UnNatural Disaster

Story by Fenryx on SoFurry

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#2 of Pet Shop Patrol


UnNatural Disaster

Disclaimer: All persons, locations and situations depicted in this story are fictitious and copyrighted to Michael T. Schell 2009 and used with his permission; any similarity to persons and locations in reality are purely coincidental.

A German Shepherd in an armored blue-black police uniform on an armed and armored Harley rides in front of a black semi driven by a brown bunny girl in a blue-black police uniform with a turtle in a blue-black Kung Fu styled police uniform riding next to her. Flanking his left is a ferret in a similarly colored policeman's outfit on a highway patrol Harley. On the dog's right is a white furred and platinum blond cat in an outfit that looks to be a cross between a dominatrix outfit and a police woman's uniform complete with a whip on a bike similar to the ferret.

Suddenly the asphalt starts to crack as if something was battering its way to the surface. Which is exactly what is going on as the tremors worsen. Breaking free from the Earth's crust is a titanic tentacled worm.

The fact that traffic is tied up is a given as there is just no way around the thing and any vehicle that gets too close is picked up and tossed about as if it were a child's plaything. Immediately the ferret, Force Out, and the dog, Ranger X, target the beast with their weaponry. Force Out has a blaster rifle that he uses to fire away to minimal effect although the guns on Ranger X's bike prove to be more of a nuisance to the creature than wither hand held firearm.

Realizing her weapon is rather useless against this monster, the cat, Pussy Whip, sets ot to rescue a few folks struggling to get out of the crater by grabbing them with her whip. Fortunately for her the dog and the ferret has the tentacled worm plenty distracted as other things start to crawl out of the crater the big one created when it surfaced. At first glance they look like giant earthworms but a closer look at the wide band around the middle reveals a set of eight eyes that start to open as the wind caresses their bodies.

Metal rings with bares between cages the eye bands of some of the newer creatures as if to differentiate them from other worm things emerge and start to attack some of the survivors with beams of energy emanating from the end of their bodies still up in the air. The rabbit, Tech Support, picks up a blaster rifle and a jet pack before joining Force Out and Ranger X in attacking the kaiju as the turtle, Shell Black descends into the crater with Pussy Whip to fight the psychic terror worms wielding a three section staff. Pussy Whip and Shell Block are more effective against the man sized worms than the sky scraper sized pet and soon they send them packing.

Tech Support whips something to seal the hole in the road in her lab which just so happens to be in the trailer of her semi. Ranger X, Force Out and Pussy Whip who park their bikes in the back of this same trailer which it was designed to house in the field. As she does this, Force Out, Ranger X and Pussy Whip, with Tech Support's blaster keep vigil over the aperture an then Captain Johnson calls.

"Pet Shop Patrol! Where the FUCK are you FREAKS!?! We got multiple situations around the city!" Johnson screams.

"Dealing with one of them, human!" Ranger X growls back. "We just drove some worms back underground. Tech Support is making something to plug the hole. But do inform the department of transportation that we got a crater on the approach to center city. When we make sure the buggers aren't gonna pop out after we leave we'll move on to another hot spot."

"That one we didn't know about yet," Johnson admits more calmly. "Good job I'm sending intel to Rolling Thunder. It's not much, but this is new to us."

"Bull Shit!" Force Out growls. "Get on the fucking horn to the fucking Feds! Somebody knows something about this. Talk to the German know it all Uber Brain if you have to but I know that I saw a report on these things somewhere."

"The database that we have access to doesn't list these things, Force Out," Tech Support chimes in. "Maybe it's in some secret database?"

"Do we have web access out here?" Force Out asks. "If we do I know a site or two that's not intended for public consumption. They can be tricky getting into though."

"Come see me in the lab, Fletcher," Tech Support requests. "I'll get you on the one I use in here for research."

"And this is definitely research," Force Out says in agreement. "I'm on my way, babe, I just hope my security codes still hold."

"Do you think she just wanted him alone?" Ranger X asks of Pussy Whip aloud.

"Quite possibly," Pussy Whip responds with a giggle. "But not for fun, or at least not yet. when the danger has passed probably but not now."

"Johnson!" Ranger X yells into his mike. "How many areas do we have? Besides this one?"

"Yours makes thirteen, Ranger X," Johnson states. "How effective is the Peacemaker 9000 against these things?"

"Against the big thing? Fairly good but not great," Ranger X reports in an even tone. "Haven't shot any of the smaller man-sized worms yet." Then one of the smaller, only because the big thing is huge enough to have a shot at taking on King Kong or Godzilla, ones makes an attempt to venture out into the light of day only to be shot and knocked down by Ranger X who amends his report with: "Update, just shot and downed one of the man-sized worms with one bullet." Then the thing starts to get up. "It's getting back up! Force Out, are you getting this? I think it may have a de-centralized nervous system."

"Loud and clear, Ranger X," Force Out says as he enters the lab then to Tech Support: "Tell me you have something already please?"

"Almost done, boo," Tech Support states. "I'm calibrating a white noise generator that I hope will keep these things away but allow us to chase after them in needed."

"Won't that work on us too?" Force Out asks with concern. "Ranger X and Pussy Whip less than you or me. I'm assuming you're working on the principle of certain commercial electronics that give severe headaches to certain critters but is safe for humans, cats and dogs."

"Exactly, I'm narrowing the frequency slightly to exclude us. I know I get whopper headaches around those things but I'm still technically a rodent which those things are designed to hedge out."Tech Support admits. "But the terminal is over here." She leads him to the computer terminal where he types in a URL that gets a 404 notice that turns out to be false. "Good first tier firewall, unless you know different you assume the site was pulled." Then the log in screen accepts Force Out as a valid user. "Wow! I could spend days playing here."

"Even for registered users there is a limit on the number of times per week you can access the site." Force Out relates. "Last time I checked it was five but there's the section we need. Let's see, human sized earthworms with human like eyes accompanied by gigantic tentacled worms in a hard shell-like...Eureka! I knew I glanced at this before! At the time I just thought it was weird and left it at that.Now we need the info."

"Biological entities #71 and #72," Tech Support reads. "Origins unknown. Subject react violently to stimulus from the surface. Usually encountered only in old mines or when digging out shelters for...tell me that's not what I think it is, Fletcher, please?"

"I wish it was," Fletcher says with a heavy sigh."#72 appears to control #71 telepathically suggesting psychic ability. More research is needed at this juncture but #72 responds to electronic devices like an over sized earthworm."

"That means I'm on the right track but if that larger one is immune and can smash the generator we're screwed."

"No kidding, think you could makes a cannon of this design?" Fletcher asks seriously. "For the Rolling Thunder at least. According to Johnson these things are all over the place."

"I heard but I designed Rolling Thunder as a mobile lab not a mobile fortress." Hershey says plainly.

When they bring the contraption outside Gundolf and Catherine are firing at tentacles as the big worm if trying to come out.

"About time, Hershey!" Catherine calls half in jest but half serious as well. "I hope you juiced that thing because we need help!"

"Here goes nothing!" Hershey exclaims half wistfully as she turns her machine on.

Tech Support no sooner turns the machine on than they get a reaction out of the beast. Writhing and convulsing it lashes out blindly; striking at anything and everything in reach. Its actions cause a cave in that buries the hole it made in tons of rubble.

"Alright," Tech Support says with a sigh. "That does the trick. A little more extreme than I planned but I can always fine tune it later."

"When you get a chance," Ranger X comments. "Find out how the sewers are holding up. If these things get into the underground there's no telling what sort of mischief they can get into."

"Geez! I hadn't thought of that!" Hershey exclaims as smacks herself upside the head at the realization. "I'll get a bot on it as we go to the next site."

Force Out, Pussy Whip and Ranger X drive their bikes into the trailer before Ranger X drives it to the next trouble spot. Pussy Whip is by his side as Shell Block meditates in the back. Tech Support establishes a monitoring station for all the affected areas.

As she gets everything set up Force Out comes up behind her and gropes her breasts. She had heard something behind her so it wasn't a total shock. But it does serve as an annoyance and amusement.

"We don't really have time for this, Force Out," Tech Support says between moans. "Even if the distraction is pleasing."

"What's our ETA for the next trouble center?" Force Out asks as he keeps molesting the bunny. "We could have time for a quickie."

"It'll take about a half an hour." Tech Support answers honestly. "Which would leave time enough for a quickie..."

Hershey giggles after she just gave Fletcher the opening he needed to start groping her groin as well as her bosom. Rabbits like her, not to mention most other females among their kind, get false heats at random intervals which can be made more frequent by interacting with males. To his credit Fletcher is now pushing all the right buttons to induce a false heat in Hershey as her panties become wet with feminine juices.

While ruefully telling herself she's going to regret this later, Hershey opens her blouse to let Fletcher lick at her tits before taking off panties, Fletcher unzips his fly and lets his cock come out to play as he takes advantage of the false heat he knows he's created. Even as they have little of it, Fletcher takes his time entering and receding within Hershey, something she appreciates as they go on.

As the team approaches the next site, Fletcher and Hershey finish up their quickie and get redressed. After sharing a passionate kiss, Hershey extracts a promise from Fletcher not to tell the rest of the team what they just did and especially not Catherine. Appreciating the situation and readily agrees as they also agree to an open relationship if sorts as they are not going to tell the others that they plan to get together from time to time to have some fun.

Unfortunately for Hershey while she has no intention of telling Catherine verbally what she and Fletcher did her body betrays her. Both cats and rabbits are renown for their carnality so Cat knows the "I just had sex" bounce to a female's step all too well so when Hershey comes bouncing out of the semi followed by Fletcher Cat gets a bemused smirk on her face. However, considering she just swallowed a load of Gundolf's cum not too long ago she doesn't have much room talks she knows it so she lets it rest for now.

"What's wrong?" Gundolf asks as he hugs Catherine from behind. "You seem rather agitated. If it's something I did..."

"Not you, hon," Catherine says as she dry grinds her hips against his. "Just a mix of annoyance and amusement."

"About?" Gundolf inquires.

"Just something Hershey and I were arguing about earlier and she did something she was going to chastise me for doing." Gun just gives her a look. "Let's get through this adventure and I can show you."

The Pet Shop Patrol engages the enemy at the site where the invaders are already embroiled with S.W.A.T. teams of humans who are hard pressed to just hold their own against the monsters from below. While the rest of the team goes to town on the enemy. Tech Support unpacks another white noise generator. Surveying the area, Tech Support realizes they're in the financial district which sets parts of her own psyche against one another.

Her generator will cause the tunnel digger to go berserk which will cause billions of dollars in property damage and wreck the cars and limos of many people with more money than the team will see in their collective lifetimes. But if she doesn't use her machine property damage will still occur with lives lost in the process including fellow officers. Shrugging her shoulders she flips the switch and turns on the machine.

Both the tunnel diggers and their worm folk mostly writhe in agony as the noise drives them back from the source of pain. Windows shatter as the digger flails its tentacles. Fortunately members of the city's Anti-Super Villain Defensive Task Force are on hand to keep the potential damage and injury from flying debris to a minimum.

Worm folk with cages around their eyes are more resistant to Tech Support's generator but not to Pussy Whip's weapon of choice or Shell Block and his staff. They fire beams of purple energy onto their attackers that does nothing to Cat but Don starts to falter for a moment and then turn to Cat as if he was going to attack her but snaps out of the trance as quickly as he went into it. With a very pissed look on his face he stats striking the worm folk harder than before.

Realizing their ploy had back fired the worm knight flee back to the hole from whence they can. Shell Block does not pursue but is only just keeping his anger in check to keep himself from going after them. When asked what happened it takes several moments before he can actually answer.

"They almost made me break my vows," Donald growls. "For a moment they were in control of my mind. When I faced Pussy Whip they wanted me to kill her. I took a vow to respect all life as sacred and not shed blood needlessly." Donald gets shame faced. "Buddha forgive me, I was so angry I could have killed one of them. My only saving grace that might excuse me is the knowledge that I was defend the lives of others. So much hatred, so much rage, these things are so angry at us...but why?"

"They're a territorial bunch," Fletcher states. "I would say that somebody invaded their turf but with this many invasion points makes that seem unlikely unless they're expanding for some odd reason..."

"That site said nothing of their internal politics," Tech Support speculates with a finger to the side of her muzzle. "But maybe they need to expand and see us as competition!?"

"Hey look!" A bystander yells. "It's the Grand Designer! And he's not alone."

Sure enough a human in a golden suit of powered armor with a shining cross on his chest arrives with similarly religious (Catholic) attired human heroes following close behind.

"More of Moreau's monsters!" Grand Designer bellows amplified by the suits own internal sound systems. "Why do these aberrations in the eyes of Almighty God walk the streets? Such things are a crime against the natural laws of out Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

"Who let this nutter out of his cage?" Ranger X wonders aloud."We're here to do a job what are you here for? Making a fool of yourself street preaching?"

"How dare you?!?!" Grand Designer thunders. "We just drove a squad of invaders..."

"Just one?" Force Out asks mockingly. "This batch was our second. We're the Pet Shop Patrol, bigot! The city paid Moreau to make us."

"This city actually contributed to Moreau's wages of sin?" A nun asks incredulously. "It would seem, Grand Designer, that we may be hampering God's will by fighting these worms."

"Indeed, Sister Apocalypse," a man in a cassock and hat like some depictions of a Jesuit missionary priest says with great disapproval. "It could be that this attack is retribution for encouraging the creation of such blasphemies as these 'humanimals'. Tampering with the work of God has always led to disaster."

"Truer words have never been spoken, Apologist," Grand Designer says in agreement. "But these worms come from the bowels of Hell. The Holy Book would tell us no less. We have a duty before God to send minions of Satan back to his Unholy Realm. The only question remains if we need to destroy these abominations first."

The S.W.A.T. teams take aim at Grand Designer and his flunkies.

"But why?" The Apologist asks in an astonished tone of voice.

"These abominations are fellow officers," one of the police men answers angrily. "Monster or human they just saved our butts! They took doown those things without turning the district into a wasteland."

"we heard what you fucking pedophiles did!" Another officer yells. "You preached as their big worm ATE a whole squad!"

"Better for them to go to their eternal reward in Heaven for their aiding the will of God," the Apologist proselytizes, "then to live with the shame..."

"Buddha, give me strength!" Donald shouts before Grand Designer attacks him yelling:

"Heretic! Blasphemer! Satanist!"

The blast deflects off of his shell but Ranger X kills Grand Designer with a shot to the head.

"GRAND DESIGNER!!!" Apologist and Sister Apocalypse yell as one.

"Godless heathen!" Apologist angrily shouts as he opens his book. "By the..."

He never gets to finish whatever invocation he was about to vocalize as Force Out shoots the Apologist in the head and kills him instantly.

"Spawn of Satan!" Sister Apocalypse screams as she rushes to tear the boys apart as her posture and her speed towards Force Out and Ranger X indicates that they will be her primary targets.

The S.W.A.T. team is about to fire when Pussy Whip shakes her head.

"Save your bullets, boys, I got this." Pussy Whip says cockily as she snaps her whip and grabs a choke hold on Sister Apocalypse's throat. A sickening crack is heard as Catherine uses her whip to throw the zealot back. She does not get back up when she hits the ground.

"Was that really necessary?" Donald asks in an annoyed tone. "My shell deflected the blast. we could have just disabled them."

"Shell Block, sugar," Tech Support says comfortingly. "Those three wanted to kill us and just because we aren't human. They were also reckless with the lives of their fellow humans. All in the name of their faith. I'm not saying they deserved it but ultimately they were going to force a confrontation that we could only walking away from by killing them. Heroes like that we can do without."

"We need to move into the next site," Ranger X states. "Our apologies for leaving you a mess..."

"Not a problem, Ranger X," the squad leader states. "Tech Support was right, I know their files already. Given the chance they would have killed each and everyone of you. Good Hunting."

"Thanks," Ranger X says as the two squads human and humanimal salute each other before the Pet Shop Patrol moves on."

"So what do you think?" The commanding asks his squad.

"Whatever we paid for those five," one officer says. "I was money well spent. So what if they're humanized animals? They're on our side and they do their job as professionally us they can and that's saying a lot."

"Two of those invasion points with minimal casualties." A paramedic speaks up while treating a wounded civilian. "They're never going take away our jobs but they'll help keep a lid on the crazies to be sure."

"My tax dollars brought those guys here?" Her patient asks. "I'll chalk it up to an official super team willing to do what's necessary. But it look like the turtle has a real good head on his shoulders. Even if his advice is ignored at least I know they have a measure of restraint when its needed. I thought the Grand Designer had some good points but out right murder? If they exist and they're doing good things for all of us, let 'em live!"

En route to the next trouble site the team hears about another super team that has come to the city to help out and unlike Grand Designer and his cronies the Fabulous Five are a lot more open to other supers who are not exactly human. Led by Mister Fabulous, also called the Fabulous Fireman who can turn himself into living flame, the team is loosely based on the Chinese version of the classical elements. Other members are the flexible Rubber Dude, the breezy of easily distracted Valley Girl Airhead, the sentient robot Metal Man and the sentient and at times sensual plant creature who calls herself Dryad.

Tech Support actually has an on-line relations with Mister Fabulous who is out of the closet and is quite literally at times a flaming queer. As luck would have it three of the trouble spots form a kind of triangle of trouble and its here the Hershey drives the semi to back up the other quintet. But this is going to take another hour trip that both teams are working on getting to arrive in the correct vicinity due to traffic problems.

Cat leads Gun to a secluded area that Hershey uses as a makeshift bedroom for long drives. It isn't much, just a mattress on the floor, but for what she intends it'll do just fine. Gundolf allows Catherine to to push him onto the mattress and unzip his pants as a prelude to further festivities.

Pussy Whip gives her intended a prelude to the activity they are to engage in she gives him another blow job to start off as she unzips her nether regions, a spot on her uniform many tend to overlook but it's one Catherine is thankful of for a number of situations including sex. When he is sufficiently hard enough the kitty guides the dog's cock into her own pussy before impaling its length the cups over her breasts for his entertainment. Gundolf gropes her breasts as she rides him much to Catherine's delight.

Ranger X and Pussy Whip take their time with each other, enjoying the way their bodies interact and how what sensations occur in reaction to the pleasure their shared activity garners. Even the formation of Gun's knot and how it seals their groins together for a time is taken as something to enjoy. While Catherine works her inner walls in Gundolf's trapped member within her he starts licking and suckling at her breasts adding levels upon levels of pleasure to their playtime.

When the trailer reaches its destination the dog and the cat have finished their quality time together and ride out with Force Out to try and deal three diggers and fifty worm folk in support of the Fabulous Five. Airhead and Rubber Dude, the former is a flying blond in a pastel blue and white uniform while the latter is in an aquamarine jumpsuit with sea green goggles, are doing crowd control by keeping the tentacles of the diggers from smashing into people, as well as snatching them up for lunch, even as they have to keep others from meandering into the war zone with blank stares. Dryad, who looks like a walking tree sculpted with the voluptuous curves of a supermodel and Metal Man whose body looks something like an anime version of the tin woodsman of Oz re-envisioned as a mixture of Japanese Sumo and American Pro Wrestling champion, work as one of the daggers and together they are beating a digger into submission when Tech Support switches on her machine.

Tech Support deploys over sized speakers to broadcast the white noise to disrupt the monsters and ends up with unexpected result as Dryad and Metal Man react to the new vibrations. The differs flail about and ultimately fight each other, killing the one Dryad and Metal Man weakened as the rank and file worm folk flee as everyone in the vicinity "hears" screams of pain in their minds. The ones with cages over their eyes just glare at the semi and all twenty of them slink their way towards it menacingly.

Ranger X and Force Out blast away with their guns the bolts of which bounce off their force fields harmlessly. Frustrated Ranger X takes out a tonfa like modern police nightstick while Force Out takes out a pair of trench knives as they are joined by Pussy Whip and Shell Block. All together they fan out and take on the Worm Knights in hand to hand combat.

As it turns out the force field the worm knights erect are great against projectiles of any sort. However, against melee attacks the force field is absolutely worthless. Pussy Whip has trouble until she decides to tag team with Ranger X, making an entanglement attack so Gun can wail away at it.

Ranger X's use of force ends up the battering the cage into scrap metal not to mention causing the eye to glaze over. Several worm knights target Ranger X with their mind control attempts but due to the enhancement that Tech Support built into the helmet he keeps his sense of self as he and Pussy Whip randomly select another knight to victimize. Individually Shell Block and Force Out are having similarly success experiences.

Mister Fabulous joins Dryad and Metal Man at the semi as Airhead and Rubber Dude are still doing their best to keep the innocent bystanders at bay.

"Hello, Fabu, how are you?" Tech Support coos which draws a smile from Mister Fabulous. "It's Tech Support, darling, I'm the official gadget girl of the Pet Shop Patrol."

"Hershey!" Mister Fabulous erupts and almost turns off his flaming abilities. "How is, girlfriend?"

"good for the most part, Freddy," Hershey says with a smile. "Whipped this little baby up to take care of our friends. I hope it's not annoying your friends."

"More like we can feel it, Tech Support," Dryad says with a smile. "But you've made some weird vibrations."

"I don't know," Metal Man jokes. "Put a beat to it and you might be able to dance to it." And then proceeds to do the robot for the amusement of all.

"But you have three cute boys to choose from..." Fabulous says as he looks at the guys with lust in his eyes. "Not sure about the turtle but I do like doggy style and snake charming."

"Quench the fire, man," Hershey half-jokes. "The ferret is mine and the kitty has claimed the doggy for herself."

"is that you're room mate, Cat?" Fabulous asks.

"Yup, she's on the mend relationship wise. But Ranger X in amendable. I think someone was in my crash space coming over here." Tech Support partially grumbles. "Not that I really blame her."

"Wait a minute!" Metal Man thunders with a smirk. "A cat and a dog actually getting along? Let alone having consensual sex? Good Lord the damned televangelists may be speaking move truth fully than they know about the end times being upon us."

"Oh, stop it you!" Dryad growls playfully as she whaps Metal Man upside the head. "I swear you're as bad as the Grand Designer!"

"No, Dryad, honey child," Fabulous chastises in a mocking tone. "As much as I'd like piece of that ass, it's so tight!" Fabulous does some snaps. "No offense, Metal, love, but God those ass cheeks are tighter than you've EVER been riveted!"

"Oh, Fabu," Hershey says sheepishly. "I would dash those hopes of doing that guy. He's well...dead."

"Girl, what do you mean and how do you know?" Fabulous demands to know. "I'm not going to entertain revenge thoughts but as much as I wanted to fuck that bastard I also wanted to kill him myself. Hell, if I could I'd give the boy a medal."

"Bugger attacked Shell Block for calling out to Buddha, so Ranger X shot him." Tech Support states as Fabulous is looking to see who's who. "Shell Block is the turtle, Fabu, Force Out is the ferret and Ranger X is the dog."

"Gotcha, bunny girl," Fabulous says with a nod. "So how is field work working out?"

"Dealing with these things is our first mission actually," Tech Support says with a smirk. "I'm actually enjoying myself. Gundolf is a stand up dog, I feel good about him as filed commander. We have a good team and we're gelling."

"The dog is in charge?" Dryad asks as she watches Pussy Whip and Ranger X work together to brutalize the enemy. "He's confident and competent." Then she sees him shoulder block Force Out out of harm's way. "He's not afraid to take one fro the team. Hie is a good leader and he works well with Cat too. Moreau did a really good job putting all of you together. I'm disappointed that Grand Designer had to be put down but I guess it was inevitable. Killed by one of the bery things he hated most." Dryad giggles. " Ironic an a bit of poetic justice really. I wonder how the media will cover it; will they tell the whole story or just the fact that he was killed by a furry?"

"Sounds like it was self defense to me," Metal Man states. "But I know not everyone is going to see it that way in the larger supers community. Killing is a big no no among our peers except in extreme circumstances. But the fact you were fired upon first will mitigate things. That and the fact as duly appointed officers of the law you are authorized to use lethal force. Expect an inquiry but I'm fairly sure you'll be cleared."

Despite what Hershey's machine does to them the worm folk starts come out in droves into one huge mass. The worm knights join the collective with the two surviving diggers. What arises from this sea of monstrosity is a massive entity roughly twenty feet tall of vaguely man shaped with the diggers as its "hands" and eye spots in triplicate a long with a mouth spot on the "face" of the thing.

It scoops a couple of handfuls of humans and pops them into his mouth. A terrifyingly loud and sickening series of crunches can be heard but no screaming. The heroes stand helpless to do anything as Ranger X confers with Tech Support as the thing blows the speakers with energy beams.

"Uh, Tech Support," Ranger X calls over their band. "Do you have any idea what this thing is? And more importantly, how we take it down?"

"I have no clue, Ranger X," Tech Support calls back. "This while invasion is a new experience to me."

"Hershey, honey, it's Fletcher," Force Out says as a new helicopter overhead. "Can you find out what knuckle headed nincompoop gave the O.K. for that chopper? Or at least try to convince them this a bad idea whatever they are trying to do."

"I'll get on it, Force Out," Tech Support says in agreement. "But more than likely they haven't declared this a no-fly zone got and some gonzo reporter decided to make a name for herself."

"Puny humans!" A booming telepathic voice growls loudly in challenge as the thing takes a swipe and turns the helicopter into a fireworks display. "You dare defy the will of the Wormen!?! We are the Emperor and we shall conquer this surface world to meet the needs of our people. Resistance is futile! The Conqueror Worm shall devour all!"

"Tech Support, can you mod my bike to fly?" Ranger X asks casually. "I wanna spit in this sucker's eye and blast his face."

"I'll get right on it!" Tech Support says enthusiastically. "Your Peacekeeper has a conversion mode for that I'm sure."

"it does?" Fabulous asks as Tech Support has her communications on citizens band radio in the cab of the semi.

"Yup, I had a paw in the design." Tech Support stats. "The gyroscope anti-grav unit is reverse engineered from Roswell. But it was deemed unstable for practical use. But I think I've worked the kinks out of it."

"Heather, Bob," Freddy Jupiter, Mister Fabulous starts to say as he looks over at Airhead and Rubber Dude.

"We'll be there to help out," Heather Mars says as she nods to her friend as does Robert Neptune, the flexible Rubber Dude.

"Are you sure they're alright, Fred?" Bob asks. "They killed Jesus, he was a bugger to be sure..."

"I hear you, Bob," Dryad says. "But they attacked them and unlike us, the Pet Shop Patrol are police officers. They were created as a kind of S.W.A.T. team to take on super villains."

"Right and remember all those personal attacks on Fred due to his orientation," Heather adds. "He's not defending what they did as necessarily...Oh, Fudge! I hate to speak ill of the dead..."

"Yeah, I guess he deserved it," Bob reluctantly admits. "So what's the plan, Fred?"

"Tech Support," Fred asks of his friend, "can you give Metal Man a copy of the plans you used for the White Noise generator?"

"Sure, it's a modified version of a commercial sonic deterrent." Tech Support says offhandedly as she give Metal Man a compact disk of the data. "The mod is more to make sure it doesn't drive me and Force Out crazy when it's in use."

"Simple yet innovative," Metal Man remarks. "I can modify my blast beams to this no problem. Now its time to clobber that thing!"

"Tech Support," Ranger X asks as the team comes running up to the semi. "Who are these guys, Are they friends of yours?"

"Ranger X, meet the Fabulous Five!" Hershey shouts. "Mister Fabulous and I are old friends. We can count on their support taking on this thing."

"good to hear," Pussy Whip says. "Now how are we going to get that thing?"

"Peace through superior firepower!" Tech Support beams as she presents Force Out and Pussy Whip each with what looks like a stinger missile system. "I designed these to produce explosions with a sonic secondary effect that should break up the collective. But it will take a concerted effort. Ranger I've modified your bike to fly. It generates sonic pulses as near constant auras a field around you. I gave Pussy Whip a shorter range but more powerful missile launcher than Force Out and I will use."

"So with a coordinated blast we'll be able to put a big whammy on this thing," Ranger X says to show comprehension.

"There doesn't look like there's much room on that bike, Tech Support," Pussy Whip asks, "where will I be sitting? I don't mind being a biker babe..."

"You'll fit, Pussy Whip," Tech Support with a smirk. "You can lock your boots together can't you?"

Force Out, Ranger X, Pussy Whip and Tech Support share a lusty look.

"Let's do this!" Ranger X shouts. "Pet Shop Patrol, Move out!"

Mister Fabulous and Airhead fly out with Ranger X and Pussy Whip to challenge the Emperor Worm as Tech Support and Force Out take careful aim. The sonic waves his bike is emitting cases the Conqueror Worm much pain. Before they can take out the nucleus that controls the body in the head it becomes necessary to take out the fists of the monster.

Working together Mister Fabulous and Airhead blast one fist with fire and cold winds before the furries blast it out of existence with their weapons. This method is repeated for the other fist before they go for the head. Metal Man is blasting the feet with white noise and waking the legs instead gas are soft as Dryad and Rubber Dude do their best to distract the thing.

The combination of multiple moving targets; the unsteadiness of its legs and the confusion it creates causes the worm collective to stop and writhe in pain as it makes up its mind who to strike first. It's indecision is its downfall as the Pet Shop Patrol is able to disrupt and destroy the nucleus and much of the main body in short order. The worms scramble back to their holes vowing vengeance for this defeat as the city breathes its own collective sigh of relief.

While many call for an investigation of the Patrol's actions that led to the death of the Grand Designer and company the national media makes the incident into an open and shut case of self-defense. After an awards ceremony for all ten for saving the city the Fabulous Five and the Pet Shop Patrol part as friends and allies Captain Johnson chews everyone out for the killing in private but only Shell Block really listens, the other four argue self-defense and while their Captain is publicly unconvinced and expressed his condolences to the families of the slain while privately and away from is chargers, he is proud of how they conducted themselves.