Halo - Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Systems Alliance gets an upgrade ❯ The Alliance Retaliates ( Chapter 3 )
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Non Anime: Halo - Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.26.2015 | Pages: 15 | Words: 9.7K | Visits: 157 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 3: The Alliance
Retaliates
2156.04.02
Sol System
SA Head Quarters
Lt. Col. Hackett was starting to get tire of all the back room politics. Since he had arrived that's all he had
seen. A few times he thought about just hijacking the fleets and telling the politician's to fuck off and eat a
bag of dicks. One ass clown had been opposing him all day. Elvis told him that Sen. Klowski had an
invested inter est in keeping the fleet in the sol syst em. When Hackett asked for more information he had
found out that Klowski was being paid off by p arties who opposed going through the sol relay to begin
with.
"Like I said tin man, you cannot take the fleet to take back Elysium". Sen. Klowski was getting tired of
this back and forth so thought he'd try to blackmail Hackett if he kept pushing t he issue. All he had to say
was that Hackett had kidnaped Athena and no one would doubt him. It would not be the first time he
falsified reports. Or even faked evidence for that matter, he did after all blackmail his way to the top. He
stood to leave but was yelled at by Hackett to sit back down.
Hackett had had enough of the bull shit games. He saw Klowski get up to leave and immediately started
to yell at him. "Sit the fuck down you worthless piece of shit, whole families were destroyed because of
you. Our people our now fucking slaves while you pad your pockets with blood money. If anyone here
should be leaving it's me". With that Hackett turned and left a few very flabbergasted politicians behind.
Elvis had podcast the entire meeting, and was assuring Hackett that all the evidence had been passed to
the authorities. Minus Hackett's explosive outburst.
As he left headquarters with a smile on his lips, Elvis informed him that he'd received multiple
agreements for other ships captains. "Sometimes its good to cut loose" he said to himself.
Athena and the rest of&nb sp;the survivors had been transported to the surface of earth by the time Hackett had
returned back to the Enterprise. The ship was taking&n bsp;on resupply and what damage they did receive was in
the process of being repaired.
Elvis informed him that it would take roughly two months to repair the damage to the other vessels.
Hackett did not like the thought. He did not want the people of Elysium feeling th at the Alliance had
abandoned them. The Batarians might also think they gave up or were waiting to build up a big enough
force to strike back. Hackett told the AI to inform the vessels that were damaged they would be staying in
the sol system.
Sen. Klowski was sitting in his office when a squad of Marines entered. He looked at them questioningly
with a raised eye brow. Before he could actually ask what the fuck they wanted. Fleet Admiral Cole,
Commander for the System Alliance walked in and informed him he was under arrest. The charges were
corru ption, dereliction of duty, accepting bribe money, and abandoning humanity. All of these charges
car ried the death penalty and if found guilty the sentence will be carried out immediately.
&nb sp;
"THIS IS BULL SHIT", was all that he could say before Cole had him placed flex cuffs on him. His
career in politics over regardless of whether they found&nbs p;him guilty or not. Klowski was led out ;to meet
whatever fate awaited him.
Hackett saw a huge vessel in orbit of earth as he was leaving the planet. Since he had been in the Petra
Nebula for six years he had no idea what it was. He decided to asked Elvis.
"Sir, that is an infinity class warship, The SSV-Mi ssouri one of two vessels". Elvis responded, he also
sent a copy of the specs to Hackett's personal termi nal. He then sent him reports of all the mining
operations in the sol system.
Once Hackett saw the&n bsp;specs he was grinning ear to ear. The fact the mining& nbsp;operations going on gave the
systems alliance 161 vessels helped too. He received confirmation from all seven fleets&nbs p;as well as from
the SSV-Missouri, they agreed on his plan.
One fleet would stay behind to guard the relay as well as earth. Six ;other fleets would hit Elysium and
liberate it.
Once they arrived they would disable one of the Hegemony capital ships, board and gather intel on the
batarians. Since the Missouri would require a huge amount of eezo to move the egg heads in R&D kept
the original design specifications. So the Missouri would utilize its slipspace drive and jump in system
behind the fleets after they engaged the batarians. It would then launch all 10 of the strident class heavy
frigates it carried ;to cut off any route to the relay. &nb sp;
Hackett had Elvis send out an armada wide memo. Any and all forces that surrendered were not to be
harmed. If they played possum they became fair game. Slavers were to be terminated on sight. Any slaves
regardless of species were& nbsp;to be freed. The new combat armor was to be issued as well&nbs p;as the point
defense gauntlets. He was ;expecting all hell to break loose once the&n bsp;troops had landed on Elysium or any
other planet that the& nbsp;batarians were living on.
2156.05.14&nb sp;
Sol Relay
Operation Retribution
Sol System fleet strength 46 vessels
Armada strength 115 vessels
On board the SSV-Missouri Hackett was still getting&n bsp;used to Samantha.
Samantha was the AI for the SSV- Missouri Fleet Adm. Coles command ship. She could dance circles
around Elvis, since AI tec h had improved a lot in six years. She chose to look like a member of the < br>
Missouria tribe that inhabited the U.S. state for which the ship was named after. Everyone found it odd
she chose to be called Samantha after choosing that back g round.
"Sir, Fleet Admiral Cole is aboard", Samantha informed Hackett. She knew he was here to promote
Hackett to Rear Admiral.
John Shepard had been posthumously promoted to Captain, his daughter Athena was with Cole.
Dr. Chakwas had come with them to keep an eye on Athena. Since she had a knack for ghosting herself
from under others gaze.
Cole still couldn't believe that the little girl's parents had gone through gene therapy while she was in
utero. Two years old and she was already at a six year olds level. Reading, writing, talking, Athena was
going places. Cole wouldn't be surprised if the whole galaxy learned to either fear or respect her name in
th e future.
"Aunt Karin, how come we came to see Uncle Steven?" Athena asked the older woman.
Dr. Chakwas looked down at the little girl before answering "today is a special day for your&nb sp;Uncle. He is
getting promoted to Rear Admiral".
Athena's eyes lit up with excitement and she started to jump up and down in the elevator.
"Uncle Steven", was all that Hackett heard before he was tackled from behind. Once he was able to turn
around he looked down and saw his red headed niece. "Athena, what brings you to my humble little
ship?" he asked as he picked the little girl up.
"Nothing much, just promoting you to Rear Admiral, Uncle Steven", Athena said before retorting that his
ship was not little.
Both Fleet Adm. Cole and Dr. Chakwas started laughing at the littl e girl's statement.
Fleet Adm. Cole was wiping tears from his eyes when he casual ly handed the man his warrant.
Hackett was shocked. He knew that Cole could give out field promotions. He just wasn't expecting one to < br> happen to him. "Sir, not that I'm thrilled by this, why the promotion".
"I've decided to give you command of the SSV-Missouri, as well as the armada".& nbsp;Cole said
At this Samantha played hail to the chief over the bridge speakers.
Cole broke into a deep laugh "the only thing missing is confetti and champagne" , he said.
Athena gave Hackett a hug before she asked to see Brak, who was still in the brig.
"N o", was all the Hackett told her before he heard Dr. Chakwas tell Athena i t was time to go.
Dr. Chakwas congratulated Hackett before she grabbed Athena's hand to take her back to the shuttle.
Before she left the bridge she turned her head and looked at Hackett. "Find our people and bring them
home".
2156.05.15
Elysium
Vetus System, Petra Nebula
The batarians had completely changed the way the colony looked. The AI had kept herself hidden and
blocked off access to R&D. Though the Batarians kept sending teams to try and hack the door, and she
kept electrocuting them. She kept rewriting the VI's that she found exploring the systems, causing them to
shout profanities and use obscene gestures whenever they were used.
Garrel was pleased with the way everything was going. The human Military had turned and run when the
rest of his fleet had show ed up. He still had 9 dreadnoughts and all the support ships to maintain them
parked in orbit. He figured he would not need them since it was obvious to him that the humans were not
coming back. He looked over to the left of his desk to see his newest s lave. He didn't care for the red hair
so he reached over and ripped a hand full of it out. This human woman didn't fight anymore Garrel had
seen to that after she had killed the captain the day she had been taken. The fact that he repeatedly raped
her da ily helped he thought.
Hannah Shepard was a shell of her former self. She&n bsp;had been beaten, raped, tortured, and humiliated
every day since she had been captured. She turned to stare at her tormentor after he had ripped out more
of her hair.
&n bsp;
She stared at him with hollow eyes that had tears starting to escape them. She know what came next, this
Garrel would be on top of her grunting as he pumped away between her legs. He always forced her to
look up at him as he wrapped a hand around her throat. She just wanted it to end, just hoping that this
monster would kill her already. She had already lost her everything to these people.&n bsp;
Vetus System
Four hours later
The systems alliance armada finally exited the relay and immediately set course for Elysium. Long range
scans pi cked up only two dreadnoughts with their supporting vessels. They c ounted a total of 40 vessels
in orbit of the planet.
Elvis marked the farthest dreadnought as the target ship t o be boarded. All other vessels were fair game as
Hackett had said.
Garrel was beating Hannah&nb sp;again when an alarm sounded catching him off guard. He radioed&n bsp;the
command center and was told that 104 vessels had just appeared on scanners. Garrel told the command
center he'd be there in a few minutes.
"By the pillars of strength, who is it?" Garrel said forgetti ng about Hannah and throwing on his armor. He
grabbed his weapon then made his way to the command center.
Bray had already ordered a fighter squadron to investigate the contacts. He did not hear Garrel enter the
command center until he took control.
Ever yone was running around it was pure chaos. No one was expected to show from the Hegemony.
The moment ;that Garrel took command everything went to hell. One of the fighters reported back that
they had been engaged by human forces and were falling back. At this moment Garrel swore to himself
for sending six dreadnoughts and the ships that went with them away. He ordered all ships to break orbit
and engage. Garrel was smug when he said, "these humans are going to regret ever coming back".
The systems alliance opened fire on the fighters that were headed to intercept them. All but two of the
fighters had been destroyed and they were retreating.
Anderson was standing on the bridge of the SSV-London, a corvette class vessel. He watched as the last
two fighters were turned into debris before heading down to the hanger bay to board his pelican. He was
going to be a part of the boarding party and wanted to make sure that all of the Marines were ready.
&nbs p;
"Status report" Anderson sounded off when he reached the pelican.
"Green across the board sir", the Marines answered back through the radio since& nbsp;they were all wearing the
helmets that came with the new combat armor.
Anderson&nbs p;just smiled he was looking forward to getting back at the batarians for the shit they had pulled.
Batarian forces&n bsp;
Orbit of Elysium
The size of the human armada headed towards them shocked the batarians. They had no idea that the
humans even had so many ships. After the fight they had with them the last time they knew that each ship
could launch ground forces. If they could hold out till the six dreadnoughts returned they would fine.
Just as they engaged the incoming humans they saw&nbs p;a bright light appear in the middle of space and to
their horror a massive ship started to emerge from it. What was worst about after it came out of the circle
of light completely it launched ten more vessels. The number of enemy ships had j ust reached 115.
Once the SSV-Missouri exited from& nbsp;slipspace the battle for Elysium had just started. Samantha had timed
the release of the frigates to coincide with them completely leaving slipspace to maintain ;the shock value
that they had achi eved. Once the frigates were launched they set up a skirmish line, cutting off any
possible retreat to the relay.
Hackett knew that it was over kill the size of the force he brought but he wasn't planning on stopping at
Elysium. He would chase down every fucking bastard that forced the colonists into slavery. He didn't care
if he had to go to the galactic core to do it. Every single human would be accounted for.
Planet side
Garrel didn't believe what he was hearing about a bright light and then a huge vessel coming out. He
didn't even believe the video, thinking that it was a trick of t hat blasted contraption left behind by the
humans.
Not even the asari had that kind of tech and they were the most advanced race on the citadel. The soldiers
around him were starting&nbs p;to get jumpy and he had to yell at them a few times to get a grip. The humans
were still out of range to attack.
The screen lit up from all of the human ships weapons. "There was no way that those rounds would hit,
they were too far out". One of the batarians said in the background.
The first& nbsp;rounds hit the batarian ships tearing through them causing devastating damage. The smaller
ships had been completely destroyed. The dreadnoughts had been severely damaged and were dead in the
water. Those that survived long enough to make it to the escape pods saw pelican drop ships under fighter
cover headed to the disabled dreadnoughts.
Slack jawed Garrel just stared at the complete destruction of most of his ships. The AI of the ;facility
chose to at that moment appear.
"You're now royally and truly fucked. Hope you brought lubrication otherwise its going in dry", was all
she said before disappearing again.
Hannah saw the chaos that was going on and took that opportunity to find anything th at she could use as a
weapon against that fucking monster that&nb sp;ruined her life. She found a knife that Garrel had kept in the top
right draw. It looked like a ceremonial blade but it would still do the job. She took the knife and hid to
wait for her torturer.& nbsp;
Garrel ordered all remaining forces to engage. He then ran to his quarters to find his female slave had
vanished. He was in such a rush that he actually passed her standing just to the right of the door. He
turned to look around the room to see if his slave had possibly moved to the other side. Instead he saw her
driving a knife into his chest.
Hannah watch Garrel run in the room and quietly walked up behind him. She saw her chance to look her
captor in the face when he turned. She stabbed him in the chest, barring the knife to the hilt. She let him
drop to the floor and started to leave when there was a gun shot behind her and her chest blew out in front
of her.
Garrel&n bsp;fell to his knees after Hannah had stabbed him. He looked down to see that the Knife was his
before he looked back up. He saw His naked slave walking away from him. He reached down and drew
the side arm he had taken off of a dead Marine and shot her before he collapsed.
Disabled Batarian Dreadnought
Orbit of Elysiun
Ander son stood aboard pelican SA-001MC checking the seals on his new armor. The brain guild had told
them that they could EVA for 15 minutes. He double checked the point defense gauntlet on his left arm to
make sure it was secure. He then went over the plan with the Marines again. The objective was simply,
get to the bridge.
The pelican dropped Anderson and his Marines off on the hull afte r getting rocked around by AA. As
luck would have it they were by an air lock.
The outer hatch had been peeled away but the inner hatch was still closed. Anderson had all the Marines
activate their hand held shields as&n bsp;they called them.
The only Marine to not activate theirs was hacking the door. Once he hacked the door Anderson punched
the center green construct. As the hatch opened the Marines received a very warm ;welcome from the
batarians.
The batarians& nbsp;stationed at the air lock didn't see a point to it. If anyone was going to board the ship, it
would make more sense to hit the damaged parts of the hull. Th ese humans weren't too bright they
thought&nb sp;amongst themselves. Just then the air lock opened revealing a quad sized element of humans.
They opened&nbs p;fire but the rounds hit some kind of shield they had in front of them. Each human had one
and they were wearing some kind of helmets that only showed the batarians&nbs p;their reflections.
The Marines that&n bsp;had entered the ship with Anderson were fighting twenty feet from the a ir lock. They
had closed and locked the hatch to keep from being tossed out into vacuum.
Locking the hatch had been interesting since they were getting shot at the whole time.
"Frag out" called one of the Marines. She was flushing out some heavily entrenched batarians. Everyone
took cover& nbsp;as the grenade did its job. Batarian body parts and blood were blown all over the passageway
as the Marines screamed "Fuck yeah".
Anderson pushed forward in the confusion that the grenade had caused and ;ran in to a batarian that had
the same idea.
He was blasting away with a shot gun. One of the shells connected with Anderson's gauntlet causing it to
flicker out of&nb sp;existence.
Anderson was close enough to the batarian that he just back handed ;him with his left hand before
shooting him.
They were following a map that Brak had given them. And according to it they had eight more decks to
fight through to get to the bridge. They had already r un across one alien that launched something blue at
them. No one knew what it was other then it could make&nbs p;them float in air or suspend them. If they
exploded by you it seriously damaged your shields as well as tossing you around like a rag doll.
Anderson had already lost two Marines who got cocky and charged ahead. They got swarmed by the
batarians. And sense then large groups would charge them. But by the count the AI was keeping they had
already killed seventy five soldiers. The other squads were farin g just as well.
Batarian bridge&nb sp;
"Sir, we have multiple enemies boarding at several differen t locations both forward and aft of the bridge",
one of the crew told the captain.
"Fuck, call back half the force to protect the bridge". The captain said while looking at a holo projection
of the ship. He knew he was fucked, he just wished that he'd be wined and dined first.
"There isn't anyone left to send other than what's outside the bridge sir", the crewmen told him.
The captain was getting desperate, yelling at the bridge crew. "Then vent the whole fucking ship except
the bridge".
The crew did as they were told and what was left of the batarians fighting&n bsp;the humans died of
asphyxiation.
Anderson and his Marines where still pushing to the bridge when all the air had been vented from the
ship. He was really starting to love his mag boots. It would have been a long painful ride to where ever
the air went.
One of the Marines piped over the radio "shit they just killed their&n bsp;whole crew to get us. Fuck now I'm
flattered but I still don't fuck on the first date". "Bull shit" was tossed aroun d by the other Marines before
they finally made i t to the Bridge.
The count t hat was running so far had Anderson's squad in the lead with 300 kills.
The Humans were outside of the bridge and starting to hack the doors. The cr ew was getting nervous and
the captain was screaming at everyone. He finally ordered ;all hands to grab weapons and fight to the
death. Everyone was told to focus on the first person to come through the door.
While they were waiting to hack the hatch the Marines shields recharged and the gauntlets as well.
Anderson asked for status check from his squad and was told two red, four yellow, five green. They also
said they had to&n bsp;take a combat dumb. 'At least we're not out of&nbs p;the fight yet' Anderson said aloud
laughing.
Once the door opened what was left of the batarian cre w opened fire on the point man. This caused the
shield on his arm to flicker and drop.
The human fired back hitting three of the batarians before th ey ducked to cover.
One of the humans tossed a metal ball of some kind at their feet, four crewmen stared at it before they
realized what it was. It detonated killing them all.&n bsp;Only the captain and one of the bridge crew were left
now.
Anderson saw bodies and parts of bodies go flying across the room. One batarian who had the luck to be
blown in half gasped as Anderson walked over him. Anderson just kept moving when one of the crew
jumped up and yelled that he surrendered.
His brains splattered all over the bulk head to his left as the now last batarian shot him.
Anderson charged the alien and tackled him, grabbing his face in his hands he started to beat the batarians
head against the steel&nbs p;deck. Once it looked like he was unconscious or even better dead, Anderson got up
and stepped back.
The dumb shit reached for a weapon so Anderson shot him in the groin then stomped on the aliens
mangled privates grinding his boot in. This caused the man to howl in agony. Anderson stood there
looking at the castrated batarian before telling him he was going to space him.
Once the bridge was secured the Marines uploaded an AI in to the ships computers to retrieve data on the
batarians and where all the colonists had been sent. The AI also found out that there was more than just
batarians. There was something called the council and a citadel. She also found medical treatments for
each race and things they could safely eat. So now any slaves they found would be able to receive the
correct medical attention and be able to eat.
With the last ship neutralized, the armada could focus on the planet.
Planet side
Colonial&n bsp;Capital
When the batarians saw the massive wave of drop ships and fighters head towards them they were
shocked. There were so many craft in the air the AA barley m ade a dent. As the drop ships got closer the
batarians realized they& nbsp;were carrying tracked vehicles as well as vehicles with either a gun or what
appeared to be rockets or artillery attached to them.
"Could you try and not hit every piece of AA in the air"&nb sp;commented one of the Marines aboard 002-SA.
"You could get out and walk" the pilot responded flipping off the fe male Marine.
When the alliance Marines& nbsp;landed on Elysium the closest humans dropped to their knees or ran towards
them.
The bata rians saw this and started shooting everything that moved.
& nbsp;
The drop ships and fighters started to strafe the enemies' positions. And unlike the fighters the pelicans
could hover and stay on sight.
The Marines had found themselves in close quarters, so a lot of the fighting turned to hand to hand. It
wasn't long before they found asari and human slaves and freed them.
Anderson had thrown a batarian soldier through a blacked out window into a warehouse. When he
followed the alien to kill him when he saw the room was full&n bsp;of asari. They looked a lot like humans
except the crests on their heads and were all female. After Anderson had dispatched the batarian he
approached one of the asari, stopping when he saw that she had a horrified look on her face.
Sule em sat on the floor looking at the thing that had killed one of the slavers. She had never seen armor
like what it was wearing and was afraid it was going to kill her and her sisters. It stopped moving towards
them before it removed its helmet. Suleem gasped at what she saw.
Anderson removed his helmet and gave the asari a reassuring smile. They all looked at him with both
shock and curiosity. Many looking at each other before looking back at him, he approached the one that
had gasped.
Suleem had never seen this ;species before. They appeared to hate the batarians, and they resembled asari
except for whatever was on top of their heads. The alien spoke and to her surprise she could understand it.
"It's okay I'm Lt. Anderson with the systems alliance. We are here to help you" he told them. He figured
out how to remove the restrains from their arms and helped up one of the asari.
"I'm suleem", she introduced herself to Lt. Anderson. She looked around before she started to cry from
relief.
Anders on didn't know what to do. He was a soldier not a physiologist, besi des he had never been good
with women when the broke down and cried. Rubbing his neck he asked suleem "are you okay?"
"I'm fine, just happy to&nb sp;be free", wiping the tears from her face she&nbs p;looked at Anderson and hugged him.
Once a medic had arrived to start first aid Anderson left to find his squad he'd been separated from. He
found them sitting on a tank they had somehow managed to catch a ride on.
Forty five minutes later Anderson and his squad were pushing& nbsp;down a hall in a school the batarians had
turned into a command center. They had already gotten into two skirmishes and didn't fancy anymore
CQC they were starting to get exhausted and were running low&nbs p;on frag grenades.
They came upon an open area with a second story. No cover on the lower level and the only door across
room. They tossed out four smoke grenades to cover their movements. They waited ten seconds then
tossed a few flash bangs up on the second level. After that they hauled ass like raped apes to the other side
of the room.
The Marines stacked on the door and tossed the last two flash bangs in the room. After they went off the
Marines rushed through the door and found two batarians dazed from the flash bangs.
The Marines with Anderson dispatched one of the batarians too whatever deity he believed in. They
subdued the last one and slapped a pair of flex cuffs on him. Calling it in they were told to escort/drag the
prisoner out with the rest.
On the way back out Anderson saw a red head in one of the rooms on the floor. He went in and found
Hannah Shepard face down, naked, and in a pool of her own blood. He looked around to find something
to cover her with. He took his "prisoner" outside and shot him i n the knees demanding to know who killed
her.
The batarian& nbsp;said that Garrel did and he was already dead from being stabbed by that human bitch.
Anderson kicked him in the chest and was preparing to sh oot the shit stain before his Marines dragged
him away.
The second battle for Elysium had lasted for five hours, this included clearing out any hold outs.&n bsp;
Only three hundred batarians had survived the fight on the planet most of them civilian s. The patrols only
found a handful of escape pods with living survivors, most were dead due to faulty equipment or by their
own hand.
Hackett needed something to distr act himself from thinking about Hannahs fate. ;The medical officer had
told him what happen ed to her and the amount of abuse she took. To see her like that down in the med
bay made the hardened soldier cry, b ut at least she killed the asshole that had done those unspeakable acts
to her.
The systems alliance had the intel that they had come for so Hackett began planning his next attack. He
was going to hit the mining colony on Vana in the kite's nest. The resources would be used to build more
ships.
The vess els they had destroyed would be dismantled and the metals melted down, it would take a while
for more ships to be built this way.
Earth had sent more ships to Elysium to help rebuild and tend to the wounded. The offer to stay with the
humans was extended to the asari they had freed. Some took the offer but others wanted to ;leave.
"I will get you home, but first I need to make sure that this never happens again". Hackett had said this
twenty times&nb sp;already. He was grateful the asari understood.
2156.05.25&nb sp;
Vana mining colony
Kites Nest
Word ;had not reached the Hegemony of the humans r etaking Elysium. So when the human armada
showed up at Vana's door step and ordered them to surrender the batarians laughed.
One cruiser managed to escape the resulting carnage, making it to the relay. The&nbs p;rest of the batarian
hegemony were abo ut to find out that the humans had come knocking.
The batarian& nbsp;ships were like fish in a barrel for the human armada. They used the same tactics as Elysium
to over whelm the batarains sending an over whelming ground force to the domed colony.
The batarians had put the human slaves in front of the ir positions to use them as shields. Each one of them
had been told that the humans would fall easily to&nbs p;the fleet in orbit. Then watched the human ships
destroy the batarian fleet while still out of range.
The Marines that landed were already p ushing their way in to the colony. Their orders were to kill every
batarian they saw except the commander. He was to be interrogated, and then tossed in to the brig.
"Oh for the love of" Anderson muttered when he saw the batarians using humans as shields again. His
Marines were getting pissed about continually seeing the same tactic being deployed over and over. The
sniper they had could not get a good shot on any of the ass holes. And they were out of flash bangs and
smoke grenades.
The batarian commander was&nb sp;not going to let the humans take anyone alive so he ordered the engineers to
rig up explosives at the base of the dome.
Anderson was trying to get ahold of another squad ;of Marines to flank the Batarians in front of him when
he heard and explosion and felt the ground shake. He looked around and saw the dome start to&nb sp;splinter
and fail.
The batarian commander had destroyed the dome to keep the humans from saving anymore of their
people or the other slaves.
Hackett stood, not wanting to believe what Anderson was reporting. The human colonists in that colony
as well as people from the other races had been killed just to spite the rescue attempt. Women, children,
families all of them lost to asphyxiation. He asked Samantha if she had been recording the operation since
the beginning, he had a feeling that they were going to need i t. He then sent out an order to collect all the
dead and transport them back to Elysium. The asari would be able to help them handle the alien remains
with respect.
The&nb sp;human armada returned to Elysium the next day downtrodden with grief. The euphoria that was felt
just a few days ago lost. They quietly and respectfully transported all the dead colonists' planet side.
2156.04.02
Sol System
SA Head Quarters
Lt. Col. Hackett was starting to get tire of all the back room politics. Since he had arrived that's all he had
seen. A few times he thought about just hijacking the fleets and telling the politician's to fuck off and eat a
bag of dicks. One ass clown had been opposing him all day. Elvis told him that Sen. Klowski had an
invested inter est in keeping the fleet in the sol syst em. When Hackett asked for more information he had
found out that Klowski was being paid off by p arties who opposed going through the sol relay to begin
with.
"Like I said tin man, you cannot take the fleet to take back Elysium". Sen. Klowski was getting tired of
this back and forth so thought he'd try to blackmail Hackett if he kept pushing t he issue. All he had to say
was that Hackett had kidnaped Athena and no one would doubt him. It would not be the first time he
falsified reports. Or even faked evidence for that matter, he did after all blackmail his way to the top. He
stood to leave but was yelled at by Hackett to sit back down.
Hackett had had enough of the bull shit games. He saw Klowski get up to leave and immediately started
to yell at him. "Sit the fuck down you worthless piece of shit, whole families were destroyed because of
you. Our people our now fucking slaves while you pad your pockets with blood money. If anyone here
should be leaving it's me". With that Hackett turned and left a few very flabbergasted politicians behind.
Elvis had podcast the entire meeting, and was assuring Hackett that all the evidence had been passed to
the authorities. Minus Hackett's explosive outburst.
As he left headquarters with a smile on his lips, Elvis informed him that he'd received multiple
agreements for other ships captains. "Sometimes its good to cut loose" he said to himself.
Athena and the rest of&nb sp;the survivors had been transported to the surface of earth by the time Hackett had
returned back to the Enterprise. The ship was taking&n bsp;on resupply and what damage they did receive was in
the process of being repaired.
Elvis informed him that it would take roughly two months to repair the damage to the other vessels.
Hackett did not like the thought. He did not want the people of Elysium feeling th at the Alliance had
abandoned them. The Batarians might also think they gave up or were waiting to build up a big enough
force to strike back. Hackett told the AI to inform the vessels that were damaged they would be staying in
the sol system.
Sen. Klowski was sitting in his office when a squad of Marines entered. He looked at them questioningly
with a raised eye brow. Before he could actually ask what the fuck they wanted. Fleet Admiral Cole,
Commander for the System Alliance walked in and informed him he was under arrest. The charges were
corru ption, dereliction of duty, accepting bribe money, and abandoning humanity. All of these charges
car ried the death penalty and if found guilty the sentence will be carried out immediately.
&nb sp;
"THIS IS BULL SHIT", was all that he could say before Cole had him placed flex cuffs on him. His
career in politics over regardless of whether they found&nbs p;him guilty or not. Klowski was led out ;to meet
whatever fate awaited him.
Hackett saw a huge vessel in orbit of earth as he was leaving the planet. Since he had been in the Petra
Nebula for six years he had no idea what it was. He decided to asked Elvis.
"Sir, that is an infinity class warship, The SSV-Mi ssouri one of two vessels". Elvis responded, he also
sent a copy of the specs to Hackett's personal termi nal. He then sent him reports of all the mining
operations in the sol system.
Once Hackett saw the&n bsp;specs he was grinning ear to ear. The fact the mining& nbsp;operations going on gave the
systems alliance 161 vessels helped too. He received confirmation from all seven fleets&nbs p;as well as from
the SSV-Missouri, they agreed on his plan.
One fleet would stay behind to guard the relay as well as earth. Six ;other fleets would hit Elysium and
liberate it.
Once they arrived they would disable one of the Hegemony capital ships, board and gather intel on the
batarians. Since the Missouri would require a huge amount of eezo to move the egg heads in R&D kept
the original design specifications. So the Missouri would utilize its slipspace drive and jump in system
behind the fleets after they engaged the batarians. It would then launch all 10 of the strident class heavy
frigates it carried ;to cut off any route to the relay. &nb sp;
Hackett had Elvis send out an armada wide memo. Any and all forces that surrendered were not to be
harmed. If they played possum they became fair game. Slavers were to be terminated on sight. Any slaves
regardless of species were& nbsp;to be freed. The new combat armor was to be issued as well&nbs p;as the point
defense gauntlets. He was ;expecting all hell to break loose once the&n bsp;troops had landed on Elysium or any
other planet that the& nbsp;batarians were living on.
2156.05.14&nb sp;
Sol Relay
Operation Retribution
Sol System fleet strength 46 vessels
Armada strength 115 vessels
On board the SSV-Missouri Hackett was still getting&n bsp;used to Samantha.
Samantha was the AI for the SSV- Missouri Fleet Adm. Coles command ship. She could dance circles
around Elvis, since AI tec h had improved a lot in six years. She chose to look like a member of the < br>
Missouria tribe that inhabited the U.S. state for which the ship was named after. Everyone found it odd
she chose to be called Samantha after choosing that back g round.
"Sir, Fleet Admiral Cole is aboard", Samantha informed Hackett. She knew he was here to promote
Hackett to Rear Admiral.
John Shepard had been posthumously promoted to Captain, his daughter Athena was with Cole.
Dr. Chakwas had come with them to keep an eye on Athena. Since she had a knack for ghosting herself
from under others gaze.
Cole still couldn't believe that the little girl's parents had gone through gene therapy while she was in
utero. Two years old and she was already at a six year olds level. Reading, writing, talking, Athena was
going places. Cole wouldn't be surprised if the whole galaxy learned to either fear or respect her name in
th e future.
"Aunt Karin, how come we came to see Uncle Steven?" Athena asked the older woman.
Dr. Chakwas looked down at the little girl before answering "today is a special day for your&nb sp;Uncle. He is
getting promoted to Rear Admiral".
Athena's eyes lit up with excitement and she started to jump up and down in the elevator.
"Uncle Steven", was all that Hackett heard before he was tackled from behind. Once he was able to turn
around he looked down and saw his red headed niece. "Athena, what brings you to my humble little
ship?" he asked as he picked the little girl up.
"Nothing much, just promoting you to Rear Admiral, Uncle Steven", Athena said before retorting that his
ship was not little.
Both Fleet Adm. Cole and Dr. Chakwas started laughing at the littl e girl's statement.
Fleet Adm. Cole was wiping tears from his eyes when he casual ly handed the man his warrant.
Hackett was shocked. He knew that Cole could give out field promotions. He just wasn't expecting one to < br> happen to him. "Sir, not that I'm thrilled by this, why the promotion".
"I've decided to give you command of the SSV-Missouri, as well as the armada".& nbsp;Cole said
At this Samantha played hail to the chief over the bridge speakers.
Cole broke into a deep laugh "the only thing missing is confetti and champagne" , he said.
Athena gave Hackett a hug before she asked to see Brak, who was still in the brig.
"N o", was all the Hackett told her before he heard Dr. Chakwas tell Athena i t was time to go.
Dr. Chakwas congratulated Hackett before she grabbed Athena's hand to take her back to the shuttle.
Before she left the bridge she turned her head and looked at Hackett. "Find our people and bring them
home".
2156.05.15
Elysium
Vetus System, Petra Nebula
The batarians had completely changed the way the colony looked. The AI had kept herself hidden and
blocked off access to R&D. Though the Batarians kept sending teams to try and hack the door, and she
kept electrocuting them. She kept rewriting the VI's that she found exploring the systems, causing them to
shout profanities and use obscene gestures whenever they were used.
Garrel was pleased with the way everything was going. The human Military had turned and run when the
rest of his fleet had show ed up. He still had 9 dreadnoughts and all the support ships to maintain them
parked in orbit. He figured he would not need them since it was obvious to him that the humans were not
coming back. He looked over to the left of his desk to see his newest s lave. He didn't care for the red hair
so he reached over and ripped a hand full of it out. This human woman didn't fight anymore Garrel had
seen to that after she had killed the captain the day she had been taken. The fact that he repeatedly raped
her da ily helped he thought.
Hannah Shepard was a shell of her former self. She&n bsp;had been beaten, raped, tortured, and humiliated
every day since she had been captured. She turned to stare at her tormentor after he had ripped out more
of her hair.
&n bsp;
She stared at him with hollow eyes that had tears starting to escape them. She know what came next, this
Garrel would be on top of her grunting as he pumped away between her legs. He always forced her to
look up at him as he wrapped a hand around her throat. She just wanted it to end, just hoping that this
monster would kill her already. She had already lost her everything to these people.&n bsp;
Vetus System
Four hours later
The systems alliance armada finally exited the relay and immediately set course for Elysium. Long range
scans pi cked up only two dreadnoughts with their supporting vessels. They c ounted a total of 40 vessels
in orbit of the planet.
Elvis marked the farthest dreadnought as the target ship t o be boarded. All other vessels were fair game as
Hackett had said.
Garrel was beating Hannah&nb sp;again when an alarm sounded catching him off guard. He radioed&n bsp;the
command center and was told that 104 vessels had just appeared on scanners. Garrel told the command
center he'd be there in a few minutes.
"By the pillars of strength, who is it?" Garrel said forgetti ng about Hannah and throwing on his armor. He
grabbed his weapon then made his way to the command center.
Bray had already ordered a fighter squadron to investigate the contacts. He did not hear Garrel enter the
command center until he took control.
Ever yone was running around it was pure chaos. No one was expected to show from the Hegemony.
The moment ;that Garrel took command everything went to hell. One of the fighters reported back that
they had been engaged by human forces and were falling back. At this moment Garrel swore to himself
for sending six dreadnoughts and the ships that went with them away. He ordered all ships to break orbit
and engage. Garrel was smug when he said, "these humans are going to regret ever coming back".
The systems alliance opened fire on the fighters that were headed to intercept them. All but two of the
fighters had been destroyed and they were retreating.
Anderson was standing on the bridge of the SSV-London, a corvette class vessel. He watched as the last
two fighters were turned into debris before heading down to the hanger bay to board his pelican. He was
going to be a part of the boarding party and wanted to make sure that all of the Marines were ready.
&nbs p;
"Status report" Anderson sounded off when he reached the pelican.
"Green across the board sir", the Marines answered back through the radio since& nbsp;they were all wearing the
helmets that came with the new combat armor.
Anderson&nbs p;just smiled he was looking forward to getting back at the batarians for the shit they had pulled.
Batarian forces&n bsp;
Orbit of Elysium
The size of the human armada headed towards them shocked the batarians. They had no idea that the
humans even had so many ships. After the fight they had with them the last time they knew that each ship
could launch ground forces. If they could hold out till the six dreadnoughts returned they would fine.
Just as they engaged the incoming humans they saw&nbs p;a bright light appear in the middle of space and to
their horror a massive ship started to emerge from it. What was worst about after it came out of the circle
of light completely it launched ten more vessels. The number of enemy ships had j ust reached 115.
Once the SSV-Missouri exited from& nbsp;slipspace the battle for Elysium had just started. Samantha had timed
the release of the frigates to coincide with them completely leaving slipspace to maintain ;the shock value
that they had achi eved. Once the frigates were launched they set up a skirmish line, cutting off any
possible retreat to the relay.
Hackett knew that it was over kill the size of the force he brought but he wasn't planning on stopping at
Elysium. He would chase down every fucking bastard that forced the colonists into slavery. He didn't care
if he had to go to the galactic core to do it. Every single human would be accounted for.
Planet side
Garrel didn't believe what he was hearing about a bright light and then a huge vessel coming out. He
didn't even believe the video, thinking that it was a trick of t hat blasted contraption left behind by the
humans.
Not even the asari had that kind of tech and they were the most advanced race on the citadel. The soldiers
around him were starting&nbs p;to get jumpy and he had to yell at them a few times to get a grip. The humans
were still out of range to attack.
The screen lit up from all of the human ships weapons. "There was no way that those rounds would hit,
they were too far out". One of the batarians said in the background.
The first& nbsp;rounds hit the batarian ships tearing through them causing devastating damage. The smaller
ships had been completely destroyed. The dreadnoughts had been severely damaged and were dead in the
water. Those that survived long enough to make it to the escape pods saw pelican drop ships under fighter
cover headed to the disabled dreadnoughts.
Slack jawed Garrel just stared at the complete destruction of most of his ships. The AI of the ;facility
chose to at that moment appear.
"You're now royally and truly fucked. Hope you brought lubrication otherwise its going in dry", was all
she said before disappearing again.
Hannah saw the chaos that was going on and took that opportunity to find anything th at she could use as a
weapon against that fucking monster that&nb sp;ruined her life. She found a knife that Garrel had kept in the top
right draw. It looked like a ceremonial blade but it would still do the job. She took the knife and hid to
wait for her torturer.& nbsp;
Garrel ordered all remaining forces to engage. He then ran to his quarters to find his female slave had
vanished. He was in such a rush that he actually passed her standing just to the right of the door. He
turned to look around the room to see if his slave had possibly moved to the other side. Instead he saw her
driving a knife into his chest.
Hannah watch Garrel run in the room and quietly walked up behind him. She saw her chance to look her
captor in the face when he turned. She stabbed him in the chest, barring the knife to the hilt. She let him
drop to the floor and started to leave when there was a gun shot behind her and her chest blew out in front
of her.
Garrel&n bsp;fell to his knees after Hannah had stabbed him. He looked down to see that the Knife was his
before he looked back up. He saw His naked slave walking away from him. He reached down and drew
the side arm he had taken off of a dead Marine and shot her before he collapsed.
Disabled Batarian Dreadnought
Orbit of Elysiun
Ander son stood aboard pelican SA-001MC checking the seals on his new armor. The brain guild had told
them that they could EVA for 15 minutes. He double checked the point defense gauntlet on his left arm to
make sure it was secure. He then went over the plan with the Marines again. The objective was simply,
get to the bridge.
The pelican dropped Anderson and his Marines off on the hull afte r getting rocked around by AA. As
luck would have it they were by an air lock.
The outer hatch had been peeled away but the inner hatch was still closed. Anderson had all the Marines
activate their hand held shields as&n bsp;they called them.
The only Marine to not activate theirs was hacking the door. Once he hacked the door Anderson punched
the center green construct. As the hatch opened the Marines received a very warm ;welcome from the
batarians.
The batarians& nbsp;stationed at the air lock didn't see a point to it. If anyone was going to board the ship, it
would make more sense to hit the damaged parts of the hull. Th ese humans weren't too bright they
thought&nb sp;amongst themselves. Just then the air lock opened revealing a quad sized element of humans.
They opened&nbs p;fire but the rounds hit some kind of shield they had in front of them. Each human had one
and they were wearing some kind of helmets that only showed the batarians&nbs p;their reflections.
The Marines that&n bsp;had entered the ship with Anderson were fighting twenty feet from the a ir lock. They
had closed and locked the hatch to keep from being tossed out into vacuum.
Locking the hatch had been interesting since they were getting shot at the whole time.
"Frag out" called one of the Marines. She was flushing out some heavily entrenched batarians. Everyone
took cover& nbsp;as the grenade did its job. Batarian body parts and blood were blown all over the passageway
as the Marines screamed "Fuck yeah".
Anderson pushed forward in the confusion that the grenade had caused and ;ran in to a batarian that had
the same idea.
He was blasting away with a shot gun. One of the shells connected with Anderson's gauntlet causing it to
flicker out of&nb sp;existence.
Anderson was close enough to the batarian that he just back handed ;him with his left hand before
shooting him.
They were following a map that Brak had given them. And according to it they had eight more decks to
fight through to get to the bridge. They had already r un across one alien that launched something blue at
them. No one knew what it was other then it could make&nbs p;them float in air or suspend them. If they
exploded by you it seriously damaged your shields as well as tossing you around like a rag doll.
Anderson had already lost two Marines who got cocky and charged ahead. They got swarmed by the
batarians. And sense then large groups would charge them. But by the count the AI was keeping they had
already killed seventy five soldiers. The other squads were farin g just as well.
Batarian bridge&nb sp;
"Sir, we have multiple enemies boarding at several differen t locations both forward and aft of the bridge",
one of the crew told the captain.
"Fuck, call back half the force to protect the bridge". The captain said while looking at a holo projection
of the ship. He knew he was fucked, he just wished that he'd be wined and dined first.
"There isn't anyone left to send other than what's outside the bridge sir", the crewmen told him.
The captain was getting desperate, yelling at the bridge crew. "Then vent the whole fucking ship except
the bridge".
The crew did as they were told and what was left of the batarians fighting&n bsp;the humans died of
asphyxiation.
Anderson and his Marines where still pushing to the bridge when all the air had been vented from the
ship. He was really starting to love his mag boots. It would have been a long painful ride to where ever
the air went.
One of the Marines piped over the radio "shit they just killed their&n bsp;whole crew to get us. Fuck now I'm
flattered but I still don't fuck on the first date". "Bull shit" was tossed aroun d by the other Marines before
they finally made i t to the Bridge.
The count t hat was running so far had Anderson's squad in the lead with 300 kills.
The Humans were outside of the bridge and starting to hack the doors. The cr ew was getting nervous and
the captain was screaming at everyone. He finally ordered ;all hands to grab weapons and fight to the
death. Everyone was told to focus on the first person to come through the door.
While they were waiting to hack the hatch the Marines shields recharged and the gauntlets as well.
Anderson asked for status check from his squad and was told two red, four yellow, five green. They also
said they had to&n bsp;take a combat dumb. 'At least we're not out of&nbs p;the fight yet' Anderson said aloud
laughing.
Once the door opened what was left of the batarian cre w opened fire on the point man. This caused the
shield on his arm to flicker and drop.
The human fired back hitting three of the batarians before th ey ducked to cover.
One of the humans tossed a metal ball of some kind at their feet, four crewmen stared at it before they
realized what it was. It detonated killing them all.&n bsp;Only the captain and one of the bridge crew were left
now.
Anderson saw bodies and parts of bodies go flying across the room. One batarian who had the luck to be
blown in half gasped as Anderson walked over him. Anderson just kept moving when one of the crew
jumped up and yelled that he surrendered.
His brains splattered all over the bulk head to his left as the now last batarian shot him.
Anderson charged the alien and tackled him, grabbing his face in his hands he started to beat the batarians
head against the steel&nbs p;deck. Once it looked like he was unconscious or even better dead, Anderson got up
and stepped back.
The dumb shit reached for a weapon so Anderson shot him in the groin then stomped on the aliens
mangled privates grinding his boot in. This caused the man to howl in agony. Anderson stood there
looking at the castrated batarian before telling him he was going to space him.
Once the bridge was secured the Marines uploaded an AI in to the ships computers to retrieve data on the
batarians and where all the colonists had been sent. The AI also found out that there was more than just
batarians. There was something called the council and a citadel. She also found medical treatments for
each race and things they could safely eat. So now any slaves they found would be able to receive the
correct medical attention and be able to eat.
With the last ship neutralized, the armada could focus on the planet.
Planet side
Colonial&n bsp;Capital
When the batarians saw the massive wave of drop ships and fighters head towards them they were
shocked. There were so many craft in the air the AA barley m ade a dent. As the drop ships got closer the
batarians realized they& nbsp;were carrying tracked vehicles as well as vehicles with either a gun or what
appeared to be rockets or artillery attached to them.
"Could you try and not hit every piece of AA in the air"&nb sp;commented one of the Marines aboard 002-SA.
"You could get out and walk" the pilot responded flipping off the fe male Marine.
When the alliance Marines& nbsp;landed on Elysium the closest humans dropped to their knees or ran towards
them.
The bata rians saw this and started shooting everything that moved.
& nbsp;
The drop ships and fighters started to strafe the enemies' positions. And unlike the fighters the pelicans
could hover and stay on sight.
The Marines had found themselves in close quarters, so a lot of the fighting turned to hand to hand. It
wasn't long before they found asari and human slaves and freed them.
Anderson had thrown a batarian soldier through a blacked out window into a warehouse. When he
followed the alien to kill him when he saw the room was full&n bsp;of asari. They looked a lot like humans
except the crests on their heads and were all female. After Anderson had dispatched the batarian he
approached one of the asari, stopping when he saw that she had a horrified look on her face.
Sule em sat on the floor looking at the thing that had killed one of the slavers. She had never seen armor
like what it was wearing and was afraid it was going to kill her and her sisters. It stopped moving towards
them before it removed its helmet. Suleem gasped at what she saw.
Anderson removed his helmet and gave the asari a reassuring smile. They all looked at him with both
shock and curiosity. Many looking at each other before looking back at him, he approached the one that
had gasped.
Suleem had never seen this ;species before. They appeared to hate the batarians, and they resembled asari
except for whatever was on top of their heads. The alien spoke and to her surprise she could understand it.
"It's okay I'm Lt. Anderson with the systems alliance. We are here to help you" he told them. He figured
out how to remove the restrains from their arms and helped up one of the asari.
"I'm suleem", she introduced herself to Lt. Anderson. She looked around before she started to cry from
relief.
Anders on didn't know what to do. He was a soldier not a physiologist, besi des he had never been good
with women when the broke down and cried. Rubbing his neck he asked suleem "are you okay?"
"I'm fine, just happy to&nb sp;be free", wiping the tears from her face she&nbs p;looked at Anderson and hugged him.
Once a medic had arrived to start first aid Anderson left to find his squad he'd been separated from. He
found them sitting on a tank they had somehow managed to catch a ride on.
Forty five minutes later Anderson and his squad were pushing& nbsp;down a hall in a school the batarians had
turned into a command center. They had already gotten into two skirmishes and didn't fancy anymore
CQC they were starting to get exhausted and were running low&nbs p;on frag grenades.
They came upon an open area with a second story. No cover on the lower level and the only door across
room. They tossed out four smoke grenades to cover their movements. They waited ten seconds then
tossed a few flash bangs up on the second level. After that they hauled ass like raped apes to the other side
of the room.
The Marines stacked on the door and tossed the last two flash bangs in the room. After they went off the
Marines rushed through the door and found two batarians dazed from the flash bangs.
The Marines with Anderson dispatched one of the batarians too whatever deity he believed in. They
subdued the last one and slapped a pair of flex cuffs on him. Calling it in they were told to escort/drag the
prisoner out with the rest.
On the way back out Anderson saw a red head in one of the rooms on the floor. He went in and found
Hannah Shepard face down, naked, and in a pool of her own blood. He looked around to find something
to cover her with. He took his "prisoner" outside and shot him i n the knees demanding to know who killed
her.
The batarian& nbsp;said that Garrel did and he was already dead from being stabbed by that human bitch.
Anderson kicked him in the chest and was preparing to sh oot the shit stain before his Marines dragged
him away.
The second battle for Elysium had lasted for five hours, this included clearing out any hold outs.&n bsp;
Only three hundred batarians had survived the fight on the planet most of them civilian s. The patrols only
found a handful of escape pods with living survivors, most were dead due to faulty equipment or by their
own hand.
Hackett needed something to distr act himself from thinking about Hannahs fate. ;The medical officer had
told him what happen ed to her and the amount of abuse she took. To see her like that down in the med
bay made the hardened soldier cry, b ut at least she killed the asshole that had done those unspeakable acts
to her.
The systems alliance had the intel that they had come for so Hackett began planning his next attack. He
was going to hit the mining colony on Vana in the kite's nest. The resources would be used to build more
ships.
The vess els they had destroyed would be dismantled and the metals melted down, it would take a while
for more ships to be built this way.
Earth had sent more ships to Elysium to help rebuild and tend to the wounded. The offer to stay with the
humans was extended to the asari they had freed. Some took the offer but others wanted to ;leave.
"I will get you home, but first I need to make sure that this never happens again". Hackett had said this
twenty times&nb sp;already. He was grateful the asari understood.
2156.05.25&nb sp;
Vana mining colony
Kites Nest
Word ;had not reached the Hegemony of the humans r etaking Elysium. So when the human armada
showed up at Vana's door step and ordered them to surrender the batarians laughed.
One cruiser managed to escape the resulting carnage, making it to the relay. The&nbs p;rest of the batarian
hegemony were abo ut to find out that the humans had come knocking.
The batarian& nbsp;ships were like fish in a barrel for the human armada. They used the same tactics as Elysium
to over whelm the batarains sending an over whelming ground force to the domed colony.
The batarians had put the human slaves in front of the ir positions to use them as shields. Each one of them
had been told that the humans would fall easily to&nbs p;the fleet in orbit. Then watched the human ships
destroy the batarian fleet while still out of range.
The Marines that landed were already p ushing their way in to the colony. Their orders were to kill every
batarian they saw except the commander. He was to be interrogated, and then tossed in to the brig.
"Oh for the love of" Anderson muttered when he saw the batarians using humans as shields again. His
Marines were getting pissed about continually seeing the same tactic being deployed over and over. The
sniper they had could not get a good shot on any of the ass holes. And they were out of flash bangs and
smoke grenades.
The batarian commander was&nb sp;not going to let the humans take anyone alive so he ordered the engineers to
rig up explosives at the base of the dome.
Anderson was trying to get ahold of another squad ;of Marines to flank the Batarians in front of him when
he heard and explosion and felt the ground shake. He looked around and saw the dome start to&nb sp;splinter
and fail.
The batarian commander had destroyed the dome to keep the humans from saving anymore of their
people or the other slaves.
Hackett stood, not wanting to believe what Anderson was reporting. The human colonists in that colony
as well as people from the other races had been killed just to spite the rescue attempt. Women, children,
families all of them lost to asphyxiation. He asked Samantha if she had been recording the operation since
the beginning, he had a feeling that they were going to need i t. He then sent out an order to collect all the
dead and transport them back to Elysium. The asari would be able to help them handle the alien remains
with respect.
The&nb sp;human armada returned to Elysium the next day downtrodden with grief. The euphoria that was felt
just a few days ago lost. They quietly and respectfully transported all the dead colonists' planet side.