Author Notes: This is my first Fan-Fiction and i hope everyone likes it. I wanted to put a new take on the Mass Effect universe and merge one of my favorite TV shows with one of my favorite games. This takes place in the Doctor Who universe after the season 2 episode The Girl in the Fireplace and in the Mass Effect universe takes place in Mass Effect 3 after the mission on Menae. This is FemShep and she is Paragon up to this point. Any help/advice is welcome and encouraged. P.S. i don't own either Doctor Who or Mass Effect.
Chapter 1
The Doctor was walking around the control console of the TARDIS manipulating the controls with his usual excited manner. Rose was sitting on the only chair in the control room while Mickey was leaning against a railing. The Doctor paused in his circuit and turned to Rose "So, what do you want to see next? There is a lovely solar wave that is pulsating from a binary star that only happens once every six hundred years. Or there are the rock formations of Goren 4 that tower higher than any building man ever creates."
Mickey shifted his stance "Oi, can't we get some food, we haven't eaten in forever."
The Doctor went back to going around the controls and didn't even look at Mickey "Well Ricky, there is a planet that has a whole city dedicated to restaurants."
"It's MICKEY and I would prefer some human food, not some weird alien stuff."
Rose laughed and said "oh come on Mickey, it's good to try a new thing, that's why we are out here."
Mickey threw his hands up in the air "alright fine, but my food better not be moving when I eat it."
The Doctor poked his head around the control console "oh come on Mickey, most people…."
Suddenly the TARDIS rocked violently and alarms went off. Rose and Mickey grabbed onto the railing while The Doctor held on to the console as sparks flew everywhere. "Doctor, what is happening?"
The Doctor turned to monitor towards him and was able to study it for a few moments before the monitor died and everything went dark. "The Time Vortex is gone, just vanished. Hold on we are going to crash." The TARDIS slammed down and then all was silent. The Doctor coughed and as he stood up he asked "Is everyone alright? " Rose and Mickey told him that they were. Then The Doctor looked at the center console and the pillar that connects it to the ceiling as smoke emits from the console and the pillar.
Rose got up and asked "What is going on Doctor?"
Without looking at Rose he replied "She's dead, the last TARDIS in existence is dead."
"Can't you fix it?"
The Doctor pushed a couple buttons "There is nothing to fix, without the Time Vortex the TARDIS dies."
"Well where are we?" asked Rose
"We are in the Void, outside of time and space of our own Dimension."
"Which apparently looks like a ship of some kind?"
The Doctor turned to see Mickey bringing his head back inside of the front door. "What?" The Doctor said has he ran to the front door and threw it open to reveal the TARDIS landed in an area partially surrounded by boxes and metal piping that seems to be criss-crossing everywhere. The Doctor could see a stairwell to the left and right that goes up. He could also hear the hum of engines as well.
Rose poked her head out of the TARDIS after The Doctor stepped out "Where are we Doctor?"
The Doctor stepped out and looked around everywhere before answering "On a ship of some kind, but something feels weird and different." Rose shook her head as she heard The Doctor start getting more and more excited like he usually does when they do something new.
Suddenly, they hear the flurry of footsteps getting closer and closer.
Rose sighs "Here we go again."
Commander Shepard exited the Med bay after learning that EDI had taken over Dr. Eva's body and headed for the main battery where she knew she would find Garrus. Sure enough, upon opening the door she saw Garrus working in an open panel of the main THANIX Magnetic-Hydrodynamic Cannon.
"Couldn't waste any time getting to work I see?" She said after stepping through and letting the door close.
Without turning from his work Garrus replied "Whatever is wrong with the Normandy isn't down here. Besides after what I have been through lately calibrating a giant gun is a vacation, gives me something to focus on."
Shepard smirked and leaned against the side of the THANIX gun "We are gonna need you for more than your aim."
"Oh I am ready for it, but I am pretty sure we still need giant guns and lots of them." Garrus replied as he crawled out of the panel he was working on and closed it up.
"Can't argue with that."
Garrus stood up and turned to Shepard "Yeah, so is this the part where we shake hands? I wasn't sure on the protocol for reunions or if you still felt the same way about me. The scars are starting to fade, I remember they drove you wild." Shepard started laughing at his antics, but Garrus continues "But I can go out and get all new ones if it will help."
Shepard blushed slightly at remembering the time they spent together before going through the Omega 4 Relay. "I haven't forgotten our time together."
Garrus stepped closer "Well I…" he started to say when suddenly EDI came over the intercom "Commander, we have an intruder alert."
Garrus went to his weapon table and grabbed two pistols, tossing one to Shepard as they headed out of the main battery to the elevator. "EDI, what is the intruder's location and how did they get on the ship?" Shepard said as she caught the pistol and checked it, making sure it was ready to use.
EDI met Shepard and Garrus in the mess hall outside of the med bay and accompanied them towards the elevator. "The intruder alert originated from the engineering sub-deck. I cannot formulate as to how they came aboard the Normandy. It seems as if they appeared in that location."
Shepard touched the com unit on her ear "Vega, get a security team and meet us on the engineering deck."
"Can do Lola, on our way." Vega replied through the com unit.
Shepard turned to EDI "Are the intruders still on the sub deck?"
"Yes Commander, they have not moved from that location."
The Elevator doors opened on the engineering deck to reveal James Vega in his customary Alliance T-Shirt and sporting his trusty M76 Revenant. Accompanying him were two Alliance soldiers that had been assigned to the Normandy. "What's the problem Shepard?"
Shepard and her team exited the elevator "Intruders in the sub deck."
Vega cocked his head to the side and had a baffled expression on his face "How did they get there without tripping the alarms?"
"Not sure, but they are still there. You take your team down the stairwell on that side and we will go down the other way." Replied Shepard as she pointed to the door to engineering to the right of the elevator.
Vega put the expression on his face that he usually uses for combat "You got it Lola." He turned to the Alliance soldiers that he brought with him "Come on vatos, this way." With that, Vega and his team went through the door.
Shepard turned and led her team through the other door and got on the coms "We need them alive, no shooting unless you are fired upon." Shepard led the way down the stairwell and to the sub deck to find the strangest sight she had seen in her long career. She saw a large blue box and three people standing in front of it with their hands up. Shepard stood forward and said "Who are you and what are you doing on my ship?"
The tall man in the trench coat with the almost gravity defying hair stepped forward and spoke first "'Ello, I'm The Doctor, this is Rose and Mickey and we seem to be a little lost could you tell us where we are at?"
Shepard shared a look of confusion with Garrus who had what Shepard guessed was the Turian equivalent look of confusion and replied to The Doctor "You have no idea how you got here?"
"Oh I know how I got here, but I don't know where HERE is." The Doctor replied with an almost childlike amount of energy.
"You are on the SSV Normandy. Who sent you here?"
The Doctor tilted his head to the side and had the expression like he was thinking hard "Oh…, well no one sent us we are just travelers. By the way, could you tell me what year this is?"
Shepard grew more skeptical of this strange man with a British accent "It's 2185. Who the hell are you people?"
The Doctor got a concerned look on his face "That doesn't make any sense; humans shouldn't be this advanced yet. That must mean….. Oh think, think, think….that's it, we are in an alternate dimension that explains what happened with the TARDIS."
Shepard shook her head at The Doctor's ramblings "TARDIS, alternate dimension…. What the hell is going on here?"
The blonde girl, Rose looked at The Doctor "Doctor shouldn't we tell them, they could help us."
The Doctor turned back to Rose "Hmmm? Oh yeah well long story short is that we are from an alternate dimension and we seem to be stuck here."
"Madre de Dios" exclaimed Vega.
The Doctor suddenly straightened up and said "Wait, I will be right back." The Doctor ran into the blue box and was gone for a little while. When he came out he held a small green crystal in his hand that pulsated with light. Upon seeing the crystal, Shepard and her crew brought their guns back to ready stance. The Doctor motioned with his hand and said "Oh, put those down this is not a weapon of any sort."
Mickey walks around to take a better look "Then what is it?" The Doctor holds the crystal up "This, Ricky, could be our ticket home. See this is an energy source from our universe." The Doctor pulls out his Sonic Screwdriver and adjusts a few settings and sonics the crystal for a while "I am setting it to charge so hopefully it will be enough to charge the TARDIS enough to bring her back to life, however it is going to be a while before it charges enough to take us home, so for now we are guests of our friends here."
Shepard lowered her weapon and motioned for others to lower theirs. She still didn't fully trust or believe this Doctor but something in her told her that he was no threat to her, her crew, or her mission. "You don't know about the war then do you?"
The Doctor turned to Shepard and all sense of merriment left him in an instant "What war?"
Shepard sighed "We have a lot to catch you all up on. Please come with me and we will get you three set up in the starboard observation lounge. We don't have beds available but there are couches you can use." With that, Shepard turned and led them from the subdeck.
