But there were no other choices, humanity was slowly loosing this battle.The mission was to infiltrate one of the lairs, where supposedly were a lot o...f human hostages and mostly children. She has volunteered herself, against the will of her parents. She just wanted to be of some help, especially when she could assist in saving poor captured children.Now she was alone in the midst of enemy territory. They got into the lair, but at what cost. Her last squad mate died on her hands, Sergeant Rick. .. sexy today," Dick told Mel. "Big dayplanned?" Something like that," Mel admitted as they headed toward the building. "What's going on?" she asked."I better let Dad handle that!" Dick replied.There was something in his voice that made Mel think he wasn't soundingtoo sure about something. She had a pretty good idea of exactly whythat was. And oddly, she found that it perturbed her more than anythingelse. For heaven's sake! She didn't want to come here today! She wassupposed to have this. I asked if he would sell it to me at six cents a pound. He was friends with the scrap dealer and didn't want to hurt the friends feelings for only about a dollar a week. I figured, what the hell, and offered him 10 cents a pound.He thought that I must be crazy, but, why not? He agreed to sell to me for 10 cents a pound. Right then, I took 50 pounds off his hands and paid him $5 for it. He looked at me like he knew that I was crazy, but my money spent as well as anybody else's. He agreed to. " It's a good thing," Chuck said. "Her house was pancaked like my honey's bar here. Our house managed to escape any serious damage." I have the number where Joyce is staying, anybody got a cell phone." You could have asked," Erin produced hers. He dialed the number but was told that unforeseen weather problems made it impossible to complete. Try again later. "Shit," he said handing the phone back to Erin before he smashed it somewhere out of frustration."I did find this," Chuck handed him back.