Metal Meltdown

Author's note,

Finally! I updated! sorry for the long delay, i'm a terrible author when it comes to updating... Anyways, Special Thanks goes out TO: Phoenix Reece, waterlillyx, SANDMAN78308, Ragerthewarvet, DeepDarkDebt09, and Neon's Wrath for reviewing! So, here's the new chapter! hope you all like it!

At the door of the fox's house

"Just to let you all know, I still call dibs on the fox." Tyler told the other survivors as they stood outside the building, getting ready for whatever else might be in store for them.

"I guess it's now or never..." Aace said aloud as she slowly opened the large metal door, watching the darkness inside carefully. All the lights were turned off and the whole house looked deserted, but the survivors could see a faint light coming from the basement. "Ok," Aace began, " get ready, let's not do anything stupid." The others surrounded the door, weapons ready, and waited for the porcupine to open the door. Tyler took out two knives from his jacket pocket and held them in each of his hands.

"Hurry up! Let's just do it already!" he said aloud, startling the others.

"Wha? Who's there!" a voice from the basement called out, causing everyone to glare at the orange cat.

"Um... well I guess we don't have to be careful anymore..." he said as he opened the door and charged into the basement, only to be met by the fox's shotgun aimed at him face.

"How did you get in here!" he shouted, his eyes were dark and tired, and his fur looked as though he hadn't slept for days. The others slowly walked down the stairs, watching the fox carefully and trying not to agitate him. Instead of calming, he pumped the shotgun, send an empty casing out as he pressed the gun closer to Tyler's face. "Answer me!" Tyler's eyes were full of fear as he looked into the barrel of the gun.

"Somebody say something!" he shouted as he closed his eyes tightly.

"Look, we're not here to hurt you, we just need a place to stay." Aace told the fox, as she tried to calm him down. The fox looked around at the others, his expression began had seemed to calm down, but he still held the gun to Tyler's head. Tyler looked up at the fox and smirked.

"Don't worry guys, he's not gonna shoot me." the cat told them with a smug smile, "Cause I'm gonna break loose... Right now!" he then tried to push the fox to the ground and take his gun, but instead found himself in a choke hold with the gun aimed at the side of his head. "Well, that didn't work..." he said as he looked around at the others, hoping they had a plan.

"We don't want any problems, just let us go, we won't bother you..." Rhyme said aloud, fearing for his cousin's safety.

"You can't," the fox replied, with my defenses, you're stuck here unless I deactivate them. And if I were to do that..." the fox's voice began to trail off.

"They're destroyed, so just let us go, and we'll leave!" Tyler pleaded. The fox's eyes widened, and his right eye began to twitch.

"...What did you just say?" he asked, a worried look appearing on his face.

"We... destroyed it?" Tyler replied, feeling the fox's grip begin to loosen. The fox stared at the group, wide-eyed, as his shotgun dropped to the ground.

"It's over..." the fox said as he fell to his knees, "I'm not safe... They'll be here any minute... They're watching, they're always watching..." he said as he stared in space, eye wide open and his body shaking.

"Man, you're a little paranoid, aren't ya?" Tyler asked as he stood over his frightened attacker, "Don't worry, I'll be quick." he said as he took out one of his knives and kneeled beside the fox, touching his knife to it's throat. Aace quickly pulled the blade away from the fox's throat.

"What are you doing?!" Tyler cried as she threw the knife to the ground.

"Hey! That was one of my good knives!" Tyler yelled as he picked it up and dusted it off, groaning as he found a small chip in the silver metal. Aace walked to the fox's side and pulled him the his feet. The fox looked stared at her, confused by what was happening.

"Are you sure they'll know?" she asked, the fox solemnly nodded.

"All night, I could see them in the shadows of the trees. Their red eyes shining from the dark. They kept trying to get me, even after many of them died, they never let up. They'd try different things, running as a large group, they tried sneaking through it, they tried to space themselves out... but in the end they'd all die, only to be replaced by more..." The fox began to shiver as he remembered the dead bodies, "Then, other Tree Friends tried to get through..." His eyes grew distant as he remembered the screams of the Tree Friends who had tried to find shelter, only to die from his own creation. "I tried to stop it, but I couldn't... Those things would get me! They almost made it through once, And the only way I could stop the guns would be to turn them off manually..." The fox took a deep breath and continued, his expression showing his extreme grief of the deaths he had caused, "All of the death, it just became too much... I couldn't bare it, and I went a little mad..." Tyler then gave off a sarcastic laugh, interupting the fox and causing many of the others to glare at him. "Okay, maybe I DID take things a little too far..." he replied, looking at Tyler and the others apologetically. Suddenly a loud scream was heard from outside the building, causing the survivors to get themselves ready as many of them headed up the stairs. Aace noticed the fox had instead began to shiver and rock himself back and forth on the ground, muttering quietly to himself. She looked around the large underground basement and got an idea.

"Listen, um..." she couldn't think of the fox's name, she had never seen him before, and he seemed to be quite young to be out here by himself.

"It's Arrow." he replied gruffly, noticing her confused look and wanting simply to be left alone in his last few moments.

"Okay, Arrow," she told him, trying to speak nicely to him, hoping he would be able to help them, "So the only thing that kept you safe were those guns, right?" she asked him, and he looked up at her surprised and curious to why she would ask him that.

"Yeah... Those things couldn't get to me as long as they were working... But they're destroyed... unless..." The fox's eyes widen as he stood up and ran towards one of the numerous piles of scrap metal scattered around the large basement. As Aace watched, the fox pulled out a large metal cylinder from a pile, he had a look of determination on his face as he looked around at the other piles. His eyes turned to a pile of small pieces of scrap, and he looked down at the cylinder in his hands and a smile spread across his face as he sprinted towards the pile. Aace watched the peculiar fox for several seconds before hearing one of the other survivors shout something from outside. She quickly ran up the stairs and saw a blue anteater run from the treeline, a look of terror on his face and he was clutching something close to his chest. The anteater was scrathed up pretty badly, and looked as though he had just recently been attacked. As the other survivors ran to the anteater's side, two large creatures appeared from the treeline. The creatures sprinted towards the anteater with such speed that the survivors wouldn't be able to reach him first. Just as the creatures neared the anteater, two small disk-like objects flew from the forest and cut clean through their necks, killing them, and causing their bodies to fall at the anteater's feet. The survivors ran to his side and watched the dark forest carefully for any other hostiles. The anteater was shaking terribly and in his hands was a dark red leather book. Aace kneeled beside him and studied him carefully.

"Are you alright?" she asked, he didn't seem hurt too badly, but he was noticibly shaken up. He looked up at her and began to say something, before his eyes faded and he fell the the ground.

"Damn it!" Ruffy shouted as the anteater laid motionless on the ground, "Is he dead?"

"No," Meth repiled as he grabbed the anteater's wrist, "he just fainted."

"He must of been through some crazy shit..." Tyler said as he looked at the scratches and cuts across the unconscious anteater's body. Suddenly, Rhyme noticed something moving out of the corner of his eye and turned to see two bears approaching them. Both were dressed in ninja gear and they each had a katana strapped to their backs. They bent down beside the carcasses of the two creatures and picked up two small bladed disks. By now, the other survivors had taken notice to these unknown Tree Friends and some had begun to slowly take out their weapons carefully, as to not threaten the bears.

"We're not here to fight you," the one bear, wearing white ninja gear calmly told them, "you can put away your weapons."

"How can we know we can trust you?" Rhyme asked, as he stepped in front of Mime, to protect him.

"We've been to Happy Tree Town, after it was attacked, and trust us," The other bear, wearing black ninja gear replied, "You're gonna need all the help you can get." The survivors then began to look out to the dark forest, towards Happy Tree Town. The old home to many of them, brought down in one night, one horrible night. They began to get horrific thoughts as to what their once proud town had become, when the bear in the white gear spoke.

"We saw him being chased by those creatures and followed him here." she said as she pointed to the unconcious anteater.

"Hey, isn't that Sniffles?" Ruffy asked as he looked at the anteater's large, but now broken glasses. A loud roar was heard in the forest and the survivor's tensed up.

"Well, lets get him inside." Aace replied as Lightning picked him up and carried him to the building, not seeming to notice the book falling from his arms. Ruffy picked up the book and gasped at the demonic face on the front cover. A memory of the massacre in Happy Tree Town flashed in his mind and he realised the face on the front belonged to the demon who had caused this whole mess in the first place. The memory ended and Aace walked up to him, "What do you think it's for?" she asked, looking at it peculiarly.

"I don't know," he replied as he took one more look at the face and shuddered, "but for Sniffles to keep it, it has to be important."

At the helicopter crash site

Francis looked around at the worried faces of the many survivors. They had lost their hope for survival and were now frightened and confused, he had to do something, and he had to to do it now.

"Everyone," he began gaining everyone's attention, "I know this may look bad, but we can give up now, look how far we've come!" Crack began to glare at the fox.

"Oh yeah! we've come soo far!" the rabbit said sarcastically, "We've been getting lucky! I mean, look at us!" he then pointed to the small group of survivors, "We've come this far becuase we've been on a lucky streak. I mean, what happens when those things start to tear the forest down? huh? We're screwed!" Francis was now starting to become frustrated with the rabbit and slowly approached him.

"So what do you suppose we do then?" he asked. Crack continued to glare at him, then looked away in defeat.

"Guess we're screwed anyway..." the rabbit replied angrily, and Francis continued.

"That message said the army will be coming this way soon-"

"The army won't do shit!" Crack shouted, finally fed up with everything, "Who knows what 's going on back there, those fucking things might be getting bigger and who knows how many there are now!" he then turned to the others, "Nothing can stop them!"

"They don't need to be stopped," Francis replied, "They only need to be suppressed." the others looked at the fox questioningly and he continued. "He's right, we don't know if the army can stop them, but as long as they keep the creatures occupied, even for just a few days, we might be able to find some place safe." The others looked at each other and realised the severity of the situation.

"And, what if the army loses?" Petunia asked fearfully. Francis' somber expression answered her question. The survivors then heard the sound of a large group of creatures moving through the trees near them. The group stood motionless as they listened to the sound of the clawed feet scrap across the forest floor. Suddenly, they heard a faint scream in the distance, towards where the creatures were headed. The scream was slightly high pitched and sounded slightly like a small girl's. The scream sounded familiar to Petunia, but after living in Happy Tree Town for so long, all screams start to sound the same. She thought hard as she tried to remember who the scream belonged to, then it hit her.

"Sniffles!" she shouted, attracting the attention of some of the creatures. Neon took out her knive and shook her head at the skunk.

"Smooth move..." she said sarcastically as several large creatures closed in on the group. These new creaures were noticably larger than the ones before, and fresh blood was dripping from their jagged jaws. The survivors got ready for a fight, when suddenly a small bus hit the creatures and crashed into a small tree. Smoke sprouted from the front of the bus and four Tree Friends exited to look at the damage.

"Well, that doesn't look good..." a gray wolf said as he opened the hood, only to see a cloud of smoke emerge.

"Who cares, that was still fucking awesome!" a brown bear replied.

"Well, what aboot the stuff?" a raccoon asked, pointing to the back of the bus.

"If you want to carry all that shit then be my guest! I for one don't see the point of hauling an amp stack around during the apocalypse!" the wolf replied.

"Where's the fucking roadie when you need him!" the bear shouted, looking around and noticing the group of survivors. He nudged the other three and they looked over to the dumbfounded suvivors.

"How's it going, eh?" the raccoon shouted as he began to approach them, only to be held back by the wolf, who whispered into his ear. The raccoon nodded and turned back to the group of confused survivors. "Um... you guys are... um... sane right?" he asked them, pulling out a shotgun from behind his back. The survivors all nodded their heads as the other other three Tree Friends took out shotguns of their own and began to approach them. The wolf walked ahead of the others, eyeing each of the survivors carefully as he approached them. Suddenly, one of the creatures that they thought they had killed knocked the wolf to the ground and began to claw at his chest furiously. The three Tree Friends began to shoot it, which seemed to only make it angrier. It turned from the bloody wolf and eyed the three shotgun weilding Tree Friends closely. Before it had time to attack however, many of the survivors had begun to attack it from behind with their knives, guns, and whatever else they had, trying to bring down the behemoth. The creature screamed loudly as it tried to shake them off it's body, but finally, the numerous stabs and slashes brought it to the ground.

"Holy Shit..." the bear said as he looked into the creatures dead eyes, "We fuckin' did it!" he cheered as he threw his fist in the air. The raccoon then gasped loudly as he saw the body of the wolf on the ground. The survivors rushed to his side and checked on the wolf's pulse.

"H-he's alive," Flaky told the others, "But he's losing alot of..." instead finishing her sentence, she fell to the ground. The massive amount of blood had caused her to faint, and left the group without a medic.

"Shit! Does anyone know first-aid?" Neon asked as she looked around at the others.

"I do..." Petunia replied, looking worried and slightly ashamed.

"Okay then, do something!" Neon shouted at her. Petunia looked at the bleeding body and shook her head.

"I... I can't..."

"What do you mean you can't! He's gonna die!" Neon exclaimed. She was now furious with the skunk and wanted an answer.

"But... There's blood..." Neon couldn't believe it, the wolf was about to die, and Petunia was scared of a little blood?

"Listen, you're going to go over there, and save his fucking life," she told the skunk, noticably annoyed and furious, "Or else we'll need a medic for TWO people. And believe me, you'll look WAY worse than him. Understand?" Petunia looked up at the fox and nodded slowly, the threat had worked and she took several long pieces of fabric and got to work.

There it is. Hope you all liked it, and just a little warning, my school's Mid-term Exams are coming up, so if i don't update for a REALLY LONG TIME... Then either i have REALLY BAD writer's block again, or i have REALLY BAD marks. so, yeah... just thought i'd let you all know... and now, things WILL be getting more metal... filled? so if you were wondering, "well i thought this was METAL Meltdown, not Metal-ish Meltdown: with demons." then don't worry!

Chunky (c) Phoenix Reece

Francis, Neon (c) Neon's Wrath

Crack (c) SANDMAN78308

Ruffy, Clumy, Rocky, Beaty, Speedy, Smashy (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

Frost, Luna (c) jerryassmonkey

Misty, Lucky (c) waterlilyx

Arrow (c) arrow363

Light Shadow, Dark Shadow (c) Bloodshed Gal

If your OC hasn't had their name used yet, i swear i haven't forgotten about it!!

-FF55