Humphrey and Lilly were still resting a few minutes later. They weren't alphas, so they weren't used to all the running and exercise they were getting.
Suddenly they heard childlike giggling behind them. They spun around and saw two bear cubs sitting on a log, looking at them.
"Awww," said Lilly at how adorable they looked.
Then one of the bear cubs spoke. "Hey, I know you," it said, pointing at Humphrey.
"You do?" said Humphrey. Then with a start he recognized the little bear cub. It was the same one he had met back when he and Kate were trying to get home to Jasper. "YOU!" he stated, pointing at the cub. 'Oh, this is very bad!' he thought.
"You know this cub?" asked Lilly.
Humphrey never got to answer her because suddenly the two bear cubs looked up behind Humphrey and Lilly and began playfully growling and clapping.
"Oh no," said Humphrey, suspecting the worst. His suspicions were confirmed when he and Lilly looked behind them and found the cub's mother standing up on her hind legs, looking down at them with rage in her eyes. Apparently, she recognized Humphrey too.
"RRROOOAAARRR!"
"Aaaahhh!" Lilly and Humphrey screamed in unison. They turned tail and ran as fast as they could away from the angry momma as four more fully-grown bears appeared behind her and began chasing them.
"Not again," moaned Humphrey as he and Lilly ran for their lives.
Nuka looked on as he and his pack sat in a small clearing, waiting for Humphrey and Lilly to appear.
'It's a shame," thought Nuka to himself as he waited. 'I liked that omega. Oh, well.'
Suddenly, Lance spoke from Nuka's right. "I see movement. Gray and white. They're coming."
"Take them," ordered Nuka. He and his pack ran forward, ready to catch and rip apart the two troublesome wolves.
Just as Lance had said, Humphrey and Lilly came running out of the forest into the clearing. For some reason, they were looking back over their shoulders, so they hadn't even seen him or his pack yet. Nuka grinned evilly. 'All too easy,' he thought as he bounded towards them, claws unsheathed and ready to kill.
A split second later, five angry full-grown grizzly bears emerged from the trees right behind Humphrey and Lilly, chasing after them. Nuka's and his pack's expressions all suddenly switched to horror as they slammed on their breaks and came to an abrupt stop, surprised and terrified at the appearance of the unexpected bears heading right towards them behind Humphrey and Lilly.
Humphrey and Lilly glanced back in front of them and gasped in shock and horror at what they saw. Nuka and his pack were just a few feet in front of them. But it was to late for them to do anything about it. Panicking, they both kept running to try and get past Nuka's pack.
Freaking out, a whole bunch of Nuka's wolves, as well as Lance, turned tail and ran away in different directions away from the approaching bears.
"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!" shouted Lance as he took off into the air away from the scene.
At the same instant, one of the wolves shouted, "ATTACK!" and the rest of Nuka's panicking pack ran forward and attacked the bears, leaping onto them, snarling and biting them continuously. The bears turned their attention away from the escaping Humphrey and Lilly and began fighting back against this new threat, roaring and whacking at the menacing pack of wolves. It was a wild scene of snarls, fighting, and blood.
During the commotion that followed, Humphrey and Lilly were able to zip past Nuka and his pack without much problem.
"Well that worked out better then I expected," said Humphrey half jokingly after they were past the battle.
Lilly grinned and nodded in agreement as they kept running towards the railroad tracks.
Back at the battle, Nuka roared at a bear that was advancing upon him and slashed at its stomach with his claws. Red scratch marks appeared on the bears stomach. It bellowed in pain and rage just as a wolf pounced on its back and bit into its shoulder. The bear swatted the wolf off with a wave of its massive arms and roared at it.
With the bear's attention away from him, Nuka roared as he leapt out of the battle and ran after Humphrey and Lilly towards the railroad tracks. Now he was pissed.
