Disclaimer: I do not own the Buffy series or the Mass Effect series.
A/N: This is completely AU for the Buffy-verse from mid-Season 3 on. The bulk of the story will be set after the Ending of ME3 (sorry to those who didn't like it). Also this is un-beta'ed so all mistakes are mine.
A/N: This story is also based off of one of my Shepards, With a Romance that I wanted but didn't get.
Prologue
It was always the same, chasing after a young boy with the voices of those that Shepard had lost over the course of this war.
Alenko's voice spoke, "Go get her Commander, I'll be right here when you get back."
"Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong." Echoed Mordin's voice.
"Does this unit have a soul?"
"Siha, you are a protector, but you cannot save everyone."
Just as the words and the scene turned over again the dream froze around Shepard. The Commander turned around to find an oddly dress gentleman behind her. "Who the hell are you?"
The man tipped his hat as he answered, "My names Whistler and I am here in the hopes that you will help a young girl."
"If you're in my mind then you know I am kind of busy saving the galaxy."
"Yep, I noticed. But see this will be something that will happen after you fulfill your destiny here." As Whistler finished speaking a scene took place that shocked Shepard.
Two young girls both between the ages of sixteen and eighteen were walking through an alley way were they were being attacked from all different sides. The blonde girl had her shoulder grabbed from behind. She reacted causing her dark hair companion to go in for the kill.
"Faith, No!"
The words were spoken to late for the wooden stake to be stopped. The two girls watched in shock and fear as instead of turning to dust like the others the man leaned against the dumpster with an inch sized hole over his heart.
Shepard noticed that the dark haired girl look like a blend of what she remembered of her parents. This surprised the Commander as she turned to Whistler, "She looks like she could be my younger sister. I mean besides the eye color, what with mine being navy blue and hers a dark brown."
Whistler sighed as he took his hat off, "She is your younger sister. You see Commander, time runs differently between dimensions. Your parents died when you were six, right?" At Shepard's nod, he continued, "Well two years before that, dark forces from the dimension my bosses over see kidnapped her and put a memory block on all that she interacted with."
Shepard raised her eyebrow replying, "If that's so why is she sixteen to me being in my early thirties?"
"Time runs differently. Here it runs twice as fast as there. For example, one year there is two here so you being technically thirty-two to her sixteen." Looking over at the woman who resembled one of the two slayers, Whistler asked, "So will you do it?"
Commander Shepard, Angel of Elysium, Savior of the Citadel, Conqueror of the Collectors, and Defeater of the Reapers, came out of the memory of the dream to look down at the hologram of the little boy that claimed to be the Catalyst. Shepard looked up at her three options and chose the one that she had been fighting for sense the beginning.
'Whistler if you can hear this, I'm taking you up on your offer.' Shepard thought, 'I really hope you can hear my thoughts, and if I go over there please at least allow me to have my loved ones. And if magic is real please somehow keep EDI and the Geth alive.' The Commander then thought of a raven haired ice queen beauty that stole her heart the very first time she saw the woman. Shepard spoke softly, "I'm sorry Miranda. Looks like I won't be making it out of here alive."
With that Shepard brought the gun to bear and began firing at the tube that would destroy the reapers once and for all.
On a higher plane of existence, the balance demon known as Whistler watched as his bosses observed Shepard. He silently hoped that the PTBs would do as the Commander asked in regards to the synthetics as he had already set in motion for the ex-Cerberus officer to join Shepard, with what he hoped was the Normandy crew following.
The red blaze burst from the Citadel and enveloped the galaxy but as it passed over the Geth ships and the Normandy a yellow light wrapped inside the red covered all the synthetics. EDI found, that she was more organic in body features but she also was still a part of the Normandy.
On top of the red and yellow lights that surrounded the Normandy there was a third of a white light that transported the ship out of the dimension, the light also surrounded those that fought as part of Shepard's crew that were fighting on Earth. The last two to get enveloped with the white light was Miranda and Shepard as the Normandy family found itself crash landed on a mountain range.
In a cemetery not far from the Crawford Mansion, the two Slayers were patrolling but sense the other night Buffy and Faith haven't really spoken to one another unless over whether one had let slip the truth or not. The two had agree to continue patrolling together even with the accident.
Suddenly there was a bright white light that caused both Faith and Buffy to shield their eyes. As the light dimmed two forms appeared on the ground in front of the Slayers. One was a raven haired woman wearing a black blouse with a white jacket and black slacks while the other woman had on blue jeans with a crimson button up shirt and a black leather jacket while wearing a black fedora.
Shepard groaned as she pushed herself up to stand. The Spectre blink once standing realizing the mortal wound she had moments before was completely gone. As Shepard was checking herself over, she didn't notice Miranda start to stand. Lawson looked over the Commander as spoke softly as if not sure she was seeing what she was, "Jess?"
Shepard looked up with a smile, "Hey Gorgeous." The Commander caught her former XO of a lover in her arms as Miranda almost collapses in relief that Shepard was alive.
"You bloody idiot," Miranda said once she was reassured that her lover was alive.
Shepard pulled away a little saying, "Hey!"
The two Slayers watched in a mix of surprise and uncomforted at the rather private moment the two older women were having.
Buffy spoke up first saying, "Not to ruin you reunion moment or anything but who are you? How did you get here?"
"And why do you," Faith pointed at Shepard as she spoke, "look like me?"
Shepard and Miranda pulled apart and turned towards the Slayers. Miranda's eyebrow rose as she looked between her lover and her lover's younger lookalike. Upon noticing the lack of surprise on Shepard's face, she said, "Commander, you look less than surprised."
Jess Shepard looked around her at the others before saying, "Maybe we should explain this once." Locking eyes with her little sister and her sister's friend, she added, "is there anyone the two of you would like to hear this?"
Buffy replied, "yeah, and we know just where to go." With that said the two Slayers lead the way out of the cemetery.
Miranda looked over at her lover as the group exited the cemetery. The former Cerberus officer asked, "Why were you two in a cemetery at this time of night?"
"Just how new to Sunnydale are you two?" Faith asked turning to walk backwards so that she could study the two women.
Shepard grinned, "Fairly new. After all we did pop out of nowhere in front of you."
Faith blinked before snickering realized she did kind of walk right into that one. While Faith and Shepard were bantering back and forth, Miranda looped her arm through Jess's as she asked Buffy, "Where are you taking us?"
Buffy turned her head from looking ahead to address Miranda's question, "To the High School, that's where our watcher is and everyone else that should hear this."
"Right."
