Hey there sorry for taking so long for this update I will try to be better in the future but with school and work I can't really make any promises. Here you go I hope you enjoy and I still am looking for a beta reader if anybody is interested.

Batarian command ship

Cracor had never been this angry before and the source of it was the humans and turians on the planet below. 'Nothing is going right first they destroy my frigates, then they slaughter my men, and now the council can't keep the turians in check,' he thought as he slammed his fists down on a consol.

It had been five hours since he got a call from the ambassador who told him that he couldn't slow down the turian fleet, but he could give him reinforcements. Apparently, the Hegemony had agreed with the ambassador on the importance of capturing as many humans as possible and were sending a few fleets as back up.

He would be getting an additional two hundred and twelve ships. One hundred and eleven of those ships were Hegemony ships and the rest were pirates and anybody else that was willing to help. But the ships wouldn't arrive for another twenty-three hours. Leaving him about two hours to prepare a suitable defense against the turian fleet.

'This is madness. I know how important these humans are, but with a turian fleet coming I doubt that we will emerge victorious even with the additional ships. We might have more ships then they do, but I am dealing with a fleet of pirates and idiots with only a few good ship captains that I can trust to follow orders and not screw everything up. I can't think of a single way that I can win.' Cracor thought as he paced around in his room trying to come up with a new strategy that would either let him capture the planet or win the space battle.

'I know that threatening to blow them up won't work they know that I will just enslave them,' he thought. 'Poisonous gas? No, it might kill enough of the defenders, but then I would have to wait for the gas to dissipate till I can extract the humans in the bunker and who knows how many of them have powers.'

Citadel, Asari councilor chambers

Tevos was enraged at both the turians and the batarians, but more so towards the turians. 'Damn them. If it weren't for the batarians being so stupid and the turians refusing the republic we would have these humans eating out of our hands.'

Tevos knew that the batarian ambassador was lying through his teeth. The reason that she decided to halt the turian relief fleet was so that her own government could send in ships so that these humans would see the asari as the benefactors. Now it seemed somehow that the turians were slowly becoming the more favorite of the three councilors.

'Ever since the new primarch came into power we have been losing our grip over the turians. They have been giving tax cuts and benefits to turian owned business and to turian couples. While at the same time they have been implementing tariffs on asari products.'

She looked over what little data she had acquired from some of her contacts on the humans and was impressed on what she saw. 'If these reports are true then this race has energy weapons powerful enough to destroy a dreadnaught in one shot. I cannot let the turians have this power if they gain it then their fleets truly will have no equal.'

She continued to read over the report till she came to the part detailing the human's magical powers. 'Magic that can't be right, it has to just be some new form of biotics,' she thought as read over it in detail. The report even came with video showing their powers on the battlefield.

"This is something new," she said aloud as she decided that what she was seeing was indeed not biotics but something entirely else.

Tevos sat down her report as she decided to plan out how she would get the humans on her side when they arrived at the citadel. 'It shouldn't be too hard all I have to do is show how the turians are a violent race. Then we send in supplies and resources to help out the colony all the while maidens will be flocking to their worlds and giving us good publicitys' she thought as she began her scheming.

Shanxi defenders command bunker

The defends had managed to hold off the onslaught of invaders for another day and a half with minimal casualties. This gave them hope that they could not only survive but that they could win. Those hopes were raised when a massive fleet poured out of the relay but when the large fleet joined the slaver fleet above all hope was lost for the defenders of Shanxi.

"Did you just say that there are over five hundred ships above us?" General Arterius said in disbelief. "How could those damn slavers even get that many ships here?" While the turian general was trying to comprehend how the slavers acquired that many ships General Williams was going over the supplies to see how long they could hold out for.

"Our nixie will take of any ships that enter the atmosphere so we will be able to hold out for a bit longer," Sampson the elder said as he took a seat. The Grimnior had been forced to flee from their hide out on Shanxi due to its proximity to the ever-encroaching front. Thankfully general Williams was more than happy to give the displaced Grimnior a home.

"They have five hundred and forty-eight ships. Even if your asset takes care of the first wave he won't be able to stop the next one after that. Spirits they can just starve us out we only have enough dextro rations to last my men another two days at the most. Or they can just send massive waves of troops at us now since they do have the numbers to do so." Desolas said as he slammed his hands down on the table. "We have run out of time, I doubt that the reinforcements are going to get her in time."

"That may be true general but I won't give up, I won't let the civilians of this world become slaves to some four eyed freaks." General Williams said earning a nod from both the elder and the turian. "But you are right we are running out of supplies in fact our supplies for the civilians are almost gone let alone for my men. Our ammunition is almost dry as well."

"We still do have a large quantity of actives, but they can only buy us more time. Even the strongest brute will fall after his magic has run dry." Sampson said causing the three leaders to understand the severity of the situation.

"We will not quit, we will still fight till the end. My men will not surrender or retreat no matter what." Desolas said as he looked at the map of the city.

"And neither will any of my men. You said your reinforcements should arrive in the next couple of hours correct?" General Williams asked causing the turian to nod his head. "Then all we have to do is wait out the next few hours till reinforcements."

"I don't want to get your hopes up general but I highly doubt that they will have sent a big enough fleet to take on over five hundred ships. I'm not the sort of turian who believes that we can win any objective with just our turian will. We need strategy, troops, weapons, ammunition, and a lot of other things that we don't have." Desolas said as he looked between the two human leaders. "But that does not mean that I am a coward who plans to lie down and die. I plan to die like a turian fighting for what's right."

"I never thought that you were a coward Desolas. I was just trying to find a way for us to save all of the civilians." The ice wizard said as he looked down where all of the civilians were being hidden in the bunker.

"There is nothing else that we can do besides pray and wait for the oncoming onslaught. If you will excuse me for a few moments I need to talk to some of my men." Sampson said before he stood up and walked out of the room.

"General Williams I don't plan to die down here. I would like to the surface and fight alongside my men unless you need me down here." Desolas asked even though he knew the answer.

"Go ahead Desolas it has truly been an honor knowing you." General Williams struck out his hand to shake the turians hand who grasped it with his own.

"Thank you general and I wish that we could have meet under better circumstances."

"Me too general, me too. If some miracle happens and we survive drinks are me."

"Very well see you then."

Desolas let go of the human's hand and walked out of the room leaving only the general and a few other high-ranking officials.

"God or hell even the power itself please help us repel these invaders so that we may survive to live another day," General Williams said as he looked up at the celling.

Batarian slaver fleet

Reinforcements had finally come and there was no way possible for Cracor to feel any happier right now. He had six dreadnoughts even though only four of them really counted as dreadnoughts the other two were glorified cargo ships with a lot of weapons attached to them, three hundred and forty-eight cruisers, and one hundred and ninety-four frigates. 'I wish that these ships would have arrived sooner to give me more time to plan, but at least they're here. When that turian fleet arrives in about hour they will easily be crushed,' he thought as he looked over all the different captains that were now under his command.

'I was surprised that the ambassador was able to convince the hegemony to send two full fleets to help out. The only down side is that if the council finds out the hegemony will say that I swayed the fleets over with money. If that happens the turians and these humans wont rest till I am dead. I can't leave any survivors.'

"Sir we have successfully deployed all of the reinforcements they should be ready to launch their attack momentarily," called out one of the deck officers causing the pirate admiral to turn around.

"Good, have the ground forces launch their attack as soon as they are ready. I want that bunker intact, but they can kill off any soldier that get in their way. In fact, I want every human soldier dead. I will not have a repeat of the riots that almost commandeered a few of our ships. And any human civilian that we find using their magic is to be killed along side a child that should keep them from rebelling for now," Cracor said knowing that the humans wouldn't do anything to risk their young.

Cracor sat down in his chair and waited for the relay to activate knowing that it should active anytime now and the turian fleet would emerge from it. He knew that the turians would be expecting a trap so they would probably send through an asteroid or something to clear the area first. Knowing this Cracor had ordered his ships to stay out of the immediate range of the relay.

In the end he had only ordered one hundred and three ships to stay above the planet while the rest were a short jump away but out of sensor range. The plan was for the rest of his armada to jump in behind the turian fleet and cut off access to the relay. The purpose of this is to make sure that nobody found out who was responsible for the attack. If the hegemony was lucky the humans might blame the turians for the attack and attack them instead.

Everything was in place now all he had to do was sit back and wait for the turians to spring the trap and for his army to take care of the remaining defenders. 'After this I think I might just retire," he thought before his mind drifted to how much money this raid was going to make him.

On Shanix defenders' front lines

Jack Harper had always believed that aliens existed, he never believed that humanity was alone in the stars. In fact, he pictured this exact same scenario for first contact except for one tiny detail, that being the turians. He was shocked how they not only apologize for destroying some of their ships but more importantly it was the fact that these turians were aiding them on the battle field after they just meet.

The turian fleet that came to their aid knew that they were going to be destroyed but they still stayed and fought till the end. 'These turians are all right,' Jack thought as he looked over at a group of turians who were resting from the constant fight.

In the end it didn't matter they were all going to die and everybody knew it. They had seen thousands of transport ships land behind enemy lines and everybody knew that those ships were either dropping off more slavers or more guns.

"It looks like they are preparing to attack," said a turian next to him snapping Jack out of his thinking. He was surprised that turian managed to approach him without him noticing.

"Yep, it seems like this is the end of the line."

"Hmph, I believe that my translator has malfunctioned what do you mean by end of the line?" The turian asked with what Jack thought was a confused expression.

"Haha, thanks for the laugh I needed that. No, it's an expression, it just means that this is our end, that we are going to die here," Jack said before he stuck out his hand. "Names Jack Harper, specialist, and I'm a bit of healer."

"Saren Arterius, black watch," Saren said as he shook Jack's hand. "You have magic?" Saren asked as he released his grip from the human.

"Yes, but in realty it's not that much. I can do a bit of healing and I can tell you exactly what's ailing you, but besides that noting really else," Jack said with a smile before he turned to look out towards the enemy line.

"You really think that we will die here today?" Saren asked as he to turned to face the enemy's defensive live.

"Unless we have a miracle than yeah, but I'm not running, my family is down in that vault so I'm going to fight till I die. Then Camren over there is going to reanimate my corpse so I can keep fighting even when I'm dead." Jack said as pointed to the man in particular who peeked up at the calling of his name.

"Is that another one of your expressions'?" Saren asked as he looked at Camren who went back carving ruins into people's guns.

"No, he's a lazorith they literally bring the dead back to life as zombies. He's actually a member of the Grimnior chapter here so he knows what he is doing so that when he brings you back to life you will still have control of your own body and you wont just attack anything that moves." Jack explained causing Saren to stare at the man in question.

"If you don't want me to reanimate your corpse just tell me now," Camren said as he continued to carve more ruins.

Saren mind tried to think rationally for a few seconds till he gave up and accepted that humans are in no way rational beings. "Go ahead and do it, if it means that I can serve for a bit longer why not." Saren said knowing full well that he official signed up for something that if anybody from back home heard about this they might throw him in an insane asylum.

"Get ready here they come!" Someone yelled out down the line. Saren and Jack took their places next to each other as they stared down a massive charge of thousands of slavers and pirates. Even though they were losing men for each step they took they still managed to advance towards the defenders at a fast pace.

In space Turian relief fleet at the relay.

Caellius Fausnianus and her fleet of two hundred and fifty-seven ships had just exited the relay leading to the human colony. "Status report," Caellius asked as she looked at her own terminal to see if anything was wrong.

"Everything is green admiral."

"All ships are reporting in no incidents admiral."

"I am detecting one hundred and three ships above the human world with two of them being dreadnought size Admiral."

"On screen now." Caellius ordered as she looked over the data herself. "I would have thought that there would have been more ship," she said surprised at the lack of enemy vessels.

"There is a massive debris field indicating a large-scale battle admiral. It appears that the humans are stronger then we gave them credit for," one of the deck officers said as he showed her the debris field.

"It appears so. How long till we are in firing range?"

"We will be in firing range in about two minutes at our current pace." Reported another officer.

"Something is off," Caellius said more to herself than to any to one else.

"There're just pirates and slavers admiral," her xo said calming her nerves a bit.

"Continue our current course, but keep an eye on our sensors for anything unusual," Caellius said as she kept her eyes on the terminal watching the enemy fleet's every move.

The next minute passed in tense silence as they moved ever closer to the pirate fleet. With each passing second Caellius felt like there was something more going on here. 'Why weren't the pirates fleeing? Were they going to try to hold the world hostage? This isn't right' she thought as she checked the sensors one more time

"Fifteen seconds till we are in range admiral."

"All weapons are ready to fire admiral."

"Open fire the moment we are in range," the admiral said as she gripped her armrest hoping that all of her worrying was for nothing. In a few moments her ship's spinal gun fired the first shot followed by another ship and another till both fleets were firing at each other.

In the next few minutes Caellius lost most of her tension as it was clear that the pirates had no ulterior plans. 'To think that I was so worried about nothing,' she thought as about half the pirate fleet was decimate while the other half was barely hanging on.

"Admiral a massive fleet just jumped right behind us taking out five cruisers and twelve frigates!" Yelled out an officer causing the bridge to go into frenzy.

"What!" She yelled out as she looked at her terminal showing a force of over four hundred ships. "All dreadnoughts are to break off from combating the small pirate fleet and are to engage the larger fleet along with half of our frigates and cruisers."

Her orders were carried out swiftly causing over half her fleet including her own ship to turn around and face the newcomers.

"Admiral, we just lost another cruiser."

"Admiral, our barriers are down to fifty percent."

Her officers continued to give her updates on the engagement and none of them were good. The worst news was that two who fleets of batarian hegemony ships were spotted among the pirate fleet proving beyond a doubt that the hegemony was involved.

"Admiral, we have lost half our fleet including two of our dreadnoughts, seventy-eight cruisers, and sixty-six frigates. Our total fleet is one hundred and eleven ships and the enemy fleet still has two hundred and ninety-five ships including two hegemony dreadnoughts," her xo said as he showed a map that highlighted specific ships.

"Were not going to last long here," Caellius said as she looked at the map that showed her ships being destroyed one by one. 'If only we had a clear path to the relay but at this rate we would be destroyed before we even made it half way.'

"This is the end," Caellius said earning a look of disbelief from her officers. "Unless a miracle happens there is no way that we can win. Tell all ships to target the hegemony ships especially the dreadnoughts. If we go down I want us to take down as many of those four eyed bastards as we can."

The crew understood their duties as they turned back to their monitors and relayed the message to the rest of the fleet. The turian fleet was about to make their suicidal charge towards the enemy fleet till the relay activated.

"Admiral more ships are pouring out of the relay," called out an officer causing the admirals blood to grow cold.

"More pirates?" she asked as she looked out the window of her vessel towards the slaver fleet.

"I don't know admiral. Two hundred and twenty-two ships just exited the relay and are making their way here. Scratch that they just jumped behind the pirate fleet," her xo said causing the admiral to look at the screens showing data on the new fleet.

"They have a dreadnought class vessel almost four kilometers long and another five over two and a half kilometers long," the admiral said as she looked at the data. Before the admiral could say anything else the unknown fleet opened fire on the pirate fleet from the rear destroying close to sixty vessels in their opening salvo.

"Those are energy weapons," Caellius said in relief. "It's the humans. Tell all ships to ignore my previous order and tell them instead to aid the human ships as best they can."

Pirate fleet right before the relay went active

Cracor had changed his command ship to one of the hegemony dreadnoughts right before he split up his armada and he was glad that he did. 'If I was still on my old dreadnought I would be space dust,' he thought as he looked at where his old ship used to be.

Taking command of the hegemony dreadnought hadn't been that hard all he had to do was kill its current captain and a few officers and the rest of the crew fell in line. "Sir our ground forces have managed to push back all of the defends on the ground towards the building that the bunker is held in," an officer said filling the pirate admiral with pride.

"Good tell them to get it done with as soon as they can we need those slaves now," Cracor said as he looked out on the battle field. 'I will be greatly rewarded for this action. My name will go down in history as one of the greatest batarians to ever live. Here I am destroying a turian armada and taking a planet in the same day,' he thought as he sat down watching the last few turian ships getting destroyed.

"Admiral the relay just opened," called out his xo causing Cracor to stand back up again and walk over to the monitor.

"Did the ambassador send us more ships?" He said knowing that no other council forces would arrive for another few days.

"They don't register as any ships we have in the data base, wait sir those are human ships," the xo said as he pointed out the eight hundred-meter ships that destroyed more of his fleet than anything else.

"And they have a ship over three kilometers long!" yelled the xo as he drought up the data on the largest ship in the human fleet.

"Tell three quarters of the fleet to turn around and have them engage the humans. We will not lose this battle if it comes to it we will hold the world hostage. Get me a communication to that lar-" Cracor's stopped speaking as he saw multiple bright lights destroy dozens of his ships,

"What just happened!" he yelled as he saw more of his armada get destroyed.

"Sir they jumped in right behind us and opened fire with their energy weapons as well as plenty of other guns and they have deployed hundreds of fighters," the xo said as ship rocked to one side.

"We just lost barriers sir!" yelled out an officer even though everyone already knew it.

"Get us out of here!" Cracor yelled. "Make for the relay now!"

Cracor's dreadnought began to turn towards the relay but was stopped short when a few bright beams tore through the ship like tissue paper destroying the vessel. In a few minutes the remaining pirate ships were all destroyed. No prisoners were taken that day. Those that were lucky enough to make it to an escape pod were destroyed by one of the hundreds of fighters that were still out there.

S.S.V. Everest

Admiral Kastanie Drescher was smiling as she looked at the massive floating grave yard in front of her. They had succeeded in destroying the slaver fleet now they just had to get rid of all the slavers on the ground.

"All enemy ships have been terminated admiral," called out the ships A.I. Leonardo earning a smile from the admiral.

"Good start sending down reinforcements to the ground so that we can take back our world. Also send the auxiliary fleet with the least amount of damage to go watch the relay and get me a connection to the turian fleet," Kastanie ordered as she stood in front of the video screen waiting for a connection.

In a few moments the screen came life with a lone turian in the center of the screen and a few others working at surrounding terminals. "I admiral Caellius Fausnianus of the Turian Hierarchy thank you for your help. We would have all died if it was not for your intervention," the turian said.

"Greetings I am admiral Kastanie Drescher of the System alliance. Think nothing of it you and you men have made a massive sacrifice today and it will not be forgotten. On the behalf of all of humanity I thank you and every other turian who came here help," Kastanie said honestly.

"Thank you for that but my remaining fleet needs help. I have twenty-three ships that need to be evacuated and hundreds of escape pods that need to be collected could you please help us," Caellius said desperately hoping to save as many of her subordinates as she could.

"Of course, I will have my ships begin aiding yours immediately. Just tell us which ships need help and we will do all that we can," the human said giving a nod to one of her officers who began redirecting a few ships to start rescuing escape pods and to help crippled vessels.

"Thank you for your help. Now I think that we should move on to more pressing matters. I do still have a few hundred soldiers that are willing to help you retake your world if you are interested."

"That would be most helpful. We are sending down some fighters and drones to make sure that there are no anti air craft weapons in place, but we are sending down troop transports at the moment you are welcome to send your own."

For the next few minutes the two admirals talked strategy and logistics concerning all the now displaced turian soldiers. Soon Caellius had to end the conversation so that she could inform the hierarchy on the results on the battle as well as the interference of two hegemony fleets.

Admiral Drescher sat down in her chair and relaxed a bit knowing that her part in the battle was done for. "Send a message back to earth that we have successfully secured the space above Shanxi and that we have deployed ground forces. Make sure to tell them that the pirate fleet was already engaged with a turian fleet that is aiding us. Also tell them that they will receive my report of the battle in the next hour."

The admiral pulled up a screen and started typing away about how they won even including how she didn't take any prisoners. 'The Geneva convention only protects humans, so I should be fine,' she thought as she typed the report including every detail.

I hope that you all enjoyed it and I will try to have the next chapter up by the 23.