"What do you plan on doing?" Jake asked. "It is huge… Sending a few parties like Neil’s won’t be enough unless they plan to live down here for a while."
"First, we will need to survey the situation, and I know just the man for the job," Miranda answered.
"Let me guess—Arnold?" Jake said semi-rhetorically.
"Naturally," Miranda confirmed.
"Good. I will continue my dive to take out some of the C-grades further down. See you around.”
"Gotta say, I am proud you actually contacted me like this and didn’t just ignore the potential ramifications of leaving a nest like that alone. I am incredibly prou—"
"See ya!" Jake cut off the connection by tossing the walkie-talkie back into his storage.
He didn’t have time to get bullied for prior bad decisions when he was on an extermination mission.
