Jake waited patiently in the waiting area. He had a tablet in his hands in which he was reviewing something of sorts. Really, he needed to keep his mind occupied considering that everything, to him, had not gone according to plan. Sure, they blew up a Cruxi controlled station and most likely got combat data on two new units they used on them.

But, as usual, at what cost? Pilots? Machines?

Devors was on one of his drunken rants but this time, it seemed to Jake that he was really hurting deep down. No doubt that he'd seen so much...that was probably the reason for his drinking habits. Not the best solution to cope but again, considering how brutal the war against the Cruxi got and most likely the critical state of Elise, you just find any way to get through the pain.

Both physical and mental.

When the doctors said that Jason could go in and see Serah, Jake tried to follow. Thankfully, the nurse didn't say anything to Jake. She simply nodded and let him follow Jake in.

Not too far from Serah was Mai. No...Maria now. She was one bed next to Serah as a matter of fact so he wasn't too far from Jason. While Jake was glad that she looked ok, it still hurt him to see her like this.

For that matter, how many coma's or even servere injuries did she suffer daily to always wind up in here? What exactly did she go through in her lifetime? Jake did have some rough moments, even more so involving his family, but this...

Sitting down on a chair next to Maria's bed, Jake brought out his tablet again. He got to work on bringing up a "recording" of the sync rates of his infiltration team during the mission. When Jake held down that corridor and the trap was sprung, he didn't really hear anything good.

But it was that horrible yell he heard briefly before his comm link with his team broke and then he heard nothing.

From what he heard Maria said though, the Cruxi did do something to Elora. More than likely, the Cruxi used Elora against his team. But then she broke loose from her captors control and...did something to Mai to turn her into...her mom?

As part of the Recon division, Jake had made his fair share of weird reports and even heard about stuff like this but to actually see and hear it?

At any rate, he needed to see what happened in terms of sync rates during that battle if was even available at all. Even if it was, he had a suspicion that it'd be "classified" and blocked from his viewing but he'd break some rules if he had to. Like he thought before, he was getting tired of all the secrets...