After my family's cremation, and eventually returning back to Watership Down, I was given a short time being alone in my burrow. I lay down the urn at the very end of my burrow. Sound of footsteps were around the corner that I looked to see it was Sonya. She didn't appeared angry, but she had a face that she was about ready to discipline a soldier for a certain action.
"Where were you?" she questioned.
"What do you think?" I questioned her back.
"How could you abandoned us, as you had to return back to our world?!" she marched right near towards my face.
"Don't start it with me!" I warned her.
"As a general and leader of the Special Forces, I deman-" I grabbed her hand and held her down to the ground, as I had facing the urn.
"Who do you think is in there? Huh?! WHO?!" I questioned her. "I just lost my family under Shang Tsung's hands! Now he's holding my youngest sister as his and Woundwart's prisoner! You guys could have been there to save them!"
"THOMAS! STAND DOWN!" I turned to see it was Captain Holly ordering me to let her go. I let her go, as Jax came to help her up. "I understand you're angry, but using your anger on your friends would never help you find your sister."
"I'm sorry, Sonya. I just lost my anger." I apologized.
"I'm too. We should have came back to rescue you." she apologized as well.
"Well, you and everyone else stayed behind with the rabbits, so it's safe to say that they would needed protection if something would happened to them."
"Hazel will be making plans to infiltrate Efrafa. We have to meet him outside of the warren, immediately." Jax added.
The four of us headed outside of the warren, where Hazel and the rest of the rabbits and Earthrealm Warriors are present. We all gathered in a circle to hear from Hazel.
"Hazel-rah, what are you planning?" Fiver asked.
"We leave for Efrafa at daybreak and we don't return until we freed Hyzenthlay and anyone else who wishes to leave." Hazel announced, he than became anxious over his leadership role. "How do I convince the others to join me?"
"They'd follow you anywhere." Fiver assured him.
"You proved enough to be leader, Hazel." I assured him as well.
"But are you sure you're up to this?" Fiver than questioned him.
"When they stole our liberty and safety of rabbits and humans from Watership Down and Earth. They may not have wanted a war, but, by Frith, that is what they will get." Hazel answered.
"Very well than. Are we all going to do an full scale attack?" Kung Lao questioned.
"Don't be ridiculous, human! You remember Efrafa!" Captain Holly exclaimed. "Their warren is fully fortified."
"Than we may have to use stealth to free the prisoners." Jade stated.
"Yes. One of us has to go in there." Hazel agreed.
"If anyone's going to to infiltrate Efrafa, it should be me!" Bigwig volunteered.
"It might be better to send someone less threatening, Thlayli." Hazel spoke to him. "Someone who can pass themselves off as a storyteller, or outskirters."
"I agree, this is an operation that will require subtlety and cunning." Blackberry agreed.
Bigwig became annoyed. "But I'm a hot-head, right? When I get out with all those does, you'll see how subtle and cunning Thlayli is!"
"It may not be a bad idea to have Bigwig in there." I couldn't believe what I was saying. Even Bigwig was surprised.
"You decided to go for my plan?" Bigwig smirked.
"Well... not because you volunteering. It's because we have no other choice. The best storyteller is Bluebell, but he has already been to Efrafa, as well as Blackberry. Earthrealm Warriors of course well be easily spotted and killed. Perhaps I could surrender myself just to join my sister as prisoners."
"That's not possible, brother." Captain Holly rejected. "You been to Efrafa too, and you'll suffer worst, as well as Katie."
"What about me?" Hazel suggested if he would go there.
"Hazel-rah!" Captain Holly turned over to him. "You can't go in because you're our leader."
"Holly's right. We don't have much choice, besides if something happens to you, we don't have a leader." Blackberry agreed.
"It's not a good idea, Hazel." Liu Kang agreed also. "You can't just risk yourself being killed because you're their leader."
Perhaps I could join Bigwig.
We turned to see Hanzo emerged from the flames and joined us. "The Outworlders and Quan Chi believed that I'm aiding them by hunting down Earthrealm warriors. Both of me and Bigwig could come up with a good story to fool them and the Efrafans. As well they call me Scorpion."
Hazel listened to Hanzo's point and made up the decision. "Very well than. Bigwig, infiltrate the warren by pretending to be a hlessi along side with Hazno. Once inside, find Hyzenthlay and/or anyone else, who could be trusted in the warren that is a prisoner. I'm sure they can help you organize an escape that will take place tomorrow night."
"Yeah, but as soon as they're out, the Efrafans will be all over them. How will they get away?" Hawkbit questioned.
We than heard Kehaar above us, as he was flying. "That's where our secret weapon comes in." Hazel stated.
Kehaar started to descend, until he crashed landed. Most of us sighed and shook our heads.
"Perfect landing." he dusted himself off from the crash landing. "No need. No one commands the skies quite like Kehaar. Well, that's all the lady gulls say."
"Kehaar, tomorrow night at Frith Down, Bigwig and Hanzo will break out of this other warren with many others. We want you to provide support from above to make sure they can get away." Hazel asked Kehaar for our help once more.
"Hmm. Maybe, let me think about it." From his indecisiveness, he took a moment to think. After a inhale, following with a sigh, he smirked. "Uh... okay, right, I'll do it. I'll do it in one condition."
"And what's that?" Sonya asked.
"Bluebell has to make up an epic story about me, how the amazing and super humble Kehaar saved the rabbits!"
We all looked at Bluebell, if he would tell the story. He nodded lightly for a "yes".
"Bigwig and Hanzo, the rest us will wait for you beneath the Iron Road." Hazel instructed Bigwig, as he nodded his head. "Does that all make sense?"
Bigwig and Hanzo nodded their heads. "I won't let you down Hazel-Rah."
"Right. We can't bring everyone to join us." I spoke. "Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, and Jax. I need you guys to stay behind and watch Strawberry, Clover, and the others."
Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, and Jax were willingly to stay behind to look after them.
"Just be careful Hazel." Clover spoke to Hazel, as the two nodded each other.
"Thomas." I turned over and it was Sonya. "Are you ready for this?"
I nodded firmly. "If it means getting my sister back, yes." After our brief talk, we joined the others to free the does and anyone being held captive in Efrafa.
A young girl opened her eyes to see herself in a dark burrow, utterly alone. The girl was only six years old and never thought that she would been taken from her family. The rock rolled over to see Captain Orchis, General Woundwart and Shang Tsung entered the burrow. The young girl graveled to a corner.
"So... this is the human's younger sister?" Captain Orchis studied her.
"Yes. The sister of your brother's killer." Shang Tsung whispered.
"And you know better not to execute her." General Woundwart warned Orchis.
"Please... let me go." the young girl begged.
"But child... no family will be able to look after you. The world is evil place, luckily Farid found you." Shang Tsung told her.
Farid entered the burrow. "It's true. My fatat saghira (little girl). Your older brother abandoned you. You will enjoy your place here."
The girl sniffled into tears. "Perhaps a fresh air would do you good, and who knows. You'll be able to make new friends."
She was than escorted by an Efrafan buck and one of Outworld's henchmen and brought her outside, where does silflayed. The young girl slowly walked out to see a few backed away from her. Possibility to the fear of humans, the young girl could only do was sit in a corner hedge, alone and cried. She than looked up to see three does were speaking among each other, as they were coming slowly towards her.
"Excuse me, who are you?" the doe spoke was Hyzenthlay asked the human girl.
"Oh." she wiped the tears off from her. "My name is Katie."
"OI! NO ONE GOES NEAR HER!" an Efrafan buck shouted at Hyzenthlay.
"If you care to join us, you're more than welcomed to." Hyzenthlay deify the buck and offered the human girl some company.
"I guess." she stood up and walked with her to two other does nearby. "These are my sisters: Thethuthinnang and Nettle."
"And what's your name?" Thethuthinnang asked the young girl's name.
"Don't talk to her, Thethuthinnang!" Nettle protested. "If the humans see us with her, they'll report us."
"We can't leave this young human child alone." Hyzenthlay refuses. "Alike that we can't abandoned each other."
"My name is Katie." the young girl spoke. "I just wanted to go home, but my parents and my siblings are gone. I have no one." She began to cry once more.
"Here, here now." Thethuthinnang nuzzled the young girl.
"You managed to hold yourself together, when you got your marking." Hyzenthlay recalled. "Do you remember?"
"You told me to think of something happy." Katie remembered.
Hyzenthlay smiled. "That's it. Now you just have to be brave and at a certain time. We'll be free from escape."
Katie gasped. "Escape?" she whispered.
"Yes, but it's best you don't say anything about it. We don't know when we'll find another opportunity." Hyzenthlay answered in a whisper.
"We can't tell her about our plans." Nettle spoke. "Look what happened to us, when a few humans and the outsiders escaped."
"Humans?" Katie questioned.
"Yes, a few humans and outsiders days ago were taken here, but escaped later in the evening." Hyzenthlay told her.
"Was my brother there?" Katie asked.
"Whose your brother, human?" Thethuthinnang asked.
"His name is Thomas." she answered. The does were shocked of the discovery that the young girl is the sister of the escaped human, Thomas.
"I beg your pardon?" Hyzenthlay questioned her.
"My big brother. His name is Thomas. I was worried about him, until mean people took me away." she spoke.
"She's lying." Nettle spoke.
"My big brother is Thomas!" Katie shouted that attracted Efrafan guards nearby. The does became frightened.
"What's going on here?!" the bucks questioned them. The four were silent. "Speak!"
"It's nothing, sir." Hyzenthlay answered. "The young girl was just crying."
The buck looked at Katie, as she shivered a bit. The bucks than went on their way.
"Listen to me very carefully, Katie." Hyzenthlay whispered to the human girl. "Your brother is alive."
"Thomas is alive?"
"Yes. He and a few humans, and outside rabbits escaped last night. I even helped them escape."
Katie than hugged Hyzenthlay that the doe felt a little uncomfortable. However, it didn't stop Katie to hear the good news that Thomas was safe... for now. Hyzenthlay knew that now she and her sisters have to look after The Sister of Thomas.
