Wooohoo! First FanFic. I'm so excited! We'll lets get to it then. Talk to you at the end.

Chapter 1: Beginning

"Perfect timing Shepard, gave me a clear shot at that bastard." Garrus said in a proud voice.

"Nice shot Garrus." Shepard said with a smile on his face but quickly changing it to a serious one. "But it was dangerous, you could have hit the doctor."

Garrus had a confused look. "There wasn't time to think, I just reacted, I didn't mean to… Dr. Michel are you hurt?" He asked with a worried voice.

"No, I'm okay, thanks to you, all of you." Garrus felt relieved after hearing her.

"Doctor, who were these people?" Shepard asked. "Why were they threatening you?"

"They work for Fist, they wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the Quarian." Quarian? Shepard thought. I've never seen one of them. People tag them as thieves or beggars, but I don't believe them. Guess I'll have to find out.

"A Quarian? What does a Quarian have to do with this?" he asked.

"She came here because she was injured, she had information about Saren and something about an attack. She wanted to trade the information with the Shadow Broker for a safe place to hide, so I put her in contact with Fist since he's an agent of him." Explained the doctor.

"Not anymore, Fist works for Saren now, and if that Quarian has information about him, we need to get to her fast! " Exclaimed Garrus.

"Hey!" Lt. Alenko exclaimed. "Isn't Fist the guy the Krogan was looking for at the bar?"

"You're right, he can help if the situation gets bad." Shepard said.

"Last time I heard of him, he was at C-Sec." Garrus said.

"Then let's get going." said Shepard and turned to his crewmates.

"Shepard, wait." said Garrus, making Shepard turn around. "Let me go with you, I want to bring Saren down as much as you do."

"You're Turian, why would you want to bring him down?" asked Shepard with a confused look.

"I couldn't find the proof I needed in my investigation, but I knew what was really going on, Saren is a traitor to the Council and a disgrace to my people!" said Garrus with an elevated tone.

"You made your case, welcome aboard Garrus." said Shepard with a smile on his face.

"Thank you Shepard, let's go get that Krogan and hit Fist hard." said Garrus with a Turian equivalent smile.

Shepard turned to his crewmates. "Alenko, Williams, stay here with Doctor Michel in case Fist sends more of his men here. Once the coast is clear head back to the embassy". Yes sir! Shouted both soldiers in a unison voice.

After recruiting the Krogan named Wrex and having a firefight on Fist bar and with Fist himself, the man finally surrendered."Smart choice… now, start talking." said Shepard in a sarcastic voice. Information was exchanged leading to the meeting were the Quarian would meet with Saren's men instead of the Shadow Broker. The team quickly ran to the back alley of the markets as fast as they could.

"Did you bring it?" The Turian asked.

"Where's the Shadow Broker? Where's Fist?" The young Quarian asked.

"They'll be here." said the Turian as he placed his hand on the Quarian's shoulder. "Where's the evidence?" he asked and started sliding his hand down her body.

The Quarian quickly took his hand off her. "No way. The deal's off".

The Turian quickly signal his men to kill her, but to their surprise, she was fast enough to throw a proximity grenade at them and quickly got in to cover. Why can't a Quarian day pass without getting into trouble or a dangerous situation! Thought the young Quarian to herself. She was about to start shooting the mercenaries when she heard shots fired from behind. She quickly turned to address the incoming fire but realized that the shots were not going for her but to the mercenaries.

"Garrus, Wrex, take care of the Salarians while I take care of the Turian!" a human in a black armor shouted and what was surprising to the Quarian, he was giving orders to a Krogan and a Turian C-Sec officer by the looks of his armor. Who are these people? The Quarian asked herself very confused.

The team quickly dispatched the mercenaries and everybody got out of their cover. "Garrus, Wrex, take position on each door and look out for more of Saren's men." Both aliens nodded and proceeded to follow the order. Shepard was now glancing at the Quarian. So this is a Quarian, a female Quarian. She has a nice body. I wonder how she… Before Shepard could fantasize more, the Quarian shouted with a mad voice.

"Fist set me up! I knew I couldn't trust that Bosh'tet!"

Bush what? "Where you hurt in the fight?"

"I know how to look after myself, not that I don't appreciate the help, who are you?" asked the Quarian with a more calm voice.

"My name's Shepard, Commander Shepard from the Alliance. I'm looking for evidence to prove Saren's a traitor and someone told me you had proof."

Shepard… Commander Shepard from the Alliance? I think I have heard from this human before, some kind of hero to his people I think? "Then I have a chance to repay you for saving my life, but not here, we need to go somewhere safe." I hope I can trust this human. This better not be another set up, though his words sound sincere.

"You're right, lets go to the human embassy, my ambassador would like to know about this."

I send him to find proof and all he does is get into gunfights down in the wards. Ambassador Udina was getting mad by the reports he was receiving from C-Sec, but before he could think of something else the doors behind him opened. Ambassador. The familiar voice of the commander was heard.

"Commander, you're not making my life easy. Firefights in the wards, a full assault on Choras Den, do you know…" Udina stopped talking the moment he turned and saw the Commander accompanied by aliens, specially the Quarian. "Who's this? A Quarian? What are you up to Shepard?" asked Udina with a disgust voice.

He sure doesn't like Quarians, but I'll show him. "Making your day Ambassador. She has information about Saren and the attack on Eden Prime."

"Really, maybe you better start at the beginning miss…?"

"My name is Tali" now facing Shepard. "Tali'Zorah nar Rayya." Shepard nodded. Tali? That's a nice name. He thought.

"We don't see many Quarians on the Citadel, why did you leave the Flotilla?" Udina asked.

"I was on my Pilgrimage, my rite of passage into adulthood." Pilgrimage? Passage to adulthood? Shepard was confused by this and had to asked about it.

"Pilgrimage? I've never heard of this before." Tali proceeded to explain what the pilgrimage is, its purpose and what she found during her journey, the evidence that proved Saren was indeed a traitor and was planning something to bring a sentient race of machines known by the Geth as Reapers. Udina and Anderson left immediately to meet with the Council letting Shepard and his team rest a bit before meeting them at the Citadel Tower.

"All right team, enough rest, lets meet up with the Council." Ordered Shepard. Everyone got up from their chairs and walked out of the room. Before Shepard left, Tali tapped his shoulder. Shepard turned and waited for Tali to start talking.

"Commander I…Could I join your team?" Tali asked a bit nervous. "You saw me on the alley, you know what I can do."

"I thought you were on your pilgrimage?" I don't mind having her on the crew though, her tech skills could help a lot and I could asked her more about the Quarians, I want to get to know her better, also, having another tech on the team could be fun.

"The Pilgrimage proves we are willing to give ourselves for the greater good. What does it say about me if I turn my back on this? Tali said with a proud voice. "Saren's a threat to the entire galaxy, my Pilgrimage can wait."

Shepard smiled and was happy by her decision. "You made your point Tali, welcome aboard." Although Shepard couldn't see it, Tali was smiling under her mask and was excited to begin this new journey and happy that Shepard let her join his team. This is great! Its exciting and this human, he's not like other people who had treated me bad or gave me bad looks, there's something about him that I... like. What are you thinking Tali? Get back to reality! There was a couple of seconds of silence in the room before it was interrupted.

"Commander, they're waiting for us." Chief Williams interrupted that silence as she entered the room and saw the Commander and the Quarian together. What's going on in here? Why did they stayed back? she asked herself.

"Williams, yeah, you're right, sorry to keep you guys waiting, lets go." Said Shepard and left the room with Tali and Williams

The meeting with the Council was a success, Saren was declared guilty and his Spectre status was revoke. Shepard became the first human Spectre and was assigned to hunt down Saren. After receiving several acknowledgments by different people and having a small celebration party at Flux, Shepard and his ground team went to the docks to meet up with Udina and Anderson. They had information about Saren's possible hideouts. They discussed for a few minutes on the information and ended talking about Anderson's story with Saren.

"I wont let you down Captain. Saren will pay for what he did to you" Shepard said.

"I appreciate your words Commander, but now its not the time to dwell in the past. Your mission is to stop Saren now." Anderson said.

"Yes, you're right. So getting Dr. T'Soni will be the first thing to do."

"It's your decision Commander. You're a Spectre now, you don't answer to us."

"But your actions still reflect on humanity. You make a mess Commander and I get to clean it up." said Udina with a disgust voice as always.

I hate this guy. "I'll try to make things easy for you ambassador." Shepard said.

"Glad to hear it Commander. Remember, you were a human long before being a Spectre. Now if you excuse us, Anderson and I have a meeting to attend." And so, both men left the docks.

"All right people, inside the ship, we're leaving immediately." ordered Shepard and everyone started to enter the ship except Tali, who was staring at the Normandy. Shepard saw her and went to stand by her side.

"The Normandy is amazing, Shepard. It's an honor to be among her crew. Thank you." said Tali, keeping her eyes on the Normandy.

"No need to thank me Tali, you made your point very clear back at the embassy." Shepard said while looking at the Normandy. "And your right about the Normandy, she's amazing. You'll be more amazed once we're inside though." He said turning to Tali now.

"Oh, you're right, I almost forgot we were on a mission." Tali was now facing Shepard at a rather, close distance. This let Shepard see her glowing eyes better. I can't see her face, but her eyes are clearly visible. Their glow, their so… alien, but also... Shepard was deep in his thoughts, but he was interrupted by Tali.

"I was just, caught by the looks of the ship. It's so different from the ones on the Flotilla and today…" Tali made I slight pause looking down at her feet and then looking back up. "Today was starting to look bad, but it ended well." Tali smiled under her visor. She then realized she was too close to Shepard and made a little step back and got into a shy posture playing with her hands. "Shall we enter now?" she asked a little nervous.

Shepard made a smile on his face after what Tali did. He thought it was cute how her voice changed when she was nervous. "After you Tali, and maybe you could tell me more about the Flotilla once we're inside. I'm curious to know more about your people."

Tali's posture quickly changed to its normal state. Talk about the Flotilla? About my people? Does he really mean it? I never thought about someone wanting to learn about us. This human, Shepard, the way he talks and treats people, he really is something special. "Sure, I'll be glad to answer any question you have about us the Quarians." Tali said with some excitement in her voice, almost jumping from her spot. Shepard just made a little giggle and both entered the ship.

Upon entering the ship, Shepard told Tali to wait with the others by the Galaxy map. He then spoke through the ship's comms giving a speech that would inspire anyone, except Wrex. After finishing his speech, he told Joker to set course to the Artemis Tau Cluster. Now, guess I'll have to give a tour of the ship to the new crew members.

Authors note: Hi everybody, OnlyCharly here! I finally decided to start my own FanFic of this great game and focus on the best couple, Tali Shepard.

When I first played the trilogy and recently started reading some stories and replaying it again with the hype of Andromeda, some ideas started to pop up in my head so I started to write them on paper. Ideas from ME1 to ME3. So I guess I could write 3 stories and, for some time I have thought about doing this or not but here we are. Right now, I'll focus only on ME1. I'll try to stay canon during the story but with some mixes of my own.

The story will consist of the main events of the first game, some side missions, some interactions between the crew members and of course giving hints of Tali and Shepard interest/romance. Sorry if I have some writing mistakes or repeat a lot of words, I'll try to correct that as the story progresses. That said, hope you like my work. Talk to you on the next chapter .