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Will stood still in Conference room 5 for a moment after Alpha Team had left. He then clicked on his wrist comm and dialed up Chris. The message was as follows:

"Where the hell were you? You were supposed to be in Conference Room 5 15 minutes ago! Meet me in there as soon as you can. Over."

Will sat down in the front row of the conference room and waited for Chris to show up.

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Chris seemed to be under the impression that he was in trouble. He should have known that it was nothing that was going to kick him that hard. He'd missed a briefing, the only reason they had even asked Chris to be there was because it was 'customary' procedure to have two Professors present at briefings. It didn't make Will feel any better about the situation. He had been able to handle it well enough, but what if the situation had called for a second Prof to be there? It could have gone west quickly and that was never good before missions.

Will sighed as he stood after Chris had spoken and replied, "Yes, Chris, the briefing is over. Not that it required us both, it went smoothly enough. I was hoping that we could have a little meeting about what we're going to be doing about our own situation though. With the small group of Elites and Super Elites that have been amassing around Surroth Point. Also those strange readings that we keep getting from the Isaratha Desert, the energy signal that's never there? You know the one."

Will was referring to the strange energy anomalies that fluctuated in and out of existence in the Isaratha Desert. The reading seemed to be coming from a massive source. You would definitely be able to pick it out on any imaging system known on New Earth. But every time it appeared the area was completely void of visual information. And by the time that a team could be dispatched to the site, the signature was gone. It was puzzling. Not one of the scientists in the N.E.D.F. could figure it out, and Will was at a loss for speculation.

He could only hope that Chris would have a better idea of what to make of it. He had been at the last briefing that had been to discuss the energy signature that wasn't there. Chris had to have some clue.

Will was at a loss for the Isaratha situation with just about everyone else on base. But that wasn't the pressing matter and he needed to talk with Chris about the other situations that he was concerned with, the Surroth Point gathering.

"I don't know anything more than you do about the energy signature Chris. But I received intell on the Surroth Point issue this morning from an informant. He claims that the gathering holds up a few of the really high ups in the underground. He dropped some big names too." Mike listed the few names that he had been told including Mira*, Drit**, and Grande***. Will didn't know if Chris knew everything about these guys or if it was just the general knowledge that everyone had. But Will knew that Chris took his job very seriously and would probably have looked into the matter a bit more than some of the other people on base.

][NOTES:
* - Mira is a high level Feline Daemon. She is intricately involved in the Daemon gang known as 'The Pack', not much is known about The Pack except that they tend to be involved in attacks on chemical plants more often than not. In human form she appears to have a deep tan, raven black hair, and yellow eyes. She tends to wear black and fishnets most of the time in her human form. When she's in her cat form she takes on the appearance of a humanoid black panther.
** - Drit is a high level Crustacean Daemon. He's strong and can take a beating and come back at you and keep dishing out the heavy hits. He's involved with no one particular gang at any time in particular, but his services are distributed to the highest bidder. He's ruthless in combat and doesn't pull any punches and expects his opponent to do the same. In human form, Drit looks to be about 35, with an incredibly muscular physique. His red hair is worn slightly long and his brown eyes seem to have the depth of the ocean. He likes to wear black and red when he's in human form and also has a strikingly large blade on the outside of his right hand. He also seems to cover his face for some reason that no one seems to know. In Crustacean form he looks to be a large humanoid shrimp, his plates are very tough and his long feelers end in cruel points that can pierce up to five inches of titanium.
*** - Grande is one of the topmost feared creatures on New Earth. He's a Super Elite Raptor Daemon who has made a name of himself by killing the other top Daemon Super Elites who get in his way. His goals are unknown for the most part, but when he comes into the open the whole Daemon community takes notice. In human form, he appears to be a strikingly handsome 40 year old. He has spiky brown hair and piercing golden eyes. He usually wears earthy styled clothing with lots of browns, greens, and reds. In his animal form he holds a resemblance to a golden eagle.][

"Mira, Drit, and Grande, eh?" Chris muttered with a bit bitter smile on his face. He didn't have any personal experience with them, but he knew more than enough to know that if they needed to fight those three, they were in for a rough time. "Fanastic," he intoned as he looked to Will, "So, the higher-ups have anything planned for the situation, or are we just gonna sit on our hands until they do something?" he asked Will, having heard nothing from the Council about the situation recently.

Chris' eyebrow cocked at Will's response. "Yeah...Right...I knew that..." he mumbled as he remembered S.O.P. for their group, "Meh...Everyone forgets things once in a while. At least I don't do it often," he mumbled to himself as he shrugged off the mistake and seemed to become lost in thought.

A slight frown formed on Chris' face as he tried to think of a response to Will's 'accusations.' "Well, the breifing thing just happened, so that doesn't count," he said as he waved his hand to the side, seemingly brushing that comment away. Having done that, he addressed the other situations the only way he really could, "And...Uh...I really don't remember those other things..." he replied with a dismissive shrug.

"What?"