Kyon Salgrens was sitting in his workshop behind the house that his parents had bought a few years back, his phone started to ring, "Salgrens's mechanics, what do you need?" he asks as he picks it up.

"Kyon are you still up?" a feminine voice responds to him, "It's three in the morning, and we have a test tomorrow."

Kyon smiles as his unofficial girlfriend calls him, "Yes I'm still up," he says, "I got an express package, need to get it done in the next few hours," he says as he fixes his steam-punk goggles, "and I could say the same to you Jane."

"I know," she tells him, "but I know you, and you always sleep in class because you are up all night building those weird machines," she tells him, "I mean last night you sent me a 1,000 word text about how you just built a gauntlet with a hidden knife in it for some guy in italy," she tells him.

"Yeah that was a bulk order," Kyon says, "had to build 500 of those damned things, made a few extra to keep for myself."

"How many did you keep?" she asks, "you know that it's illegal to have hidden blades," she tells him, "I mean how many illegal items do you keep in that workshop of yours?"

"Umm, with the wrist blades I think it's around 23," Kyon says as he looks at the inventory, "No it's 25, unless I count that disarmed mine then it's 26,"

"You are going to get arrested one of these days," Jane says as she facepalms on the other side of the line, "I mean all you do is create dangerous things, and you don't even question who you send them to."

"I do background checks," Kyon retorts as he flicks his hands in and out nonchalantly. He sighs as he watches the blade extend and retract, "I don't send these things to convicted felons."

"Finish that thing, and deliver it," Jane commands, "I'll see you tomorrow..." she pauses for a second, "I'll see you tomorrow," she repeats slowly before hanging up the phone.

"I love you," Kyon says to the dial tone, before he puts his phone back down and starts working playlist, "Area 11," he says as he puts his goggles on and uses his welder to put the finishing touches on a tuning fork like object with rings in the middle, "I love this band," he says as he looks at the song, "Knightmare Frame," he says as he listens to the song.

Kyon finishes the item a few minutes before 4:00. He stands up and puts on some of the hidden blades that he made, "All right," Kyon says as he grabs the item, puts it in a crate, and carries it out to his car, "time to get this to the address," he says as he looks at the address on his phone, "That's not too far from here," he says as he starts it, "I won't have to pay for shipping," he starts his car which is an old stick shift, and drives to the address. Once he reaches the address the first thing he notices is that it is dark and creepy, "I had better not get kidnapped," he whispers to himself as he walks in the house.

As soon as he reaches the front door he receives a text and takes out his phone to read it, "Dude! I just beat ME3! :D but the ending sucked :(."

He responds to it, "WTH is ME3?"

"I forgot you don't play video games, it's mass effect 3, the most anticipated game of 2012."

Kyon feels like face-palming but doesn't have a free hand, "I'm trying to deliver something," he texts back, "I'll see you at school," he puts his phone away and opens the door to a dark room.

A strange African sounding voice calls out, "Do you have it?" he asks.

"The massive tuning fork is right here made almost exactly to your specifications," he says.

"Almost?" The voice asks back sounding quite happily.

"Yeah," Kyon says, "I noticed that a few energy transfer circuits were cut off in the design, so I opened them up."

"Good," the voice says as a box slides to Kyon, "now the final piece, put that inside of the rings," Kyon takes an orb of light from the box and puts it inside of the rings.

At first nothing happens, but then the orb starts melting and the rings start rotating around the ball, "You are the one," he says.

"Wait what?" Kyon asks, "who are you?" he asks as the voice steps into the light created by the ball.

"Not a question of who am I," he says, "but what am I, I am prothean," he says as his face is revealed and shows to have 4 eyes and an oddly shaped head.

"What the fuck?" Kyon asks, "I'm paid to make something for an alien?" he then fears that he won't see Jane again and texts her the address that he's at along with, "if I'm not in school look for me here."

"No," the prothean says, "you made that for yourself," he says as he walks over to Kyon and puts his hand on the device activating it and making the rings spin faster, "I hope, that we may see each other again Mr. Salgrens."

"Wait... what?" Kyon asks as he feels his body tingle and shoot him to an unknown location.

We can't let him have all the information, if we do it would destroy his mind. We don't know how it will affect the past either.

We need to give him every advantage possible. The others are already compromised, we didn't realize the truth behind indoctrination fast enough.

How many times does this make it? How many times have we changed the past?

I don't know, my memories of the timelines are beginning to become muddled. We thought one was enough, but he fell victim to insanity from not being able to trust anyone. Indoctrination found him to be an easy target. We sent others, but they changed too many variables. I fear this will be our last attempt at changing the past, anymore, and we may just destroy everything that we hope to save, Commander.