Ok guys sorry for the short chapter, but I cannot think of what else to add. Other than that, I have a few Warlord stories in mind with them crossing over. Aside from ME and Halo, I also came up with Star Wars and X-men ones. Obviously not working on them yet but may work on concept chapters. I have also been working on my youtube channel so that has taken up some of my time and creativity, so once again sorry for the short chapter enjoy.

After three days of debate and discussion John walked out of the briefing room with Oda and the two of them walked over to the lift.

"Well, that was interesting." John muttered.

"Indeed. But at least we have something now." Oda said as the two entered the lift and hit the key for the hanger. "That princess didn't last long. But then again she is a Princess."

"Yeah, let's give these bastards what for." John said with determination.

The lift doors opened and the two-separated heading to their own ships. The Normandy waited for John, the walked aboard then headed for Joker.

"Set course for earth." He ordered.

Joker just nodded. "Yes sir."

The clamps on the Normandy detached allowing the ship to move out and head for the relay. John moved up to the lift and headed into his cabin. Walking in he cracked his neck and other joints before falling onto the bed. Those three days took it out of him in a big way, all that bickering, all that debate. He felt like he wanted to kill them all and nearly did. Sighing he looked out at the stars, this was going to be one tricky operation.

OOOOO

In the cells the royal guard mediated as he waited for the princess to come back. This was all he could do to wait for her. After all there was little he could do. This place, this cell was hard to get out of. Whoever these people are, they were not stupid. He waited for a long time before the doors opened, he opened his eyes which then widened as he could see the two guards dragging the princes into the cells. Jumping up he hit the door of his cell.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" he yelled at them, but they ignored him as they dropped her in the cell next to him and walked out.

He moved over to the wall next to the window and looked in. "Princess are you ok?" he asked.

She moaned as she looked up at her guard. "I... I was…" she slowly muttered. "I talked, they threatened to torture me," shakily she stood and looked to the guard. "They are going to attack, send us a warning not to come back. These people are monsters, and we have just pissed them off."

Her face betrayed her fear and the guard could feel it as well. Whoever these people are, they were not going to down without a fight, that much was clear.

OOOOO

Midpoint station was a massive structure with four outer rings connected to a large orb in the middle. 44km long and 15km wide, it took years to build. It was new as the Empire planned to take the universe. But the defences were still being constructed due to the unlikely chance that they are going to be attacked. It wasn't an issue for the Empire, they hadn't had a civil war or rebel attack since its founding allow for a laxer attitude for defence due to this.

In the distance several ships moved in slowly. But one ship was moving in faster, inside John, Ashley and Garrus readied themselves for combat. The weapons they had were like what the Empire used but still had that AK aesthetic. The Normandy flew in fast but stopped in a blind spot of the station waiting for the others. Oda's forces as well as several ships from the other warlords came in slowly so as not arouse attention. The intel they had said that there was no radar, but even in dark space you could still be spotted.

Miranda walked in with a SMG in hand and met up with the other three. "Just received word from Oda, he's ready to attack." She said.

"Okay then." John said as he cocked his weapon. "Let's do it."

The main hanger was open and already full of soldiers waiting for their orders. As they moved about a rectangular ship came in and turned to it side getting their attention. Most of the soldiers readied their weapons as the doors opened. Three-gun turrets aimed at them. Before the soldiers could react, the guns opened, while inaccurate accuracy was not a concern. Rounds hit around the area taking out most of the soldiers.

As the station's alarm sounded soldiers dressed in ashigaru like armour jumped in and charged.

"BANZAI!" they all yelled. (Common Japanese battle cry so please don't get triggered.)

As they charged in John and his team jumped down on to the hull of the station and moved up to an airlock. Blowing it open they jumped in and moved though the corridors. Alarms rang in their ears as the Empire soldiers began to move as fast as they could. But the speed of the attackers left them open to being overwhelmed.

Back in the hanger another ship, a different make, flew in and unloaded its cargo. The drones activated and moved to assist the ashigeru soldiers.

OOOOO

As soon as the alarms sounded the Prince moved to the seeing eyes to see what was happening. His eyes widened at this brazen unprovoked attack. Gritting his teeth, he turned to one of his military commanders.

"GET OUT THERE AND ELIMINATE THEM!" he ordered.

"Yes, my prince," the man said before turning to run.

As the prince turned back to the seeing eyes, he spotted a team of four people out of the way of the main attack heading for the control sector. Standing straight he looked at them and smiled.

OOOOO

John and his team moved fast through the corridors of the station with ease. The main attack had taken attention away from them, this allowed them to move fast though the station. So far, the attack was going as planned, they needed to do now is take out the main generators and escape. That would take out the midpoint and force the empire to rebuild, and from what the princess said that would take years. According to her, the resources to build midpoint were rare in her galaxy and the cost of it was immense. As such taking it out would mean that the Warlords would get back to tearing each other apart.

And for John to get back being a father to his children. Hopefully they could get back to normal after this whole situation. But in the back of his mind that was extremely doubtful. The team then moved into a large room and slowly spread out. It was filled with towering pillars of flashing lights and wires hanging from the ceiling.

"Wow," Garrus muttered. "Big room,"

"The main server room," Miranda said as she looked around. "Best place for EDI,"

John nodded and lead them to a control panel in the middle of the room. She then began to hack the main terminal while the others kept their eyes open. Something felt wrong, even if there was an attack distracting the enemy force they should have ran into someone by now. Something was wrong. Suddenly from every angle soldiers came from the towers and aimed their weapons at the team.

"Lower your weapons," a voice said as a golden armoured soldier walked around one of the towers. "Or die."

Miranda stopped and looked to John who just nodded. All four of them then placed their weapons on the ground before looking around at the soldiers as the one in gold walked up to Shepard.

"So, you must be the leader?" he asked.

"Supreme commander John Shepard," John said back.

"I order you to surrender and stop the attack immediately,"

Garrus tried not to snigger but it was a vain attempt making the man look to him. "Something funny ugly?"

"Yeah, I'm not the only person in charge," the commander said making the man look to him. "I'm just the person doing real damage. The one who's attacking is commanding his own forces, I have no control over him,"

The man stared John down as he looked for an exit. As he did he spied one of the soldiers looking at him. Before anyone could say anything, three of the soldiers then turned and opened fired at their fellow soldiers. The man in front of the commander then fell to his knees as the commander kicked him between the legs before he punched the side of his face sending him to the ground out cold. The others had already grabbed their weapons and opened fired at the soldiers who attacked them. Once the last one fell the team's guns fell on the soldiers left.

The unknown aliens sat down their weapons and put their hands behind their heads. "We will not fight you," one of them said with a clear female voice.

"Who are you?" John asked.

"We are the hidden, we hide from the empire. We fight back, but we cannot stay, they find us. They kill us, we need to leave," she said. "We have ship, no fighters."

Ash looked to John who looked back, she nodded before he turned to her and lowered his weapon.

"Pick up your weapons, we are going to need your help," he then said.