EE kept the pace, and she kept things fast.  Almost as fast as Sentinel.  As the goons Sentinel took down were still in their last throws of agony, the two nearly ran into each other rounding a corner.  EE almost attacked Sentinel, only to recognize him and instead grab him in a quick hug.  It was nice seeing someone on their side.  She looked around and spotted three men coming, so her laser pistol made a slight buzz sound as she cut them down.  Only when the laser beam encountered anything in the air did it show, so she had a nearly invisible death dealer in her hand.<br/><br/>With the two men dead, she turned back to look at Leer.  She was always the weird one, wanting to mourn the loss of those who'd been their enemies.  EE never understood it, because to her, mourning the enemies made it harder to do their jobs.  She didn't personally enjoy killing, but if it was a means to an end... she had to go that route.  How Leer managed to hold onto her innocence through the years was beyond her.<br/><br/>The entire structure suddenly jolted, and EE had to reach out to grab a railing lest she be sent tumbling.  SOMETHING had hit the tower, because it was far too heavy a shock to have been from the freighter exploding.  Something had just happened, major.<br/><br/>* * *<br/><br/>Alarm klazons were blaring on the bridge of the<em>Halifax</em>as suddenly, without any warning at all, literally hundreds of contacts had flooded their screens and began an attack.  One minute, there'd been a registered time delay as light and energy crossed the system at the speed of light, but now, suddenly, there was an entire fleet here.  Captain Simpson, already on the upbeat that it was an attack, was issuing orders left and right.<br/><br/>"Evasive maneuvers!  Launch the fighters!  Weapons free, take those bastards out!  I want to know where those things came from, and I want to know yesterday!"<br/><br/>Someone spoke up, "Sir, Commander Fox, SBI ground team, just sent us intel.  Says the ships match profiles for ships located at Sierra-39 Echo."<br/><br/>The bridge went silent for a moment, then Captain Simpson said, "Recall the ground team, tell them to get up here and start putting that magic of theirs to work.  We're in shit up to our eyeballs."