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Thanks for the quick feed back The amazing chicken Dinner. As for people who haven't reviewed, it takes up less than ten minutes of your time and it gets the chapters to come faster, what's so hard about it?
For clarification, the Gale is about 25 percent larger than the Normandy.
Chapter- Machine vs. Super-Human
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The scene throughout the Silver Gale could be described as controlled chaos, groups of marines replacing the ammo in their rifles with Tungsten V rounds and adding heat sinks to them, before rushing to their assigned airlock and bunkering in. They didn't worry about being hit, as the Gale was the most agile ship in the fleet. In fact, it was weaving around various forms of fire the Geth assaulted it with, as its speed caused them to break formation and scatter about, forcing them to use their smaller ships and board it, lest they kill each other. The most critical airlock was on the uppermost floor, only a single room away from the bridge and pilot. It had ten marines, including Shepard, his squad, and the Master Chief. All of which were pointing their weapons at the door. They were already bunkered up behind crates and portable barricades.
"I sent a request for aid out on Citadel frequencies, but I can't tell if anyone's nearby to receive it; the Geth are jamming our scanners. Good thing we have a good view of the battle, and the Geth ships are white."
"Understood Joker." Shepard replied, "Sit tight in there, we won't let them through. But just in case, open the small arms locker."
"Roger that Commander, Joker out."
"I wonder what these Geth are like." Cortana stated in Chief's helmet.
She got her answer as the door was blown off, a pair of humanoid with flashlight heads marching through in red armor holding some sleek weapons. They were about to fire, but a hail of fire from the marines killed that idea.
After them came four in black armor, holding slightly longer weapons, but they were blown to pieces by a plasma grenade from the Chief. It continued on like this in waves, until a marine screamed and died, they turned and saw they Geth had cut through the wall behind them, there was a pair of Geth in orange and black armor standing there, blasting at the defenders, who quickly took positions at the door leading to the bridge, which was promptly blown off as the Geth started puring through, over the dead bodies of two marines that had been taking cover on either side of the door. It became a bloody pocket fight as the marines would duck from cover and fire, only to die while most others preferred t fire blindly.
Shepard ducked from cover just long enough to launch a grenade, which promptly detonated in the close quarters, killing most of the Geth coming through the door. These were finished off by a hail of fire as the marines pushed back into the room, blast doors finally closing off the airlock.
They pushed a large crate in front of the hole, which was being pelted by near-continuous fire from the squad, and the fight came to a brief halt.
The Geth almost pushed the crate back out of the way, but one of the marines turned out to be a biotic and sent a wave of energy at the crate, pushing it back onto the door. A team of engineers quickly welded the crate in place and a marines sergeant nodded, his hand to his ear, before approaching Shepard. "Area's secure, we can hold off whatever comes by, but the Med bay is about to be overrun sir, go on down there."
"If we leave here, the Geth will just make another hole and overwhelm you, the bridge a key position-"
"I'll go." Chief volunteered.
"Fine, you go. We're staying here." Shepard replied, taking up position again.
Chief nodded, he preferred it that way anyway, they were liabilities as far as he was concerned, but he needed to reach this citadel and find some answers.
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Chief
Before they could blink, he was on his way to the med-bay, following Cortana's instructions. He encountered a group of Geth fighting a patrol of marines in one of the corridors, they managed to seal of the airlock, but they were still having trouble, as they were surrounded.. The Chief fixed that by rolling an incendiary grenade under the Geth's feet, which promptly exploded into flame, burning the unfortunate Geth standing over it into ash. Chief rushed the remaining two Geth, a pair of troopers, holding his assault rifle in one hand and filling the Geth to his right with lead, before quickly turning around and stabbing the other Geth through its head with his combat knife, before bashing it aside with his assault rifle. After which he turned and pelted a Geth destroyer about to bash a marine's head in from behind full of lead.
The marines gathered themselves in time to turn and finish the other destroyer off.
"That was amaz-" the astonished marine was cut off as the Chief merely nodded, rushing past them and through a maintenance passage that Cortana said would lead to the med bay and cut about five minutes off his journey.
"It should be just around this cor-", Cortana was cut off as the Chief turned a corner to see about fifteen Geth facing off against a squad of marines, in a large open room filled with overturned tables and chairs, there were crates of food toppled and spilling in various places. The Chief entered the fight by taking cover and throwing a fragmentation grenade at one of the larger Geth positions, evening the odds a little for the marines. Before the Geth could respond, he activated an active camouflage he had been storing and crept up on a large Geth, apparently leading the attack. He but the barrel of his shotgun to its head and fire, before swiftly planting a frag under its feet and leaping back, landing conveniently behind an overturned table as the rest of the Geth turned and pelted the area around him with fire, their leader being maimed by the blast underneath its feet.
When the Geth turned around, the marines pelted them with their own fire, quickly ending the fight.
A marine walked up to him, "You are?"
"Master Chief Petty Officer 117. I came down from the bridge to help you out."
"Well, we're grateful Chief. If you hadn't shown up, that alpha would have killed us off."
"No problem."
As the conversation was starting the heard the comm. Blare up, "This is Joker, we've got some back-up. An alliance patrol just happened to be passing by and heard our distress call. Sit back and enjoy the show folks."
As Joker was speaking, the Chief walked over to a window in time to see five alliance ships jump in-system and fire some kind of blue missiles, two each, which punched through the Geth ships, that promptly exploded. The patrol moved up on the Geth as they turned to try and meet the onslaught, only for a hail of small missiles to hit them in their rears, via the Gale, punching through the shields as Joker could be heard cheering, when the alliance patrol fired another set of missiles, halving the enemy number, which was finished off as several large, 180 degree turrets emerged from the Gale's 'wings', which fired several rapid-succession projectiles, that glowed yellow as the punched into the Geth ships, destroying them in a brilliant explosion. All in space's silent embrace, though the Chief could hear very audible thumps as the projectiles were fired.
Meanwhile on the bridge, "What was that?" Shepard asked Joker, clearly surprised.
"Just a little tweaking, courtesy of the Salarians, who developed it as a prototype weapon."
"How does it work?"
"It fires several small torpedoes, which have an artificial biotics engine that allows them to slice through most hulls, once in side they detonate with the force of one of our earlier nuclear missiles. What's more, they're easy and cheap to make, all it requires is a simple VI, omni-tool, a simple fission engine, and a Unity amp."
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(By now, it's relatively cheap to make fusion engines, so nuclear weapons are not very expensive anymore, to compensate we've developed powerful shields and hazard suits, which make nuclear war a little less devastating.)
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"I see, so how many ships have it?"
"Just us, looks like you have an invaluable prototype ship again commander."
"Great."
"Hold on commander, we're getting a message. The patrol wants to know what's so valuable it attracted the Geth in these numbers."
"Tell them that we're escorting the ambassador for another government, and everything else is need-to-know, that should shut them up."
That finished, the first human specter did something all humans need to do, sleep.
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Chief
The Master Chief returned to his room after the fight was over, and did something he hadn't done in years after placing Cortana on a small holographic pedestal she told him how to make, from the computer's parts. He took off his armor.
"What do you know, there is a face under there." Cortana teased as the Master Chief ignored her, cleaning his armor and arranging it into a neat layout behind his bed.
"So how does it feel to be without your armor, John?"
"Awkward." Master Chief paused after answering to his birth-name for the first time in several years.
After which, he lied down on the bed and caught some well-earned sleep.