A loud explosion was heard just behind them. Luckily, they had driven far enough to avoid getting caught in any stray debris.
"W-what the hell just happened?" Silk asked, shocked.
Slowly, Tag lowered the phone before answering, "I-I think that's our base."
"What do you mean?" Nico asked.
"Dmitri blew up our base in hopes of burying the stain of failure," Tag explained, slowly raising his head to meet Nico's eyes.
There was a moment of silence between them before Silk spoke up—this time directly to OmniTech.
"If you knew the place was going to blow up, why did you allow us to leave all those people in there?" She sounded more than a little angry.
{Calm down, Panda lady,} OmniTech said with a small chuckle, {in order to keep you all safe, Dmitri and the world should believe that you're dead and it'd be harder for that to be convincing with no bodies.}
The team's face paled at his words.
