Metramegopolis, The Flying City

by The New York Bear

This story is a futuristic epic which mixes the Happy Tree Friends with a lot of original characters as they embark on a cross continental journey in the titular city to escape the enemies who would destroy them. Rating is T for now, but may change.

15. Orders

Standard disclaimer: I do not own the Happy Tree Friends; they are the property of Mondo Media. I own only my own characters and this story. Now here's chapter 15:

15 – ORDERS

The moment XL-Jack-3 realized Metramegopolis had taken off he implemented his plan for this specific contingency. Although the Marauder camp was massive in size it was a lot more mobile than it looked. Even as the city reached its top height and went into the fast travel mode the Marauders were quickly dispersing far and wide into an area of ground much greater than that occupied by the city. As Robot had predicted, there was no chance of destroying the Marauders by landing on top of them.

But securing his troops against annihilation was only a small part of what XL-Jack-3 had to do. It didn't change the fact that, once again, Metramegopolis had escaped from his attack and before he could begin a new campaign he would have to find it. Of course it's not possible to hide a city of one hundred million people for very long and he knew that finding the city was only a matter of time, but the longer it took, the more prepared the city would be to face his onslaught. The problem had to be dealt with at once.

XL-Jack-3 was a wily construct and it didn't take more than a nano-second (at most) for him to decide what to do. He quickly summoned his top staff and began issuing orders.

"First things first" he said, and he selected a pair of his top scouts to follow and find the city. "I can't say exactly where they've gone" he told the two of them, "but they were heading east. Their size limits their maneuverability. Head east. Fly high to cover more ground. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding them eventually. You know what to do then." The two scouts, who were also I-class scouts like the one Barry had fought, nodded knowingly. Within minutes they had grabbed a flyer and taken off to try to follow the city. XL-Jack-3 then turned to his other staffers.

"We'll reunite all the bands at once, but we won't head east until we hear from the scouts." He looked at his staff and smiled nastily. "We won't be idle though" he went on "we still have to do a mop-up operation. With a city as big as Metramegopolis there are going to be people who missed the ride. We don't want any threats behind us, so..." His staff didn't need to hear anymore. They knew what was coming and they were looking forward to it. As soon as the meeting ended they summoned back the various parts of the army until they were all assembled again.

XL-Jack-3 rubbed his giant hands together and drew himself up to his full ten meter height.

"All right" he said gleefully, "let's go do some clean up."

(To Be Continued)

A/N - Heh. Bet you thought we were going to get to the massacre part right away. Sorry. You'll have to wait until the next update. Meanwhile how about being a pal and giving me a little feedback? Cheers!