Author's Note:

Sorry that it's been so long it's been real busy for me this last few months.

i hope you like this new chapter, I've been working on it for the last few days.

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Also should probably date that I do not own any of the fictional works used in this story, except those I create in this story.


Chapter 4: The Spectre, the Student, and the Con Artist

Deep in the heart of the Citadel its esteemed councillors were discussing recent Batarian Hegemony slave raids. A Hegemony fleet had recently attacked a Turian and Batarian Federation colony. There had even been slave raids on krogan, asari and salarian colonies. The Hegemony was the final remnant of the Batarians old government after they had lost the homeworld to the federation 320 years ago. The remaining high class batarians proceeded to take their remaining slaves and fleets and fled into the Terminus. They were currently speaking with the Federation ambassador who was calling for war against their former masters. Then the councillors had received reports on the incident at the Relay 314 partner relay.

Both the Councillors and the Federation president had decided to end the talks to deal with the new information as it concerned both of their respective Governments.

The councillors had moved into a private briefing-room used for sensitive information not meant for the public.

"You're saying the Agathe was destroyed!" Sparatus the turian councillor asked the C-Sec officer sent to inform them.

"Yes the Agathe was rammed into by a superdreadnought." the agent nervously informed Sparatus.

"The ship must have been massive to have so easily torn through an asari cruiser." The Salarian councillor said.

Fedin Aemala was an old but experienced Dalatrass at 36 years of age. But both Sparatus and Tevos knew she was inexperienced with an unprecedented event like this. Tevos and Sparatus were both more used to the idea of war than she was.

The situation was not helped by the scans that had been analyzed by C-Sec.

The alien colony found was small but the 12km space station around it required massive industrial capacity to build it on such a small colony,

Fortunately for the Council, the fleet was told to hold their fire, preventing the outbreak of another intergalactic war.

"I believe we may need to plan for peace but prepare for war." Tevos said.

"That seems quite uncharacteristic of you Tevos." Aemala plainly stated.

Unlike Sparatus or Aemala, Tevos was around for the Geth war, the Batarian revolution, and the Citadel-Terminus war. She had personal experience with galaxy wide wars.

Tevos hoped it was simply a freak accident rather than an intentional attack. Fortunately the ship had seemingly stopped in place, and began to send a signal toward the fleets Flagship. The fleet was currently decoding the signal so they could communicate between the two fleets more easily.

"What about the spectre we sent with the fleet, is he still alive?" Sparatus inquired

"Oh, Saren Arterius. Yes his suit sensors indicate he is still alive and with fairly minor injuries. The Asari C-Sec agent answered.

"Has he been picked up by one of our ships." Sparatus asked.

The Asari officer grew quiet and became increasingly nervous at the Turians question.

"Unfortunately no, he-he was picked up by the unknown superdreadnought." The Officer nervously stammered.

The councilors were stunned by the news, that one of their rising stars had been captured by a potential enemy force.

"That reminds me, what data was found on the dreadnought that destroyed the Agathe?" The Salarian councilor asked.

"The ship measured in at 6 kilometers in length and 1.5 kilometers in width, does not use an eezo drive, and it's main gun is believed to be a directed energy weapon of massive power,and when it arrived registered as a gravitational anomaly." The Asari informed the Council

"By the goddess it's larger than the Destiny Ascension" Tevos gasped.

"That's impossible, Element Zero is the only practical method found for faster than light travel and shields." Sparatus snarled.

"Unless…" Aemala murmured.

"Unless what!" Sparatus indignantly replied.

"I believe based on the reports that this species has discovered some of the anomalous gem ruins scattered across the galaxy or perhaps they may even be their original inhabitants." The Councillor answered.

"STG has found in their old damaged databases coordinates that lead to a planet in the direction of the Relay 314 partner Relay that was being heavily colonized, based on the small ruins being found on most of our homeworlds, it's possible a local species took advantage of the ruins as we had and discovered a new form of FTL travel." Aemala speculated.

"That would be a possibility,if unlikely." Sparatus conceded.

"If this is true,it would send shockwaves across the galaxy." Tevos said.

Gem ruins were what allowed the Council races to grow as strong as they did, especially after the Krogan Rebellions. The Protheans were powerful, but the feats of this recent civilization were far more impressive based on the data acquired but most of their technology had been lost to time. Ruins had been found throughout the galaxy, including deep inhospitable canyons dug onto the surface of multiple Council species ships remained Mass effect based but ballooned in size from the Rachni war era 1km dreadnoughts, to 2.5km dreadnoughts becoming the minimum size. But unlike the long dead protheans, the Council was far more worried about this species. All that was found was the symbol of the absent empire, a diamond shaped insignia, with white,blue,yellow, and pink sections. The ruins made most of known space militaries paranoid, as the youngest ruins were only abandoned about 5450 standard galactic years ago.

"We must establish peace with them at all cost." Tevos pleaded to the other councilors.

"I very much doubt that we we could win a war, if this technology is as advanced as we think it is." Sparatus reasoned.

"Perhaps the Spectre onboard the superdreadnought can act as a diplomat." The Salarian councilor supposed.

"I suppose all we can do is wait and hope for the best." Tevos resignedly said.

Sparatus remained silent, pondering on what to do next.


"Hey kid wake up, you doing okay." a raspy but deep voice spoke to Priyanka.

Priyanka was slowly waking up after the crash with the alien ship. Within a few minutes she opened her eyes to see a man standing over her tending to a huge cut on her arm.

He was around one inch taller than her 5'11 stature and looked to be in his forties. He had a fairly large orange nose, and massive ears, with brown hair that was rapidly graying.

He was wearing a cheap suit, and a red fez with a strange symbol on it.

"What the fuck just happened, and who the hell are you!" Priyanka exclaimed.

"First you just took an alien space pod to the face, and second I'm the guy who just saved you from bleeding out, so you're welcome." The man rudely answered.

"What!" Priyanka confusedly exclaimed.

"Well just so you know who saved your life, I'm Stanl- err Ford Pines, the proud owner of the Mystery Shack in Gravity Falls,Oregon." The Man quickly introduced himself.

Stanley Pines had been looking for parts to rebuild his twin brother's dimensional portal,when he got stuck in a cargo shipping crate. The Frigate sized ship he was trapped in brought it's cargo to the Kali leaving him to wait until someone opened the crate, He was broken out of the crate by the impact. While looking for a way to escape he found the young student unconscious near a large Pod that had penetrated the ship. Fortunately the dreadnought's shields kept the atmosphere from being vented.

"This is really a big mess isn't it." Stan Pines sighed.

"Uh…yeah." The young student agreed with him

The young lady quickly came to a realization after several moments.

"Hey, wait a minute what the hell are you doing on this ship you're not a guest or part of the crew." Priyanka exclaimed.

"I got myself stuck inside a crate until the crash broke me free" Stan answered her, if with some small omissions.

"O-oh okay." Priyanka answered off put by his blunt reply.

A chittering sound was then heard from the unknown Pod.

A groan echoed throughout the small room.

"What was that." Both spoke simultaneously unnerved.


On Tuchanka the king of all Krogan had just received the news of first contact with

a "new" species.

A large Krogan in red Armor standing in at over 2.5 meters tall was sitting atop his throne of rubble kept maintained after becoming king over 200 years ago.

"Tell me whelp where was this new species found." Urdnot Wrex asked the young Krogan informant.

"The scout fleet discovered this new species in area close to Batarian territory." The smaller Krogan answered.

"Huh, guess that the Terrans finally decided to come out and meet the neighbors instead of hide in the shadows." The king of all krogan muttered.

"What's a Terran?" The Krogan youngster confusedly asked.

"The Terrans are what gave me the drive to restore our people. We need to start preparing, I think things are going to get interesting again, if the Terrans are coming, the Reapers pets aren't too far behind."


Back on the Kali, Priyanka and Stanley were unnerved by a sound coming from the alien escape Pod. Priyanka however also found the noise to be familiar to her.

"I think I know what that noise was." The student hesitantly said.

"Well spit it out kid!" Stan growled.

"I read it in some old files from the Geth war, a species that the Quarians once had contact with called the Turians sounded just like that sound." Priyanka exasperatedly answered him.

"I think he or she may be hurt." Priyanka worriedly spoke.

Priyanka quickly began to approach the pod and began to lightly jump and float over debris near the pod until she reached the door.

"You're an airbender." The older man blurted out in surprise.

"Do you always point out the obvious, Stan." The young women quipped.

The young women began to put her hands on the pod door and tried to open it.

"The Pods door seems to be stuck shut." Priyanka muttered.

She moved as if to rip out the pods door.

"Wait you're not seriously going to rip that door out it has to weight like half a ton." Stan exclaimed.

A large "RRRRIIPP!" was heard as the pod door was ripped straight off its hinges and thrown 2 Meters to the left with a large boom as it hit the floor of the bay.

"What the hell!" Stan yelped.

"Now is not the time Stan!" Priyanka chided.

The young women carefully pulled someone out from the Pod. The being resembled a mix between a dinosaur and a bird, with its skin being slightly metallic in nature. It had two mandible like structures forming a sort of some form of armor over its body, the being appeared to have a broken leg, and bruises over its body.

"I don't have the experience in this species biology to heal these injuries." Priyanka muttered as she looked the alien over. An dim orange light shines through the room as she activated her omni tool to send a message.

"Someone with more experience with dextro amino species should be coming soon." Priyanka quickly spoke as she placed the turian in an area relatively free of debris.

"Who's coming?" Stan asked

The sound of heavy machinery and electronics quickly echoed from the other side of the bay. From the shadows of the darkened bay, a humanoid figure emerged. A machine with a flashlight head emerged, the robot had two limbs that ended in a two fingered and single thumbed hand, it's legs were backward canted similar to a dog or a large bird. Its body was a silvery metallic yet had rose pink outlines, and a rose design with a pink square in the center placed where a human heart would be.

"Do you humans require assistance from this platform?" The revealed Geth queried the two humans.


Saren was startled awake as he was blinded by a bright light over his head.

Spirits what just happened? Saren thought as he lay semi immobile in what appeared to be a medical bay. As he looked around the room he noticed three unusual and alarming things. On a small seat to the left of his gurney he found an unknown alien appearing asleep in it. Strongly resembling an asari, the alien he presumed female, had medium brown skin, and long dark fur that went down to her or its shoulders. She also like the Asari had two large lumps over its chest likely used for a similar purpose and wide hips. With this data he presumed that this alien was a female of the new species.

Far more alarming however, was that the bright light that woke him was not from a medical exam light as he believed but something much worse. Standing over him stood a Geth platform standing in at around 2 Meters in height, it's single eye followed his every movement as it watched over him.

The third and strangest new sight in this unknown medical bay was what appeared to be a medic. That would not be unusual in and of itself if the medic's species was not presumed extinct. The medic was wearing a purple environmental suit, without a helmet, revealing that the medic was a male quarian. His skin was a light purple color, with fluorescent lines across his face and neck, and slightly glowing eyes. His head was covered in fur like material like most quarians once had. He was currently looking at data on a monitor near the entrance of the room.

"Arterius-Spectre has awoken." A robotic voice spoke, interrupting Sarens inner thoughts.

Saren's translator detected the language as a dialect of Khelish and translated it into Turian.

"Geth!" Saren screamed as tried to warn the two other beings in the room.

"We are Geth, Yes." The platform answered.

The alien he has seen asleep quickly stirred awake. She yawned quietly as she stretched her arms upwards and then rubbed her eyes as she awoke.

"Wwwas going on? The female groggily asked.

"Aaah you've finally woken up hmm." The Quarian States as he turned from the monitor to face toward the injured Turian.

"I believe introductions are in order yes." The Quarian added to his previous statement.

"What in the spirits is going on here!" The turian confusedly bellowed our as the strangeness of his situation fully dawned on him.

"Well Priyanka here called for help before you could die of your injuries, when your heavy frigate was destroyed by the impact." The quarian began to explain.

Saren moves to a sitting position, and turned to the newly named alien, who shyly waved at him from he seat.

"You were the help yes?" Saren quietly asked the medic.

"Legion and I yes." The medic answered.

Saren turned toward the Geth that had move toward the entrance of the room.

"Are you saying this geth saved my life." The specter asked in disbelief

The quarian quickly answered in the affirmative to Saren's question.

"Oh right I must give you my name, I am Zek'Zorah vas Kali, and this is Stan Pines." He pointed to the now open door, as an older looking brown furred male alien walked in.

"Uh hi." The man awkwardly responded.

"Their species is Human if you wished to know." The talkative quarian rambled on.

"Arterius was it?" The human female nervously asked, fidgeting a bit in her seat.

"It's Saren." The turian responded.

"Pardon me?" Priyanka answered.

"Arterius is my family name, Saren is my actual name." The spectre politely informed the confused human.

"O-oh." Priyanka stuttered out.

"My injuries, how are they and how long has it been?" Saren queried.

"Oh I can answer that." The human female said.

"It's been one of your standard galactic hours, and your injuries should be fully healed." The Human female quickly and efficiently answered Saren's question."

"Just an hour, it would days at least to recover from my injuries." The shocked turian blurted out.

"Hey can you stand?" Stan burst into the conversation between the two young adults.

"I believe so,why?" Saren questioned the older human suspiciously.

"Because the admiral of this ship and who is the kids great grandmother is asking for you." Stan exasperatedly answered.

Saren sighed and and had started on removing the sheet covering before he heard a small "eeeep!". Saren looked into the direction of the women who was covering her eyes.

"What?" Saren flatly asked.

"You're not wearing any clothes." Priyanka answered with a fierce blush on her face.

"We should give you some time to change into your Armor." The medic ended th brief awkward silence that followed.

"Affirmative." The geth designated as Legion agreed.

Several minutes later the two humans,turian, and geth left the bay leaving the quarian medic behind, heading toward the ships CIC. To speed up the travel time they entered into magnetically accelerated transport pod.

"The technology of your species is incredible." Saren complimented. As they ode in the pod he saw the view of the main gun, and the vast hallways that dotted the ship. The ship had many of what appeared to be veins throughout the ship. Saren thought the veins use was to transport power from the energy core of the ship.

"The technology of the Crystal Systems Alliance is pretty advanced." Priyanka stated as she watched the areas the pod passed by.

"I do have many questions I would very much want to know?" The turian insistently asked.

"Alright shoot." Priyanka said.

The turian expression changes from a curious look, to a confused one as he heard her reply.

"You want me to shoot you?" The young spectre questioned.

"What NO, it's just a figure of speech!" Priyanka exclaimed.

"Oh." Saren flatly said.

"Now what were you going to ask?" Priyanka questioned attempting to change the subject.

"About the geth and the quarians, and how the quarians aren't extinct or enslaved?" Saren answered.

Priyanka slumped in her seat and sighed.

"Well it's a bit of a long story." she murmured out.

"It started about 358 years ago, when an experiment with a Relay went wrong and sent human ships barreling right into a war. The conflict wasn't as simple as your people believed. It was a civil war between the pro-geth civilians and the anti-geth government. We ended up having to intervene when the old Quarian Technocracy began using nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on the rebelling population.

Regardless of our intervention, it wasn't enough however as only 90 millions quarians survived the war. The geth helped rebuild the quarian homeworld and its colonies and joined the Systems Alliance as new member nations." Priyanka explained as much as she could in the time they had left.

"We are here." The monotone voice of Legion broke into the short history lesson as they arrived at the CIC. The three beings exited the pod and arrived to the CIC door. It was odd, no indication of how it was opened, except for a hand imprint in the center. Priyanka went in front as she confidently placed her hand of the symbol. The door would then seemingly melt away into nothingness with a chiming sound. To Saren this door opening mechanism was unlike anything he had ever seen. Saren and Co entered into the room, the room was hive of activity as officers did their jobs in the room. Sitting in the command chair in a turian like design, women who looked remarkably alike to an older Priyanka if slightly shorter. However she had fair bit more definition in comparison to her, and her eyes instead of being a dark brown color, were a shade of grey,almost silver eyes. She had a large scar going over her right eye, and multiple smaller scars in the few areas not covered by her officers uniform. She had a certain aura of intensity around her. Saren could tell from her eyes that this was a human who had done and seem much,far beyond anything he had yet done.

The human quickly smiled gently, at the four arrivals.

"Come sit." The admiral asked. However to Saren it wasn't a suggestion, it was an order. As Saren sat in front of the general, he was able to look out into monitors that show the outside of the ship, and saw the debris of the Cruiser he was once assigned on. A chill ran down Saren's spine as he saw the hole where his escape pod crashed into began to repair itself as if there has never been a crash to begin with.

"This is first contact between our governments yes,spectre? the admiral asked.

"This is the first I've ever heard of a human." Saren answered in the affirmative.

"Now what is likely to occur here after this little incident? the admiral questioned the spectre.

"Most likely several diplomats will be sent to negotiate with your government, and to establish a relationship with your species, and then an invitation as a associate member of the Council." Saren honestly answered the women.

Stan who had remained quiet throughout the trip, suddenly stiffened, and following him so did the admiral.

"What's wron—." Saren was interrupted as the ship began to shake and rumble.

"We are under attack." The lone geth platform states.

"Way to state the obvious Legion." Priyanka snapped appearing quite nervous and anxious as the ship shook."

"What in spirits is going on!" Saren roared.

Saren quickly turned to the monitors and paled as he witnessed close to two thousand ships suddenly leave from FTL. He saw dozens of turian separatist cruisers with their wolfpacks of frigates and corvettes. What looked to be Geth cruisers and even two light dreadnoughts were scattered across the full on battle fleet. Multiple older council vessels were scattered amongst the fleet. But one ship measured in at 3 kilometers in length and resembled a massive humanoid arm, colored a black that appeared to absorb all the light around it. The fleet exuded pure hostility across the void of space. All two thousand ships immediately focused fired onto the Kali. Alarms began to ring across the ship, as more ships emerged from FTL in a formation around the Kali.

Saren was in shock as saw dozens of heavy Cruiser vessels and dreadnoughts emerge to protect the Kali, hundreds of frigates also jumped into existence alongside expeditionary fleet itself began to open fire on the unknown fleets,considering them a larger danger than the Kali.

"The Heretics have invaded." The Geth ominously stated