CHAPTER 24: Silver Ships Aren't Called Silver Ships.

Pochola Bier: "one time he... drowned a bunch of animals by flooding an abandoned restaurant in which he had put them all together, and... he was laughing his ass off so hard during the entire thing; even after seeing the little dead animals. He almost died from laughter, he was possessed by it. How could laughter be his reaction to that? How could he have done that to begin with? ...That's when I realized he was born rotten; there was no fixing him, and I wanted nothing more to do with him." –rolls over to Beakins in bed, snuggling up to him-

General Beakins: "he was already a young boy... how doesn't he remember you?" –holds her closely and warmly over his chest-

Pochola: "I don't know, but I'm glad he doesn't" –then they hear someone knocking at their door-

Beakins: "I'm coming!" –rushes down stairs in his pajamas-

Derk Wolf: "It's alright, sir. Take your time"

Beakins: -opens the door- "Sargent Wolf! What are you doing here? I thought you'd be in the city of Blushingrad by now with Admiral Anthony-Lee Walsh. Why hasn't he communicated with me yet, by the way? We need to establish ourselves strongly in that city; it is a crucial strategic point"

Derk: "He sent me off for another mission ...and, I've also been trying to contact him; I think he has gone missing in action, along with the other two wolves he was with. And I'm here to complete my new mission; you got some visitors waiting to talk to you at the tents"

Beakins: "Oh! Hold on! I should get properly dressed real quick"

Derk: "Negative, don't worry about it, sir; I strongly doubt they share our sense of formality"

Beakins: "great, let's go!"

/later at the tents/

Beakins: "...you are... silver ships. Sargent Wolf, those are silver ships; they attacked us numerous times while we were the Avian Rebellion... they were fighting alongside the Magics if I recall correctly..."

Random Nail Clipper: "and we attacked the kingdom too; we attacked them harder, in fact. We are here before you now because we want an alliance, an alliance to help you destroy the remaining magic orb. Also, we'd appreciate you stop calling us silver ships; that's not our name, that's not what we are. This is our leader, Slightly Bigger Nail Clipper; he is a slightly bigger nail clipper"

Slightly Bigger Nail Clipper: -hovers forward- "Greetings, leader of this particular group of organic life forms"

Beakins: -rubs himself below his beak seeming thoughtful- "we did run out of synthetic allies when E-dubbbz died to that magic abomination, Leafy; but why the sudden change? Why would I trust you given that your immediate past alliance was with the Magics?

SBNC: "We were never genuinely allied to them, we were only trying to get close to their Orb Keeper; trying to at least get him to come out to the surface so we could get him with our Giant Fuck You Lasers. We've been always trying to gain their trust, even if it means harming innocent people; just like we and our makers have been doing for 50 years. But this Orb Keeper has proven to be quite a smart guy, to the point our 50 year effort has been ruined because we were discovered... all that work... all that death we've caused to others and ourselves; all for nothing. Our only hope now is to work together, organic and synthetic life forms, towards destroying that Orb; what do you say General?"

Beakins: "That was moving, and touching" –wipes a tear off his face- "Count on it, Nail Clippers. Hold on, how can I shake your hand?"

SBNC: "we don't have any. Farewell, General; we'll be seeing each other. I'm off to getting my troops ready; as you know, we depend on you to provide ground troops, since we consist of floating things only; including our Giant Fuck You Lasers." –flies off into the sky with his other Nail Clippers-

Beakins: "Welp! I got a good feeling about this... though; I don't think this will fill the E-dubbbz sized hole in my heart, made by that awful Leafy"

Derk: "hey, sir! Who better to fill that void than Leafy himself? E-dubbbz was sort of modeled after him, anyway; so... oh!" –notices Beakins's disapproving stare- "this is gonna be a long day, isn't it?"