The five warriors surrounded a house with a large hole in the backyard. With the vehicles cloaked they proceeded into the house. Being Born of Stars meant that personal cloaking devices didn't really work all that well. Instead they looked a bit like shadows flitting inside, through the rooms, down a flight of stairs and into a remarkably empty basement.

They could already smell the half-rotting scent of Vos bio technology.

Locating the opening, Petalsoft said over her shoulder, “Greenstone, wait here. The rest of you with me.”

As the others got into position Petalsoft reached out to the Weave and gently slipped through the narrow opening, the other three, tethered to her to get them safely through, pulled along by her. Three steps and they emerged into the Queen's room.

Each of them had a passcode to direct their power for an attack without it becoming an ambient burst of energy. For safety and tactical reasons they all knew each other's passcodes so that they could act without having to warn the others.

“Ashes-” Dancinglight said and they all dropped to the ground, “Of Despair!”

A chain and sickle spun above them, fire erupting from it. The room was engulfed in fire as the Vos Queen screamed. Petalsoft could sense through the Weave that the Vos were rising in response to the attack. The sickle, the chain having been given more length, hooked into the incubator and the fire swallowed it, igniting the sack.

“More enemies incoming!” Petalsoft warned over the roar of the fire the Queen's scream.

The fire subsided and the quartet who had plastered themselves to the floor rose back to their feet just as the malformed Vos Impure came rushing in.

“Waves Crash Like Thunder.” Waterflow said calmly.

Torrents of water went around the other Nyakka and pulled the Vos under, drowning them. With the way clear the other four proceeded to follow Petalsoft, who followed where the Weave pulled her. Through twisting corridors, rooms rotting from within and psuedo-life technology clinging to vitrified stone the entire way, they came to a lab where two disconcertingly Nyakka look-alike males were. The only clue that they were Vos was the seem on their chins that slit open as they screamed in a frequency that nauseated the Nyakka.

“Starlight Dance in the Eternity!” Petalsoft called over the cacophony.

In a flash of light they were gone.

To her confusion, Petalsoft sensed no more enemies coming. Either the Queen was not making many Vos... Or they had evacuated. The alternative was that the vitrified stone was an indicator that the previous broods had already been killed. Possibly, it was all of the above. Still on guard she checked the next room over and found incubators for the Impure. Blood draining from her face Petalsoft told the others, “We may have a larger problem than anticipated.”

“What is it?” Waterflow asked, staying where she was.

Dancinglight looked around Petalsoft and swore, then said, “Lifebreath; get in here.”

They switched places and Lifebreath simply said, “A larger problem indeed." Then added over her shoulder without taking her eyes off of the incubators, "They're making Impure to do their fighting for them... Which means that they're already in the general population.”