Landing Zone Jolly
0100 hours
“Easy Money”, 2372

	The constant beating of the rotors drove ash insane.  Well, that’s one way 
to put it.  Douglas Adlevice stabilized the Chinook and walked back into the 
cargo bay with Lt. Colonel Matthew Tibbes.  A cold silence fell across the 
Chinook until a transmission came across the radio waves.   
“What the hell? Oy! Gah! Con-flagged mushrooms!” and was followed by laughter.  
Tibbes glimpsed at Adlevice then turned to Ash and the rest of the Army Rangers.

“Ok listen up!! We are hovering at about 500 feet up over the Goldenrod ruins! 
Doug here will give you a rundown on proper jump procedure!”
Ash glanced out the window as Adlevice began to preach on proper jump maneuvers.  
The surface so far below him was covered with ruins of the once-mighty Goldenrod 
City and was suddenly covered by a-
“HIND!!! OMFG IT’S A HIND!!!”
A Hind gunship bearing the Team Rocket crest was buzzing the Chinook as soldiers 
scrambled frantically to jump.  Just as Tibbes jumped the Chinook exploded and 
flaming parts rained down onto the paratroopers. Ash unhitched his parachute 
harness and ran with his M60 after Tibbes and Adlevice as fast as he could go.

“Look, we landed too close to Charlie’s base; they already have patrols looking 
for us!” Tibbes tried unsuccessfully to secure an extraction.  He, Ash, 
Adlevice, and 5 other Rangers were crouched under the collapsed roof of the 
train station.
“We landed too close to their side of the no-man’s land and got shot down by a 
Hind, just send a Dustoff or something!!!”  Tibbes then realized that the 
command post was not responding. He flipped the radio around and saw that a 
round from a .22 had hit the transmitter.
“Wow, these things DO stop bullets” said Tibbes mockingly as he tossed the radio 
away. 
But there was no need for a radio, because the rest of the helicopters were 
landing.

“Requesting armor support!”
A full-fledged base, MASH and all, was established on the southern side of the 
train tracks.  
“Celadon said we’d get artillery cover soon, I don’t know about that…” exclaimed 
General Suicune as he watched the Chinooks drop off a ZZ-3 “Marco” light tank at 
the landing zone.  
“At this rate we won’t even have fighter cover by Monday!!! This airspace still 
belongs to the Rocketeers-“he stopped short to duck as a MiG-29 soared overhead, 
just below cloud level.
To Be Continued…