After rallying the galaxy to his banner and returning to earth with the largest military force ever assembled, Shepard was faced with an impossible decision.Heavy with guilt Shepard destroyed the Reapers and doomed all synthetic life in the galaxy to ensure the survival of the organics. Now he awakes on earth in the aftermath with a resounding question. Why am I alive? ShepardxTali

First in a planned series from the first contact war to mass effect 3. AU, mainly humanities biology, Shepard's origin and some timeline changes. No op humanity. This story is a very quick summary of the first contact war and the immediate consequences. Will serve as an introduction for other longer fanfics like ME1,2,3. Shanxi is captured and need to be retaken.

Standing on the crucible, there is only one choice for Shepard to make. Companion piece to Crumbling Earth.

Commander Hale Shepard calls for shore leave together with her squad. It's a disguised excuse to get Liara out. And get her drunk. One-shot.

Liara helps Shepard from the shadows, but curiosity has been nagging her, so she spies a bit too. Hale has questionable spending habits and extranet activities. One-shot.

Thane gives Kolyat something to keep safe until it could be handed over to Commander Shepard without the fear of it being confiscated. Kolyat investigates the relationship between his father and the Commander he served under during her mission to raid the Collector base. Thane Lives AU (I will never not be salty Thane dies)

During the party at Shepard's apartment, Garrus notices Shepard is feeling a little down. Luckily, he knows a way to cheer her up. Rated M for sexual themes.

Before she fought the Reapers, before she destroyed the Collectors, before she saved the Citadel, before Commander Shepard there was simply Ellanore Rose Shepard. The tragedy on Mindoir shaped who the Commander would become, the choices she would make, this is the beginning of a journey that would shake the very galaxy.

Looking at them, they're just two pieces of metal. But it's her life's work. Her promise to the universe. Now her tags rest atop Liara's heart. One-shot.

210 Years ago the Milky Way encountered the greatest threat the galaxy had ever seen. Thanks to Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy the Reapers knew defeat for the first time in millions of years. After just over two centuries a new threat looms on the horizon, one that will require the Reapers many secrets exposed. One that will test the resolve of all.

Commander Shepard volunteers for the most menial security detail no marine ever wants. But Liara's the team leader. That's the only reason Hale needs. One-shot.

Commander Hale Shepard has it bad. She's not-very-secretly pining for Liara, but they have nothing in common. Or so Hale thinks. One-shot.

Commander Hale Shepard has something to say, but does so in an unorthodox way. She takes the team to the Citadel for a game of laser tag. One-shot.

Working from behind the shadows, a mercenary simply named Guy took part in several notorious acts across the galaxy but it wasn't until he met up with a Spectre named Saren that things really started to get interesting.

Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose. Commander Korra Shepard had done exactly that. She had chosen. She had chosen to destroy the Reapers, rather than control them or merge Synthetic and Organic Life. She'd known the cost would be high, but still, she had made her choice. Now, she had to learn to live with that choice, for better or worse.

What if Vampires were in Mass Effect? What if first contact was not with the turians, but the asari? What if immortal blood would rule the Galaxy, not that of mere mortals? Find out in this thrilling new story!

Hannah Shepard learned a lot throughout her life, mostly about men and women respectively, only to see that men are terrible and women are queens. But wait, not all women know how to act and need to be put in their place. She's getting to old to do it herself so at this point, she needs her son to kill devil men and forcefully put women in their place when needed to. RATED M.

With his life on a crash course with destruction, John Shepard leaves everything he knows in the 10th Street Reds behind him. However, trying to find a whole new life rarely goes as planned, especially when you never had a plan to begin with. Eventually, Shepard finds himself in a place that he was never meant to be. But the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference.

Here's to my favourite RPG series! (Mostly Paragon/ Renegade Fem shep x Garrus with some Thane moments.) The battle is far from over when Commander Shepard saved the Council and the Citadel from Saren and the Geth who were being controlled by the Reapers. This time colonies have been disappearing from settlements by an unknown source. Shepard must team up with Cerberus, and gather

Their foreheads meet as Thane takes the zipper of the Commander's undersuit, slowly dragging it upward, watching it close over bare skin. In his mind, the fabric is the armor of the spirit and he is welding it closed. Eyes sliding shut, he makes his hushed call to the goddess of protection. ONESHOT. Chapter 1: Female Shepard - Chapter 2: Male Shepard

Alliance Engineer Laurel Westfahl makes a catastrophic mistake that costs her squadmates, her career and nearly her life. 10 years after the First Contact War, 2167, by chance she meets one of her old turian captors. A rather complicated love story. OC x OC

"You've done everything in your power to give us all a chance to get some closure, to take care of whatever business we'd left unfinished, so we could go into this with a clear mind." He pauses, his clear gaze pressing heavily and steadily upon her heart. "It just dawned on me…has anyone taken the time to ask you what you still need to do?" Femshep x Garrus. Near the end of ME2.

Set immediately before the events of the first Mass Effect, Commander Jane Shepard looks out at Earth and reflects on the events of her life that led to this point, and the life-changing first encounter with her mentor, Captain David Anderson.

You must always protect your quarians. That's one of the main rules of the Normandy. And if you're a quarian named Tali who is the commander's girlfriend, then this rule is applied doubly to you. It starts in the ME2 beginning, and it's M rated for... probably obvious reasons.

It's been a year since Thane passed. Shepard thought she'd lost it all, the brink of losing herself. When Kolyat forces feelings lying dead to spark back to life, will they be able to push past their differences and find love with one another? When Thane returns from Kalahira's shore, what will happen to their new found love. Post ME2, slight AU, ThanexShepardxKolyat. Trigger Warn.