"What do you mean "he didn't make it"?!", Romeo screamed.

"I'm sorry, Romeo. I did everything I could," Maru defended.

"Well everything you could do wasn't enough, was it?!" Romeo screamed again. It was obvious he was more than angry. Made more obvious when he grabbed a tire iron.

"Romeo? Romeo, what are you doing with that tire iron?... Romeo?! Stop! NOOOOOOOO!" Maru screamed as the young Cessna lunged at him, swinging the tire iron.

Maru snapped awake from his nap, drenched in sweat.

(Wait, can forklifts sweat? Eh, you know what I mean)

He rubbed his eyes as the horrible image began to fade. "I'm sure everything is going to be fine," he said to himself as he rolled out of the garage toward Romeo's hangar. He peered inside and found Yankee was snuggled up to Romeo and sleeping peacefully.

Maru pulled up to Yankee's side and said, "Yankee, wake up."

Yankee grumbled but kept on sleeping.

Maru poked Yankee with his fork and said, "C'mon Yankee, wake up. Do I need to get the hose?"

Yankee slowly opened his eyes and said, "Spray me, it'll be the last thing you ever do..."

"Get up now or I'm going to drag you!" Maru said.

Yankee said, "alright, I'm awake."

"Let's go" said Maru, "it's time to replace your engine block."

Yankee grumbled as he moved himself free of Romeo, kissed his frame once, and rolled out of the hangar, following Maru toward the garage. Once inside, Maru got Yankee situated and said, "alright. You ready?"

Yankee took a deep breath and nodded. "Let's get this over with."

Maru took a small spray can and said, "ok, this is going to feel weird. I need you to take a deep breath when I spray into your intake, ok?". Yankee nodded. Maru sprayed a blast of the sedative into Yankee's intake. Yankee breathed deep and immediately started coughing.

"ARGH! THAT BURNS!" Yankee yelped. "Why didn't you tell me it would burn?!"

"Because then you wouldn't have let me use it!" Maru defended.

"It hurts!" Yankee said, grimacing in pain. Then he stopped and his face got an almost creepy calm look and he said, "Ooooh, now it doesn't hurt so much." He looked at Maru and said, "ya know, Maru, you're a great guy. Ya know why? Cuz you're great."

"Good to see the sedative is kicking in." Maru said, "Now, slowly count backwards from one hundred."

Yankee began to count, "one hundred... Ninety nine... Ninety eight... Ninety se... ven... Zzzzzzz."

"Aaaaaand he's out." Maru said. He jabbed Yankee's frame twice with his fork, just to be sure he was fully asleep and could not be awakened.

Maru grabbed a wrench, opened Yankee's hood, and said, "Ok, let's get started..."

A few hours later, Maru put down his wrench and closed Yankee's hood.

"Whew.. done" he said, wiping the front of his cab with a greasy fork. "Glad that's over with."

"Maru? You in there?", Blade said through the closed garage door.

Maru turned around, pushed the button to open the door, and said, "Yeah. just finished with Yankee's engine."

"How's he looking?", Blade asked.

Maru smirked and said, "Better than new."

Blade nodded and said, "Glad to hear it. You going to leave him here or move him back to Romeo's hanger?"

Maru looked at Yankee and said, "We should move him. He'll rest better in the hangar." He hooked his tow bar to Yankee's front wheel and pulled him back to Romeo's hangar.

After Yankee was back in the hangar, Blade glanced at Romeo.

"The kid's lucky he didn't sink," Blade said.

Maru nodded. "Yeah... When he wakes up, he should buy a lottery ticket... By the way, you alert his family?"

"Yeah. That's taken care of... I'm just glad I didn't have to tell another mother that her son isn't coming home..." Blade said, remembering all of the lives lost over the years. "Frankly, I'm just glad we don't have to add another picture to The Wall."

"We all are", said Maru. "Now, let's let them rest."