Well then... spent two weeks with a migraine from writers block...

then i had the bright idea to listen to music...which resulted in this chapter

Now i know i'm a new writer and all but i hope my loyal fans weren't too angry with me...

anyways here is the next chapter still original work territory though...hope you enjoy it...i did well writing it at least

Answering the Call

by: well me XD (EzeikelShepard)

"Miss? Miss wake up. Your helmet has been broadcasting military alerts for the last few minutes." The shuttle attendant had placed Mai's helmet on the seat next to her so she could gently wake her from her peaceful slumber.

"What?" Came the soft and gentle reply.

"Could you put your helmet back on so you don't disturb the other passengers please?" the attendant looked as if she was expecting a harsh reply.

"Oh…alright I'll do that." Mai fasten her helmet to the seal on her armor around her neck to create a sealed environment. She them pulled her long hair through the gel like layer in the back that created a seal preventing her personal atmosphere from venting. After checking all the seals and the helmets systems she turned off the external speakers she started to listen to the alert.

"All Wolvendon military personnel are here by ordered to cease all current operations and report to your respective bases if any personnel cannot make it back to their base they are to report to the nearest one. Emergency Ordinance Omega Zulu 3 is now in effect. I repeat emergency action! All Wolvendon mil-" with a sigh Mai turned her radio off as she watched the shuttle start its final approach to the Citadel. What she saw made her stand up and run to the cockpit of the shuttle to get a better view.

"Um…miss you need to get back to your seat. We are starting our final approach." As he got up from his seat the co-pilot saw the insignia on her breastplate. "Ah miss you wouldn't happen to be a Wolvendon soldier would you?"

Mai's only response was a slight nod as she watched the ship that had caught her eye back in the passenger section. The ship had the crest of a wolf howling at a star with a shield at his feet. "What's the Liulfr doing here?"

"Wait THE Liulfr!? The flagship of the Independent State of Wolvendon's Defense Force?"

Mai's response came in the form of a nod. She was about to return to her seat when she caught a glimpse of the rest of the fleet following the Liulfr through the purplish nebula. Even though the Liulfr was the flagship but it was almost smallest ship in the fleet. Its sister ship, the Normandy, was almost one and a half times its size and bore the marks of the Human Systems Alliance. While the Normandy is called the sister ship to the Liulfr its design varies in many areas such as the bridge. In the case of the Liulfr the bridge is situated near the middle on its dorsal side. Whereas the prow of the Normandy is a downward curved bridge for a five man bridge crew also the Liulfr has four times the armor in the front. Both of them are designed for constant atmospheric reentry. The rest of the fleet ranged from one man crafts to supper carriers all of varying designs.

"Does the airlock have a secondary seal?" Mai asked the awestruck co-pilot.

"What? Yes of course but why do you need to know?"

Before he could even peace together her plan Mai ran over to the airlock, after sealing the secondary seal, and kicked out the outer airlock doors blowing herself out into the vacuum of space. Using the momentum from the depressurization of the airlock to propel her towards the Wolvendon fleet Mai aimed herself at the third largest ship in the fleet.

A gruff voice came over Mai's radio proclaiming, "Unidentified armed soldier identify yourself or accept the consequences!"

Mai's response came in the form of an up turned fist with her middle finger sticking up in the general direction of the bridge of the ship she was careening towards.

"There is only one person in the galaxy I know that is dumb enough to do such a thing…" the reply was muffled in just such a way that it was obvious that operator was new and had no idea how to turn off the mike.

"Skreyja griss," muttered Mai into her mike.

"Now now, how many times have I told you not to use that kind of language?" came the mirth filled voice reply of the captain.

"What? All I did was call him an incompetent piglet…"

"Precisely! So what brings you to my neck of the woods?"

"Nothing I just needed a place to land…so that I can get to the Citadel faster." Mai informed as she flipped around so that her feet were presented to the ship instead of her head. "Just so you know I'm going to land on the sixth deck hanger bay."

"Wait what?! There is less than three meters of clearance! On top of that you are coming in too hot! You'll just make a bloody mess that my engineers will have to clean up!"

"That's part of the challenge plus the Phoenix Troopers make that kind of drop every day." Mai said as she passed through the atmospheric shielding on the hanger bay. She felt the familiar tug of gravity taking only a split second to notice that it was set to the same gravity level as her home world before she had to focus on the landing. Bringing one foot up and out she landed on the other foot using the foot she had just brought up to shift her center of gravity so that she can now bring the momentum she had built up to a steadily decreasing amount as she ran it off through the hanger bay. She had built up far more momentum than she had thought causing her to run up the far end wall and partially back across the ceiling till she fell off from lack of momentum. Mai managed to shift midair so that she would land on her feet but she realized that if she didn't bleed off some more of her momentum she would break her legs even with her reinforced armor. So Mai did the next logical thing in her mind, she started to spin with one foot held out at her waist level to create a counter balance and to create some pull to the spin so that the rest of her momentum would die down. With a grunt she landed still spinning but managed to not break her leg in the process. Slowly she stopped spinning with a slightly embarrassed look on her face, not that anyone in the hanger could see it through the polarized faceplate of her helmet.

Through the deafening quiet in the hanger bay there came the sound of sarcastic clapping coupled with the obvious sound of mockingly barley suppressed laughter. "Who knew that the greatly feared Crimson Lyall would be such a pretty ballerina! Man wait till I post the recording on the extra-net! I'll make a killing!"

Mai was just about to use her biotics to charge him when a black clad figure walked up behind him and made a few quick gestures with his hand over his wrist mounted computer, then he spoke with unrepressed mirth "Would be hard to make that killing without the video now wouldn't it?" The jokester looked back to the screen of his computer in horror as it informed him that the file was indeed deleted. "Now I recommend that you go back to your work. Come Lyall you are needed on the Citadel."

"Who are you and why are you here?" Mai asked with an air of distrust about her.

"Who I am in unimportant as to why I'm here…your father sent me to pick you up and take you to the Citadel." His most of his face could not be see through the shadows that covered it down to the tip of his nose from the armored hood that man wore leaving his mouth visible.

"Fine if you're going to be that way I'll race you to the Citadel the old school way." With that Mai ran over to the equipment racks near the back of the hanger bay and grabbed a set of flight stabilizer attachments for ship less space flight. After making sure they were attached properly she ran and jumped out of the hanger bay via the atmospheric shield and initiated the stabilizer gear and started her decent towards the Citadel at speeds that would kill her if she so much as nicked a piece of space debris.

"Why am I not surprised…" with a sigh the black clad man jumped out the same shield but instead of floating away he activated the D.R.O.P. gear attached to his armor propelling him towards the Citadel at speeds that would cause him to pulverize anything in his path regardless of size, mass or density. "We need to find a better acronym for this gear Downward Ratio Orbital Propulsion is just stupid…"

As Mai was scanning the area ahead and to the left for any potential hazards that might get in her way she say something black streak past her towards the Citadel. "Hey! Watch where you're flying!"

It took her a few seconds to realize what the black thing was after she figured it out she cursed under her breath as she increased her speed far beyond the limits of the stabilizer gear causing it to fry its internal circuits lighting up her HUD with warnings "Shit!"

Just as she was about to hit the outer hull of the Citadel she felt a field envelope her halting her forward momentum. Just as suddenly the field dissipated causing her to face plant on the hull. "Now now Lyall you should know better than to burn out your gear."

Soon after the radio channel was fill with profanities from many different dialects that the translator refused to translate. With chuckle the black clad man lifted Mai by her combat belt and carried her to the nearest airlock. "Now let's go find out what your father wanted from you shall we?"

The human embassy had a rather sterile look and air about it not for a lack of trying. There were a few plants from Earth brought in so that the human occupying the office would feel more at ease. The human occupying the office of course couldn't even tell you what the phrase "at ease" meant or felt like. For once the office held more than one human, there are three to be precise plus two non-humans.

"So that's the gist of it from here on out you two will serve under Crimson Lyall. And as for you," Ambassador Udina turned to the stone faced Mai. "You shall be assigned to the Normandy which has been signed over to the Systems Alliance and now has a human only crew-"

"That was not the deal Ambassador Udina!" The black clad man strode forth as he uttered Udina's title in utter disgust. Grabbing the man's suit front he lifted him out of his chair so he could look him straight in the eyes, coincidentally lifting him clean off his feet. "The deal was that the crew would be mostly Wolvendon servicemen with Alliance officers! If you attempt to go back on your word you could just forget about this and the other agreement we came to."

At this point Udina was visibly shaken by this sudden violent outburst from the always calm man who acted like nothing more than a shadow in the room. "Now the ship will be manned by a Wolvendon servicemen crew with an Alliance officer staff. Oh and also the captain is non-negotiable if you try to have someone else captain the ship the deal is not only off but all Wolvendon support of the Alliance will be pulled. Now might I also add that the contingent of Phoenix Troopers is also non-negotiable? Do you understand?" Udina nods while having the look of a deer in the headlights. "Good so I won't have to get the Folkvarðr involved."

Dropping the now thoroughly defeated politician the man turned and left the office on his way to return to his ship. The politician got up and readjusted his suit and hair, "Now as to the chain of command Miss Lyall here is not official a member of the Alliance military but you two are going to have to treat her as if she was."

Suddenly Mai's face drained of all its color as the faint sounds of a military alert could be heard coming from the opened faceplate of her helmet.

"Miss Lyall you know the Alliance's policies about open radio channels during breifings…Miss Lyall I'm talking to you…Damn it woman!" Udina activated his holographic computer interface that popped up around his left arm called an omni-tool and proceeded to hack into her open radio frequency.

"Emergency Broadcast Ordinance Omega Omega Omega! It has been confirmed that the Wolvendon early warning outpost in the Exodus Cluster on the edge of the Utopia System has been confirmed destroyed with all hands lost! The Wolvendon threat level has been raised to threat level Omega! I repeat the Wolvendon threat Level has been raise to threat level Omega! All Hear This! All Hear This! Wolvendon is officially at war! All Citizens of Wolvendon are hereby ordered to report to the nearest extra-net terminal to download the wartime necessities packet. Emergency Broadcast Ordinance Omega Omega Omega! It has been confirmed that the Wolve-"

Udina quietly shut off his omni-tool as he took a seat at his desk in front of the computer terminal to type a few things before turning to the two Alliance marines he had assigned to Mai. "You take Miss Lyall to the Normandy and get the ship flying to the colony of Eden Prime and do it fast!"

With a salute and a quick 'yes sir' the two marines managed to get Mai to the Normandy and instructed the captain to head toward the colony.