Chapter 2

So alright guys I got looooots of views and a couple of favrites and even a follow so I now have the courage to continue so here goes nothing :D.

"oracle may I ask of you a question?" the oracle replied "of course you can there is a reason I wanted you here specifically... I have been watching, that is why I know you are the one that wants, needs this information." "then what have you to tell me?" I replied "there are no humans here, however she had a plan" 846 stated "who is she" I asked. 846 tilted in an almost quizzical way "the librarian of course" he said. "What was this plan of the librarians" I asked him. "She was a truly cautious one, she seeded a second world with humans. But to be sure they developed as she originally intended she had us make this new world an almost perfect copy of earth" he continued "it was no easy task but we managed to create an almost exact replica of everything about it even the star system it was in" "wait" I interrupted "you mean you created an entire star system to be sure the humans developed correctly?" "no, of course not nothing that big, we simply found a similar enough star system that had similar planets and then modified them to appear the same as the ones on the original earth. We even went as far as replicating earths fossil record, just to be thorough." "so... there is hope for my redemption? Where is this second earth?" 846 replied "it is in the next galaxy over we put it there to ensure that if the worst happened and the halo array was fired a second time then at least there would be another human population to perhaps one day take up the mantle." I realized now that I must seek out this second earth and its people and redeem myself... for my people and for my honor. "can you give me the coordinates to where these humans are?" I asked him "of course I can I can see that you truly regret what your people did to the humans and that you have changed. That is clear from your actions that you seek to correct your mistakes and regain your honor. Here are the coordinates, and I wish you success on your journey, I will open a slipace opening to allow you to get to the galaxy they are located in. the rest however will be up to you." 846 sent several sentinels to escort me back to my ship. "I will miss this place it is truly a marvel of forerunner engineering, but I must begin my journey for redemption." as my ship ascended and left the interior of the planet a portal opened to slipspace above me. The trip through slipspace was extraordinarily short it took mere hours to reach my destination. As I came out into regular space I gazed through the void and beheld earth. It was truly beautiful, it was not burned and barren like the one from my home galaxy. It was however covered in structures and massive cities, as I grew closer I could see ships many ships in the space around it. I attempted a landing but I was however stopped by a small group of ships, they are attempting to contact me I realize. They use the same language as the humans did when they were still alive. They asked me to stop and asked me to identify myself "my name is Thel 'Vandamee I have traveled far to find your people." "why are you looking for humanity" the leader of this group asked. "That is a matter I will discuss with your leaders" I said. "fine as you wish Thel 'Vandamee we will escort you to the spaceport to check you for weapons as this is a first contact situation."

The Spaceport

After I was searched for weapons and I reluctantly yielded my sword and my pistol side-arm they led me through a small opening which opened up into an amazing and beautiful garden which had flowers, flowers of every color I have ever seen it was marvelous. They now led me to a large open chamber and inside were several humans dressed in what I assume are formal clothes. "Greetings" they said "we are ambassadors for the government here on earth we are pleased to welcome you to our planet" they said. "hello" I said "my name is Thel 'Vandamee I am a member of a group of species known as the covenant" as I handed them a datapad that I had prepared for such a situation. The datapad was full of the history of our galaxy, of our covenant, and the details of our war against humanity. As they looked at the information on it a look of shock and then a look of great sadness passed over their faces after a long while they finally all finished reading the information that I had provided for them one of them looked up and asked "so your government committed and act of genocide?" and then I replied "yes... we did but in the end we allied with the ones we were mercilessly killing to defeat a common enemy." "In the end it mattered not for our former leaders unleashed a devastating plague to finish what we would not." "you people cannot imagine the shame we felt after we realized the prophets had been deceiving us." "well we are cautious because you admit that you committed such an act, however we will agree to diplomatic relations because even though in the end humanity where you came from was exterminated you did try to help them, to save them." "when can your people be here for to meet with us in a more formal setting?" it would be quite a while I though, even with our recent breakthroughs in slipspace technology. "well it well be quite a while, due to the distance involved and even with our technology it is quite a journey they could not be here in any time shorter than a month."

One Month Later

In the time I have been here I have seen all the wonders that the humans here developed, they took a very different path technologically it is amazing to see all these things that they created. My people managed to get here recently and have seen what I have seen and have rejoiced. Soon we will go to the place these humans call the Citadel, and already one of our fleets is on its way here to show them our technology, and our might. They were quite impressed with the slipspace drive on my ship, and some of my crew are taking some of their technology and samples of a substance they call element zero. The humans here have contemplated even upgrading out ships with element zero cores as a gift, they theorize that it may decrease our transit time in slipspace. As time has progressed we have even started talks of establishing trade routes, to accomplish this we have given them designs for our slipspace drives. We are now about to begin transit to the citadel, they are expecting us soon.

The Citadel

We departed earth and went on our voyage to the citadel. We decided to use the mass relays to reach it. As we reached our destination we saw that it was a warzone. Some sort of large ship was approaching it with great speed, it was being supported by many smaller ships. I decided it would be for the best to give the order to attack, and as the ship began to enter the citadels arms my ship opened fire and as the bolts of plasma hit the larger ship it turned towards us and counterattacked the ships escorting us fell to its attacks quickly. Our ships however were able to withstand its powerful weapons. "again" I ordered" this time target it with all of our weapons... this ship will fall", my ship unleashed a mighty volley of plasma directly at our enemy as it closed on us. There was a bright light and then our enemy slowed and stopped. Everyone in the control room roared a mighty war shout at our fallen enemy. We then proceeded to destroy the smaller ships that were aiding the larger one, after less than an hour we were victorious. We suddenly received a contact request from the leaders that resided on the citadel. "We are the council we are glad to see our new allies are already coming to our aid." there were many ships beginning to surround us and the remains of the ship that we destroyed. "what is that ship, who does it belong to?" I asked "it is a massive geth flagship, it was captained by a rogue turian spectre." they replied "yes I see, we were told of the turians, they seem like they are a powerful people." I stated "we look forward to seeing the interior of the citadel and perhaps even have a feast." as we landed in the citadel we were greeted by many people some were clearly diplomats the others appeared to be ordinary citizens of this place. The citadel even rivaled the halo rings in its size and majesty I was struck by all these people living here there were so many races and cultures coming together, and as we walked through the area that they called the presidium I was silent. We finally ended our brief tour at a large tower that was heavily decorated. As we walked in me and a few select members of my crew were shocked by the size of this place and how lavishley it was decorated. There was a group of comfortable looking chairs that were made to fit our physiology, they were quiet comfortable and as we sat down we started watching a presentation it showed us the races that were present on the citadel and much of their history was explained. There was even a special guest there his name was shepard, the council thought it would be a good idea to bring the first human spectre to such an important meeting. Members of nearly all the races were there. The most interesting ones were the Elcor and the Volus. The Elcor were large hulking creatures and were slow and expressed their emotions with words, we thought them very strange. The Volus however almost reminded me and my crew of the unggoy, we however held our laughter to be polite and make a good impression. And as the day went on we learned so many interesting things and saw such amazing sights. It looked like peace was upon us and that we would have good relations with these new people.

Alrighty guys that was chapter two I hope you enjoyed, ik it was a little bland and needs more action but I am improving I think. Leave reviews below and tell me how you think I am doing. And as always if you liked how I did favorite my story and follow me :D well gnight people, I love you all.