Haven't updated in awhile, sorry about that. Well anyway here's Chapter 9. Please Review.

"Anthony, don't go," Vinny pleaded. "I'm two weeks from giving birth and you're going off to meet a bunch of mercenaries in Florida!"

"Vinny, don't worry, I'll be back before that happens, trust me," Anthony said smiling at her as he packed his suitcase.

"Couldn't you just get a job here in town?" Vinny asked still trying to stop him from going.

"Yeah, like that will happen. One look at my eyes and there goes the job," Anthony said as he zipped up his suitcase.

"Please, I don't want you to do this," Vinny said putting her paw on Anthony's shoulder.

"We need the money, Vinny. I'm doing this for you and our kids. Don't worry I'll be back before you give birth," Anthony said as he kissed her and left the oak tree and headed towards the tree line. He spent most of his time in the time cab and on the airplane to Florida in silence thinking about his family and what Tim said.

How are a bunch of people I don't know supposed to help me anyway? Anthony thought as the cab pulled up to a warehouse that appeared to be abandoned on the waterfront, but Anthony knew better. He got out of the cab and walked to the door. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

Earlier

"Who the fuck is pickin' the god damn music today? This shit fuckin' sucks!" A male chipmunk with a British accent said.

"That would be me ya stupid fuck and if you don't like it…" a female chipmunk said but was interrupted by the other.

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Birdy. You're threats don't scare me. They might work on the rookie though. Thinking of the rookie, Specs where the fuck's the new guy?" the chipmunk with the British accent asked as Specs came into the central room of the warehouse.

"Like I fucking know Shadow," Specs said to the British pure black chipmunk wearing a black shirt and sunglasses who was sitting on a crate playing with a small knife.

"Well you're the one who hired his ass," Shadow said as he planted the blade of the knife into the crate he was sitting on.

"That doesn't mean I know where he is at all times, Shadow," Specs said as Shadow jumped of the crate and walked into another room and Specs turned his attention to the female chipmunk. "Birdy, if you can't keep your fucking boyfriend out of the fucking rafters, I'm gonna start putting traps up there in hope of killing his dumb ass. I'm sick of him unplugging everything when he wants to go around up there eavesdropping on everyone's conversations, and don't you give me that 'he's up there practicing his agility' crap. Everyone knows he is paranoid about losing you, so he sits up there, hopping from rafter to rafter listening in on everyone's conversation. Yeah I know you're up there you piece of shit!"

Birdy looked at Specs who was staring at the ceiling expecting it to answer. Specs turned his gaze from the ceiling to the female chipmunk in front of him. Her fur was light brown but she had two white stripes on her back and her eyes were dark blue. She had her hair back in a pony tail and was a black tang top and blue jeans.

"I'm serious Birdy, if I have to go up there for the third fucking time, there's gonna be hell to pay," Specs said as he turned around and looked up at the ceiling one last time before disappearing into a side room.

"Hey Birdy," a voice said from above her, "is he gone?"

"Yeah Raven, he's gone," Birdy said as she heard noise coming from above her. Raven appeared in front of her after finally making his way down from the ceiling.

"Hey there," Raven said.

Raven was a dark brown chipmunk who had three small white stripes on his back and also had dark blue eyes. He wore a long black leather trench coat over an off white t-shirt and he wore a black large brimmed fedora.

"Hey," Birdy said as she wrapped her arms around his neck smiling. Raven smiled as he put his hands on her waist and kissed her.

"You better not be doing that kind of shit in my fuckin' warehouse,"Shrapnel said as he and Specs walked to the front door of the warehouse. Shrapnel was an old brown chipmunk that had a grey stripe on his back and wore primarily dark clothing and had more scars then he could count.

"The new guy is here."

Outside

Anthony had just knocked on the door as it immediately swung open. Anthony jumped back surprised at the sight of Specs and an old brown chipmunk with scars all over him.

"Come in and meet the gang," Specs said as he motioned Anthony to come in. Anthony stepped inside and looked at the ceiling far above his head and then at the maze of boxes, crates, and support beams in front of him.

"This is Shrapnel, he's the owner of this facility and our boss," Specs said as Shrapnel held out his paw to Anthony.

"Nice to meet you, Sir," Anthony said as he took Shrapnel's paw.

"Excuse me, but I have other matters to attend to. Specs will be introducing you to the rest of the team and assigning you your equipment. Good day," Shrapnel said as he turned and walked into the maze of crates behind him.

"Follow me," Specs said as he turned a different direction and went into another entrance to the maze of crates followed closely by Anthony.

"So what kind of equipment are we talking about here?" Anthony asked as he followed Specs into a room that had a sign on the door saying "Armory."

"Oh, We all get issued a DYF bow and a side arm that was specially made for your abilities," Specs said as stopped in front of a small suitcase opened it and took out a bow.

"DYF?" Anthony asked as Specs showed him the bow.

"It stands for Dude Your Fucked. Birdy comes up with most of the names and will probably be giving you your nickname before we're done today," Specs said as he gave the DYF to Anthony.

"What's so special about this bow? How is this tiny thing gonna kill anything?" Anthony asked.

"That tiny thing can push one of those arrows around 1000 feet per second. That's as fast as a nine millimeter bullet if you didn't know. So this tiny thing has some serious knock down power and if for some reason that doesn't seem to get the job done fast enough you could always add something for effect. I personally favor a particularly strong neurotoxin on my arrows, but if you want some ideas you should ask Raven. He's put things from paralysis agents to high grade explosives on those things. There's nothing like seeing someone's head explode, don't you agree?" Specs said as Anthony gave the bow back to him.

"You said something about a side arm?" Anthony asked.

"Oh, yes," Specs said as he dug into an open safe in the wall. "Ah, here it is." Anthony's eyes got wide when he saw the sword he pulled out.

"It's amazing! What is it made out of?" Anthony asked.

"This baby's made out of quortainium. It's the strongest metal we could get our hands on. This baby can cut diamonds if you use it right, and I'd have to say it is quite shiny for those how like snazzy things. This small five inch katana is priced at the low price of 3.6 million dollars," Specs said smiling.

"What! And you're just giving it to me!" Anthony asked astonished.

"No, you're gonna have to earn it like the rest of us earned our equipment. You can use it in the field but you can't take it home… yet," Specs said smiling as he put the sword back in its sheath which seemed to be made of the same material before he put it back in the wall safe. "Let's go meet the rest of the team."

Specs lead Anthony out of the room and into the center of the warehouse where two chipmunks were fighting in the center of a bunch of crates. Specs ran over and tried to intervene.

"Raven! Shadow! Knock it off!" Specs yelled as Shadow pulled out a knife and held it to Raven's throat. "Shadow put the knife away!"

"This fuckin' bloke jumped me!" Shadow yelled.

"You stay away from her!" Raven yelled.

"Oh, I will, but if you don't stop eavesdroppin' I just might forget myself," Shadow said smiling as he pulled his knife away from Raven's neck and disappeared into the darkness.

"What was that about Raven?" Specs asked as Birdy ran around the corner investigating the sounds of fighting.

"Raven!" Birdy yelled as she ran to Raven and helped him off the ground. "What happened?"

"I don't know I was hoping that Raven was going to tell us," Specs said as he picked Raven's hat off the ground and gave it to him.

"Thanks," Raven said as he put his hat back on.

"So what the fuck was that about?" Anthony asked completely confused. "Does this shit happen daily?"

"Don't worry about it, just a misunderstanding that's all," Raven said extending his paw to Anthony. "Raven's my name and this is Birdy."

"That didn't look like a misunderstanding," Anthony said looking at the trench coat Raven was wearing.

"I said not to worry about it, now what's your name?" Raven asked.

"Um… My name is…" Anthony started as he was shaking Raven's paw but was interrupted by Birdy.

"Skunkworks," Birdy said smiling.

"Skunkworks?" Anthony asked.

"Yeah, you're former special ops recon right? So I think your name should be the same as the sub division of Lockheed Martin that made all different kinds of reconnaissance aircraft, since you are the recon guy after all. That and the stripe on your back makes you look like a miniature skunk," Birdy said smiling as she explained the nickname to Anthony.

"Well, Skunkworks, welcome to the team," Specs said as he shook Anthony's paw.