Back in New York, Henry returned to his quiet life. If there was anything different, it was that Thena, Gilgamesh, and Cassandra had gone away on business.
At Alexei's earnest invitation from faraway Europe, two Eternals and one Spartan donned their respective armor, brought along the Ursa Major Mecha prepared for Red Guardian, and headed to Budapest, Hungary, on business.
...Whoever their target was, God bless them.
Oh, I heard Vampires and Werewolves didn't believe in God. Then they needed His blessing even more.
As for why they had insisted on going, it wasn't because of their friendship with Alexei. Cassandra simply couldn't wait to conduct a field test of the Isu Skyhawk Armor.
The previous two opportunities had been shut down by the Kryptonian under the excuse of personal grudges. This time, Alexei happened to be asking for support against Vampires and Werewolves rather than some country's official organization, so Henry had no reason to keep stopping her.
At this stage, Dog Squad Saint Bernard, which had only one unit, frequently traveled to Europe on assignments, consuming the limited special ammunition stored in the secret base. Silver nitrate and Ultraviolet Rounds were especially popular.
The automated ammunition production line, which had been idle for some time, inevitably started up again.
But Dog Squad did not merely haul supplies out. On every return trip, they also brought back all sorts of strange loot. Henry was starting to wonder whether the ones going out were hamsters. They dragged every imaginable thing home.
Yet the True Adamantium Furnace that the Kryptonian had brought back from the Akali Dam base in Canada still sat in one corner of the secret base.
Henry could somewhat understand why the U.S. military had not been in a hurry to move that pot of astronomically valuable raw