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Chapter 1:

This is not the end…

Jane Shepard was running for what felt like hours. The "Suicide Mission" had not gone according to plan. The collectors had been ready for her team and she had been forced to watch each of them die in front of her…

…Jacob… Miranda… Mordin… Kasumi… Jack… Zaeed… Thane… Samara… Grunt… Legion… Joker… Tali and…

…Garrus… Of all the deaths she had to witness, his was by far the most disgraceful to him… Her squad had been hit by a neurotoxin paralyzing all of them. Garrus had been the only one to get his re-breather helmet on in time… Jane remembered the vision all to easily. She was forced to watch Garrus be pulled away by the collectors after they had shot him in the legs and arms and she had been unable to do ANYTHING.

Garrus was gone… The one person in the universe who could make her happy by simply being by her side… and he was gone… She didn't even have the chance to tell him that directly to his face… and the mission only got worse from there… The collectors had every type of precaution ready for any situation. Her ground team was annihilated so quickly that they never even got the chance to plant the explosion.

She had barely escaped onto the Normandy when being chased down the long corridors of the collector base, as the harbinger voice all around her, she couldn't tell whether it was in her head, or right behind her.

"You've underestimated us Shepard…We told you would be broken…"

Usually Shepard was for one was not to be talked back down, but he was right, she was alone, she led her team to their death, it was her responsibility, her burden…Thane was right…someone must carry the weight of the burden, this one was all on her.

After escaping the Omega 4 Relay she thought she would be able to at least give all her friends a proper funeral… but no, not even that was given to her. The next moment, a collector ship arrived from the relay and started charging an energy weapon. Immediately Joker's voice went over the intercom, "All crew members evacuate the Normandy ASAP."

Jane immediately started to go to the cockpit to drag Joker to the escape pods like last time. However, he surprised her and met her slightly past them. She didn't question it and proceeded to help him to the pods. Unfortunately for her an explosion chose just that moment to detonate throwing her deep into the pod and Joker near the button. She was dazed but realized the similarity of what had happened on the first Normandy.

She looked at Joker, who could barely stand, nearby the launch button. The sadness in his eyes was new to Jane but she immediately grasped their implication. "Joker, NO DON'T-" her tone rising with each word but they were wasted as Joker hit the button with only a slight nod to her as the doors close, she could do nothing but bang on the window as the outer layers cut her sight.

As soon as the pod left the ship she looked out the window to see how many others had escaped but all she got was a feeling of emptiness for not one escape pod could be seen among the debris of the now destroyed Normandy. She was all alone again…

1 Month Later…

Jane woke up from the terrible memory that had plagued her ever since that mission. How could she forget it. All of her friends and comrades, all of whom had entrusted their very lives for that mission, all of them which were now dead.

The days that followed were something out of a nightmare. The very things that the council had "dismissed" as legends had swiftly killed them all. The galaxy was in a mess and not one being knew what to do… not even Jane… But she did know one thing. She was going to avenge the deaths of her fallen comrades…even at the cost of her own life.

2 Weeks Later…

She tried to tell them, she repeatedly over and over saying reapers were coming. But they didn't listen. With Alliance taking her back under custody, Shepard awaits in this confined room. Labeled to be a "disrupt" to public. Its hard to believe, first human Specter, the Citadel savior, whose sprung back from the dead trying to fight against the odds, now labeled as human psycho. She survived the unsuccessful suicide mission, but was unable to avenge her team death, unable to convince anyone that the reapers were coming.

6 Month later

By time Reapers invaded, it was too late by then as Citadel space defense was spread to thin, Alliance fleet reduces to remnants in matters of weeks. Captain Anderson came to her rescues her as she joined what band of resistance was left. As she was once again, this time asked for her expertise in slaying reapers. But it wasn't enough, as Husk was largely in numbers and ammo was scarce. It was just her and Anderson as they attempted to take a shuttle, but during their prep for takeoff. Just before we could make it, an infected Baterian made a shot into back of Anderson leg, and was dragged off by the husks. Shepard tried to get him back, but was force to again watch one of her friends be torn apart by those monsters. As she just ran, retreated into back into the shuttle, and escaped back into space only to be lone survivor again.

2 Month later

After the Reapers had destroyed most of the universe they simply left. No one was sure where they had gone but the damage remained. There weren't enough survivors so they were all doomed to die out. Everyone knew that and just waited for their end to come. Jane on the other hand was not going to sit by and just die out like everyone else.

When the Reapers had left they had used a special energy gate to leave and unbeknownst to them Jane had been able to get a reading on it as well. She spent all the free time she had working to create a device to replicate that gate and energy signature and it was finally done.

She got into her own personal ship and got into the cockpit. She took one last look at the photograph of her old crew of first Normandy and second photo of Second Normandy team. She started the ship up, flipping on switches, as well punched in proper coordinates into the warp device. Seconds later the field opened up in front of her. She smiled at the effort of work she put into.

"Well…it works at least…."

As Shepard thrust the handle forward as her ship was moved into motion, watching her ship being torn into thousand, no millions of particles among herself.

2183 CE

Name: Jane Hiller

Age: 24

Race: Human

Birth Place: Unknown

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Combat Class: Engineer

Weapons Training:

-Pistols

-Shotgun

-Sniper Rifle

Combat Training:

-Knows several Human fighting arts.

Engineer Skills

-Tech Armor

-Combat Drone; can convene more than one at a time

-Decrypting

- Hacking

-Overload

-Incinerate

-Cryo Shot

Psychological Profile:

-Diplomatic

-Loner

-Open-minded to other races

-Secretive

Notable Achievements:

-Records show her as top N7 Graduate

-Single-handedly stopped destruction of human colony

-Was able to stop five timed explosives from going off by quickly hacking them

Special Notes:

-Biological Family is unknown

-Is able to make quick tactics and plans during combat

-Uses specialized equipment

Most likely to adapt of existing technology whether combat or otherwise

"So what's the verdict," asked a deep voice.

"It's not a question of if she's good enough, rather why does she want to work there," asked another.

"That's not really what I'm concerned about. I'm reading this profile and seeing some missing blanks. Why that is her family is unknown as well as her birth place," asked a slightly suspicious tone.

"We marked that down on her profile," answered the same voice from before, "She doesn't really like to talk about her personal life to others for some reason."

"Can we trust such a "secretive" person to work on the Normandy? It's our most technological and most expensive ship up to date," scolded the suspicious voice.

"She stated that it's the only ship she'll serve on. We don't understand it either but we believe it might be because John is also going to be working on that ship," answered the deep voice, "Besides they're both were going to be called in for evaluation by Nihlus anyway so this will make it easier for us."

"Very well then, so just to make it clear you are both allowing Jane to serve on the Normandy right," questioned the now less suspicious voice.

"Understood," answered both other voices.

"Very well then, I'll go and give her the good news," and he left to make the call that would affect the lives of every species in the universe.

Ttran2323 has decided to discontinued his work, however I as a follower, felt like I needed a Mass Effect story under me, and I, am now taking this story under my wings and willing to see this story grow in Ttran2323 name. I'm just been given permission to finish this…when I have the time *Smile evilly*