They all returned to the base a few hours later when ACS LionHeart was perched onto the Island. Within that time, they were filling Cormorant up with everything that happened while he was dormant.
"Though, I envy the Terran Hamburger, I prefer pizza better" Beams Cormorant.
"Oh come on! It's like—the best singular thing in the world!" Exclaims Sapphire.
They had this conversation multiple times in varying degrees of aggression. Although they now have differences, it only makes them more connected in a human-like virtue.
Troy stepped into the room.
"Hey Tin Man, I'm ready for you." Says Troy in a womanly fashion.
"Well, you and I will talk later again, Saps, gotta do my checkup and requested autopsy operation." Cormorant says as they exit the living room.
They went to the operations table. Cormorant places himself on the chair. "You really think that Sapharrine's University won't get too suspicious with her one day disappearance?"
"Nah, it's her year's leave anyway. Besides, she already asked for the leave a few months earlier so it won't look as if it's a really desperate thing."
"I just hope she does well with the guy Asher abducted."
Troy's chest tightened with the thought.

"What do you mean 'does well'?" Troy asks with a hint of heavy aura.
"I mean the interrogation."
Troy just grunts. "Well. Let's get started with your chest cavity. You said it houses your graphical processing unit?"
"Oh yes..." Says Cormorant excitedly.

James opens his eyes. He feels the comfort of a bed and the contents of a ceiling composed of many swirling colors. The room smells like coffee and the summer sun. It's warm and orange. Some might be reminded of being in a lodging with lots of sun rays striking the room in many places. He tried to get up and felt a tug around his wrists.
I'm tied up...he said to himself, though he can maneuver into a sitting position.
"'Bout time you woke up, sleepy head." Says a voice from the other edge of the room near the doorway. She wore casual clothing... a tight pink t-shirt and black jogging pants. She is sitting down cross-legged and relaxed. "Make yourself comfy... and I don't tolerate loud noises."
"Where am I?"
"I didn't tell you to speak." The girl said as she stood up... James was in a state of shock as he watched the girl stand, easily passing the doors top frame by more than half her head. "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Sapphirine Hearts and I have taken you into custody. I am here to interrogate you my dear sir and I want straight answers. If that is not met then something bad will happen."
James did nothing but to obey, He knows what a Heart is capable of and he knows not to mess with people like her. Strikingly deceptive and beautiful but deadly at the same time.
"As for your question, we are currently underground, underwater, in the ocean where you cannot escape."

With that information, assuming it's true... that any attempted escape will result in failure. There is no escape in underwater bases, even if you somehow get to the escape pods for emergency, you'd still need to be in a state of emergency throughout the base in order to use the emergency pods. With that said, his only choice is to obey what this girl wants. And to not die as well.
"Why are the Hearts being captured?" Asks Sapphirine.
...
"Yes you can speak"
"I do not know..." James says in his full voice.
"I don't like that answer." And before James could blink, he felt the heel of her feet dig into his skull like a baseball bat. He felt numb and dizzy... then the pain slowly escalated as the adrenaline wore off. He felt blood throbbing in his skull as he spit the red liquid out his mouth.
"Let's try again. Why are Hearts being captured?"
"I don't know, all I know is that they need to be turned into the government because they defected from the royal order..." Said James as he felt his collar being pulled up.
"Tell me something I don't know, James."
"That's all I know..."
"That is what everyone knows!!!" Yells Sapphirine as she plops him back into the bed like a ragdoll.
James' face is literally broken, he is  a mess in red. After a few minutes he finally succumbed to the pain in his face and went limp and unconscious. Though he is still alive.
Sapharrine unhooked his wrists and took him to the infirmary.