Spaceship? What Spaceship?
The next evening General Hawk was working on some paperwork when Dial Tone walked into his office. "Uh General Hawk sir, we have a problem."
"When do we not have a problem?" Hawk sighed. "Well what is it this time?"
"Guess who's here?" Duke sighed.
"Oh no…" Hawk groaned. "Not…"
"This is Hector Rameriez from Twenty Questions live from the Pit! GI Joe's top secret military headquarters!" The dark haired mustached reporter waltzed in with his cameraman.
"Who let you in here?" Hawk groaned.
"General Hawk what do you say to the charges that you have been keeping a space ship hidden on this base?" Rameriez held the microphone up to him.
"I'd say that you have been watching way too many 'Star Trek' shows," Hawk huffed.
"Laugh while you can General, but we at Twenty Questions have evidence that you have proof of extra terrestrial life and are hiding it from the general public!"
"Is this gonna be like the time you claimed that you were attacked by trained killer penguins on this base?" Hawk raised an eyebrow. "And that they were masterminded by a talking parrot plotting world domination?"
"I know that bird talked General!" Rameriez snapped. "And I know what happened to me!"
"Yeah the whole world knows," Duke grinned. "I understand that show where you were completely plastered is one of your most popular. They run it every Christmas I believe."
"Don't have to wait that long," Hawk grinned. "It's now on VHS and DVD in Suncoast."
"Don't change the subject!" Rameriez snapped. "I demand to see the contents of Hangar 23!"
"Hangar 23?" Hawk pretended not to be nervous. "We have a hangar 23?"
"News to me," Duke feigned indifference.
"Well according to these papers there is!" Rameriez showed them some papers. "And this photo shows it as well! Now take me to the hangar!"
"Fine," Hawk shrugged. "Now where is it again?"
"Very funny," Rameriez snapped. "Come on Tom! Let's find it ourselves!" He spoke to his cameraman and they left the room.
"Oh this is all we need," Hawk muttered under his breath as he followed Rameriez. Duke followed as well.
They chased Rameriez and his cameraman to a small hangar. "We gotta stop 'em!" Duke groaned.
"Too late!" Hawk told him.
"Here it is folks!" Hector Rameriez spoke into the camera. "Behind these doors is one of the biggest cover ups in the history of the United States government!" He opened it up. "Voila! See for yourself!"
"Oh we see all right," Duke said.
"What the?" Hector Rameriez blinked.
"Fine Rameriez you found out our deepest, darkest secret," Duke quipped. "An empty hangar." True enough, the hangar was empty.
"It's empty!" Tom groaned. "Way to go boss!"
"But I could have sworn the picture I have showed…" Rameriez held it up.
"This thing could have easily been fabricated with any homemade computer," Duke quickly took it and tore it up. "I'm surprised that a journalist with your credentials could fall for such an obvious ploy!"
"With his credentials I'm not that surprised he was taken in," Shipwreck grinned as he walked up. Polly was on his shoulder.
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" Rameriez screamed. "It's the evil parrot!"
"Pretty birdie," Polly squawked, playing dumb.
"Oh my god! It makes sense now!" Rameriez trembled and backed away. He pointed a finger at Polly. "YOU DID IT DIDN'T YOU! YOU AND YOUR TRAINED ARMY OF PENGUINS STOLE THE SPACESHIP FOR YOUR EVIL PURPOSES DIDN'T YOU?"
"Oh lord here we go again," Tom groaned.
"Back on the sauce again I see," Shipwreck quipped.
"Awk! Pretty birdie!" Polly flew at Rameriez. "Pretty birdie!"
"GET THAT PARROT AWAY FROM ME!" The reporter screamed and ran away in terror. Polly chased him away from the hangar.
"Oh well at least I'll be able to get some good footage for the next blooper show," Tom sighed as he followed them. "So it won't be a total loss."
When they were gone Hawk breathed a sigh of relief. "Whew. That was lucky."
"Luck had nothing to do with it," Shipwreck said. "I was on my way to give you some good news and bad news. But I see you already found out the good news."
"Yeah it's a good thing you moved it," Hawk began. "Wait a minute. Good news and bad news? I don't like the sound of this!"
"Okay so where is the spaceship?" Duke asked.
"Uh that's kind of the bad news," Shipwreck gulped. "My daughter and Toad took it out on a date."
"Oh…goody," Hawk groaned.
Next: The date begins! Let the madness commence!
