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.

28. Surveillance

As always the standard disclaimer applies: 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 28:

28 – SURVEILLANCE

As you may remember when XL-Jack-3 had realized that Metramegopolis had taken off and flown away he had assigned a pair of his top scouts to follow and find the city. They had done just that, and fairly efficiently too. Obviously they didn't find the city at once; it had gotten a big head start on them, but, reasoning that such a large structure would not be very maneuverable on short notice, they decided that if they traveled due east from the spot where the city had taken off they would eventually catch up with it. They were right, although it was many days before they actually managed to reach the city. They had to follow the city on flying one-man scooters, neither of which were very fast and which were also fairly primitive, making them less maneuverable than they should have been.

Somewhat primitive technology was a chronic problem for the Marauders. The nomadic lifestyle that most of them led made it difficult to have sustained scientific development. XL-Jack-3 was quite aware of this problem, but since his mind was geared more toward destruction than creation it didn't bother him much. Most of the technology the Marauders possessed was stolen from their victims, and this included the vehicles the two Marauder scouts used to follow Metramegopolis. Not that they weren't functional, they just weren't state of the art. However they did enable the scouts to follow the city and, after the delay caused by the age of the machines, the scouts did indeed catch up to their quarry.

As soon as they sighted Metramegopolis the two scouts sent a message back west to XL-Jack-3. His first reply was simply to keep the city in view but to do nothing and, above all else, to not be seen. The scouts spent the next couple of weeks doing just that while awaiting orders from home. When the orders finally did come they were somewhat unexpected. They were told to stay where they were, do nothing more than they were already doing, and brief the two reinforcements who were coming. The scouts didn't have a problem with that, but were puzzled as to what the plan was.

XL-Jack-3 did have a plan and he was now moving with deliberation to carry it out. If the plan succeeded it would certainly cripple the city beyond hope of recovery. Then his troops would be able to move in and mop up the survivors.

(To Be Continued)

A/N - This Chapter is so short I'm posting another one along with it.