Hondo and Valentine looked at each other with confused looks as Jeanette rambled on and Fernando retorts.
 
Hondo: wait, wait, wait. Texas spirits? alterin' history? Princess's adopted? folks dissapearin'?? What the hell is goin' on in this #$@!ed up place? Spirits roamin' all over the place like a cheesy space invaders movie already has me uncomfortable. Heard bad things 'bout some of them.  I know you said you'd 'splain later, but What the hell were we all drug into now, Jefe? I'm used to weird hard missions, but apocalyptic alien invasions on an earth populated by mutant critters and folks? I swear.  
 
Hondo nodded at valentine who nodded back and went back to the bronco.
 
Hondo: We'll follow you, Jefe, but we are steerin' clear of towns. You guys want to stay at one, fine, we'll try to find a vantage point on the road leavin' town.

Hondo (over the radio): We have an outdoor shower as well as an indoor shower. 200 gallons of wash water, 100 gallons of drinkin' water. Fish an' rice? Y'all will starve on that! I have beans, flour, canned veggies, condiments, cheese, etc.  meat is what we are lowest on, but we have some. Hell we even have some good whiskey. We do have some money too. That Tribe that resembled the native American tribes of our history that we met gave us a large wooden chest. not gone through it all yet but it has coin and some ammo plus other stuff.

"Ha! Mysteriously failed? You try to drive a tank or shoot a rifle in -30 degree weather and see how far you get! It's the reason why Hitler and Napoleon could not get Moscow to fall! And its why no one else succeeded in defeating Arendelle either! But the Nordic nations can exist within an Arendellian Empire. Like Korea and the Philippians under the Japanese empire before WWII... which reminds me - as you stated, there are spirits in Japan as well, didn't we nuke the crap out of them in 1945? Where was their almighty defenses of cloaked ships that could have shot down Box Car and the Enola Gay out of the skies? Or better yet, as science progressed, why did they not have spies in the Manhattan project to end it? The more I pull out history the more I see them fail. These spirits are nothing more than a manipulating influence over mankind and his evolution. They need to put up or shut up." Fernando tells Jeanette.
 
"Furthermore - Yadda yadda yadda - blah blah blah - big f'ing deal that Gabrielle was kicked out on the streets. I seen this happen with many acquaintances, friends and even 2 of my own daughters before I took them in. And that is the point, they survived though they had a rough time of it. Which brings to us to this point - if they are keeping an eye on her, if they know her whereabouts, if they know what is happening to her and when, why don't they just reach out to her with a teleportation beam and teleport her out of the situation she is in when it happens and teleport her to Texas? It is so damn simple, since these spirits do have this capability. Am I right on that? Why are we needed? I'm going to tell you why - because they can't. Because they want us to do their dirty work - what ever that dirty work is. Now, you want to finish this so-called mission or you having second doubt about it? Either way, there are people to rescue and lives to save, including Gabrielle's since they wont do it themselves." He tells her before setting down his Yeasu radio.

"Egg? A mutant giant chicken egg can feed us all..." Macey says as Fernando picks up the radio and presses the button to talk as she holds out her arms like she's holding a basketball to show its size.
 
"We can get them at the market in the morning." Fernando says he drives the VW Camper down the road and leading the group behind him,  "I'm glad we left that other town. With the anti-mutant sentiment there, they would not have cared if the hotel burns down if they Molotov'd the room we were sleeping if they suspected any one of us as mutants. We were not safe there."
 
"Mutant giant chicken egg?" Hondo answers back on the radio.
 
"Yeah, you missed the guy walking his 'pet' Hondo. According to Macey, the egg is about the size of a basketball." Fernando replies, adding, "Jeanette, where do you and the girls want to sleep in town?"
 

"Much of the History Channel, like the rest of TV is Docu-Drama. It's documented truth with a twist to make it sound mysterious and adventurous as it would not be boring. They focus on the fight of the battle and not the preparation or the ramifications and consequences of the battle. The Battle of Gettysburg took weeks to get together though there was only a few days of fighting and that was a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the afternoon. The rest of the day as used to account for the dead and missing, tending to the injured, and caring for the rest as generals met and discussed strategies. It like Survivor - you think you are going to strand 6 people on an island and have them eat rat and and palm tree leaves when 200 yards away is a huge catered spread of food for the camera crew and support staff but these 6 can't eat from it? If it were me, I'd be filmed raiding that and taking out the crew as hostages in order to survive. The History Channel is not taking into account what would happen to gun oil or the rifle's barrel at -30. The Gun lubricant gel up and jam the rifle and steel of the barrel would shatter if you shot from it without warming it up first. instead, the history channel has it 'many of Napoleon's mens' rifles somehow were unable to shoot and those that could seemed to have self destruct in the soldier's hands. They did not explain that the cold had something to do with it. I'm leaving it at that." Fernando explains.
 
"If you assume that many if not all of Spirits are extraterrestrial in nature, then they either have the same shared technology or similar self-developed technology in order to travel across space and time and used that technology to get to Earth. That would depends on what alliances are made outside of earth and what alliances are made on earth. It is known that many do not agree what to do with man on earth; help him, enslave him, leave him alone or eliminate him are the 4 most popular answers. Lets leave it at that." He explains further.
 
"Now I have to ask - only three nations survived? That's bullshit. Just because we are out of reach of the rest of the world does not mean that they do not exist. Since these Teas Spirits are so ecologically minded that they want safe technologies for the world, lets take Iceland. As cold as it can get in Iceland, they use no coal or other fossil fuel and rely heavily on geo-thermal electric, Hydro-electric and solar for their electrical needs and hydrogen powercell and electric for their transportation needs since the 1960s. They create less pollution than the cavemen did thousands of years ago and yet can support their population of 10-million with ease. If the Spirits are so protective of people who care for ecology, Iceland should have been spared. But it you listen to the Spirits, they were destroyed with everyone else. Despite Brazil's past with its slash and burn history of the Amazon Jungle, they were turning themselves around and replanting trees. At the same time they were switching from fossil fuels to zero-carbon green fuels to generate their electricity and power their vehicles. Were they destroyed before they could not complete their job? Much of South America were also following Brazil's lead in replanting the Amazon jungle and using clean fuel alternatives. Were they destroyed too? I do not think so. There are many questions to ask. The question is what are those questions that need to be asked?" He explains.
 
"I'm asking what do you and the girls want and need when we get to town. A hotel room, camp out or some other option? Hondo can be outside of town if he likes, and I'm deciding what to do depending on the options we have. Either way we are all connected by radio. Do note that there will be days when there are no options and we will need to deal with what we got. So I'm asking, what do you and the girls want and need? I can take care of Macey, that is no problem for me." He finally says.