He unhooked a grenade from his shoulder webbing and motioned for his wingman to cover him. He pulled the pin and crept toward the opening.Tony flipped...the spoon and flung the deadly object into the main hallway. The grenade bounced off the opposite wall and landed smack in the middle of the shaft, right next to the machine gun nest.Tony dropped to the ground and covered his ears. The explosion rocked the tiny hallway. Sand, dust, and body parts blew through the mineshaft. A chunk of bloody. "Very good!" Kiyone lilted. Producing and placing a cookie into Mihoshi's mouth while patting her on the head."This is really humiliating you know!" Miho whined."Awww!" Key smiled tightly, administering a firm final pat to her partner's cheek. "Lump it!"Mihoshi only response was to trail despondently in Key's wake, quietly crunching as Kiyone walked over to where Todd and Tenchi were. The two's progress followed with intense interest as they passed where Yuba crouched next to Yoshi, now. Colonel Marten sent me." A very fit looking woman with very red hair said to me. "Sorry to meet you under these conditions." Don't worry about it I was the one ready to go," I said."Good for you," the guy following her said. "You have a ticket waiting for you at the American Airline desk. It should be there now." Then you collect your bags and I'll collect the ticket. If the boss had told me there were two of you on the way, I would have had my bags and be ready to go now. You are going to. She quietly, swiftly moved down, following him. 'Maybe he's just getting a bottle of wine?' she thought, 'This is silly of me to be spying on him like this!' Her heart was beating so fast in her chest.She waited till he went down the second narrower set of steps into the dusty old basement. She waited at the top with the door cracked open a little, 'if he was getting a bottle, he'd be back up soon, ' so she wanted to play it safe.He was down there for some time, she could hear him, but could.