Uncle Si lands in...

Uncle Si doesn't know how much time goes by as he waits in that pouch, but after what feels like days, Uncle Si is jostled around. When he's finally able to peek out of the pouch, he's outside. It's dark now, but he recognizes that they are going through the exact gate he'd thought about bypassing earlier that evening, and they are heading for the very plane he'd stood there watched.

When the Uniform whose pouch he's taken up residence in sits down, Si can't see anything because he's wedged between the Uniform's side and the seat. After quite a bit of commotion and noise, Si feels the plane lurch forward. The lights go out, except for a few dim green ones, and now all Si can do is sit and wait and enjoy the ride.

But it's hard to enjoy a plane ride with so many turns and quick ups and downs, especially from inside a pouch, and Uncle Si quickly begins to feel a little sick and though the flight turns out to be pretty short, he's glad it's over once they land. As everyone gets off the plane in the darkness and heads toward lights in the distance, Si gets more and more excited even though there's nothing much to see.

When the Uniform finally drops his bags and heaves his vest up and over his head and drops it to the ground with Si still hanging out in the side pouch, he knows now might be his only chance to get out. As soon as he thinks no one is looking, he climbs out and runs away from the group of Uniforms he came here with, keeping to the shadows. Once he's sure no one has seen him or is after him, Uncle Si finds a safe place to wait for morning.



As soon as the sun is up, Si decides he needs to get a better view of his surroundings to figure out where he is and where he wants to go next. He sees that the big building he spent the night next to is actually a giant tent and though it would a perfect place from which to scope out the surroundings, there is no way to climb to the top of it. Not far from the big tent Si spots another good option for an observation point in the form of a T-wall, which he recognizes from things he'd heard the Uniforms say back when he was living beneath that computer screen.

As Si gets closer to the concrete wall, he sees something written or painted on it and before he starts to climb up the crack between the sections of T-wall, which is just the right size for climbing, Uncle Si is happy to learn that he has come to Fabulous Bagram.