Landing Zone Jolly
1200 hours
Airstrip Delta, 2372

	Ash stood next to a tall Sergeant who kept wiping his nose on his sleeve.  
Wipe. Wipe. Wipe.  
“My God, man!” Ash finally shouted. “Use a freaking tissue!”
The NCO glanced at ash and went back to wiping his nose. Wipe. Wi-
A C-5 Galaxy touched down at the far end of the dirt runway and slowly skidded 
to a stop, spraying dust everywhere.  Ash and the others waited for the 3 
Strykers were unloaded before proceeding into the bay and getting ready for the 
long flight back to Kanto.

	“LEAVEEEE!!! LEAVEEE!!!!!!” Ash ran around in circles in front of the C-5 
the minute he got off. 
“Look kid, we gotta clear the runway or else-“a F-14 Tomcat had just slammed 
into the back of the Galaxy. “Aw, crap…”
Ash walked out of the gate and vaulted into a jeep with Suicune and Tibbes. “So 
this is saffron…
“Hey, I remember this place!” Tibbes suddenly exclaimed, nudging suicune.
Suicune stared blankly in front of him.
“Did a lot to this place in the saffron rebellion of 65’…”
Tibbes suddenly fell quiet.
“Yeah… yeah I guess we did…”
The rest of the trip to the pokemon center was quiet, with both suicune and 
tibbes looking out the window.

	“Well well well…” 
Colonel Sanders (remember him?) paced back and forth in front of his desk in 
Rocketeer Compound 4.
“Shot again, eh? 4th time this year…” 
“Well… sir this time it was completely unexpected!” exclaimed Jessie feeling the 
bandage on her back.
“I mean, who would know they let hospital patients carry guns?”
“It was a MASH, not a hospital, keep that in mind…” Sanders interjected.
The conversation was broken up by Antiaircraft fire.  Sanders ran to the window 
to see a F-117 explode in a fireball and skid across the compound, taking out 20 
rockiteers in the process. Sanders swore loudly.
“Get a team to clean that up, I want the elites assembled for inspection in my 
office by 0800 hours!”
“Yessir!”

      Persian watched everything from under sander’s desk.  “Did you get that?” 
he whispered into the tiny microphone.

To Be continued…