2:29 PM
ABOVE ECHIDNAPOLICE
Above Echidnapolice is one AH-6 Little Bird containing both Jules Hedgehog and Rotor Walrus. Down in the street below the Black Hawk is Julie-Su's white car with the black "X" on it. Rotor and Jules continue to watch Julie-Su driving the car down the dirt roads. In Julie-Su's ear is an earpiece radio to talk to Rotor and Jules with. Julie is playing her car radio's music pretty loud.
Somewhere else at the Army Base is a radar and surveillance room full of officers from the J.O.C.
J.O.C. JOINT OPERATIONS CENTER
Two furries that are watching the monitors of Echidnapolice are Max Acorn and Elias Acorn.
ELIAS: Think she's reliable?
MAX: Well, we'll see. It's her first time out.
They can clearly hear the radios music from their speakers.
MAX: Would you tell her to turn her damn radio off?
ELIAS: Yes, sir. *in radio* Tell her to turn her radio off.
ECHIDNAPOLICE
Both Jules and Rotor have headsets on.
ROTOR: Julie, you need to turn your radio off.
Julie turns off her radio.
INT. ATHAIR'S HOUSE – PLACE OF WALKERS
The entire place is empty. The telephone rang, but no one was around to answer it. The answering machine buzzed with Crystal-La's voice.
CRYSTAL-LA: *from answering machine* Hi, you've reached Crystal-La and Athair, please leave us a message. Thank you.
The beep went off and the tape started recording.
ATHAIR: *speaking in phone* Hey, babe, it's me. Are you there?
There was a pause.
ATHAIR: Pick up if you're there.
There was another pause.
ATHAIR: I'm just calling to check up on you, make sure everything's all right. I'll call you in a couple hours. You'd better not be sleeping.
Ari Ram moved his chess piece on the board and walked to Athair.
ARI: Your move, Athair.
At the place, Crystal-La walks right in and then heard Athair leaving the message.
ATHAIR: I'm missing you. I love you, baby.
Crystal-La picked up the phone and spoke into it quickly.
CRYSTAL-LA: Hello? Hello?
Too late, Athair turned off the phone and hung up.
OUTSIDE
Outside, Shadow and Sonic are sitting on the tar while looking at the beach that's not too far away.
SHADOW: You know, it's kind of funny. Beautiful beach, beautiful sun. Could almost be a good place to visit.
SONIC: Almost.
Shadow turns his smile into a frown.
SHADOW: You don't think we should be here.
SONIC: You know what I think? It don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
SHADOW: I just want to do it right today.
SONIC: Just watch your corner. Get all your furries back here alive.
BACK IN ECHIDNAPOLICE
Julie-Su's car is still driving through the dirt road of Echidnapolice. She stops it right next to a building.
Max and Elias see that the car stopped at the building.
MAX: Now, is this the place, or did her car just take a dump?
ROTOR: *in headset* Julie, come in. Julie, can you hear me? Is this the place?
Julie just sat there in her car and looked out across the street in fear.
ROTOR: Julie, come in.
Julie-Su just watched as a truck of Dark Legion echidnas drove by, each armed with an AK-47.
ROTOR: Can you hear me? Julie. *pause* Julie, come in. Is this the place?
JULIE-SU: To my right hand side, above the café.
ROTOR: Sir, she says this is the building.
MAX: She's certain.
ROTOR: Julie, you need to be sure. Are you sure?
JULIE-SU: Well, it's down the road, two blocks over on my left. But there's too many militia. If I go closer, they might shoot me.
ROTOR: Now she's saying the building's actually a couple blocks down, but if she's seen outside it, she'll be shot.
MAX: *angrily* I'll fucking shoot her myself a couple blocks down! Tell her I want her pink ass parked right in front of the damn build! She's not getting paid 'til she does exactly that!
INT. HANGER
In the hanger, near the open hanger doors, are Knuckles and his squadron of furries in his convoy. Knuckles is announcing his plan to them using a map on a tripod.
KNUCKLES: It's three miles to the target area. We're never off the main roads. At K-4 traffic circle, we turn north, then east on National and we wait until extraction of prisoners is complete here. *points at an area on the map* Then we role up on force on Hawlwadig, then we load the prisoners, then the assault-blocking forces and bring them back. Home in an hour. Okay? Now, there will be some shooting. Bakara market is the Wild West. But be careful what you shoot at, because furries do live there. Hoo-ah.
All the furries gave a "whoop" too. They all got up and prepared for the mission, once it's ready.
ECHIDNAPOLICE
Julie is still driving down the road while Rotor and Jules continue to watch from high up in the air. Max, Elias, and all the other command furries are watching it on their monitors.
MAX: Last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian roulette in a bar.
ELIAS: *chuckles*
Julie stopped her car in front of a building.
ROTOR: Sir, the vehicle is stopped.
MAX: So this is the real deal now. She's sure this time.
There was a pause.
ROTOR: She sounds scared shitless. *chuckles a bit*
MAX: Good. That's always a good sign.
Julie got out of her car, walked to the front of the hood, and opened it pretending to check the engine.
ROTOR: That's it. That's our signal.
MAX: All right. All QRF out of the airspace.
ELIAS: All QRF out of the airspace.