Hi there, its been awhile. Only like... 6 months. Yea I don't plan on my next chapter taking nearly this long. So until I get that next one up, enjoy!

Anthony was walking the large corridors of the supposed "company ship". The ship was clearly stolen because Anthony could clearly read the Navy insignias and he highly doubted that chipmunks needed the full armory of assault weapons that were neatly placed in, of course, the armory. What baffled him though was how they were running the ship and why the military wasn't stopping them. 'What the hell are these guys thinking' Anthony thought to himself as he walked onto the bridge of the ship and saw Specs doing some weird kind of dance while singing to himself working on some gadget he had on the floor.

"What the hell are you doing?" Anthony asked. Specs surprised, freaked out as he grabbed the gadget off the ground which was now clearly some kind of weapon and yelled psychotically at the top of his lungs as he apparently tried to get the weapon to fire, but when he pulled the trigger the weapon just started smoking. Specs looked down at the weapon then back to Anthony.

"Hey there!" Specs greeted as put a smile on his face and threw his weapon to the side and acted like nothing had happened. Anthony just stared at him thinking 'What the fuck?' with the facial expression to match.

"What the hell was that?" Anthony asked.

"What the hell was what?" Specs replied as he still pretended to act like nothing had happened.

"Right… So who's driving the ship?" Anthony said just going along with the act like nothing happened plan.

"Oh nothing special, just some doohickey I whipped up awhile ago. It gets the job done so I'm not complaining." Specs replied as he walked across the room and picked up the now busted open, smoking, weapon and threw it in a near garbage can. "So what did you need?" Specs asked as he jumped up on a cloth and cleaned his paws on it.

"I was wondering if we have a plan or something." Anthony asked as he leaned against a nearby wall.

"I'm really not the plan guy. I just give out papers and build things. Maybe fix them when they break. Raven is the guy with the plan," Specs replied as he finished whipping his paws and jumped down from the table where the cloth was.

"And where can I find him?" Anthony asked.

"Umm… Check the barracks." Specs said looking up at the ceiling with his paw on his chin.

"Okay thanks." Anthony said as he made his way to the door.

"Hey wait! Before you go do you wanna see this weird thing I do with my eyeball?" Specs asked energetically.

"Um, no thanks…" Anthony said as he inched his way out the door.

"Gah what have I been doing with my life?" Shadow asked himself as he wondered the halls and corridors of the ship. 'This can't keep going on. I've killed so many people on the command of Shrapnel. He said it would stop after the last one. I could hardly bring myself to kill him. The look in his eyes, I can't get the image out of my head.' Shadow thought to himself as he clenched his head with his paws. He turned around a corner and ran into something. Shadow and the something fell to the ground with a thud. Shadow jumped up ready to fight what ever hit him.

"Hey what's up with the ready-to-kill-you stance?" A familiar voice asked. Shadow looked down at the object on the ground. It was Anthony with his paw on his head rubbing the place where he and Shadow collided.

"A little nervous in the service, Shadow?" Anthony asked as he picked himself off the ground.

"Nah, just a stressful day," Shadow replied.

"Hey are you doing okay?" Anthony asked with a bit of a worried look on his face.

"Yea, why?" Shadow asked confused.

"You're… crying," Anthony answered with a bit of a pause while pointing at a spot on Shadow's face. Shadow ran a paw under one of his eyes and sure enough there was a stream of tears on it.

'Wow this job is really getting to me. I don't know how much more of this I can take of this.' Shadow thought as he looked back at Anthony. 'Poor kid doesn't even know what's going to happen to him," Shadow thought to himself. "I guess that's what stress will do to ya," Shadow said as he wiped the rest of the tears off his face.

"Yea I guess I'll be learning about stress. I've got a kid or more on the way." Anthony replied as he drifted of into his mind.

Shadow's eyes got big as a new thought crossed his mind. 'He's a father? I'm going to kill the father of someone who isn't even born yet? What about the other guys? Did they have a family? A wife? Kids? How many families have I destroyed? Gah this isn't right!'

"I can't do this!" Shadow yelled surprising both Anthony and himself.

'I need to get outta' here!' Shadow thought to himself as he pushed past the still surprised Anthony and vanished down one of the close by corridors with the images of the people he killed haunting his mind.

Anthony stood confused in the middle of the hallway looking in the direction Shadow just ran off. He scratched his head and thought, 'I hope he's alright.'

"What's with the yelling?" Anthony heard from one of the rooms near him. He looked inside the near by room and saw Birdy lying on a cot.

"Well I'm not so sure. Shadow just yelled 'I can't do this' and ran off down a corridor," Anthony said scratching his head once again.

"Well that's probably a good thing," Birdy said as she sat up and turned herself so that her feet hung off the edge of the cot.

"A good thing? How is that a good thing?" Anthony asked confused as he removed his hand from the top of his head.

"Well the last time he came with us on a mission, one of our guys 'vanished'" Birdy said using her fingers as quotation marks as she said vanished.

"What you think he murdered them?" Anthony asked crossing his arms.

"We don't think so, we know so," Raven said as he walked into the room. "Its happened the last three times he was on a mission with us."

"Wow you two sound paranoid," Anthony said.

"Yea, I thought I was paranoid at first, but it's become apparent that he has been killing off the team members who found out what Shrapnel been planning," Raven said turning around to face Anthony.

"And what's he planning?" Anthony asked.

"He's planning a war on the humans," Raven answered.

Anthony started laughing and said, "Yea, how he is going to do that?"

"We don't know yet, but intend on stopping him," Raven replied.

"Okay, while you guys are doing that, I'll do the mission. What's the plan?" Anthony asked still kind of laughing.

"The plan is to survive. Or have you forgotten there's a guy who intends on murdering us all?" Raven replied.

"Oh yea, I'll believe it when it happens," Anthony said. Anthony turned around and started walking out the door.

"Anthony when it happens you're going to die!" Raven shouted after him. Anthony stopped. "Think about that family you were talking about. How would they take you just vanishing from their lives? Stick with us and we'll make sure you get out of there so you can see them again," Raven said trying to get a reaction from Anthony. Anthony stood in the same spot for awhile thinking it over.

Anthony turned around and looked at Raven and said, "Fine I'll stick with you."