Wow, just a few days since I first posted this story and it already has been view, reviewed, favorite, and follow by a good deal. My thanks to all who made that possible.

And to those who are wondering exactly how does Slipspace allow one to travel to a different universe, well Slipspace is known to be widely unknown and so far only the Forerunners have been able to use it for something other than a means of travel. Slipspace is also known to send things and people back in time! (Search up Nicole-458 if you wish to see if its true or not) Slipspace allowing something to travel into another universe isn't too far off if you think about it.

Also there will be new Prometheans in this story but they won't be appearing until later.

Disclaimer: Refer to the first chapter.

Chapter Two: First Contact

Months Later

Ultimus walked the streets of the city he called Civitatem Grandem or "Great City" in latin. The city was built on the planet he landed on but rather tearing away acres of forest, he had the city built on a land where the ground was far too hard for plants to grow. Once the first buildings were erected, Ultimus built a terraformer to help regulate the seasons so that the land would be more fertile. So far, after a few rainy seasons, plants had began to grow outside the city.

The city itself had several skyscrapers already made and more on the way along with factories for food, materials, and other necessaries being built now with the help of the Sentinels. The Huragok seem to greatly enjoy the presence of life and often wander outside the city with, of course, Sentinels protecting them. Prometheans also walked the streets or took up positions on the rooftops to make sure that if something attacks, they would be able to deal with it quickly.

However despite the look, the city was still... dead to the young Forerunner. The city was built merely to hold back the feeling of loneliness but it seemed that the sight of an empty city only increased it. Several Sentinels were already sent deeper into space to search for sentient life but Eternal Guardian was stubborn to make sure that he stays here to be safe. At least until the Commander had taken countermearsures to ensure his safely from any unknown threats.

Unfortunately threats can come to you sometimes.

In Space

"Damn it!" Shayera cursed as her ship was once again hit by the Gordanians following her. Her mission to a planet called Earth was a important one to her leaders as they didn't wish for the inhabitants to die or be inslave by the hands of the Gordanians thus she had to determined if the defenses they had were strong enough. However it seemed that that luck wasn't on her side as she had the misfortune to run into a Gordanian warship.

They have been chasing her for days now and would turn her into a slave if they caught her or worse, torture her for information and then kill her.

Shayera saw that her engines wouldn't hold out much longer and knew that she had to crash land somewhere. "Computer find me a planet that I can crashland on," Another explosion shook the small ship, nearly making her fall out of her seat. "NOW!"

The computer then pulled up a planet with a single city on it. Shayera cursed, not wanting to get other living beings involved in this but she had no choice and she directed her ship to crashland on the planet.

Civitatem Grandem

"You called me Endless Knownledge?" Ultimus asked as he walked into what he consider the HQ of the city. Thousands of screens showed various locations on the planet, and in space, with the AI in the middle of it taking up all the information. The AI enlarge one screen to take up three others and showed what appears to be a meteorite hitting one of the many plains rather hard. However the camera zoomed in and it turns out that the meteorite was actually a ship! And out came a female humanoid with large wings on her back and a mace in her hands before she flew off. "It appears we have a visitor Ultimus."

Ultimus was so caught in the discovery of sentinent life that he didn't notice Eternal Guardian enter the chamber until the Commander spoke, "And we have more on the way." He brought up a screen that showed a warship approaching the planet with several smaller ships from it already heading toward the surface.

The Commander turned his attention to the young Forerunner and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Come Ultimus we must get you somewhere safe." To the Promethean's surprise, he shook off the hand on his shoulder.

"No Eternal, did you see that female? She is being hunted and no doubt by whatever is heading our way." He saw through the screen that the female was heading toward the forest. "I will go after the female. Can you deal with the invaders Eternal?" The Commander nodded and teleported away to prepare a strike team. "Endless Knowledge, direct the Sentinels to deal with the warship and make sure they do not get away or call for reinforcements."

The AI nodded her head as she began to take over various Sentinels and sent them into space while Ultimus headed out to find the female.

With Shayera

The Lieutenant rested against a tree, trying to numb out the pain from her chest. The impact from the crash was strong enough to break at least one of her ribs and bruise the others. The forest she managed to fly in was thick enough to provide some form of cover and the animals seem to keep their distance from her.

HISSSS

Shayera turned toward the hiss and paled for what greeted her. A huge snake, about 15 feet long and thick as a tree trunk, was heading her way. The scales were stripped orange and black and looked hard enough to protect it and when it opened it's mouth, she saw fangs about twice as long and thick as her arms.

The snake hissed again and attacked her but Shayera managed to fly up to avoid it. The tree, however, broke in half from the strength of the snake and it reared it's head up and stuck again but she managed to hit it with her mace right in the side of the head. In return though, the snake used it's body as a club and hit from the air, knock her painfully into the ground.

She tried to get up but Shayera could feel that another one of her ribs were broken and the one that was broken before was stabbing something within her. The snake, sensing that it's prey was finished, attacked one more and Shayera closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come and go.

What she didn't expect was to hear a loud BANG! and something hitting the ground. Opening her eyes, she was surprise to see a armored figure holding what appears to be a shotgun and the snake disintergrating from whatever the figure shot it with.

"Are you alright?" The figure asked as he, judging by the voice, turned to her. She attempted to say something but coughed up blood instead. "I see two broken ribs and one of them is stabbing your lungs. We need to get you medical attention."

"G-godanians are *cough* coming." She managed to say and was shocked and surprise to hear the figure laugh. "Don't worry, I think they're being handle right now. But for now, let me help you." The figure pressed something on his forearm and the two disappeared.

Civitatem Grandem

"Tear this city inside out and find that Thanagarian. She must be carrying vauable information if she's traveling alone." The squad leader of the ground team Squad One, each one holding a energy weapon, ordered once they walked into the city with eight soldiers. The city itself was impressive and would make a nice outpost for their cause but for now they had orders to follow.

They walked the empty streets and tore or shot anything that could hide their target. The leader then called in to the other squads with his comms. "All squads report in. Have you found the Thanagarian?"

"This is Squad Three. No but we found the ship and some blood so she must be injured."

"Good that makes her easier to capture then." The leader said as he smiled evilly. "Spread out Squad Three and find her. If she's hurt then she couldn't have gotten too far."

"Yes Sir... Wait a minute, did you see that? Sir I think we encounter som- BUZZ." The leader was caught off guard by the sudden cut and said, "Squad Three? Squad Three what has happened? What did you encounter?"

Another buzz in his comms. and from a different squad and this time he could hear the sounds of a battle. "Sir this is Squad Five! We've encounter unknown enemy forces and they're tearing us apart!"

The leader ordered his squad to halt, unaware of several beings watching them. "Squad Five, what kind of enemy have you encountered?"

"I don't know, there killing us from a distance but- AHH! BUZZ!" The leader frowned at this and tried calling the other squads only to hear nothing but static.

The Gordanian turned to his men of Squad One as they looked at him nervously. "Okay prepare for a possible attack. It appears that the inhabitants of this planet are putting up a fight."

"Sir what do you think they look like?" One of them asked and he responded with, "We're find out when they're dead at our feet. Lets go!" The leader only gotten five feet when he was suddenly pounced on. The last thing the leader saw was a glowing blue skull before a blade rammed into his face.

The squad stared in shock and horror as the... thing stood up over the corpse of their ground leader, taking out it's blood covered blade with a sickening thud. It was larger than them and had odd glowing spikes on it's back along with facial markings on it's face. They recovered and shot at it with their energy weapons only for it to teleport.

"W-where'd it go?!" One of them asked and got his answer when the thing reappeared behind him and drove the blade into his back and out his chest before lifting him up with no effort and tossing him into another Gordanian. The thing then fired what appears to be a highly powerful shotgun if the fact that it blew two soldiers off their feet along with disintegrating them as they flew was any indication. One soldier attempted to hit it but got a powerful whack to the skull with enough force to collapse it. Two Gordanian flew up to attack from a distance only to be jumped on by two more things, similar to the first one but had angular spikes instead.

The two new fighters quickly fired a single shot into the two Gordanians' heads before jumping off as the bodies hit the ground, landing near the first one. The only surviving Gordanian, the one who was hit by the body, stared in fear at the three things that easily slaughtered his squad. He attempted to fly off but was shot through his head, causing it and his body to disintegrate completely before he hit the ground.

The same fate was shared by all the other Gordanians that landed on the planet and was happening to the ones in space as well.

In space

"What are those things!?" The Captain of the warship yelled/asked as more and more of their fighters were destroyed before his eyes. These things just flew off from the planet and attacked them and while the smaller ones were easily to destroy, the larger ones were tearing through his fighters like nothing with their odd pulse like beam. Even when they managed to destroy one, two more would take it's place and they quickly running out of fighters.

"Captain!" A soldier appeared on the main screen with a battle raging behind him and fear in his eyes. "Those things have managed to enter the ship and are slaughtering everyone! We can't hold them back much-" The soldier didn't see one of those things behind him and was shot for his carelessness, cutting the transmission as well.

Then the crew of the bridge heard the sounds of metal being cut and turned to the doors just in time to see it burst open with those things flying through. Most of the crew was killed by the beams while the others opened fired. Their energy weapons were absorbed by the shields these things had but some focused fire on one and managed to destroy them by doing so, however, they were gravely outnumbered. The captain himself just managed to destroy several without any weapon when a beam stuck him in the chest.

The captain fell against the console and saw that his crew had fallen as well and attempted to get a transmission to his leaders only for no less than three Super Sentinels to blast him with their beams. In minutes, the entire ship was stripped of anything useful and destroyed by the Enforcers along with any survivors hunted down and killed.

With Shayera

Shayera felt a bright light shone down on her and slowly opened her eyes. She then found herself in what appears to be a medical room and wearing a white gown with her clothes and weapon on a nearby table. Getting dressed, she was surprise to feel that her ribs were already healed. "How long have I've been out?"

"About two days." The voice made her jump and see turn to the door to see a young boy standing there with some... thing behind him. The boy had soft brown hair, pale skin, a flat nose and blue eyes with a black sclera wearing a plain white shirt and pants. The thing behind him wasn't nearly as harmless looking if the blade for one arm was anything to go by.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt you." The boy looked at the thing behind him and it seemed to understand the hidden meaning as it didn't walk into the room with him. "Now may I ask for your name?" She hesitated at first but then said, "Shayera Hol of Thanagarian Empire."

"Interesting," She jumped as a glowing blue woman appeared out of nowhere. "Are you born with those wings or do they only appear as you mature?"

The boy sighed. "Endless Knowledge, please. You can learn about her later but allow for me to talk to her." The woman pouted and disappeared while the boy introduced himself.

"My name is Ultimus and welcome to Civitatem Grandem. Now tell me," He smiled at her with so much innocent that it was hard to believe that the thing outside took orders from him. "Would you like a tour?"

Later

"And this is the city's main plaza." The plaza was large with tall trees and a large fountain in the middle of it. Shayera stared at the massive city and had to ask. "Ultimus isn't there anyone else here besides us?"

The boy shook his head as he sat near the fountain. "Unfortunately no. Besides the Huragok, I'm the only living thing in this city and probably will be for a while."

"Why's that?" Shayera asked while Ultimus sighed. "Eternal Guardian is really paranoid about my safety and won't allow me to leave this planet until it can be sure I'll won't be in danger while in space."

'Eternal Guardian? What a strange name but then again...' She looked at the rooftops and spotted several more of those things watching them. "Ultimus I hope you don't mind me asking but what are those things? He followed her gaze and said.

"The Prometheans. They're my bodyguards to say the least and they get rid of the Gordanians that followed you." Shayera nodded, remembering that Ultimus told her that the Gordanians were already taken care of and looking at those Prometheans, it wasn't a hard thing to believe. It was a bit harder to believe that he was the only who saved her when she asked about the armored individual from the forest.

Then she remembered her mission to Earth. "Sorry but I have to leave. I have a mission to carry out." The boy nodded and stood up. "I thought so and I already had your ship repaired and restock with supplies. However I want you to take this," He pulled out a small circluar device with an odd symbol on it. "It's a transmitter if your wondering and if your in trouble, just press the button."

Shayera took and stared at the device for a second before asking, "Why would you give this to me when you just met me?" The boy shrugged. "Well I guess its because your the first living sentinent person I've met since I got here." She was tempted to ask what did he mean when he just got here when her ship suddenly landed near them and several Sentinels detached themselves from it, appently being the ones who brought it.

Endless Knowledge then appeared next to them. "Your ship is ready to leave Miss. Shayera and I do hope you enjoy your stay here."

Ultimus smiled and she couldn't help but return it. "I also hope that you return for a visit in the future." Shayera gave a slight laugh. "I'll try to do so and thank you for everything." The Thanagarian waved goodbye and boarded her ship while Ultimus waved goodbye to her as she took off.

'So there really is sentinent life out there. I wonder what else we'll encounter.' Ultimus thought as he watched the ship disappear into the sky.

With Eternal Guardian

The Commander stared at the information he gathered from the Gordanian warship with the help of the Sentinels. It appears that those beings are part of a much large empire that enjoyed war and death along with slavery. They have brought the end of many worlds and will probably try to do so to this world as well.

'No. I shall prevent that, but how?' The Commander then brought up several design seeds, all brought with them when they left their home. While some were simply buildings and factories, others were warships and weapons but only one caught his interest at the moment.

The Composer

Look like things are beginning to heat up! Yes that is Shayera from Justice League and yes her meeting with Ultimus will cause some changes but other than that I won't be saying anything else. Another thing is how the Gordanians were so easily killed in this chapter well they faced the one thing any military would fear to face. The unknown.

In the military, fighting an unknown force is far more terrifying than fighting an enemy your already so used to because you have no idea what to expect. The enemy could be capable of anything as far you know and even then how are you suppose to kill them if you don't know exactly what they are.

As for the snake, think Anaconda(movie) but with fangs of a King Cobra.

Okay until next time, See yah!