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For the past six hours the invaders have been pushing into the city at an alarming rate. The slavers gained control of about a third of the city. The biggest problem was the frigates in the air that would open fire on any area that had too much resistance.
A couple of hours ago general Williams activated the few hidden anti-aircraft weapons to get rid of the two frigates above the city. The guns and missiles managed to destroy one of the frigates and cause the other one to pull out due to damages. For about forty minutes the slavers had no frigates in the sky to help them which let the human and turian forces to push back and reinforce their positions.
Soon three more frigates arrived and wreaked havoc on the city. About half of the city was destroyed and about half of the combined human and turian forces survived. The frigates were the biggest problem that the defenders were facing. If they could somehow keep them from interfering on the battle field general Williams was sure that they could hold out till reinforcements.
"I believe that I have a way to destroy those frigates and prevent them from sending any more down," Sampson Malick the elder said earning a look from both general Williams and general Arterius.
"How so," Desolas asked thinking that it was probably some more magic or something.
"Our nixie is young but powerful. We have been training him for five years to be able to control his power. He should be able to create a black hole above the frigates that will destroy all three of the frigates. Once he has done that he will be unable to create another one for at least a day. But I believe that the invaders will be more hesitant to send more frigates down if they see three of their frigates getting destroyed in mere seconds." Sampson said earning silence from the other two leaders.
"How much of a risk will it put our men on the ground?" General Williams asked while the turian general was in shock.
"Our nixie is very skilled he will control the black hole so the only the frigates effected by it, leaving the planet alone," Sampson said.
"Do it. How long till you can do it?" The ice wizard asked as he looked over a detailed map of the city.
"Are you humans crazy! We are talking about deploying a black hole! It's not that I believe that you don't have the capability it's just that if your wrong we all could die," Desolas said hoping that the humans would listen to him.
"I know but if we don't do this we will either be dead or enslaved in less than a day. Our forces can hold out against their soldiers its only when their frigates start shooting at us do we lose our positions. We need to do this now before it's too late," general Williams said.
General Arterius was quiet for a few moments before he spoke again. "That is all true but damn you all if this fails and we all die."
"Don't worry generals the nixie is prepared for this. My knights are already in position I can signal them to do it at a moment's notice. Are you ready?" The elder asked causing the two generals to look at each other.
"Do it," Williams said.
"Spirits damn it but yes go ahead and do it," Arterius said
"Very well it will happen in a few minutes," Sampson said right before the glowing circle of magic disappeared before their eyes ending the communication between them.
Grimnior Knights
There were six knights on top of a building waiting for an order that carried a lot of risk. James Foster stood in the middle of his five friends looking at one of the alien ships that was about a mile away from his position. "You can do it James I'm right here," Rachel said as she approached him and held his hand trying to comfort him.
"What if something bad happens wont the alliance come after me once they know what I can do?" James asked only for another to put his hand on his shoulder.
"The elder has already talked to general Williams and he promised that he will not divulge any knowledge about you to the alliance and even if he does they will never find you. James you have been with us since you were ten. In the eight years that you have been with us you have mastered your magic and you only have to hold it for a second or two," Marcus the traveler of the Shanxi chapter of the Grimnior society said to the young man.
James took a deep breath before he held out his hands. "Alright I'll do it," he said earning a smile from the traveler and the rest of the Grimnior knight behind him. James locked his eyes on the frigate as he felt his magic swell up inside of him.
He took in a deep breath before he clapped his hands together. At first nothing happened but then a large black hole opened in the sky cutting one of the frigates in half causing it to be sucked into the black hole. The other two frigates were below the black and were being sucked inside the hole at an incredibly fast rate. The black hole immediately closed the second the last frigate was fully inside it. The entire occurrence only lasted a second and all across the planet there was silence.
James dropped due to exhaustion but was picked up by Marcus "Good job James you just saved lives," Marcus said with a pat on the back.
"How did it feel?" Rachel said as she helped James sit down.
"It felt good and powerful," he responded causing Rachel to smile.
"Good that should take care of their air support for now. Carlos and Cho I want you to each summon a creature that will be hard to detect and send it towards the enemy camp and gather as much intel as you can. The general wants us to find out what they are doing over there," Marcus said earning a nod from the two summoners.
Carlos summoned a small red monkey like creature with wings and a pair of horns while Cho summoned a small red and black stripped snake that had wings like a dragon fly. The two summoned creatures knowing their duty fly off in the direction of the enemy base camp as soon as they were summoned.
"Now let's get back to base," The Traveler said as he grabbed the five other members in a bear hug causing them all to vanish as they teleported back to their base.
Saren
Saren saw what happened and he still didn't know how to process what he just saw. "That's not possible what was that?" One of his fellow blackwatch troops said aloud.
Saren looked at the humans hoping for an explanation but all he heard from them was the same thing. They had no idea what that was either. That means that whatever that ability was must have been a secret that few people knew about. 'Maybe it's related to that group the Grimnior that my brother told us about," Saren thought as he continued to stare at the sky as he expected the frigates to reappear.
Pirate Command ship
Cracor didn't know what to say. Three frigates just got sucked up into a black hole. He didn't believe the first or the tenth time that he went over the data that the scanners picked up. Somehow these humans created a black hole that sucked up three of his frigates.
"How is that even possible," he whispered as he looked over the data for the twentieth time.
"Sir should we send down more frigates?" His xo said breaking Cracor out of his trance like state.
"No, not yet at least. They could just destroy them again with whatever that was. We have enough men on the ground now, so we shouldn't have to worry about resupplying them any time soon. See if the human knows anything about whatever that was," Cracor said.
"Sir, our interrogators believe that the human doesn't know anything else. Also, the human is almost dead if we interrogate him any more before he heals he will die," the second in command said earning a sigh from Cracor.
Cracor was silent as he tried to think of what to do. 'I can't just send down any more frigates we have already lost five to them if we lose any more it could be a real problem for us.' Cracor continued to try to think of what to do until he thought of a new idea.
"Send a few landing craft and some fighters let's see if they get destroyed the same way. If not, we will just keep sending them down. We will not be sending down any more frigates until we find out what that was and destroy it. Order our forces to go on the offensive and push the humans back. Make them pay for what they have done." Cracor said before he looked over a holo map detailing the city below.
Defenders headquarters
"It worked I can't believe that it worked," Desolas said as he kept replaying the video of the black hole over and over.
"I just talked to the nixie and he told me he won't be able to do that again for at least another day or so. Let's hope that the invaders don't send down any more frigates until tomorrow," Sampson said earning a nod from general Williams.
"We should hold our positions and strengthen our defenses right now while the enemy is in shock." Desolas said after he finally got over the fact that these humans could create and weaponize black holes.
"We should, let's just hope that they don't decide that we are too much trouble and bombard us from orbit," general Williams said as he looked over the tactical map of the city with the turian general while the elder watched from magic portal.
Defenders front lines
The past three hours had been a mixture of both relief and panic for the defenders. After the incident in the sky the defenders had managed to reinforce their defenses without the present threat of batarian frigates picking them off. But that quickly vanished as the invaders retaliated in massive force threatening to break the barricades that the defenders had placed.
On one side of the city a large armor column is heading to break the west side of the city. In response to the attack the Grimnior send their two strongest actives the Gunderson brothers along with roughly one hundred and fifty defenders a mix of humans and turians.
Mathew and Andrew Gunderson were some of the strongest gravity spikers in the whole Grimoire society except for a few elders. Both brothers were wearing a special set of armor that was covered in spell carving that helped boost their abilities and made them incredibly hard to kill. They stood guard on top of a building facing the large column of alien armored vehicles.
"This will be one for the books Mat," Andrew said as he hefted a large modified .50 caliber machine gun that had spell carving's up and down the weapon.
"Yes, it will be let's hope that all of these spells give the weapons enough power to punch through their shielding," the brother said as he lifted his modified mini gun.
"I think they see us," Mathew sat as one of the vehicles fired at them only for the round to stop right before the twins.
"That was a bit close Andrew you could have stopped that further out," his brother said while Andrew tossed the round to the side.
"Let's teach these aliens what happens when you mess with humanity. You lot cover our ass's and don't shoot us," Mathew said to the unit of soldiers that were behind the twins. When Mathew turned around he saw that his brother had already jumped off the building and was on the ground five floors down.
'Running into fights like this is going to get both of us killed early on brother,' Mathew thought as he jumped off the roof to join his brother. He used his magic to decrease the gravity towards the end of the fall leaving him unharmed when he landed.
He could already see his brother heading towards the enemy holding his weapon in one hard while holding his other hand facing out forcing the gravity in front of him to go the other way causing the enemy to misfire.
"How many g's are you giving it?" Mathew said as he caught up to his brother and opened fire on the enemy. Both brother's guns tore through everything that they met causing the enemy to stop its advance.
"Only about six I was waiting till you got here to crank it up," Andrew said as they made it to the ruins of the vehicle.
"Aright let's give them 15," Mathew said as he used his magic to make the vehicle weigh nothing as he picked it up and threw it at another vehicle doubling the gravity as it impacted the vehicle.
The twins each threw five times the amount of gravity towards the alien armor column causing vehicles and personnel to fly backwards causing a massive pile up that stopped the enemy advancement.
"I think they are retreating," Mathew said as stopped firing only for Andrew to run after them.
"Come on then let's keep the pressure on," Andrew said as he was reloading his weapon.
"No Andrew, our orders were to stop the enemy advance and we have done just that. We need to get back and hold the position," Mathew said earning a groan from his brother.
"Fine but I hope that we see some more action soon that was barely enough to get the blood going," Andrew said as he turned around and made his way back to the building.
Mathew could only chuckle in response to his brother's behavior. He looked up to the top of the buildings and saw that the human defenders were cheering them on for a successful operation while the turians only sat there in silence. 'I wonder how long it will take for them to get used to magic," Mathew thought as he caught up to his brother who had perked up after he heard the soldiers cheer them on.
"Look at that brother we're famous," Andrew said with a smile as he basked in the glory.
"That's not a good thing brother we are members of the Grimnior society, we are supposed to stay hidden." The more reasonable twin said causing Andrew to realize what that meant.
Citadel Council Sparatus
Councilor Sparatus was currently on his way towards the council chambers after being summoned by Tevos the asari councilor and Certart the salarian councilor. He had a feeling that it was about amount of forces that were being deployed to region of space that was supposed to house an inactivated relay.
'I figured they find out, but I am a bit surprised that it took them this long to contact me. I have already filled in the primarch and he is fully on board with my decision. The relief fleet should reach the humans in another thirty hours hopefully,' he thought as he entered the council chambers surprised to see not only his two fellow councilors, but also the batarian ambassador.
"Sparatus, good now that you are here we can resolve this issue," Tevos said earing a smile from the batarian causing Sparatus to become more confused.
"And what issue is that, and why is the batarian ambassador here as well?" Sparatus said as he made his way to his podium.
"The batarian ambassador is here calming that you are invading a world that they had already laid claim to." Tevos said causing Sparatus to become immensely shocked at the false accusations.
"That is entirely untrue!" The turian yelled as he then told them truth of the incident starting from when the turian patrol fleet first encountered the human exploration fleet all the way to when the massive slaver fleet attacked.
"That is quite the story and entirely different then what the batarian ambassador told us," Certart said as she glared at the ambassador in question who said nothing in response.
"It matters not. Our path is clear Sparatus you are to order the turian relief fleet to halt its progress and wait from ships from both of the Asari Republic and the Salarian Union to prove who is indeed telling the truth," Tevos said earning a nod from both Certart and the batarian ambassador.
'So that is why the batarians told the council to give them more time. The relief fleet would have to wait for an additional day at the least for the asari and salarian forces to arrive.' Sparatus thought as he stared down the batarian ambassador who was smiling like a mad man.
"No, I will not," Sparatus said earning a confused look from the three others in the room.
"Sparatus this is not up for discussion both myself and Tevos are in agreement on this you are to order your fleet to stand down." Certart said while Tevos looked at her fellow councilor in shock.
"No, I have already talked to the primarch and we are both in agreement. The fleet will arrive at the human world of Shanxi in about thirty hours. Waiting for your forces will only slow them down which will allow the batarian to enslave more of the humans." Sparatus said causing the room to become silent.
"You have no proof that those slavers are apart of my government," the ambassador said causing Sparatus to roll his eyes.
"Councilor Sparatus you have been outvoted if you continue this path we will take action against you." Tevos said as she stared down Sparatus who only scoffed at her claim.
"Ha, with what fleet my people are the military of the council. We are going to help the humans and you can try to stop us, but you don't have the ships to do so with. You do have the Destiny Ascension but that's about it my people have the most dreadnoughts." Sparatus said causing the asari to become flustered.
'This is bad. If this keeps up the council might split up now and if it does, we will not have a large enough fleet to defend all our world. My predecessor's should have know that this day would eventually come.' Certart thought as she tried to figure out how to solve this dilemma while Sparatus and Tevos argued.
"Enough I change my vote. I agree with Sparatus, the turian relief fleet needs to get to the humans as fast as possible." Certart said earning a smile from the turian while the asari and the batarian gasp at the salarian's change in vote.
"Thank you councilor Certart for your vote now that the vote is in my favor does anybody have anything to say before I leave. I do need to tell the primarch about this as well as a few other things." Sparatus said before he left since nobody had anything else to say.
"I need to go take of a few things myself," the batarian ambassador said before he left the room.
"Why did you change your vote?" Tevos demanded more than asked.
"Because if I didn't the council very well could have split in half with over half our military force leaving us. Neither of us can patrol all of our worlds with our own fleets we rely to much on the turian military to protect our worlds." Certart said causing the asari to slam her fist down.
"We can't let them acquire another client race,' Tevos said as tried to rack her brain for ideas.
"And we will make sure that these humans are not made into the personal playthings of the turians. I know that the increase in turian manufacturing and various other fields are causing the turians to gain more power causing the asari to lose power." The salarian said causing to Tevos to look at her in surprise.
"Don't worry I doubt these humans can give the turians much help they are a young race I doubt that they even have a proper fleet," Certart said causing the asari councilor to relax.
"Your right how powerful can they be if a mere group of slavers is giving them problems." Tevos said before she excused herself to contact her superiors back on Thessia.
'I will be sending a few STG teams to go check out this race to see if they will be a problem for us in the long run,' the salarian ambassador thought as she typed in a few commands in her omni tool.
Little did any of the four people know that their actions were being watched by a powerful being as it jugged them trying to decide if they were worthy of its power. It saw potential in the turians, but it was still too early to tell just yet. It knew that the cycle was ending soon and that if it wanted to continue to keep the humans alive it would need to give another race some of its power.
Thank you for reading my story and I hope that you enjoyed it. The next chapter should up before July 22 at the latest.
Also I will be ending the first contact part in about 2-3 chapters and from there I will start up with Shepard's journey and as you can tell Saren will not be the bad guy. Guess who will?