Commander Rayne Shepard was still getting used to walking around on a Cerberus ship, she had killed quite a few Cerberus agents during her time hunting Saren, but as long as they were playing nice for now and funding the hunt for Collectors, she could work with them maybe find out information to send back to the Council or the Alliance. She had only just gotten started on this new mission having just picked up Mordin from Omega and curing the plague on Omega that seemed to of been created by the Collectors and spread by Vorcha.

While on patrol near Omega, a flash of light exploded and what could only be described as a wormhole opened in front of the Normandy, a strange beam of red energy shot out from the centre of the wormhole and hit the ship. Based on what EDI had been able to scan, they picked up massive energy readings and the energy had even knocked out the power for a few moments. Being near Omega, Rayne had thought it was a pirate attack or worse Collectors but after EDI ensured her that it wasn't, that it was something else. Rayne wasn't sure if that made her feel better or worse.

"Commander we have an intruder. Currently in the Loft" EDI announced.

Rayne quickly headed for her cabin, what a start this was turning out to be, she had been brought back from the dead, found out she was resurrected by a terrorist group, found out the a race of aliens that had never really been seen before and thought to be a myth were abducting entire human colonies and now a light show that knocked out the power for a few moments and an intruder in her room. She had only just gotten started on this new mission having just picked up Mordin from Omega and now this.

"EDI how did they get into the loft?" Rayne had asked while she got into the elevator with Miranda, Mordin, Jacob and the grizzled Zaeed.

"Unclear. When the power failed I lost connection with all internal and external sensors" EDI explained "I do not know how, he got into your cabin Commander"

"Wait, it's a he? What else can you tell me about him?" She asked as the elevator slowly climbed.

"I do not believe he is dangerous in his current state, I can detect his life signs falling and he appears to be unconscious" EDI said.

As the doors opened Rayne got her pistol ready and opened the doors to Rayne's cabin. They could found a human man, badly burnt and bleeding, wearing N-7 armour, laying on the floor, his blood was everywhere. Starting from her bed and from what Rayne could only guess he had managed to drag himself to the floor where he had passed out. His burns were so severe that his armour had been welded to his skin in some places, the pistol in his hand was also welded to the palm of his hand.

Zaeed took one look at the man "Tough bastard"

Mordin moved forward and scanned him "Interesting"

Rayne looked at the salarian, she only had known him a short time but could already tell she was going to like him "What is?"

"Commander. Have to ask, do you have a twin brother?" Mordin asked.

Rayne thought back to that horrible night on Mindoir where she had seen her little brother being shot in the head because he kept struggling against his captors "I had a younger brother but never a twin, why?"

"Fascinating" Mordin said as he worked to stabilize the man's wounds "Clone perhaps? Unlikely would not explain energy readings" Mordin said to himself.

Miranda looked down at the man and studied him with her Omni-tool. She had spent two years rebuilding Shepard and there was one thing that stood out was this man had the exact same cybernetics that Commander Shepard had, it was if someone had copied her work exactly and done the same thing she had done with Commander Shepard to someone else. Of course there was a minor difference, this man was clearly a Vanguard, unlike Commander Shepard who is an Adept, and therefore built with that in mind but aside from that he was a perfect match.

"Chakwas can you please come up to my room" Shepard asked before looking back at the man, she felt slightly at ease despite how he had shown up, like she had known him all her life, the only problem being she had never seen him before.

Miranda bent down and saw dog tags looking closer she could see the name, CMDR: Shepard. Frowning she took a step back, Miranda looked at Rayne and motioned her head down at the tags.

Rayne couldn't believe what she saw his name was the same as hers "Right I want to know who he is and where he came from" he said looking at Mordin and Miranda, Dr Chakwas had just stepping out of the lift "can you do anything for him?"

"Of course Commander" Chakwas said kneeling down "while his injuries are severe I believe he will survive"

"EDI anything you can tell me about this guy?" Rayne asked.

"One moment. Analysing. He appears to be the exact same as you in almost every way, he is fitted with an L5n biotic amp unlike your L5X and aside from the Y chromosome he is an exact match" EDI answered.

Rayne looked down at him "How come his cybernetics can be seen though his skin?"

Chakwas answered while in the process of stopping the bleeding from one of the man's many wounds "I sent you a message about this remember? He must be more aggressive than you; your cybernetics would show as well if you weren't the sweetheart you are"

Rayne looked at the doctor before looking back to the bleeding man "So just how dangerous is he?"

Miranda looked at her like she was an idiot for even asking "He is a Vanguard, with a similar biotic power level to yours, but unlike you he was built to fight up close and personal" Miranda said before looking back at the man and peeling off a layer of armour.

Rayne nodded, A Vanguard, I was going to enrol as a Vanguard but I chose to be an Adept instead she thought to herself Adepts and Vanguards have a friendly rivalry going but I am not stupid to not think of the amount of damage he could do Rayne looked down at him and she felt as if "I want a guard detail on him at all times, and notify me when he wakes up" she said before looking at the blood the man had left in her cabin "and I will need clean sheets and a mop" she said.

After the man was taken to the med-bay and five guards placed near him at all times. Miranda and Chakwas were going to be looking after him, Miranda seemed to take an interest in the man, understandable since he shared the same cybernetic work Rayne had but was more advanced, surprisingly though all the upgrades he had were all ones Rayne herself could get and based on what Miranda had found out shared the exact same genetic upgrades she had as well. Rayne needed to find this Archangel, even though she couldn't help but think what her male self would be like once he woke up. What was really bothering Rayne though was how he got that injured in the first place?

Few hours later

After getting Garrus off Omega and patching him up. Rayne wanted the turian's opinion on the mystery man. The two of them stood just outside the med-bay and were looking through the window

"So he just appeared out of a 'wormhole' bleeding all over the place and just happens to share the same name and D.N.A as you?" Garrus asked.

Rayne nodded "Yeah, he is a Vanguard though not an Adept, but apart from that he is the exact same, well except for the penis" Rayne said laughing.

Garrus shook his head "Clone?" he asked.

Rayne shook her head "That wouldn't explain the fact he is a man or the wormhole" she said.

Garrus shook his head "Looks a lot like you though, almost as if you two are related except for the hair colour"

Rayne looked at the man "That's a minor difference, my brother had black hair" she explained "Red hair can easily end up black; my biological father had black hair but my mother had red"

Garrus nodded and told her to keep an eye on him since they knew nothing about the man.

Rayne watched Garrus leave before she went into the med-bay "How is he?"

Chakwas looked up "Fine, he is healing very quickly and he should be up and walking around soon"

Rayne nodded "Good to hear, keep me posted"

Few days later

Logan opened his eyes slowly; his strength was returning to his limbs and opened his eyes just enough to see a Cerberus logo on the uniform of a Cerberus soldier, which was guarding him along with four others.

Logan looked at them through half closed eyes and noticed one of them move to an intercom while the others kept watching him, weapons at the ready.

Cerberus survived!? And they captured me? They must have bought me here to implant that Reaper tech in me and I woke up before they could He thought to himself big mistake.

Logan sat up quickly, ignoring the sharp pain in his sides and moved towards the closest guard, slamming his fist into the man's stomach he spun the man around and used him as a shield, before breaking the human shield's gun arm at the elbow and with the same motion used his biotics to throw three of the guards though the near-by med-bay window. Not noticing he what ship he was on, all he noticed was that he was surrounded by Cerberus, there was a point where Logan would stop asking questions and just fight, this was one of those moments, Logan would kill every single person that stood between him and the exit.

Alarms sounding, he had just snapped both arms of the last guard when reinforcements arrived, standing behind the man stopping Cerberus from opening fire on him strange normally they would just shoot anyway he thought. That was when he saw two friends come running in with the guns raised, Miranda and Garrus, there was no recognition on their faces.

Garrus looked at the human man with the glowing red scars and red eyes, this human had been near death just a few days ago, now he had taken apart five men in the space of a few seconds.

"Garrus? Miranda? They got you too?" The man asked the look on his face showed pain.

Garrus flicked his mandibles in confusion and looked at Miranda who looked just as confused as he was "Who got us?" as more reinforcements arrived.

That was all Garrus had got out before the man used a biotic charge to close the distance between them. The man ended up behind Garrus and had sent Miranda into a wall headfirst "I am sorry Garrus" he said.

Mordin, Zaeed and Jacob had shown up by that stage a long with Commander Shepard, all with guns drawn.

"Mordin?" The man asked sounding even more confused.

When the man looked at the rest of them, but when he looked at Commander Shepard and their eyes met, he saw another life as if it was his own, saw what it was like growing up with a family that loved him and watched as it was violently taken away from him by batarian slavers and witnessed his whole family die in front of his eyes. Before he saw Elysium though the eyes of the Hero, fighting for days against the odds of fifty to one.

Rayne looked into the glowing red eyes of the man and saw his life as if it was her own, she saw living with no one to watch out for her, being scared of being found by slaver gangs, joining a gang herself, she watched as she committed crimes for her gang without mercy and watched in disappointment as they shot a young boy in front of her. Rayne then saw Torfan though the eyes of the Butcher, watching as slavers tried to surrender and begging for mercy that never came.

The two of them understood each other perfectly then. Logan knew that she would always try and do the right thing, a paragon who always saw the best in people and she saw a man who would not stop no matter the cost, a renegade who would kill someone without any hesitation.

Logan let go of Garrus and pushed him away, before dropping to his knees and throwing up, it was then he knew he was in another universe, not his own and the woman in front of him was this universe's Commander Shepard. Everyone he had known was now lost to him and it looked as if he would have to fight the Reapers again.

"Lower your guns" Rayne said. She felt sorry for the other version of her, he had just found out he wasn't meant to be here and no one he had known would know him here "He is me from...somewhere else".

"Multi-verse. Of course" Mordin said more to himself "He is you from another universe" Mordin seemed excited.

"Will you help us fight the Collectors?" Rayne asked.

Logan looked up at her and stood up, before looking at the rest of them "Fuck all of you" he said and walked out of the med-bay.

Once the shock had worn off Rayne stopped anyone from following him "give him time, he just found out he doesn't belong here and i get the feeling he has done all of this before"