Disclaimer: I do not own Mass Effect or anything affiliated. All rights are owned by Bioware. I only own a handful of original characters used in this story.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: All the endings of Mass Effect kind of make me sad. For the ending of Mass Effect 3 has an effect on how an original story can be written. We all don't want some mary-sue ending, right? Well, I've tweaked the endings together and switched some theories around and combined them. Here is my created ending to Mass Effect 3, so I can have an accurate beginning to my fanficition.

If you destroy the Reapers, all synthetic life (Geth&EDI) are gone. Zapped. Which is not bad, but not good. The Quarians need the Geth to help rebuild Rannoch (provided you made them work together), and Joker needs EDI for obvious reasons. And, I hate that the Mass Relays are destroyed. Sure, they can be repaired, but each species will be completely isolated until they are.

I personally don't like controlling the Reapers for a few reasons. 1) You'll get that one jackass organization (similar to Cerberus) that will find some unspeakable way to try to hack and control Reapers for their own selfish purpose, thus plunging the Galaxy into another galactic war (where there is a will, there is a way.) 2) The Reapers are the most powerful things in the Galaxy and I feel like the story would be robbed by having everything happy go luck with the Reapers keeping Galactic peace controlled by Shepard.

I'm probably most against synthesis. I know you're probably thinking "the credits says there will be forever galactic peace! Do you now want Galactic peace?!" & you'll keep calling me all these names, but where is any fun with "100% Galactic peace"? We all know there will never be Galactic peace. And I'm just not crazy about everyone being half synthetic, all diseases being cured, no one ever getting sick...ect. It is a "too good to be true" ending, if you get what I'm saying.

So, for my rant to be over, we are now here! My ending to Mass Effect 3: In my ending, Shepard dies for good. No coming back. Sorry. His/her story has ended. They are a Galactic hero, but they are gone forever. I'm tired of everyone arguing over the "indoctrination theory" of Shepard being in Mass Effect 4. Let beyond believe what they want. (:

Shepard is all badass and fires the Crucible, completely being vaporized in the mix. Gone. No hope in cloning, got it? Completely dust. The hero called Shepard is finally gone. Instead of having the three choices of Synthesis, Control, and Destroy, I've thrown in another (because I'm so smart). Shepard has the option to destroy ANYTHING with Reaper technology. Sorry Joker, EDI had the Reaper IFF installed to help guide them through the Omega 4 Relay. Face it, Reaper technology is to powerful to be given to the Galaxy without being abused. So, The Crucible is fired sending out a red beam which is transferred through the Galaxy through the Mass Relays, heavily demanding them, not destroying, in the process due to the immense power being transferred. The Normandy crashes in that forest thing and there you have it. All crew survive, because Shepard is awesome and had a high EMS rating.

If you don't like my ending, tough titty. There it is.