Warriors: The New Era.

Chapter Twenty Nine: The Underestimated

This chapter will deal with Berrynose and Cinderheart as they rush in to save their friend and lover. Will they succeed or not?!


Five Minutes Earlier...

Berrynose looked up at the hospital, and gulped "When I asked if I could go on missions with you guys, this wasn't what I had in mind."

"Hey you always said you wanted to be a hero," Jayfeather smirked, eyes glowing "And protecting the getaway van is perfectly heroic."

Berrynose had to stop himself from bragging he was going to rescue Lionblze behind Jayfeather's back, but he had to keep his mission secret.

Likewise, Cinderheart snarled at Jayfeather's sarcastic and rude responses "Don't fuck this up, Jayfeather. My boyfriend and quite possible future husband is in there. If he dies, Fernsong dies."

"Not death," Fernsong corrected "More of a state of bliss. No heaven or hell for me. Just...ceasing to exist. No memory. No body. Nothing. Don't matter what I believe in, I'll be erased from history like a marker on a whiteboard. Like I was never there."

"Gee, thanks for that confidence booster," Poppyfrost unsheathed her sword "Once we get inside, Mapleshade or the Assassin will come after us. Once they are all dealt with, and once we get Lionblaze, we have to get him out of there. Throw him off the roof for all I care. Midnight will be waiting with Berrynose's van along with Half Moon and Hollyleaf. Once Lionblaze is extracted. We all will be told via these earpieces Foxleap made."

"Leave it to that crimson headed maniac to make radios," Berrynose smirked.

Jayfeather hissed "Come on. I'm tired of waiting."

Fernsong flexed his muscles "Let's go save Lionblzae, Uncle Jayfeather."

"I am not your uncle," Jayfeather spat.

Fernsong smirked, and slammed his foot, causing a shockwave of power that could be heard for miles.

BOOM!

Poppyfrost patted Berrynose's shoulder and smirked "Go on. We'll take care of them. Do what I told you to."

Berrynose nodded and circled the building with Cinderheart, as Jayfeather stormed through the front door "COME ON OUT YE BASTARDS! I'LL GUT AND FLAY YOU LIKE FISH AND BUCKS!"

Cinderheart opened her satchel and grabbed a long rope and hook, swinging it around and throwing it high in the air, hoping it latched onto something sturdy. After a few pulls, the rope came loose and flew back down.

"Berrynose, you throw it, you're stronger," Cinderheart handed the rope to Berrynose.

"It's not about strength it's about where it lands," Berrynose remarked "Try again, and hope it latches on to something."

Cinderheart scowled, and swung it again, and sent it flying in the air and watched it hit the top floor and helipad. By some miracle, it hit some fencing that surrounded the landing pad, and gave no signs of coming off.

"Okay, I'll go first I'm lighter, when I get-"

"No we have to go together," Berrynose stated "Time is off the essence."

Cinderheart shrugged "Alright."

She gripped the rope and climbed up, using her upper body strength to climb up the ten stories.

"This remind you of anything?" She smirked, climbing up, as Berrynose followed suit.

Berrynose nodded "Oh, yeah. That manhunt game two years ago. We climbed up Warriors High and made it to the Student Lounge. Fun times."

"If you think about it," Cinderheart said in between huffs "This is just a giant Manhunt game. Mixed with capture the flag."

"That certainly...dumbs it down," Berrynose panted.

The higher they got up, the higher the sun reached the sky. Berrynose felt it's light tough his face, and her turned to see the sun, peeking over the side of the mountain.

Berrynose whistled "Now that's a nice view."

Cinderheart scowled and curled her lip "Ugh...men."

Berrynose looked back up at her and shook his head, blushing and embarrassed beyond belief "No wait, I- I was talking about the Mountain! Really!"

"Sure sure, Let's see what Honeyfern says about it," Cinderheart narrowed her eyes, looking down at Berrynose with a furious wrath.

Berrynose gulped.

When the reached the top, Cinderheart detached the hook and pulled it back into her satchel.

The two entered the door way and tiptoed down the stairs, looking around every corner.

As Berrynose led the way, Cinderheart kept on looking over her shoulder, nervous beyond belief.

"So...who do you think this spy is?" Cinderheart asked.

Berrynose already had an answer "Sparkpelt. No question about it."

"Really, That's unfair, we barely know her," Cinderheart said, trying to defend her sister's lieutenant.

Berrynose turned back and looked at her "Think about you just said. We barely know her. Our friends have proved their loyalty. Sparkpelt has not. She has no commitment to this fight. She can go back to the Court of Miracles anytime she wants. But she stays. I hardly believe your sister and Fernsong need a bodyguard. So why is she here? Conclusion, to keep an eye on something. Or someone"

Cinderheart cannot deny that he made sense "But the same could be said for Fernsong then!"

"He has a purpose," Berrynose replied "He's trying to change the future."

"We all are," Cinderheart huffed "We're all in this together, or we aren't in it at all."

"Precisely," Berrynose scowled.

Cinderheart sighed "My sister is a damn genius. She'll find out. What I want to know, is how did she found out?"

"I can answer that," Berrynose curled his lip "She was told by the assassin. What I don't get is why would the Assassin tell her. Or even why she trusts him! He's holding Lionblaze hostage isn't he?"

Cinderheart shrugged before widing her eyes in what he revaled "Hang on, how did YOU know she found out about the spy?!"

She raised her gun at Berrynose as he turned around again, but rather then a panicked exspression which she expected him to have, he had the most triumphant smirk on his face.

"Because Sparkpelt told me..."


Jayfeather fluttered his eyes open, and groaned, looking around "Ugh, my head."

When he noticed he was no longer in the hospital's hallway, he stood up immediately.

He was in a dark void, and the ground he stood on was invisible. Pure black and darkness surrounded him. The only light was some spotlight shining down on him from God knows where.

"Jayfeather, You've changed."

Jayfeather looked around, wildly "Half Moon?! Where are you?!"

There she stood.

"You let me die. You let them all die."

Her face contorted, shifting uglier and more vile, so much so that she could be mistaken for a zombie, or some other creature from a fevered dream.

Jayfeather jolted awake, suddenly back at the hospital hallway. Fernsong was still on the ground, and Poppyfrost was nowhere to be seen.

He remembered why he was there, and instantly shot up to get to his brother.

He left Fernsong alone.


"The anesthetic room should be here," Berrynose pointed at a door after five minutes of traveling "You ready?"

Cinderheart pulled out a pistol, compensation of Jack Graves and Icecloud. She flipped the safety off, controlling her breathing.

"Let's go."

Berrynose kicked the door open and rose his fists, as Cinderheart aimed her gun wildly around, looking for a target.

Lionblaze was strapped to a gurney, with an IV tube penetrating his arm. The hospital room had two desks leaning against each wall, and small firearms littered the table loosely. He was snoring softly, making it seem like he was just oversleeping.

Cinderheart rushed to the bed, and threw herself on Lionblaze, hugging him tightly "Oh my God, you're alive!"

"C...Cindy?" Lionblaze muttered, his eyes fluttering open.

Berrynose checked the desk full of guns, while Cinderheart feared up "I'm so glad you're okay..."

"Likewise," Lionblzae groaned.

Berrynose curled his lip in confusion "Wait...where is Mapleshade? You don't think-"

"That it's a trap? You should have planned for that," Mapleshade snarled, zooming through the door, leaving behind Pink after images.

Cinderheart drew her gun, and Berrynose grabbed one off the desk, aimed at her.

The sinister woman snarled, and it was not a surprise that she wasn't expecting these two. She had been hoping for Poppyfrost, or the Stranger. Maybe even Jayfeather (she still had a bone to pick with him) and instead...

"Who in the blue hell are you?!" Mapleshade pointed her hand the two of them confused.

The two glanced at each other and then back at Mapleshade.

Lionblaze grinned "Cindy's gonna kill you, Mapleshade…"

Mapleshade smirked, smoothly circling them, as their guns laid fixed on her. They mirrored her steps, as she moved closer and closer to the window, and they closer to the door. Cinderheart pulled Lionblaze's gurney along with them.

"You're not leaving here with him," Mapleshade's eyes glowed pink.

Berrynose scowled.

"It's two on one, Mapleshade, and you're not faster then a speeding bullet. Not on your own anyway. You need some spell to do it."

Mapleshade shrugged "True, true. And it's two on two."

The door was kicked open, and before Cinderheart and Berrynose could turn around, a cold and mechanical voice cried out.

"Don't MoVE. Or HE DieS."

"Don't do it guys!" Breezepelt's voice cried out.

Berrynose looked behind him and aimed the gun at The Assassin, who held Breezepelt in a chokehold, with a gun to his head.

The Assassin raised his brown brow, "Are You dumb? Bulletproof mask, moRON. MapLEShade, HOW did they get hERE?!"

Mapleshade shrugged "I though you were dealing with the intruders."

Berrynose growled "How did you get him?"

"You're friends surrendered when a held Sparkpelt at gunpoint. Dovewing and Ivypool are tied up in the lobby, along with Fernsong and Poppyfrost. I left Jayfeather alone, bcause well why not? I enjoy challenges."

Cinderheart's gun was still trained on Mapleshade "You shoot Breezepelt, I'll shoot her."

Mapleshade laughed villainously.

"Go ahead she's a pawn," The Assassin snarled, his voice becoming more clear, as his gun aimed at a new target "Better yet, allow me."

BANG!

Mapleshade's laughter was cut short as the bullet went through her left eyeball, exploding into blood and other substances. She took sharp convulsing gasps, and stumbled back tripping on her feet and out the open window.

The Assassin laughed, the voice becoming more demonic and robotic in his warbles "I have been waiting to do that for TWO YEARS! Not as slow and painful as I would have hoped, but I guess you can't get everything!"

Cinderheart gasped as she slowly turned around.

The Mechancical Assassin stared back with one good eye revealed through a crack in the mask.

"Sorry about that. I know she was an ally and all, and I could have killed her later, but I simplycannot allow anyone to have a position of power over me," The Assassin snarled "Hope you understand. Never again."

"Who the fuck are you?" Cinderheart asked.

The Assassin chuckled.

Breezepelt scowled "Come on and shoot me then! They're not gonna give up, and once you shoot me, you have nowhere to hide behind."

The Assassin realized this and growled.

"Idiot, can't even kill an ex high school bully and you call yourself an assassin?"

"The day isn't over yet," The Assassin threatened, pointing his gun back at his neck.

Berrynose scowled "You think you're so smart. It's only a matter of time before we find out who you are."

"I already did. Isn't it obvious?" a new voice came out, before The Assassin was pushed back into the hallway by an unforeseen force.

Jayfeather stood at the end of the hallway, pulling the assassin close to him as his eyes erupted in rage.

"Isn't that right, Alderheart?"

The Assassin stopped moving as Jayfeather's anger calmed down. He held his hands up in smug surprise, as he shrugged "It was obvious. I haven't recognized the voice yet, but your eye, your behavior, the slight hints you've dropped. It was obvious."

The Assassin held his hand up, as he revealed a grenade in his hand.

"Alderheart is dead."

He pulled the pin on the grenade, becoming enveloped in smoke.

Jayfeather's eyes glowed blue and the smoke parted into two directions, but the Assassin was already gone.

"Damn!" Jayfeather growled "He got away."

Berrynose checked the open window behind him, half expecting Mapleshade's body to be gone, but surprisingly, it was still there.

"Well that's the end of her."

"We lost!" Jayfeather snarled.

Cinderheart looked at the half-asleep Lionblaze "Well...not a full loss."


Lionblaze was brought back home, with no complications.

Jayfeather seemed to be in a more happy mood, not being his recently aggressive and asshole like persona, being kinder on the ride home.

"Alderheart…" Poppyfrost sighed "I should have guessed it. I should have fucking guessed it."

"But-but he was in in Pinewodd sanitorium!" Sparkpelt almost screamed "I went there last week! To check on his progress!"

Jayfeather rested a hand on her shoulder "Sparkpelt, no one would like to think Alderheart is not capable of being this monster more then us. But we have to take the evidence we have into consideration. He knew our names, he had a brown eye, and he SHOT Mapleshade! Who put him in said coma!"

"NO! I refuse to believe it!" Sparkpelt hissed.

As the group arrived home, everyone stayed silent, helping a recovering Lionblaze get through the door, as the rest of the household celebrated. Poppyfrost grabbed Berrynose and Cinderheart by the arm, and kept them from entering.

"What is it?" Berrynose asked.

"You two are off the list," Poppyfrost scowled.

They froze.

"Wh-what list?" Cinderheart asked.

"The suspected spy list," Poppyfrost walked past them seemingly done with the conversation.

Berrynose however was not "Wait what do you mean?! Why are we? Why are we all of a sudden not suspects anymore?!"

"Didn't you find it odd, that The Assassin immediately went to the sewers after he beat me to the ground? How he knew EXACTLY where Sparkpelt and Icecloud were camping out?! He knew our every move and where we would be, except for You two. He NEVER checked the helipad. So the spy must not have know about that part, or decidied to omit it. Granted if the spy did omit said plan, then they would have had to have known in the first place. And I have been keeping a keen eye on you two ever since I told you the plan. I placed bugs in your phones, recorded your routines, I had eyes on You two 24/7! You guys, NEVER did any thing suspicious or texted any random number a plan!"

"Wait, you were WATCHING US?!" Cinderheart asked "I though you would trsut me, YOUR SISTER! I get it if it was Berrynose but-"

"Hey what is that supposed to mean!" Berrynose growled.

Poppyfrost glared at both of them, immediately making them shut up "The reason I couldn't have done this to everyone, is that Foxleap would only make me so much stuff before he gets suspicious. I cannot allow him to get paranoid if he was said spy! I have to keep my eyes fixed on two people, while everyone else eludes me."

"That's a shitty plan," Berrynose asked.

"But now that I've cleared you two off the list, you two could be my eyes and ears," Poppyfrost triumphantly declared "You two can check everyone and be my little agents. It's only a matter of time before we find the spy now."

Berrynose widened his eyes.

Nevermind, it was a great plan.

"Actually, I might have a suspect."


DUN DUN DUN! The plot thickens!

Now that Poppyfrost has two new agents, the spy is skating on thin ice! Let's see how long he or she lasts.

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Adios.