And wait, they did. But only for about a couple of minutes, before Vito appeared in the designated area for people to teleport in, off to the side of the desk.

"Mm?" Jake muttered.

"Eh?" Ty said, seeing the man.

"Vito?" he asked, addressing him.

Vito looked a bit surprised, but nodded.

"Ah, agent King." he responded, before looking at Aedan.

"And you are...?" he asked her, unfamiliar with her.

"Vito." Vito replied. "Vito Fenretti." he said further.

"Security at the Council, and personal bodyguard to Miss Remmington." he went on.

"Yep." Ty confirmed.

"He's got one HELL of a track record, and he's yet to meet the man he can't beat down." he said further.

"You flatter me, Agent King." Vito smirked.

"Vito and I met when I accompanied Agent Sharp to that large conference last year, where hundreds of influential people needed to meet to discuss affairs." Tyson then said to Aedan.

"We are not." Vito responded.

"I need to take you to a very specific set of coordinates that were sent to me by Miss Remmington." he told them.

"So, if you'll make physical contact with me, we can go." he said further.

"Just a hand on my shoulder is fine." he continued.

"Got it." Tyson responded.

"You good to go, kid?" he asked Aedan.

Ty placed his hand on Vito's other shoulder, and nodded.

"Let's go." he said.

Vito paused for a moment, glancing at Aedan, before nodding in response.

"Away we go." he told them, before they all disappeared in a burst of mana that seemed to have sand laced throughout it.

A few seconds later, they appeared at the edge of the impact crater.

"Holy crap." Vito said, upon seeing it.

"Wow." was all Tyson could get out.

"Nope." Ty responded.

"What I can do is pretty much irreversibly carved into my DNA." he told her.

"Good." AJ said.

"Whatever's down there is projecting a field-like barrier that locks down and suppresses mana to the point of it being dangerous." he told them.

"So you want us to go down there and investigate." Ty said.

"Ah-yup." AJ confirmed.

"There's a craft down there, and if there are people inside it, they might need help." he told them. "But we can't do it, as the 'barrier' pretty much limits the time we can spend down there, and puts us in potentially serious danger." he finished.

Vito just rolled his eyes.

"Yuh-huh." he said.

Meanwhile, Ty had joined Aedan, but his sliding down the crater wasn't nearly as graceful. It was competent, and he was keeping his balance, but it was nowhere near as nice as the zombie's.

"Wow." he said as they got closer.

"This thing looks... unlike anything else I've seen before." he commented.

"I'd swear it was some kind of escape pod or something..."

Ty shook his head.

"Not really." he replied.

"I just know the air around here feels more... oppressive... in a way." he then said.

"That might be related." he shrugged.

"Anyway, let's see what we can find out." he told her.

"We need to find a way to get into this thing, and check for survivors." he told her further, before starting to check over the spacecraft.

"....eesh." Ty muttered.

"Yeah, seems so." he agreed.

"Poor fella." he muttered.

He then looked at the other two that were seated, before looking at the control panel.

"Hey, I'll bet one of these buttons controls the barrier field surrounding this thing." he told her.

"That's true..." Tyson muttered.

"Hmmmm." he mumbled further.

"Well, we'll see if any of them are labelled as such." he told her.

"But let's get these 2 survivors free of their safety belts." he then suggested.

"I'd wager they need serious medical treatment."

"Hmmm." Vito muttered, as they saw Ty following, carrying the other survivor in his arms.

"Right, one more left. And they're... well..." he started to say.

"-dead, yes, we were told." Vito finished.

"Right." Tyson muttered.

"What do we do with them?" Vito then asked.

"Well, the safest and most secure place for them would probably be the medical wing of the Unit." Tyson replied. "They can get the medical treatment they need, and if they're hostile, we're well equipped to defend ourselves and contain them." he reasoned.

"That... DOES make sense." AJ admitted, having heard that.

"What about the craft?" he asked. "Is there any way we can get close to it to try and examine it?" he asked further.

"Not while the barrier is still active." Tyson informed him.

"...there any way TO deactivate it?" AJ then asked.