They were retreating. Even as she struggled with the woman, Agent T knew that she was not enough alone to keep the three intruders from leaving, and they were not going to leave any of their number behind without a fight either. Aura or not, she could be overpowered; she had learned that the hard way when Cervantes ambushed her. She knew that reinforcements were not coming; the ones that were not down yet were being regrouped to other priorities. She could hear in her comm the orders that left her alone to deal with the three terrorists in the hallway.

>> "No more games, no more mercy. You want a fight, someone isn't walking away."

Agent T, report to holding for asset Delta Seven. Asset might have been compromised. His safety is your priority. Permission to disengage if needed.

Permission to disengage. Gemma scoffed. She tore herself away from the struggle and stepped back, staring down the women and the girl, wiping some blood from her lips.

"You are on the losing side of this. And you have just made a very big mistake." she sneered, before she began her retreat. She could still see the girl's face as she rounded the corner.

These people were not professionals. They were fanatics. It was only a matter of time before SUPER was done with their antics.

Impact was right to put so much effort in avoiding the agent’s critical blows. Once the vigilante had taken both guards down with a stolen gun, she hesitated for a moment as she surveyed the scene, making sure Seraph was safe. It only took a moment for the Agent to take advantage of her misplaced focus, using the force of her body to slam Impact hard into the wall. The gun clattered along the floor and she fell to her knees, mentally piecing together how she could bounce back from such a disadvantage.

The answer, thankfully, arrived when Shivs made it back to the hallway, brandishing her knives and placing herself between the Agent and the rest of the team. Her words were strong and in any other context, would be troubling. Her threats were brutal and genuine, but Impact had just shot two men dead; she had no intention of taking the moral high ground when Shivs was just doing what she had to so she could protect her team.

Seraph managed to get to her feet so she could join the X-Men’s stand against their enemy. Impact was ready to tell her daughter to turn and get away from the lab; Blue Team was (hopefully) finishing with their end of the mission, and she could join them in their subterranean escape. Fortunately, it never came to that.

Impact could not hear it, but she could tell something was coming through on the Agent’s comms by the way her eyes reacted. She wondered what order might have come through, but she was not kept wondering long. The Agent backed away, disengaging from their fight, and Impact knew better than to think she was retreating because the band of vigilantes intimidated her. Someone must have understood there was something of value in the base more valuable than a scuffle with the intruders.

As much as the X-Leader wondered what was so important, they were being allowed to escape, they could not follow the Agent based on curiosity. They had the information they came for, and what mattered most was getting the team and the intel out. With the Agent out of earshot, Impact triggered her own comms. ”Blue Team, Red Team: This is Impact with Green Team. Unless backup is required, we are evacuating. Repeat: We are getting the hell out of this place.”

Impact anticipated a crowd of guards keeping the team in the building, but resistance was minimal. With a fire destroying records and a group of kidnapped mutants freed, the Lab’s priority was apparently shifting to preserve anything of value they could keep while evacuating important staff. Green Team was able to abscond with the shipping truck they arrived in, which was promptly abandoned once they were a respectable difference from the Lab. They had to make it to the predetermined rendezvous point, and Impact had to process the reality that they had just kicked a very mysterious, very powerful hornet’s nest.