Nocturnal Vengeance

By: Wordsworth 13

Rating: K+

Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro

Special Thanks: Hamstarz12, sparkleshine101 and cappyandpashy4ever! You will be glad to hear I have thrown away my entire stock of sulphuric acid, but don't cross me; I've still got the rat's poison! Beware of muffins bearing my name!

Chapter 5: Random Death

"Well, it's kinda weird, but I think it could work!" Pashmina said. She, Sandy, Penelope, Bijou and Hamtaro were stood in a circle, discussing their current situation. "Yeah," Sandy agreed, automatically taking the side of Maxwell's ingenious, if not random, plan "but, like, how are we s'posed to do that out here?" she went on "This place is, like, totally empty!"

"We could use zat phone to bash our 'eads in." Bijou suggested "We wouldn't feel a sing."

"Wouldn't feel a thing? What about the invisible meteors!" Hamtaro yelled. Everyone remembered their original 'wake up Hamtaro' tactics and laughed nervously. Pashmina's ears pricked "Huh, what's that noise?" she said

"Hey yeah, I hear it too!" Sandy said "It's kind of a scratching sound, like shuffling hamster feet!" Everyone was confused. Then in the middle of their circle sand started to fly up in clouds "Diggi-diggi! Diggi-diggi!" Came a familiar, deep voice. A beige head with a black muzzle and ears popped up "Boss!" everyone exclaimed. "Hey guys," he said, pulling himself up, out of the hole, soon more sand was thrown up, along with more familiar faces. Howdy, Dexter, Cappy and Panda, had apparently all been helping Boss to dig. Everyone, now that the hole was decent size, could see they'd been digging from some way away like a tunnel, and that under less than an inch of sand (A proper inch, not a hamster inch.) was a dry, course soil like that of a barren wasteland. This was what Boss had dug through. All of a sudden there was a slight and strange cracking noise. "Wha?" Boss said in confusion, then looked down to see the weight of him and four other hamsters was cracking the floor, "Everybody out!" He yelled scrambling up the walls of his shallow pit. Hamtaro pulled him up, he was relieved to see that the others had managed to climb out, especially when he was the floor of the pit crumble to reveal a deep, black pit.

"Whoa!" Howdy exclaimed "I sure as heck didn't dig that! Get it? Dig!" He let out an overzealous laugh that was possibly made more or less crazy by his western accent, everyone sweated anime style, their eyes reduced to dots in an expression that clearly meant: 'What the hell are you on about, you mad git?' "What? I think it's funny, somebody should put that on the internet!" He let out another super villain style laugh. "Hey, does anyone know where we are?" Boss asked. Hamtaro explained the situation "So we're dreaming, and the only way to stop is to kick the bucket?" Boss asked "Yeah, but only in the dream." Hamtaro said, confirming Boss' statement. Dexter knelt down next to the hole "How deep do you think this is anyway?" he asked. Panda picked up a small round, grey pebble, and dropped it down the hole. He tried to listen to it's landing, but he couldn't hear a thing. "I think it's deep." He said.

Oxnard and Stan however, on the other side of the desert, no longer with the guidance of Maxwell's impressive I.Q. were absolutely clueless. This is when a small round, grey pebble fell from the sky, and just as it was about to hit Oxnard Square on top of his head he vanished, in a cloud of purple smoke. "What?" Stan yelled "Oxy you can't just leave me here!"

Meanwhile, back at the hole Howdy and Boss were peering over the edge, when out of the blue, the sand began to slip. Hamtaro tried to snatch Boss' paw but wasn't fast enough. The eight hamsters could only watch as their two friends tumbled into the blackness, followed by a thin plume of violet smoke. Hamtaro tried to think of thing that could make purple smoke at the bottom of the hole. The list was as follows: Purple lava, Purple acid and a Purple paper shredder. It seemed unlikely that these would be in the middle of the desert, so Hamtaro just decided not to worry about it.

"Come on, you can't just leave me out here! You can't leave me alone! This is an injustice, an injustice I say!" Stan was screaming at the top of his voice. Then his ears twitched as he heard an odd sound, kind of like screaming. He looked up and his eyes widened, as he saw a large cream and black field hamster, along with an annoying brown supermarket worker falling from the sky. The three disappeared in a thick plume of smoke before the falling hams even hit the ground.

"Today just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Hamtaro said peering down the hole Boss and Howdy had just fallen down. "Still, it's nice to have a break from Howdy's phenomenally dire sense of humour." Dexter remarked, and though most of the Ham Hams didn't catch a word of that, if they'd know what it meant they would have had to agree. Then there came a loud screech that you or I might recognise from earlier in this tale, and that the Ham Hams had heard before, but never at such a volume. Hamtaro looked up and blue fear lines appeared across his face, him sweating anime style. "Run!" He screamed, and his fellow hams didn't need to be told twice, they all began scurrying to the east, though to them it was slightly forward and right. If you haven't figured it out already, a huge crow with ruffled yet glistening feather was chasing them across the desert sands. Suddenly Dexter stopped, turning to Cappy who was next to him "Wait," he said slowly "aren't we supposed to get killed!"

"Oh yeah," Cappy replied, everyone else was wondering why they were standing still, but had already leapt into a small pile of reddish, sandy coloured rocks that could be recognised as a rather odd looking and somewhat unstable looking cave. "What are they doing!" Panda whispered through a panicky voice and gritted teeth.

"I don't know…" Hamtaro replied slowly, also through gritted teeth.

"Look out you guys!" Pashmina cried

"Hmm," Dexter said, turning his head, but it was too late, as he and Cappy turned to face the others, the gargantuan crow landed and went at them with its mighty black beak, and just when it was closing it on them, looks of shock and terror on their faces, they vanished into thin air, leaving behind nothing but a cloud of dark lavender smoke. "Huh, what happened to them?" Panda asked loudly.

"I dunno," Hamtaro said "hey! Maybe they disappeared 'cause in dreams, you wake up before you bite the dust! That means they woke up, right?"

"I sink so," Bijou reassured him,

"Hey wait, Hamtaro, since when do you, like, say stuff like bite the dust?" Sandy asked. Hamtaro's expression became more of slight unhappiness then of query. "Well, I uh," his voice had hushed to a whisper "I didn't want to use the, uh," his voice became even quieter "D-word."

"Oh," Sandy said as if that were perfectly normal "you didn't want to bring up death!"

Hamtaro looked confused and said "Oh, yeah, that's it, I didn't want to bring up death, 'cause I'm such a wimp." He crawled into a corner and began sucking his thumb in a foetal position. "Uh, guys," Bijou stammered "Is it me; or is 'Amtaro acting strange." Everyone gave Hamtaro a confused look but thought nothing of it. "The weirdness of the situation's probably just getting to him." Sandy said reassuringly.

"Yeah, I guess so," Bijou said.

Woo, scary eh, what's up with Hamtaro? Anyway please read and review, also, tell me if I'm overstepping the K+ rating. I really need to know. Thanks.