UNSA Moscow 22 hours after first contact
The space over earth was filled with debris of human and alien ships alike after the nuclear strike only 100 or so Alien ships remained in orbit including 1 of the 2 flagships "sir the enemy flagship is peeling off to met us on its own it looks like we are going to have an old school battleship on battleship action." Admiral Karnes wasn't scared to hear this so far their ships had proven superior to the aliens on a 1 on 1 "open up with all main batteries and launch all remaining Anti-ship missiles to follow the Railgun fire, and if that doesn't work just bury it in predator missiles." As the 2 most powerful warships of 2 respective races fired their first volley it was clear who would be winning. The moscow shock under the weight of the incoming fire but when its own fire hit the alien flagship it was not met by the barriers that had met previous attacks but instead the soft armor underneath
"Sir their shields are already down, our first shots just crippled the damn thing!" Karnes was about to order another volley to finish it off when he thought of something so old school he almost felt bad for the aliens. "prepare a boarding party." he needed real information despite what he had said on TV the only thing they had gotten from the Hacking attempt was there language and the name of their Nation
St. Petersburg, Russia 23 hours after first contact
"WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REINFORCEMENTS!" not long after saying that the captain took a round to the head before going down. Despite what was being said on TV the aliens were slowly but surely making progress on the planet "Dimitri, Reznov find some Roof to get overhead on the fuckers" although nither of them could tell who said it both complied making a beeline to back where they came from "Dimitri we need to get to that roof we spotted out an hour ago the one next to the burntout T-100." By the time they had made a full loop and made it to their destination already a large chunk of the remaining Russian defenders down below had been killed by the only growing forces of bird assaulters. Climbing up the ladder they found a finnish soldier sitting behind a chimney assembling what looked like a Anti-Material rifle, he he turned his head slightly to greet them "welcome to my humble nest"
The two Russians both went to the edge of the roof to pick targets and get to work as quickly as possible "how long till you're done with that gun?" Resznov turned back to ask "just about now and hey the second we start firing 2 fire teams of exo troopers are going to flank them and my buddy below us is going to throw a full box of Spider bots at the birds, so get ready for a show." He picked up his beast of a rifle and stood up to bring it over to them laying it in the row their own rifles had been in. "ready when you are." The first to shoot had been the ever silent Dimitri firing 2 three round bursts each into the heads of the somewhat more important looking birds. The 7.62x51 rounds too heavy for the barriers to fully stop after the first few impacts got through the barriers and met the skull of there targets
Then the torso of another was removed by the Anti Material Rifle, and before even 10 seconds had passed more than 10 aliens had been put down and 8 men in exo-suits jumping from roof to roof had now made it to the roofs directly above their targets. The sounds of gunfire amplified as hundreds of rounds poured down from the rooftops into the aliens all the while several spider bots scurried along the ground towards the aliens, going unnoticed until one turned to see one at its feet. The bird tried to shoot it but before it could even fully turn the bot jumped onto its chest and after a few moments of struggle, with one of the other birds making the mistake of trying to help its comrade.
They where both turned into a fine red mist as the bot exploded this would repeat itself a few time before the last few bots ran out of targets a decided to return to there handler, the street was silent for a moment before the Finnish Exo Troopers jets down to meet the Russian soldiers slowly exiting there cover to greet them On the rooftop Resznov stood up while letting out a whistle "if this is how it's going here I almost pity the aliens in America."
Norfolk Virginia, United States 24 hours after first contact
"Casualties are believed to already have hit a staggering 170 million that's almost 3 times that of the 2nd World war and 8 and a half times that of the 3rd world war but we also have good news the last enemy flagship in orbit has been disabled by the UNSA Moscow and Aircraft from the Carrier Retribution, we are also proud to ann-" every ranger and National Guardsmen in the building jumped at the sound of the EAS alarm cutting off the news on the radio -"oh what now did we nuke the bastards again?" after a few more seconds of the alarm sound it stop for a moment before a monotone voice took over
"To all listeners in 24 hours all active UNSA Naval assets will be deployed to sol accompanying them until then all reinforcements will cease. There will be no further reinforcements for the following 24 hours" after a few seconds passed a ranger spoke up "is that a good or bad thing?" SGT Foley was quick to respond "It's only a bad thing if we can't win on our own now for the third time in a row, THAT!" he waved his hand at the carnage of dozens of alien bodies a few hundred meters in front of the large hole in the wall they were all leaning against "Now that was once upon a time a platoon of aliens and after repurposing some Anti-tank weapons we have now increased the amount of ground they can cover at once by orders of magnitude….. Literally. please Rangers tell me, does being deader than the dreams of Marines getting fair VA benefits count as a victory, even with twisted alien logic?"
Although no one answered outside of a few laughs they seemed to have gotten the message "CONTACT!" everyone in mere seconds had found cover and aimed their weapons out into the streets below it didn't take long for the first shots to ring out the aliens were back but this time with 2 hover tanks and twice the infantry
"WARPIG DO YOU READ GET OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HIDEY HOLE AND SHOOT!"
M4A1 Slammer callsign "Warpig"
"WARPIG DO YOU READ GET OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HIDEY HOLE AND SHOOT!" Well, break time is over then. "Mendez, you heard Foley get us up there." They had a pretty good spot. It was a collapsed parking garage under a just as collapsed building they could pull out to just the turret and see everything in the street while at minimal risk.
After a moment the tank lurched forward "Carny Have APFSDS ready to fire.'' The tank pulled out of its hole only to be greeted with a railgun round to the right turret cheek sending a small but noticeable shudder through the tank. "Carny return to sender would you id rather not fuck up the armour dealing there light tanks'' "Will do, boss." not a moment later the Slammer fired its 145mm main gun ripping straight through the hover tank and coming through the back of it catching some poor infantrymen right in the chest, even for the Veteran tank crew the sight was… disturbing "back us in and load He rangers will merc the other one any second, and carney, JESUS man i wanted to sleep tonight."
Up above with SGT James Foley
"HIT IT NOW!" not a moment of yelling out the command a Spike 90 missile designed to put a T-100 in the ground ripped through the remaining light tanks barrier but not the armor he had a moment of brief panic until someone had the sense to hit it with a AT7 causing it to drop to the ground and burst into flames and while trying to escape there burning tank that had the bad luck of being Warpigs first infantry target. The HE round covered the burning tank in an explosion and after 2 seconds another hit the closest bunch of infantry and after just a few more HE rounds Warpig Ceased fire. Everything was still for a moment. Some of the rangers moved to sit back down until Dunn saw it.
"HEY we got something in the smoke!" Just about everyone had their gun trained on the silhouette of an alien in the smoke. Foley could even see Warpigs maingun following its movement. Then the alien stepped through the smoke. It looked slightly shorter and had a very different looking face then the others they had seen its hand were raised in the air trembling and despite being an alien its eyes were clearly full of fear, if Foley didn't know any better he would think it was….. "Dunn have I gone insane or, Is it surrendering?"
SDF Carrier Pavonis 25 Hours since first contact
The orbital situation was bad; most of the alien fleet stayed over Mars while 11 pursued the Pavonis and the 2 Remaining destroyers. This ragtag group of surveying vessels were the only remaining ships left of the Mars home fleet "the aliens are lining up for shots on the Cobalt!" Admiral Derhachov didn't have much he could do but put his ship in the way and pick his targets carefully. "Have the Cobalt use us for cover and get the Ares to flank us and charge railguns 2 batteries per target!" The crew could briefly see the shadow of the Cobalt as it went over them and then the Ares came into view staying to the front right of the Pavonis. The Railguns on all three ships turned to face the enemy and after a moment they fired, 12 100 kilogram slugs hurled towards their pursuers with 4 rounds heading each to 3 of the 11 ships. They after a moment struck home the rounds fired by the Pavonis and Cobalt were stopped by the shields of their targets but 2 of the 4 slugs fired by the Ares ripped into a aliens destroyer ripping into open and after a moment it detonated in a bright yellow flash likely to have sustained damage to its reactor.
"Fire all remaining missiles at the destroyer weight vessels and continue current railgun fire missions, launch all remaining Skelters fit them for anti ship we cant outrun these fuckers." The ship shook under the force of incoming fire "sir our armor belt can keep this up for hours but the Ares is already reporting internal damage." Derhachov thought for a moment there weren't any SetDef assets left to run to….. Who said it had to be SetDef though "Ensign Get us underway to the Nearest UNSA colony with a working AATIS gun." the crewman nodded and went to work "give me a minute the Comnet is fucked ill have to find us one the old fashioned away." the sound of the ship's own railguns firing again could be heard this volley did much better. The rounds zipped out into the void hitting their targets turning 2 cutters into slag and damaging a destroyer the aliens ships began to try and get some distance as they noticed the approaching Skelters the damaged one however couldn't run fast enough though as dozens of light anti-ship missiles were launched by the aircraft
Invisible beams from their point defense lashed out to try and stop as many as it could. but there were too many too close. It barely put a dent in the horde before they impacted the hull ripping holes into the ship before detonation inside somehow the ship didn't explode itself instead losing all power and atmosphere and begging its harmless tumble into the void. The remaining Skelters turned on the next closest ship repeating there previous actions in a cutter before most had been destroyed and ordered to return to the Carrier as the rounds of railguns and mass accelerator rounds passed around and in between there formation
"Sir….. There are no UNSA Colonies left with AATIS or even rail gun emplacements left outside of the Moon there's no Colonies left at all, it's just Earth, Luna and Mars now." wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllll shit
Onboard The Repaired Dreadnought, Victory in orbit over Mars
Rear Admiral Castis was worried to say the least, they had entered this system with 8000 ships and 5 million soldiers, one of the largest assault forces in hierarchy history, now they had 3 million troops left and had lost just shy of 4000 ships. No one Knew what was going on at the garden world after the Nuclear strike it would take a few hours to organize, on the red planet however every passing hour lead to about 50,000 Marines dying that was both unacceptable and unsustainable he had only been given a million and after the nuclear strike by the Prims on the garden world he had confirmation of that no troops could be Lent to his assault, General Victus was good but no one could win this fight
He was also surprised at the lack of response that Councilor Sparatus has had at the knowledge that these are humans clearly not of the alliance the amount of issues that could create. Along with the blatant and obvious fact that with mass communications leaving the system heading into hundreds of different directions into space that this was a fully fledged interstellar nation.
This was no longer a policing action it was a war and they were not winning especially on the garden world even with the reinforcements soon to arrive this would be a costly endeavor, he was forced out of his thought by a ensign speaking to him "Admiral Castis, sir we have confirmation that the Conviction was lost to its borders."
"Admiral Rix was recovered from the Pride of Palaven although he is in critical condition he is likely to live an-" the crewman stopped speaking for a moment "we have a incoming transmission from the surface of the planet sir… it's General Victus he says a enemy air strike has killed most of the ground command staff he-" the Ensigns eyes went wide and his mandibles slackened.
"The dishonorable prick is requesting permission to retreat from the planet!" "What?, does he think this is the Krogan rebel-"the Castis cut the crewman off "tell him no but he can pull back on the ground and cease offensive operations until we are reinforced from the Relay." "Sir you can't be serious?" This earned the bridge officer a death glare from the Rear Admiral "I…. ill tell him at once sir."
Omega, 26 hours after first contact
He had never seen anything like this before all the battle fleets put on high alert and several had been deployed in 'Training exercises in classified locations', in other word they didn't want anyone to know shit, he was still trying to wrap his head around the Hierarchies current behavior when his thoughts were interrupted by Sidonis
"Hey Garrus you up?, "Riper and butler are cooking some breakfast"
one quick note this takes place 6 months after ME1 not ME3
(added 4/13/2024) still kicking but it will be a bit longer than usual till the next chapter see you all then!