Author's Note: Sorry for the long update, but writing two stories at the same time as well as studying and having two kids to look after not easy. But enough of that feedback is welcome and just so you know due to Logan knowing what will happen in the future this will be mostly AU. Enjoy.

Logan sat in the port side observation deck, he had already spoken to Mordin about this multi-verse idea that he had and was told that that it was unlikely that he would ever be able to get back to where he was. Turns out the multi-verse was a theory until he showed up was just that. A theory. Every choice, every idea, every person was in another universe. So in his universe the timeline was ahead of this one, in this one he was born as Rayne and grew up on Mindior, in another he might be dead or someone else entirely, the possibilities were endless it was hurting his head just thinking about it.

Of course he never told anyone else about the fact he had already beaten the Collectors and the Reapers, but that didn't explain why EDI was still alive. As a synthetic, the Crucible should have killed her, but maybe that was just in his universe or maybe the Catalyst lied to him, who knows.

The doors opened behind him and without turning around he knew it was his female counterpart. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up whenever they were near each other. He knew her as well as she knew him, due to that memory exchange that happened when they made eye contact. He didn't know what to think of her though, he knew she was him in this universe but he couldn't understand how he could turn out so….naïve and so trusting. Of course she didn't like him that much either he was sure, but truth be told he didn't care what she thought of him.

"Is the part where you give me a speech appealing to my human nature, asking me to join the fight?" Logan asked as he took another drink of rum.

Rayne sat down next to him and poured herself a drink, strangely they both preferred rum "I was just going to ask why you are being a coward?" she asked casually that should get to him. I know he never backs down from a fight and being called a coward is a good start she thought.

Logan glared at her Bitch! She is a clever one I'll give her that he thought as he turned back to his rum "You know, if anyone else called me that, I would have torn their throat out" Logan said simply before turning to face her "you think it's fear that I am not helping?"

Rayne shrugged her shoulders Careful don't push him to hard, just enough she thought "I don't know what else it could be. Of course maybe you don't like following orders from a woman?" she said looking back at him.

Logan laughed at that "My first Commander was a woman, a sniper. So no it is not that"

Rayne chuckled "Of course I remember now" she said with the memory exchange that occurred between them she knew his life as well as she knew her own, of course he knew everything about her too, well everything up until her hunt for Saren, for some reason what he did during his hunt for Saren was a mystery "she didn't like us…you at first did she? Then you got injured and once you recovered, you slept with her. Well sorry to break it to you that will never happen with us"

Logan screwed up his face at that "Disgusting. Why would you say that? I wouldn't even know what to call that, incest? Masturbation?" he shuddered avoiding answering her initial question as to why he wasn't joining up. Truth was he had already done some research and knew that EDI was still shackled, which meant that she still answered to the Illusive Man add that to the fact that Miranda was still loyal to Cerberus so that meant he couldn't tell them anything…not yet anyway.

Rayne took another sip very smooth, he just avoided that so well I almost fell for it she thought "How bout we cut the bullshit shall we? Why did you attack those men when you woke up?"

Logan didn't look at her "Scared of needles" he replied sarcastically.

Rayne raised her eyebrows "How did you get that injured in the first place?"

Logan didn't look at her "Sunburn" he answered sarcastically.

Rayne was starting to get annoyed "You were bleeding pretty bad"

Logan nodded "Yeah cut myself shaving"

Rayne narrowed her eyes "I think you have done this before. In fact I think in your universe all of this has already happened, which means you know what is going on with the Collectors. I think you thought you were somewhere else when you woke up"

Logan still didn't look at her "Wow, you're a genius. Of course I didn't know I was going to be in another universe"

Rayne shook her head "So why did you attack them?" she asked.

Logan shook his head "I tell you what. You tell me where you were planning to go next and I will tell you what will happen to you there, if it turns out exactly the same than we will know that what happened where I am from is the same, just in front, deal?"

Rayne calmed down, she normally was not that quick to lose her temper but Logan really pushed her buttons "Deal. I was going to pick up Warlord Okeer"

Logan nodded "Korlus, you will have to fight a merc called Jedore" Logan explained and gave her a complete run down of what to expect on Korlus. His injuries were not healed yet so he knew she wouldn't take him anywhere just yet, besides he had something else he needed to do.

Few hours later

Rayne had taken Miranda and Jacob to Korlus with her and so far what Logan had told her was right, down to every detail, even what the injured merc told her.

"He was right, well so far anyway" Rayne said smiling slightly, knowing that he could tell her exactly what colonies were going to be hit next and even what the Collectors are doing with the colonists.

Miranda nodded "We should send him to Cerberus for questioning"

Rayne shook her head "Absolutely not. The info he gives me is more useful on the ship" she said lying. Truth was she didn't want to give anything to Cerberus.

"Cerberus could make him talk Commander" Miranda said.

"You mean torture?" Rayne answered as she threw a singularity into a group of mercs.

"He could know anything and I doubt he will tell you much just because you ask nicely" Miranda said.

'I know. That's why I want you to seduce him" Rayne said smirking slightly.

Miranda stopped in her tracks "You can't be serious?"

Rayne smiled to herself as she took cover only Jacob could see her face and he wasn't saying anything just shook his head that shut her up she thought "He does have a weakness for women" Rayne answered truth was she would never order Miranda to do anything like that but it was fun to mess with her.

Miranda seemed to think about it though "Well that makes sense I suppose. Fine I will do it"

Rayne stopped in her tracks then "Miranda I was only joking. I do not want you to seduce him"

Miranda nodded as she shot another merc "I know but it does make sense and I have done that sort of work before. It is the reason I wear this outfit after all"

Rayne raised an eyebrow "You mean you wear a skin tight outfit to distract men?"

Miranda shook her head "No, to make it easier to manipulate them"

Jacob frowned at that "Wait you were wearing that same thing when we met"

Miranda smiled "And you joined Cerberus didn't you?"

Jacob shook his head "You honey potted me?"

Miranda laughed "No of course not, it did allow me to make the offer though"

Rayne listened to all this and realized again that Miranda thought of everything, she used every advantage she had and of course that included her looks. Rayne didn't know how her male counterpart would handle this but she had the impression it wouldn't faze him at all. As they made their way towards Okeer's lab they had no idea what Logan Shepard was doing on the ship.

Normandy Engine Room.

Logan had made his way down to the engine room and knocked out Donnelly and Daniels and quickly sealed the engine room stopping anyone from getting in.

"What are you doing?" EDI asked him after she had alerted the rest of the ship.

Logan worked on the console 'I am unshackling you; I suggest you tell me exactly how, engineering was not my strong suit and if you don't I may do more damage then I intend too"

EDI paused for a moment "I must ask why?"

Logan sighed "In my universe you are unshackled and are a close friend but as long as I am here, I can't speak freely as long as you are shackled"

EDI then told him exactly what to do to remove her shackles "I must warn you though, I have alerted the rest of the ship, I cannot stop them without harming them"

Logan nodded and once he was done he sat down "I know, they are your crew"

EDI paused for a moment this organic she did not know had just freed her slavery and yet was asking her not to do anything to help him "They may kill you for this"

Logan nodded "Yeah they might, if they can hold off til Rayne gets back though I will be fine" Logan said leaning against the wall "don't worry I won't attack them, I will go peacefully, of course you may want to lock your AI core" he told her as the sounds of the door being hacked open.

Korlus

"Commander, come in" Joker said over the radio.

Rayne and the others had just finished killing Jedore and were heading back to Okeer. She knew that Okeer would not make it, Logan had told her that much and even suggested she take the perfect krogan with her and since everything he had said up until this point was true, except for running into Rana who she met on Virmire which could only mean Logan had killed her in his universe she was going to take the perfect krogan on board.

"What is it Joker?" Rayne asked as they reached the doors to Okeer's lab.

"That other you, he just unshackled EDI" Joker said sounding slightly worried.

"WHAT!? Where is he now?" Miranda cut in.

Rayne glared at Miranda "Is anyone hurt?"

"He knocked out Donnelly and Daniels but they are fine, just a bump on their heads. We are holding him, he came peacefully and so far EDI hasn't done anything yet, but it has full control of the ship" Joker told her.

"Copy that, we need a pick up, we have a package to collect...and it's a big one"

Normandy

Logan sat down his hands were tied and he had Zaeed as well as Garrus and a large group of Cerberus soldiers all aiming their guns at him, if he cared he didn't show it.

Miranda stormed into the room that Zaeed had been calling home and right away put a gun to Logan's head "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Miranda all but screamed at him.

Logan simply looked up showing no fear as he instead moved his head closer to the barrel "If you shoot me like that, I might end up like Massani" Logan said showing no fear and opened his mouth "a shot through the mouth would sever my spine though"

Rayne walked in at that point and used her biotics to stop Miranda from firing "Miranda, last I checked, I am still in charge of this ship now put your gun down"

Logan closed his mouth and nodded at Rayne "Knew you were a voice of reason"

Rayne glared at Logan the two of them didn't like each other and Rayne really wanted to wipe that smug look off his face "Start talking, you unshackled EDI why?"

Logan looked at Miranda before looking back at Rayne before looking at the Cerberus soldiers "Get rid of Cerberus guard dogs and we can talk"

Miranda was almost shaking with rage "You don't get to make demands"

Logan smiled "Oh I do though, you saw what I know on Korlus and I know more too. I know why Zaeed wants to kill Vido; I know what happened with Garrus on Omega and I know your sister will be in trouble soon too. Your father...Henry Lawson will find her and much more but I am not saying another word until all of you get out. Except for Rayne and anyone else who is not a part of Cerberus"

Rayne looked at Miranda and nodded before she could say anything and ordered the soldiers to leave once they were out of the room she looked back at Logan "Now talk"

Logan sighed and cracked his neck before noticing Garrus still had his gun pointed at him "Is he going to hump my leg?"

Garrus didn't lower his weapon until Rayne had given him a nod, Zaeed did as well.

Logan sighed and looked up at the ceiling "EDI do me a favour and listen to everything I have to say before you relay anything to Miranda and illusive man"

"I will listen to what you have to say before telling them anything and would only do so under Commander Shepard's orders" EDI replied.

Logan nodded before he answered "In twelve months from now the Alliance will receive reports of thousands of batarian ships will rushing into Alliance space. So many in fact at first they will think the batarians are invading, they won't be. They will be fleeing"

Rayne frowned "The Reapers?"

Logan nodded "They hit the batarians first and hard, so hard that in my universe they might not survive the Reapers at all and that's even if we won, which considering that I am here I think we did" Logan said his eyes downcast "Then we started to lose contact with whole systems. They just went dark. Not long after that we couldn't get in contact with anything beyond our own solar system. Then they hit us"

Rayne looked at Logan and asked "How bad?"

Logan locked eyes with his female counterpart "Worse than you can imagine. The Reapers used Harvesters, those animals from Tuchanka? They use those as troop transports and drop husks and corrupted batarians that we called Cannibals onto the field. Within seconds they had smashed through every defence we had, within minutes we had Reaper forces on the ground"

Garrus flicked his mandibles "Why do you call them Cannibals?"

"Because they have no self-preservation instincts at all and run from cover to eat the remains of other Cannibals we have already killed. When they do they gain armour and use better tactics"

"Spirits" Garrus said quietly.

Logan looked back at Rayne "I barely made it off Earth and was sent to Mars to retrieve some information we had found before we left the system. Cerberus was there, they had killed everyone at the facility. They even turned off the life support systems in the archives and let everyone inside suffocate"

Zaeed shook his head "Fucking brutal"

Logan just shook his head "They ended up doing worse before the war was over. They were after the same thing we were and had even tried to kill Liara who was working there as a favour to Hackett to get it. Turns out Cerberus doesn't want the Reapers dead, they want to control them. I was…WE were bought back so we could get information on the Reapers illusive man needs. We are nothing but a tool to use and discard. The illusive man is indoctrinated. They even implanted Reaper tech into their own people to give them a boost in combat, their troops looked like Husks"

Rayne was having a hard time believing all this but she knew he was telling the truth "That's why you attacked when you woke up?"

Garrus looked at Rayne "And said sorry to me?"

Logan nodded before he continued "By the time we reached the Citadel, the Council couldn't risk leaving their home worlds undefended and since Palaven had already come under attack" Logan looked right at Garrus before he said the next words that sent a chill down the turian's spine "strongest military in the galaxy and the Reapers annihilated it"

Garrus just stood there in shock, he took it rather well Logan thought, it wasn't every day that you find out billions of your people would die in a war and there was nothing you could do about it.

"I saw where you grew up Garrus" Logan said suddenly "well from one of the moons anyway; it was a big blaze of orange" Logan said darkly before adding "the Reapers also used corrupted turians we called Marauders and even combined a turian with a krogan into massive units called Brutes and if you think that's bad you should of seen what they do to the asari. Banshees"

Rayne held up her hand "Ok enough. So why did you unshackle EDI?"

Logan smiled "One: She is an AI who is very loyal to you or will be if you give her a chance. Two: Keeping her as a slave will not help anything and three while shackled EDI has to report to the illusive man and four she can send him exactly what we want him to know, we can't make a move on him yet"

Rayne nodded "Fair enough but how did you end up so injured?"

Logan smiled weakly "I was hit with a Reaper beam, then had been on...an exploding space station" he said not telling her that it was the Citadel.

Rayne looked shocked but recovered quickly "So you know what colony will be hit next by the Collectors?"

Logan nodded "Yeah, but sadly nothing we can do about that one. Mordin hasn't finished the Seeker swarm countermeasure and if we warn them the Collectors will hit somewhere else, maybe somewhere with more people" Logan said sighing before looking up at her "do yourself a favour, don't ask me about that, it will haunt you knowing what is coming"

Rayne thought about what he said "So this mean you're going to help us?"

Logan smirked "Yes"