Note: This is something I had in mind for a while, that and I am a huge fan of Bakugan when it first came out. Too bad it becomes such a mess in the last season concerning the characters swap. Seriously, why did they take out Spectra after the first half of season 4? He is freaking awesome!
For now this'll be a one-shot and inspired by the battle of Shanxi, a Dragon Ball & ME crossover story. I never played Mass Effect so I only know what I read from fanfics and wiki, but I am quite fascinated with the story still.
Prologue
Perspective of a survivor the Battle of Shanxi:
I'm just a fellow turian soldier who would obey orders from his superior like any others. Problem is… my comrades and I obeyed them without any idea of what we would face.
I can only say this… I'm only alive because of sheer luck. There's no other way around it.
It all started back with an illegal activation of a dormant relay.
In retrospect, I guess it was just plain out stupid to call the new species criminals for breaking laws that don't rule them, much less know about.
Spirits, was that such a huge mistake.
The asari should've been contacted right away for a diplomatic meeting. Instead, the Hierarchy got too eager to add a new client race with laser technology under their banner, only for the whole operation to blow up in their face.
The idea was that we would pacify a new spacefaring race that apparently developed giant space mechs and laser weapons for starships. The technology that these species possessed was far superior to that of any known species in the Citadel.
Giant space mechs? Yeah, I know that sounded crazy. Even I didn't believe it until my comrades and I entered the battlefield of Shanxi.
As you probably heard from the news or rumors, we amassed a quite sizeable fleet to pacify the newcomers.
Apparently, the newcomers aren't really newcomers at all. They were ready for us at their colony.
We outnumbered their ships with our own by three to one so the numbers didn't concern us that much. What really concerned us were the weapons the humans, neathians, gundalians, and vestals used against us.
I still don't get why humans and vestals still consider themselves different species when they both looked the same except for their eyes.
Anyway, as the battle began, we immediately started blasting at the defense fleet to pave a path for the ground invasion. We managed to land on the colony, but the problem was that they let us. We all thought they were making a mistake.
They were more than ready us groundside.
As soon as we marched our ways toward the cities for siege operations, our armor vehicles were not prepared for fighting against the giant mechs and creatures.
How big they were? They ranged from 5 stories tall to 11. They varied in shapes and colors. They were red, blue, green, purple, white, and brown. Some looked like insects, humanoids, reptillians, and etc.
Spirits, I've never seen species that big, nor has history ever shown such frightening creatures. Who knew that there were these giant creatures that can singlehandedly destroy an army if needed to. To top it off, this "Systems Alliacne" had the industry and resources of creating an army of mechs that can be on par with these "Bakugans". This makes the Krogan Rebellion seems like a joke.
These Bakugans ruled the battlefield with ease as our armor vehicles were quickly wiped out. Artillery fire didn't faze them that much. Not when we were being rounded up by earthquakes, giant flamethrowers, tornadoes, and energy attacks.
I'm glad we didn't go to open war with these newcomers, especially when some of their unorthodox tactics and ships are taken into account. The casualties would be too massive to count within months.
The Systems Alliance has cruiser-sized ships for frigates with laser weaponry that allowed them to ram them through our own. When their ships launched hundreds of those mechs to intercept our fighters, our ships were defenseless to their ruthless ramming. It didn't help that all our ships had to concentrate fire to keep those space mechs at bay and be wary of the rammers at the same time.
Energy blades sprouted out from the front of their ships while our weapons weren't strong enough to take down their shields quick enough to make a difference. By the spirits, I saw the onslaught as the ground forces were retreating to group up with the fleet to make a retreat.
By the time surrender was issued, the fleet was completely totaled except for a handful of ships.
Spirits was I lucky.
Their frigates weren't enough to end the battles quickly, no something much worse.
The Systems Alliance had their own super dreadnoughts. Super dreadnoughts, you hear me?! They've only sent one as reinforcement or Shanxi, but it was enough to break the spirit of remaining forces. I swear the… abomination was wide as three Destiny Ascensions. As to add insults to injuries, most of the mechs and ships this Systems Alliance deployed in space were relatively unscathed and were reinforced in numbers by the super dreadnought. The number must have counted over fifteen hundred now for the mechs.
Thankfully, the Systems Alliance accepted our surrender and was rather merciful to us. Although I could feel the murderous glares at the backs of my comrades and myself, I would rather surrender than continue a one-sided slaughter that's against us.
Spirits, that was the worst experience I've had in my life. Going down to pacify a new species turned out real well… for the Systems Alliance that is.
I've doubt they're going to join the Citadel with such powers like theirs. What can the Citadel offer them?
What makes anybody thinks they'll join us when it's technically the Citadel that fired the first shot, even if the asari and salarians weren't aware of the entire conflict.
If you were attacked by a thug, aiming for your life but you quickly turned the table around, would you be so quick to forgive?
The Systems Alliance may not seem like it, but they're holding a grudged for the "misunderstanding" alright.
Author's note: This fanfic is basically where I sums up my hatred against the useless Citadel Council. It's childish I know, but that doesn't mean I won't hate them. Especially when one of the councilors let their pride get in the way of their job.
Anyway, I also planned on deciding a short series of Fate/Mass Effect crossover where Shirou Emiya is the chef for the Normandy during the second game. If I make the story, I planned on making him stay in the shadow most of the time and show off during the Collectors' abduction of the Normandy crew. Or, I can make it a humoristic, not serious story that will drive the Mass Effect characters insane.
