Author's Note: This is a non-profit fanfiction made for the sole purpose of doing something fun about one of my favorite characters in the Mass Effect series. Harbinger and Shepard belong to BioWare and My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro. Enjoy.

Chapter 7: A Story from Long Ago

Location: Equestria, Ponyville, Ponyville Park

Time: One week and three days post Arrival

The six mares and Spike were having a walk in the park, along with their pets. Twilight had an owl name Owlowiscious, Spike had a phoenix named PeeWee, Pinkie had a toothless alligator named Gummy, Applejack was with her dog Winona, Rainbow Dash with her tortoise Tank, Fluttershy with Angel Bunny and Rarity with her cat Opalescence. There were many other ponies with pets, but we won't go into detail.

Rarity: Has anypony noticed that recently Harbinger, became more… open up and nice? I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but you could never say he did what he did all those years ago.

Applejack: Ah noticed, Applebloom act'lly said that he's agreed tah help'er and 'er friends with their School Project.

Twilight: Exactly what kind of school project?

Pinkie: Do they have to bake a cake? Maybe make some cupcake? Maybe it's "A Hero They Know" kind of project, or maybe something else.

Rarity: Yes, it's "A Hero I know Project", somehow got it right, Sweetie Bell, has been talking about it for a week. I heard Scootaloo wanted to make it about Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash: *proudly* Of course they want to, I'm the greatest hero they know. That project would be 20% cooler if it were about me.

Everyone present gave her cross looks.

Applejack: But it looks like in the end, they refused to write about Rainbow Dash.

Everyone except Rarity and Applejack: Who did they write about then?

Rarity and Applejack: Take a guess.

Everyone thought for a few moments, then came to a realization, four jaws hit the floor. Pinkie was cheering for them.

Rainbow Dash: *disappointed* They just failed the project. They should've made it about me.

Fluttershy: *giggles* That's very nice of them, as long as he doesn't mind. But where is he?

Suddenly Spike burped a scroll followed by a small package. Twilight picked up the scroll and read it, the furious blush she had piqued her friends' curiosity, but before they could read, the lavender mare burned the scroll and ran away with the package.

Rainbow Dash: What the hay was that?

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Location: Equestria, Canterlot, City Entrance

Time: A little earlier

Harbinger was walking slowly at the entrance of Canterlot. The trip took only a few minutes due to his wings, but in town he decided to walk towards the palace, just to take a look at the city itself. Shepard had uploaded the coordinated of the meeting point – The Throne Room, which allowed him to come here alone and avoid speaking with the Canterlot ponies, for reasons obvious. Many of them were avoiding him, others unlike the Ponyvillians were actively insulting him which he chose to ignore, yet it did actually anger him slightly. The building were well built, with exquisite designs, each building more beautiful than the other. It amazed the Reaper what ponies could do with only hooves. He continued looking around when he bumped into a somepony.

The Pony: My word, what in Equestria is that?

The Mare next to The Pony: I have never seen such a creature, have you Fancy?

The Pony: Never, maybe it is something the guards brought to the city?

Harbinger turned his attention to the two ponies and saw a white unicorn stallion with a azure mane, tail and moustache that had a Cutie Mark of three crowns. Next to him was a tall, slender, pinkish white unicorn mare with a pale pink mane and a Cutie Mark of three Fleur-de-Lis.

Harbinger: *mock tone* Amusing, I thought the same about you.

The Stallion: *apologetic*Oh dear, I am frightfully sorry, I did not wish to offend. My wife and I simply never saw a creature quite like yourself around here.

Harbinger: No need to apologize, I never saw a well mannered pony in this city myself.

The Stallion: *chuckles* I get that a lot. Most nobleponies scorn common folk and you're quite…unique, so that doubles for you. Oh where are my manners I am Fancypants and this is my wife Fleur-de-Lis.

Fleur-de-Lis: It is a pleasure to meet you mister…

Harbinger: Harbinger, my name is Harbinger.

Fancypants: Well, mister Harbinger, would you like to accompany us to the restaurant, we were just about to head there and eat.

Harbinger: I am sorry, I must refuse this offer, I have some official business with Princess Celestia and I must not be late.

Fancypants: I see, well maybe next time you can visit, or at least after you finish your business here. What do you say? *extends a hoof*

The Reaper stared at the hoof and then returned the gesture, shaking the stallion's hoof.

Harbinger: Very well, until next time.

With that the Reaper left for the castle. Fleur-de-Lis wrapped her hooves around Fancy's neck.

Fleur-de-Lis: He is quite a sophisticated stallion, contrary to what one might think of his appearance, and I think you just made a friend.

Fancypants: *chuckles* An acquaintance, for now.

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Location: Canterlot, Outside Throne Room

Time: A few minutes later.

Harbinger came up to a large golden door adorned with the emblems of the moon and the sun. On the door were engraved various flowers, fruits and other shapes. From inside several voice could be heard, including a very familiar voice.

Very Familiar Person: *muffled due to door* Oh come on! Again?

Celestia: *laughing* Oh John, for the greatest Artificial Intelligence in the galaxy, you are horrible at chess.

Luna: By the moon Johnny, I told you to use the rook.

John: I thought I could beat her without it.

The voice of John the voice of none other than…

Harbinger: *barges into room* Shepard! What are you doing here?

Instead of the hologram Shepard used when he first arrived, as Harbinger would have expected, there, playing with Celestia stood a red Earth Pony stallion with a brown cropped mane and tail, as well as a N7 Cutie Mark. The stallion turned towards the Reaper and waved happily at him. Luna was standing behind the stallion looking thoughfully at the chess board.

Shepard: Harbinger, long time no see. I see you've made yourself quite comfortable here. How's it goin-

Harbinger: *interrupts* Cut the chat Shepard and tell me why am I here and why are you a pony?

Shepard: Geez, as crabby as usual. I guess you can't help it, oh, and about the body… it's just something I came up with for the Armada.

Harbinger: What exactly are you speaking about?

Shepard: What I'm saying is: I've sent most of the Armada to a similar quest like yours, not on this planet of course, you and I are the only ones here, but in order to do so, I had to make bodies like these so they can take control and walk among the people.

Harbinger: And you tell me this just now? What if there is an attack or something? What will you do?

Shepard: Relax, the ones who didn't want to go are staying back to guard the Armada. Anyways, I called you here because I made a new body for you. The one you're using now is kind of old, so I decided to give you an upgraded body all that's left is the outer shell and the Cutie Mark. What will it be?

Harbinger: For the outer shell, no changes from this one.

Shepard: You sure?

Harbinger: Yes, and the Cutie Mark, I'll think for a bit.

Shepard started to work on the body

Celestia: Well, now that we have that settled we can continue our converstion. We were speaking of the Armada. Now that you are here, I wanted to ask, what, no, who exactly were you before you became a Reaper. Shepard told us that a Reaper is created from millions of individuals of a single race, yet to finish the construction a Personality Matrix is required to finalize the Reaper.

Luna: You tried to build a Reaper based on humans, and you needed Shepard to become the personality matrix of this Human-Reaper.

Harbinger: Correct.

Luna: That means you were created by the same method. What race did you come from and who was the personality matrix.

Harbinger: The information of who and what I was before I became a Reaper has been lost, I do not remember anything.

Celestia: What do you mean lost, how did you lose it?

Shepard: It's not something he likes to talk about, but if it's okay I can tell them. *Harbinger nods* Ok, so it was…

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Location: Unkown, Nazara Homeworld

Time: Unknown, assumed to be over five billion years ago

The first ever Reaper harvest had ended, it was a grueling battle for Harbinger since he had to work alone, but based on schematics left from his creators he could build a new Reaper, a new ally to fight with him. The construction was underway and Harbinger was overseeing the entire process. Hundreds of Nazara were being transported and processed into raw DNA for the Nazara-Reaper. Harbinger walked up to one particular pod were a member of the harvested race was struggling to free himself.

Harbinger: There is no need to struggle General Sovereign, the harvest will end quickly and you will be able to join your family afterwards.

Sovereign: I trusted you, and this is how you repay me. I should have known you would betray me, it was so damn obvious.

The general was a slim humanoid creature with a matte grey skin that had a sandpaper texture to it. The arms and legs each had four digits, were thin and covered in scaly plates. The face had exactly the same features as a human , but he had slicked back dark metallic gray hair that resembled metallic wires, as well as piercing red eyes. The ears were pointy. By human standards the General looked like a twenty-five year old man, yet Nazara could live up to five centuries.

Harbinger: I am sorry Sovereign, but I have to do this.

The Reaper looked at the Nazara and started the process of forming the Persoality Matrix. Sovereign's body started to glow, while the Nazara was screaming in pain, as his entire body was turned into a synthetic organism. It all went blank after a few seconds. When the General woke up later he felt different. His body was no longer his own, it felt almost like a large insect, he could no longer see the world normally, everything was turned into raw data that had to be processed. He looked around and spotted another 'insect' like him.

Harbinger: It appears you have awaken, welcome Nazara or should I call you Sovereign, to the Armada.

The Nazara General immediately recognized the voice, he suddenly got angry knowing what the Reaper did with his entire race. In a blind rage the lasers on his Reaper body fired at Harbinger, striking him directly near the core. This damaged the part of his memory from before he became a Reaper, and so, it was lost forever.

[Back to the Present]

Harbinger: We fought for what seemed like years and one day we both could no longer continue. That day we called a temporary truce, got to know eachother better and became best friends. I still remember how he would prank me by uploading all kinds of explicit data. *sigh* I used the form of many races before, Majin, Namekian, Saiyan but of all races I used, the Collectors were the best in Sovereign's opinion. That is why, that's why I want this body to look like a Collector.

The Reaper looked towards his listeners and found them crying in a comic fashion.

Luna: *sob* That was so touching, Shepard told us what happened to Sovereign.

Celestia: *sobbing very hard* I understand what it is to lose a close person.

Shepard: *sobbing the hardest* And I'm sorry too, if it weren't for me he would still be alive right now, but if he would we would all be dead so… serves you right.

All Three: Let's hug your sorrow away.

Harbinger found himself pulled into and involuntary group hug. After a few seconds of trying to free himself, he gave up and returned the hug laughing heartily.

Celestia: *chuckles* I almost forgot, I have to send a message to my student. *winks at Shepard*

Shepard winks back, they both start snickering. Luna was watching from the side with a worried expression, Harbinger was to busy inspecting his new body to notice.

Luna: Sister, John, what are you up to?

Shepard and Celestia: Nothing~

[Later…]

Shepard: The body is done, what's gonna' be your Cutie Mark?

Transmission Terminated

Logging Off

*New Codex Entry Available*

Codex: Sovereign

Sovereign is or as he used to introduce himself to organics as Nazara, was a member of a race of the same name – Nazara. Sovereign was the second Reaper to join the Armada, as such he and Harbinger were close friends since then. When the Armada gained a considerable amount of units, Harbinger took the role of the leader while Sovereign was his second in command. After the construction of the Citadel, he also became the 'Vanguard' of the Arrival, where upon the time to call forth the Armada he would open the Citadel – a supermassive Mass Relay that would allow the Reapers to invade. Despite many successes, during the Prothean Cycle, the Protheans wer able to sabotage the entire process of remotely opening the Citadel for the Armada. Sovereign in a desperate attempt to succeed was forced to use the help of organics. In the end this only brought his demise, when at the hands of an entire fleet he was destroyed during the Battle at The Citadel. Core of the his ship hasn't been found so far, so the theory that he could still be alive is plausible…

Author's Note: #1: Don't you just want to HUG Harby now. These are actually my thoughts about Harbinger and Sovereign's relationship. Sovereign actually does refer to himself as Nazara, and many speculated that Reapers name themselves after the race they came from, and in my additional speculation, the higher ranking officials can also come up with their own name.

#2: Mass Effect: Leviathan is coming out this Summer. Apparently he will become a War Asset after you acquire him. Sadly in the HoE story, Leviathan is Harbinger's arch-nemesis, because he killed one of his another Reaper. Harby does not approve killing of family members.

#3: No, Sovereign will not return in this story, he is neither alive, but neither is he dead.

-LittleMisterBlack out-