Title: Crysis Effect (Not final)

Crossover universes: Mass Effect and Crysis series.

Main character cast:

Mass Effect: Commander Shepard, Garrus, Tali

Crysis: ProphetProphet

Short summary:

In 2020 Humanity encountered the first extraterrestrial life and started a war for survival that ended over twenty years later with the destruction of the aliens' planet-destroying spaceship. Now, over a century later, a whole new threat emerges. And once again a single soldier will have to stand where others fall...


Records from the First Contact war, taken during the Invasion of Shanxi.

Turian 1: By the Spirits, what happened here?

Turian 2: The humans... They must have done this.

Turian 3: No way... Look at this, his neck was snapped... And over there... Knife wound. Right between the helmet and the collar... Instant death.

Turian 2: They were all killed in melee? But... That's not how these humans fight... Ambushes and traps are more their style.

Turian 3: Maybe they changed their style. That, or... Urgh!

Turian 1: Take cover! What was that?

Turian 4: Some sort of primitive projectile... Fast enough to punch through the armor, slow enough not to trigger kinetic barriers...

Turian 2: What? A primitive weapon took ou- Aaargh!

Turian 4: Where did that come from?

Turian 5: There, on that building! *Gunfire* Come on, you barefaced son of- Urgh!

Turian 1: Command, this is Sparatus unit. We're under fire from an unknown... Spirits damn you, stay in cover! We're under fire from an unknown human using a weapon that bypasses kinetic barriers...

Turian 6: Spirits, he's taking us one by one! *Explosion*

Turian 1: We won't last that long! I'm the only one left and... Oh spirits... He can turn invisible... *Gunfire. Hissing.* What... That should have punched right through... Spirits, what are you?

Human 1: Is that all? Come on, the Ceph were tougher than that... *Gunshots.*

ANALYZING VOICE...

ANALYZING...

ERROR.

SYSTEM HAS DETECTED A LOGIC ERROR.

SYSTEM SHUTTING DOWN.


This one is fairly simple. It puts both Crysis and Mass Effect in the same universe. ME's First Contact War becomes Second, with Humanity being much more effective against the Turians.

The Systems Alliance would be more or less the same. The difference would lie in the little things, like Gauss weapons (damn I loved that rifle in the second game), Archangel defense satellites and spaceship-mounted weapons, better energy production and more Ceph-derived technology... They still use Mass Effect tech, but not as much.

During the Battle of Shanxi the Turians find themselves facing a man that Humanity has forgotten... Laurence Barnes, also known as Prophet. Living a quiet life for the last century or so, he has the misfortune of living on Shanxi when the Turians attack. And they have the misfortune of him deciding to remember the old days, when he was kicking alien asses without trouble. Oh, and he had his bow with him...

The events from the first game would stay mostly the same. The second game... This is where the story will start, if I write it. Shepard will wake up in the Lazarus facility, finding him/herself faster and stronger... I don't need to tell you what kind of cybernetics were implanted in him/her, or what Cerberus' origins would be in this fic... Or who will be on Shepard's team.

The Ceph presence in the Milky Way galaxy will be modified a bit. The Hyperion overhive won't be present in order to save me from thinking of a plausible explanation of why the ME races still use eezo and not Ceph tech.

The ending of the second game will be different as well, and the third might as well be on a whole new track, it'll be that derailed.