The four guardians made their way to the Globe Room, their center of operations. Frost was waiting, happily eating a bowl of ice-cream and Phil standing watch. Seeing the four Guardians enter the boy smiled, slowly licking the last mouthful of ice cream off the spoon. "This is awesome. I thought they didn't make this flavor anymore."

North smiled indulgently as he made his way to his seat. "Ahh they don't actually. The brothers who own the factory made a small batch as a favor to me." Sitting down his face grew serious. "But now we get to business. What is the phrase, get down to tacks of brass."

"Brass tacks, I believe it's get's down to brass tacks North." Hummingbird said helpfully. "And we should. Jack you said Pitch needed to make modifications to Carlotta to turn her into a glacier machine. What does he need?"

Frost set the bowl aside, expression growing serious, and pulled out a small smartphone-like device. Hitting a few buttons, he projected an image of Carlotta in the center of the table. "To amplify Carlotta's snow Pitch needs two items. The first is a high density silicon lens." The image shifted to show the lens and two buildings. "There's actually two in the city right now. One at the Santoff Clausen University Science and Technology labs. The other at the Gloss Medical Research Division."

Bunny frowned at the news. Two potential targets for Pitch to strike at would make it difficult for them to protect both. Add in one on a college campus and far too many civilians close by. At least the Gloss medical labs were isolated and far more heavily guarded. He glanced over at Frost trying not to note how wrong the kid looked without a smile on his face. "And what's the other part he needs?"

Frost changed the image again. "The other part is a condenser coil made of those new carbon nanotubes. There's only one in the entire country, and it's scheduled to be displayed at the big science expo this weekend."

"So three items we need to safeguard and no way to know which one Pitch will strike at first." North said frowning, "It would be easier to just strike at Pitch directly, do you know where he might have his lair?"

Frost shut off the images, shaking his head. "No. If I did I'd probably be trying to bust in there right now to get Carlotta back. He'd want some place high up and with it's own generators, Carlotta will use a lot of electricity once she's activated."

"Hmm, We can have Phil cross-reference building lease records. If there's a building matching that description with new tenants on the top floors we may be able to find Pitch." Hummingbird suggested, before looking at Frost. "Frost, just how dangerous is Carlotta. You said she could freeze the city in minutes, was that true or exaggeration?"

Frost fiddled with his phone a moment, before answering. "Partial exaggeration. The initial freeze would probably be anywhere from five to ten feet of solid ice on the ground covering a five mile radius. And then the ice will just grow from there until it covers everything. If people are inside they'll be ok for a while, and if they're up high enough they might be able to evacuate with helicopters. But eventually people will either freeze or suffocate. And if they're outside when it happens. . ."

Frost didn't even have to finish. Everyone knew what would happen if Carlotta went off.

"That's not gonna happen Frost." Bunny all but growls out. "We're gonna to stop Pitch just like we've stopped him before."

"Bunny is right." North exclaimed, pounding the table. "With you helping us, we're sure to defeat Pitch easily."

It was a relief when Frost cocky grin slowly came back. The boy just did not look right without a grin on his face. Putting the phone away, Frost grips his staff spinning it in his hands, "Yeah. This is gonna be fun, and I owe Pitch a good beating."

Sandman gave a thumbs up smiling encouragingly, as Hummingbird nodded her own approval. For a few moments Bunny let himself hope that working with Frost won't be a complete disaster and can't help but grin as well. This lasted until the alert buzzer went off. North's grin slipped into a stern line as he hit a few keys on the tables built in interface to pull up the report. "The silent alarm has been triggered at the Expo center. I believe we can all guess who it is."

"Let's get goin' then," Bunny said standing, the others following. 'Phil start lookin' for places Pitch may have set up shop."

"I'll contact the police and tell them to keep wait outside. They can't handle Pitch's men." Hummingbird stated, already moving to the door as she grabbed, Sandman close behind.

"Good idea. Everyone to the Sleigh." North declared. "With luck we nip Pitch's plan in bud."

Bunny didn't think it would be that easy as he and the others rushed back to the hanger, but maybe they would be lucky. Pitch typically wasn't clumsy enough to set of any alarms, silent or otherwise so something was apparently on their side.