The team brings the Traskian back to base under sedation and blindfold; Lady Omega revealing a hidden stasis prison beneath the HQ to them. Once in it the alien is safe and sound.<br/>The group finds itself also having the doubtfully envious task of dealing with the OPD and the RRT and explaining why no criminal can be brought to stand for the murders of eleven people. However Clarke pulls some strings and the Vanguard gets the city's thanks for dealing with the very lethal threat. Now, with one more team mate and a group that fight together the city looks like it's got a fighting chance.<br/>/End comic, view of the HQ with each Vanguard doing something by themselves.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">New Issue!</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>With Your Shields, or On Them!</strong></span><br/>The past week had been relatively calm, with only a minor issue of a prison break that left Iron Strike free staining the success of the Vanguard in fighting crime, and several major criminal organizations had been de-clawed to the point of being in ruins. And in the Vanguard HQ the day is calm, Val's mentor Jarl having arrived to see how his former student is doing; and the 7' 3" tall man with shoulders like a barn door and hair the color of raven's wings is stoic and mostly silent as he inspects the HQ and the heroes in it.<br/>In Lady Omega's workshop lies blueprints for better weapons for the RRT that her brother started before the last fight, unfinished.