Berlin.

The plane arrived at exactly 3:15 PM, as announced. Danny made a commentary saying that maybe they had some of Chance's luck with them that helped the plane arrive on time. Then, they had to wait an hour and a half in the airport because of some confusion with Mick's passport...

"If you don't mind," Kristogar said to Danny, "I think I'll go to the Hotel and wait for you there."

"OK, I'll stay here with Mick and try to work this out..." Danny said.

"Do I look like I escaped from a mental hospital and turned people into cows in Chicago a year ago?! Do I?!" Mick yelled to an airport employee.

"That is what it says here, sir," the employee replied with a german accent. "It says you are wanted by an american goverment agency."

"What agency? This is insane! I'm NEVER using this airline again!" Mick exclaimed, as Kristogar walked out of the airport.

Once he was outside, Kristogar was about to take a cab when he saw TC talking to some american tourists.

"...and then you take a turn to the left. The museum should be right there," Kristogar heard TC say to the tourists as he approached him.

"I didn't know you knew Berlin well enough to give directions, Tobias," Kristogar said after the tourists left.

"I didn't," TC replied, "I was so bored waiting for you guys I decided to look around the city... A couple dozens of times. What took you so long? Where's Danny and Mick?"

"They had troubles with Mick's passport," Kristogar replied. "Apparently, Mick didn't remember the shenanigans he caused in Chicago before joining the team..."

TC nodded his head. Mick and Danny were going to be held in for a while, so this gave Kristogar Velo and TC, two members of the team who had returned recently but haven't posted much in the story, a chance to talk.

"So..." TC said, "do you think the team has changed?"

"It has. It's always been changing," Kristogar answered, "but you only notice it once you've been away for a while."

"There are many new faces..."

"More importantly, the old faces are not the same."

"I know. Euro... I mean, Raptor, is the one that has changed the most. I can hardly recognize the guy I met... Others have changed for good. Danny seems more adapted to this time. And Mick, he's gotten used to this, too. When we started out he didn't want anything to do with us, and now he's..."

"I wouldn't say Mick has changed for good," Kristogar interrupts. "I was always concerned by the fact that he's too powerful, but he didn't seem dangerous before. Now there's something about him I don't like."

"Mick too powerful? You mean Mxy, they're two different people..."

"Ah, that's right. And here they come," Kristogar said, noticing that Mick and Danny were leaving the airport.

"How did you get them to let you go?" TC asked.

"Well," Mick said, "they connected to the network to update the file they had on me, and the file dissapeared."

"How come?" TC asked again.

"I guess it must have been a MCCA file... Once they updated it, it dissapeared like all the other MCCA files after the agency went down," Danny explained.

"That was lucky," Kristogar said.

"Now lets go to the Hotel," Danny said, "I want to contact this doctor guy as soon as possible."

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