After a long battle between the American Colony and the Kingdom of Science, Xeno was captured and taken with the runaway members of the Kingdom of Science. While Stanley also had some hostages, they absolutely had to retrieve Xeno. Hence why they were on the aircraft carrier they had stolen from the Kingdom of Science tracking their tiny ship with their radar. They would have caught them in another day… if not for their signal splitting in two. It was headed for the Panama Canal, a clear decoy.
But Stanley couldn’t take that risk. He told his team to follow the signal and make sure the decoy was really a decoy. Stanley watched with keen eyes as, after two days, they finally caught sight of the vehicle. It was moving in a straight line. “A decoy. Shoot it down.” He commanded. But as soon as the thing was blown to smithereens, something unexpected floated to the surface.