After the hostages and pirates' leaders had been secured, Avery broke his combined forces up into smaller squads and sent them out to crush the rest of the remaining pirates.
Since the base had multiple levels and there were dozens of places where the pirates had barricaded themselves in, the cleanup took over a day, but eventually nearly the entire base was under Avery's team's control.
"You doing okay. That's quite the scowl you're wearing."
Seeing Avery working at one of the bases' consoles with a large stack of data drives next to him, Kasandra approached him to offer her help now that she was finished with her own assignment.
From one look at him however, she could tell that what he had found was likely disconcerting.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. There's just a lot of disturbing stuff that these pirates had. But what I was really looking for was how they managed to get this big. And I think I've found the answer." Avery said, showing Kasandra the documents he had open.
