1O-six hundred hours, the next day. The male nurses are coming in a few minutes, once the female nurses pass the first checkpoint, the male nurses will go past it in the other direction. Army protocols...Anyway, the Nurses are packing up and everyone's jittery.
Col. Blake , helping the Nurses pack was the most jittery. "Everyone packed up? Good!"
"Colonel! Wait for me!" Klinger comes running out of his tent, wearing his Dorothy costume , carrying a little dog and his rack of dresses.
"Klinger! How many times do I have to tell you? NO Section eights and NO outings with the Nurses!"
"Please, Sir! This maybe my only chance to get General Hank to believe, that I'm Section eight-able!"
"No Klinger! For the last time, NO!" To the Nurses he says, "Is everyone ready? Really? Good!"
Radar suddenly comes running out of his office, toward the Colonel. "Colonel? The replacement Nurses are going to be a little late, Sir!"
"Any reason Radar?"
"Apparently the MP's got suspicious because one of the new Nurses looked suspicious."
"What exactly was he doing?"
"He was saying to park the Jeep to the side instead of going through the checkpoint!"
"That's what they're supposed to do Radar!"
"You're going to need to clarify that."
"Oh, fine! Every has exactly three minutes to get ready!" Henry then goes off to take care of the Military Problems at hand. Unbeknownst to anyone until the Jeep got to Tokyo General, Klinger had already stowed some provisions incase he had to go to Plan B. Plan B was something he had already tried; stowing away in a duffel bag, but to give a little variety he chose a footlocker, his own that he snuck on when no one was looking. So when the Nurses were getting the Jeep started, Klinger had stowed away in the footlocker, with a couple of his best dresses and his little dog. Then he drilled some holes in the locker and made sure there were a few duffel bags and other footlockers were between him and the edge of the trunk so he wouldn't fall off. Then Henry came back, strangely calm.
"OK everyone! Bye! Have a good time!"
Then the Nurses start up the Jeep and leave. Henry, having put on his best smiling face to see the Nurses off, was kicking himself inside. He had told the MP's to let them stay there, although he knew that there would be more of an extensive search until the Nurses passed that checkpoint.
Hawkeye and Trapper were sleeping off there exhaustion from waiting for Frank to appear at Margaret's tent for their farewell scene. It went something like this;
Frank does his secret knock on Margaret's door that everyone knows. Although Margaret knew who was there, she still asked, "Who is it?"
Frank answered, "Me Sugarlumpkin!"
"Who's me?"
"Me is me Margaret! If I wasn't me who would I be? Certainly not you of course."
"Don't come in," Frank comes in anyway. "I told you not to come in!"
"Ohhhh, Margaret! How could hate me?"
"I don't hate you Major Burns."
"Don't call me that."
"That is your rank and his last name right?"
"Yes, but I thought this camp went on a first name basis."
"Since when did you call anyone else but me on a first name basis?"
"Since tomorrow."
"Tomorrow hasn't happened yet."
"Well, nerts to you!"
"GET OUT!"
"Why?"
"You know I hate that word."
"What?"
"GET OUT MAJOR BURNS!" Margaret then takes the lamp on her deskside and throws it at Frank.
Frank screams, "Ahhhh!" and then runs out of the tent covering his head and making way for the Swamp.
Hawkeye and Trapper who watched this, unblinking started laughing their heads off.
"AND YOU TWO! STOP IT! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! " Then Margaret picks up the lamp that landed unbroken on the floor and threw it at the window, it bounced off and broke. Hawkeye and Trapper were running back to the Swamp laughing all of the way.
That was last night. Hawkeye, Trapper and Frank woke up at the same time when the Jeep that held the male nurses came sputtering in...
