Tali:

Tali pumped her shotgun in anticipation, Saren and an army of Geth could be on the other side when the doors opened. Shepard had his assault rifle out so he could set the gun to Overkill mode. Liara was flaring her biotics and generating something in her left hand. Tali wanted to hit something, mostly Liara, because of the anticipation that was hanging over head.

Shepard spoke calm and collected, just to show nothing to worry about, "Okay, we go in, bail them out, and leave. No being a hero, no trying to push back, and no sacrifices. We do this simply and efficiently. Got it?"

"Got it", Talli and Liara said in unison.

The elevator dinged and the doors opened. The trio took off forward and ran to a nearby pile of rubble. Tali looked around and saw the entire place was covered in rubble and the Salarians could be anywhere. Tali peaked around the side of their pile and saw a Geth Cruiser immediately lock on to her.

Shepard grabbed Tali by her hood and yanked backwards, pulling her out of the way of the shot. She looked back at Shepard and he motioned for them to stay low and follow him. Shepard led them to a pile of rubble that had an opening in it.

They walked inside and saw Danny and Cody inside looking up, "Hey there", Shepard yelled.

Danny looked back and walked over to Shepard, "You guys got here late. You know that to be fashionable late is over rated, right?"

Shepard patted Danny on the shoulder, "Sorry had to set up a bomb."

Danny sneered, "Cool story bro, needs more saving our asses."

Shepard looked behind Danny and saw the Salarians working on a giant machine, "What is that?"

Cody crossed his arms and looked pleased with himself, "That's my power at work. I turned the Mako into a mech suit."

Tali gawked at it in awe, "So, why didn't you guys just break out of here using it?"

Danny walked over to a wall and pulled a sword/gun thing from behind some rocks, "Because Saren has Ty and the mech is broken."

Shepard facepalmed, "Nothing is ever simple, is it?"

Danny put the sword on his back, "Well, now that you are here. We can go get him."

Tali pulled up her shotgun and walked over to the exit, "I'm coming to."

Danny put his arms out as if to hug Tali, "Well of course you are. You are the key to the whole thing."

Shepard looked at Danny, "How so?"

Danny put his hands up like he was going to do a magic trick, "Sabotage."

Shepard looked at Danny in question, "What?"

Danny walked over to Tali and grabbed her by the wrist, "She can use sabotage on the two cruisers out there. That means the cruisers will either attack each other or over heat or have to wait to fire."

Shepard looked at Danny and his eyebrow twitched, "Uh, okay."

"Great, let's move."

Ty:

My eyes felt heavy and pain was surging through my body. I could feel an icy metal hand clamped around my neck that was not letting me go. The smells of gun fire, mixed with engine exhaust made me want to gag. Sound was completely cancelled out by heavy gun fire and the steady hum of an engine.

I struggled and managed to open my eyes and I was looking down. I could barely think and I wanted to go back to sleep. My head began to bob down and I was shutting my eyes but the hand on my neck noticed.

It hefted me into the air and shook me violently like a two year old would punish a bad puppy. Another hand made its way to the front of my neck and took over. I was spun around in the air and saw who was holding me. Adrenaline shot through my veins and I was fully awake.

Saren smiled devilishly, "So, here we are again. I guess you want to know what happened to your friends."

Saren spun me around while still keeping his hand on my throat. He pointed out at the AA gun which was now in a wreck and the Salarians and Users were nowhere in sight. I looked around and expected to see the Mako to pop out and start gunning them down but it was nowhere as well.

"You see how pointless it is? You are just in way over your head Ty. You can't beat me", Saren said with smug satisfaction.

I opened my mouth to say something whitty but Saren just clamped down harder so all that came out was, "Ack."

Saren spun my back around and held his left arm out for me to see, I noticed that the midsection piece of my Spartan armor was welded on to his shoulder, "I finally found out how to keep the armor attached to me. Now, I basically have your power", Saren's mechanical arm busted and became the Brute claw from the third installment, "And more."

Saren clamped the claw around me and began to squeeze but he let my neck go, "Well, congrats on being a copycat."

Saren squeezed harder, "Copycat, ha, once you are dead. I will be the original."

My armor began to crush down and I wasn't able to take a full breath, "That's not how it works."

Saren clamped down hard enough that my right arm was crushed in the claw too, "Who gives a damn, I won't lose this time. I will be victorious. I will win and you will be the loser."

The last sentence parked a fire in me and I began tugging on my left arm to free it. This only caused Saren to clamp down harder but in the process he warped my right arm guard so I was able to yank me arm out. I looked Saren in the eyes and brought my now unarmored fist back to ready a punch.

I swung my fist into Saren's chest and expected too just hurt myself because I hit metal but I didn't feel anything. I felt like I just missed him. I looked down at my arm and saw that there was a rip in Saren's chest where I had hit him and red Matrix code was oozing out over Saren.

Saren's expression went from triumph to terror when he looked own at me arm, "What are you doing!?"

I opened my hand and grabbed the closed thing to it, "Winning the game!"

I began to pull and Saren screamed out in pain. Saren's claw degenerated into his regular arm and he began to drop me. Tightening my grip I pulled even harder and Saren recomposed himself and grabbed me with both hands. He pulled me in as close as possible to the point that my arm was in to my shoulder.

My eyes darted from his wound to my shoulder and I saw a skin of green matrix code form over me and begin to fight with the red. The red matrix code would ooze forward and begin to turn the green and then the green would push the red back and into Saren. Like the matrix code something began to push its way into my head and everything went white.

I knew where I was immediately; it was the place I would go to talk to Drew. Except Drew wasn't here, standing across from me was a determined looking Saren. I clenched my fists and began walking toward him.

Saren put his hand up to show stop, "You don't want to do that."

I stopped and looked at Saren suspiciously, "Why?"

Saren crossed his arms and smiled, "You have begun a data merge. That means only one of us can retain their conscious."

"Aaah", I wanted to have some whitty comeback but I couldn't. What if Saren was telling the truth and what was the truth? What the hell is a merge? Why the hell would we lose consciousness?

"By this point, you're probably asking yourself what a merge is. Well, picture this; you are completely absorbed by the other person, memories, thoughts, knowledge and the like. You cease to exist and only the person that won the merge stands."

I raised an eyebrow at Saren, "And you're telling me this because…?"

Eyes widened and his smile becoming wicked Saren yelled, "Because I want you to know that you will never get back home, never see anyone, and in your place I will go back."

I didn't say anything; I just ran full speed ahead at Saren. The bastard never gave me a reason to stay away from him. He was just trying to demoralize me.

Saren stood where he was and got down into a combat position. He spead his legs shoulder with in a crouch, positioned one arm by his side in a fist so he could do and uppercut, and brought his other hand up to block. He looked like he was trying to be Goku or Jet Li.

I got close to Saren and instead of punching him or going for a kick; I got down low and went for a tackle. I hit Saren in the gut and began to push forward but he just leaned over and grabbed my waist and lifted me up. He then tossed me to the side and I slid away from him.

"You can't beat a Turian in hand to hand combat. You should know this, after playing through the game numerous times", Saren taunted.

I began to stand up and put my hand to my chest and felt the pain that was with it. Then, something caught my attention. I looked down at my body and saw that I wasn't in my armor anymore. I just had my T-shirt and shorts that I had come in with. My eyes went from me to Saren, his armor was now colored with the scorpion armor colors.

Saren began to walk toward me and I froze. There was no way I could beat him. I began to back up and the white area we had been standing in began to shift and Saren's smile dissipated.

"Well, I guess we are going to have to finish this another time."

I was yanked backwards and was being pulled by someone. I looked back and saw Danny holding me and backing up as fast as he could go. From him I saw Shepard firing his assault rifle on overkill at Saren. Saren was just flying off looking pleased with himself.

Danny eventually got behind a pile of rubble and sat me down, "Okay, Shepard call in the Normandy."

I grabbed Danny by the collar, "But the cruisers."

Danny smiled and held up a small disk, "You girlfriend took care of that."

I looked around and saw Tali on the top of the rubble, "What did you do?"

Tali saw me and quickly got down, "I used two sabotages on the cruisers and they destroyed each other."

"Nice, so where's evac then?"

Shepard brought his hand down from his ear looked grim, "We have a problem. The bombs timer won't work. Someone has to stay with it."

I laughed and said, "Well, make the choice. Not a difficult one after all."

Shepard looked at me in confusion, "Make… the… choice? What the hell are you talking about. These are people's lives at stake. And you-", Shepard's eyes widened in realization, "You knew, didn't you. You fucking knew!"

Tali shot me a worried look, "What is he talking about?"

I fully stood up from Danny, "Remember how I said I was a User", Tali nodded her head slowly, "well, I have played through this before, except I was Shepard and made the choice. It wasn't easy the first time but I have done it so many times that I could care less."

Tali slapped me across the face, "How could you say that? If I was one of those, would I be just a choice? You said I am real, well what does that make them? They are just like me."

I rubbed my face where Tali had hit me, "It's not that simple, this choice would always have been here. In the real game, Kaiden is with the bomb and Ashley would be with the Salarians and Shepard would have had to make the choice then."

Tali backed away next to Shepard, "Well, why didn't you tell us? We could have prevented it."

I was really getting fed up, "No, if I would have told you. The AI would have just adjusted the game and made it harder, impossible even. Shepard has to make this choice and make it now!"

We all looked at Shepard who was clenching his fists and gritting his teeth. To me, these people were AIs. To Shepard, comrades in arms, the people he stood by. Now, he had to choose between two.

Why did I laugh?

Well, I am jazzed by the gameplay footage I just watched for the new Mass Effect multiplayer add on, Reckoning. I won't lie. Tomorrow will just be me, no lifing it. But now, here's the newest chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.
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