
CRYSTAL EVIDENCE STOLEN?
Crystalline material reported missing from CONDOR laboratories-------------------------
Charlotte Sundara-------------------------
The scientists researching the disappearance of key Alpha Team member Druid, Fissure, and Zoom were shaken early Saturday morning when they found the crystalline material found at the site of the sinkhole to be missing.
"Either there was a struggle or the thief had no self control - [we] found things wrecked in locations all over the labs," a lab tech reported. The secure areas where the crystals were being stored during analysis had been completely turned over, according to police. The glass vials containing them had been violently smashed, and a variety of expensive machinery damaged.
More mysteriously, at no point did the doors leading into the area appear to have been unlocked or opened.
"We're almost certainly dealing with a powered criminal," a key investigator went on record saying. "Whatever they wanted it for, they were very thorough. Even very small samples that had been far away from the others were taken during the night."
Motives for the theft remain unknown.
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