelled back. "No need to make me deaf!"

The turian snorted at this as he returned back to surveillance the "traffic". "You do know what I think about this whole 'make sure that everything is alright' surveillance." Sharia complained, while doing poor expression of Palin. "Please, don't try to give more reasons to Palin why he should fire you." Garand sighted.

Sharia gave Garand a bored look. That told him that she didn't care that much. "Maybe this is one his ways to make sure that I do something like this, so he can fire my sorry purple ass." she mumbled.

"Please, don't start this." Garand sighted. He looked at the beeping meter, which showed that everything was still the same. Truth to be told, they had been here all day and nothing much have been happened. "Okay, what you say if stay here for couple more minutes and then head off?" Garand suggested. Sharia raised an "eyebrow" at this. "What's the sudden change?" she asked.

"Truth to be told, we've been here all day and nothing has happened. I'm sure Palin can find some other people to do this." Garand explained. Sharia smiled at this. It was so far the best idea in the whole day. "Okay and after that, we will hit Flux!" Sharia now sounded little excited.

Garand simply face palmed at this. "Sharia, you can't do this every time when you are off duty, you sure can do lot of more than just waist most of your time at night clubs." Sharia simply just shrugged. "Oh, sorry if I wanted have fun times…" Sharia didn't finish her rant when her Omni-tool beeped. "Now who that might be?" she wondered, but she already had a guess who it might be.

She activated her Omni-tool and saw rather familiar name on it. "What is it Palin?" she asked, as activating her communications. "Sharia, I need you back at C-Sec Academy. There is a 'new comer' and you need to question her."

Shaira sighted at this, she could already tell that the "new comer" was no other than quarian. She sometimes couldn't understand what people were thinking. Sure the quarians broke the rules of the Citadel by creating the Geth. But that was three centuries ago! And in her opinion, the quarians had suffered already a lot!

"And why you need me?"

"Since you've been somewhat dealing with them, you might get something out of her." Palin explained. "So, hurry up! And if you excuse me, I must be heading towards the Council Tower. Palin out." the communications then went dead.

Sharia sighted while Garand looked at interested. "So, what did Palin wanted?" he asked. "Palin wants me to return back to C-Sec, to question this one quarian that had arrived." Shiara explained. "So, would you take us to C-Sec right away?" she asked little impatiently.

"Sure, sure." he said. Soon they were on their way to the C-Sec Academy.

C-Sec Academy.

Sharia walked in the halls of C-Sec Academy, which was crowed as always. As she walked, she started hearing loud noises. "… you don't know what fun you might miss. I'm sure we can get this little 'misunderstanding' out of the way, if you would take my offer."

"There is no way in hell I'm 'going out' with you!" a feminine voice yelled back. Sharia could already tell from the accent, that this was their new quarian on the Citadel. The problem was that she had run into Derios Tallun, a turian who usually tried to "hit" almost every single female species he came a cross with. Human, asari, quarian and more. Although, Sharia hadn't seen Derios trying to hit on any krogan females. Now that would've been a sight to see and laugh about it later at Derios's face.

She soon arrived at the corridor, where a turian wearing a red lined marks all over his face and a quarian with dark purple/white enviro-suit. And judging by the body language and the voice tone, the quarian was little pissed.

"Back off Derios! You heard the lady!" Sharia said, pushing the turian away. "Should have known that Palin would send you here Sharia." Derios spat. "Get out of here!" Sharia said, pushing the turian away. Who muttered something about "… gona make you pay." but Sharia ignored that.

"Sorry about that." she now turned to quarian. "So, would you follow me to the interrogation room miss…?" that seem to make quarian pay little more attention to her. "Of course. And my name is Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. But you can just call me Tali."

"Sure Tali. I am Detective Sharia T'Sumi, but you can just call me Sharia." Sharia smiled. Wanting to make the quarian feel little comfortable. "Uh, sure Sharia." Tali sounded little still unsure. "And I must apologize about Derios, he act usually like that when seeing 'fresh meat' on the Citadel." Sharia explained, as they entered the room.

"It's okay, and thanks for getting rid of him." Tali said. "Sorry that I bring this up, but what exactly did he meant 'getting little misunderstanding out of the way'?" to this Tali snorted. "I just accidentally bumped into him and started accusing me of assaulting!" Sharia almost felt like face palming, how can Derios pull these kinds of things? Then again who would people believe more, a harassing C-Sec Officer or a newly arrived quarian?

"And after the other Officers came and had small argument, they took my Omni-tool and my weapons." Tali explained in annoyance. Sharia nodded at this. "I try to get them back to you after this is over. Does that fit for you?" Sharia asked as she sited herself. Activating her console, sending a message to make sure Tali would get her belongings back after their interrogation. "Alright." Sharia said, while pointing Tali to sit. "Let us being."

Later…

The interrogation had went rather well, the quarian answered all of her questions without any trouble and acquired her belongings after that back. After that, she decided to head for the changing rooms. Since Palin hadn't said that there could be anything else for her, she decided to call it for a day.

As she changed her regular C-Sec uniform, she heard some grunting on the closet to her left. "Damn it! Why won't you open!" the voice sounded little too familiar. "I should've knew this was too easy." as Sharia was getting closer, she heard some typing. She soon recognized the voice belonged to Derios.

"That damn quarian sure is careful." he muttered. Now this started smell suspicious. She quickly went to the door and forcefully opened it. Finding Derios inside, with his Omni-tool activated and some encrypted text running down.

"Okay, what the hell are you doing here Derios?" she asked, while mostly looking at his Omni-tool. "That's not your concern." he said, trying to sound casual. Sharia, decided to play a different game and see what Derios would try to do to cover himself.

So far it didn't look like he was showing any sights that she had heard him muttering something about the quarian. "Oh really?" she asked. Crossing her arms. "Then what are exactly doing here, of all places?" she, then tilted her head. Trying to look like she had no idea why he was here.

Derios sighted annoyed. "I was trying to open up this one file that we got from this gang while back." Derios explained. "Then why trying open that encrypted file, here of all places?" she spread her arms to make the point. Derios looked around, as if trying to see if there was anyone else listening or there was some sort of listening device was attached somewhere.

"I… I took this thing without permission. And thought that I should find a place where nobody wouldn't figure out to get me immediately." Derios explained. "And why sudden change of heart?" she asked in not believing tone.

"Uuuuh…" now she could see Derios was getting little nervous. As he again looked around, but this time little more hastily. Sharia decided to see if Derios would do what she was thinking. "You know what, forget it." she said with a sight. And started leaving. She hadn't reached far when she heard, Derios getting up and possibly drawing some kind of knife and quickly charged at her.

He knew that she knew what he was doing and needed to get her out of the way. After he would be finished with that damn file and other task, he would leave Citadel fast as possible. Since they would surely connect him and finding out what he's been up to. He just hoped that his boss would be generous as he said and make him disappear.

But before he knew, he was hauled at the rooms wall with powerful Biotic punch. The impact was hard enough to paralyze him for a short moment. But that was enough for Sharia as she lifted Derios up in the air and smashed him on ceilling, but not too hard that he might die. She then dropped him on the floor, unconscious.

"Now, let's see what you tried to open." she said, with a small playful smile on her face. She activated her Omni-tool and started hacking Derios's. It was rather hard work, he had dozens of fire walls and few other counter measures for hacking, but Sharia made it through.

After a long search, she found the possible file he had tried to open. She quickly proceeded to download it and then deleted it from Derios's Omni-tool. Sharia then quickly went back to her locker and changed her regular clothing back to her C-Sec clothing. She then locked Derios into closet. Making sure he wouldn't be able to escape any time soon.

She then started working on her Omni-tool while starting looking for the closest elevator. After a while her radio activated and before the person on the other side was able to talk, Sharia interrupted him. "Hey Chellick! I need you to sent someone to get Derios for interrogation!"

"Sharia what are babbling about? And did you really have call me? I'm in a middle of investigation." Checllick said annoyed. "You already heard me, I locked Derios in one of the closet's in the changing rooms. And I also need found out, where the quarian we held while ago went!" Sharia explained with rather raised voice.

There was long pause before Checllick answered back. "Don't start screaming, it doesn't do good for my hearing!" Checllikc snapped. "Only if you do what I just said! Please?"

"Okay, okay. I'll call someone to take a look on Derios and I'll quickly check the security cams." Checllikc sighted. "Thanks." Sharia said, like nothing had happened between them.

She finally reached an elevator, had to wait for it to come down. "Goddess, I HATE those elevators!" Sharia thought. After waiting about few minutes the elevator finally arrived. "Now I have to wait a bit longer…" she grunted.

As the elevator ascended, Sharia radio opened. "All right, I've sent some people to get Derios into custody and it looks like your quarian friend walked circles around the Presidium for a while and then seemed to receive a call After that, she took a cabin for the Wards." Checkllikc said with little bored expression. "From that I lost her, but I try to locate her best I can."

"Okay, thanks. I owe you." Sharia said with a smile. "You sure ARE!" Checllikc snapped before cutting the connection. "He sure has a temper." Sharia mumbled. "In other news, a human colony Eden Prime was heavily attacked by Geth forces, who hadn't appeared outside the Veil in three centuries." Sharia froze at this. "Although, it has been reported that the Geth forces have been pulled off. We are looking forward to gather more information on the matter later."

This was getting weird. A quarian shows up and Derios steals something from her Omni-tool. And it looks like there was a Geth attack sometime ago. What a interesting coincidence. The elevator finally reached her destination. She then started running towards the closest cabin she could find.

"Okay, it looks like she is heading towards Markets, I'm not sure what she is looking for there, but I suggest you take a look." Checliikc said. "That's all I can do for you."

"Thanks again, Checkllikc." Sharia said as she was finally able to catch a cabin. "Where would like to go?" a human driver asked. "To the Markets." she simply said. "And make fast. C-Sec business."

Drivers expression soon changed into shocked one. He simply nodded as the asari stepped inside and activated her Omni-tool. "A quit look wouldn't hurt anyone." she thought. "And the way will be a long one." she sighted. The file sure was one hard piece to crack.

"The quarian's sure a one heck of a mechanics." Sharia thought. The whole file was well encrypted. But she might be able to crack it, but wouldn't but Tali would need explain few things for her. Now she little understood why the quarian had been little nervous and little "protective" of her belongings. After a while, it she got something out from it. The file looked like some sort of audio file. "Probably having something to do with the Geth…" she thought.

Soon at the Markets.

After Sharia had discovered that file was some sort of audio message, she had let file being alone, sine it was sure that the quarian will answer to her. But now she needed to find her, which wouldn't be hard since there aren't many quarians at Markets. And she might recognize her, from her armor colors. After a while searching and finding nothing Sharia had asked if anyone had seen a quarian who might look like she was in a hurry.

After maybe forty minutes of searching she finally found some sort of clue. Some volus merchant had said that he saw a quarian heading towards storage room of "Morzza's Weapon Store".

Luckily it was only few minutes away. And when she reached the Stores backside she could already see the quarian about to enter. "Hey, hold on!" she yelled. That got quarian's attention immediately.

"Oh, Detective T'Sumi." Tali said, sounding really nervous. "What are you doing here?"

Sharia soon was with Tali, looking at her sharply. "Well, firstly I'm here to return something that might belong to you." she said. Activating her Omni-tool. "You mean…?" Tali asked. Not knowing how to say it. "… some strange audio file that might have something to do with the Geth? Yeap, that's the one." Sharia said, smirking.

Tali was right now shocked. She had hoped that no one would found out about it until she would be able to speak with the Shadow Broker. Somehow the info about her obtaining important information about the Geth attack on Eden Prime seem to spread fast. Tali inwardly slapped herself and quickly composing herself.

"How… how you did you found it out? Did someone tell you about it?" she asked, sounding little frightened. She was actually ready to use her shotgun, if the Detective has other plans in her mind.

"Just thought about it after hearing small news report about the attack." Sharia shrugged. "Oh, that gave you the idea?" Tali asked carefully. "Yeah. And if you are wondering, Derios was the one who stole your little file from your Omni-tool." Sharia explained. Expecting Tali to think that she was the one stole the file from her.

Tali looked at Sharia little confused, who seemed to noticed it from quarian's white eyes. "The asshole who flirted with you before I chased him off." Sharia explained. Now Tali remembered. "So, what would you say if we go back to C-Sec and talk about this." Shaira said. And it wasn't actually request.

Now Tali started feeling uncomfortable. It was already strange that someone from the Shadow Broker was going to meet her, even though she didn't have information about the Geth or Saren. And now the asari Detective was forcing her to return back to C-Sec, in where she might into trouble.

"No, I can't…" she was able to finish, when she was all of sudden pushed away. "GET DOWN!" the next thing she heard was a gun shot, a bullet piercing flesh, people screaming and Sharia activating her Biotics.

Soon a body of a salarian dropped between them. "Let's get out of here!" she was soon grabbed by her arm and she soon found herself running through the crowds. "You are hurt!"

"It's OK." Sharia said. Wincing while she put her right hand on her wound around her hips. But pain started making running rather difficult and she found herself few times almost falling. "Could you help me a little?" she asked.

Tali already knew what to do and placed her hand around Sharia's back while she placed her left hand around her neck. "We need to patch this wound!" Shaira panted. "Luckily I know a place where to go."