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Chapter 9: Surprise Allies

Haestorm surface

The blue team and the shepard and company were flying in a pelican gun ship to the ground to fight the geth and save any survivors before its too late.

"Team, We'll touch the ground in 20 seconds" said chief. Others were readying their weapons.

"Chief, I'm detecting 10 geth soldiers near the LZ. Take them out first before we land." said cortana in his helmet's speakers. The pelican reached the surface just 3 feet above. The geth soldiers nearby sensed their presence, and started shooting.

"Wow! what was that?" asked shepard in confusion after hearing repeated hits in the pelican body. But the pelican shields held off long enough as their ammo was less effective.

"We have hostiles in the LZ. Clearing them now" replied chief. Then he started shooting at the geth using the 90mm gauss cannon. It took only seconds to destroy the nearby geth as each shot shattered the geth soldiers to pieces. After clearing the LZ, he spoke.

"Team, The LZ is clear. I'm opening the hatch" said chief and opened the hatch after landing. Shepard, miranda, garrus and mordin came out first followed by blue team. Shepard and his friends were shocked to see what seemed as the shattered geth parts in smoke.

"What the hell!? Did your gunship weapon do this?" asked garrus with his eyes widened. Chief nodded in response. The place they were standing was surrounded by building walls.

"Alright. Linda, you provide sniper support for us. others follow me"

"Alright chief" said linda followed by a nod from fred and kelly.

"Chief, me and my team will cover the right flank, you take the left" said shepard. The blue team armed their weapons. Shepard and his team had never seen weapons like those. Especially, the one chief was carrying is too weird, having a golden orange profiles with a floating part what appears to be a scope. Miranda had her eyes slightly widened after seeing their weapons.

"Those weapons are so strange and why something is floating on this chief's weapon?" thought miranda. Unknown to everyone, she had a bionic eyes that captures the footage of what she sees and make wireless transfer to a recorder.

"Good idea. Let's move" replied chief. Miranda was keen on seeing the spartans in combat. Then they split up. Linda maintained a fair distance from the rest of the blue team and took covering positions for sniper support, While shepard and his team moved as a unit to their right.

"Guyz, be careful under the light. The solar output is very high enough to cause skin burn. So stick to the shadows as much as you can" warned cortana both the blue and shepard.

"Roger" said everyone.

There were buildings and rocky surfaces on both the sides. The whole place looked like an abandoned station. The blue team were moving along the left building shadows while shepard and his team were moving likewise in the right. In the front everyone saw a big horizontal building like structure. There were 2 entry points into that. Chief signaled for them to stop. To get to the other side, they had to go only through this building.

"Motion trackers shows activity in the building" said chief through comms. He felt something was wrong.

"We are entering the structure." said shepard.

"Commander wait!...Team, switch to promethean vision" said chief to his team. Shepard and his team were confused what he was talking about.

"A what vision?" asked shepard in a low voice with confusion. Others were equally confused.

John 117 being a promethean himself, The promethean nano-crawlers in his brain lobes can tune his visual cortex to promethean sight at command. John sent the command and the nanobots did that. Suddenly, the building appeared transparent and he zoomed his sight. Others used the vision in their helmet. Everyone saw what he saw.

"There are 12 geth units in the 1st floor. Also 3 quarians pinned down" said fred to everyone. Out of 12, 4 were so big that would even rival the spartans.

"Looks like no windows, means i cannot provide sniper support" said linda.

"Then we'll infiltrate the building at the same time. Those quarians need our help" said shepard.

"Right" said chief.

"What the geth and quarians are doing here anyway?" asked garrus.

"Don't know. But we'll ask when we see tali" said shepard. Everyone regrouped at the entry.

"Shepard, be careful. Of 12 geth units, 4 were so big and their weapons looked like their version of shotgun" said chief. Shepard knew what he's talking about. He had fought them on eden prime and at the citadel. They were such a pain in the ass. They use shotguns, explosives and even charge forward for melee. Their single punch can drain the kinetic barrier almost completely.

"Must be the destroyers. Shit!" said shepard frustrated. Chief noticed it.

"Chief we need to take them out seperately" said kelly. Chief nodded.

"I have a plan. We will use active camo to sneak inside and give them a surprise fire" said chief.

"Active camo?" asked miranda.

"Yes, it's our stealth mode" replied fred. Miranda was shocked to hear their suit had ability to turn invisible.

"Cortana, tag those 4 destroyers, we need to take them after the others" said chief.

"Done"

"Right we'll move." said chief and all 4 turned invisible and moved up the stairs. Others were simply stunned.

"Shepard, I need one" said garrus plain and simple in astonishment to which he didnt respond.

"Hm..Stealth..I'm looking forward to their other abilities" said mordin. Everyone moved up the stairs.

The blue team now sneaked up and took covering positions in the big hall. The geth didn't notice them in cloak. The ceiling was 20ft high and was very long. They saw the 3 quarians, but to their disappointment, they were dead. When they deemed the moment right,

"Team, open fire at the smaller units" said chief. They de-cloaked and started shooting.

After hearing the gun shots, shepard and his team entered and started shooting the geth taking covering position. They also saw the 3 dead quarians.

"Looks like those 3 were unlucky bastards" said shepard.

Everyone noticed the spartans raining down the ammo upon the geth. They were dumb struck with the power of these spartan's weapons. It looked like they were using primitive ammo, but highly powerful. But what intrigued them was chief's strange rifle that shot a strange golden orange color glowing rounds. These rounds pierced the geth body easily bypassing the kinetic barrier and also melted their armor and shattered them to pieces.

"Goddammit! Those weapons are powerful. These rounds simply bypass the kinetic barriers" said miranda. The shepard team were not only shooting at the geth but also noticed these spartans.

"Miranda not now" yelled shepard making a kill count.

"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" yelled garrus throwing a concussive shot at them that blasted a mini geth trooper. The spartans simply made the job easy with their superior fire power.

The destroyers started shooting at the spartans instead of shepard's team as the spartans proved to be a greater threat. The blue teams armor flared in golden color which is their energy shields. The shepard's team was stunned with their armor's power. They shot at them but to no effort. The destroyers had greater barrier strength.

"Chief, These units have thick armor plating and even their barriers are so strong" said cortana in his speakers. The blue team also fired their weapons, but chief's rifle drained one the 4 unit's shields and pierced its body and killed it.

"One down, 3 to go" said chief. The destroyers were shooting their shotgun. Shepard's team couldn't help but take cover as they were too dangerous to even get off from the cover. The spartans even noticed shepard sending a series of strange energy like attack into the ground. It moved from point to point in the floor and hit the geth, but the barriers held long enough. But shepard and his friends were shocked to see the spartans easily destroying a geth destroyer. Chief analyzed the situation. The destroyers seemed more efficient in battle. They think like human soldiers in evading enemy fire. The 3 destroyers were using miniature explosives which were easily brushed off by their shields. But shepard's team cant hold them off. So he made a plan.

"I know what you are thinking, john" said cortana in to his brain catching his thoughts.

"Be ready" was the reply. She smirked inside.

"Guyz, we need to take their shields, i'm gonna engage them in close proximity" said chief to which his team nodded.

"What!? Those destroyers are strong enough to rip you apart. The fighting rule for a destroyer is never engage them at close combat as they are best at it" yelled shepard.

"If you got a death wish, then you are certainly welcome to try" said miranda. Chief simply nodded at it.

"Team, drain their shields." said chief. They concentrated fire on the 3 geth getting out of cover. The geth shotgun rounds were blocked by their armor shields, and only drained them a little. But the rounds from the spartan's weapons grew intense and depleted the geth's shields before they could get to cover again.

"Shields down! chief do it" yelled linda. This is were the shepard's team were about witness the true power of the spartan. Chief holstered his weapon back and immediately charged towards the 3 geth at blinding speed. The geth shot at him continuously, but his shields held off.

"Shit, This guy's fast like a jet" thought shepard with eyes widened.

"What's he doing?" murmured miranda in shock.

In a blink of an eye he neared the 3 desroyers and suddenly jumped high, raised his right hand and punched the ground with a brute force in kneeling position. The punch sent shockwave causing tremors across the whole building and if not for the building's kinetic barrier, it could have collapsed. The 3 geth flew back and hit the walls with greater force and also the shock wave acted like an EMP that fried their shield systems permanently. Shepard's team was caught off balance with the shaking.

"Holy shit! Remind me never to piss them off" said garrus to shepard in shock.

"Their powers and abilities are unimaginable!" said miranda feeling dumb at the sight.

One geth slowly recovered and charged at the spartan and was about punch him. But chief grabbed it's right hand with his own. The geth being robots, their servo motors at the joints were strong, but the battle hardened veteran spartan-promethean was stronger. Chief was holding it for a time, but the geth was about to punch him with it's left arm. Chief ducked under it. After missing the hit, it swung the same left arm in reverse direction. Chief again blocked it with his left hand and pulled the geth to his right side with a force followed by a punch straight in to the geth's chest. The geth fell back and got a mould in the shape of chief's fist. Everyone heard the metal thud. Shepard and his friends were shocked to see the spartan manhandling the geth. Then chief grabbed it's throat with his left hand and lifted off the ground, but another unit was about to punch him. Chief's reflex was stronger as he noticed it quick and immediately grabbed the hand with his right arm and swung it with a force that made it to stumble. The 3rd geth came towards him and used it's right arm to punch him, but he brought the geth he was holding in front as a guard. The geth punched and tore a hole in it's body and killed it. Then chief gave a powerful kick to it that sent it back. He put down the dead geth and went for the one on his right. The geth raised it's right arm to give him a blow but he grabbed by it's fist, pulled it towards him and gave a right knee to it's abdomen that made a heavy dent in it's armor. He grabbed it by it's throat and decapitated it. That leaves only one geth that got recovered from the kick. Chief grabbed it's arms and gave an elbow shot to its face. The force multiplying circuit did it's job well but still these destroyers were stronger as they are experts in close quarter combat. Then he beheaded the last geth by crushing it's neck which after that, the last geth fell lifeless to the ground.

The geth destroyers were indeed tough but no match for a spartan-promethean. After all, he survived an encounter with the most powerful forerunner. After the brutal fight, the blue team came to check on him followed by shepard and co.

"Chief, while fighting the geth, your mind was acting weird like you predicted their moves. What really happened?" asked cortana in confusion. She was monitoring john during the whole fight. She felt something was wrong.

"I dont know. You wont believe me if i told you" said chief.

During the fight, chief's mind was able to see directly through the AI information matrix of the geth. He could see information being passed on between the geth units. He was in fact reading their thoughts thereby easily evading their actions. Although visually he didn't see anything and also this ability is not like hacking, as chief is an organic being. He cannot enter deep into the matrix and see everything including memories and other data caches. Simply his brain was pick up the thoughts that were being transferred between the units and a powerful smart AI can even mask itself from this. For example, he was able to read the geth thoughts, but he couldn't do the same to cortana who's in his neural interface all the time. This ability was because of the new augmentations. Usually forerunner brevet mutations takes years to adapt and assume new form. But chief's gene-song already carried promethean bio-markers and was only one step from unleashing it.

"Then try me" said cortana. With a sigh, chief talked.

"I was able to read the geth's thoughts. I picked up information being transferred between the units about how to tackle me, my strength assessment. I were able to read the geth's successive actions it were about to perform, thus evading it easily." said chief. Cortana took a moment to process what john said.

"John, we talk about this later in the ship. Let's focus on the mission now" said cortana, though her voice felt like she figured out something from this.

"Right"

"Chief, are you alright? you were standing still for quite sometime" asked kelly

"No..uh...nothing" replied chief in a confused tone.

"Chief! what the hell was that!? I mean...you just manhandled 3 geth destroyers" said commander in a yelling tone of surprise and shock.

"Like i said, we spartans are bred for extreme level threats" said chief taking his Z-130 rifle from the back.

"You know shepard, these people would have made saren cry and run for his money" said garrus with a smirk but equally stunned. "That was a mind blowing fight you put chief". Chief simply nodded at him. Miranda on the other hand had recorded everything. She decided to remain silent for the rest of the mission. She just knew who to speak once the mission is done, The Illusive man.

"After this, i need a lot of answers" said shepard in a serious tone.

"And answers, you will get once we are done here." said fred.

"Yes, we'll talk in our ship. Now let's move" said chief. Shepard nodded and they left the big hall. To their right was the exit staircase. They used it to get out of the building and are now in large open space, free to move. They also saw lots of barricade to take covering positions. Far from their position, they saw some building structures.

"Same plan as before. We'll take the right, you take the left" said shepard to which chief nodded. The 2 teams tooks their respective covering positions.

"Chief, i'm picking up lot of geth activity. Looks like they got word of our presence. Lots of geth foot soldiers and...uh...drones, i think so are approaching our position" said cortana.

"ENEMY FIRE!" yelled shepard. Shepard's team started engaging the enemy to the spartan's right side. Chief took notice of that. Their team was faring well.

"CONTACTS!" said kelly which alerted everyone. about 20 geth soldiers were approaching and started shooting at them. Also they saw 5 flying drones taht were shooting at them. Each of the spartans took cover behind one barricade.

"Team, open fire!" said chief and started shooting the geth with his light rifle. Others were shooting their gauss variant guns. Though the shields could take the punishment, still, they are severely out numbered. So they took cover until they are done.

"Fire in the hole!" yelled fred tossing a plasma grenade, that sticked to the metal body of a geth. Before it could act, a big ball of plasma engulfed 5 geth troopers and turned them to dust. That makes 15 geth and 5 drones. Chief holstered his Z-130 and took the 2 type 54 DE pistols and started shooting plasma bolts targeting 2 at a time. The plasma ate the barriers and melted the geth armor plate which then exploded to pieces. Fred used his shotgun to take out 2 geths, linda used her sniper to destroy those drones. Kelly took 2 more geth. The remaining nine geth were given a rain of plasma bolts and gauss projectiles that shattered them to nothing.

"That the last of em'. Let's go and help shepard's team" said cortana. The blue team went to shepard's position.

Shepard's team was faring well as they took 10 geth units. Still there are 7.

"Shepard, the resistance seems to be heavy. The geth must be protecting something here" said mordin.

"I think so. But tali's gonna be in trouble, if we don't reach her in time" said garrus.

"The solar interference is scrambling the comms. We need to get inside the building to contact someone" said shepard. Miranda was shooting at the geth. But everyone suddenly saw a storm of green liquid bolts flying past them that instantly took down 3 geth by eating their armor away.

"What th-..!" said shepard finally saw master chief firing some sort of dual rifle in his hands. His team then took the last of 4 geth. They were stunned some new gun in chief's hand that massacred the geth units. The blue team then approached their position.

"SIGH!..area is secured." said linda.

"Everyone alright?" asked chief to which others nodded.

"Chief, There's too much interference in the comms because of this sunlight. We couldn't raise any surviving quarians here".

"Too much of geth resistance" said fred

"Exactly. These geth must be heavily guarding something. Something that's important to them" said shepard.

"Then we better hurry" said chief. Everyone then went inside the building in front.

"...Th...ka...ger...pin..th...geth...needed...assi...anyon...opy?" shepard's radio came to life.

"Looks like survivors! guyz, set a bridge into the quarian comm channel" said shepard. Everyone's omni tools glowed and beeped. Then a clear quarian voice came out.

"I repeat, this is kaal' reager to any survivors. We're pinned down here. Requesting assitance" came a quarian distress call.

"I tapped into the quarian channel. He's in this same building, in the second floor" said cortana. Shepard nodded and replied.

"This is commander shepard of the alliance. We have your position and getting there now"

"Shepard!..shit...i dont have time for this. Alright, get here fast, i wont hold on for long" came reager's distressed voice.

"On our way" said shepard and closed the channel. Chief opened a mini hologram computer from his left fore-arm and pressed the button in the display. A decryption program to tap into the quarian comm channel was running and finished. Others did the same. Now the blue team can contact the quarians easily.

The 2 teams then used the stairs to their left. There were both geth bodies and quarian bodies lying what seemed like a long bloody fight. But no live hostiles till the second floor. they finally reached the second floor. In front was the open balcony where they saw a quarian taking cover behind a barricade outside the balcony.

"Wow! get down!" yelled fred after seeing a giant geth shooting a big ball of energy. Shepard and his team moved sideways whereas chief came front of blue team and raised his both hands in front which summoned a force field that blocked the explosion. After that he released the field. Others were stunned to see that and had their jaws dropped.

"I dont know what other surprises they still got" said miranda in a suspicious tone. Others were simply speechless.

"Commander!" yelled kaal' reager from the balcony. Shepard saw him. Everyone crouched and went to the balcony and took cover near by him. But after shepard's team, he saw 4 towering figures in a strange armor and got terrified. He even raised his at them.

"What th-..!?" tensed reager.

"Calm down. They are friendlies"said shepard.

"Who are they?" asked kaal' reager in a yelling tone.

"I'll tell you later. You are kaal' reager? the one who called me?" asked shepard

"Yes. What brings you here commander?" asked kaal

"I'm her for my friend Tali' zorah" said shepard. The blue team were firing at the geth units below. Linda used her sniper to take down the geth near by that giant thing that was shooting explosives.

"Tali?..well she's stuck inside that building. The door's locked up behind where she's hiding" said reager pointing out to the building above which the giant geth colossus stands.

"What are you people doing here anyway?" asked shepard.

"Tali's been here for 2 days, said she's been researching something about this star. My team was sent to give protection to her. Now looks like i'm the only one left" said reager. The geth were shooting at their location.

"Chief, looks like they are here for the same thing." said cortana.

"Listen soldier, We know what's happening with the star. Your people really need to leave this system" said chief. Kaal reager was looking in confusion as to who these people were giving orders.

"Why should i have to take orders from you?" growled reager

"Listen to them. They are telling the truth. We'll get you and Tali out this place. Can you shoot?" asked shepard.

"I can. But that colossus's been a pain in the ass for a long time. Make a crack or dent in it's body, it will cover itself for healing and starts pissing us off again from the start. Unless you clear it, no way you're gonna reach Tali" yelled reager.

"Chief look, That colossus is healing itself when hurt. In this way, we can't beat it even with our rifles. We'll need a powerful explosive, like a mini nuke" said cortana privately to chief.

"Commander, we'll need something powerful to tear it apart" said chief.

"Dont worry chief. I have a special package to send it to hell" said shepard retrieving the M-920 CAIN from his back.

"Garrus, get me the nuke pellet." said shepard. Garrus gave him a nuke pellet and load it in the gun.

"Chief, i need 30 seconds to arm it. By the time, could you take care of the other units?" asked shepard.

"We'll take care of it...Team take out all the geth units" said chief. The blue team concentrated fire on the small mobile geth platforms. They were decimated by the impact of their weapon's ammo and the plasma heat. The quarian was stunned to see their strange weapons The blue team took care of all the geth units and by the time, shepard charged the nuke.

"Chief, charging complete. Now i would request you all to take cover" said shepard.

Everyone did as he asked. Then shepard stood up and pulled the trigger. The nuke was under going fission charging. The gun's tip was glowing bright in nuclear fire. The colossus was about to shoot him. But the nuke was fully charged and flew out of the gun at a great speed. Shepard immediately crouched below the barricade. Suddenly everyone heard a ground shaking explosion with a flare. It continued for quite few seconds and stopped. Everyone then stood up including reager who were stunned with the explosive's power. They just saw the building in front where the colossus was standing, only to see that it wasn't there and saw only smoke and flames.

"Wow! Now that's what i call a real fire power" said cortana astonished. Even the blue team felt the same way.

"Alright...uh...I never expected it will end so soon. Anyway, thanks for the help commander. The admiralty board's gonna be happy to hear that tali made it out alive. Though they'll be disappointed with heavy casualties" said reager tired and frowned.

"Still you did a great job without giving up the fight" said chief comforting him. Reager looked at him warily but he felt the giant was right.

"Whoever you are, thanks for the help...Strange, never seen people this big like you 4. What race are you?" asked reager. Shepard and his team were looking at the spartans. The blue team were exchanging looks.

"Think so, having one head, 2 legs and 2 hands doesn't make one human in this reality" said cortana in a humorous tone. Chief didnt respond to that other than mentally giving a sigh. Shepard spoke on their behalf.

"Reager, they are humans and calls themselves spartans. Even i dunno much about them. We'll get the answer after we get tali and get the hell outta this place" said shepard. Reager nodded.

"Where's your friend commander? asked fred

"We need to get inside that building" said shepard pointing the structure in front.

"You wait here reager, while we go in and bring tali" said garrus.

"Right, i need rest anyway" said reager and sat leaning over the barricade.

Others used the stairs and got down to the ground and went near the building. Suddenly a geth prime showed and were about to attack them.

"Whoa! be careful" yelled miranda.

But immediately fred took his dual plasma daggers and struck one to it's chest that pierced it like a hot knife through butter and other to its side neck that totally fried it's internal system. Shepard's team were dumbstruck with what fred did.

"Shit! These spartans could be more helpful in taking down collectors and reapers" shepard thought out loud. Garrus simply had his mouth opened in disbelief. They thought that spartan had made their terrible job so easy. Fred then holstered his daggers back. Everyone then proceeded to move forward.

"Chief, I managed to tap into the geth network. Looks like there are geth units in a100 mile radius from here" said cortana.

"100 mile? you mean, lot's of em?" asked chief.

"Yes. We just cleared only this area. Looks like they are searching for something" said cortana

'What is it?" asked chief now more serious.

"Gimme sometime. I'll look into it" said cortana. Everyone came near a door. Shepard used his omni-tool to hack the door controls and opened it. Everyone went inside only to see lots of dead geth and quarian soldiers. The place was bloody.

"Looks like they fought to protect your quarian friend" said mordin. Shepard simply sighed at the horror.

"Tali' zorah to base camp, come in base camp..." came a voice from a near by terminal. Shepard saw tali's face in the terminal's display. The spartans identified her as female from her voice. Shepard spoke to tali.

"The base camp's done tali" said shepard sadly.

"Shepard! glad to hear from you...wait...what did you say about base camp?" asked tali surprised.

"They are dead, fought the geth to protect you. Kaal reager is waiting outside. He's the only one who made it" said garrus.

"Garrus?..oh... i never wanted anyone die for me. At least reager's safe. Thanks shepard. I'm behind the door, i'll open it now" said tali and opened the door. Everyone holstered their weapons and came near the open door. Tali turned to see shepard.

"Shepard, glad to se-...keelah! who are they?" yelled tali frightened to see 4 towering figures behind shepard's team. She aimed her weapon at them. But the spartans were casual and understood the quarian's fear. Shepard tensed and immediately talked tali down.

"Whoa Tali! wait! They were helping us on the ground against the geth" said shepard. Tali stared at the 4 strange people for sometime, then lowered her gun.

"Uh..right. But who are these people?" asked tali stumbling.

"I'll tell afterwards. First, what were you doing here anyway?" asked shepard.

"I was on a mission to gather data about this star. It's been acting so strange. So admiralty board decided to have me look into it with marines backing me up until we got ambushed" said tali.

"The star's prematurely aging into a red giant and that's gonna happen in 2 days. So we need to get the hell outta here" said chief coming forward. Tali was shocked to hear the strange being talking to her. But she was even more disturbed by the information he gave.

"Excuse me.."

"You can call me chief"

"Yeah...right...Did you say that this star is prematurely aging into a red giant?" asked tali in surprise.

"Yes. But we'll explain it in our ship. We don't have much time" said chief. Tali was wondering how did these people knew about this. But anyway they were right. They need to get outta here.

"Right. We'll get outta here. I'll have the data ready. If admiralty have any problem with that, they can go to hell" said tali. Shepard nodded and turned to chief.

"Chief?"

"Me and my team will take the drop ship. You get the normandy and enter our vessel. We'll talk afterwards" said chief. Tali was totally confused.

"Normandy inside their vessel? What's that supposed to mean?" thought tali.

"Sounds good to me. Let's go" said shepard. With that, every one came out of the building. They saw reager standing at the entrance.

"Tali?" called reager.

"Kaal! Glad you made it" exclaimed tali.

"Yeah. Good to see you too" said reager.

"Reager, you and tali are coming with me aboard the normandy. These people have their dropship waiting. We'll get to the normandy and head to their ship" said shepard.

"Their ship?" again asked tali in confusion. Nothing was making sense after she saw these strange people.

"Yes"..."Joker, you there?"

"Yes commander...Bringing the normandy for extraction" said joker.

"Right. Commander, We'll meet you in our ship" said chief and the blue team took off from the place.

"What are they talking about? Shepard, who are they?" asked tali for the 3rd time.

"Once we get inside their ship, you will know" said garrus. Tali simply nodded in distress.

"Right, everyone get to the extraction point" said shepard and left the place. Miranda having recorded everything, now possess a lengthy footage of this mission to show it to illusive man. They saw the normandy get down. The hanger door opened and everyone boarded.

"Joker, get us inside those spartan's ship" said shepard

"Aye aye commander" replied joker. Tali and reager were looking confused with the word spartan.

"Spartan?" asked tali.

"Yes. I'll explain you everything. Dont ask anymore questions. Even i'm seeking answers from them" said shepard. Tali simply nodded.

Meanwhile, the blue team had boarded the pelican and chief flew it to the dawn.

"Chief, I found what the geth were looking for. The same data about the star" said cortana.

"That's more than coincidence" said chief surprised.

"Yes. Actually, they were studying, so that they could replicate the procedure artificially"

"What!? You mean they are trying to weaponize it?" asked chief.

"Exactly"

"Cortana, we cannot let the geth to leave with this information" said chief

"I know. My analyses show that, the geth needs to get to the near by system to use the mass relay to get to their place to share the data. Before that happens, we can stop them here" said cortana.

Chief flew the pelican and entered the hanger. The hardlight barrier disabled and the pelican entered and touched the ground. The normandy followed them behind. The blue team came out and the pelican was automatically boarded in the magnetic anchor. Then chief used the nearby holo pedestal to insert cortana's chip.

Meanwhile in the normandy...

"KEELAH! That is a giant ship!" exclaimed tali to the level of getting a heart attack.

"The one you called spartans, Do they own it?"

"Yes. Our ship's sensors read it as 5km long"

"Shepard, that's bullshit! This much of big ship will need mountains of piled up eezo, something that's definitely not possible. Are these people some new alien race?" asked tali in disbelief.

"That's the interesting part. First, their ship dont use eezo. Second, these spartans are humans with crazy tech" replied garrus.

"What? Humans? When did they grow so big? Even then, their ship doesn't have a human architecture in it. They totally look like an alien craft" exclaimed tali in disbelief.

Being a quarian, she had travelled across the galaxy, learned many things, including every species culture and military doctrine. She now has the experience to even tell to whom a vessel belongs based on just the outer design alone. Tali found these spartan's ship look more alien, so big and most of all, it mirrored a great power. But what concerned her the most is that their ship dont have a trace of eezo. She's excited, but deep inside her she's terrified.

"Commander, We're approaching the hanger" said joker

"Roger that...EDI, have everyone assembled. About time we got some answers to our questions" said shepard.

"As you wish shepard" replied EDI and the comm was cut. After sometime every crew member came to the hanger. Shepard then decided to speak.

"Team, as our little resque mission is over, now it's about time to see through what's really been happening here. These 4 strangers calling themselves spartans, we're gonna talk with them and get answers" said shepard. Everyone nodded in acknowledgement.

meanwhile in the dawn...

Chief, look. The normandy's coming" said linda. The team left that area for the normandy to land. After entering the hanger bay 03, the normandy turned faced its hanger towards the spartan.

"Chief, Are you gonna give answers to everything?" asked cortana

"Yes. And it's about time" said chief.

"But there are cerberus members in the team" said kelly seriously.

"I know. Dont worry, I'll not be specific into everything" said chief. The normandy's bay door opened and out came shepard and his whole team. They were staring at the sentinels flying here and there. The sentinels are controlled by cortana but still given base line programming to perform their tasks on their own. One sentinel major came near shepard's team and opened a mini scanner.

"What th-..! tensed tali pointing her gun towards it.

"Wait! They are just doing their tasks" said kelly.

"What are those?" asked mordin seemingly interested in it.

"They are sentinels, armed with advanced weaponry to eliminate, parasitic threats" said chief. Others thought, they meant, micro-organisms like bacteria and viruse, but chief meant the 'TRUE' parasite of their universe.

"Are they AI?" asked tali in doubt.

" 'SIGH'...No" said fred nodding his head in annoyance.

"Hmm...those are cool techs you got in your arsenal" said jacob taylor.

"Enough. Chief, it's high time you told us about yourself" said shepard getting to the point.

Miranda got her secret bionic recorder ready. Others were eagerly waiting for the spartans to talk. Tali on the hand was giving a glance at the spartans, their armors especially the chief. He was even more different among them. Chief wanted to talk but before he could do that, he wanted to ease another tension, the AI.

"Before i proceed, I would like to show you our 5th member, especially for our quarian friend here" said chief. Shepard, mordin, garrus, miranda knew what he meant by that. They kept silent to not freak tali out. Tali was puzzled with what chief said.

"Cortana" called out chief. Suddenly, from the nearby pedestal, a blue hologram girl appeared, but in a professional scientist suit. She did it to keep up the morale. Even chief and his friends were intrigued with that.

But that wasn't the same for the shepard's other crew members especially tali.

"Hello!" greeted cortana. Tali, just as everyone expected freaked out

"What is that thing? a VI or a-..."

"An AI" finished linda. She immediately raised her gun towards it.

"Are you crazy!? No one told me there's an AI in this ship!" yelled tali.

"Tali, This AI is not like the geth for you to fear" said shepard trying to comfort her.

"Every AI is the same. They always turn against you" yelled tali still pointing her gun. Chief then stepped forward and spoke.

"Listen ms. tali' zorah, Our AI is not like the geth your people created. You will know it once we reveal, who we are" said chief. After sometime, she hesitatingly lowered her guard.

"Ms. Tali, you dont have to fear me. My name's cortana and you can call me by that name" said cortana. Tali was really surprised deep inside her as the AI looked more alive and appeared more human in not just appearance but also the behaviour. A part of her instincts told her to trust that AI though afraid. Suddenly cortana spoke up.

"Chief, I'm reading 3 geth ships approaching our position". She brought a hologram of 3 geth destroyers.

"Bosh'tet! we're trapped" yelled tali. Everyone were tensed.

"Shepard, let's leave and deal with them" said miranda.

"No that would be a mistake" said kelly

"Cortana, can you take out those ships withour heavy laser turrets?" asked chief.

"That wont be a problem" said cortana bringing the turrets online. But before they could fire, the destroyers started firing at them.

"Shit, they are firing at this ship...Chief! lets get outta here" yelled shepard. The destroyers were firing their mass accelerator rounds continuously like rain.

"No need commander...Cortana, how are the shield's holding up?" asked chief.

"So far they just drained 5.1% of shields" said cortana which surprised everyone.

"That's impossible! No ship can withstand that much fire" said tali in shock

"Our's can...lets finish them off" said cortana. Everyone went near the hardlight barrier to have a clear view of what's happening. 3 destroyers were raining them down with their weapons. But what happened next totally made them dumbstrucked in awe. A thick intense laser beam of violet-white color from the ship's side turrets simply drilled a hole into one destroyer and shattered it to pieces. Soon millions of debris formed out of that. The remaining two destroyers tried to out-maneuver the giant ship, but to no avail. The turrets positioned towards it and fired two more lasers that made a clean shot into it blasting them to mini fragments.

"Holy hell! These spartans could be very much helpful in our run against the collectors" said garrus in shock and surprise. Then went back to their original place.

"Chief that was quite a show!" said jacob. Other simply stared at the spartans in terror. Miranda was happy to get the footage.

"Chief, those geth on the surface, they will leave soon with the data" said cortana

"What do you suggest?" asked chief.

"What data?" asked tali.

"The geth were seeking the same datas regarding the star"

"Why do they need it?" asked shepard.

"They are studying it so they could replicate the process. This eventually creates premature supernovas that can be used as weapon" said cortana which shocked everyone.

"No! It should not happen" yelled tali.

"How many geth are there?" asked fred

"I'm reading them for a 100 mile radius" said cortana.

"Whoa..that much? It's gonna be difficult to stop them" said shepard sadly.

"Chief, we can use the dis-integrator beam to burn the 200 mile perimeter, that's our only option" said cortana

"what is that?" asked tali

"That's our ships most powerful weapon" said kelly

"But wont it destroy the whole planet?" asked chief

"A very low output can do the damage we need." said cortana. Others were shocked to hear the ship's most powerful weapon can destroy a whole planet.

"Then do it" said chief

"Alright. Charging the beam' said cortana. The matter dis-integrator beam projector charged up in the ship bow. The lid coveirng the projector's outlet split opened in tapered manner. The bluish-white energy was charging to be fired. Everyone got to see it live. Then all of a sudden, a bright bluish-white beam projected at light speed and bombarded the surface only for 3 seconds. Immediately a big dome of plasma grew on the ground that expanded and burned everything on 200 mile perimeter.

"KEELAH!"

"FUCKING SHIT! yelled zaeed.

"By the goddess!" exclaimed samara. Others were simply silent over this feeling awkward and felt like watching a sci-fi horror. After mere seconds, all that was left of that 200 mile region was nothing but darkened ash and flame. There was absolute silence for quite sometime.

"Did any one make it?" asked chief.

"No. Just dust and echoes. All geth units in the region have been wiped out" said cortana.

Tali watched the destruction caused by these spartan's ship. The quarians were nearing extinction because of the geth. A fight with them mean suicide. But she began to get a flicker of hope after seeing what the spartans did.

"What if they could help my people?" thought tali frowned under the suit.

"Chief, We turians are known well for our military might. But this is not something we use to see everyday in the galaxy. One ship with a planet cracking power?" said garrus eyes widened.

"As the geth situation has been resolved, shall we move to explain who we are?" asked fred to which others nodded.

There was silence for sometime to bring back their whole attention to them.

"Chief?" called cortana with a nod to continue. Once again chief took a glance of his friends and started talking.

"Like we said, we are not from this galaxy or even this universe."

Tali was totally stunned with what chief said.

"Not from this universe!?..shepard?" asked tali in disbelief.

"That's what they said before...But chief. we need evidence to support your claims" said shepard.

"We'll show some videos regarding our history" said chief. Then he signalled cortana to do it. She then proceeded to open a big holo display in front of them.

"And one thing. We've been to citadel and explained ourselves to them. They confirmed our truth through an asari meld. So you dont have to think its forged" said linda to which others nodded, though the news of these spartans visit to the council was slightly disturbing to shepard and miranda. But miranda was worried for a different reason.

The videos played the history of UNSC starting from world war II. They showed how UNSC grew year by year, decade by decade, putting end to world conflicts, signing up treaties.

Shepard and his crew started to find this UNSC interesting. Everyone watched with eagerness.

Then videos of colonization of jupiter moons, luna, mars and the whole solar system by the 22nd century, The rise of civil war which caused significant backlash to UNSC. Colonizations of extra solar planets in other systems, Discovery of slipspace by 24th century by 2 scientists, Formation of unified earth government, conquering of 800 planets in orion arm, Rise of interplanetary civil war, commisioning of supersoldier program dubbed 'ORION', it's pros and cons. Then creation of spartan II program.

Then video proceeded to show spartan II augmentations, MJOLNIR armor. Then the end of insurruction war. The video paused.

"This is the story of UNSC and how it came to be" said kelly.

"So this UNSC has conquered 800 planets in milky way by using this 'slipspace'. It's truly a fascinating technology" said jacob.

"It has to be. It has no restrictions of EEZO based core. Now I see how you people managed to build ships this big" said tali truly fascinated with their feat.

"So the spartan II super soldiers the video showed, are you people from there?" asked thane.

"Yes. We are the last of spartan IIs" said fred. Shepard and his crew were astonished with their history.

"But it doesn't make sense. Your people spent billions for this program just to quell the civil war?" asked zaeed in doubt.

"No. Soon the spartans who were made to stop rebellion, became the first and last line of defence for the entire humanity" said cortana. Everyone were confused.

Then the video continued to show humanity's first contact with the alien collective group called the covenant. Soon everyone saw only horrors. The covenant used their ships to glass human planets. Shepard and his crew were shocked to see the fate of humanity and the power of the covenant. He thought that turian first contact was nothing compared to this.

Battle with the covenant on different worlds. Loss of lives in millions. They also saw the blue team fighting several wars. Everyone including shepard admired chief's leadership. Fall of reach, fall of noble team. Then everyone witnessed the tide turning war, battle of installation 04.

"Holy shit! Is that a ring near that planet?" asked kasumi in awe. Everyone watched a big ring structure floating nearby a planet.

"Yes, it's called 'Halo'. A 10,000 km diameter weapon built by the forerunners that can cause destruction on the galactic scale" replied kelly.

"WHAT? 10,000 kms? you're bull shiting me" said jack. Others were equally stunned. This very much reminded them of mass relays and citadel, but were nothing compared to that ring. And these forerunners sounded very much like the protheans.

"Why would someone built this?" asked thane.

"See the rest" replied cortana proceeded to play the video.

The video showed the fight on the ring's surface with the covenant which everyone felt fascinated to see having atmosphere like a planet. Then it showed the sleeping horrors of the eons, the flood parasite. Shepard and his crew was shocked to see how the flood parasite mutated both alive and dead. This is where they learn the rings purpose and why forerunners built it. Also they learned that there were 7 in total. Then the video showed last of halo -04 battle, then battle of earth, battle of halo -05, civil war in covenant, images of flood gravemind, battle of voi, battle of ark and finally battle of requiem, fighting a living forerunner and reunion on earth. With that the video stopped.

Everyone took their time to process everything they learnt so far. To say, Shepard respected these spartans, in particular this master chief. He was a legend in his own right who ended a 3 decade long war and saved the entire galaxy from the parasite despite losing many he called friends. Mordin respected the UNSC for they made much progress on their own. Tali was astonished with what she saw in their reality. It was spinning their head like a top. She was stunned with the forerunners level of engineering and technology. While this reality had only one AI problem, Their reality played with AI like toys which made tali feel ashamed. Miranda on the other hand was on high alert as careful planning must be made to have spartans side with cerberus. She thought illusive man will do what's best for business at the right place, at the right time.

"What can you tell about these forerunners? They sound much like the protheans in our galaxy" asked samara.

"Actually, forerunners were more ancient than your protheans. Forerunners are a highly technologically advanced race who came into existence 15 million years ago. They were both noble and aggressive. They became extinct a 100,000 years ago after firing the halo arrays."

"Why did they do that?" asked shepard curious.

"Flood parasite over ran the galaxy. It was assimilating the other sentient beings so fast that they lost every world in 1000 years. They decided that starving the flood to death is the only way to kill them. So they built halo rings to kill it's food, the other sentient lives. After activating, Everyone in the galaxy including forerunners died" replied cortana. This is where everyone settled in with the spartan's stories. Shepard and his crew were having their own thoughts and views about the spartans and UNSC. They had been through hell to claim their place. In that perpective, the humans in this galaxy are no different. Shepard walked around here and there from his place thinking about what they learned and started speaking.

"Chief, the humanity in your...universe had progressed so much in a ways we thought impossible. A lot of people in our place can learn many things from you people" said shepard

"Shepard's right. You see, citadel council is the overseer of this galaxy, but they failed to act when they should have at the most needed time. Because of their ignorance, humanity is suffering and before that, the quarians" said garrus. Tali gave a glance at garrus and then lowered her head front.

The spartans and cortana were truely disgusted with this council. Shepard and team were right about them. The spartans knew that the reason they were asked to share their technology with them, just to use it for their own selfish agendas. After all, they were sent from their universe only to help them. So they will do it anyway.

But the UNSC members admired shepard's persistence and his ability to rise against odds. Now they had one reason to help this galaxy, shepard. Even among the people like this council, there are people like shepard, The admiral anderson they met on the citadel. There are still those who trust him and fight besides him. The one good thing council did to shepard was to make him a spectre.

"Chief, You helped us with the geth and did a lot. But you haven't shown your faces" said shepard.

"Before that, we would like to have a private conversation with the commander and Ms. Tali' zorah" said chief. Everyone had their eyebrows raised in confusion.

"What?..That's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna leave our crew members with you unknowns" said miranda tensed.

"It's okay miranda. They are not enemies. Just leave the kodiak here for us and others board the normandy and wait outside this vessel" said shepard.

"But shep-...Ah!...fine" said miranda frustatingly after shepard gave gave a glare.

Everyone got inside the normandy and it slowly lifted off and got outside the dawn. the kodiak was left besides shepard and tali.

"So what do you want to talk to us chief?" asked tali.

Chief looked at his friends and then everyone proceeded to remove their helmets. First they got to see the faces of kelly, fred and linda. Then finally they saw the face of chief. They were shocked and terrified. His face had a look of a person in his thirties but ghostly pale and perfect cut with a short flat top brown hair. What terrified them was his bright yellow orange iris.

"Keelah! what are you!?" asked tali in fear taking a step back, thinking chief is not a human.

"Shit! Chief, you said you were humans. Your friends look human but your eyes say other wise. Even you are taller than them. Care to explain that part?" asked shepard trying to keep his head cool.

"That's the result of my augmentations. I was augmented more than my friends due to my...genetic abilities. But that's not the issue now. I wanted to talk to you both and tell you both our secrets" said chief.

"But..why us?" asked shepard in confusion.

"Because, we didn't want to risk our secrets to the cerberus people in your ship" said fred.

Actually tali and shepard positively acknowledged it. Even they were wary of cerberus after they had been through a lot while fighting the collectors.

"I understand chief. So what's this about" asked shepard. Chief looked at cortana and his friends and then let out a sigh.

"Commander, In our universe, in our milky way, we were investigating an artifact, a portal in actual. We dont know who built it, but whoever it is or was, They were technologically advanced to travel between different universes" said chief where cortana picked up.

"I'm looking on it. Actually, we didn't come here by accident like what other people think, we intentionally travelled here." said cortana

"What? Why would you willingly come to our...universe?" asked shepard in shock, awe, doubt and confusion showing all expressions at a time. Tali was wondering the same.

"Because we received a signal from this place through the portal. But the unbelievable part for you is that this signal or cryptic message whatever it is, was happening even during the time of the forerunners." said chief

"You mean you received signal from our universe for more than a 100,000 years?" asked tali

"Who sent the signal through the artifact? Is there any portal here similar to the one your universe has and someone found it to lure you to this place?" asked shepard.

"We've been trying to trace the signal, but unfortunately we lost track of it when we entered this reality" said kelly.

"But i've enough datas regarding that. If i'm right, there must be another portal here somewhere. Anyhow, if you can get in from a door, you need a same door to get out" said cortana. Shepard and tali understood what cortana said.

"But why would a signal be sent from this place?" asked tali getting to the point.

"And this is where our true purpose in this universe comes into picture. Before that...commander, 2 years back you fought a giant ship that attacked the citadel with the geth army, isn't it?" asked cortana.

"Yes..But how do you know that?" asked shepard with his eyes widened.

"We learnt everything about this galaxy from an information archive called the 'codex'. But, please answer the question" said cortana

"Yes. A rogue turian council spectre named saren brought the ship with geth army and attacked the citadel. After council made me a spectre, i finished him and the ship at the citadel. But like everyone assumes, the ship saren had is not some any other ship. It's actually a sentient AI ship called a 'Reaper'. I tried to explain it, but everyone's skeptical on that part and think's i'm hallucinating" said shepard frowned.

"And we are here for the same thing, the reapers" said linda.

"EXCUSE ME!?" asked tali loudly. Shepard was stunned with the spartans reply.

"We came to this universe because we heard this galaxy is undergoing a constant cycle of extinction every 50,000 years" said chief.

"But how did you know that and why you people dwell on that matter?" asked shepard in shock and confusion.

"Because, our forerunners had sensed this danger for 150,000 years in our universe from the very signal that lured us to this place, Which means 3 cycles of extinction" said cortana that confused them both.

"What kind of signal was that?" asked tali.

"It was neurological in nature. The signal gave our forerunners, a direct vision of the event. Only those minds that are well trained capable of sensing it" said cortana. This reminded shepard of the prothean beacon he encountered on eden prime which burned his brain with reaper visions, which also marked the beginning of his journey in to fighting the reapers.

"But aren't the forerunners extinct? How did you people find it out?" asked shepard.

"We got this information from an archive recovered from a forerunner planet" replied fred. B the time, chief felt something strange. Suddenly started to lose his own mind, felt a kind of emptiness.

"Chief, It's good to hear you people are here to help us against the reapers which is strange enough, but why would you do that? Out of what necessity?" asked shepard.

"It's because, We fore-runners believe in the mantle of responsibility, our sacrament, our belief that we are the guardians of all life"..."What!?" said chief snapping out of a trance like state unbelieving of what he said even when he said. All he saw then was confused and terrified faces. Shepard and tali were exchanging looks tensed with what chief said. The same goes for his friends and cortana. Even chief was confused what happened to him suddenly.

"Chief, what the hell was that?" asked cortana with her face serious. His fellow spartans came near him and talked.

"Chief! Why did you say something like that?" asked kelly

"Are you all right, chief" asked linda.

"Hmm hmm hmm...At last" came a voice inside chief's head. He suddenly turned his face like he found his surroundings odd.

"Chief, you all right? why are you acting weird?" asked shepard. Tali was only silent for the time being. After a pause, chief spoke.

"No...uh...Nothing. I need to rest. I'll be in the bridge if you need me"..."I'm sorry commander, if you'll excuse me" said chief and left the hanger putting back his helmet and headed to the bridge using the tram system in the ship.

Chief's friends, cortana and shepard, tali were confused as to what happened to chief.

"Cortana, will he be fine?" asked fred

"I dont know fred. Never seen him acting this weird in my life time. Something's troubling him" said cortana deeply worried about her care taker and a close friend.

"May be the geth fight had taken a toll on him" said tali

"No way. Chief had been in war for 30 years. War has never taken a toll on him. This is something else" said cortana.

"By the way, what is the mantle of responsibility he mentioned?" asked shepard

"The mantle is a forerunner's belief that it's their sworn duty to protect life at all cost" replied cortana. They assumed that these forerunners were like gods, but still mortals. But still they felt confused with what chief said all of a sudden. But shepard insisted not to dwell on that.

"And, I know it's not right at this time, but would like to ask you" said shepard

"What is it commander?" asked fred. Shepard took a breath and then spoke.

"We are hunting down a race called collectors and are one step from achieving that. But we will need all the help we can get, even the...unconventional ones" said shepard

"I know. Your admiral anderson in the citadel filled me in" ssaid cortana

'Then i'll ask you straight away. Will you people help us fight the collectors?" asked shepard. There was a pause. Cortana shared a brief with look the blue team members and then cortana spoke up.

"Commander, don't get me wrong, but you already have an impressive team with you. You won't need our help in fighting these collectors though i wont say the same for the reapers" said cortana. It's true that shepard dont need help to fight collectors. he already have a great team with him who would fight to the end. But shepard frowned a bit as he didn't expect this.

"Shepard, she's right. We already are a good team. We can take down the collectors without their help. They said they are willing to help fight against the reapers." said tali comforting shepard.

"Yeah. You're right. We can do this. But thanks cortana, for helping us against the reapers.' said shepard with a smile. Cortana smiled back.

"And check on the masterchief and convey my thanks to him" said shepard.

"Sure commander, and by the way one more thing. Soon we'll find out who and why the signal was sent and who and why someone created a portal to another universe. Then we can have our heads cleared" said cortana to which they nodded. Cortana then gave a special set of codes to shepard to help him contact the spartans on a very secured channel. He thanked her.

"Also Ms tali, After your collector mission is over, we have much to talk with your people. Come find us in this location when you are free" said cortana and gave coordinates to their base.

"Thanks. Though i'm wondering what you people have to talk with ours" said tali in excitement.

"And commander, regarding this secret about us and our base..." said cortana to which shepard continued with a smile.

"Don't worry. Not even death can pull my tongue" said shepard followed by a nod of assurance from tali.

"Thanks commander" said kelly

"No, thank you spartans. It's been my pleasure and honor to meet you people. Farewell" said shepard.

"Keelah' sa lai" said tali to which the four nodded. Then shepard and tali entered the kodiak and flew it to the normandy. The hardlight barrier was raised and the hanger door was closed. The huragoks sent reports on ship's status which was read by cortana.

"Now we have something to tend to" said cortana crossing her arms.

"Yes. Let's get to the bridge" said linda and everyone went to the bridge to see what's troubling their friend.

In Normandy SR 2...

The kodiak entered the hanger and the door was closed. Shepard and tali came to see miranda was waiting for them a long time. She chuckled at shepard and talked.

"Took your time! What did you and the spartans talked?" asked miranda keeping her hands in her hips.

"Sorry miranda, that's classified" said shepard with a smirk.

"And by the way tali, this ship too has an AI, named EDI" said shepard. Tali suddenly stopped walking and stared at shepard.

"Shepard, you really trust cerberus?" asked tali in a trembling voice.

"For now, Yes" said shepard. She nodded simply in dissappointment.

"Huh!...Talkin about classified, uh!" said miranda raising her eyebrow.

"I'm getting to my quarters. If any one need me, give me a call" said shepard and went. They three entered the elevator. Shepard went to his quarters. Tali went to engineering room.

Miranda went to the CIC and from there to the briefing room. The communicator shifted and an orange hologram scanned her. Then in front of her, A man with blue bionic eyes came in a professional suit with a cigar and a glass of expensive wine.

"Sir" saluted lawson

"Good news miranda?" asked the illusive man

"I have the complete recording sir"

"Then send everything to me" said the illusive man taking a sip. Miranda opened her omni-tool to send all the files. Illusive man received a beep sound in his terminal which he looked upon.

"Isn't it about time sir?" asked miranda

"It is ms. lawson. Soon we'll meet them" said the illusive man giving a villainous smile.

A/N: Soon the spartans will meet the cerberus and the quarian flotilla in the future. Also in the meantime, chief had run into a new problem. How his friends help him up will be dealt in the forth coming chapters. There are also unexpected surprises waiting for the spartans and cortana.