Nathan entered the Ward's common room the same way Glint had a minute or two before him, though his access card allowed him additional freedom at more times then her's did. He had just left the Monitoring room a minute or so before hand as the action around the bank had calmed down. He wanted to see if any of the Wards got left behind, and his suspicions were confirmed upon entering the room. "Hey, Glint. Do you have your earpiece, or phone on you? An incident occurred down town while the Protectorate were busy, and we couldn't get in contact with you." He said in a professional tone

Glint was an odd one. He had read her file, and the notes the therapist had left about her. He had read all of the Ward's files in fact, but Glint was a bit different then the rest. Where Scourge had psychopathic tendencies, Scarlet had almost the exact opposite problem. Chimera and Chroma were definitely opposites from each other, in his opinion, but Glint. . . She was a bit more mature then the others and even exercised regularly. All in all she seemed very prepared for her life as a cape, and Nathan didn't have a hard time seeing her in a leadership role in the protectorate once she reached eighteen.

As chatter rose a bit on the earpiece Nathan had on, he raised his hand and replied to the question asked by Chimera. "None of you are going to secure the perimeter, actually. Change of plans, I know you just got there Chimera, but all of you should head back to base. None of your powers lend themselves to tracking these people in this setting. You'll be debriefed once you guys arrive back at the base, and then PR will talk to you about the kind of statement you guys will make." Nathan explained, his voice reeking of authority. After he finished speaking, he switched to another channel and spoke again. "Send a car around and bring the Wards back to base." This time his voice was a bit more polite, as he was talking to a non-Ward subordinate.

As Serephina sat on the floor stroking her cat's head, she tried to relax and control her breathing. Odette purred contently in her lap and looked up at her and blinked slowly. From a cat, a slow blink was a sign of love and trust. Serephina did it back and Odette calmly laid her head back down. Regus and Ryan were busy massacring each other's characters in a video game. too busy hearing gunshots and vulgar words, they didn't hear the giant pounding suddenly made evident to Serephina. Feeling guilty having to get up with her adorable sleeping cat in her lap, she put Odette on the back of the couch and stood up. "There's someone pounding rather aggressively on the door guys. Is it the Boss?"

When no one responded, Serephina sighed, rolled her eyes and went to answer the door. Upon opening it, she saw a boy standing there looking rather desolate. She thought she had seen this boy before but she just couldn't put her finger on it yet. Half smiling, she timidly said "Hi?. . . Who might you be? I feel like I've seen you before but I can't seem to put my finger on your name." Serephina racked her brain trying to remember where she had seen him before. She knew it would come to her eventually, but it would come at the most irrelevant, inconvenient time. Turning around and yelling up to Regus and Ryan "Someone's here! Ryan get down here!" She waved the boy in and shut the door behind him.

Glint turned and straightened up from her hunch over the console at the sound of the door sliding open, but instead of a fellow Wards she saw one of the PRT guys, the one in charge of organising the junior team. Nathan-something? Her face fell as he spoke up, confirming her fears that she had indeed missed something. On her first week.

"I was in class and had my phone on silent. Shit, I thought the tech guys said they sorted my alerts..." She muttered angrily, pulling out her phone and earpiece. Yup, of course. There were the contact alerts. Fantastic. She could just about smack her head against the console screen.

"Sorry, sir. I should have checked it myself. It won't happen again." She said, tucking her earpiece in, trying to keep her expression professional while her stomach churned with embarrassment. She managed to catch the tail end of the coms chatter, and of course Nathan's orders. It was probably just paranoia, but she couldn't help but feel like his cold tone was partially directed at her.

"Is there anything I can do while the others are on the way?" She asked, one finger tapping restlessly on the back of the console chair.

Chroma stalked over to Scourge, Spencer, and Chimera, petulantly putting his earpiece back in. He stood next to them fuming for a bit, his mind lingering on his failure, and the inability of his teammates to rectify it in a timely manner. Nathan's voice came on over the earpiece carrying with it instructions, and Chroma let out a shaky sigh. "Lets get going then," He said sullenly.


Scourge watched Spencers face to gauge whether she was joking or not. Unfortunately he couldn't tell. Before he could say anything else, Chimera approached them. She rapid fired questions, and Scourge ignored all of them excluding the last one. "Nice to see you too!" He replied, smiling widely, Spencer's stress inducing antics momentarily forgotten. He went through the questions in his head again, and realized Chimera asked about Spencer.

"This is Spencer, Spencer this is Chimera, Chimera, Spencer has powers, and was acting very suspicious at the crime scene," As he finished, Nathan spoke into his ear, and Chroma approached them. "I agree with Chroma," He said, "Lets let the true superheroes take over from here."


Nathan nodded understandingly, clearly not angry. "That's okay, really. Considering the situation the other Wards were in, your presence wouldn't have made the combat any safer, or led to the capture of any villains." It was a straight faced lie, her presence would've undoubtedly led to a capture of the three villains, even the stranger. Despite this, getting angry about her mistake would fix absolutely nothing.

"In the meantime you could get a briefing from HR, and a debriefing from PR. They'll be happy to fill you in, though they may wait till the others arrive" Nathan suggested, looking about the room for anything of interest, contraband for instance. As the Wards were literally the poster children of the Protectorate, it was important that they were never found to be preforming illicit acts.

"First, is the chase possible? Second, did they left anything in the bank? Third, who is that girl? Fourth, give me a full report, especially about that master bloke. Fifth, we'll make the decision of who goes after them and who does the perimeter buisness as we go along... Also, the last one - 'sup Scourge! Nice to see you."

"Wow wasn"t that a mouthful" Spencer chuckled to her self then took in Scourge's response.

"I was not acting suspicious. I'm just curious about what was happening, hot stuff." Spencer reacted, pouting, partly because Scourge was accusing her again and partly because he smiled at the new person in the picture. She took in the pierced woman that had showed up, Chimera. She was genuinely jealous of the girls looks and amazed by her style. Spencer liked it. It wasn't something she could pull off but this woman could.