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Humanity had been traveling through space for over a hundred years and they haven't found any signs of intelligent life. Except for the Prothean ruins but those are thousands of years old, so nobody counts them. It was a shock when the science vessel from the exploration fleet came back showing proof of an alien fleet. When news came that exploration fleet was destroyed chaos happened all throughout human space.
People started freaking out and blaming politicians for why there wasn't a proper exploration fleet to fight off the aliens. Politicians that had voted for budget cuts soon found themselves in the hot seat and tried to grasp at answers and tell half-truths.
'All those politicians care about is getting reelected. Yes of course why in the world should we have a massive fleet?' Fleet admiral Adam Fenix thought while he was walking to a meeting with all the heads of the military and a few of the political leaders of the alliance.
Adam was old for being in the military even now days when the average life span was around 150 years with gene augmentation and what not. 'Well I guess now we will get the funding that we need too bad it comes in time of war.'
Fleet admiral Fenix walked towards a room that was guarded by a squad of N7's. "Sir!" They called out as they saluted the admiral. Fenix saluted back as he walked into the room. Inside the room was a table with 15 chairs. Nine of those chairs were filled with high ranking military and political leaders. Five of those chairs were empty but they had holographic imaging of more leaders.
"Sorry that it took me so long to get here I was busy dealing with spineless politicians who are complaining to me about budget cuts ever though they were the ones that signed those budget cuts," the fleet admiral said earing smiles and a few laughs from the other military leaders while the political leaders only frowned.
"As funny as you find this we do have a massive problem," stated an unamused politician from earth.
"That is true, but we wouldn't have been in this mess in the first place if you and your friends didn't slash our budget!" Yelled admiral Kenway, as his hologram pointed out the man in question.
Before the room could erupt into further chaos Adam yelled out. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!" The room soon became deathly quiet as the old admiral stood up. "Yes, our budget was slashed, and we shouldn't have rushed the activation of the relay. But now our budget it back up and larger than ever thanks due our present political friends," the fleet admiral said nodding to Anita Goyle who smiled in return.
"Is it true that we have made allies with one race of aliens?" called out a senator from earth causing the whole room to look at him. Fleet admiral Fenix wondered how the senator learned that information when he only found out about it two hours ago.
"Yes, they are called turians and they have offered to aid us in this fight. They have also given us a large amount of information not just retaining to the alien invaders, but to the galaxy as a whole," Marcus said putting smiles on a few faces.
"Is it also true that these turians brought these slavers to us?" The same senator asked causing a few people to look at the senator in question. "Yes that is true, but from what we have found out the turians had no idea that they were being followed," the fleet admiral said while wondering how this senator found that out as well.
'Senator Brackenridge seems to know more than he should. I was going to tell them all about the circumstances surrounding our new friends but apparently he already knows everything. I need to find out how before this becomes a problem,' the fleet admiral thought hoping that the senator knew nothing else.
"But that doesn't matter right now, even with the turian fleet helping out at Shanix it will not be enough. We need to send a fleet there as fast as we can, preferably in the next few days. We are dealing with pirates and slavers if we wait or even slow down, all of the people on Shanix will either be dead or enslaved," fleet admiral Fenix said causing silence amongst the leaders.
"Which fleets do you have in mind," admiral Kenway said from the dreadnought the SSV Fugi which was currently stationed at Arcturus station.
"I know what you are about to ask and no you can't go, you have to defend Arcturus and I have already picked the Everest and her fleet to lead the attack," Fenix said causing Kenway to look disheartened.
"That is a large fleet," stated a young Senator from Eden Prime. "Are you sure that it will be enough?" Adam knew what these people were thinking. They were thinking that all of this was a massive gambit. If he sends a fleet too fast they might not have enough ships and get destroyed. But if they wait too long to send reinforcements the planet could be lost.
"This can't wait we need this fleet now. Now we need to figure out which fleets will go with the Everest, which ones will be sent to defend key locations, where we will position patrols, recruiting more soldiers especially actives if we can manage it without the Grimnior freaking out, getting more transports for our troops and equipment, building more ships and weapons, and most importantly of all is to figure out how long this will take." Fenix said causing the other leaders to nod their heads in approval.
Slaver Fleet
Cracor Sebgobar sat in his command chair with a massive smile on his face. Here he was commanding a massive fleet of over four hundred ships and he was about to enslave a new race. If that wasn't enough turns out that admiral Desolas Arterius was guarding this new race meaning that he got the pleasure to kill him.
'From the images our spy sent us this new race looks incredibly similar to the asari, especially the women. I wonder how much they will go for when they first start appearing on the slave mart? Good thing I don't have to worry about buying any I can probably take a few and nobody will care. We will capture thousands of them anyways I doubt the higher ups will miss a couple of them,' Cracor thought as he looked over the last report that he received from their spy.
'The last report we got from him was that they had found the unknown races world and that was hours ago. I hope the turian brass killed him saves me from having to do it myself,' thought the batarian state sponsored pirate with a smile.
"Admiral Sebgobar the fleet is ready," called out his second in command. Cracor could only smile knowing that beyond this relay was the biggest pay day ever and he would be set for life. "Activate the relay and tell all ships to jump," he called out.
In a few seconds the batarian pirate and his fleet of slavers, pirates, mercenaries, and anybody else that could make it in time that didn't mind dirty work were exiting the relay. "Admiral we have detected ninety-eight ships in a defense formation around the planet made up of both turian ships and unidentified ships along with a large defense station measuring three kilometers long," called out a crew member making the admiral scoff.
"Even with the turians on their side they don't stand a chance. Does this new race have any of those large cruiser class ships that our spy warned us of?" Cracor asked as he stared out a window eyeing the planet they were about to ransack.
"Yes sir there are two of those ship they appear to be in the front of the formation along with the turian dreadnought," the ships xo said making Cracor grin even more.
"Have boarding parties launch for both of those ships and the defense station once we get closer if we can take at least one of those ships intact it will benefit the Hegemony immensely and it will solidify us as the strongest race in the galaxy," Cracor said before he took a look at the terminal in front of him.
"How long till we are in firing range," the pirate leader asked in an eager tone.
"One minute and thirty-eight seconds sir," his second said.
"Open fire immediately on all ships but make sure not to destroy those two cruisers or I will personally throw you out an air lock." Cracor said causing a few crew members to grow stiff.
'Soon that world and everything on it will be mine. Their resources, technology, infrastructure, even their own people. The men and children will mostly be put to work in the mines or factory's while their women will be warming our beds,' he thought as he closed his eyes imaging it all before a shout brought him back to reality.
"Admiral! The fleet is taking fire it appears that this new race has a longer range of fire then our own. We have already lost a few frigates and cruisers and one of our dreadnoughts has just lost its barriers!" Yelled out his xo.
"Incredible image what we will be able to do with their technology. Order all ships to engage in a micro jump so that we are in firing range. If we keep going at the current pace we might lose over a hundred ships before we can even get a shot off," Cracor said causing the bridge to become a blur of activity.
Cracor watched as a few of his ships exploded while he waited for his fleet to get coordinates for the jump so that they don't all collide into each other upon exit. "Admiral we are ready to jump on your order," called out his xo.
"Jump and open fire upon exit," Cracor said immediately felling his vessel jump only for it to exit in less than a second in a much closer proximity towards the opposition.
Now that his fleet was in firing range he new that it would be only a matter of time before he was victorious. He looked on the tactical map showing the battle progress just as he expected. There was a brief moment of confusion as his fleet jumped but the enemy quickly recovered and opened fire.
He had to admit that this new race could built amazing warships. Those two large cruisers and that defense station were destroying one or two ships every time they opened fire with those energy weapons. 'It wont matter they already have already lost half their fleet,' Cracor thought as he saw that both the unknown races and the turians vessels were quickly being destroyed.
"Admiral are attacks are now landing on the hull of the unknown ships and we have managed to take out one of the ships engines, should we launch the boarding parties now," asked his xo who already knew the answer.
"Yes, and tell them to try to take as many of them alive as they can," he said hoping that they would. He knew that he would need a few beings from this unknown race to at least tell him how the ship worked or else they could accidently blow it up.
Admiral Haymith
He knew that he was going to die when he saw that massive fleet pour out of the relay, but he wasn't going down alone. His ship had already destroyed four pirate ships before they jumped forward. Since then he had managed to destroy more than 20 thanks mostly due to the peace ray. But he knew that the peace ray itself would not be enough. He felt the shot that took out the engines as the ship shuddered followed by a few more blasts that he knew took out his peace ray and tesla cannons for the most part.
"Admiral we just lost our peace ray along with all but a three of our tesla cannons and a few dozen rail guns," Rachel reported while his crew reported the same thing along with a few other concerns. "I am also detecting multiple incoming craft. They appear to be boarding craft admiral," Rachel said causing the admiral to grow stiff.
"How long till they get here?" admiral Haymith asked as he looked around the bridge seeing the faces of his men and women who knew what that meant.
"They will be docking in roughly a few minutes admiral," Rachel said with regret in her voice knowing what this meant.
"You all know what this means," admiral Haymith said as he gave one last look around the bridge. "Rachel pull up the self-destruct fail safe measure," the admiral said as he placed his right hand on a sensor.
"Admiral I regret to inform you that it appears that we took a few too many hits. I am unable to bring up the self-destruct protocols let alone act upon them. Somebody will need to go down to the core and overload it manually," Rachel said after a few moment.
"Very well tell anybody with a gun to hold off the invaders for as long as they can. Wipe everything from the hard drives and you know what that means Rachel," admiral Haymith said causing the A.I. to go quite for a second.
"I know admiral, I am willing to do what is necessary just get down to the core. It truly has been an honor sir," Rachel said before she winked out of existence causing a moment of quite sadness to spread through the crew.
"My crew you know what to do wipe everything and then get your asses to the escape pods or pick up a rifle and kill some aliens. It has truly been my honor to serve as you commanding officer. I couldn't have ask for a better crew," admiral Haymith said before he turned around and walked out of the bridge while the rest of his crew got busy with their duty's.
"Admiral do you need an escort," called out a marine who was guarding the bridge along with five other marines.
"No boys I think I can handle a few aliens by myself," admiral Haymith said as he pulsed magic through his veins. "Just make sure that no aliens make it into the bridge." With that the admiral made his way towards the reactor.
Slaver boarding party aboard the heavy cruiser
"Tell the admiral that we have taken the engine room," reported a batarian squad leader as he examined the room.
"There wasn't as much security as I thought there would be," stated a krogan as he examined one of the dead defender's weapons before throwing to the ground.
"Yes, that's true but they still managed to kill off over half of our boarding party," the squad leader said as looked back at his reaming squad of five out of twelve.
He would never admit it, but this new race frightened him. They had abilities that he couldn't even begin to comprehend. Some of them launched ice shards that traveled too slow to be stopped by barriers that skewered his men. Others seemed to have biotic abilities but there was none of the tells that showed a person being a biotic like the blue haze that you can see when they use their biotics.
"WE HAVE INCOMING!" Came through the communication causing the squad of slavers to take positions by the door.
"Report how many of them?" The squad leader asked but he could only hear screams and gun fire. "I said report how many of them are there!" He yelled into his communicator only receiving static as a response.
He could soon hear the screams and gun fire coming from his men right outside the room. "Be ready men we can't let them take this room or else we will have died for nothing," he said earing a nod from each member of his now 6-person squad.
"This might actually be fun," the krogan said as he aimed his shot gun at the door earning a few odd looks from the batarians. Seriously what is it with krogan and fighting couldn't they do anything else a few of the squad members wondered.
Admiral Haymith
Admiral Haymith was smiling, he had just torn through dozens of these four eyed aliens and their weapons barely phased him. 'Wait till they get to the ground I bet Williams has a few hundred brutes and that not even mentioning all of the other actives that are down there,' he thought as he braced himself to enter the engine room.
"IT'S SHOW TIME!" He yelled as he burst into the room catching a batarian by the face and crushing its head like a grape. A krogan shot him only for the round to bounce off the brute's skin. Admiral Haymith lunged at the krogan and grabbed him by his right arm and tore it clean off. The krogan was stunned in both pain and surprise at what this smaller creature had just done to him. The brute then gripped the krogan's head with both hands and smashed it sending bone, blood, and brain matter across the room.
There remaining three batarians were stunned for a moment as they saw a krogan lose in a melee fight to a much smaller being. While they were stunned the admiral charged at the closet alien and punched him in the chest causing his fist to come out of the alien's backside holding its spine. The two remaining batarians opened fire on the admiral causing him to throw the dead batarian at one of them knocking him down.
Admiral Haymith quickly made his way to the standing batarian who was screaming as he held down the trigger of his weapon causing it to overheat. The admiral backhanded the four eyed creature's head so hard that the aliens neck snapped causing the batarian to drop dead.
The final pirate was trying to get back on his feet after being knocked down, but he was too late. Admiral Haymith picked up the batarian by the neck in his right hand and said, "You never had a chance." Before he slammed the pirate head first into the floor causing even more blood to stain his ships walls and floors.
'Good thing that's done with I'm almost out of magic,' the admiral thought as he made his way over to the control panel. The admiral hurriedly typed in the commands into the panel knowing that more aliens would be here in a few moment and he didn't have enough magic to fight off any more.
'There it is,' he thought to himself as he typed in the final commands to cause the ship to self-destruct. 'Looks like I only have about 30 seconds till I die,' he thought as he pulled out a photo of his family. "I'm sorry Sarah but it looks like I won't be coming home," the admiral said with a sad smile knowing that he was doing the right thing.
With only a few seconds left he heard people running into the room. Looking up he saw a dozen of aliens leveling their rifles at him. "Sorry boys your too late," he said as he looked at the console which just hit zero.
The explosion enveloped the entire ship in mere seconds leaving nothing left for the invaders to plunder. The crew that escaped via the escape pods looked at the explosion with a mixture of pride and sorrow.
Batarian command ship
Cracor Sebgobar was beyond mad both of those large cruisers had chosen managed to activate their self-destruct sequences before his men could take them. But at least the space battle is over though with more casualties than he anticipated.
In the end two dreadnoughts, eighty-seven cruisers, and ninety-seven frigates were lost with all hands. While another dreadnought, twenty-seven cruisers, and fourteen frigates were too damaged to continue and had to be evacuated. This brought his total fleet down to two hundred and forty-six ships. To bring further insult four turian cruisers and three turian frigates along with three of the new species ships escaped.
Even though he still won he had almost lost half of his fleet to a fleet under a hundred ships. Sure, they had that defense station but still this should not have happened. 'If we don't gain anything of value from this raid I fear that I may be executed,' he thought.
"How are we proceeding on capturing the station and how much long till we can start sending men down," he asked while trying to think of a way to positively spin this to his superiors.
"We are encountering heavy resistance upon the station sir, but we are hesitant to send more men in fear of them destroying the station when it is almost captured. We can send in ground forces at any moment sir," the ships xo said causing the admiral to think on his next course of action.
"What have we learned from about this planet and have our specialist made our new found guests talk yet," Cracor asked meaning the turians and the new race that they had picked up from their escape pods.
"Yes sir, they haven't been talking much but we did manage to break into a couple omni tools. That has given us much needed information about the new race and planet below. They are called humans and the planet is actually a colony not their home world," stated the xo who handed the admiral a data tablet holding all of the information.
"Humans interesting, and I see that you managed to acquire their language. Send it to my omni tool I want to speak to one of these human's latter. But in the mean time we have more pressing matters. You are probably right about the station but still we can't just ignore it we have to try to take it. Send another wave of reinforcements to the station," the batarian said as he took another look at the planet.
"Well it's a shame that its only a colony but I still think we will go home wealthy beyond our wildest dreams. Go ahead and start sending in our ground forces and make sure to deploy enough air support along with a couple frigates if they need it," the admiral said while he looked over a list detailing a few of the human prisoners.
Janet Summnern batarian cruiser holding cell
'This is really bad,' she thought to herself as looked around and saw other members of her crew along with a few of the turians in cells just like hers. This is not at all what she had hoped for when she joined the navy a few years ago out of high school. 'All I wanted to do was to travel across the galaxy not get taken prisoner by some four eyed freaks.'
'Should I use my powers and try to escape? I see Johnson over there he's a shard and other there is Michael isn't he a gravity spiker. I bet there is even more actives around here maybe all they need is somebody to follow,' she thought as she gave a look over to Michael who she could tell was thinking the same thing.
That all stopped when three batarians came her cell and unlocked it, "Struggle and I can assure you that it this will be painful for you don't and you might enjoy it," one of the batarians said as he came closer to her causing her to laugh.
"And what do you think is so funny human," the lead batarian said with a puzzled look. He wasn't the only one that looked confused all around him the pirates and captured turians had the same look of confusion as well.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry its just the last time somebody tried to rape me they ended up dead," she said as she stood up giving a glace to a few other actives in their cells who nodded in response.
"Really, well lets see what you can do against me and my friends here not to mentions the couple of krogan manning the door," the batarian said as he took a step closer making the human women human women pull back her arm.
"Well here you go," she said as she thrust her arm forward causing flames to launch out from her hand burning the three batarians alive. From that signal other actives began attacking as well. Some were tearing open their cells a few were shifting the gravity causing the slavers to fall down, while other shooting fire, ice and lightning killing any of the other slavers.
The turians sat in awe and confusion as they saw these humans butcher the slavers with god like abilities. Sure, they had been told that the humans had magic like abilities but most of them scoffed it up to biotics and rumors but seeing it showed the turians what the humans were capable of.
In less a minute all the captives were free and fighting the slavers off as best they could. There was a language barrier between the humans and the turians due to having their omin tools taken away, but for the most part the turians knew what to do based off hand signals and just following the lead of the humans with magic.
"We might actually take the ship," Janet said sending a fire ball towards a group of slavers who immediately caught fire and dropped to the ground trying to put themselves out. Janet looked around and she had to admit she was impressed with the turians.
Even though they couldn't speak to each other the turians clearly knew what to do. They would pick up the weapons and equipment from the dead slavers and stay behind the humans who had magic and give them support as best they could.
Janet wondered how many other ships this was happening on. Actives weren't that rare now days, so each escape pod should have had at least one active aboard. But Janet's thought were cut short when a round punched through her shoulder sending her towards the ground.
She looked around and saw that the other actives were slowing being picked off even the two brutes were slowly losing their strength as they continued to get shot at. 'I am not being taken alive again,' she thought as she managed to stand up throwing another stream of fire towards the incoming enemy reinforcements.
In a few minutes Janet and five other prisoners were all that was left surrounded by dozens of pirates. She looked around and noticed that three of them were turians who had picked up enemy weapons and the other two were humans from another ship that she didn't know.
She could hear the alien pirate leader telling them to surrender or else, but she didn't care to listen. She knew what would happen if she did surrender and she didn't want that to happen to her. She looked around at her fellow captives and she could see in their eyes that they were thinking the same thing as well.
She conjured up one more fire ball and sent it flying down the corridor hitting a few batarians in the process. But the victory was short lived as she soon was shot in the head a few times causing her to drop dead. In a matter of seconds, the rest of the prisoners died as well.
Batarian command ship
Cracor was furious beyond imagination, he was hearing multiple reports of the new captives escaping and killing his men. In a few cases he had to order the destruction of a ship to keep the new-found slaves from taking over. 'What sort of abilities do these primitives have,' he thought to himself as we watched footage of these humans using supernatural abilities.
"Admiral all ships are reporting that they have put down the rebellion and have restrained the humans as best as they can. Also, we are now ready to start sending ground forces on your command,' the ships xo said distracting the admiral.
"Have we figured out how these humans are to use these abilities," Cracor asked as he looked over the death toll.
"We managed to get one of these humans talking and he said that a lot of humans use magic. As if magic exists we have an interrogator working him over right now to get the truth out of him so it shouldn't be much longer. What we do know is that the not all humans have these abilities and that there are different types." the xo said handing his report over to Cracor.
"Magic huh, well it wont matter if they every human on that planet has abilities when we stat shooting at them from obit. Go ahead and send down our troops along with a couple frigates to give them support when they need it," Cracor said while he eyed the planet beneath him.
I hope everybody enjoyed my story and thank you again for reading it. The next chapter should come out in about a week or so.