Here's chapter 1 of what I hope shall be many. This story will follow John Shepard from before the first mass effect, through the trilogy, display my own attempt to provide a better ending for the series, and explore the aftermath of the war with the reapers. I'm going to play with the timeline a little bit to make certain points make more sense. Please read and review!


John Shepard sat in the schools office with his head in his hands.

"How the hell did this happen? What am I going to do?" He muttered to himself. He exhaled a deep sigh before sitting up to look at who had walked into the office.

"What happened?" Dante asked as he walked up to his little brother.

"Nothing. Let's just go." John grabbed his leather jacket and backpack before storming out of the office with his older brother in tow.

"John, you want to tell me what happened? The school already sent a message to mom that you've been suspended indefinitely. She'll bring it up when she calls tonight. I thought the deal was you'd stop getting into fights if you came to live with me." Dante said.

"I don't. Want to talk. About it." John hissed before hurrying into his brother's apartment building. Dante followed him inside and went into John's room.

"Whatever it is, just tell me. I can't help defend your actions if I don't even know what happened."

"You promise not to get mad?" Dante nodded and sat down next to his brother.

"I promise. I know how it is; always changing schools because of mom and dad getting new assignments. We've got to stick together." John took a few deep breaths before starting.

"I was just sitting in history, messing around on my Omni tool because my last school had already gone over the material, and I accidentally opened up one of the other students' video files and his Omni tool started playing a video of him and some other guys breaking into the school. When class ended he and his buddies grabbed me and tried to drag me to an empty room. I broke free and went to fight back. I got so pissed that I was in another fight. I hit them. And this…" John held up his clenched fist and showed his brother the blue static that was dancing around. It disappeared almost as fast as it had appeared.

"Biotics? Is that why the school was acting so funny? I guess it's understandable. Why were you so upset? With training you'll be able to move crap with your mind. You can't tell me that's not even a little awesome." John laughed.

"I guess it is. How do you think mom and dad will react?"

"They'll probably sign you up for that new program that's been set up for biotic kids. Dad will probably try to pressure you into enlisting."

"And that's different from before how?"

"Easy, the galaxy doesn't need any more comedians." Dante chuckled as he grabbed his brother in a headlock and started messing with his dark brown hair.

"Stop! You know I hate people messing up my hair!" John whined. The beeping noises of the comm from the other room drifted in, forcing Dante to release John and walk out to answer it.

"John, its mom!" Dante called. John forced himself off the bed and out to talk to his mother.


"I promise I'll come visit when I've got some time off." Hannah Shepard said as she let John out of a hug and left him in his new room at the Grissom Academy.

"Great. Three more years of space school. At least chances of changing schools again are slim. And the room is bigger than some of the others I've had." John muttered as he flopped down onto his now bed.


First chapter is a little short, i know, the next one will be longer i promise! Don't forget to review!