Chapter 2

The lumberyard was piled high to the brim with tons and tons of wood. Grunting slightly as he carried one large load of logs to a bigger pile, the large demonic, snake-like experiment named Ranku placed them down, wiping his brow. He had a red gem in the middle of his forehead, beautiful white scales and delicate-looking red wings with rippling muscles. He wore a thick belt around his waist with various…trophies inside. Specifically, bullets he'd made from ice.

Name: Ranku Sunten

Role: Heavy

He was the first one to hear the explosion as a large, rippling burst knocked his hard work through the air and a giggling, insane-looking trog with red eyes and a flak jacket laughed madly at his work from far away.

"Hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa! Hope you all like WOOD CHIPS!" He laughed.

"Leafgreen!" Ranku said angrily as he saw the doctor stand up next to Ehjen the Demoman and the grass-green-eyed Yuni. "You picked the WRONG place to screw with us."

"You obviously think you can match us. There are more of us than there are of you."

"Not for long!" A voice called out. A stun blast clinked off the ground by Leafgreen's foot and a brown, curly/wavy-haired kid holding up two Guncon-styled blaster pistols smirked as he twirled them slightly and leveled them at the doctor. "Hey there, Leafgreen! How's Firered?"

Name: Nick Grey

Role: Soldier

"…ha. HA-HA-HA." The doctor laughed stonily.

"Hey Nick!" Yuni said cheerfully, waving. Nick smiled at her. "Not to rain on your parade, but there's still only two of you." Yuni said.

"THREE."

A claw suddenly placed itself to the right of Yuni's neck and Leafgreen stepped back as a black-scaled dragon with golden crest/spikes running down from his head to the tip of his tale smirked at them all. He had a golden-scaled chest and stomach with a crescent moon insignia of white on the front, dark eyes, and a stylish voice. "There are few things more romantic than a damsel…in distress." He spoke softly, licking the side of her neck, wings wrapping around her as he kissed her cheek tenderly.

"THAT'S ENOUGH." Nick called out.

"Just letting them know I'm a threat." Nightwing said, flapping through the air and letting go of Yuni, who shivered madly as the dragon landed by Nick and Ranku.

BANGA-BANG!

The threesome jumped back as Ewa Lani lowered HER gun. "Keep AWAY from her!" She hissed at Nightwing.

"Easy there, Ewa Lani. Dr. Leafgreen promised us a good fight." The orange-furred Psych said, adjusting his baseball cap as Yenh, Agent 3 and Jenem appeared, standing over a hill to the east. Now the doctor, Yuni and Ehjen stood to the north while Nightwing, Nick and Ranku were to the south.

BA-BOOOOOM!

The trogs from the north shielded their eyes as a log pile exploded into tiny bits, sending them reeling back slightly. Ranku moaned in agony at MORE of his hard work being blasted as the cone-headed David smirked, lowering his grenade launcher and Grey stood up, getting their attention.

"Did you promise them they'd WIN?!" He laughed.

"Hey Grey." Ewa Lani remarked.

"Uh…hi…" Grey said nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Nice one-liner." She complimented.

"Thaaaanks! I just thought it'd be the perfect thing to say." He told her.

"It WAS." She admitted, smiling.

"Helloooooo?! Big fight over lumber yard?" Dr. Leafgreen remarked. "Let's get those verdammnt idiots!"

"Those guys BLEW UP the entire parking lot! INCLUDING my car! I had TWO PAYMENTS LEFT!" Rupert yelled angrily.

"Let's see what they've GOT." Makani remarked.

"ATTICAAAAAA!" Ehjen snickered as he held up HIS grenade launcher.

And so, the fight began! Logs and piles of wood began to be blown apart as everybody scattered around. Psych rushed forward, baseball bat held high as he attempted to take down Makani, who calmly held up a remote and pressed it.

BEEP! A large cannon popped out of the ground and a huge, boxing-glove blast knocked him back, soaring through the air over Grey and Ewa Lani, who were standing head to head.

"Well…I don't…like hitting girls."

"How about you stand still? It's probably the closest the doctor will let you get to touching my body." She offered.

"Say, when we're not trying to, like, beat each other up, how about we go to a movie some-"

Before he could finish, he was yanked away by Agent 3 while Ewa Lani was yanked away by Nighwing. "Hello mah petite." He said, smiling evilly.

"Well look what I've got HERE." Agent 3 laughed cruelly as Grey faced him down.

Psych stood back up, frowning angrily as he saw Makani and Yuni were in the middle of building two VERY LARGE cannons, each one trying to finish and FIRE the cannon at each other before the other could. "I'm gonna take my bat and POPSICLE you!" He snarled, reaching for his cap.

He lifted it up and blinked at the sight of Rupert sitting in it.

"Hello." Rupert said before he whacked Psych square in the nose.

"OWWWWW!" Psych yelled, holding his nose as the baseball cap fell to the ground. He snarled and picked it up again, fist raised. "I'm gonna-"

Rupe was GONE. Psych blinked. "Where'd you go?!"

"Here." Rupert laughed, popping out of a nearby barrel and waving. "Come and get me!"

Psych ran over to the barrel…but then Rupe popped out of a barrel across from THAT one. "Now I'm here!"

Then he popped out of ANOTHER barrel that was away from THAT one. "Now I'm HERE!"

Then he popped out of the barrel Psych was by, tweaked his nose, and popped back in.

Psych frowned, then got an evil idea and headed over to Ehjen, who was looking around for something to blow up. "Hey Ehjen, can I get your help with something?"

"What with?"

"Ever seen "And Now For Something Completely Different"?"

FIVE SECONDS LATER…

Ehjen grinned as he held up a TNT detonator. He pushed it down and the FIRST barrel exploded. No scream. He held another detonator up and pushed the handle down, making ANOTHER barrel blast apart into chunks. No scream. He held up ANOTHER detonator.

BOOM!

"WAAAA-HOO-HOOO-HOOooooooo…" Rupe went flying over the lumberyard as Psych grinned and slapped hands with Ehjen. "BOOYAH."

BOOOOOOOOM!

They turned around to see Yuni was moaning, her head embedded in a log as Makani clapped his hands free of dust, his towering cannon now completed. Yuni's legs squirmed around uselessly as Makani shrugged.

"Good attempt." He told her, looking at her ALMOST-completed-before-his-cannon. "But really, a Power Pulser is just as effective as a Shockwave Blaster…and takes less time to build."

BA-BOOOOOOOM!

Makani, Psych and Ehjen were blown through the air as Ranku gulped. "SORRY!" He called out to Makani as they all landed in another log pile, making it fall apart. "Ohhhhhhh." He moaned. "The HUMANITY!" He sobbed.

Nick and Dr. Leafgreen had guns pointed directly at each other's heads as a chilling wind blew a tumbleweed by, making the sombreros on their heads wiggle slightly.

"So…I guess we got ourselves a Mexican standoff, don't we?" Nick remarked calmly.

"I suppose we do." The doctor agreed behind his mask.

"My LEGS!" Somebody yelled.

The two narrowed their eyes at each other, then barked out the simultaneous command for their men to meet them where they were. NOW. Everyone crawled, limped and straggled as best they could to their leader's positions as the two lowered their weapons.

"The lumberyard is WRECKED." Nick muttered, looking around. "Mahalo PLENTY."

"Yes, you can't use it." The doctor agreed. "But neither can WE. So…a tie?"

"You started this, doctor. Don't think I will forget that." Nick said. "This place may be wreckage, but it is OUR wrecked, wasted lumberyard. Get out of it, please."

The doctor nodded curtly, then walked down the hill and out of the gates as Nick turned to the others. "Everyone alive?"

"Yeah. We fought not to kill but I don't think those guys are going to hold back the way we were trying to." Grey said, rubbing his head. "I was VERY tempted to snack on Agent 3's innards."

"Keep it under control. Let's get going." Nick said, nodding his head. "Time to head back home."

Back at Leafgreen's Headquarters…

"Well that was f--ing new, we usually win!" Yenh growled, cleaning his Minigun, which he named Jessica.

"I admit…that went…unexpected…" Leafgreen nodded, finished using his Medigun on everyone.

"Is there anything we could try new on the next operation?" Ewa Lani spoke up from the oval table, using a long rod tipped with a cloth, moving it up and down in the barrel of her M82.

"MORE F--ING FIRE!!!" a violet-furred Trog with sunset-orange eyes yelled madly, its fire-proof cat-suit cleaned and raising its flamethrower high in the air.

Name: Tanya

Role: Pyro

"Calm down Tanya, we didn't bring you along because we were worried that you would've set the surrounding forest ablaze…" the doctor warned her, lowering her flamethrower quickly.

"Well EXCUUUSE me! But I was drunk! YOU guys have NO excuse for that failure!" Ehjen blurted with a heavy slur that Winkywoo, the author for this part, cannot transcribe, veering the topic off course.

"Ah! I can't get a f--ing bead on any of those dirtbags cuz you kept blowing the whole f--ing place up!" Ewa snapped, drawing her machete.

"Oy Vey..." Leafgreen slapped his covered face. "QUIET, ALL OF YOU!"

Everybody immediately quieted their mouths…except for a cricket that's somewhere in the room, making chirping noises.

"Where's that go--mn cricket, he's already a Dummkopf…" he growled, not helping calming him down.

"If I find it, I'll squish it with my fists!" Yenh said.

"Danke…now…" Leafgreen smiled under his helmet. "Any suggestions for the next attack I'm proposing?"

"Let's get some fighter planes, and we can stick Yenh on the wing of one of them, and then he'll provide accurate air support!" Tanya laughed, her Pyro Craze finally suppressed.

"Haha, that was funny, but the way he looks, he'll fly right off if the pilot makes a sharp turn, haha…" Leafgreen laughed.

"I RESENT THAT!" Yenh defended himself, pouting…and then sizing himself up.

"Well sir, how about I just fix up a Rainbow cannon, and scare them away with how much of a sissy we've all become?!" Yuni joined in, making everyone laugh.

"Well…with how much Ehjen's been drinking, just get Tanya with her flamethrower, stick his ass by it, and make a B-F-F!" Agent 3 laughed. "BFF meaning Big. F--ing. Flamethrower!"

"HEY!" Ehjen snapped, slamming his beer bottle on the table. "Easy there laddie! I'll let you make jokes, but when they come to my drinking, that's off limits!"

"I couldn't resist…" Agent 3 grinned.

Random Starbucks Shop, Los Angeles of California…

"What's wrong Grey? You've been a bit distant ever since we arrived here…" Ewa Lani, wearing a purple vest, blue tank-top and jeans, leaned forward, worried.

"Well…it's just…" he began, combing his hair from his green/black eyes. "It's hard to love someone who's from a team that happens to be your mortal enemy, you know?"

"Trust me, I know that…" she placed a paw on his. "What? You gonna dump me because of that?"

Grey shook his head, smiling as he took her hand, careful not to scratch her with his claws. "Of course not. Ever heard of Romeo and Juliet? Their families were rivals too."

"But didn't they die in the end?" Ewa asked, looking slightly confused.

"I think we can beat the odds." Grey told her as she and he leaned in, kissing each other gently on the lips.