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<blockquote data-quote="mrman226" data-source="post: 219074" data-attributes="member: 656"><p>Chapter 30</p><p></p><p>My squad and I were invading the building. Suddenly, I heard a ‘meow?’ Last time I had heard that noise was when we had just found this building, my squad, having been with me at the time, pulled out their weapons. Suddenly, a cat hissed and charged at us. </p><p>“Flash bangs, now!” I yelled. </p><p>Eleven grenades (we had gotten replacements for Nov and Rapture, one of them was Alec) flew through the air and exploded right in front of the cat’s eyes, blinding it. We pulled out our guns and started firing, and the cat fell over, clearly dead. We waited a few seconds to reload, and then we continued. I was worried; there could be more cats. We raided a few apartments with success, and there were no cats. But suddenly, on our way back from raiding, we heard another hiss. All the troops stopped dead, and then started to hide. I flung myself behind a wall. We all peeked one way, when suddenly Max shrieked and pointed in the opposite direction. Three cats had found us, and were gaining on us. We ran up to where we had stored supplies, and the squirrels guarding it started firing; this only aggravated the cats more, and they started attacking the fort. Paws whacked the barricades and squirrels flew everywhere. Chattering screams resounded in the air, and the squad desperately searched for something that could stop these destructive beasts. One squirrel dragged himself towards us, his lower body wounded. I grabbed him and pulled him behind a crate before a cat ate him. Finally, Alec found a chain gun. Laughing, he started it up, and the cats got about...350 bullets, more or less, each in the face. Their heads bloody, each one ran away, and we looked at the destruction they had made. Most of the supplies were intact, but some wood and food had been damaged. We salvaged what we could, and then saw if any guards were alive. There was the guard I had saved, and another, who had fell when one of the lookout towers collapsed. We put them on stretchers and loaded them on a Chinook that was taking some of the wounded home. I contacted the other squirrels, and it seemed like they were doing fine. All opposing forces inside the building had been eliminated (the three cats had run out a window, a stupid thing to do, even for cats), and the only problem was the humans. I decided that the best way to make them leave was to capture the control room in the building. This place was in the basement, and we needed our best stealth fighters and hackers to come. That would be</p><p>· Alec</p><p>· Me</p><p>· Max</p><p>· Rage</p><p>· A squirrel named Franz</p><p>· A squirrel named Costello. </p><p>After grabbing all these squirrels, we started towards the basement. Obviously, the door was locked. I sent Costello to break in, and in a minute he had removed the keypad, cut 5 different wires, and fused two wires together. Finally, we heard the lock click. Franz shivered.</p><p>“I never thought that we would invade the sun place.”</p><p>I smacked him.</p><p>“Human town you idiot!”</p><p>Okay, so maybe you’re thinking that I was a little too harsh. Well I wasn’t. This guy had made the mistake at least 80 times in two hours. Some one had to teach him, and that someone just happened to be me. Finally, we went down into the room, and activated the alarm. The sprinklers went off everywhere, and the blaring lights and sounds almost gave Rage a seizure. We ran to the ‘lockdown’ switch, and waited until everybody had exited the building. Finally, that crazy cat lady ran screaming down the hall and outside, and then we flicked the lockdown switch. Out side, the foxes reported that all rogue squirrel clans had been eliminated. The hardware camp was moving out to enter the building, bringing all their supplies. The foxes sparrows and wolves, preferring the outdoors, hunkered down in the park. I pulled out a book of objectives and checked off the first one. Stage one was complete!</p><p></p><p>Chapter 31</p><p></p><p> Well, at least so far the first invasion was going quite well, we had kicked the residents out, moved Mark back in, and transferred our base from the hardware store to the new building. One base was in the lobby, under the front desk, the other base was for only flying creatures, and it was located in the ducts on the 24th floor. Also, there was a base on the roof, which was more of a hangar, where most of the Chinooks and planes were stored, and where flying squirrels and super-squirrel-soldiers were trained. The base was looking pretty good, all completely set up. I flew to the top to talk to Tam, when I got there it looked like he was resting, but I knew he wouldn’t mind if I woke him up. I hopped over to him and started to flap my wings as hard as I could, hoping to “gently” wake him up. He started running around obviously awake and running over to trees and muttering things I couldn’t understand. I stopped him and shook him awake. </p><p> “Hey Tam, what are we going to do with the stuff in the silo?” </p><p> “ Uh… Horseshoes?”</p><p> “ TAM! WAKE UP!”</p><p> “Yeah, yeah, I’m awake. You really don’t have to yell”</p><p> “What are we going to do with the stuff in the silo?”</p><p> “Uh… Leave it there?”</p><p> “Why would we do that?”</p><p> “Because it would be too hard to move it here”</p><p>“Tam, incase you forgot, we have an entire army living in this building”</p><p> “Oh right… well, go tell some of them to bring it over”</p><p>“I can’t. Remember Tam, you’re their leader, and so is that Guinea Pig dude”</p><p>“Yeah, well tell them I told you to”</p><p>“You are so lazy”</p><p>“Yeah, I am, aren’t I?” he said dreamily and went back to sleep.</p><p>I went down to the land-based base in the lobby and told them to climb up to the air base and wait for further instructions. I flew through the ducts to the air-based base, and nearly got hit with some bird pellets on my way up. </p><p> “They are not paying me enough to do this,” I said to myself.</p><p>I finally reached one third of the three-duct base to see hundreds of birds either resting, eating, mating, or tending to the young. Although the structure of the base itself was beautifully designed, the stench was unbearable. The birds obviously had gotten used to living in their own filth without caring, but there had been complaints from other bases, and the apartment “suites” for generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, majors and the occasional lucky soldier had filed complaints of a horrible smell. Most of them assumed that it was coming from the birds, seeing as they were living in the air ducts. I was stuck waiting with them for a while until the ground troops finally made it up here. I had already given the birds the plan. They would carry the grounders (as they called the ground troops) to the silo, drop them off, and then wait for them to come back to them with the stuff from inside the silo. I had put Geraldo (the guinea pig) in charge of leading the relocation of the hardware store’s hardware, and it appeared to be going very smoothly. I, myself was going to carry the high-explosive (which Tam never told any of us about) back to the base. Tam said to move it last, because he needed time to make the special storage house for it. Right after Tam told me to carry it, I asked,</p><p> “How many tons does it pack?”</p><p> Tam replied, “I’m not going to tell you”</p><p> “Why not?!” I retorted</p><p> “It might make you a little nervous”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrman226, post: 219074, member: 656"] Chapter 30 My squad and I were invading the building. Suddenly, I heard a ‘meow?’ Last time I had heard that noise was when we had just found this building, my squad, having been with me at the time, pulled out their weapons. Suddenly, a cat hissed and charged at us. “Flash bangs, now!” I yelled. Eleven grenades (we had gotten replacements for Nov and Rapture, one of them was Alec) flew through the air and exploded right in front of the cat’s eyes, blinding it. We pulled out our guns and started firing, and the cat fell over, clearly dead. We waited a few seconds to reload, and then we continued. I was worried; there could be more cats. We raided a few apartments with success, and there were no cats. But suddenly, on our way back from raiding, we heard another hiss. All the troops stopped dead, and then started to hide. I flung myself behind a wall. We all peeked one way, when suddenly Max shrieked and pointed in the opposite direction. Three cats had found us, and were gaining on us. We ran up to where we had stored supplies, and the squirrels guarding it started firing; this only aggravated the cats more, and they started attacking the fort. Paws whacked the barricades and squirrels flew everywhere. Chattering screams resounded in the air, and the squad desperately searched for something that could stop these destructive beasts. One squirrel dragged himself towards us, his lower body wounded. I grabbed him and pulled him behind a crate before a cat ate him. Finally, Alec found a chain gun. Laughing, he started it up, and the cats got about...350 bullets, more or less, each in the face. Their heads bloody, each one ran away, and we looked at the destruction they had made. Most of the supplies were intact, but some wood and food had been damaged. We salvaged what we could, and then saw if any guards were alive. There was the guard I had saved, and another, who had fell when one of the lookout towers collapsed. We put them on stretchers and loaded them on a Chinook that was taking some of the wounded home. I contacted the other squirrels, and it seemed like they were doing fine. All opposing forces inside the building had been eliminated (the three cats had run out a window, a stupid thing to do, even for cats), and the only problem was the humans. I decided that the best way to make them leave was to capture the control room in the building. This place was in the basement, and we needed our best stealth fighters and hackers to come. That would be · Alec · Me · Max · Rage · A squirrel named Franz · A squirrel named Costello. After grabbing all these squirrels, we started towards the basement. Obviously, the door was locked. I sent Costello to break in, and in a minute he had removed the keypad, cut 5 different wires, and fused two wires together. Finally, we heard the lock click. Franz shivered. “I never thought that we would invade the sun place.” I smacked him. “Human town you idiot!” Okay, so maybe you’re thinking that I was a little too harsh. Well I wasn’t. This guy had made the mistake at least 80 times in two hours. Some one had to teach him, and that someone just happened to be me. Finally, we went down into the room, and activated the alarm. The sprinklers went off everywhere, and the blaring lights and sounds almost gave Rage a seizure. We ran to the ‘lockdown’ switch, and waited until everybody had exited the building. Finally, that crazy cat lady ran screaming down the hall and outside, and then we flicked the lockdown switch. Out side, the foxes reported that all rogue squirrel clans had been eliminated. The hardware camp was moving out to enter the building, bringing all their supplies. The foxes sparrows and wolves, preferring the outdoors, hunkered down in the park. I pulled out a book of objectives and checked off the first one. Stage one was complete! Chapter 31 Well, at least so far the first invasion was going quite well, we had kicked the residents out, moved Mark back in, and transferred our base from the hardware store to the new building. One base was in the lobby, under the front desk, the other base was for only flying creatures, and it was located in the ducts on the 24th floor. Also, there was a base on the roof, which was more of a hangar, where most of the Chinooks and planes were stored, and where flying squirrels and super-squirrel-soldiers were trained. The base was looking pretty good, all completely set up. I flew to the top to talk to Tam, when I got there it looked like he was resting, but I knew he wouldn’t mind if I woke him up. I hopped over to him and started to flap my wings as hard as I could, hoping to “gently” wake him up. He started running around obviously awake and running over to trees and muttering things I couldn’t understand. I stopped him and shook him awake. “Hey Tam, what are we going to do with the stuff in the silo?” “ Uh… Horseshoes?” “ TAM! WAKE UP!” “Yeah, yeah, I’m awake. You really don’t have to yell” “What are we going to do with the stuff in the silo?” “Uh… Leave it there?” “Why would we do that?” “Because it would be too hard to move it here” “Tam, incase you forgot, we have an entire army living in this building” “Oh right… well, go tell some of them to bring it over” “I can’t. Remember Tam, you’re their leader, and so is that Guinea Pig dude” “Yeah, well tell them I told you to” “You are so lazy” “Yeah, I am, aren’t I?” he said dreamily and went back to sleep. I went down to the land-based base in the lobby and told them to climb up to the air base and wait for further instructions. I flew through the ducts to the air-based base, and nearly got hit with some bird pellets on my way up. “They are not paying me enough to do this,” I said to myself. I finally reached one third of the three-duct base to see hundreds of birds either resting, eating, mating, or tending to the young. Although the structure of the base itself was beautifully designed, the stench was unbearable. The birds obviously had gotten used to living in their own filth without caring, but there had been complaints from other bases, and the apartment “suites” for generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, majors and the occasional lucky soldier had filed complaints of a horrible smell. Most of them assumed that it was coming from the birds, seeing as they were living in the air ducts. I was stuck waiting with them for a while until the ground troops finally made it up here. I had already given the birds the plan. They would carry the grounders (as they called the ground troops) to the silo, drop them off, and then wait for them to come back to them with the stuff from inside the silo. I had put Geraldo (the guinea pig) in charge of leading the relocation of the hardware store’s hardware, and it appeared to be going very smoothly. I, myself was going to carry the high-explosive (which Tam never told any of us about) back to the base. Tam said to move it last, because he needed time to make the special storage house for it. Right after Tam told me to carry it, I asked, “How many tons does it pack?” Tam replied, “I’m not going to tell you” “Why not?!” I retorted “It might make you a little nervous” [/QUOTE]
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