Extended Cut, Extended Fury

Shepard went back into the portal and back into the player's home.

The player was on his laptop, his PS3 off. He looked up at his Shepard and asked, "So what did they say?"

Shepard answered, "There this DLC called the 'Extended Cut'. Supposedly, it will give more closure for the question me and you have."

"Oh yeah, I heard about that. Although it won't change the ending, just 'tweak' it."

"Well that sucks." Shepard saw the player's laptop. "What are you looking at?"

"Just some video about the Indoctrination Theory."

"Indoctrination Theory?"

"Yeah, apparently people think that when you were hit with Harbinger's beam, it was actually an Indoctrination attempt and your talk with the Catalyst was really a fight against the attempt. A lot of people want this theory to be true, but I don't know why. That means that it would be all a dream and we didn't really get an ending just a cliffhanger. Bioware has been so damn tight-lipped about it, to the point where no one might ever know."

Shepard rubbed his chin and pondered. "…Wait, so why couldn't I just have a great final battle with Harbinger?"

The player face-palmed in grief, "I don't know…I just-don't-know….Anyway, let's download this." The player went to his the PS Store and went to the download.

Now to wait.

The player researched the DLC on his laptop. "Says here that we have to start from the Cerberus mission so that the DLC will take effect…And here it says that there's actually a fourth ending….That doesn't make sense, I thought they said this wouldn't change anything. I don't know Shepard, I think this is going to be big. They may change some things. Maybe…maybe this will shed some light on the Indoctrination Theory."

"In that case, we'll see how the Destroy ending changes in the Extended Cut, then play the fourth ending." Shepard said.

"Sounds like a plan. The download is done, get in."

"Alright, I hope it turns out well."

"Me too."

[1 hour later]

A portal formed from the TV again and Shepard came out with his fist clenched, eyes twitching, and a murder like expression in his eyes.

The player groaned in disappointment, "Well that blows the Indoctrination Theory and all hopes of a happy ending to hell. You okay Shepard?"

"I'll…be right back…" Shepard made another portal.

-At Bioware-

The forum employee was actually on his lunch break, eating a ham sandwich. Shepard once again came into the room from a portal.

The employee nearly choked on his sandwich in complete shock. "I told you, I don't do the writing!" He said cowering in fear.

"I don't want to talk to you, I want to talk to the writer."

"I'm sorry, but he's in a mee-"

"I don't give a pyjack's ass! I want to see him!"

"Okay, okay! He's in the conference room."

-Conference Room-

The peace and calm of the meeting was interrupted by Shepard going Renegade and kicking down the door.

The writer, along with every other member of the meeting were flabbergasted. "How did you?..."

"Don't ask. I broke the fourth wall somehow and I found out how much you screwed me over!"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't give me that. Your 16 endings were bullshit. Satisfaction, same thing."

"What about the closure the Extended Cut gave?"

"…Okay, that made things just a little bit better, but Joker still wouldn't leave, nor would any of my crew agree to leave. And the slide show was…meh. I guess all I have to ask is: Why didn't you have this in the first place? I'm sure players wouldn't mind if they had to wait longer, as long as the end result was fantastic."

"We wanted to leave some interpretation."

"You left TOO MUCH interpretation. You're leaving people scrambling around to prove a theory that's just a theory, which you still won't tell if it's fact or not. And I thought that with the Extended Cut, you'd explain what happened to me after the Destroy ending, but you still leave it as a cliffhanger."

"Technically, no. Remember, Tali didn't put your name on the memorial wall."

"Well then what happens after that?"

"That's up to the player's imagination."

Shepard looked at the writer in complete disbelief. "That's the laziest f***ing thing I've ever heard! You're telling me you couldn't at least put some kind of canon? And don't even get me started on the Refusal ending. That was a middle finger to me, my player and everyone else who was hoping their EMS would make a difference and you know it! What the f*** is wrong with you? You have the opportunity to redeem yourselves and instead you make it worse. Hell, even the Catalyst sounds more idiotic. His creators told him to solve the organic and synthetic conflict, so the best thing the Catalyst can think of is war? That doesn't make him as smart as he thinks he is. Why, why did you guys do this?"

"….Artistic vision?" The writer said slowly shrugging his shoulders.

A surge of anger went through Shepard and he felt like his player pressed the Renegade interrupt.

"I've had enough of your Artistic Vision Idealism." He made a punch for the writer, but he dodged it.

"Ha! I wrote that part, so of course I can dodge your pun-'' but the writer was interrupted as Shepard punched him into the wall and he slip down onto the floor.

"I came here to disapprove of what you've done, not take any of this bullshit. Stay down."

[If you don't know that joke…what kind of Mass Effect fan are you?]

Shepard then looked at the rest of the people in the meeting room. "And the rest of you…I hope you're proud of what you've done. To screwing over all the players that trusted you to end this trilogy with class. If you need to unleash an Extended Cut to explain your wrongs…you've already failed." Shepard went back into the portal.

-Back at the player's house-

"That's it, I'm done." Shepard said, entering back into the house. He slumped on ground.

"Don't give up man, there may be hope yet," the player said.

"Like what?"

"There's this new DLC called Leviathan." The player was on his keyboard. "It says here that your find a Reaper that kills other Reapers and that tweak the endings."

"We both know the last time they said they'd tweak the endings…"

"But it's a Reaper killing Reaper, which could seriously turn the tide."

"…Okay, one last time, one last time. This will be their last chance to redeem themselves: Otherwise…"

"Otherwise what?" the player asked nervously.

"….Just don't let me near a Cain…"

Now I really am skeptical about this new DLC, but I'll still download it. But like my Shepard said, "This will be there last chance to redeem themselves." I'll add the new and last chapter as soon as I play it with the Destroy ending and Refusal ending.