When De seems likely to clear out, Shepard leaves Garrus where he's crouched and hops onto the hood. Step off, girly— can you take us both? No? That's what I thought?

Of course, despite her threatening posture, Shepard isn't all that interested in defending Venus; but she does bend down a bit to ask, "Hey, doin' okay down there?"

Shepard's opinion of the arena meshed will with Venus'. You leave the past behind you, and the arena is fiction, each instance isolate unto itself. But for what the Commander was about to do, this was recent news.