A phone call comes in from Ichikawa Realties. Fernando answers his smartphone.
 
(Translated from Japanese)
 
“What is the Code Word?” a computer generated male voice says
 
“Enemy Trash Panda.”
 
The voice changes to a female and explains the situation, “Good Afternoon Agent G. Good News, the rental agent in Funabashi for Maria Rental B&B accepted the arrangements for renting the place. Payment has been made for 6 months and can be extended to a year if needed. The B&B owner ‘Maria’ will be there to hand you the keys and show you about the place.”
 
“That is great to hear. Thanks you. When can I go pick up the keys?”
 
“Maria will be there until 5PM today, so as soon as you can get there, the better.”
 
“Thank you.”
 
“Glad to be a service.”
 
The phone call ends and Fernando thinks as to how he is going to get this done. Taking the keys for the cars, he puts them all into the glove box of the pale yellow one except for the one for that car. He then secures the aircrafts in the hanger before getting into the pale mustang.
 
Sitting in the vehicle he thinks. The ignition is turned on and the seat belt is pulled and clipped into place. Taking his cane into his hand, Fernando twists the head of the handle as the car slowly rolls to the closed hanger door. It disappears in a bright flash of light, only to reappear elsewhere in a bright flash of light. He goes down a quiet road in Funabashi Prefecture* before finding his way to Takinoi street and makes his way to 2-29-4 Takinoi, address of “Maria Rental B&B.”
 
He pulls up to the driveway of the addressed building and step out of his vehicle, looking around the area. An elder woman with two middle aged men walk out of the house  and walk to the edge of the driveway, stopping before they got to the sidewalk.
 
Fernando takes a bow towards them before asking in Japanese, “Is this Maria Rental B&B?”
 
The old lady speaks, “Yes it is. You must be the foreigner I was called out. Come.”
 
Fernando walks to the house as the elder lady explains, “Your Japanese is excellent for a foreigner. My name is Maria, and this is one of several B&Bs** I own in the area. I hope it is to your liking.”
 
“I like what I see.” Fernando tells her, before asking, “Maria is not a Japanese name, is it not?”
 
“I was born in America in a Japanese Concentration Camp, and moved to Japan with my family after the war. My mother was half-Japanese, her name was Rose.” The elder lady explains. She then points out and asks, “I was told that you have a large group to rent this place for?”
 
“Mostly Embassy work, but when I arrived I was told that the Embassy Work house was under renovation, leaving me and my staff without a place to sleep and work in.” Fernando explains.
 
“I see. Can I ask who will be here with you?” She asks.
 
“My wife, she’s a chief negoticator, our baby daughter, a medical staff and a body guard staff. About 20 people in total, they can all share rooms.” He explains.
 
“How about food? Nothing like a home cooked meal to ease the nerves.” She points out.
 
“That would be great, but not all of us eat Japanese food though I will accept it. But there will be days like today where we will be at a special event and not be ‘home’ for dinner.” He explains.
 
“If you tell me ahead of time, I will know when to bring in the food for your group.” She tells him.
 
“Thank you. Anything I should know before I accept this place as home?” He asks.
 
“As you may know about B&Bs, each dorm room is its own apartment with its own bathroom or shared bathrooms. This one has shared bathrooms. They are also connected to a center room, the first floor center room is the kitchen, and the second floor center room is the entertainment room with a TV and sit down furniture. The basement center room is the laundry room, it has a washer and dryer. There are 4 6 extra rooms down there but only accessible from the center room and each has its own room shares a bathroom with one other room. There is no outside entrance to the basement though there is an outside hall to connect the rooms together.” She explains.
 
“Is it possible to add those 4 6 rooms to the current contract? In case the Embassy sends me more staff to work with?” Fernando asks.
 
“My... that would increase the cost of the rental agreement.” She says.
 
“Not a problem, the Embassy is paying for this through me. So, can I have those 4 6 more rooms?” He says and asks.
 
“Then I’ll accept, but I can give you the keys to those rooms tomorrow. Right now I have these 8 12 to give you.” She explains.
 
“Not a problem.” He explains.
 
“Then sign this. I already have the deposit and rent from the realtor. You can now call this place home.” She explains as she hands in two scrolls for him to sign in. Not expecting his next move, Fernando pulls out a small white box and pulls out a rubber stamp from the box, stamping each scroll with it, and then pulling out his Monte Blanc fountain pen and signs it besides the red stamp mark. He hands the two signed scrolls to her. She gives him one of them along with a medium sized ring with 8 sets of keys on smaller rings on it.
 
“Thank you.” Fernando says to her.
 
“What time should I come with the updated agreement and keys?” She asks.
 
“Around 11AM would be a good time. Maybe then you can see my little girl.” Fernando replies.
 
The old lady smiles before giving a bow and walking away. Fernando gives the place a once-over before he gets into his mustang and drives away to the abandoned street and teleporting back to the hanger.
 

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Notes:
* Prefecture = County in the USA, region of areas with a local self governing municipality.
** B&Bs = Bed & Breakfast dorm rentals, in Japan it is usually college students who rent out such places during their studies. Though students are preferred, tourists and working foreigners also rent such places under long term contracts.  

Next day NSA Team getting ready for the dinner as they putting their Suits, Dress on, then put their weapons into the suits and dress so they say hidden like 9mm and combat knife into it while the lady’s putting make up on. Then once they were ready.  
 
Charles: Ok let head to the dinner and meet Fernando.  
 
All: Yes sir.  
 
Then they get into two Limos as they drove to the Emperor places as Charles thinking this not going well.  
 
Charles: Burborn and Frank I need you two be our eyes and ears see if any danger come our way.  
 
Frank: Ok we will go.
 
Charles: Also Frank I Need you be Maggie date while Burborn will be Rebecca date.  
 
Rebecca: Fine with me  
 
Burborn: Don’t have any problems with it.
 
Frank: Ok.  
 
Limos keep driving to the places.  

Rollback 4:00PM
 
Fernando is not happy with Tammy, Jeanette and Aiesha arriving so late knowing that they have to be somewhere within the next hour. He is also not happy with Hondo and Val not arriving but he has to deal with it. But he has to accept what is there.
 
He does not say a word as they get out of their rented car but points to his watch and makes sure that they see him pointing to his watch.
 
“I do not care, Fernando.” Tammy tells him as she passes by him with the baby in her arms.
 
“You better care, because if you force my hand not to care, you will be raising that baby alone.” Fernando tells her.
 
“Dad...” Aiesha tries to step in but he interrupts her.
 
“Shut up and get dressed. You women take forever to get dressed.” He tells her.
 
Jeanette walks by shaking her head at what she is hearing. The others are putting their finishing touches to their attire. He leans against the fender as he covers his brow and eyes, shaking his head. They hanger door has yet been lowered, allowing anyone passing by to look inside though there was no one out in the airport’s air field.
 
A blonde haired female mouse in a tight blue dress walks up to the hanger, looking inside.
 
“Fernando, is that you?” She says as she cautiously walks in.
 
Fernando looks up and at the female mouse, “Gadget?”
 
“It is you!” Gadget runs in but stops within a couple steps of stepping into the hanger. She looks around and sees the cars and the planes inside, “All this is yours?” She asks.
 
“The planes are. The cars belong to the Agency. What brings you here?” He says to her.
 
“Looking for you and Tammy, mostly Tammy. Know where she is?” She explains.
 
“She and the others are in the plane, getting ready for the Emperor’s dinner.” He explains.
 
“So...?” Gadget asks.
 
“No. It is not in good taste for you to enter a private place when they do not know you are coming.” Fernando tells her. “You will wait for them to come out like I am.”
 
Gadget looks about the hanger and the planes before she asks, “These planes yours?”
 
“The Lear jets were mine before I joined CDRR. The Marlin I recently had modified to what you see there.” He explains.
 
“Looks like wings from a 737 but with the four jet pods on top? A 737 never had 4 jet pods.” She points out.
 
“I said modified. Before I got her she was just rusting in the middle of the Arizona dessert, and took over a year to complete. The Boeing 737-200 I got the wings from was only half a fuselage and the wings. Many changes had to be made to it like removing the landing wheels, moving and adding jet pods to the top of the wing near the fuselage, and adding stabilizing swing pods at the wing’s end that also act as extra fuel tanks. This gives space for a larger fuel tank, greater strength and better lift than the original Marlin P6 wings had.” He explains. He then asks, “How in hell you found us here?”
 
“It was a hunch so I did an interweb search of arrivals to the airport of private aircraft and found only one that fit. So I decided to come over to see if it was you and, well... here I am.” Gadget says to him. She then asks, “If you flew that big one, who flew the other two little ones?”
 
“My daughters. Three of the six are here, well not counting Francesca, and the Skunk girls are also here. They were supposed to bring the larger one, but somebody took advantage of the situation and took something that should have been left alone. I’m not happy with the one who lied to me, for daughters do not lie to their fathers.” He tells her.
 
“Girls will be girls.” Gadget says, trying to laugh it off but Fernando is not laughing so she stops as soon as she started a giggle. She then adds, “Only good girls do not lie to their fathers.”
 
“Lovely save.” He tells her. He then adds, “Since you are here alone, I’ll be assuming that you need a lift to the Emperor’s dinner. You are alone, right?”
 
“Well, yes. I am alone, but Chip, Dale and Monty are somewhere around. I don’t know where though.” She points out.
 
“You made sure you were not followed?” He asks.
 
“I took a cab here. I’m sure nobody followed me.” She answers.
 
“Good, then. Excuse me.” He says to her before going to the hanger door controls and presses a large red button to close the door. The hanger door slowly closes as he walks back to leaning against his car’s fender.
 
 
4:45PM
 
Everyone start to trickle down to the main hanger floor where Fernando and Gadget were. Fernando pulls out his smartphone and calls Emperor Akihito.
 
“I got a slight problem here. I am going to need to teleport part of the group to the dinner within the next ten minutes, but I need to stay behind and wait for missing part of the group to arrive or get some word as to what happened to them. But I will be there by 6PM to rejoin my group. Main lobby? In ten minutes. I will have them there. Thank you.” Fernando says on the phone.
 
As soon as he hangs up his smartphone, it begins to ring. It comes up with a blank number but only a few knows this number to be calling him.
 
“Greetings Agent G. This is the NSA.  We have several agents arriving to the Emperor’s dinner to meet with you: Charles, Rebecca, Burborn, and Frank.” The voice says on the phone.
 
“They have invites to get in?” Fernando asks.
 
“They are going in through you.” The voice says.
 
“Alright. Thank you for calling.” Fernando tells them before hanging up the phone. He goes back to calling the Emperor. “Hello Aki? My deepest apology for this one. I was just alerted by one of my government agency that they will be sending 4 agents through my invite. I can vogue for them but only have their first names. Yes. Their names are Charles, Rebecca, Burborn, and Frank. They will be arriving by agency limousine. You can set an extra table for them? Many thanks. No word on the missing group but I will get in contact with you as soon as I learned what happened to them. Again, many thanks. See you later.”
 
Fernando hangs up and pockets his smart phone. Everyone looks at him as they overheard the conversation.
 
“How deep are we, daddy?” Tabitha asks.
 
“Don’t ask how deep we are in, just keep treading water and stay afloat.” Fernando tells her before turning to the others. “Now look, I will get these cars ready for you over there but: 1) we are moving out of here after the party. 2) I’m teleporting your guys to the main lobby of the palace, they are expecting you in the next few minutes. 3) I’m still waiting for Hondo and Val to return. Behave while you are over there. I do not want to hear that somebody had to go to the dungeon for being a complete idiot...”
 
“We’ll be on our best behavior!” The good squad says as they stand at attention and salute.
 
“That is what worries me.” Fernando says. “Alright, I’ll be sending you in now. Just stay as you are and after a bright flash, you will be at the palace’s main lobby. They all know you are with me so that should not be a problem. Ready?”
 
“Wait!” Gadget says before she steps up besides Fernando, “I’ll go with you.”
 
“Can I ask why?” Fernando asks.
 
“No real reason. Just that I prefer to go with you. That’s all.” Gadget says.
 
“At least she’ll be away from the baby.” Tammy says to herself.
 
Jeanette looks at Tammy and then at Gadget, thinking which one she should be with but before she can decide, a bright flash of light says that she and the rest of the group are at the palace’s main lobby.
 
“You must be part of Fernando’s group.” One of the Palace servants approaches them, “After registering you and your identifications, you will be escorted to the party room.”
 
 
Back in the hanger...
 
Gadget pounces on Fernando, “This means we are finally alone?!!”
 
Fernando struggles and manages to get Gadget within arm’s reach of him, “Do you mind?”
 
“I was hoping for some alone time with you, you know, to discuss things...” Gadget begins.
 
“First off. Hondo and Val are on their way. I do not care what you have to say but if they find us in a compromising position, it will be uncomfortable for all of us.” Fernando tells her.
 
Gadget sighs, “Alright then.”
 
“I swear.” He says to himself, though she was able to hear it. He continues, “If I did not know any better, I’d think I was being set up.”
 
“Set up by who?” She asks.
 
“Misao or Chip, pick your choice.” He turns to face her.
 
“I can see why either of them would want to set you up. But it’s not any of them that is setting you up.” Gadget tells him.
 
“And how do you know this?” He asks.
 
“Because I want to set you up.” She says.
 
“WHAT?!!!:” Fernando holds back from yelling.
 
“It’s not what you think.” Gadget begins, “It that I want to set you up with me.”  
 
“What the #$@!, Gadget?!!” He asks.
 
“My marriage with Chip is not a perfect one. He does not love me and he’s always bossing me around. It’s been a Loveless marriage for a long time now.” She explains.
 
“And I’m a married man, Gadget. Or did you forget that?” He tells her.
 
“I know that. I also know that your marriage has been on the rocks as well. You and Tammy have not had a full week together, and this is the first time you are together with her since you returned from the ‘Boys From Brazil’ mission.” Gadget explains.
 
“What do you know about that?” Fernando asks.
 
“Well, we seen you get dragged out of your house for one. And Chip pulled a few strings to get you out *GASP!*” Gadget lets out before covering her mouth.
 
Fernando lets out a laugh, “Now I know you’re lying. What strings Chip can pull has no affect to what agencies I work for.”
 
“But he said...” Gadget tries to interject.
 
“Let me put it to you this way, Gadget. If in any time during or after the mission I find out that Chip did something to drag me into some case to separate me from my wife and family, I would have him dragged away and forever lost as a person in a mental prison of his own mind while he lives a life of a homeless individual in some unknown city, not knowing who he is or where he came from but he likes the situation he is in and helping him will only bring out his anger against you.” He tells her, adding, “Consider that he is not in such a situation, he has done nothing to affect me or my job with the agency. If he were, you would have been freed from your marriage to him retroactively.”
 
Gadget remains silent for the moment.
 
“Consider him lucky that I do not feed him to Lucy the T-Rex.” He throws in for added affect.
 
“You would not dare!” Gadget gasps.
 
“Anyone who makes themselves known as a threat to me, my friends and/or my family, will end up in a situation where being chased by a T-Rex would be the least of their problems. That includes Chip.” Fernando tells her.
 
Gadget remains silent for the moment before she tries to change the subject, “Is there any food around here? I have not had any lunch today.” She then lets out in a lower softer tone, “Or breakfast.”
 
“Nothing in here, but let’s see what we can get at the airport mall.” He tells her before walking to the side ‘people’ door. Gadget follows him out onto the airfield and to the airport depots and mall.
 
 
The meal took longer than expected, for Gadget ate more than it was possible for such a tiny mouse. The discussion continues with Gadget suspecting Chip on cheating on their marriage but has no proof of its activities or of with whom he is cheating with. Fernando tries to get her to slow down her eating as there will be food at the Emperor’s Palace in about an hour. She basically puts away what would have fed a family of 4 in Japan.
 
Looking like she was 3 months pregnant, Gadget follows Fernando back to the hanger. They get there at around 5:55; just a few minutes remain before he contacts his friend the Emperor and tell him of his status. They walk into the hanger, finding the hanger door open and a motorcycle parked by the Learjets. Its appearance says that it is something more like a cowboy road warrior would ride instead of some motorcycle gang member or local law enforcement. It does not take much for Fernando to deduce that it belongs to Hondo in some way.
 
Hondo steps out of the cargo area, looking like some left lover reject from the high school prom after his date left him for another guy. They spot each other across the distance of the hanger.
 
“I’m not going to ask what kept you. Let’s go to the cockpit and deal with that eye.” Fernando tells him.
 
“I need to put away...” Hondo begins to say.
 
“The Iron Horse will be safe where it is.” Fernando tells him, “Your eye is more important, unless you want it to get an infection in it and eventually lose it. Now let’s go deal with it.”
 
As Fernando enters the cargo bay with Gadget following him, Gadget asks, “Where’s Val?”
 
“Probably in their room getting dressed.” Fernando tells her in an annoyed tone, throwing in, “And you are not going to bother her. In fact you are going to help me deal with Hondo’s eye.”
 
Gadget remains silent as she follows him and Hondo to the cock pit. Hondo takes his place on the co-pilot’s seat. Fernando prepares a folding table by the seat and puts a medical tool kit on it, opening it and revealing various surgical tools from the Civil War. Gadget looks at the tools in awe and discomfort as they look like something that is meant to cut off a limb and not deal with delicate eye injuries.
 
Fernando puts on some rubber gloves before telling Gadget, “Bring the garbage can here from the radio station.”  
 
What Gadget though was going to be a couple hours of surgery, turned out to be a few minutes of bandage removal and clean up of the area. Fernando threw into the can what remnants of soiled bandage from Hondo’s eye. It looks more horrific than it actually was, as the eye teared behind the bandage-patch and collected in the gauze material along with any infectious material that was expelled by the medication. A couple eye drops put into Hondo’s eye completed the procedure.
 
“There. You’re done. It’s going to itch for a while but do not rub it.” Fernando tells him as he takes off his rubber gloves.
 
“Damn shit itches like hell.” Hondo throws in.
 
“Then let it itch. It will be over in a couple of minutes.” Fernando tells him. He then adds as he hands him a set of car keys, “You and Val need to pack up your things and put them into the trunk of the Red Mustang. Little Ms Sunshine over here showed how vulnerable we are staying here, so I got us a place in Funabashi Provence, a half hour’s ride from here. But first we got the dinner to go to, then I’ll move all of us to our new place so we can sleep there tonight. It is not an agency safe house but it is safe because it is out of the way.”
 
Hondo stares at the car keys for the moment.
 
Fernando throws in, “I’ll make sure the motorcycle is safe during the transfer.”

Fernando walks down the cargo bay of the aircraft as he makes his call to the Emperor, telling him that they are on their way. Meeting Hondo and Val at the main hangar area, he tells then that he will be teleporting them to the Emperor’s palace. He then does what he says, though Hondo and Val thought he and Gadget would be teleported with them. They were not.
 
“You must be part of Fernando’s group.” One of the Palace servants approaches Hondo and Val, “After registering you and your identifications, you will be escorted to the party room.”
 
Hondo and Val look at each other before leaving with the servant.
 
 
Back at the hangar area, Fernando turns to Gadget, “You’re next.”
 
“No, wait!” Gadget tells him.
 
“What do you want now?” He asks.
 
“If both our marriages fail, would you consider going out with me?” She asks.
 
“That is a lot of ‘If’s’ to deal with.” He tells her.
 
“Like what?” She asks as she tilts her head off to one side.
 
“For one - you believe that a dating couple should have sex in their relationship?” He asks.
 
“Before I got married I thought that answer was no. But now, I don’t know. Between you and I? Maybe.” She answers.
 
“What about living together?” He asks.
 
“Again, before my marriage to Chip, that was no. Now? Don’t know. Between you and I? Maybe.” She answers.
 
“And sleeping together?” He asks.
 
“Again, before getting married to Chip, that was no. Now? Don’t know. Between you and I? Maybe.” She answers.
 
“Too many ‘I don’t knows’ and ‘Maybes,’ which is a lot of uncertainties to deal with when the answer is simple – if you cared about that other person – me, then in that caring the answer should be ‘Yes’ on all fronts.” He tells her.
 
“You’re asking for a lot.” Gadget says.
 
“That is coming out the same person that tried to make a deal with me about exchanging my life for Tammy’s family and for that exchange that you would give me anything and everything I could ever want from you and your body even though you were still married to Chip.” He begins to tell her. He adds, “As it was once said in Martial arts class a long time ago, ‘You may have to sacrifice a finger to save a hand, You may have to sacrifice a hand to save an arm, You may have to sacrifice an arm to save a life, but you can never sacrifice a life.’ You tried to sacrifice my life for theirs. Now who asked for too much? If you want to have a happy and loving life with me, you need to sacrifice to me a lot more than what you have between your legs. You will need to sacrifice everything you have in your life for mine. I do not think you are up to the task.”
 
“Is that it? I would drop my panties down here for you right now to get out of this dead end marriage with Chip and have you as my husband!” She tells him as she bends over slightly and puts her hands under her dress with her thumbs inside her panties waist band.
 
She was beginning to pull down her panties slowly, scared and unsure if it is the right thing to do but is doing so reluctantly until Fernando steps up to her. Putting the thumb side of his fist under her chin, he guides her head up to look at him, making her stand up from her hunched over position. He tells her before planting his lips onto hers, “Sex is easy. Love is hard.”
 
His cane slides down his slightly opened palm and taps Gadget lightly on the side of her foot, making her disappear from the hangar and at the lobby area of the Emperor’s palace. The Emperor’s staff looks at her and she at them before she quickly fixes herself up and faces them.
 
“I’m Gadget Hackwrench.” She says to them as she quickly fixes herself up.
 
“We know who you are Ms. Hackwrench. We did not expect you to arrive with Agent G.’s crew.” The head of the Emperor’s staff says to her, adding, “And at such a compromising position too.”
 
“Err... I was in the bathroom when Fernando teleported me here...” Gadget says in her defense.
 
“Spare me the details, Ms Hackwrench. We can show you the facilities if you need to use them.” The head of the Emperor’s staff tells her.
 
“I think I’m done.” She tells him. She then tries to switch the subject, “Has my husband Chip Maplewood or his group arrived yet?”
 
“No they have not. And if they are who you say they are, please tell them to not tip the staff with loose coins. It is rather insulting.” The head of the Emperor’s staff tells her.
 
Embarrassed in hearing this, Gadget blushes before answering, “I will...”
 
 
Fernando looks at the Mustangs in the hangar before summoning an Observation Orb of the Emperor’s Palace parking lot. Going up to each car, he taps the side of the wheel with the cane, teleporting it to a slot at the parking lot until they were all gone. He then teleports himself beside the pale yellow Mustang and begins to walk to the Emperor’s Palace’s main entrance. He knocks on the door. The door opens and he is allowed inside.

Two Limos came out as Charles, Maggie, Burborn, Rebecca and Frank got out as they head to the place and meet with two guards.  
 
Charles; Hello I am Agent Charles of NSA and these are my agents. Also Meet with Fernando in the place too.  
 
Guard: Oh Mr. Roberts. Fernando tell us about you and your group. Come in and he is inside.  
 
Charles: Thanks  
 
Then the went in there and Charles see Fernando going for a sushi role as Charles beck. Then he saw Rice and chicken was there. So he like that but need talk to Nando.  
 
Charles: Ok go and chat with the party gust while I chat with Fernando then once I am done I will single you come to me and him.  
 
All: Yes sir.  
 
Then Charles went to Fernando as he was talking to Misao. “Well Well Nando. Long Time no See.” Charles saying to Fernando since he always call Fernando his nickname. “My Team is here and you want to meet them since they chatting with the gust right now.”  
 
(Ok Charles talking to you Fernando)