Rudy The Red-Beaked RatBird
Chapter 8
The next day was the reopening of ChewAndSwallow, and the ratbirds knew it. They wanted to have fun on this day by having a ratbird party on the far east side of town, while the humans cheered for their master in the town square. And every ratbird, even Rudy and Ann-Marie, was at the party. Even though Rudy was still made fun of, Ann-Marie kept defending him and saying that he should just ignore it all. "Your beak isn't worthless." she kept saying to him when he felt sad.
But up in the sky, the FLDSMDFR was going crazy, and was just about to release the first sign that it had gone wrong. But the ratbirds didn't know this, and neither did Rudy. As the ratbird party was underway and the chanting of "LOCKWOOD! LOCKWOOD!" could be heard in the distance, everything would go wrong in an instant. And it all started when Danny went a little too far with a joke towards Rudy....
"A beak that glows has no use in the world! It's just stupid!" Danny said at him.
"Yes it does! I must have this thing for a reason!" Rudy countered back.
"Ha ha ha ha, SHOW ME."
"You asked for it!"
And with that, Rudy put on his angry face, aimed it right at Danny, and he shined his beak like never before...POW! A beam of red light was emited from his beak, so powerful that Rudy's body was shot backwards, and his light angled up into the sky, where it hit a cloud and....
...caused it to TURN RED! Then little by little, the entire rest of the sky turned red! All the other ratbirds were terrified, and some of the flock fled quickly, flying so fast that they passed their master in the town square.
"Rudy's Beak! It's EVIL! DANGEROUS!" they said. As the remaining flock, including Rudy, looked up, they saw a huge twister form before their eyes. At this point, the entire rest of the flock fled, and even Ann-Marie was swept up in their haste. But Rudy stayed behind, standing in a frozen daze at what (he believed) he just caused. Suddenly, he was knocked out of it, and flew for his life, trying to escape it.
But the pull of the air in the tornado was too much for him, and he was sucked right in. Rudy tried and tried to flap his wings and fly out, and even tried using the glow of his beak to try and light his way. But since his beak glowed with a red light, it just made it harder to see in the red and yellow tinted insides of the twister. After trying for what seemed like forever, Rudy submited to the air and just let it carry him out to the open top of the twister, just as his master flew in. Rudy quickly flew out and took shelter in the yard of his master, sulking away as the tornado roared through the town. He just wanted it to all go away...
And it did. Just as quickly as it came, it went. Rudy surveyed the town, which was a total mess. But then when he flew back to his swamp, tears came to his eyes. The twister had ripped right through the forest, where it had faded out. But then Rudy saw all the other ratbirds. Staring at him with a look of disaproval.
"Look," He tried to say to them, "I didn't mean to do this, it was all just an..."
But before he could finish, they all just turned on him and flew off.
Rudy knew now. It was his beak that had caused all this destruction. He flew off to his master's lab, where he could be alone. But when he got there, Danny and his ever-present buddies were already sitting on the roof. Rudy tried to sit next to them, but they too just flew off and down into the yard below, where they sat on the edge of a trashcan in which their master was in.
Rudy looked down to them and felt more lonely than ever. It was like he could never show his face in the flock again. What about Ann-Marie? Would she still love him?
As he looked down again, Danny and the other 2 were shooed away by his master's father, but Rudy didn't care. He just curled up into a little ball of fluff on the roof, and cried himself to sleep. His beak was just too diferent. His beak was ruining his life. And now, it ruined everyone else's. And he still cried in his deep sleep, even as the lab beneath him seemed to be vibrating ever so gently, for his master was making another "great invention."
