The return flight was even less eventful than the flight there had been, but more stressful. Gemini took off on their own, being able to fly across populated areas without raising unwanted attention. The rest of them flew over the ocean, around New York as far as they could without being detected, and low over the river in the middle of the night frightening some late night drunk fishermen, and creeping up the Detroit River before turning inland toward home. They stopped briefly at the lab to check in with Steve. Or rather, they planned for it to be brief. Upon their arrival, they found Steve running more diagnostics than she should have been able to, the alarm systems were set to the highest sensitivity, and brand new security around the parameter. Mim-Cri was almost shot out of the air,

