A blue goggled wastelander shuffles his boots through the icy snow and ash of the once great mega city, Eureka, the last great testament to mankind and its possible salvation; is all but dust, ash, and cursed to a never ending winter; the man shivers as a brisk breeze of cold air brushed passed him, he stared at the vacant landscape and sighed.

Wandering the wastes of Eureka was never something Snippy never enjoyed. It was very depressing not to mention cold and dangerous, even more so with Captain sending him on frivolous ventures often resulting in a tired cranky Snippy and also in the most extremes hurt.

He'd often wished someone could accompany him; but Engie was an untrained cowardly scientist, Pilot was an aviator gear wearing pain in the ass nut job, and the last one Zee Captain was the biggest freak he'd ever met! But these misfits were all the people that he had, and he'd prefer crazy company over none at all.

That purple goggled loon had sent him to retrieve a movie, UP, from a almost burnt down Blockbuster. Disturbingly enough it was the only movie left un-scorched in the building, maybe the bastard planted it there, whatever the reason it could wait because he wanted nothing more than to be warm right now.

The current base, because Captain liked moving around for some reason, was an abandoned fire station. But because of the lack of fires in a mega city this place was long converted to a museum, but at least the blankets were toasty enough and the place was for the most part spared from the nuclear fire that had once ravaged the city for days.

Snippy's companions were around their mini campsite within the station cooking some rat meat over the fire, it could be a steak to someone with imagination or no other source of meat but in the end it was still food.

He walked right up to Zee Captain, "Here's your stupid movie, why, dare I ask did you want it?" The purpled eyed man did a once over of the movie before shoving it into a coat pocket.

"Why Mr. Snippy it's for zee party of course!" Snippy's e-mote goggles shifted to a slant, "Did you not get your invitation? I could've sworn I told Pilot to give one to you zis morning."

The aviator jumped from his spot by the fire and fiddled around with one of the leather bomber jacket pockets, "I couldn't find the Jiggly slug till now Captain honest!" Snippy took the invitation ignoring the small murmuring underneath Pilot's breathe; the letter was pink, not just pink but had glitter sloppily glued onto it like some grade schooler had designed it, more than likely Pilot.

He glanced at Engie who had a certain look the two shared to warn the other that something stupid was going to happen. It sure as hell was!

"Conflaguations you have been regally invited to greet the arrival of new citizens being brought to Captainia by one of the original founders of our great nation!

Sincerely your everlasting ruler of all time and space,

Captain."

The Sniper frowned staring at Captain and Pilot as he now realized that there were in fact decorations up welcoming the 'newcomers', "What does he mean by 'original founding member'? Are we going to see some skeleton dressed in a coat or something?"Snippy asked Gromov as he sat down removing his backpack.

Engie handed Snippy a rat on a stick as he moved the re-breather down, "Dunno, maybe or it could just be a bunch of creepily placed skeletons with suit cases, I defiantly wouldn't put it behind Captain."

The Russian watched the trench coated figure filling balloons with helium Pilot had found, what had subject 7 planned concerned him because he seemed to be serious the whole ordeal which was marginally different from how he usually acted, 'This founding member… why does that seem so familiar?' he pondered, until he was shaken from his thoughts.

"Hey! Earth to Dr. G!" Snippy said shaking his shoulder, "I saw another one of those damn Annet drones today."

"Oh, really."

"A mutant Segal ate it, but then exploded." Gromov's raised his brow.

"It must've activated its fail safe when it realized there was no escape."

Snippy chuckled lowly, "Yeah, your fancy ipod basket ball was too stupid to pick which way to leave!" Engie bit his lip realizing that Snippy was insulting his inventions once more, he resisted the urge to tell him off, but they did make his life miserable and they DID start the whole apocalypse thing… maybe he did deserve the ridicule in the least.

"Minions!" Bellowed Captain sliding down the fire fighter pole followed by Pilot who wore an old firefighter helmet, "Our mission to retrieve zee new citizens shall begin when zee sun wipes the dew from its eyes! But fear not mein delicious crew our journey shall be short!"

Pilot had prepared on a very large hiker's backpack that carried pots and pans near his bed area, Snippy sighed because he recognized that pack as the long distance journey pack. But then again the other back pack straps for the smaller ones were broken, hopefully the only reason for the largest bag was just to substitute for the broken ones, the outside sucked and this place could be looted by hostile wastelanders if they're gone for too long.

Gromov had constructed a pack that could store three red tool boxes a few days earlier, and from what Snippy could see it was ready for use. He sighed, taking the smallest amount of comfort in the fact that the journey was planned for the next day.

"Short journey he said…" Snippy groaned as the squad continued its march across the ice covered wasteland.

Engie stopped and pulled his straps up higher, "Hey look at the bright side… We aren't being chased around by Photoshop, or being made to 'wrap up' winter again."

Snippy gave an exhausted chuckle before cracking his neck, "Sooner we get there to do whatever the better." Zee Captain and Pilot were far ahead of them, those two had started playing a game of tag on the wooden dock waiting for Engie and Snippy as they were being more careful about their surroundings.

Zee Captain and Pilot had managed to somehow convince some Hermit crab pigeons to play a game of hopscotch together; Gromov face palmed nodding his head in disapproval, "Oh God it's like someone put evolution on shuffle…"

Snippy frowned crossing his arms, "Captain where are these 'people' supposed to coming anyway?" The Captain finished his turn at the game and stares at Snippy.

"They're luxury cruise will be arriving shortly Snipster! So do not fret we will have a meeting with our new citizens within zee hour!"

The purple eyed man's words did not bring any comfort to Snippy at all whatsoever, "Well in that case I'll go look for some supplies… away from here… and whatever the heck you two are doing."

He turned his back to Captain and Pilot; Engie had already set himself up at an old café area, working on another contraption from his scrap pile of electronics, "I'll be hunting for some food, you alright here?"

Engie looks up from the pile of electronics, "Yeah I'm good here, be careful Snippy, if you die I'm stuck with these morons forever."

"Very reassuring Gromov." The Sniper held his rifle at the ready just in case anything creepy shows up along the docks, while Engie goes about his work in scrap electronics, not paying attention to the coast as a boat sailed across the water.