Author's Note: Song titles are gone for the last two chapters and the Epilogue.

And these last few chapters are shorter, because I wrote shorter chapters than I did three years ago.

Chapter 19: The Trap on Digeris

Nartul Mentus could not be happier.

The Reapers were coming to Digeris! The trap worked!

They had spent billions of credits on the fake Crucible and launched a propaganda campaign trying their hardest to convince everyone that the Crucible was being built here. Keeping the real Crucible hidden had required every ounce of brainpower that the Link and the Geth had to spare, but he was pretty sure it was going to work.

That didn't mean this was going to be easy, though. Far from it...

-e&d-

Harbinger was not angry.

He was enraged.

This insolent, arrogant species had disrupted the cycle and killed at least a hundred of his fellow Ascended. Over a hundred species, extinct forever.

He had brought the full force of the entire Ascended fleet to this puny little system called Castellus.

They would fall before him.

-e&d-

The battle raged for two days.

As far as open combat engagements with the Reapers go, that was remarkably impressive. The Link had done some serious mental trauma to themselves in attempting to kill as many Reapers as possible, which helped to lengthen the battle.

It was cutting it close, but after the Reapers destroyed the defending fleet and the fake Crucible, they had FINALLY finished the necessary modifications to the Crucible.

The Reapers were coming to an end.