*Author's Note: Alrighty, I've gotten the Bleach/Naruto crossover with the TvTropes Topical chapter stuff into a halt, due to plenty of things that don't need explanation right now, until I can properly—you know what, screw it...I was distracted by Fanfic updates, having a life, becoming a Troper (My Troper Name will be mentioned later, alright?), and playing some Mass Effect and whatnot ( Heck, I even changed my FF name to compliment my Troper Name).

*AN 2: The reason I'm doing this up at the top instead doesn't matter right now; The real reason is that I've gotten back into Mass Effect was because of a fic called Mass Vexations. I don't recall where I found it, which was COMPLETELY BY ACCIDENT, mind you, and I did have a Xbox 360 copy of the first one around the time it was out and my older brother gave it to me as a gift, which disappeared and became a rather sore subject for me, spending money just to get ME1 on Steam. Recently, with ME3 rolling around and the popularity of the 2nd ME game, it was rather...tempting to go and just write a bunch of stuff without the proper research, I have TvTropes, Youtube, and this site to thank for that. I've gotten as far as about reaching Virmire in ME1 and playing abit of the ME2 Demo available on Steam... I had a sudden surge of ideas on how to do this, but it's rather frustrating since I'm doing this FF stuff on my laptop, while in WA for a few months, so naturally I'd be pissed at the fact I'm so far behind gameplay-wise.

*AN 3: Sorry for the 2nd AN, it's a bit of a doozy there. Continuing from before, I've read MV, as well as: Masses to Masses. Into the Fire...Version 2 I believe, Mass Effect: The Outsider, Mass Effect: Dimension, what else hmmmm...oh yeah and Mass Effect: Intervention of Fate! There are a few other fics I'm willing to rec as well...just as soon as I can remember...Anyways, They're mostly SI's (Self-Inserts) so I'm a little hesitant on doing it as well, so I thought, "Screw It, I have my ideas to go on..." maybe borrowing some from their stories, I dunno, I'll wing it for the most part, hopefully get something right and not have to retcon it later...

*4th (And Final) AN: I have read those other SI fics, and as awesome as they are, I just can't do the romance part for the life of me, which a little strange, considering I did have some sort of understanding on what love is...I can't say it...crap, this isn't good right now ( Idiot... Quiet you!). Plain and simple: CANNOT DO ROMANCE. So if any shippers want to read a Shep(Fem!Shep)/?, read one of theirs, or better yet...play the game or something; just don't complain that I can not (and will not) create some sort of Romance side plot...I'm Sorry =(, honestly, I am truly sorry. Part of the reason is because I have no stable ground to base a working relationship on (I have no girlfriend...) and can't simply mash two characters due to: 1) Fandom {or Hatedom, choose your poison}, 2) Canon {Which is simply PICKING YOUR DESIRED COMPANION! Whew...sorry about that.} And 3) I'd rather not waste time building it in the foreground, so expect some hints of a ship to occur. It's just not very important, that's all I'm going to say about it.

So without further ado, with a killer starting sentence... and here we...go!

Mass Effect:

What Got Me in this Mess?

By:

Apathy of the Abyssal Void

Chapter 1:

Meeting Legion...Oh , Joy (Sarcasm Mode)

What a day, I sighed as I entered my room to tuck in for the night. 'Tis the year of 2011, within Mid-June , must be past Midnight, meh. I plopped down on my bed (read: mattress), watching a Let's Play of ME2 by User Name …... is the screen that fuzzy? Stupid laptop! Technically, it was my fault for not cleaning the screen after using it for so long. Getting up, I went to get some liquid and a washcloth to clean it, only to come back and see a Geth in my rather small room. Hey, it's a music room I'm sleeping in, no surprise on the size of the interior, I thought as I observed it quietly, trying to figure out if the carpet smell finally poisoned my brain, causing hallucinations or something. As if something alerted it to my presence, it immediately stood activated, causing me to quirk an eyebrow at its appearance.

As I took in the sight of a Geth in my room, mostly with curiosity and a small amount of confusion, slowly turning into panic as I saw a rather large hole in it and a small logo above it. If I'm not mistaken, that's- my thoughts cut off as the Geth spoke, " Identify yourself." His voice was rather crispy, mostly covered by a metallic form of static spoken for every syllable that was used in that statement. Crap, how do I go about this, I could say my name is ****** *****, wait...That was all muffled as if...You have got to be kidding me, I can't even think of my name without stupid censors! What the f*** is that about! WTF! It did it again! As I mentally swore at the complications this could cause, I stopped my thought processes to respond, "Not now, I need to figure out as to how a Geth even got here. Let's see: No Unusual Storms and no bizarre weather events.

Data Transfer Into Reality Sounds like a Tron thing though...Possible, but not with a laptop like mine here." As I paced back and forth to figure out on what to do, the Geth stood transfixed by my appearance and my behavior, unused to such eccentricities of a human civilian in its lifetime.

"Identify yourself" it repeated, causing me to stop momentarily to realize that no matter what I do, I'm hopelessly screwed as of now. I can't avoid this one at all, it looks like I'm going to be in it for the long haul, even if I pretended to not know what's happening, I'm dead certain it'll bite me in the *** later though, or worse...Alright, might as well make this one count, I thought turning to him speaking, "My name's ****** *****, just refer to my first name and you are?" I'm just hoping it got here sometime after its name was given, since it definitely would cause a headache to-"Legion," his answer was immediate, and precise to boot. My expression brightened at the rapid response. "Legion, can you explain how you ended up in my room?" I asked the hive-mind machine, still trying to figure out how the f*** he got here. " A temporal matrix that created a pathway, which lead to us arriving on Earth," my Earth I thought bitterly as he continued on, not noticing my facial expression at the mention of Earth, "in which the portal ended in your room Civilian-******."

At least he's using my first name instead of my last, which could have been quite irritating to deal with, not like I could even fight him anyway. I'd easily lose that fight, I thought as he finished his theory of arrival to my Earth. I just realized the possibility of this Legion not being the one from Canon, since he answered me rather quickly, I decided to get to the point, " Meaning that some wormhole just happened to take you and sent you to my time-line for no reason whatsoever?" Legion replied, "Negative, I had arrived from ME-07612 by Creator-Hudson." I froze at the end of Legion's reply, shocked to believe that an Omniverse exists, and at the possibility of Time Travel being involved here. Well that and Bioware (Casey Hudson to be more accurate) having a hand in this... I look up to say," You're enjoying this aren't you? Having some helpless civilian taking part of a potentially deadly mission to ensure the safety of a ME universe? I can see that going over well with my family before I go: 'I'm sorry about leaving to go on a mission that I just might die from at anytime, but don't worry, if something happens to me, I'll most likely become part of a Superhuman Terminator...'" I stated, my voice drooling with copious amounts of sarcasm at the end of my speech.

So Casey Hudson had a personal hand in this Legion's arrival to my Earth, Well, the guy's awfully nice about sending a Non-Heretic Geth to my universe, our universe? It doesn't matter, I need to know why Legion's here, it can't be some sort of accident, right? As if sensing my distress to my current predicament, Legion brought up his Omni-Tool to relay a broadcasting signal, creating some sort of holographic image of what I assumed to be The Illusive Man. Oh joy, I thought, little old 'TIM' decides to pay me a visit as well, this CANNOT end well... Before I could speak, TIM decided to answer my questions, in his usual BS fashion, as I had known from the Let's Play videos and various other sources, with the following sentence, "Hello ******, I assume you and Legion are well acquainted by now? Good, in that case, I'll bring you up to speed on your situation-" Cutting him off I decided to respond in irritation," Look, I know pretty well what's about to happen: You, The Illusive Man, want me to find a way to send Legion here back to his respective universe, just so I can assist him in finding Commander Shepard, and take part in the little mission to the Collector base, and possibly use some sort of radioactive EMP wave to kill whatever remaining Collectors are there to keep the base and use its technology against the Reapers. Did I leave anything out, sir?"

Shaking his head, he responded, "Not at all, ******, not at all. You're a very sharp man to have known what can or will happen, tell me: Did you ever play Mass Effect 2?" Huh, that's new, I wonder if Hudson really IS The Illusive Man, it certainly makes sense that he would know about his respective AU's, as well as his Canon-verse. Hey! This brings up an awesome idea! "Afraid not, sir. I haven't been able to finish the first and I've seen plenty of videos of ME2, so I'm a bit stuck." TIM frowns at this, but motions for me to continue, "But, I have an idea on how to solve it. Legion." Said Geth turned to me, as if waiting for some kind of order, "Can you archive any and all data pertaining to the Mass Effect franchise?" "Acknowledged." he confirmed, beginning to transfer the data straight to his Omni-Tool. While commencing the transfer, I turned back to see TIM chuckle at me. Curious, I asked, " What's so funny? All I did was ask Legion for the data transfer and that's it." He responded, " I find it funny that you were the first person to try and maintain some amount of levelheadedness and properly assessed your situation rather quickly, far faster than your predecessors did when they first arrived in their Alternate Mass Effect Universes. While a few did have some...unorthodox methods on their arrival, yours will be much easier to deal with."

Greaaat. I thought, I'm considered special, for not arriving for the following: wasted off of some weird stuff, weather manipulations, or by amnesia. Well, it couldn't have been that bad I suppose. Wait a second, he said predecessors, which means that...Aw crap, now I feel bad about taking cheap shots at people I don't even know. Wait a second, He did the same thing, only without the guilt of doing the Take Thats at the other guys that got caught in their respective situations...If that's how it's gonna be, I'll try and do it for the Rule of Funny, I guess. If not, then I need some sort of Comic Relief while I'm there.

After my internal monologue, I decided to ask Legion to do something for me, since there will be a high probability of me being declared dead or worse, a fugitive or something, "Would it be possible to archive TvTropes as well? I need some amount of medium awareness to help deal with whatever stress I might have during the more...intense and emotional parts of the time-line. That is, if we start early on. I prefer to begin before Eden Prime in order to convince Shepard of our intentions and provide assistance, if the Commander's willing by that point. Otherwise," I stared at TIM before continuing, " You may need to have the Lazarus Project at the ready, in case he dies prematurely or have more volunteers to make the project more efficient when he does die at the right time."

The Illusive Man nodded and responded, "I understand. I'll find a way to accomplish a more efficient way of having the Project finished with a high success rate, which means you have just become our first test subject for the Lazarus Project." His expression was filled with mirth and deviousness, as if he loved to see people squirm or something.

"WHAT! Why me? You, of all people, should know that the Project was meant for Shepard when the Commander dies by the Collector's assault on the Normandy that day!" I roared at him, clearly unhappy at the insuation of me dying and being brought back from the dead, within the timespan of 2 years no less.

"Don't worry about the details, I'm going to make sure Shepard remains the same after the Project is complete and have him up and running in no time." TIM quietly retorts. "In the mean time, once you and Legion arrive in your Alternate Universe, the coordinates of the wormhole should land you above a Cerberus-controlled base that isn't far from where the Lazarus Project will be located at. Upon your arrival, my Counterpart will wish to speak with Legion before the Preliminary Testing begins. If you happen to encounter any oppostion before your departure...know that it may prove beneficial should you die in order for the Project to fully commence."

"Quick question: What's my alibi supposed to be? I need some sort of identity to go on if Shepard or any or his crew members get suspicious of me and Legion, although they may be willing to comply if I were to be on Rannoch some how for a good amount of time to make my story of the geth allying with Saren and Sovereign being heretics much more believable."

"Unadvisable. Any mention of true geth will cause alarm in the Creator species, thus attempting to destroy this platform with vengeance clouding their minds, making poor judgements and even poorer actions." Legion responded, with his...facial frame bending inwards a few times during the calculated response.

"Well, I'd make sure no one tries that on you, especially if they were to hack your systems and shut you down. I'm not one for racism here, but I understand that the geth and quarians had bad blood between them for a long time now. You, the true geth, seek retribution for the actions the quarians have taken against you, while the quarians wish death upon your kind for the deaths of their loved ones and their exile, where they reside in the Migrant Fleet. If only the quarians and geth could work past their differences together, they would be able to move forward to a brighter future. It may be difficult at first, but I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen."

Nodding to myself, knowing that whatever happens, I wanted to make sure that I'm doing this for the right reasons I believe in, not for The Illusive Man, not Cerberus, or anyone else who would dare tell me otherwise.

If only that I knew what the hell I was doing, signing up for a plausable insane journey to a ME-verse, with a 99.9% chance of dying and the 0.1% chance of getting out alive...

Well, I thought making my final decision, time to make some noise. I turned to TIM and stated, "I'm ready. When do we leave?"

I just hope the landing will be smooth...yeah right, not likely in the least.


There we go! This is temporary and my updates will be slow at first, which means I'm still trying to get a decent balance on the chapter length here and I may attempt to extend the first chapter if it doesn't come out right.

I will return with the second chapter of my first story by either mid-June or early July. Otherwise, I'll be focusing on this story for now, trying to get the flow going through. See you later then!

~The Abyssal Void