HOLD ON TIGHT, GUYS; THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE WILD, FLUFFING ADVENTURE!!!
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Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five
Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty One
It All Went To Fluff In A Handbasket
Commander Basil raised his Uzi, sweeping the garden perimeter. Red smoke was billowing from the crate. Bomber, Shadow, Smoke and Ice had their blasters drawn, the steady whine of the guns charging as the screams rang out louder and closer by the second.
Blaster shots rang out in the cottage, and Commander Basil ran towards the door, keeping low as he approached. Pressing himself close to the wall in the small porch, he was just about to breach the door when pounding footsteps hurtled towards him.
“Did you get him?” a voice shouted from within the cottage.
“NO,” came a reply. “He vanished!”
“Where’s Melvyn?” another voice yelled.
“He’s gone!”
Bomber and Shadow caught up with Commander Basil. “What’s happening, Commander?” Bomber asked, his eyes darting in every direction, checking for threats.
“Melvyn’s gone,” Commander Basil answered through gritted teeth.
“What?” Shadow hissed. “How?”
Basil shrugged and shook his head in dismay. “You know as much as I do right now. I don’t know who’s in there, and it would be too dangerous to go inside.”
Bomber nodded. “Havoc, are you in there? We’re back with Commander Basil!”
Havoc burst out of the front door and slid to a stop. “Melvyn’s gone!”
Titan appeared, followed by Viper and Nitro.
Ice and Smoke rounded the corner. “The necro’s gone!”
“What?” Bomber was losing his cool. “How did this happen? You guys were supposed to keep watch and keep Melvyn safe.”
The four Maine Coons looked utterly defeated.
“Melvyn was in the lounge with Vera,” Nitro said. “The necro was screaming in the box. Havoc and Titan came into the house for just a minute. We were drinking tea, and then all fluff broke loose.”
“You were drinking tea?” Bomber gasped. “You left the necro alone, and you were in the house drinking tea!”
The four big cats nodded in shame.
Commander Basil had heard enough. “STOP!”
All eyes turned to him, and silence fell.
“Who came in the house?” he asked, looking straight at Nitro.
“A necromancer, not the one that was in the box over there, another one.”
“Ok,” Basil said. “So this happened like one minute ago, yes?”
The four nodded.
He pointed at the crate. “So what was all the screaming coming from the crate?” he asked.
“Diversionary tactic,” Ice answered, holding up a small device, now deactivated. “It’s a Screamer, an incendiary device that can be set on a timer and left.”
Commander Basil raised his eyebrows, and the four big cats winced. He inhaled sharply and tapped his comms unit. “Astrid, Melvyn has been taken. Scan the area for anything, especially a magical signature.”
“On it, Commander,” Astrid replied.
“Now show me where the necromancer came in and left the house,” he asked calmly.
Following the Maine Coons through the cottage, he saw the patio doors standing wide open and found the colourful blue blanket, which Melvyn had obviously been snuggled under, now half in and half out of the open doorway.
Bomber turned to Shadow. “Take Smoke and Ice and guard the T.T.T.B’s. We don’t know what we’re up against, and the last thing we want to do is lose our only transport.”
The three cats ran out into the garden, blasters ready.
“Commander Basil,” Astrid’s voice sounded in his headset.
“Yes, Astrid?”
“I have synced up with Astrid 7.0 and another A.I. called Dave from the future T.T.T.B. We have scanned everywhere, and there’s no sign of your nephew or any necromancers,” Astrid said. “However, there are several entities, the like of which I have never encountered. Astrid 7.0 says they are Purrminators, and these metal creatures are here to exterminate everybody.”
Basil relayed the last part of the communication, and Bomber instructed Titan and Viper to warn the others outside.
“We need to leave now,” Bomber said hastily.
Basil shook his head only fractionally as he said, “Yes, we must go immediately. There’s nothing here.”
Bomber met his gaze and instinctively knew that something else was happening.
Havoc and Nitro also caught the tiny gesture and walked towards the front door. “We’ll go this way and meet you at the T.T.T.B.”
“Commander Basil and I will meet you there in one minute,” Bomber replied as he heard the front door slam. “Commander, let’s go this way. It will be quicker.” He gestured towards the patio doors.
As they stepped towards the doorway, a muffled cough sounded from behind the floor-length curtains which hung on either side of the patio doors.
Basil and Bomber pretended not to hear, but just as they got level with the curtains, they each took a side, ripping the fabric down, and one second later, Basil had his Uzi poked up the nose of one necromancer. He leaned down and hissed. “Make one sound, and I pull the trigger.”
Bomber reached into a pocket and pulled out a set of anti-magic cuffs and swiftly cuffed the necro. Titan and Nitro appeared, and Basil signalled for them to take the necro after he’d stuffed a white lace doyley off the small coffee table into the necro's mouth, pushing every last bit in. “No more screaming for you,” he whispered coldly.
“Commander Basil, the Purrminators are closing fast. You have less than two minutes,” Astrid advised through his headset.
Bomber glanced at Commander Basil and mouthed. “Now what?”
Basil flicked his gaze to a floor-to-ceiling cupboard built in a nook to the right of the fireplace. The doors were closed. Indicating for Bomber to crouch in the inglenook fireplace. Basil said forcefully as he grasped the patio door handles. “Let’s get out of this cesspit!” And he pulled the doors shut with a bang. He crept behind the sofa, and they waited in total silence.
**AND CUT**
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