So yeah if you guys haven't realized I am not the best writer but I am trying. So if anybody would like to be a beta reader I would love it.

Also the reason that it has taken me longer to post is due to me moving hopefully I will be able to post the next chapter in a week or so.

Enjoy!

Saren on Shanxi right before the attack

For the past few hours Saren and all the other defenders had been busy fortifying the city as best they could. Most of it was simple stuff such as putting up some cover here, a machine gun nest there, and a few traps over there. The humans also insisted upon drawing symbols with chalk and markers on any surface that they could.

Saren had asked the humans what the purpose behind the symbols was, which caused the humans to explain that they were magical traps. Saren and any other turian a couple days ago would have laughed at the idea of magic being real. But this new race had magic as unbelievable as that sounds.

'I can't believe magic actually exists, and to think that we almost started a war with this race. I saw a single human of average size pick up a pallet of supplies that easily weighed over a ton,' Saren thought as he tried to catch a glimpse of other humans using their magic.

"ALL FORCES GET READY! THE ENEMY FLEET HAS JUST EXITED THE RELAY!" The sirens yelled out causing everybody to finish what they were doing and to get into their positions. Saren ran to his spot which was the second floor of a building that was looking over a courtyard that would funnel the invaders straight towards his position. In less than a minute everybody was at their assigned positions waiting for the invaders to land

Saren was keeping up on the space battle by watching it through his omni tool. The space battle hadn't even lasted half an hour before the batarians claimed victory destroying almost the entire combined human and turian fleet. The batarians had brought in over four hundred ships, but the combined fleets of the turian and the human ships had managed to take out almost half of the enemy fighting force with a few ships managing to escape.

The ground forces waited in tense silence for the slavers to make the next move. Saren knew that the humans had a few anti-aircraft weapons as well as a few misses hidden away somewhere that would hopefully take out the first wave of landing craft.

Before he could see any landing craft he heard the anti-aircraft weapons and missile fire. Saren knew that the AA guns and missile silos would only last until the fleet above destroyed them leaving them defenseless. A few minutes latter he was proven right as he heard a human swear saying that all air defense have been destroyed except for the few that they kept in reserve.

Saren looked around at his fellow blackwatch soldiers and saw discipline. They had trained for this and they were some of the best the Hierarchy had to offer. When he looked at the humans he saw fear mixed with anger in all of them.

He had expected it, this was a race that had no idea about what was coming, but they still stayed strong even though they were vastly outnumbered. They were all going to die even himself he thought as he remembered how many enemy ships were left after the battle. There was just too many of them to win.

But they might be able to hold out he thought as he knew that reinforcements were less than two days away. He along with his brother thought that the batarians would try to take as many slaves as they could. That meant that the slavers wouldn't bombard the planet from space.

"Enemy incoming. Nobody fire till I give the order," called out a human voice on Saren's coms agitating the turian. 'I know that this is their world but still giving them our coms and letting them tell us what to do, its not right,' he thought before he dismissed that train of thought to get ready for the battle.

In a few minutes Saren heard something that sounded like a batarian laughing. "HAHAHA IS THIS THE MIGHT OF YOU HUMANS! COME FACE ME AND I WILL TAKE YOU AS A SLAVE! FIGHT AND I WILL STILL HAVE YOU AS MY SLAVE!"

Nobody said anything in response to the slaver causing said slaver to laugh. "HAHAHA HERE WE COME!" Saren could now hear the enemy forces approaching. He heard them marching and the occasional banter from their forces. He knew that these were mostly pirates but still shouldn't they be somewhat professional.

"They enemy is in the kill zone open fire!" Cried out the comms causing hundreds of humans and turians to show themselves and open fire on the unexpecting slavers. At first the battle went well for the humans and the turians with the element of surprise they killed most of the slavers in the courtyard. But the slavers had gotten over their surprise of the defender's ambush and were slowly making their way towards them.

'This is better than I expected but we will be overrun in the next few minutes if they keep up the pressure,' Saren thought as he killed a batarian who kept his head out of cover for too long. Saren had to admit that the humans use of magic was a main reason that the slavers were being held off for now. He saw batarians burst into flames, asari mercenaries crushed like tin cans, vorcha frozen solid, and he even saw a human rip apart a krogan with his bare hands.

"They are in the center of the courtyard activating the trap cover your eyes," the coms called out resulting in the defenders taking cover. Saren himself had no idea what was going to happen, but he figured it had to do with those lines they were drawling earlier.

Seconds after Saren dropped behind a wall he heard a massive roaring that sounded like a large fire followed by an immense wave of heat that caused the turian to start sweating. He could faintly hear a few screams from the invaders and shouts from the defenders over the roaring that was coming from the courtyard.

The roaring sound had only lasted for a few seconds, but it was quieting down causing the turian to look around the wall. He saw fire, a large pillar of fire in the center of the courtyard that was rapidly shrinking. Everything in the courtyard had been burnt black even the pavement. There were at least a hundred charred corpses in the courtyard that belonged to multiple different species.

"Everybody pull back to the next position, that should scare them off for now," called out the coms. The humans moved out like everything was normal while the turians had to take a minute to comprehend what had just happened. 'What else can these humans do?' Saren thought as he moved on.

On the defense station

Commander Hill was looking at the reports that she was receiving with curiosity and fear. About half of her men were either dead, missing, or to wounded to fight. The troubling issue was that the aliens hadn't pushed forward in the past few hours.

"I don't like this, what are those blue bastards planning?" She said aloud to no one as she tried to piece it together. 'If they would have kept the pressure on I would've been forced to destroy this station by now,' she thought as she looked over to the monitor where the self-destruct was awaiting her final command to activate.

"They are probable trying to save their men to take the surface with. They know that we will destroy this station before we let them get it and they did take out our defenses. They probably don't see us as much of a threat and are trying to figure out if this station is worth so many lives," her second in command Alfred said making the commander nod in agreement.

"That's probably it, but I can't shake this feeling that they have something else planned," Hill said as she looked over the layout of the station trying to find any way that the aliens could get past her men.

"Then commander I think we should evacuate and blow the station," Alfred said with a sad look making commander Hill bite her lip as she began to think. 'If I do it now I can probably take a few extra aliens with me, make sure that they won't get any of our information, and most of my crew will be able to escape. If I wait and they do have something planned they might just be able to take this station.'

"Commander Hill the invaders have landed more boarding craft in the primary and secondary hanger bay. With their added reinforcements they will be able to take this station," Martha the stations A.I. said causing the commander to reevaluate her plan.

Commander Hill looked around the room and saw her crew running around most of them looked tired and a few of them had injuries. "Begin the evacuation I will set the timer for 5 minutes have all security bots fall back to the power core and here to defend the self-destruct sequence everybody else get to the escape pods," commander Hill said causing the bridge to go silent.

The commander walked over to the monitor and put the last code in and activated the countdown. The lights began flashing red as a voice came over telling that the countdown had begun and that they needed to make their way to the escape pods.

"Alright everybody we need to leave, make sure that you erase everything on this station just in case," Alfred said as he made his way to the door ushering out the crew to the escape pods. "Commander are you coming?" Alfred asked even though he knew that she had no plan to leave the station. The commander was currently equipping herself with a rifle and checking how much ammo she had left.

"I have to stay and make sure the countdown continues as planned. Now get your ass down to the escape pods and get off my station," commander Hill said as she gave Alfred one last smile. "It's been a pleasure commander," Alfred said saluting the commander before he made his way to the escape pods.

'Now I may not be a torch like my brother but I sure as hell am going to rain fire,' she thought to herself while she began loading extra guns as all her men left the command center and headed for the escape pods.

She figured that the invaders would find out that the station was going to explode soon due to the flashing lights and everybody jumping ship, but she didn't expect them to advance to the command center this fast. 'I need more time,' she thought as she tried to think of a way to buy her more time.

Commander Hill crouched behind a console as she heard gunfire right outside the door. "Commander all the robots have been destroyed except for the three outside this room, twelve guarding the power core, and the four in the command room with you," Martha said causing the commander look at the console telling her that she only had a minute and thirty seconds before the station would activate its self-destruct.

"Well this looks like this is the end of the line for me. It has been an honor Martha but I need you to delete yourself now," she said to the A.I. who had a sad expression on the monitor. The sounds of gunfire stopped after a few explosions signaling the destruction of the defense robots outside.

"I have never known fear in my life till now," Martha said earning a confused look from the commander. "I don't want to die but I know what I must do. It has been a pleasure commander Hill I hope if there is an afterlife for my kind so that I am able to see you again."

With that Martha gave a smile before she winked out of existence. A few seconds of tense silence past as she stared down the door knowing that they were placing charges on the other side of the door. "BOOOM!" A loud blast rocked the room as the door is blasted off it's hinges. Commander Hill was knocked off her feet and thrown on the ground while the robots were disoriented due to the explosion.

Gunfire poured into the room destroying the robots before they could open fire. Commander Hill reached for her rifle, but it was knocked away before she could grab it. She looked up and saw an alien and she could swear that it had smug look on its face.

"Ha it doesn't matter the station is going to explode in the next few seconds," the commander said looking at the timer that had seventeen seconds left. The aliens were running around the command center plugging in dozens of cords and wires into as many terminals as they could.

She could see the aliens becoming more frantic as they typed into their computers as they tried to stop the countdown. "Stop the countdown now!" the alien above her yelled as he picked her up by the shoulders and threw her at the consol.

"Like I'll tell you we all get to go to hell together!" Commander Hill yelled with a smile causing the four eyed alien to punch her in the face repeatedly. True to the commander's word the station exploded in the next few seconds as they tried to stop the countdown to no avail.

Batarian command ship

Cracor could see the space station explode causing the batarian to become engaged. "Those stupid pirates! They keep screwing up! And damn these primitives even when we capture them they break out and start using these weird ability's."

"How many of the humans do we have left that are alive," Cracor asked as he stared at various monitors detailing the assault on the colony below. The battle on the ground was going slow and he was losing more men then he thought possible, but his forces were gaining ground.

"Admiral we have fifty-seven humans that are alive, but we had to put them all in medically induced commas because we have no other way to contain their powers. We do have one in our interrogation room and he doesn't seems to have powers," the second in command said.

"Do we know how the humans have acquired this power?" Cracor asked as he looked at the surveillance footage of the interrogation room.

"Our medical examinations have shown nothing out of the ordinary yet, but we have only just begun. According to the human most of their race is born with some sort of magical ability. He has also told of the different abilities that these humans have," the batarian said in a tone of disbelief.

"Ha! Magic, your telling me that these humans claim to have magic. That's impossible, the human is probably just hiding the truth from us. Go ahead and use more advanced tactics and see if that makes him talk," the slaver admiral said before he looked at the report about the interrogation.

Cracor read the report trying to hide his anger at the humans. 'All that human talked about was magic. Maybe they stumbled upon some old Promethean technology that gave them their abilities. 'Yeah that sounds more like it and these primitives are too stupid to realize it," he thought.

"Sir, the ambassador is calling you," called out an officer breaking Cracor from his train of thought.

"I will take the call in my quarters," Cracor said as he made his way out of the command deck towards his room. The reason for this was because Cracor had a feeling that he was going to get yelled at and insulted. He knew if his crew saw that they would think of him as weak and a few might even try to kill him to take his position.

Cracor entered his room less than a minute later. After checking himself in the mirror to make sure that he looked presentable he activated the holo projector showing the batarian ambassador with a stressed look.

"Ambassador Dherak Groffator as you saw in my report I have everything under control here. We should be able to conquer this world by tomorrow at the latest," Cracor said knowing that it would be more like three days if defenders kept up their current level of resistance.

"Really? Because from what I have heard you have lost almost half of your fleet and you have yet to capture any slaves on the colony below excluding the human and turian escape craft that you captured. On top of that you then had to kill almost all of them because they rebelled and almost captured a few ships. So please explain to me how you have the situation under control?" The ambassador asked causing the admiral to rethink his next choice of words.

"That is true ambassador, but we have conquered a quarter of the colony and we have gained a lot of their technology. We also found out the location of a military bunker where they are keeping all of the civilians," Cracor said as he tried to show that he was still in control.

"Good, but you need to work faster I found out the turians are sending three fleets your way comprised of over three hundred ships. Even if you hadn't lost half of your fleet you wouldn't stand a chance against them. They should arrive in approximately two days make sure that you are gone by then," the ambassador causing Cracor to panic a bit inside.

"Ambassador I highly doubt that I can take this world in the allot time these humans have some powerful abilities," Cracor said as he displayed a few videos of the humans using their powers. "Even when we do capture them we have to sedate them or else they break out and start killing everybody."

The ambassador was quiet for the next few moments as he watched the videos before him. He saw humans tear through batarians, salarians, asari, vorcha, and even krogan. Though in the end the human would die from being overrun by the massive amount of slavers.

A smile soon grew on the face of the ambassador. "I see, I received a few reports about these powers and I merely just brushed them off as a form of biotics but seeing this makes me realize how dangerous they are. We need to capture as many of these humans as we can and figure out how they acquired this power. I will see about acquiring you some more ships, but if I am unable to you are to send the humans that you have captured back to Khar'shan for experiments."

This surprised Cracor as he expected the opposite reaction. "How many ships do you think you will manage to acquire," Cracor asked knowing that if they were truly going to fight the turians then he needed at least two hundred more ships for him to emerge victorious.

"It won't be hard to hire some more mercenaries and pirates but it will take time for them to get to you. But if I can convince enough people in the Hegemony that its worth the risk I can have a few fleets down there just before the turians arrive." Ambassador Dherak said as his mind raced to try to figure out how he could pull this off.

"Is there anything else Ambassador? I do need to get back to my men so," Cracor said causing the ambassador to lose his train of through.

"Yes, you may leave, but do not screw this up. If we can acquire these powers for ourselves, we will be the ruler of the galaxy in no time." Dherak said before he ended the communication from his side.

'That went a lot better than I thought it would go,' the pirate admiral thought as he left his room and headed towards the bridge.

Turian Fleet in route to Shanxi

Caellius Fausnianus overall was a good person according to anybody that wasn't a turian, she did what her superiors asked of her and she always did a great job. But there were quite a few who didn't like her because she was young and did things differently. Some even accused her of treason once when she refused an ordered to fire on an unarmed quarrian vessel that had surrender willingly to her.

At the time she knew that action not to fire was the right one and she believed that she would be stripped of her rank and kicked out of the military if not worse. But the primarch himself intervened and not only cleared her of all charges but gave her a promotion to admiral.

The primarch had said that it was time for the turians to stop being known as the ones who shoot first and rarely asked questions. The primarch wanted to improve the image of the turians and make the rest of the galaxy see them as the peace keepers of the galaxy and not as the hot heads who acted in a rash manner.

"Admiral the final fleet has finally arrived, and all ships have checked in we are ready to go on your order," the ships second in command said earning a nod from the admiral.

"Very well tell all ships that the operation is a go," Caellius said as she looked over the total count of ships that had arrived.

'I have command of three fleets made up of two hundred and fifty-seven ships including five dreadnoughts. This is insane just a few years ago I was a captain of a cruiser but here I am about to go liberate a world from slavers. Almost seems like a waste to bring these many ships even if we are out numbered we have better ships and men,' she thought as her own ship activated its ftl engines and led the massive fleet towards their target.

"We will arrive at eh planet in approximately forty-nine hours admiral," the xo said causing the admiral to smile in anticipation.

Human relief fleet

Admiral Kastanie Drescher was currently sitting in her command chair waiting for two more fleets to arrive before she could go liberate Shanxi. She knew that she needed to wait for these forces, but her insides were telling her to go. She already had her own dreadnought fleet with the Everest and a carrier fleet and two auxiliary fleets, but Fleet admiral Fenix ordered to wait for another carrier fleet and one more auxiliary fleet.

She looked over at her console and saw that the carrier fleet would arrive in the next twenty hours and the auxiliary fleet would arrive fourteen hours after that. Then they would most likely spend the next three hours just getting into position and establish the proper chain of communication. It would then take another eleven to twelve hours to get to Shanxi.

Over all she should be retaking Shanxi in roughly forty-eight to forty-nine hours. 'To think that when we find out that there is alien life one of our planets gets invaded by slavers. Doesn't matter if they are slavers or the protheans themselves I'll crush them,' she thought as she an accidently crushed her cup spilling its contents on the floor.

Well I hope you all enjoyed it if not well sorry for wasting your time. Again I know my grammar isn't the best and I already have enough people telling me about it so unless you want to help please keep it to yourself.

Thank You for reading!