A/N: This Chapter has been written by Capt H.M Murdock

Chapter 2: After Shock

Kim just stood there for a moment looking at Ron's Dog Tags. She couldn't believe it. He wasn't going to be coming home.

"How… how did this happen?" Kim stuttered

" An artillery shell. The Lt. was helping one of his men back to an Aid station when the shell came and landed 2 feet from them. All they could find was the other man and the Lt. Dog Tags."

Kim quickly took the tags out of the man's hand, ran up the stairs to her room and locked the door. She slid down the back of the door and onto the floor. Her eyes were stating to tear.

"Why Ron? Why?"

Meanwhile in Korea

1st Lt. Ronald Stoppable had been wandering through the woods for what felt like hours. After the shell had hit he found himself in a large patch of woods unable to see anything around him but trees. After regaining his balance he started off in the direction he thought the Aid station was in. How he got into this predicament he didn't know. The last thing he remembered he was carrying PFC. Donaldson to the aid station. Then the shell hit. Everything else was a blur. Lucky for him though he still had his gun and only a minor wound on his right arm.

"Damn" he thought. "Where the hell am I?"

He continued to trudge along until he came upon a road.

"Great! Now we're getting somewhere."

He followed the road for a couple of miles until he needed to rest. Ron found a small house that had been abandoned after a shell had hit it. Ron went inside and sat down at a small table that was in the middle of the room. Then he pulled out some C-rations from his pack and chowed down.

"What I wouldn't give for a naco right not" Ron thought.

Ron opened a package he had received from home that he had put in his pack to be opened later. He opened the box and found…crumbs and a pink ball.

"Rufus!" Ron exclaimed.

Rufus, Ron's pet and friend, the naked mole rat. Rufus quickly scurried up Ron's shoulder and rested there. Ron reached up and petted his friend.

After Ron had packed up all his food, he and Rufus started on the road again. A while later Ron came upon a small unit of U.S troops.

"Hi" Ron waved.

"Hi" one soldier responded.

"What outfit are you guys?"

"3rd infantry division" the Sergeant answered.

"Mind if I join you?"

"No sir"

"Thanks"

"Um…sir?"

"Yes corporal?"

"If you don't mind me asking, what the hell it that on your shoulder?"

"That's Sergeant Rufus"

"Um…ok"

So Ron and the 3rd infantry division Started down the road again towards an aid station located near by.

Back in Middleton

Kim sat on her bed thinking about Ron.

"I don't understand" she said to no-one

"Why did he have to die?"

Suddenly her Kimmmunicator went off. She picked it up and a 10-year-old boy appeared on the screen.

"Hi Wade what's the sitch?"

"Trouble in Korea!"