Authors Note:
I don't own the rights to neither Mass effect or Mega man series, in any way.
Well guys English is not my native language so I have now rewiew this chapter to the best of my abilities, and Microsoft word grammar checer limits, to make it the most enjoyable text I can for you all. Hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1 – A plead to the future.

Taro'Xen looked up through his visor. The quarian looked to the skies of that alien world, tinted in a mix of grey and blue due to the high number of sediments in the atmosphere.

He looked around seeing the remains of a huge metropolis. Carcass of buildings, having their metal frames exposed to the wind and elements. Destroyed vehicles, metal constructs, and bones of a long dead specie.

His little expedition has now lasted more than ten years. A little too long for a pilgrimage in his opinion. However, a most certainly worth.

He found the planet after he was running away, with other quarians in their pilgrimage, from slavers. Since then the group of pilgrims have pooled their resources and hired a krogan mercenary for protection. Some of the synthetics remains were still active and berserk.

"Taro! Taro!"

Taro sighted at the excited voice of his assistant, a young quarian girl that the name keep eluding him. Her suit had an astounding purple color, and curves that turned the necks of all quarians that he have found so far.

Taro grunted as he asked.
"Yes what is it?"

The Quarian was prancing on her feet.
"I think we found an intact bunker! The scans reveal an intact area a few meters below the surface."

Taro's eyes widened. So far, they had to contempt themselves with scavenging for remains of these 'Humans'. They have managed to hack in a few still operational servers of their World Wide Web. And learn of their history.

All appointed to a war waged between two scientists, masters in the field of robotics with unique set of values.

In all his life, Taro never expected that there would be a species out there that would have overcome his own in the field of synthetics or like the humans dubbed it robotics.
Even more stunning was the fact that they actually lived in peace with their synthetics creations. Their synthetics never rebelled against the organics.

All because of the most ingenious process he could ever thought of.
The three laws of robotics.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

The coexistence was never about making synthetics dumb enough to obey, but to make the rules so they could never disobey. The three laws were the nature of robots.

However, even that had its limits. The texts and information scavenged were a little blur on the subject, but it appears that Dr. Light greatest creation, a robot named Mega man. Grew enough to surpass the three laws and Killed Doctor Willy. Which somehow unleashed the crazy doctor latest creation a red berserker robot named Zero and a virus dubbed the Maverick Virus that made all robots berserks.

All human kind found its final days in the hands of its own creations. Taro hypothesized that if humans had mastered space flight they might had escaped extinction just as his own people had done with the Geth.

He looked back at the excited quarian girl.
"It's the krogan there already? He is here for a reason."

She huffed and put her hands on her hips.
"He has a name you know!"

He just huffed.
"Just show me what you have found."

She shocked her head and guided him through the city ruins.
"At least tell me you are as excited as I am!"

He scoffed the remark.
"Only if we find anything of worth."

She tilted her head in disbelief.
"'Anything of worth' with the tech we scavenge here we are now years ahead of better understanding synthetics that we have ever been. This technology could even bring us back to Rannoch. Give us the upper hand in defeating the Geth once and for all!"

Taro kept his thought to himself remembering that first they would have to find a way to tame that technology were the humans failed. And second they still needed the resources to try to retake the home world. And he didn't saw that happening so soon.

They arrived at the dig site; a massive Krogan was by side to the mining laser, his red head crest marked with three scars across blood colored irises. Taro did not like him neither did the krogan liked him but both respected each other in their realm of expertise.

The krogan had its shotgun ready, when he saw Taro coming closer he growled in his low voice.
"Once the laser stops I'll come in. You pyjacks wait for me to make sure everything is secure. Don't want your frail bodies crushing under some crazy synthetic."

He them smiled with a predatory grim.
"Need to keep those credits rolling."

Taro just nodded in acknowledge, then gesture for the rest of the group to draw their weapons. The mine laser stopped working, reveling a new dug tunnel. The Krogan looked down the tunnel and walked in the darkness.

Fifteen minutes later, his voice came through the Omni tool.
"It's all clear. You Pyjacks can come down now."

The young quarian girl responded.
"Thank you Wrex."

His voice laughed.
"For you anytime Ari'Bekk!"

The other quarians stared at her. She just shrugged.
"What? He's fun to talk with and has a great sense of humor!"

Taro shook his head.
"Let's get over with it!"

They walked into the old lab; Wrex was leaned in a wall. The only light of the lab were from their flashlights, a thick layer of dust covered everything. Working spaces, computers, tools. Everything surprisingly well preserved.

Taro gesture and begun to give orders.
"Very well, try reactivating the computers. See what you can find. I want scanning of those tools, they look incredible advanced…"

Ari's voice cut of him off.
"Taro?"

He ruffed.
"What?"

He turned the flashlight to her direction illuminating what appeared to be a cryogenic capsule covered in dust.
He slowly walked towards it. His hand cleaned over its layer of dust reveling a symbol that his translator promptly translated as X. They had scavenged enough data to properly translate the language of this people.

Taro's Voice was almost a whisper.
"What is this?"

The lights in the ancient lab flickered, the krogan battle master was ready for a fight and all the quarians were startled.

Except Taro, that barked in annoyance.
"It's just an automated light system!"

Some computers went back on line, and everyone turned to Ari as her voice rose in awe.

"Keelah!"

Taro was ready to berate her when his eyes fell on the computer screen, the image of an elderly human leaning on a cane. His dark eye looking tired, like carrying the weight of the world. His backs slightly curved thought time. He wore a white coat. A long white hair that mixed up with his long white beard.

Taro understood the awe, that human was Doctor Thomas Light. The father of robotics.

The image on the monitor begun to speak.
"My name is Thomas Light I am the researcher how design and built Mega man X."

The image of Dr. Light begun coughing sickly for a moment. To say that Taros was overwhelmed for the implications of that simple phrase was an understatement. He knew whom the doctor was, what he have done, what his creation Mega man was capable of. And now he was on the doctor personal lab with his last creation.

He almost did not heard the figure to continue its speech.
"I granted X special powers that no other robot possess. Utilizing his conscious, he is able to think, worry and act entirely of his own accord. This means he's also imbued with the materials necessary to facilitate the evolution of robots in the same manner as life."

Taro heard the other quarians gasp whispering "Geth" and "Keelah". They did not comprehend what Dr. Light had made. True sentient synthetics. Full aware of its own existence just like an organic mind.

"It's an unfortunate fact that human life is short and fleeting. I fear that I will not have the time to ensure the safety of the X project. That's why I have decided to seal him away."

Taro looked down, his hand still touching the capsule with an X on it, and his mind clicked. Possibly the most advanced synthetic ever created was right there for him to take. The sheer amount of technologies he could bring to the fleet just from X alone sent shivers down his spine.

"Perhaps he will be discovered in the far flung future and will fight valiantly to ensure peace for all people. Yes. I firmly believe that this will come to pass."

Taro looked at the image of Doctor Light. The idea sounded ridiculous. Why would a synthetic fight for organics.

"But I'm not without worry. I fear that X will be swept up in the war we call progress. I urge the people of the future to remember that X is my… nay. The worlds hope."

The video flickered and faded away. A minute of silence ruled as what was said to sink in.

Taro looked around, all quarians silent, he them directed to Ari.
"I want readings on this capsule."

All of then seemed to wake from awed expressions and begun to work, Ari activated her scans. Wrex was in thoughtful silent.

Taro walked in direction of the krogan and calmly asked.
"What are you thinking krogan?"

Wrex growled.
"We have been fighting those insane robots and so far they make the Ymyr mechs look like cub varrens. Throw that with the things we found about the doc's last blue creation and we have a big problem."

Taro touched his vocal piece.
"You are too smart for a krogan."

Wrex just huffed.
"Anyway you got give those humans credit. They saw the end of their civilization and kept moving forward trying to build a legacy… No a future. If there was one thing they had it was hope."

The older mercenary krogan seemed to fall in deeper thought. Taro just moved away, knowing that his thoughts would be with his people. The krogan were a race without hope. Note that the quarians weren't any better.

Stuck like Ary'Bekk in a false hope of retaking Rannoch. Without a resource income of their own, that was nothing but a pipe dream.

One of the quarians called Taro.
"Taro I found blue prints."

Taro moved to one of the quarians, the young pilgrim was shacking its head.
"Sorry it's just rubbish. It's not possible to make heads or tail of it."

Taro moved closer.
"It's not Rubbish. It's just too advanced."

All the quarians turned to him as he kept analyzing the prints.
"Much of these formulas are simply beyond us. Look at this equation; it's easier to analyze the schematics of a Mass Effect Core."

Ari spoke up.
"Taro I can't get a clear reading on X!"

Taro just turned its head.
"Why not?"

Her omnitool was opens, her fingers dancing across it.
"Because everything is off charts. Look at these processors! His armor is some kind of titanium… This cannot be right says that it is ten times stronger and lighter than the regular alloy. Keelah he has a buster!"

Taro took a moment to look back in the blue prints.
"Here says it's the MK17 X Buster."

One of the pilgrims was almost breathless.
"Taro we can go back from our pilgrimage with a working direct energy weapon! Not even the salarians have made one of those."

Another quarian scoffed him off.
"And you know why? Because the energy for such a thing to work is beyond prohibitive. He must work on a micro nuclear power thing."

Taros voice came shivering.
"It solar."

Everyone on the lab stopped to look at Taro'Xen who just spoke lauder, fighting to process what he was reading.
"Ancestors! Dr. Light made it all work on solar power."

Ari voice came in a higher pitch.
"Taro the capsule has a timer to set X free!"

Taro turned to her immediately.
"How much time?"

Her Omni tool gave the timer.
"20"

Taro eye brown shoot up.
"Years?"

She shocked her head moving away from the capsule.
"Seconds!"

Wrex took the front growling pulling up his shotgun.
"Back to the tunnel pyjakcs! Now!"

All the quarians run away from the lab while the capsule begin to hiss setting out mist. Wrex looked to his side to see Taro'Xen with his pistol down. Wrex huffed.
"If you don't go back I can't guarantee your life skinny."

Taro just nodded in acknowledge. The capsule slowly opened, the mist went up, a humanoid form rose. It was mostly covered in a bluish armor. Its helmet a red gen, Taro questioned himself of the utility of such thing. The face had a remarkable resemblance with the asari, but more masculine. Its green eyes swept through the laboratory and rest on the krogan and the quarian.

X stepped away from his capsule and heard the sound of Wrex coking his shotgun.
"That's far enough Pyjack!"

X eyes focused on the huge lizard creature. Behind his eyes scanners begun to roll information. Another creature by his side, looked human, but the legs and the hand were wrong.

X took a step back analyzing the room calculating odds and tactics, while his mind worked on that he asked.
"What are you?"

The second being stepped forward.
"He is a Krogan. And I am Taro'Xen a quarian researcher."

X eyes widened.
"You are not human."

Taro nodded.
"No we are not. We came from very far away X."

X's eyes seemed to sharpen.
"And where are the humans?"

Taro stepped aside and gesture to the krogan to lower his weapon. Wrex just growled.
"I hope you know what you are doing skinny."

Wrex grumpily put away his shotgun; X observed the quarian Taro looking at him with fascination as X relaxed.

Taro them gestured to the entrance.
"It's better if you see for yourself X."

X observed as a projected screen appeared on Taro's wrist as he seemed to communicate with someone else.
"We are coming out X is coming with us."

Taro walked X through the tunnel being followed by Wrex, When X got out the tunnel he looked at the grayish sky of his world. And looked around.
Ruins till where the eyes could see. Fallen buildings metal structures and dust flying in the horizon with a hollowing wind. The quarians looked at X in awe as his eyes were filed with pain and sorrow. Wrex watched closely, he knew the feeling.

Taro stepped up.
"Come on Wrex. Let's show X the humans."

Wrex silently nodded and accompanied then while the other quarians exchanged nervous looks.

Ari stepped up.
"Taro…"

Taro cut her off with steel in his voice.
"Stay here and watch the base!"

Ari just nodded, Wrex nodded in approval. If X was trouble, the others would not be in the way. Taro was making sure they would be okay; Wrex could respect that kind of leader.
X eyes were looking at a ruined world. His metaphorical stomach lurched at the sigh.

Taro stop at the top of a hill and step aside for X.
"There are the humans."

X stepped up the hill, while Wrex got ready to shoot. Taro gave him a perfect shot if needed. Nevertheless, X just fell on his knees. And screamed.
Taro could see through the free eyes the pain and sorrow, in front of him the remains of a battle field, human bones and robot remains from a long forgotten battle.
X could not cry, but for Wrex his lament sounded deeper than some krogan up piles of baby corpses in Tuchanka.

X voice cracked.
"That's got be someone."

Taro knell by his side and rested a hand on his shoulder.
"We have been searching your world for the last ten years X. You are the most alive thing we met so far. I can show you our ship scans but that's pretty much it."

X processor were overwhelmed, his mind had a hard time to understanding it all. If all humans were gone…
"Then what am I here for?"

Wrex saw that growl that hit to close to home. A warrior without purpose. The battle master walked by his side and growled.
"That doctor said that you would fight for all people."

X raised his eyes to look at the towering image of the battle master that stared back at him.
"Cause if you didn't notice we ARE people."

X stepped up, and Taro'Xen started.
"Let me tell you a story X. About a world called Rannoch."

Taro then eyed Wrex.
"And a world called Tuchanka."