Edmund listened as the clone spoke to him over the comms, the voice  sounding familiar yet subtly different than other clones of similar  series he had heard. His expression didn't change at all, though the  news she told him confirmed what he already knew. This carrier was lost  and there were very few choices of where to go.<br/><br/>Before he had a  chance to respond, however, an automated announcement sounded out in an  emotionless voice, "Grey ionization reticules detected, ETA of 15  seconds until impact. Evacuate generator and main access hallways  immediately." The warning brought Edmund's worst fears to life. They  might not even have enough time to get off this ship, and there was a  squad member heading for the generator right now. To make things worse  there were drones between his men and the generator.<br/><br/>He wasted  no time and immediately yelled out to his squad, "<span style="color: red">Hold  position and provide covering fire for incoming friendlies. I'm going to  open an escape route for Morimoto.</span>" Edmund looked down at his two EMP grenades and then at the large group of drones.<i><span style="color: red">Two should do it, just hope I don't need them more later.</span></i>He quickly pulled the first pin and threw the grenade down the hall as hard as he could. It bounced twice and then rolled to a stop right underneath a support drone. Before it detonated he pulled the pin on the second and started to cock his arm back, as he threw the second grenade and the first detonated another automated message was broadcast, "Sustaining heavy damage, ETA of 1 minute until critical structural failure."<br/><br/>The explosion of the first grenade caused four grunts to collapse and the support drone to stumble into another group and break the legs of another support drone before crashing to the ground and not getting back up. The second grenade bounced once and then rolled to a stop between the two remaining support drones. The explosion took out the remaining grunts, the damaged support drone and severely impaired the third support drone, it stumbled forward and appeared to be wildly firing its laser weapons at nothing.<br/><br/>Edmund opened up on the remaining support drone, spraying gunfire across its weapons and disabling the wildly lancing laser projectors cause the drone to just stumble around amongst its fallen comrades. "<span style="color: red">Get those people to the escape pods immediately, we'll be meeting you there. This ship is lost. Take the side halls, all the main ones are completely overrun.</span>" He then switched his comms back over to his squad and spoke up in a commanding tone, "<span style="color: red">Morimoto, get your ass out of there, I'll give you covering fire.</span>"<br/><br/>As Edmund opened fire on the remaining scout drones, taking down a few of them at a time, the temperature of the hallway began to noticeably rise...<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>