The war is over! Shepard was buried alive and recovered in a strange state of unconsciousness. She will have to take a long trip, retracing her last four years, through the memories of Liara, sometimes wonderful sometimes frightening. Her unlimited love, their invincible bond, will be the only things can keep her holding on that irrevocable promise ... "I'm always coming back"!

An injured Shepard is finally looking to retire after a long and arduous career. However, he first needs to use up all of his accumulated shore leave to qualify. Will he be able to enjoy some quality time with Tali, or will they be interrupted by another threat? More importantly, will Shepard even be able to defend himself?

Jack writes poetry; Ashley reads poetry. A conversation starts on the calmest, most rational place around: the extranet. [COMPLETE]

Commander Jane Shepard is known as the best of the best from her fighting to N7 training. Thane Krios is known as the best Assassin in the entire galaxy. Can two people who are so different find love between fights, war and the disappearances of entire human colonies?

Some people spend their whole lives searching for love, others stumble into it completely by chance. Nicola "Nikki" Shepard was devastated when her childhood sweetheart left Mindoir, but fate is a fickle creature and in the long run it was probably for the best. Starting with brief snapshots on Mindoir and other events pre-ME1 then hopefully continuing throughout the trilogy. F/F

They say the Asari are the longest lived race in the galaxy, thing is, you gotta be stubborn to live a long life...and if I've learned one thing in my two millennia walking the earth, is that humans are stubborn as sin. And Janet Marie Shepard? She's the worst of the bunch, I mean, she convinced this old Hoplite to join her crew. How's that for worthless, Reapers?

With the Geth invasion of Eden Prime resulting in Saren's immediate arrest, a warrant for Commander Shepard's arrest, and radio silence from the Alliance, a great divide is made within the atmosphere of Citadel Space. Unrest, protests and relentless patrols have Garrus Vakarian exasperated at the galaxy's inability to get along. [Rated M for Language, and also eventual romance.]

The essence that is Commander Shepard has fought the battle against the Reapers more times than she can count, only to find herself right back where it all started. Never the exact same body, never the same first name or history. The disembodied voice struggles to break her way through to the consciousness of her current incarnation, trying to find a way to break her own cycle.

Shepard is a being from a parallel reality. And has come to help fight against the Reapers.

Cmdr. Kara Shepard survived Mindoir, believing she was the only survivor, she fought through Torfan forever cementing her as The Butcher of Torfan. On her fight to stop Saren and the Reapers she not only finds love but the truth to a past she thought she had resolved. What happens when monsters from her past comes back to bite? Is what she finds false hope?

What if the Prothean hid asari on planet Earth as one of their many plans, what would happen if asari and humans lived side by side for thousands of years before space travel started? This is that story. image taken from

John Shepard is gone. The Normandy destroyed. Her pilgrimage, a journey of self-discovery, hope, and love, comes to an end. Left to wander back to her origins, she finds her home now estranged, haunted by a specter of what was and could've been. It is the end of dawn, but amidst the echoes, heralds light on the horizon. The sequel to The Fall of Normandy. Mature content.

This is a telling of Mass Effect from the PoV of my OC. Vex, a hitman from Omega, finds herself swept up in a life-threatening adventure when she meets up with an old friend.

A single spark, a single event, can change the lives of many and shape civilizations. From a silent Relay far from everything, to worlds only freshly known, to a grand space station that has served as the time to a million peoples across a million lifetimes, one such event was the First Contact War. [Version Two]

The Reds, red tape, and everything in between intertwine Garrus Vakarian and Shepard in a murder investigation on the Zakera ward. Garrus is an up-and-coming officer at Citadel Security. He leads the murder investigation on Aptis Casotin. While Shepard, a former Alliance marine with ties to The Tenth Street Reds, finds herself stuck in the middle as a confidential informant.

With friends and family at her side, Dr Liara T'Soni travels the galaxy, digging up the long-lost trail of the Protheans. Setting aside her life as an active Spectre, Shepard settles into domestic life (of sorts) to accompany Liara on her journey. Finally, a life full of peace, love and happiness becomes reality… and the long-awaited little blues get to make their appearance.

Cerberus has spent billions of credits trying to bring Shepard back from the dead, and despite the odds it seems to be working. Then a saboteur makes his move and Shepard's resurrection takes a horrific turn, leaving both the Alliance and Cerberus scrambling to control the situation...all while the Collectors begin their harvest of humanity [PREFERRED EDITION ON AO3]

possible future percy jackson crossover or maybe halo(ik there are alrdy a lotnof good unique stories for halo out there but bear w me) if by some chance u open this i swear i dont normally write like this and ima good writer i just need some help makingpercy jackson work

I was chosen because I had thought it through and because I knew what pain and suffering was. Now I have the chance to see if my ideas can help Shepard save the galaxy. SI.

The Reaper War may have ended twenty-five years ago but the scars that it has left behind on the galaxy still run deep and red. Aboard the SSV Hippocrates, flagship of the Systems Alliance Research and Development, three Spectres find themselves up against a new horror. Come bear witness to a humble bromance, badly-timed flashbacks, and the re-imagined fates of old friends.

Jake Takemura is a freelancer who mostly works for the Shadowbroker. When a chance encounter with a young Quarian forces him into the middle of an extinction-level event, he has no choice but to fight back. Follow Jake as he joins Commander Shepard in her quest to stop the Reapers. OCxTali

A rewrite of one of my older stories: The Challenger Deep is the deepest part of the ocean, and for millions of years has kept its secrets for itself. In the year 1960 a team of scientists made the first dive to the Challenger Deep. What they discovered was something that would forever change the course of human history.

John Shepard has lost everything. His friends, family, home and more. Given a second chance and a mission by a Watcher, he is sent to another world to help another Shepard in her quest and to counter dark forces at work. But nothing is ever simple as more divergence events happen and more Shepards appear. Inspired by a Fistfull of Shepards

As humanity and other Council races develop along the path set by the Reapers, a different civilization is born. Developing alongside but separately from other species, isolated from the wider galaxy. An Empire with its own FTL technology, independent of Mass Relays. What will happen if a civilization so different from others in almost every way, joins the Galactic community?

An Asari exploration vessel, reactivated a new Mass Relay coordinates to an unexplored part at the edge of Council space. The coordinates led them away from the renowned Attican Traverse into foreign territory. Little did they know, the Relay would bring them right into the heart of a fledgling star-faring civilization… wait, a fledgling civilization?