Disclaimer I do not own Halo or Mass Effect, Halo is owned by 343 and Mass Effect is owned by Bioware

AN, This is the last chapter so far of the Wolf Effect fanfic I'll post an Author's Note page next update of what to do next


Wolf Effect

Ch 30. Reunion

Location: Normandy docked with Shadow of Intent, Normandy communication room

Anthony's POV

"What's our next move Commander? Head for the Mu Relay?" That's what Ashley said as myself, my team, Shepard's team, Red team, Anders, Johnson, & Forge are here as Red was able to patch a comm signal to allow the Everest & Spirt of Fire to listen in along with the Swords of Sangheilos

It was amazing. Now that just about all of the SOS is here, we can fight back against the Covenant loyalists, Banished, Flood, etc.

Shepard replied "The Mu Relay could link to dozens of systems. Unless we know where exactly he's going, we'd just be wasting our time"

"The Human is right" everyone turned to see the Arbiter entering the room alongside the Chief as he continued "When we heard of the Ark, we did not know where exactly it was noir did we know how to reach it, until Truth uncovered the artifact that would allow us to follow him through & stop him from activating the rings"

I added "He's right, but me & Shepard both have these visions so if we put our heads together then we might be able to try & find a clue to where he's going, or at least prevent him from getting to a relay"

Austin looked at Ashley "Also, since this now became a UNSC & SOS operation, then the Arbiter has a say on what action we should take"

Ashley looked at him "Really? You're going to listen to a split jaw rather then listen to your own kind?"

"Enough!" Everyone looked at Shepard "We're all on the same team here. But He does bring a good point."

I nodded as Ghost materialized "Now I can probably narrow down the intel we have on Saren to pick out some spots he might be at"

"In the meantime" I looked at the Arbiter "I'll accompany you shipmaster along with the Spartans, the rest of the ships will move to the ring Wolfpack has alerted me of"

Shepard nodded as she performed the Sangheili salute "It'll be a honor to have you on board. Everyone, dismissed"

Soon enough, Ghost turned the comms off as the room was only occupied with Shepard, myself, Arbiter, & Chief as Joker asked Shepard if she wanted to report to the council which was a yes

We now saw the councilors appear on hologram as Tevos asked "Is this report accurate, Commander? You found Rachni on Noveria?"

Sparatus spoke next "And then released the queen! Do you have any idea what you've done? How many generations until they overrun the galaxy?"

Instead of the commander speaking, I spoke "We made the right call, she understands why her kind was wiped out, she also said that she would isolate herself from the rest of the galaxy. I was also not going to allow a genocide of a race that wanted peace"

He just grunted as Tevos took notice of the two new additions in the room as they watch the Arbiter cautiously along with John as Tevos asked "Who are these two?"

The Arbiter introduced himself first "I am the Thel 'Vadam. I am the leader of the Swords of Sanghelios"

Cortana introduced herself & Chief "I'm CTN 0452-9, but just call me Cortana, and the Spartan here Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 also known as the Master Chief"

Each councilor had a different expression on their faces, Sparatus was analyzing them & was probably wanting to question them about their military since me & my team along with Halsey have clearly stated that it was classified, Valern was looking intrigued & probably wanted the technology themselves & probably wanted to send their spies to take some of our tech, Tevos however was probably thinking of how to learn more about the UNSC & SOS so she can get whatever we have for the rest of the council & have them join the council

The Arbiter spoke "Now before any of you say anything, both the UNSC & the Swords of Sanghelios will not at all share any of our technology, weapons, or anything else until the rest of the representatives of each species agrees & no we will not join your council" I smirked seeing their shocked expressions & honestly I liked that

Tevos tried to reason with them "B-But the benefits-"

Chief spoke for the first time in this stupid meeting "Will have us involved with a government that not only allows slavery, but also deals in back stabbing others, causing genocides, starts wars with other species for breaking laws they aren't even aware of, and many other things that we have found" as soon as Ghost turned off the external speaks, me & her laughed. Never in my life would I ever hear the Master chief just tell the councilor to just go fuck themselves

My god Sparatus face shows that he's pissed, I felt someone bump me a bit as I look to see that it was Shepard as she was saying something which I just calmed down along with Ghost as she turned the external speakers back on as Sparatus says "Well that doesn't seem to be stopping humanity from joining & so far you UNSC have broken spirits knows laws & you have no say in anything!"

I heard a menacing growl & it definitely came from Thel & honestly I figured I might as well intervene "Ok I'm going to make this clear. WE aren't the ones that released the flood. WE aren't the ones that allowed the Batarians to continue their slavery. WE aren't the ones that decided it was a good idea to nuter the Krogan because they overpopulated. All over you decided this & guess what, all the blood & innocence that died in the history of the entire council existing is on your hands, we had to deal with the Prophets lies & honestly your not making yourselves any different from them in any shape or form." I crossed my arms looking at the council as they seemed stunned

Tevos cleared her throat "We will respect your decision but I am not sure on how everyone else will react especially for those in the Terminus system. I do hope that we can have peaceful relations between our governments"

"We will & the first step will be to stopping this threat called Reapers from returning & to prevent this conduit from falling to Saren's hands. We will take whatever action deemed necessary" that's what Thel said as the holograms of the councilors disappeared

Soon enough Chief & the Arbiter looked at me & Shepard as I soon enough realized I'll have to explain what the fuck is going on & also tell those two about what's gonna happen in this verse

Austin's POV

I was looking at Benzina as the Hunters & Ratchet are working on clearing any indoctrination from her

Honestly this was unexpected but from what I was able to gather it's kinda like certain vibrations or frequencies that seem to help establish control over the person after they get into their head, but with those two species & Drones

I was in the brig with some Sangheili monitoring our guest to make sure she didn't wake up to try & attack anyone

Soon enough the door open as I turn to see Ashley as she looks at the cell & stands next to me as she said "So... how long will this take?"

I shrug "Don't know. It's gonna probably take awhile & honestly this is new for them"

I noticed her looking at the Hunters weirdly as I neared her say "How can those Worms even do that?"

I chuckle a bit "Honestly.. I miss out on that part of info. But they are still tough sons of bitches & if you think Krogan were tough, they are nothing compared to those guys"

"Your lucky that I respect you or else I would of killed you" we turn to see that Wrex was walking in as he stood next to us as he looks at the cell as well "Also I will admit, those things can give a battalion of slavers a very hard time"

I smile "yeah, plus it helps that they have plasma cannons too"

Ashley asked "How come there's two of them when we only need one?" Ok that would be the stupidest question ever to ask but since this is their first time I might as well give them a education... actually I was gonna let my AI do that

I sighed "Sierra, can you tell them all about the Hunters please"

She materializes into view as she smiled "Sure thing. Mgalekgolo more commonly known as Hunters, are a unique gestalt of smaller creatures known as Lekgolo, which are orange, worm-like creatures. Lekgolo were known to group together as Mgalekgolo for protection during combat, due to the form's increased strength at the cost of maneuverability. When grouping together, the intelligence of the Mgalekgolo colony is increased with every additional Lekgolo. When a single Mgalekgolo colony becomes too big, the colony will divide in half to create two independent Mgalekgolo colonies. These colonies will share an extremely close and mysterious bond, referred to only as being 'bond brothers' or 'mates.' Mgalekgolo that have split into "bond brothers" are recognized by spiked appendages that rise from their shoulders. The Covenant usually drop bonded Mgalekgolo into combat together because if one of the bonded colonies is killed, the other will go into a frenzied berserk"

"Huh, I thought there would be more to them?" That's what Wrex asked & that's when the three of us got a major lesson on the Hunters

Tony's POV

I was in the engine room as I checked up on the drive to make sure it's still good since our mission came with Banished

Tali is with me as we finished with the engines as she said "There, that should make sure we don't have any incidents"

I nod as I looked at her "Now that's taken care of, we can probably get some rest"

She nods "agreed, but I don't know where we are going to next since we have no idea on where that Relay will take us"

"All we can do now is track Saren & kick his ass & stop the Reapers from showing up, if they prove to be true then we kick their asses too"

"You sound very confident"

"Well I enjoy that we have tech that can be immune to Saren's bullshittery" she giggled as I chuckled

She looks at me "I do hope that after all of this my people can have our Embassy back on the Citadel"

I shrug "You can have that, or be part of the Swords, either way my people will do whatever we can to help your people not only making your ships better but to reclaim your homeworld, and this Is a promise I intend to keep"

Anthony's POV

"And that's about it" I told Chief, Thel, & Cortana about, Well.. what's been going on

Now Shepard was out of the room since she went to see how the crew was feeling as I was left with Thel & Chief as John said "These machines go & attack civilization every 50,000 years & this rouge agent called Saren is trying to bring the Reapers here thinking if he was loyal then they would leave us alone"

I nod as Thel replied "This seems almost familiar"

I chuckled & said "Well we did have to fight up against the Prophet & the loyalist so taking on Saren & a bunch of zealous machines should be a walk in the park for us"

Cortana then said "So, anymore intel that we should know about this universe?"

I answered "Yes, even though we stop Saren here, we need to be ready within 2 years since Shepard will be coming back after being said KIA & she'll need to deal with these things called Collectors"

Ghost then added "Basically they are like a mixture of humanoids & bugs that will make a reaper out of humans"

"Then we must hunt them down & stop them to spare the humans of this threat" that's what Thel said

I nodded "I agree but they are located in the center of the galaxy & the only way through is via Relay but we need to have it think we're collectors in order to pass through, but even if we defeat the collectors we'll be dealing with the Reapers themselves"

Chief asked "Explain"

"Just a year after beating the collectors, the Reapers finally show up & a lot of worlds become taken & everyone is out to protect themselves & staying the hell away from them, there is supposed to be a weapon which could stop the Reapers since past civilizations added pieces to it"

Now they were curious as Cortana asked next "What is this device supposed to do?"

I sighed "Well in the original before we ever showed up, it basically gave Shepard four choices, now one choice was the let the cycle continue which meant everyone dies & the next species get to become advanced, a second choice is to destroy the Reapers but results in destroying anything reaper related, a third one is taking control of the Reapers, then the final choice will be performing a synthesis which gives machines knowledge of being alive & gives humans the cybernetics that they want. Now I don't know if any of those were the right choice but with our being here then we could change that"

Chief added "Your saying that we get ourselves involved to prevent a ancient machine race from wiping out all advanced life in the galaxy to prevent any lives from being lost"

I nodded as Thel said "We will discuss this with the rest of the species. Now from what your construct has told us of each species, our best possible allies will be the Krogan & Quarian"

I nodded "Correct, the council will most likely try to gain the Quarian's favor due to them being the best engineers in this galaxy but with our tech, it could help improve the Quarian's lives & the Krogan's can go through nearly any environment & are tough bastards"

Thel replied "Then it is settled, once this rouge agent has been dealt with, we will establish good relations with both the Krogans & the Quarians"

We had the plan set up as we left the room, I decided that now would be the best time to start looking into all of ME's weapons & ammo types to help improve our weaponry


AN, If you liked the story so far leave a review