A/N: Okay. Some of you may notice that I throw a lot of shit at Garrus. Mostly cause I throw a lot of shit at Garrus in ME game. I tried to teach him the ways of the paragon....and he goes and throws most of it away in Mass effect 2. Making me wonder why I bother trying. Anyways, I don't hate Garrus. Hell I take him and Tali everywhere with me, I can probably beat all three games with just those two alone. But I like to give Garrus some grief before finally letting up.

Anyways, this is a short chapter before finally setting off in the ME storyline.

-Canterlot Castle/ Queen Celestia's Chamber-

The night was in full swing. Outside in Canterlot proper, citizens were enjoying the night life as they partied under the neon lights of Canterlot clubs. Inside Canterlot Castle, a different story was taking place.

Strewn across her desk, various scrolls, datapads, and notes sat before the Queen of Equestria. Her face filled with dread and discomfort.

'Could it be.... Is our time really coming....so soon...' Celestia's thoughts were racing as she tried to come up with a different conclusion that didn't equal the one she just made.

“What am I going to do?” She whispered.

“Tia.” A voice called out in the darkness. Celestia turn to see yellow eyes looking back at her before the figure walked forward into the pale moonlight.

“Discord....” Celestia said quietly before turning back and looking at the reports on her desk. Discord frown, usually Celestia would demand why he was there before she finally just talk to him....or ravish him with kisses....well....that hadn't happen yet....But one could hope!

“Something wrong Tia?” Discord said quietly. When he saw her face, he saw an emotion he hated to see, one of Celestia being scared. The first time he saw her with look was when it was aimed at him when he made a move to rule Equestria. He didn't want to cause a war, but it ended that way anyways when they fought. But he hated himself for it.

“Look....” Celestia moved away from the desk. “What do you see?”

Discord frown at her before walking over and studied the reports and images. A slow frown come onto his face before he looked at Celestia.

“Some of these reports are centuries old Tia.”

“I know....”

“Tia....if I am looking at this correctly...Something big is going to happen.”

“I know Discord....and it is going to happen soon.”

-Citadel/Presidium-

Shepard sighed quietly as he looked over the final tally of causalities from Eden Prime. 'That number is too high' he thought to himself as he walked over to Tali and Wrex.

“Miss Zorah?” Shepard said quietly “Can I speak with you?” Tali nodded her head, Wrex walked off to talk to Destiny.

“Yes?” Tali answered, giving him her full attention.

“I need to know more about the geth.” Shepard stated.

“All the information about the geth was given to the Alliance.” Tali said. “Your people know as much as us.”

“I mean about the current geth. The ones attacking us now. Did you notice anything different about what your people knows about them?” Tali frown, crossing her arms and jutted her hip to the side, unaware that this form cause Shepard some discomfort.

“Lets see....” She closed her eyes and scrunched her nose as she looked back through her memories. “The electrical system and circuit boards are heavily shielded for overloads. Armor has been modified and reinforced. Advance synthetic muscle system....very advance, act more like organic muscles than a hydraulic system.  A much more advance wireless system. Advance firewalls and protection system against hacking attempts.....strange...”

“Whats strange?” Shepard asked.

“From what I listed, this sounds like they were gear against the rest of the galaxy. Not the Alliance. The only thing that would help would be the armor and protection against overloads. Alliance doesn't really relies on hacking all that much and those that do use it rarely use it against an enemy. The advance muscle system may helped against a normal mercenary or Citadel Forces, but against an Alliance soldier? They would have been destroyed instantly. I mean....a private straight from basic could take on a krogan. A single geth would be no match for it them.”

“They sent over 200 invading ships along with that monster of a dreadnought.” Shepard said quietly. “It was at least 7 to 1 on the ground.”

“Keelah. Even the krogan will have trouble against those odds.” Tali muttered.

“Probably explain why we have a somewhat of an easy time against them when the battlefield was on even ground.” Shepard thought back on the mission. Tali looked away for a moment before turning back to him.

“I think I can help.” Tali confidently said.

“How?”

“Well, the geth will no doubt improve their defenses as time goes on. I can gather pieces of geth from the field and inspect them for anything new. I can then improve our weapons to match them.”

“You can do that?” Shepard asked in surprise.

“Please, Commander. I'm a quarian remember? Give me some eezo, a circuit board, and sheet metal and I can make it doing some precision jumps in no time. Improving a weapon would be no problem at all.” Tali said, puffing her chest out. Shepard chuckled, shaking his head.

“Just remember to send all improvement plans made to the Alliance M&T department.” Shepard ordered.

“Of course.” Tali nodded her head, Shepard smiled before turning and walking towards Lonar who was talking to Garrus. Shepard glared at the turian, which the turian flinched somewhat when he saw it.

“Lonar?” Shepard asked. “Can I talk to you.....with out Die Hard.” Shepard stared hard at Garrus, causing him to rub his neck and walk away. Lonar gave a frown at Shepard for this.

“You really shouldn't be to hard on him. He was doing what he thought was best at the time.” Lonar said, Shepard only snorted at this.

“Shooting a suspect without giving him a warning. Proceeding without backup. Putting an innocent civilian in harms way.” Shepard listed off. “I don't know about you, Lonar, but that is not what I expect from a normal cop. That is what I expect from a dirty or renegade cop.” Lonar only sighed.

“They were zombies if I remember correctly Shepard.” Lonar argued.

“Doesn't matter.” Shepard growled “I could of handle the situation much better than simply shooting my way out.” Shepard grunted, pinching his nose before continuing “Thats not why I wanted to talk to you. Can you use your Spectre connections to see if you can find any leads on Saren?”

Lonar crossed her arms, nodding her head at Shepard. “Yeah, I can get right on that. The thing is Shepard that I will not be on this mission. Too young and inexperience to go after Saren. They will find someone else. But I will try to help out when I can.” Destiny walked up to Shepard.

“John, Prime Minster sent a message. The Council is looking over the evidence now.”

Shepard nodded his head. “Okay people, let go. Time to meet the big cheeses again.”

-Council Chambers-

'Eden Prime was a major victory. It brought us one step close to finding the conduit. And one step closer to the return of the Reapers.' The recording echoed out in the chamber. A rather smug looking Prime Minster stood in front of the Council. He took a step forward and pointed to them.

“You wanted proof.” Udina said, his eyes filled with confidence “There it is.”

A rather stun looking Council couldn't believe what they were hearing.

“I...No! This can't be!” Councilor Sparatus stated. “Where did you get this information?!”

Tali walked up, her face and head covered. “I found it.”

“And who are you?” Councilor Verlan stated.

“Tali'Zorah Vas Nevos Rannoch.” Tali said proudly.

“A quarian!” Councilor Sparatus spat. “You expect me to believe some lowly thieving-”

“I would watch who you are insulting Councilor” Udina growled. “Miss Zorah is the daughter of an admiral. Plus she is looked upon as a niece to the Clan Leader of the Krogans, who is currently standing behind me.”  This cut the insults immediately, a dark chuckle rose up from behind Udina.

“No no....Continue. I want hear more.” Wrex gave a vicious smile to the Turian Councilor. Councilor Tevos coughed quietly to gain everyone's attention.

“While you may think this is some sort of ploy from the Equestrians Councilor Sparatus, I beg to differ. I recognized the second voice. A voice that the Equestrians would of never heard unless they managed to land on Thessia.”

“Who is it?” Anderson asked.

“Matriarch Benezia. She a powerful biotic and is well respected in Asari space. She also has a large amount of followers, so she will be a powerful ally for Saren.”

“But this recording can't possible-” Councilor Sparatus argued, before Councilor Verlan cut in.

“It is a 99% match to Saren's voice. The person speaking is Saren.” Councilor Sparatus tried to deny that. That the Equestrian abilities made matching someone's voice child's play. Destiny stepped up and offered up a spell to change one's voice. She performed it and spoke the same sentence on the recording. Sufficiently to say, it did not fool the machine. She may have sounded like Saren, but it was missing several things. One had to know Saren and how he speaks to even get close to fooling the machine.

“The proof is irrefutable.” Councilor Verlan stated, while Councilor Sparatus hung his head in shame.  “Saren will be strip of his Spectre status and all efforts will be made to bring him in to answer for his crimes. There is one more thing I wish to ask. Benezia spoke of Reapers. What do you know about them?”

Udina, Anderson, and Shepard winced at the question. None of them wanted to answer this question in fear of them being seen as insane. “Only what was extracted from the geth's memory core.” Anderson started. “From what it said, Reapers were an ancient race of machines that wiped out the Protheans, then they vanished.”

“For whatever reason.” Shepard started. “The geth believed that Reapers are gods, and Saren is the prophet for their return.”

“The geth believe that the Conduit is the key to their return.” Udina spoke up, insuring that geth would be seen insane, instead of them.

“Saren is searching for it.” Anderson took over once again. “That is why he attacked Eden Prime.”

“Do we even know what it is?” Councilor Verlan asked.

“Saren thinks he can bring back the Reapers, that bad enough.” Shepard said.

“Listen to what you are saying.” Councilor Sparatus spoke up. “Saren wants to bring back machines that wiped out all life in the galaxy? Impossible, it has to be.  Where did the Reapers go? Why did they vanished? How come we found no trace of their existence? If they were real, we would of found something.”

Shepard threw up his hands. “Who knows. All I know is this nutcase found out about these things. I rather not take my chances. I warned you about Saren's treachery, but you brushed me off!”

“This is different.” Councilor Tevos said. “You found proof that Saren betrayed the council. We all agree that he is using the geth to find the Conduit. But we don't really know why.”

“The Reapers are just a myth Commander.” Councilor Verlan said, “Convenient lie to cover Saren's true purpose to bend the geth to his will.”

Shepard stared at the Salarian councilor for a full minute before shaking his head. “You know...Udina is right about you....you must slow on the uptake.” Councilor Verlan jerked his head at the insult. “Geth are machines. Obviously delusional machines, but machines none the less.  They would never believed Saren if there wasn't some truth to his words. Saren might be looking for Reaper weapons, powerful enough to wipe out the Protheans. And if there is Reaper weapons, there might be Reapers. I rather be prepared for the worst.”

“Saren no longer has the rights or resources of a Spectre.” Councilor Sparatus stated “He will be on the run for his life.”

“Not like that matters” Shepard muttered quietly. “I mean...its not like he has an army geth at his command that could probably make things from scratch.”

“That is not good enough.” Udina shouted. “You know he is hiding somewhere in the Traverse, send your fleet in.” he close his hand into a fist, flames engulfing his hands.

“A fleet cannot track down one man.” Councilor Verlan stated.

“The fleet can secure relays that connect to our space. To keep the geth from attacking anymore of our colonies” Udina pointed out.

“Or it could trigger a war with the Terminus systems. We will not be drag into war over a few Equestrian colonies.” Councilor Sparatus said, gaining a glare from Tevos for his words.

“We are not asking you to bend over backwards and send every single ship you have.” Shepard growled out. “Just secure relays. Thats it. If the Terminus decides that they want to go war on our borders, they will find themselves facing us as well.”

Udina nodded his head. “Shepard is right. The Terminus wants to fight, they will find themselves fighting two different galactic powers in doing so.” Councilor  Sparatus was about to retort, but was cut off.

“We agree.” Councilor Tevos stated. Councilor Sparatus stared at her, confused at her response. “We will post heavy guardships at connecting relays. This way, the Alliance will not gear up and send fleets into the Traverse to search for Saren. We will send any Spectres that are free from any tasks to search for him.”

“I volunteer!” Lonar spoke up, walking up next to Shepard. “Nihlus was my teacher, and he would want me to go after Saren for his death.”

“You barely have any experience as Spectre, Maerum.” Councilor Sparatus argued. “As a rookie, you are too inexperience for this type mission.”

“With all due respect, Councilor.” Lonar gritted her teeth. “I got over 30 years of investigation and police work experience, as well as QR* squads on Illuim. The only difference I see between being a Spectre and a regular cop is the lack of red tape that will slow down a regular cop or military personnel.”  

Councilor Sparatus turn and look at his fellow Councilors. They both nodded their heads, forcing him to concede to their will. Councilor Tevos smiled before turning back to Lonar.

“Spectre Maerum, step forward.” Lonar nodded and stood at the end of the platform, with Udina respectfully taking a step back. “At this moment, we are sending you into the Traverse to find Saren. Saren is a fugitive from justice, so you are authorized to use any means necessary to apprehend or eliminate him. This a joint mission with the Alliance personnel, any relevant information is to be shared between the two. This meeting with the Council is adjourn. Good luck Spectre Maerum.” Councilor Tevos nodded her head at the Spectre before walking away with the others.

Anderson, Udina, and Shepard walked up to Lonar. “Congratulation, Spectre Maerum. Hopefully you will have a good hunt.” Udina said to her.

“Thank you Prime Minster. It will be hard though. I need to get a ship or at least commandeer one.” Lonar stated, looking some what worried.

“What about Nihlus's ship?” Shepard asked.

“That ship was taken by Saren, the bastard!” Lonar seethed. “I was on the ship not even for an hour before his people came by and kicked me off. I managed to gather some personal items of his to give to his family. So it wasn't a total loss.”

“Hmm...”Anderson hummed somewhat, looking at Lonar with interest.

Udina turn to Shepard, “Shepard, I need you to write up your report on Fist so I can give to the Queen. She and Lord Discord will be please to see Wright brought to justice.”

“On it Prime Minster.” Shepard answered, he then turn to Lonar, extending his hand “Lonar. Hope we meet again in future on our hunt for Saren.” Lonar smiled and shook his hand.

“Come on Garrus. Lets see if if we can find a way off the station.” Lonar called behind her. Shepard gave Garrus a glare, causing the turian to feel uncomfortable. Kaiden stood next to him, shaking his head.

“Commander, you really need to lay off of him.” Kaiden said. Shepard only scoffed and shook his head.

“We'll see. Come on guys. Lets head back to the Normandy.”

-Dock 422, 2 hours later-

“Captain Anderson?” Shepard walked out of the airlock of the Normandy. He saw Anderson and Udina standing on the docking platform, waiting for something. “Ship is prepped and ready to head back to Alliance space. Just waiting for your say so.”

“Hold on Shepard. We are picking two more personnel.” Anderson said.

“Two more?”

The elevator rang out and the doors open up, revealing Spectre Lonar and Garrus. “I still can't believe you quit Garrus.” Lonar said.

“I was going to quit anyways, and besides, you can use the help.” Garrus argued. Lonar only sighed at this. She looked to Anderson and smiled at him.

“Captain Anderson.”

“Spectre Lonar. Pleasure as always.” Anderson nodded his head to her.

“You called for me?”

“Just checking to see if you have a way off the station.” Anderson asked.

Lonar frown, shaking her head. “Not yet. I received word from a turian patrol group will be coming back from their patrol, but it will be at least two weeks until they get here.”

“Then you are in luck.” Anderson turn and gestured to the Normandy. “I hereby give you permission to board the Normandy on her mission in hunting Saren.” Lonar and Garrus look surprised.

“Really?” Lonar blurted out.

“Yes really.” Anderson chuckled.

“T-thank you!” Lonar said. “Thank you so much.”

Udina coughed, gaining everyone's attention. “Before you go on your hunt, Captain Anderson must report back to Equestria. Queen Celestia sent me a message stating that she needs to speak with Anderson at the earliest convenience.” Anderson frown, but nodded his head. “I will remain here for a couple of days to finish talks with the Council before heading back towards Equestria. Captain, Commander.” Udina nodded to both of them before heading towards the elevator.

Anderson turn to Shepard. “Commander, tell Joker to get the ship up and ready to go in 10 minutes.”

Shepard saluted him. “Aye aye.”

-Equestria/Canterlot SpacePort, 2 days later-

Shepard, Kaiden, Destiny, and Lonar walked through the crowed spaceport and made their way to Canterlot castle. The last 2 days had the crew of the Normandy stocking up and making last minute adjustments for the upcoming mission. Anderson had been gone for those last two days, making crew wonder what was going on.

“Hey! Wait up!” A voice called from behind them. Shepard gave an irritated sigh before turning to see Garrus rushing up to them.

“Garrus?!” Lonar said in surprise “What are you doing here?”

“I couldn't wait on the ship. So I decided to go out and find you.” Garrus explained. “Good thing those ponies pointed me in the right direction.” Shepard only gave him glance before turning to keep walking.

“Just be respectful when we meet up with the Queen.” Shepard stated as he walked on, Garrus fell in behind Lonar, looking around to see all the species that made up the Alliance.

“Wow....” he whispered in awe as he saw a large dragon fly over head, heading towards a large ship.

“Never seen a dragon before?” Kaiden asked him, gaining a shake of the head from him.

“Only in the vids, never up close like this.” Garrus said, watching the dragon fly off in the distance. He felt his arm get tug, pulling him out of the way of a large minotaur who was carrying several large boxes in his arms.

“Sorry!” A pegasus called out, then turn back to the lumbering minoatur “Keep following my voice!” He said to the grumbling being.

As they walked up the castle stairs, Garrus looked up to see a large pink figure fly out of the castle window.

“What the heck was that?” Garrus said. Kaiden looked up to see the figure fly off into the distance.

“You mean who.” Kaiden corrected, Garrus looked to him for answers “That was Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. Or Princess Cadence for short.”

“Looked quite big for a pegasus.” Garrus commented.

“That cause she is not.” Shepard spoke up, nodding his head towards the front desk pony. “She is an Alicorn.”

“Alicorn....Oh yeah, like Queen Celestia and Princess Luna...but...how come I never heard of her?” Garrus asked, standing next to Kaiden on the telepad, looking somewhat confused at it.

“Thats because she-”

-Royal Offices-

“-tends to stay away from politics.” Kaiden finished, only to hear Garrus groan before falling to his knees. Lonar looked somewhat queezy, but stayed on her feet, having experience with the telepad before.

“Lonar....why didn't you warn me?” Garrus groan, Lonar only smiled at the question.

“Cause no one warned me.” She replied cheekily. Shepard walked up to desk, only to groan when he saw the same griffon from before sitting there. She on the other hand, looked ecstatic to see him.

“Ah! Commander Shepard!” She cried out, looking like she was about to jump over the desk to hug him. “You're here....so....are you taking up my offer?” She gave him a coy look. Destiny only giggled when Shepard face palmed.

“Just...just do your job please.” Shepard said calmly, earning a disappointed look from the griffon. “The Queen sent for us. Can you see if she is ready for us.” The now gloomy griffon only nodded her head and shuffled away.

“You know how to knock them down a peg or two, John.” Destiny smiled at Shepard, causing him to groan.

“I will buy her a bouquet of Marigold, Morning glories, and yellow roses. She should know the meaning well enough.” Shepard said, feeling somewhat like a jerk. “.....ah damnit. Fine, I will take her out for dinner. Thats it though!” This earn a laugh from Destiny. The depressed looking desk griffon came back.

“She is ready for you.” She mumbled, Shepard only sighed before walking up to talk her. The rest of the group watched as Shepard talked to the griffon. They saw the griffon's face lite up, jumping up to hug him, much to Shepard's embarrassment. He patted her back before awkwardly before gently pushing her away. Everyone covered up their laughter when Shepard came back to them.

“What?” He growled at them as he stormed passed them, walking into the office. Inside, Queen Celestia, Captain Anderson, and Discord were waiting for them.

“Commander Shepard, Spectre Maerum.” Celestia nodded her head to them. “Oh, I see Sergeant Major Sparkle and Lieutenant Alenko are here as well.” She then turn to Garrus, who puffed his chest out. “I'm sorry, I don't know you.” Garrus slouched after she said this, causing Shepard to smirk at him.

“Shepard.” Anderson turn to him, his face was grim. “We got bad news....really bad news.”

Discord took a couple of steps, waving his claws towards the center. “Commander, do you recognize this?” He asked, as an image of a familiar ship took place in the center of the room.

Shepard nodded his head. “Yeah, that is the ship that led the invasion on Eden Prime. A ship that the Geth created.” Lonar nodded her head as well.

“It was massive. I don't know how it was able to land on the planet.” Lonar added. Discord turn to Celestia, nodding his head to her. Celestia looked away, before another image was brought up. Destiny frown at the image that was brought up.

“Earth's Last Message?” Destiny said, gaining a look of confusion from Shepard, Lonar, and Garrus.  She sighed, shaking her head at Shepard. “You really need to study more often, John.”

“Also known as 'The Wall'.” Kaiden pipped up. “This dimension's humans wrote upon the wall as a final statement to be passed on about their.....” A look of understanding grace his face.

“Their Reapers.” Celestia finished. Lonar and Garrus looked in surprise at her.

“Oh my god....” Shepard said, taking a closer look at the image of the wall.

“You see it too.” Discord asked, gaining a nod from Shepard.

“What....what are you looking at?” Garrus asked. Shepard pointed at a section of the wall. The image was blown up to show the image of a squid or mollusk.

“What does that look like?” Shepard said. Lonar eyes widen in shock. Garrus made a connection as well.

“Thats...thats geth ship! But...But that doesn't make sense! Geth only been around 300 years!”

“Meaning that ship is not a geth ship.” Destiny said, comparing the image of the 'Geth' Ship and the image on the wall. “Its a Reaper ship.”

“Saren must of found it and took for his own.” Anderson said. “The geth would of saw Saren as a means to finding the Reapers themselves. No doubt the Geth are using Saren, as much as he is using them in return.”

“You mean to tell me that the System Alliance knew about the Reapers all this time?” Garrus accused them, a face palm was heard, coming from Lonar.

“Garrus....I like you...but please...shut up.” Lonar whisper to him.

“To answer your question.” Celestia looked to Garrus. “We had no idea what we were looking at. All we thought was some sort final message, naming their conquerors as Reapers. We had no idea there was a connection with the Prothean mysterious disappearance. This wall was found nearly 5 centuries ago, along with these.” An image of spikes appeared. “These spikes.”

“Dragon teeth.” Destiny said, gaining a odd look from Discord and Celestia. “Ancient human term. Born from dragon teeth, fierce warriors sprang from the ground itself. These spikes take the bodies of their enemies, living or dead, and corrupted them....change them into cybernetic monsters. It is a rather....horrifying process.”

“Another piece of Reaper tech.” Kaiden answered. “These Reapers are monsters. Smart and inventive...but monsters.”

“Making it imperative for us to find these Reaper tech before Saren does.” Anderson said. “Find them and destroy it.”

“The Council will be upset if you do, but I agree with you. This kind of tech should be destroyed.” Lonar said.

“Why would the Council want to use this kind of technology?” Kaiden asked in confusion.

“To them, its a means of improving their own technology.” Lonar explained. “Ever since your people appeared on the galactic scale, the Council have been pushing tech improvement to the limits.”

Celestia only shook her head at that. “They have nothing to fear from us. All we wish to do exist in harmony. Nothing more, nothing less.”

“They don't know that.” Lonar said, shaking her head “They think you are building up an armada to take on the galaxy.”

Discord looked at the Reaper ship. “Not the galaxy....These Reaper ships.” He stated. “We lost over 60 ships in the invasion. Nearly 30 of them were taken out by this thing alone. We building up ships as fast as we can to take up loss. But if there are more of those ships.....”

“Then we are going to need more ships.” Anderson finished. “The only thing we can take away from this is the fact our shields can shrug off several rounds from this thing.”

Discord nodded his head, “And the fact that our DEW can pierce through its shields. The armor is tough, but from what little Spike can do to it, it will not take much to get through.” He gave a feral grin as he saw the damage the single lone dragon did to the massive ship.

“At this moment, we need to worry about Saren.” Celestia stated. “We need to find him or his associates before they find these Reaper techs”

“Do we have any leads?” Destiny asked.

“Various Spectres is looking for leads on Saren and Benezia.” Lonar started. “So far they have nothing, but they are searching.”

“I have one lead you can follow.” Discord spoke up. “Benezia's daughter, Liara T'soni.”

“Who is she?” Shepard asked.

“Liara T'soni is an archeologist.” Discord stated, “An expert on Protheans.”

“And the Protheans created Conduit. So she may have clues to what the Conduit is.” Anderson said.

“Where is she?” Lonar asked.

“On the planet Therum, in the Artemis Tau Cluster. She is there with the permission of the Alliance to  dig up several Prothean ruins that were discovered there some time ago.” Anderson relay to them. Shepard nodded his head to Anderson.

“I will get the ship ready for launch then. I will inform the crew of our destination and await further orders from you, sir.” Shepard said.

Anderson smiled, but shook his head at Shepard. “Sorry Shepard, but I am not going with you. I am stepping down from commanding officer of the Normandy.” Shepard, Destiny, and Kaiden looked at Anderson with shock.

“But-” Shepard started, but Anderson held up his hands.

“She is quick and quiet, and you know the crew. Perfect for a Guardian and a Spectre team.” Anderson said, indicating to both Shepard and Lonar. “You will also gain help from the Krogan clans in the form of Urdnot Wrex, as well from the Quarian Conclave in the form of Tali'Zorah. Both are willing to help you in your mission.”

“But sir...Why?” Shepard asked.

Anderson gave Shepard a small nodded. “I had my share of the spot light, Shepard. I can do more good here on Equestria than on a ship. I can train several of our troops in Geth tactics and push for weapon and armor upgrades you will no doubt send to us. Besides, Commander General as well as Admiral Hackett asked me to stay behind and help with the defenses. This falls onto you, Commander. I know you can bring down Saren. You and Spectre Maerum.” Shepard and Lonar looked to one another before nodding their heads in unison.

“Follow the lead on T'Soni.” Discord said, “Saren has gone underground, so to speak. And geth have already began their push into our systems, no doubt searching for the Conduit. Finding Saren would be impossible for now. I will have my people looking for him as well, you can count on Cerberus's help.”

“Please Commander, for the sake of all of our people.” Celestia said quietly “Stop Saren before the situation gets worse and more innocents are killed.”

“As my Queen wishes, so shall it be done.” Shepard said, bowing to Celestia.

“Go.” She ordered. Shepard nodded his head, before turning and walking out of the office with the rest of his group. Discord looked to the side, a cloak figure appeared from thin air at his side.

“You think he is ready?” Discord asked him

“The Element of Victory makes no mistakes. He is ready.” Commander General said. “Now is his time to show his stuff. He doesn't need me anymore. They chose him for a reason.”

“The Elements of Harmony are also reacting.” Celestia said, gaining everyone's attention “There are new bearers now. To see both Victory and Harmony awaking shows there are dark times ahead. I only pray that they will be enough to turn the tides.”

-Equestria Space port-

“Commander!” Shepard turn to see a unicorn and griffon rush up to him. “Commander Shepard!”

“Yes?” Shepard looked confused at the two before him.

“My name is Doctor Far Pasture, this is Armorer Falcos Aires.” The unicorn pointed to themselves. “Princess Luna sent us to you to board your ship.”

“For what?” Shepard asked.

“To help improve your shields and armor.” Falcos said. “And to help Miss Zorah with weapon improvement.”

“How did you-” Shepard began to ask, but was cut off from Doctor Pasture.

“Miss Zorah came to us, the MagTech department. She asked for assistance in bringing equipment to the Normandy to help improve weapons and asked if there were anyone willing to assistance in armor and shields.” Shepard smiled at this.

“Well, it seems Miss Zorah is already pulling her weight. Welcome aboard.” Shepard said.

-Normandy Cockpit-

“Huh, so Anderson stepped down?” Joker asked. Shepard only nodded his head to his answer. “I could of sworn back room politics did it. Still, got to be careful, Commander. If this turns bad, you will be on their chopping block.”

“If this mission turns bad, I got more things to worry about than politics.” Shepard said, sighing softly. “Is everything ready?”

“Just finishing up the last diagnostic test-” Joker said, before he was interrupted.

“Come on already, I want fly!” a voice popped up.

“Ah there she is.” Joker said with a grin. Shepard look confused.

“Who the heck was that?” Shepard asked. An image of a familiar pegasus appeared on a monitor.

“The name is a Rainbow Dash!” The pegasus stated, “The best flier in all Equestria.”

“An Exion.” Shepard said, looking at the image in awe. “Princess Luna finished it?”

“Apparently so. She decided to grace the Normandy with the very first one. As you can see, she is modeled after the ever esteemed Rainbow Dash.” Joker said with a grin.

“Thats right, you got the best the of best!” Dash said. “I read the reports on these Geth. Don't worry about them hacking us Commander, they have to worry about me hacking them. Plus, Joker here can fly circle around them with out me. Now they will have trouble just finding us with me installed as well.” Joker looked at the Commander with happiness on his face.

“I love this ship.” Joker simply said.

“Hey, so are we ready or what?” Dash asked. Joker shook his head.

“Hold there, Baby Blue.” Joker said, gaining a frown from the Exion. “I am eager to fly as much as you. But first thing is first.” Joker leaned over and pushed the intercom button. “Commander, you want something to say to the crew?” Shepard nodded his head before leaning down to talk.

“This is Commander Shepard speaking.” Several crew members looked up hear the announcements “We have our orders: Find Saren before he finds the Conduit. I won't lie to you. This mission may be the toughest one yet. This began on attack on Equestrian settlement. He led the attack in hoping to break our spirits. Instead, he just woken up the dragon. We know he won't stop there either. His geth army are not going stay on the far fringes of Alliance space.  Even now we are preparing to repel any invaders that dare enter our space with the intent to harm innocents. Our enemies knows we are coming and Saren's followers will be waiting for us. But we will be ready for them as well. We will hunt for him to the ends of the galaxy and bring him down. This is most important mission any of has ever been on. The fate of the entire galaxy is at stake. We will stop Saren. And as the famous saying goes: Do or do not. There is no try.  ” Everyone who understood the saying smile and even laughed. Shepard smiled and Joker gave a small laugh.

“Attempting to lighten the mood, Commander? I know the Captain and the Queen would be proud of that.” Joker asked.

“It worked didn't it?” Shepard said, turning to leave. “But fancy speeches won't stop Saren. And if we really want to impress the Captain and the Queen, we better get this bird in the air.”

“Yes sir!” Joker said.

“Ah yeah. Its go time!” Dash exlaimed.

*Quick Response

End of The Hunt Begins

Start of  The Prothean Expert

WELCOME TO THE CODEX PERSONEL FILES. WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOOK UP?

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CODEX SEARCH ENTRY: Garrus Vakarian

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Codex Personel File: Garrus Vakarian

Name: Garrus Vakarian

Race: Turian

Age: 27

Birthplace: Palaven

Affiliation: Citadel Council

Occupation: Former C-Sec Detective

Rank: N/A

Notes: Garrus Vakarian is a former C-Sec Detective. However, he has shown recent behavior problems and has been reprimanded for his conduct several times in the past. This does not deter him in the slightest as he been shown to be rough on suspects in custody and even nearly had a ship blown apart due to his actions.

Battle Tactics: Garrus is a sniper, but isn't afraid in getting up close and personal. His proficiency with a sniper rifle has bested many veterans and shown to hit targets that would be other wise impossible to hit. However, his hot head approach and his tendency to ignore orders given to him has put him in odds with chain in command.

Skills:

High Accuracy with Sniper Rifles

Intermediate hacking skills

Concussive shot

Overload

Armor pierce mods

CODEX SEARCH ENTRY: Ashley Williams

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Codex Personel File: Ashley Williams

Name: Ashley Williams

Race: Human

Age: 25

Birthplace: Sirona

Affiliation: System Alliance

Occupation: N-4 Special Operative

Rank: Sergeant First Class

Notes: Ashley William is a newly minted N-4 Operative. She is the grandaughter of General Williams and strives to get out of her grandfathers shadow.  So far, she has no marks against her record and shown to be a good leader. However, there are notes stating that she has emotional tendency to lash out when angered.

Battle Tactics: Ashley is proficient in all weapons, but lacks any means of magical ability. She can heal and modify, but other wise let her weapons do the talking for her. She can follow orders well enough and can work in teams quite well.

Skills:

Guns galore: Intermediate skill

Imbued Element: Intermediate skill

Grenade

Earth Magic

Rage

CODEX SEARCH FILE: Urdnot Wrex

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Codex Personel File: Urdnot Wrex

Name: Urdnot Wrex

Race: Krogan

Age: 900+?

Birthplace: Tuchanka

Affiliation: System Alliance

Occupation: Krogan Clan Leader/ Former Mercenary

Rank: Clan Leader

Notes: Urdnot Wrex is the current leader of the Krogan Clans. Strong and wise, this Krogan knows how to break down an enemy and defeat it. He has no problem following orders due to his time as a mercenary, which had him following orders of his clients.

Battle Tactics: Wrex is a battlemaster. His strength is backed up with biotics, making him a frightening opponent to face on the field. Add in his tendency to rush heavy positions with little care and his ability to regenerate and shrug off rounds, make him nearly unstoppable. He prefers to be up close to his opponents, so his weapon of choice is the shotgun, and he is really good with it.

Skills:

High proficiency with shotguns (Did you really think I will add accuracy to that? Its a shotgun.)

Warp

Throw

Barrier

Stasis

Carnage

Krogan Berserker

CODEX UPDATE!

Codex entry: Exion

Exions are new technological marvels of the System Alliance. One can be confused with it being an AI. However, there are several key differences between the two. Exions are made from memories of those long past, or even alive. A 'soul' of a person, so to speak. The gathering of these memories (The person itself, Families, friends, acquaintances) are placed into a special crystal for the Exion to be housed in. The process is long and laborious, and tend to take weeks, even months just to get it right. However, once complete, a special type of magic fuses all the memories into a single conscience entity. They are then place into a special chamber to learn who they are, what they are, and what is expect of them.

Exion are treat like people in System Alliance, and there are even laws to protect them from Citadel Council in case one were some how find themselves in their hands. Exion know that they are not person they are based off from. Even going as far as renaming themselves if the person was still alive. The abilities of the Exion vary depending on what they wish to learn. Most Exions tend to drift to military application.

Exions can not truly integrate with ME tech. They can hack and perform several tasks, but they cannot be uploaded onto something based on ME.