New chapter! First in a while.

Unfortunately, my hamham Illuminati died so I stopped working on this. Somehow it made me think of him.

But I'm over it now, so new chapter. I got two new hamhams (not replacements.... Nobody could EVER replace Illuminati!) and my little brother got one. See photos on , my Deviantart gallery, plus a memorial to the dead hammy.

Hamtaro chewed on the bars to the cage. Packa-packa, packa-packa, packa- packa... But he shook his head and looked down to the ham-hams. "Sorry, ham-hams, this carrier's too tough to chew through!" Oxnard, who was around the back, peeked out and nodded. "And I can't find and opening anywhere!" The wired hamster inside peeked his nose through. "It's okay..." "NO! It's not!" Bijou cried, tears forming in her eyes. "It is not, as you say, okay!" His hat slumping down on his face as he stamped forward, Boss nodded in agreement. "Yes!" he said in his big, booming voice. "Bijou is right." He puffed his chest and tapped it with a fist to emphasize his point. "We MUSTN'T give up."

Crash! Boom! Bang! No, that's not the name of an album. (AN- Yes it is.) That's the sound of Kana falling through the window of the broom closet of the laboratory. She picked her body off the ground, checked for wounds, then lifted herself up on an object in the dark room. Kana could barely see before, but the dark made it worse. She pitched her body out the broken window she'd climbe in through and put her hands down to grab Roko's. "Good job, Kana! I knew I could count on you." Roko cried as Kana grabbed her hands. Kana giggled. "No problem." The two girls fell back into a heap as Roko fell through the window, crashing in a corner of the room amid empty, unused test tubes. They stood up and started to walk out of the closet when they heard it, from outside... "Who's there?" A head, an adult, popped into the window and peered at them. The two girls froze, hugging each other tight. "You don't belong in here!" They ran.

And they ran until they were out of sight and panting for breath, but they found a door, slightly ajar. They peered in to see... Hamsters! Hamsters chewing on other hamster's cages, scratching their claws, trying to set the other animals free. Not all the animals were hamsters in the cages, but some were mice, gerbils, and dormice.

One hamster squeaked and pointed, and the hamsters all scuttled from their posts under a bench, when Hamtaro noticed something... "That's Roko! Roko and Kana are here to save us!"

Yeah, it sucked....