Third wave.
After a comment from Duke to The Colonel about how the Egyptian's armor was knocked out too easily, and while Flash is going to Dr. Rich's office after the President's speech in Berlin; Lavigne, Stall, Blais, Cover-Girl, Steeler, Recondo, Lady-Jaye, and Quick-Kick are leaving the base for the Keystone drive-in to watch a recently made film called Lethal Weapon. On the way there, Cover-Girl looks over to Blais, who she had been speaking with a few times after he found her in the sideroom after the thing between her and Scarlett. "You think this films going to be any good, Rob?" She asked him.
"Dem commercials fer it was, so prob'ly." He replied with a shrug since he mentioned to the group how his town had no theaters in it. "But, ahm sure it be bettah watchin wit' someone wit' ya, ain't it, Mizz C?" He asks, and gets a grin from her.
"You said it." She replied, then leaned over to give a peck on his cheek.
Once at the lot, he parks his 58 Buick next to the other's cars and they all get their tickets and snacks. While the film plays, Stall puts a straw in Lavigne's soda slushy after talking about how Barbecue used the tomb's air pipes to drench Cobra Commander*. "Can't wait to see this; how about you, Chris?" She asked while leaning against him.
"Me neither, querida." He tells her before taking a bite from the candy bar she's holding.
While in Recondo's car, he is only listening to her go on about how much better she is is without Flint. "You know he would always do these lame voice overs during the previews?"/"No idea."/"Well it was just so hard to tell whether they were the annoying part, or being with him was."/"You don't say."
After some more back and forth, Recondo rolls his eyes until she says she wishes Marissa were here so she could ask for her opinion, causing him to grab her collar. "Do not bring her into this, dammit; if you really hate Flint so much, you have a funny way of showing it." He tells her before giving a slight shove.
"Right, i sho-shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry; but still, what do you mean?" She asks him, finishing with a hand twitch.
"I mean that the whole base knows that both of you are waiting for a reason, any reason to get back together." He says, but she shakes her head.
"Over my dead body." Flint says to Alpine, then reloads his rifle. "I will not have anything to do with that spook, she's underhanded, and she acts before she thinks." He tells him, before adding. "I take that back."/"Thank yo-"/"She doesn't think, she just runs off and tosses her toothpicks everywhere."
Alpine; and Wild Bill and Roadblock (who are doing mortar practice on their left) all roll their eyes, and the former replies. "Ah, bag your face...sir; there's a reason me and the other guys haven't made a move on her."
Flint takes another shot before looking to him. "And that is?" He asks, not noticing his hand twitch.
"Because ya done made a mistake when y'all split up. Why dere's even a wager goin' round fer which of ya will be first ta bury da hatchet." Wild Bill says.
"And you better do so fast, man; cause we can't take much more of the racket." Roadblock added, but Flint just shakes his head and continues shooting.
Elsewhere, a mostly bald woman with a black ponytail steps onto a platform, and turns to a second person. "Beginning procedure." The second one says, and squeezes a bulbous object on a wall, causing two objects holding two halves of what seems like a human woman's body to swing down slowly.
Once the "shell" merges into a single piece, she steps off and gets some modern clothing on and watches as two tendrils move toward her, one with an eye on it, and the second widening into a mouth. "Now, you will proceed to the Indian Ocean to deliver the DNA from the Quintessons and the anti-vegetation ingredients; then go to North America to implant a psychic motivator into a Dr. Massey." Instructs a voice from it.
"Yes, sire." The woman replies, and walks out.
Chapter thirty-six. Read and review.
*Made up to replace Bazooka's shooting scene.