Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness
Hello, everyone. Here is the next chapter, and I hope everyone enjoys it.
The next morning, Blu had woken up nice and early to get his day started, and to some answers soon. He used his crutch to get out of the medical room, and decided to visit Rico in his workshop.
He made it to Rico's workshop, and without knocking, Blu opened the door and made his way inside where Rico was building something while listening to an MP3 player through his earphones. And he was also singing to himself too.
The Hawk continued to sing to himself, and had no idea Blu was making his way towards him.
Rico:
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
There's nothing I can really say.
I can lie no more, I can hide no more,
While the Hawk continued to sing quietly to himself, Blu slowly walked up to the Hawk to investigate on what Rico was making.
Rico:
Got to be true to myself.
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
So I'll be on my way.
Blu stood next to Rico, and as soon as they saw each other, Rico jumped and yelled, being startled by the blue macaw. They both yelled and panicked a little-Rico getting scared by Blu, and Blu getting scared from Rico jumping.
The Hawk took his earphones off, and looked at Blu with a not-very-happy-face. "You scared the life out of me! Why don't you just pull out my heart while you're at it?"
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to scare you, Rico." Blu apologized, rubbing the back of his head with his wing a little guilty. "I just wanted to see what you were making."
Rico looked at Blu with a curious face and a eyebrow arched. Normally, no-one in the entire base would take interest in his work, but Blu seems to be interested. "Uhh, sure."
The blue macaw and hawk looked back at the table where Rico was working, and at the moment, he seemed to be making some sort of grenade with other various tools scattered around the table.
Blu decided to ask what the grenade did-even though he knew full fact what a grenade did. Maybe it was different. "What kind of device is this?"
"This, my amigo, is a restrainer-grenade." Rico demonstrated, showing the blue macaw he rescued his lately device. "You throw it at a bird, and it automatically explodes and it releases rope that ties around a bird to stop them from flying away."
"Wow, I gotta admit-that's pretty clever. " Blu complemented, examining the restrainer-grenade in Rico's talon.
The two birds were then interrupted by the blue macaw David, who had walked inside Rico's workshop, carrying a small wooden crate in his wings. He set the crate down on the floor next to Rico. "Here Rico, I got that thing you wanted."
"Aww, you didn't wrap it up and put a pretty bow on it?" Rico sarcastically said, trying to be funny like usually.
"Very funny, Rico." David frowned as he turned around and began walking to the exit/entrance of Rico's workshop. "I'm going now. And Blu-watch you don't hurt yourself further.
As David was just about to leave, Rico smirked and raised the restrainer-grenade in his talon, and whispered quietly to Blu. "Hey, Blu. Watch this."
The Hawk through the restrainer-grenade directly at David, and before he could act, the grenade exploded, and the rope shot out and tied itself around David. He fell to the floor while struggling to get his wings free. "Okay, very funny, Rico."
Blu and Rico laughed in response, as they both walked over to the tied up macaw to free him from the ropes.
A little while later, Blu and Rico had been called for a meeting in the barracks by Sapphire. By the looks of it, it was time for a plan to strike against the military. In the conference room inside the barracks, Sapphire and Joe were standing in front of the room while Blu, Rico, David, and a few gangsters were all sitting down on chairs, listening to their leader.
"Attention everyone." Sapphire said, getting attention from everyone in the room. "We have had reports to a few military macaws heading over this way, and if they discover our base-our whole operation will be ruined. And we all know that is not going to end well."
"What's the plan, ma'am?" a gangster inquired, raising his wing in the air for permission to speak.
"We need to send a couple of you out there to either beat them away, or lead them away." Sapphire answered, while placing one of her wings on her hips. "Do we have any volunteers?"
Rico and a couple of gangsters raised their wings in response, volunteering to help with the situation.
"Good." Sapphire smiled, folding her wings together like arms. "Now, get going. And remember: do not expose the base no matter what. Are we understood?"
"Yes, ma'am!" everyone replied in usion.
"Excellent, now get going!" Sapphire ordered, her voice gentle yet strict.
Everyone was now dismissed, and were ready to leave. However, before Blu could leave too, Rico had came over and placed one of his wings over him. "Hey, Blu. You coming too?"
"Me? I can't, I'm still injured." Blu reminded, showing Rico is broken wing and talon.
"You'll be fine." Rico said, as he then picked Blu up over his shoulder in the blink of an eye, and ran out of the barracks. "Now, let's go and beat some military macaws!"
"Rico, wait-I didn't..." Blu said, but gave up and placed his wing on under his chin. "Oh, why do I bother?"
Rico, Blu, and a couple of gangster macaws had went back into the Jungle outside and were hiding in a tree hollow, looking at a few of military macaws around the area. A couple of them had weapons, which was going to make it difficult to beat them.
"So, what's the plan here, Rico?" Blu inquired, whispering of course so they didn't make a noise.
"Well, I'll instruct the gangsters to silently take down the military." Rico replied like it was really obvious like he was gonna do. "Watch and learn, and you might learn a few things."
Rico gave a little single with his wingtips, and before Blu knew it, he saw the two military macaws get pulled inside a bush by a couple of gangsters. He turned back to Blu with a smirk. "See? Easy. Now look over there. Can you see the three military macaws over there?"
Blu followed Rico's single wingtip to see three military macaws standing by a tree, and one of them was carrying a stun stick. "Yeah, I see them."
"He's got a stun stick." Rico said, waving his wing sidewards as a single for the gangsters to stop. "A stun stick guard is too dangerous to attack head on, but if we could attack him from behind, then we may have a chance to take him down."
Rico then gave another wing single for the gangsters, and two of the guards were pulled in a bush from the front, but the one with the stun stick was attacked from behind to help the gangsters avoid getting hit from the front.
"Hehe, too easy." Rico chuckled, as he and Blu looked towards another direction where the last few military macaws were hanging around. Rico observed the four military macaws, and one of them was wearing a black body armor vest with a black helmet for protection.
Rico hummed while tapping Blu to get his attention again. "Look at that guard. He's wearing body armor. To take him down, I'll need to stun him first, and then perform a series of quick-focused attacks to break his defenses, and take him down."
Rico gave Blu the signal to stay where he was while he silently hopped down on the ground and gave the signal for the gangsters to attack.
Two gangsters pulled in two of the military macaws, while the third gangsters jumped out and instantly took down the third military macaw. The gangster then tried to take down the armored guard, but because of his skills and defensive, he blocked the gangster's attacks, and flipped him to the ground.
Before he could continue, Rico had interfered and managed to knock the armored guard away. Rico kneeled down into the ground and picked up some dirt in his wings. He through it into the guards eyes, leaving him blind and vulnerable to attack. "Ahhh! My eyes!"
Rico curled his wings like fists and began a series of quick-focused attacks on the armored guard, hitting him multiple times into the stomach as fast as he could.
Eventually, the armored guard was weak, and before he could act, Rico delivered one final blow onto him and finally knocked him down unconscious.
Rico smirked with his eyes half-closed while folding his wings together. "Piece of cake. Men, take this guards away and tie them to a tree!"
The gangsters dragged the unconscious military macaws away, but before they dragged the one wearing body armor away-Rico had took of his body armor vest and helmet and decided to keep it for himself.
"This could be useful." Rico said, examining the body armor and helmet which he could see could be useful when in combat. "Alright, everyone! Let's go back to the base as soon as you're done."
And the next chapter is complete, everyone. It seems the military macaws are well organized, but let's see if they have anything else stored for the future. Stay tuned for the next chapter that will be here tomorrow.