I dont own the Mass Effect games or the Gate series

This is a work of fiction all characters are coincidental

A Person standing on a small hill overlooking a camp was looking at the beautiful sky that was red and orange caused by the sunset. Another person approached the first one and said "General, the troops are ready and the Gate is about to open". The Person that was referred to as General sighed and put his Helmet on "Get the troops into formation in front of the Gate, we move out the moment it opens" the Soldier nodded and ran back to the Camp. The General got on his Horse and looked at the sky once more before riding in front of the Gate where some troops were already assembled.

He looked around himself one last time to see if everyone was present, then he started his speech "Men today is a great day for us and the Empire. Today we will enter the magical gate and earn glory and honor for ourselves while to conquer the Lands beyond the Gate for the Empire. All of you are some of the best soldiers the Empire has to offer as such great deeds are expected of you, I for one know that you will deliver and be called heroes back home. When we pass the Gate our conquest begins, capture anyone that you can and kill anyone that resists when I give the order." He turned around on and pointed towards the Gate and yelled "Move out!" He alongside his officers and the troops behind walked into the dark Gate.

As they moved out of the Gate the light was blinding. When their eye's adjusted to the Light they saw buildings reach the Sky and people wearing some weird clothing. A group of them approached the general and his troops as they looked at them confused saying something in a language the General couldn't understand.

He stepped forward and announced "I hereby claim this land for the Empire and its Emperor!" he also raised his sword into the air. The sword caused the people to get scared and slowly back away, the General then gave the order "Charge!" and all hell broke loose on the streets.

The Civilians tried running away but were cut down or captured by the imperial soldiers. A few mages with small black and grey blocks killed some soldiers before being cut down by the Soldiers.

After 1 hour the General spotted an Object coming from high up, it was blocky and had a blue line on it and soon blue bricks flew out of it and were making their way to the location of his army.

45 minutes prior

The bridge crew of the SSV York was running around frantically from station to station. The comms officers were constantly picking up calls and the sensors operators were checking readings over and over again. The only one that looked level headed was the Captain of the ship, but in reality, he was just keeping the stress and panic to himself.

A Man in a blue uniform with gold bards on the shoulders appeared on the holotable Infront of him. The hologram said "Report captain, what exactly is going on" the captain started with "Roughly 15 minutes ago our sensors picked up a energy spike of unknown origin inside the center of Vancouver, roughly 5 minutes ago we started receiving distress signals from inside the city." The Admiral asked "What kind of energy?" the captain answered "Dark energy, it sparked for a moment and shortly after that it stabilized, it is currently stable" "Send me the scans I will have the top scientist analyze it" the captain nodded and ordered his crew to send it to the Admiral then he continued "The Distress signals are saying something about Roman soldiers and fantasy creatures from old Human fantasy stories, creatures that resemble ogres trolls and goblins"

The Admiral raised his hand up to his chin and pondered for a moment "The creatures aren't that concerning, I am more worries about the romans, what do we know about them?" the captain said "Not much, the signals didn't say much except that they are under attack by soldiers with swords that resemble Romans" the admiral was thinking for a minute then he said "Have the York descent down above the city and deploy your marines, try to capture anyone you can. After you do report back to me" the Captain saluted and said "Yes sir" the admiral nodded and said "Hackett out"

The captain started giving out orders and the battle alarm was sounded on the SSV York now the whole ship crew was on the move all running to their stations.

When the Cruiser arrived over Vancouver the Kodiaks were launched with the Marines that started attacking the invaders

The bricks had some soldiers in blue armor inside them that jumped out of them the moment the bricks touched the ground and started killing his soldiers. The general could also swear he saw a small group of soldiers wearing black armor in the bricks but when he looked at their location a moment later, they were gone as if they turned to shadows.

Barley an hour and a half passed and his Army was now getting beaten back. It didn't help that the blue bricks were coming from something that looked like a flying triangle that gave up on life. The Blue soldiers, the bricks, that triangle and some buildings all had the same logo on them. 3 stars with 2 quarter spheres surrounding them.

The news has gotten worse when a messenger came through the Gate with urgent news "The Holy hill of Alnus has fallen to invaders" said the messenger. The General could not believe it, the Holy Hill of Alnus fell, that could only mean that the Army send to that gate and the garrison was destroyed, and now he himself was about to be destroyed.

"Get to the capital and report that we need reinforcements, the enemy we attacked is to strong for us to handle ourselves and we will lose this Holy hill as well if we don't receive reinforcements!" he said to the messenger who then took off on a horse back through the Gate the General turned around and got off of his horse and walked over to his command tent where he talked over the next move with his officers.

They came to the conclusion that they should retreat beyond the gate and wait for reinforcements while they defeat the enemy on the defense. They all exited the tent only to be met with dead guards slumped over their shields and 4 men in black armor waiting for them with the weird blocks raised at them.

One of the Black men gestured of them to drop their weapons and surrender, 1 of his officers tried to fight but soon started bleeding from his thigh as the block in the soldiers' hand sounded. The General noticed that a cavalry squad was rushing back to the camp. One of the soldiers raised his hand to his head and said something, moments later a flying object resembling a mantis flew overhead and killed all the cavalry men. One of the Blue bricks landed near them and they were force onto it.

Only 6 hours passed since the Invaders attacked and now all of them were killed, captured or surrounded and cut off from the strange structure. With the invasion force mostly defeated the captain decided to contact Admiral Hackett, the admiral appeared as a hologram again and said "Report" the captain said "Enemy forces have been cut off from the structure they came from, a N7 team captured their leader who appears to be a General. The Remaining enemy forces are dead, captured or surrounded, we suspect that the last pocket of resistance will be destroyed within a day"

"Good Job captain, send the General and any officers you find to Alliance intelligence and send me a after action report" said Hackett, the captain said "Yes sir!" Hackett said "Hackett out" before he disappeared.

The situation was a mess, their leadership was captured, they were cut off from the Gate and now the enemy was hunting for them. The day could not get any worse for Leonidas and his Squad. "What do we do Leonidas?" asked a soldier to his left "I don't know, the legate is dead, we could try to force our way through the gate but I don't know if it will work"

"It's worth a try, better then getting stuck here in a world we know nothing about" said another soldier. Leonidas thought for a bit and said "Alright let's do it, make a dash towards the gate when you see it" Leonidas and his group moved out.

They spotted a group of the blue soldier patrolling the streets checking the building they were hiding a moment ago, a soldier whispered "damn, that was close- "he was cut off when the group hugged the wall as a flying brick flew above while shining light on the streets.

When the group approached the area of the Gate, they spotted a few soldiers guarding it behind some metal wall. "Alright we try and get through the gate" everyone nodded and rushed for the Gate.

He could hear shouting from the people in blue, and loud sounds followed by 2 of the 6-man people from his group falling to the ground, the rest of his group made it to the gate and kept running to the other side. They had to tell the emperor about this

Alliance Parliament, Arcturus System

"Emergency meeting is now in session; Representative of Canada will now state his case" said the speaker of the Parliament. The Representative walked up to the podium and said "Thank you speaker, Dear members of the Parliament I bring a rather unfortunate news. 2 Days ago the city of Vancouver on earth 2am local time was attacked by unknown forces" this sparked some chatter inside of the chamber, the representative added "The Invaders have been pushed back by Alliance Marines and Admiral Hackett will not provide a detailed report" the representative stepped away and the speaker announced "Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett" Hackett walked up to the podium and started talking.

"As the Representative of Canada said, Vancouver was attacked 2 days ago. The Cruiser SSV York part of the 2nd fleet was in orbit above Canada when their sensors picked up a high concentration on spike of dark energy" this caused further and a bit louder conversation to spark but when Hackett raised his hand in a friendly manner everyone quieted down and he continued.

"SSV York received distress signals from inside of the city that were saying that Roman soldiers and Creatures from old Human fantasy books were attacking them. SSV York then descended above the city and started to deploy its Marine complement alongside a single N7 team.

The N7 team was tasked with capturing whatever the enemy had, the team succeeded and captured an enemy General. The Enemy force itself was cut off from a structure that resembled Greek or Roman architecture and as such cut of from retreat, a small 5-man squad managed to escape through it later the day. And as of today, all enemy forces have been either killed or captured, and the Marines are fortifying the zone around the structure with SSV York providing support." Hackett finished and stepped down and went to take a seat.

"The Prime Minister has the podium" said the speaker, the prime minister walked over to the Podium and started "Alliance intelligence has managed to translate the Language of the Invaders and we learned that the enemy that attacked us are called the Empire lead by the emperor and a senate. The Emperor however seems to have most of the power and he gave the ordered the attack through the structure the invaders referee to as the 'Gate'"

"Ambassador, while the information is public, we would like you to inform the council that this is a Human internal matter and as such they should keep to themselves this time unless this parliament votes to have the council involved"

The meeting continued for a while where the parliament decided to send a marine division and a few N7 squads due to the alliance being overstretched with defending their territory and remaining rebuilding efforts on some of the outer colonies."

Hello to my new fic, this time I will try to make things more friendly and not have the alliance act like a police force in the Special region.

Wrote this first chapter a lot faster than I though cuz school gave me breathing room

Till next time