Soldier of the Ruins
Chapter Two
Author's note
Thanks to Hankforthewin, 64maddness for the reviews. Yay!
Also I forgot to mention that when characters die in this story, they stay dead. And Splendid is not invincible!
Enjoy
Flippy was in the bathroom of the butcher shop, rinsing the blood off his hands. The window was open, letting in a cool breeze. As Flippy finished wiping the blood off, he realized that the buzzing noise he had heard earlier had become louder, and now sounded like a low rumble with a mechanical roar in the background. The noise was starting to annoy Flippy, so he climbed out the window to find the source.
After Flippy had crawled out the window and dusted himself off, he looked around and noticed that other tree friends had also left their homes to find the disturbance. The only person who didn't seem to be bothered by this was Cuddles, who rode past Flippy on his skateboard, listening to his Ipod. Flippy scanned the skies for airplanes but saw nothing in the general area. Flippy glanced towards the horizon, and was shocked to see a formation of large, multiengine aircraft. Flippy glanced towards the forest surrounding the town. Flippy realized that the buzzing was the roar of the engines. Flippy remembered that the treads of tanks made a rumbling noise. Flippy was shocked by his sudden realization that, in about an hour, there would be no Happy Tree Town!
" Oh fuck" Flippy muttered as he ran in to Lumpy's butcher shop. Flippy rushed through the door , grabbed his rifle from the counter, and rushed into the storage room. Flippy climbed the ladder, stepped onto the roof, and fired his rifle into the air. As the residents of the town looked to see were the shot had come from, Flippy pointed to the formation of airplanes. "Look!" Flippy yelled "those bombers are coming to destroy the town!" This announcement was met by gasps and some screaming. "So what do we do?" someone called from the crowd. "Go home" Flippy yelled back. "But only if you have a gun at your house, grab it. Then hide in your basement." Only Disco bear ran away, presumably to his house. "The rest of you, get to the gunstore." This didn't cause the reaction that Flippy wanted. Instead of an organized rush to the gunstore, everyone was pushing in an attempt to reach the store first "Fuck." Flippy said, before climbing off the roof.
When Flippy arrived at the gunstore, he saw that all the windows had been broken, and inside, people were fighting over weapons. Flippy sighed and fired his rifle into the air. As everyone turned to look at Flippy, a dead seagull fell beside him. Flippy glanced at the dead seagull and frowned, then faced the mob. Flippy pointed to Toothy and Russell. "You two," Flippy said. "Take all the guns and put them on that table." As Toothy and Russell collected all the guns, Flippy walked to a wooden door behind the counter and fired his rifle into the lock. Needless to say, this caused everyone to notice that Flippy had gone into the backroom. Flippy walked out of the room as Russell set the last shotgun on the table. Flippy set down two M4s on the table and unslung the Tavor on his back. "Alright, make three lines" Flippy told the crowd. The lines were quickly formed, with Russell passing out shotguns, Toothy passing out rifles, and Flippy giving out handguns. After all the weapons had been passed out, Flippy gave Toothy an M4 and passed the other M4 to Russell. "Yarr…" Russell said as he admired the rifle. Flippy then walked into the backroom and walked out with an RPD, which he handed to Handy. After giving a brief demonstration of how to use and reload the weapons, Flippy decided it was time to hide. "Alright everyone," Flippy said. "Get back to your houses, if you don't have a basement or you don't think you can make it back to your house, follow me. Stay in your basement during the attack, don't try to fight back. When night falls, make your way to the jewelry store if it is destroyed or there are soldiers in the area, head to Lumpy's Butcher shop." Flippy concluded his speech by telling everyone to get home.
Roughly 25minutes later, the bombs started to fall. Some of the residents who were still in the streets were killed almost instantly. At the house Pop and Cub lived, a bomb blew apart the two floors above ground. Two more bombs fell in the same area, the first clearing the rubble while the second penetrated through the hole the first bomb had made, killing Pop, who was reading Woman's weekly in the bathroom, and Cub who was playing with a ball, instantly. Lifty and Shifty were on the far side of town, robbing the bank. When the bombs started to fall, they hid in the bank vault, before the bank took a hit from a bomb. As the bombers dropped the last of their bombs, tanks and APCs rolled out of the forest, flanked by infantry.
A flash of blue shot across the sky and through an APC, Splendid was here! Splendid grabbed the barrel of a tank and ripped the turret off, then used it to smash another tank and some infantry. Now the infantry opened fire on Splendid. He dodged bullet after bullet, until a soldier with a flamethrower began to, literally, fire at him. Splendid fired bright red lasers from his eyes, slicing through the infantry, sending blood everywhere. By now the machine gunners on the APCs had began to shoot at him as well, and a lucky shot caught Splendid in the arm. Splendid roared in pain, and used his laser eyes to slice through the APC. As Splendid destroyed the APC, a rifleman fired off a burst that caught Splendid in the chest, knocking him to the ground. The rifle man walked forward and fired another burst into Splendid's head, sending brains and skull fragments everywhere. The rifleman then turned back to the town in time to see a building topple over. The sound of the tanks firing at the building was deafening, and as the soldier watched, a tank drove over an ice cream truck, killing the frozen occupant.
Oh nose they killed Splendid and Cro-marmot! You bastards! Much longer chapter this time, hope you enjoyed. Also, Splendid had to die to avoid issues later. No flames.