Here's episode 13. Thanx for the reviews for Evicted! :)

CHARACTERS

Cake—Fionna's best friend/adoptive sister and Mo-Chro's girlfriend. She doesn't look much like Jake aside from their body proportions. She has white eyes in which the black pupils become circular if surprised, excited, shocked, or scared. She has a cat muzzle and a small nose (compared to Jake's), cat ears, white fur with many coffee colored spots, and a large bushy tail. Cake may know Morse code in order to speak to Lord Monochromicorn, similar to how Jake knows Korean in order to speak to Lady Rainicorn. Cake plays a hammered dulcimer, as opposed to a viola. Her tail "frizzes out" if it is agitated or worried. As a Lumpy Space 'cat', she is a light color of maroon with large spots of fuchsia to match her coffee-colored spots. Her tail is now lumpy and more beaver-tail-like.

Fionna—is a 13-year-old adventurer and Cake's adoptive sister. While usually appearing as black dots, her eyes are seen as blue when enlarged. She wears a rabbit-themed hat (similar to Finn's bear-themed hat) with exposed locks of blonde hair. Unlike Finn, her neck is shown. Her outfit includes a teal blue shirt with elbow-length sleeves, a dark blue skirt, and knee-high socks with two thin horizontal stripes at the top. Fionna is heavier set than. She has a green backpack (similar to Finn's) and Mary Jane shoes. Her name was officially changed from "Fiona" to "Fionna," presumably to make it more similar to Finn's name. The pronunciation, however, has remained unchanged. Like Finn and his crush on Princess Bubblegum, it is revealed in many portraits posted that Fionna has a crush on Prince Gumball. Fionna has buck teeth like a rabbit. Fionna, like Finn, is Cake's adoptive sister. It is shown that as a Lumpy Space girl, she is about 3 feet tall. The top of her has two long white lumps like her hat. The bottom of her is the same as her skirt. She has a small mass of yellow for her small piece of hair.

Penn-is a little boy whom Fionna and Cake assist in the City of Thieves. He is shown to be adorable and friendly. Penn is short, with skinny arms and legs, as well with dirty red hair. Penn has various bruises, scrapes, and dirt smudges on hid chubby, round face, which may be the mark of a thief. He is short and is almost as tall as Cake. He wears tattered and torn clothes. He looks as if he is poor but has many stolen treasures; this probably helps when tricking others.

Episode 13: The City of Thieves

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Fionna and Cake stood huddled together, pressed against the wall. Fionna was clutching a bow and arrow as the shadows dawned nearer.

"Fifi, you are TOO slow!" Cake called to Fionna over her shoulder, walking over the tree tops of the forest. It was a good day, about 74 degrees, a bit cloudy for the sky. "Speed up them flanks, girl!"

"I'm...not used...to running...on all fours!" Fionna gasped, setting her arms forward again. She had long wooden stilts attached to her hands and feet, walking like Cake over the treetops. Fionna and Cake had made a bet. Fionna had lost.

"Are you ready to admit it's harder than it looks?" Cake smirked smugly.

"I'll never admit anything to you." Fionna smirked wryly. She looked up to say something else to Cake, but the cat was nowhere. She began to freak out. "Cake? Where are you?"

Cake snickered as she stepped out of the clump of bushes. She extended her leg out, and Fionna's wooden stilt stumbled on it. Fionna yelped as she flew forward, crashing through the leaves and branches (slightly scratching herself) and landed with a "Ow!" On the grass.

"Okay..." Fionna huffed as she lay on her back on the ground, her stilts snapped in half. "I-It's harder than it looks."

"Actually, you did pretty good." Cake said simply, nudging Fionna in the ribs. Unfortunately, she hit a bruised spot on Fionna's ribcage, and Fionna grabbed her side in pain. Cake was about to apologize, but then looked past Fionna. "Fifi, look!"

Fionna turned around. The forest ended before her, the blue-green trees parting. Past the trees, the ground became dry and cracked, like a desert. About 300 feet away, there was a mile-high hump on the ground. At first, Fionna thought it was a large heap of cracked earth, until she saw the strange design on the heap. She looked around the bottom of the heap. At the end, there was a half-mile long tube made of dust bones. At the back and front, there were 500-feet-wide, cone-shaped things, also made of dusty bones. She looked at front, and, as expected, there was a 900-foot-high skull at the end, the eye sockets whistling and the remains of ears on the top. It was the dusty shells and bones of an armadillo. There was a small path in the cracked earth leading from the forest to the bones. Fionna noticed that the shell had a staircase engraved onto it. At the very top, there was what appeared to be a small city.

"It looks like a giant...dead..." Cake frowned. "...rat..."

Fionna furrowed her eyebrows. "It looks like a city of-"

"THIEVES!"

Fionna screamed and toppled over.

The tree that was once next to her was gone. Instead, there was now an elderly old man with sunken blue eyes and sharp teeth. He was only a bit taller than Fionna, and he had a very long nose. He was wearing a brownish-grayish cloak. Fionna realized why she hadn't noticed him. The cloak looked exactly like tree bark.

"It's the City of Thieves!" The...Hobo rasped. He pointed a warning finger, long and crooked, at Fionna. "Be warned, girl! All those who enter the City are destined to become thieves themselves!" He broke into a crazy laughter, cracked and, well, scary. "Even you!"

"I will NEVER become a thief, ya weirdo!" Fionna yelled angrily, springing to her feet. She smiled wryly. "I'm a pretty good gal."

"Get your glasses on, Grandpa," Cake agreed, crossing her arms. "This girl is pure. In fact, she's about to help out that little crying kid."

Fionna furrowed her eyebrows, confused. What crying kid? Then she heard it: despaired sobs. She looked out onto the dusty horizon and saw a small little boy, even shorter than Cake, crying into his hands. His skin was covered in dirt and dust. Out of his hood, Fionna saw red-orange hair.

"Oh, whoa!" Fionna gasped, grabbing Cake's hand and running down the path.

"BE WARNED!"

"Shut up!"

"Hey, little boy," Fionna said comfortingly, touching the boy's shoulder. "What's wrong?"

The boy jumped at her touch. Fionna drew her hand back, her mouth slightly parted.

The boy stumbled back, landing on his back into the dirt. "Please! Don't steal anything from me!"

"Whoa! We won't do that!" Fionna said, tapping Cake on the head. "We're heroines."

"Yeah!" Cake said. She took her stomach, forming it into a small smiley face. "We wanna turn your frown-" She twisted the face around. "-All the way around!" Unfortunately, the turning of the face made it look like Cake wanted to snap his neck.

The boy yelped and sobbed louder.

"Cupcake!" Fionna hissed at her sister, nudging her with her elbow.

"Okay," Cake grumbled, turning around. "I'ma going to face the other way, but I'm going to keep doing it."

Fionna knelt next to the boy. "So, what's wrong?"

"Oh, it was terrible!" The boy gasped. Fionna hadn't noticed before, but she noticed he had a small bruise on his cheek. "I was trying to sell some home-made biscuits, when these two thieves came up and took my whole basket!" He pointed at the armadillo. "Then they ran into the City."

"The City?" Fionna inquired.

For the second time, the Hobo sprang up and screamed "OF THIEVES!", making both Fionna and Cake topple over.

Cake groaned. "Give me a break."

"Heed my warning, girl," The Hobo smiled hauntingly. "Enter the city, and you'll come out a thief."

"Never!" Fionna said sternly. She lifted the boy off of the ground and set him onto her shoulders. He was surprisingly light. "I'll get these boy's bicuits back!"

"My name's Penn."

"I'll get Penn's biscuits back! I'll come out of that city as pure as the falling snow! Let's go, Cake!" Fionna yelled, running down the dusty path.

"Yeah!" Cake whooped. "We're gonna purify that City!"

As Fionna neared the City, she found that the City wasn't on top of the armadillo, it was INSIDE it. She ran through the opening, and the blazing sun turned to a cool air. The sky had been replaced with a brown flourish. The City was made out of oddly shaped buildings-circles, triangles, ovals, squares, you name it. She heard some cries around her.

Fionna turned to Cake. "This place is so cool!"

Then, there was a yelp. Fionna turned to her left to see a short-haired girl run by a purple-haired woman, snatching the woman's bracelet. "MY BRACELET!"

Fionna and Cake gasped. Fionna's anger popped through her surface, and she yelled, "STOP, THIEF!"

The girl ran away. The woman cried out in rage and ran by a skull-father and his daughter. The woman grabbed the skull-girl, and the father screamed.

"STOP!" Fionna yelled.

The skull-girl put her hand into the woman's mouth and took out a golden object. The woman yelped. "MY TOOTH!" The skull-girl ran away.

"Stop!" Fionna said desperately. "Don't steal!"

The skull-girl ran into a frog-like woman. The woman took the tooth, opened her mouth to reveal a gap in her teeth, and placed the tooth inside.

"Mrs. Frog! Don't steal!"

"Fionna," Penn said sternly, taking Fionna's face in his hands, "It's hopeless to stop them! Everyone steals here! It's RE-DONK-ULOUS!"

"PENN!" Fionna grabbed him off of her shoulders, shaking him back and forth. "DON'T say that!"

"Re-donk-ulous?"

"No. About it being hopeless. I will find who took your biscuits. And when I do find them, I will beat my purity INTO THEM."

"Yeah!" Cake whooped. "Then I'm going to beat it out of them! And beat it back in! TWICE AS HARD!"

"We can beat these thieves while we're searching for Penn's biscuits!" Fionna agreed, and grabbed Cake's hand, flying away.

"Hey, frog-face!" Fionna yelled, running full-speed at Mrs. Frog. "I'm going to beat your face! Also, have you seen this boy's biscuit basket?"

"You're going down to the ground, froggie!" Cake agreed.

Mrs. Frog literally flew into the air. Her boots burst into flames, and she dashed above their heads.

"Whoa." Cake gawked. "I want rocket-boots!"

Mrs. Frog landed on her feet on one of the roofs. Out of flipping NOWHERE, a burly woman with pale blond hair lunged for her. She grabbed the tooth out of her mouth and flew away.

"Come back, Flying Woman!" Fionna called, riding on Cake's back with Penn. Cake kicked her paw in Mrs. Frog's face.

The Flying Woman landed on the ground. A two-headed woman with long legs sprang at her, taking the pouch on her belt.

"My pixie dust!" The Flying Woman yelled.

"HEY! MY BASKET!" Penn suddenly cried out, pointing at the Two-Headed Woman as she flew away. Fionna noticed that a basket full of biscuits was around one head's neck. "THAT'S MY BASKET!"

"Don't worry, Penn," Fionna assured him. "I'll get it right after I deal with this gal." She turned to the Flying Woman. "STEALING IS WRONG, DODO!"

The Flying Woman paused before dropping the golden tooth ashamedly.

Penn laughed. "This is fun, Fionna!" Fionna chuckled as Cake jumped after the Two-Headed Woman.

A Witch pounced at them. With her wand, she cut the basket-holding head off of the Two-Headed Woman.

"My sis!" The remaining head cried.

"My bod!" The one cried as she was carried away in the basket.

The Witch landed on a roof. There was a crash, and a very muscular man landed on the roof ahead of her. "I'm going to steal your basket, Witch!"

The Witch quickly muttered, "LAWN YAWN GONE" and disappeared, leaving the basket behind, the head still inside.

The Muscle Man grabbed the basket and dumped out the head, leaving the biscuits. A Ninja Woman leaped from behind her and grabbed the basket. She also grabbed the tattoo (?) off of the man's arm. "HEY! MY TATTOO!"

The Ninja Woman landed on the ground and stuck the tattoo on her arm. The bush next to her sprang into a Bush Woman, who took off her ninja-uniform, leaving her in a white tank top and shorts. "My jammies!" The Bush Woman also grabbed her tattoo and basket, and ran away. "MY TATTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Cake punched the Ninja-Woman away.

"Follow that Bush-Woman!" Fionna screamed, and Cake ran after the Bush-Woman as she darted behind the corner.

"I will smite thee, Bush-Woman!" Fionna yelled.

"Hey! You stole that basket from me!" The Bush-Woman yelled at a female Troll.

"No I didn't," The Troll said, hiding the basket behind her back.

A Goblin-Woman snatched the basket from her hands. "Hey! Give that back! I stole it first! I'll use my dagger on you!"

She reached for her dagger, and found it wasn't there. She span around to see the Bush-Woman running away, the dagger in hand.

"Hey!" Fionna ran up to the Goblin-Woman. "Time to enter the purification-chamber, sistah!"

An elderly man ran up to the Goblin-Woman and took the basket. "Hey!" Fionna yelled.

A hag took the basket away from the Goblin-Woman. A teenage boy took it from her. A goofy woman took it from him. A buck-toothed boy took it from her. An elderly salesman took it from her and disappeared.

Fionna cried out in anger, setting Penn down. "HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THAT BASKET IF EVERYONE KEEPS STEALING IT?" She slammed her fists into the ground.

"Hey, we can just steal another basket from that gal." Cake said. Fionna turned around to see a stand called Gloves&Galore, flourished with baskets, biscuits, and fancy gloves. "She has a lot of biscuits and baskets! And gloves. I'd especially like to steal some of them gloves."

"No, Cupcake! We can't steal! We have to stay pure!"

"Okay..."

"I have an idea!" Penn piped up. "My Dad used to tell me of a Queen of Thieves who lives at the center of the city. Everything that gets stolen from little boys gets taken to his tower. Maybe my basket is in her treasure chest."

"That's a good idea, Penn!"

"There's only one problem though. The tower is surrounded by a magical barrier, which magically keeps thieves out."

"Have you forgotten? We aren't thieves! WE'RE PURE! Right, Cupcake?" She turned around for an agreement, but Cake was gone. "Cupcake?"

She looked around until she saw Cake sneaking up to the stand, reaching for some gloves. "CUPCAKE!"

Suddenly, a woman-in-charge sprung up and swatted Cake away.

"Cupcake! What are you doing?" Fionna yelled, helping Cake up to her feet.

"It's the City..." Cake groaned. "It's getting to me..." She grabbed Fionna by her shirt. "HELP ME, FIFI!"

Fionna hugged her sister tightly. "I'm here for you, Cupcake."

"Thank you, Fifi."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

With a cry, Cake lunged for the pair of long white gloves again.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Fionna pounced onto Cake, pulling her from the gloves.

Fionna wrestled Cake to the ground. Cake squirmed and twisted, but eventually, Fionna pinned her down. "You...will...not...become...a...thief!"

She finally let go of Cake, wiping the sweat off of her brow.

Cake looked down at her knuckles. Small jungle-bells were attached to them, jingling with her every movement. "What are these?"

"Bells." Fionna huffed. "If you try to steal again, I'll hear you."

"Huh." Cake smirked and wriggled her hands, making the bells chime.

"The Queen of Thieves' tower is right up here," Penn gasped, climbing up the last few of the thousands of steps before collapsing on the ground.

Fionna stepped up behind him, gasping breathlessly. She looked up at the tower. "WHOA."

The tower stretched forty feet over her. It was made out of differently-colored bricks with a straw roof. There was only one small window at the top. There was a transparent, wavering blanket over the tower, a strange lilac color.

"Are you ready to go, Penn?" Fionna asked him.

"I'm too scared." Penn whimpered. "Can I stay out here?"

"Sure." Fionna turned around and called, "Come on, Cupcake!"

"Coming..." Cake gasped, stepping up to them. Fionna's jaw dropped at the white satin gloves on the cat's paws.

"Cupcake...WHERE did you get those gloves?"

"What?" Cake looked down at her gloved paws. "Oh, no...! I stole! THE CITY! IT TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME!"

"Cupcake!" Fionna groaned. "You're a thief now! You can't go in anymore!"

"Pashaw!" Cake snorted. "Yes I can!"

She ran over to the lilac barrier at full-speed. She bounced off of it, like a baseball off of a brick wall.

She looked at Fionna with a sheepish smile. "Oh..."

"It's up to me now," Fionna told Penn.

"You should find my basket at the Queen of Thieves' chest," Penn said, "Good luck, Fionna. Oh yeah." He pointed at the small window at the top of the tower. "The window is the only entrance."

"Alright!" Fionna said, walking towards the barrier, "Wish me luck."

"He already did." Cake said.

"Oh. Right." Fionna walked straight through the barrier. It felt like walking through a waterfall, but she came out dry. She started to climb up the tower.

She climbed and climbed until she reached the window. She stumbled inside the tower. The only thing in the room was a hole in the ground, in which a gray rope was going through. "I have to go all the way back down?"

With a sigh, she stepped onto the floor. The floor growled, and the wooden boards broke. Fionna screamed as she hit floor after floor of wooden boards, getting bruised and scratched. She expected to fall onto the rock-solid ground, but instead sort of bounced like a trampoline. She opened her eyes to see she was in a giant spiderweb.

She looked around the room. The walls were sapphire blue, the floors a silvery white. The floor was covered in gold coins, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, glowing crows, and pearled tiaras in mountains. All of the gold and silver glowed in the darkness and spiderwebs. At the far wall of the room was a dusty yet plush red chair with gold torches on either side. A skeleton was sitting on the throne. The skeleton had gloves and molding boots. It also had the remains of long hair with a dirty crown on top.

"S-sorry to trespass," Fionna stuttered, worried that the Queen of Thieves was much like everyone else in the City of Thieves. "I-I just...hello?"

That's when she saw that the Queen was dead. She noticed a glont of something in the Queen's chest. She looked, and a golden chest was in the Queens'...chest.

"The chest!" Fionna smiled, stepping out of the web. "It's IN her chest!"

She walked over to the skeleton and cautiously picked the chest out of the ribcage, careful not to break any remaining bones. "Uh...thanks?"

A rat sprang out of the Queen's eye socket, hissing

Fionna squeaked and flew away.

"See, if you have too much earwax, you won't be able to hear much," Cake said as Penn laid on her lap.

"I got it, guys!" Fionna said, jumping through the barrier, chest in hand.

"The chest!" Penn ran to Fionna and took the chest. "GIMME THAT!"

"Huh?" Fionna asked as Penn's friendly, shy smile became a wicked grin.

Penn set the chest on the ground and took out a razor-sharp, black dagger with gray speckles.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Cake stepped away cautiously from the knife. "Easy, kid, easy..."

Penn cackled an evil snort as he jiggled the dagger in the chest's lock. He opened the chest and laughed louder at the sapphires, emeralds, pearls, diamonds, rubies, gold, and silver that shined as brightly as the sun.

"What?" Fionna looked over Penn's shoulder. "Is your biscuit basket in all that gold?"

Penn snorted. "Of course it's not! I set you up to steal this chest! I couldn't get past the barrier because I'm a thief!"

"But you're just a cute little boy!"

"AND A THIEF!"

"Well, if this isn't yours, I'm giving it back RIGHT NOW." Fionna shut the chest tight and walked over to the barrier. She expected to walk through it again, but she hit it like a brick wall.

"Huh?" Fionna touched the barrier, the feel like solid cement. She pressed against it, but it made her side hurt. "Why can't I-?"

"You stole something in the City!" Penn grinned evilly. "Now YOU'RE a thief!"

"No." Fionna gasped. She pounded on the barrier, hurting her knuckles. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I BECOME?"

As she bawled, Penn grabbed the fallen chest and flew back down the stairs. "You've become a thief, dumb-dumb!"

Through her hot, bitter tears, Fionna looked at her palms. "My hands. They're filthy. Covered in the blood of crime. I'm a THIEF."

Cake heard an echoing laugh and turned around to see where it came from. Her feet unbalanced, and she fell forward. She looked at the place where she once stood to see the old Hobo, cackling.

"What did I tell you?" The Hobo laughed. "This City will get you no matter how pure you think you are!" He guffawed.

Fionna's lip quivered, and a single tear fell down her dusty cheek.

"I was right!" The Hobo added.

"Hey!" Cake spoke up. "That's enough from you!" She grabbed the Hobo with her gloved paws and through him miles away, the Hobo screaming in rage.

"Fifi?" Cake tried to put a comforting hand on her sister, but Fionna stumbled back.

"Don't touch me! I'm impure! If I'm not fit to be a heroine, I'm not fit to be your friend!"

"Come on, Fifi, keep it together!"

"No, Cake. This is a one-way path down a jacked-up road. I've got to walk it alone."

"I'm not going to leave you alone in the City." Cake said sternly. "You're my sister. Besides, I stole these gloves." She waved her arms slightly, and the gloves shined. "These satiny, glorious gloves. So I'm just as filthy as you, Fifi. We have got to walk this path together."

"Then we shall grasp the criminal air on this evil city and use my new criminal life to seek vengeance on Penn."

"Let's go!" Cake said, and wrapped her arms around Fionna like a cape.

Fionna jumped off of the platform onto a flat roof, slid down a sloped one, and somersaulted into a chimney. She and Cake came out into a stone-walled room with a female troll sleeping in a bed. Fionna grabbed a nearby bow and a quiver and ran out the window. Fionna then pounced into another building and into another. From that one, a ninja shoppe, she grabbed two silver samurai swords and ran out.

A female cow was bathing herself in a warm bath and took out a light blue soap bar. Fionna ran by the window and grabbed the soap. The cow shrieked.

Penn laughed as he stood in his tent in the corner of the city, observing a large diamond from the chest. He had stolen much more, bows, arrows, quivers, swords, daggers, and even katanas.

He heard a snap of a twig.

"Wha-?" He span around but saw no one. "Is someone there?"

Silence.

He paused before grinning again and going back to the diamond.

"PENN."

Penn jumped. He took out his wicked dagger, pointing it around for protection.

"It's me. The heroine whose purity you stole! I am here to act my revenge upon you."

Something flew by him, brushing his side. Penn yelped and span around to see Fionna, Cake wrapped around her shoulders.

Cake waved at Penn. "Hi, Penn."

"Fionna, please don't punch my lights out!" Penn begged as Fionna began to circle him like a panther. "I'm just a poor, homeless, little boy."

"I trusted you, Penn." Fionna hissed. "You made me STEAL! You took my purity! You RUINED ME!"

"I'm so sorry, Fionna." Penn slowly stepped over to a small bag full of gold. "Let me give you some gems, or gold or...SOME KNIFE IN YOUR NECK!"

He pulled out the dagger again and lunged for Fionna.

"WATCH OUT, FIFI!" Cake said.

She took off her gloves and threw then at Penn's face. Penn became blinded and stumbled over a sack of gold.

"Thanks, Cupcake," Fionna smiled at her sister.

"Of course, Fifi."

"You may have soiled my purity," Fionna growled, towering over the fallen Penn. "But I think you can still come out clean." She took out the blue bar of soap. "Come on, Cake!"

Fionna pinned Penn to the ground. Cake chuckled as she brought in a large bucket of water. She splashed the water on Penn. who screamed and yelled. Fionna scrubbed all over Penn so quickly, the entire tent was soon an entire pool of blue bubbles and water.

Eventually, all of the bubbles died away. Penn stood there, smiling broadly, hair groomed and his bruises disappeared.

"Nice work, Fifi." Cake said.

"He's purified." Fionna beamed.

"I feel so clean." Penn cheered. "Like all of the filth and wrong-doing of the city are gone." He jumped to his feet. "Thanks, F&C. I haven't felt like this since I was young!"

"You're welcome!"

"Fifi, the soap got on us, too!" Cake said. Fionna looked down at her squeaky-clean skin and spotless clothes.

"We're clean!" She cheered. "This good deed we did has purified us once again! WE'RE PURIFACATERS!"

She could practically see and hear the small angels trumpeting a song of victory.

The angels took her swords.

"Fionna, thank you for a second chance for a pure life." Penn smiled.

"Your welcome." Fionna said. "And remember, NO MORE STEALING."

"Never again."

"Well, I guess it's time for us to get the math out of here."

"I'm going to miss you, Fionna!" Penn said, pulling her into a hug.

"I'm going to miss you, too."

"Goodbye!" Penn ran from the tent.

Cake turned back to Fionna and jumped. "Whoa, Fifi! Where is your shirt?"

Fionna frowned and looked down at her white undershirt. "What? !"

TRIVIA

When Fionna, Cake, and Penn enter the City of Thieves, a small piece of cheese can be seen about to be eaten by a mouse to the lower left of the screen, only to have it be stolen by an arm that appears from off-screen, signifying how fast things are stolen in the city before they even enter all the way.

At some point, Penn's basket is stolen by a witch. The witch disappears as the Burly Man draws onto her. The Witch is wearing a cloak similar to Fionna and Cake's in WITCH.

In one corner of the inside of the tent, you can see both a shotgun, and a sub-machine gun.

R&R
Yours till the dragon flies,
Moonstar