Halo - Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Systems Alliance gets an upgrade ❯ Gateway to slavery and war ( Chapter 2 )

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Chapter 2: A gateway to slavery and war
2148 Sol system
Mars orbit
Southern pole
&nb sp;
Captain Hackett stood staring out of the&n bsp;dry dock observation window at the vessel he would be
commanding in a few short months. The ship kind of resemble d a M-3 predator heavy pistol. Which, to ;
Hackett made it look like it meant ;business.

The AI that the Allian ce had gotten the design from had called it a Charon class frigate. It carried a crew
of 782 and armed with one Mark II, Light Co il â€“ 83B6R3/MAC capable of firi ng a 600-ton ferric-tungsten
projectile with a depleted uranium core at 30,000 meters per second. 50 M58 Archer missile pods, each&nbs p;
pod containing 30 missiles. 4 M870 Ram part 50mm point defense guns mounted two ;to a turret at two
points on each side of the hull. And the M4093 Hyperion nuclear delivery& nbsp;system.

The ship had been christened the SSV-Washington after the first American Presid ent and was currently
being refitted with a new engine based on eezo. A gift left by the Prothean's in the long abandoned ruins
at the southern pole of mars. These engines could lower or&nb sp;increase the mass of his ship, and accordi ng
to the rocket scientist's in R&D. ;They would allow the Washington as well as one other heavy frigate
named Roosevelt&nb sp;and a colonial vessel named Armstrong to p ass through a gate of some kind.
 To say that Hackett was impressed was a huge understatement. After he had first heard about the ship
he had to sit down before he embarrasse d himself causing the AI to laugh. He actuall y enjoyed the AI's
sense of humor, and was surpris ed by how social she was. The fact that& nbsp;she choose to look like an
Amazonian&nbs p;warrior princess just amused him. Lost in thought he didn't&nb sp;hear the chime from the door
until i t was just a constant buzz from being&nb sp;held down. "Wonder who that could be" Hack ett thought
before saying "enter".
&nbs p;
"Captain Hackett, I don't mean to disrupt&n bsp;you sir". Shepard said writhing his hands behind his back.

"What is it Lieutenant Shepard?", Hackett said still looking out&nb sp;the window.

"I was hoping that you could give me some a dvice on something personal?, and kind of aga inst
regulations". Came Shepard's response.

Hackett took in a deep&n bsp;breath and let out a long slow sigh before answering. "That depends on what the regulation is Soldier".

"Fraternization& nbsp;Sir", was all that Shepard said starting to visibly sweat.

If Hackett was a strict follower of the rules he'd have ;blown a gasket. Fortunately for Shepard, Hackett
had bent his fair share of them. He laughed and told the nervous young man&nbs p;to sit down and relax.
Turning his attention to the now relaxing soldier in his office, he couldn't help thinking this had something to do with Hannah. He'd seen the two flirting back and forth and looked at Hannah as a
sister. As guys went she could have chosen worse ;men to flirt with on the station. Sitting, he
contemplated his next words carefully.

Shepard was sitting staring& nbsp;at the man across the desk from him ;wondering if he'd just stepped in a pile
of shit bigger than he co uld get himself out of. This also caused him& nbsp;to think he might just end the day& nbsp;
seeing Dr. Chakwas down in the med bay.

Hannah had no ;idea he was even talking to the man she considered a brot her. She had told him once
that "Hackett could be very protective of his little sister as he called her". Shepard was starting to see
why she didn 't talk to very many guys in front of him.

Hackett figured that he had kept Shepard in suspense for long enough when he finally broke his silence.
"This is about Hannah isn't it Lt.".

"Y-Yes sir it is, I'm very&n bsp;certain that you have seen us flirt back and forth since being assigned to your
crew. I know that the rules forb id it but"â€¦

Cutting&nbs p;Shepard off with a wave of his hand Ha ckett just smiled. His next words floored the man across
the desk from him.

"So you came t o me for advice on my little sister?",&n bsp;he sat back before continuing. "I know who your
parents are soldier and&nb sp;quite frankly I'm surprised you just don't follow your mothers' example". Once
again&nb sp;cutting Shepard off to finish what he was& nbsp;saying, "Chelse Shepard was my commanding off icer and
she once told me, fuck the&nbs p;rules".

Shepard was floored.
&nb sp;
Hackett continued, "if you love someone re gardless of who they are you'll find a&n bsp;way to make it work".
Taking a ;breath he finished by saying, "She also told me that&nb sp;she did not want to hear or see me fucking
my now wi fe on her desk or anywhere else but my quarters".

Shepard didn't c ome to ask Hackett for permission to screw&nb sp;Hannah 8 ways to Sunday. He came to&n bsp;get
advice on whether or not he&nbs p;should actually pursue starting a relationship&n bsp;with her. He could feel the
heat coming off of his face and ;was sure he looked like an idiot.

Hackett leaned forward in his chair taking in the look of a now very flustered looking Lt. Thin king that he
just made his point to Shepard.

Once Shepard got ;over his shock of the captains honesty and perfect impression of his mother, ;he
started forming his next sentence. "Sir I just wanted your approval to actually try and start a relationship& nbsp;
with Hannah".

Hackett waved his hand one&nbs p;last time, "John she likes you and I'm not going to piss her off by saying no. I
just don't want to hear or even see anything that comes close to you&nbs p;and her fucking all over this station
or my ship". Hackett shot a with ering glare at Shepard, "God help you if I&nb sp;find you hurt her or I see her
put in an awkward position. I will shove your ass out an air lock without a ;second thought. Am I
understood?"

"Yes sir" was the only response Shepard ;gave to Hackett before being told to be at feet and get out of
the office. As the door shut John let out th e breath he had been holding in. "Holy&n bsp;fucking shit" was the

only thing&nb sp;he could say to himself after that me eting. Thinking it was best to go to his quarters to think
over what he was ;going to do.

One week later

Hannah had been looking for John for 7 days and never could fin d him. She was completely confused at
ho w he could just up and disappear on this station. Only managing to find him once ;in those 7 days, but
he simply vanished just as fast as he appeared. Hannah saw something in his eyes like shock or
embarrassment, and was starting to think that John was embarrassed to b e seen with her. She figured
that she would go talk to Hackett about it. Besides "her brother wouldn't lie to her right?"

John saw Hannah heading to where Hackett's& nbsp;office was and not wanting to deal with having to figure
out if he was serious about the air lock finally he called& nbsp;out to her. Catching her attention he could see
that her normally bright vibrant sea green eyes ha d turned into two little dark green soul sucking pits.
Her lips that were normally full and pouty were drawn& nbsp;into a scowl and razor thin. Her red hair that
normally made her look mostly& nbsp;innocent, now made her look like a demon that had an extra bonus of
being o n the rag. John was thinking that the ai r lock was looking mighty attractive at that particular
moment. Knowing that he would be spared the&n bsp;ass beating Hannah was no doubt going to& nbsp;give him. "At
least I won't have to deal with Chakwas giving me hell for getting my a ss kicked by little Hannah" he
thought s till thinking of running for an air lock.

Upon hearing her name, Hanna h spun on her heels and headed directly towar ds John when she saw
him. She couldn't h elp but notice the deer in the head lights&nb sp;look he now sported on his face. "Good the
ass" she mumbled to ;herself. Hannah was so pissed at him that&nb sp;she contemplated feed him his own
balls. "your room now" was the only thing said to him . Least that's what she thought she said.

"As you wish", John&n bsp;turned not paying any attention to everyo ne that was practically running to get o ut
of the way of the little red headed bitch t hat even the dark lord of mordor wouldn't cro ss. He was about
to ask her if she& nbsp;had invited cthulhu over for drinks but thought better of it.

Finally after a few mi nutes of walking and seeing people dodge them ;they reached his quarters. John
turned and saw she was still&n bsp;seething mad at him. So he just opened&nb sp;the hatch and let her in first. He
tried to sneak a look at her voluptuous ass but got hit w ith a fist the second the hatch closed.

Hannah followed John all the way t o his quarters wanting to just grab him and slam his head into a
bulkhead. The only thing stopping her was the fact that she actually liked&nbs p;him and wanted him to fuck
her a gainst said bulkhead. Once they reached his quarte rs she was still mad at him. As she passed him to
enter the room she knew that he would stare at her ass. The moment the hatch closed she spun on her
heels and punched John in the face. Screaming "fucking asshole" at the same ;time.

"How could you just up&nbs p;and disappear on me like that?". Before John&nbs p;could answer she halted any retort
he could offer. "I was starting to think that you didn't like&nb sp;me anymore". She stopped to breath, "what
the fuck is wrong with you John?"

Before Hannah could jum p his shit more he cut her off. "I talked to Hackett about you".

Hannah&nb sp;stopped when she heard John say that. "Wha t did he say?"

So John told her what Hackett had said.
 Hannah said that was just how he was ;before she left his quarters, leaving him wi th a black eye.

Chow Hall Evening Chow

Shepard was getting tired of answering how he got the&nbs p;black eye. Not like anyone believed him anyway,
after seeing Hannah go on&nb sp;a rampage earlier. Once he got in to the&n bsp;chow hall he grabbed a tray and
some kind of meat, he did not want to know where it came&nb sp;from. Then grabbed a peach from the salad
bar. He found a seat and proceeded to cover the mystery meat ;with hot sauce and salt.

Hannah w alked in to the chow hall and saw John&n bsp;sitting at a table struggling to get down the mystery
meat. She was pretty sure it came out of recycling. She grabbed a burger and fries and joined him at his
table. She decided to let him keep the peach on his tray.

"Fuck that shit was horrible" Shepard said as he reached for& nbsp;the peach he saw Hannah eye balling. He
was surpri sed Hannah actually ate like a human bei ng and not a little bird. He needed to get the taste of
shit out of his mo uth and was glad to have the peach. He began to eat it and noticed Hannah was starting to blush. "Hannah, you okay?" 
Hannah couldn't keep from staring at&nb sp;John as he ate the peach, not once di d the juices escape. She
started to fant asize about having his head between her legs. She didn't notice when he asked her if she
was okay. Instead she decided that she was tired of waiting for She pard to pull his head out of his ass
and stop being a dense mother fucker. Grabbing him by the ears she planted a wet affectionate kiss on
his lips causing him to almost choke on the last of the peach. Dragging him up she&n bsp;half lead half yanked
him out of the chow hall and down the passage way, telling him to shut up when he made ;a sound.

Shepard had no clue what the hell was going on, his last thought was "god I hope I don't ;choke on this
peach".

Hannah ;was dragging him down the hall which gave him&nbs p;a nice view of her ass as she bowled people
over on the way to wherever they were going.

John noticed Capt. Hackett glaring right at him and silent ly mouthing the words air lock. Shepard did the
only thing he ;could and gave him a thumbs up.
 Hannah had dragged John though the station&nbs p;and right past Hackett. She didn't care at& nbsp;this point she
just wanted to fuck the&n bsp;stupid right out of the man she was dragging, since beating him didn't work.
Finally in her quarters she swept his leg out from under him, knocking him on to the floor. ;Straddling
him she pinned his arms to the floor with her hands, she smiled viciously after biting John on the collar
bone.

John's brain finall y caught up with him and the only t hing he wanted to do was get Hannah ;out of her
cloths. So he started pulling at her pants and somehow during the process ripped her shirt off exposing
her black bra.

Hannah was incredibly well toned, she was in the gym eve ryday. And despite her diet she had sedu ctive
curves, a firm flat stomach, and& nbsp;no blemishes on her cream colored skin. She looked delicate to th ose
who did not know her, those tha t did knew better then to push her.

John looked up from what he was&n bsp;doing when Hannah placed her hands on the side of his face guiding&nbs p;
him up to her eager and luscious lips. When they broke apart to breath he fina lly removed her bra
letting her breasts fall free. John started to fondle the powder pink areola's that were now bare, softly
biting the erect nipples.
 Hannah's breath caught when John started to fondle her breasts, she moaned when he softly bit the tip
of her nipples running her hands through his hair. She grabbed a handful and pulled his head back so she
could kiss him. She undid his pants and slowly traveled down his body. Looking up at him as she took& nbsp;
him in her mouth.

John had stared at ;Hannah as she worked her way down his body and then taking him in her mout h. A
few times he had to grab ;a near by desk for support before he pulled her up and pushed&nb sp;her on the bed.

Hannah stripped off her pants and panties in one motion. She& nbsp;was pulled to the edge of the bed where
John started to trace her folds with his tongue stopping and teasing he r clit. She started moaning craving
more,&nbs p;then she felt two fingers push deep in to her rubbing against her ridges.

John felt Hannah's hips buck as he worked on her soaked slit. He had picked up the pace of his fingers
and Hannah moaned. J ohn felt her thighs snap shut on the sid es of his head as she came.

After she had reached her peak, she pulled John up to kiss him. Whispering "Stop dicking ;around and
fuck me already".

John told her to take the top, moving t o lay down.

Hannah straddled John& nbsp;and lowered herself on to him guiding hi m into her. Her breath caught as she felt
him in her core. Placing her hands on his thighs behind her, she started to rock her hips slowly enjoying
every inch of him inside ;her. She leaned forward to kiss John when she was rolled on to&n bsp;her back.

John felt Hannah running her nails down his back leaving behind deep scratches.
;
"Harder, harder, right their" Hannah panted. Before she buried her face in to her lo vers neck to stifle a
scream of ecstasy.

John was still thrusting into her when she came. He felt Hannah wrap her whole body around&nbs p;him trying
to pull him closer as she came again.

Hannah came multi ple times not caring that she was now&nb sp;screaming.

Johns thrusts quickened and he started to tense, grunting he went&nbs p;to pull out and finish on her stomach.

Hannah stopped him, "cum inside me, I'm almost their".

As John came with Hannah the hatch opened to&nbs p;reveal a security team lead by Hackett.&nbs p;

In their ecstasy they did not hear the Marines outside banging on the Hatch.

New Y ear's Eve 2150
SSV-Washington, Roosevelt, Armstrong
Sol Relay

The captain of the SSV Roosevelt issued orders to both the SSV W ashington and SSV Armstrong to
maintain formation as the trio of vessels approached the Sol Relay.

The relay had already start ed to activate upon their approach. With the rings rotating faster and faster
and starting to glow blue. Down in engineering the e ezo core started to do the same.
& nbsp;
Everyone in the small fleet was ner vous. When the relay locked on to the sh ips all and sent them to in a
flash of light to the Petra Nebula.

The Alliance had launched a probe in 2149 that had found a garden world perfect for colonization in the
P etra Nebula. It was the second planet in the Vetus system. Water, fertile soil for crops and an
atm osphere that Humans could breathe. Little did the Alliance know, but a race of bipeda l alien's had
been colonizing parts of the Petra Nebula as well.

The Galaxy was abo ut to be introduced to Humanity in a very violent, and unprovoked way.

2154. 04.11 Athena Chelse Shepard is born Two Years before first contact.

2156.04.01
Elysium First Human Colony
Vetus System, Petra Nebula

Lt. Commander Shepard had drawn& nbsp;watch on Aprils fool's day this year. "At least I wont have to work on
my daughter's second birthday", he said to him self.
& nbsp;
Athena had become a very determined little girl even at almost two years old.

John&nbs p;was surprised that she was already holding intelligent conversations with both of her parents.
&nbs p;
Elysium had become a very successful c olony and a good place to raise a f amily. Nothing ever went
wrong it was&n bsp;peaceful, and quite. So when long range scanners picked up activity&nbs p;at the relay it was odd.
The next ;fleet of ships wasn't expected for a few days.

John thought that the techs in the dome were just screwing with him. He rang them, "very funny guys
now clear t he radar of chaff". He heard the seriousness in their voices as they responded that they w ere
not fucking around. Shepard called Hackett now a Lt. Col. To ;inform him that they had picked up 100
contacts on the long range scanners.

The Alliance had 10 vessels in orbit counting the one John Shepard was now&n bsp;the Captain of. He wasted
no time ca lling general quarters, with in minutes the S SV-Washington was ready for combat.

The ships AI informed him that all contacts had entered FTL with an ETA of 10 minutes.

Hackett gave the order to bring the fl eet up to combat status. He then ordered all ground forces to
defensive positions. He hoped that they would not be needed but&nb sp;was erring on the side of caution.
&n bsp;
The fleet assume a defensive posture. The fighters where launched and formed up. All reporting their
status

SSV-Washington-C haron class light frigate- status green
SSV-V irginia-Charon class light frigate- status green
SSV-Rome- Charon class light frigate- status green
SSV-Roosevelt-Pa ris class heavy frigate- status green
SSV-Nevada-Paris class heavy frigate- status green
SSV-Berlin- Mako class corvette- status green
SSV-London- Mako ;class corvette- status green
SSV-Everest-Valiant class super& nbsp;heavy cruiser- status green
SSV-Sydney- Valiant class super heavy cruiser- status green&nb sp;
SSV-Enterprise- Carrier class- status green, all fighters launched
All ships report D77-TC Pelicans are standing by.
;
Whoever it was that was coming to them& nbsp;with such a large fleet was in for the fight of their lives.

Though the System Alliance ran war games they still had yet to enga ge in actual combat.

Shepard wished he could contact his wife and warn her but&nb sp;he had no time. All forces on the gro und had
been notified of First contact a nd were standing by for anything from pe aceful contact to hostile
contact.
&nbs p;
The SSV Enterprise did manage to get a message out&nb sp;to the incoming Alliance fleet of 10 more ships that
First contact would b e made. Communications would remain open unless hostilities broke out at that
point&nb sp;communications would stay open as long as possible.

2156.04.01
Batarian Hegemony& nbsp;
Invasion/Slaver Fleet
Petra Nebula

The Batarian Hegemony had been watching the planet for two years seeing an unkn own species
colonize it and spread all over the planet. They noticed that the&nb sp;colony had only a small fleet of ships to
protect it. Since the Citadel council did not know of&nbs p;these new comers the Hegemony didn't bring& nbsp;it up
when mentioning that they wo uld be colonizing in the Petra Nebula.
& nbsp;
They had brought 100 vessels, and the&nb sp;commander of the fleet had them listed on& nbsp;a data pad in his
hand.

10- Dreadnaughts
14 - Cruisers
22- Frigates

54- Slaver& nbsp;ships fitted with various armaments

He was&nb sp;absolutely positive this fight was over before& nbsp;it even started. As soon as his fleet had dropped
out of FTL he was ;informed that they were being hailed. He too k the hail after sending out a fleet wide
order tel ling all ships to stay out of range at 4 000 km/s. After that he found himself talking to Lt. Col.
Hackett.

The pale two ey ed thing on the screen was talking to hi m but Admiral Garrel was in no mood to&n bsp;listen to
a lower species.

He cut off the human as they called themselves, "In the& nbsp;name of the Batarian Hegemony. I hereby annex
this colony and all of its resources, your people will become our slaves to do with as we please".

The human looked at&nb sp;Garrel saying "that's not going to happen butter cup".

Garrel vowed the huma n would pay for his insolence.

Lt. Col Hackett was very disturbed by the turn of&nbs p;events, these Batarian's had come for war. Before he& nbsp;
could give the order to fire the sh ip AI named Elvis sounded brace for impact

"enemy fleet has opened fire".

Admiral Garrel had ordered all ships to open fire the moment he killed the line with the human. At this
range the human vessels would no t be able to dodge.

The smal ler more maneuverable ones could but not the big bulky ships.

He smiled as he saw the rounds hit the ships and was about to order the fleet in when the weapons
officer called out.
"Enemy ships have taken no hits". The SSV ship deflector shields had flickered and failed but another
stronger barrier intercepted the other rounds before impact.

Garrel then ordered any ships that were ready to fire to tar get the closest vessel. 50 vessels opened&nbs p;fire
on the SSV-Washington.

Lt. Commander Shepard looked around the bridge s eeing a most everything knocked out of place& nbsp;and a
few crew with broken and bleeding limbs. He was glad that his ;wife and daughter as well as the woman
who delivered her were not on the ship. He cursed himself for letting engineering ta ke the deflector
offline for minor repairs.&n bsp;

The order to return fire had&n bsp;barely left his mouth when the ships AI screamed incoming. The SSV
Washington's shields had been knocked down to 70% from the first attack.
;
One shot of its MAC and half of its archer missiles fired, before 50 more rounds s truck causing the shield
to completely f ail, 50 more rounds followed hitting everything aft&nbs p;of the bridge. Engineering took the
m ost damage and was venting.

T he ship AI told Shepard "the ship had li ttle propulsion left but could still ram ;one of the bigger vessels if
he w anted". She also told him "the MAC had g one through three of the frigates and cr ippled a cruiser, as
well as taking&nbs p;out a few of the smaller vessels that got in the way".

Shepard sounded abandon ship when he was informed that manual control would be needed since auto
pilot was disabled. He sat down after dismissing the bridge crew. Told the AI ;that he was going to call
Hannah and hear her and Athena's voice one last time and tell the m he loved them.

It was then that the AI chose to call herself shierra.&nb sp;

Hannah Shepard answered her phone when she saw it was her husband, Athena kept screaming daddy
at her&n bsp;while she heard what he had to say.& nbsp;She sat down and put the speaker on ;so her daughter could
hear her dad sing happy birthday to her before&nbs p;the line cut out and was replaced by&n bsp;static.

Shepard guided the crippled frigate towards one of the massive ships he assumed were capital shi ps. He
had Shierra block out the sounds of battle so he could&nb sp;talk to his family one last time.

Singing happy birthday to Athena. Th e ship got rocked by an explosion. He ha d told her mom where he
had hid&nb sp;Athena's birthday present asking her to give&nb sp;it to her early. When he finished singing& nbsp;happy
birthday his ship collided with th e one of the ten dreadnaughts he told Shierra to fired the MAC at point
blank rang&nbs p;and all remaining archer missiles, as well as all the Rampart 50 MM point&n bsp;defense guns. The
resulting explosion complete ly destroyed the dreadnaught, as well as damaging a few of the cruisers
and taking four more frigates w ith it.

The first 5 minutes of this battle had already cost Garrel 7 frigates, 2 cruisers damaged, 1 cruiser, 1
dreadnaught, and 15&nbs p;slaver ships that had been stupid enough to get in the way of the human ship. 24
ships that were a total loss and 2 damaged but still fighting. He still had nine human v essels to deal with
and their fighters which were damned good against his. He found that if all his ships focused their fire
power on just one of the ships they could take them out.
&nbs p;
The humans were more formidable then Garrel had originally thought.

Lt. Col. Hackett saw the SSV Washington disappear in a flash after taking out 24 enemy vessels. He
saluted Shepard the moment he realize d what he was doing.

Though he&nbs p;felt pain for Hannah's loss he had promised Shepard that he would&nb sp;help with Athena as she
grew if anything happened.

Elvis broke his train of thought stating, "one of the cruiser s and multiple smaller vessels had broken
through the atmosphere".
&nbs p;
Hackett knew the ground war had started&nbs p;and he was damned sure going keep other&nbs p;ships from making
it down.

The Enterprise launched its Pelicans loaded with Marines equipped with the best weapons that Admiral
Cole had given them. They had been able to mo dify the MA5 assault rifles to use a mass effect generator
to effectively make the ;round heavier as it left the barrel. As an added bonus the rounds exploded once

they penetrated their targets. Whatever the brain children had don e over at R&D, it gave them an
advantage in combat.

Garrel was pleased that the cruiser and multiple smaller craf t had managed to sneak through and break ;
atmo to start the ground war. The smile plastered on his face was one of pure greed

Aboard Pelican SA-001MC ;
ETA to LZ 10 Mikes
Elysium Colonial Capital

"Alright Marines this is what you were t rained for, I want each and every one of you to skull fuck every
last one of those alien cock gobbling fuck sticks souls. No excuses I want to be home in time&nbs p;to fuck my
wife after dinner".

"Aye aye sgt" came from&n bsp;the leathernecks in the pelican.

The pilot informed Sg t Anderson that they would be landing in ten mikes and to prep the troops.

He shouted at the Marines, "get the fuck up and go& nbsp;condition 1, clear my fucking LZ of ever ything that is
not human".

No sooner than that was said when the ramp dropped and the SAMC finally joined in the shit. The first
ground battle for Elysiu m had begun.

1 Hour in

"Get that fucking tank moving its just& nbsp;blood and guts in the track it's no t going to hurt it", Anderson
yelled.&n bsp;He already found these four eyed fuck ups to be a laughing stock. The weapons that they were
using barely caused his shields to flair.

They did have heavy ;weapons, which could wreak havoc with the Al liance troops.

The very first Bata rian Anderson had seen tried to shoot him&nbs p;in the head. The round shattered against his shield and giving him a head ache. He beat that particular shit stain with his own rifle.

The rifles the SAMC had been issued were slaughtering the aliens. ;

Anderson had grown quit fond of seeing the Batarians get run over&nbs p;by the tanks they had. Even laughing
when one started screaming before his head popped off.

The Batarian captain&n bsp;in charge of the ground assault was shock ed at how ferocious these humans
fought.

Those troop&n bsp;ships they came off doubled as air support and were knocking out the smaller slaver
vessels. And that strange tracked vehicle kept blowing&nb sp;up the cover they were using. It also kept running
over anyone in the&nbs p;open or any wounded. He had to give&nb sp;the humans credit they were brutal when
faced with impossible odds.

"Sir we have capt ured two human females, one appears to be a child". The reporting Batarian sporte d
multiple lacerations.

Ten minutes earlier
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Hannah Shepard saw the enemy ship c ome to a hover above the city launching& nbsp;multiple landing craft.
She saw that there&nb sp;were other smaller vessels already bombing and& nbsp;strafing the city.

The Alliance&n bsp;defenders were returning fire. But the orbital defense MAC's had not been online and h ad
already been knocked out. She was assessing how far up&nbs p;shit creek they truly were. when She heard
Athena ask.

"mommy what is happening? Why ;are we being attacked?"

Hannah d idn't know what to say other than, "sometimes other people want what we have". She went to
the kitchen with Athena in tow and grabbed the hand gun she had.

One of the landing craft had landed on Hannah's street. Two legged Aliens started running out and
breaking into& nbsp;every house. Pulling families out and lo ading them on to the vessel killing thos e who
fought back until the captain too k charge.

"Don't kill the slaves,& nbsp;just disarm them and get them on th e ship".

Hannah saw that the ;aliens were at her door so she fired ri ght through it. She heard one of the aliens
scream as he&nbs p;was hit with a hammer pair.

Athena was ;now crying from the noise, screaming that&nb sp;she wanted everything to stop.

Hannah's front door was kicked in and she saw the first alien look right at her with four black eyes
yelling at her to drop her weapon. She fired at him and grabbed her daughter retreating to the kitchen.
Out of ammo she grabbed a knife and when the alien made it to the kitche n she buried it in to the side
of its head killing it. She let it drop with the knife,&n bsp;grabbing another one she slashed at the o ther
advancing alien.

Brak saw his squad leader go down with a hilt sticking out of his head. He charged&n bsp;forward and ran into a
human woman w ith a little girl behind her crying. Something about the crying little girl brought&nbs p;pause to
brak. He felt the knife cut his arm, and chest through the under armor he was wearing. Before he finally
came to and smacked&n bsp;the weapon out of the woman's hand. He then kicked her legs out from under her
making sure& nbsp;she would not land on the little gi rl.

As he looked down at the woman he actually took pity on he r. She was beautiful so she would go to& nbsp;
some higher up or politician back home. The little girl would be given to the troops after this was all
done. But he had an idea that he hoped he could pull off. Mo tioning for the two to follow him, he ki lled
the last member of his squad to put his plan into motion.
;
Hannah was looking up at the man standi ng over her. She could see he was thinki ng about something
when he motioned for her to get up and follow him. She gr abbed Athena's hand picking her up and
carried her out. She saw the alien kill the other squad m ember with him. She followed him out to what

appeared to be a HQ and sighed with relief when she saw the SAMC& nbsp;engaging the enemy from both air
and&nbs p;land. She didn't notice when the alien stopped so&n bsp;she bumped into him.

Brak felt the human&nb sp;female bump into him and could understand& nbsp;why. He had stopped suddenly when
he saw that the human mili tary had showed up and started engaging the Batarian forces. He&nb sp;turned
around and told the human fema le to "keep quiet and follow him".
;
He pointed at a corner of the broken house that was being used as the Batarian command center for her
to stand in while he talked to the captain. "Sir we've ca ptured two human females, one appears to be&n bsp;a
child".

The captain looked&n bsp;at him then to the female woman holding a little version of& nbsp;her. "Why did you bring
her here?" , was the only thing he asked.
&nb sp;
Brak responded that she had killed his squad to protect ;her child, and that he had managed to c apture
her. He wanted both of them as his.

Brak was hoping that the captain would let him&nbs p;have them since he had "single handedly" ca ptured
them after his squad was killed off.

The captain looked back to&nb sp;the two females and thought of what he cou ld do to the older one. With lust
a nd greed in his voice he told Brak he&nb sp;could keep the little one but the older&nb sp;one was his.

Hannah heard what was said and immediately started screaming w hen the aliens tore her daughter
from he r.

It wasn't the one who had brought her to the command center. He was looking at her with pity in his
eyes.

The fucker who took her daughter handed Athena to him, and as he left he whispered to her that "she
would not fal l into the Batarian Hegemonies hands".

Ha nnah was shocked but tried to fight to g et to her daughter.

The guard&nbs p;that had taken Athena from her butt stroked Hannah with his rifle when she tried to ;fight
back. He saw a savage look on her face and&nbs p;hit her again knocking her unconscious.
&nb sp;
The captain told him to stop hitting& nbsp;his property. He then looked at her and thought to him self that she
would make the perfect sex slave for him.

Brak had seen where the human lines were so he started ;towards them.

The little girl wa s scared and screaming for her mother.
& nbsp;
He told her that he was taking her back to her peopl e.

Athena calmed down somewhat once she heard she was headed b ack to humans.

As Brak approached the human lines he was struck from ;behind.

Sgt. Anderson had seen the&nbs p;Batarian carrying the little girl and gotte n behind him. He knocked out the
alien by punching him in the&nbs p;back of the head. But like an idiot he ;forgot the little girl was in his arms. ;
She was crying from under the man Anderson had hit.

Athena was crying when the man holding her had fallen on her. Not&nb sp;long after he was rolled off of her and she looked up to see a Marine st anding before her. She reached out to hi m and was picked up in
return. Athena glanced down at the man who had brought her and& nbsp;pointed at him.

Anderson was confused at first when the little girl kept p ointing at the Batarian. He was even mor e
confused when she smacked him for kicking the alien. He&nbs p;ordered two of the nearby Marines to take the unconscious being in to custody. He would question him in once&nbs p;he came too.

Aboard the SSV Sydney
Elysium Orbit
5 and half hours after first contact

Lt. Col. Hackett&nb sp;stood on the bridge watching the battle in space continue to unfold before him.
So far the SA fleet had managed to reduce the enemy fleet down to 25 shi ps.

He had only lost 3 light frigates, 2 heavy frigates, and 1 corvette. He still had 1 corvette, 2 heavy cruisers&nbs p;
and the carrier. What was left of the fighter craft were harassing the remaining enemy ships so that Hackett could regroup for a final attack. He could then finally turn his attention&n bsp;to the fight happening
on the planet .

Suddenly Elvis informed him "the relay is showing more activity and&n bsp;the signatures matched the
enemies".

Hackett ordered all ground forces to evacuate and take as many survivors as they&n bsp;could.

Elysium
Colonial Capital&nbs p;
One minute later

Sgt. Anderson had questioned the Batarian and found&nbs p;out that Hannah Shepard had been taken ;captive,
and that Brak had promised Ha nnah that he would make sure Athena woul d not become a slave of the
hegemony. He was leaving to go find Athena's mother&nbs p;when his radio operator yell at him.

"Sgt. Anderson the Lt. Col. Has ordered all SA forces to evacuate and take&nb sp;as many survivors as they
can".
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Anderson turned on his heel and gave the RO a withering glare. When he saw the pelicans start taking
on Marines and civilians with fighter cover he radioed one of them. His blood turned to ice when he
heard that enemy reinforcements were in the system and slowly making their way&nbs p;to towards them.

"Well fuck me&n bsp;sideways" was the last thing Anderson said&nbs p;before ordering what was left of his Marine s
to load up.

Everyone was quiet as they were leaving, no one wanted to but they had no choice.

The&nbs p;Battle had lasted just shy of six hour s. And they were just starting to get th e upper hand before the
order to r etreat had been given.

Sgt. Anderson held Athena as she finally slept, she&nbs p;was clutching on to him and he was sur e they would
need a crow bar to get her off. The doctor offered to take&nbs p;her but he told her Athena was fine. 
Dr. Chakwas saw Athena sleeping in the Marines arms and offered to t ake her off his hands but he had
re fused. She had already informed Hackett what had hap pened to Athena's mother. She had agreed to
bring her to his quarters once they arrived. She asked the pilot how much longer till they docked and
was informed that it would be a few more minutes. So she decided she was going to get Athe na since
she loved seeing ships.

Anderson finally relented and let the doctor take the little girl.&nbs p;

Once she heard the word ship Athena was all excited.

"Such childhood innocence", Anderso n said laughing.

Athena was all o ver the hanger looking at all the fighters&nb sp;and drop ships. It did the Marines good to see
that as Chakwas saw.

She finally caught the child and took her to Hackett's quarters where there was food fo r Athena and
juice. The food left was something she was going to talk to Hackett ab out once Athena was asleep. A
cheese bur ger and fries wasn't what Athena needed. The juice on the&n bsp;other hand was.

Once Athena had seen the cheese burger and fries she sque aled with excitement. "uncle Steven got my
favorite food aunt Karin". She sat down and started eating the food not& nbsp;paying any more attention to
the ships outside.

Hackett was on the& nbsp;bridge trying to contain his anger. He h ad just found out that the fleet that wa s
supposed to be arriving had been calle d back due to politics.

To say&nbs p;he was furious was an understatement.

"Back door dirty corrupt rim job giving politicians. What the fuck were they t hinking? They just
condemned what was left of the colony to slavery". Hackett yelled&nbs p;out loud scaring everyone on the
brid ge.

They would be back in the sol system soon.

Hackett was a lready planning the counter attack and shoving&nbs p;his foot up every politician's ass that had ;
something to do with the decision.