Ty:

*Ascend Ty, just let go.*
"AAaaahhhhh", I sat up quickly and began clawing at my chair as I took in my surroundings. I was sitting at a table across from Danny. There was a dance floor across from me and quasar machines on the elevated floor beside it.

"Hey, welcome to the land of the living. Did you have a nice nap", Danny questioned with a sarcastic tone.

I closed my eyes tight and opened them, "What happened? When do we leave for Ilos?"

"You're going to want a drink for this", He said as he grabbed a bottle off the table and unscrewed the cap.

My hands immediately clutched the seat, "When are we going to leave for Illos?"

Danny set the drink over by me and raised his glass, "A toast, to one hell of a ride."

I threw the glass back and then slammed it on the table, "We got kicked off, didn't we?"

Danny rubbed the back of his neck and poured two more shots, "Yep, but look on the bright side."

"What bright side?"

"We get to stay here… and drink!"

I smacked Danny in the shoulder, "That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. The Ge-"
"I think it is a relatively smart idea for you two to relax."

The voice came from behind us both and we looked at the exact same time to see the Consort, "Consort? Here?"

She sat down across from me next to Danny, "Hello boys, how has it been since you left my office?"

Shrugging, Danny said, "Haven't gotten laid since then."

"That was in your head, meaning you still haven't been laid since you got here", The Consort replied in a mocking tone.

"Oh, need some ice for that burn Danny", I asked laughing.

Danny threw back the drink he poured and looked at me, "I don't know, why don't you tell her how you got penetrated?"

"Skewered", I said immediately, "I was skewered on a piece of wreckage sticking off a destroyed tank."

The Consort sat back in her chair and let her hands fall into her lap, "Oh my, sounds like that's something you would want to pin on your wall."

"Are you here to make fun of us or hear our accomplishments", Danny interrupted clearl annoyed.
"I am here to listen, go on", the Consort replied with a wave of her hand

"I fell out of a ship and had to land in the water to survive", I said, holding my head up.

"Well, I killed a tiger man that was beating Ty senseless."

"I stopped a Geth Collosus from killing Garrus and Danny."

"I stopped an intergalactic bounty hunter from tearing Ty a new one."

"Yeah, after you played dead for five minutes", I replied sneering.

"Well, it's called strategy", Danny said, getting angrier.

"The strategy to being a coward or-"

The Consort cut me off before I could go any farther, "Boys, boys, lets rewind a little. Do you know why I'm asking you to tell me about your experiences?"

I looked at Danny and shrugged while he replied, "Because they are all together badass?"

"Let me put it another way. Ty, stretch out your hands", she said, setting her hands open-palmed on the table.

I placed my hands in hers and looked up at her, "You're not going to do what I think you are, right?"

"Mind meld? Why, yes", the Consort said as she closed her eyes, "embrace eternity."

I felt my body tense and everything in my vision shifted to black. It opened slowly to Earth after the reapers had invaded. There was a figure standing on a hill and the Reapers were running from him… no, not running, they were rushing. As if he commanded them.

Slowly my vision moved forward, it flowed toward the figure standing on the hill. The figure slowly took shape until he was human. It got more and more detailed until I realized… he was me. It was the same vision as before, but I was commanding the Reapers. The last time I had this vision the figure was in my arms. This time it was lying on the ground by my feet. It had a little more shape now. I could tell it was a woman, but that was it.

The closer I got to the… myself, the more I noticed that the green glow had transformed into a blue. Then the blue formed a pattern and I almost lost it. I didn't have my eyes, I had Saren's eyes. I felt my heart jump and a panic ensued. I was pulled back and out of the vision and felt like I fell into my own body.

I took my hand back and covered my face, the bile in my stomach shot up and I put my head to the left and threw up. When I removed my hands and looked, I had blown chunks all over the Volus bartender. Then the smell caught me and I looked away and covered my nose.

"Sorry, sir."

"I (inhale) can't believe (inhale) you just did that. (Inhale) get out (inhale) get out!"

All three of us stood and I shot the Consort an angry look, "Seriously? I thought you were a controller AI. Couldn't you have shown me that on a small video screen or something?"

We began walking out of the bar and Danny laughed as loud as he could, "You just emptied your guts on the overweight asthmatic. That made my day. We are going to be confronting Saren and instead of being afraid, scared, or discomforted, I am just going to warn them to stay away from your explosive stomach. Ahahahahahaha, that's fucking great!"

I rubbed my forehead and tried to ignore Danny, "Why did the vision change?"

The Consort continued to walk forward keeping a straight posture and swaying her hips, "It's because you took a path we did not calculate for. Chakwas, Dumb AI controller, and I have all worked your experience so it will end like that. The hill, the Reapers, and the body. No matter what you do, it will end like this."

We left the bar and stopped in the airlock, "So how do I change it."

The Consort smiled, "With your experiences. You have to go to Saren and use what you have experienced to beat him. It is the one thing that you have that Saren doesn't."

"My experiences, what the hell does that mean?"

The Consort put her hand on the wall and matrix code flooded from her hand. It molded and formed into a small screen. The Consort then waved to us and had us gather around the screen.

"Your experiences", as she talked, the screen showed pictures of the places and experiences she mentioned, "from the fight on Noveria, to the fall onto Virmire, the fist fight on the Citadel, and the one on one with the Geth Colossus on Feros. Saren is a dumb AI at heart, meaning he can only remember what he experienced in your previous playthroughs. He can only counteract what is set to happen, not what happens randomly. You can easily put him down if you use the random encounters, fights, and tactics you can make up in being a User."

Danny leaned against the wall and shook his head, "We can't go back in time and make Saren be in the situations we were in."

I smacked Danny in the shoulder, "You idiot, she means that Saren can't-"

There was a loud boom outside and the station's lights flicked out and stayed out. I moved my hand around and tried to find the Consort but she was gone. Instead I felt a hand grab my wrist and pull me down and just as the lights came on I saw a little girl with wise eyes.

Shepard:

Shepard was standing on an open plain and he had chains on his wrists. They were heavy, restricting and didn't allow him to move the way he wanted to. At the same time, they felt like they were helping him. They were strong, secure and something about them told Shepard they were helping him.

The chains then fell off and Shepard realized that the plain was slanted. He began sliding down the side of the plain grabbing at the chains trying to hold them but they moved away and he fell to the edge of the plain.

Shepard held the edge of the plain and began trying to climb back up but the plain tipped a little more and he fell off. Shepard grabbed (at air) as he fell. Down and down until he felt a pair of hands set on his chest and shake him.

Shepard woke with a startle as he twitched and grabbed the pair of hands and held the person attached to them to the bed. Slowly, Shepard's eyes cleared and he realized that the person he was holding down was Ashley.

"Well, are you going to let me go or have you just developed a new sexual fetish", Ashley questioned seductively.

Shepard let go of the Gunnery Sergeant's arms and rolled over onto the other side of the bed, "So, what brings you to my room now?"

Ashley put her hands on her stomach and just relaxed looking at the ceiling, "I don't know, the world mig Ashley put her hands on her stomach and just relaxed, looking at the ceiling. 'I don't know', she replied with a sigh in her voice, 'the world might end, you have issues, I have issues, and I just poured my heart out to someone whose face I have never seen.'

A smile came to Shepard's lips, "Hehe, tough day?"

"More like tough week. I don't know if I will ever fully recover from the mental trauma that came with Virmire."

Shepard sat up on his elbow, "Is there anything I can do to lessen it for you?"

Ashley's hand shot up around Shepard's neck and pulled him in giving him a long hard kiss. They lay for several minutes just kissing and embracing. Then Shepard worked his hand under Ashley's shirt and began to pull it up.

As if a command had been given, the comm buzzed and Joker's voice rang like the voice of the devil telling him to stop. "Attention crew, we will reach Illos in exactly thirty minutes. Ground team, begin equipment check and meet in the cargo bay. Shepard, please report to the bridge. We may have an issue."

"God damn it!"

Hey people, got another chapter out on a Monday. Want to send a big thanks to my new betareader BJ Hanssen. Show him a lot of love if you write a review. Seriously big thanks dude.

Another thank you goes to TREBOR117. He has sent some shout outs to me the last couple chapters so I might as well do the same. Even though, you probabl already are or have, go check out Stuck in a World of Fiction by TREBOR. The guy writes a masterpiece.

Well, until next Monday. To all my fans I say...
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