Chapter 1

I woke in the middle of a street. The first thing I noticed was how cold I was and then I realised I should be dead. The RFI should have made the ray field stuff useless killing me, that's what Wolf said. After a second of contemplation I got back to the matter at hand and the fact it was snowing and I was in a t-shirt.

I scanned the area to get my bearings but couldn't sense anyone which was odd as I was clearly in a town. Getting up I realised the houses were completely metal and not temporary as I had first thought. I jumped on to the roof of one nearby to see what was around me and saw the same metal houses in all directions.

Just on the edge of my scan range I felt electricity moving about and decided I could do with a boost. I used the ice launch to try to see it but I just saw more houses. So I began running.

Before long I came to sense people were at the edge of my kinetic pulse, however I wanted to be fully ready before facing the only people in this ghost town. I slowly realised the drainable electrical sources were moving like people, but didn't slow down quickly enough to stop my decent on to the street in front of the three of them. I'd never seen a robot before then but I really wasn't expecting it to have a gun. I should have expected it with my luck (and my love of the Terminator films) but it was my first.

Luckily I was still partly juiced so my ambient magnetic field was able to shrug off the first few bullets. I quickly deployed my frost shield and pulled the AMP off my back. Running forward I got past the first one swiping its legs and jumped on the second crushing its head. Dropping the shield, I used my free hand to grab the last one and suck it dry, filling me up. The first one was getting back up so I lined up my shot, swung the AMP and knocked its head clean off and over the building at the end of the street.

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Jane Shepard didn't like having to go along with Cerberus but they were there and she needed answers. She quizzed the two agents all the way to Freedom's Progress but got nothing from them. Now she was being shot at by MECs that were meant to be on her side. It was not her day.

Jacob and Miranda were good though, they could fight with the best of them but she liked fighting beside people she trusted more than anything. A quick incinerate destroyed a MEC pinning Miranda who preceded to lift two more MECs out of cover to have Jacob and Shepard shot them. They worked well together but she didn't like Miranda and would probably never like fighting beside her.

They stepped onto the next house just as something flew over the building into a wall beside them. It was a MEC's head. EDI promptly informed them a group approaching from the south had all gone offline within five seconds of each other, prompting Shepard to reload and order them quickly onwards.

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I spotted a larger building that the people I could sense approaching were in. By this time there were two groups that had split up after meeting briefly. I decided to watch from the roof tops when I got near the building.

After a minute one group suddenly got much smaller and an explosion rocked the roof I was on prompting me to jump into the court yard to offer help against the robots. I was not expecting to see a tank of a robot firing rockets at some hooded figures. It turned towards me as I readied for the fight.

It launched a missile from its left arm which I blocked with a frost shield. I launched a couple of redirection missiles over its head, then ducked back behind my shield as it fired a second time. The hits were powerful and draining me fast so I had to act now. I dropped the shield and fired a simple shot at its head. This caused all the rockets to turn and hit it just as it was lining up its next shot.

It collapsed forward onto its arms which I promptly froze with two well placed ice grenades. Smiling to myself I jumped on its back, raised my AMP and drove it through its armour into its circuits. Bolts of lightning danced around me as I began draining as much as I could.

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How the hell was that possible? Jane Shepard couldn't believe her eyes as some random guy took down a YMIR Mech in less than a minute on his own. She didn't go as far as slack jawed but slightly widened eyes were much more her thing. As he was standing atop it Shepard decided to get involved and snipped the head of the MEC making it stutter trying to overload but it didn't for some reason.

He looked startled when his light show ended but quickly noticed her and gave a quizzical look at the damage she had obviously done. The man pulled his metal fork from its back and jumped down in front of Shepard.

He was fairly tall with a shaved head and a tight t-shirt on that must have done nothing against the cold. Miranda and Jacob walked up to flank Shepard but both still had shocked expressions, although Miranda hid it well.

Tali came out of the small building by the open space to see why it had gone quiet. She didn't see this man's display so she was happy to ask Shepard who he was and where the ice came from.

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I didn't know this new girl but I could recognise the difference between hardened veterans and young soldiers. The girl had a mask that covered her face which I thought was odd but my gaze was drawn to the hot woman in a cat suit. I thought she must have been freezing as I was only able to properly do anything because of the electricity. The only guy there was openly staring at me, but I was used to it. Woman in the middle was definitely in charge and she didn't look happy to see me. Her eyes softened when she saw the girl though and I filed that away for later.

"So can anyone of you tell me where I am and what's going on?" I said to the group. No one answered at first but the girl began to quietly speak in some foreign language I'd never heard.

Another hooded figure hurried from the house, straight past me to some people on the ground. I decided to help get them up to show I was friendly to these soldiers. They watched me as I walked over and began to charge up for my pulse heal. As I bent down the girl squeaked and I her someone running towards me.

My hands connected and electricity jolted through him spilling out to the other one. He sat bolt upright and grabbed my arm, just as I noticed he only had three large fingers. The ginger woman suddenly pulled me away from him, with incredible strength I only thought arose from conduits. I scanned her again but she didn't have the gene, although something was different about her and the other woman.

All of them were stunned as the two hurt guys got up and turned to me. I stuck out my hand and he took it before hurrying off with the other hooded figure.

"Who the hell are you and how did you do that?" The ginger lady shouted at me from two feet away.

"So you do speak English. I'm Cole, Cole MacGrath. Conduit extraordinaire." I bowed in front of her, while she glared at me. "Where am I."

"Freedom's Progress"

"Where's that? Sweden?"

"Were not on earth."

"What?" I stepped back. "Who are you?"

"I'm Commander Jane Shepard, this is Miranda Lawson and Jacob Taylor. And how did you do that?" she said while gesturing to the destroyed robot and the house the hooded guys went in.

"I'm a conduit, but that doesn't mater what do you mean I'm not on earth I can't even fly, not to mention teleport to another planet. Maybe Nix could go to the moon if she trained her entire life but me, no way." I began to pace. Speaking more to myself than the Commander and the others. "No it has to do with the RFI." That's when I realised what them being human meant. "What year is it?"

"Calm down." The woman to the left said.

"Shut up. Humans aren't in space so either abductions are true and there is a community of humans in space, or I time travelled somehow. So tell me, WHAT FUCKING YEAR IS IT!?"

"Hay Shepard this guy's obviously demented. We should stun him and take him with us."

"Hold on Miss Lawson. He's human we can't just stun him." This was the first time the guy spoke and I knew from that moment I would like him if I got to know him.

"The year is 2185. Now explain everything." She stepped forward to grab my arm, but I jumped back and prepared a lightning tether. I couldn't think, I needed to get away from them, so I could be alone and decide what to do.

"Stop!" The one called Lawson shot a blue thing at me just as I began to throw the tether. I flew into the air and after a few seconds of disorientation realised that in my current state static thrusters would be perfect.

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The man called Cole flew away. Miranda had throw a pull to stop him from doing whatever he was doing but he changed tactic and propelled himself using the lower gravity. Shepard was angry for a moment then sighed and turned to Tali. "So where's Veetor?"

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Authors note

It will be in Mass effect 2 because I'm not familiar with 1 and 3 isn't a good back drop. Also I will assume the American government would try to make people forget about the events in the two infamous games as quickly as possible for panic control and so they can study it in secret. He will also not be on earth because then the alliance would deal with him not Shepard.

And no Delson... probably.