[h1][b][center]Sometime Later[/center][/b][/h1]

It had taken a few hours that had gone quick until the team were all reassembled - and had been redirected to one of the bases' hangars, with Kerris and Maxon were taken off of the personnel transport and straight onto a heavier military cargo transport jet. The hold of the plane was filled with transport trucks loaded with their MAS Suits and the weapons, ammunition and support equipment for them. As soon as everyone was aboard, the loadmaster directed them all to sit and strap in, while the jets' engines wound up to speed and it started to move as the rear ramp closed. The noise inside the aircraft was too loud to speak at anything above a scream without a headset on, and they were each given ones - appropriate to their species - as the noise grew and the huge cargo jet started to roll, the engine sound growing too loud even for conversation over the headsets until the sound died away and the acceleration after the climb died off. The loadmaster's voice came over their headsets, telling them they were free to unstrap themselves and move around the bay, until Silverwind told them to stay on the channel while he ran through their briefing. 

[color=0054a6]"All right, everyone. Listen up. I know you're all as annoyed as me that we got called back into action instead of havin' a long deserved day off, but that's th' nature of the thing. Best we can do is get on with it an' hope that we can deal with this situation quick enough ta get back to some free time. As y'all mighta noticed, we're on a flight overseas. We're headin' to a country called Egypt; it's th' place with those big pyramids y'all mighta seen on TV or wherever. A research team were explorin' through a portal there. They'd found a inhabitable planet on the other side and it showed traces of a civilization. They were in contact periodically, until eight hours ago, they missed a scheduled check-in. They sent a probe through and..."[/color] 
Silver sent a message through to their pebbles on the shared squad channel and the video showed grainy footage. It was a world that looked quite a lot like some of the more idyllic regions of Earth, particularly like Canada, with it's pine forests. The main difference was the colour of some of the plants, and the ringed planet that filled the sky. 
A panoramic view showed gently rolling grassy plains with hills rising in the near distance, and copses of the pine-looking trees and lush vegetation. Time skipped onward through the drone probe's cameras, shown by the time index in the bottom corner rolling forward and the view changing to much closer to the hills - and then pillars of smoke drifting upward, along with the unmistakable shapes of Totality gunships in the skies above, their techno-organic shapes wheeling and moving through the skies with eerie agility. 
[color=0054a6]"'Bout that point the drone turned around and headed back fer the mirror, as there weren't much it coulda done anyhow. But there's a coupla issues here fer us to be lookin' into. First is, the exploration team cut off hours before the Totality destroyed th' outpost. Which means they coulda got away, or it coulda been somethin' else that caused it to happen. 
"Second thing - an' more of a worry - is that the Totality got access to this planet, an' it weren't through the mirror we're goin' to - which means there's one to one of the worlds they have access to on th' planet somewhere else... or they got there some other way. Either way, it's only one step away from another front they can open up on Earth, and we don't want that. So, that's yer explanation fer the urgency, at least".[/color]
The display he'd sent through showed the location of the mirror, out in the egyptian desert in a rocky, hilly area. Footage from the Earth side showed it barely protected, with only the mobile laboratory trailer and a security detail present.
[color=0054a6]"Place is so remote, that it's gonna take the local armed forces hours to move anything significant into the area other than light troops an' airpower. Nearest airport that can take this bird is eighty miles out, so we gotta drive once we hit ground too. Gonna take us at least eight hours combining the flight and the drive even at the fastest we can make it, which is why it was important we get movin' ASAP".[/color]
He looked around at them across the bay and nodded. 
[color=0054a6]"Reckon y'all might have questions, so I'll do my best ta answer 'em. If not, prolly best ya get some rest while ya can. Apparently this thing has a kitchen of sorts up front too if yer hungry or thirsty too"[/color]

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