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Twisted Effect

Chapter 1

-Things Change -

"uuggg" I moan groggy, my head is slanted on the side of a keyboard, my mind whines from agony of deprived sleep, the laptop screen connected to the keyboard has an continuous eternal letter A's running across it, my mind is still in a blur as I look at the little clock on the side of the screen it reads "6:22 AM"

"3 hours of sleep is better than none" I groan, I lift my head from the board and it shows…

Damn! 3000 pages of the fucking letter A, god why did I have to fall asleep on the damn keyboard, everyone is pretty lucky I finished my report for my professor, or there would be a 15 mile radius swearing zone

I feel a deep imprint on the side of my face, I rub it thoroughly and feel one big rectangle and 20 small squares, one for each key my face that was on the keyboard, I swear several times while shuffling to the bathroom, mainly from stubbing my toe on the door frame

Son of a.. !

I lazily flip on the light switch and the light temporally blinds me,

"Ahhh, it burns", I cry, but then add mockingly "MY EYES"

Why the hell do I stay in the dark so long?

I quickly recover because I'm used to this, on look into the echo of myself in the plain mirror, I curve my head to see the side of my face

"Fuck, my cheek looks like a fucking checkers board "I shout, pretty pissed off, the squares imprinted on my face look like a slanted checkers board then I imaging someone yelling 'king me' on the side of my face, god I'm stupid

Well I have the whole weekend off, so it's time to party, Mass effect showdown morning, Hit the clubs

yeah right

shut up

shots tonight!, first I call off all my friends, first Natalie

"Sorry May but I'm at my brother's he and his wife are fighting again"

Damn, Jim was always a douche

Okay I'll call mike,

His mom answers" oh hello May" she answers in a sweet old lady voice, "sorry but mike is in the hospital, damaged his shin guard while on a marathon, didn't tie his laces well"

Curse you fucking shoelaces

Hey what about Chrissy

"What, heck no, May it's 6 in the morning and I have a meeting at work today, maybe later"

I don't give a fuck anyway Chrissy was always a bitch, still probably sore from the last time she got her ass kicked on black ops,

Well then I'll call June if she isn't slacking off

"Oh hey may," she answers yawning

"sup June, I'm not doing anything want to play multiplayer" I ask, hoping for good news

"hell yes" she screams" but…" she replies downcast "I'm still finishing my project for professor Jerkface"

"He's not a Jerkface your just a lazy ass, besides I finished that 3 hours ago" June has a problem with homework and teachers who assign it but I can't blame her it does suck

June perks up "oh really well the sooner I finish this-"

She usually wants to copy off me to get it over with, but this is my usual reply

"No June, do your own work" then I hang up pissed the fuck off, so pissed off that the phone misses the receiver and hits the floor, and the cords and crap fall out

"Well today is just perfect" I mumble sarcastically

Damn, I'll play mass effect later, first I got to fix this shit phone

I snatch the phone from the floor along with all the fallen pieces, and walk into my lab, or aka my spare bedroom, and take out some wire cutters, electrical tape and other stuff, after about maybe 20 minutes I think I have it done, I'm pretty good with fixing and building stuff, if I do so say so myself, just then a person is in the middle of leaving a message on the machine

"So the bill is $263 for the electric bill you have 2 days left to pay, or your power will be terminated " finishes the voice, it's male and sounds like a moaning person who's dead inside, guess that's how you are in the electric business nowadays

Fuck, 2 days left , well I have the money today, guess I'll send… wait no I'll mail it , the mailbox is right by that Redbox with all the good movies, some little good news like having no stupid " not available" sign is better than none

I was about to rush out the door with my coat but stop to judge my appearance, I'm wearing a pink solid shirt, light blue PJ bottoms with smiley faces and A black sock

So I'm either going to be mugged for being a dumbass or given money to because someone thinks I'm a hobo,

I think I should change

Then I rush to my car in more appropriate clothing, [Spiderman shirt and blue jeans, the classic] and actual shoes on, my car is a busted Honda civic, it smells like crap and spring meadow, has stains but it runs that's all that matters, I open my door I hop into the odd smell 'damn you Febreze , eliminates all odors my ass' but I guess I couldn't blame them my car is damned with its stench, I'm about to ramble on some more about this but then notice my black Xbox 360 in the passenger's seat

"Oh yeah" I say, remembering that I brought it to June's yesterday to play Mass effect 3 and Fable 2, my TV is crap but my Xbox is awesome, her TV is fucking awesome but her Xbox is bull crap , so it's a win- win deal, I decide to leave it there, because it's doing no harm

I put the key in the car and it starts to rumble, after a smooth but short drive I reach the good Redbox but then

Fuck! The mailbox is on the other side of the street; I search the street and see no one there,

It's 7 in the morning who would I expect, the president, but it was quiet, too quiet, oh god if I get shot I will never use the mail again, screw paper, not really but if it did happen

I slowly exit the car; I shiver some from the rushing cold wind, I take the key out and stuff it in my pocket, then dash across the street and open the lid to the mailbox, thinking that I should just screw it and let June copy me, but then suddenly I hear a door close, and my finger snaps into the lid as I'm spooked by the sudden noise, a pin of pain plunges into my poor finger

Mother fucker!

I turn my head to the sound of the noise, it comes from across the street and I notice a dark figure holding my Xbox,

Mother Fucker !

Time stands still as we stare at each other, my face: Shocked, his/hers: well fuck it's all dark I can't see it

"Boom" likes a flash the figure sprints away, into his own car,

How the hell did that get there?

I surge into my car and scramble and fumble the key out my pocket and into the ignition, I slam the gas, but the bastard already has a head start, it's a chase and we blur across the street, still no one is around

What kind of jackass steals someone else's Xbox, the thought floods into my head

I'm really pissed, no beyond pissed, no this is a whole another level of being damn pissed that I can't describe, yeah of course it's just a dang Xbox, and all my data is on both the hard drive and a flash drive in my room but this really, deep down inside was about one thing "Don't Fuck With May"

I'm right on this bastard's tail when he detours into the forest "Oh you want to be sneaky huh, well two can play at that game" I screech, hammering into the dark forest, my foot feels like it's going to go through the gas pedal and all the roots and shit make it hard to steer but my car is just small enough to make it through the gaps

His maneuvers are good, I almost lost him a few times , then I blast into his bumper and he disappears into a grove of trees, I think I lost him and quietly swear "fuck" , and start to back out of the trees, but then "clash" the side of my car comes into complete impact to front of the figure's car,

At first, time is in slow motion as the car raises upward, my heart is beating rapidly in my chest but each beat hurts like a stab, and my left leg gets a killing direct pain from the car I feel a surge to move but my seat beat binds me and even before I can even move to reach it, time goes it normal speed and me and the car are flipped to side,

Once: my knees are slammed and I wail, twice: my back is banged into the seat and I cry, and for a Third flip my head is clashed with the steering wheel and I bleed, as all my car clangs into a tree to stop the flips, I flop like a rag doll,

The pain from this is unbearable, my nerves are on fire, my leg is shattered, and my head, oh god my head I don't even think that's even the correct work to use for how I feel it looks right now, I could never explain how I could still see at all, but I did see, and furthermore I spoke to the dark figure above with was faceless because it was no man, or any living thing I could think of, yes it had a human male figure but nothing but a pale nothingness pad with no expression for a face, so I somehow consumed air and croaked " Fuck…you… "

And then there was nothing all except white

My eyes flicker open to a white landscape, I gasp for a helping of air

"What ..the ..hell" I pant breathing in some for each word " am I dead?"

Oh shit I could be in heaven; if I it is I should stop cursing

"Hello god" I peep out, I'm replied with silence,

Maybe I should leave or not just sit here

I see a spot that might be a wall that should be the place I should start

I sprint over to the 'wall' and notice I feel no fatigue from all this running, I lunge at it to give myself something else to do because I feel like I've been running for hours, then the wall is just nothing just more space and blankness, I smash into the floor and except to be greeted by pain but nothing comes, I pinch myself and 'nothing', I punch my chest and see my fist sink in but still no pain, okay ultimate test,

Dont do this at home kids

I grab the my ankle and stare at it then jerkily twist, and 'snap" my foot is upside down, I wait for a inch of agony and distress, but nothing, and my foot buts itself back in place

"Where the hell am I" I scream to the top of my lungs upward, but again there is zero, zilch, zip, nada, nothing not even a damn echo, but then when all my hope feels lost I notice something in the distance, I thin figure, I surge back into confidence and run to it, the image it's closer and then I reach it

It's a woman, she dances around like a magnificent ballerina, and it looks like she has a ribbon as she glides around me, her clothes are all black as it shows out her pale skin, and long flowing blond hair, I can't see her face but I wish I could, I have an urge to speak but I cannot, I look at the ribbon but it is not one it is a glowing stream of an blue aura and a red one, but it not following her she is grasping it, from… the air?

She is inches from my face, as she takes the auras and builds them into 2 orbs, at first it's dim but as she swirls them more it glows radiantly, once it meets a curtain point she stops and offers me them both

I stare wondrously in awe into the orbs, I have a thousand thoughts running inside my head, the red one blurs a female image, the blue a male, I then slowly reach for the red sphere the impact of each heartbeat of mine is pounding out of me, then only my fingertips feel its touch and a strange feeling gushes into every fiber of my being, and a striking light shades my sight

I wake up drowsy

"Oh not this crap again" I groan, but as I open my eyes there is not blankness, there is color and structure, I lay behind a stack of crates wondering "where the hell am I now", I see 2 figures in front of me, 1 there staring directly at each other, I hold up my hands say "oh, sorry didn't mean to disturb –"

I'm then cut off then by the on by the left, it's a female in armor

Cool armor, looks familiar though

"It was a nice try to cut me off by sabotaging the bridge but you knew I'd find you anyway, right Dominguez" her voice is sharp and cries confidence

The other figure is male and he seems somewhat scared "yeah maybe I did, but you won't kill me" he doesnt really seem that certain

What the hell did this poor bastard do to get on her bad side?

They both lash out guns but she slaps his away and has her's towards his head

"What makes you say that" she asks sarcastically, then the sound of gun loading comes behind her

And she doesn't turn to know who it already is

"I think this does" says the man behind her a pistol pointed behind her

Oh junk she's screwed maybe I should jump in, wait I don't even know where I am , maybe this is a movie set

"Took you long enough, Stern, I was thinking you might forget to betray me" she replies calmly not even showing a small bit of not knowing this, it happens in a flash right before my eyes and she takes them both down, sweep kicking them both in a 360 degree circle, and kicking Stern's gun away from his distance, he stares at her shocked

Okay that was awesome

"Don't look so shocked, I'd know you weren't loyal since day one, but I didn't know how long you were with Cerberus" she clocks her gun and keeps it at both their fearful faces

Cerberus… no it can't be, it's probably that plumbing company or something

"Since I learned the truth about what those alien bastards were doing" Shouts Stern, sweat trickling down his face

Aliens, hell no!, no, no, no, this has to be a movie

"Yeah okay, maybe some aliens have it out for humans, but that doesn't mean you go blow up a 3rd of a damn Turian colony" she yells spitting his their faces "your done now, I'm reporting you to c-sec and let's see how they answer to you, also with half the alliance", she keeps her gun locked at them but takes out an glowing holographic watch like thing, and presses dials

Turians, c-sec and now, no it can't be, damn it, it is an Omni-tool, oh god please just tell me I'm in a really good movie of what I'm thinking of

Then another person is behind her again, I stare directly at his pistol,

Fuck, it's a Predictor, well that's it

"Who the fuck is punking me" I scream out loud, I except them all it look at me but the girl's face is just stunned, and the other males look hopefully at the one with the gun, not even noticing me

"But… Davis, I thought—"starts the woman, but she is then interrupted

"You thought wrong then didn't you?"

"But, but how, why" he confident voice is now weak and quivered

"Hello, right here" I wave my arms to get their attention but still, damn nothing

"Why not, humans can only help themselves; the aliens just want us dead" he answers not even fazed by her look of horror

I get up and walk over to him,

"Hey look at me dumbass with the gun, hheelllooo" I'm so pissed, these jackass would even notice I'm here maybe a straight kick in the ass with tell them up, I'm about to womp him upside the head when his finger pulls the trigger

"NNNOOOO" I lunge at him but I'm only greeted by a face full of floor " oww" I groan, I turn to see if I made any of a difference but the guy still has the gun and the girl is falling to the floor blood rushing out her head, as she is welcomed by the floor with a 'thump'

Oh god I just went right through him, like a fucking ghost,

I then look more closely at my figure and notice how transparent I am,

Shit, I'm dead, and even worse than that I'm a damn ghost in the… no it's true, the Mass Effect universe, and even worse of all I couldn't do nothing to save that woman's life

"What do we do now?" asks Dominguez, getting up from the floor and dusting himself off

"We leave, with no evidence" replies Davis as coldly as ever, not even glances at the body below

"What about her" he points at the body, but doesn't stare

"I said No evidence, were blowing the place"

"But won't that be noticeable" pipes out Stern

"No, I'm blaming it on a gas explosion, hopefully it gets some aliens in the blast, and stop asking questions, I just saved your sorry asses" he snaps irritated by their stupidity

"What about the humans?" asks Stern concern.

"Their lives will be given for a good cause" replies Davis distantly, as he finishes putting the last coordinates in the bomb "we have 8 minutes, let's go", he turns around to the body and pulls out a needle, with a green liquid, then slowly injects it to the body's arm

"What's that"

"A prototype drug to give people Biotics without big cancer risk, like Red sand, they call it Eexo, almost the opposite then Eezo, the white coats have been testing it on non biotics and Asari, their using it for some scienific shit and they need more test subjects, snuck it out the lab "he starts to explain, "every time they used it the body explodes from an chemical reaction and dies, for the Asari they get a major power boost but then also die from the surge within 15 seconds either way"

He looks disgusted at the body "after the body is charred, there will be nothing left to clean up, they wont even know what That was"

They then leave the room and the door closes, I'm just left there staring hopelessly at anything,

I'm dead, she's dead, everything around a 50 meter radius is screwed, and worst of all those bastards are getting away and I can't do anything about it

I lay on the floor 6 feet next to the body, man this lady had a quad, I wonder what her name was, if she had a family, or friends

Then out of nowhere another extraordinary blast of light comes from the room,

You know what I hate fucking light now, screw light, because all it does is give me bull shit

It's the lady from before with the orbs, and also the glowing spheres,

He, he, he

Oh god I'm such a perv

But she is wearing robes and I can see her face, it's smooth and her eyes have no pupils they just glow with more light, but her facial feature are really brilliant , and flawless

"Welcome distant one, I have seen you have experienced your beginning" she cries out omnisciently, and godly

"My beginning, bitch I'm a fucking ghost and that lady is dead, so your definition of beginning and mine must be different because this is the end" maybe it wasn't the best idea to curse out the goddess lady, but I have a hella right to be mad

"You are in distress, this is normal" she says calmly, it's so peaceful her voice that it lessens my anger but then I'm fired up again realizing where I am, "you will now be given a choice"

I'm tempted now

"What choice" I ask still angrily

"To choose who you become" she answers still calmly "you have just witnessed the death of this woman, who gave her life to try and stop the crimes of these criminals, now you may choose if you want to stay as you are or have another shot at life"

"At life, do you mean I'm dead" craving to know the truth

"Yes… and no" she responses

Damn those bullshit answers that just lead to more fucking questions,

"Now will you carry out her mission, or do what you want"

"What does that mean?"

"Either way you may have life again, but you must choose how you want to live it"

"Okay, but first, what was her mission"

"To defend and protect, all those who need it, to stand up for justice and believes to do what's right"

Okay I have the choice of hero or freedom

"Or do as you must to survive and take charge"

So hero or... survivor, this sounds familiar

"As well as take down others who might side in your way, right or wrong"

No, it's hero or jackass aka

"I choice…. To do what's right" I say confidently, standing straight

"Then it is done" and she opens her arms and I'm lifted up and passed over to the dead body

My transparent figure goes into her solid dead one

Holy shit am I fusing with her

"Yes you are, this is to unify you to a body"

"Don't I get to choose the body?"

"Yes"

Thank god

"And no"

Fuck

"You have already chosen"

No I didn't,Damn it

Then I feel something, I have no idea what it is, but its tangling me, like ropes or vines, and starts to pull me into the dead body, I try to force myself out of the tightening grip but it twists tighter and I'm sucked into darkness

My eyes slowly open and blink rapidly, I gasp like I never gasp before, I gush air in so bad it hurts, I'm shaking some, and my right arm twitches, then an excruciating pain comes from my forehead as blood oozes down into my eyes and mouth, the metallic taste makes me sick, and I try to grasp something to hold on to but nothing is close, I then remember

Oh god, the drug, it's about to kill me, why did that bitch goddess give me a screwed body, oh yeah and maybe that bullet in my head isn't helping either

Now is not the time for sarcasm

I cry painfully as I feel death come in, my new life is near its end already but then it all stops suddenly, and a small bullet rolls off my head into the ground, the blood flow becomes a small stream and then nothing, my tears stop as I realize I'm no long in pain , I weakly lift my head up, and make my fingers come into contact with the place of the bullet, the surface is smooth like there never was a bullet hole, I raise my body up more, and stumble on my legs but grab a crate to stop my fall,

Oh shit I healed, from a fucking bullet, hell I'm wolverine or like him, close enough

" I'm alive, looks like your drug is janky, bitch" I exclaim to the heavens with a fist pump, i feel triumphant, and invincible and...

Click click click

The sound comes from unknown, but its close

What is that, Is someone getting a call?

The weird clicking noises continue, where are they coming from, I look around and notice ... they're from me, I look at my arms they are clear no hair, and even more so my fingers have no prints,

I have no DNA, or something, what in gods name...

your incomplete from that merging shit, probably

Something is tugging my hair, and look to see it reaches the floor, slipping out my head like snake, and it changes colors like a kaleidoscope, from red, orange, brown, light brown, black and blond,

"No, what the hell, leave it black" I shout at it confused by what it's doing with my hair

It responds to my command and stays a raven black,

"Uumm, okay, go to hip length" I say and it does so, but shoots up my head, 'bitch' until it's to my hip and stays, so I can command my hair what to do, not strange at all, I'm then lost in thought about what else I can do when a large beeping noise bring me back to reality,

"What the hell is that" I say, turning my head to the side trying to bang the noise out my head, I twist my head to the wall and my eyes widen in terror,

Crap! it's the bomb

Ha,Mass Effect 3, Damn it focus!

and it has only 2 damn minutes left,

oh god I hope it's as easy to fix as that damn phone

Well that it chapter one, hope you liked it and aren't all that confused , so thanks again for reading and tell me what you think even if you think it sucked ass, a real story has to have bad comments too right

Note: so you can read this if you want, i'm just happy to say to be part of the Mass Effect fanfiction community , this is my first real committed fanfic in the mass effect universe, i have written some ninja turtle stuff but not from here , also i'm working on some art i,m going to use for the cover for each chapter but that's later in the story, i,m not going to stay full mass effect plot at least for the first one sorta, but you will notice some changes, i have a couple of ocs added soon and i will change the POV from Ocs and other characters, thanks again for reading, follow or fave the story if you like it, i also really appreciate reviews too

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