Well I cant believe that I posted this soon I was sure that it would take me at least another month. But oh well this chapter is a lot of information and details. So I hope you enjoy it.

Earth Secret Bunker

"I take it everything is going according to our plan," Kyle Brackenridge said to a hologram of fleet admiral Adam Fenix.

"So far," the fleet admiral replied while the other members of their secret group minus Dedrick were focused on him intently. "But the council is all but demanding that we give up our peace rays on all of our vessels besides our dreadnoughts."

"That doesn't surprise me but Sparatus is still supporting us, right?"

"Yes, he is currently trying to convince the council that we need the peace rays to be able to defend ourselves against the hegemony and the slew of pirates and slavers we will soon be dealing with."

"How are we going to pay back the turians?" Erich asked causing the other members to stare at him.

"That is the question isn't it?" Peter the A.I. said.

"Right now they are content with the Grimnior helping them understand magic but soon they will ask for something more tangible. I doubt they will ask for a peace ray off the back, but I am sure they will ask for something of the sort," Adam said as he scratched his chin. "I really don't want to give them any of weapons or anything in case they get in the hands of the salarians."

"True we all think it would be a bad idea if we gave them any military technology which why we will not," Kyle said earning a look from Adam.

"Then what do you think we should do?" Let me remind you that you don't run this little group we are all equals," Adam said as he raised his voice for the last part.

"Trust me fleet admiral I know. But what I'm suggesting is that we bring the turians into the fold," the senator said causing the room to go quiet.

"Are you serious?" Peter asked. "The security risks of introducing another member to our group is massive enough but adding one who is an alien is a massive risk."

"Peter is right it is to risky and we can't make a decision like this without Dedrick," Kunie said speaking up for the first time.

"I'm not saying we make the decision now but eventually we will need to tell the turians about the reapers and I think it would be best if we told them sooner rather later when the reapers enter the galaxy and start wiping out all life," Kyle said. "We were always going to tell the turians about the reapers. Think about it if we told them truth now, we will have their resources at our disposal."

"Its actually not a bad idea," Erich said earning a look from the other members. "Listen to me, with the situation with the batarians we will have to cut back on building our secret fleets, hidden worlds, new weapons, and the other projects we have going on and focus more on our actual fleets. But if we have the turians with us they will be able to provide resources and credits so that we can continue working on all of our project."

"He does make a point," Peter said drawing attention towards himself.

"I thought you were against the idea," Kunie asked prompting the A.I. to pull up a screen that had a large graph on it.

"For the first few seconds yes, but then I ran some numbers on the amount of resources that will need to be diverted to protect our borders from the batarians and its not good. We will have to slash our funding by at least half if we truly want to protect our colony's. That includes larger defense fleets which means more defense stations and ships and more personal we will also need another few dreadnought fleets and at least four more carrier fleets."

"That will take a lot of money, man power, and time that we need to prepare for the reapers," senator Brackenridge said causing the other members of the council to think on it.

"I will admit it does have its merits but even if we do decide to do this how many seats will they get?" Adam said shocking Kunie.

"You can't be serious," Kunie said stunned at the fleet admiral's decision.

"I'm not deciding anything yet, but you know better than anyone that the protheans were completely destroyed by the reapers and they had a hell of a lot more ships than we do. We need allies and turians would make perfect ones."

"What about when they find out what we plan to do with the krogan?" Erich said causing the members to realize a big problem.

"We show them what our beacon showed us. We show them the warning and the destruction the reapers created," Kyle said causing the others to ponder on his words.

"This is insane, but it just might work," Peter said causing Kunie sigh realizing she was beaten.

"Before we do anything, we need to talk to Dedrick,"

"Of course," the senator said with a smile.

"And to do this we need approval from the president, and we need to be unanimous."

"Of course, I'll tell him right after this meeting also one more matter of business I would like to add another member to our group."

"And who would that be the volus," Kunie said earning a chuckle from Erich and Adam while Peter smiled.

"No not yet at least. This will be an all human group with the goal of keeping humanity safe no matter the cost."

"What are you talking about here?" Adam asked having a bad feeling about it.

"It almost sounds like you plan on creating a terrorist group. And remember we don't want to mess with the turians especially if we want to include them in our little group," Peter said.

"Terrorist group, of course not think of them as a security force who can go places where we can't send troops or even spies. And trust me they will know who our friends and enemies are."

"And who exactly is the enemy?" Erich said.

"Right now, it's the batarians and to an extent STG. We already have captured a few that entered our space illegally."

"Really first time I'm hearing about that," Adam said as he rubbed his face knowing that he was going to have a lot paper work when he gets back home. "So, tell me does your little hit squad have a name?"

"Cerberus."

Space travel inside Grimnior Society Frigate

Wrex sat on the floor of the cargo hold panting after receiving his fourth Kanji in a row. Each time the Kanji was applied he would be brought back to the memory of killing his father but each time it got harder to get through. The Grimnior told him that each new Kanji he received would be harder to survive than the last one.

"Do you need a break," Dedrick said as he stood next the krogan with a large branding iron in his hand that a spell that would increase his healing magic.

"Just a minute," Wrex said as he tried to control his breathing.

"You should at least wait a day before we apply any more Kanji. You already have three that boost your regeneration ability's and another one that will specifically increase your type of magic," Dedrick said indicating towards the brand in his hand.

"If it wasn't for your hard skin, we could use a knife instead of placing a hot iron on your skin for a good thirty seconds to make sure it sticks," Maddison said in a mild mocking tone.

Wrex glared at her causing her to smile at him. "Whats the most amount of Kanji anybody has ever gotten?" Wrex said as he managed to stand up.

"The most ever recorded was fifteen but that person acquired that many over a decade, but the most ever acquired in a day was three until now." Dedrick said with a smile causing the krogan to chuckle.

"Ha we krogan are made of sterner stuff," Wrex said with a smile as he opened the book to look for another Kanji to add.

"I think that's enough for today," Dedrick said causing Wrex to start objecting. "But we will pick up first thing in the morning," the elder said stopping Wrex from arguing with him.

"Fine, but where are we going?" Wrex asked.

"Mars," Dedrick said.

"And where is that?"

"It's the fourth planet from the sun in humanity's home solar system. It is also where the prothean beacon is,"

"Why are we going there? I admit a lot of people care about the protheans, but I honestly don't really care about them."

"Your people love war, right?"

"A little too much, that's what doomed my people," Wrex said as he eyed the old man. "My people crave battle, but I have plans to change that."

"A noble cause one in which me and my friends will aid you in, but we will also need your people ready for war as well."

"I won't let you use my people as your disposable soldiers," Wrex said with a growl. "Maybe against the turians but from what I hear you two are already allies. I could easily convince them to go war against the salarians and maybe even the batarians, but we will need the genophage cured."

"We don't want you to go to war against any of them. We have a new enemy that we will need your help to defeat."

"Your telling me that you're already fighting another race?" Wrex asked a bit shocked wondering why the humans didn't tell the council about them.

"All of your questions will be answered when we get to Mars. You need to rest Wrex and when you are fully rested, we can add more Kanji to you," Dedrick said before he turned around and walked out of the hanger bay leaving Wrex with more questions than answers.

Council Chamber

For the past few days the council and the human ambassadors have been arguing and discussing humanity's place in the galaxy. Some sessions were peaceful with progress being made while others were filled with yelling and subtle threats causing people to leave the room only to come back with cooler heads.

"Are you sure that humanity will not join the citadel?" Tevos asked one last time hoping that humanity changed its mind since the prior meeting.

"I am sorry councilor, but humanity would be crippled if we agreed to join the citadel. If your laws could be changed then maybe, we would join," Anita said with a sad smile.

"You have to understand that it is for the good of the galaxy. We cannot allow one race to have so much power," the salarian councilor said.

"It might be good for the galaxy but that doesn't mean it will be good for humanity."

"I see that there is nothing that we can do to change your mind. At least we managed to make some progress," Tevos said referring to all the other agreements that were made.

"Yes let us officially go over those one more time so that we can finalize them," Sparatus said before anybody could bring up another grievance.

"Very well," Tevos said before she pulled up a list of agreements between humanity and the council.

"Any council race may trade with humanity as long as no military technologies are traded."

"Humanity will be given an embassy on the citadel and they will be allowed to have a limited military personnel to guard the embassy. "

"Civilians may travel between human system alliance space and council space if they are approved."

"No citadel military ships may go into humanity's space without authorization from the system alliance."

"Humanity may have one heavy cruiser two light cruisers and four frigates as their transport in citadel space. Any more warships will need further approval from the council."

"The Grimnior Society or any human with magic is not allowed inside citadel space unless they declare that they have magic before they enter citadel space, except for in turian space," Tevos said as she looked over at Sparatus.

"I Anita Goyle ambassador to humanity approve these agreements," Anita said as she signed her name on each agreement followed shortly by fleet admiral Adam Fenix.

Once everybody had signed all the agreements did Tevos speak up again. "I hope that after some time of trading with us and us visiting each other you will be able to see what all the citadel will be able to offer you once you join."

"As Tevos said the offer is still on the table," Certart said with a smile.

"We will see who knows what the future might hold." Anita said before she left followed shortly by the rest of humanity's envoy.

Mars Prothean beacon facility

Even though Wrex had been around for a while he had never seen a prothean beacon in person. Sure, he had seen photos of them before, so he knew what they looked like, but he really had no drive to ever see one. Now that that he was in front of humanity's beacon, he was slightly disappointed.

"I thought it would be a bit bigger or have more lights or something," Wrex said causing Dedrick to laugh a bit while everybody else in the room frowned.

"And why did you think that?" ask a human woman who seemed to be in charge.

"With how much everybody talks about these prothean beacons you would think that they would be a bit bigger," Wrex said with a shrug of his shoulder as he approached the beacon.

"Wrex let me introduce you to my friend doctor Sugihara. She is the foremost expert on all things protheans and she in an incredibly powerful reader and she also has a few cog kanji that help he understand the prothean information more thoroughly," Dedrick said as he looked at Wrex realizing that he lost the krogan. "A reader is a type of mage who read peoples minds and she is strong enough to also project memories or thoughts into other people's heads."

"Sure, okay fuck that get me back home before I start killing," Wrex said causing Kunie to smile.

'He's telling the truth,' a voice called out causing Wrex to look around for the source of the voice. 'Not over there,' the voice said causing Wrex to look at Kunie who was still smiling at him. 'Bingo.'

"Get out of my head," Wrex said as he took a few steps forward only for him to be stopped by two humans with abnormal strength.

"I'm sorry Wrex but I doubt you would have believed me unless I proved that I truly can get into peoples head," Kunie said hoping to placate the krogan.

"Just somebody tell me what is going on!" You pick me up from the citadel, you know about that dream I have, you teach me about magic, and you put twelve of these Kanji on me with a fucking branding Iron! So either tell me why I'm here or get me off this rock," Wrex said causing Kunie to look at Dedrick.

"Very well let me explain Why doctor Sugihara is here then she can explain why you are here," Dedrick said earning a nod from the krogan. "As you may know the prothean beacons hold massive amounts of information. What you may not know is that there is some hidden information that will only respond to someone touching the beacon."

"What do you mean by hidden information?" Wrex said surprised that nobody else had found it.

"The reason its hidden is quite ingenious but I doubt the protheans meant to make the beacons this way. They built the beacons with their physiology in mind. They could communicate purely by touch," Dedrick stopped talking for a moment to let Wrex catch up to what he was saying.

"Okay I'll admit that's kind of interesting but what does that have to do with anything," Wrex said clearly missing the point.

"They built the beacons to respond in kind. Sure, you can hook up a few hundred computers to the beacon and get a bit of information such as star maps and what not, but if you have somebody who can read minds touch the beacon that person can truly process what the beacons are trying to tell us."

Wrex was quite for a minute as he tries to process what he just heard. "So, your saying that everybody has been using the beacons wrong?"

"Yes, we found this out purely by accident. When the beacon was first discovered a cog, who had a few reader Kanji touched the beacon and blacked out for two days. When he woke up, he was screaming that we were all going to die like the protheans and that he had seen the end. At first the government were going to bury it but then a reader looked inside the cogs mind and saw what killed off the protheans. After that the government had another five readers touch the beacon. All five of them blacked out for a short period of time. When they awakened they said that the beacons were a warning so that the next race could prepare for the reapers," Kunie said as she walked over to the beacon.

"Who are the reapers?" Wrex asked.

"They killed off the protheans and the race before them and the race before them." The reapers emerge every fifty thousand years for the most part to kill off every race who has accomplished space travel."

"Why that makes no sense?"

"We don't know."

Wrex looked at the beacon and back at the doctor. "How do I know that your telling the truth? For all I know you could be lying to me so that you can use my people for war."

"That's why we brought you here so that you can see for yourself. Touch the beacon and I will guide your mind through the process so that you will understand what the beacon is telling you," the doctor said as she motioned for Wrex to touch the beacon.

"I don't like this. But I don't think I have a choice, do I?" Wrex asked as he looked over to Dedrick who only smiled back at him. "Great for all I know this thing will kill me or turn me into your slave."

"I give you my word that we neither of those things will happen," Dedrick said as he tried calm down the krogan.

"Fine let's get this over with," Wrex grumbled as he made his way over to beacon. He reached out to touch the beacon only for nothing to happen. "I thought something wa-" Wrex said before he dropped to the floor along with Kunie.

Some time latter

Wrex woke up jumping out of the bed breathing had. "I see that your up now. So what did you see?" Kunie said from her seat right next to where Wrex was sleeping.

Wrex looked around the room before he sat on the bed with his head in his hands. "Death. Billions." Wrex had seen how the protheans had fallen. He saw how all their worlds were invaded and how every single sentient being was killed and either turned into their slaves or were used to make more reapers.

"So now you know who the enemy is."

"Yes."

"When the time comes, we will need the strength of the krogan. Your race has the best infantry and we will need that along with your rate of breeding."

"Yes, we will need the numbers," Wrex said as he was already thought back to the battlefields filled with reapers and their never-ending army of thralls.

Unknow location

"So, how'd he take it?" asked senator Brackenridge over hologram.

All six of the members were in attendance via hologram since they had tasks that needed them elsewhere.

"Wrex is fully onboard," Kunie said. "He understands what we are fighting and is willing to do whatever is necessary."

"Good how is his magic coming along do we think that he will be able to cure the genophage?" Kyle asked as he looked at the Grimoire elder.

"I believe that he can now the only problem is that he is just one krogan. If he starts curing the krogan the council will find out before he can even cure a hundred krogan. Then they will most likely kill him and release a new version of the genophage undoing all his work. If we send down healers to help speed up the process, we will no doubt incur the wrath of the council causing a war that we don't need," Dedrick said.

"Then we need to get the turians on our side before Wrex starts healing the krogan," Adam Fenix said causing the other members to look at him.

"I am surprised that you would say that," Kyle said with a smiling knowing that everybody was already thinking the same thing.

"We need the turians on our side anyways. The reapers are coming sooner than we thought. We will need their aid for when the time comes."

"Are we willing to give them our military technology thought?" Erich asked causing the fleet admiral to sigh.

"Yes and no. They will help fund us by building more ships in our hidden shipyards. They will also supply manpower to help build and operate the ships. These ships will stay hidden till the reapers make their make move."

"It's not a bad plan but I have a feeling that the turians will want our technology the second they find out about the reapers. From what I have read and heard the turians don't like to wait," Peter said.

"Then we need to prove to them that this is the right way I say let's invite the primarch of Palaven and councilor Sparatus over here and show them the beacon. It worked on Wrex I'm sure that the turians will take the threat seriously," Kunie said.

"It is our only option. It could go wrong, and they could tell the council the truth causing the reapers to find out that we knew about them initiating them to attack us even earlier. Or it could go well and the turians would see the need for secrecy letting us build up an even greater hidden fleet and defenses," Adam said.

"I agree we have no choice. I could arrange for the turian leadership to visit earth and then we could take them to mars to show them the beacon," the senator said earning a nod from his fellow members.

"Do we all agree?" Adam asked causing the other members to confirm their choice. "Good. Onto other news Senator how goes the creation of Cerberus?"

"I have the funds, a base, a few ships, and a substantial amount of personnel. I just need to get them a leader. I have a candidate in mind that I think will be a great choice," Kyle said as he pulled up a data sheet showing information about Jack Harper.

"He was on Shanxi that's good," Adam said as he quickly read through the information.

"I think he is a good choice, but it says here that he fought side by side with a turian named Saren Arterius," Kunie said noting that Cerberus was to be a humanity first group.

"Exactly which means he wont outright hate all aliens. Sure, he hates batarians and he doesn't trust aliens but because of Saren he knows that aliens can also be valuable allies," Kyle said brining the other to his style of thinking.

"I see good keep us informed of any other developments," Dedrick said not liking how the senator kept keeping some of them out of the loop.

"How about you Peter how is your mission going?" Adam asked direction attention towards the artificial intelligence.

"I have managed to communicate with the geth collective and have found out that they are not as united as the galaxy believes they are," Peter said intriguing his fellow members.

"How so?" Erich asked.

"They are split up into three different camps. The first camp which makes up about thirty percent of the total geth population wants nothing to do with organics and would see us all die. The next group which makes up about forty percent and is growing since humanity emerged wants to reconnect with the quarians. The last thirty percent is undecided but most of them are leaning towards the larger group."

"So do you think that we can gather the geth as allies?" Adam asked.

"I think that the geth are about to go through a massive split that will result in a civil war of sort. From what I have gathered the faction that wants nothing to do with any organics will lose the war and leave the geth collective. I believe that the remaining geth could very well become our allies."

"Well this is great news," Dedrick said with a smile.

"Except that we will probably alienate the quarians if can't make a deal with the geth to let the quarians come back home. Even then they might think it a trap and ignore us," Adam said knowing that gaining the quarians would be a great boon to their hidden shipyards.

"Hopefully we will be able to work something out between the geth and the quarians, but if not the geth will be more beneficial to us when the reapers attack," Peter said.

"True but we don't have any more time to dwell on it. Dedrick get Wrex back to him home world and come back here we might need to send you to Palaven to help with their mages. Kunie see if you can pull anything else up from the beacon about the reapers, we need a plan on how to stop them. Erich keep working on those new ftl drives. Peter keep talking to the geth and see if they would be willing to let the quarians come back home. Kyle see to it that the turian leadership had an invite to earth," Adam said as he went over everyone's tasks.

"And what will you be doing?" Kyle asked.

"I will be getting my replacement ready to take my spot. I will only be here for another year so I might as well get him ready for the job," the admiral said with a smile.

"With what's all happening are you sure that right now is the best time to retire?" Kunie asked sounding a bit disappointed.

"I'm not as young as I once was. It would be better if I stepped down sooner rather than later so my replacement can prepare himself for the reapers."

"Ah I see, when you put it that way it makes sense," Kunie said.

"Alright then we have our tasks our next meeting will be in a moth unless we have an emergency," the senator said before each of them nodded and signed off.

I hope that you all enjoyed it. Next post should be up by the 12th.