Just a Mass Effect 3 fanfic

Epilogue

Hackett: All fleets, the crucible is armed! Disengage and head to the rendezvous point!

(Joker is scrambling as fast as he can with the Normandy's controls. Liara puts a hand on his shoulder, but he shrugs it off)

Hackett: I repeat, disengage and get the hell out of here!

Liara: Jeff... We need to go. There's no choice

Joker: Dammit...

(Joker pilots the Normandy out of Earth's orbit as the crucible fires. It sends an enormous wave of energy throughout the galaxy)

(The Normandy just barely manages to escape the crucible's blast radius)

(The energy gets bounced around the galaxy by the mass relays, rapidly increasing it's speed)

(The reapers in space deactivate and blow up)

(The reapers that are on the ground deactivate and fall. Any remaining reaper forces also fall as the wave of energy sweeps through the planet)

(Earth's forces are still locked in combat, but the crucible's wave of energy kills every opponent in front of them)

(Jane Shepard and a fireteam of marines heard Thorne's gunshots and saved him from a horde of husks. He was badly wounded, so they had to act fast. He's alive, but in critical condition)

(Everyone on Earth cheers, shakes hands, claps, hugs, and celebrates as the reapers fall one by one)

Hackett: The war is over. The reapers have been defeated. Against all odds, and in the face of the greatest threat this galaxy has ever known, we survived. We suffered many losses, but we won. This victory belongs to each of us. Every man, woman, and child. Every civilization, on every world. Now, as we take out first steps towards restoring what we lost, we must remember what it took to win. This wasn't a victory by a single fleet, a single army, or even a single species. If this war has taught us anything, it's that we're all at our strongest if we work together. And if we can put down our grievances long enough to stop something as powerful as the reapers, imagine what we can do now that they're defeated. It'll take time, but we can rebuild everything that was destroyed. Our homes. Our worlds. Our fleets and defenses. All of this and more. Together we can build a future greater than any one of us could imagine. A future paid for by the sacrifices of those who fought and died alongside us. A future that many will never see. And while we still have many challenges ahead of us, we can face them together. And we will honor those who died to give us that future

(Cut to what is presumably Earth)

(The Normandy's crew, an unknown amount of time later is digging through a bunch of rubble, presumably looking for Shepard)

Liara: SHEPARD!

Joker: COMMANDER!

Ashley: SHEPARD!

Jane: JOHN!

James: Keep looking!

EDI: Shepard?!

Kaidan: I can't find him!

Liara: TRY!

Tali: Where are you?!

(Everyone is frantically searching, but then, Jane comes across what looks like a hand poking out of some rubble)

(Jane pulls a rock off of the pile, and sees a piece of N7 armor below it)

Jane: OVER HERE!

(Liara gasps)

Liara: By the goddess!

Garrus: It's him!

(Everyone starts digging through the rubble, lifting the pieces off one by one. There's one heavy piece that EDI lifts off)

EDI: Charging defibrillator... Clear!

(EDI shocks Shepard's chest with her electrified hands. He is unresponsive)

(EDI recharges and tries again multiple times, trying to save his life)

(Liara tearfully brushes the dust and dirt of of Shepard's body)

Liara: Please... Come back to me...

(Shepard opens his eyes and gasps)

(On the Normandy)

(Shepard, Thorne, Joker, Kaidan, Ashley, Garrus, Wrex, Tali, Liara, Miranda, Jacob, Galahad, Jack, Grunt, Kasumi, Zaeed, Thane, Mordin, Legion, Samara, James, EDI, Javik, Traynor, and the rest of the Normandy's crew are gathered on the bridge in their dress blues/armor)

(They all have their heads hung low to remember those they have lost in the war against the reapers. They look at the list)

(Among the list's names are Nihlus Kryik. Richard Jenkins. Charles Pressly. Padok Wiks. Urdnot Dagg. Lieutenant Victus. And Steven Cortez)

(Shepard puts the name David Anderson on the center of the list as everyone else salutes/pays their respects)

(Below there is a plaque. "All gave some. Some gave all")

(Soon, on an unknown planet)

Shepard: And THAT is how I met your mother

Little Blue Child: So Aunt Jane and Uncle Kaidan met during the war too?

Shepard: They did. But what's important is that we all worked together to defeat the reapers and save the galaxy

Liara: And we all lived happily ever after

Little Blue Child: Wow! Did all that really happen?

Liara: Yes. But some of the details have been lost to time. It all happened so very long ago

Little Blue Child: When can I go to the stars?

Liara: One day, my sweet

Little Blue Child: What will be there?

Shepard: Anything you can imagine. Our galaxy has trillions of stars

Liara: And each of those stars could have many worlds. Each one home to a different form of life

Shepard: Right. And every life is a special story of it's own

Little Blue Child: Tell me another story about the war

Liara: It's getting late

Little Blue Child: Pleeeeeease?

Shepard: Alright. Just one more story...

(The end?)