Perhaps it was the sense of false security from the easy fights that they had been in lately, or perhaps it was a side effect of whatever had happened, but the next morning when Max was jostled awake, and the alarm went off, he just couldn't bring himself to feel particularly concerned for the first few seconds, when he would normally be running for his Mecha.
It was the panicked thoughts of the crew on duty that brought him to full attention and had him checking the sensor logs as he ran for the new Mecha.
[I need a full situation update. What the feth is going on out there?] Max asked the Duty Captain when he realized that the sensor data made no sense.
