Hi sorry for the delay, something extremely personnel has been going around my home but any way
I am amazed by the amount of views this is a very new story and so is the profile, and to see so many views, it's beautiful it brings a tear to my eye
I have taken the liberty to re correct my mistake from the first chapter
If you were wondering why it was poorly made then I shall tell you
To make long story short, very bumpy bus ride and if you thinking why it was rushed well I had low battery life
And I know that after halo 4 the UNSC has new ships but I don't like the look of them so I stuck with the ships that we love
So I want to say sorry, I hope chapter 2 is a good sorry letter enjoy
LOCATION: ALLIANCES EARTH, AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY SIDE OF QUEENSLAND
We see a corn field with a house, barn, silo and windmill. There is no one home by the looks of it, cows and chickens run about minding their own business.
We see a beautiful city in the distances with great skyscrapers reaching the clouds, this city is bussing with people from all over earth and other human colonies.
It would be even more beautiful to see the birds chirping and men and women moving on with their lives heading to jobs interviews, picking up their children, getting a haircut and other stuff.
You could imagen the peace they are enjoying, mindful of everything in the galaxy, but mind-full of the day they live.
We can see how happy anyone would be here.
However this is not the case.
Instead of the daily lives of the well-known citizen we only hear screams and panicked talking we hear sirens of air raids going off, we see military dropships and fighters in the skies flying to and from, in the streets the men and women with their children are running and being escorted to Evac sites by polices and military personal.
You think to yourself how a peaceful city filled with many happy citizen are being forced to leave.
Your answer is in the skies, and as you look up, you feel dread and fear building up, your breath and hart sound faster form anxiety of the sight before you
In the sky you see burning wreckage, millions of them, you think they are your doom, till you see they are nothing more than the corpse of the enemy.
LOCATION: ALLIANCES EARTH, SPACE
A MAC round just passed by and penetrated a reaper Sovereign class, the shell exits it victims body and crashes into a vanguard class and shreds it entire legs, both are drifting dying till the mass effect cores explode.
A swarm of archer missiles hammer a squad of reaper fighters leaving magnificent explosions in its wake, a long sword bomber with two seraphs fly by, the seraphs fire hot blue plasma at incoming oculus looking reaper fighters destroying them only taking minimal damage to their shields, they fly straight for a while till breaking off left and right letting the long sword flys through some wreckage of an alliances destroyer that has been sliced in half, as it opened the bomb bay doors, it released a Shiva nuke missile. The missile passed many obstacles from derbies to fast moving ships, but it hit its target, a reaper omen class.
The explosion was very bright and all around it in a 5km radius would be destroyed, any other reaper ships it sizes would be crippled or off course due to the nuke that went off.
A Pairs frigate flies by firing off two plasma torpedos towards a reaper sovereign, the cannons on its portside fire into many reaper fighters, it straightens up facing a vanguard and fires off its MAC round, it struck true causing the ship to roll on its side and hit another in the process and explode in a fiery death taking the other ship with it.
The ship fly's on till a red lances of energy impacts it, the shields hold, the reaper attacking, a sovereign is then met by a blue plasma torpedo from a sanghele battle cruiser, it fires off many more torpedos to space and was met with more kills and lights in the void
The infinity is with the shadow of intent protecting a group of alliances frigates from getting hit by a reapers red lance of death, the shadow sends back the blue plasma version of it to them, gutting all like a fish
INFINITY'S BRIDGE
"Iron fist is retreating from low shields and is taking cover behind swords of light"
"Shiva payload delivery accomplished the flank is secured"
"Orbital stations have overheated on coils cruisers moving to assist"
"Alliances dreadnought Kian is taking heavy damage judge and jury are moving to escort to mobile repair station"
"Planetary evacuation 83% complete they need flight paths out of combat zones, moving trident, hellfire and repent to cover"
"Alliances destroyer winter wolf just rammed a sovereign to save kraken, search and rescue is under way"
These where the reports going on the bridge of the infinity, they had been engaged for the past hour and were being hard pressed, it was no dought that battle group omega were winning, as they had the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th shot till the reapers were in range, the battle was very fierce, they were outnumbered 8 to 35, there are just so many.
Reaper ships that were dying or dead would just be replaced coming to reinforce their losses, the alliances was getting slaughtered, without one or two ships from omega to assist them in taking out a single reaper ship would just be annihilated, the odds were turning to slowly.
the alliances ship crews having realised to couldn't scratch the reaper kinetic barriers, they began to preform acts of valour and bravery, when a one of the ships of omega would get focused or targeted, the alliances ships no matter what sizes or condition it was in, would move into the firing lane or kamikazes the reapers every move just to keep them alive as they were the only ones dwindling the tide ever slowly.
"Admiral Lasky, priority transmission from Admiral Hackket" Roland responded
"Put him through on my terminal" as he walked over he felt a tremor of the series 8 SMACs fire from the infinity and from one station he heard a 'direct hit' he smirked to that, they were outnumbered, alone, possibly no back up, but they were not outgunned this time, they would hold and continue cycle chargers from time to time, but he wondered how long they could keep it up, he also wondered that these reapers in all there age and wisdom would see that to continually charging to their deaths was a poor strategy, in this fight, quality was very much above quantity
As he reached his terminal the blue screen gave way to a static face of the good admiral
"Admiral what is it that you need"
"Admiral lasky, I just got word that the evacuations is complete and they need a safe path out, they will be heading to a secretive colony that has not been put on the galaxy map yet and I believe that they will be safe there, but we need to clear the Charon relay to get them out but the reapers are using it to bring in their forces"
"I don't like the idea of leaving earth with half the protection it has, much less leaving it to try and take your relay of where they are pouring out of, it much of a risk admiral, we would be wasting lives than saving them"
"I understand that, but we cannot hope that they will break off…" the alliance admiral didn't get time to finish his words as Roland interrupted him
"Sir the enemy is pulling back from all sectors" Roland
And right he was, the holo map showed all red dots pulling out of the combat zone, but they were not out of range as many were blinking off the map as they retreated
"Roland send an ONI prowler, and tell them to report the movements of when those thing are coming back for round 2" lasky ordered he then returned his attention to the Hackket
"We'll move when all units are refreshed with supplies and get wounded sorted, until then we should plan our move, with whatever time we have"
"Very well lasky, I suggest a commanders debrief at 0745 hours, Hackket out"
The transmission ended and lasky returned to the board looking at the reports from various section on his ship and from his battle group, he was thankful that no ships were lost, but a lot fighters and bombers were lost, but with the overall outcome of the battle, he was happy to know that all upgrades to the UNSC arsenal was meeting over expected combat results.
But he still needed to be cautious, the enemy may have retreated, but he was still outnumbered hopelessly, he couldn't count on reinforcement anytime soon, he had a lot to think about, the ships and men under his command were irreplaceable, every decision from now onwards would have consequences, one tiny small wrong call would mean losing everything, the burden was weighing down heavily on his shoulders, even if admiral Cole and vadameir thel could help share the burden, he was the one responsible for being in charge of all of them, he needed a drink
UNSC EARTH
AFRICA, UNSC ARK COUNTROLL
Admiral Terence lord hood was watching the engineers and scientist setting up the Nav buoy for deployment so they could launch it through the portal from the ark, it was a long process, and first they had to find the infinity's forerunner signature due to its engines being forerunner in origin, it was difficult task even with years of almost understanding forerunner tech and knowing what to look for there was trouble actually locking on the infinity, the second task was simply, preparing a Nav buoy so it could act as a beacon for the arks portal and as a message for the infinity crew to state what they were going to do, the message was simply stating that they would have 4 hours to place the beacon in space or they would have an recovery fleets worth of a combination of human and sanghelie forces spawning inside their ship. The third task was hopping that it worked,
"Final preparation complete, beginning transport to launch pad"
The Nav buoy moved towards it launch area where fuel lines were detached and men and women working on it walked away.
"Activating the ark, locking on to infinity's signal"
"Signal confirmed and locked, opening portal"
At a massive crater a flat metal surfaces flashed blue pules along the surface, then the entire object shifted, huge arms of metal forks rose from the ground pulsing blue energy's came from it, in the middle, circular platforms were descending and casting out massive blue beam to the skies stopping a couple of kilometres from the ark, it morphed into a small blue ball with a dark center swirling and slowly growing bigger, the arms of the ark were now fully open and then sending faint blue energy's to the slip-space portal that was now at its full size and the energy beam from the center stopped, the ark was now ready for transport
"The ark is ready for transport, launch is a go"
"Roger that beginning count down. Launch in 30"
Lord Hood was watching the buoy from the control room, he was putting his entire hope in that one lone probe, he didn't want to be disappointed, he didn't want failure, and he most certainly didn't want to lose humanity's savour, the battle group nor the sanghelie representative to humanity, but if it were to succeed then history would be made today.
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, lift off"
The rockets attached to the buoy ignited and the fire coming from them pushed the entire frame to the dark swirling portal known as slip-space, as the buoy entered the portal, the scientist monitoring where it was going squawked in surprise
"This is unbelievable, it is nearly impossible, admiral you should see this"
Terrence made his way down to the station walking by over men and women terminals in the control room till he finished at the monitor
"What have you got that will make me happy"
"Well sir as we been monitoring the buoy so we may know where it may be going, and to say the least we are excited to say, that we are positive that the buoy is heading to another galaxy"
The control room was deathly silent after the comment made by the man at the monitor, only the sounds of beeps from everyone stations were filling the silence
"Are you sure" hood responded, he didn't want to think this was not possibly
"Sir, I am not joking, and I am absolutely sure that battle group omega is in this galaxy" Terrence smirked and overjoyed inside but would not show it, he stood straight and turned to address the room filled with the brightest minds in the UNSC
"Ladies and gentlemen, congratulation, you have made history of being the first to find battle group omega and discovering that the ark is capable of galactic travel, you all shall be remembered as the saviours of all hands to that group, but now's that the time to celebrate, we found them, but now we need to reel them in, we need to begin construction on two way slip-space portal, you think you all are up for the challenge"
Hood looked around to the crowed in front of him, he could see that they were looking at him with eyes of determination, when people got that look, he knew they would stop at nothing to complete this job
One scientist stood up and faced hood
"Sir I believe we can do this, we have to do this"
Then another stood with him
"He speaks for me as well, we will get them back"
"I shall as well help"
"They can't do it alone"
Soon the whole room was in on it, each motivated by the other to get the challenge done and completed, he knew they could do it, he believed they could.
"Alright, good answer, in the next 5 hours I will have a fleet comprised of a long term supply fleet and assault fleet with combination of UNSC and sanghelie forces, be ready for them to go through the ark, dismissed."
As all man and women departed, moving to prepare the project they had taken on hood went to HIGHCOM to assemble as many ships, men, women, anyone willing to be sent to another galaxy to recover the infinity and her fleet, he was going to be extremely busy.
ALLAINCE EARTH
UNSC INFINITYS ENGEERNERING
In the infinity's engine room many workers were moving about checking core temperatures adjusting intake and outlet of power to the ship managing the most complex machinery on the ship.
In the center of the room a blue swirling bubble of energy was being formed and many saw this happening
"What the hell is that forming there" one engineer spoke out
"I don't know but it fluctuating energy's similar to a…shit, IT'S A SLIP-SPACE RUPTURE" the women yelled out to the crowed, they all began moving out of the area of the portal that was forming
"get doctor glassmen and security on the double and tell admiral lasky"
One engineer ran to a com on the wall.
"Attention all security around engineering please head to the engine room now, doctor glassmen please make your way to the engine room immediately"
INFINITY BRIDGE
On the bridge all was quiet, but the air was tense, it had only been an hour since the reaper attempted invasion and all were focusing on their sensors for the slightest movement in reaper activity
Lasky alone with Admiral Cole and thel were around the holo table setting up a trap for the killer robots
"If we scatter the debris around these areas then we can hide Shiva and havocs among them, and when they get too close to the defence line. We blow the nukes taking out hopeful more than half of their forces." Lasky finished explaining the trap plan for their defences of the alliance earth, thel was about to respond when Roland popped up on the table
"Roland were in the middle of something here" lasky said
"Sorry sir but there a situation developing in the engine room, doctor glassmen is on the line"
"Fine, put him through"
Roland blinked away showing a screen of the doctor with scruffy blonde hair and glasses and a science coat on
"Doctor is something the matter"
"well, there's a slip-space portal opening down here" there was then a terring sound and a crash and the doctor jumped a little and snapping his head back to see what happened, he then looked back to the screen
"There is now a UNSC Nav buoy in the engine room now"
Lasky, Cole and thel looked to each other slightly till Cole spoke
"Doctor bring it to hanger bay 54 we will be there shortly"
"Right, I'll do that, uh be there in couple of minutes" the feed then ended and the deflector leaders looked to another
"It would seem that our people are looking for us" lasky said
"So it seem" thel nodded the three leaders made their way to the hanger bay, wondering what the buoy itself held
HANGER BAY 54
Doctor Glassmen along with some marines and other scientist where examining the buoy, Cole, lasky and thel were nearing the buoy, the doctor noticed them and met them halfway
"I have goods news the buoy is a message and beacon from the UNSC, they now where we are, but I reckon you would want to hear it for yourself to understand the situation more"
"I think we will do just that doctor" lasky responded to the over excited man, they reached the buoy and found the terminal on it and played whatever message it had to say
[This is a message to UNSC battle group omega, I hope this makes its way to admiral's lasky, Cole and arbiter vadameir thel. We believe we can lock on to the infinity's forerunner engines and send in additional forces however we decided just to send this buoy, for we believe that it could just spawn in your engine room, if this is the case, we have modified this buoy to act as a beacon to lock on to as a jump point, as you listen to this message by the time we've sent this, you have 5 hours until you will receive a supply fleet and assault fleet, also we are beginning construction on slip-space gateway so you can jump back to us, it will take some time, but once we have established the exact date it will be complete, we will send more supply's once every 5 weeks on the beacon, stay safe and I pray that this message reaches you]
Over a billion thoughts and scenarios were going through laskys head, many of them pointing the happiness of being found and aided, to know they will have a way back, to know that he could count on the UNSC for not giving up on them, however there were many cases where some things would be hard to explain, examples like the System Alliances and the fact they were swept into an intergalactic war now, he didn't know if he would be reprimanded or demoted or maybe a pat on the back saying it wasn't his fault that they were fired upon by gigantic killer robot spaceships that have Grimm's last name.
There were many other valid points in his mind but many would be a waste of time explaining, before he could delve too much into his mind, on a pedestal near him the ships AI Roland popped up.
"Sirs, I got bad news" he said
Lasky turned to address him
"Well we have heard the good news there was bound to be bad news, let hear it"
Admiral Cole and thel turned to meet the programme and were ready to hear the bad news
"The ONI prowler we sent has reported that the reapers are gathering their forces and they believe they will attack with more forces than the first wave, they believe we have less than 1 ½ hours to prepare for them" the situation seemed bleak and hopeless for them but they had a good plan and reinforcements were coming
"Doctor, how long has it been since the slip-space rupture appeared in the engine deck" thel asked the man
"It's been about hour and ten minutes" he responded
"Then we know what must be done. when the reapers are in visual range we will, no we must hold for 3 ½ hours till reinforcements arrive, we will have more firepower from the ships, the supply's to restock our munitions, fresh troops to help with ground assaults, we need to place the buoy in an protected area" Cole, lasky agreed with what thel had to say, they had the support of the UNSC and sanghelie coming to support them, they just needed to hold back the swarm until they came
"Then I suggest we begin our plan, you two should get back to your ships and tell all the other captains of the plan, we don't have much time"
The three leaders of the battle group nodded and parted ways head back to their respected command ships, tell all of the plan to send the reapers to a radioactive hell
SOMEWHERE IN THE GALAXY
CERBERUS STATION
In a fairly large room with a view of a blue red looking sun there was a desk and chair in the darkness of the room, someone was puffing a cigare as there was a red glow in the darkness, he blew the smoke out into the air and then the figure taped a few buttons on his chair, he swung around to address the person materialising on a hologram
It projected a man of chines decent, he had black Armor and a sword attached to his back, he had some futuristic looking glasses and hair was tired in a single pony tail
"Operative Lang how goes your mission" the man in the chair said puffing out more smoke from his cigar
"Infiltration units are set and ready on the citadel, the data transfer from the councils computers are going through uninterrupted, though there are some whispers that the reapers have begun their invasion of serval planets but many are calling them fools"
"Hmm, those whisperers are right, many colonies from all over the galaxy have been attacked, I'm disappointed that the Barterians couldn't thin there numbers but it doesn't matter, that race was destined to fall, well part from that proceed with the next phase that will be all for now,"
He shut down the communication with his operative and turned to face the sun in the void, he was mussing about till a report came up from another operative under the label of important
Huffing some more smoke into the room he activated the message and saw something he was surprised to see
Tapping on another terminal he called his second best agent
"Miss Lawson, I have a job for you"
CHAPTER 2 COMPLETE CHAPTER 3 IN PROGRESS