Last time on the mole.

Official security business?

Name and rank and please sign this.

Would you guys like an oatmeal cookie?

During the Beacon Day celebration,

Cohort Atlas has the menial task of performing security duty at the Calaris headquarters.

I'm not really understanding. It's the...

We're the good guys, right? Well, the elevator took 25 minutes to get here.

I also volunteered to stay here today.

I was ready to be down here.

Oh, but hey, we're here now, so we're ready to rock and roll or whatever it is, you know.

But, unbeknownst to them, something sinister was brewing down in the bowels of HQ.

Ouki has just been eyeing the isarle and just very concerned for their safety.

Walk with a buddy.

Yeah, there's lacerators down here.

Contacted by Galena the Sustainer, they spent some time running all around the base,

wrangling small, vicious reptiles known as Lacerda kleptors to prevent the vivacious vermin from accidentally injuring any cholerous personnel that might stumble across them.

Oh no, that's probably these lizard things.

It's a critter.

Well, hold on, hold on guys, because we got to look for root causes, okay?

That's how we come up with solutions, all right?

Dead or alive, how do you want these creatures? Unfortunately, as the lizards were all returned to their base in the garden sanctuary of Galena. Here's your problem right there. These bolts. Those ain't working. That's not how they work. I think there must be some kind of break-in. They discovered that their escape was no accident.

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