Due to a drive core malfunction, a human vessel arrives just in time to save the Council Envoy from the yahg. What happens when humanity enters the galactic stage not as the race that got attacked by the turians for breaking a law they weren't aware of, but as the race that saved a turian platoon from certain death? M for wartime violence, pre ME1 - ME3, no OP humanity.

She woke up on Ilos as a series of 1s and 0s. An Artificial Intelligence. Mass Effect is the last place a brand new AI wants to be and this one used to be a person. Who knows this should all be a game. Now on Book Two: Rebirth.

Saren is dead. Shepard is dead. But when she comes back, Ian and I will be waiting. Let's see the Omega 4 relay try to stop us...assuming we even make it that far. Sequel to Welcome to the Family. Rated T for language.

It is said that War never Changes; Men do, through the roads they walk, but War does not. The Humans fought The First War, and alongside the Quarians, the Alliance stands tall against the Galaxy in the face of continued adversity. Now Humanity's place is challenged, their power tested, and age-old beliefs are shattered when a beyond-ancient species is forced onto the playing field.

Back from the dead, after all these years! A chronological series of blurbs written from the perspective of Krieg's inner voice. As a warning, there are some dark/suicidal themes ahead. As well as blood and violence, since that's just how it be on this bitch of a planet.

(AU) First Contact. In 2157 a Turian patrol encounters a race unlike any other they have before. How will the Council react to a Humanity radically changed and alien to our modern form? Prepare yourself for an extremely AU story, no holds barred, the galaxy will never be the same.

The war is over, the Flood are dead, and the Covenant dissolved. Now retired, John must find his place in the world. With a little help from a certain few, he will find peace, love, friendship, and finally be able to live. Or will humanity need their saviour back? OC/John. REWRITTEN AND COMPLETED.

What Jane Shepard is and was. According to everyone else, of course.

"Another such victory and we are undone." Seven years have passed since the Reaper War. The weakened races of the galaxy struggle to rebuild – a task made difficult when most star systems are stuck in isolation, unable to repair their mass relays. But when the derelict relays begin to reactivate, a ship is given a mission: to reestablish contact and reunite a galaxy.

A young human teen is sent to Corneria to attend Roswell High in hopes to shed a little light upon whether or not humans and Cornerians can coexist. But with a guy like Relics as the exchange student, there are sure to be some kinks to that plan.

Humanity never developed FTL. The Prothean archives contained no technology, no Element Zero, just a warning. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy for two thousand years, restricted to their only system, how will humanity have changed when they first meet the Turians? AU, alternate history of humanity and First Contact.

After losing her battle with a terminal illness at the age of 13, Riley Andersen wakes up a year later and learns her spirit now resides inside the mind of her newborn sister. She determines to be the essence that shines behind her sibling's eyes, to prove to the world that she never really left...a feat she simply cannot do without a little help from some new, unexpected friends.

Sun-dappled glades, ash-coated worlds: a retelling of Majora's Mask.

You know those times where you look at a game and say to yourself "If it was me in there, I would do it better"? Don't do that, that is what we call 'tempting Fate', and it will never end well.

There was a theory once, about Nemesis, the Dark Star. Stillborn twin to the sun, it wandered the void, black and cold, and every 25 million years, came back home. AU.

Young man dies on earth, only to awaken in the body of a young man on a hostile world called Prime. Facing a new world of cruelty, he finds himself armed with the only thing vicious enough to promise him a chance to protect himself and his newly gained family. The Zerg Swarm. This tale was inspired by East Bridge's tale The Zerg Swarm.

Heavily AU. Thanks to a cold, humanity never discovers the Prothean ruins on Mars, and barely develops Mass Effect technology. They step out onto the galactic stage after the Reapers have harvested every other species, and find the crumbs left behind by the turians, asari, and salarians. Now they must adapt to fight a foe who won't be seen for far longer than human history.

Humanity's reaction to the discovery of the archives on mars was very different from what happened in the games. The militaristic Empire of man is preparing to expand. But how will they react when they discover that they are not alone in the galaxy. And more importantly. How will the galaxy respond to humanity? First contact story. Rated T for language and gore update this week.

The Prothean Ruins weren't. They contained little more than mentionings of an Alien Society; as a result, humanity develops on a completely different path than what was intended, and when first contact is made not with the Turians, but a desperate, destitute race viewed as beggars and thieves, how will this dying race change Humanity? And how will Humanity change the Galaxy? *A/U!*

The Sky People's technology helps to save Tsu'tey after the battle, but he isn't quite sure what to think of the broken Sky Person in the wheeled chair that keeps coming to visit him while he's recovering. Friendship fic, AU for obvious reasons.

The Crucible has fired, irrevocably changing the very definition of existence. How can those who survived come to terms with a galaxy where everything has changed? In a galaxy where the divide between blood and machine has closed, how will those lives touched by Shepard unwind in her absence? How will the Shadow Broker's will change what Shepard left behind? Post-Synthesis.

Due to a shift in turian and quarian patrols, first contact for humanity is friendly; Rael'Zorah and Hannah Shepard become friends, as do their species. But the galaxy is not a safe place, and schisms develop when the Council steps in. As humanity finds new allies among the stars, something darker stirs. The Meek must beware, for it is nearly harvest time. AU, lots of worldbuilding

Two tools of the Combine Establishment have an encounter that will send them down an unknown path...and far from the world they know. Is it possible to rediscover your humanity after it has been taken from you...or you've willingly given it up?

On a secretive corporate research vessel, something has gone horribly wrong. When the newly-reformed Team StarFox is hired to investigate, they encounter terrors beyond their imagination. What started as a simple contract is now a fight to survive the night...and prevent the extermination of all life in the Lylat System. What is dead can never die.

The Koprulu Sector hunted the Zerg Swarm to extinction, but missed a couple of survivors. On the primal world of Ashantu, a race of forgotten humans live a daily life of struggle against the powerful beasts called Ravagers that rules much of the surface. It is here that three individuals are chosen to reconstitute the Swarm. Rygel is one of the Chosen of the Goddess of Hunger. AU.

An asari exploration vessel discovers Earth in the 2030's...and the first contact scenario has incredible implications for both species. What does humanity look like through alien eyes? Where do they go from here? /-AU: no Reapers, completely disconnected from the plot of the games, but mostly faithful to the setting. Told from many points of view.

Fallout 3, Good Male LW. He saved the Capital Wasteland countless times, changed the world, and then he disappeared. 16 years later, the son he never knew enters the Wastes, and learns of a father who was larger than life as the Wastes greet war once more

When a certain security program finally has the ability to remove his helmet and speak again, everyone is surprised by his reluctance to do so. T just in case.

A continuation of the 'A new Past' story arch. The Alliance and Citadel have an uneasy peace...and the Alliance's safety and security is threated from without and from within, by extremists and terrorists...and one being whose mind is subverted.

A boy's family was murdered by a pack of raiders, getting him placed in NCR government custody and eventually, filed into the military. A boy, who may have more to him than anyone thought.

After a very unfortunate turn of events, I find myself hip deep in the Mass Effect universe. Why could I possibly be here? How can one teenager and an unexpected companion possibly have an effect in Mass Effect? I hope I find out soon. T for language [As of 3/8/18, in the process of revising early chapters.]

A dead man owns Tali'Zorah vas Neema's heart and he's back to stake his claim to it. Welcome back, Commander Shepard. NOW AVAILABLE: CHAPTER 6 "DEATH WAITS SMILING" -originally its own story 'The Funeral' now uploaded as a quick chapter before Chapter7

William and Michael Sellik are brothers, a bond forged by blood. They, Sarah Green, and Richard Boss have all found themselves in front of the Soviet Midwestern advance. This is the story of their fight; the story of their war. T, may become M later.

Like every other Helghan boy before him, Gorahm Vikar, has devoted his life, strength and soul to the military war machine. What was first clear and righteous, soon becomes muddied and diluted as the line between right and wrong is blurred.