A/N: Hi everyone, thanks for reading my post. Seriously, not even 24 hours and I'm already at 19 favourites and 25 followers! I am honestly humbled. I didn't expect such a positive reaction. This is my first fanfic though. Don't worry, it will get better over time.

Fidgeter: While I could make this a 'Halo ships will absolutely wreck all others' fanfic, I didn't. Remember how I made the fleet surrounding High Charity over half of the RSS'S ships? And you have to remember, the Citadel Council has THOUSANDS of ships at its disposal. In a straight up fight right now, the ME universe would win. Give Halo 3 weeks, and they'll win, not by much though. In this fanfic, the Halo universe' production is twice as good as the MESS. So as time goes on, the Halo side would definitely win. I'm not going that way in this fanfic though. And don't bother PM-ing me on this. I won't answer. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Vexacus905: Really? Not even 2 days and I'm already getting requests? I mean Hell Yeah! I haven't even said that Chief would be in this story! But seriously, I don't think I can do romance. A Tali/Chief romance would be interesting though...Thanks for the suggestion!

DDAN1157: The reason why I don't use existing ship classes is that by now, all pre-RSS ships are basically useless. With Promethean tech that have upgraded UNSC and Covenant ships and Promethean ships, Covenant weapons, and Human tactics, the RSS is basically unstoppable! (KEY WORD BASICALLY)

Ethan Demas: I'm sorry, the real story is called Of The Future and Past. That was just a mistake on my phone. All updates will be under Of The Future And Past. Sorry!

Disclaimer: Halo and Mass Effect do not belong to me. Bungie and BioWare own each one respectively. Although I wish I did own them...

-IAnswerToNoOne

2508 1700 Cycles Turian Fleet

"All shops, concentrate fire on the lead ship! Designate it Tango 1. The small one will be Tango 3. If they're that big, then they must not have shields, it's probably all armor. Prepare the first volley. High velocity large shots. Aim at...these coordinates. Fire on my mark, MARK!"

The entire Turian fleet fired at the nose of the ellipsoid Lancer, confident that the Salvo would destroy the ship. Right before the shots landed, however, the sensor officer thought he detected an immense energy spike. But the spike faded as soon as the last slug hit the ship. The crew was certain that the unknown ship was destroyed, thus the energy spike as the reactor detonated. But once the smoke cleared, the ship was seen completely intact. Not a fleck of paint was scraped off or melted. The crew sat there in shock.

"Change target to Tango 3. Fire everything and keep shooting at it! Reject whatever messages that they might send. We will be victorious for we are of the Citadel!"

2702 1530 hours

2nd Monado

"All attempts at hailing the vessels have been rejected. The Celeste's shields are falling and I doubt we could fit her in our hanger. If we don't fire back sir, them we will lose the Celeste. What should we do?" Ali was actually confused, even if this was a first contact, why did they open fire? "While I was in their system, I found and quickly scanned what the Citadel Council called the Codex. It holds information on all of the Citadel spe-oh shit! A few shots just went through the Celeste's shields and blew up a scout ship! I'm pulling the Celeste back now. Anyway, it shows the home worlds, colonies, military strengths and also holds a lot of the research done in the past 2000 years. Well, apparently, they have shunned an entire species, kicked them off any worlds, forced them into their ships and there they remain. They have lived in ships for the past 300 odd years. Ohhh, 3000 odd years ago, there was a war that was fought with a species known as the Rachni. The Council had to get a new species, called the Krogan, to fight them. After the Krogan won the war for them, the Citadel Council created a bioweapon to limit their birthing rate. Now, they're slowly dying out. Wow, this is a really messed up area of space. Oh" Ali grimaced, "It looks like we broke 3 of their major laws and since the Turians are used to being law enforcers, they probably just thought we were Humans form their space doing covert ops on some inactive relays. That would explain the 'shoot on sight' thing. Damn, this'll be hard to explain to the brass. I think we should go back to RSS space and tell them what we found."

"Let's go through the relay. We don't want them to follow us through the portal now do we?" the Admiral's reply was with little mirth.

"Well, let's not get too cocky. I'll tell the others to move out of the way. When we came out of this one, we kind of...drifted. I guess going FTL this way is not as controlled as slipspace. Alright, the Celeste is going through first." Ali laughed as salvo after salvo hit the Celeste with no damage whatsoever. Celeste, you are to go back to RSS space. Show the brass what we found." As she was talking to the Celeste however, she also wiped the entire Council fleet's memory. All sensor readings of the RSS fleet was wiped, all camera shots taken were wiped and short circuited all of the outer hull's cameras.

"Of course, we are leaving now." The massive bulk of the ship swung around and flew towards the Relay.

As the Turian fleet unloaded their full might upon the retreating Celeste, the Infinity-class ship jumped away using the mass relay. The Council fleet hesitated for a few seconds then switched targets to the other ships. The RSS ships swung around with a speed that belied their size and accelerated towards the Relay. Even though the Turian vessels were less than a tenth it's size, the Lancer and her sister ship jumped out.

Turian Fleet 1800 Cycles

Centurion System

"Somebody get me readings on those vessels! If they could survive that much firepower, then we need to inform the Council. Size, hull thickness, anything and everything is to go to the Citadel." the Admiral was absolutely fuming! How could the Humans create such massive vessels? Why would they do this?

"Uh, sir? Everything was wiped from the servers. We have no sensor data to back our story up. We'll probably be dismissed as lunatics And you discharged for being a power hungry Turian. Should we still tell the Council?" The crews of the fleet was conflicted. On one hand, they could tell the Council and be dismissed as liars and on the other, they could just not tell their leaders at all. The crews all chose to tell the Council hoping that the number of people who saw the ships would change the minds of the Councillors.

RSS Fleet 1700 Hours

"So Construct, you said that we broke 3 major laws, what were they? And how would that cause them to fire at us?" A Sangheili senator asked Ali. The 20 Senators stared at the holo of the Turian vessels. All of the Senators were amazed at how the ships moved and how the ships fired. Their technology was amazingly simple compared to the RSS's but they had more than enough numbers.

"We broke their law when we created more ships larger than 800 meters than the Turians, when we activated the 'Monado', now known as a Mass Relay, and when we used AI's, though I'm pretty sure they don't know about the last one." Leonardo the AI that represented the AI Union said.

"Then I propose that we begin to strengthen our borders. With a neighbour of this strength, there may be a skirmish between the two governments. We will need more ships and crew members for this to work. And if we do do that, we must tell the public about a new space-faring race that opened fire upon us and is a part of a greater alien cumulative. We could leave out the 'them firing on us first thing, but still, how will UNSC citizens react to what could be a new Covenant? No offense to those who fought in that war." The Human Senator, Garm Bel Iblis said quickly as both Jiralhanae growled.

"I agree with Senator Iblis, we must let this become public. Omit the fact that they fired first but tell the truth on everything else." The Unggoy Senator, Klis squeaked. "While our new neighbors are violent, we shouldn't be the aggressors. I second Senator Iblis' proposal."

Both the Sangheili representatives followed Klis. The Kig-Yar, Lekgolo, Huragok, and Yarotk Senators agreed. The Narthoc stayed neutral, as usual, but it didn't matter. The proposal passed and would begin within the next week.

"Now that that is done, what are we to do with the Citadel Council? Will be leave them be and pretend they don't exist or join them in trade? We cannot show up with an armed party if we choose the latter even if they fired first and drew the blood of Humans, Sangheili, Unggoy, Huragok, and others alike! We cannot allow this to continue." a Sangheili Ultra ambassador said. "How should we proceed?"

"I believe that we should make a show of force, show them that the attack on us was not allowed." the Jiralhanae Senator said.

All the Senators agreed that they would need to send an unarmed transport to the Citadel with an armed guard shadowing it. For what purposes lay in the hands of the Citadel Council. "I think the Pride of All will do." a Jiralhanae said with a mad grin. "I also think that a fleet of 5 Indomitables should go and destroy a fleet of theirs, with approximately the same amount of lives lost. How many of ours were lost anyway?"

"2047, Senator" Leonardo said after 2 milliseconds.

"Senator Vahktumu, don't you think that could be interpreted as an act of war? That ship could very well be larger than the Citadel. If I were in their shoes and was meeting a WARship larger than 100 kilometers? Gre'thor, I'd up and run!" the Kig-Yar representative squawked out.

"I agree with the others Senator Vahktumu. I would see it as an act of war." the Mga-Lekgolo duo rumbled in unison.

"I think that we should send a CAS-Super-Cruiser. It is both not our most powerful ship and not one of the weaker ones. It can definitely take and give a beating. What do you think?" Leonardo asked. "We might have to upgrade the shields for that one ship though. Other than that, the CAS-Super-Cruiser would be perfect. And even I, as an AI think that we should put up a show of force against this 'Council'"

"I still think that the Pride of All would be a better choice, but as the second most powerful ship in the fleet, the Long Blade of Discord will be a suitable replacement." Senator Vahktumu surprised everyone.

Little did the RSS know, a similar argument was happening in Citadel Council.

The Citadel 0600 Cycles

"This must be a joke! There is no such thing as a 6 kilometer ship, don't even bother with the 23 kilometer ones!" Councilor Tevos of the Asari exclaimed. "The largest ship in this galaxy is the Destiny Ascension! And it's 3 kilometres long!"

"Must agree with Councillor Tevos. A 6 kilometer ship! Impossible. Too much Eezo required." Councillor Valern of the Salarians said.

Even the Admiral's friend and colleague, Councilor Spartacus scoffed "There is no reason to believe such lies. What you are saying cannot be true. All of our analysts tried him and they came up with him telling the truth however. Perhaps there is a reason for this. But that is something that you cannot discuss outside of this room. Is that understood?"

Resigned, the Admiral of 20 years replied "Yes sir." as he promptly left the room.

As soon as the Admiral left, the four Councillors began conversing.

"Udina! Do you really not know what those ships were?" Spartacus growled as he got into Udina's face.

"No, no, no, no, no! I honestly don't know! I'll even subject myself to STG lie detection but first, do you think that there is another power out there? Could it be that there is another galactic government out there?" Councillor Udina was frantic. Humanity had only recently received Council membership and was afraid that the Council was about to destroy them.

"Cannot be certain. Too many unknown factors. Admiral could be telling truth. Suggest we strengthen fleets. 38 ship salvo cannot destroy one ship? Major cause for concern." Councilor Valern was just as scared as the Human, though he didn't show it. "Suggest we send probe through Relay."

"Please remember Valern, whatever we may do could be an act of war on their side. That they did not return fire when Admiral Degestrian did suggests that they were trying to either to communicate that they were peaceful and diplomatic, or the fact that they had no weapons. Since this is a First Contact, I am leaning towards the first one." Tevos, the relatively calm and collected Councilor said. "I hope that your ships destroying a cruiser was worth a war Spartacus."

A/N: So how do you like the new chapter? I was feeling good this week and decided to post early. I might put in a 2 sentence summary at the end of each chapter now and tell you what the next chapter's about. Review me on that one. Also, thank you all for helping me post this chapter. My internet died and I think I got 12? eMails at once. Anyway thanks for everything. If any of you have suggestions, feel free to PM me just no flames alright?

-IAnswerToNoOne