(Note: I do not own anything related to Mass Effect or the Artwork shown. This is merely a fanfiction to keep the story going. Furthermore this is not a sequel to After the Smoke Falls, but more of a different version of what I believe should be the conclusion of Shepard's story.) It was over. The Reapers were destroyed, but at a cost. Billions of lives were lost, Almost all Synthetic Life was wiped out, The Mass Relay's were damaged or destroyed. But in the destruction a new enemy rears its head. Hydra. A group of mercenaries, convicts, even remnants of the Pro-Human group Cerberus with the singular goal of domination in this war torn galaxy. Old faces return, along with new ones. Sides will be taken. But the Galaxy was not prepared for this . . . . Keegan Shepard was Alive.
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