PROLOGUE

On some distanced planet in the Milky way galaxy, a space ship called Normandy was wrecked after terroristic attack. An attack that the ship wasn't expecting turned into a big failure and the crew had to evacuate and use the escape pods in order to survive. The spaceship ended burning in flames and the structures were caving in on everything that was inside. The crew forgot about one human that was on board with them. However, this human was in deep unconsciousness and due to the minimal chance of his survival, they left him with the ship to crash on the planet.

Although the chance for survival was minimal, it was still some chance and truly, the human woke up from his unconsciousness one day. He opened his eyes from the deep sleep, seeing that glass of his stasis pod was shattered in pieces. Everything around him was dark, it was a night time on the planet. As he looked around, he noticed the apocalyptic look of the ship, trying to process how he got in there. As the human remembered, he knew that he had to get out of this ship, activating the distress beacon so somebody could come and save him.

"I must get out of here…" the human thought. As he tried to raise his body from the pod, his body was overwhelmed with pain rushing from his right arm and leg, "That… that hurts!" he looked at a massive structure of the former ship that had crushed one side of the stasis pod and noticed that his right limbs were completely crushed under a weight of the heavy metal, "I cannot… I can't feel it there!" he said and tried to push the structure off. Unfortunately for him, the metal was too heavy and the pain was unbearable. His mind brought him the only desperate idea.

"I have no other option… I must leave without my right limbs…" he thought and so he was starting to push the metal off, sensing full functionality of what remained of his neural system in his right limbs as they protested against partition of the body parts. The human was in indescribable pain, holding himself from screaming as he could hear the tissue ripping up from his body. Right before full disconnection, the pain overcame the threshold and the human shouted the way as if somebody was burning him alive.

But he did it. He was free of his right limbs, however for the price of bleeding. He was bleeding quite slow but he needed to get out of the wreckage to the surface to activate the distress beacon. Hobbling himself and groaning of pain, holding every structure to keep himself on his left foot, the human saw a moonlight coming from outside to the darkness of the ship. He made his way towards the exit, getting out of the wreckage. The distress beacon was already outside, laid casually on the ground. As there was no structure to hold, the human crawled on the ground to it.

He reached it and pressed the red button which started to blink. After losing much of his blood, the human fell asleep, hoping somebody would come and save him. Half an hour later, he was woken up by engines of some shuttle. He opened his eyes again, seeing blurry pictures of figures coming towards him. He couldn't clearly see who was it but heard them talking.

"Hmm… a human. That's not what we were hoping for." One of them said.

"Yeah just look at him. He's not gonna make it and humans are our enemies." Another one added. The bleeding human decided to speak.

"P-Please… whoever you are… I don't want to die. Help… Help me…" He begged, trying to focus his eye.

"So, captain?" one of them asked and then the third one which was captain kneeled down and the bleeding human in need saw his face, alien with four eyes and evil look at his face. Everything went black in that moment.

DEFYING LOGIC – THE CONSEQUENCES

Everything started in year 2186 when Adrian Shepard, commander of the Alliance was set free from his detention after he left Cerberus organization and joined the Alliance again. Shepard wanted to assemble a new crew on his space ship, preparing galaxy for the greatest war which would decide whether their existence will be terminated in never ending cycle of annihilations by Reaper threat. At the same time, Shepard was given big deal of bringing one certain human on his ship because this human knew important information which in the wrong hands would cause intergalactic war.

Name of this human was Daniel Husk. It was 30 years old man diagnosed for autism who was born in 1996 and volunteered to be cryogenically frozen in 2025. He woke up in 2186 and met Shepard. Soon, once Shepard assembled crew with turian Garrus Vakarian, asari Liara T'Soni, the Geth Legion and few additional members, he was able to get valuable information which the Alliance was hiding from him. This information was related to bypassing death, becoming immortal and the project which had this basic concept was called project Soma.

As Daniel was acclimatizing on the ship and the century he was living at, he was able to love. First he met turian male named Renok Amarok but he was slain by Cerberus. Heartbroken Daniel met another one who could love him. However, this love was new to the Geth named Legion who was part of Shepard's crew. Legion as the Geth didn't need to love before, but meeting Daniel opened him for emotions. Legion wasn't machine as the Geth usually were, he was able to feel and with Daniel, he reached absolute happiness.

The Reapers were coming and Shepard's crew was ready to fight, but in the beginning of the war, Daniel was badly hurt and ended up with coma. Legion and Daniel had plan before in case of something like this would happen. They used project Soma for themselves and for their happiness. Daniel's mind was printed into a body of Geth and when Legion activated him, Daniel was happy that he could be like his synthetic partner. However, there was a choice to be made. He had to choose whether to let his former body live or disconnect him from support machines.

He chose to let him live and after six months, after the great war with the Reapers which ended up with victory for the organics, Shepard and his crew were flying across the galaxy with new space ship – Normandy SR3. Shepard was taking assignments from the Alliance leadership and from the Council as well. This time there was a problem on Noveria and Shepard needed squad with him. He chose Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah on this mission. They were sitting in the shuttle and Shepard was explaining the situation.

"Alright. According to the intel we received on Normandy, Noveria has got problems with defense system and its malfunction. Problem is that they are shooting everything in their sight… Tali?" Shepard look at the quarian who didn't pay attention. Garrus poked her a little.

"Oh… yes, Shepard?"

"What's happening, Tali? Normally you pay attention to what I say."

"It's nothing. I just think that one of us two should have stayed with Denos. Nobody knows what that kid could do alone." Tali said. Denos was Garrus' and Tali's turian baby boy.

"Come on, Tali. He's just a kid. Liara is taking care of him and Mira too." Garrus tried to calm her down.

"Garrus is right, Tali. Liara is good for this. Also, there are Legion and Daniel so nothing bad can happen."

"Only that Legion and Daniel are Geth. They might not have the right touch so they could hurt them." Tali said.

"I wouldn't be worried about that. They are too busy with their own business." Garrus chuckled and the shuttle was landing on Noveria's landing area. Shepard, Garrus and Tali were running behind him and they headed towards the stairs entrance so they could enter the building.

"We'll head down towards the security system and bypass it!" Shepard explained.

"Shepard! Turrets!" Garrus shouted and all of them went down to the ground, hiding behind ventilation shafts on the rooftop.

"Shepard! We cannot stay like this forever!" Tali exclaimed.

"I know that! We must find strategy how to get those turrets out of our way!" Shepard said and Garrus pulled out grenade.

"Quite rough to do this but this is desperate situation!" Garrus said and the turrets stopped with shooting as fast as they started, "It stopped…?"

"This is our chance! Quickly! Get in!" Shepard said and all of them ran to the staircase, running down to the hallways. It was suspicious that the defense systems weren't actually making any effort trying to stop Shepard and his squad on their way to the defense protocol system. The squad arrived at the door and opened it, hearing local security officers talking to another group.

"We can't thank you enough for saving Noveria's clients!"

"That was nothing. Call us next time if some shit is fucked up." A woman answered to the officer and Garrus recognized that voice.

"Jack…?" Garrus said. Shepard's group appeared from around the corner and Jack with the two other batarian soldiers turned around.

"Jack? Who are these people? And how do they know you?" the batarian soldier asked as they aimed at Shepard's group. Garrus and Tali prepared their guns. Jack and Shepard showed their groups to holster their weapons.

"Shepard! I didn't think I'd see you again. I've heard you kicked asses of those motherfucking Reapers."

"Still charming Jack." Garrus noted.

"Jack? What are you doing here? Who are those batarian soldiers and… is that the Cerberus uniform?"

"Curiosity killed the cat, Shepard. Hey, I'm not good at explaining shit but let's say I was offered to help dealing with fuckers and errors that the Alliance is too slow to deal with."

"You're thinking we're slow? What's with the Cerberus uniform?" Shepard asked.

"Well, I've heard that skunk Illusive man got killed so I thought Cerberus was done. Then the batarians came to me saying that now there is the Resurrected Cerberus. I don't know why that noble, but they work with aliens, I'm fighting, enjoying it, I am free and I take credits. I can't complain."

"Who's in charge of that Resurrected Cerberus?" Garrus asked.

"Don't know, don't care. Batarians came to the Grissom Academy to me and I could speak only with holographic projection of their leader. Creepy guy, mysterious. He hides himself with cape and mask but his voice was smooth though. Wish I could look what's hidden under that mask of his!" Jack grinned.

"The Cerberus base was taken under Alliance. How can it be operative again?" Tali asked also.

"Geez, too many questions… listen, I don't know. Seek for the information yourself. I gotta go." Jack said, waving her gun as if saying good bye.

"Wait! Jack, who else is part of this?" Shepard stopped her.

"Shepard, we're kinda independent in our work. But I think that I saw Samara, Kasumi, Grunt and Jacob. Now I have to go…" Jack said and along with her batarian partners activated buttons on their uniforms, making them disintegrate. Shepard was now confused and so were Tali with Garrus. First mission after long time and it brought them so much confusion. On their way to Normandy, Shepard shook his head in the shuttle.

"Jack… I never thought she would join Cerberus."

"I'd rather know more about that guy who's in charge of it now. Did you hear what she was saying? He's hiding under mask and cape…" Garrus added.

"Shepard, I suggest you to talk to Liara. She's Shadow Broker so she might have some info about him." Tali suggested.

"Maybe. I have to ask Anderson what happened to the Alliance if Cerberus base was taken over by someone else…" Shepard said and the shuttle arrived at Normandy's deck finally. Shepard separated from Garrus and Tali, taking elevator up to the second deck.