Trope Trasher - Mass Effect
Got sick and tired with all those fic's out there with overdone plots and ridiculous revamps, several tropes and themes reduced to what they should be, trash. Millions of words and thousands of chapters for what could be summed up with a few words.
First up to bat, my answer to all those time-travel fic's out there.
'We're not going to Illos.'
'But Shepard-'
Shepard sighed, if only they'd seen what he'd seen they might know just what was coming, just how many lives were lost and worlds burnt, his actions might have made sense to them.
He sighed again, better they don't know.
He still couldn't sleep a wink without seeing Earths charred remains dancing around him.
'He'll win Shepard! If the Geth take the Citadel Saren will unleash the Reapers!' Shepard turned to look at his long-time friend and confidant.
'That is where you're wrong Anderson very, very wrong.'
-Skip-
The SR-1 Normandy stood amongst the dust cloud of the nebula surrounding the Citadel; if his calculations were correct then they were just outside the blast radius. Joker sat next to him, a mixture of anger and uncertainty crossing his face as they watched the Geth fleet, led by Sovereign, swarm out of the Mass Relay.
John Shepard stood and watched as the Citadel fell ignoring the calls of his compatriots to interfere.
John Shepard stood and watched as hundreds upon thousands of Reapers came through the centre of the Citadel.
John Shepard grinned as asteroid X - 57 emerged from the nebula, Fusion Torches burning brightly.
John Shepard smiled as the asteroid collided with the largest of the Mass Relays clustered around the Citadel, annihilating it completely.
John Shepard laughed as the Citadel and all the Reapers disappeared inside the nuclear hell created from the Mass Relays destruction.
He had been willing to sacrifice 300,000 lives to give the galaxy 6 months more to prepare.
14 million to save it all?
Well worth it.
Chaos Theory states that minor initial variations can have far reaching consequences. Every time-travel fic completely obliterates the butterfly effect without even realizing. Saying one thing when you'd originally said another could change the time line, turning left instead of right, even blocking sunlight you were otherwise not meant to could have far reaching consequences and yet everything seems to go swimmingly and exactly as it did before until they make a big change.
The future was fucked up to begin with, go big or go home I always say.
Shepard uses X - 57 to destroy the Relays surrounding the Citadel aand throws the Reapers into a supernova, no big war, no epic battles, no fucking star child!
The whole point of time-travel is to end it before it begins.