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Lt. Commander Adrianna waited for a brief moment before chinning her comm line to the rest of her Spartans. "Grey and blue teams, you will secure the crew quarters. Red, green, and yellow teasms, you will secure engineering. Black team and I will be securing the bridge, understand?" She called. Instantly, five cool blue lights across her HUD lit up in the position reserved for team leaders followed by eleven more in the positions for her team.
"Alright, breach on my go," Adrianna ordered, taking one instant to gather herself before giving the order.
"Go, all teams breach!"
Instantly the therrmite-composite paste on the hull below them ignited in a two meter diameter ring that burned as magnesium bright before dimming as Adrianna hopped briefly up and then down, landing on the circle which popped free with a metaslic pang as it dropped out beneath her to clang heavily on the deck below where she landed with a one ton thud at which point she moved out from the breach as she picked out the aliens around the bridge, her FLIR sensors building a picture of the room around her between lowlight and heat imaging as eleven more rapid thuds on the deck followed behind her.
As she shouted for the aliens to get down on the ground with their hands behind their heads, Adrianna heard how the software translated her message, sending out an almost guttural, barking, rasping series of noises that the crew around her hesitantly began to obey.
To be honest, she was a bit surprised, the aliens, the turians, looked like bastardized elites, maybe with that warping came less honor and more logic she considered briefly.
Then she was back to making sure the crew obeyed their commands, all but one of them had, one at what looked like a command platform. With a silent motion for cover, Adrianna advanced on the alien till she was a scant five meters away at which point she questioned him. "Why have you not complied with the given order?"
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The alien's breach into his ship had been as sudden as when the lights had gone out. Firsdt had been the flash of light that had left their dark accustomed eyes unable to see as suddenly creature after creature had suddenly dropped into the hull behind the cut out piece, thudding about the bridge of the Pride of the Ancestors.
For Captain Dorrell everything was going as expected, except the order from one of them to get down on the ground. All of his bridge crew complied, though he himself did not. One of the heavy giants approached him, he could feel the deck reverberaste with their boot steps.
"Why have you not complied with the given order?"
The question was valid, but as Dorrell finally got a look at his questioner, he felt his mandibles flatten in fear as his eyes widened.
It was huge. Even if it was wearing battle armor, the creature was still taller than a krogan. Pearlescent green plates of armor gleamed over a convoluted black suit beneath it. Most disconcerting though was the face, or rather where the face should have been.
Rather than a face the armored giant boasted polarized gold visor that left him completely disconcerted at the lack of facial features.
"If I am to be executed, I will be standing when it happens," Dorrell finally forced himself to reply.
The armored giant aimed at him down what he assumed was some form of rifle before a reply in turian echoed from its helmet.
"Our orders were to secure your ship. Having you and your crew complying with orders merely establishes certain authority."
Ammen paused as he mulled over that answer before he nodded saying, "Very well then, I Captain Ammen Dorrell do hereby surrender the Pride of the Ancestors to your military under the conditions of proper treatment for myself and my crew."
There was a pause as if the figure were communicating with some higher authority before it spoke again saying, "Understood. I Lt. Commander Adrianna do hereby accept your surrender."
Adrianna. That was a weird name by council species standards, but he was not going to judge the beings accepting his surrender on the chance of it earning them ill will.
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"All teams, report status," Adrianna called through mike. She needed to know if the lack of resistance was real, or if the turian soldiers in question were actual surrendering.
There was a pause the length of a double heart beat before blue light proceeded to flicker on in status ready for each of her team leaders. "Any resistance?" She called out, only to receive a series of no ma'am's in response.
Cuing her external mic, Adrianna spoke to the alien captain before her. "Very well, have your soldiers move to somewhere from which they can be taken off ship. You will be transferred elsewhere as prisoners of war," she said, listening to the gruff translation issue from her helmet before the captain nodded and began issuing commands to his crew that translated to something along the lines of what Adrianna had ordered, sending the sailors heading towards their shuttle bay.
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"Admiral Chitose, Lt. Commander Adrianna of the Spartans reports that the turian ship has been taken without resistance. She seemed disappointed," a femine voice called from a holotank as light resolved into the form a woman in white plate armor.
"Thank you Joan, anything else I need to know about the situation?" The admiral responded.
"Yes ma'am," the Turians are currently being prepped to be brought over by shuttle to the fleet's prisoner ships. Besides that update it was found during study that the turian ship's drive core uses a design based around an element they call eezo which has a negative or positive mass index depending upon the charge applied to it. As a result of its unpredictability, we are unsure if it would be safe to take the ship with us through slip space." The AI responded.
"Very well, speak to Rear Admiral Shearton about-" whatever else she had planned to say was cut off as Joan brought up a tactical display showing the space some three thousand kilometers distant as a slip space portal even larger than the Temerity's appeared before suddenly disgorging a trio of CSO class super carriers, nine CAS class assault carriers, three dozen DDS class carriers, thirty RCS class armored cruisers, sixty-four Reverence class cruisers, over two hundred CCS class battle cruisers, and nearly a thousand destroyers and frigates.
But the slip space portal wasn't done yet.
As Vice Admiral Kongo Chitose watched, the portal swelled and suddenly a ship that stretched the imagination with its size emerged.
Nearly sixty kilometers long, fifteen kilometers tall, and over twenty kilometers wide, the mindbendingly massive CFS class Fleet Carrier outclassed every ship and every creation the UNSC and the Sangheili had bar two, both of which were reserved for the personal orders and directions of their respective races' Commander and Chief.
Knowing the monster hanging in the center of its glittering fleet of ships was on their side was a tremendous relief to Admiral Chitose.
"Admiral, we're being hailed by the leader of the Sangheili fleet from the CFS class Resolution's Duty," Joan said from the side.
"Put them on screen Joan," Chitose said calmly, wondering which Sangheili was in charge of the astounding fleet before her.
As Joan complied, a massive image filled the forward view screen, displaying a Sangheili in royal purple armor with long cape draping from his shoulders to sweep the floor. As Chitose locked eyes with the Sangheili, she instantly recognized the severed mandibles on the left side of his face as she gave a slim smile before saying, "Supreme Commander Rtas 'Vadumee, I'm thankful for the overwhelming response."
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Alright people, I'm still off in Florida so I don't have a computer and thus this chapter is much shorter and entirely iphone written. As such, please do try to be understanding about the shortness and any mistakes I've made.