Ethan sat inside one of the many booths inside Chora's Den. There were three other ladies in the booth with him. One of them was a human while the other two were asaris. Ethan had picked them up outside the club and he bought them drinks. So many inappropriate thoughts went through Ethan's head while he was with the girls, but he had to restrain himself. He wasn't here to party. An Espada is always on a mission. His mission just happened to be here.

Curtis and Crystal walked through the doors, seeing the familar hallway leading into Choras Den. Crystal was excited, she hadnt seen Leonne for a long time, and wanted to see her agian. Crystal grabbed Curtis' hands, pulling him along faster than he was walking.

"Come on!" Crystal shouted playfully

"Alright, Alright" he said with a smile.

The front door slid open, reavealing the bar. Crystal sat down at the bar, spinning in the chair waiting for Curtis. He followed suit, sitting next to her.

Crystal asked the bartender if Leonne was here, she said yes and that she would get her. Curtis ordered the two drinks, talking to the other bartender after the first one ran off to get Leonne.

Leonne had to say that she was quite satisfied with herself. She had money, a stable home, a fun job, and no real other worries left in the universe. It was amazing to be honest, how she had once been hunted down by the Alliance for crimes that were grossly misunderstood, yet now she could afford to get away with first degree murder.

She leaned back in her exceptionally comfortable chair in her office at HER establishment, Chora’s Den, and couldn’t help but smile.

‘I own a penthouse suite ON the Citadel… I have my own personal ship… I own Chora’s den… and I’m even clad in the finest clothing made by the best Asari designers…’ Leonne mused to herself ‘Life can’t get much-‘

“Mistress Leonne?” her human bartender, Krissy, said from the doorway of her office “There’s a friend out here to see you… her name’s Crystal-“

“Lithum, right?” she finished as she stood from her chair, her heavy French accent having changed none in two years “It’s been so long since I’ve seen ‘er, I was beginning to wonder if she was alive or not. I’ll be right out.”

She was clad in a dress of a slim and seductive black (think an all black version of what the Asari Consort wore), but with a sealable slit on each side that could be opened in case she needed to move. The Asari were good at providing stylish, yet effective, armor after all.

She exited her office and made her way to the bar, where she found Crystal at the bar with a man whom she knew to be Curtis.

“Crystal! Mon amie!” she said as she decided to hurry up and let the seals on her side loose, revealing that her legs were covered by skintight pants underneath “It’s about damn time you came to see me!”

Upon arriving close enough to Crystal, she grabbed her shoulders and planted a quick kiss on each of the younger woman’s cheeks; a common greeting in France.

“’ow are you doing Crystal? I ‘ope everzing is going quite well for you!” Leonne said happily.

One of the asaris decided to take her chances and sit on Ethan's lap. Ethan was kind of surprised, but liked the feeling. The girls continued to flirt with him and he, of course, flirted back.

Ethan went to grab his drink. He spotted out of the corner of his eye the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She came out of the off limits area which would mean that she was a vip or even the owner.

The girls realized that Ethan wasn't paying attention to them anymore so they got up and left angrily. Ethan tried to get them back, but they ignored him. The waitress gave him the bill and Ethan reached for his money. It was all gone. The girls not only left him with the bill, but also stole his money. Ethan figured that his luck was down, but he might as well get it back up. He got up and walked over to the beautiful woman. She was talking with another girl and a guy.

"Leonne its been so long! Ive been good, assigned to the Normandy Two and put into N7. How 'bout you?" She said happily.

She was glad to see her, especially after being couped up in a warship for months at a time on patrol in the Verge.

Curtis on the otherhand turned back to the bar, taking a sip of his drink. He didnt mind Crystal talking to someone else, but hey, what was he supposed to do. He noticed a guy walking over to them.

"Hey, do you want something?" he asked

"Well, you can see 'ow it's been for moi." Leonne said happily as she took a step back "Ze Alliance pays quite well it seems... if you can prove zat you were chased relentlessly for six years for crimes zat were merely self defense, zat is!"

The new guy that arrived garnered attention from her quite readily, for he did not look like the man bums that attended at such an early hour.

"'ow are you doing monsieur? I 'ope you are enjoying my fine establishment." she said politely, knowing that she was still 'on the job'.

Ethan was kind of caught off guard again. He was planning on talking to the woman first, but both the guy and her addressed him first.

"From what the woman said she must be the owner." Ethan thought.

Ethan decided to go for it. "Hi my name is Ethan Waber. I just wanted to say to you that I have never seen a more beautiful woman before. Everything about you is just amazing." Ethan said.

Ethan figured that he must have sounded like an idiot. Chora's Den isn't exactly the type of place to pick up a girl that isn't a stripper here. Ethan never felt so nervous before. Ethan noticed a turian walking into the club. Ethan just remembered that he still had a mission to complete.

'Quite the charmer, it seems... but a bit young.' Leonne thought with a smirk.

"Well, Monsieur Waber, zank you for ze compliment. I zink I can afford to let you 'ave a free drink or two, but don't expect it as a 'abit." Leonne said with a slight bow "You can 'ave anyzing from ze bar, so take your pick."

She did notice how Waber's eyes locked onto the Turian, and they were eyes that she knew to well.

'The eye's of a hunter...' Leonne thought 'It seems he's a man on a mission...'

Ethan expected to be shot down. She was too beautiful for him. "Thank you for giving me the time. I don't need anything from the bar, but I do have a slight problem with my bill though. I kinda can't pay for it." Ethan said while laughing.

The turian Ethan was watching sat down at a table. A krogan walked over and handed the turian a disk. The turian pocketed the cd and called for a waiter. Ethan needed to do this quick. It was time for him to complete his mission. Ethan reached inside his pocket.

Curtis listened to the guy, chuckling at the bold move. He then saw him glance at a Turian, he could tell that he was watching him. When a Krogan handed him a data disk, he knew thats what the man was here for.

"I think your going to need some help" he said to the man.

He stood up, indicating that he wanted to make sure he didnt start something that hurt innocents. He put his hand on his pistol, not removing it from his suit yet, depending on what happened.

He didnt know what the man wanted, but it couldnt be that great if it was happening in Choras Den this early.

"Oh? Well, I guess one bill won't be a problem." Leonne said, knowing that, most likely, one of her girls had gotten to him in some form or fashion... though that was not necessarily the case "Still, 'ave a drink I'm sure you would like it..."

Leonne trailed off at the end, noticing the glances of both Curtis and Ethan. It was a rather close table, and she noticed that both the Turian and the Krogan happened to both move too closely together, in terms of time that is. When a disk passed between them, she knew there was an issue.

"Now, now boys..." Leonne said, her face not giving indication to the tone in her voice as she made sure to not appear suspicious "I won't have a brawl going on in my bar... now Ethan, I assume you're licensed for whatever it is you're about to do, right?"

She made sure that the pistol in the holster at her lower back was unclasped, and that the Salarian molecular knife up her left sleeve was also taken care of.

"A brawl!! What are you talking about?" Ethan said.

Ethan pulled out his gloves and put them on. "It's not a brawl when it ends in a flash. Just want to say sorry in advance." Ethan said. Ethan's face suddenly got serious.

Ethan ran towards the turian and grabbed him by the collar and punched him in the face knocking him out. Ethan took the disk and tried to leave. The bouncers blocked his escape. He punched a guy sitting down in order to start a fight.

Due to the confusion and the amount of soldiers and bounty hunters in the room random people started attacking each other. Ethan charged one of the bouncers and drop kicked him. The other bounced attempted to punch him, but he blocked it and flipped the bouncer throwing him towards the bar.

"Zat bastard!" Leonne hissed as the bouncer skidded to a halt in front of her "'e does not know 'o 'e's dealing wiz!"

She brought up the omnitool that was integrated into her left sleeve, and in a flurry of taps she activated one of the security protocols she had personally designed and integrated into Chora's Den.

"Get down!" she told Curtis and Crystal as she too got down on the ground.

From each of the tables several darts were released from a specific height, going above the heads of Leonne, Curtis, and Crystal. The others, aside from the employees, all began to collapse upon being struck with the darts. The krogan took the longest, but even then they were put into a state where her Krogan bouncer's would be able to deal with everything.

'That was a good investment.' Leonne mused as the last of the darts was sent flying overhead, allowing her to stand up 'I'm also glad you can build up an immunity to it.'

"Are you alright, Curtis et Crystal?" Leonne asked "Zose darts are razer (as in Rather) sharp, and tipped wiz a toxin zat will put even a krogan out of commission long enough to 'ave 'im arrested."

The two did as they were told, ducking down. Curtis was surprised when darts suddenly started flying, sending anyone standing out cold.

"Are you alright, Curtis et Crystal?"

"Yeah of course" Curtis said, returning to his feet.

Crystal looked over at the man that had started the brawl, he was laying on the floor now. She wondered why he did it, and if that Krogan he chased after was important.

"Lets see what he was after" Curtis said, walking over to the Turian.

The alien was out cold, a dart sticking in his back. He grabbed his collar, reaching into his front pocket and pulling the data disk. He examined it for a second, wondering what was on it.

"Leonne, do you have a computer to read it?" Crystal asked.

Ethan was able to disable both bouncers. He noticed that several people began to duck. Ethan began to wonder why, but then he saw the darts being shot around knocking everyone out. Ethan ducked in time and avoided the darts, but one dart ricocheted off the wall and hit him in the shoulder.

"Crap!" was all Ethan said. Ethan was knocked out.

"I don't need a computer, but I do need a minute." Leonne said as she brought her omnitool back up.

She keyed in several commands, the first one to shut and lock her doors, the second to save the files from the security cameras to her omnitool, and the third and final one to load up a 'bug mine' to fry a weapon, if someone should wake up and attempt to start shooting. She then pointed to her 'lead' bodyguard, a rather hefty krogan.

"Get your men and wake up ze dancers, you know ze drill." Leonne told him, and he grunted his approval "Now, zat disk si vous plait."

She hooked the disk into her omnitool and uploaded it to her system. It was highly encrypted using numerous protocols. It wouldn't be too difficult to decrypt given enough time, she decided that a friend of hers could do it much faster.

'He has always been faster than me at it...' Leonne thought to herself as she opened up a specialized, and secure, link to Chase's location.

"Well, Crystal, I believe you brozer will greatly enjoy zis little gift." Leonne said to Crystal with a smirk "It is a razer complex encryption, it might even prove a challenge for 'im."

"He should be able to do it, hes got enough hardware at his new job to bring down the Alliance from his house" She said, thinking about him for a second.

She should probably find a computer and give him a call, she hadnt talked to him in about 6 months, something that was rare for her to do.

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{ Chase / Olympia }

He looked at a new file group that arrived on his desktop, he opened it, noting the sender. He smiled at the fact it was her, no having done something like this since helping the Guardians.

The protocols were... different. They seemed to be an extremly old set with all new encryptions. To most modern hackers the way the disk was set up could stump them for days. However, his job at Excell Data always proved helpful, allowing him to search thousands of data servers to find the 'key' to it.

The files were open, now he had to decrypt it, which could take awhile. He started working on it, messing up a few times.

He typed a message, then it to Leonne.

"Pretty protected for files off a data disk, where'd you get it?"

Ethan began to wake up. He spotted the owner of the place and the girl with her doing something with the disk. Ethan pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. A bouncer jumped on top of Ethan and tried to pin him, but Ethan was too strong. Two other bouncers jumped on top as well and the three of them were able to pin him.

"Let me go you idiots! Put that disk down!" Ethan shouted while struggling on the floor.

The man, Ethan, seemed to be rather strong in his own right, and the gun he had was effectively gone the moment she saw him moving. Weapon bugs were always fun to use, in Leonne's mind.

"Why is zat, Monsieur Waber? Is zere somezing on zis disk zat you don't want me to see?" Leonne asked, somewhat playful in her tone of voice.

The message from Chase appeared on her omnitool's screen, and she opened it to read what Chase had sent her. She smirked; she had been right about it being a challeng... somewhat at least. She then typed up a reply and sent it back on it's way.

Let's just say a 'friend' here at my establishment decided to start a 'problem', and these are my spoils of war.

{ Chase }

Let's just say a 'friend' here at my establishment decided to start a 'problem', and these are my spoils of war.

He smiled at the message, continuing to work on writting a decryption. It took about 5 minutes, but he got it to work. The screen popped up, showing the percentages and rate of decryption.

Encrypted: 98% / Decrypted: 2%

Rate of Decryption: 2% per minute

Save to: Omnitool

He was surprised at the lenghts they went to protect this. The encryptions alone could have held up a hacker for days even weeks, then the decryption time was pretty long.

"Leonne, streaming the decrypted files to your Omnitool, expect it all within the hour" he typed in a new message.

Ethan thought in his head the chances he had of getting that disk back. He could somehow throw the guards off of him and grab the disk while planting a goodbye kiss on the owner and escape. That didn't seem possible. He could simply explain his situation to them, but that would get him into a lot of trouble with his organization. He could always use the sword that all members of Espada have and kill the guards and kill the owner and everyone else in the club. That was too destructive and didn't fit his personality.

Ethan stopped struggling. "Please let me get the disc back. It isn't really important. That guy just stole it from me. I wanted it back. That's all." Ethan said with tears in his eyes. Ethan was happy that he took acting lessons when he was still on Earth.

'He's... crying? After he just tried to beat up several of my bouncers?' Leonne thought, but didn't let her face betray her emotions 'Well, that's too-'

The message from Chase popped up on her omnitool screen, as did the message recording the upload to her omnitool.

'Well I'll be damned... perfect timing.' Leonne thought, then decided to see if she could play Ethan at his own game.

"Good lord... zis disk is..." Leonne began confusion seemingly apparent on her face "You started a brawl in my bar for zis... zis crap?! You 'ave got to be kidding me!"

She pulled the disk out of her omnitool, and motioned for her bouncer's to leave the man be. After the bouncer's got up, the middle one pulled him to his feet by the back of his collar. Leonne then tossed the disk at him, pretending to be rather irritated as she unlocked the door.

"Take your disk and be off if you will; I don't see why you'd keep somezing zat worzless. It was certainly not worz you starting a brawl in 'ere over it!" Leonne hissed in a rather angry fashion.

Ethan was in total shock. He didn't think it'd be that easy to get out of this jam. "Maybe she likes me." Ethan thought. Ethan started to daydream, but then realized that he should take the opportunity and leave. He might still be able to get the krogan.

"Thanks a lot. Sorry about the mess. You can put it on my tab." Ethan said. He bowed and ran out of the place. Ethan ran at top speed.

He needed to find out where that krogan went. The krogan was probably heading back to the Shadow Broker informant that gave him the disk. He needed to find that krogan in order to catch the informant.

The twos radios started blaring commands from command. Curtis switched his radio to one of the command channels, the current message was being splashed across almost all of them.

"Freeman, you have orders get you and your ship out to the Verge." A femine voice called out over the radio.

He exused himself and Crystal, the two walking over to the wall away from the bouncers and Leonne.

"Any particular reason?" Crystal asked.

"Batarian mercenaries and slavers are attacking colonies in one of our systems, we need your help" the operator told them.

They understood, Curtis calling the crew over at flux over his suit radio. Maverick told him he would get the crew to the Normandy, and the ship would be ready for deployment ASAP.

"Leonne, we have to get to the Verge, some Batarians decided to try and attack our colonies. If you want to come, your welcome too, but we dont have time to wait up" Crystal said.

Curtis started running for the ship, Crystal turning and giving a wave to Leonne.

{ Continued in Docking Bay }

Ethan had infiltrated C-Sec countless times before. This time he needed to access the security cameras to find out where the krogan went. He checked the cameras and eventually spotted him. He seemed to be headed to the markets. Ethan left the control room and made his way over to the markets.

(Continued in Markets)

'Hm... that sounds like it could be interesting...' Leonne thought as she waved at Crystal, appearing saddened by her ability to not follow 'Better make things here move a little faster.'

Her omnitool was up in a flash again, and the standard procedure for a bar fight went through in moments. Calls to C-Sec with the proper number of arrestees, calls to the people who restocked her defense systems, a damage report (which was none luckily), and finally a small tip to each of her bouncers, dancers, bartenders, and servers for the trouble of dealing with it.

"Zat should do it." Leonne said to herself before turning to Krissy "Krissy? I'm going home for a bit, so I shall see you later."

'Unless something comes up, that is.' Leonne thought to her self as she made her way from Chora's Den.

{Continued in Leonne's Penthouse Apartment}