Ok, first post in awhile because:
a) I was very busy with my real job
b) I had writer’s block from hell
So it is a bit of a filler piece but I needed it to setup for the next part and the action to follow. Hopefully, it won’t take me so long to post again.

I liked the description of Major Morris: One, this man was big, really big, freak’n massive. Two, his body was fully cybernetic and heavily armored. I’ll take this kind of filler any day.

Thanks Between, glad you liked it.

This was definitely some good filler. Occasionally it’s needed to help move the story along. You needed to do the introduction, and I think it was well done.
I do think that you can lose “so the agency’s involved” line. Nick noticed that it was an agency command ship in the last ficlet, so when he thinks that to himself later, it seems out of sorts. Maybe change the internal dialog so that he curses the agency rather than has the epiphany that they’re involved?
Other than that, great job and welcome back.

Ah, that works better. Confirming his original suspicions.

that was actually the original idea. I just didn’t do a good job of getting it across

Ha, good filler post. I also, for some reason, like the REACT acronym…now I’ve just gotta figure out what the “r” at the end is in the series titles, and figure out more about that fish!