Hey guys, ok now given that this takes place after the Reapers attacked without the other 2 games happening there will be a mix between the two games and original missions, also some Characters from the other 2 games will not show up but will be referenced. There will also be OC for some of the crew hope you enjoy :)

Dr Mordin Solus one of the few Salarians on Earth looked at Commander Shepard's blood work. He just couldn't believe it, all the flaws, all the problems within his body where gone. When John was young he sustained a fracture to his head due to a fall onto some rocks yet he was ok. That fracture was gone, just gone. The nanites inside his body had repaired it and there was no evidence that the fracture even happened. All the processors in his body where working over 100%, they where working better then before, his organs where more effective at what they do.

What's more was his cells, every life form in the galaxy had cells that would decay over time causing them to grow old. His didn't, essentially he had stopped ageing but for what purpose? Before he was but into cryo which met he would age at a slower rate he was 29 years of age. After the three years he would be about 32 now, but his cells didn't show that. Instead they showed that his cells aged his at about 29 to 30 before he was put into cryo.

There was no mistaking it at all. But what did it mean? Humanity, much like other short lived races, had always wanted to be immortal. But they gained this through their children, an immortal bloodline. But this, if the nanites could keep his cells from ageing, did that mean that the Commander could be immortal? Mordin shook his head, he didn't have the data for it. The Commander could heal faster then any normal human, his reflexes where extremely sharp, his

eyesight 20/20…. as Miranda said 'He's the perfect human.'

Judging by the data, Mordin couldn't agree more. But one question was still in his mind, why did the Collectors do this?

Miranda was in the neighbouring lab doing some blood work. She had a large sample of Johns nanite infected blood along with her own, Tali's, Liara's and other races. Using a syringe she took some of his blood and dropped it into petri dishes before looking at the screen. As John's blood mixed with the others the nanites began to stop. They just shut down with no reason. Stroking her chin she began a scan of the nanites, not only had they shut down and stopped working but it seemed like they would work again.

Running a scan of John's blood proved nothing, no reason why the nanites should stop working. Turing to a vile of his sperm for tests, Miranda used a syringe and took some of it out before seeing up the same amount of petri dishes with blood on. Taking the syringe then then dropped a dap of cum onto all of them before looking at the screens. This time the nanites began to venture out of the sperm and multiply in the blood. Smiling she stroked her chin as the computed began to give her it's findings. Much like bacteria the nanites can't handle being present in a different environment unless given time to adjust.

Looking at it Adams walked in.

"Miranda it seems that the nanites attune themselves to the host's DNA structure." Miranda looked at the engineer.

"It seems to, it just did a new tests it appears they need some time to adjust." she said.

"Yeah, otherwise their program would overload due to the information given. But given what they do I'm not too surprised. They where made to make the host superior to all others of the same race."

Miranda turned to the screens as her lip curled. "Superior he is."

OOOOO

Ashley looked at herself in a mirror. She had a well toned muscular structure, the three years that had gone by her muscles had grown to make her a formidable foe. But that's not what she was concerned about. She had a tattoo on her right arm, this one as four geometric flowers around a sword pointing down. This was one thing that she wasn't ashamed to show John but the other, tattoo. This one was from her shoulder to her elbow, the tattoo itself was simply a bird holding a planet in it's claws.

At the end of the war she was on a planet as the Warlords began to come forward claiming that they could restore the galaxy. There was one that she trusted, he knew about her and made her a Commander. But that's when she realised that he was just a tyrant. Guilt filled, not guilt for killing someone or sealing anything but of betrayal. She stroked the tattoo, she couldn't remove it, she couldn't face him about it. The other thing she could but not this, her hand clasped the bird tattoo as Kelly walked in. Ash didn't turn to face her to know she was here.

"Liara sent you didn't she?" the marine asked.

"She's worried about you Commander." the psychiatrist said. "She's worried that what happened back then maybe affecting your relationship with the commander."

Ashley turned to face the red head and sat on her bed, looking down she began to talk. " I cannot face him, not after what I did."

"You thought he was dead, he'll understand."

"Will he?" she asked looking directly at Kelly her eyes beginning to tear up. "I've changed since the last time I met that man. I've done something horrible and betrayed him. I don't think he'll handle it well."

Kelly sat next to Ashley and laced her arm on her exposed shoulders. "Ash, listen you have that tattoo as punishment, not for him but for yourself as you cannot face the world alone. You chose to get that tattoo because you wanted to forget, but couldn't. And because of what you did you feel as if the world is against you but it's not. John is not, he hasn't changed."

"But I have, w…. what if he doesn't love me?"

"Then he's not deceiving of you. Ashley, John is the man who is right for Warlord. If your not ready to tell him then say so, he'll understand. Trust me."

She wanted to say something but couldn't, she wanted to do something but couldn't. Kelly had a way about her that made everyone feel relaxed about her as well as making them understand her. Ash let go of her arm and then began to stroke the other tattoo. Kelly got the meaning and left the marine to her thoughts.

OOOOO

John walked into Liara's office where he found her quickly closing a holo screen.

"Commander, I've been expecting you." she said calmly.

"So I understand. Shadow broker." he said smiling.

Liara looked off to the side for a moment before smiling. "Yes I am," turning to face him. "But your not here about that are you?"

"Your right I'm not." he said taking a seat in front of her, "I need to know about the other Warlords and their factions."

The Asari nodded and brought up a holo screen in front of him. On it were 14 images of people, four on the top, seven in the middle and three on the bottom. On each image John could see an icon on the top right, each one was different from the other but it was clearly their symbol.

"These." she started. "Are the Warlords of the galaxy, each one controls territory from many of the different races, even homeworlds. Now Warlord is used as a general term to refer to these people, but each of them call themselves something different but they are decided up into the three groups you see. The first group are referred to as the Warlord Masters, they control the most territory and have capable armies to call on. The second are known as Warlord minors as they have control over little territory and are trying to reach the same level as the Masters. The final one are known as Warlord merc as they are only for hire except for the Scavengers."

The Commander took all the information in and nodded in response. "Ok let's get the Master out of the way, let's see who the big players are."

"Right." the image changed to a purple skinned Asari with pink face tattoos, there was an image next to her that looked like a mushroom but with a thin stalk. "This, is Queen Aria T'loak of the Omega alliance. She rules one of the smaller territory's in the galaxy but she is feared for brutal reputation. When the Reapers fell she forced all of the gangs on her station to submit to her. They did making them quite deadly in combat. Once she did that she then began to expand her territory to a few systems, at least 10 systems are under her control. Now while she has the smallest of all the Masters she is the richest due to shipments of drugs and slaves in her territory."

John looked to Liara. "Slaves?" he shook his head. "As a Warlord am I expected to have slaves?"

"Well… that's up to you. Aira herself has a harem of slaves including Travos."

"Hmmm." as all he said unsure about owning slaves as the Image changed to a Turian who had a bare face, the icon next to him looked somewhat like a star.

"This is General Caebus Surdas, former Commander of the Palaven task force. He is the leader of the New Turian Empire which has taken over several systems once belonging to the Turian hierarchy. He's an expansionist for his rule and welcomes all to join him, but his methods are barbaric. Anyone who does not conform to the new hierarchy system is killed. Everyone has to do their part regardless of man woman or child. I believe his systems is more along the lines of North Korea during the 20th and 21st, as he wants to control all though fear."

"Sounds about right, North Korea was totalitarian in it's method but was communist, this may not be communist but most defiantly totalitarian. Reminds me of the old 20th vids. They maybe bad now but damn did they have some interesting idea's about police states."

"Remind me to watch them with you." she said as another image came up, this one was of a Batarian with geometric fist beside him. "This…. Man we both know well. Balak, leader of the New Batarian Hegemony, he has taken the old Batarian Homeworld and several outlying systems for his own. Most of the colony's that the Barians had are now under his control but one thing has changed. Batarians don't enslave their own as they believe that we abandoned them during the Reaper war, which isn't too far from the truth. But they have enslaved countless thousands in their territory."

"He's gonna die." was all John could say.

"The Final Warlord Master is human. It seems that he was an Alliance Capitan by the name of Mikyle, he now calls himself the President and rules over several previously owned alliance world. He controls the faction New Alliance." as she said this a human male with a long beard appeared with the alliance A next to him just without earth in the middle. "He has control over some of the most populated worlds but rules them with an iron fist. He has also introduced a caste system based on race, he has notoriously pro human views as such they are on the top. All others are treated like second class citizens and are mass executed on a month basis if they do not obey."

"I remember him. He refused to help out a Turian patrol when he was on patrol. I think his word's where 'if they're the most powerful military let them deal with it. I have no time for fakes.'"

Liara nodded at that. "He also has several 'personal' Humans and Asari to serve him. From what we've been able to tell he keeps his human servants on a lose leash and the Asari on a tight one."

"Ok." John nodded. "Big player's. What's their relations like?"

"Mostly out of mutual hate, but they do trade with each other. It's seems to be for political gain however as they use this tradeing system to get what they need. However I don't think we'll have much of a problem as we have Mars, lunar and Eden prime."

"Why?"

"Is a simple matter, we're out of the way of all the factions even some of the minor ones. This is the case with a few planets who have neutrality from the warlords. But every month a few lose their independence to some of the Minors."

John nodded as he sighed. "Ok let's get onto the Minors then. If I'm going to be sole Warlord I need to take out the competition first."

"Ok well." she said as the images of several Minor Warlords came up. "Let's get our old friend out of the way." she said as a familiar image came up making the commander smile.

The image was of a red plated Korgan with a large scar on his right eye and on the side was the Urdnot's emblem but this time with a large circle in the background. "Urdnot Wrex, after the Reapers attacked he made it back to Tuchanka and began to unite the Korgan clans. He made real headway but managed to get them all united when the Reapers attacked his homeworld. After the war he only took a few planets in nearby systems for the Krogan mostly for food and materials. We have a friendship agreement with him so that other Warlords don't attack us but every week more and more Korgan are dying for a reason we know."

John nodded in response. "The genophage." he said darkly." before getting up. "Well it's best if we go see Wrex first then. Well use that as a puming off point, while we're on the ship you can tell me about the others."

"Agreed." Liara said.

OOOOO

Kelly walked into her room as a dark skinned woman looked at a chest board with a metallic woman opposite her. As she walked in the two looked up and the metallic woman then stood.

"Miss Chambers." she said with a smile before just walking as the dark skinned woman quickly stood.

"Wait EDI." she said making the woman look at her.

She then turned to the chess board and moved a pawn one square. "Checkmate."

"Indeed." EDI said before leaving and closing the door.

Kelly just turned to the woman arms folded in an unimpressed manor. "Sam what did I say about having people in here?"

"Ahhh come on, no where else is good enough." Traynor said in defence.

"True." Kelly said walking up to the woman before grabbing the back of her head and pressing her lips onto hers for a moment before breaking. "But I want you all to myself tonight you British angel." The two then locked lips again.

OOOOO

John looked at the food in front of him thinking that it was going to attack him if he took his eyes off it. Due to lack of fertile land and crops the survivors had to make do with synthetic meat, potatoes, bread and corn for the passed few years. Which if put together was not appetising what so ever. Picking up his fork he tapped the food slowly looking at it thinking that it was going to pounce on him and eat him.

As he just stared at his food Miranda came up and sat down in front of him. John looked with with an awkward smile.

"Hi..." he said softly.

"Commander, I'm glad to see your doing ok." she said as she took in a mouthful of food.

"How can you eat this?" he asked pushing the corn around with his chopsticks. "Give me pot noodles anyday. And I hate them."

Miranda just simply smiled. "Well they're not like the ration packs you are used to but the do the job of filling out nutrient requirements."

"Still…. I think it's going to jump at me."

The Cerberus officer looked at the commander. She had red his file extensively, John was a soldier though and though. Born to a high ranking military family, he grew up liking the ration packs they served on starships. He never had time for the fancy food that she had, she found it amusing that he was looking at his food like this while she was eating it. But then again it was more likely she grew to like it.

"Well it's all we can do in sector 5,11 and 18. they are our farming area's and thanks to the Reapers everywhere else is almost infertile."

John nodded at that before taking limp of potato on his chopsticks and fed it to himself.

"Sorry about pulling a gun on you." he said.

Miranda just waved a dismissive hand. "It's fine." she said. "Given the circumstances, I'd do the same thing. There's nothing to forgive."

John nodded again before finishing his food. "I'll think I'll retire for the night." he said leaving making Miranda smile.

OOOOO

John entered his room. It was an old officers room that was cleaned out of everything and only and a bed on a short bed frame. A simple foot locker was in front of it and a bedside table beside it. A large tv screen was on the wall to broadcast the news from the different Warlords. Shepard walked and fell down on the bed before turning himself to face the ceiling. Reaching out to his side he them picked up some water from a bottle he had laying next to him and drank it. As soon as he set it down he knew something was wrong, his body wouldn't move.

An electric shock went through his body for a brief second but he still couldn't move. Desperately he tired to move his arm but with no success as Miranda walked in with an evil surly smile on her face.

"Now, I have you were I want you." she said as she unzipped her suit.

John could only watch as her bodysuit fell onto the floor as his eyes wondered up her naked well toned body. She had one or two scars but all he could see was her perfect hour glass figure. Her raven black hair flowed to her shoulders she licked her lips as she got down onto her and knees lifting up his shirt. Looking as his chest she looked to him before leaning in and began to lick his abbs making him grunt. Her tongue moved up to his nipple ans her tongue moved around it. Her free and then moved down to his trousers and pushed them down a bit before moving onto his boxers. She then looked at him.

"We're going to have so many children." she said leaning in for a kiss but a millimetre from his lips she stopped her eyes where wide open.

"Oh shit…." she muttered.

"Oh shit indeed." said an angry female voice before Miranda was pulled up onto her feed and pressed up against a wall with Ashley looking at her with fire in her eyes. "I thought we agreed to hold off on all of this until he was named a Warlord."

"Well yeah, but his sperm will create the next generation, I want his children and I know you do too."

Ashley's face went redder then red alert before she delivered a punch to her gut sending her to the floor.

"We agreed, Miranda and we will not go back on it."

"Fine." Miranda said standing. "But we will discuss it with him tomorrow."

"Yes we will."