Holy DZA, this helicopter is taking FOREVER
I'm no elite mathematician, so please correct me if any of my calculations are wrong:
The distance between Black Maple and PNG (the place where, once reached, the team will refuel the heli/pick up supplies and allow the Moderator to phase them to his base) is roughly 6,500 miles. I originally intended to have the helicopter travelling at a speed of 250 MPH (an impressive speed for most any modern helicopter), which would leave the total estimated flight time at around 26 hours. Thinking this to be too long a wait, however, I bumped the heli's speed up to 300 MPH, pretty much making it the fastest helicopter on the planet. This brings the estimated flight time down to approximately 21 hours. As of right now, they are about 8 hours into this journey.
tl;dr: Other-Moderator and company likely won't arrive at the base til day's end.
I just wanna be free and stuff.
Don't we all...
Of course, I want The Moderator to be free as well; I'd much rather be writing about some thrilling escapade involving battle-mechs, time paradoxes, and lots of explosions, yet I can only write about where your chosen actions lead you. And, unsatisfactory as it may be, your actions (with the help of some bad luck and a certain Planeswalker...) have lead you battered and burned back into the hands of a secret Canadian organization with the power to kill you at any moment.
DZA, do I happen to have any samples that didn't infect any patients?
Why yes, you do. Quite a few, as a matter of fact. Sorry if I forgot to mention that anywhere.
Moreover, what degree of control do I have over them? Do they still do stuff on their own and such?
Well, seeing as you have assimilated the vast majority of their nervous systems, they are now completely dependent on you just to remain alive. While I suppose they could still technically think for themselves, if we assume TorZon could successfully mimic the signals given out by the brain to the rest of the body, it would give him pretty much total control over what that body does or does not do.