Sup, guys? Lighting Wolf here, back with another story. This one about Mass Effect. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own Mass Effect, Bioware and a few others do.

(Rannoch Perserus Veil, Tikkun System)

Admiral Daro'Xen Vas Moreh stood on the bridge of the Moreh while the cruiser hovered over the planet.

"So much celebrating below… And yet so much work to be done." Xen said while she looked over her crew of Quarians and Geth.

The rest of her kind was busy dealing with rebuilding their homeworld, she didn't wish to waste time with semantics and pleasantries.

There was a variety of problems at the moment, she was like the rest of all life in existence, synthetic, a byproduct of Commander Shepard's use of the crucible.

While the rest of her crew didn't entirely need their suits… Xen learned from a test with her crew, she still liked to wear it.

She didn't wish to show her synthetic body while she studied it, she was also studying the Geth…

And then there was the Reapers, while Xen didn't thank Shepard for much, she did thank the Human for a few things.

She did get her planet back; she didn't care for it much like the rest of her kind did.

"We lived so long aboard the fleet that I doubt that most of the rest of our race remembers what the planet is like… I don't think much on the planet itself…" Xen mused to herself, the reapers were a marvel that she wished entirely to study and he was happy to look at the reapers to study them.

"Ma'am, we've been observing the Reaper Destroyer you asked us to." Xen heard from one of her crew and she was silent for a few minutes.

"We can return to Rannoch." Xen ordered, the word was like sandpaper to her, not because it was something she hated.

The word was… Foreign, it was like a virus to her, she had spent more time on the Moreh then she did on solid ground.

"Admiral?" She heard from one of her crew while the Moreh flew towards Rannoch.

"What is it?" Xen asked, she didn't know the soldier she was speaking to. She made allies; friends were pushing it.

"Do you think we're finally be free from the Geth and the Reapers?" The Soldier asked, Xen put a hand on the railing of her flagship, a temporary one she supposed at the moment.

"We have… I don't care for what the rest of the Admiralty board at the moment wants, they care more about a slowly prospering planet then watching out for the rest of our people at the moment… I'm the only one who seems to have remember that our people used to live on ships… And not on ground…" Xen said as she walked away from the railing and into the bowels of her ship while she looked at her crew.

"Shepard saves the galaxy and they forget we're rebuilding our civilization slowly… It took us 8 months to fix one relax, let alone the rest of the galaxy… I'm not a governor, I'm an admiral." Xen muttered while she walked, she passed several Quarians and then entered her room.

"Damn you, Shepard…" Xen said as she relaxed on her bed and reached for her mask.

She decided against it at the moment, she knew her body could take it, but she was stressed beyond belief. The Admiralty board was becoming a regular government, she refused to be part of it, it would take her position as the head of research and special projects.

"Admiral Xen, we've located a damaged reaper at the end of the system!" Xen heard from the door; Xen wondered if she could throw the fool out an airlock without raising an eyebrow.

"You came to tell me this…. Because?" Xen asked, drawing out the last word down to every syllable.

"There was already a Quarrian shuttle approaching it… And we have Batarian ships approaching it as well!" The Ensign stated.

Xen shot up from her bed, Batarians? They were already going to war with the Reapers? Xen didn't think they would be mounting an attack on the reapers, not yet, at least.

"Bring us in range and get those damned pirates off my prize." Xen ordered, it seemed she would be fighting for once.

She questioned who would be going into a reaper Destroyer or Sovereign Class, she would soon find out.

Author Note

Phew, first chapter done! I'll explain the story more next chapter. I also want to point out this is an alternate universe story set after ME 3. Next chapter will be on next Saturday or so and will show Xen dealing with the Batarian pirates. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!

Ps: Let me know if the Reaper should be a Sovereign Class, Destroyer or Intruder or Devastator Class.