Metal Meltdown

author's note,

Well, here's the next chapter! Special thanks to Waterlillyx, tytoon, Phoenix Reece, xXMethereaperXx, Neon's Wrath, and DeepDarkDebt09 for reviewing! So thanks, and enjoy the chapter!

In Francis and Neon's safehouse

"What do you mean, we have a problem?" Francis asked the Nutty. Nutty led Francis to a small hole in the bark of the tree.

"They're here!" Nutty exclaimed, causing everyone to freeze in fear.

"You mean..." Francis began, but instead looked through the hole to find out for himself. Outside was a rather large group of creatures, searching the area around the tree. Francis turned away, his eyes full of fear as he glanced over to his injured sister resting on a nearby couch.

"They won't find us, will they?" Nutty asked, his whole body starting to shake with fear. Just then a loud scratching noise was heard on the outside of the wall. Everyone watched closly as the scratching got louder and louder. Francis looked over to Nutty and Chunky and threw them a few knives. Chunky held the blade, it felt foreign in his hands and he looked back up at Francis.

"Um, I've never used a knife to KILL anything before!" he told the topaz fox, "Except in video games, but still, I'd rather use a gun than a knife in those anyway!" The scratching was getting louder and louder and soon they would break through, so Francis grabbed the knife from Chunky's hand and gave him his gun.

"Don't shoot any of us!" he shouted to the koala as the wall burst open and the creatures began to pour in. Chunky held the gun awkwardly in his hand as he tried to aim it at the oncoming beasts. He closed his eyes and pulled the trigger. The bullet flew through the air and just barely hit Nutty, who was blindly swinging his knife at the snapping jaws of the creatures.

"Hey! Watch it!" he shout to Chunky who scratched his head nervously with the barrel of the gun. Francis turned to see the koala pointing the barrel at himself.

"What are you doing?!" he screamed which made Chunky accidentally jump and pull the trigger. The bullet flew through the air and ricocheted off several walls before hitting Petunia in the arm.

"Ow! Damn it! Chunky!" she yelled as blood started to flow from her arm. Neon, who was supposedly resting gave off a quick smirk as Flaky ran over to help the blue skunk. The whole place was utter chaos as the four fought off the creatures as best as they could. Finally Crack had enough, he took a quick swig of vodka, and blew the liquor into his lighter, causing a large fireball to engulf several of the creatures and set even more on fire. Crack stood triumphantly as he watched the last few fall to the ground, then he saw several embers start to creep over to the wall of the tree. He ran over to it as fast as he could, but the wall burst into flames before he could stop it and the others watched helplessly as the fire spread to the rest of the tree, causing all of them to run as fast as they could out of the burning death trap. After everyone had gotten out Francis looked around.

"Wait, where's Neon!" he shouted as he stared back into the raging inferno, hoping she wasn't still in there. Then, just as the roof began to collapse, the green fox jumped through the large hole and stood in front of the others, looking almost completely healthy. "Neon?" Francis asked surprised, as the green fox walked up to him.

"I told you," she said smiling deviously, "It wasn't that bad." Everyone gathered around the smoking remains of the tree, their only means of hiding was now burned to the ground.

"Well what are we supposed to do now?" Crack asked, opening another bottle of whisky, he then turned to Chunky, "Wanna drink?" he asked, a wide drunken smile spreading across his face. Chunky looked at the bottle and then at the rabbit, who was staring at him oddly.

"Umm, no thanks..." he replied as he slowly walked over to Petunia.

"Fine! Suit yourself, that's just more for me!" he shouted angrily, as he started to drink from the bottle.

"How can drink at a time like this?" Francis asked, glaring at the rabbit.

"Hey! it's a celebration!" Crack replied, his voice starting to slur as he wobbled over to the topaz fox, "Why don't you have a drink? Relax!" he said as he put his hand on Francis' shoulder. Francis pulled away from the drunken bear and walked over to the dying out embers of the tree.

"I don't know what to do..." he solemnly told the others, as he looked off into the forest, towards Happy Tree Town.

"We survive." Chunky replied, as he and Petunia walked over to the fox's side, followed closely by the others. They began try and find a new shelter, when they heard footsteps nearby...

A few hours earlier...

Rhyme, Mime, Benny and Hollow were walking through the forest, trying to find the other survivors, if any. Benny looked over at Rhyme and noticed a blue music note on the front of his jacket.

"So, are you into music?" Benny asked, trying to break the awkward silence between the four. Rhyme looked over at the bear surprised and smiled.

"Yep! I'm a pretty good singer." he told the bear proudly. Benny then looked over at Mime.

"Haha! And by the looks of it, he's in the circus!" he happily said, trying to bring everyone's spirits up, but Rhyme didn't find it funny at all. Rhyme's eyes widened as memories of his early life as a circus preformer were like, under the rule of those sick circusmen. He remembered them beating him severly as a child for sticking up for his one and only living relative. They treated him like an animal for his entire early life, until he and Mime were finally able to escape. But it was already too late for him, his mental state was already deteriorated, the only thing keeping him going was his younger cousin. But if he were to lose him, he didn't dare think of what he would do... Benny was starting to get worried as the green deer stared at the ground, his mind deep in the dark memories of his past. "Um, hey are you alright?" Benny asked, shaking the deer awake. Rhyme blinked and shook his head of the memories as he looked back at the bear.

"Uh, yeah..." he said scratching his neck, "I'm fine." said as he walked back over to his cousin, watching the trees all around them for any signs of danger. As they continued, they heard a loud screech of tires followed by a crash nearby. They all slowly walked towards the source of the noise, until they came to a car crashed into a tree. Inside was a white bear, rubbing his head from the hard crash and not noticing the black smoke coming from the engine of his car. The four rushed over to help the bear out. Inside the back seat was a red guitar, two devil-like horns coming out of the body beside the neck, and a few amps and other gear. They quickly pulled the coughing bear out and ran just as the car exploded into a firey inferno. They all stared at the fire, happy to have gotten away from it. The white bear sighed and turned to the four who had saved his life.

"Thanks," he said to them, thankful to be alive, "I don't even know how that happened, I was driving and accidentally hit some big red animal." The others looked at him with fear.

"Did you make sure it was dead?" they asked as the bear regained his breath.

"No, why?" he asked as a loud roar was heard behind them. They turned and saw a large creature. It's arms were replaced with large pincers and it had spikes sticking out of it's head. Blood poured from it's mouth as it walked towards them, leaving a trail of red behind it. The five looked at it in fear, non of them had any weapons and there was no where for them to run. The creature walked through the wreckage from the car and accidentally stepped next to the guitar. The vibrations from the heavy creature's steps caused the strings to vibrate, causing sound to eminate from the instrument. The sound, though quiet, caused the monster to scream loudly in fear as it backed away from the frightened tree friends. The white bear looked over to the guitar in wonder as the beast left them.

"What the hell just happened?" Hollow asked as he approached the wreakage. the white bear picked up the guitar and was amazed it was still in partially good shape, aside from some minor burns and chips. The others looked at him curiously. "I don't think I caught your name..." Hollow said, as the bear began to strum the guitar a few times. He then looked up at them.

"My name's Meth."

Back in the ruins of Happy Tree Town

It was turning to nightfall as Ruffy, Aace, Lightning, and Tyler reached the Happy Tree Hospital, only to find all the potential survivors bodies ripped to shreds, torn apart, and eaten by the savage creatures that now plagued the land. The four stared at the bodies in horror and then Ruffy, Aace, and Lightning bowed their heads in sadness.

"What do you suppose happened to them?" Tyler asked, inspecting at the body of a purple beaver, whose arm had been jaggedly ripped from it's socket and had multiple stab wounds on his chest. Suddenly the beaver's eyes shot open and he reached for the orange cat as he gasped for air. "Ahhh! Zombie!" he screamed as he reached for one of the knives in his pocket.

"No, wait!" Ruffy calmly told him as he grabbed the cat's arm, "Toothy? What happened?" The beaver groaned in pain as he tried to sit up, only to fall back to the ground from the intense pain.

"I-I don't know..." Toothy replied as he continued to gasp for breath, wheezing terribly and blood trickled from his mouth as he talked, "I just woke up, and..." he thought for a moment as he tried to remember what had happened, "Flippy killed us." he told them gravely, and each of their hearts sunk.

"Flippy? Or Evil?" Ruffy asked, hoping the bear hadn't completely lost his mind in the chaos.

"It was Evil, but Flippy lost control of him by simply looking at him." Toothy replied, then the four of them looked at him closely.

"Looked at who?" Aace asked, knowing somehow she already knew the answer.

"Me..." a voice called from behind them and they all turned to see the demon who had started all of this, looking down at them from a pile of rubble. They all took out their weapons and got ready for anything, but he simply stared at them, his bright red eyes glowing fiercly in the dark of night. "you don't seriously think you can stand against me do you?" he asked, as a sharp spike pushed it's way out of the palm of his hand, resembling a long, sharp blade. Tyler took out his knife and smiled happily.

"Shut up! Lets fight!" he yelled as he rushed towards the demon, only to be met by the dark green eyes of Evil, staring back at him from beside the demon. "Flippy! You're alright! Wait, nevermind..." he said as he slowly backed away from the green bear.

"You're helping with him?!" Ruffy shouted in disbelief as Evil smiled, showing rows of sharp teeth.

"He was..." the demon replied as he stabbed the green bear. Evil looked down at his chest and saw the spike driven through his chest as blood began to seep through his lips. The four looked at the dying bear in confusion as the demon threw his body aside, and stared staight at them. The demon then shouted loudly to the sky and the darkness behind him lit up with hundreds of red eyes. The four watched the eyes come closer and closer until they all made a break for the forest, their only chance of survival.

"Wait, why are we running?" Tyler asked the others as they reached the border of the forest, "If we die we'll just come back again tomorrow good as new! We should stay back and have a little fun!" he said looking back to the army of red eyes following them.

"Yeah, and when we come back he'll kill us, over and over again." Lightning replied as he motioned the others to run into the forest, "And trust me you don't want that to happen." Tyler looked over and saw a small fire with several dead bodies beside it.

"Ok, I see your point..." he said as he jumped into the thick forest and followed the others...

there it is! sorry if it's kinda confusing, but they may or may not all get into one big group soon (I'm not giving anything away, maybe) so read, review, and enjoy!

Chunky (c) Phoenix Reece

Francis, Neon (c) Neon's Wrath

Crack (c) SANDMAN78308

Ruffy, Clumy (c) DeepDarkDebt09

Aace, Lightning (c) Broken Hearted Bible

Tyler (c) Tytoon

Rhyme (c) Meowth's Toon Dragon

Benny, Hollow (c) HollowxxxFrom Happy Tree

Meth (c) xXMethereaperXx