Naia made sure all the Harmony energy was doing the right thing this close to the artifact before scanning the laboratory with her glowing eyes.
"In a facility like this, there should be a transport case somewhere designed for it. Check those storage units by the wall?"
The Shift Walker stepped closer to where she directed him before their comms both buzzed. Evander's slightly unclear voice tickled their ears over the static.
"Survivors are warping out and replacement pod is inbound. Command requests you be careful with the retrieval."
"Copy."
The Navigator swapped channels and responded while the man with her was conducting the search.
"Found it. Looks like they were planning to move this thing themselves before everything went wrong."
Longer single chapter, because I wanted to do a short after-action rather than padding it out to a whole second chapter.