Kusarigama Hill, Eden Prime, June 12, 2192 AD, 05:44 PM Local Time.

Just as Junius had predicted, the joint Turian/Human group managed to infiltrate the Batarian FOB from the forest south of it.

Saren looked observed the base, quite a several Batarian gunships have returned to restock their ammo. He could see that a truck filled with missiles have arrived and is unloading the missiles that would be loaded onto the gunship. The Humans had already split away and in position to make a move on the station. The radio sounded, and the Human squad leader spoke through it.

"We're in position, begin phase two."

That was the signal. Saren and the rest of his squad emerged from their hiding place and opened fire on the unsuspecting Batarians. Several of the enemies were immediately cut down by a hail of bullets. The alarm was sounded and soon Batarians began to flood the position. Saren fired his rifle at a group of lower caste Batarians, the ones without kinetic barriers. One of them fell down, orange blood spilling on the ground. His friends attempted to drag him out of the open, but Hallis saw the opportunity and brought his LMG to bear on the group. He pulled the trigger on the LMG and rained death on the four Batarians. The entire group got shredded by the combined fire from Saren and Hallis. Ducking under cover, Saren checked his ammo, he had around a fifteen rounds left on his magazine. While it sounded like a lot, the incredibly high rate of fire the gun had meant that he could shoot all those fifteen rounds in less than four seconds. He popped out of cover again and emptied his gun at the general direction of another Batarian squad. He could see one of the Batarians have his shields flare around him, signaling that it had been disabled. Saren then charged a biotic attack, and hurled a vicious throw attack. The Batarian in question was blasted back, and crunched as he smashed into a container several meters behind him.

Saren ducked back into cover and removed the empty magazine from his rifle, sliding in a new one to replace it, and gave the gun a slap to its side to make sure the rounds loaded in properly.

"Fall back! Trade ground for bodies." Junius ordered.

The squad complied, starting with Hallis as he ran back first, setting up his LMG on a small barrier block. He proceeded to suppress the enemy with his gun as the rest of the squad fell back. The Batarian forces, seeing the Turians losing ground, eagerly chased after them, only to find out that the Turians had planted mines on the place where they had left. Too late to realize it, a dozen lower and middle caste soldiers blew up in a in a hail of fire and shrapnel. As they learned from their mistakes, the Batarians moves slowly and more cautiously. However this presented a problem of its own as they became either too easy to pick off, or too easily bogged down.

"Tank!" Kalidon shouted in the middle of all the chaos.

A Batarian heavy tank moved into view, swinging one of its broadside cannons to aim at the Blackwatch squad. The cannon fired, punching a hole on one of the walls they were taking cover behind.

"Kesarus, take that thing down!" Junius ordered.

"Didn't need to tell me that!" he shouted back, already setting up the rocket launcher.

It took a few more seconds, but Kesarus had deployed the weapon in time, and fired an AT rocket at the tank. The rocket punched through the armor, and detonated, igniting the fuel and explosives inside it. The tank went up in flames, taking several Batarians that had taken cover behind it.

"Hah! Four-eyes didn't expect us to be here!" Kalidon said as he gunned down another Batarian.

Saren admired that Turian. He could be in the middle of the toughest firefights, but still be able to crack a joke or two. Saren got up and hurled a singularity field at a group of Batarians. They became helpless as Kesarus fired a High Explosive rocket at the group, detonating in the middle of them and ripping their bodies into shreds. Saren ducked down as the Batarians retaliated with their own rockets, one of which zoomed past where his chest would be had he been standing. Several explosions burned behind him. Saren used the fire as a distraction and got up to fire his rifle at one of the rocket troopers. One of the rocket troopers had tried to fire again, but Saren had shot him first, causing his rocket to veer off course, hitting the ground beside Saren instead.

The explosion blasted Saren of his feet, launching him a few meters away. Fighting the dizziness, Saren opened up his eyes and saw more than a dozen Batarians charging at them. As they rushed forward, strange sounds from behind them caught Saren's attention.

Thunk, thunk, thunk.

A small whistling noise was heard for a short while after that, then the charging Batarians were killed by explosions. When the smoke and dust cleared, Saren saw the Human soldiers rushing towards them. The one with the call-sign Raider grabbed his hand and dragged him up. Saren regained his bearings and took cover along with the Humans.

"What took you so long?" Saren said, unholstering his pistol

"Yeah, we had to take a detour." Raider said brandishing what Saren assumed was a detonator. "Gather your friends, this place is going to hell!"

Saren nodded and rushed to the rest of his squad. He grabbed Junius by the shoulder and pointed at the Humans, who were opening fire at the Batarians. Junius got the message and ordered the rest of the squad to get out of the area. As Saren was running, he looked back and saw the Humans use the weapon that had saved his life earlier.

Thunk, thunk, thunk.

The Batarian group exploded in a shower of fire and sparks. The Humans ran back, following the Turians through the forest that they had come in from in the first place. The Humans quickly caught up with the Turian group, running alongside one another. After a good few minutes of running, Raider took the detonator and pressed the red button on it. The forest, while concealing the group, was situated on a hill and gave the group a good view of the FOB. There was a rumbling noise, then the fuel tanks exploded, catching some gunships that were trying to take off in the blast. The explosions didn't stop there however, as the command post, the armor pool, the barracks, and then the armory went up in flames too. Kesarus looked at the carnage with tightened mandibles

"Damn, and I thought you loved explosions Kes, they're going to run you out of business!" Kalidon said, chuckling.

"Shut up Kal." Kesarus replied.

It was impressive, really. When they first met up with the Humans, they didn't look like they brought more than a couple or two kilograms of explosives. Either their explosives are really that powerful, or they 'borrowed' some of the Batarian's own explosives and destroyed the entire base with it. Both of which proved the brutal and resourceful nature of Humanity.

"Let's hope they don't decide to turn on us." Saren quietly.

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CODEX Entry:

Turian Hierarchy Arms and Munitions:By the time the Council and the Hierarchy went to war, the Hierarchy had already fully adopted Mass Effect technology into it's equipment. This especially fits into the Navy's battle doctrine of "Strike as many times as possible before retaliation" very well, as the Mass Effect tech allows their ships and vehicles move very quickly from place to place. This had not been realized as well as it could have with infantry weapons however. The standard issue service rifle the Turians use, the T-19 Banshee, can empty it's magazine in less than 20 seconds, which says a lot as the standard magazine carries up to seventy eight rounds. The modified version of the Banshee, the T-19 A model which is used heavily by the Hierarchy Blackwatch, has a slightly lower firing rate, but not low enough to solve the problem permanently. Hierarchy firearms fire 3mm pellets using mass accaccelerators, allowing it to be fired at 3 times the velocity, of previous Hierarchy weapons. Pellets made of hyper-conductive material is often used with rifle barrel mods to create a small EMP field that would distrupt shields.

JCN/Joint Citadel Navy:After the Krogans gained their seat on the Council, one of the first things the councilor at the time, Matriarch Gatatog Shiagur, assessed the military capability of the Council as a single force, and found the results to be very disapointing. To remedy this, Councilor Shiagur called for the formation of the Joint Citadel Navy, comprised of ships 'donated' from various races to work alongside each other whenever they are needed. The JCN is headed by a High Admiral, who serve 10 year terms at a limit of 5 terms. The first High Admiral, surprisingly, was a Salarian. Voted in by the admiralty board of the JCN, Jagor Teph finally put in motion his life long dream: a campaign to eradicate piracy based inside Council space once and for all. However, he died before he could achieve this dream. His successor, Urdnot Galagor, continued the crusade, eventually wiping out all major pirate gangs operating within Council space. It wouldn't be until his death that pirates began running operations inside Council space again, but never building a base of operations in it. As of today, the JCN is consisted of 5 fleets, mainly composed of Asari ships, some Salarian ships are also in service, although they are mainly support ships with the exception of one dreadnought, and only a handful of Krogan ships. Despite being the biggest supporters of the JCN, the Krogan are still rather unskilled at naval combat, often preferring to have a few Krogan Legions riding on Asari ships, ready to be deployed the moment they enter atmosphere.

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A/N

I do hope my action writing has improved, seeing as this the most action heavy chapter so far. Also, i've managed to figure out the different date systems for the different groups, but i've decided to just stick with our calendar system, because it's going to be much easier to understand. The characters from the other societies will still use their own date system, but for the header sections, i will only be using our basic gregorian calendar. Also, the battle of Eden Prime should be finished in the next two or three chapters, after that it's the liberation of Shanxi. I'm not sure if my pacing is too slow or too fast, or if it's all over the place, so tell me on that one guys.

Thanks for reading, as always. write down your thoughts on a review, or PM me and enjoy the rest of the day.