Disclaimer:



The following is a rewritten form of the ending of Mass Effect 3. Unlike most of the redone ending that you will encounter, this one is quite long seeing as it begins at the Asari home world of Thessia. From here, the plot takes a dramatic shift that changes the course of events that happen within the last ~5 hours of the game.

The story stars Commander Elizabeth Shepard from a first person prospective, thus putting the reader in the same position that they were in during the Mass Effect Franchise. So far, these are the decisions that have been made:



Mass Effect 1:



Biotic



Saved Kaiden on Virmire



Capped Wrex like he was Tupac



Saved the Rachni Queen



Saved the Council



Everyone Survived the Suicide Mission, Like a Boss



Samara is Dead, Morinth is too.



The Collector base was SAVED



Saved Mordin!



Diana Allers was replaced with someone better. Still a Reporter.



Finally: I would just like to let everyone know that this is not being written due to some sort of unhappiness with the current ending of Mass Effect. Bioware did a fantastic job of making everything work out in the end, and with the extended cut they made an ending that had good closure as well as dealing with the slightly Over Powered Reapers. Bravo to them, and everything in this belongs to them.



Without further ado I proudly present Mass Effect: Shattered





Thessia: Landing Zone,



Commander Elizabeth Shepard, Status Active



Mission Objective: Recovery of Prothean Data



Current Situation: The Reapers have landed in Thessia in a force that I have yet to see within this war. Using the troops that they have gathered from other Planets, the Reapers have attacked the Asari with a Blitzkrieg that shattered their defences. Despite actually having been prepared for the attack due to the preparation of two months since the first attacks in Batarian Space, they were useless agains the sheer power of the Reaper assault. Lucky for the Asari, they had separated their populations into smaller devisors, causing the Reaper Harvesting to be less effective on Thessia than it was on many other planets.

The increased frequency of Banshee screams from the areas around us imply that they have figured out a way to turn regular Asari into Banshees, though they are significantly varied in terms of strength depending on the converted's Biotic Power, this seems to be what made the Ardat Yakshi such a prime target during their early attacks in Asari Space.

Chances of Asari support are minimal considering the damage to their home world, and the infrequency of Asari Huntresses who are properly trained battle techniques that can affect the Reapers. Asari forces on Earth will be disappointing at best unless something is done to assist them.

-Saving Progress_



I looked over to Liara, who was typing out a message on her omni-tool like I had been. I pang of guilt filled my heart as I typed out the final line of the message.

-Opening Document-

Though, at this point in the war the need for the Asari forces can be debated, Thessia is recommended to be a low priority target for strike teams.

-Sending to: Admiral Hackett-



As the first human to land on Thessia since the attack had begun, it had been my job to assess the situation on the surface and report to Hackett who could coordinate our troops, but in a single message I had knocked down the chances of survival for the Galaxies oldest civilized world by a great margin. Without the support of the allied troops, Thessia was already done for, by marking it a low priority target I had nearly assured that any forces that can be spared will be sent to one of the other battlegrounds rather than Thessia. I had also just assured that this mission that I was on became a lot more time sensitive, without the promise of incoming troops who could extract us, we would need to get to the temple and back before the Reapers made the way impassible.

Even then, right now I was stuck twiddling with my Mattock as engineers outside made hasty repairs to a bridge that we needed to cross. Without it there was no way for us to get close enough to the Temple, everything beyond this point was ravaged by Harvesters and several ground-to-air cannons that had been placed by the Reapers. We'd been told to hold back as we were the biggest priority right now, and as such there was nothing that we were allowed to do until we were given the go ahead by someone further up the line. As much as I usually wasn't one to sit down during a fight, considering what I had just told command, the least I could do was follow orders.

"It's horrible isn't it? Sitting here and waiting for someone to tell you when you are allowed to fight."

"Yeah, Liara it is."

"I guess I understand how you feel when you talk about Earth now. At least I can be here for the time being and do my part, but you were taken off world as soon as the Reapers hit. I can't imagine how it must have felt."

I paused for a second before speaking, trying to ignore the voice in my head that told me that I should be back on Earth fighting. That even though we were doing everything we could for Earth out here, I should be down fighting with Anderson, taking back every piece of land that we can. Only backing down when the last person who can hold a gun is dead. "We are here now to bring help to Earth," pang of guilt "and Thessia."

"You're lying Shepard." I glanced at her to see the Asari holding her Omni-tool in the air almost mockingly, "I'm using my resources to track every email within the war effort with the Key Word Thessia. Glyph thought this one would be of particular interest." I went to speak but she stopped me, "Don't worry Shepard, I understand." There was a falter in her voice that told me that she didn't understand. That told me wished that she could be angry with me right now. It just wasn't in her nature to see things from a very emotional sense, but it still hurt, and we both knew it.

"You're clear." Shouted a huntress as she pounded on the door to the reenforced position that we had been waiting in. "Get a move on, I am not waiting here while my people get killed out there."

I picked my gun off of the floor and gripped it as I burst out the door. Pulling it's sights up to my eye as I did. "You don't need to." I replied as the commando ran off in the direction opposite of where we had to go, heading towards the biotic amplifiers that allowed for the Asari to launch artillery strikes all across their cities. Alliance tech that had been collected from Grissom had been shared with the Asari for experimentation, and it was apparently being used.



"All right, now where's the party?" Asked Garrus as he hopped off the transport that had just dropped off the rest of the squad. Usually I preferred to stick to two people with me and the rest distracting the enemy at less important objectives, but at this point it was pointless, the reapers were distracted by an entire planet fighting against their invasion. Even the citizens of Thessia could put up a fight with biotic powers.

"The party's everywhere Garrus, try to keep up this time."

"Oh I don't plan to lose again, Thessia is more my kind of battle ground, last time was a fluke."

"I beat you by over ten kills last time Garrus, that translates to "Solid ass whopping"."

"Are you two keeping score again?" Liara asked with an annoyed tone.

"Three," Called James as he walked over to the group, "reining champion James Vega reporting for duty Lola."

"How about when I beat you this time you stop calling me that idiotic name?"

"You and your stupid games," Liara shook her head at us, "don't they distract you?"

"To the contrary Dr. Tsoni, James, Shepard and Garrus have all posted lower stress levels and higher performance since they started competing on Sur'Kesh. With Shepard winning most of the competitions, save for the last round with James, and three times to Garrus."

"Mind if I join in this time?" Kaidan asked as he finished converting the ammunition on his rifle.

"No problem pretty boy," James responded, "just try to worry less about your hair this time."



I raised my hand to initiate silence within our ranks, motioning to the left and the right to get everyone into fire team formation. The three biotics at the front to clear the way, James and Edi right behind us to watch our sides, and Garrus behind us to take care of anything particularly nasty with his sniper rifle. A voice popped up in my ear just as we were about to head out into the battle,

"Commander, Tali is still in the infirmary. Apparently she refused to let you go without her until Dr. Chawkwas locked the door and turned on her nerve-stim, apparently she is now complying."

"Thanks, Joker." I responded before cutting the connection, the order was radio silence until we got to the temple. The reapers were a lot better at tracking down high value targets via comm chatter than actual voices. Those tended to just get lost in the din of war. "All right everyone, let's move out. We have a Prothean to talk to."