that happen. Recalculating their arrival and his portal coordinates, Cin continued pacing the aisle until the pilot stated they’d reached the line of safety. They couldn’t go any further into the quadrant without alerting the Moon that they were there.
Everyone stood and faced Cin. “Follow the plan. Remain cloaked until it’s safe to materialize.”
When everyone nodded, Cin made the portal in the air and jumped through. He’d expected it to be loud and chaotic but what he was hearing was unusual even for the lawless moon. Since the coast was clear, Cin had his nanites change his attire to something more suitable to where they were.
The nanites had just finished when Gabriel came through, followed by Dar, then everyone else. All but Dar changed their appearance to mimic Cin’s and waited until he moved out of the alley before following.
Swarms of laughing and grinning people headed towards the spaceport, and Cin’s group wondered what was going on when a huge man stumbled past them. Nearly falling, he grabbed hold of Gabriel to steady himself.
“Sorry, brother!” the man grinned drunkenly. “I don’t want to miss this! We’ve never had a live one like this before!”
“Like what?” Gabriel asked calmly, refusing to let go of the man.
“One of the experiments got loose, and she’s killed nearly all the Mulvors!” the man laughed. “They’re trying to figure out how to get on the ship without the crazy bitch killing everyone or damaging the cargo.”
Gabriel chuckled and pushed the man into a group of others who shoved him further into the crowd. He followed Cin and the others back into the alley so they could regroup. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the experiment gone wild was the Lanie that Cin was looking to find.
The blood that drained from Cin’s face when the man first spoke had told the entire group that their somewhat simple mission had quickly devolved into a nightmare for all of them. Mostly for Lanie if they couldn’t get to her soon.
“Can you get us to their spaceport?” Adamo asked calmly as if the man were in the middle of an enemy moon regularly.
Cin was already pulling up the plans in his mind. The moment he found an area they could appear without being noticed, Cin created another portal. Jumping through first, he made sure it was safe for everyone else to come next.
While his team came through the disc, Cin listened to the commotion outside the mechanical room. From the sounds of it, Lanie was doing a hell of a job holding off anyone who tried to enter the cargo bay of the Mulvor ship.
Right now, the mostly drunk or high crowd was having fun at the expense of those trying to get on the ship. Cin knew, at some point, the humor would fade, and Lanie would be in terrible danger.
“Does it surprise anyone that Cin’s lady is such a badass she took out a Mulvor ship and is holding off the mob on Raider’s Moon?” Tanq laughed.
Cin blushed when everyone seemed to agree that Lanie must be perfect for him. He had to admit that he was damn proud of her courage in the face of what happened to her. It was while he was scanning the area, trying to contact the nanites he’d left inside Lanie, that Cin was shocked.
“Oh, fuck! Bob’s here too!” Cin announced, a little shaken by the news.
“What’s a Bob?” Osin asked with a curious tilt of his head.
“It’s my damn cat!” Cin growled, thrilled that Lanie and Bob had one another but pretty pissed off over their situation.
“Now probably isn’t a good time to make a joke about you having lost all your pussy, huh?” Tanq looked around at the others, who were all glaring at him. Linq punched him in the arm.
Gabe snorted to cover his chuckle and turned to Cin with a straight face. “How about we pretend to be raiders and volunteer to go in next? Surely, you can find a way to keep your cat and your woman from killing us once we get in.”
“I don’t know about you guys, but I’m just going to use my glamour and walk right in. I’m not asking anyone for shit.” Niama walked to the door, threw it open, and was invisible before it shut behind her. The elves, Cin, and everyone else followed quickly.
It was apparent that walking right in would be a stretch when the door, to the docking bay of the Mulvor ship, was lined