Finally, he had reached Eureka's town limit. As Rex Dracos drove towards the town he could feel something in the ether, something strange, energising, and semi sentient; it was The Artefacts Omega field. At this range it was too weak for him to tap, because of its particular non zero falloff factor. It was just a distraction; he needed to concentrate on his bike and its heavily laden trailer.
They didn't really need to blackmail Stark into providing them with key components to get Omega Field generators working at Portland and their home The Peak District, but they would be a lot safer with them, and they would not have to rely on the breaking of The Dark Curse and the hope that an Omega field transmitted by portal from Lake Nostos could somehow be activated in Storybrooke.
Reaching the town, Rex made enquiries for the local watering holes. The main restaurant was the only restaurant so it would have to do. The owner was mildly curious, Rex recognised that while the man had an oafish demeanour, he was part of the lamentably inadequate security system and needed to be treated with caution. Rex told him that he was camping and his bike was acting up. The owner gave Rex some useful, but minimal and too the point, advice about the town's amenities.
Rex checked into the local and only boarding house. The lady in charge seemed quite pleasant, but Rex instantly detected that it was an act. This woman was no coercer, but she had suboperant talent which she was using instinctively, and not because she was a shrink. He would have to be on his guard. Obviously she was part of the Eureka security system, which made sense.
After leaving the bike at Henry's garage, having as a powerful Creator, demonstrated a convincing set of faults, Rex went to explore the town. Although at this distance the strength of the Omega field was weak, it was still strong enough to allow Rex to permanently inhibit the bike and keep Henry occupied with fruitless repair work. He he he.
That evening Rex returned to the boarding house. He had managed to avoid a confrontation with Sheriff Carter, but not that she wolf, Lupo. However, a combination of coercion combined with reverse redaction had given her more to think about that having the temerity to grill Him. Lupo would be some time at the Jake's. He could use invisibility to prevent undesirable encounters, but it was draining. He needed to take advantage of the Omega Field and practice what Dad had told them about generating an applied School of Coercian spell, a minor Spell of Confusion.
Rex decided to check the public rooms for surveillance equipment but his farsense could sense nothing. But when Rex went into the sitting room everything changed. Rex sensed something cold and dark, Murder Most Foul! Or was it Murder by Death? It took Rex a while to concentrate, at this range the artefacts weak Omega field was barely able to compliment his own dragon psi ability, but eventually The Pattern Of The Past revealed itself, although it took a while for him to glean all the key details. That nice shrink was anything but. So, which crook, corporation or government was she working for? Time to phone Dad.
After a week of eavesdropping, farsensing and covert computer hacking from his laptop with the aid of some rather special information gathering worms that needed to be used from within the Eureka Internet, Rex was ready to act. Approaching Stark in Global Dynamics was unnecessarily dangerous, even with the full power of The Artefact's Omega field to draw on, and the practice he had been getting at generating the Spell of Avoidance. There was an easier way.