Chris Colorado learns that Jack Mitchell, still imprisoned with Doctor Storm in Chichen-Itza, is going to be transferred to Palenque, the other base of the World Federation. It is in fact a trap set by Thanatos who suspects that Richard Julian's men will do everything to recover the Rear Admiral. Chris and Chippowok fall into an ambush and get out of it in-extremis by saving the "bait", Mitchell and Storm. In the clandestine, the life of the members of the World Federation is reorganized...
