Nerra glances to Mae and then to the Chief with a frown. She grimaces as she glances to the others in the room, clearly not at all comfortable with this. "So she suddenly goes from someone you did not even recognize when you first saw her, to a star-graduate of Shadow Ops?" nerra points out, more for the other's benifit than as a question she wants an answer for. She squares her shoulders and turns to the Chief. "Very well, you are the boss here, we have all made our reservations of this person known, which you wish to ignore. Are you also going to ignore all of our other concerns and questions?" She holds the Chief's eyes. "Seems likely this whole organization is likely to fall apart around your ears, as there is little to no reason for any of us to go on this next mission if all we get is put off and ignored. It is us putting our lives on the line out there, and, frankly, something is wrong with the organization. Leaks, bad intel, and ignored agents is only the start from my point of view." She holds up a hand. 'I'm not saying I won't go on the mission, just that I can see why many would decide it was too risky."

"If you want to leave, the door is there." Chief growls "But so long as you stay, you are under my command, and you will do as I order. And I am ordering you to go on this mission. Any other questions? Good." He says without waiting for a response and striding out of the room.

"Well there is that then." Nerra says with a frown. She simply ignores Mae as she turns to the others. "Any idea on transport?" She asks them. She nods to the panther. "I do like your new helper there."

"Thanks. He's programmed with pattern prediction and intuitive defense. I just wish I could program something to translate Chief's line of thinking." He responds with a sigh.

He takes out a small metal ball and hands it to Rhenwi,

"This is Spines. R-1 is reconnasaince and minor assistance, Starguard is protection and powerhouse, and Spines is diversionary tactics."

"Amazing." Nerra says with a smile at the new technological options. "Was there anything else, for us, as far as upgrades go? Still staying with the ICERs? And how about transportation towards the prison. We'll have to do some scouting once there, so just something that can get us into the area is my thoughts."

"I have something experimental in mind for you two, follow me." He says with a weird giddy smile and a maniacal look in his eye. He leaves the room with Starguard at his heels.

Hopper gets up and follows Tetch.

"Can't wait to see..." Nerra replies to Tetch, though with a definite lack of enthusiasm in her tone. She follows him out of the room, wondering what this new tech would be.

You follow Tetch down the halls, and he leads you to a dark room, whose air lets you know that it is quite roomy.

You hear the flick of a switch, and you hear a whirring noise as the room lights up. Tetch makes a mock bow as he says;

"Say hello to the Dragliders,  Rhenwi, Mae and I will take the Raptors, the guy who invented them owed me so he lent me them to me for field testing."

Your eyes finally adjust to the light, and in front of you sits two sleek gliders that appear to be made of the scales of copper dragons, and three two-wheeled cycles of red, green, and purple.

"Whoa! THIS is what I'm talking about! Which one's mine!"

Tetch smiles a wide grin and simply points to the gliders.

"Take your pick."

"That should do for transportation." Nerra says with a nod of agreement.

Hopper runs over to the one on the left.

"My guy swears that these things could give a pegasus a run for it's money, but he also said that gold dragons enjoy being tickled. He was admitted to the recovery ward for grade three burns."

He seems to take a moment of silence.

"These things should get us close, but you two should drop in. If this prison belongs to a king, and the guy really did try to assassinate him, then he'll be under maximum security. Rhenwi, Mae and I will go in under the guise of a suprise inspection. Then once we're in I can open the doors while you guys take care of any guards along the way."

Maerwyn has been silent ever since she's rescued from the AI Panther, eagerly observing the unnerving inventions of the Headquarter. She feels a wave of relief wash over her when both Nerra and Hopper were paired up in other team. But she is still concerned about the 'Doomguard' AI, she smiles with amusement then pulls up a curtain of a poker face. 

"The sooner we get to fly these, the better, I guess."

"Seems like we need more information before we do that." Nerra says with a frown. "We don't know anything about the place's security, or even if such an approach is going to work. We will likely need to scout the place's defenses and spend time just observing the place, prior to any infiltration attempt." She shrugs. "I am sure we are under some sort of timeline, but better to take a bit more time to get some actual intel on the place than be locked up in there ourselves."

Tetch considers this.

"You are, of course, right. Better to do the job right than need to get broken out ourselves. And it would be nice to rely on our own intel rather than what we've got second hand."

"So we do recon first?"

"Well, as we don't have any second-hand intel either, it is hard to depend on it." Nerra says with an anoyed glance back in the direction of the chief. "Unless you have some intel you have not shared yet..." She gives Tetch a raised eyebrow.