This is my first fic so please be honest in your reviews and I will try to make the next chapter better

Disclaimer: I do not own Over the Hedge characters or the movie in any way.

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Chapter 1: Waking up

The story begins two weeks after RJ the raccoon was accepted into the family. It was early in the morning and everyone was still asleep. RJ yawned and opened his eyes trying to adjust to the bright sunlight. After his eyes properly adjusted he looked around for a while. He spotted a female possum sleeping upside down on a branch next to a male possum. Shes really pretty. Someone like that would never be interested in me RJ thought noticing a turtle walking up to him coming from the direction of the big screen TV in RJ's room.

"Good morning RJ, I was just about to come over and wake you up" Verne said.

"Good morning Verne" RJ said.

"Remember! Only 240 days left until winter!" Verne announced.

"Enough Verne" RJ said irritated at Verne for counting down the days until winter constantly.

"Go wait by the log while I wake the others up so we can plan the next heist, RJ" Verne ordered.

He leans his back against the log and waited for everyone to get there so they could discuss today's heist. RJ starts to get lost in thought and almost doses off when he was snapped back into reality by a familiar voice.

"Good morning RJ" said a red squirrel rushing up to hug RJ.

"Good morning Hammy" RJ said hugging back.

"Wanna help me find my nuts?" Hammy asked breaking the hug.

"Sure thing Hamilton maybe later!" RJ answered turning to see two others walk up to him and Hammy.

RJ stared at the female possum walking up to him. Wow she has beautiful blue eyes RJ thought staring into Heather's eyes.

"H-hello H-Heather..." RJ stuttered embarrassing himself in front of Heather.

"Morning RJ" said Heather.

"So what's the heist plan for today?" said the male possum standing beside Heather.

"Lets wait for everyone to get here before we start discussing the plan, Ozzie," said RJ.

"Okay" said Ozzie.

Just then an acorn came falling and hit Ozzie on the head. "Mother is that you?" Ozzie said falling to the ground fainting.

Heather closes her eyes and shakes her head in embarrassment. "Dad… it was just an acorn, get up." Said an annoyed Heather.

Ozzie gets back up and looks up at where the acorn dropped from and sees the three porcupine triplets Bucky Spike and Quillo laughing uncontrollably.

"Come down here you kids" said Ozzie disappointed in the porcupine kids.

"Were sorry Ozzie," said Bucky with a sarcastic frown on his face.

As Ozzie was giving the porcupine triplets a lecture a female skunk came up to them and warmly greeted everyone followed by a male cat who also greeted everyone.

"Morning Stella, Tiger" Said all the animals.

"You seem tired my love" Tiger said worriedly to Stella.

"Yeah, well blame those porcupine kids... they kept on poking me with they're quills so i couldn't sleep well" Stella explained yawning.

Two more animals joined the gang one was a male porcupine and the other was a female porcupine both adults.

"Hey there everyone what a super morning it is" said the male porcupine.

"Hi Lou, Penny" said Ozzie who now had a bump on his head where the acorn hit him.

"Jeepers Ozzie, what happened to your head?" asked Penny

"Well the kids dropped an acorn on my head from up in that tree" Ozzie explained.

Penny and Lou looked at Bucky, Quillo, and Spike with disappointment and gives them a lecture.

"Aww, not again uncle Ozzie already gave us a lecture!" said the kids complaining.

"Oh, well, I guess you'll just have to get another one" said Penny.

Penny and Lou where in the middle of their lecture when Verne came back and greeted everybody.

"Good morning everyone" said Verne.

"Morning Verne" everyone said ready to get the heist underway.

"Only 240 more days until winter" Verne said annoying everyone.

"We got it Verne" Ozzie said getting anxious for the heist and irritated at Verne.

"OK looks like everyone is together now, lets discuss the heist plan" RJ said.

RJ then starts to explain what to do on the heist giving roles to all the animals.

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There's the first chapter hoped you liked it please review with any errors that you see and I will make the next chapter better!

I need a love song for later in the story please post this in the reviews or if you prefer to you can email me