Things we didn't see in Mass Effect, the series, but should have (or stuff that needed to be fixed)

The Thorian -

Shepard held her shotgun firmly, not too tight, not too trigger happy, Ashley had that covered enough for the whole team. Solid soldier, but her family history and her own personal run-in with about every sleazy alien criminal in the galaxy had burned her so bad on trust that Ashley would rather conduct diplomatic relations with a couple of holes blown in her alien counterpart. Shepard felt bad for her, pity, for how the woman had been treated. Reminded her of when daddy Shepard had taken her to a local dog kennel. All the dogs barked happily except one, he had been abused, was missing chunks of fur and had scar tissue underneath. That dog barked in warning, it intended to bite her. It wanted to bite everyone. She had insisted that was the one she wanted, the one that didn't deserve to be in jail. It had taken all summer but the poor wretch learned to trust, at least a little. Good food had helped. Still, at any sudden movement he would jump to his feet, bare his teeth and pull back until he knew he was safe. Poor Ashley.

"What are you?"

"We speak for the Old Growth-"

"You mean you're a Thorian? Or you ARE the Thorian?"

"We are what you aliens call the Thorian."

"Shepard-" Ashley was insistent on blasting the green Asari back into whatever protoplasmic paste she had started as.

"Hold your fire, Chief."

"We will show you no mercy. You will pay for the sins of the other."

"SHEPARD."

"HOLD your fire, Ashley."

Shepard checked her Paragon/Renegade points and smiled darkly, hooking her shotgun behind her back. "All right then, THORIAN, you want to make someone pay for your pain? That sounds like a perfect solution to me."

Shepard motioned the Asari-Thorian closer. It stepped forward with a vengeance in its eyes and Shepard shocked it and the Thorian behind it by handing the Asari-clone her deactivated shotgun, then her rifle, then her sniper rifle, then her pistol and anything else she was carrying. Ashley went apeshit.

"Commander, what are you DOING?"

"At ease, Williams, don't shoot unless you see the green of her eyes. And call Joker, tell him to send down a medic and some guards."

Shepard continued, this time powering down and popping off the locks on her armor. "Liara, help me out with this."

Liara blushed as Shepard stood there in a body weave that clung tightly, showing off not just woman's curves but soldier's muscle. Shepard smirked at the Asari-clone, not even noticing Liara, which Liara was desperately thankful for.

"All right then, THORIAN. You learned our language, you learned everything from the Asari. But she was with the enemy, and obviously insane, that means you DON'T know the truth and you are not willing to trust me because Saren was willing to sacrifice his subordinate and leave you. Well guess what, OLD GROWTH? That ain't the way Daddy Shepard's girl does business! You're going to take ME-"

"COMMANDER! NO WAY IN HELL!"

Shepard roared. "STAND DOWN, WILLIAMS, or I'll have Liara stasis bubble your ass!"

"Commander, I am against this plan as well! It's too dangerous, you could be hurt!" Liara...her heart was going a thousand miles an hour.

The Thorian-Asari looked at her, still holding the weapons, Creepers surrounding the group. "As I said, LITTLE TWIG, You're going to take ME, you'll learn the truth from ME, a willing test subject, I don't abandon my people, and you'll know what that means, too! What all of it means: Honor, Duty, Sacrifice. Now,"

Shepard leaned in with fists clenched and glared down on the Green skin. "Let's DO THIS."

72 hours later...

Sovereign was destroyed as a fleet of warships hunted him down and Saren was bent over a table with his pants down around his ankles, an army of Shepard-Thorians all around with paddles, green branches, and belts.

"Whose your daddy, bitch?! Whose the savior of the universe?! Whose the best Spectre ever?!"

Ashley and Liara looked from Saren's naked ass to the plant-humans to Shepard who swallowed uncomfortably. "That's...the uh...Thorian in them."

Garrus and Wrex both laughed. "Sure it is, Shepard."