Metal Gear Effect

by Silvan Sagevale

With Humanity free from the Patriots and the Proxy Wars ended, humanity continues to advance, and in 2157, they discover they are not alone. Sucky Summary. Cover Image provided by Gabylan121 from Deviantart.

3. The Invasion

MGE

(A/N: this is a long one so bunker down! And yes, I'm still useing edited material from Halo: A New Age. BUT, but don't worry, starting Chapter 4 its going to be ALL original...or mostly so...ENJOY!)

Chapter 3: The Invasion

May 22 2157

Uncle Sam System (Unofficial name)

Panchea

Military Cybernetics Research and Training Ground

Space

The once UAA colony world Panchea has become cyborg headquarters and training grounds for new recruits. Panchea was the UAA center for cybernetics research and training and was the official HQ for the Thunder Gods.

About 20,000 kilometers away from the planet a wormhole opens up and out comes the UAA dreadnought Leviathan. The Leviathan is the newest dreadnought built by the UAA it is 4 kilometers long equipped with the most advance technology's acquired in the hundred years since humanity first became spacefaring. The Leviathan is equipped with advance shields, new generation wormhole drive capable at faster speeds and longer distance, armor is the new Eezo-Carbon Nano Tube, CNTs that were formed while treating them with Mass Effect fields to make them denser and stronger with a minimum of weight increase. Weapons are 1000 Archer missile pods, two plasma cannons, eighty-five 120mm point defense guns along with fifty laser defense guns, an Ultra-Heavy RC with four RCs two on each side of the U-H RC, powered by the new ultra expensive Perpetual Energy Reactor and two secondary fusion reactors for emergency power.

Kastanie Drescher is sitting in the captains on the main bridge of the Leviathan, the bridge is not a standard UAA design they changed it to where it is a dome shape situated in the middle of the upper side of the ship with the front side being a large window. The captain's chair is in the middle of the bridge, on both sides are holographic controls for the captain to communicate and view the ships operating systems. Drescher looks out at the window and sees Panchea coming ever so closer she begins giving out orders to the crew.

''Open a channel to the orbital elevators UAA docking controls and Panchea defense fleet let them know were about to begin docking''. Said Drescher

''I already have ma'am." said the comms officer. "Admiral I have a rear admiral Chekov for you." As soon as he said that a holographic image opened up to a man in his fifties, he has brown hair, his height is 6'1 and has a scar running down his face.

"Admiral Drescher I'm sorry to say I will be the only one welcoming you to are corner of the galaxy." said Chekov

"Where's admiral O'Brian and Raiden?" asked Drescher

"Admiral Joseph O'Brian and Raiden are off training the new cyborgs ship captains in space combat, but don't worry High command has sent over why you came here." replied Chekov

"Yes I am here for twenty tons of unstoppable cyborgs, they have six hours to pack and unload what they need in the cargo bay." said Drescher

"That's more time than what they get in the training grounds." Replied Chekov with a little smile on his face. "The cyborgs will be ready in an hour, so go ahead and dock your ship so we can unload the supplies." As he finished the comm the line disconnected and the Leviathan dock at the orbital elevator.

Panchea

Training Base 3

Orbital elevator entrance

Training base three was created around the bottom of the elevator to receive supplies or to transport personal to ships. At the base there are six Cyborgs overseeing the supplies and Cyborgs to the Leviathan. Thor looks at a data pad and is happy how things on moving along. "We are ahead of schedule, the first supplies and Cyborgs are on their way the Leviathan." said Thor.

Thor was a giant of a man standing at a solid 8 ½ feet tall with heavy armor and a hammer with a head the size of a normal sized man's torso. As his name may have suggested he was German with blond hair and blue eyes, with a large mustache that puts Jamie Hynamen (sp?) from Myth Busters to shame.

"You know I never thought the Scarabs were good for anything, but they sure do help out with the cargo and supplies." said Zeus. The Cyborgs see a whole group of Scarabs working on forklifts and pushing anti-gravity trolleys.

As his name would suggest he was Greek. His hair was about shoulder length and white as the clouds along with a scruffy beard. His cybernetics were much less pronounced than Thor's and he wore a toga over it. He held a long spear that could become one massive nun chuck and the spear head was shaped like a lightning bolt.

"Thor where is Raiden?" asked Wakį́yą. "I thought he was going to oversee all this?"

Wakį́yą was a Native American woman who's cybernetics resembled Native garb, her weapon was a huge four armed compound bow that could separate into two double bladed swords.

"Raiden is busy giving Lei Gong the run down on all operations here since according to the rules if both senior officers along with the second ones are gone the highest ranking Cyborgs are in charge and Raiden and Lei Gong are those cyborgs." replied Thor

"Wow…I almost feel sorry for them." A fourth cyborg, Indra, an Indian woman who's cybernetics were concentrated on her limps and lower torso. She had four arms, the extra pair folded under her bust, and her weapons were two triple edged daggers and two Indra, all four were sheathed on her waist. Her hair was black and done in a long braided low set ponytail.

"And why is that?" replied a very familiar voice to the close group of friends. They turned in the direction the voice came from, it was the Raiden, and he was coming up to his closest and very first friends.

His body was similar his old one from the Proxy War era but it was black and had some of his newer custom body from his campaign against Desperado. He also had Sam's Muramasa blade sheathed on his left hip.

The four Cyborgs turned and saluted to their leader in a sign of respect! Thor stepped up to the Raiden to give him the final reports. "Sir, all supplies and equipment have transferred to the Leviathan and the Cyborgs have reported to the Cyborg barracks, the TGs is also ready and waiting for you sir to transport to the ship, the admiral is waiting for us."

"Good to hear." said Raiden. The six Cyborgs make their way to the orbital elevator and heads up to the dreadnought ready for the mission.

Leviathan

Main Bridge

The Leviathan disconnects from the elevator and breaks off away from the planet and defense fleet, it begins to pick up speed and opens a wormhole enroot to rendezvous with the rest of second fleet.

Kastanie Drescher stands up from the chair and walks to the elevator. "Yagyu get Raiden and the rest of the Thunder Gods to meet me in the debriefing room." Said Drescher

"Of course admiral right away." said Yagyu the Leviathan's Artificial Intelligence.

Debriefing Room

In the Debriefing room the Raiden and the rest of the Thunder Gods are standing around the Holo table looking at the new UAA dreadnoughts capabilities. "Damn look at the guns it has." said Zeus. "The U-H RC alone can punch through a small moon."

"That's not all its capable of." said Drescher. as she walks in on the Cyborgs, she goes around the other side of the Holo table and salutes them. "Glad to have you hear Cyborgs with you I know we can complete the mission."

"What are the details." asked Raiden wanting to skip the pleasantries.

Drescher typed in the controls on the holo table and out came an image of a planet unknown to the Cyborgs. "I assume you have been caught up to speed about what happen near the colony world Shanxi." The Cyborgs all nodded yes to confirm question. "Good then we can get to the point. The second fleet is charged with attacking the Turian colony world Bostra should the Turians attempt an attack on the UNAS colony Shanxi, this planet you see here is the colony, they seem to have orbital defenses and a fleet of twenty ships protecting it; ground forces shouldn't be a problem seeing as this colony is training ground for new recruits''.

"What about Shanxi?" asked Lei Gong. "What is the UAA doing to protect the colony?"

Lei Gong was a chinese woman with short black hair, her cybernetics comprised of wings that resembled Slider wings but with joints that allowed them to fold behind her back. She also wielded a pair of HF axes.

"The UNAS has sent in additional ships and troops to the colony." Replied Drescher. "Admiral Grissom is coordinating with general Zeus with the defense at Shanxi and also the UAA is sending in the new N7 soldiers to help out."

"They finish the N7 program?" asked Zeus

Before Drescher could respond Wakį́yą spoke first. "Remind me again what that program is about."

"I think the best one to explain would be the Raiden." said Drescher. In the room all eyes were on Raiden, he then walks up to the holo table, and pulls out a data crystal chip from the back of his helmet and insert it in the holo table. A holographic image of female human, roughly 14, with platinum blond hair wearing a grease monkey outfit and a pair of large headphones around her neck she lifts her arms up as if she was stretching, she then turns to face the group around her.

"About time you gave me a call." said the AI.

"Raiden is this who I think it is?" asked Drescher.

"If you mean the child prodigy Sunny Emmerich who's life expectancy has passed then yes ma'am it is." replied the Raiden

"So she did discover a way to extend one's life without cybernetics." said Drescher

The Raiden was about to say something, but Sunny stopped him. "Raiden let me handle this." Said Sunny. "Admiral I am not the real Sunny. I am just a hyper advanced AI with her personality and memories."

Admiral Drescher just stares at Sunny before speaking again. "I'm not even going to ask the details it's probably classified anyway." said Drescher. "I believe you were going to tell us about the N7 program."

"Of course, the N7 program is the next step up from BREACHER." Said Sunny. Everyone in the room remains silent and continues to pay attention to Sunny. "It was created by the UAA security committee councilor general Dylan Young and are cave man over here (pointing to Raiden) The 'N' designates special forces and the '7' refers to the highest level of proficiency. It applies to BREACHER's who have gone through enough training and required years in BREACHER to join the program."

Sunny then pulls up an image of the N7 symbol and all information on the program. "The program trains individuals in a level of survival courses on planet and zero-g gravity, there is also a little Cyborg training in the program as well."

This surprised the Cyborgs; in the UAA the training the Cyborgs go through were considered brutal and tough; for regular humans with no augmentation to survive must be really strong and skilled.

"Now that we gotten that of the way let's get back to the attack plan." asked Drescher. They gathered around and began planning for the attack on the Turian colony.

Exodus Cluster

Utopia System

Relay 314

Turian Fleet

The 185 Turian ships ten dreadnoughts, seventy-five cruisers, and a hundred frigates began amassing at the relay preparing to launch an attack on the enemies home world. Desolas Arterius is on his dreadnought the Glory Wing is checking the final results of the Fleet. He is looking through his data pad at the information on the fleet all seems in order in his mind.

"General! Commander Vrynnus and captain Actus are on the line for you sir." said the comms officer

Desolas walks up to the comm. and pressed a button, on the holo screen Vrynnus and Actus poped up. "Give me a status report." asked Desolas

"All ships are ready to proceed through the relay on your orders." replied Vrynnus

"We've sent probes through the relay there is no enemy ships on the other side." said Actus. "But the probes detect a large armada of ships over the planet we detected last time."

"Alright we begin to move out now, we will subdue this species and take their technology." said Desolas

The entire fleet begins passing through the relay, but unknown to them is a probe mFoxhoundtoring and sending signals through the relay and to the UAA colony.

Shanxi System

UNAS colony

Shanxi

Orbit

Above the planet a fleet of fifty-five ships are prepared to defend the colony from anything the Turians can throw at them. Admiral Jon Grissom is in charge of the fleet while General Zeus is in charge of the ground forces. Grissom is sitting in his chair ready and waiting for the Turians to show up, he has down all he can to prepare for this fight, he was about to ask any activity, but Athena answered instead.

"Admiral the probes from the other side of the relay and the one in the system have detected a fleet of 185 ships silhouette's match Turian design ETA six minutes." said Athena

The Admiral stands up and walks two steps forward. "Athena get a line to all ships and planetary ground forces." said Grissom. He waits until Athena gives him the all clear. "Attention UAA forces the Turians have jumped in the system using the Mass Relay! They will be here in five minutes, I will attempt to talk the Turians down and ask them to leave the system, but we know all too well how that will work, should it come down to us or them I choose us, that is all." Athena closed the line and went back to her duties.

After six minutes the Turian fleet drops out of FTL, all 185 of them, Admiral Grissom orders the fleet to be ready. "Lieutenant open a frequency on all channels and translate this in the Turians language. 'This is admiral Grissom of the Shanxi defense fleet you have trespassed on to UAA territory stop all advancements and turn back to your system now, failure to comply will result in hostile tension' send the message." The comms officer complied and sent the message.

After a minute it was obvious the Turians either didn't get the message or just ignored it that's when Grissom began giving out orders. "Alright then, get the ODP's aim at the larger ships, launch all Space Sliders, unlock all nuclear missiles and get the rail guns and laser guns to shoot enemy fighters." On the bridge everyone began following orders getting the ship ready.

The entire fleet launched all their Sliders and unlocks all weapons from safeties. The ODP's took aim at the Turian dreadnoughts and prepared to fire, the Orbital Defense Platform was once the UAA's most powerful weapon until the advance technologies they began researching, it was capable of firing a 3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at around 120,000 kilometers per second, impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy, equal to approximately 5325 megatons of energy. Today it can fire a 4500-ton ferric-tungsten round at 170,000 kilometers per second.

Turian Dreadnought

Sword of Judgment

CIC

Desolas is standing in the CIC of his dreadnought looking at the enemy's forces; he is amazed how a race so new can build ships this big and amass them this soon 'they will become an excellent client race' he said to himself. He then notices the huge space stations or what he thinks they are, before he can say a thing his comms officer reports to him.

"General the unidentified race have sent a message in a form we can hear in are language to us, should I allow it over the comm." said the comms officer as he looks to the general for compliance.

"No! They are probably demanding our surrender." said Desolas. "We continue as plan and..." Before Desolas could say a thing a Turian dreadnought exploded on the holographic projector, he then turns to his weapons officer "WHAT WAS THAT!" he screams over everyone's panic at the destroyed dreadnought.

"I think it was that space station it fired a tungsten round at incredible speeds." said the weapons officer "it... it fired at an impossible speed the computers couldn't keep up." Desolas could hear the scared Turian when he spoke.

"SIR three more dreadnoughts have been destroyed by the other stations." said the sensors officer

"Do not panic order half the frigates to target those stations cripple it if they can, launch all fighters to target theirs, get the remaining frigates to overwhelm and collapse the enemy's ships shields, while I will take the cruisers and remaining dreadnoughts to finish the kill."

Space Battle

In space the Turian fleet began what Desolas instructed fifty of the Turian frigates tried to pass the UAA fleet to cripple the ODP's, but along the way most became damage from enemy fire or Sliders while some were destroyed which left just forty-one frigates to attack the human space stations. The UAA began launching half of their Archer missile pods at the Turian fleet trying to destroy or cripple their ships before getting anywhere close to where they can use their disruptor torpedoes. All fifty UAA ships launched ten pods each carrying either fifty(cruiser) or twenty-five(frigate) missiles at the Turians, but Desolas was aware of the enemy's tactics and order those pods to be shot down with guardian lasers; about 12,000 missiles launched from the surviving pods and overwhelmed the Turians guardian lasers. The Turians kinetic barriers protect them from the explosion, but not from the plasma that was released from the pods and began melting their ships armor, some were destroyed from getting hit more than one while others became crippled from the plasma, but the remaining ships survived and continued the attack.

The UAA Sliders numbered at 200 while the Turians interceptor range at 300. Even though the UAA Sliders are overwhelmed by numbers they have an advantage. During the first stage of the dogfight the Turian pilots were surprised by the enemy fighters having shields which cost them about seventy-six of their own fighters. The Turians then regrouped and placed each other into squadrons to target the UAA Sliders, it worked and the UAA lost seven Sliders. It continue on for an hour until a powerful E.M.P knocked out the Turian interceptors guidance system they were flying blind

A UAA cruiser launched an Ares missile at a Turian cruiser; it survived the explosion, but the radiation and heat passes through the barriers and the powerful E.M.P burst out of the missile. The UAA was wining for a while until two of their ODP's became crippled along with losing seven frigates and two cruisers from a combination of disruptor torpedoes from frigates and mass accelerator round from the cruisers and dreadnought.

UAA Cruiser

Pathfinder

Main Bridge

On the bridge of the Pathfinder sparks were flying everywhere computers, holographic projectors were on the frits. Admiral Grissom is holding on in his chair from bombardment the Turians disruptor torpedoes are causing, he called on Athena on the status of the ship and fleet. "Athena status." said Grissom

Athena appeared in the holographic image from before. "sir our shields are holding thanks to your idea to transfer power from the backup reactors to the shields, but the shields won't hold for long the shield emitters have too much strain on them we need to pull out and give them time to rest." said Athena. "And the fleet is not doing any better we already lost nine ships, soon to be twelve... also did I mention we just lost two ODP's and soon to be four unless we do something Admiral."

Grissom just smiles. "Don't worry General Zeus will take care of that problem for us." replied Grissom. Athena just looked confused at the answer she was given.

Shanxi Garrison

War Room

When the UAA knew that one day their colFoxhoundes would be threatened, although at the time they were more worried about rouge nations and separatist colFoxhoundes, so the first thing UAA colFoxhoundes did before the colFoxhoundsts settle were defense planes. In the hundred years that follow the UAA used their new knowledge and technology to increase colony defenses to all UAA colFoxhoundes.

General Zeus is in the war room overlooking at the battle on the holo table taking place above his planet. He was alerted by his officers that the Turian frigates broke from their fleet and headed for the ODP's and began attacking them in close range, he saw on the holo table that they have already taken down two of their orbital weapons and about to make it a third. 'Not while I'm still standing'. Said Zeus to himself

"Get the surface to space missiles up and target those frigates along with the mass drivers, we need to keep at least one ODP online to take out those dreadnoughts." said Zeus

Outside the city limits at the farm lands twenty missile silos came up from the ground and began targeting up in the sky. Each silo contains five missiles all launched into space at the un expecting Turians.

Shanxi

Geosynchronous Orbit

Turian Frigates

Tonn Actus was demoted from commanding a cruiser to a frigate. He is in charge with commanding the reaming forty-one frigates to destroy the enemy's orbital defenses to save the fleet and make room for the ground forces.

"Keep it up we just need to cripple the last two and then we can head down to the planet and lay waste to the enemy." said Actus

After a few minutes the third ODP stopped working from taking on too much damage. Actus was pleased he began giving out orders to the rest to continue on the next one until the surface to space missiles hit the forty-one frigates all were wither destroyed or crippled except for one.

Tonn Actus was happy the spirits were on his side. "Alright men we nee..." Tonn Actus never finished his sentence as a mass driver fired a fifty cm round tungsten with 2.5 gigajoules of kinetic energy right through the frigate and out the other end that caused an explosion taking his and crews life.

Turian Dreadnought

Sword of Judgment

CIC

Desolas Arterius is not happy at this outcome, he has already lost ninety-six ships; fifty-six frigates, thirty-three cruisers, and seven dreadnoughts; the majority destruction was caused by the EMP/C22 charges in the 12,000 missiles the enemy launched. He is hearing about how it's burning through the armor causing core meltdowns and destroying weapons. The only good thing was the enemy shield strength has decreased significantly to where his mass accelerators can punch right through.

"Order the remaining cruisers and two dreadnoughts to finish this." said Desolas, but before the ships can act the ODP fired another round at the Turian dreadnought destroying it in the process.

Turian Cruiser

Commander Vrynnus knew if that orbital weapon is not taken out now! They won't win this fight, and he would rather die than let this new upstart race humiliate the Turian hierarchy. '"Men I want you all to evacuate to the escape pods you will be abandFoxhoundng ship."

The officers in the CIC were all confused by what the commander said. "sir what do you me?" asked one of the officers

"If we don't take out that orbital weapon now than this would have been all a waste and I can't ask anyone else to do what I am about to do so as your last orders you will abandon ship while I will plot an FTL jump at the station."

The crew now knew what he meant and they all saluted him and began marching to the escape pods. After he knew his crew were all off the ship, he punched in the numbers and overwrite the safety on the navigational computer until Desolas open a comm. link and asked what was going on "Vrynnus why have you ordered your crew to abandon ship?" asked Desolas

"You know what I'm about to do and don't stop me, I must do this for the fleet we need to take out that station if we want to win this." replied Vrynnus

Desolas didn't try to stop him, he wanted to let Vrynnus die proudly like a Turian should. Vrynnus punched in the last numbers and the cruiser went at FTL speeds at the ODP which caused both the cruiser and the ODP to be destroyed.

UAA Cruiser

Pathfinder

Main Bridge

Admiral Grissom saw what happen to the fourth ODP and couldn't believe the Turians would sacrifice a cruiser to destroy the last ODP. "Athena were there any Turians on board?" asked Grissom

"Only one life sign sir it seems the Turian stayed behind, but waited for his people to abandon ship." said Athena. "Sir we have a big problem! The fleets shields have weaken to the point where their mass accelerators are punching through, right now I think it's about time for plan B."

"I agree call in the reinforcements." said Grissom

Space Battle

With the Turians disruptor torpedoes weakening the UAA fleets shields their mass accelerators are powerful enough to punch through and destroy the fleet. The Turians begin their attack destroying half of what the UAA fleet started with until twenty-five wormholes on both sides of the Turian fleet opened up and out came a combination of cruisers and frigates launching a hundred Sliders to deal with the rest of the Turian interceptors, unleashing a combination of Archer missiles and RC rounds on the Turians.

The Turians started shooting at the reinforcements with disruptor torpedoes, but it was useless as this fleet change the frequency of their shields to match the Turians disruptor torpedoes. The captains of the cruisers and frigates of the reinforcements said it felt like the Turians were not shooting at them at all. Before the Turians knew the truth they were already cut down enough for the surviving Shanxi defense fleet to fire their own RC rounds.

Turian Dreadnought

Sword of Judgment

CIC

Desolas is crawling around blood flowing down his face trying to get to the communications to send a message to the Hierarchy about this race, but he couldn't for he sustain to much damage and lost a lot of blood in the surprised attack, he stopped and turns over looking at the inside of the CIC. "I can't believe me General Desolas Arterius of the Turian Hierarchy defeated." he coughs out blood. "Sorry Saren, looks like I won't be there to share that glass of brandy with you on Palaven." as he said his last words his dreadnought Sword of Judgment comes under fire from five RC guns destroying the ship in the process.

Space Battle

As the UAA cleans up the last of the Turian ships one damaged frigate makes an FTL jump back to the relay in the system to warn the Citadel Council of the biggest mistake the Hierarchy has ever made.

Athena was giving admiral Grissom the final results of what was left of the fleet it was a lot more than what Grissom would've liked, but was happy that his fleet managed to prevent a signal Turian from stepping on the colony.

Admiral Grissom begins operations of cleaning up the wreckage of the battle and capturing any survivors from escape pods, but unknown to anyone the Turian frigates closest to the planet begin to fall in the atmosphere releasing a dust cloud of element zero all over the city.

Shanxi System

Mass relay

Out in the coldness of space about 12,000 kilometers away from the relay fifty wormholes opened up and out came fifty UAA ships it was the second fleet heading for the relay. Leading the fleet is the UAA dreadnought Leviathan under the command of admiral Kastanie Drescher about to go through the relay and travel along the relay network to attack the Turian colony Bostra.

So this chapter finishes up the attack on Shanxi, next chapter will be about the retaliation for Shanxi where the second fleet attacks the Turian colony Bostra, and how will the citadel council react to the UAA for not only surviving and defending their colony but attacking the Turians for it, will find out in the next chapter.

May 23, 2157

Outside of Turian Space

Second Fleet

UAA Leviathan-Class Dreadnought "Leviathan"

The second fleet dropped out of "Worm Space" after going through six Mass Relays just outside of the Turian sensor range so as to not be detected by the fleet guarding the colony. In the debriefing room, the Cyborgs were reading on the successful defense of Shanxi against the Turian invaders, now they along with Admiral Kastanie Drescher were planning the retaliation for the attack on Shanxi.

"The Shanxi defense fleet has managed to keep a single Turian ship from landing on the colony," said Lei Gong impressed with Admiral Grissom's Strategy and tactics when defending the colony, "impressive indeed…but I wonder how long that'll last…"

"Yes! Now it's our turn to strike back at the Turians," said Drescher while pulling up a holo-image of the Turian systems on the holo-table, "As you can see, there are minimal defenses in the system. Our long-range scanners have detected a patrol fleet of five ships circling the system for possible intruders, while the Turian colony Bostra has a defense fleet of fifteen ships and orbital defenses around the planet."

Thor could not help but be surprised at the situation. It all seemed too easy. "That's all? From what I read about them in the codex this seems a bit light in regards to Turian standards"

Indra was busy examining her HF daggers, but one could not help that there was a bit of hope in her voice. "Maybe they think no one's insane enough to ever attack the peacekeeping military force of the citadel council."

"Well it's a good thing we're a lot crazier than the other species in the galaxy." said Zeus in his usual joking way.

"No Zues, we're not the crazy ones," said Raiden, the confidence clear in his voice, "their first moment of insanity came when they started this war in the first place—and now we get to put them in their place."

As every Cyborg in the room took in what the Raiden said, Admiral Drescher begins the attack plan "Now that we've gotten that out of the way I have a plan."

She began pushing buttons on the hole table to zoom in on the Turian colony Bostra. "Now that we know that by changing the frequency of our shields to match Turian disruptor torpedoes, our shields won't collapse as easily when we attack them…this means we'll be able to take more punishment, and deal even more of it back to the Turians."

Pheonix then appeared as a warrior angel to everyone "Admiral, I have new instructions and information for you and the Cyborgs from High command." said Pheonix

The admiral could not help but let out a sigh of frustration. Last-minute orders were definitely not her cup of tea. "What is it?"

"When the Turians were stopped at Shanxi and the defense fleet began capturing survivors in escape pods, FOXHOUND agents and AI's began searching for information on what their mission objectives were."

"What did the agents find?" asked Lei Gong, hoping that her prediction on the matter wasn't true.

"The Turians were uncooperative, but the AI's discover something interesting," said Pheonix looking at everyone "the AI's discovered that the Turian Hierarchy was very interested in our weapons and technology, and wanted to get their claws on it to increase their authority in citadel space."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room clenched their fists together so hard that if they were holding an apple it would break from the pressure, before Pheonix continued. "For that reason, High Command wants you to acquire any information and samples on Turian technologies and weapons as well."

A look of amusement had crossed Drescher's delicate features. "So it's come to an eye for an eye has it? I think our enemies would appreciate the irony in the long-run. Was that everything FOXHOUND and the AI's discovered?"

Pheonix shook his head…the way he did it was a very good sign. "There is one important thing the AI's discovered while searching through the Turians' battle network; they found out that while they have decent defenses, the Turians don't have strong defense to prevent UAA AI's from hacking into their systems and shutting down their ships weapons and shields."

Her eyebrow had been raised in curiosity—this was definitely not what Drescher was expecting. "I thought the Citadel species have defenses to protect them from that kind of attack; the codex clearly stated that they faced a race of rampant AI's called the Geth that are capable of just that."

"I have read the Codex on the Geth admiral they are not truly AI's. UAA neuro-AI's are far more advanced."

Kastanie just smiled at this bit of new information—not only did they have better defenses against the Turians' disruptor torpedoes, but can also hack their systems "Good, then let's begin the mission: Thunder Gods, you know what your missions are—get to your stations, we move out in thirty minutes."

The Thunder Gods did as they were told and began running out of the room and to their stations.

Turian Colony

Bostra

Turian Colonial Defense Fleet

The captain of the fleet was extremely bored protecting Bostra; a colony in Turian space for training recruits in the Turian army and navy. He heard a rumor that the hierarchy was gathering a fleet of ships to subdue a new race that attempted to reactivate a dormant Mass Relay which is against council law. He laughs at the idea of how the mighty Turian fleet was probably already crushing the new species.

The sensors officer then interrupted his train of thought upon seeing a strange anomaly. "Captain I'm detecting spatial ruptures ahead of us!"

Before the captain could response three groups of unidentified ships lead by three 3.5 kilometer long ships around the planet. The only thing that came to mind in the captain's head was that they were under attack! He moved into action by screaming out orders. "Get our weapons online and kinetic barriers up! Warn the generals on the planet we are unde..." Before he could finish that sentence, the entire ship lost power as all systems shut off. "What in the name of the Spirits just happened?"

The communications officer could only look dumbfounded at the situation they found themselves in. "I think they hacked our systems and have shut down everything except for communications."

Before the captain could think of why they would leave the communications online he opened a line to the patrol fleet in the system. "Attention patrol fleet; Bostra is under attack from unknown enemy ships. They have crippled the fleet with hacking capabilities; orders are to leave the system and report to the hierarchy." As he finished, he hoped the patrol would be able to escape to warn the hierarchy about this attack.

Turian Colony

Bostra

Second Fleet

UAA Leviathan-Class Dreadnought "Leviathan"

Main Bridge

When the second fleet came out of "Worm Space" the AI's began hacking the Turian defense fleet shutting down everything except for communications as per admiral Drescher's orders. Drescher is sitting in her chair looking at the successful hacking and shutting down of every Turian ship guarding Bostra.

The sensors officer could only grin in triumph to himself at the situation. "Admiral, the Turian patrol has left the system via Mass Relay."

"Good, now they can warn the hierarchy about the new race they tried to subdue and steal technology from—now they will know just who it is they're messing with!" said Drescher, looking forward to the attack, "Begin bombardment of the planet—destroy all means of communications and planetary defenses, and then launch our ground forces; we need to take control of all military bases on the planet."

As Drescher finished giving out commands, the second fleet moved into position around the planet, targeting facilities and any other defenses and fires Missiles, targeting radar towers and communications buildings, in addition to anti-ship turrets. Now their opponents would be in the dark groundside.

Serpent Nebula

Widow System

Citadel Council Chambers

About one solar day ago a Turian frigate docked with the citadel as it limped all the way from the failed attack by the Turians to try and subdue a species that tried to reactivate a dormant Relay. The Citadel Council was reading the reports about what happened and are shocked to learn about a race that not only they have never encountered, but how advanced they were, building large ships that didn't have any element zero as the base material, weapons that are on the same level as a dreadnought, and for the Turians to hide this from the rest of the council.

The look of disappointment and anger was very much clear on Asari Councilor Tevos' face. No, she was not pleased at all. "Sparatus, can you please explain why the hierarchy would not tell us about this new race before attacking them?"

Sparatus the Turian councilor looks to his fellow councilors "I am just in the dark about this as you two are, but if I had to guess the hierarchy was trying to prevent history from repeating itself like the Rachni wars! Am I right Valern?"

Valern the Salarian councilor knew all too well about the Rachni since it was Salarian explorers opening dormant Mass Relays that unleash them unto the galaxy "Yes I am well aware of the history of the Citadel Sparatus; my kind have been here longer, but that doesn't excuse the Turians attacking a race that did not know the dangers of reopening dormant Relays."

Before the Council could debate any further on the matter a message came to them from the Turian Hierarchy—one of their colonies, Bostra, was under attack from the new race they tried to subdue. Tevos could only look at Sparatus with what could be considered a dirty look in her eyes—one that said 'you brought this upon yourself'. "Well it would seem the Turians have awakened a sleeping giant, and now they're paying the price for it."

"It does not matter now Tevos! We must send the citadel fleet to retake Bostra from this enemy!"

"Are you insane!" shouted Tevos, obviously not happy with Sparatus' heavy-handed actions against this new race, "what we should be doing now is to send diplomats in order to negotiate a ceasefire before this goes too far."

Sparatus and Tevos never did see eye-to-eye, and as he gnashed his teeth at the Asari Councilor, his displeasure at her decision was known. "It already has gone too far when they attacked a Turian colony."

Before Tevos could shout back at his claims the Salarian councilor interrupted them "I agree with Sparatus."

The Asari and Turian councilors were shocked to hear their fellow councilor in favor for retaking back Bostra seeing as how Salarians preferred to avoid war before it even starts. It was here that Valern began to explain himself. "We cannot allow another Rachni War, Tevos—it is better to stop this race now then we can ask for peace later."

Tevos was upset that not only was she outvoted, but the Salarian councilor would side with the Turians instead of their oldest allies the Asari. After the discussion was over the Turian councilor began getting the citadel fleet ready for retaking back Bostra and to teach this new race what happens when you mess with a species who has a council seat on the Citadel.

Turian Colony

BostraOrbit

UAA Leviathan-Class Dreadnought "Leviathan"

Main Bridge

It had been over ten hours since the second fleet capture the colony and began destroying all Turian planetary defenses on the planet. After the bombardment was over the Fleet began launching BREACHERs to secure an LZ so that they could start landing the marines along with the vehicles they brought with them on the planet and begin teaching these Turians what it means to fight a real war; but as expected from a militaristic species, the Turians were dug in deep for defense, and were holding the bases from soldiers that were assign to capture and acquire any information on Turian technologies.

Admiral Kastanie Drescher is looking over the reports of high ranking officers on the ground about the Turian resistance. She was not surprised by the casualties on both sides; Human-200 Turian-250. After all, the Turians were the bulk of military force for the Citadel, and they were prepared to fight them the moment they started landing troops. She then called upon Pheonix "Pheonix is there any sign of ships coming from the Relay or in the system."

Pheonix appeared next to the admiral. "Negative Admiral, there are no signs of Turian ships coming in the system and the only vessels I detect are the ones we already captured."

"I thought the Turians would mobilize by now and want to take their colony back," said Drescher as she thought about it to herself, realization had popped into her head, "the Turians must be calling for reinforcements from the Citadel council."

"There is a 99% chance the Turians would call upon the other council races to help them."

Drescher turned to face Pheonix "Are the UG mines we set up around the relay ready?"

"Yes admiral, they are."

The UG mines are a unmanned Metal Gears designed to hunt down hostile targets and self-destruct with a nuclear device.

Serpent Nebula

Widow System

Citadel Fleet

Outside of the citadel the most powerful fleet known to everyone in citadel space is gathering to retake back the Turian colony Bostra from the unknown species. The fleet is a mix of Asari cruisers and a dreadnought, Salarian frigates and cruisers, and the majority of the fleet is Turian dreadnoughts and frigates. The one leading the fleet was decided on the insistence of the Asari to let Matriarch Lidanya in control.

Lidanya was onboard her dreadnought "Athame", is currently looking over the enemy strengths along with a Turian General and a Salarian STG operative. Lidanya was amazed by what they were capable of; she was worried that the fleet might not come out of this without shedding a lot of blood. She then stopped what she was doing and went over the plan her colleagues had come up with. "All right then, the plan is to keep the enemy ships over Bostra busy while we land Citadel forces on the ground. Gelbin, your operatives' job is to acquire as much information about the unknown species as possible, but that's not all were going to throw at them: the Council has given the fleet fifty of their best SPECTRE's to help us win this fight. Let's just finish this so that it won't turn into a massacre."

As the citadel fleet gathered their full strength they begin heading to the Widow Relay and from there, five more Relays before they reached Bostra.

Bostra

Ground side

UAA Dropship

The UAA forces on Bostra were pushing the Turians back to their most secure base of operations where UAA soldiers couldn't breach unless the fleet bombarded the area—it was risky because while they would kill the Turians and make their jobs easier, it would destroy any information contained in it. It was the job of TG squad to sneak in the facility and shut down their main defenses in order to allow soldiers to move in and secure the base and capture any prisoners.

The six Cyborgs of the Thunder God squad are en-route to the base in a dropship. Thor was in command of the mission as Raiden was busy helping out the other soldiers on Bostra.

"So what's the Intel on this base?" asked Thor

"The base we're heading to is the most heavily guarded base on the planet," said Thor "according to the intel our AI's have, this base is their R&D department where they build and test new weapons. Our mission is to sneak into the base, cripple their defenses, and then open the doors for our soldiers to take control of it."

The dropship began its descent about a mile away from the bases missile turrets. The Cyborgs began walking down the ramp and on the ground, before the Dropship dropped off a Warthog. Good, now they had support, and because this was the infamous "Gauss Hog", this also meant even better firepower.

Bostra

Turian R&D Base

A Turian patrol was out on shift to keep an eye out for any possible intruders from the unidentified alien forces. "I can't believe we're being pushed back by this new species! When's the Hierarchy's going to be here and liberate us?"

Just before anyone could reply the six TGs jumped the patrol and knocked the guards out. Zeus grinned at the ease of this job as he stood atop the guard he had knocked out. "Well that was easy!"

Thor promptly hit his fellow Cyborg from behind the head lightly. "Tie them up and gag them we need to keep moving."

After the Turian patrol was dealt with, TG squad moved to the back entrance of the base. Lei Gong used her hacking software to hack the doors and went to a nearby console to get a layout of the building; when the second the information was downloaded, she uploaded the base's schematics to the HUDs of TG squad's retinal implants and decided to split up into teams of three. Thor and Lei Gong would head to the control room to shut down the bases defenses, Indra and Lei Gong were to head for the labs where they built weapons and other information that is stored there, and for Thor and Will they were to create a distraction for the Turians to buy the other teams time to complete their objectives.

The TGs were known for being a lot of things—the one thing they were known for was the fact that they used advanced bodies. The new Ezzo-Carbon Nano Tube muscle fiber system designed to vastly improve the strength, speed, agility, reflexes and durability of a Cyborg soldier. The E-CNT was capable of enhancing the Cyborgs' already-augmented physical abilities past the limit of what a Cyborg can really do; it allowed full body converted cyborg to carry twice the weight they could before. It was also capable of having Octo or Stealth, Camo equipped, or a Fortune Device MF generator.

Thor and Lei Gong had their camouflage on sneaking past or killing Turian guards on their way to the control room. When they reached their destination, they found out there were more than thirty Turians guarding the control room. Thor pulled out a flashbang grenade and rolled it into the room. When the grenade went off, the room became a big bright light blinding and deafening the Turians for a few seconds—more than enough time for Thor and Lei Gong to barge in and slice or crush the Turians with blinding speed and force. When it was over Lei Gong hooked up her brain to the Turian controls, but waited for the others' to signal before shutting down the base's defenses.

Indra and Wakį́yą were already at the labs where new weapons were being built. Wakį́yą was uploading all their information on their technology when she was finished she reported to Thor that they had finished their objective.

Thor and Lei Gong were planting explosives around the base to distract the Turians away from the shutdown of the base's defenses. When they were finished, they reported in and were far away from getting caught in the explosion. Lei Gong held the detonator in her hand, and her thumb ready to press the red button. "Alright then, time to give these Turians a show."

It wasn't long before the explosives lit the base up like fireworks on the fourth of July-alerting the Turians. At the same time Thor shutdown the defenses and alerted UAA forces of the shutdown. Outside, one could see Dropships and helicopters swarming the base with Sliders for support. The UAA soldiers moved in on the base and took control of it; there were fire fights across the base, but in the end the Turians surrendered and were put in the base's holding cells.

Citadel Fleet

1 Mass relay jump from Bostra

As the Citadel Fleet prepares their last jump through the Relay Matriarch Lidanya is trying to convince the Turian General and Salarian STG to allow her to communicate with this race before more bloodshed is spilled, but her words fell on the deaf ears as both Salarians and Turians wanted to stop this threat before it spreads.

"Matriarch, the probe detects no ships or anything on the other side of the relay," said the sensors officer, keeping an eye on the radar, "shall I send the STG scouting ship through?"

As if on cue Lidanya ordered the STG ship to proceed through the relay and scout out enemy forces.

STG Ship

A Salarian STG pilot began moving the ship to the relay and as they reached a certain distance, the Relay shot out a blue light onto the ship and propelled them through instantaneously on the other side. When the Salarians made it they were instantly hit by the UG mines the 60-megaton force was too much for the ship's kinetic barriers as it was promptly destroyed.

Asari Dreadnought

Athame

CIC

Lidanya saw the whole thing on the holo screen just before the probe was hit by an EMP. The probe's readings suggested nuclear space mines—something the Council outlawed the use of. Lidanya ordered the fleet to harvest the asteroids in the system and send them through the Relay to destroy the space mines.

It took only a few minutes to get the asteroids before sending them through the Relay.

Bostra Orbit

After ten minutes the entire Citadel fleet of 250 vessels came out of FTL near Bostra and began their attack on UAA ships. The "Leviathan" along with "Hydra" and "Scylla" fired their standard RCs and Their U-H RCs; a combination altogether fifteen RC rounds, destroying more than twenty Citadel ships in one volley. The frigates of Salarian and Turians moved in close to fire their disruptor torpedoes at UAA cruisers; its effects caused their shields to weaken allowing three Turian dreadnought and two cruisers to destroy four of them. The battle raged on for both sides, the citadel drop ships took advantage of the chaos and started to enter Bostra's atmosphere to begin landing troops.

Bostra Ground Side

UAA soldiers began fighting Citadel forces on the ground. Asari commandos, Salarian STGs, Turian soldiers, and Council specter's are giving the UAA soldiers, and BREACHERs a run for their money as platoons of both sides got into sporadic firefights.

A group of BREACHERs moved through the remains of buildings to get to a platoon of UAA soldiers pinned down by blue female aliens known as Asari. The reports they were receiving told that these aliens had some kind of telekinetic powers when a blue aura surrounded their bodies. Once he BREACHER team arrived at the scene above one of the buildings they saw the soldiers getting brutalized by the Asari commandos. They got their best snipers to begin picking them off until one of the Asari set up what looked like bubble shield to them. It was actually a biotic field that protected them from enemy weapons. The BREACHERs were about to get another volley through when the other Asari inside the barrier pulled out a missile launcher…she was about to finish them off until she was shot in the head by a Rail rifle. The BREACHERs look to where the shot came from and were glad to see a group of Cyborgs.

The Asari commando that created the barrier was shocked beyond belief that a weapon was capable of passing through her barriers and killed her fellow commandos, she was about to turn around and retreat, but was shot down by the same Cyborg.

And meanwhile in UG RAYs and REXs were wreaking havoc amongst the other CC forces. UNAS contemplated using more up-to-date Metal Gears but it seemed to be unnecessary. While the REXs were gunning them down with its Gatling guns, lasers, and missiles, or crushing them with its giant feet, the RAYs were nimbly jumping around the battlefield, vaporizing/slicing troops and artillery up with their Plasma cannons or hydraulic cutters, shooting down nearby aircrafts or missles with it automated turrets, or swiping as targets with its HF arm blades or firing its own missiles from pods insides its arm/wing/fin…things…And while that was happening they were also being attacked by RAPTORs and Gekko.

Needless to say the Turians weren't doing to well.

Bostra Orbit

Space Battle

UAA Leviathan-Class Dreadnought "Leviathan"

While the battle on the ground raged on, the UAA Second Fleet had lost eleven ships while Citadel fleet lost over thirty. Onboard the Leviathan admiral Kastanie Drescher was looking over the battle; there were cruisers and frigates that were being overwhelmed while their Space Sliders were holding their own in the dog fights.

Pheonix appeared in a damage holo-projector from the damage caused by enemy disruptor torpedoes "Admiral, I believe we should call in the cavalry before we lose any more ships."

"And here I was hoping to win this on my own," said Drescher bitterly, "well we wanted to let the Citadel Council know they're not the only ones around, call in the UAA fleet."

Around the battle "Worm Space" portals opened up and out came a mixture of all UAA member nation ships. When the Citadel fleet detected the "Worm Space" portals they were shock to see different designs of ships than the ones they were fighting. As soon as the last UAA ship came out of the portal, they began firing their U-H Rail Cannons and Plasma Cannons at the Citadel fleet. The citadel fleet did not stand a chance at the firepower of the UAA fleet some ships were destroyed the majority of them were crippled.

Bostra Ground Side

Saren Arterius, along with a platoon of Turian soldiers were moving through the rubble to get to one of the enemy's base of operations, his mission was to destroy the base and capture prisoners. Across the battlefield he was hearing reports of seven-foot-tall creatures wearing green armor taking down Asari commandos and Council SPECTREs. He had not come into contact with any of these creatures, dismissing them as mere fantasies and excuses for failure, but the reports stated that if you saw one, to not engage and retreat. "Turians don't retreat! You will only see a Turian's back once he's dead…that's our motto in Hierarchy," said Saren to himself, "and if I see one of those creatures, I'm taking him down first!"

The platoon came upon the UAA base behind the rubble of Turian buildings, Saren ordered the platoon to pull out their missile launchers and get into position. When Saren got into position, he waited five minutes for his team to alert him when they were ready, but it was past the time and he began to worry then all of a sudden something dropped behind Saren about thirty feet away. Saren aims his missile launcher and fired, scoring a direct hit as it was blown back against the wall where debris fell upon him. He could only grin in satisfaction. "These freaky are not so tough after all."

As he was walking away before enemy forces moved in on the explosion, he heard rumbling sounds coming from the debris that fell on the "A.I", Saren turned around with his eyes wide. He was surprised to see the black monster lifting a ton of debris off of him like it was nothing. Saren lifted his missile launcher and fired again, but the missile was sliced in half by the "A.I's" red sword.

Saren tried to fire another missile, but the trigger was jammed—he then reached out for his gun with his left arm; but at the same time, the creature ran closed the distance toward Saren at high speed, as he raised his HF Muramasa above his head and sliced Sarens left arm clear off of him.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" screamed Saren as he was holding were his left arm was with his right. He then looks at the black skinned monster as he lifted his old SOCOM pistol up to Saren's head until he lifted his left arm up to his ear as if he was listening to someone "Well, it seems you're in luck," said the creature, "your fleets in orbit have lost this battle, and all ground forces have surrendered I'm taking you to one of our prison camps."

Saren looked up at the creature. He could not believe it…the Turian Hierarchy had lost. "What are you?"

"My species is called 'human'. And I am Raiden of the Thunder Gods."

Bostra Orbit

As the UNAS and UAA second fleet cleaned up their destroyed ships and gathered the remaining Citadel fleet, a Salarian probe recorded the entire battle and sent it to a Salarian STG ship on the other side of the Relay. They began to plot a course back to the Citadel to show the Council the footage that had been recorded. They prayed that they would return in time to stop this madness before it escalated…

In the next chapter the UAA will finally confront the Citadel Council and we will see who if the will compromise with the Council like ever species before them or have the balls to make a deal that benefits THEM and not just the Council.

Codex Entry

BREACHERs (New info): Along with being advanced boarding parties BREACHERs are also elite shock troopers. Cyborg BREACHERs are dropped from geosynchronous orbit in specialized "Meteor" class bodies to surprise enemy forces and to attack from nearly any front.

UGs: UGs or Unmanned Gears, are Gears operated by Artificial Intelligences about as smart as a dolphin. UGs take many forms Metal Gears such as RAY, REX, UG BOMBERS, and Excelsus, or the smaller Gears such as Gekko, RAPTORS, Scarabs, and Sliders.

Space Sliders: Like the normal Slider the Space Slider is a UG piloted by an A.I, but these are about the size of an F-15 fighter jet and are specialized for Space Combat, they are also equipped with FDMFGs (Fortune Device Magnetic Field Generators).

Octo-Camo: An advanced active camouflage system that allows the wearer to imitated the pattern and texture of surfaces, similar to an octopus. Though technique its properties are more like that of the Cuttlefish, as it's camoflague ability is much more precise than the Octopus's. It also matches the background radiation and heat of the area making it completely invisible to infrared sensors.

Stealth Camo: Also an advanced active camouflage system, but instead of blending into the environment it renders the user completely invisible to the naked eye. Appearing as nothing more than a feint shimmer. But like Octo-Camo the user can still be very easily detected by infrared sensors. So far, no method has been discovered to combine the technologies into the ultimate active camo system.

Plasma Cannon: first seen in use in the early years after the Patriots were destroyed, the Plasma Cannon is the next step in direct energy weapons, though it still proving difficult to bring down to scale. Only Metal Gears and Ships can use Plasma and Laser cannons.