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<blockquote data-quote="mrman226" data-source="post: 219072" data-attributes="member: 656"><p>Chapter 26</p><p> I freaked out. Banrow was started to shiver, and he started squawking about something on fire. He was at his final moments, and I didn’t have the antidote. Suddenly, I saw Rapture running for his life, pushing other squirrels out of the way. Something small was in his hand. The antidote! I roared and pulled out my knife and charged at Rapture. Max jumped in front of rapture and slashed forward. Unfortunately, they had been trained together, so they knew each other’s moves. Rapture slid on the floor and took out Max’s legs, toppling her over. Alec came next to me, and we went on all fours. Suddenly, Nov dived forward and tackled Alec. Alec hissed and yanked out his knife, and soon they were creating the sounds of mortal combat, I had no time to look back, I had to stop Rapture. Rapture was almost to a helicopter, when I dived on him. I yanked out my knife, and stabbed him in the heart. Dark blood seeped out of the wound, and I snatched up the medicine tin. I ran back, jumping over Alec and Nov. I reached Banrow, pried open his beak, and dumped the medicine in. it slid down his throat, and slowly, he stopped convulsing. The breathing became less erratic, and he looked like he was fast asleep. Suddenly, I remembered Alec and Nov. When I ran outside, Nov was laying on the ground. Alec was bent over, panting with exertion. I checked Nov’s pulse. He was dead. Alec laid a hand on my shoulder.</p><p> “Sorry mate. He was a good soldier, even if he did turn against us.”</p><p> “But why?” I asked, looking at Nov’s lifeless eyes.</p><p> “Greed, perhaps. We’ll never know for sure. Maybe it had something to do with that rogue group of Lazulai. Speaking of which, we still have Rage locked up in a cell. I think he could answer most of our questions.”</p><p>I nodded and left Nov’s body. We walked down to the dark prison, and looked at Rage’s cell. He was sitting there, pure rage in his eyes. “So that’s why his name is Rage,” I thought to myself. We pulled him out and I signaled to a guard.</p><p> “You, give him some valium.”</p><p> Alec looked at me.</p><p> “Valium? Are you serious?”</p><p>”Yeah. It may be a painkiller, but it makes the person drowsy and less coherent. Rage won’t be able to focus on not giving us answers.”</p><p>Soon, we were in the interrogation room. The conversation was something like this. </p><p> “Rage, why did you branch off?”</p><p> “Uhhg, I was…angry…all these squirrels…all under your control…they were…idiots…they…had to be taught…”</p><p>His head lolled backwards.</p><p>“What about Nov and Rapture? What did you do to them?”</p><p>“Them? They were easy to control…Rapture wanted power…. More control…Nov…He wanted…Safety…He didn’t feel safe with the…predator army…wanted to get rid of them… He also…thought you were insane…crazy…I promised them both of those things… they were fools…”</p><p>I stared. How did Nov find out about the predator army??</p><p> “Hmm. How did Nov find out about this predator army?”</p><p> “He…never…told me….” </p><p>Rages body went limp then, and he fell asleep. We tossed him back into his cell, and then we went upstairs. A squirrel ran up, and told me that we were starting the city assault. I armed myself, and got the remainder of the squad. Max fortunately was okay, with only a minor leg fracture. We got into Chinook 42, good ol’ deathtrap. All around us, the Chinooks took off, and flew off into the distance. When we took off, we suddenly saw the owlets swooping towards the city, Banrow was nowhere to be seen, he was probably still recovering. We cheered at the extra support, and then something hit us. The helicopter went down, in its usual death spiral. We tried to parachute out, but we couldn’t, the pilot was dead and had fallen and jammed the door button. Before we went down, I caught a glimpse of other squirrels trying desperately to bail out.</p><p></p><p>Chapter 27</p><p></p><p>*Grunt*</p><p>I have to get out of here. </p><p>Tam and his army are doing a bad thing, locking up their own kind in a plot for world domination. I got out of my bed, much to the delight of the surprised squirrel medics. I glided down to the basement and grabbed the keys to the chambers, totally un-opposed. I attempted to get many of the captives to join us in exchange for freedom, but most refused. I managed to get a seemingly drugged Rage to join, and two other of Rage’s soldiers, named Hans and Lacer, who instantly joined when they found out that Rage had joined. I used the keys I had taken off the rack to let them out. I flew to the door and opened it for them, and we ran off to the city, following the mob of bird-like helicopters to the city. I equipped our newly created teammates with squirrel-scooters, and toned-down squirrel bazookas and sent them on their way. I flew up and past the helicopters, trying to get comfortable in my tree before the fireworks began. Suddenly helicopters everywhere started going down, I instinctively looked at the three squirrels I had sent off, and they weren’t even looking at the helicopters, much less aiming at them. I saw a black dot shooting through the mob, hitting every helicopter in what seemed a planned order. Chinook 42 went down. I realized that more likely than not, Tam was in there; he had a strange fondness for things would more likely than not kill him. The door wasn’t opening, and I knew something was going wrong. I shot towards Rage and took his bazooka from him, much to his complaint, and fired five shots as best as I could towards the door of the spiraling chopper. I threw the bazooka back to him and shot trough the air, using the wind at my back to rocket towards the plane. There were hundreds of rotors, broken and intact, flying everywhere. I not-so-easily dodged them, and continued to head towards the Chinook. The door was partly dented from my shots at it, seeing as it probably had everything-proof doors on it. I rammed into it by accident, being unable to slow myself down, and that seemed to do a pretty good number on the door, and it flung open and began to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, it started spiraling even more out of control, and started to move away from me, which was still bad. Through the doorway of the Chinook, I could see some squirrels praying, obviously not realizing that the door was open now. I squawked and they looked, instantly realizing that the door, in fact, was gone. I picked up the flying Tam and told him to order a recall of the troops, today was not the day to invade. Surprisingly, he actually did what I said and the entire army, minus eight Chinooks and twenty-four soldiers, returned home. Immediately when we got to the base, Tam had a large meeting with every soldier alive for clues on what that was, taking down all the Chinooks. Many suggested another rogue squirrel, seeing as that had been the usual answer before, but one squirrel in particular saw what it was. It was an animal that its habitat includes, but is not limited to, the sky. A Sparrow; by far the most courageous and numerous, and least powerful bird in the world. Everyone in the room took this seriously except me. I knew a way to defeat them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrman226, post: 219072, member: 656"] Chapter 26 I freaked out. Banrow was started to shiver, and he started squawking about something on fire. He was at his final moments, and I didn’t have the antidote. Suddenly, I saw Rapture running for his life, pushing other squirrels out of the way. Something small was in his hand. The antidote! I roared and pulled out my knife and charged at Rapture. Max jumped in front of rapture and slashed forward. Unfortunately, they had been trained together, so they knew each other’s moves. Rapture slid on the floor and took out Max’s legs, toppling her over. Alec came next to me, and we went on all fours. Suddenly, Nov dived forward and tackled Alec. Alec hissed and yanked out his knife, and soon they were creating the sounds of mortal combat, I had no time to look back, I had to stop Rapture. Rapture was almost to a helicopter, when I dived on him. I yanked out my knife, and stabbed him in the heart. Dark blood seeped out of the wound, and I snatched up the medicine tin. I ran back, jumping over Alec and Nov. I reached Banrow, pried open his beak, and dumped the medicine in. it slid down his throat, and slowly, he stopped convulsing. The breathing became less erratic, and he looked like he was fast asleep. Suddenly, I remembered Alec and Nov. When I ran outside, Nov was laying on the ground. Alec was bent over, panting with exertion. I checked Nov’s pulse. He was dead. Alec laid a hand on my shoulder. “Sorry mate. He was a good soldier, even if he did turn against us.” “But why?” I asked, looking at Nov’s lifeless eyes. “Greed, perhaps. We’ll never know for sure. Maybe it had something to do with that rogue group of Lazulai. Speaking of which, we still have Rage locked up in a cell. I think he could answer most of our questions.” I nodded and left Nov’s body. We walked down to the dark prison, and looked at Rage’s cell. He was sitting there, pure rage in his eyes. “So that’s why his name is Rage,” I thought to myself. We pulled him out and I signaled to a guard. “You, give him some valium.” Alec looked at me. “Valium? Are you serious?” ”Yeah. It may be a painkiller, but it makes the person drowsy and less coherent. Rage won’t be able to focus on not giving us answers.” Soon, we were in the interrogation room. The conversation was something like this. “Rage, why did you branch off?” “Uhhg, I was…angry…all these squirrels…all under your control…they were…idiots…they…had to be taught…” His head lolled backwards. “What about Nov and Rapture? What did you do to them?” “Them? They were easy to control…Rapture wanted power…. More control…Nov…He wanted…Safety…He didn’t feel safe with the…predator army…wanted to get rid of them… He also…thought you were insane…crazy…I promised them both of those things… they were fools…” I stared. How did Nov find out about the predator army?? “Hmm. How did Nov find out about this predator army?” “He…never…told me….” Rages body went limp then, and he fell asleep. We tossed him back into his cell, and then we went upstairs. A squirrel ran up, and told me that we were starting the city assault. I armed myself, and got the remainder of the squad. Max fortunately was okay, with only a minor leg fracture. We got into Chinook 42, good ol’ deathtrap. All around us, the Chinooks took off, and flew off into the distance. When we took off, we suddenly saw the owlets swooping towards the city, Banrow was nowhere to be seen, he was probably still recovering. We cheered at the extra support, and then something hit us. The helicopter went down, in its usual death spiral. We tried to parachute out, but we couldn’t, the pilot was dead and had fallen and jammed the door button. Before we went down, I caught a glimpse of other squirrels trying desperately to bail out. Chapter 27 *Grunt* I have to get out of here. Tam and his army are doing a bad thing, locking up their own kind in a plot for world domination. I got out of my bed, much to the delight of the surprised squirrel medics. I glided down to the basement and grabbed the keys to the chambers, totally un-opposed. I attempted to get many of the captives to join us in exchange for freedom, but most refused. I managed to get a seemingly drugged Rage to join, and two other of Rage’s soldiers, named Hans and Lacer, who instantly joined when they found out that Rage had joined. I used the keys I had taken off the rack to let them out. I flew to the door and opened it for them, and we ran off to the city, following the mob of bird-like helicopters to the city. I equipped our newly created teammates with squirrel-scooters, and toned-down squirrel bazookas and sent them on their way. I flew up and past the helicopters, trying to get comfortable in my tree before the fireworks began. Suddenly helicopters everywhere started going down, I instinctively looked at the three squirrels I had sent off, and they weren’t even looking at the helicopters, much less aiming at them. I saw a black dot shooting through the mob, hitting every helicopter in what seemed a planned order. Chinook 42 went down. I realized that more likely than not, Tam was in there; he had a strange fondness for things would more likely than not kill him. The door wasn’t opening, and I knew something was going wrong. I shot towards Rage and took his bazooka from him, much to his complaint, and fired five shots as best as I could towards the door of the spiraling chopper. I threw the bazooka back to him and shot trough the air, using the wind at my back to rocket towards the plane. There were hundreds of rotors, broken and intact, flying everywhere. I not-so-easily dodged them, and continued to head towards the Chinook. The door was partly dented from my shots at it, seeing as it probably had everything-proof doors on it. I rammed into it by accident, being unable to slow myself down, and that seemed to do a pretty good number on the door, and it flung open and began to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, it started spiraling even more out of control, and started to move away from me, which was still bad. Through the doorway of the Chinook, I could see some squirrels praying, obviously not realizing that the door was open now. I squawked and they looked, instantly realizing that the door, in fact, was gone. I picked up the flying Tam and told him to order a recall of the troops, today was not the day to invade. Surprisingly, he actually did what I said and the entire army, minus eight Chinooks and twenty-four soldiers, returned home. Immediately when we got to the base, Tam had a large meeting with every soldier alive for clues on what that was, taking down all the Chinooks. Many suggested another rogue squirrel, seeing as that had been the usual answer before, but one squirrel in particular saw what it was. It was an animal that its habitat includes, but is not limited to, the sky. A Sparrow; by far the most courageous and numerous, and least powerful bird in the world. Everyone in the room took this seriously except me. I knew a way to defeat them. [/QUOTE]
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