Thunderpaws: Operation Depthprobe

Summary
Rovers 1 and 2 save an airliner from crashing into the Nevada Desert. Perdita and Balto are bemused by the dismissive attitude of its passengers, who walk into the desert and then vanish beneath its surface. They are part of the top secret Operation Depthprobe...

Episode
(Flight 287 from Tokyo is heading towards a top-secret location in the Nevada Desert when Pilot Joe Rand discovers that the controls are jammed with increasing speed; even advice from his base doesn't help as they'll be out of fuel within sixteen minutes. Luckily for Flight 287, Persia boarded Rover 5 hears the distress call.)

Persia: You guys have fourteen minutes before the planes makes a nose dive into the ground.

Perdita: Okay, Persia. Balto, tell me when you're in position.

Balto: F.A.B, Perdy.

(Positioning their aircraft on each side of Flight 287)

Balto: Okay, Perdy, now!

(They both bring the plane out of the nose-dive and safely to landing. However, not long after touchdown.)

Colonel Colon: Okay, job's over! I want you and your crafts clear on the double!

Perdita: Hey, wait a minute!

Colonel Colon: No questions, Ms spots! This is a security order, got it?

(On their way back.)

Perdita: So much for thanks.

(Underneath the Nevada Desert lies one of the highly guarded secrets of 2067 - Operation Depthprobe, a fuel-carrying rocket containing a very unstable fuel known as pentatholeum, which must be kept refrigerated. However, whilst the final safety checks are carried out prior to launch, one man by the name of Spencer is removing a nut causing liquid to drip onto the cables; what his colleagues don't know about Spencer that he's actually a Bereznik agent sent out to destroy Western America. And the countdown begins,)

5 4 3 2 1

(However, at the point of lift-off, the rocket motors fire, but Operation Depthprobe hasn't taken off; worse still, the temperature's rising and the fuel-store refrigeration won't be able to take the pressure. If that blows, so too would their base plus Nevada itself! Two men bravely attempt to shut down the rocket motors manually, but the gantry to the nose cone collapses; luckily, both men escape unharmed. Up in Rover 5,)

Persia: The guy didn't sound hopeful, Perdy.

Perdita: Those Nevada people may not be pleased with us.

(Rovers 1 and 2 are on their way, and upon arrival, Perdita learns that they have twenty minutes before the fuel-store refrigeration gives out.)

(W.I.P)