Sophie Shepard: K.I.A
Chapter 2 - Under Attack
As the Normandy leaves FTL, Joker speaks over the comm as people go about their various duties. "Disengaging FTL drives. Emission sinks active. Board is green..we are running silent."
Pressly approaches the bridge, datapad in hand. He speaks as he looks between the ensign manning the long range scanner and Joker. "We're wasting our time. Four days searching up and down this sector, and we haven't found any sign of geth activity."
"Three ships have gone missing here in the past month Pressly, something's up and we're gonna find out what." offers Joker.
"My money's on slavers. The Terminus System is crawling with them" returns Pressly
The ensign speaks up as she swipes her hand across the haptic interface "Picking up something on the long range scanner. Unidentified vessel. Looks like a cruiser." She continues to monitor the unknown vessel, but Joker's already speaking.
"Doesn't match any known signatures."
"Cruiser is changing course. Now on intercept trajectory." The ensign tries to maintain her cool as she speaks.
Pressly butts in "Can't be. Our stealth systems are engaged. There's no way a geth ship could-"
Joker cuts in as he starts to put the Normandy through her paces."That's because it's not the Geth. Hang on everybody! Brace for evasive manoeuvres!" The unknown vessel's weaponry charges up and looses a focused beam, glancing the Normandy's hull and causing the terminal that Pressly is near to overload, the blast killing him instantly and causing an electrical fire.
"Pressly!" shouts the ensign as she gets up to check on the man, but her terminal overloads and causes a violent explosion which kills her before she can even get out of her chair.
Joker's increasingly panicked voice reads off the incoming damage reports "Kinetic barriers down!, Multiple hull breaches!, Weapons offline!, Someone get that fire out!." There's another direct hit. The Normandy struggling to get away from her pursuer.