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Your journey to the pier is uneventful but slow as you keep to the alleys and streets in order to avoid detection. The limousine is barely able to fit in most cases, and once or twice you have to stop your journey in order to push the limousine when it gets stuck in a narrow alley. All in all, it takes you about fifteen minutes to reach the pier. You can see lots of ships and boats floating in the sea, but not a sign of Allenby or his people. You gesture at everyone to be cautious; there's no telling what's going on here and whether or not your meeting place has been compromised.

You give Allenby a quick call on the radio. It takes a while before he actually answers and says, "Finally arrived?" You tell him that you have, and ask him where he's at. "All right. We'll be sending someone to come and pick you up. Find a safe place to hide until we radio you again." You nod and gesture everyone into a nearby warehouse that looks empty enough. Inside, it's dark and everyone waits inside, with you and your teammates positioned at the door in order to see what's going on.

After a few minutes of waiting, you see an armored van rolling towards you from the distance, and you let out a sigh of relief. So far, so good; you don't see any sign of any Beast around the pier yet, and…wait…what was that? A flash of darkness catches your eye, and you turn your gaze in its direction. You see two Beasts trotting onto the pier, and as the van starts to slow down, one of them turns its gaze in the van's direction and pounces at it, grabbing onto its windshield as it starts clawing at the vehicle.

You swear a little as you inform everyone present about the two Fiends. All are troubled by it, and knowing that you need to do something about it, you tell them…