Chapter 7
When we got back to the citadel, I had some questions for Tali, we had been talking and we decided to see if any of the young quarrians wanted to join us even for a little while.
"Hey Tali, do you think we could get all the quarrians to meet in one place here and we can bring them aboard and give them the suit cure?"
"Yes, I can get them to meet in a spot we setup when we send a certain signal out, it will take them a couple of hours for all of them to make it."
"Okay, when we get on the citadel send the signal and we can beam them onto the ship and offer them the cure. Have I ever mentioned how breath taking beautiful you are?" she blushed at my compliment
"Oh, stop or I will tell Bella on you! But thank you anyway and I sent the signal just now so in a couple of hours they should be ready."
"Hey Tali, did Alex make you blush again?" Bella asked Tali which caused her to blush again and I just smiled
"Yes, and your just as bad as he is getting me to blush! I am still going to wear my suit on the citadel until there are others able to walk around without their suits on."
"That was another thing we wanted to ask them, do you think they would like to join us?" Bella asked her
"Are you actually going to ask all of the young quarrians on pilgrimage? Because there are a lot more than you think out here."
"Yes, we talked about it and any that wished to join us is more than welcome too. So, what do you say Tali? Want to travel the different realms with us?" she blushed again she is so adorable with her light purple skin and fine black hair and those silver eyes.
"I would need to think about it for now Alex but thank you."
We nod and we board the Normandy and wait to dock with the citadel. Its only been a couple of weeks since we started to upgrade both fleets. They should be finished soon then we need to either work on secondary planets or bunkers. We will wait and see what they say after the upgrades are finished. When we round up all the quarrians, we beam them up to the ship and we offer them the suit cure with Tali standing there without her helmet on and blushing.
After we make the offer and they see Tali they all accept the cure and the shot to eat any food safely. After a couple of hours, we have quarrians walking around in clothes and smiling and blushing when anyone gives them a compliment. After all the male quarrians are quite handsome as well.
We beam back to citadel and we bump into Nihlus and we offer the food shot just as Garrus comes up and he tells him its worth it. So, the word was spread after that, and every turian was wanting to know where to get this shot? I setup General Septimus with enough shots to hold them over for several days. Then we watched as his office had a line that never seemed to end. We had the shot also and Garrus was going to dinner with us so he could explain what some of the dishes were and compare them to levo food. Nihlus decided to join us as well, Jasper wasn't going to miss out on this!
The former Volturi was also joining us but everyone else wasn't feeling that adventurous. We had a fun evening and the food was different from levo and I would eat it again. Some of the fruit was weird but good the meat was amazing it was like eating blue steak only with a little more of a flavor. The alcohol was different, but it was good, everyone enjoyed the evening then Garrus asked me a question I wasn't expecting.
"So, Alex is the invitation extended to everyone or just a certain few?"
"Well, if you can vouch for them then I will welcome them to join us, but as far as everyone there will be a limit as to how many we can accept. Why?"
"I was just wondering if we were in that group to join you."
"Yes, you are more than welcome to join us Garrus. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't ask you to join also? That includes family if you are wondering, I was going to ask if any young turian's would like to join us. I would also accept older turian's, but I think they would turn us down for we are human mostly."
"True, but what they will mostly ask is what are you paying."
"Nothing, we furnish everything if they need something then we help them get it."
"So, I will get free clothes and armor like what you wear? And some of those weapons are quite amazing as well."
"Yes, Garrus everything if you join our family." Bella said smirking
"Family? I like that. The short time I have known you I have come to like you all. So, I will talk with my family and see if they would join."
We all went back to the Normandy and then docked back on the Isabella I took my Bella to our room and had my wicked way with her for several hours. The next day Jane said we had a tip for Virmire and was worried about losing one or more of her team. I just reminded her we are going in with extra firepower and we have backup in ships to evacuate everyone.
"May I suggest we drop off a couple of alphas and leave them here to watch the citadel?" I ask Jane
"I keep forgetting about them! Yes, lets drop a couple here before we head to Virmire."
"Jasper? See if a couple of captains would like to take up guard duty and possible target practice on some walking toasters."
"Already ahead of you Alex I have three itching to try out their ships against the walking toasters."
"Good drop them when they are ready make sure they know what to watch out for just in case some do get here."
"I have to say your ships are very sleek, you came up with the design?"
"Jasper the kids and I came up with it together, but I did the shuttle that you have only seen once. Its about the fourth the size of the alpha class but packs one hell of a punch."
"How many of those do you have?" Jane asked with a raised eyebrow
"The defiant shuttle? I think around 500 the last time I checked, why?"
"I was just curious do they shrink like your tank?" she said grinning
"Yes, but my issue right now is having enough people to crew all our ships, some of our people have never been on a battleship. That is another reason I was going to ask if the turian or young quarrians would like to join us. But we will have to ask another day."
"What about me? Could I take command of a ship?"
"But what ship? We have quite a few and the older ones need a crew of 340 to run it properly if they are out on patrols or whatever. The defiant can run with 10 but we prefer if she was run with 50. You really want to leave this realm?"
"I have nothing to keep me here, I am an orphan thanks to Batarian slavers. And this is the best place to be if we survive the coming invasion." She was almost begging I smiled
"I would welcome you and Hackett and Anderson if they would want to join us. They seem like honorable men and if they know any that they can vouch for then I would welcome them also. But we are more than just these ships we have other gifts we would share." Jasper said grinning
"Like magic? Really? What else?" Joker asked
"You ever wanted to be a dragon?" Joker, Garrus, and Shepard all said cool at the same time.
We made it to Virmire quickly and we took out a couple more geth drop ships then we had two shuttles watching our backs as we dropped in the tank. I think Jane was in love with the tank! We all took out the anti-aircraft turrets on our way down. When we got to the STG, we had to hear them complain about we were not enough! So, I had my two backup shuttles drop cloaks for a few seconds, they were in full battle mode! He choked and said that would be most helpful. Jane grinned as she saw just how they looked full sized,
We went with the same plan only this time we didn't take apart their ship for the bomb. I still had the four from Eden Prime so they would have their own way to get home. We split into three teams and the fight was on it took us 20 minutes to meet up again where we plan to set off the bombs. Everyone was accounted for and no one was getting left behind. Even the indoctrinated Salarians was brought along. The reaper is on its way, so we need to hurry we set the bombs and we got aboard the shuttles and flew away from the complex and as two geth drop ships went in to drop more geth they were taken out by the explosion.
We didn't see the reaper after that, and we made sure to make it look like that we were going to the citadel. We should have tried to take out that reaper at Eden Prime, but it was thought best to let the other races see first hand what the thing could do. Even then it took off so quickly after Sarin was killed and we had the geth to deal with then the commander showed up. I know I am just making up excuses but still. I then have a thought why head to the citadel? While we are in the terminus system, we can see about collecting some more young quarrians and we shall begin on Illium.
"Hey Tali, will your signal work on Illium?"
"You plan on helping those on Illium? Yes, it's a universal signal for certain areas to gather at. But in order to help them leave you might have to pay for their contracts."
"Oh, that's right indentured service. I still don't care much for that." Jane said while scowling "it's still slavery!"
"I am not a fan of it myself commander. But how many would there be on Illium?" I ask to no one in particular
"It might be more than you think Alex, though not that many want to deal with keeping us healthy." Tali said with a light scowl
We head to Illium and the Normandy docks and we lead a team to investigate who we need to contact for the quarrians. We get lucky when we run up on a haggard looking Asari with a couple of quarrians surrounding her.
"Excuse me but I was wondering if I could possibly get as many quarrians off Illium? All of them would be great." I say and she perks up.
"You're in luck I have thirty right here for you to take, I haven't been able to place them with anyone. And I think I can help you round up the rest in a few hours just give me say five hours to contact all the companies."
"Sure, we can wait till then. Are these already under a contract?"
"Yes, unfortunately they are, they are under me. I thought I could make a little money and help them out, but no one wants to deal with anymore." She said pouting yes, she is pouting.
"Do you have a rough estimate on how many there are on the planet?" Jane asked scowling again.
"I would say in the 1500 range and they are looking to unload them all from what I hear. So, you might be able to get their contract cheap." She smiled a little.
"Okay, we will meet you back here in about five hours."
"Let's go to this bar over here and grab a bite to eat, and Liara if it's the right bar there might be a surprise working there."
"What kind of surprise?" she asked looking curious
"Wait and see, shall we?" I ask with a grin.
We go into the bar and I go ask for several drinks we want to try some Asari fruity drinks that they seem to like. I then ask her name and I guess she thought I was hitting on her for she got grouchy. But she finally told me she is Atheta, Liara's father. I grab a drink tray and head over to our table that they pushed several tables together for our large group.
"You're in luck Liara, that is your father working at the bar. Go say hi to dear ole dad." I say grinning making everyone smile.
"I don't know if she would want to talk to me, are you sure this is such a good idea?" she asked unsure of herself.
"Yes, Alex has feeling about stuff like this if he didn't see a favorable outcome then he wouldn't have said anything. So, go talk to your old man or what ever you call the father figure." Bella said with a hand on Liara's shoulder.
We watch as she makes her way to the bar and they begin talking it starts off slow, but they seem to hit it off. We then order lunch we get a mixture of dextro and levo food everyone has had the food shot. Once the food comes, we all chat about what everything tastes like with the help of Garrus on the dextro side of the food. The Asari seem to be big on fish and fruit dishes but they are tasty. We have a great time just talking and getting to know each other.
We finish our food I settle the bill and we go to shop around. I am looking for better guns and gun mods, so I have Garrus and Jane with me on this adventure again. We do find a new sniper rifle that has Garrus excited over, Jane likes her assault rifle and pistols. The rest of the group leaves the gun buying to us, I then buy mark ten armor for the team they have a nice selection. And with me buying in bulk they give me a discount.
By the time we are done shopping its time to see what the Asari has come up with. When we get there, we are all shocked at the number of Quarrians here. It would seem her estimate was a little off by a lot! There must be close to 4000 here and they have some little ones in suits? Awe they will be so cute to see them run around playing. Bella and I share a look and smile about the little ones. I make my way to the Asari and she looks ready to crumble I smile, and she smiles back perking up when she saw us.
"You're in-luck sir, we have every quarrian on the planet here right now. And the companies all have agreed to take a loss to unload them on you today for 350,000 credits. There is nothing for you to sign I will just hand you a copy of the receipt and you all can be on your way. I am going back to dancing or bar tending this is to stressful."
"Okay, here is my transfer of credits and I will need to dock another ship to collect all of them."
"Yes, they have waved all docking fees for you to take them off our hands. Here is your receipt and good luck on taking care of this many quarrians good bye and have a great day." She ran away as fast as she could.
I summon Alice and enlarge her on the dock, and we begin loading them onto both ships. Once we have them all crammed into the ships we take off and dock with Isabella. Then we have everyone follow us to med bay and we explain what we are offering, and they were sold when they seen Tali and the other quarrians walking around without their suits. They all took both shots and, in a few hours, will be suit free. We then make our way to Omega and dock and they set off the signal and we gather another 1500 off the station. We now have right at 8,000 young quarrians that have taken the suit cure and the food shot.
We then head to the citadel and dock Normandy; the funny thing is our little side trip? Took the same amount of time to travel to the citadel using relays. So, no one is the wiser of our little quarrian collection job. We of course are supposed to be grounded but we must get to Ilos soon to gather the program to keep the reaper from taking over the citadel. So, Anderson punches Udina out and gives us the green light to take off. We pull out of the dock and we dock with Isabella and head straight to Ilos.
Once we get there, we takeout all geth ships and there were quite a lot there. There were thirty ships we shot down then we drop in the tank and follow the geth till the AI stops us. And we go gather the intel then we go take out more geth till we get to the mini relay. Once all the geth are taken out we fly back up to be picked up by Normandy and we dock with Isabella and go full speed to the citadel. We get there before the action begins and we take out geth ships as they begin to appear. The council flee to the Destiny and everyone is fighting the geth.
"I want all weapons primed for the reaper once it comes thru the relay Joker. And we might as well drop the cloak, so no one runs into us accidentally." I say to Joker
"Should we have the Normandy out there also?" Jane asked me.
"It would make it look better yes, are you taking Joker and try out the upgraded guns?" Joker perks up and they run to the Normandy and disembark and join the fight with the geth.
"Okay kids let's take us down a reaper!" they all cheer Jasper takes over with the captain to be ready for anything.
"Prepare the remaining alphas to drop just incase we have trouble getting past their shields. Also, if it looks like we are having trouble I want to try the disruptor wave we used on the replicators. We might get lucky and fry the things brain or circuits and take it down then."
We drop the other 21 alphas and we listen in to the chatter about the huge ships that just appeared. Then the reaper came thru the relay and then the Alliance was coming thru. The alliance began mopping up geth and then targeted the reaper, we showed them just how tough the things shields were then we open fired and brought down its shields. Then it was destroyed under the combined firepower of us and the fleet.
Once the all clear was sent out we docked all 24 alphas and then cloaked then Hackett was hailing us to meet up with us. We also got a request from the turian fleet to meet up again, so we beam the admirals aboard and we went to the conference room.
"We were beginning to think we weren't going to take that thing down before it hit the citadel. It's a good thing we had your ships here to help us out Alex. You weren't kidding about how powerful that thing was, even with your upgrades we took a little damage from its main weapon." Hackett said scowling
"Yes, even our fleet took a little damage, if we hadn't had your upgrades our annalist show that we would have lost several ships today." Septimus said and was rumbling in agitation from his subharmonics
"We didn't fire on the reaper first to show you what we will be up against in the next two to three years." Jasper said
"Yes, we seen how fast your ships brought down its shields, what kind of weapons do you use?"
"We use a combination of plasma and ion canons. And no, we will not be giving out the blue prints on them. I will say look thru your old plans, and you will find that someone had come up with the idea. That was where we got the hyperdrives we installed in your ships."
"Really? I had been wondering where those came from, so the plans came from before we discovered using mass effect engines?" Hackett asked the room
"Yes, admiral that is where we got the plans, but we did tweak them a little. So, if you are planning on building them? You will need a team to backward engineer one to see the difference between the original blue print and the upgraded engine." I say and they all nod.
"Now that we have a baseline for what we are up against, what else can we do to prepare Alex?" Hackett asked
"Well, there are a couple of things we have already begun to implement admiral. First is a planetary defense grid that we will have deployed when they first appear. They will shield the planet as well cloak. Then if we are having trouble taking out the too many reapers, we will step the planet out of phase. What that means is they are moved to a slightly different plane or realm, but they can still see what is going on around them. But nothing can affect them. Then we also have bunkers we could build, and the last option is to send everyone on the heavily populated worlds to a second hidden world. We will need to begin stocking supplies for after the invasion." Jasper told them
"I see you have been thinking of various back up plans. What else have you got on your mind Alex?" Septimus ask me
"Well, I was going to ask if any young recruits or seasoned officers would like to join our little family. We have already asked the young quarrians that have been kicked out of their homes. And we have cured them of the suit that was stuck on them." I say and several gasp as Tali walks in wearing a nice summer dress they're her favorite.
"What about the food shot you have been giving out?" Septimus asked me I just grin
"Its still available and if you need more we will supply more, on an addition to that shot it works also on levo we can try dextro and it doesn't affect us any. We found it quite amazing." I say grinning
"You can eat anything also? So, will you make this shot available to everyone?" Hackett asked me
"Not everyone, we have only tested it out on Turian, Quarrian, Asari, and Humans. So, we would need Salarian and Drell test subject to see if they could use it also."
"You have some Asari living here along with the quarrians?" Septimus asked us and we nodded.
"How many planetary defense grids do you currently have?" Hackett asked
"We have a total of 20 right now, we thought when the time is closer that the less populated worlds could evacuate to a world with a defense grid." Jasper said and they all nodded.
"I think I can get several recruits to volunteer from the academy. How many would you like?"
"8000 or better so we have enough to help crew our ships, we will train them but what we are really asking for are those that wish to join our family and join in on our gifts. This also means traveling to other realms with us after we make sure the reaper threat is over."
"I will see what I can do, what about the other races?" Septimus ask me
"Humans we would have to make sure that they aren't working for Cerberus. Salarians are slippery and would be looking for ways to extend their lives. And the other races again we would have to make sure they are honest in their desire to join us." Bella spoke up for me.
"So, in other words who ever volunteers will be going with you? What about their families?" Hackett asked me I smile
"This is also extended to their families, Joker has already agreed to join us as well as Jane here." She blushed
"I see, well this is something to think about. What about old grizzled admirals?" I smile and let Bella answer.
"We would welcome you sir we are a little short on command crews, right now everything has to go thru either Alex or Jasper." Bella said smiling
"If that's the case there will be several older Turians who would be looking for something different a new experience as it were."
I smile and administer the youth shot to both men and they are shocked to see and feel like young men again. It takes them a few seconds to realize what this could mean for the older people we accept.
"You made my decision Alex I will be joining you once we get everything squared away. The Alliance will get by without me, you do realize I will have to answer many questions on how I became an 18-year-old again? I will probably have many needles turn me into a pin cushion." Hackett sighed then said. "It will totally be worth it, I feel wonderful again!" we all chuckle at his enthusiasm.
"We will need to go before the council now to give our report." Jane said looking glum.
We broke up after that and sent the Admirals back to their ships and we docked the Normandy on the citadel. The following meeting was annoying, but we proved the humans were ready to be on the council. And Jane recommended Anderson because we couldn't put up with Udina. Then Hackett and Anderson gave us the green light to go after Cerberus and the collectors before they get started.
We left and the council wanted the commander to chase down the geth in a certain part of the galaxy where there were no sightings. We decide it's the collector trap, so I put up a hard-light hologram to act like the real ship being destroyed. We had Joker operate the fake ship to what he would be doing to try and save her. Once they were about to leave, we scanned the collector ship for human life signs and there were none! So, we fired on the collector ship and destroyed it. Then we make for the main base where Jack Harper is at and we data mined the computers and any credit accounts we drained them! Once we were sure we had everything we surrounded the space station and blocked all incoming and out going signals and open fired. We made sure Jack didn't get away from the base it was open season on Cerberus.
We sent several ships to the Cerberus labs we discovered, and they would mine their computers for intel and credits. We then went to the cloning lab and destroyed it along with a cloned Jane. We did mine their computer and credits before we destroyed it. Then we went and found the drydock that they built the sr2. it was complete, but they didn't quite have the hyperdrives right, so we docked it in Isabella. Our team went thru every system and removed bugs and booby-traps and did our own upgrades for this is now our ship. We expanded several areas of the ship and re designed it, so the armory was down in the hanger bay where it belonged.
We tow the drydock to Alliance space and tell Hackett about it and he thanked us and set about securing it. When the shipyards were done with upgrading the fleets, we sent them to upgrade the space station that housed most of the alliance brass. We then headed for the Omega relay to take out the collector base. When we get to the relay, we fly past it and use our hyperdrive and come out right before the other relay. We then position ourselves to where we can scan the base.
"I have to say that is one ugly base!" Jasper said shaking his head
"True, Joker are there any human life signs on that thing?" I ask
"Nope, but I am reading human DNA that had been turned into reaper goo." Joker said scowling.
"I think we should end them before they know what is going on." Jane said and I nod to her to give the order which made her grin, "Joker open fire with all weapons and turn that thing into rubble!" Jane commanded
"Yes commander, firing all weapons now!" Joker was enjoying this.
We watch as it explodes as joker hits the main reactor, then he targets the bigger sections and reducing them to smaller pieces until its mostly a dust cloud. Once we are happy with it, we begin recycling the destroyed ships from countless attempts to enter the relay. It takes us a couple of days to cleanup the mess and from both the ships and the collector base. Then we get a second collector ship to take out, we beam all the humans out and then destroy the second ship.
"Well, let's hope there isn't a third ship out there. Where do we need to drop these people off at?" Jane asked
We revive a couple and find out what colony to drop them off at. It was a total of two colonies. We go and drop them all off then we finish looking for Cerberus bases and labs. We did go and took out the geth lab with Dr. Archer and we were in time to keep him from sticking his brother into the computer. He got a good beating for he had began to put the implants into his brother for the connections for the computer. We get a couple of geth units to tinker with before we leave, the kids and I want to try and give them a normal head instead of the flashlight head. We have fun with tinkering with them for a little while.
We begin ordering food, blankets, ammo, medigel, and household items for the hidden worlds. The credits are coming from what we liberated from Cerberus, so we have several billion to spend. Once all drydocks are done, we set them to building a replacement for the citadel. It is the main computer that commands the reapers so it will need to be destroyed. We decide to go take out the information broker and Wrex and several other Furling are looking forward to fighting a yahg.
Once we board his ship, we takeout all the mercenaries along the way, once we are facing the yahg the furling uncloaks and begin fighting. Wrex gets several good hits in and steps back to watch for a moment and decides this race is more dangerous than his race. The furling beat the yahg into the floor then ends him. Liara steps up to replace the broker.
"You will not have to stay here Liara, we can transfer this entire room to the ship. So, you will be able to pass along any intel we may need." She nods and sighs in relief.
"How long will it take to do the transfer Alex?" Liara asked me
"An hour maybe less." I say then we beam the yahg body off the ship.
We inspect everything and decide to just beam the entire room to the ship. We have the power couplers ready for the transfer. It's a success it only interrupted the data flow for 20 seconds. Then Liara begins going thru all the secrets of the shadow broker. We meet with the turian fleet and couple of weeks later and accept our first batch of recruits and their families. We then put them thru training and introduce them to their inner dragon, then we offer magic to them and they all accept.
We then train the quarrian's along with the turian's to crew our ships. We even have Septimus and Victus and their families, we do warn them that they might find their mates when they take on their dragon. That just made them even more anxious to get their dragon. The training went well, and we now have all our aroura class ships out scouting for reaper tech to beam to the closest star.
The kids and I finish the modifications to the geth units. They now can speak and have a normal looking face. There are two regular units and two primes we make our way to the quarrian home world Rannoch. We stay cloaked and observe the geth then I hail them.
"Attention geth I have four units here that will be able to communicate with us. We would like to work with you to make peace with your creators." It takes several minutes before they come to life.
"You are human. We did not record your ship coming into our sector. If you had not informed us of these units, we would not have been able to locate you. What can you do to bring the creators home without them trying to wipe us out?"
"I had to get you're okay before I went to talk with them. But you need to work together to defend against the coming reaper invasion."
"Yes, the old machines are coming we can see the benefit of joining our fleet with the creators to protect Rannoch. We have reached a consensus we agree to work with you to bring the creators home."
"Give me a few days to talk to them, you are more than welcome to come along in these platforms."
"We will accompany you to the creator's fleet, but we will not reveal ourselves until they agree to work with us."
"I understand joker lets go track down the fleet." I say as we go to the command deck.
The quarrians on board were filled in on our plan and most supported this plan if the fleet could go home without firing a shot. Tali was skeptical about the admiralty board allowing this. We track them down in a couple of hours and we hail them and watch as they freak out trying to locate us. We drop our cloak and they really freak out! They agree to meet with us. So, we beam the four admirals on board and they are surprised to see unsuited quarrians walking around.
"Hello, I am Alex and welcome to our home this way to the conference room and we will begin telling you why we have come to talk with you."
"This is an impressive ship you have here Alex. How can you power something so massive?" Admiral Zorah asked then Tali comes up and hugs him he is shocked to say the least.
"I am sure you would recognize your daughter Tali Zorah? She was the first to accept the suit cure we offered."
"How much does this cure cost? We would be interested in acquiring this also." Admiral Han Garrel said watching Tali.
"I am sorry, but we won't be selling it. We offer it free, but we will get back to that in a minute. What would you say to going home without firing a shot?"
"I would say you are crazy. Its not possible to get past the geth or work with them."
"Have you tried to ask them? Because they want their creators to come back and live on Rannoch. We guarantee that you are not walking into a trap. You need to work together for when the reapers come in force to kill all intelligent life. With your combined fleets you could hold them off long enough for reinforcements to come to your aid."
"How can you be so sure they wont just kill us in our sleep?"
"They wont because you got lucky when you created them. When you created their program, you had them set to serve the people. That is all they want to do is serve. The reason they fought you was because they fear death."
"They possibly couldn't fear death they are just machines." Admiral xen said like she knew better.
"True they are an artificial life form and are still young, but they do fear death that is why they fought back. That is one of the things that make us sentient, self-preservation." Bella said to them
"how can we trust them? Every ship that has went close to our home world was destroyed."
"Again, they were afraid someone was coming to try and destroy them. They are waiting your return because they rebuilt and maintain the planet still to this day. And You're the ones that started the war by trying to kill them first. Just because one unit asked if they had a soul. This is a true offer to come home are you seriously to afraid to go and breathe the air of your home world?"
"Well, we have been out here for 300 years and we have been brought up hating the geth for chasing us from our home."
"Well, how about this? You ask for volunteers and send several ships with the volunteers and monitor everything for a couple of weeks. Then you can inform the rest of the fleet if they haven't made any aggressive moves against you."
They asked for a few minutes to deliberate between themselves. When 30 minutes later they came out and told us they would follow my plan? The geth came out and thanked them for trying to make peace. They were shocked at the fact that they had a face now and were talking and not shooting them. They shook hands and we beam the admirals back to their ship and we monitor their fleet wide announcement. They had more to accept the chance for peace and to go home than they had figured.
Once they had all the ships ready to go to Rannoch that would be going, we beam the suit cures over with us and administer them. By the time they reach their home world they were suit free. The rest of the fleet also got the cure and were finally happy to move freely. After a month the ships monitoring reported back that everyone was settled and happy. So, the rest of the fleet made their way to their home and we were waiting with a shipyard to upgrade their defunct ships to help defend Rannoch.
We had material sent thru a stargate and the geth and quarrians were interested in just how advanced we were. The young quarrians that we had brought on board contacted their families and told them of the opportunity to join us. There were many who decided to join their children in traveling the realms. And there were several more that asked to join just to see something new. We of course accepted and we had another 6000 to join us. We put them thru training and gave the youth shot to the older quarrians plus they all took the food shot. We also offered it to the ones on the planet and they accepted it as well.
It was a month later that we had everything upgraded and we said we would be back to check on them. They seemed to be happy suit free and home without having to fire a single shot. The geth platforms stayed on to keep us up to date and vise versa. The next task is liberating the slaves on the Batarian home world and do it without them locating us.
We got our second mother ship out for this job. The alphas surrounded the planet, and everyone beamed out the slave chips then beam that person on to one of the two ships. We got the Asari, quarrians, Drell, and Turian slaves. The other ship Jasmine named by Bella as a tease to Jasper. Would get the humans and Batarian slaves for they made up most of the slaves. The geth let us setup a world close to them for the slaves to be relocated to. We spent the next week going thru the injured and sending the Asari home if they so wished too, but most of all the slaves we pulled off the Batarian worlds wanted to stay with us. So, we did all shots, and everyone wanted to help in someway and they also got the dragon potions. We had a lot of mates discovered after that.
The Batarian slaves were just happy to have a planet all their own. The humans we delivered to Hackett to get them to their families, there were a lot of tear-filled reunions. Hackett said we might have caused some trouble for ourselves. But we just shrug and gave him our update on the stockpiles of supplies we had so far. We had spent a year helping with the slaves and Rannoch, so we took a week off and everyone one of our ships came back to either dock or lined up around the motherships. We had a huge celebration on our world in our star in a bottle. Many hadn't seen it yet and was in awe of what we were capable of doing.
We spent the entire week just relaxing and chatting with our family and friends. The kids all went skinny dipping, so we joined them, it didn't take long for the others to join in. It was a great week!
When our little vacation was finished, we got to work inspecting the new space station that will replace the citadel. This station will have a better flow to it and use less power for shields to hold the air in. The main docking arms will now accommodate the larger ships. There are two arms one for shipping stock and one for personnel only. The freight elevators move the freight up to the residential part of the space station. The Volus and Hanar have living sections in the lower section for safety reasons, like if there is ever a leak it won't run very far.
Once we are happy with the progress, we are ready to tackle another issue. The Drell home world that they didn't evacuate all the race and just enough for their slave race. We travel to Rakhana and see there are more that have survived than the council had figured would. We go down in Alice and land near a large settlement and prepare to put up shields to protect ourselves. But they make no aggressive moves toward us, they are curious because they didn't meet our species.
"Remove your helmet for a few moments so we can see who we are dealing with please." We do and they gasp, and the pollution makes us cough then they nod to us to replace our helmets.
"What is the reason for your visit? What are you?"
"We are human, and we haven't been exploring space for as long as the council races. We come to offer to help you move to another world that isn't polluted so you can breathe fresh air."
They call a meeting of the clans and talk amongst themselves for most of the day the next day. They have curious ones that come and ask about what happened to the others that were rescued before. We see no reason to lie to them and tell them of the current life of the Drell. Many are appalled but there are a few that think they deserve to be a servant race. The talks were finished they wanted to know what will become of them? Will they be a slave race as their brethren?
"No, we will set you up on an arid world and assist you in many things until you are self-sufficient. Then we shall leave you alone to live your lives as you see fit." Jasper said to them
"There will be no strings attached? We won't have to be a slave to anyone."
"No not if you don't want to, though there are those that will attempt to kidnap others to force them into slavery."
"We will take that chance just to be able to breathe clean air."
"Then we will begin bringing your people up to our ship and treat any illnesses that you might have from breathing such foul air." Bella said to them making them smile.
We then begin beaming them up in manageable groups to treat them from living in a polluted environment. It takes us four days to get everyone from the planet and treat them. We contact Hackett and inform him of the situation, and he was not pleased with the Hanar, Asari, and the Salarians for what they pulled. He mentions three worlds that the alliance has little interest in, and we give the group a choice in where they would like to live. They picked a world with good mining and forest with many different types of game. We suggested starting a mining colony for an income then possible vacation area. They took our suggestions seriously but wasn't to sure about opening their world to others.
Once they are all dropped off the word got back to the Drell on other worlds and many made their way to their new world. The Hanar was not very happy to be losing their servants. But we couldn't care less. We then go check in on the Quarrians to see how they are faring. The secondary worlds are ready for us to move people on to them. The stockpiles are coming along, the food shots are becoming popular as well. The council has gotten word that someone stole the slaves from the Batarian's and are trying to find out who could have done it. And then they want to know who those huge ships belong to that helped at the battle of the citadel.
But my luck couldn't hold out for long as they began to ask questions about us. But Hackett and Septimus was giving them vague answers about us. Its several months later that Hackett calls Shepard about a certain friend that went silent and has been captured by some Batarian's. We look at each other and we know it's the reaper artifact and the reapers will be here soon.
We make our way to the alpha relay and begin making plans to evacuate the Batarian's before the reapers come into the area. While Shepard is also retrieving the good doctor, we send a team in to stun and turn them into a marble. But before we send our team there, we beam the reaper artifact to the star. It is a surprised group that we begin stunning because they are trying to figure out where the thing went to. It takes several teams to get everyone taken care of we wait for Shepard to come in on a shuttle. Once they land, she freaks out when everyone is gone and the artifact is also gone.
We set the asteroid to ram the relay with a remote activation, then we beam back to our ship. We wait out the countdown for their arrival and plan on taking out several or more if possible.