The card captured the Venus Weed and fell to the ground. It was flat, but the plant was still animated. It could still screech and make a terrible ruckus and apparently it would do just that. Because even as he picked up the card it was throwing a fit. For a moment he stared at it. He'd won. At least for now, against that creature. But at what price? The chances of him not making it back to the hotel was ten to one possibility.
He pushed a single button on the microphone out of pure habit. "Sector twelve all clear. Returning to Delta base.." hoping beyond hope (and possibly a little delusional thanks to blood loss) to hear Doggie Cruger's voice on the other side, instead of coarse he was met with silence. As the wolf got up Jack tucked the card away in the vest and didn't turn to face him as if he didn't know Mathias was there at all. "All clear.." The strain he'd put on himself was taking it's tole. Jack didn't even realize Mathias had shifted into a wolf, when he didn't see him there he turned down an alley he knew that lead to a short cut to the Hyperion and collapsed in the shadows. The transformation broke in red light, his eyes closed, and everything went black.