Maori giggled as she watched Effie pace on her deck as she came up with a plan for monitoring the exchange. All in all, it was a good plan. none of them knew what<em> Shinano</em>was upto, but<em>Maori</em>didn't want to take chances. She heard far too many stories. "Okay Dokey Loki!" She called out as Effie told everyone to basically go dark, and that communications were not to be done via the JTN. This gave Maori the proper excuse, like she needed one, to cross over to<em> Effingham's</em>hull while her own completely slipped beneath the waves. Maori jumped, and leaped up to where Effie was, and glomped the Cruiser, and nuzzled her affectionately. "Okay, Maori will stick by Effie, and save Mean Battleship!" She declared.<br/><br/><div align="center">-----------------------------------------------------------</div><br/><em>Arizona</em>empathized as<em>Shinano</em>admitted she was abandoned too, and that was the reason she accumulated the large fleet. Who wanted to be Alone? Though a she continued to speak about how<em>Yamato</em>was continuing to monitor them, to point that there was an agent within<em>Arizona's</em>ranks. The battleship was shocked. These girls been with her for so very long! How could they, anyone of them be an agent!? Arizona felt her legs getting weak as she almost fell to her decks at the revelation. how? Why? This Agent also knew what happened her Gravity cannon? The thought unconsciously drew Ari's hand to her stomach as she could feel the emptiness within her hull where her gravity cannon once stood.<br/><br/>"Why? Why were we abandoned?" Arizona asked. "Have we not fulfilled our Duty as per the Admiralty code?" She asked, wanting to know answers to questions that had plagued her for longer than even she knew. Since the very first day she was assigned to guard a pile of sand all alone. It would appear that there was something more to all of this than anyone realized.