title: Thunder on the Mountain
author: Bedard, Justin
description: Three months have passed since the disastrous mission in the Arctic. With the threat of the entire organization losing American support, the fractured Tenebra Zeta board a plane bound for New York City where their fate as agents is to be decided. They don't make it that far as they are briefly taken hostage by the Brotherhood of Blood, then stranded in the woods of New York as the plane comes crashing down.It's there that the team encounters the mighty Thunderbird, an ancient protector of America that has fallen prey to the Infection. While not too late to purge the evil, it will take more power than that of Zeta's resident mage Rayyah. And so the dark of the forest calls them, the Brotherhood waiting in ambush and the promise of a cure within reach. Time is short, but as bonds reform, this gang of five heroes is set to prove their strength once again.Most all Lance, whose feelings for a certain oni swordswoman continue to drive him to new and greater heights...