The trio looked at Aaron confused.
"What's Maryland?" Humphrey asked. Aaron sighed.
"Maryland is a state, just like Idaho. Exept its a little further south and ALOT further east, but it's a good place nonetheless." Aaron explained. They nodded.
"Exactly how far away is it?" Kate asked.
"Not far, just a couple thousand miles." he replied confidently. Humphrey's, Garth's, and Kate's jaws dropped.
"A couple THOUSAND miles?" They asked making sure they had heard him correctly. Aaron nodded.
"So you expect us to walk all the way to Maryland to start a pack? I think we'll just stick with Idaho." Kate said. Aaron grinned at them.
"Who said anything about walking." Aaron said. The trio looked at each other confused. Aaron rolled his eyes. "Just follow me, I'll explain on the way to my den" Aaron sighed. Humphrey looked shocked.
"YOU have a den?" Humphrey asked. Aaron looked him weirdly. "it's just, I never saw you find one" He added.
"Well where did you think I slept, in a tree? Hell no, I found a den SECONDS after I joined this pack." Aaron said. "Anyway, I have a few things that you guys might find... Interesting."
After walking for about five minutes, they came across a small den that was hidden behind some foliage.
"Watch your step, there's some shrapnel here, and don't ask me how it got here" Aaron warned. They carefully stepped over a spread-out pile of metal shards and gasped when they saw the interior of the den.
The den was large, not extremely large, but large. There were piles and piles of different items; which seemed to be pushed off to the side. The "main room" was dominated by a stack of papers, a small line of five silver and black boxes, 3 crates, and what appeared to be a rusty Gateway G6250... Or at least that's what it said on the tag that was plastered on the front.
"Where did you get all of this stuff?" Garth asked looking around the area. Aaron shrugged.
"When hunters leave their camps, I come for their stuff, whatever I found that seemed 'useful' or 'looked cool' I brought here, and the things that I know how to use are out here, while the unknowns are overthere in the back." Aaron explained as he walked to the pile of papers. The three wolves looked around at the various items. In a miscellaneous pile (at least that's what they called it, it had random items in it). Humphrey was looking at the small boxes and found that most of them had the word 'Cannon' printed across a smaller rectangle on the side.
"Aaah, I found it" Aaron said with his voice slightly muffled walking back to the wolves with a folded paper in his mouth. He unfolded the paper to reveal a map of... Something. He circled his paw around the map. "This is a map of The Town of Blair" he stated.
"Blair?" Humphrey asked. Aaron nodded.
"This is where I was talking about, if you go to Maryland, then you have to go to Blair. It's acres of solid woodland and forest. What's not forest is either dirt, rock, or water. But the best part is that there isn't a hunting season there. So you don't have to worry about getting shot while you're trying to take a piss, if you get my drift" Aaron said.
"No hunters?" she asked. Aaron smiled and nodded. "No hunters"
"Well, that was enough for me, since we have a map now, let's go" Humphrey stated. Kate and Garth agreed. Aaron saw them walking away and quickly blocked them.
"Wait, first I need you to do me a favor" he said. The trio looked at him.
"What is it?" Garth asked. Aaron motioned for them to follow him. He led them the five "boxes".
"I want you to use these camcorders to record what Maryland is like" Aaron said motioning towards the boxes.
"What's a 'camcorder'?" Humphrey asked. Aaron reached down and grabbed one of the boxes with his mouth and set it down in front of them.
"THIS is a camcorder" Aaron said pointing towards the box. He pressed a square on top and opened a "flap" on the side. There was a small chime that echoed from the "camcorder" and one side of the flap showed an image of what the 'camcorder' was facing. "A camcorder records what it sees and saves it so you can watch it anytime." Aaron tapped on the black circle and the screen showed his his paw tapping it. "That's the 'eye' of the camcorder, what let's it 'see'." they nodded in understanding.
"Ok, so you want us to record our trip to Maryland so we all could show our pups it in, let's say... 2 years?" Kate asked. Aaron simply nodded and she smiled. Her smile quickly vanished as she realized something. "I'm in, but there's a problem: how will we hold it? We need our paws to walk so how can we hold it up?" Kate asked. Aaron thought for a moment, grinned, and ran to the pile of miscellaneous items and dragged back a pile of intertwined straps with a smile on his face.
After about 10 minutes Humphrey, Kate, and Garth were wearing a crude "harness" that held the camcorders next to their shoulders. For the next hour, Aaron taught Kate how to read the map while Humphrey and Garth messed with their camcorders. Aaron saw this and dragged another gray box to Humphrey, who looked at confused. "You're an omega who cheers people up right?" Humphrey nodded "Alright, well this is a radio, it plays music anytime you want, this knob controls loudness, while this one controls which song you want to hear, this is super-effective against that dreaded akward silence" Aaron explained. Humphrey nodded as Kate and Garth gotup.
"When you want to record, just tap the side and wait for the red light to come on." Aaron explained "the way the button arrangement is, tapping on the screen should activate record, and tapping it again should deactivate it." They all nodded at him and started to walk away. "Alright, since your going to Maryland instead of Idaho you'll have to wait for the 'Outland Express' to come instead of the 'Canadian Express'... Oh, and remember that you can record whatever you want on the camcorder, just know that eventually we'll all see it." Aaron yelled as the trio left his den and made their way to the train tracks.
They waited patiently as the Canadian express passed. And hour later another train came. They could tell it was different just by the sound, which was a low roar. Immediately a blue and yellow diesel training thundered by. The words "Outland Express" printed on the side in bold, white letters. They began to run after an open car and jumped in.
Kate and Garth lied down to try and get some rest when all of a sudden, Humphrey began talking to himself.
"Well hello, this is Day number 1 of our trip to Maryland. It's about... 5 o'clock at night" he turned to Kate, who saw his record light on. She pretended to sleep as he zoomed in on Kate and stayed, causing her to feel uneasy, she finally opened her eyes to see a grinning Humphrey, "Kate, I'm not an idiot, I'm pretty sure I can tell who's asleep and who isn't" he turned to Garth "see, he's out like a light" Kate giggled as Humphrey pointed the camera at Garth and whispered "The camera peers into your soul Garth, and it doesn't like what it sees" Humphrey chuckled and shut off the camcorder. He lied down next to Kate and nuzzled her affectionately. They both fell asleep just as the Outland Express entered North Dakota and headed east toward Maryland.
Alright, ch2: done! Ch3 is where the weird shit starts, BE PREPARED