He calmed and his frills went flat back against his neck as they folded like chine's fans. "It's alright...just...not the most calming thing happened earlier, I'll say that." He said,gazing sadly and guiltily to Kimi and Nelson,gray in his freckles frills and underwings.

"OH. WHAT ABOUT THE SCEPTER?" he continued. "WE MUST RETRIEVE IT BEFORE VIRUS HAS IT MOVED. SHE IS VULNERABLE NOW AND WILL NOT BE EXPECTING US. NOW IS THE TIME TO ATTACK."

But this could be Jason's only chance to save Ash...

He agree'd with Ironhorse but he still wasn't sure about the Ash situation,what was left for Ash in his heart weakly begging not to go through and end up hurting him most likely fately but his mind told him that it would have to be done and soon if they where going to get this done. 'I could use my soul,maybe i could try to take the bug out without hurting him. I could send some tendrils gently seeping in,maybe if I knocked him out,I could quickly remove it. Just like Shade did,not damaging anything,just removing what I have to. If Shade could rip Clementine open and keep her alive for two hours with her innards outside of her,then I could maybe remove the bug and see if I could heal him if I hurt him.' he thought,but knew it wouldn't go by well with the other two most likely and so said nothing,yet,of it. "If we catch the hawk in flight,we can knock out it's flight pattern. yeah,your right. But we can't just jump head first into this whirl pool. We have to make sure we are prepared this time,not bashing our heads to a brick wall instead of using a sledge hammer." When he thought like this he often used metaphor like phrases.

"VERY WELL," Ironhorse said. "THEN I WILL COME WITH YOU."

"A quaint idea," the cat mused, leaping onto the table, "and exactly what Virus is hoping for. We must have scared her quite a bit for her to react so dramatically. If we abandon the mission now, we might never find her again."

He looked to the cat. "If it's what she's wanting then what should we do? If we wait we'll lose her and if we start bashing like rams she'll strike right back if she's expecting it."

"Hes right." Puck nodded, ignoring Ironhorses scowl. "We have to split up. Ironhorse, you stay here with Grim. Keep looking for the scepter and Virus. Jason and I will go after Ash. Well be back as soon as we can."

Jason nodded,though white flickered into his frills for only a moment. "She won't expect us to think this through well,she's thinking of our group dashing back and just attacking without a main plan. She won't think us to be thinking this over well and parting to sections. If we hit from multiple angles we can take this down. We just need to knock her off balance so to speak."

"Exactly. Rusty here is one of them so he would know best how to do that. Along with Grim's brains...they'll be unstoppable. "

Jason nodded. "Yeah,that'll be great.But how do you think we can try to handle Ash without getting our rears kicked by Virus if she catches us trying to whoop her "body guards" rear?"

"She expects all of us to go after Ash, which means she doesn't care if he dies. So I don't think there's going to be a problem there," Puck pointed out. "We have to get to Louisiana fast. How do we get out of here?" He glanced at Leanansidhe. "Dont suppose you have any trods to Louisiana from here, do you, Lea?"

"Theres one to New Orleans," Leanansidhe replied, looking thoughtful. "I just adore Mardi Gras, darling, though Mab tends to hog the spotlight every year. Typical of her."

"Thats too far away, especially if we're going to try to find Ash."