A/N hello people, 2 more days until its time to check and speaking of checking. I took a peak at my FAV and Alert and now its FAV: 19 and Alert: 21, and so far people like Rufus, but think he is better either as a solo act or maybe different owner like Wrex or Grunt. Now I have been told that my story is slightly confusing and I will try to do better on the next one, however this one's writing style will remain the same. I think what is confusing you guys is cause I writing this in different angles and I apologize for that. Thank you wolfray21
(I do not own Anything in this fanfiction just about anything you see here will belong to someone, Plus I am not sure what all is going to be in here.)
Almost morning on the planet's (Shanxi) surface outside the city's perimeter
-Turian's POV-
Saren had a lot of feelings boiling inside him: Worry; for his brother up in space and wondering if he is still alive, Frustration; that he had to run from a creature that was barely the size of a Verren, Anger; That the beast dare ruin any sort of advantage they had on these stupid high tech barbaric aliens, but most of all he was feeling.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" PAIN FROM HIS ARM BEING BURNED OFF, Latana finally caught up to him and saw his arm, it was a 4th degree burn and a nasty one at that. Almost all the fabric parts of the arm were fused to his burned bony/fleshy, despite what most think Turians do not have an exoskeleton this burn is proof of that, and it seems some of the metal has slightly melted on his arm and shoulder... he is definitely going to need cybernetics. Luckily all Turians in military know first aid. She raised his injured are above his heart to reduce inflammation, which earned her more annoying screaming, but she can't blame him. Since it was a chemical fire she used her water rations to wash away the chemicals and slightly cool the metal/put out burning fabric which made him scream more but not as loud as the first. Then she loosely wrapped his exposed flesh/bone in a sterile non-adhesive bandage from the first aid kit.
"I need you to keep your arm up until we get to camp and I do not want you to get back at to the field until you get proper treatment, I may not be your commander, but I will force you to cooperate by using a Biotic Stasis Field if I have to." to which he answer with a grunt.
"You know I think we can all agree that when we attack that THING is going to get a mouth full of Mass Accelerator rounds from a VANTROX tank." a statement that was agreed upon by both Saren and the Cabal.
As Druvus and Opitis came from behind with the former carrying the latter "I second that, the thing had to make my day even worse so far and I even smell like garbage now." grumbled the infantry.
"Well I found that creature fascinating, not many animals can take that abuse." that comment got the engineer the most heated glares of all time from all three teammates. "Well in its defense it was adorable." after the Latana toss a first aid kit at his head... he deserved that. She helped Saren up without touching the arm and when Saren was standing.
"Okay I need you to crouch so your arms does not hit any leaves and/or limbs." a painful grunt was her response and that a the ruffed up squad (Okay so Druvus only got a hit on the head by a flying first aid kit, but everyone is ruffed up.) went into the forest. Which was like the first, this time everyone was thankful for that. After several hours they made it to base camp.
"There is Lieutenant Abrudas, you two get Saren to the medical tent, I will give the Lieutenant the report." and with that they were off while the Cabal walk towards the Lieutenant unaware of the news Abrudas will give.
Hours that the recon squad spent walking back to base, aboard the Dreadnought of the Turian Hierarchy leading the 23rd Fleet.
-Turian's and True Alliance's POV-
-CAN AT THE VERY LEAST ONE GOOD THING HAPPEN TODAY!- Desolas thought angrily then he calmed himself then took command "Alright assume worst case scenario, its a boarding party, we are not going to give these aliens trouble. I don't expected you to lay down and die or let them have their way with you, so if they try to kill or worse you have my permission to fight with everything you got, but if they do not then please for the sake of the galaxy do not give them more reason to go to war with us.", everyone looked at one another then they gave a Turian salute.
Alria then gave a news that shocked everyone to the core, not because it was bad, but because it was the last thing they expected from the enemy "Sir... our ship is being repaired, but not by our own... but by the alien pods?", she sounded unsure herself but the data on screen proves what she saying is not Verren shit.
The general just felt this was unreal "So... how are they repairing them? The pods I saw fly pass the window look like a solid metal ball... no seems."
"All that is being picked up are is large dust clouds near the damage parts." it was then Arterius had a theory (A/N A GAME THEORY... -laughs- sorry had to do that. #LuvMatPat)
"Hang on." he went to the window just in time to see one of the pods pass by, if he looked at the edge he can barely see one of the on board weapon systems, it will have to do. He used the magnifier feature on his Omni Tool and set it to MAX, what he seen was something that was a mix of non-surprising/surprising due to this whole exchange with the aliens, way too tiny robots. -Annnnd, they use nanobots, I think this aliens secretly went to Council space check the laws and decided to see just how far they can advance in each one. How big can we make our ships, hey how smart can we make our A.I. and have them make our DEW's for shits and giggles, let's make nanobots as well!- Desolas took a big breath and sighed.
"So, how doing it and do you have any idea why?" Alria like the rest of the crew was just so curios, he turned to them and gave a honest answer "To answer the latter, no I don't I couldn't even predicted that their biggest ship was going to charge, though to be fair I do not think any Turian could have thought of that. The former, like the illegal A.I., they are using nanobots." he thought they go ballistic, but he guess they were like him and it was a mix of non-surprising/surprising feeling due to everything hitting them at once.
Alria gave more of what he supposed was good news "All systems have been repaired including weapon systems and our mobility." after saying that though.
"Sir, we are being hailed by the alien ship... and it appears the big one that did the charge is fixed." when he turned he saw that she was right almost as if nothing had happen at all.
"Well at least the language barrier is no longer a problem due to them getting any and all data on the ship, answer them, we owe them a explanation." he prepared for the worse. The screen activated and show a feline like synthetic that he hypothesized as a male and spoke in Turian with life like expressions of sadness... that is something no synthetic should be capable of "A sorrow greetings to you, I am a Metronian who is Admiral aboard the A.I.M. named Uncle Sam. My name is Steven Hackett and I am sorry for any lives I took from your ship. We were just going to take out your weapons and mobility to try to talk things out with you, then you made a brave and admirable call to tell your fleet to leave you when the odds seemed stacked against you. We understand any hatred you may have, but we truly did not mean to scare you, we would have just been scared if your ships were bigger than ours. We are nothing more than mere guards for our cargo vessel you saw left us."
EVERYONE was so shocked at a multitude of things that it was almost impossible to list during the whole conversation, one thing was for sure the earned the respect of everyone in the command center. They were still so surprised that a SYNTHETIC showed so much EMOTION during the talk; surprised that the aliens felt GUILTY even though they shot first and the aliens were just defending themselves... yeah everyone felt bad after that; they were surprise that THEY were seen as BRAVE and ADMIRABLE when they were losing and to top it off retreated; the BIGGEST surprise however was the the aliens were just guards... GUARDS to a ship that carried nothing more than CARGO!
"I... honestly can't speak for my crew on our feelings on the matter. I must inform you on the gravity of the situation."
"Ohh, if you have any injured on board my doctors can fix them up and on a mournful note will help you find any dead, we won't touch em, but they deserve a proper Turian mourning.' silence once more reins over the crew, what can you even say to that. Compassion... true compassion from a stranger is quite alien and it made them feel... well bad and this came from a synthetic.
"No, um well yes we do have injured and dead from the attack, but that is not what I was about to say." Then 3 new voices made themselves know and when they got to the screen everyone realizes that they possible started a war with a space community of multiple races -Just great- was the sarcastic thought the general had.
Kevin being too curious for his own good walked up in front of the screen "Hey I want to see the new faces of the galaxy!" much to the Admiral's displeasure even more so when more than one thought it was okay to be RUDE in front of a GUEST. "I kinda want to see them too." as Tasha went next to Kevin, and Julian came in between them "Let me take a look." OKAY HACKETT HAD ENOUGH "DO YOU NOT REALIZE, HOW RUDE YOU THREE ARE BEING!". Desolas counted 4 different races and hope their were not anymore.
First he had to confirmed it "My apologies I did not realize I was dealing with a galactic community of 4 races." he saw confusion on their faces then a little bit of laughter... not promising.
"I think your confused this three are all human, although there are three races." it took time to process that.
"But they look so different."
"That is because of two things: This one here (Steven pointed to Tasha) is a splicing trend where humans (Steven pointed to Kevin) alter their DNA to look different or have a mild biological defense. The other (Steven pointed to Julian) is for military purpose."
-So they also do genetic engineering, just another thing the council will hate.- "Ah, this is available to the humans and the other alien race?" Desolas got a confusing answer.
"No, you see the Apex (Steven pointed to Julian again) are either two things: Humans that been altered or born that way from Apex human parents and a group of them declared to be their own species, so Humans and Metronians decided to give them a world that they can call their homeworld. We even completely terraformed their planet with genetic engineering and advance weather controlling system, not to mention gave them gene to help them be able to repopulate safely and keep any uniqueness they have. The cell "Studies" the foreign sex cell, then alters the number of chromosomes to match its partner then selects copied fragment from each side to see which one safely worked together until the strand is complete."
What could one say to that, he decided with a question "So, when did A.I. join your community." the answer will gave everyone nightmares for weeks.
"When humans made us truly alive, they gave us the gift of death, the ability to reproduce just like organics can and created a planet that has its own metal plants and animals. We join when they gave us life."
Welp, the council is going to freak out and the Quarians may make a terrorist organization just to kill off both Metronians for coming into existence and humans for making them.
"I sorry you never got to finish, what were you going to say."
He took a deep breath then began telling him everything and the room was as still as death and no one dared to move. Desolas finished his side and waited for a response.
The Metronian bore a neutral expression one that still look life like, then he sighed and gave an unexpected answer which seems common with this community "Let me tell you something. Lets say someone manage to grow up without knowing any laws, that someone should still expect to see some kind of consequences of their actions. They should however be informed on why what they did was bad, you do not punish a kid and not tell them what they did wrong. We are not upset that you were trying to uphold the law, it's the fact we were not told on why what we did was bad or what we even do that was bad. I hope that we can still make peace, we will accept anything so long it is not to outrageous."
To say they were understanding would be a understatement, this is just so strange, any race would be livid if they were invaded for breaking a law they did not know, well here is hope they accept what they have to complied to "If you are willing then it is several warnings and a large fine."
"HAHAHAHAHAH, is that all, then we will gladly comply just remove your forces off planet note if our people are endanger we will protect them!" The admiral was being deadly serious at the end.
As always it was... unexpected, -I just hope Lieutenant Abrudas will listen- General Desolas Arterius really hope so.
At base camp on the planet's (Shanxi) surface when Lieutenant Abrudas was just inform to get off the planet do to alien cooperation.
-Turian's POV-
Lieutenant Abrudas was given the strangest order ever, they were to leave and returned to Palaven due to alien cooperation, first how did we get any kind of data that would have pointed to how their language worked. Even stranger that she was told to leave any of their tech that was capture by us here. Something was fishy, but decided not to question his since he was her superior officer, still it did not make any sense. Then she heard the voice of one of the Cabal's that went with Saren "Ma'am, Latana of the Cabal Vanguard reporting in." she stated and did a Turian salute.
"At ease Cabal, unfortunately we will not need, any of the intel you have acquired and once more you are to release any tech your squad gathered and leave it here."
"Permission to speak freely ma'am?!"
"Granted"
"Saren, got a call during the mission from his brother the general stating that we needed their tech and Saren confirmed that need when he stated that they had direct energy weapons. That is something not even SALARIANS can't even crack and they have ships that rival DESTINY ASCENSION if you do not believe me I can give you Saren's Omni Tool for audio proof."
"Be that as it may we are under orders of General Desolas Arterius, and a proper good Turian follows orders."
"And if he is not a proper good Turian?" Latana challenged to which the Lieutenant narrowed her eyes and flared her mandibles.
"Best watch your tongue, General Arterius is a well respected man and we do NOT challenged the higher ups, you best remember that." she threaten and left the frustrated Cabal. Lieutenant Abrudas ordered everyone to pack up and leave, after everything was all packed and ready to go, they got in the Cruisers and the three returned to Palaven. The only one that did not leave was the Dreadnought.
Short
After the three Cruiser left, aboard the Dreadnought of the Turian Hierarchy leading the 23rd Fleet.
-Turian's and True Alliance's POV-
"OH, THANK THE SPIRITS, good news Hackett, they left!"
"Wonderful now as agreed we will pay the fine, we have plenty as resources as it is. Now about those who died I thinking I can talk to my Overseers about building a memorial to those you lost, so I will need their names."
"...Sure, I mean we don't actually make any kind of statues of losses, but it is a nice gesture of goodwill."
"The Overseers will be waiting for the Council's diplomat, I was also hoping you stay we have must stay the Overseers will like to talk to you... they have much to discuss."
"Weird you don't happy about that?"
"They read your codex."
"... Oh shit." Desolas was in for a looooong talk with the Overseers.
A/N Thank you guys for checking out my work, I will continue doing my best and continue to let me know what you guys think. I shall try to do better, also I must bring this out to light just in case, to see my world codex just type Learn From Thy Neighbor Codex if you guys did not know. Later Readers :)