when Shepard is sent to investigate missing scouts, he learns that there is more than one suicide squad.

Shepard has had Tali on his team since the start. But after he learns of Tali's feelings towards him, he gets a little off guard. But can she trust him enough to tell him her feelings? But Shepard doesn't want Tali to get sick, because if she takes off her suit the consequences are high. Will Shepard dump Tali for her safety, and break her heart, or will he try to make this work? All while trying to build the team to fight the Reaper's.

The year is 2186, the fall of the Reaper threat. True the most feared and hated machines in the galaxy are destroyed, but at a cost. The Mass Relays are damaged, the galaxy is in chaos, Cerberus still has power even when The Illusive Man is declared dead, and almost all Synthetic life has been destroyed. Almost. . . The Salarian Dalatrass, furious with the desicon of the Alliance to cure the genophage, has gone rouge, sending hit and run strikes against Urdnot Wrex and the Krogan species. Signs of mutiniy and betrayal are all around as an old enemy, once thought destroyed, rears its ugly head out of the shadows. . . During this, Commander John Shepard awakes in Huerta Memorial Hospital on the rebuilt Citadel, meraciously survivng the explosion of the Crucible. Two things pop into his mind: How did he survive, and where Tali'Zorah vas Rannoch , his one true love, was. (All characters, weapons, locations, and other things belong to Bioware and EA games)