chapter 5: tracking the opposing Colombian troops' movements into Tokyo

     As the standoff inside Narita Airport continued in earnest, the FARC drug rebels slowly, but surely, advanced on the main entrance of Tokyo Station, in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo, planning on shutting down the city to the largest extent possible. The FARC leader, Timoleón Jimenez, had specifically ordered his men, who were more used to suburban and rural locations, like Medellín, than open-air big city battles, like Tokyo, to capture as much of the station as possible, in order to put a virtual lock on transportation in and out of Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Yamaguchi-gumi leader, Kenichi Shinoda, kept the task force occupied inside Narita Airport just long enough in order to let the FARC team into downtown, and also keep the Colombian Policía Nacional at bay, since General Rodolfo Palomino had sent some of his troops in from all over the Latin continent to fight off the FARC rebels on foreign turf, thus sparing the Colombian population of more drug battles on their own turf. When the PN troops landed on the first plane out of El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, word came in from headquarters that the FARC rebels were successful in the first move in the "battle of Colombia, except in Tokyo instead of Medellín":
          "Mantente 'salvo y sano', General Palomino... Nuestras fuentes aquí en Bogotá han obtenido noticias sobre los movimientos de los rebeldes de FARC, y han aprendido que el lider, el Señor Jimenez, ha aislado sus hombres en la estación de Tokio... Si ustedes pueden cortar sus avances en la estación, eso sería muy bueno para nuestras metas de liberar esta ciudad muy importante y moderna..."
     General Palomino himself was too busy moving his men, however, to listen to any briefs:
          "Oye, hombres! Nuestra misión aquí es liberar esta ciudad muy inportante para el mundo entero, y para despedir de los rebeldes, tanto nuestros rebeldes como los del 'yakuza' japonés!"
     His troops generally responded along the lines of "sir yessir!", meaning that they were more than willing to take back Tokyo from both the yakuza and the FARC rebels. Naturally, as is usually the case when police forces and rebels meet, there was a head-on "run-in" at the main entrance of Tokyo Station, and that was when Shinoda got word of the impending battle from Jimenez:
          "Shinoda-san... We've reached Tokyo Station, and so have the police cabrones who've traveled all the way over here to stop us, and then find their way over to your position! You'd best hold off the other cabrones from the corrupt FBI and the other thugs as long as you can, so we can make it over to you by Narita Airport!"
     Shinoda responded in kind:
          "Hello there once again, Señor Jimenez... I'm glad to report that we have the double agent (Hannelman) and the inner-city street thugs (Giunta and Scangalore) here with me inside Narita... No word on the traitor's (Yobito-san) whereabouts yet... I'll get some of the Mexicans on his case sooner rather than later, since it's important to me that we get all of them in here alive!"
     The word coming from Jimenez soon turned to orders of his own:
          "Hombres! Debemos asegurar todas las plataformas posibles, para negar las posiciones de las tropas de la PN! Después de que nosotros capturamos esta estación, el aeropuerto Narita será nuestra próxima parada, para capturar todos los modos de transporte aquí de una vez!"
     Those conflicting orders, with General Palomino addressing his troops, FARC leader Jimenez moving his men in on the exact same position, and Shinoda, the yakuza clan leader, all giving their interpretations of the ongoing events, set the stage for an epic set of showdowns, but before any of that action could begin, they had to account for Yobito-san's whereabouts, somewhere in Tokyo...