Working With Phantoms

Temporal Espionage

Madran waited for the small team sent out to greet the rather mysterious "Jack's Squad" to reenter the landing bay before leaving her hiding spot, with the rest of her group doing the same.

"Wait, where'd you guys come from?"

"We were hiding here, and listened in."

"Goodness... how did you hide so well? There are almost no spots here, and..."

"Doesn't matter. Hey, team, let's head to the bridge."

Madran then took everyone in her group to the bridge again, with Zelenin joining them shortly afterwards.

"Madran, how could you hide so easily in plain sight, and how much did you hear?"

"Well, thanks to Dharma, I heard everything, and, well, for the thing about us hiding, just use this: out of mind, out of sight."

"You... literally just flipped a quote around."

"Yeah, but it describes how we pull off a lot of things."

Everyone then milled around for a short amount of time before Jimenez walked into the bridge and up to Zelenin.

"Hey, can I talk to Arthur? It's, well, in my eyes, important."

Madran left the bridge and summoned Dharma to listen in once more.

"...I was left with a kinda sour taste in my mouth after that second-in-command, Ryan, talked to us. I feel that there is some sorta foul play going on in there, and I really want to find out what."

"Your concerns are understood, Jimenez. Do you have any ideas for how these concerns may be alleviated?"

"Maybe, I could sneak into their base and see just what was up. Nobody just asks for a demon with no combat potential and offers a large amount of Macca for it without some sort of reasoning behind it."

"Your reasoning is noted, crew mate Jimenez. Be aware that if you are caught, then we may not be able to help you out, yes?"

"I understand that possibility, yeah."

Madran then heard Sheila speak up.

"Wait, you wanna sneak around somewhere? Why not take one or two of us?"

Madran then broke concentration and ran back into the bridge.

"Sheila, what?!"

"Well, he needs help sneaking around, and detecting us isn't the easiest thing."

"She's right, Madran. On top of that, Jack's Squad has very inferior technology to us."

"Um... then, why not send two? That way, we have plenty of backup if everything goes wrong."

Rosana walked over to Sheila.

"I'll volunteer too."

"Well, what exactly are you guys bringing to the table?"

"Rosana can create shields to deflect any type of damage as well as stun enemies, and I can both cause a variety of ailments and take anyone out easily with Hamaon."

"Crew mate Jimenez, the strategical benefits of having two powerful and undetectable allies on this operation outweighs the option of you going in alone. However, it is up to you. Do you accept their offer?"

"I... sure, whatever."

Sheila's POV

"Sheila, I hope that you know what you're doing."

"He thinks that we're bad, so I'm going to prove ourselves. Plus, if we get killed, then we simply get taken back to the Velvet Room."

"That is correct, but, what about Jimenez?"