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Rodents from Beyond: Part Two
by Stephen Schwegler
General Fuzzbottom stared at his captive. Captain Squeak and his
crew – Stink, Stripe, Whiskers and Acorn – had gone down to Earth
to collect a pair of humans that Fuzzbottom thought would prove
useful.
During the mission, Agent Whiskers had an unfortunate
accident. While in a park searching for the toothbrush cleaner
salesman, a rubber squirrel had landed next to him. Mistakenly
thinking it was the newly promoted Captain Squeak, Whiskers
started talking to it. A moment later a very large dog came
barreling towards Whiskers and the chew toy. He didn’t know
what to do. He had never seen one of these before, but was
instantly terrified. Taking a cue from what he thought was his
commanding officer he stood his ground. He, sadly, did not
survive the encounter.
The toothbrush cleaner salesman, Fred Wattsy, was
successfully captured, though, then beamed aboard their ship and
was now being held in a see-through pod.
“What do you want with me?” asked a terrified Fred.
“Wouldn’t you like to know?” answered General Fuzzbottom.
“Yes, I just asked.”
“That you did.”
“You going to tell me?”
“Eh, sure. Why not?”
“Thanks.”
“Not a problem. You see, we’re going to take over Earth.”
General Fuzzbottom waited for a reaction from Fred. None
came.
“As I said, we’re going to take over Earth. Well, invade first
and then start with the whole taking over and whatnot. We’ll
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