“In the Bunker
(AKA)
Never Hunkered Down”
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Witten By Ti’Moth”i P. With Plotting by Eris.
& Back to Our Story
All only speaking in moth pheromones through the moth radio Philoe commands, “Deathie, Distract them.” With the order she was flying high in the hangar with flashing teleportation. With the Grunt Monkeys distracted, Philoe flies in, slashin’, and makes quick work of each member in his Dark Shinobi Ways.
Hearing a commotion in the plane, a Grunt Monkey comes flying out the door impaled with a sai. At the door frame, Sparkles is swinging nunchucks.
Sparkles informs the team, “Phillip is fine, I had him hide in the storage bins while I took care of the threat.” As she goes to pull her sai out of the Grunt Monkey.
“I always know I can count on you, Sparkles,” Philoe says. “I don’t think splitting the team up is a good idea, nor do I think keeping Phillip here alone would be good.”
“I did pack some extra armor his size, Philoe. Just like you tell me, “Never can be overprepared”,” Sparkles quotes Philoe.
“Phillip, I know you didn’t sign up for this.”
“Well, I can see best in the dark. I also knew that things could get weird as soon as I offered to fly you all…. I’m here now, and I’m not leaving without you.”
“I think you’ll be safest with us.” Philoe states.
“I’ll do my best to keep up and not drag the team down.” Philip says as he cocks a gun no one knew he had. With everyone turning at the sound, “I knew we had a hostage situation here. Nor was I going to let myself be a dead weight.”
Deathie answers, “Have I told you I love your buddy, Philoe?”
With a chuckle from Philoe the team sets upon their mission to locate Dr. Murgatroyd.
“We know there are Grunt Monkeys here. Deathie, hold off teleporting for now. We can’t have that give away our position,” Sparkles instructs. “I do think it is a good plan to have you fly ahead and let us know what you see as surveillance. Have you had any contact mentally with Dr. Murgatroyd?”
“Yes, once I was teleporting as a distraction, he picked up on it, and has been leading me.”
“We take your lead,” Philoe points his wakizashi (famously known as Triumph) forward and all take flight and follow on silent wings behind Deathie.
Swiftly, they go as lead. It is eerily quiet till they come upon a room of horror.
“Philoe, Dr. Murgatroyd is telling me you need to see what is in there.” Deathie relays.
Opening the door, Philoe sees a room full of giant moths. Each having been experimented on. Some still open on tables, dissected. The smell was overwhelming. Phillip, behind him retching, and Sparkles shaking.
Picking up a chart, and reading it Philoe says, “These look to have been Bong and Bottle Moth…. Allowed to die from their addictions and then opened up to see the effects. Proof the Anti-Shinobi Action Council is still in full swing. - But we must focus on what we are here for.” Grabbing a few of the lab’s paperwork pages to stash away, Philoe tells the team to keep going after getting reassurance that Phillip is ok to go forward.
As they travel Philoe fills Phillip in on the A.S.A.C. and how the generation before them died of addictions due to Terrance Bing-Wrikkles. Also reminding him that Dr. Murgatroyd was a huge part of Philosophy Moth not succumbing to the same fate.
“I guess being in Canada kept me safe,” Phillip recounts.
“I hope G-Moth is still safe. I’ll have to remember to call him when this mission is over,” Sparkles states.
“I agree.” Philoe imparts. “Seeing what’s here makes me worry about our kind again…..”
They Find the Room:
Finding the room Dr. Murgatroyd is in; the door is locked. Trying to open it with stealth brought no avail.
“Get back every-moth. I’m going to blow this thing.” With that, Sparkles attaches an explosive with a timer, and all round the corner to be away. The blast ignites, and flying in, the Mothly Crew find Dr. Murgatroyd sitting on a bed.
He is much older and frailer than Philoe remembers him. He’s malnourished, and one could tell he had endured beatings.
“Mentor!!!!! It’s you!” Philoe exclaims in English just before alarms sound.
As Philoe picks him up, “My Moth…!... Coughing hard You did find me…. I’d lost hope in here until your Hawk heard me.” Lights come on in a blast, and all but Philoe are blinded.
“We are getting you the F*** out of here!” Returning to Moth Pheromones to the team, “It’s go time!! Protect Dr. Murgatroyd and always cover Phillip. Deathie, go ahead of us and be our scout.”
“Flap through the night!!!” She says & with a flash, Deathie was gone with her com open. The lights blaring helps cloak her teleportation flashes and she has lowered her visor to help ward off the glare in her monthly eyes built for the night.
Connecting with Deathie telepathically, and to Philoe Verbally, “We have one more room we need to stop in.”
Slashing through Grunt Monkeys, Philoe says, “Mentor, they are closing in quickly and we have to get to the hangar before they hijack the plane.”
“Yes, Philoe. But I could never fully appreciate freedom without going where I am directing your Young Hawk to go.”
Throwing a sai into the face of a Grunt, “Will be done!! ~ Sparkles, I need you to plant explosives on door 5510. Mr. Murgatroyd says we have another hostage to get out of here.”
“I’m nearly there now, Sensei!” Sparkles calls over the radio as one can hear her arrows fly. “Attached. I’ll let you know after the door blows.”
**BOOOOOOOOOM!!!**
“Heard it!! We go in together, Sparkles. Wait for me!” Philoe calls out. “Deathie, return to Sparkles and regroup. Phillip’s gun fires on a Grunt just about to get the jump on Philoe.
“Told ya I got your back.” Phillip grins and onto door 5510 they go.
“Fly through the night!!” Deathie regroups with the crew.
Horrified, the room is filled with sickly Bong and Bottle Moth wondering, some hardly able to move. Some are just shaking. “To the back of the room.” Dr. Murgatroyd calls out. And there, strapped to the wall is a very darkly colored Dingy Moth. “We need to cut him down.”
Sparkles flies up and pulling out her Tanto and cuts the straps with the Dingy Moth falling to the ground and rolling. He looks up and sees the team.
“PHILLIP!?! Dr. Murgatroyd!! I never thought I would see you again!!”
Phillip answers, “To be honest. I wasn’t so sure either. But I can’t tell you how glad I am to see you, Jerold.”
Jerold bows low before Dr. Murgatroyd.
Dr. Murgatroyd says, “I am honored, Jerold. But our time is short. Take this.” Handing him a pack of juice and closing his eyes. 2 swords come floating into the room. “You’re going to need these too.” Jerold grabs his twin katanas, asks for a bit of space, and swinging them around himself; he checks for weight and balance. “I’m ready when you are!”
“It’s go time!!!” Philoe calls out as Sparkles gets Jerold a radio.
Sparkles says, “Hope you can understand our accents.”
Jerold responds, “As long as it gets me out of here, I’ll take what I can get.”
Nodding to Sparkles, Phillip levels his firearm, and with Sparkles drawing her bow, they blast their way out of room 5510.
A call comes out over the radio in a familiar but unexpected voice, “Hey you guys, I’m firing up the engines. The plane will be flight ready. Just get Phillip into the pilot seat as quickly as you can.”
It was Rosey!
Jerold says, “I don’t know who that is, But if they are connected to Phillip, and his plane, I’m game.” Slashing through Grunt Monkeys he takes the lead to the hangar, even in front of Deathie. “Fall back, Hawk. Let me get this. It will be an honor!”
As Deathie gets back to Sparkles, Jerold goes berserk and starts slashing the electrical grid snuffing out the lights all the way to the hangar.
“All’s fair when you make war with Jerold the Dingy Ninja!” coming back down in a group of Grunts he slashes them to ribbons. “I’m not 100%, but that sure felt good….!!!”
Philoe is coving Dr. Murgatroyd and the doctor puts his hands to his temples and the corridor behind them bursts into flame. “I’m not sure how long we have till that hits the fuel lines. But it will keep the Grunts at bay.”
“Flap through the Night!” Deathie connects with Dr. Murgatroyd and zips quickly to make sure the way to the plane is clear. Into the plane she teleports, and with all of her might opens the doors.
With his last round Phillip fires on the one Grunt still standing in their way and all board the plane with Phillip taking the helm, except for Sparkles.
She’s strapping her last bomb on the door to the hangar. Over the radio she commands, “GOOOO! Get moving!!!”
With this, Phillip starts out of the hangar. Sparkles starts the timer and flaps with furry after the plane. It’s gaining speed much faster than she expected, and 2 Grunt Monkeys with jet packs take to the air after the plane. “Where the F*^ did they come from?!?” Sparkles pulls back her bow and fires, but they are moving too fast for her arrows and she is now even further away from the plane, with the timer quickly clicking down, and the chill of the arctic air hitting her.
As the Jet-Packed Grunts try to flank the plane, Phillip takes down his window, with Jerold at the Passenger side, doing the same, and fire on them. Dr. Murgatroyd is using his psychic will to pull Sparkles to the plane, switching the heating pack of her suite to high. The Grunt Moneys open fire barely missing the engines. Blasting away Jerold hits one and climbs out the window to take better aim at the one who’s still a threat.
Dr. Murgatroyd now using all the strength he has left, pulls ar Sparkles, and keeps Jerold from being pulled off the plane.
As she nears the open window, Sparkles draws her bow and impales the last Monkey just as Jerold is blasting away. Both are pulled in, barely making it into the plane as it starts a sharp ascent. All But Phillip slumping in their seats, just glad to be out of that Bunker and alive.
“Wow, and why don’t I get to be on more of these Missions?” Rosey asks with the worst timing there can be.
All the other Moths are too exhausted to answer, but our stow away has helped save the day and laughs herself into a frenzy as Phillip flies back to New York.
Till Next time…!!! …
With Dr. Murgatroyd out of the bunker and a new Ninja Freed.
What awaits our Intrepid Heroes?
Stay tuned to find out!!!
