He has ever watched like, a thriller, and is aware of the concept of putting multiple collars from different parties on a mage.

"If you put your collar on her, I can just leave permission for self-healing on with ours."

Is Elvira within distance to hear this question?

Yeah, they haven't yet whisked her away through the air. She should be able to hear that.

"We can do that - I don't know what other commands she's under right now, do you have a list? In case any others might be inconvenient."

"more convenient if she were under our control for the moment"

That's not necessarily a rather suspicious question - might be standard Authority of Mages policy here and it hasn't occurred to this particular person that someone she thinks is from the CIA might take it badly. Might be a rather suspicious question though. (Either way he can't, obviously, give them said controls even if he was stupid enough to decide to. They're as keyed to him as collar controls generally are.)

If this place is hostile (and not just in the 'objecting to the sovereignty violation/attack on ours' way) - well, they're still very much outnumbered and in fact with no way to contact anyone, so it's not as though it would have been very useful to resist arrest.

Flinch and shiver some, still internal - she knows what that would mean for both likely upcoming interrogation and debrief back home whenever that happens.

...He should probably revoke those permissions he gave her, shouldn't he.

He does that. Then has the net give her a shock in case she got ideas from having them when she wasn't supposed to.

She flinches externally this time, lest he think that didn't work. Manages not to trip or anything.

"Oh, she doesn't have any permissions right now, it's just at default settings." Do random nothing countries have the same default settings on their collars? Maybe they don't. "No magic, of course. Not too much of that senses thing they have. But she's not gonna start throwing up or anything, default's all safe."

"I see. Thank you."

The people in charge of Elvira take off with her. Flying. Flying quickly.

The city they're in seems to only mostly be populated by human-shaped people. In fact there sure are a lot of very big snakes around. There's a body of water to the southeast, a really big one, might be the ocean.

...

If they had merely taken off flying - well, that's to her knowledge not in fact possible (or, wasn't), but maybe they got something useful out of their magical experimentation or something.

That seems not a really likely explanation for the rest of it at all.

Whatever went wrong with the teleport somehow - took them to another planet...?

Meanwhile back in the hallway they still have the other one to deal with. Someone, without any fanfare, commands him not to use any magic. Since he isn't magic it's unlikely he'll even notice that, though.

"How long will he be unconscious?" the cop who's been doing most of the talking asks, pointing to the creature on the floor.

He sure doesn't notice that!

They can ask the field mage? He didn't give her specifics. 

"Okay. I think we're done asking questions."

And unless there's some kind of magic preventing it, the devices he's using to control Elvira go flying over to a big cat lurking just outside the building.

They have magical protections but the protections aren't concentrated against that.

"What are you doing?!"

Finding out if he has any magic protecting him from being turned into a statue, for one thing! Does he?

He has some minor protections but it won't be enough to stop something of that magnitude.

After not too long, the people flying Elvira land outside a building. Another tiny cute creature meets them out there.

"If that's the human from the apartment incident they want her in Mar Geru now. And get the collar off her," says the cute creature.

The woman who was flying with her sighs and tries to take the collar off. Anything preventing that?

Yep! Very much so! It's not coming off at all.

"It'll explode, ma'am," she says quickly. Not ideal politeness but that is better than the alternative in this case.

('human' as they said it has successfully translated as the biological species and not its non-mage subset, and that's not too uncommon to hear in science fiction or fantasy type media so she doesn't have a reaction to being referred to that way.)

Sigh. "How will it do that?"

"I'm sorry, I don't understand."

If this is a different planet - 

Either - Earth, she supposes, though more relevantly the American government - have already made contact in some way and not told random CIA field mages or functionaries (hardly out of the question). Or this is in fact the first instance of contact. 

In favor of the first: the translator is working, and an accident sending them somewhere with no connection at all seems even more bizarre than otherwise. But it's bizarre either way, and maybe there's something about whatever happened or about whatever this place is that affects the translator.

The first bodes fairly horribly - whatever kind of contact is being attempted, this can't really be a helpful incident for it.

The second bodes probably more horribly if they subsequently make contact, and bodes as a complete mystery of the future otherwise.

She tries to keep any shaking internal; they haven't attempted to do anything to cause it and thus might not like it.

"Okay. I think we can work around that." And not addressing Elvira: "You can keep it from damaging anything, right?"

"Yeah, probably," says the other officer. He tries turning Elvira into a statue. Anything preventing that?

Being talked about and not to is the opposite of an odd occurrence.

Yep, Elvira is not statued at all.

(She has enough senses allowed to her to tell that they threw magic at her. It doesn't do anything, something like water thrown on a water-proof and repelling object. She flinches and braces.)

"...Can you drop your anti-defense wards?" he asks. "So that we can get that off you safely."

If there'd been contact, it would definitely have involved explaining about mages, and they wouldn't be trying to take her collar off to begin with (why are they doing that?). But that might have happened and just not reached these people in particular. 

If it is another planet, she doesn't at all know how they class or handle their - power-users - here. (In media some aliens or elves and the like have their own mages, but some have 'wizards' or 'fairies' or 'empowered' who count as human-and-such).

"The one assaulting me is a slave". They do have some form of slavery-and-such here though, and have classed her in that category.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand." And, this one's a risk but if they don't know that's all sorts of risks. "Would you want to know what it is?"

"Yes," says the woman who flew her here.

"I'm a mage. The collar is made to contain us, so that I cannot work magic without the permission of someone with the controls. It's an involution of energy, and has protections beyond that also."