"You must choose." the star child told Shepard. This didn't sit well with John. The constant low hum mixed with the pain kept him confused. He had to rely on pure animal instinct. Control seemed to be the right choice, and synergy, to join with the reapers, a new form of being, evolution if you will. But raw emotion, rage, passion, fear dove him away from what the star child seemed to push him towards.
'No,' thought Shepard moving wards the power conduit bathed in red light. The other choices felt like giving in to what the reapers wanted over the benefit of organics. As he walked towards his goal, pulled out his weapon and fired shot, he felt reinvigorated, stronger. The conduit exploded and Shepard sighed expecting death, but instead felt weight on his chest, chunks of concrete and plaster.
"Commander! Commander Shepard!" screamed EDI through the intercom in his ear. 'It wasn't real I was undergoing indoctrination ', he concluded, "Shepard here, I'm hit but alive. Did anyone make it through the relay?" he crawled to his feet as EDI reported that Harbingers attack had wiped out the ground force, that Anderson was coming in with a second wave of reinforcements. He made his way to beam of light painfully. A marauder suddenly ambushes him shooting him through the shoulder, the ruined armor offering no protection. Shepard falls and hears gun fire, the voice of Anderson giving out orders near by as he blacks out.
Shepard slowly awakes on board the Normandy medical bay. "He's awake," Dr. Chakwas remarks. "Wha...what happened?" Shepard tries to say. "Apparently EDI speculates you were being, rather aggressively being indoctrinated by the lead Reaper, and having overcome it, you gave it pause, allowing the reinforcements to actually make it into the relay."
"Did it work?" Shepard asked with disbelief. "Sort of, EDI can better then I explain but it caused a-" Chakwas began to explain before EDI interrupted over intercom. "A temporal disruption on mass effect generation fields, insufficient to disrupt non-reaper technology but causing all Reapers to...shut off, the hulls are hovering adrift many are expected to simply burn up in atmosphere as they lose orbit around Earth."
Shepard fell back onto his bed, "so...we did it" he said with a sigh of relief. Then thinking clearly stood up saying "they're be a lot of rebuilding to do we have work to."
Light years away the mass effect relay in Haestrom radiated the energy of the catalyst through the system. The sun gave off a massive burst of energy threatening to go supernova, instead the energy stabilized and the rare event of wormhole generation began. Within milliseconds a stable wormhole formed leading to a galactic cluster known as New Eden. The Eden side of worm hole however was unstable, reforming unpredictably within the cluster like any normal wormhole, ready for it's first traveler. The equipment left by the Quarian's noticed all this strange energy formations, but the scientist were to busy reclaiming their home world to pay any head to unmanned drone.