First in the series and I had decided to use this chapter for this fic as it makes more sense for it to be here then on my mass effect one

"hey" human and any other humanoid speak

"affirmative" AI's speaking

"you humans" other species

"ningen" Bijuu talking

"can you hear me?" talking through a communicator

(chapter 01)

(Before The Fall)

"Citizens, Kunoichis and Shinobis of the Elemental Nations" boomed a person's voice over a large crowd of people getting their attentions with Cameras floating around the now identified seventh Hokage at different angles.

"It has been 15 years since the fourth great war, then 2 years after that was the incident with the moon, and in four days from now…it will have been 10 years since the oldest question we had asked ourselves while gazing up at the stars *are we alone in the universe* was answered" the former Hokage said than looks over the crowd and saw expressions of sorrow, anger, lose, and sadness.

He could also hear some sobs coming from a few of the crowd members.

Naruto waited for a few seconds to let them calm themselves before continuing "we lost lots of loved ones ten years ago, when the Magog devastated our homeworld but we were also saved as well, in the form of the founders of the Systems Commonwealth…the Vedrans, whom had come to our aid and helped us repel the Magog off our world two days after their attack, then after long talks with the Daimyos' and Kages' they had welcomed us into their civilization 2 years after the attack" he paused to take a breath.

"And it was after our acceptation into the Commonwealth that we discovered, that some of us with Chakra were cursed with either a semi form of immortality or another assortment of things, after the fourth war" Naruto continued as he gauged the people's reaction at that bit of news and saw some had sad expressions, while some held onto their partners and/or children tighter.

"Now…everyone I would like to introduce a friend of mine for these past five years, a representative for the Systems Commonwealth, captain of the Andromeda Ascendant, Dylan Hunt" he said lifting his right hand to the High Guard Captain, hoping to put the Immortality thing out of their minds.

Stepping next to the former seventh Hokage, Captain Hunt gave a short wave to the crowd "greetings people of Elemantia, it is a pleasure to be back on your lovely planet again" he announced and gave a quick small speech before stepping away from the podium as he doesn't like being in the spotlight.

Naruto continued talking for a few more minutes than steps away from the podium to let the festival begin and walks up to Dylan "It is good to see you, my friend and how is Sarah doing?" he asks with a smile holding his hand out.

Raising his hand he shook hands with the former Hokage "it's good to be back and she is on her way down as we speak Naruto" Dylan says with a smile.

Nodding his head Naruto then turns his attention to the person that stepped next to Dylan, it was another of his friends "Gaheris Rhade, It's good to see ya again" Naruto said with a smile shaking hands with the Nietzschean Commander.

"It's good to see you as well" Rhade said with a slight smile as he greeted his friend and comrade.

Just as Naruto was about to say something else a purple missile crashed into him almost knocking him over, looking down to see what it was that had collided into him, everyone there saw it was Naruto's youngest child Himawari with a big smile on her face "papa" she says as she hugged her dad tightly then turns her attention to the black crew cut haired man.

Upon seeing who it was her smile brighten more "Gaheris-oji! You came back for a visit" she shouts as she ran up to him giving the Nietzschean a big hug as well.

Staring down at his friend's youngest child hugging him made his smile grew a bit more as Gaheris had grown fawn of her over the years, since they first met "it is good to see you as well, Himawari" he says to her then a blinding flash went off causing Rhade to suddenly grab the child in a protective manner and had his bone blades drawn out ready to strike whatever caused that flash.

Looking around Gaheris only saw his captain and friend standing there but then saw where the flash came from, as he saw Naruto was holding a camera in his hands with a large shit eating grin on his face. This caused Gaheris to narrow his eyes at the blond idiot as he let's go of Himawari and pulls out his force lance from the holster on his right leg then points it at him "I'll give you to the count of 3, to give me that device" he warned him.

Just before he could begin the countdown they heard someone stepping on the roof of the Hokage's tower. This made everyone there look over to the individuals and saw that it was Naruto's wife Hinata Uzumaki and their eldest child Boruto Uzumaki.

Upon seeing what the noise was both Hinata and Boruto came to the scene in front of them, which caused Hinata to stare sternly at her husband "Naruto-kun! What have I told you about teasing Himawari's godfather?" she says in a stern tone.

Seeing her staring at him made Naruto feel a light sense of worry then hid the Camera behind himself "umm you said not to anymore" he nervously says with a scared smile on his face.

Nodding her head Hinata walks up to her husband and holds out her hand doing a *gimme gesture* which he groans and give her the camera in defeat "now apologies to Rhade, Naruto-kun" she told him which got a rise out of him.

"But I didn't do anything, I just took a picture of him and Himawari-chan together" he defends himself which got a confused blink from her.

She then looks to the camera and back to her husband then asks the only question that went through her mind "is it one of him smiling for the family album?" which received quick nods from her husband.

"What family album?" Gaheris asked in confusion as he let go of Himawari and holstering his Force Lance.

They turn to Rhade "well Gaheris, we wanted a picture of both you and Himawari-chan together, and it had to be one with you smiling in it" Hinata answered with a smile.

Hearing their answer Rhade stared at them for a few seconds then over to Himawari whom was giving Dylan a hug has well "she wanted a picture of the both of you for the album" she tells him.

A couple of seconds go by before Rhade answered "very well, I'll allow it" he says straightening his uniform.

Having heard what he said everyone but him and Himawari stared at each other then broke out in laughter "anyway Dylan, we wanted to ask you, Sarah and Rhade, if you three would be interested in come over for dinner tonight?" Naruto asks them after they calmed down.

"Yeah, sure we'll be glad too" Dylan said happily.

They also getting a nod from Rhade "I would be delighted too".

Walking next to her husband Hinata then said that dinner would be at 8 o'clock then told Naruto they needed to talk in his office alone about something.

(Timeskip – three months later)

"Battle stations!…battle stations, all crew members report to your stations" said a woman's voice over the intercoms with alarms sounding as dozens and dozens of people were running to their stations.

"3 minutes 5…3 minutes 6…3 minutes 7, MOVE IT THOMSON" shouted Rhade to a young man that ran past him and saw him sped up.

(Scene break)

Dylan walks to a ladder and grabs one side of it then jumps down, letting go of the ladder Dylan falls alongside the ladder then presses a button on a device that was on his belt which slowed his descent and lands safely on the last deck the ladder connected too.

"I really wish you wouldn't do that…" came the same woman's voice that was speaking over the ships intercom a few minutes ago "…what if your Anti-Grav harness failed and I couldn't catch you in time" she finished with concern in her voice.

A chuckle was heard when he heard her say that with a smile appearing on his face "oh Andromeda, you wouldn't let that happen" Dylan said as he walked down one of the corridor's that lead to where his first officer is "…otherwise you'd have to break in a new captain" he continued with a cheery tone as he turned off his Anti-Grav harness.

(Scene break)

The alarm ended with Andromeda's voice coming through the intercoms "elapse time 3 minutes and 27 seconds"

A blond haired man stood at a console that overlooked the ships sensors which were close by to the pilot "so tell me Naruto, how is it being married to multiple women so far?" asks a Than-Thre-Krull as she looks over to Naruto from the pilot's seat "if you want…I could give you some advice".

A sigh escaped his lips and turns to her "I'm just trying to wrap around the fact that, I am now married to more than just Hinata-chan now" he told her then turns his attention from the Than pilot to the console in front of him "and no thanks".

"Oh it's not that bad" she retorted with sarcasm laced in her tone as she knew what that was like.

"It isn't Dawn-chan, it's just…I never thought I would have more than one wife" he begins then takes a deep breath before continuing "…not to mention it is a little weird that I'm now married to some of my friends from Konoha, and in relationships with a few others from the other villages back in the Elemental Nations" he says telling her how he felt about his marriages.

Naruto then gained a thoughtful expression and crossed his arms 'but…then again though, there are way less men now who can use Chakra' he thought to himself then scratched the side of his head 'maybe I should have seen this coming'

Just as Refractions of Dawn was about to say something to continue their conversation a three quick beeping sound came from Naruto's console getting him to tap on it a few times "we're getting a hail from a Systems courier ship" Naruto said as he looked over the message that was on screen.

His eyes widen as he read what the message had to say "Andromeda! Contact Dylan and tell him there's a stellar level emergency" he told the ship's AI getting a nod from the brunette woman on the right main viewer.

"Captain on deck!" announced one of the lancer guards who were standing on either side of the door a few minutes later making everyone on command to briefly stop what they were doing to look at their commanding officer and give him a salute.

"Status" the captain asks as he headed for his station on the lower deck on the starboard side.

Dawn was the one to respond "a courier ship just transited into normal space, we're moving to intercept"

"Are we close enough for real time" Dylan asks stepping onto his station and looking over on what was on the screen before tapping a few buttons.

Andromeda's AI hologram appeared next to his station "we'll be in range in one light-second(1)" she told him

Nodding at the hologram he stared back to his console "establish communication" he orders.

(Everything from this point is canon so I'm going to skip)

"Let the record show that 1st Lieutenant, Refractions of Dawn respectfully refuses to comply" she says cheekily getting a growl from the captain as the ship shook from an explosion by a missile.

"And let it also show that Lieutenant Commander, Naruto Uzumaki, also refuses to comply" Naruto says which got a glare from Dylan as he was walking to another station on the upper deck with a GUA (2) there.

"You two are very stubborn" he sighed out as the bridge shook again.

A chuckle came from the both of them with Dawn saying "what's the human expression, guilty as charged" as she steered the ship trying to dodge missiles from the Nietzschean fleet.

"Seal off Command & Control then vent the rest of the ship" Dylan orders as he was looking over a screen then to the GUA "we need to make the ship as light as possible" he says to it getting the droid to look up at him and nod.

Seeing the atmospheric levels on the ship go down from his station Naruto said "the rest of the ship has been depressurized" as a Nietzschean fighter destroyed a defence laser.

"Set a course, heading 090 by negative 15" Dylan ordered walking back to his console.

Typing in the coordinates on where he wanted to go Dawn saw where it lead them making her look back at him "but sir that takes u…" "I know! It takes us straight into the blackhole" he says staring at the main viewer with the singularity on it.

BEEPBEEPBEEP

The sensors sounded as two more fighters closed in on the Andromeda with one being shot down causing it to crash into the port side thrusters, while the other fighter destroyed some of the starboard defence lasers.

"Dylan, are you sure about this? My connection to the rest of the ship is compromised and we're leaking anti-protons from the port reserve tanks" Andromeda told him which got him to look up to the hologram "I can't grantee, I'll have enough power to pull us away from the singularity" she adds

Staring back to the console in front of him Dylan then walks to a different station "we're not strong enough to fight our way out…we got to use the blackhole's gravity to sling shot ourselves away from the Nietzschean fleet" he tells them as he was looking over another console.

"Course laid in" Dawn said as she finished typing in the coordinates he gave her.

Nodding Dylan told her "all ahead full" which got a nod in return and heard her speaking in her native tongue getting him to look at Andromeda "I didn't get that last bit"

"My life, my soul, for the hive, for the hive" she tells him using her translation program which made him tilt his head to the side for a second.

"Or as you apes would put it, BONZAI" she says pushing the throttle all the way making the ship go faster as well as getting a chuckle from both Dylan and Naruto.

A minute later sparks started flying from a few consoles that were on both of the lower and upper decks. While this happened the fighters that were shooting at the Andromeda, pulled away from the ship the moment it went into the event horizon of the singularity.

"Gravity fields are holding" Andromeda updated them.

"We're heading straight in, when do I vector away?" Dawn asks a little antsy.

"Not just yet, let's build up some speed first" Dylan says in calm manner.

Looking at his console Naruto announced "we are at 25 PSL…26…28…30" then heard a thud, making him turn to the sound and saw it was a GUA that had shut down. He then heard another thud and saw it was another GUA that fell and notice the others were losing power as well.

The lights in command suddenly turned off making everyone look up to the lights then a whirring sound was heard "the main energy grid! I'm pow..eerr iiiiinnn do…" was all Andromeda was able to say before she was shut down.

Typing a few commands into the console Dylan said "going to reserve" which powered everything in Command back on.

"Andromeda! Ship! Are you there?!" Dawn calls out for the AI.

Looking to the her projection they saw the AI was glitching in place "the AI network must have been disrupted somehow" Naruto said giving his thought of what happened to her.

"But…how could that have happened?" Dawn asks with confusion and a bit of concern in her voice.

Staring up at one of the three screens for a couple of seconds then down at the console in front of him Dylan says "stay focus Lieutenants" and taps a few more buttons.

"One thing is for sure, there's no turning back now" Naruto whispered to himself as he was looking at the screen that has the blackhole on it with a bit of concern in his eyes. Naruto then heard something from outside the door of Command making him turn his attention to the blast-door. Having that feeling in his gut Naruto then reaches for his Force Lance that was hanging in his right hip holster as he stared at the door.

"We're 10 light seconds away" Dawn announced as she was typing in a few course corrections to keep them from being sucked into the blackhole.

We now find Dylan with a screw driver in hand and was trying to fix the disruption in the AI network from a power conduit on the front starboard side of command & control "divert all power to the starboard engine, then plot a hyperbolic fly-by…but keep us about a half light second away from the event horizon" he ordered.

"There, got it" Dylan says out loud as he had fixed the problem with the network making him look to Andromeda's projection.

The glitching stopped and Andromeda's holographic projection calling out "Dy..lan!" she shouted as he was getting up to his feet "sa…bota…ge" she finished.

"Sabotage!?" he repeats to himself as he rushed to a different console.

Naruto, whom was still staring at the door saw it open with Gaheris Rhade walking in made both Dylan and Dawn to turn in his direction as well, confused on why he was still on board "Rhade?! What are you doing here?" Naruto asks then saw him raise his arm up with a Force Lance in hand.

Seeing where Rhade was pointing at Naruto immediately disappeared in a flash of light. Three high pitched bursts were heard as Rhade fired a couple lvl 4 plasma burst from his Force Lance, as he had the intention of killing Refractions of Dawn but the moment the shots almost came in contact with her.

They stroked a now emptied pilot's seat.

Hearing a gasp coming from his right made Rhade turn his head to it and saw that it was Dawn, who was in Naruto's arms as he got behind a console for cover "stay behind cover Dawn" he told her then poke his head out to stare at Rhade.

Hearing movement from the front of him, Rhade turns his attention to it and saw Dylan had drawn his Force Lance and was aiming it at him. Rhade immediately started firing at Dylan, while him firing back and moved to cover behind a console "Rhade!?" Dylan called out to his friend.

"I tried warning you" Rhade said firing another volley of plasma bursts at Dylan.

Flinching at the shots impacting around him "what are you doing?" he shouts as he pokes his head out to look at Rhade.

Firing a few more shots at Dylan again, he then turns to Naruto and Dawn "ensuring the survival of my people" he says as he started firing at them making Naruto retract his head behind cover "…the Commonwealth is weak! It bargains with its enemies, it compromises! My people are engineered to be perfect and the Commonwealth has no place for the strong" Rhade went on as he fired a couple more shots at Dawn and Naruto.

Grabbing onto Dawn again Naruto used the small bit of Kyuubi's chakra he was able to access and disappeared in a flash of light again. Reappearing next to the ramp on the other side of the room, Naruto made sure Dawn was covered behind the elevated floor then grabs his Force Lance and fires a few low lvl shots at Gaheris "so the Nietzscheans decided to betray the Commonwealth?!" Naruto concluded as he ducked behind cover to avoid getting shot.

Keeping a watchful eye on both places he responds "we spent years preparing, waiting…arguing, for a long time I had opposed the destruction of the Systems Commonwealth, so had many others" he said and fired at Dylan as he saw him make his move.

He then shifts his upper body to the side as Dylan fired back and moved behind a pillar for cover "but the treaty of Antares, changed all that" he continued from behind the pillar making sure to keep an eye on both spots.

A look of realization hit Dylan "the Magog!" he shouts out.

"Yes! The Magog!" Rhade confirmed with anger in his tone as he steps out of his cover and started shooting at Dylan first, then shot at Naruto seeing him lift his head out.

"Savages, predators, they eat sentient beings, they reproduce by infecting their victims with larva's through their teeth" he listed as he knelt down and disables a GUA "they killed over billions of people on Brandenburg Tor, they destroyed the Nietzschean colony on Hawkin and what did the Commonwealth do?" he asks as he cautiously continued walking slowly down the other ramp then shot a few rounds at Naruto and Dawn's covering spot.

At this point in the conversation Dylan had took apart the top of his Force Lance and was fiddling around with the power supply "we made peace with them" he answered putting his Force Lance back together.

"You compromised with monsters! The blood of over millions of people cried out for vengeance…and you made peace" Rhade growls out lowly as he narrowed his eyes at Dylan.

Hearing Rhade say that Naruto was reminded of Sasuke when they first fought, he talked about his desire of avenging his clan, then remembered how much he changed when they met again after the three year training trip he took with Jurai (3) "Rhade, revenge isn't the answer to everything believe me, it will only make things worse" Naruto called out from his hiding spot poking his head out.

This caused Rhade to glare at Naruto "how could you say that with what had happened to your people, Hokage" he growls out with venom in his voice at the end.

Stepping out from his cover Naruto tossed his weapon to the side and stood out in the open staring Rhade in the eyes "because I had seen what revenge does to a person and how much it takes away from them" he says trying to get his friend to stop shooting at them.

Unfortunately it didn't work as Rhade had shot Naruto hitting him just above his heart "NOOOO" Dawn shouted seeing her friend get shot in the chest in front of her.

Seeing the look of disbelief on Naruto's face then his body fall to the floor caused an image of Himawari to cross Rhade's mind as he stared at his friend for a moment then quickly shakes his head and points his weapon back at Dylan "you have sown the wind, you shall reap the whirlwind" he says taking a final glance at Naruto one more time.

"You know what your problem is Rhade…" Dylan calls out getting his attention "…you talk too much" he finished tossing his Force Lance along the ground at him.

Rolling next to him Rhade heard a rapid beeping sound coming from the device and it clicked in his head what it was doing then quickly tried to move out of the way. Only able to take a few steps it explodes sending him soaring through the air.

The moment his feet made contact with the ground Rhade manage to perform a combat roll and gets back on his feet. He then gets into a stance with his left arm in front of him and his bone blades extended.

Seeing Dylan coming towards him Gaheris jumped into the air with his left arm raised going for a downward strike.

Watching him in the air Dylan stops in his track and shifts his body to the right avoiding Gaheris's attack and ducks another swing aimed for his head, Dylan tried to take a swing at Gaheris but was hit with a hard palm thrust to the chest from the Nietzschean sending him to the ground.

Noticing a kick coming from Gaheris, Dylan raises his left leg up blocking it and hits the side of his knee buckling Gaheris's leg and kicks him in the face making the Nietzschean stagger back.

Recovering from the kick to the face Gaheris looks to Dylan then charges at him and jumps in the air again, intending to slam his foot on his chest but seeing the attack coming Dylan rolls out of the way and gets back on his feet.

Not giving Dylan any time to recover Gaheris goes for a round house kick but is blocked by Dylan's forearm, spinning back around he goes for another swing with his bone blades but was blocked by Dylan again and receives a punch to the stomach then the face.

While Dylan and Rhade were fighting Dawn had crawled out from cover to get to Naruto hoping her friend wasn't dead.

Upon reaching him Dawn saw where the shot hit and dread washed over her "I'm sorry Naruto" she whispered to herself, sad that another of her friends was killed then looks over to the fight and saw something strange.

She saw Dylan kicking off the wall in a slow motion like manner with what look like after images as he spun around kicking Rhade in the face making him spin in the air before falling to the ground on his front hard.

Landing Dylan looked confused "what was that" he wondered aloud taking a look back at the wall.

Andromeda's holographic projection answered and summaries "that was a temporal distortion, our artificial gravity must be amplifying the time dilation effects of the black hole"

Hearing Rhade move Dylan saw he flipped on his back and move to attack again but is kick in the face with Rhade using the momentum of his kick to jump back to his feet and rushes at Dylan.

Going for another overhead swing Dylan grabs his arm and spins them both slamming Gaheris into the railing, Dylan then snaps off one of his bone blades off said railing and kicks Gaheris in the chest making him slam into a pillar.

Hitting the pillar Gaheris looks up at him then smiles and rolls his shoulders "give up, you can't win" he tells him.

While staring at Rhade, Dylan saw something from the corner of his eye and turns to it, there he saw Naruto's Force Lance next to the pilot's seat. Noticing where Dylan was looking Rhade takes a look as well and saw it, they both look at each other "I told you before" Dylan says as he and Rhade went for their weapons.

"Time dilation iS iNcReaSiNG" Andromeda announced distortedly as time slowed down again

Time was slowing down as they ran to their weapons "pessimism isn't a survival trait" Dylan said distortedly continuing for the Force Lance as Rhade flips over the railing next to him, then kneels down grabbing his Force Lance.

Grabbing the weapon Dylan stands back up and points it at his first officer aiming to shoot him but saw a light coming from Rhade's Force Lance. He jumps out of the way in a spin letting the shot miss him hitting the wall behind him. Seeing him jumping out of the way Rhade rolls to the side for a better shot and getting back to his feet, he aims his weapon at Dylan as he aims his back at him.

Time stood still for a moment as they both fired at one another, the shot aimed for Rhade nicked his left shoulder but his shot hits Dylan in the stomach and falls to the ground with a pained grunt. Having watched another friend die at his hands a look of regret and guilt crossed his eyes for a brief second as he stared at him.

He then turns his attention to Dawn and saw her raising her Force Lance at him and quickly aims his at her but he then felt something grinding into his gut, quickly looking down Gaheris saw a hand with what appeared to be a ball of spinning wind being pressed into his stomach, following the arm of the assailant he saw it was connected to Naruto.

The next thing Rhade knew he heard Naruto shout "Rasengan" then was slammed into the metal wall behind him leaving a large dent in it from the impact with a massive amount of pain shooting all over his body before losing conscience.

Staring at the down form of Rhade Naruto then looks over to Dylan and rushes to his side "Dylan! Dylan are you ok?" he asks cradling his head in his hands.

A shaky gasp came from him and looks to Naruto "you need to get… get the ship out of here… I- I'm making y… you captain of th… the ship is in your hands…" he said in between gasp.

Dylan then looks to Dawn "and… I'm going to need yo… you to help him get out of here…and warn the Commonwealth" he chuckled out then lets out his final breath with his eyes closing. They both stared at their friend with sadness then everything froze.

(End Chapter)

1. A Light Second is a measure of distance in space, referring to the distance that light is able to travel in a second, which is approximately 300,000 kilometers (or 190,000 miles). Most vessels, like the Andromeda, cannot fire their weapons outside of a 4 light-second range.

2. General Utility Androids, also known as GUA or just Bots, are semi-sentient humanoid robotic units which are used as the main repair, assistance and security units within the majority of the High Guard fleet. They are roughly 1.7 meters tall, and are covered in metallic armor which helps make them extremely sturdy units, and protects them from environmental and combat damage.

3. Fem Jiraiya – needs a better name, send suggestions