A single reaper stood away from the battle, ignoring anything that attempted to 'kill' it. It did nothing, it simply sat in the Amazon Rainforest and watched the forest. It listen to comm chatter and heard thousands of souls dying just to kill off the Reapers here on Earth.

-Its too late.-then it heard it.

'Its now or never, Admiral. We are going in.' A voice broke into the chatter

'Acknowledge. I'll send the word.' Another voice responded 'All ships, this is Admiral Hackett. The Crucible is on the move. I repeat: The Crucible is on the move. Protect it all cost. Everyone. This is it!'

-Crucible...it is...completed?- The reaper finally made some movement, almost as if it was looking up at the stars above.

'Any available squadrons: Delay those Reapers from leaving the battle. We got to give Hammer more time.'

-No...-

'Repeat, Harbinger is here. It is destroying Hammer! Shit! Shepard and his squad were blown away.'

'What is Harbinger doing, Major Coats?'

'Nothing...just sitting there ignoring everything we are throwing at it!'

-Harbinger.- A low growl echoed out before taking off and heading towards London. -You will not take this one. Not if I can help it.-

-Mindscape-

Shepard walked towards the pillar of light, grimacing as he did.

"I am sorry Tali...Guess we are not going to get that beach house on your homeworld." He smiled as he began to run towards the light, missing the smirk on the 'child's' face. That was before another glowing form appeared before Shepard, stopping Shepard in his track.

"T-tali?"

"Wake up!"

"What?"

"I said wake up, Commander." The glowing Tali demanded.

"Stop! What are you-" the child demanded before the Glowing Tali struck her hand out, making the child vanish. It then turn towards Shepard.

"You are being indoctrinated!"

"What are you talking about?" Shepard asked, completely confused. The Glowing Tali walked up towards Shepard and pulled her hand back.

"Sorry, but WAKE UP!" and slapped him as hard as she could.

-Real world-

Shepard sat up with a gasp, startling Tali and Garrus who were struggling to keep Anderson and the others alive.

"Shepard! I thought...Keelah are you ok?"

"What...how...What?" Shepard looked around in confusion. "How did we get back to London?"

"Spirits Shepard are you-" A large crash echoed out and angry roars soon followed. The ground beneath Shepard shook like a nuclear bomb went off nearby.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Shepard shouted as he looked up and gaped at the site. Seeing a reaper up close was bad enough, seeing TWO reapers was worse. Seeing those two quite literally trying to rip each other apart was something else entirely. "What is going on?"

"I don't know." Anderson coughed out. "One moment, we are getting our asses handed to us. The next, this new reaper shows up and begins a beat down on Harbinger. All I really know is now we have a chance to get to the beam now that Harbinger is getting its ass kicked. We got move, NOW!"

They watched as Harbinger took off to lick its wounds and the new reaper turned to the others, causing them to freeze in place.

"Move little ones, I will protect you to best of my ability."

For a moment, everyone was struck dumb. Shepard managed to shake his head to clear the shock.

"YOU HEARD THE TALKING STARSHIP, MOVE!" as one, the grouped rushed forward. Several shuttles began their approached, followed by Oculus moving to destroy them. That was until the new Reaper sent forth its own Oculus to intercept them.

As soon as it was safe enough to leave them, the Reaper took to the sky. Destroying incoming Reaper Destroyers as it passed. It left a group of Oculus to protect them if anything came by to kill them.

-Space Battle field-

Admiral Hackett watched as the battle unfolded before his eyes. The loss was astronomical, but if the Crucible worked, it would be worth it.

'Sir incoming Reapers!'

"All ships open-" He was caught off guard when one of the Reapers simply exploded, a single beam of red light gutting it. The group of Reapers turned to face the threat, only to find they were facing one of their own. The single Reaper lashed out, gutting several of them, and avoiding returning shots to the best of its ability.

'Sir...uh...one of the Reapers is...uh?-

"All ships, target every other reaper 'EXECPT' that one, it is targeted as friendly until otherwise." Admiral Hackett order. The advancing Reapers were soon found themselves being bombard from behind. And were swiftly destroyed as soon as they tried to turn to face the oncoming threat from the rouge Reaper. Alliance Ships soon secured the area around the Crucible and surround the rouge Reaper.

'Sir! Incoming transmission!'

"Put it through. Who am I speaking to?"

'Salvation...my name is Salvation, and you completed my work. Finally...this nightmare may end.'

Hackett felt the blood drain from his face. "You mean Crucible is Reaper tech!"

'Hardly...it is a way to secure the galaxy from the Reapers...Once and for all.'