New order

Chapter 1

Author's notes: Ok so here is the first chapter of my story. So here it is finally, first contact between humans and quarians. By the way if any of you are fans of the creature of "the creature of the black lagoon" movie, you might want to check my other stories. I think the Gillman should have more fanfiction, surprisingly less than 10 authors write about the movie. So you might want to check it.

Bridge of the Nania 02/02/2157

Captain Nedru watched in anticipation has his ship flew towards the mass relay, he looked at his crew and was proud to say that they were all focusing on their tasks despite the obvious nervousness that had befallen them. Despite everything that could go wrong he had a feeling that this would go right, that something might happen for the quarian people. He didn't know how to explain it, he just felt it. And his crew's attitude only reinforced that feeling.

His thoughts were interrupted by Raan "Were almost to the relay."

"Good how long?"

She looked at the consoles in front of her. "We will be through the relay in five, four, three, two, one…"

He suddenly felt the sense of vertigo has they accelerated at several times the speed of light and were instantly propelled thousands of light years in front of them. And then a whole new set of stars appeared in front of them.

Nedru didn't waist any time. "Raan scan the region around the relay, and tell me what you see."

She immediately went to work on her console. "Kheela" she exclaimed. "It appears were indeed in a first contact situation captain. I'm detecting nine vessels, their design is completely foreign it doesn't match any ship ever encountered before."

Nedru couldn't believe a first contact, he's boyhood dream had come true, but still he had to put the safety of his crew first. "Do they have any weapons?"

Raan did quickly a second scan. "Only two of them, one frigate class and a cruiser class, the rest appear to be cargo ships and either civilian ships or science vessels."

This was the moment he had to start giving a good impression to this new species. "Take us towards them, and do it slowly, plus open the exhaust vants so they can detect the heat from our ships so that we may let them know we are here."

New Sun

Hannah could hear the alarm echo through the ship has soon has she saw the mysterious ship appear through the mass relay. She couldn't believe an actual alien contact, and right when she had decided to take Jonny with her.

She only brought Jonny because she didn't actually think something like this would happen during her maternity leave, but now that she though about it she may have brought her two children into a dangerous situation.

She cursed herself for her shortsightedness.

"Look mommy, a lollipop shaped ship. Is that the aliens?"

She grabbed him and rushed towards the nearest elevator. "Mommy are they aliens."

"I don't know little panda, they may be." She said in a sherry voice to hide both her excitement and especially her fear."

" Yyyaaayyy. Why don't we go talk to them then."

She smiled "You're a smart kid, why don't you tell me."

The boy put is finger in front of his mouth and concentrated like if he was deep in though, until he answered. "Because we have first be able to find a way to talk to them, and also because we have to make sure they and us don't carry bugs that could kill each other."

She smiled until she showed her teeth. "See I told you are a very smart boy."

He giggled. "Every kids could know that, he said."

And he was modest too her little Jonny. "So were are you taking me mommy."

"To the infirmary to see doctor Marceau. You like doctor Marceau."

He looked at her with delight in his eyes. "Yes, she always gives me a chocolate croissant."

"You can eat two, don't make yourself sick."

"I won't mummy."

They finally arrived at the infirmary, were Hannah saw doctor Marceau with an alarmed looked on her face. "Hannah what is going on? Is really a first contact."

Hannah put Jonny on the floor. "Sorry Elizabeth, all I know is that a strange looking ship has come from the relay. Could please take care of Jonny again, I should already be at my post."

Marceau face immediately turned from shocked to tender "Of course, he will be no bother."

"Thank you so much Elizabeth." She turned and went back in the elevator and has the door closed she heard Marceau. "Now I have something here for you little angel."

Then the door finally closed and she felt herself being pulled up. She didn't like to leave Jonny but captain Bongi Naidoo needed her. Boy, a first contact, she made a prayer to God so that theses aliens would be peaceful.

She finally arrived at the bridge, where she was proud to see that, despite this not being a military vessel, everyone was at organized and at their posts although there was a lot of talk. She could hear the word alien and first contact repeated several times. Until she finally reached captain Bongi Naidoo, a tall African man looking out the window.

She immediately though about her tardiness. "Sorry for my tardiness captain, I had to leave Jonny in the care of Dr Marceau."

"Don't worry Shepard, I figured has much you have a sun to take care of, and soon to have a daughter." He turned and smiled at her.

"Thank you sir, but even so…"

"Even so nothing. In fact if I didn't know you would protest you would be resting right know. But I know you're a carrier woman so I'm not going to order you to rest."

She smiled back "Thank you sir. Is this really a first contact, and not some sort of Alliance joke" Everyone froze waiting for his answer to the question everyone was wondering.

Naidoo, look at her than to a communications officer "Open a channel to the cruiser SSV Lisbon, admiral Vasyli Ivanov."

The officer immediately got to work "Channel open sir."

And the hologram of an tall slim man with curly hair appeared, his eyes shone with experience of years of command. "Bongi, my friend. I supposed you, and the other captains of the fleet are calling me to learn about our new visitors.

Naidoo smiled. "Indeed Vasyli we are all wondering if this is really a first contact or some elaborate prank."

"I've just spoken to Alliance command. And they have confirmed this is no joke, this is really a first contact." The whole crew began to whisper at this answer.

Then Naidoo asked "Then how do he proceed?"

Ivanov looked him in the eyes and said. "I supposed your sensor analysts have already determined the vessel has started emitting a lot of heat through what they believe is their exhaust ports?"

"Indeed they have. This may a way for them to make sure we see them, which means they're intention are not hostile."

Ivanov nodded. "I agree. Plus the vessel seems lightly armed, and it's a frigate, clearly they're not here to fight." Hannah could hear signs of relief from many on the bridge, she could even feel her heart calming down.

Ivanov continued. "Has per first contact protocol a civilian ship will make the first contact, your ship Naidoo. We will be sending the first contact materials to you by shuttle."

Ivanov was speechless. "Thank you admiral, it's an honor for both me and my crew."

"I also will be sending six marines just in case. I know you and your crew can do this Naidoo, today you and your crew will represent humanity has a whole, makes of proud."

Naidoo saluted. "Thank you, sir. We will." And the whole bridge, including Hannah saluted.

"Sirs" said one of the sensors analyst. "The ship has just stopped 600 km from the fleet."

Ivanov smiled "Seems they are waiting for us to react, well it's your move Naidoo. Ivanov out." And his hologram turned off.

Naidoo immediately got to work. "Has per first contact protocol our first order of business is to try and establish a basic form of communication."

"Yes" confirmed Hannah. "According to protocol we should start with visual communication."

"Very well Hannah let's start by doing light signals and see their response."

...

Nania

"We've stopped 600km from them captain." Said Raan. "What do we do now?"

Nedru got up from his command chair. "Now we wait for them to do something."

Gerrel approached him. "Shouldn't we have the weapons and kinetic barriers activated just in case."

"No, it might be either interpreted has sign of caution or it could be interpreted has a sign of attack. Keep the crew at their posts ready to activate them but only if something goes wrong. Plus if something did go wrong speed would be our best bet to get out of here, I doubt we would be a match for that cruiser."

"Size isn't everything sir."

Nedru smiled and answered playfully "I know that young one."

Suddenly they saw the bigger ship light the lights of its projectors, turning them on and of and in different colors, first white, then yellow, then blue.

"What does this mean" asked Gerrel.

"I think they are trying to communicate with light signals." Hypothesized Raan.

"Then let's answer back with quarian signals. Raan prepare the ship's lights."

Raan turned to him. "And what am I supposed to say."

"Start by hello."

She did so and the Nania answered the new sun with it's own signal. This exercice continued for about six minutes until suddenly the new sun stopped transmitting and instead started to radio strange sounds over the ship's intercom.

"What are this sounds." Asked Raan.

Rael stepped forward. "Sounds like musical instruments."

Gerrel was astounded "Music, they're playing music?"

They had no way of knowing they were actually listening to an orchestra of Beethoven.

"Shall I answer back in the same manner?" asked Raal.

"No. Let's dial things up a bit, try playing an old quarian opera from the homeworld."

She did has she was told.

New sun

Hannah and the captain listening has they heard a loud but voice sing what appeared to be, by it's tone, has a love song, at least by human standards. "It's beautiful"

Naidoo smiled at her. "Yes it is. So they have art, there something our species have in common."

"Maybe we should take it to the next level and invite them in?"

"Now there's an idea."

Nania

The crew listened to what appeared to be the alien's version of opera. Then Raan said "Captain I just received a data package from the alien ship, it appears to be a linguistics database and docking instructions for a shuttle.

Nedru smiled, this is what he had been hoping for. "Apparently they are offering us an invitation into their ship."

"Or it could be a trap." Suggested Gerrel.

"Must you be so negative, Gerrel?" asked Rael.

"It's called being cautious." Criticized Gerrel.

"Don't worry Gerrel because you, Rael and Zaal are coming with me."

"You're really sure that's wise, sir?" asked a concerned Gerrel.

"Sure, no. But if we are to establish good relations with this species then were going to have to start trusting each other.

Report to the docking bay with Zaal plus two marines, only bring light weapons, we don't want to alarm them."

"Sir, a shuttle has left the aliens ship it´s headed towards landing bay two."

"Then let's go down there shall we Hannah, I want my senior staff plus four marines in docking bay two, tell them to bring only their pistols."

"Yes sir."

They both went down in the elevator then marched through the corridors of the ship until they reached landing bay two, where the stars could be seen through the mass effect field which kept the atmosphere inside the ship. Most of the senior staff were there including doctor Marceau. "Don't worry" she said. "I left Jonny with one of my nurses. Could you imagine this, first contact with a new people, so exciting."

Hannah smiled and nodded in agreement.

Plus she could see the camera crews were reading themselves to start filming, it would be directly broadcasted to Alliance command, and if it went well it would be released to the public.

She and Naidoo stood before all of them staring at the stars, until finally they saw the shuttle fly towards them. It flew pass the mass effect field and landed in front of them in their landing bay.

Hannah watched the door to the shuttle to reveal five strange aliens. The aliens came out and she could see they were covered in what appeared to be envirosuits, plus they only three fingers, on their hands, and two enormous toes in the shape of claws in their feet. Not to mention their knees were bent and they were slightly shorter than the average human.

The aliens locked at them with what appeared to be luminescent eyes, and suddenly the look of they're eyes was that of shock. And they began speaking to each other very fast.

Hannah and Naidoo looked at each other, afraid they had done something to alarm the aliens. But then the aliens in the clear blue suit, who appeared to be the leader, silenced the others and approached them. Naidoo then went forward and then something strange happened, has soon Naidoo raised his hand, in order to invite the alien to shake it, the alien did the same and they both stopped. Both Naidoo and the alien seemed to be amazed that they're species seemed to share the same greeting, then they slowly proceeded to shake hands.

Then they both gave each other some space. And Naidoo proceeded to open a dialogue, "We want peace with you."

Towards each the alien answered, "Ma nika di no li glarok." (We come to you in peace.)

"Yes we want peace, peace, peace."

"Pesse, pesse, passe?" the alien said in a confused look.

Naidoo called a young man had several sketches in his hands. The man took one of the sketches, which showed two human being shaking hands.

"Ah" the alien said. "Glarok"

Naidoo smiled and nodded his understanding. Then he pointed at himself, "Human, I'm human." Then at Hannah. "Human" then he pointed at the rests of his crew humans." Then he opened his arms wide and said "Humanity."

The alien then pointed at himself and said "quarian" and then at the rest of his crew, "quarians".

So these alien's name were quarian, what a strange name though Hannah. But then the alien made a strange orange device appear on his left arm, the quarian touched a few buttons and then the hologram of what appeared to be a human appeared. But then on closer inspection what was surprise to see that it wasn't a human, since it only had three thingers, in its hand, to toes in it's feet, bent knees it had a strange looking ear but moe remarkable of all it some strange beautiful natral markings in it's torso, the base of it's neck, and the upper part of it's skull right descending to the eyes. These markings, although strange, made the creature look beautiful.

The alien pointed at the hologram, and said "quarian" then he pointed at his companions and repeated the word.

Everyone of Hannah's colleague gasped in amazement, including Naidoo, has they realized the creature in the hologram was the quarian's true form. Hannah now understood why the quarians had been so shocked when they first saw them, both species looked very similar.

"How is this possible" asked Naidoo. "Aside from the hands, knees, feet, ears, eyes, and those strange markings they look just like us. They even have hair, and the same handshake that we do."

Hannah though about what she remembered from her biology class. "It is possible their specie's ancestors were primates just like ours, and that both our species followed a similar evolutionary path which favored the development of our common forms."

"That's possible?"

"It's theoretically possible, it would one chance in a billion, but still it's possible."

Naidoo smiled. "Would you look at that, one in a billion chance of us meeting a species who looks just like us. Some would say that this was fate, maybe even a divine will."

Hannah though about it, she was a catholic and has such believed there was more to the universe than simple biology. In fact most people were believers, even scientists, the most prominent and widespread religions being Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. The reason for this was because in the 2010s, several scientists couldn't explain how DNA was formed, they said it was too perfect to be just random, since it was able to store trillions of terabytes of information, so it was essentially a biological super computer, so elegant so perfect they concluded it had to have been made by someone. Adding to the fact, that the diversity of life on Earth and the colonies, they way life was able to evolve, to adapt to changing conditions, it all seemed like there was a divine plan in the motion, guiding the evolution of life. And finally the big bang, scientists had concluded that if the conditions of the universe had been 0,00000000001% different than life couldn't exist in the universe. It was almost if someone had regulated the universe to be good for life to prosper, and thus that the big bang had not been mere chance, but yes a deliberate of divine creation, from someone who existed before the universe.

This had created a rushed of religion, has people sought meaning to understand this divine creator. In fact a new religious movement emerged, called infinitarium. Infinitarium, was a religion that believed that all monotheists religion, (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.) worshiped the same God, and the differences in those different faiths were only due to each culture's different interpretations, and that therefore they were all true. This faith brought peace, love and understanding leading to the hand of religious terrorists group, who had their lost support, leading to the members being defeated by united nations of different religions working together. And it lead to peace in the middle east, has Islamic countries officially recognized Israel has a sovereign state, and Israel in return showed more consideration to the Islamic people.

Hannah couldn't help but think that when the different religions back home heard they had just made contact with a species that looked just like humans. Most would likely consider it proof of God's divine will, and that this was fate.

Hannah was taken out of her thoughs when she heard Naidoo speaking. "Well Hannah, time to introduce ourselves."

He pointed to himself. "Bongi Naidoo. My name is Bongi Naidoo."

He then pointed his finger at Hannah. "Hannah Shepard. Her name his Hannah Shepard."

The alien pointed at Naidoo. "Bungi Neiduu" then at Hannah. "Hammah Shipard."

Naidoo laughted. "No, Bongi Naidoo and Hannah Shepard."

The quarian tried again "Bongi Naidoo and Hannah Shepard?"

"Yes" he smiled.

The quarians pointed at himself, "Nedru'Koris vas Nania" he said, he then pointed to the one with the pink white suit, "Rael'Zorah nar Leitia", then at the yellow suited one "Han'Gerrel nar Leitia", then at the pink smaller one, "Zaal'Koris nar Nania, ol nol."

Naidoo was puzzled "Ol nol?"

The quarian then pointed to Hannah's belly, "So nol".

Then it hit Hannah. "His child. So ol must be her child. And ol nol, must mean my child." She then turned to the quarian named Nedru. "Zall'Koris is Nedru'Koris child."

Nedru was puzzled. "Child?"

She pointed to her belly. "My child."

Nedru nodded his understanding. And then spoke to the one named Rael. Rael came forward, another one of those holographic devices came to life and his arm this time an hologram showing the picture of what appeared to be a female quarian, her belly was also fat like Hannah's. "Ol needu Emanga'zorah vs Raya." He then pointed at her belly "Ol nol, my child."

Hannah nooded "Emanga'zorah is mate to Rael."

Rael confirmed with his head.

Naidoo then asked a new question. "vas Nania?"

Nedru then pointed at the frigate outside. "Nania, ol golmu Nania."

Naidoo understood. "Ah your ship the Nania."

Nedru nodded affirmatively. And then Naidoo stretched his arms wide to indicate his ship. "New sun, my ship the New Sun."

Nedru showed his understanding. "New Sun, Bongi Naidoo vas New sun. Hannah Shepard vas New sun?"

Hannah suddenly understood. "They must mean the ship we work for or where we live in. Their culture appears to place high emphasis on ships."

Naidoo nodded his agreement. "Yes but why? And what does nar mean?"

"I think nar his a title for the young, you see Gerrel, Rael and Koris appear to be teenagers, maybe they must gain the title vas after they are considered adults."

"I don't know but I'm going to clarify that my working ship is the cruiser Saint Petersburg." She looked at Nedru and clarified, "No I am Hannah Shepard vas Saint Petersburg. A war ship."

"War ship?"

"War ship" she took her side arm slowly, showed it to Nedru, pointed at it, then at the ship. "War ship"

"Ah, mako golmu."

She nodded in affirmation.

Then Naidoo decide it was time to make things go a little faster. "Bring in the first contact gifts."

Two crewman approached, one carrying a box and the other pushing a crate. They left them beside the captain.

Naidoo opened the box and he took out of it what, at first glance, appeared to be little globe of Earth, small enough to fit in your hand, but on closer inspection Hannah knew it was actually a jewel. Everyone on Earth knew about the first contact gifts, they were intended to show the human artistic side. The jewel was a figure of earth with the green zones being made of green jade, the desert regions being made of pure gold, the oceans and seas being made of blue sapphire and the Polar Regions being made of white crystal. It was a masterpiece made by the artisans of different nations.

Naidoo approached Nedru and showed him the jewel, and took a datapad from his pocket were he put a picture of earth. "This is Earth, our home, Earth."

Nedru looked at it with marvel in his eyes, at jewel yes, but especial at the planet on the photo.

Naidoo continued "Earth, our home Earth, homeworld of humanity."

Nedru used once again the device on his arm. This time it showed a fleet of ships of various designs, some of them looked like the Nania, but what really caught the eyes of the crew were the three enormous ships, which had some sort of spheres linked to them, if you compared their size to that of the Nania looking ones, then this ships were far bigger than an alliance dreadnought. Boy how intelligent you must be to build such enormous ships.

Nedru continued "Quarian olga niitu ynol." Then he repeated. "Quarian home niitu ynol."

Hannah was puzzled. "Niitu Ynol."

Nedru opened his hands and touched the holograms of every ship "Ynol"

"Fleet, Ynol is fleet."

"And Niitu?" asked Naidoo.

In response the quarians started to move around while making gesture pretending to eat, sleep and read. Then turning back and doing the same.

Then it hit Hannah again "Migratory, they are a migratory species. I think they call they're fleet the migratory fleet or simply the migrant fleet."

Naidoo agreed. "Let's call it the migrant fleet then. It sounds better."

Hannah pointed to the hologram and said "migrant fleet."

Nedru repeated "Migrant fleet".

Naidoo then stepped forward and extended the Earth jewel. Nedru looked at him unsure what to do. "Gift, it's a gift for you and you people."

Nedru looked confused. "Gift?"

"Yes a gift take it."

Nedru took the jewel and when he made a move to return it, Naidoo raised is hand. "No, no it's a gift for you."

Nedru looked at him with, what appeared to Hannah, was gratitude in his eyes. And he uttered only a word "Nilo".

"You're welcome." Replied Naidoo.

After that was done Naidoo reached again in the box and took a laptop, he turned it on and showed Nedru several images of historic places on Earth, has well has ancient vehicles and machines. "Our history, our world for you to learn." And he gave it to Nedru.

Nedru nodded and accepted the gift he than took a little device from his pocket, which Hannah recognized has one of the holographic devices and extended it to Naidoo. "Nolo."

"A gift?"

"Li"

"Thank you." And he accepted the gift.

Finally Naidoo went for the went, he opened it and it contained two containers of purified eezo. The quarians gasped, apparently eezo was also a resource they needed.

Nedru once again looked graceful this time he inserted a data disk in his holographic device and clicked in some controls, apparently downloading something in it. He then removed the disk and offered him to Naidoo. "Codex" he said.

Naidoo said "thank you."

They then both raised their hands and shook them once again.

Naidoo then declared loud and clear. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Author's note: Finally a first contact between humans and quarians, I hope you liked it because I put a lot of my time into it.

Someone told me that an alliance between humans and quarian wouldn't be a match towards the council. My answer is to read the history books. History is full of small powers that have resisted stronger powers and won. Plus I personally think that Bioware seriously underestimated humanity in the game, that's why I'm giving a bigger role to the Earth nations. And finally the alliance between the quarians and the humans will grow to encompass other species, and there a few things, which are lore in the game, that could have given the alliance an advantage if they had played their carts right. What are those advantages? Well I dare you to guess, because I'm not giving you any spoilers. Plus I think it's fare to tell that unlike "And the meek shall inherit the galaxy" I'm going to dwell a lot in the first contact war, there are events in that conflict that will shape the future of the galaxy.

By the way I really would appreciated if some of you told me where did you find this story, because I would like to know in which section of fanfiction its being published, I tried mass effect fanfiction but I didn't find it.

Plus I've put a cover image in this story, along with two other stories, but for some reason they aren't showing up. If someone knows why and how to fix it please enlighten me, it would be appreciated. Especially since it worked for my two first fanfictions, so don't understand why it's not working for my three new ones.

An finally if any of you are fans of the Gillman from the movie " creature of the black lagoon" movie, you might want to check my other stories. I think the Gillman should have more fanfiction, surprisingly less than 10 authors write about the it. So you might want to check it. I think the Gillman his a great character who deserves more stories, and if you haven't seen the movie please do, it's a great movie.

And on a final note I've discovered the is another fanfiction called New order, it is a mass effect Halo crossover not be confused with my story.