“Exiting slipspace in twenty mikes!” Onyx yelled
“shields full power, MAC guns online and ready to fire.” Dorian said helping twilight and the others learn to work the monitors.
“Onyx are our old UNSC satellites still online?” Reach asked as he the heads up displays of 300 ARGUS wombat space drones. He then set the other space attach craft on stand by and prepared to launch twelve terminator HK Arial-S star fighters
“ive got signals form two satellites they’re heavily damaged, on screen now.” Onyx responded and they all looked to see what was attacking the human home world and they were greeted with a very confusing sight.
“What are those?” Reach asked.
“I don’t know?” Onyx said confused everyone ignoring Pinkie Pies explanation.
“D-dorian? What are your scans getting? Because my scans are saying that they are giant space squids. What the fuck?”
“Well they are also Giant, robot, purple space squids.” Zeta said appearing.
“Well from my scans there shields are sub-par early jackal shield at least and there main armament which is in there tentacles by the way are lasers, really? Point defense class slightly superior to Spartan laser class.” Dorian said very confused.
“I don’t get it? I am getting an unknown energy source. Coming from them all. According to the codex we received with the distress signal it is something called element zero.” Pandora said.
“How are we losing? What the fuck happened to the UNSC? Its like our tech went backboards. I mean I know we activated halo but still that’s no excuse for this.” Reach said laughing a bit.
“Well from what I was able to get the technology the galaxy relies on is based on the gient space squid technology.” The Ships synthetic soul said
“Realy that’s shit? And where the fuck are the elites?” the ex-ODST commented
“You know that is an amassing question?”
“Dorian? raise whoever sent the distress signal, tell them we are here to win their war.” added said a little ashamed at being human at the moment. They waited about thirty seconds before the data was able to be reconfigured to the correct format. After all when your ships AI is a synthetic soul it was really easy and thousands of years better than the smartest of their AI it wasn’t hard.
“This is counselor Anderson of the systems alliance Identify yourself.” An aged light skinned black in a wagered uniform man said as a primitive hologram appeared.
“What the fuck is the systems alliance?” Reach said as he stood up as he appeared in the alliance base in hologram form. They all marveled and questioned why there was a mech on the hologram.
“Where is your ma…” Anderson started before he was interrupted by the mech.
“I swear to fucking skynet! Its armor im not a fucking Robot!” they were a little taken aback when he took off his helmet and yelled at them. They then heard another male voice say “Yess you are! You’re a synthetic! More specifically you’re a terminator but still. You’re a robot.” The other voice said
“I’m on the Fucking phone Onyx! And I’m a fucking DRN 4 just because I use a terminator T-888 endoskeleton doesn’t make me a terminator, ‘Yes it does!’ Fuck you! Im an artificial person I’ve got feelings and shit to!” they watched the synthetic argue with someone off screen. They were amazed that he was a synthetic if he hadn’t seen it they would have never known until they saw a series of blue lines go through the right side of his face and disappear.
“What the fuck are you all doing in London?” the obviously illegal AI asked.
“we are trying to survive the reaper invasion, and hold out until Shepard gets here with reinforcements.” Anderson said solemnly.
“You cant beat the giant space squids? But there really shitty?” he responded.
“Look whoever you are can I talk to your superior?” Anderson asked before they heard other feminine voices and some growling before he spoke again.
“Um I’m Agent Reach and I’m the CO on this ship. Unless you want to talk to him?” the now identified reach said and another unarmored person walked into view.
“Onyx get down to hanger bay two. I want you out there.” Reach said as they heard a yes sir.
“Who is this?” Anderson asked.
“this is dorian. he is my ships AI. Well actualy he is a synthetic soul which is better.” Reach answered nonchalantly.
“You have an AI!?” Anderson demanded.
“Are you a retard? You've ben talking to me for like ten minouts. There standard issue on every UNSC ship. Speaking of which this is Super heavy cruiser, USNC Harbinger exiting slip-space now.” Reach said he and his clew then heard another soldier say something about looking at the screen and Anderson ran over to look followed by the others in his area.
“What is that! I have never seen that kind of dreadnought before? The size the shape it looks ancient! And how did you get here without the mass relay!” Anderson said all of these questions and more went through their minds as everyone present marveled at the unknown ship. They then saw a nearby reaper dreadnought and a frigate turn to engage as the ship turned in there direction. They heard another technician say that shepherd’s fleet had arrived through the mass relay they all watched in anticipation to amazed with the arrival of the new ship that no one even said anything about the arrival of the fleet.
“We dont use dreadnought's this is a cruiser. Mind you its a super-heavy cruiser but its still a cruiser. now if you don’t mind we have to entertain our guests. Dorian bring us about and stand by to fire.” Reach said before cutting the transmission and putting his helmet on.
(citadel fleet)
Upon arrival to earth they were all expected the worst they had all fought the reapers on there planets the fighting there sill raged on as they left to aid the humans at earth, every race was here from Quarian and Geth, Turian, Volus, every one that had a fleet was here and at its head was the Normandy the ship of the legendary commander Avery shepherd.
They all expected a lot of things but no one expected to see what they did upon arrival there before them was the largest dreadnought they had ever seen. It was big it easily doubled the size of the largest dreadnought the Reapers had to offer which was bigger than any there fleet had. But what confused them was that even with the extensive scans they all did they could not get a single element zero reading from the ship and on top of that they were only getting ten life signs in the whole ship, they then saw a series of lights activate on the sides of the ship ignited illuminating the writing and symbol they had never seen before. The letters UNSC under the strange symbol and the name of the ship which sent shivers down all of there spines Harbinger. They were worried had the reapers made a new class of ship and transferred him into this new behemoth? They then heard the ships radio chatter start up.
“Redline one-one stand by for longsword launch. Two hostile space squids inbound. Standby for Heavy-MAC, Big stick out” A voice said like with the humans on the ground they all had their own questions about the ship and it origins. Before they watched as the a part of the front of the ship exploded and they watched as the 600-ton depleted uranium slug tore through space and through the Reaper dreadnought like tissue paper completely bypassing its shields and ripping a whole clean through the reaper they watched as the once mighty reaper went limb before exploding unfortunately the carnage didn’t stop there they watched as the round continued forward and impacted another reaper getting the same result before finally impacting the moon and blowing a new crater in it.
“Oh fucking shit! My bad!” they all heard they all heard a human yell only humans used those swears after all. They then expected the large ship to fire at the advancing reaper cruiser as its raised its tentacles and prepared to fire as it approached the Harbinger but what neither the Reaper or shepherd and his fleet expected was for the massive ship to simply bulldoze the cruiser and tare it in half without even slowing or changing course.
Un-Frontally a quarian cruiser had over shot the launch point and appeared next to a reaper alone and with no fighter escort.
“they need air support and they need it now. Roll in strike package Delta, authentication Reach two-three-zero-200 zulu. At time seven-600 foxtrot. Attention all aircraft this will be a danger close fire mission, Redline squadron to killbox one-alpha” A voice said quickly before what looked like an earth stingray launched from one if its hanger bays followed by twelve large grey ships that resembled gunships and after them was a cloud of other fighters.
Base HK-Arial
Wombat
“arival Time thirty seconds.”
“roger that Harbinger actual, Redline confirming. killbox one-alpha. Danger-close.” Onyx said as his longsword and his hk-s escort turned in the direction of the strange hamster ball ship.
“Roger that. Redline proceed to killbox one-alpha, engage hostile. Friendly’s in the area.” They heard the voice say from the harbinger.
“Roger that Redline engaging hostile, killbox one-alpha 800 feet danger-close.” They watched as onyx’s squadron made it to the quarian ship and begin firing on the reapers with a variety of weapons the silver unmanned ships that looked like gunships began firing on the reapers with what looked like plasma based weaponry while the manned stingray looking ship began strafing the reaper with two110mm rotary machine guns and missile fire effectively disabling the biggest threat.
“This is quarian vessel Tonbay. We thank you human pilot.” The captain said as an image of Onyx in his armor appeared on the main screen.
“Roger that Tonbay, Redline will stay with you as long as we can.” Onyx said calmly as he flipped two switches.
“Thank you human, we have enemy fighters inbound, Launching support fighters now. keelah selai.” The quarian responded.
“Solid copy. Longsword Redline one-one moveing to engage hostile fighters. Redlines Two and three form on my wing, four through twelve provide support for the Tonbay.” They watched as Onyx’s Longsword turned and engaged the Reaper fighters despite his crafts size it moved very quickly.
The other ships in were shocked when they watched the Harbinger fire open fire with its vast assortment of weapons everything from rail guns to laser turrets to missiles and machine guns all of which short of the machine guns which were for destroying fighters destroyed the reapers they hit. They were amazed when they saw one hundred of the three hundred unmanned drones brake off from the Maine group and come there way and when they were close enough they turned around and began engaging again. Getting the signal they all flew into the fight. They all spared another look and they saw that the Harbinger was actually gaining the majority of the Reaper fleets attention as it continued to battle alone giving them the element of surprise somewhat. They all saw one thing that amazed them again one reaper had gotten close enough to fire its weapon at the ship and when they expected it to take damage they were amazed when a strange yellow and white shield appeared and took the hit, before the offending reaper was destroyed by a GRENDEL laser.
As the citadel fleet moved in unfortunately the Reapers began to notice when some of there ships were destroyed be ships what weren't the Habinger. But they watched as another cloud of 500 Wombats flew out of its hanger bays, and 900 ARGUS drones flew out and supported there landing craft as they made their way to earth. And out of every one present the the residence of Sidewinder who were just remaining silent, commander Sheppard and his crew, the citadel fleet, the alliance, and the Reapers one thing was clear to them all only to the Freelancers was it apparent.
The third battle for Earth had begun.