SI-9

During Angelo's rescue...

Sandbar flew the gunship northwest to an island where the SI-9's wreckage had landed. As they got close, Agent 3 pulled out her binoculars and checked to see whether any Salmonlings were present. To her horror, the crash site was practically swarming with them.

"Sandbar, take us in for a direct strike.", she said.

"You got it, Agent 3.", replied Sandbar.

He flew into a dive and came screaming down from the sky until he was close enough to open fire. The Agents leaped out with parachutes, Smolder manned a flamethrower, and Yona got ready to fire missiles. Prior to takeoff, the Agents had swapped the main guns to shoot ink instead of bullets. This made sure that the Salmonlings would only be knocked out until the wreckage was destroyed. Agent 3 spotted the Salmonlings’ Commander and immediately yelled out at him.

"FREEZE! HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!", she bellowed.

Instead of stopping, the Commander ordered his troops to open fire and take out the Agents. Two of the Salmonlings were taking pictures of the jet to use for study. Agent 4 started shooting at them to break their cameras while Agents 3 and 8 started shooting ink at the soldiers around the crash site.

At the same time, Smolder blasted the flamethrower to flush the soldiers out of hiding. One of the photographers escaped on a jet-ski, but the other was knocked out and his camera was smashed. Many of the soldiers were left splattered with ink from all three Agents. Once the Commander, the two Sergeants, and all of the other soldiers were subdued, Sandbar called to Yona over headset.

"YOU'RE UP!", he cried.

Yona fired six missiles to blow the jet's wreckage to smithereens. Once it was confirmed that everything was destroyed, Sandbar descended to pick up the Agents. They left the island and made way for the mainland. On the way, Agent 4 radioed the base.

"Gunship to Squidbeak Base. The wreckage is destroyed, but we may be in for trouble. One of the two Salmonling photographers escaped with pictures and notes on the jet. I have a feeling that they might find out how to build some of the jets. However, we struck before they managed to document the engines.", she reported.

"Well, at least they didn't get the engines. They shouldn't be able to make the coolant system for the exhaust, which means they will be traceable on infrared.", said Callie.

After arriving back at the base twelve minutes later, everyone laid down for the night. Marie had already gone to the hospital to be with Angelo when he woke up.