Thrax was glad that despite all the things that were going tits up in the galaxy, there was still some good news. That colony on Feros had been saved from a geth attack.
Thrax remembered when the geth were still the servants of the quarian people. He couldn't care less about what happened between the two. What he found most upsetting was the loss of Ranoch, the one place in the galaxy he actually felt at peace and like everything else in his life, it was lost.
He was sitting in front of the krogan memorial and he was trying to figure out why the council had decided to keep it here. Saving the galaxy from the rachni and then becoming an even worse threat than them. The council should have bombed us to oblivion. It would have been faster and better than the genophage.
Thrax couldn't stand looking at the hypocritical memorial anymore. Standing up Thrax shook his head in disgust before he turned to walk away.
Thrax was half way to the elevator that lead to the wards when he heard what he though was an explosion. "What the fuck! An explosion on the presidium?"
Thrax started to run towards the explosion and saw something he hadn't seen for three hundred and twenty years, geth.
Forgoing his shotgun he pulled out his pistol and shot the geth in its flashlight head. He looked up and saw fleet of ships, with a design that he didn't recognize. They had a long hull and something that looked liked very small arms coming out of the bottom and what looked like a head on the top reminding Thrax of a giant insect. He looked around and saw people just standing around looking at the insect fleet.
Thrax couldn't believe his eyes and shouted at the top of his lungs "what the fuck are you doing?! Get the hell out of here!"
A loud yelling krogan was enough to get them moving. Thrax looked up and saw a different ship. This one had a long gun sticking out from a small base and five tentacles that were shooting out what looked like a beam of molten slag. What struck Thrax the most was the size. It was bigger than the asari dreadnought Destiny Ascension. Thrax only had a moment to gaze at it before he felt something hit him in the side. Taking his eyes from the giant ship he saw more geth literally falling from their ships that had to be twenty KM in the air.
Thrax created a large biotic dome so he could get his bearing. geth kept dropping from their ships. There were other people in the presidium who needed his help. So he gathered up his biotic dome and threw, destroying some and knocking the rest down grinning Thrax turned and ran.
He needed a good defensible position with no windows, and only one entrance. "The Consorts Chamber!" Thrax yelled out loud.
Making his way toward the Consort's chamber he saw a group of C-SEC pinned down by seven geth. Throwing caution out the window Thrax charged at the one farthest from the front knocking it down and smashing its head. Turning Thrax grabbed the rifle of the now destroyed geth and mowed down the rest of the geth from behind.
Walking up to one of the C-SEC officers he said "what's the situation?"
"The council's been evacuated to the Ascension and we're trying to round-up as many people as we can and get them safe." The human officer said.
"Gather as many as you can and head toward the Consort' chamber, you couldn't ask for a better defensible spot."
"Consort's chamber? Yeah that's perfect! But what are you going to do?" The human asked.
"I'm going to save as many people as I can and thin out the geth a bit" Thrax said as he placed the geth rifle on his back "and if I were you I'd grab one of these rifles."
"Alright we'll handle the west side near the krogan memorial. If your serious about helping you take care of the embassy."
Thrax nodded and headed off towards the embassy. Thrax had the front of the embassy in sight. Along with a half-dozen geth. Grabbing his new geth assault rifle he aimed and let loose. Taking down two of the geth before he had to duck for cover. When he felt their fire let up a fraction he popped out, slammed both his fists on the ground and sent a shock wave ten feet across directly at the geth. With the geth knocked down Thrax put the geth rifle in on hand grabbed his pistol and shot the geth.
"Moving into the embassy he went right going into the room at the end of the hall he saw an elcor and a volus cowering.
Hiss "please don't hurt us Turchanka clan.!"
"Calm down dumb ass! I'm here to rescue you!" Thrax shouted at the volus.
"shockingly surprised. You are here to rescue us?"
"Bitch what I just say? Now come on. I got to get you to the Consort's chamber."
Thrax turned and motioned for them to follow him as he left the office. He made a quick turn and went into the human ambassadors office.
Opening the door he was greeted with a shot to his chest. "Oh yeah that great! That definitely hit one of my lungs." Thrax said as he slouched against the nearby wall.
Looking up he saw two humans. The first was the human ambassador Thrax had met seven years ago when he rescued those kids from Cerberus seven years ago and was cowering behind his desk. The other human, who was pointing a gun at him had dark skin little hair and was wearing an alliance get-up.
"Was that really necessary?!" Thrax roared.
"Who are you? Are you with these geth?" The dark human asked.
"If I was with these geth would I be taking to you? NO! I'd be trying to kill you. A though that's crossing my mind now." Thrax said and was rewarded with another shot to the chest.
"Would you stop shooting me!?" Thrax yelled thankful that it didn't his any organs this time. "Look I'm here to get you to a safe place."
"Why should we trust you?" Dark asked.
"Because you just shot me twice and your still breathing!" Thrax said as he used his biotics to pull the gun away from the human.
"Udena I say we go with him."
"Have you taken leave of your senses Anderson? First you barge into my office, punch me in the face, help Shepard escape with a twelve billion credit ship, and now you want me to trust some alien?!" The human ambassador asked in disbelief.
"Look human you can either take a chance with me or the geth. Now I might kill you both for shooting me I haven't decided yet. But the geth have no qualms with killing you both." Thrax said as he turned to leave.
"Wait alright we'll come with you" the dark human, Anderson said.
"Good now since he" Thrax indicated Udina with a nod of his head "probably doesn't know how to hold a gun, I'm giving you one. On the condition you promise NOT to shoot me agree?"
Anderson nodded and Thrax grabbed his geth assault rifle and gave it to him. "Alright I can take a shot better than you so I'll take point you lead the volus and elcor ambassadors down to the lobby. We'll make our way to the Consort's chambers from there."
Thrax left the office and went back to the lobby and what he saw truly freaked him out he saw a pair of geth standing near four spikes on top of three of the spikes were blue and gray cybernetic looking humans. They looked more like, what did humans call them? Zombies, Thrax saw what the pair of geth were doing with the last spike. They were holding a human over it and watched as the human was impaled. Finally spotting him, Thrax let out a carnage attack. Blowing one get into a mess of scrap metal and white goo. The other raised its weapon and fired forcing Thrax to duck behind the secretary's desk. He waited for his shotgun to recharge before he popped up and shot another carnage. With the geth taken care of Thrax called up to Anderson to get the others moving. Udina came through first, took one look at the impaled humans and let out a loud, female sounding, shriek before he collapsed unconscious. Thrax didn't know whether to laugh or stomp on his head.
Picking him up he placed him on the elcor back and moved towards the impaled humans but fell backwards when the spikes started to recede. But what actually scared Thrax was that he could see the stuck humans moving once they were just laying on the base of the device they got up and started to run towards him. Grabbing one by the neck he threw it to the ground and stomped on it head before he backhanded another knocking it down and was shot by Anderson. Thrax saw the last one coming towards him and put his fist right through the things torso. Pulling out the monster fell and lay motionless. Turning to Anderson, who was visibly shaken, he motioned for him to follow. Making their way over the bridge towards the Chamber Thrax could see in the distance near the council tower a mako crash against the base of the tower, and three figure climb out of it. One was big obviously a krogan but the other two were much smaller either human or asari. But Thrax didn't have time to worry about that now. Thrax made it to the Chamber and hurried the group through, practically pushing the elcor to hurry up.
Once inside Thrax said to Anderson "we should be safe here for the moment."
Anderson was panting while he answered "yeah but how long can we hold out?"
"You've obviously never seen the turian fleet in a life or death battle. Trust me human they will win." Thrax said as he moved back towards the doorway. Taking a peek out grabbed the scope he used to see at a distance and looked up. He could make out that the Destiny Ascension was holding its own but was getting swarmed. It may have been the most powerful ship in the galaxy but it wasn't indestructible.
Just then Thrax saw that the Citadel arms were opening and a number of fighters, frigates, and cruisers were pouring in. Thrax called Anderson over and gave him the scope. "Those are Alliance ships!" He said sounding surprised.
Grabbing the scope Thrax saw that after they saved the Ascension they focused their firepower on the giant ship that was "attached" to the Citadel tower. Thrax was even more surprised when he saw that two dreadnoughts, twenty cruisers, and maybe twice that amount in frigates and fighters were swarming the lone ship and despite the overwhelming numbers, its kinetic barriers held. It pointed one of its tentacles at one of the cruisers and shot a red beam destroying it. It did it again with another cruiser and another. The alliance was losing this fight.
Anderson beside him said "there's something going on at the tower!"
"No shit! One of your fleets its getting its quad kicked." Thrax said not taking his eyes off the battle.
Just then Thrax saw a red arch of electricity shoot on the ship. Then another, and another. Thrax didn't understand until he looked closer. The alliance was actually damaging it. Thrax then saw what he though was a frigate shoot straight down and right THROUGH the ship. There were explosions all over it and it exploded in a huge light that caused Thrax and Anderson to look away. When they looked back they saw a piece of the ship fall through into the council's tower.
Thrax stepped away from the door and fell against the wall opposite of himself. "If you told me that I'd be facing geth today I'd probably have been skeptical" Thrax said aloud.