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<blockquote data-quote="mrman226" data-source="post: 219063" data-attributes="member: 656"><p>Chapter 5</p><p></p><p> “HEY BANROW! DO YOU HAVE MY NANO-SENSORS YET?” I yelled out of the hull of the newly broken robot. Banrow’s voice came drifting to me. </p><p> “Uhh, is it the one with all the flashy lights?” </p><p>I groaned. “Okay, how bout you just hold open this door while I find it?” </p><p>Banrow flapped over. “Sure, that sounds fine with me!” </p><p>I hopped out and scampered across the floor. Along the way, I picked up my lab goggles, a scrap of paper and a mini blowtorch, and grabbed the nano-sensor. I crawled up the working fan and the opened my arms. The fan air propelled me forward, right into the robot hatch. </p><p> “WAHOYA!” I yelled, and tumbled amongst the circuitry of the robot. I picked myself up and dusted off. Suddenly Banrow peeked inside, and made me jump. CLANG! Banrow looked shocked. </p><p> “Oof, that must of hurt. Well, anyway, I was going to ask, uh how are we gonna fit all this equipment in the silo?” I rubbed my head and looked at him. </p><p> “Uhh, im going to fuse this equipment to the walls, and maybe make some floors with holes in them to get through.” I looked around and found the busted nano-sensor, tore it out and started fusing the new one in its place. Banrow looked doubtful that I could fuse a plasma screen T.V to the concave wall without breaking it, but he didn’t pursue the issue any further. With satisfaction, I crawled out of the panel space and announced to Banrow. </p><p> “Okay, the robot is officially done!” Banrow shuffled over. </p><p> “Goody, I also found some steel rope!” I looked at him. </p><p> “Okay. Lets get started!”</p><p></p><p></p><p> I fused one more satellite to the wall. Looking down at Banrow, I gave him a thumb up. </p><p> “Yeah, that’s the last one!” Banrow squawked and looked at the weaponry that I had created. </p><p> “You created a squirrel bazooka?” I clambered down and looked at him. </p><p> “Yeah. I also created a squirrel flamethrower and a squirrel paratrooper plane. Banrow looked at me. </p><p> “Where’s the plane?” I pointed to a tunnel I created, that led right to my hanger. </p><p> “Over there. All I need now are some recruits.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Two months later.</p><p></p><p> I paced back and forth in front of my freshly trained squirrel troopers. Each one was equipped with a gas mask, helmet and squirrel rifle but some had other weapons, except for the pilot. I started making my speech to the troops. </p><p> “You have been specially selected, trained and equipped for this mission! Tonight, we will march onto our plane and do a nighttime assault on that city! (We were outside, so I pointed to all the glowing lights.) Our objective is to raid a building there, and take supplies to help our goal! Take the whole building! Remember, some will come in later after coming home from work or strip clubs or midnight jobs. Remember to stay stealthy! If you are in a pinch with humans surrounding you, do not be afraid to run!” I stopped and turned to face them. </p><p> “Do you understand me?” All the squirrels roared </p><p> “Sir yes sir!” </p><p>I smiled. </p><p> “Then lets get moving.” </p><p></p><p></p><p>Chapter 6</p><p></p><p> The engines of the plane were silent, and I peeked outside a window. We were still good and were about to fly over our target point. The red light flickered on. I stood up and yelled. </p><p> “Clip on!”, and all the squirrels hooked their safety clips to the bars. The door opened. I hooked my safety clip to the bar and yelled. </p><p> “Jump!” one by one, the squirrels leapt out the door. Finally, I leapt. Below me, there were the squirrel parachutes gently hovering to the building. Above me, there was Banrow and the plane, slowly flying away. My parachute snapped open, and I started to steer to the top of the building. Finally, I landed, and with a whoosh, the parachute fell on me. I quickly packed it up and joined my squad who were waiting for me. I took head count. </p><p> “Lets see, one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Aki, were missing one!” The squirrel looked at me. </p><p> “No worries sir, I just sent Nov on a scouting mission. See, here he comes now!” And sure enough, she was right. Nov came racing up and started to report. </p><p> “Sir! I found a air duct that we could fit through, though it has some very steep parts to it before it reaches an inside room.” </p><p> “No worries” I said, “we came prepared.” As I said that I patted my backpack to make sure they were still there and operational, very dangerous if not, and then opened it. Fortunately, none of the sticky pads were broken, however, the launcher appeared to fire off center. </p><p> “All in! I go first with the launcher!” I loaded the pads into the launcher. I followed Nov to the entrance, and then took the lead. I fired pads up one after the other in great succession, though some of them were off from where I had wanted them to be, we still would be able to stick our little paws to them and climb up. I had told the pilot to land the plane, and Banrow, at the top of the apartment building so we could trap them up and down to make them surrender and leave. They would work there way down to us, and assist in defending the building, assuming it’s in our hands. This would be key, and if it went wrong, many squirrels would be lost. I did not like the odds of it tonight, it was cold, windy, and the longest clear path on the roof had a crosswind blowing across it. I was confident that they would be able to land, and even if the plane could not, the winged Banrow could. It was about the time when they were supposed to land, I assembled my troops at the top of the duct, near the entrance and listened for any sounds from outside the grate. </p><p> “Mrow”. </p><p> “What was that!?” </p><p> “Sorry sir, just playing a little prank” Nov said. I told everyone to shut up and listen. Nothing. It was safe. We rushed into the room quite loudly, but no one answered, cowered, or even made noise. </p><p> “Mrow?”. </p><p> “Nov?” I said. He shook his head. All of us stood still. The Humans had teamed up with the enemy. </p><p> “Very smart of them.” I thought to myself. Slowly, the eleven of us worked our way around the house, until; at last we came upon the great beast! And even, more, it was already caged! This new joy made some of the troops cocky, and they started teasing the cat by jumping around the cage, but then retreating just as he stuck his paw through the wires. Suddenly, through his frustration, the cat broke through the wire and began to chase after us! Luckily, because we’re squirrels, we easily dodged and out ran it. We made it into the closet, and after the cat turned his back, we poked the door opened and fired all eleven of our bazookas at once instantly stunning (kinda) the cat. We weren’t quite sure if it was dead, playing dead, or stunned, so we stayed away from it. It was easy collecting the supplies from the house. The person must have been a clean freak, because everything was labeled. If we wanted to find peanut butter for protein, we just looked at the outside of the cabinets to see what was inside (we couldn’t see through walls, we just saw what was inside from the labels on the outside). Suddenly, Aki yelled from a distant room. </p><p> “Hey guys, I found a helicopter!” We ran to where she was collecting stuff and saw her staring at an awesome looking Chinook. One of the squirrels, named Maximum (We just called her Max) laughed. </p><p> “Alright!” Suddenly, we heard a voice on our COM system. </p><p> “Hey guys, do you have all the supplies that you need?” I touched the mini blue-tooth in my ear. </p><p> “Yeah, why?”</p><p> “Cause we got a human on the rooftop where were parked!” I looked at our team. </p><p> “Okay, we got a problem, so pack those supplies! Max, check that map up there, see if you can find a direct route out of here!” The team quickly started to pack up, when the door opened. Nov looked at the door. </p><p> “Oh rotten acorns, it’s the human!” All the squirrels pulled out their dart guns. I whispered to them, </p><p> “Remember to set the guns to knock-out!” The Human sighed and set his backpack on a large hook next to the door. I signaled for them to load their guns. </p><p> “Ready, aim, fire!” Eleven darts (Including mine) flew through the air and hit the human in his leg. He suddenly started to droop, and then started to stumble around the house at high speed. I stared, my eyes bugged out. </p><p> “Uhhh, that’s not how I wanted it to go!” suddenly, the human stumbled through the corridor we were in. </p><p> “RUN FOR IT!!!!!” Aki started screaming really high pitched </p><p> “AHHH! AHHH! AHHH!” we sprinted on all fours. Nov darted up next to me and started to yell. </p><p> “WHERE DO WE GO NOW!?” I could barely hear him over the noise of Aki, the cats hissing (Who had finally found us and wasn’t so stunned any more), and the Humans loud stumbling. </p><p> “Uhhh, THROUGH THAT WINDOW!!!!” With a spring, I saw the squad leap through the window. Suddenly, I was staring at ground, which was about 23 stories below me. I stared at the ground a little more. Suddenly, like if there was a glass barrier that was stopping us from falling suddenly shattered, all of us plummeted like stones to the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrman226, post: 219063, member: 656"] Chapter 5 “HEY BANROW! DO YOU HAVE MY NANO-SENSORS YET?” I yelled out of the hull of the newly broken robot. Banrow’s voice came drifting to me. “Uhh, is it the one with all the flashy lights?” I groaned. “Okay, how bout you just hold open this door while I find it?” Banrow flapped over. “Sure, that sounds fine with me!” I hopped out and scampered across the floor. Along the way, I picked up my lab goggles, a scrap of paper and a mini blowtorch, and grabbed the nano-sensor. I crawled up the working fan and the opened my arms. The fan air propelled me forward, right into the robot hatch. “WAHOYA!” I yelled, and tumbled amongst the circuitry of the robot. I picked myself up and dusted off. Suddenly Banrow peeked inside, and made me jump. CLANG! Banrow looked shocked. “Oof, that must of hurt. Well, anyway, I was going to ask, uh how are we gonna fit all this equipment in the silo?” I rubbed my head and looked at him. “Uhh, im going to fuse this equipment to the walls, and maybe make some floors with holes in them to get through.” I looked around and found the busted nano-sensor, tore it out and started fusing the new one in its place. Banrow looked doubtful that I could fuse a plasma screen T.V to the concave wall without breaking it, but he didn’t pursue the issue any further. With satisfaction, I crawled out of the panel space and announced to Banrow. “Okay, the robot is officially done!” Banrow shuffled over. “Goody, I also found some steel rope!” I looked at him. “Okay. Lets get started!” I fused one more satellite to the wall. Looking down at Banrow, I gave him a thumb up. “Yeah, that’s the last one!” Banrow squawked and looked at the weaponry that I had created. “You created a squirrel bazooka?” I clambered down and looked at him. “Yeah. I also created a squirrel flamethrower and a squirrel paratrooper plane. Banrow looked at me. “Where’s the plane?” I pointed to a tunnel I created, that led right to my hanger. “Over there. All I need now are some recruits. Two months later. I paced back and forth in front of my freshly trained squirrel troopers. Each one was equipped with a gas mask, helmet and squirrel rifle but some had other weapons, except for the pilot. I started making my speech to the troops. “You have been specially selected, trained and equipped for this mission! Tonight, we will march onto our plane and do a nighttime assault on that city! (We were outside, so I pointed to all the glowing lights.) Our objective is to raid a building there, and take supplies to help our goal! Take the whole building! Remember, some will come in later after coming home from work or strip clubs or midnight jobs. Remember to stay stealthy! If you are in a pinch with humans surrounding you, do not be afraid to run!” I stopped and turned to face them. “Do you understand me?” All the squirrels roared “Sir yes sir!” I smiled. “Then lets get moving.” Chapter 6 The engines of the plane were silent, and I peeked outside a window. We were still good and were about to fly over our target point. The red light flickered on. I stood up and yelled. “Clip on!”, and all the squirrels hooked their safety clips to the bars. The door opened. I hooked my safety clip to the bar and yelled. “Jump!” one by one, the squirrels leapt out the door. Finally, I leapt. Below me, there were the squirrel parachutes gently hovering to the building. Above me, there was Banrow and the plane, slowly flying away. My parachute snapped open, and I started to steer to the top of the building. Finally, I landed, and with a whoosh, the parachute fell on me. I quickly packed it up and joined my squad who were waiting for me. I took head count. “Lets see, one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Aki, were missing one!” The squirrel looked at me. “No worries sir, I just sent Nov on a scouting mission. See, here he comes now!” And sure enough, she was right. Nov came racing up and started to report. “Sir! I found a air duct that we could fit through, though it has some very steep parts to it before it reaches an inside room.” “No worries” I said, “we came prepared.” As I said that I patted my backpack to make sure they were still there and operational, very dangerous if not, and then opened it. Fortunately, none of the sticky pads were broken, however, the launcher appeared to fire off center. “All in! I go first with the launcher!” I loaded the pads into the launcher. I followed Nov to the entrance, and then took the lead. I fired pads up one after the other in great succession, though some of them were off from where I had wanted them to be, we still would be able to stick our little paws to them and climb up. I had told the pilot to land the plane, and Banrow, at the top of the apartment building so we could trap them up and down to make them surrender and leave. They would work there way down to us, and assist in defending the building, assuming it’s in our hands. This would be key, and if it went wrong, many squirrels would be lost. I did not like the odds of it tonight, it was cold, windy, and the longest clear path on the roof had a crosswind blowing across it. I was confident that they would be able to land, and even if the plane could not, the winged Banrow could. It was about the time when they were supposed to land, I assembled my troops at the top of the duct, near the entrance and listened for any sounds from outside the grate. “Mrow”. “What was that!?” “Sorry sir, just playing a little prank” Nov said. I told everyone to shut up and listen. Nothing. It was safe. We rushed into the room quite loudly, but no one answered, cowered, or even made noise. “Mrow?”. “Nov?” I said. He shook his head. All of us stood still. The Humans had teamed up with the enemy. “Very smart of them.” I thought to myself. Slowly, the eleven of us worked our way around the house, until; at last we came upon the great beast! And even, more, it was already caged! This new joy made some of the troops cocky, and they started teasing the cat by jumping around the cage, but then retreating just as he stuck his paw through the wires. Suddenly, through his frustration, the cat broke through the wire and began to chase after us! Luckily, because we’re squirrels, we easily dodged and out ran it. We made it into the closet, and after the cat turned his back, we poked the door opened and fired all eleven of our bazookas at once instantly stunning (kinda) the cat. We weren’t quite sure if it was dead, playing dead, or stunned, so we stayed away from it. It was easy collecting the supplies from the house. The person must have been a clean freak, because everything was labeled. If we wanted to find peanut butter for protein, we just looked at the outside of the cabinets to see what was inside (we couldn’t see through walls, we just saw what was inside from the labels on the outside). Suddenly, Aki yelled from a distant room. “Hey guys, I found a helicopter!” We ran to where she was collecting stuff and saw her staring at an awesome looking Chinook. One of the squirrels, named Maximum (We just called her Max) laughed. “Alright!” Suddenly, we heard a voice on our COM system. “Hey guys, do you have all the supplies that you need?” I touched the mini blue-tooth in my ear. “Yeah, why?” “Cause we got a human on the rooftop where were parked!” I looked at our team. “Okay, we got a problem, so pack those supplies! Max, check that map up there, see if you can find a direct route out of here!” The team quickly started to pack up, when the door opened. Nov looked at the door. “Oh rotten acorns, it’s the human!” All the squirrels pulled out their dart guns. I whispered to them, “Remember to set the guns to knock-out!” The Human sighed and set his backpack on a large hook next to the door. I signaled for them to load their guns. “Ready, aim, fire!” Eleven darts (Including mine) flew through the air and hit the human in his leg. He suddenly started to droop, and then started to stumble around the house at high speed. I stared, my eyes bugged out. “Uhhh, that’s not how I wanted it to go!” suddenly, the human stumbled through the corridor we were in. “RUN FOR IT!!!!!” Aki started screaming really high pitched “AHHH! AHHH! AHHH!” we sprinted on all fours. Nov darted up next to me and started to yell. “WHERE DO WE GO NOW!?” I could barely hear him over the noise of Aki, the cats hissing (Who had finally found us and wasn’t so stunned any more), and the Humans loud stumbling. “Uhhh, THROUGH THAT WINDOW!!!!” With a spring, I saw the squad leap through the window. Suddenly, I was staring at ground, which was about 23 stories below me. I stared at the ground a little more. Suddenly, like if there was a glass barrier that was stopping us from falling suddenly shattered, all of us plummeted like stones to the ground. [/QUOTE]
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