Marked

[Reeves]

Morreti couldn't allow himself to be idle and simply rest as Olivia had suggested. He passed the time with endless follow ups with various informants and supporters who occupied some of the lowest rungs of Liberty's society. Using this incredibly wide support net the Xenos had cultivated over the centuries that Liberty had spent running its people through the grinder had to yield something, and the fact that it hadn't yet was beginning to aggravate the otherwise enviably calm man who was the Alliance's Commander.

Eventually, it was the very same mole that came through with a piece of information that sent Morreti sprinting from one end of the hideout and back into the hangars. A convoy was due to leave Pittsburgh within the hour, it would be making the trek to LPI Sugarland and offloading a fresh batch of 'resources' into the system. The mole claimed Sal's family was part of this convoy, something Morreti didn't simply take his word on. Multiple other sources claimed to see people among those being processed for transport matching descriptions that had been put out by their local 'freedom fighter'. With orders being barked over various Xeno channels of communication, ships sporting broken stars began to quietly assemble in the East Dallas field ahead of time, these would be Alliance pilots stationed on Barrow, now under express orders to get in position with their Commander and to cover a liberation attempt at any cost. To keep his accomplice in the loop about this, Morreti would send Olivia a simply worded message while flying to the rendezvous point. "LPI prison ship. Bound for Texas. Sal's family onboard. Going to ambush it." The mole, having been wrongfully entrusted by Price to act as an escort for this shipment of prisoners kept his 'benefactor' of sorts up to date with the convoy's location as it traversed New York. They had been conveniently delayed long enough to give Morreti a sufficient head start. If the Pelican holding Sal's family made it to Sugarland before "Cobra" and his crew could stop it, then they were never coming back out.

The next few hours dominated by tedious and tense preparation would be the deciding factor.

---

On indefinite hiatus because the current state of gameplay sucks - ping me over discord if replies are needed