Doctor Ortega analyses the latest samples collected from bodies of dead pilots, as a young man in a suitcase enters the room.
Sergio: Doctor Ortega.
Ortega: Sergio! What I owes the pleasure of your visit? Sit, have a break.
Sergio sits in a chair: What are you doing now?
Ortega: Just collecting a V-8 sample, for production of the E-82 Virus.
Sergio: This is the one that dont work right?
Ortega: Of course it works. It justs needs some more preparation. So, what the son of dom Henrique wants in my humble house?
Sergio: Its about that bounty hunter, Mary DeVille. Did you removed the neural net from her?
Ortega: Yes.
Sergio: But I dont saw anything in the department of biomechanics in this facility.
Ortega: I dont sent it yet. Its inside that cabinet.
Sergio walks to the cabinet, and then find the baby of Mary inside a small jail, at the side of the cabinet.
Sergio: Hmm, this is a good experiment. Dont even looks like a clone
Ortega leaves the microscope: Who? Ahthis oneits not a clone, but a real baby - he returns to the microscope Mary was pregnantshe was being transported in a dromedary on way to Omicron Tetha, escorted by a wing leaded by Joseph Marshallthe bounty hunters lured us to think that Marshall was with the code, but our intelligence discovered it wasntat least its what I known he leaves the microscope and walks in direction of Sergio who were to think that a pregnant woman was carrying that small box inside her baby bag?
Sergio: What you will do with this baby, Ortega?
Ortega: I was to extract some samples from it, but I think it will not be necessary anymore, as I got what I wanted without needing a child sample.
Sergio open the jail and get the child in his hands, the baby start to cry aloud.
Ortega: You being the administrator of the hangar 21, maybe known some better use for this baby.
Sergio tranquilizes the child in his hands and smiles: These little crying babies, they always feels good when they are in the hands of a good admin.
Ortega laughs: Do you need him? Its a boy.
Sergio: I will see what I can do with him. At least, its the son of Mary DeVille, a legendary bounty hunter pilot. Someone will like to adopt it.
Later on, in hangar 21, several ensigns are in line, ready to receive instructions from a major. Sergio cames to inspect the ensigns.
Sergio: As ensigns of the mighty Malta civilization, you will be assigned to different taskssome of you will be sent to the Malta guard, and some others to the militia in Tau 31, to kill both bretonians and kusarians. In this one, its recommended that you join the battle when the two sides are exhausted. Also, some of you today are going to be assigned to the Theseus, the Phalanx flagship.
Sergio walks in front of the line, looking to the faces of the ensigns, until he cames to a very sad face. He looks to the name in the uniform of the ensign.
Sergio: Ensign Lopez.
Antonio: Yes sir!
Sergio: What is this sad face that I see here today? How you will be flying there, in the bloody skies, without the proper morale?
Antonio dont answers, a tear runs through his face. He lower his head.
Sergio: Raise your head and look into my eyes when Im talking to you!
Antonio: II have lost my childmy wife was pregnant, but the baby borns dead. II just a failure.
Major: He was in the Perseus before, sir. One of the few fighter pilots serving under Scuttari.
Sergio looks to the major: Well, its a lot of stress in Liberty I suppose. Where you are going to assign him?
Major: I was ordered to assign him to the Theseus.
Sergio looks back to the ensign: No. Assign him to the defense fleet. Mr Lopez, we need to talk.
In a small room in the hangar, Sergio hands the baby to ensign Antonio Lopez.
Lopez smiles: What is this? Looks a beautiful baby.
Sergio: Its the son of Mary DeVille.
Lopez: Ohyou mean, that really good pilot from the BHG?
Sergio: She was pregnant and out of action recently. We captured her and doctor Ortega cared for the born of her child. He dont see any use for this child, so you can adopt it if you want.
Lopez: Thanks, my lord! Thanks! I will raise this child to become a good pilot like her mother was!
Sergio smiles.
Far from here, in space, Nicholas Ivanov Kravchenko, more known as Volsung, analyses the scan. The radar dont show any non-outcast ship. He receives the message from Andre Moire and leaves the guard position near Malta.
As Nicholas approached Montezuma base, he received another message from Andre. The location of the UB-4 base in California Minor was discovered by the liberty navy and the base was to be evacuated from there. With only lane hacker fighters at disposal, all the material was to be lost from the base, unless a big ship was able to carry them away. For this Andre called the Theseus to California Minor. Several liberty navy ships were destroyed, including liberty cruisers and gunboats, and the base was evacuated. Its facilities consisted of the control center, a laboratory for research, a small factory of fighters, some hangars and weapon stores. The Theseus descended in the planet, and the facilities were unmounted and brought into the big dreadnought. The navy arrived with its marines right at the time the Theseus was launching from the white soil of the planet. A battle happened in the atmosphere of the planet, involving mostly fighters, which were able to cover the Theseus as its escaped with all the crew of the main office. The unmounted facilities were delivered to container transports near Alcatraz base, and from there they were shipped back to Malta. The only exception was the main office, which was part of the control center. This office was remounted inside the Theseus, as Andre Moire wanted to come with Nicholas to Texas for the search of the Perseus, since Scuttari, Takahashi and Thames are his long time friends.
