The finale of the Sangheili arc is finally here. I hope you all enjoyed it. I know some of you weren't happy with the inclusion of the HALO species, but it was something that had to be done to fill this chapter and to add something later down the line. Without Aizen's discord and the members there I probably wouldn't have begun writing and wouldn't be the niche writer I am today. Thank you to everyone who reads my stories. You all mean so much to me.

And here we begin in a galaxy far far away…...

The entire crew was buzzing with activity. Crew members ran around, making sure everything was working effectively as intended. Armed guards were stationed near critical components of the vessel. Naruto made his way through the ship's main citadel, his bodyguards moved with him as he read through the scans and reports from both the Sangheili and his own spies. It was quite concerning, it seemed the Jiralhanae were planning some sort of attack, but he wasn't completely sure when or where they would assault.

It was concerning. "Ensure these reports are combed over again, any information we can get, and use make sure its transferred to our allies. I want all combat ready manoeuvre groups to be prepared for movements as soon as necessary." His orders were powerful yet understandable as he gave the reports to an officer that stood nearby.

A second clone captain stood before him; Naruto recognised him as being a part of one of the units sent to secure the droid Warship. He snapped off a quick salute.

"Sir, the team sent to investigate the Droid frigate has returned, and they returned with something quite valuable." A Clone reported to him as Naruto nodded.

"Very well, I shall see what they had brought with them. In the meantime, Prepare the Totenkopf division for quick movement." Naruto ordered as the Clone nodded and did just that. Naruto meanwhile left to the lower hanger to find what they had found. Entering the lower hanger, he saw just what they had found.

"Well, if it isn't Ventress." Naruto commented as he grinned a bit. There, before him, was the Assassin of Dooku, bound and heavily wounded. Pale assassin growled at him. He could see that she was wounded, but he also wondered what Dooku's left hand was doing by herself.

"You…" The Assassin spat out, though she started to cough, and she gripped her sides where Naruto could see some rudimentary bandaging covering a wound. He shook his head. He could kill the woman, but she was more valuable to him alive than dead.

"Yes me, I am Mandalore. I wonder how you ended up in such a state? Could it have been the Republic, or the Count that set you up." Naruto questioned, hinting at something. The wounded Nightsister to narrow her eyes. What was that supposed to mean?

"Mandalore or not, you're still nothing more than a pawn to me. Thrown away when the republic had no use for you" With that, the Asajj began to groan in pain fading in and out of consciousness with every minute that she spoke. Naruto however sighed and turned to the medical officer.

"Heal her but ensure that she doesn't escape." Naruto ordered as the officer looked at him as if he was insane.

"With all due respect sir, this is Asajj Ventress we are talking about. Killing or even interrogating her would help bring the entire Droid war machine that much closer to fault. She must know something, anything. Why heal her?" The officer questioned. Naruto turned to the officer. A slight eyebrow raised at the question but answered, nonetheless.

"Because her hate is misguided, manipulated. She has been manipulated, just like how this entire war has been the construct of a mad man," Naruto answered.

The medical officer raised an eyebrow but nodded nonetheless and went on to carry out his task. With them all gone, Shaak Ti appeared from a shadowy corner, Naruto had sensed her when she had arrived.

"Are you sure that was wise?" She questioned him as he turned to her.

"Ventress was taken when she was at her weakest after her master had died. used by the Sith. His hate can be better directed towards the person who made her into what she is now. The person who caused her so much pain." Naruto simply stated as he began to head off to greet his guests. Ti however was wondering what he meant by that. It was clear that her former student knew more than she or any other Jedi did.

"The Force does work in mysterious ways…" She thought. He might have seen visions, or he could have a very impressive spy network. Regardless, he would go down in galactic history. The question is, will he go down as a tyrant or as a liberator?

Naruto's comms started to flash urgently, his eyes widened slightly as he recognised the signal that it flashed with, he quickly removed it from his belt and activated it. The Hologram that appeared was that of a Mandalorian who had obviously seen some combat lately, the man's armour was scuffed and damaged.

"Sir the Jiralhanae have launched an attack on Sanghelios" the man paused to fire off his blaster evidently targeting one of the monsters the Sangheili fought, Naruto heard a roar in the background as the Mandalorian fought, around him some Sangheili defence forces and some civilians could be seen.

"Sir, it's a large-scale invasion. Scouts are reporting at least 6,000 Jiralhanae currently sieging our position. The main Sanghelios force is on its way but we're unsure of the ETA." He paused again as an explosion rocketed above him.

The hologram fizzled out as the signal was lost to the trooper. Naruto stood stock still, silent as he contemplated his choices, Shaak Ti looked at him concerned knowing that this would be his make-or-break moment amongst the Sangheili.

He began to stride to the Hangar Bay, his bodyguards and Shaak Ti barely keeping up with his swift movements. He began tapping emergency codes into his communicator, around the ship emergency alarms and war horns began to blare. The ship itself began to move, jolting quickly to action and pushing through the thick atmosphere of the planet. Troops within the hangars began to once again rush about, however the speed and efficiency of their preparations showed their veterancy. By the time the ship was halfway to Sanghelios the active force was already prepared and Naruto had begun the brief.

"The capital of our Allies planet, Sanghelios is under attack by a second species of aliens known as the Jiralhanae" as he said the name a hologram of the tall brutish looking warriors appeared next to him the soldiers around him began to whisper somewhat as they saw the fierce looking beast.

"The Jiralhanae are usually 6-8ft usually and especially in the males of their species, they are highly violent and heavily armoured and armed. They can and will kill anything in their path, engage them from long range with heavy weapons and aim for weak points. B2s and light vehicles are being deployed alongside you.'' Naruto continued the briefing finally coming toward the end as a hologram of Sanghelios appeared in place of the Jiralhanae.

"This is the city the defenders are west of the capital building and are slowly being pushed back street by street, however the main Palace has been fortified and is acting as an anchor point of the defence. Four drop zones, your captains will brief you on your drop zones and individual objectives."

As Naruto finished the Hangar shuddered, warning lights and claxons began to sound alerting all within the hangar that they were now above the warzone.

"All troops to gunships…. ALL troops to gunships"

Naruto nodded as the soldiers began to move to their LAATs, Naruto turned around to his own modified gunship. The LAAT was fitted with more weapons and armour rocket pods welded and rewired to the bottom of the wings; those combined with the laser cannons ensured that these would get the troops safely to the staging area.

As he approached the Gunship, he made out the vinyl placed along its front just under the pilots, it was a sticker of a large cartoonish Mandalorian helmet and upper body, showing off a thumbs up. The words beneath reading Mandalore's finest.

Naruto shook his head, before quickly boarding the gunship, which already held roughly a platoon's worth of soldiers- those Naruto knew to be a part of his household companies, their blue and white markings denoting so. Shaak ti stood at the opening of the bay doors.

"Not coming?" he asked knowing she would have probably wanted to try to keep him safe.

"Yes, but I'm coming in with the second wave. I'll help with the logistics." she responded; her eyes looked sad, however. "Make sure you stay safe. Mandalore needs you." she told him I need you, but Shaak Ti wouldn't let him hear that, she couldn't.

"Don't worry I'll be fine, I've got my boys with me" he laughed lightly as the Gunship began to lift off, Shaak Ti waved as the fleet of gunships began to move toward the opening hangar doors, roughly 25 LAATs some with light vehicles trapped to their undercarriages moved toward the city.

"Alright let's prepare the supplies and field hospitals!" Shaak Ti took command knowing that the forces on the ground would need as much help as they could get.

Sanghelios

The city was in ruins. The Jiralhanae had attacked with the rising sun, their massed forces while lesser in number simply overwhelmed the sleepy defences of the city, their sheer mass pushing past and into the city. As martial and as powerful as the Sangheili were they were simply unprepared for such an assault. As such within the first couple hours the damned brutes had already breezed through half the city, quickly reaching the Palace the Sangheili defence solidified holding its ground as the brutes battered them.

The Large armoured figures rushed through the sunlit streets, roughly a hundred of these heavily armed stinking figures stomped quickly through the streets, each carrying both a melee weapon and a heavy scattershot weapon. The leader turned a corner, immediately taking a plasma round to the eye the rest of the Jiralhanae roared in anger watching their leader crumple to the ground dead, as they too rounded the corner, they came across a small Sangheili redoubt, hastily positioned but still armed to the teeth.

They locked their armour down as they began to charge the 50 or so Sangheili which held the redoubt, their armour and personal shielding protected them from the light plasma blasts which simply rolled off. It was the heavier plasma blasts that they had to worry about. Another Jiralhanae was dropped by one such blast as it tore through his leg then his head as his peers tried to pull him to cover.

"Lasangrias throw the spike grenades and prepare to rush alongside me" the second in command called to his fellow, the brute in question began to prepare the grenades, he threw them into the air where they landed a couple feet from the now scrambling Sangheili defenders, the spike grenades exploded, throwing up hundreds of needle like darts some of which lodged themselves within a couple of the less fortunate defenders.

The Jiralhanae charged, overwhelming the redoubt and forcing the defenders back, some of the Sangheili began firing upon the brutes, their plasma shots bouncing or striking small weak points. Taking cover once more the Jiralhanae began to return fire, their heavy metal rounds punching through both the Sangheili and light cover, forcing the Sangheili defenders to fall back the brute Vanguard once again was on the move killing any defenders they found alive and looting the dead ones.

However soon they began to hear a weird humming. Then a shadow fell over their newly captured redoubt and as they looked up everything went black….

Linebreak

The gunships flew low and fast, some were loaded with troops while others served as true gunships loaded to the brim with heavy weaponry loaded with missiles, rockets and guns. These gunships took the head of the formation ensuring that any flak that did fly up didn't hit any transports, however the run above Sanghelios was clean. It seemed the Jiralhanae hadn't even managed to set up air defences.

"Looks like the LZ is hot commander. What's the play?"

"We'll move in and clear em out,"

"Copy"

With that conversation over the holoradios completed, four gunships broke away from the large fleet of ships , these were members of the newly created air assault division "Kobra" their LAATs carried no troops but were filled to the brim with as much close air support weaponry as they could carry.

These came in low and fast, two broke off moving west to cover the frontline, the others kept moving toward their targets which would soon be in sight. As they crossed the dividing line of the city, they came across their targets, 4 large siege guns surrounded by tanks and soldiers' alike ants around a hive. They didn't even get a chance to respond.

The twin gunships swooped down on their now faintly aware opponents; they began to rain rockets down on their enemies quickly moving across using every weapon they had to their best endeavours. Gunship 1 raked across the columns of tanks with both its composite lasers, the green streams of light cleaving through tanks and Jiralhanae alike as if they were simply Chaffe to a farmer's scythe. The Jiralhanae scrambled some trying to run while others useless fired up at the sky; the gunships meanwhile carried on their brutal work, gunship 2 unloaded 3 mass driver missiles into one of the siege engines just as a rounds were being loaded, the behemoth burst open spewing fire and shrapnel across its already scattering team of engineers.

"Fuel levels low RTB"

"Copy that lets roll"

With that said the twin gunships veered off their attack vectors, pulling back and speeding toward their mothership, the two gunships that had broken off earlier re-joined the squad these were slightly more damaged however as the holo tallies showed they had racked up an impressive number of kills. As these ships were heading home the gunships carrying the troopers moved below them, heading straight toward the now cleared Landing zones at top speed, they quickly cleared the landing zones of any stragglers and began to unload a large number of troopers, positioned behind the enemy lines they'd have an tougher time getting resources however their assaults would prove pivotal.

Naruto took his household company and began to jog through the city streets, having placed his helmet on during the trip his HUD began to light up possible enemy locations, around him his troops began to move down the road, behind them two AT-TE's landed following behind the Mandalore. The Mandalorians began moving through the city clearing out many of the rear-guard supplies and holdouts that they found behind the mainlines of the Jiralhanae.

Then finally they came across the Major command post of the Jiralhanae, Naruto had lost a good number of his men getting to this point. Every Jiralhanae supply run they took out cost the Mandalorians good men. That had definitely pissed off the Mandalore and his anger was practically palpable.

After almost an hour of fighting they finally made it to the Jiralhanae base, a Sangheili temple dedicated to one of their many gods, Naruto had read the reports that had been about their many-faced pantheon, but he couldn't think about that now, his mind was focused on one thing.

Breaking the back of the Jiralhanae advance.

The doors of the temple were large and looked to be reinforced, around it many of the brute warriors that were pushing this invasion stood guard, their armour while rudimentary provided some semblance of protection as they managed to reflect some shots that the Mandalorians fired. This wasn't reliable however as the charged shots would punch straight through the target and its armour.

Naruto stepped out into the sight of the guards at the gate as they were about to shout in alarm, they were quickly sniped by two immediate high-powered shots to their craniums. Their bodies crumpled immediately, but that still left one massive problem.

The gates.

"Stay back." His voice was slightly filtered by the helmet, but his forces understood nonetheless taking up positions to cover their leader as he did his thing.

Naruto looked at the gates, the air began to grow cold almost as if all the life-giving warmth had been absorbed from it. A light buzzing was felt in the troopers nearby, they watched in awe as the rubble that surrounded them began to rise, slowly floating up into the air if one of the fundamentals of existence had been disabled.

Naruto lifted his right arm slowly, the sheer weight of the movement seemed to be felt on everything around them as the rubble began to crumble. Naruto directed his attention on the doors, splaying his fingers he began to close them into a fist watching with little to no emotion as the large, reinforced doors began to crumple into large balls of iron. The brutes behind were paralysed with fear and awe, some even dropping to their knees at what seemed to be an act of God.

Naruto walked forwards; his arm still held high supporting the large, crushed metal through the force. His boots seemed to crunch dirt with each step, his cloak played in the breeze framing his golden armour as the sun's light glinted off it. Brute warriors began to collapse to their knees, each one whispering about a sun god and their avenger.

Naruto took note of this, his helmet beeping before reacting to his unheard orders and disengaged itself from his armour, Naruto reached up and removed it his cold blue eyes practically shearing through the brutes. Then he spoke his voice carrying through the entire temple.

"Hear me and understand. I will erase your fickle species from existence should you not surrender. Every man woman and child will be eradicated from this planet or made slaves for the greater Mandalorian commonwealth."

This jarred some of the brutes from their shock fuelled reverence and charged the Mandalore aiming to kill him before he could fulfil his threat. Naruto scowled.

"So be it."

The balls of metal exploded.

Shrapnel rained down from above like a horrific thunderstorm. Sharpened metal skewered nearly every Jiralhanae that stood before him. Almost the entire upper hierarchy of Jiralhanae society had been killed.

Bar one.

An enormous brute stood; he'd used one of his kin close to him as a shield allowing the pawn to take all of the shrapnel. He reached over gripping what seemed to be a hammer as he stared the Mandalore down, his malevolent black eyes practically seeping anger and hatred.

"I AM TARTARUS. I AM YOUR DEATH" the beast screamed as it rushed him, punching forward its now glowing hammer like a hyper powered piston.

Naruto weaved around the thrust activating his own black lightsaber blade, the hum of the weapon gave Tartarus no pause as he continued to push the human, each swing of his hammer was dodged. Tartarus hammered out a punch which narrowly missed taking off Naruto's head, he swung the blade up in response cutting up through the brute's armour and lightly cutting the brutes chest. Tartarus roared in anger; his honour having been stained by such a wound. His arm cracked out like a whip crunching into Naruto's abdomen and sending him sliding away, while his armour took the brunt of the hit he could still feel that at least two of his ribs had been broken. Naruto responded in kind, jumping forward and slamming a force infused punch into Tartarus's side, the Jiralhanae roared once more as his left ribs were shattered, their shards sliding themselves into his organs and almost disabling him.

Both warriors stared down their opposite. Blood dripping from the brutes matted jaws with each heavy yet shaky breath. Naruto levelled his blade at the brute, the Darksaber held firmly in a two handed grip as he braced himself. At some unseen signal the two charged each other, the brutes long legs clearing the small distance easily, Naruto's force enhanced dash did little to show any difference between the two pinnacles of combat.

Naruto quickly raised his blade, forming the position for an overhead slash while Tartarus brought his hammer up for an uppercut.

In a flash it was over. Tartarus slumped over, falling to the ground in a heavy heap, his body splitting from shoulder to hip as he did so. Naruto flourished the darksaber, shortening its length with the force.

He limped over; the Brutes sheer strength having wounded him partially. He gripped Tartarus head in one hand, reigniting his lightsaber in the other and decapitated it. Removing the head from a worthy kill.

He then exited the now ruined building, lifting the head to cheers and shouts of his men. Naruto clicked his communicator, the device beeping for a couple moments before someone finally answered.

"This is the Mandalore, send over a couple of speeders to my location."

The hologram which appeared nodded before disappearing, Naruto turned back to the large body of the now dead Tartarus, the body was covered in long slightly blaster resistant fur.

Naruto signalled to one of his captains, the man quickly jogging over as the rest of the troop took up positions to wait.

"Captain Takota, I need you and your men to do something for me."

Meanwhile

The staggered frontlines that the Jiralhanae had been pushing were now falling apart, they tried to push their advantage of just sheer brutality, but the combined martial prowess and artillery support kept the Jiralhanae from grouping up and launching assaults. The heavy guns especially were brutal in their delivery of death hammering any large groups to bloody chunks.

Thel vadam led from the front, in one hand he held a rudimentary plasma blade in one hand and in the other he wielded a light plasma pistol, he clashed with the Jiralhanae easily staring them in the eye as he massacred them. The rest of the combined Sangheili-Mandalorian force battered the Jiralhanae into retreat.

As the Jiralhanae began to retreat and prepare a counterattack multiple speeders arrived at Thel vadam's position, the Sangheili was confused at what seemed to be further reinforcements, however his eyes widened when he saw the Mandalore himself holding the head of one of his greatest enemies.

"You killed Tartarus?" The Sanghellis voice was shaky yet filled with hope.

Naruto threw the head down at his hoof like feet, Thel picked the head up. A terrifying grin spread across his split jaws, raising the head to the roars and shouts of his men and the Mandalorians.

"WE HAVE WON. THE BRUTES WILL BE ERADICATED TO A MAN" Thel roared to the allied soldiers.

Naruto walked up to him, "Leave a number of them alive, I have something planned for them." Thel's eyes showed their tempered anger, but the Sangheili nodded in respect.

"In respect for our leader I shall respect your wishes my lord." Naruto nodded knowing the man's respect was gained through the defeat of his long-time enemy.

Naruto then began to walk back toward the support camps, Thel vadam leading the allied advance on the retreating forces as a show of respect.

Then his communicator began to beep urgently, clicking the answer button a hologram of Aayla appeared, she looked different, however. It wasn't only the armour which now covered her curves but also the worried look which set itself firmly on her face.

"Naruto… the Separatist alliance have attacked Ryloth…" She stated as Naruto's eyes widened. Ryloth was her home planet and was initially liberated by the Republic, but it seemed like that the Separatists were committed to keeping Ryloth and subjugating her citizens.

"What about the Republic? Why wasn't the Republic there to defend Ryloth?" Naruto questioned, but deep down he knew why.

"The Republic Fleets are stretched too thin, as part of your strategy. They have opted to secure more… valuable systems in the inner and some mid-core worlds… Ryloth was not on the list…" She answered, knowing that Naruto would blame himself. Naruto balled his fists. He wanted nothing more than to simply beat back the Separatists from Ryloth, but he knew he didn't have the numbers. A direct confrontation with the Separatist was suicidal, but the longer he waited, the more the people of Ryloth suffered. Turning to one of the Mandalorian clone officers, he looked at him with determination in his eyes.

"Get in contact with the main fleet, tell them to send as many ships from the defence fleets as possible, contact Captain Lotarra Sarrin and have her prepare to move out," He ordered as the officer nodded and left the Holodisk behind as he took off.

"Naruto, this isn't your fault…" Aayla spoke up as Naruto looked at her.

"No, it is and I will free Ryloth, but you and I both know that is impossible right now, but I promise you, I shall liberate Ryloth and I Dooku shall pay for it." Naruto promised as she nodded. She knew that he would free her home world.

"Thank you. Also, the Republic wants to negotiate." She informed him as Naruto looked at her, a bit shocked at the news.

"Really? Well, can't say that's bad news, but they were quick to open talks of negations." Naruto replied. He hadn't expected the Republic to move this fast, but this was good. With the Republic off his back, he can turn his attention towards the Separatists.

"Well, your attacks on Republic supply lines and taking Taanab and other planets forced them to. Regardless, we need to respond to this declaration at once." She stated as Naruto nodded.

"Yes, tell them that Mandalore is open for negotiations." He ordered as she bowed and ended the transmission. Naruto knew that showing weakness before the republic would not end well for his people. However, with the hopeful introduction of the Sangheili he knew it could only get better from there.

Ryloth

Ryloth had fallen once again, the last vestiges of defence were being mauled by swarms of Hyena bombers and vulture droids their high-pitched whines being heard across the planet. CIS hover tanks waded into the capital of Lessu brushing aside any defences that had been set up.

The twi'lek defenders fought house to house street to street with the unending droid army, Commando droids and B2s cleared out these defenders quick enough, the commandos using the large bulk of the B2s as shields.

Behind them entering the capital came the Mad General himself Grievous stalked into the capital around him his notorious magna guards marched in. Behind him came a large transport seated atop which was a hooded figure.

The Droid General turned back toward the transport, his sickly yellow eyes meeting that of his master's own dark grey ones.

Before Grievous could even speak, three twi'lek freedom fighters burst from a house to the right of the victory column, the first twi'lek was a blue skinned male he threw a bandolier filled with grenades at the hooded figure. However, the grenades never reached the man as with a simple wave of his hand the bandolier was flung back at the building.

KAKRAMMM

It detonated, levelling part of the building and sending both freedom fighters tumbling to the deck, Grievous was quick to attack, scuttling toward the twin fighters. The second freedom fighter, this one a green skinned twi'lek with a single lek, opened fire on the droid general trying to hold him back.

However, this did nothing to slow the good General down, the large cyborg stood from his terrifying crawl, towering over his prey. A single green lightsaber flashed out from within his cloak taking the head of the first freedom fighter, the second saw nothing but a bright blue light before his life was cut painfully short.

Grievous turned back toward the figure, "Lord Dooku, are you sure the Mandalorian will come?" he coughed out his voice low and gravelly.

The now named Dooku stood up removing the cloak from head revealing his greying hair and full beard.

"Yes. My Grandnephew will come. He will not risk the lives of these people for such an action as to bomb the planet…...

FIN

Sorry this chapter took so long to be released it was like fighting threw soup sometimes, but this chapter is something to be proud of. I hope that surprise wasn't too noticeable from the start.

Next up by the highest votes on Aizen's discord are Reyne of fire and Azula's monster so be prepared for that.

Praise Neptune and have a great day.