Ch 3

Disclaimer:

Me in the vents of Mondomedia's warehouse with a fishing pole: There it is. In a few minutes the rights to Happy Tree Friends will be mine.

*Air duct collapses*

Security looking at me: You again!

Me: Uh oh.

Happy Tree friends is owned by Mondomedia

Shifty POV

14 years ago The Great War ended bringing peace to the world, but the cost to pay for the war was unimaginable. Politicians tried to cover it up for as long as they could but it eventually was found out. In the bustling city of New Metro, crime has spread rampant due to job loss, and high taxes on imports, and the people. Me and my brother have done the best we can to make do. Even if it's illegal.

*brrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnggg*
"Shit! Get to the car!" I yelled as I was escaping out of the bank with a large money sack.

"That damn teller sounded the alarm!" My brother Lifty said. You see, me and my brother work as thieves for hire. Our slogan is "their is nothing we can't steal."

"I thought you tied him up?!" I said dashing to the drivers side.

"I did!"

"Well apparently not!" I yelled as I turned the key in the ignition. The car we were driving was a Chevrolet Series BA Confederate with a dark shade of blue.

We were speeding away from the scene, luckily we weren't being followed.

"Down that street." My brother said

"Is that were our client wants to meet us?" I asked.

"Yeah. Say do you find any of this strange?" I say with a concerned look.

"What do you mean?"

"Firstly, there are no cops following us and secondly our client is bloody fucking Felix." Felix is one of the biggest crime bosses in New Metro. Anything he says is law, if he wanted you dead, you were dead within the hour. "Why would a man with so much wealth and power, want someone like us to do a little bank robbery?" I asked.

"Maybe we are just that good at our job?" Lifty said.

"It's not like he going to be getting a lot. I mean we stole about 3 thousand dollars and he's only getting half. That's nothing compared to the millions he has."

"It was from a specific lock box too. Looks like this is our stop." Lifty said.

"Ok, I'll talk while you change the license plate." Even if there weren't any cops following us, it didn't hurt be to careful. I open my door with the bags of money in hand.

"Hey Felix, you out there?" I yelled.

A shrew dressed in a clean and fancy suit emerged from behind the dumpster.

"Hello Shifty. You got the money?"

"You're not Felix."

"I work for Felix." He said giving me Felix's business card.

I wanted to ask so many questions but I fear if I ask to many the shrew would get to suspicious and run for it, so I only asked one.

"Why does Felix only want the money in that lock box when we could steal from the entire vault?"

The shrew thought for a moment searching for the answer, but his response didn't help.

"I was only sent to retrieve the money. Information about it and its origin was not told to me."

"I see, well here you go." I said dropping one of the bags.

"Thank you, Felix will be very happy." The shrew turned and walked away down a alleyway with the money bag.

I knew something shady was happening behind the scenes but I didn't stress myself over it.

"I'm done with the license plate." My brother said.

"Alright lets go home." Home to us was a 2 bedroom apartment, upon entering the room there was an auburn couch and in front of it on the coffee table was a small radio.

"I'm going to grab a beer you want one?" Lifty asked.

"Sure." I said

I looked to sat down on the couch and turned the radio on to the local news station. Me and my brother were listening for what had to have been an hour. To our surprise their was nothing about the bank we robbed. Felix must have paid them off.

*knock, knock*

my brother and I stared at the door. I slowly got up to look through the peephole, suddenly the door was kicked in. I fell to the floor as a yellow fox and a purple badger with a baseball bat came through the door way, the fox saw me first and kicked me in the stomach.

"Who the hell are you!?" My brother screamed

"You assholes have made a grave mistake stealing from the boss." The fox said.

"What are you talking about, we gave Felix the money?" I groaned.

"Our boss ain't Felix you dip!"

"Vadim wants his god daughters college money back." The badger said. It all made sense now, Vadim was a rival to Felix. That's why Felix sent us to steal from that one lockbox alone.

"Give him the money Lifty." I said.
As Lifty was handing the money to the badger and fox, I grabbed the Luger hidden under the coffee table and shot a couple of rounds into them. As their bodies collapsed to the ground I slowly got up.

"you ok?" I asked my brother.

"Were fucked!"

"No we are not."

"You just shot two of Vadim's men, how are we not!" My brother yelled.

"We will be fine" I said while going through their pockets.

"Oh yeah, what makes you say that."

"Because we are going to leave this city behind." I said grabbing the intruders money. We went to our rooms and grabbed what we could and drove away.

Lifty POV

We have been driving for two days straight taking turns driving while the other sleeps. It was about 8 o'clock at night. There was nothing but road for miles but then I saw a dirt road in the distance.

I don't know what compelled me to make me go down it but I did, curiosity perhaps. After 2 hours of driving I saw a house in the distance maybe the people who live there could offer us a place to sleep for the night.

"Hey Shifty." I said nudging him. He started to stir awake.

"What?" He yawned.

"There is a house in the distance maybe we can stay there till tomorrow morning?"

"Sure."

We got out of the car and walked up the stairs.

*knock, knock*

Within a few minutes we were greeted by a tall moose in a night gown. He seemed confused when he looked at us.

"What are you doing here?" He questioned

"We were hoping that we could have a place to stay for the night" My brother said.

"I guess you got no choice. I'll see if I can find something for you to sleep on." After an hour the moose manage to find a couple hammocks for us to sleep in. Before leaving us he said. "In the morning you might want to talk to Russell about your living situation."

"What do you mean?" I asked

"Well to sum it up you two are stuck here."

My brother went to go in his hammock but then he lost his balance. He spun around in the hammock till his body became a mangled mess.

I was horrified listening to the crunching of his bones.

"We need to get him to a doctor!" I yelled.

"No can do I'm afraid." The moose said.

"I got a car we can get to one if we ignore traffic laws!"

"What's a car?" The moose said even more confused. I wasn't paying attention to the moose I had to try to untangle the hammock. As I was untangling him I heard a clunk and then a bang. I looked to the floor to see the Luger then to my stomach to see blood.

Shifty's Luger must have fallen out and went off. The moose looked over my dying body and said. "Welcome to Happy Tree Town."
Before going up the stairs as my vision went black.

Lumpy POV

The next morning was eventful to say the least. The twins were panicked, Russell explained as to why they were alive and best of all we learned as to what happened to the surrounding world while we were here in our little town.

It is very unfortunate that they are trapped here, but it's good to see new people.

An: Thank you for reading. I do apologize for the delay, I intended for this to be done last Wednesday.