Caenn'Vallo liked sniping Geth as much as the next guy but he went to Eden prime to sell scrap not kill more of it. Things went downhill ever since he went to this planet. You go to some fringe world kill some geth and sell their parts for big money. Now he was hiding in a tree seeing more geth then he had ever seen in his life.

There was a large, no huge dark squid shaped ship destroying everything not to mention his ship which was now a smoldering pile of metal. And that was the least of his problems. Tali'zorah and Kennah'Breizh sent a distress signal no more than 4 hours ago. He didn't know Tali but Kennah used to live close to him on the Moreh

All he had to do was sneak a ship to the citadel and he could help them out in no time. Unfortunately there were barely any ships on the planet that were functioning or had clearance to leave. He hacked into the ship registry in the area only two stood out.

There was the Normandy which we would never be able to sneak on and some unregistered ship that he saw crash planetside no more than 40 minutes ago. He tried to obtain any information on the ship but his hacking was unsuccessful in that regard. Hopefully sneaking a ride would be easier on the mysterious ship then an alliance cruiser.

It was more than a mile away at least according to radar. Hector Timur a human mercenary had been following him the whole time with the same intent of escape. Though Caenn didn't like it they were so far a good team.

"You got 19 geth about 5 meters down near that clearing. Can you get all of them?" said Hector, he was a better spotter then fighter but it worked out.

"Not in one bullet" said Caenn as he pulled the trigger 5 times knocking out all the targets without error. The heat sink nearly busted but it was a looted geth pulse rifle one of the best guns he ever found.

Hector had gotten used to his new comrades marksmanship affinity. Caenn and Hector got out of their stoop and moved forward across the field of dead humans and geth alike. Caenn would stoop down every once and awhile and pick up some hardware off the ground, Annoying Hector .

"Do you know how much one of these is worth?" he said holding up a shiny bronzish circular disque"

"No I do not comrade"

"Please stop calling me comrade ok, and this piece of scrap alone is worth 3000 credits to the right buyer, so yes it's worth the time to salvage it."

"Understood "

They moved across the field, the ship only 500 meters away when they were stopped dead in their tracks. 2 geth prime and a bunch of shock troopers were fanned out obviously searching for something or someone

Caenn crouched down and rested his rifle on the trunk of a tree. He fired 3 shots. The first killed a prime, the second bullet missed and the 3rd killed one of the shock troopers. Not a second later the geth started head in his direction looking from him. He muttered a curse word as he saw the other prime go invisible.

"Watch my back Hector" He got in the prone position and started picking off the last of the shock troopers one by one. Without hector spotting it was really hard to tell if he actually hit his targets from the distance.

Eventually There were no visible targets but he knew the cloaked prime was somewhere. But it was impossible to see a cloaked target in the bright afternoon sun. They got up and kept moving towards the ship. The fighting had really died down and it would not be long be they were off Eden Prime.

Caenn paused "do you hear something?" He could hear the soft crunching of burnt grass. Suddenly He heard the watery sound of someone uncloaking. The geth prime stood right behind Caenn firing a few round then knocking him on the ground. The Prime was about to end the Quarians life. Hector turned around and started spraying the geth with bullets out of his SMG but the geth seemed unaffected, its shields absorbing all of it. It punched the gun out of hector's hand and fired some rounds into him. Hector pulled his axe out of its sheath and leaped on the aggressor.

The clumsy robot lost its footing and fell to the ground, it struggled to get up as Hector mercilessly bludgeoned and cut at the geth's body until it stopped moving.

"Let's get moving Caenn" said hector as he picked up the unconscious quarian, slung him over his shoulder and carried him to the ship.

The ship was nothing like he had seen not asari and turian and definitely not human, maybe it was custom he didn't know. It was well hidden in the surrounding brush of eden prime which is probably why it had not been attacked yet.

Hector knew Caenn wanted to sneak in but that sounded like a bad idea so he loudly knocked on the ship's bay door.

Hector waited patiently for some response as he desperately tried to patch up the quarians suit. It had been about fifteen minutes and he was starting to think about breaking in or leaving and looking for medical attention for Caenn who was still unconscious.

Then the bay doors opened with a hiss. Out stepped a figure clad in robes and heavy armour that resembled a mix of a modern hard suit and a medieval knight. His face was masked with an angular helmet that had a prominent crest on top. He assumed it was male but it was hard to tell with the armour and robes it wore. The what he guessed to be human stepped of the ramp and greeted him with a bow of his head and spoke

"My name is Leverick, Are you friend or foe"

Hector was confused did he look like a geth to that man? He held up his axe which was smeared white with geth "blood". "I fought many geth and seek refuge aboard your ship for a safe journey back to the citadel and care for my friend."

The strange human stared at him for a moment before speaking

"I will harbor you to this "citadel'' and help heal your ally of yours but you will owe me for the trip, and more importantly whatever you think I am you are mistaken."

"What do you mean?" Hector said nervously.

"Come into my ship I will explain"

Hector stepped inside the strange craft. He shivered as he entered the ship, it was very very cold inside the dark halls and corridors. The exterior of the ship was white as snow but the inside was inky black. Leverick lead him to what appeared to be an engine room but it did not resemble the eezo cores of the vessels he was used to. There he placed down Caenn ware another person dressed in similar be it more ornate robes and armour reassured him that she would take good care of his comrade.

Leverick then lead him to a small room with chairs and a terminal. Hector hadn't noticed how tall leverick was until he sat down either his chair was smaller or Leverick must have been 7 feet tall. He almost jumped when noticed the turian lazily slumped in the chair next to him giving him a grim look.

Leverick spoke first "This is Nihlus Kryik, He says he is a turian spectre" The turian nodded at Hector. Leverick motioned to Hector to introduce himself

"I'm Hector Timur an alliance hired mercenary."

"Well now that we all know each other let's discuss the future of our voyage." Said Leverick

The turian interjected "Now wait a minute you didn't tell us who you are!"

"All will be revealed in due time" Leverick said. He had sent a message to the Accallarian imperators not but a few minutes ago, it drained half the ships remaining power but the message contained their situation and coordinates so in theory the empire could send help or orders.

"As I hope you understand I must receive orders from my superiors on our next action"

Caenn walked into the room and slumped into a chair. "I'm fine Hector Avres was nice enough to patch my suit up and shock me back into life, so anyway when are we leaving?"

"As i said earlier we can't leave until my orders a received, however long that may take. "

"What do you mean we can't leave I got friends out there on the citadel that will die if i don't get their."

" You do not know the importance of my orders"Said leverick angrily. "I have trespassed onto forbidden lands, made contact with unknown races and spotted a ship resembling the great opposers of our ancient past, and you want me to go right to your citadel which i have no knowledge of and be off!, No i cannot do that."

The others sat there confused and dumbfounded, not understanding half off what he said.

"I am sorry for my outburst. Now until I receive the message be patient"

The Human and turian sat there shivering as the quarian turned his environmental suits heat all the way up. Caenn messed with his omnitool while Nihlus scratched his talons and the human sharpened his axe. Then the telltale beep of the terminal broke the awkward and tense silence.

Hector looked over to the terminal where Avres, the other original crew member read the message aloud. "By order of the high rulers and imperators of Eavlevion it has been permitted that the boarding ship known as Aetis and its crew, including the retrieved natives will establish relations with the ruling body of this "citadel" though we order that all diplomats of the citadel meet the imperators on Eavlevion rather than diplomatic wager initiate in the citadel. The imperatos tribunal has considered making contact with the milky way for millennia. Do not fear to act on your code in this new alien and most likely dishonourable civilization. Provisions have been weaved into your area"

Before anyone could ask questions Leverick and Avres ran into the boarding bay to find there was a large pod delivered to their ship. Open opening it had the right food, and power units to get them to the citadel.

Aboard the Reaper Sovereign

Saren sat on his throne in Sovereign. If Benezia even mentioned his failure he sweared he was going to strangle her. He nearly banged his head on the wall for that thought, of course he couldn't strangle her his left arm was chopped off. The stupid geth on board tried to patch it up but it only made it worse, not to mention the crude splint wrapped around his leg.

Sovereign would bring him much pain for this, this failure. All was going according to plan, not a single human expected his arrival, the geth managed to secure the beacon with ease. He was about to kill Nihlus that ignorant spectre, when some human outclassed him in every way. He wasn't even sure it was a human. In combat he could not match him, losing his arm and breaking his leg not to mention the countless gashes and bruises unleashed on him. He was pretty sure he got a concussion from that forsaken sword. He called for sovereigns help but the reaper either ignored him or couldn't influence the attacker.

It didn't seem like a problem at first, so what if he didn't kill Nihlus that was only a small part, a secondary objective. He still reached the beacon but to what avail. He was so injured that by the time he reached it the visions he saw he wasn't sure if it was anything really or just the extreme pain he received from the attacker. His concussion was the worst part had if he received any information in the first place he had forgotten a lot of it. Sovereigns punishment would be ten times worse than what he felt. But it was all worth it to bring back the reapers and save the galaxy form the cycle