Ty:

Everything in the Normandy had been boring ever since we'd left the Citadel. Sure, we saved it all and there was a party that was fun but after that it just stagnated. the best I could hope for was maybe to get off when we stopped at the Citadel and stretch my legs but that was it. Still, even when we did that I was looking over my shoulder expecting to get punched by some random red-haired marine or captured by a scar-faced bounty hunter.

We had gone on missions sure but Shepard always found a reason to leave me on board. On top of that, everyone in the ship seemed to stay away from me or avert their eyes whenever I walked passed. The fear that everyone had for me was so easily visible now, like my eyes had been opened since going to the party with them all.

Tali never talked to me now but I couldn't blame her since I had tried to leave her dead on the Citadel. Yet, I never once felt bad about it. The power I attained from no longer having a limiter was amazing and I knew if she died again that I wouldn't save her then either.

Garrus would still talk to me every now and then. I started putting on the biotic ball games on the viewing screen in the comm room and we would watch it. Though, I was really wondering if it was real and they were all just a bunch of individual AI or just a simulation running over the screen. It didn't help that the teams that I picked always seemed to win either.

Liara had changed the most out of everyone. Over the week and a half that we traveled she made it a point to sit down and eat with me. Though, it was more like an interrogation than an actual conversation as I was asked question after question about my powers.

Ashley, Shepard, and pretty much everyone else treated me like I was going to kill them if they looked at me funny. Always avoiding me and trying not to stare. Needless to say, everything was a hell-of-a-lot less fun.

Most of my time was spent sitting at the lunch table and seeing what I could do with my powers. By now, I'd mastered armor changing just because I did it so much. I hardly needed to focus on the armor I wanted to get into; I just had to think about it.

Along with that, Danny gave me the ability to glitch jump right before he left. It was pretty cool being able to get from one deck to another without having to take the elevator but it had its limits. I couldn't glitch from the Normandy to the Citadel even if we were docked there. Each Glitch had its own network and that network was always local, meaning that if it wasn't a part of the planet or ship that the glitch I was accessing was on, then I couldn't get to it through the glitch.

The corrupted data had its own perks as well. I was able to fire a so called 'data purge' out of my chest where the zero was. I also could do it out of my hands but red zeroes would appear in my palm right before I fired.

That last thing was… an irritant at worst. I was beginning to feel like someone was inside me and figured it was Saren's code that I absorbed from him. At a random moment I would start to get irritable and angry, hoping that someone would pick a fight with me. It felt like a primal rage, the same rage Saren displayed after finding out that Shepard connected with the beacon.

Luckily, right now I was at peace and sitting with my legs on the table and playing Tetris on my omni-tool. I had just lost a game after keeping it going for an hour and twenty-two minutes. Just as it happened I opened my mouth to shout a curse but was cut off as the entire ship shook violently.

I looked around at the ship and tried to decipher what the hell just happened. It never did it when we were entering atmosphere, and the only time I felt it shake before was…

"Oh, shit." I called at the ship lurched to the side and I was thrown from my chair into the wall.

Everything went fuzzy after that and I was forced to close my eyes and force my vision back into place. When I reopened my eyes there were fire everywhere as crewman panicked and rushed to engineering tunnels.

I began to push myself up but a panel from the ceiling came down and landed on top of me. At that point, I was pinned and the fires were getting closer. The wreckage was too low to try blasting it off with a data purge and I was in no place to try and pull myself out of it.

Just when I began to feel panic flow through my veins the ship lurched again and this time I was sprayed by debris from a nearby fire and forced to bring my arms up in defense. Hot metal and coals splashed up and down my forearms and I felt blisters begin to form on my arms and on the upper left side of my forehead where I felt something like a bolt head ping off my skull.

This was it, I was going to die after being useless for months. My mind began writing myself an obituary faster than I could follow what was happening. Ty, however powerful and versed in code was too weak to remove a piece of metal from his legs and in the end suffocated from exposure to vacuum.

I looked out and saw Shepard sprint past on the opposite side of the room and into the area with the sleeping pods. Moving as fast as he possibly could, he began spraying the fires with an extinguisher he pulled off the wall and then made his way to the computer console in the back.

I would have called out for help but the explosions that were going off all around me now would simply drown me out. My eyes searched around frantically for some help but I couldn't see far thanks to the smoke. All that was running through my head was, 'Why do I have to wear regular clothes instead of my armor?'

As I began to lose all hope I felt the metal plate lifted off me and when I looked over, I saw Garrus with his armor and helmet on lifting the metal. "Go."

I crawled out from under the wreckage as fast as possible and he let it drop down with a clang louder than the explosions. Garrus then reached behind his back and pulled off the set of Colossus armor I had purchased a while ago.

"Put this on."

Usually it took about five minutes for me to put on my armor but this time I was suited up in ten seconds and ready to go. "Okay, let's go."

He took off toward the elevator and opened a comm channel between us. "The life pods have been taken up by crew members up here so our only hope is to get down to the lower decks and get in one down in engineering."

We both rushed over to the elevator and I looked down the shaft, quickly noticing that the elevator should have been on this floor. "Well, shit."

Garrus began pacing and then pointed up at the stairs. "Let's take the stairs and get up there with Joker. But damn it, I told Tali to wait for us to come back."

I looked at the wall and then saw a glitch. "I got an idea."

I grabbed Garrus and put my hand on the wall. Quickly, we were sucked into the glitch and pulled through a digital tube that led us all the way to another glitch that came out just before the Mako. I was skilled enough that we came out right side up and managed to keep running.

"Just around this corner." We rushed past the Mako and into the engineering.

He was about three steps ahead of me when he slowed down and looked at the pods in awe.

"What is-" I stopped myself as I saw that only one pod was left and there was only one seat in it.

Garrus looked at me and motioned forward with his head. "Go ahead, I can find another way."

I looked in Garrus' eyes and knew that I couldn't take his spot. This as a world of code and I was the random variable. If everything went to shit then I had a chance to survive but Garrus… he wasn't an icon like Shepard.

"No, we are not taking you, Ty."

I looked at the pod and saw Tali. She was glaring at me and I knew that it was her that just spoke.. Not just by her voice but by the way she was looking at me. It was saying that this was my punishment for my crimes. For refusing to save her.

I turned away and took off running back into the bay to use another glitch. My legs began to tire from simultaneously holding my balance as the ship kept searching and shaking from the Collector blasts. It was so bad that as soon as I got to the glitch there was a hard pitch and I was thrown to the side.

I smashed against Ashley's gun table and pistols were thrown everywhere. Another blast rocked through the ship and this time the laser pierced down into the bay causing all gravity shut off. The laser flashed out and when the flare died I saw that the glitches had disappeared.

My instincts took over and I jumped to the hole that the laser made, fully aware of the searing hot metal that lined the hole. I placed my arms out ahead of my and made myself as this as possible through the first hole and luckily made it too the other side.

I landed on the ceiling after that next to the second hole and leveraged myself back to the ground. My mind was racing at a million miles an hour but one goal stood out. I had to make it to the escape pod in the upper decks before the final blast hit the ship.

I activated my mag boots and began moving as fast as possible to the stairs. I got to the top and saw Shepard loading Joker into the pod.

Panic was all that I felt and I took off toward them and witnessed my life flee away as the final blast from the Collector ship hit. The blow forced me up and off the Normandy's deck as I fell into space. I did my best to keep my eye on Shepard knowing that he dies now but he will get brought back.

I on the other hand wasn't going to come back. It was beginning to look like the end. all scenarios for why I this was happening to me began running through my head. Maybe the AI curbed the difficulty spike too high, maybe there was just no way that I could have surrvived that, maybe it was just bad luck. Heh, I could see my friends making jokes about this now. Ty just wanted to play a game, fuck him right? I'm dead in space.

Wait… what the hell am I saying wait for? I'm not talking to anyone. Wait, there I go again, Dead space.

I closed my hand and focused on the space armor from the third game and felt my armor begin to shift and change. As it did, I frantically searched for a life pod that I could get to. It would at least save me from not being found and the Mass Effect armor was space proof. I just have to use this quick with only a hundred and fifty seconds of air.

I spotted a life pod and thrusted myself in that direction and the suit obliged by switching on and carrying me forward. The jets took a second but soon I was blasting forward to the pod but it was headed off in the same direction that I was going.

There was a kick in my suit when I was at the final stretch to the pod. It didn't even take a second for me to realize that the air had just shut off as I couldn't take a breath anymore. A shadow casted over my vision as the thrusters died out and everything began to tunnel until the light disappeared from my vision.

S7: Well, this is how I chose to start this story. In parallel, with Mass Effect 2. It's gonna be a lot darker than the previous.

^Great, now I am dead in space. That is just great. You're just gonna bring me back when you bring back Shepard because that's just the obvious thing to do right?^

S7: Hehehehe, I said your vision went black. Not that you are dead.

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S7: No, we didn't do fanservice in UiaWoF except for CTHI at the end.

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S7: Oh yeah, memory erased.

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