"Stand down Glaive!"

Ulric stops mid punch, blinks and sees allies for the most part instead of foes

"Your Highness, this woman..."

"Is no longer an enemy, full explanations will have to wait but she and her two men are no longer part of the Empire's army, in fact she's a target and MT's will do whatever it takes to kill her, and her men are on special assignment right now but they are considered Hunters"

And so the group eats breakfast where the explanation behind Aranea now being part of the group were given to Nyx and then all of them had a long, detailed conversation about what the new plan was regarding Nyx being in the group or not

"So I take it we all agree on the plan?"

"Yeah, it's probably for the best that we do things this ways, since it will allow me to continue following the last order given to me by King Regis and yet..."

"Exactly"

"By the way, once you get there get in contact with Biggs and Wedge, they're already guarding Lunafreya and if they don't know who's side you're working for..."

"Will do, hopefully though Lady Lunafreya will vouch for me before there's any trouble"

"Agreed, now then just remember I can contact you at any time for you to join us on a mission, if that happens Biggs or Wedge will make sure to get you to us, either that or you're going to have to figure out travel arrangements, don't worry we'll call in enough advance so that you can make any arrangements you need to and get to us"

"Right, still, I think I should have this Hunter Dave's contact information as well"

"No, not yet anyways, look...you're dead Ulric, no one but us knows that you're alive, Cor...Cor actually took your loss badly since he knew certain things that we aren't explaining to you"

"Wait...does this mean that Libertus..."

"Yes, all Glaives that remained loyal also believe you dead, you're a secret weapon that the Empire can't know about, especially since Chancellor Ardyn is...acting quite odd and the five of us have to deal with that frequently"

"I see...still since I am going to be fighting beside you guys on occasion I don't want to leave until after Ravatogh is dealt with"

"Good idea, now then..."

Suddenly Noct's phone rings and so he goes to answer it and when he comes back his face is serious

"Sorry Nyx, change of plans you're going straight to Altissia and keeping an eye on Luna, Cor just called saying that he needs to meet with the five of us urgently, and yes Aranea he knows your situation and trusts you to a degree, this is partially a test for you and something that Dave would have told us eventually if he had found out before Cor"

"And since we don't want anyone to know of my survival for now for your own reasons I can't meet up with him"

"Exactly"

"Fine, but I hope we work together soon, in the meantime I need to figure out a way to get to Altissia"

"Hm...I think we should ask our reporter connection Dino for help"

"Good point, he should be able to get you a boat ride, and yes we completely trust him, though our reasons are for something we can't explain to you Ulric"

"Will you someday?"

"Someday yes, we hope, but for now..."

"Understood"

And so the group manages to arrange a ride for Nyx through Dino and then the five of the main group meet up with Cor

"What's going on Cor?"

"Trouble, that Chancellor of Niflheim's getting worse by the day, not only through the bases that have been rebuilt in furious fashion along with dangerous weapons but also...it almost looks like he's beginning to do human experimentation with prisoners"

"Say...what?"

"Exactly your Highness, no one knows what's going on, not even me and...does she know?"

"Oh yeah I know the fact that they're time travelers, guess you're in on the secret too huh?"

"He had to know considering...well considering the situation we wound up in when we time traveled"

"I see, so...what's the plan?"

"For now it's simply a scouting mission, I know that you guys probably want to destroy this base however..."

"The captives need to be protected and if we don't know where we are we could unintentionally kill them"

"Exactly"

"So...this will complicate matters, but hopefully we find a way to make it work"

"I could pretend to surrender and we could get an in that ways"

All four of the time travelers had only one word for that and they said it in sync

"NO!"

"Just a thought, won't go through with it if you don't agree"

"Okay so we now need a plan b because quite frankly Aranea I have no clue where that plan came from but did you honestly think we would agree to such a thing?"

"Kind of yeah, primarily because of the fact that I was factoring in very few options and least important member of the team what with me being completely new"

"Yeah no, the second half of your reasoning is never an option, as for the fact that there aren't many options, while that may be true we're not giving up on thinking of plans that won't sacrifice any of the group in the process"

And so the group thinks heavily about it and continues to draw up blanks and so they ultimately decide to just wing it not knowing what that decision would bring in a relatively short amount of time. The group sneaks into the base and things start off well, but then the group is forced to leave Ignis and Aranea behind due to the two of them being captured

"Well, well, well, look who we have here"

"Loqi"

"Hm...orders are to execute you immediately, however with the fact that we have a Lucian who was in high command I think we'll settle for public execution in Niflheim instead, at least I think the Emperor will go for it, we're also transferring the prisoners we have here to Niflheim per the Chancellor's orders"

The two were thrown into the cell with the other prisoners and yet at the same time were kept separate from the others due to a divider

"Now what?"

"Not sure, guess we wait and make plans"

"Guess so"