A/N; Wow, just wow, the feed back for this was incredible, i haven't seen anything negative in the reviews and i just had to get this chapter up for you guys. Enjoy!
Elysium-2176
Lieutenant John Shepard was having one of the worst days in his life, almost as bad as the raid on Mindoir when he was sixteen. Pirates and Slavers had come to Elysium in force with the single goal of wiping out the human presence in the system, this would cause many people to fall back out of the Verge, leaving it open for Batarian colonisation. At least that's what John thought the raid was about, he wouldn't know for certain until afterwards, if he survived that long.
Pirate forces had just broken through the colonies line of defence, he was the only person near enough to seal the gap, but he doubted his ability to hold off the enemy single handily. He set up traps and managed to kill of a dozen squads of Batarian forces that tried to break through only to be torn apart by his trusty sniper rifle or one of the ingenious traps he planted.
After several hours by himself with no support he was beginning to tire, they were sending in more and more troops at a time, trying to flush him out and mow him down. On a deserted street using the remains of a building wall as cover was where he made his stand, he had planted a dozen fougasses between him and the approaching batarian battalion; it would do little but slow them down.
He aimed for anyone that looked like a leader, without their leader the troops would be much less effective. Taking them out one by one and then a few dozen here and there from the fougasses cut their number down by a fraction, there were simply too many of them and they would trample over his position within a few minutes, rounds from Batarian rifles hit the dirt and debris all around him, throwing up dirt and dust. That was when he heard it, it was quite at first but steadily grew louder and louder, an engine, not one he recognised. Whatever it was, it was getting close.
The machine flew overhead and fired some sort of weapons that turned the rest of the battalion into ash; some however survived and were running towards him in blind panic. He heard the sounds of footsteps, lots of them; large heavy foot falls were approaching quickly. It sounded like a heard of buffalo's stampeding across the land.
Hundreds, if not thousands of Warriors rushed towards him, they were huge and dressed in grey armour with sharp angles and gold visors, they moved faster than he would have thought normal for a being their size. The leading figures shot at the retreating Batarians causing the four eyed aliens to fall, the blue and orange bolts of energy tore the retreating aliens apart.
The machine that had flown overhead landed in the distance and kept firing at Batarians out of Johns view, he looked round and saw the large aliens were ignoring him; they just ran past him and chased after retreating forces.
"Anyone else seeing these things?"
"What the…?"
"Shepard? Can you see these things?" multiple voices came over the radio, one voice however was speaking to him, "Sir, what the hell is going on?" John asked as more of the soldiers ran past without a second glance.
"Unknown, whoever they are, they don't like the Batarians any more than we do," the Major reported, "No shit Major, I just saw a thousand of them wipe out a battalion that was bearing down on my position."
"Understood Lieutenant, hold tight and we'll get you out of there," John was about to respond when he heard heavy footsteps right behind him, large metallic sounding thuds. He dared not turn just in case whatever it was decided to kill him too.
The figure stopped next to him, less than two feet away and the being was huge, and it was over twice John's height and then some. It was fully armoured like the rest but the armour was different, large pieces of metal floated around its shoulders and a large blue cape with gold trimmings flowed from its broad shoulders. Its hands were bigger than Johns face, long and pointed fingers, six on each hand; John couldn't supress the shiver that ran down his back.
The being looked down at him and nodded, a brief understanding crossed with it, it was as if it was saying it would always have his back, never let him down.
C.600 years after the Halo event
Unregistered planet
Chant watched the young avian creatures as they settled in, they were tense but not overly hostile. As a Lifeworker she was thrilled at the prospect of meeting a new race, as the Lifeshaper however she had a duty to communicate with these new creatures. Of course it was hard to talk peacefully when covered head to toe in armour.
She took a step forward and had her armour fell away, curling itself into a small egg nearby, ready to jump back on at a moment's notice. The alien in charge took a step back as she did this while his subordinates trained their weapons on her, now without her armour she was at risk.
She walked forward slowly, carefully to the leader of the group who was slack jawed, for what reason she did not yet know, but she did plan on finding out soon. "Fear not young one, I am Forerunner, I mean you no harm. What is your name young one?" she asked, she watched as it tried to speak but ultimately said nothing, his mouth moving but no words. Eventually he found his voice, "H-how do know Turian?" he asked, the corner of her lips pulled up slightly as she smiled.
"I don't. Forerunner technology takes what I say and project it to you in a manner you understand. Now, what is your name?" she asked again, she leant down slightly to remove most of the height difference between them. "Major Adrien Victus, 9th Platoon of the Turian Hierarchy. And you are?" he asked, "I am known by many as the Lifeshaper. That is all you will know me by as well. How old are you Adrien?" She asked. She was simply stalling for time, waiting for her husband to arrive, no doubt with his finest Warriors ready to fight.
"Old enough to know you're stalling for time," he replied, seeing through her simple plan, "Very good, not many races see the truth behind a veil of lies," she said, the way she talked to him made him uncomfortable, like an Asari Matriarch except really old, or older than the thousand or so years they live up to.
"Yeah well you remind me of the…" he was cut off when the ship Commander called to him, "Major, you're to return to the ship, we've intercepted a distress call from an Alliance colony and we're needed to help clean up. No arguments Major." The Major hesitated before replying with a simple 'Yes sir' and they moved out, why though they were just leaving her here she couldn't guess. Did they think she would just wait for them to return? It was obvious that they didn't want to leave her there so why did they?
C.600 years after the Halo event
Born watched the Human next to him, the human had held off by himself against numerically superior foe and yet he had never retreated, the sign of a good soldier willing to die for the cause. The human however was not like the ones he had seen before, Chakas and Riser had been dark skinned and fairly small. While this human wasn't exactly big, still smaller than a first form Warrior, he was bigger than Chakas was.
The human had pale skin and short dark hair; didn't the humans have long hair in the military? The Didact's memories of the war confirmed his thoughts but yet this one had short hair, and the skin tone he had never seen on a human, he had seen some with a pinkish hue to their dark skin but none were actually white. The mysteries of evolution he guessed, why would a Human that evolved in a different galaxy be the same as the ones from his home galaxy?
A Promethean walked up to him, she was smaller than him but still no less impressive in size. She came to relay certain information and judging from the way she held herself it wasn't all that good. "Didact, we have captured several of the enemy troops. They seemed to surrender quickly when faced with superior numbers and strength." She said, but that was not all, "The Horizon's Ancilla has procured samples of an unknown element we have not seen before, it says the properties are something the Builders may wish to study." She continued.
"Very good, tell the Horizon to collect as many samples as possible and have all prisoners taken up to one of the Cruisers," Born replied, he noticed the human had turned to look at him again, his gaze full of curiosity. Born noticed the Promethean was still there, she had more to say but was hesitant to speak, "Is there something else, Glory?" he asked,
"Yes, Didact, we received an emergency communication through the Capital… it's the Lifeshaper, unknown aliens have landed on the planet she was working on," she said, Born clenched his massive hands in an attempt to quell the infamous rage of the Didact that was burning through him, "Have all Warriors fall back to their ships, forget the samples of this element, we leave immediately." He said his voice strained to hide the anger at these aliens, at the ones for attacking the Humans and the ones holding his wife hostage.
Glory bowed her head slightly and started to have the Warriors pack up and leave, some carried Batarians, some unconscious, some kicking and screaming at their captors. Born took one last look at the human, his armour running more scans on him before he turned away and headed back to his Seeker that would take him back to the Horizon.
Upon arriving on the bridge he took control and orchestrated the fleet out of the debris field of enemy ships, they had been easy to defeat, they had lacked any decent weaponry and shields, leading to the easy victory for the Forerunner Warriors. "Didact, multiple vessels are approaching at super-luminal speeds through real-space." The ships Ancilla reported as the last Warriors arrived on board, "Have all ships jump out-system, only the Horizon will meet with my wife, all others will report to the Capital immediately." He ordered.
The massive 100 kilometre long Fortress-Class vessel moved up-star before jumping away while the rest simply jumped out of the system from orbit, minute's later dozens of ships belonging to the Human System Alliance dropped out of FTL and began to clean up the mess left by the Forerunner fleet along with trying to figure out what happened.
Hours later Turian and Council ships arrived in system to help with aid for the citizens of Elysium that were left with nothing after the batarian attack, despite survivors accounts of the battle the Council refused to believe a super advanced race rescued the Humans on the planet only to disappear soon after.
When the Council diplomatic team arrived at the planet the Turians reported first contact they found it completely deserted. In fact there was no evidence of any race ever inhabiting the planet; the building the Turians had said was there was in fact gone.
Scouts are sent into nearby systems to try finding this new race but they turn up nothing and after several months they stop looking.
This left the Forerunners time to plan their attack the Batarians, a horrible race that endorsed slavery and got away with. Born had the Miners retrieve some of this new element while the Builders studied it, finding uses for it and all there was to know about it. Chant-to-Green was tasked by the New Council to study this new group of humans; how they got here, why they were different from their kin in the home galaxy and most importantly why they were in the new galaxy.
A/N; so, Review to tell me what you think, tell me what you like most about it. i would have had this chapter up yesterday but i had to work over Easter so i didn't get a chance.