The members of the new A-Squad were awaiting their first briefing together as a team, although their minds were on a rather, different subject.
"Man, did you see those zombies?" Rainbow asked Pearl Spark, "Man I hope that we get to actually help in the next Code Blue."
"Nothing personal RD, but I'm having enough trouble getting used to being in, what to me, is the past. Fighting zombies in another dimension? Now I know why Cruger has a standing prescription for ultra-strength headache medication."
"How do you know that?"
"I heard that new guy in medical talking about it, I think his name was Blood, something."
"Huh, anyway what do you think this is all about?"
"Not sure, but is looks like we're about to find out."
The door to the briefing room opened as three figures walked in. The first was a tan colored unicorn with a black and teal mane dressed in a lab coat and round glasses. The second was a green unicorn with a two toned dark green/brown mane, he was wearing a charcoal suit and top hat. The third was a purple thestral with a dark yellow mane with electric blue highlights. While the other two were rather neat, his lab coat was covered in stains and scorch marks. He was pushing a small trolley, on which there were 5 small devices that looked similar to Cruger's Delta Morpher.
"Greetings A-Squad," said the tan colored pony, "my name is Fetch, this is my associate Steam Gear," the green unicorn nodded, "and my assistant Lunar Fang," the thestral waved. Fetch then removed one of the devices from the trolley, "allow me to introduce your new best friend, the Patrol Morpher."
"This is a nifty little gadget," Steam Gear continued, "it has three settings. The first is what we call Badge mode. In addition to being your new official badge, it allows you to equip a rather impressive suit." The front of the room glowed to show an image of 5 rather colorful suits.
"Looks like spandex," Night Stalker noted.
"THAT IS NOT SPANDEX!" Fetch roared, "IT IS A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED *urph*"
"Sorry about that," Steam Gear apologized, holding a hand to Fetch's mouth, "he can get a bit sensitive about his work. Anyway, as he was saying," he released Fetch's mouth as the image changed to a detailed cutaway view of one of the suits, "your suits are composed of multiple layers of highly advanced materials." As he spoke, the various layers were highlighted, "the innermost layer is designed to not only be super comfortable, but also harness you natural ambient magical field to power the suit's systems. Moving outward, next is the climate control layer, a combination of a variable heat sink and heating element, both extremely flexible, that will allow you to feel exactly the same whether you're in the middle of a scorching desert or a frozen wasteland. Next is a layer of what we like to call "metal muscle", thousands of strands of metal wire that contract when exposed to an electrical current. Thanks to a combination of a sophisticated non-invasive neural scanner in the helmet, and their placement to mirror your own muscles, they will make you approximately five times stronger, and three times faster. Finally, the outer layer is composed of a graphene crystal infused fabric, making it as durable as dragon hide, we know, we checked." The image on the screen vanished, "when you activate the morphing sequence, a series of micro teleporters embedded in the suit automatically suit you up in less than 15 seconds. In addition, the sequence generates a small but sturdy force field to prevent interruption."
"Second is Comm mode," Fetch continued, "although it is quite a bit more. Comm mode allows you access to both civilian and SPD communication bands, as well as several forms of encryption. It can also store up to 2 terabytes of data in the form of images, text, audio, or video, as well as store that data on the SPD mainframe. You can also access data from the mainframe as well."
"Finally is Judgement mode," Steam Gear replyed, "and for this, we have a demonstration. Oh Lunar..."
"Yes?" Lunar Fang replied nervously.
"Looks like he wasn't told this would happen, does it," Pearl whispered to Rainbow.
Steam Gear pointed the Patrol Morpher at Lunar Fang, "guilty or innocent of taking the last slice of cake at lunch today." Steam pressed the button on the top of the Morpher causing the panel on the front to flip open. "Judgement mode uses a combination of bio-analysis, various forms of divination, and available evidence to determine a suspects innocence," the red X glowed, "or guilt, with 100% accuracy."
"All right, I'm guilty, but it was just, a piece, OF CAKE!"
"A guilty verdict enables containment protocol," a beam of light shot at Lunar, encasing him in a containment card, "containment cards are not only impossible to escape without outside assistance, but make transportation a non-issue."
Fetch picked up the card, "if for any reason you wish to release the subject just tap the card three times, holding down on the third for at least three seconds." Fetch proceeded to do just that, causing the card to disappear in a flash of light, leaving a disoriented but otherwise unharmed Lunar Fang in its place. "Any questions?"
"I have one," Evil Breaker asked, "what happens to someone while in a card?"
"Good question," Fetch replied, "well Fang, how was it?"
"Well," Fang answered, "it wasn't that bad, though I'm still upset about you just stuffing me in one."
Cruger groaned, he was in hell.
Around him were piles of various paperwork. Requisition forms, requests to various cities to form branch offices, applications for leave, and he hadn't even managed to get started on the calculations for the Elysium jump for Eriba.
"Can I have an emergency please, I need a break."
As he said that, the eyes on Cruger's sword started flashing, indicating that a Displaced had called.
Cruger grinned, "Faust, Odin, Zeus, Ra, I don't care who heard that, but I owe you a beer." Cruger drew his sword and slashed at the air, creating a portal. "Sorrow Song, hold my calls, Displaced business." Before she could reply, Cruger stepped through the portal.
Sorrow Song shook her head, "where is he off to now?"