Pryde and Fields landed at the spaceport and made their way to the HQ. C was in the Situation Room when he reported in. “I have to apologise sir. I lost the Raptor with the missiles,” he said as he walked up to him. He was confident as he approached simply because his barrier was still up. C turned around to look at him and his eyes fell upon Fields. “Agent Fields, welcome to our little boathouse,” he said. “Thank you, sir, I’m so pleased to be here,” she replied. Pryde looked from C to Fields with his eyes narrowing in confusion at their byplay. “Is there any news on the Raptor, sir?” he asked, trying to bring the conversation back on topic. “We were able to obtain visuals from your sensor logs from the AI on your shuttle and ran facial recognition on the leader. We now finally

