"I'm not the one who brought politics into this." Hikaru states. "I just wanted to check the paperwork to make sure everything is in order. Despite the fact people fly the U.S. flag and put on homemade postal uniforms to deliver the mail, there is no United States. Why do you think the former State of Texas is in the process of forming its self as a republic? If a market is set up outside a settlement, anything that's bought gets taxed anyway when they are brought inside the settlement. This is why paperwork needs to be in order, to make sure that what we bring with us doesn't get taxed. If you want to put on a bath robe and walk the earth, go ahead."

Finishing his breakfast, he puts his pate and utensils on a flat tree stump for the indians to recover. He goes into the glove box of the Electric Camper and pulls out a map, finding the path to Dr. Brown's place some 40 to 60 miles away, he could not be sure as the map was not drawn accurately and the twists in windings of the path makes a relatively short trip into a much longer one.
 
"Turn on your radios and listen to my reports, I'm going ahead to check the road we will be on. Pick up Elsa and see you at Doc Brown's when you get there." Fernando says as he checks his firearm and removes what wheel blocks were put against the wheels to keep it steady while in camper mode. He then gets into the camper.
 
Flicking a few switches on the dashboard, Fernando slowly pulls away from the other. He can hear them complaining loudly but ignores them as he picks up speed and gets on the main road.
 
EDIT: Fixed a couple of out of order things.

Hondo laid back for abut 45 minutes until  the chiefs son spoke to him again.
 
 
Panther: If you truly have a plan to save us both, would it not be good to share your plan with me?
 
Hondo: Just hang tight partner. It's simple enough. when the time comes look for a red jeep with a woman mechanic driving. Her name is Valentine. She's with me. If all goes to plan we all will get out on that jeep. if not, make sure she goes. Don't wait 'round.
 
Panther: No offence, if this works I owe you a life debt, but even so  don't plan to hang around here any longer than I have to!
 
Hondo: How did you get into this mess? I was told you were bein' cheated by merchants an' when ya called them out on it you got took. sounded like a setup to me.
 
Panther: It was a setup. I was foolish to go. The spirits told me not to go as it was a trap. I brought others with me to prove the spirits wrong. they tried to come to my aid but an evil spirit helps the one who rules this place and he made it so the spirits that protect us may not enter the fort.
 
Hondo: Sounds like a lot of hocus-pocus baloney, but I'v eheard of an' seen stranger things. How do you know that this evil spirit is around?
 
Panther: Certain of my people have been given the gift that allows you to commune personally with the spirits.. I am one . I cn sense them, hear them, and see their essence in the vessel they abide in.  
 
Hondo: That's all well and good, but how can I know ifin this evil varmit is around?
 
Panther:  He takes the form of a bird of prey, the falcon. He is never far from the one called General.
 
Hondo: General Douglas Custer, eh?  So he had  little help comin' to power, eh? I reckon the big question is, how do ya put down an evil spirit?
 
Panther: Supposedly a man of science, with the help of the spirits, has made a device that can capture and hold spirits. He was said to be in the mountain lands to the east across the great river. He  has hid the device in fear that it will fall into the wrong hands and be used against the good spirits. It has been prophesied that two men who do not age and have traveled time itself will come for the devise.  To these men only will he give the device.
 
Hondo: It sounds all find an' dandy, but that don't help us in the here an' now. Ifin I wanted to take down that SOB, how would I do it?
 
Panther: It is impossible.
 
Hondo: Nothin' is impossible. Come on, ya must know somethin' that can help, spirit talker.
 
Panther: If the spirits that protect us were here, there might be a wy
 
Hondo: well, supposedly the spirits brought me here That's what your father told me at least.
 
Panther: You are one of the men out of time who do not age?! Is there a woman of medicine  who talks with the spirits with you?
 
Hondo: Well, I don't age, no. that's a long story an' rather it not get out. an' no. I have a woman with me, my woman,  who knows some basic medicine but I'd not call her a medicine woman an' she hasn't told me 'bout talkin' to no spirits so I'd say that's a no too.
 
Panther: Ah! she must be the warrior machinist who does not age.
 
Hondo: You seem to know an aweful lot 'bout us. Your father didn't say he knew any of this.
 
Panther: He too talks with the spirits but believe that the message the spirits give to deliver is all that needs said.  
 
Hondo: Not sure I'm likin' any of this. So, now, lets assume the spirits are watchin' from outside 'cause they can't get in. How can they help an' what can I do?
 
Panther: Only the spirits can handle the evil one but he must be weakened first.
 
Hondo: so how do I weaken a spirit?
 
Panther: Most good spirits stay in groups but most evil spirits work alone. They are usually very powerful but the lack the strength and help a group brings. To weaken a spirit you must kill or mortally wound the body in which it resides. While it either tries to  heal it's body or find a new host it is vulnerable. spirit groups protect vulnerable spirits from attack. The evil spirit will have no one to protect it once vulnerable so  the good spirits will be able to enter the fort and take the evil one prisoner.
 
Hondo: OK. Kill the bird and it's power ends. Good to know.
 
 Hondo's  watch beeped so he pulled it out of his pocket, where he had it out of sight and looked at it. He then  stood up and stepped up onto his bed so he could see out the small barred window
 
Hondo: Damn. almost time. Wish they would have put it further down. oh wll. Give me a hand here, will ya?
 
Hondo had Stealthy Panther help him move the beds and turn them n their sides making a small wall between them and the wall.  About then Hondo heard the noon whistle blow.
 
Hondo: stay down, keep you head under this matteress, an' plug your ears.
 
Panther: What is going on?
 
Hondo: Just do as a #$@!in' say! damn
 
They both hunker down and for a few minutes nothing . About 10 minutes after Noon . . . .BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
 Valentine kept herself busy until about 11:45 am. by then most  of the people that had been in the  market outside of the fort looking for cheaper goods and services had gone home or into the fort to get ready for lunch. Valentine got her lunch out then and started eating. The noon whistle blew and a couple other of the craftsmen that had been near by asked her to join them at the cafe in the fort for lunch. She politely refused and told them she would at a later date as she had started her lunch already. They were satisfied with  that answer and left. about 8 minutes after noon the last person was finally gone from the area. Valentine threw the rest of her gear in the back and  checked the explosives one last time. she only hoped Hondo's was in place. Valentine ran back to the jeep and hunkered down in front ofit. She checked her watch, 30 seconds to 10 after. She counted them off, holding the detonator remote in her hand. as the clock hit 10 after she pressed the detonation switch.  Her explosives on the wall blew leving a big hole, enough for a man to walk through, and the explosives hidden the the saddle bags of the dirt bike went off blowing a large hole in the jail wall.  
 
  The force of the explosion blew Hondo and Panther back a bit but the wall and covering of bed frames, blankets, and materesses took the brunt of the explosion and kept the rubble from hitting them. Hondo stood up, and shook off theeffects of the blast. thugh his hands covered his ears they still rang. He looked down at Panther, grabbed him by the arm, and hauled him to his feet.
 
Hondo: Come on! Lets get out of here!!
 
They climdb out over the rubble of the jail wall and trotted down a ways to the hole on the forts wall. The sound of peope yelling and scurrying around could be heard. Just as they were about to exit the fort, a large bird swooped down, claws aimed at Stealthy Panthers face. Hondo pushed Panther through the hole  just in time for the  Bird to miss. Hondo didn't get a good look but knew it was that falcon. all of a sudden a flock of crows swooped down outside the fort, circling Panther. t that moment a deputy showed up from around the corner. Hondo reacted quickly and grabbed the small gun out of his boot. Without hesitation he shot the deputy on the spot.  A second came dashing around with shotgun in hand . Hondo shot him in the arm causing him to drop his gun but he still came at them. Hondo tossed the NAA 32 at Panther. who caught it deftly.
 
Hondo: Get going! I'm right behind ya!
 
Panther nodded and dissapeared into the flock of crows. Hondo turned to the oncomig one armed deputy and hit him right in the nose, breaking his nose nd cheek bone. Three others could be seen coming so Hondo turned to run through th exit hole himself. The last thing he saw was that damned falcon swooping down and hitting a piece of loose wall, then all went black.

Quote from Fernando on Aug 17^th, 2015, 10:56pm:

Jeanette picks up the radio. "I read you. Finished breakfast. We're waiting for a Spirit to bring Elsa. We'll see you at Dr. Brown's shop. Are you in the settlement yet?" Jeanette lets go of the button and listens.
 
Note: It's been established that Dr. Brown is in a nearby settlement.
 
http://www.hondosackett.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1428938728/147#147
 
Jeanette Isabelle

Note: This is written in collaboration with Arik.
 
A Spirit, in the form of a young adult human female with wolf ears and a wolf's tail, appears. With her is an eight-year-old human girl with blue eyes and platinum blonde hair in a single braid. She's wearing a hair band, a blue Norwegian style dress and white cotton gloves.
 
The Spirit is holding the child's suitcase. "This is Princess Elsa of Arendelle."
 
"Hi Elsa." Chihiro greets her fellow resident. "Until today, I did not know you would be with us."
 
"We needed to know if Mr. Fernando and Miss Miller are willing to work with Elsa."
 
"Miller-san is already working with Elsa."
 
"I mean during the trek." The Spirit puts Elsa's suitcase in the Camper.
 
"Hello, Miss Miller and Chihiro." The princess comes across as being rather quiet.
 
"Hikaru . . . Spirit, may I talk with you in private?" Jeanette asks.
 
Jeanette, Hikaru and the Spirit walk around the Camper.
 
"Princess of Arendelle?" Jeanette asks.
 
"The Kingdom of Arendelle is one of the nations that survived." Hikaru replies.
 
"The Texas Spirits remove a princess of a foreign nation because the king and queen isolate their daughter in a castle? Do I even want to know why?" Jeanette looks at Hikaru and the Spirit.
 
Hikaru and the Spirit remain silent.
 
Jeanette looks at the Spirit. "What?"
 
"Princess Elsa is a snow queen." The Spirit explains.
 
"And that means what?" Jeanette asks.
 
"A snow queen is more powerful than Yukino from the Gate Keepers franchise. They can turn summer into winter, freezing an entire continent."
 
"A frightened eight-year-old child, accidently, is able to cause more widespread damage than a nuclear bomb?"
 
"The gloves help."
 
"I have another question. I looked at the paperwork in the glove box and it does not list everything I brought."
 
"That's correct. Not everything needs to be listed."
 
"That's my assumption. I noticed a pattern. Everything listed has one thing in common except for the Nalgene bottle."
 
"A Nalgene bottle can be used to transport liquid soap."
 
Jeanette sums up everything wrong with this world in one line. "A pair of white cotton gloves stands between us and another apocalypse but we can sleep soundly tonight knowing boarder guards are keeping illegal soap off the streets."
 
"I'm so glad you find this amusing. What Elsa needs is to be able to conquer her fears."
 
The three rejoin Chihiro, Elsa and Danielle.
 
"I'll see at Dr. Brown's Shoes." The Spirit says.
 
"You will not be with us, Spirit?" Elsa asks.
 
"If you need me sooner, call me. You'll be with Chihiro, Miss Miller and Danielle." The Spirit disappears.
 
Jeanette makes sure Chihiro's bike is properly secured and locked. She looks directly at a crow. "You are leading the way to Dr. Brown's Shoes, right?"
 
"Caw."
 
"All right. Let's get this show on the road."
 
Danielle's riding shotgun. Her M1911 is in her shoulder holster, concealed with her vest.
 
After everyone is in, Jeanette starts the V.W. She tries again to contact Fernando on the radio. She puts the transmission in gear and follows the crows.
 
Jeanette Isabelle and Arik