This story was deeply inspired by Mass Effect: Dimensional Rift written by Bundlejumper. If you didn't read it, read it now. He gave me an insight at how good both world fits together. So without further delay, let's begin.

Disclaimer: I don't own either Mass Effect or Warframe, just my own content and imagination.

Prologue: Visit in the night

Do you feel the same sometimes? When you go to bed and in the last seconds before you sleep, feel like you are being watched by something that lurks in the dark?

Right after you put out your light or laptop after reading or playing expecting to see two orbs hovering in the darkness staring at you with murderous intend?

I did, every time I stared in to the darkness I could fell something staring back at me, but instead of fear felt something else. A calming sense that soothed me for a few seconds before it was gone again.

One evening after I turned off my tablet and stared in the darkness that surrounded me, I felt that presence again, calming my mind and sending me to sleep. But instead of drifting of in the land of dreams suddenly my body felt like it was floating, upwards in a gently pace until it was stopped suddenly.

I opened my eyes at the sudden stop and immediately regretted it. Because, I was seeing my own body. Lying there, sound asleep. I could even see my chest rising and falling in a gentle motion.

"Creepy isn't it?"

My head jerked to the voice that had disturbed the nightly silence. In my swivel chair sat something I could quite identify, something of a mix between bird, lizard with a cat like face. I think that was the moment when my brain lost it and forced my eyes close again.

"Sorry is this appearance better? I am not used to deal with Spirits of the human dimension."

I opened my eyes again. The wild mixture had been replaced with a male human in a business suit, cradling a large suitcase. But still everything my mid could do at this sight, was open my mouth, the: What the Fuck? That should follow stayed in the depth of my mind.

Confused and a bit angry I closed my mouth and waited for the man to do his next move. This resulted in some kind of a staring contest, because instead of explaining something he just stared at me, mumbling something I couldn't hear.

After several minutes there was still no reply, so my bored mind started experimenting. First thing, get out of the horizontal position into a more vertical position. Struggling a bit, I found the right movement to get me spinning, but stopping said spin seemed to be a different matter. Fortunately mister 'I doesn't explain anything' notified my struggle and with one flick of his hands not only stabilized my in the right position but also sat me down on the ground.

Grinning sheepishly he gestured me to sit down and after I did he leant forward a bit.

"Ok, first of all, all you are seeing and experiencing from now on is real and not a dream or a Hallucination. I am a so called a guardian of the dimensions. We are the ones that hinder others from crossing the borders between the universes. We can interact freely within our domain that you know as the Void."

Opening my mouth again to ask a question or shout it at him, nothing came out of my throat, again.

Closing it again, I made wild gestures at my throat and mouth, only for him to hold up his hand.

"In the moment you are just a copy of the spirit that connects your mind to the void. You have no body in this real to project a voice. For the reason why I am here, the truth is we need your help or more the help of your mind."

He opened the suitcase that till now just rested in his lap. Several blinking holograms sprang out of it showing diagrams or just pictures I couldn't identify at first, but they got clearer and I saw what I thought I would only see in a game.

Giant squid shaped spaceships, descending on planets. Species of all kinds fighting against them, but something was off. The pictures all showed scenes from the game Mass Effect 3 but something or more someone was missing.

My eyes widened as I realized who it was. Shepard. Every picture showed a critical scene out of the game, but the main character was always missing.

"I saw you realized what I want to show you." The guy continued. My gaze still glued to the holograms.

"Someone is playing with space-time continuum and is messing up the dimensions. The pictures you are seeing are only from my district in a long line of dimensions that suddenly failed to continue in their given path.
You played through all the games, you know what to do and also you are one of in a million that can handle the gear with what we would send you to fix this.
Maybe you ask yourself now why we can't fix this. The thing is we can only interface with persons who are tuned to the void. Like I said before, one in a million."

After he finished, my mind was pounding with all the information he gave me. Lost in a spiraling thought of helping or not, a small part of my mind noticed the shifting of my body besides me. The thought crashed through the barrier that held my mind frozen. With the serious expression I could muster I pointed at my body and hoped that the guardian could decipher what I meant with this gesture.

"You're asking yourself what will happen to this body."

I nod.

"Nothing, your are just a copy of his spirit. He will continue like all life in this dimension will, until the being that is altering the other dimensions comes here and sends it to hell like the others. But if this is not reason enough to help us, we will grant your original spirit a favor when its time comes and it will flow into the void. I can't offer you more."

Ponding over this offering I realized, I didn't have much of a choice. Since I am just a copy I would just vanish when I refused to help and all I could then hope for would be someone else to stop whoever was doing this. A small part of me wanted to believe that the guy in front of me was lying, but that small part was quickly overwhelmed by the question why should he?

So I turned my face towards the guardian in front of me and nodded, again with a serious expression hoping again he would understand what I meant.

"So you want to help us?"

I nodded again.

"Then let me show you your gear that will hopefully be useful to you. It had been carefully chosen out of things you know best and hopefully can handle."

The holograms changed and now displayed things that I not only recognized but also let my smile in a joker like fashion.

"Also you will not inhabit your old body. It will be a modified one that can handle the extreme situations you will be forced in. You don't think I need to tell you that you will keep all your memories of this dimension since it is critical to your work."

I nodded again, eager to get to my new shiny gear.

Catching my enthusiasm he again lifted his hand and suddenly the world around me began to darken. The last words I heard were.

"I don't know where the void will place you but I know when, we will leave everything for to find. I hope you will do well. Good luck hopefully I don't need to contact someone again for such a situation."

The last sentence was barely audible for me as the darkness closed in more and more around me. With the picture of a triangle shaped ship with a long fin and the symbol of the lotus on its front I let the sweet embrace of the void carry me away.

So yeah. My first try as an SI writer.
This is something that was trapped in my head for a long time and I hope I can mold the strange Ideas I have into a decent story. Stay tuned for the next chapter that will have the real start in the story and I hope that I will have an Idea were I will let all this carry me.

Also since English is not my mother tongue I rely on you my dear reader to make this story enjoyable for the eye (at least). So Read and Review and I will grant myself some rest because it is 4 pm and the energy drink is wearing off.