What they found out about the signal made them feel a rush of hope, even though the signal was weak and kept cutting in and out.

It was just a short sound of static noise that had traveled millions of miles through space, but it made the control room of the Silverwing feel comfortable and safe for a moment.

"Seraph? Draven? Can you hear me?" Vanessa's said, her voice sounding calm and happy.

The reply was a hiss of static, then a voice came through, sharp and clear.

" We read you, Vanessa. It's good to hear your voice. " It was Seraph.

"You too," Jonah said, leaning forward in his chair. "Are you two okay?"

"We are still active," a deeper voice came through the comms. It was Draven.

"Things could be better. The city is messed up. But we are still alive and fighting. We saw what you did. The big flash in the sky. I'm assuming the decoy is no longer an issue?"

"It's gone," Vanessa confirmed, her voice turning serious. The reunion was over. The war was back on. "But we have a much bigger problem. Jonah found something."

She looked at Jonah, who nodded with a look of worry on his face. "He's right," she said into the comm, her fingers moving fast over her console, sending a compressed data packet across the weak connection.

"I am currently tracking many new Weaver signatures. They are dormant, but their power is growing. They are all in one location." She paused. "It's a factory."

There was a long silence from the ground, filled only by the crackle of the comm. Seraph and Draven was processing the horrifying news. An army of Silas-level assassins.

"We see it," Seraph's voice finally returned.

"The location you sent… it's a huge, heavily secured Syndicate industrial complex on the north side. We thought it was just a supply depot. We can't carry out a frontal assault. It is impossible. It's a fortress, and according to Rook's intel, it's protected against both magical and standard detection methods from ground level."

This was yet another problem. Another path that led nowhere. They had found where the enemy was hiding, but it was protected by something too big for them to get past.

Back at the Silverwing, Vanessa's mind was already working fast, connecting the dots and running different calculations. The factory needed power. A huge amount of it. And a facility that big and protected… it couldn't run on the city's grid. It needed its own, dedicated source.

"Seraph," Vanessa said. "Your intel. Is there a geothermal power conduit anywhere near that building?"

There was a pause, then the sound of tapping on the other end.

"Stand by… Yes. There's a primary conduit that runs under the industrial park. it feeds the whole sector."

"That's it," Vanessa said, with a smile on her face. "That's our way in."

A new plan began to form. It was a plan that relied on perfect timing, unbreakable trust, and a level of courage that was almost certain to get them killed.

"Okay, listen up," Vanessa said, taking charge, her mind seeing the whole battlefield, from space to the dark tunnels of the Undercroft. "This has to be a coordinated strike."

"The shields on that factory are too strong for us to break through from orbit. But if their primary power source destabilizes, even for a moment, the shields will go off. That's our way in."

The plan was clearly explained. It was a risky strategy with no chance to make a mistake.

Phase one: Getting inside the building. Seraph and Draven's team would have to find a way into the geothermal power conduit. Their mission was not to destroy it, but to create a temporary, massive overload. This power surge would affect the entire system and, for a few seconds, it'd cause the factory's energy shields to fail.

"We can do it," Seraph said, her voice firm. "Rook's tunnels can get us close. It won't be easy task, but we can get it done."

"Good," Vanessa said. "Because while you are doing that, we will be starting Phase two."

Phase two: The Big Hit. Jonah and Vanessa would use Nomad to perform a high-speed entry into the atmosphere. It would be a controlled drop, using the planet's own gravity to build up an incredible amount of speed. They would be a living meteor, aimed at a single point on the planet. And the second the shields failed, they would use Nomad's power, made even stronger by their dive, to hit the factory's core with a single strike.

One shot. That's all they would get.

"It's insane," Jonah said, a wild smile appearing on his face. "I love it."

The plan was ready. Two teams, separated by the distance of space, were about to launch a coordinated attack on the most dangerous target in the world. However, the chances of failure were unbelievably high.

"You understand what this means," Seraph's voice said, her tone sounding serious. "The timing has to be perfect. If you're late, our power surge will be for nothing, and we will be trapped in the enemy's base. If you're early, you'll hit the shields at full power and be vaporized before you even reach the atmosphere."

If the ground team failed, the space team would be shot out of the sky.

If the space team was too slow, the ground team would be surrounded and destroyed.

There was a long, heavy silence. Everyone understood the risk and the responsibility of what they were about to do.

"We won't be late," Jonah said, his voice steady and sure.

"And we won't fail," Seraph's voice replied from the darkness below.

"Phase one begins now. We will send the signal when we are in position."

"Godspeed, Seraph," Vanessa whispered.

The comm link crackled one last time, and then went silent.

They were alone again. But they were no longer lost. They had a mission. And they would see it through, or die trying.

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