The group passed through the portal and Noah (in human form) immediately flopped over in the middle of a pine forest. They were in a natural park, deep in the wilderness. Wraith promptly hopped up on Noah's chest, his fluffy twitching tail brushing across Noah's face. He was pretty sure Wraith was doing it intentionally, and the angry looks he gave those around him indicated that he was in no mood to be moved.

Noah just lay there as his eyes rotated in entirely independent directions. "Right, so this will be a bit. Thank you for being a good sport about this."

"How has your study been?"

"No problem. My studies have been good. I think I've learn about 3/4ths of the book that Talion gave me by now. I did need to find out however where I could learn some life magic from. After our latest incident I think it might be good to learn some magic that could heal others as well and not just myself. Have any ideas?"

Noah made a point to blow on Mr. Wraith's tail every time it passed by. "Well, the free council has a load of the hippy mages. They are likely the best place to find a hoard of life mages. The Merlin is a member if you want to get the hook up."

"A dash of prime and you could make healing potions. I knew a dnd guy who did things like that."

"That reminds me. I still have that cultist that had been nabbing kids. I've had him on loop watching reruns of Bob Ross. You know how to question people right? We have a lead on the cult but I forgot about him being in the dream dance program."

"Yeah sure. I could do that. And thanks I'll have to see the Merlin asap when we get done." Fate kept her eyes on their surroundings and kept up her shields.

 Minutes passed and finally Wraith jumped down, signaling the end of Noah's vertigo.

Noah finally managed to get up. "Thank you every one. Sorry to make you wait."

"He is good people. Though do expect him to assume you're up to something. He didn't get to be so old without being up in everyone's business." He started on the way to the GPS ping. "Here's hoping its a nice easy pick up." Having back up indicated he didnt think it would be.

 Noah (in his human tass suit) began to make his way toward the ping. Eventually, he came to a fence. All along the perimeter of the fence were signs reading "Private Property. Trespassers will be prosecuted."

Noah blinked, "At least it isnt military." He pulled out his slated and pulled up his location on google maps to see if he could find the local area on maps. If it was blank that means it was something screwy and would require much more effort than just someone's place of buisness.

 Pulling up the map, he found that there was no business listed there, just more forest.

"Welp, its a secured area but no military declaration. And the whole area is a dark zone on sat unless I hack in. Wanda think Fate? Spooks or something wild?"

"Unfortunately I have a bad feeling it's something worse. Let's just hope I'm wrong."

"When Fate has a feeling it is wise to follow it." He held up his black rod cane and opened his right eye fully to the prime omni sight. Best to check for wards.

 There were no wards. It was just a perfectly ordinary fence in a national park where no fence should normally be.

"Been out of the game wo long I didn't even think to bring a normal breaking kit." he took that black rod and stuck the fence. He was going to take his time about it to make it look as if a bear took it down. Or a moose, freakishly large cows with radar horns.

How did they get so big?

 Several minutes passed until he finally managed to tear down the fence, making a hole large enough for them to pass through.

 A few minutes later, a humvee pulls up with 8 people inside. 7 of them with assault rifles and tactical vests. The other man wore a suit. "You are tresspassing on private property. I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

 The men in the humvee readied their weapons. The indication being that they were quite ready for a situation where politeness may fail.

Part of Noah wanted to play along and be the tourist. However he was getting angry as this plant that it was an outfit that had his Grey. She was a precious bean and was deserving of protecting.

He snapped and held up his hands. "Normally I would play the tourist here but my blood is boiling based on the images my mind is cooking up."

"My Grey's last known location was here. Get on the horn as call someone with authority. Tell them you've got a pissed off hitch hiker ranting about nanotechnology and Grey."

1 success to ping their radio channel.

Covert spell. 3 agg damage to the firing pins inside their firearms. Lil ligltless flame eating up the material of their bolts striker.

 Wraith and Jitters had vanished as the man in the suit spoke again. "I won't ask you again. If you do not leave, we will make you leave. Just so you understand, we are fully authorized to use lethal force."

Noah rolled his eyes and popped on their radio channel. "This is the Dragon of Purgatory. You have my daughter and I am just back from fighting something very nasty so I am not in a good state of mind. I am coming for my daughter. Anyone who stands down will be ignored entirely."

"Boys, do as you will." He twisted his fingers and worked that wild woojuu.

Success on the banderstanch escape spell. Effectively allowing Noah and Fate to swim underground as to not let automatic fire to hose us down.

 The soldiers behind opened fire as Noah began to weave his spell. However, all the two of them could hear was clickclickclickclick as they sank into the ground. Fate's vision was completely obscured, requiring Noah to lead the way.

 Noah moved for several minutes and emerged a good distance away in the trees, far enough away so that they could not be followed. A few minutes later, they heard the blaring of sirens. Shortly thereafter, they found a clearing with another fence. This one had been busted down and the jeep from earlier had been buried into the front door.

"Sorry about that Fate, once the boys vanished it was time to move. They are already hard at work." He cracked his knuckles and started after the terror two, "We will need to get Grey before the boys have to get serious... Mr. Wraith will likely eat some people whole if they pull some insane woojoo."

"Though as they have suits, want to download their database?"

 Noah and Fate managed to squeeze around the side of the humvee. As they passed, they saw the soldiers within laid out inside with wrists and knees wrapped in bloody bandages and tied with duct tape.

 As they entered the main checkpoint, they found the barred doors cut through and the candy machines out in the hall. The soldiers inside were likewise laid out, bruised in the face and tied with extension cords (the cords on the candy machines were missing). Further, in every instance, their guns had been stolen (including the machinegun turrets in the gunner nests)

 Gunfire came from further in.

Noah pulled out a high-tech-looking pistol and started a low-cover walk once he got inside. He checked on Fate real quick before he went back at it. He spoke to their radio channel again, "I said stand down and you will be ignored. You are in possession of stolen property. Resistance will be met with equal force. We are playing nice so far, don't force this to get serious. Grey, I'm comming."

If someone came at him with anything other than hands up he would fire the Gnome gun at them.

 Further down, the group saw Jitters holding an assault rifle like a bazooka and hosing down the hallway.

 Meanwhile, from behind came a walking mech suit. (there was a brief moment when the military bought a whole lot of them for cheap from Talion but they were overshadowed by synth tech).

 However, before the mech suit could fire at Jitters, Wraith cut out a hole in the bullet proof glass and slinked into the armor, prompting screams of pain and panic from the pilot as the suit fell over and the pilot crawled out covered in scratches.

 The suit seemed to glitch out for a moment before standing back up. Wraith pulled himself up to look out the bullet proof glass and 'Maow"ed at them menacingly... before the minigun's barrel began to spin up.

 Jitters turned to look at Noah and Fate. "Go. Go! We will hold them here."

 Jitters abandoned the now-empty rifle to join Wraith in his hijacked mech suit. Jitters also left behind a manila folder with "Specimen 154" on it. Inside were documents containing a description of a silvery fluid and explaining the dangers of a "grey goo" scenario followed by containment procedures.

 Grey's body was being supercooled by liquid nitrogen and suspended by a magned from the ceiling while her "control unit" was set up on the other side of the facility and being used to power the containment of her body.

 The folder documented the location of both rooms.

Noah growled. "They brought mechs. Resistance will be met with equal force." He took in a deep breath and exhaled a white flame as he expelled the perfected fire spirit. "Ignus, protect my boys here. Aid them to the best of your ability and the second half of the pool is yours. I'll see you when we get back home for a resummoning."

He had to get her soul back first, once that was acquired the entire mission was a success and her body would be a bonus. He waved his hand over a small pair of rods, a prime shield, just in the event they used something the armor couldn't handle.

And he was off to get the most precious bean back! On their radio channel, "Mechanised units... really?" So he just flooded all channels of the radio spectrum.

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