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While Mainframe and his two assistants are leaving the base for Nevada, and while Thatchweave is testing one of the Conquest jets; Hawk, who had returned after a presidential pardon to much fanfare, is in his office looking at a request for new vehicle targets for the rifle range when there's a knock at his door. "Come on in. Good afternoon... or maybe not?" He says to himself after Duke and Bazooka walk in with Wirecutter... and Quick-Kick, who insisted on following when he found out. He speaks again after they all repeat the story to him. "She's what?! Whichever one of you did it is going to wish he never met me!" He warned as he got out of his chair.
"Wait, please, it wasn't either of them." She tells him, and continues explaining.
"I spoke too soon, then. Sorry. Anyway; you have no intention of returning to Japan after that?" He asks her.
"No sir, i-i want to put as much distance between that island and myself as possible." She replied while forcing her eyes shut and shaking her head.
"Can't ya help her, General?" Bazooka asked.
Hawk leans back in his chair, inwardly debating between whether he even could go through with the request vs. all he'd heard of her people before deciding. "You've already sent word for your belongings to be sent?"
"No, my only request was that my bank account be converted and transferred." She replies. "Bazooka and Quick-Kick have both agreed to add their fare share."
"What'll it be, Hawk?"/"Yeah, pretty please?" Duke asked followed by Quick-Kick, who just as soon got glanced at by the former. "Quiet."
"...If you're all so into this, i suppose i can. But I'd have get someone from Civilian Affairs down here first to make sure we aren't violating anything."
"Huh?"
"You said she'd be living with you, didn't you, Bazooka?"
"Uh-huh."
"Doesn't that imply you two plan on marrying?" Hawk asks him, causing both him and Taeko to freeze in place. "Bazooka?"
"...Yep, you broke 'em." Quick-Kick said after waving a hand infront of the jersey wearer's face.
Around the same time, the first three Joes have just left the base. "Mock me all you want, Lady-Jaye, but you'll be so glad I'm taking part if any bad guys show up." Sci-Fi says in response to Lady-Jaye's remark about whether he was only going "so he could return to planet spaztopia".
"Whatever." She tells him from the backseat of the van.
"Not to sound like I'm taking her side..." Mainframe says as he twists his head just enough so as to keep watching the road. "But have you seen a flying saucer, a real one?"
"Not personally, but there's this guy back home who was a missile technician at Malmstrom AFB back during the missile scare in 1967.*" Sci-Fi told them as he shrugged.
After some time, the three stop at a gas station so Mainframe could make the first check-in. "So there's one less?... Yeah, he better hide... Right, I'll let them know, catch'ya later." He says before turning the console off.
"What'd Dial-Tone say?" Sci-Fi asks.
"Bazooka, Alpine, and Quck-Kick are helping her move into the girl's quarters-she'll be sleeping in your cot, L.J... for a few days until she can get a flight to Minnesota. Also, a few of the secondaries are on the way back from Walter Reed, except for that Lavigne kid. According to Perry, he decided to head back to Texas." Mainframe explains.
"That's too bad; but what was that about hiding?" She asks next, thinking about Flint commenting to her that Beachhead had been thinking about "Offerang that boy a spot in thuh big leagues."** before the base was raided.
"Someone from sup/req ordered an expired batch of flour."
"And anything else?" She asked before waving a hand at a fly.
"Just that once Azimuth and the other two take what they need, Beachhead is being sent to MacGuffin labs. Not sure why, though." He finished.
None of them are aware, however, that the fly is really a miniature surveillance drone***. "Well, you just let usss figure that out for you." Cobra Commander says aloud. "Baroness, go find where thiss laboratory is, so Dr. Mindben-Wait; where is he, for that matter?"
"In his quarters; due to another exhaustion episode, Commander." Destro informs him.
"Bah, forget him then. Just find out what you can."
"Yes Commander. But vhat about those three Joes?" The Baroness asks. "If they are heading to Nevada, does that mean-" She continues until Cobra Commander raises a hand.
"It means nothing." He says. "Even if Area 51 does exist, all it would have are prototypes."
"That's exactly why we should march on it." Destro tells him, but the Commander refuses.
"Nonsssense; why waste valuable resources for stealing ssomething that turns out to be slapped together junk?" He tells them, not wanting to reveal that agreeing would mean breaking a non-aggression pact his people have with a certain entity.
"He does have a..." Tomax started to say.
"...point there, doesn't he?" Xamot finished.
The rest glanced about, but they all agreed to drop the issue and focus on the lab.
Chapter Forty-nine.
* Made-up person. Real incident.
** Flint used a more exaggerated "Beachhead" accent.
*** Same kind as the one from season 2, episode 1.
