KOAL- this idea came into being when I first played dishonored saw the ending and I had to say it got my creative gears turning. The whole plot is well done and the characters are extremely well written so I decided to think up a crossover with dishonored. The idea to cross it over with mass effect came into being when I saw the story "Dishonored Effect" by Darridus and how it was a good mix of the universes. I decided to do something similar yet different and this story was born. The difference from "Dishonored Effect" is that this story has the whole planet that the dishonored events takes place in the mass effect universe. The basic idea is that Corvo Attano will be recruited from his home as aid against the collectors. the method of bringing Shepard and company to Kirkwall is similar to a naruto/mass effect story I have read before but I sadly cant recall the name. The Normandy's crew will go in to save the day and find that they barely needed help as their defenders were all blessed by the outsider through corvo similar to how daud did to his whalers who joined to help as part of their debt to corvo for sparing their leader. The corvo in this story is for this story did not kill anybody but rather gave them all a taste of poetic justice so he did all non-lethal methods. The equipment upgrades for corvo is basically all upgrades for crossbow and pistol with his ammo being made up of infinite sleep bolts and regular pistol bullets but with 20 exploding bullets per mission. This is simply as once corvo gets an omni-tool he can use it to create more ammo except for exploding bullets as they require whale oil. He also has all of the supernatural abilities and their at max level with all possible personal upgrades as well. As for bone charms I have him planned on bring 12 since he has 6 slots for whale charms. The ones he is bringing include: blood ox heart, healthy appetite 2, reinforced bolts. spirit water, strong arms, tough skin, twist of fortune 2, unnerving target 2, water of life, and whirlwind 2. I dont have any good ideas for the remaining charms. The basic loadout of charms for missions is basically: water of life, spirit water, twist of fortune 2, blood ox heart, unnerving target 2, tough skin as he will carry multiple containers of water for healing along with full elixirs and remedys. He will also get a kinetic barrier as all soldiers need a kinetic barrier to even the playing field. Oh yeah also this may be unique to me but simply put the outsider will play a greater role than just the man that starts this whole chain of events he will give hints and advice to both corvo and shepard. I also will not really be focusing on romance as the overall mission is more important than romance and besides I dont really see how I could put corvo with anybody as he will be unused to aliens and the majority of the main players in the normandy 2 are not without major faults. It is time so let the story begin. this will be a single chapter release only unless I get enough feedback saying whether it should continue or not.

Disclaimer- I own neither Dishonored or Mass Effect. They are owned by Bethsesda and Bioware respectively. I just take a couple of their ideas and mix them after all that is a crossover.

Normandy SR 2-

Commander Shiki Shepard was currently annoyed as she was called to see the Illusive Man just after her successful mission extracting Archangel from the gangs of Omega who surprisingly turned out to be Garrus Vakarian who she worked with in taking out Saren. The call was said to be high priority and Kelly said the Illusive Man was stressed out which made her nervous as the guy always seemed to be in control.

She arrived at the communicator and was greeted with the vision of the Man who immediately started speaking," Shepard we have a problem and unfortunately we need your help. One of Cerberus's greatest finds has just recently been found and attacked and we need you to eliminate the attackers."

Shepard didn't like cerberus so she was dubious of what the leader of cerberus wanted and that was made clear with her next words," I need to know the entire situation before I can devote time and resources to this mission. I need to know the value of this find and how legal it is comparatively."

The Man then grimaced and shepard frowned as the Man always kept a good control over his emotions when she saw him. He then said," I didn't want to get you involved in this shepard as this is practically the most well kept secret of Cerberus. We recently discovered that a planet we have kept observation over has just been attacked. We know why they attacked but what we don't how is how they discovered their target. This was something we tried to keep unknown for as long as possible."

Shepard interrupted saying, "cut to the chase and please tell me what is so important you are taking me away from building my crew and getting ready for the collectors."

The man then sighed and said," the planet we at cerberus have been keeping secret is under attack by batarian soldiers and slavers. The attack commenced yesterday but they were held off by the local forces. The reason this planet is important is that here a different breed of humanity was born and evolved to the state they are in now. The people on this planet are human just with a few differing evolutions in their bodies. I want you to defeat the batarian forces and make sure no-one is captured on the planet."

Shepard simply starred at the hologram of the man and said," you mean to say you found a planet where another breed of humanity has evolved and currently is under attack by batarians. This seems impossible as the likelyhood of another planet developing human life is astrinomical. Why didn't you tell anyone about this the whole scenario could have possibly been prevented if the council or the Alliance knew about the people on that planet."

The man also sighed and put out his cigar and said," Shepard that wouldn't be the case with politics the way it is. If we came out with the information that another planet had evolved human life more likely than not they would call us liars as they would simply assume that humanity colonized that planet and make it appear to be a different kind of humanity. The batarians attacked because that planet was in space that was designated to be colonized by neither humanity or the hegemony. They saw humans and quickly assumed that we colonized the planet despite no-one being allowed and if we try to take this to the council we will be considered the criminals in this situation. That is why I wanted to let this planet and its people evolve and progress on its own so that once they reach the stars naturally their unique brand of technology could be used as proof to say we didn't colonize the planet and they evolved there naturally. The batarians attacking throws the whole idea down the toilet and we need you to protect the people there."

Shepard winced as the Man made good points on how the situation could and would have most likely played out. She knew how the council didn't believe in the reapers and simply assumed it was a geth dreadnaught and in this situation they would simply assume that the people on the planet were humans as since the picture of the average person on that planet all appeared to be human. That would lead to the batarians having the legal permission to attack the colony for they would simply state the alliance colonized it secretly. She then nodded and said," all right we will head over to the designated location and protect the denizens of the planet. Any other information we could use."

The man simply nodded and said," yes we have some intel you could use for the operation. This first thing is that the planet consists of only 1 continent and a chain of islands. the human population resides on the islands so the area of assault is limited and therefore easy to comb over. The native population is also mounting their own defense so try to assist their defenders when possible. The next thing is that there are special people who are to be definately protected as the loss of these people would cripple their current government. The final thing is that they have evolved on a different technological path so be prepared for surprises. The final thing is that Cerberus slipped a few agents onto the planet to get a better understanding of their culture and technological growth. I have created two lists of what we know in their tech and the most important targets to be protected. We will also send you a data package with their language for your translators. You will need it to be able to communicate with them. I also reccomend calling the alliance to send backup as the batarians are attacking the native population of an un-colonized planet and that can get them to act. The planet name is midgard and is in the yggdrasil system. good luck shepard and I pray you succeed."

The Illusive man then cut the feed and rubbed his forehead in pain. He didnt know how those aliens found the planet but he wasn't going to let humanities cousin race be attacked by aliens without them getting hurt in the process. He then looked over the list he sent to Shepard of the people who had high priority protection from enemy forces. He learned of these men from his agents descendents but he knew their stories and if any deserved to survive then it was them: Empress Emily, Anton Sokolov, Pierro Joplin, Daud, Slackjaw, Samuel Beechworth, Geoff Curnow, and Corvo Attano.

Those men were the people who lead their empire to prosperity and without them it will fall into ruin quickly. But he knew the population wasn't helpless as their weapons were capable of killing the batarians and they prepared for the attack by relocating all of their civilians under the imperial castle. They were ready for war but what Harper didn't understand was how they knew that they would be attacked. The only clue he had gotten from his source was that the Outsider was watching over them and he wanted to give them a fair shot at tacking down the enemy. He didn't know who the outsider was but it had to be someone of great power.

Prologue chapter end

Mass Effect: the dishonored one