Andrew/Ty:

I had to say I was a little jealous of Danny. He had been in Mass Effect for an hour or at least awake for an hour and had gotten his power down already. Chakwas had given him control over weaponry. He kept changing my pistol into a chainsword, then to a M4, to buster sword, and finally a Spartan laser.

I finally had enough, "Are you about finished?"

"Depends", he morphed it into a lancer, "can you handle the chainsaw?"

I grabbed it away from him, "That's enough. Wait, how the hell do I get my pistol back?"

Chakwas was just standing in a corner getting more and more annoyed with how easily Danny was taking the transition, "I told you. I put your powers on a timer. Until it turns back you can just store it in your armors sniper holster, god knows it won't fit the assault rifle holster."

I just raised it in the air and took a look at it, "Well, while I have it." I took the gun and pulled the cord and starting the saw. "Yeah, this bitch has some power to it."

Danny made a reach for it but I pulled it away, "Dude, I made it."

I just stored it on my back, "Yeah, from my weapon."

I gave Danny a look that made ghost riders stare seem like looking at a carebear stare, "If you want one buy your own."

Danny pulled up his omni-tool, "I don't want too."

"Why, because you have no money?"

"No that's not it. I don't want to talk about it."

"Are you scared to walk around a ship with aliens on it?"

"It's because the last Shepard I played as was named Caitie. Okay."

I busted out laughing, "You kidding me. Your IFF reads your name is Caitie Shepard?"

Danny's cheeks lit up red, "yes, and it says I'm a woman.

I stared laughing so hard I couldn't speak. Chakwas on the other had came over and started messing with Danny's omni-tool.

"There, it will read that you are a man. But I can't change your name from Caitie."

I just kept laughing. I couldn't count how many times I had suggested he play through as a guy but he just continued to brush me off. Now it came back to bite him in the ass and it was glorious.

Danny:

That son of a bitch! Was all Danny could think as Ty kept laughing at him. It just continued to piss him off that he and his best friend got stuck in his favorite game but his friend still treated it like a game. This is real now and everyone in it was real. That's when Danny got a mischievous plan.

He turned to Chakwas, "So, are we confined to regular game parameters?"

Chakwas just smiled, "Anything can happen."

"Would that include romance then? Are we stuck with Ashley or Liara?"

Chakwas walked back to her desk, "Like I said anything can happen."

He turned to Ty, "Well, I guess you can live out your dream to be in a relationship wuth Tali."

Ty's face lit up and there was a fire in his eyes, "It is not my dream to be with Tali."

"'Oh, c'mon Ty. We both know that you've been a Talimancer since the first game came out."

"I'm not a Talimancer!" As soon as Danny got Ty to say it, the doors opened revealing Tali holding a six-pack and a bottle of brandy.

Tali:

Tali had gotten tired of waiting so she went down to do some work on the engine. That made time seem to drag on. Eventually, she ran to Garrus and asked him for some alcohol.

"Why would you need those, Tali? You aren't drinking because you feel bad about Andrew, are you?"

Tali shook her head and had a big smile excited for what she was about to do, "I am going to have some drinks with him for saving me. After all, it's what humans do for someone there in debt to."

Garrus nodded his head, "Okay, here", he pulled a six-pack from the storage compartment of the Mako. "Just remember, he's levo not dextro. Oh, and don't breath a word about my hiding place to Shepard."

Tali nodded, "Your secret is safe with me."

She then took the elevator up and found Kaiden. He was rubbing his temples and working on his computer. Tali could tell from his posture and body language that he was having a migraine. She decided to just ask and not annoy him too much.

"Um excuse me", Tali decided to go with the innocent little girl act, "would it be alright if I got some levo alcohol from you, Kaiden?"

Kaiden looked up from his console and reached under it. He pulled out a bottle of brandy, "This is my last bottle of brandy, could you pick me up some when we are at the citadel?"

Tali gave a nod and lifted her head to see the bottle flying toward her. Her hand shot up and pulled it out of the air. She looked at it then to Kaiden who started walking to his sleep pod, rubbing his temples.

Tali went over to the med-bay door and began to here speaking behind it. There was Chakwas, Andrew, a third voice she didn't recognize, and someone named Ty. She eventually leaned in too close and activated the door.

As it opened she herd Andrew yell something about mancer and that's all she caught. From what she saw when everyone turned their heads was a look of confusion. She looked at Andrew, to Chakwas, and to Andrew's friend.

Andrew was the first to speak, "Hey Tali, what brings you to the Med-bay? Besides heavy drinking", He gestured to the alcohol.

Tali began to stutter, "Well...I...I ….I thought Ty and I could go for drinks because he saved my life."

She looked to Andrew's friend who was smiling bigger then when she came in. Then, she looked at Andrew whose head was sunk so low that it was past his shoulders. Tali became scared that she was intruding.

"Um, we don't have to. I can just leave and-"

Andrew suddenly got back to his regular posture, "No, I want to. However, I need to take a shower first. Can you wait like ten minutes? Five if Liara comes in again."

Andrew's friend just started laughing, "What's wrong Andrew, not ready for your date?"

Andrew turned to his friend, "My mistake, Tali, I'd like to introduce you to my best friend", Andrew got a smile on his face, "Caitie."

Caitie's face went from a smile to a deep scowl. He looked over at Andrew. Andrew took off past Tali toward the elevator with Caitie on his tail.

Andrew POV:

I barely made it to the elevator just before Danny caught me. I hit the button and kept running. The elevator closed and went down. I ran around the corner and hid. Danny waited for the elevator to come back up and took it down. I walked over to the showers hoping that I could get clean before someone showed up.

I walked in and put my powers to a test. I transformed my armor into swim trunks. This way it's less awkward if someone comes in. So I just washed up and got out. Just as I did my armor changed back. Now I was headed to the Engine room. I got there and saw that no one else was.

Then, Tali spoke from behind me, "I figured we could just drink in here. After all, nobody is on duty currently."

I turned around to her, "Sounds good to me."

She sat down on the ground and I did the same. She handed me the bottle and pulled one of her's off the six-pack. She raised her can and I raised my bottle. Now I just had to be careful not to give away any important information.

Danny:

Danny got to the last floor on the elevator and realized he had been duped. He looked and saw everyone going about their business. He looked around again and saw Garrus calmly working away at his terminal and decided it was time to troll.

Danny approached calmly and began to speak, "Hello, Turian I've never met before. Can you help me?"

Garrus looked back and saw Danny, "Ah, you must be Andrew's friend. Well, I'm sorry", he looked down at his omni-tool, "Caitie, but I'm in the middle of some calibrations."

Danny wanted to do two things at that moment. One, he wanted to bust out laughing because he got Garrus to give him the whole calibration line. Two, he wanted to yell as loud as he could that his name wasn't Caitie.

He went against his own will, "Heh, yeah that is a mess up on my omni-tool. My real name is Danny."

"Oh", Garrus coughed a little, "well, I did think that it was odd for a human male to be named a feminine name."

Danny's fists clenched, "Yeah, I have to go." He turned and walked away heading to Ashley, feeling he would have better conversation with her then Garrus. She immediately gave him the cold shoulder, before he even said anything.

Danny began to say something but was distracted by the weapons on the table. He walked over and reached for the sniper rifle. It fit in his hand like a glove. Then he activated the scope and it adjusted to its surroundings. He then proceeded to put it on his back but had it yanked away by Ashley.

"What are you doing ensign? Wait you're not even an ensign, who the hell are you?"

Danny was so stunned by the sudden hostility that he didn't make a sound. Ashley immediately began yelling at him but Danny stayed quiet. Ashley finally got so angry that she pulled her fist back to hit him in the face when Danny spoke.

"You have beautiful eyes." Mental facepalm!

Ashley's fist paused but still carried through slamming into Danny's face. He took the blow and remained standing. Danny brought his hand up to his jaw. He felt like his brain was bouncing around like a Mexican jumping bean.

"Fuck that hurt. Why did you hit me?"

Ashley just sat and stared at him for a moment, "That should have knocked you out."

"Well, I'm a user. That means I am like a god in here. Another thing, if you hit me again you'll find yourself a stuffed teddy bear!"

Ashley just crossed her arms, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Danny picked up a weapon off the table and turned it into a bolter, "I'm keeping this." With that, Danny turned and left. Leaving Ashley in the dark about what she just saw.

Tali:

Tali sat there and had gotten Andrew pretty drunk. He had almost finished the bottle of brandy while she was still on her first can. Andrew had given away some information in the beginning but it was all about his friend. She really wanted to know who he was.

"So Andrew how's the brand?."

Andrew scowled and blinked several times and got back his ever present smile, "I like it. Although it isn't as strong as the ryncol I had earlier."

Tali hesitated, "You had ryncol? When?"

Andrew hiccupped and then spoke, "Right before I left to save you guys."

"You were drunk when you came to the rescue", Tali replied flatly.

"No way. Chakwas gave me a shot to the neck of something and it really got me moving. Man Tali, you are so beautiful."

The last comment caught Tali by surprise. She defiantly was not expecting it. Figuring that she could just play it off like it didn't happen. Tali kept grilling him.

"Okay, so who is Ty. I heard you and your friend talking about him?"

"You mean Danny and I. Well, I am Ty."

Tali was confused by this and felt she was taking a detour, "You are Ty?"

Andrew just began to talk like he had been bottling something up for a while, "Well, Andrew was a cousin of mine who died in an accident. Anyway, everyone called him a hero for how he lived and helped people. So, I figured that if I was going to be a hero, I would need a hero's name."

"And what is wrong with your regular name?"

"I don't know, I just thing. Look in the bible, there are no chapters named after someone named Ty. There is no Ty in the Iliad or the Odyssey. Hell, even in the day en age I lived in I never read a book where the hero was named Ty."

"So, you abandoned your name because it didn't sound heroic?"

"Yeah, I know, it's childish. But it is also a way to have my cousin with me at all times too. A real hero." After that Andrew or Ty just hung his head and didn't say anything. Tali was afraid she had pressed to hard so she began to think of something to cheer him up.

"Y'know, I didn't see your dead cousin when I had a rocket launcher aimed at me." Ty's head began to raise a little bit, "I think you are a hero. Maybe nobody in your universe ever told you but in this one. I am."

Ty did something that seemed right at the moment. He put his right arm around Tali's shoulders and pulled her in for a hug. She just did what she thought felt natural and wrapped her arms around him laying her head on his shoulder. They sat there for a few minutes. Tali looked up and saw his eyes were a cloudy blue with a light behind it. Then, Tali realized what she was doing and pushed away from him.

He looked at her in confusion but Tali thought quick and raised her can, "To Andrew, may his heroic spirit help you be a hero yourself."

Ty smiled and raised his bottle to that. Then, they both took long drinks and Tali finished her can in time to see Ty finish chugging the rest of the bottle. He then fell backwards and passed out. Tali was happy she was able to help him but then it hit her. She had to get him to his area for bed.