Obsession Part 5
Sewer Shenanigans
By Undercover Ham-Ham Lover
[A/N I still don't own Hamtaro or characters, enjoy this long awaited chapter!]
"My seed!" Help me get it back Cappy!"
"Oxnard hey cut it out I don't want to go down there!!!"
"We gotta go and now!"
After very little persuasion, Oxnard forced Cappy into the storm drain along with him to fetch his precious seed. It was only the start of what adventure they were about to experience.
Rolling, tumbling as water rushed below them as they headed down the storm drain that lead to a series of pipes in an old fashioned chase of the seed along a crude water slide.
"Whoa, good thing I am wearing my swimming cap!"
"But I thought hamsters can't swim!"
"Good point, we're about to find out!"
"Whoooooooooooooooa!"
Oxnard and Cappy look down as the pipe leads to the drainage of the sewer, among the mass of other pipes that drain into the river that is the sewer, full of assorted and filthy remains that can only be described as:
"Gross!!!" Oxnard and Cappy replied in unison, as their trip ended and they fell smack dab into an old cardboard box, which seemed to transport paperback books.
As their words echoed slightly down the sewer, a few other creatures can be seen on a few wooden planks, basking in the sewer's dank but warm atmosphere. The "creatures" take it upon themselves to peer onto the new arrivals to their domain and investigate.
A few snarls and growls can be heard deeper down the sewer.
"Oxnard, what on earth was that?"
"I…don't…know and don't want to know, I just want my seed!" Oxnard shivering in fear pulled his ears down over his eyes to cover them.
"I don't like this either, I want to go home! Hamtaro wouldn't be caught dead down here!"
A few more growls get louder and closer.
"Do you realize what you are saying Cappy? We could be dead!"
Oxnard has a slight nervous breakdown and begins to cry for the time being.
"Oxnard…come on quiet down! Whatever is out there will hear us!"
Just then the growls got louder and both ham-hams' fur grew pale as their eyes widened in horror, waiting what could deliver their demise on a silver platter.
Cappy adjusted his eyes slightly while huddling with Oxnard. "Hey Oxnard, look!" Cappy whispers to Oxnard "It seems to be a pair of cats!"
"Cats!" Oxnard yelps nervously, almost causing the cats to look their way.
"Quiet!" Cappy places his paw over Oxnard's mouth "I don't think they can see us yet, but why?"
"Maybe because how far away we are, and this box contains some nice protection from being seen!" Oxnard replied a bit relaxed as he squinted his eyes to adjust to the darkness of the sewer, it seemed this box that they had fortunately fallen into is far too tall for them to be seen through, not directly.
"Let's keep it that way…" Cappy said calmly, relieved at this stroke of luck upon them. "For now we might as well just coast down the sewer, as long as we are here, we're fine."
Oxnard nodded in agreement and slumped back in a corner of the box to rest. "So what do we do till we find my seed?"
"We have to find that too? Oxnard can't we just go? It's just a dumb seed, you can get a new one anytime!" Cappy said a bit enraged but not high enough for the cats to hear him talk.
"Just…just a seed!" Oxnard shouted in rage
"Quiet!" Cappy jumped and covered his mouth once more. "Keep it down or we're cat food!" Oxnard nods and calms down and Cappy releases his paw from Oxnard's face.
"That seed is very important to me Cappy…more important then any other seed or toy that I could ever get…" Oxnard said softly as tears swelled in his eyes and a few ran down his cheeks.
"Why though, what makes it so special?"
"Well it's a long story…I could tell you…"
Cappy looks around at their surroundings, at the other corners of the box and takes a whiff at how bad the sewer smells, causing his stomach to cringe and gives Oxnard a half, grimacing smile "Alright, it seems we have nothing better to do then that…"
"Well…" Oxnard takes a deep breath, nearly gagging on the sewer air before continuing. "It all started…"
The sun had shown greatly and warmly over the scenery. The clouds never seemed fluffier, the hay never felt much nicer, (kush-kush) and that day I was changed forever…
(Bada Bada Bada Bada) I had made my way to this new frontier that I had never been to before, I was used to Kana's house and my cage or the backyard, but never this place with wide open spaces. From once Kana had set me down to take a look around, I found myself in a place she called a farm. It was a paradise among hamsters, the sunflowers were as tall as trees, they were huge and the seeds were plentiful…
"I hate to break up the trip down memory lane Oxnard, but what does this have to do about your seed?" Cappy tapped his foot impatiently on the bottom of the box.
"Oh um I'm getting there Cappy just give me a minute, the thought of all the sunflowers and seeds again is making me hungry…"
(Sweat drop) "Oxnard…the story…"
"Oh right…"
(Ticky ticky ticky) I had walked slowly around when I noticed for the first time her…
My heart stopped and I couldn't breathe, it was strange I never felt like that before besides being around sunflower seeds, the way her hair moved in the wind and how her smile made my fur stand up on it's end…. (Kush-kush kush-kush)
Slowly she walked through the field and past me without noticing me, so I decided to follow her…until…she reached a giant animal!
"What kind of animal was it?"
"It was big, really big and it made a loud noise and scared me away from her, I ran all the way back behind a fence post." Oxnard shivers for a moment "It was a donkey…"
Anyway when I turned back around from the post, she was gone…so I slowly walked to the barn and decided to find a seed or two to feel better, it was safer in there. After awhile of sitting in the hay, and no luck in finding seeds, I decided to perhaps look around somewhere else, that's when I ran into something else…
"So what happened this time?"
"Cappy, I'm getting to it…"
"But did you find any cool hats? Otherwise this story is kind of boring…"
"I'm getting to the good part, I promise…anyway…"
I must have done something in the barn to upset something because I heard a loud noise like a bird but it wasn't as big, that is until I turned around and saw a…
"Chicky-chicky wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" I yelled as I ran as fast as I could away from them, there was like three or five of them I don't know I think I'm not good at numbers. But I ran as fast as my paws could carry me, way out into the sunflower fields. "Come on leave me alone!" I shouted back but it wasn't good enough they kept chasing me and chasing me until. (Bang!) I hit a stem of a sunflower seed, and they had caught up to me, I was trapped, just then…I heard a voice…it was so heavenly…like an angel!
"Hey there! Leave that city boy alone unless you want to try fighting someone with a bigger backbone!"
The chicky-chickies were too scared from this angel and they ran off as fast as their legs could carry them! I was really glad!
"Say are you alright there?" She said in the sweetest tone "Not many hamsters are seen in these parts, especially on this farm…"
"I…um…I'm…"
"So I guess you are the one that girl brought here? I was wondering when you were going to say hi, you ran off like a scared cat last time I saw you."
"I…um…yeah…" I looked down and saw a seed, it must have fell from the sunflower when I ran into it, I leaned over to pick it up.
"Here let me help you there…" She leaned down and our paws met on the sunflower seed, her paw on top of mine, I could feel how warm she was, my paw felt really warm and for a strange reason my face did too… (Kush-kush)
"Thank-q…" I touched her paw a bit longer and looked into her eyes, she seemed to look a bit hot too.
"You…are welcome stranger…my name's Pepper, yours is?"
"Ox…Oxnard…"
"It's nice to meet you Oxnard, would you like me to show you around? Come on I know this whole place like the back of my paw, I know the best places to find seeds and hide and have fun!"
"Sssure…Pepper…" She was still holding my paw and finally she let it go and ran ahead of me, and then I followed her, I placed the seed in my ear for safe keeping as I raced after her and she showed me around. It was a lot of fun, and before long I had to go home and I had to say goodbye to her for then. But time passed and I was able to see her again another time and then when Hamtaro went with me…the seed that I hold is what I have to remember that day because…
"Oxnard, this day was fun…" Pepper said that day as the sun was setting and I was getting ready to go home with Kana that day.
"Yeah, thank-q for making it fun Pepper…" I smiled back at her and she smiled at me, and I took the seed out of my ear and showed it to her. "I didn't eat this seed Pepper, you can have it if you want…"
"Oxnard it's alright, you keep it." She pushed it back to my paws but she kept hers on mine. "Keep it as a momento for your time here on the farm to perhaps think of today and perhaps me…" She seemed a bit hot again, but I felt the same too, our cheeks were both red again, just like the sunset.
"Ok Pepper sure, I'll see you again right?"
"Well Kana is related to Dillon so I think she will be back sometime this summer or next, but in the meantime y'all better not lose that seed or I'll mess you up worse then a chicky-chicky! You promise?"
"Alright Pepper I won't, I promise" I smiled back and I could see a twinkle in her eyes, I felt even warmer as my heart made it harder to think otherwise, and that's when Kana came by and put me back in the cage and I went home.
"So is that why you get all silent and Boss-like when you see Pepper?"
"I…um…don't know what you are talking about Cappy…" Oxnard brushes some sweat away from his nose nervously.
"Ok, so we might as well get the seed back, or Pepper will cream you!" Cappy laughed slightly at that imagery that took place in his mind. Oxnard probably facing a slight dimmer fate then the chicky-chickies that gave him such a hard time that day on the farm, and from how Pepper handles donkeys like Boss told him, Oxnard would be in a bit of trouble.
"But the cats are there" Oxnard takes a closer look on the plank by the cats "Hey!!! MY SEED IS ON THAT!!!"
As if that could be one of the biggest mistakes of his life, causing all of the nature of the sewer to be rocked by his comments. He brought on the fury of what would be a likelihood of their own demise, as the cats sailing the sea of filth now spotted our two ham-intruders and weren't going to take it lying down.
With a few hisses and growls and meows of cat-tongue and a few pounces, one cat made it's way to the box and prepared to strike them. Of course in this scenario it was either sink or swim, but since hamsters couldn't swim they had to take the lesser of two evils, which was interpreted as get the hell out of the box. In a moment's glance both hamsters dived for their lives as they looked onto the cat sharpening its claws on the side of the box like a scratching post, as they tried to combat the current that was pushing them under the water. The one thought that struck in the back of Oxnard's mind was simplistic enough: "Oh my…" followed by a few prayers to never jump in a storm drain first without a type of scuba gear and perhaps something to keep cats at bay.
"Oxnard, ugh what do we do?" Cappy said fighting off the current as much as he could, finding a flimsy piece of wood to take hold and keep surfaced, Oxnard grabbing Cappy's foot and hoisting himself up and holding it as well.
"I don't know Cappy, but I can't leave without the seed!"
"You will die if you go get it now!"
Just then as a fate couldn't make it anymore interesting for the duo, the other cat was by them, conveniently taking its time in awaiting it's delicacies to reach it.
"This is it Oxnard nice knowing you…" Cappy closed his eyes as the other cat raised its paw with its claws extended to send Cappy to that wood chip bed in the sky. Oxnard had a bit of backbone, more of a stirring from within. As some of that adrenaline his body had been saving for such an occasion such as this.
"Nooooooo!" The hamster seemed to lunge at the cat slowly as if time stood still, as he lunged and dug his teeth and claws into the cats limb not being used, causing the cat to cry in pain and concentrate in getting Oxnard off it.
Cappy during this time felt shocked either for the fact Oxnard cared greatly about him or he needed him to get the seed because he feared a fate worse then death, the smack down a la Pepper. After witnessing Sandy's abuse to Stan countlessly, Cappy didn't consider the opposite sex friendlier except Penelope because of her age and immune to such atrocities until she reached the proper age. He didn't understand why Howdy and Dexter would enjoy the trials of winning Pashmina, when it seems Boss would even become speechless whenever Bijou spoke to him, guess he feared for his life too.
As Oxnard kept the cat busy, and the other cat was stuck in the box bobbing and weaving as it was going down like the Titanic on its maiden voyage, Cappy used a spoon he found and paddled the wood stick to the seed. Which had generously from all this commotion, beckoned him closer until he reached it and placed it in his ear for safe keeping. After his mundane task of braving the sewer rapids, and the cat-in-the-box, he hurriedly paddled back to Oxnard who was quite doing well at annoying the cat beyond everything else, as it fidgeted to get it's "dinner" off it's back. "Oxnard! Let's go!"
"Coming Cappy!" With that, after all it's frustration causing it to lose balance, the cat fell into the water as Oxnard jumped off, landing on Cappy almost causing him to lose the seed from his ear. "My seed you did it!" Oxnard nearly was taking out some of Cappy's fur by his ear from the excitement and the adrenaline rush finally wearing off him.
"Watch it that hurt! Ow! Let's go!" Cappy pushed Oxnard off him while he began to cradle his lost treasure. After a few minutes of watching that display, Cappy instructed him to help paddle their crude boat. So they paddled back to safer grounds as their danger was now past them for now as they were looking at many pipes. "Now how do we get out of here?"
"I think this will take awhile…you check that one and I will check this one Cappy…"
"Ok good idea, wow you seem braver all of a sudden I thought you would never think of an idea like this!"
"I changed my mind! Let's stay together!" The adrenaline finally wearing off the ham-ham, returning him to his paranoid state.
"Alright…" Cappy sighs "Which pipe should we check?" Cappy points to a few of them that seem to have light at the end of them.
(Hiff-hiff) "Ew that one smells awful, how about this one?"
"Ok!"
A few hours of searching later…
"Marco…"
"…Polo"
"Marco…"
"…Polo"
"Marco…hey this pipe leads somewhere it looks like the school!"
"Really is that a way out! Hurray Cappy you found a way out!"
Both hamsters climb out and notice something strange about this school, because the playground doesn't seem like a normal one. The ham-hams explore the vacant area.
"Hey where are all the kids and the soccer field? Isn't Kana's friends here?"
"I don't see any teachers or students, what kind of school is this Oxnard?"
"I don't know…" Oxnard looks up from something as he walked under a shadow. "Say Cappy what's a O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E?" Oxnard carefully read letters off the sign.
"I have no idea Ox-" Just then Cappy could hear a few growls behind him and turns around slowly. "Oxnard, I think I know what that means…"
"What?" Oxnard turns around as his face turns pale "Oh that…"
It seems like both Oxnard and Cappy aren't exactly closer then they thought…but the dogs maybe helpful to find their way for them if they don't end up as dinner first...
[A/N Until next time!]