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"speech"

"radio/hologram/etc. communication"

Ship Names

'thoughts'

You get the point.

Guest: Well guess what, he is Turian in this story. Big shocker I know.

Blaze: Basically Mass Effect summed up.

Axza95: Well that is because only those 4 chose to join the Sangheili.

Chorus1326: As I explained in the chapter after that, The ship was only equipped with an Eezo drive and was controlled by the AI.

Mark1: We shall see.

Dragon Lord: And we shall see if he finds it.

"Another Section of Military structure that Humanity changed heavily was Space Combat. Where the turian fleet relied on its dreadnought and cruisers to finish off the enemy ships. Human fleets are far more flexible and dangerous. The smallest ships observed in a human fleet was as large at 300 meters, further reports found this to be a Human destroyer with the mainstay of their navy the 'Frigate' coming up at around 500 meters with several designs ranging in size from 100 up to 200 meters difference. These 2 ship types are packed with weapons of various sizes. As observed with the Skyllian Blitz, human ships have large amounts of missiles and torpedoes with them that prove far too numerous to destroy. If they don't outright destroy the ship they will at the very least heavily damage it and take it out of combat. The main guns on the Frigates are several times more powerful then even the main gun of a standard turian dreadnought and was observed taking out a Batarian Dreadnought in a single shot.

Human Cruisers are advised to be left alone and not attacked at all costs unless a numbers advantage of at least 4:1 are present. These ships are dotted with Weapon stations, Missile pods and CIWS systems that will destroy anything short of a space station on their own.

Human Dreadnought are to advised to be attacked with atleast a number superiority of 40:1. These behemoths of ships are flying weapons. The standard Human dreadnought comes in at about 4-5 kilometers and is dotted with weapons, its main cannon has never been observed to be fired as its secondary armament was enough to deal with any force the Batarians have managed to throw at it.

Human Battlecruisers come in at around 2.5 Kilometers and while not possessing as big of a main weapon as the Human Dreadnought is speculated to have, it is still very dangerous. Its surface is dotted with weapons emplacements and it is advised to attack the ship with a 1:15 advantage.

Lastly Human Carriers. The Carrier concept was and still is rather foreign to us and the rest of council space. These ships are designed to carry numerous space fighters abord and deploy them when in combat. The space fighters themselves are larger, better protected and highly dangerous than anything in council space. They have been observed taking down ships on their own by crippiling the ships engines and opening fire on its bridge. The carrier stays behind covered by a dedicated frigate force that protects it at all times and never moves without them. This new ship type is declared very dangerous and not to be attacked without taking out its fighter complement and its escort ships first"

-STG report on Human space forces.

Data Corrupted, Unknown Location, Data corrupted.

Cold.

Cold was all he could feel right now. The unmistakable cold that penetrated even his armor and body glove under it. The cold of Cryo stasis. But if he could feel it right now then it meant one thing. "Wake me when you need me".

His promise was being called upon right now. Soon he could see again the deteriorating interior of his tomb. The Cryo bay of UNSC Forward Unto Dawn. In the left corner of his eye he spotted her and it pained him to see her right now.

There on small podium she was standing. Constantly red flickering present in her avatar. As he opened his pod he spoke for the first time in an unknown amount of time. "Cortana, what is happening"

He soon found it was the wrong thing to ask as instead of just one voice like he remembered, 3 distorted voices sounded as the flickering of her avatar got faster and faster

"After all this time, he asks this?!"

"Hahaha, that's what you deserve!"

"Silence you two. You should know better!"

As her flickering subsided to before he asked his question a single voice answered, however it wasn't how he remembered it at all. "W- W- W- We g- g- g- got someth- th- thing incoming- g- g-."

He further pressed, this wasn't like cortana to keep information away and answer this vague "What is incoming?"

She answered in her distorted voice " ship" her avatar flickered away and, in her place, a flickering model of a ship that looked like a flying insect appeared. "Unknown- known- known origin, i- i- i- cant say anything besides that- that- that."

He took cortanas chip out of the console and put it in his helmet as he planned to go to the secondary bridge to get a better look at where they were. As he put the chip inside of his helmet Pain hit him. As if he was being struck by a lighting. Pain coming from his neural lance.

He fell to one knee and cortana spoke again "J- J- John! Are you alright -right- right."

As she spoke the pain disappeared as if it never existed in the first place. He stood up and replied "Im fine cortana. Lets see where we are" and so he took off to the secondary bridge where hopefully they would get a better look at where they are.

It took him a surprising 30 minutes to get to the bridge, he found that as he tried to go faster or use more force he felt unimaginable pain coursing through his body with many hushed voices either snickering, lauching or chastising the other voices. There he lowered the window covers and what he saw shocked him. It wasn't one ship that was incoming, it was an entire armada he counted 90 before he stopped doing so. Behind those ships was a thing he only heard about once and saw a hologram of once.

A Shield World.

No sooner that his eyes landed on it it opened up and started sucking them and the ships inside. As he was sucked with the force to break through the windows he slowly started loosing his hearing and all he could hear was the distorted voice of cortana yelling his name "J- J- JOHN!"

His vision was dark his hearing was returning but he was fighting the urge to fall asleep and with every passing second he was loosing to it. He could hear voices off in the distance.

"Don't- Don't- Don't- come closer!" yelled a voice that was similar to cortana.

And then a voice as if it was coming from inside of his head said in a heavy tone "Silence ancilla. Lest you cause more harm to the reclaimer then you already have"

"Don't you touch John- John- John-!"

"Understand that the only reason you aren't terminated yet is because of the reclaimers connection to you. But known that I will do what is necessary and will not be stopped by your primitive design" as the last words were spoken, he lost to the fatigue and fell asleep.

2584/2174CE July 5th, Amada System, Omega Nebula, UNSC Slight of Hand

"Exiting Slipspace in 3, 2, 1" reported the Helms Officer as they reverted back to real space upon leaving the Slipspace rift.

Captain Taylor was quick to give orders to his bridge crew "Communication, work with Navigation and find me the source of the signal" It has been 2 days since they passed the monitor adequately called 'floating lightbulb' by Admiral Drescher, over to UNSC Puppeteer and have been searching all over the Omega Nebula as their first spot for UNSC Leningrad with the signal originating from the Omega Nebula and the region around it.

A minute passed then another and another until someone said something "Captain, LADAR is detecting something behind the ice encased planet" said the Sensors officer

He was quickly followed by the communications officer "I am detecting the SOS message of the Leningrad behind the planet however there is another signal coming from the same position, I don't recognize the pattern"

Jacob gave out orders "Helms bring us in closer, I want weapons hot and make sure we are cloaked. Cross reference that signal with Citadel signals. Maybe it's a pirate or slaver ship"

As the prowler moved closer they cleared the planet and the sensors officer reported "Confirming. UNSC Leningrad detected, a…weird ship is docked at it, length 700 meters."

Jacob thought for a moment 'weird?' "Bring it up on screen" he said and the display screen showed both ships. Docked to the cruiser was a ship covered in rocks "What the hell is that"

A new voice responded "As the sensors officer said, it's a ship" Jacob turned around to see the person who talked and found the armored giant with camo webbing on his armor.

"Spartan, good to have you finally join us" said Jacob not too happy about having the spartan on his ship.

Before the spartan could respond the communications officer yelled out "Sir! We got UNSC neural lance signals coming from inside of the alien ship. All signals report that they are unconscious. Detecting signals on the Leningrad most are still in cryo while some are unconscious and other are very much awake before going unconscious!"

So they weren't friendly, that was enough for Jacob to decide on the next turn of events. "Communications, send priority message to FLEETCOM, reinforcements required, unknown ship kidnaping crew of UNSC Leningrad alongside its civilian refugees and Spartans"

The communications officer replied with a simple "Message sent"

Taylor turned to the spartan "grab your weapon, we need you on the Leningrad as soon as possible, Marines[1] will be right behind you" the spartan didn't respond as he turned around to walk out.

As the spartan left Taylor turned back to his crew. "Prep the pelicans[2] and tell the Marines to get ready, when the Spartan clears the LZ I want the marines right behind him."

"Approaching the Hangar, prep for landing." Reported the Pelican pilot as the transport flew into the hangar of the Leningrad followed by a thump signaling that they have landed. The pilot reported "Touch down, Goodluck spartan" as Jun got out and the pelican flew back out.

Jun turned on his night vision as the hangar was shrouded in darkness. He scanned the area before opening up a comms channel to the prowler "Captain, the hangar is clear, no sight of any alien or human in here, the doors leading further into the ship have been forced open but everything else including the equipment is in its position"

"Copy that spartan, the marines are being send to the hangar, continue on this path" as the captain finished his Map got updated showing a path to the closest cryobay that still had was untouched. "We are detecting UNSC neural lance signals from this cryobay, we need you to wake them up and get them armed before sending them back to the hangar"

Jun stood up and walked through the breached door and entered a dark, deserted, hallway even his night vision struggling to light the area up further then 20 meters. He slowly starte walking with his weapon at the ready until he came up on a open door to a crew quarter.

He quickly entered it and scanned the room finding a datapad that was still working and started reading.

"We did it, we actually did it. We got off reach without a hitch, well almost without a hitch. As we were leaving orbit we saw the Pillar of Autum take a taskforce of covi ships behind them, poor bastards, may god have mercy on them."

"We weren't in the clear as we though, a damn CCS Battlecruiser followed us. We will continue random jumps until the spartans we got off reach are ready to deploy, the captain is saying he has the perfect plan on how to deal with the fucker"

"Its official, we are fucking stuck. Our captain decided that offering us any chances at survival included sacrificing our Slipspace drive. He forgot to think that the Battlecruiser also has its own. The spartans moved the drive unto the ship and got out of there, when they detonated the damn thing the covie drive also went super nova. The damn rift was bigger then we expected and we got taken with the battlecruiser, or what remains of it. Apparently exploding Slipspace drives are bad when they happen inside of the ship, who knew?"

"Navigation got our rough position pinpointed and it isn't looking good. That damn Slipspace rift threw us out in the Norther corner of the galaxy, on the other fucking side from earth where the fight will take place. We are entering cryo tomorrow and pray for the best that maybe if the UNSC somehow win, they will get to us.
They will right?"

As he finished reading the datapad he put it down and continued out of the room and down the hallway to the cryobay. If what the datapad said was correct then they would have been in cryo for about 30 years, give or take. Enough time for something to go bad as it's the case right here with an unknown ship docked at the cruiser.

As he got closer to the Cryobay he heard something, insect like noises. 'This isn't right, Insects out here?' he thought to himself. As he listened further he determined the noises to be coming out of the direction of the cryo chamber. He moved quicker to find out what it was and as he got closer the sound just grew louder and louder until he found out what it was.

A Human sized Walking Cockroach. 5 of them. 3 of them working on the cryo pods while the other 2 were carrying a human that has some sort of fly on itself to a pod before putting him in it. Seeing this it was enough for him to decide on the course of action as he quickly entered the bay and opened fire with his DMR giving out 5 shots each making contact with the cockroaches head exploding in a brown fluid.

As they fell dead he approached the weird pod that they were laying the Humans into. He found the pod to be filled with 2 Humans, both Navy personnel more then likely the ship crew. He noticed the bug having bitten into the skin of the human and both of them not moving so he ripped the bug out and immediately noticed the muscles of the human to relax before he shot up taking a very deep and sudden breath.

Jun noticed the bug struggeling in his hand trying to get back to the human he took him from so he crushed it in his hand as the man started getting out of the weird pod.

" *gasp* -ahhh, spartan thank god. Do you have any idea what these things are or want?"

"No"

"damn." He sat down on the floor leaning on the pod "You don't look like one of the ones we picked up from Reach so I presume you came to rescue us to get back to fighting the covies, Chief Enginner Adams, at your service spartan"

"Chief engineer, the war is over for over 30 years. We found your signal a few weeks ago"

The engineer looked at the spartan dumbfounded "I didn't know spartans joked, so what year is it really?"

"2584, the war ended 31 years ago, we won if you can call it that"

The engineer looked at the spartan for a moment before looking down at his knees before starting crying. Jun gave him a while as to collect his thought and emotions before speaking again "Chief engineer I understand it is a lot to take in but time is of the essence now, as you saw we have these aliens on the Leningrad and I have a task to rescue the crew and civilians on it. A Squad of marines is on its way just 5 minutes away from here, I need you to stay here until they arrive and re awake the rest here" The engineer just nodded as he kept sobbing

Jun walked over to the pod and grabbed the other pad from the other human also crushing it before he left the bay to move to the next one. As he moved to the one where the ships marines should be kept he got contacted by Captain Taylor "Spartan, the marines report encountering some weird and I quote "Cockroach walking motherfuckers" be on the lookout and kill them if you encounter them"

"I have encountered them myself captain, sending over the helmet recording" as he send it the captain was silent for 2 minutes as he watched it and jun walked closer to the next cryo bay.

"Command will just love this, you did good spartan continue while I request further reinforcements."

Jun didn't need to be told twice as he neared the cryo bay where the marines and other ground personnel should be located. Before he entered he received a ping from the Marines that the first cryo bay has been cleared out by the marines, the personnel there taken back to the pelican alongside a body of these things.

As he entered he saw 4 aliens trying to open a pod and he quickly dispatched them before moving on to opening the pod himself. As the frost cleared and the vapor disapated he saw a marine fall to his knees as he puked out some of the cry fuild. He looked around and noticed the spartan quickly standing up and saluting with the speed of the turtle as he was still recovering from cryo.

"At ease soldier, I need you to grab a weapon from the locker and get to opening the other pods fast, we got aliens abord and I cant spare much time"

The soldier nodded running to the weapons locker in the room and grabbing a magnum before moving to the other end of the room and starting to open up the pods.

As Jun walked over to the pod next to the one he first opened he saw the armor he never thought he would see again. Opening it up he waited for a moment as the individual took his bearings before speaking to him. "Noble-3, sitrep"

Smiling behind his helmet he responded to his friend "Walking bugs on the ship kidnaping people. Also me being send to save all of you yet again"

"Laugh it up Jun, start over with Six I will get kat"

Still smiling Jun walked over to where Six's pod was and opened a channel to captain Taylor "Captain, Spartan team Noble found, currently awakening them and the Marines in cryo bay #2"

"Copy that spartan, Command responded, a portion of the 5th Fleet is on its way, ETA 12 Hours with the rest of the 5th moving behind it ETA 36 hours. Once you awake that cryo bay gather up volountiers from the Marines and get going to the enemy ship and disable its engines we cant allow it to leave"

"Copy that" he finished talking as Six started waking up and nodding to Jun "Still as silent as ever six. Good to have you back" He moved unto emil as carter got moving to George

He then proceeded to wait until everyone was awake and told them the news about the war and their current situation. Everyone awake volunteered for the mission ahead of them.

2584/2174CE July 6th, Amada System, Omega Nebula, UNSC Enterprise

Hannah had a rough time this year, first her ships patrolling around the mass relay colonies were attacked, then the Batarians attacked the colony that her son was on shore leave followed up by him going into the heart of a pirate bunker where the aliens started calling him "The Devil of Torfan". If that didn't cause her a heart attack yet the time he told her he is becoming an N7 certainly did as from what she heard from White and Hackett they took on missions too hard for even entire ODST companies and they did it in small man teams.

Speaking about Hackett, he was the current reason for her headache, after a 18 hour cycle of commanding her taskforce she was about to go to sleep when he called telling her about a missing MIO prowler, UNSC Leningrad and the mobilization of the entire damn 5th fleet. Her taskforce was send ahead of the rest of the fleet as it was the most combat ready recently returning from Patrol deployment and as Hackett received more information about the damn prowler he send it to her.

Simply said the last report was the one that brought her over the edge. 4 Hours after they left for the last known location of the prowler, the prowler managed to connect to command and has been feeding data ever since. UNSC Leningrad was borded by a Spartan and a Marine squad that awoke 2 cryo rooms and found aliens that resembeled Walking cockroaches that had some flying contraptions that could stop a human in their tracks if they bit them on their skin.

"Admiral, we are 5 minutes out" reported her navigations officer as she sat in her chair still reading the last reports. The Alien ship is filled with pods with some having the civilian refugees from the Leningrad abord, the team of spartans and marines that went to disable the ships engines with the help of the MIO AI were stuck as hundrets if not thousands of these bugs were in their way. So she had to think of a way to get enough troops into the enemy ship without blowing it up. Not knowing the strength of enemy shields and armor that threw all her ships out of the question when it came to destroying the ships engines.

As the was deep in thought and tapped on the armrest of her chair the navigations officer reported "1 minute out" to which she only grunted going back to thinking. That only left fighters and perhaps bombers to destroy the engines and let bording parties help out the cut off team and clear the ship of aliens.

The navigations officer spoke again finally bringing her attention out of thought. "Dropping out in 5…4…3…2…1…Now!" as he finished they indeed exited Slipspace.

She immedietly went to giving out orders "Have airwing Delta and Foxtrot deploy, target the ships engines. Tell UNSC To be or Not to Be to prepare their Marines for boarding missions. Captain, take command of the ship. Give me a connection to Captain taylor" she finished and several loud "Yes ma'am" were heard, she stood up and walked to the nearest comm room where captain taylor was waiting for her.

When he saw her he saluted "Ma'am"

She saluted back "At ease captain. Now tell me exactly what I am sending my people into"

"Yes ma'am. The team inside of the alien ship is reporting running low on ammunition but so far no serious casualties only several wounded. UNSC Leningrad is secure and all personnel has been awakened the refugees still remain in cryo. With the exception of their splipspace drive they are reporting 100%. The connection to the alien ship is guarded by marines who have reported a few attempts to enter the ship again, besides that the Leningrad is clear of the Aliens.

"Send me the plans of the Alien ship" he nodded and forwarded the plans that the ground team managed to make, marking points of interest to her.

She looked over it for a moment before saying "That will be all captain" before disconnecting. 'If things continue like this I might retire early' she thought as she left the room to give out further orders.

2584/2174CE July 10th, Serpent Nebula, Citadel, Councilor Tevos private office

Tevos was working on the plans for the attack on the human shipyards. Thinking of what pirate gangs and merc groups to contact when she received a message on her omni tool from a sender no one ever wants to see.

"Time for payment. On your raid on the UNSC. My agent will join

-Shadow Broker"

Her plans just have gotten worse.

[1] MIO Marines: MIO Facilities and Ships have their own Marine force that is independent of the normal Marine structure. These soldiers take orders only from MIO Leadership or under certain circumstances. Spartans, Navy and Marine Officers

[2] MIO Pelicans: MIO Pelicans or in technical term D79-TC B(S) are a special modification of the D79-TC B equipped with stealth systems to allow for stealth insertion of MIO assets behind enemy lines without detection. These systems only hide the transport from RADAR and LADAR the ship remains seen to the naked eye unlike the MIO Prowler that can completely erase its presence.

got the powerpack on friday and managed to instal it today, thankgod only a few things were missing from the doc. Hope you enjoy this chapter future chapters will be exciting