History Fanfic / ThroughATemple

--->'''Turian Soldier:''' Why...would you tempt fate like that?

* BarBrawl: [[BloodKnight Jack]] plus [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy alcohol]] plus [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]] equals property damage, Odo's holding cells being full, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the singing of Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around And Fell In Love."]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Two [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Badass]] [[Characters.DeepSpaceNineStarfleetCrew Leaders]] and their [[CoolShip Cool Ships]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Two [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Badass]] [[Characters.DeepSpaceNineStarfleet Leaders]] and their [[CoolShip Cool Ships]].]]

* AccidentallyAccurate: InUniverse. Eddington sarcastically apologizes that the Maquis' secret base doesn't live up to Shepard's standards, only for Shepard and Zaeed (who have seen ''many'' underground secret bases ''and'' the Collector Base, a hollowed-out hive and construction yard for eldritch machine gods), to say that no, compared to that, it's not that impressive.

* TrueCompanions: The ''Normandy'' Crew and the Multipliers don't even hesitate when Shepard asks them to join him in trying to save the Alpha Quadrant.

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/through-a-temple-deep-space-nine-mass-effect.314032/ Through A Temple]] is a Franchise/MassEffect and Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine [[CrossOver Crossover]] fic written by DesertChocolate (Who also wrote Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath and Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts).

!!This series provides examples of the following tropes:

At the same time, in another universe, the Defiant is flying away from the planet Gaia after the [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E22ChildrenOfTime Children of Time]] event, only to see a strange ship appear from a red wormhole to be attacked by Dominion soldiers. One round of violence later, the Prophets present a plan: Sisko will still defend Bajor, while Shepard deals with threats a little more proactively.

* AccidentallyAccurate: InUniverse. Eddington sarcastically apologizes that the Maquis' secret base doesn't live up to Shepard's standards, only for Shepard and Zaeed (who have seen ''many'' underground secret bases ''and'' the Collector Base, a hollowed-out hive and construction yard for eldritch machine gods, to say that no, compared to that, it's not that impressive.

* AccidentallyAccurate: Eddington sarcastically apologizes that the Maquis' secret base doesn't live up to Shepard's standards, only for Shepard and Zaeed (who have seen ''many'' underground secret bases ''and'' the Collector Base, a hollowed-out hive and construction yard for eldritch machine gods, to say that no, compared to that, it's not that impressive.

* ContinuityNod: Some of the Multipliers are AscendedExtra characters from the Mass Effect games, such as Niftu Cal.

** It's stated that the reason why there isn't as much weapon variety in the Federation as there is in the Mass Effect universe is because phasers are so powerful, they don't really need other types of guns.

* BadassCrew: The Normandy Crew, DS9 Crew, and the Multipliers (The nickname for the Multiplayer Characters) are all some of the most badass people of both universes, and only more so when they work together.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: The genetic modifications of the Mass Effect characters are, at their ''baseline'', standard issue things that aren't thought about much (leaving out severely gene-modded and[=/=]or enhanced beings like Jack, Shepard, and Miranda). In the Federation, which fears genetic engineering, they're downright terrifying.

* CoolShip: The Defiant is this, as always, while the Normandy is undergoing retrofits to be even ''more'' awesome.

After the events of the Citadel DLC, Commander Mikeal Shepard decides to take his friends on one last joy ride through space. All his crewmates, former and current, agree. While doing this, they get a distress call, and end up rescuing a ship full of the Multiplayer Characters, only to be sent through a wormhole by a Reaper attempting to send Shepard somewhere he won't be able to do harm.

At the same time, in another universe, the Defiant is flying away from the planet Gaia after the [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E22ChildrenOfTime Children of Time]] event, only to see a strange ship appear from a red wormhole to be attacked by Dominion soldiers...

** BadassCrew: The Normandy Crew, DS9 Crew, and the Multipliers (The nickname for the Multipliers) are all some of the most badass people of both universes, and only more so when they work together.
** BadassBoast: Grunt is good at these. At one point he deliberately invokes WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong.

** CoolShip: The Defiant is this, as always, while the Normandy is undergoing retrofits to be even ''more'' awesome.

-->'''Grunt:''' What could possibly go wrong?
-->'''Turian Soldier:''' Why...would you tempt fate like that?
-->'''Grunt:''' To make it my bitch.

** CoolShip: The Defiant is this, as always, while the Normandy is undergoing retrofits to be even **more** awesome.

[[caption-width-right:350: Two [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Badass]] [[Characters.DeepSpaceNineStarfleet Leaders]] and their CoolShips.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Two[[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Badass]] [[DeepSpaceNine/StarfleetCrew?from=Characters.DeepSpaceNineStarfleet Leaders]] and their CoolShips.]]