Human, human turtle head coming. Loud turtle head. Human. Human. Afraid. Bad turtle head. Bad.

The bird cooed a few times and seemed to tremble slightly. It hopped from the man's hand to his shoulder, rusting its feathers and pulling its head into its body and nuzzling up into the team's self-proclaimed doctor's collar.

The thick army boots slapped loudly against the tile, reverberating in the thin hallway as the precursor to the booming voice. "Where have you been private!? You were late to roll call!" The newcomer shouted; his helmet shaking madly on his head. "This is highly un-precedent doc; I demand a full report in my office in one hour! Am I understood!?" he snarled coming to a sharp halt in front of his German teammate.

"Not now solider, I'm busy" The Medic said simply as he strolled past him.

"Busy? Doing what!? Another 'science experiment?' Hmm?" He sneered following closely on his heels. "Better not be gutting any more of our teammates for your own sadistic enjoyment!"

The scientist laughed. "Oh please, I haven't done anything of the sort, not as of late I don't think…" he paused. "I was just taking care of some errands." He waved his gloved hand.

"Fine. Carry on." He saluted gruffly and turns to eye the bird under his dusty helmet. "What's wrong with your feathered rat?"

"Nothing, you're scaring him is all." He said shortly, his stride lengthening ever so slightly as he stroked the trembling animal. "Why does he scare you little one?" The doctor whispered while continued to absently stroke the little birds white head.

Turtle head… turtle head hurt bird man. Deep sleep. Bad. Human wake up, good.… but there be two turtle mans… fire red turtle man… water blue turtle mans… two turtle mans… turtle man's loud… to loud… make hurt… hurt bad.

"Good." The American growled, marching in step with his teammate. "I should scare him, if he were say, an eagle, a REAL American bird, then he'd have no reason to fear me." He let out a deep good natured cackle.

The good doctor humored him and laughed along; mumbling softly to himself with a faint smile, "such silly birds."


Authors Note 3: And a wild Soldier appears! ^_^ He and Medic are actually good friends, though Archimedes isn't as fond of him.