Star Fox: Discovery.

A Mass Effect and Star Fox fan fiction.

First crossover fic, but don't have mercy if there's something you don't like. Lemme know, give me some constructive criticism. I would love that.
I have two other fanfics. However, I seem to have a hard time writing for them. In the meantime, I hope to focus on this one story and work on it as often as I can.
Also, this fic contains spoilers for the ending of Mass Effect 3. If you haven't finished it, go do it now. If you have never played Mass Effect…Get off this site and go purchase it now! You will not be disappointed.

SPOILERS ON THE ENDING.

This story is based off of the Destroy ending of ME3, with optimal EMS meaning that Shepard lives. However, in this version only the Reapers are eliminated; the Mass Relays, the Geth, EDI, etc are not destroyed. I did this for certain reasons, and you will find out why if you read. Seems like a better ending, right? Haha, I'm still a little ticked off at the ending…But all in all, the ME experience was such a pleasure and I enjoyed it immensely.

This little prologue introduces the Reapers and explains what happens to them, their motives, etc. Enjoy!

Prologue

The Old Machines

The Reapers.

For thousands, maybe millions of years, these sentient beings of unknown origin have observed and gazed upon the Milky Way Galaxy from dark space. The Reapers stay dormant, waiting… Watching the galaxy's organic species. They would watch as these primitive civilizations grew and advanced with the help of Reaper technology placed within the galaxy. The Mass Relays, the Citadel, the use of mass effect fields and Element Zero… It was all an insidious plan by the Reapers. Civilizations took a prearranged path that the Reapers had created so that it would be easier to eliminate them in the future. But why would the Reapers want to kill advanced life?

The Old Machines call it the cycle of extinction; a method of keeping a delicate balance in the galaxy.

Advanced species would create synthetics. The created synthetics would rebel against their creators, who will fight back. Chaos would ensue. The organics would be destroyed, leaving nothing but synthetic life left in the galaxy. The Reapers are there to make sure that organics do not destroy themselves. By eliminating advanced civilizations, other civilizations may rise up. Equilibrium within the galaxy is achieved, and balance returns. Reapers also harvest different advanced species. They are processed and used for the construction of new Reapers.

The Reapers act like gods, using their power to control the fate of the galaxy. The civilizations have no choice.

The Milky Way Galaxy, however, was not the only galaxy that the Reapers were keeping their watch on…There was one more that they believed needed balance as well…

Thousands of years prior to the events of Mass Effect 3

Somewhere in dark space…

"The cycle of extinction is complete; the Milky Way Galaxy has been purged of all advanced species. Indoctrinated servants have been added to our collective, and organic processing has been completed. It is done."

"The cycle may be over in this galaxy. But, there is… Another galaxy. One that has at last developed life of its own."

"The natural tendency of chaos exists in other parts of this universe. We must bring balance to the chaos. We are salvation. We are the beginning, they are the end. This is how it shall always be."

"The Triangulum Galaxy is where we must go. Only primitive animals and life forms inhabit the galaxy's star systems. These are the first beings to have ever appeared in this galaxy. But they will evolve. We must prepare for their ascension. They will go down a path of our choosing, in order to maintain the chaos."

"We are the Harbinger of their perfection."

"A Super Mass Relay has been established within the Milky Way Galaxy. Dispatch Monarch to establish a Super Mass Relay within the Triangulum Galaxy, so that we may begin construction of the mass relay network in Triangulum. We will wait."

And so began Monarch's journey to the Triangulum Galaxy. It took thousands of years to traverse the three million light year distance between Milky Way and Triangulum. During that time, a new advanced cycle had appeared in the Milky Way; a cycle that, unbeknownst to the Reapers, would be their last.

This cycle gave birth to a legendary soldier, who stopped the Reapers once and for all.

He did not care for the Reapers' reasoning behind the cycle of extinction. He believed in hope for the future of his cycle, a hope that fueled him to the very last gunshot. His will was not easily broken. Even exposure to Reaper indoctrination did not faze this soldier. His motives were true.

The Reapers had finally met their end, to the hands of a mere human.

The crimson wave from the Crucible expanded at an incredible speed, exterminating the Reapers around Earth and beyond. Cries of triumph erupted from the exhausted soldiers fighting on Earth as several Reaper destroyers crashed to the ground. Humans, turians, asari, krogen, salerian, and the many other species that helped fight…It was a war that had brought them all together, a war where they were no longer an enemy to each other... Rather, a comrade, in the face of certain death.

The wave from the Crucible chain reacted with every Reaper; one by one, they fell. When all had perished in the Milky Way Galaxy, there was only one more left…Monarch had set up the Super Mass Relay and had began constructing the network within Triangulum. But its work ended abruptly as the Crucible's effects had finally reached the last remaining Reaper. Monarch managed to mutter one more thing before it shut down completely.

"We are…The Harbinger of ascension…"

The Old Machines were no more. The inhabitants of the Triangulum, as well as the Milky Way, were finally free from a fate that had plagued organic beings for so long. It was finally time for hope to spread once again.

Thank you for taking the time to read. Please review! I know this is not per say, Star Fox. But they will be in the next chapter, I will guarantee that.