Road Rovers: The Iron Fist

Episode 3: Unusual Alliance

By Gerhard Naudé

All Road Rover names (c) Warner Brothers and rightful owners
Striker, Oqulus, Malcolm and all others related to KH Army (c) Gerhard Naudé
Huntress and Silver (c) Greywolf Lupous
Strayers (c) Steven Today
Nitro (c) Amanda Stephenson
Star (c) Kathrine Gore
Sierra (c) Elista Adkins

Any question, comments, complaints, feedback or suggestions can be sent to 
gnaude_@hotmail.com

Road Rover Mission Control, 24 June, 7:30 AM:

It is morning in MC and everyone was beginning to wake up. In the kitchen Shag
was busy cooking food while Colleen was making some tea. Hunter walks in and
greets Colleen.

Hunter:"Morning, Colleen."

Colleen:"Morning, Huntie Wuntie."

Blitz then walks in, but instead of greeting her he just goes over to Shag to
get his breakfast. Colleen looks at Blitz.

Colleen:"Aren't you going to say 'moring pretty girl dog'?"

Blitz:"No, because I know that you will forget my name and make up some other
       stupid one. Then, when I try to bite you I end up begin part of the wall. 
       So forget it." 

Colleen:"What a shame. I was looking forward to it."

Soon Bear, Nitro, Star, Huntress, Exile, Sierra and Silver is also in the kitchen.   
After they have finished their breakfast Bear notices that Striker hasn't come to
eat.

Bear:"Where's Striker? He hasn't shown up for breakfast."

Hunter:"He left very early this morning with the Pack Rover. The gave him permission
        to go to Washington D.C. to pick up a few things. He should be back soon."

Star:"That's good. I want to meet our new recruit."

Hunter:"I think he's more than just a recruit, Star. He knows quite a lot about the
        KH Army."

Silver:"I've heard that the KH Army consists of wolf-sapiens like me. Is it true?"

Nitro:"Yes, it is. They are deadly from what I've heard from Striker. It seems he 
       faced them before."

Bear:"In fact, I believe that Striker isn't telling us all we need to know. He's
      hiding something."

Colleen:"I think so too. Me instincts tell me that he's got a lot of secrets that
         he isn't telling."

Huntress:"But what are those secrets?"

Colleen:"I don't know, but they seem to be dark ones to me." 

The Master appears from his quaters.

Master:"You are right, Colleen. He looks okay on the surface but underneath that I
        sense that he isn't quite what he seems."

Hubert then walks into the room.

Hubert:"Striker's back. He's about to land so know you can go and see him."

Sierra:"Great. Let's go."

The others stand up and make their way to the hanger. The Pack Rover has just landed
and the hanger door was closing. When the Rovers get to the hangar the cargo door
had just been opened. Suddenly the sound of an engine and the headlights of a jeep can
be seen from the cargo hold. When vechile moves out of the cargo hold into the light
it is a Hum-Vee. This particular Hum-Vee was covered with black armour. On its number
plate stands 'EDF 10'. When it stops Striker climbs out. 

Striker:"Hello, everyone."

Hunter:"Hi, Striker. There are a few girls who want to greet you."

Silver, Star and Sierra walk up towards Striker.

Sivler:"Hi. I'm Silver. Pleased to meet you."

Star:"And I'm Star. I hear you did quite a show a few days ago."

Striker:"I guess I did."

Striker then looks at Sierra.

Striker:"And you are...?"

Sierra:"I'm Sierra. Hello."

Striker:"Well then hello, Sierra."

While this had been going on Blitz was busy inspecting the Hum-Vee Striker just 
brought in. Striker then looks over at Blitz.

Striker:"Blitz, don't touch any of those buttons in that jeep."

Blitz:"What will happened? I'm not scared."

Blitz presses a button on the dashboard. Next a large gun which end looks loke an 
arrow appears from the back of the jeep. The arrow-end then opens up to create a
dish. Next the sound of the gun powering up can be heard.

Striker:"Look out!"

Everyone runs out the guns way just as it fires a sonic blast. The blast blows open
a hole in the hanger wall and another hole in wall behind it, revealing the men's 
restroom where Shag was busy drinking some toilet water. Shag was cowering behind
the toilet, covered with debris. When everybody sees what had happened they turn to
look at Blitz, who had just appeared from behind the Hum-Vee. Striker walks up and 
turns the gun off.

Striker:"There's your answer, Blitz." 

Blitz:"Oops. I did a naughty thing."

Colleen:"You're bloomin' right! You could have killed us!"

Exile:"And now lookski what happened! You gave the room of relief new door!"

Hubert and the Master run into the hangar.

Master:"What happened here?"

Striker:"Blitz just redecorated part of Mission Control Beirut-style."

Striker points at the damage. The Master takes a look at the new doors and then 
back at Blitz.

Master:"Blitz, you're a bad, bad dog. You nearly killed someone and now the restroom
        is unusable for the moment."

The Master then turns to Striker.

Master:"What caused this?"

Striker:"It was the jeeps' Sonic Cannon. It fires a sonic blast that destroys anything
         in its path, depending on what intensity it has been set to."

Master:"Is this the vechile you told me about?"

Striker:"Yes. It is a EDF Hum-Vee, straight from the Pentagon's top secret underground
         laboratories. It is covered with titanium armour all over and its weapons are
         the Sonic Cannon, which you just saw, twin Vulcan miniguns, an EMP missile 
         launcher, surface-to-air missile lauchers and Blackjack Mines. It also contains
         numerous other features."

Hunter:"Whoa. Cool wheels. What is it called?"

Striker:"We at the Pentagon all call it the Rhino."

Bear:"You got this from the Pentagon? How?"

Striker:"That's something I don't want to discuss, for now."

Master:"Just make sure that something like this doesn't happen again."

Everyone looks at Blitz.

Blitz:"Okay. Okay. I got it."

Hunter:"All right, everyone. Let's clean this mess up and get that restroom wall 
        fixed."

The others leave to get the cleaning and building supplies while Striker climbs in 
the Hum-Vee and parks it next to the Street Rover. Hunter quickly runs up to him.

Hunter:"I forgot to tell you: you got a new room to stay in. I'll show you where
        it is."

Striker:"That's good. That supply room was beginning to feel uncomfortable. Let me
         just get my belongings."

Striker takes a sportsbag out the back of the Rhino. He then follows Hunter to
his new sleeping quaters. On the door was marked "STRIKER". Inside there was a bed,
a desk and other things. 

Hunter:"There you go."

Striker:"Thank you. I will come by and help clean that mess up as soon as I am done
         unpacking." 

Hunter:"See you later."

Hunter closes the door behind him. Striker begins to take out various items, mostly 
clothes and supplies from the Pentagon. Among them is a picture of a human family 
and a small box. Inside is two gold lockets, each with a heart. Striker looks at it 
for a moment and then puts it away.  

9:41 AM:

The mess had been cleaned up and the hole in wall of the restroom has been
temporalily replaced by a sheet of metal. Everyone was busy sweeping up the 
remaining debris when the Master calls them on the Intercom.

Master:"Rovers, report to the briefing room immediately."

Everyone stop what they are doing and head for the briefing room. They sit down 
at the table to hear what the Master has to say.

Master:"Our satellite has picked up where Parvo's headquaters is. He's 
        transporting dogs for mutation to expand his army of cano-mutants."

Nitro:"Doesn't he ever give up?"

Bear:"You know villains are like those everlasting batteries: they keep going and 
      going and going."

Master:"Since we haven't yet picked up any trace of that KH assault force this
        gives us the chance to stop him as usual. His base is in the state of
        Nevada, near Las Vegas."

Sierra:"Las Vegas? Sure picked a good spot to set up base."

Hunter:"Let's hit the road, Rovers!"

The Rovers howl and run to the hangar.

Las Vegas, State of Nevada, 24 June, 8:21 PM:

The Street Rover, the Cyclborg, the Cycle Rover and the Rhino is driving down the 
Las Vegas strip. Colleen, Hunter, Blitz and Huntress are in the Street Rover, Bear
and Nitro on the Cyclborg, Exile and Shag on the Cycle Rover and Striker, Star, Sierra 
and Silver in the Rhino. The strip is lit with colourful lights from the numerous 
casinos. Everywhere there are people walking up and down from one casino to the other.
Shag is taking pictures as they go.

Blitz:"Look at all the pretty lights."

Star:"You can just imagine what the electricity bill looks like."

Colleen:"Blimey. This is beautiful."

Hunter:"That's Las Vegas. The city in which your dreams can come true. The city with
        a lot of money and Elvis impersonators."

Exile:"And cano-mutant baddest guys on motorcycles!"

Everyone looks behind them as a group of cano-mutants on the bikes. The mutants then
open fire on the Rovers. 

Striker:"Computer. Activate shutters."

The Rhino's windows are quickly covered with armour that has an opening to see 
through. The Rovers then put on some speed and a high-speed chase follows through
the streets. Exile looks out the window and fires an ice beam at the street that 
creates an slippery ice sheet. Two of the bikers slip one the ice and crash, leaving
still four of them. Shag grabs his launcher and fires the missle the opposite way, 
as usual. The missle strikes the arm of the giant cowboy on the roof of one of the
casinos. The arm then falls into the street, barely hitting Bear and Nitro. 

Bear:"Shag, you need more practice with those launchers."

One of the bikes, however, fail to dodge the arm and crashes into it, sending its
occupants flying through the air and into a dumpster.

Bear:"Disregard that last remark, Shag."

Shag:"Rha."

The remaining bikers close in on the Rhino. A shot bounces off the armoured sides.

Striker:"My turn. Watch this."

Striker pushes a button on the console. On the rear end of the Rhino a disk shooter
appears and fires mines at the bikers. The mines explode and send cano-mutants 
flying through the air. One of them land right behind Nitro and puts his gun to
her head.

Nitro:"Hey! No hitchhikers!"

Nitro lands a left hook to the mutants' jaw and he falls off. The police then 
arrive and begin to take the cano-mutants into custody. Meanwhile the Rovers 
head towards the desert to Parvo's hideout.

Parvo's Hideout, Nevada Desert, 9:00 PM:

The hideout is located within a valley in the desert. A laser grid surrounds the
complex with the occasional gate. Inside the installation dogs were being mutated
in cano-mutants. The Groomer is overseeing the operation by counting the number
of cano-mutants under their command.

Groomer:"That makes two hundred. Carry on."

The Groomer heads towards the main control room. Inside Parvo was busy talking to
Digit (from "Gold and Retrievers").

Parvo:"How is our bid doing?"

Digit:"We are still pushing the bid higher but we can't keep it up. If Malcolm 
       Industries keeps coming up with a higher amount we won't be able to support
       one."

Parvo:"This Malcolm fellow is becoming a problem. He is challenging me head-on. If 
       this keeps up I will have to...."

Parvo begins to cough as usual. The Groomer walks up to him.  

Groomer:"Lozenge?"

Parvo:"Cough....Please."

The Groomer shoots a lozenge into Parvo's mouth. He chews it and stops coughing.
He then returns to Digit.

Parvo:"As I was saying I will have to take him out. How many cano-mutants do we
       have, Groomer?"

Groomer:"More than two hundred, sir."

Parvo:"Good. Now try and find where Malcolm Industries' CEO is so that we....."

Suddenly the alarm goes off and the computer gives a warning.

Computer:"Warning. Warning. Road Rovers detected in sector 2A."

Parvo:"Not them again! Groomer, order our cano-mutants to take care of them."

Groomer:"Aye, sir!"

Outside the Road Rovers are approaching the main gate. Cano-mutants are lined up
everywhere with their guns on the Rovers.

Hunter:"Hey, Striker! Show us what the Rhino can do."

Striker:"Orders recieved. Girls, you'd better buckle up. Shutters down and activate
         Sonic Cannon."

The Sonic Cannon appears and begins to power up. As soon as it is charged it fires 
a sonic blast that blows open the main gate, destroys the trucks that where standing 
right behind it and creates a hole in the wall. The cano-mutants begin to fire but
their shot just bounce off the armoured sides. Striker pushes another button that
brings up a missile laucher. He fires a missile at a large group of mutants. The
missile then explodes a few feet from the cano-mutants. They laugh and then point
their guns at the Rhino, but their guns refuses to fire. Striker grins.

Striker:"That Electro Magnetic Pulse for you."

Soon the cano-mutants begin to fall back into the installation. The other Rovers
arrive. They climb out, weapons ready, and run through the hole in the wall. From
his control center Parvo had been watching the entire scene.

Parvo:"Who's that mutt in that black Hum-Vee? He's single-handedly defeated my 
       armies and has let the Road Rovers in." 

Groomer:"I think we'd better leave, General. They will soon be here."

Parvo:"You're right. Say, where's Digit?"

Groomer:"The coward ran way when the Rovers arrived."

Parvo:"It is hard to find to good help who aren't cowards."

The Rovers approach the control room door which is guarded by Fluffy and Dalmat.

Dalmat:"One step closer and we will fire."

Colleen:"Be realistic. There are twelve of us and two of you."

Dalmat pulls a lever and a enclosed metal cage falls on the Rovers. Fluffy and 
Dalmat laugh them silly. Inside Exile tries to melt the steel but fails in that
attempt. Suddenly they hear a weapon charging up which is followed by the screams
of Fluffy and Dalmat. After a short moment the cage is lifted again. The Rovers
then see Striker tying up the cano-mutants. In his hand is a gun similar to the
Sonic Cannon, only smaller.

Nitro:"What happened?"

Striker:"Since there was no-one outside I came in and put these two to sleep."

Star:"What did you do them, anyway?"

Striker:"I set this Sonic Gun to stun. They won't wake up for at least a half-hour."

Striker:"Great work. Now let's get Parvo."

Colleen quickly kicks down and the Rovers rush in just in to see Parvo and the 
Groomer trying to escape through the door. 

Hunter:"Hands up, Parvo. You're going back to jail."

Parvo:"Not so fast, Rovers."

Soon some more cano-mutants come into the room. They hand Parvo and the Groomer
guns. Parvo aims his gun at the Rovers.

Parvo:"I think that YOU should surrender."

Hunter:"Looks like it's Even-Steven."

Next a canister falls in the open area between the Rovers and Parvo's forces. They
all look down at it.

Bear:"What's that?"

Parvo:"That's what I'd like to know too." 

The canister opens up, revealing a crystal.

Colleen:"What a beautiful crystal. I want one of those, Huntie."

The crystal then begin to glow and after a few seconds sends out a blinding flash.
Everyone suddenly falls to the floor, unconsious. From the shadows a mysterious
voice speaks up.

Voice:"You won't need that crystal, Road Rover. For you're all going straight to h***.
       Ha ha ha ha."

Parvo's Hideout, 9:56 PM:

Hunter is beginning to wake up. He's head is still pounding as if he had a hang-over.
He begins look around and quickly becomes wide awake. He was tied to a pole with 
Colleen, Parvo and Striker; Star, Sierra and Bear was tied to another pole; 
Exile, Blitz, Shag and Fluffy to another and Huntress, Silver and Dalmat to another.
He then sees a device sitting in the middle of the room with a timer counting down.
Everywhere there were small devices attached to various objects. The others then 
begin to wake up.

Parvo:"Ohhh...my head." 

Hunter:"Wake up, everyone! We have a problem."

Soon everybody realised what was going.

Parvo:"What? What am I doing here tied up next to you Rovers?"

Huntress:"Ah man! I'm tied up with this bag of fleas!"

Dalmat:"Same to you!"

Exile:"I'm with mutant doggie man? This suckski!"

Colleen:"Blimey! This isn't good for me health, being tied up next to Parvo!"

Bear looks around.

Bear:"Where's Nitro?"

Parvo:"And where's Groomer?"

Parvo sees that his cano-mutator is gone.

Parvo:"My cano-mutator! Someone has stolen the cano-mutator."

Hunter:"Yet another unexpected twist. Bummer!"

Striker was still recovering. 

Striker:"Ouch. My head hurts." 

Hunter:"Striker, can you tell us what that device is?"

Striker looks at the the device in the room and the various smaller devices.

Striker:"Ai yai yai. That is a KH detonation system. That machine activates all the 
         detonation packs that see all around. When it hits zero, you get an big 
         hole in the ground."

Bear:"You mean the KH Army was here?"

Striker:"That's definetly one of their devices. What did they take?"

Hunter:"They took the cano-mutator and kidnapped the Groomer and Nitro."

Striker:"We'd better disable that device quickly. Exile, cut the ropes."

Exile fires his heat beam and proceeds to cut all the ropes. Soon everyone is free.
Striker runs over to Shag.

Striker:"Shag, give me a pair of scissors."

Shag digs round in his fur and soon finds some scissors. Striker takes the scissors 
and runs over to the device. Exile opens a panel so that Striker could cut the wires.

Striker:"I heard them say you have to cut the red wire so let's cut it."

He bends down and looks into the machine. To his horror he sees that ALL the wires
are red.

Striker:"That isn't good. They're all red. There are some numbers above them but I
         don't know which one it is to cut." 

Sierra:"So now what are you going to do?"

Striker:"Descretion is the better part of valour."

Hunter:"Come again?"

Striker:"Run."

Parvo:"For once I agree with you, Rover."

Everyone quickly runs out of the installation. The timer hits zero just as they exit
the building. Next the detonators go off and destroy every corner of Parvo's hideout.
Parvo sighs.

Parvo:"Yet another one bites the dust."

Bear:"No time for that. We have got to find Nitro."

Striker:"And the cano-mutator. It's bad enough that Parvo has one but with the KH Army
         having stolen it is disaster. God knows what they can do with that machine."

Hunter:"So what are we waiting for? Let's roll!"

Colleen:"Huntie, there is just one problem."

Hunter:"What's that?"

Colleen:"They're taken our vechiles and our weapons as well."

Hunter:"Bummer."

Silver:"So what will we do?"

Parvo, Fluffy and Dalmat walks up to them.

Parvo:"Perhaps I can help."

Parvo takes out a remote control. He pushes a button that opens a secret hanger in the
valley walls. Inside is his Bulldog-ship.

Parvo:"Since we both share a common enemy I think we should ally with one another to
       get back the things they stole from us." 

The Rovers look at each other in surprise.

Star:"Us working alongside Parvo and his mutants?"

Blitz:"I think that proposal is stupid."

Exile:"At the first chanceski he gets he will backstab us."

Hunter:"Well, we got no other options. We either work with him or we won't ever see
        Nitro again."

Striker:"You're right. We can't let the KH Military have that cano-mutator."

Bear:"Looks like we will have to agree to his proposal."

The Rovers then turn to Parvo.

Hunter:"Parvo, we accept."

Hunter and Parvo shake hands.

Parvo:"Remember, this alliance is only temporalely."

Hunter:"I'm counting on that. Right, Rovers. Let's roll!"

Everyone climbs onboard the Bulldog-ship and soon they take off. Inside Parvo is 
seated in his control chair, Fluffy and Dalmat is flying the ship and the Rovers
are at the various controls. Exile is busy tracking the cano-mutator's signal. 

Exile:"Signal indicates that mutator is on train in Stony Mountains."

Hunter:"That's Rocky Mountains, not Stony."

Exile:"Rocky, Stony, what's the difference?"

Hunter:"Never mind. Parvo, the signal is being tracked on a train in the Rockies."

Parvo:"Right. Fluffy. Dalmat. Follow the signal."

The ship turns course to intercept the train.
       
Malcolm Industries Supply Train, Rocky Mountains, 10:23 PM:

The train consists of an engine and seven carriages. On a platform carriage a sail
covers the Rover's vechiles. On the carriages sides is an insigna that reads "MI" 
for Malcolm Industries. Inside there are several groups of KH soldiers guarding
the supplies. In the fifth carriage some scientists are busy studying the cano-
mutator, guarded by soldiers. In the next carriage the Groomer and Nitro had just
been woken up by a medic. They are both tied up back-to-back.

Groomer:"What...what happened?"

Nitro:"That's what I'd like to know too."

The Groomer and Nitro then realizes that are tied up together.

Groomer:"What am I doing here tied up with a Rover?!"

Nitro:"I'm a Strayer for your information! I can't believe this; me, tied up with
       the Groomer?! Yuk!" 

Groomer:"I would rather drown than be tied up with you!'

Nitro:"Oh really? Well I'd...."

Voice:"Now. Now. Is this how much you hate each other?"

Nitro and Groomer stop argueing and turn to see a soldier standing in front of them.
He's wearing a suit that looks different from the other soldier's. His helmet is off,
revealing his face. He looks normal except that his one eye has been replaced by a 
crystal. On the breastplate of the suit stands the name Oqulus.

Oqulus:"Greetings, you two. I see that you have woken up."

Nitro:"Who are you?"

Oqulus:"My name is Luitenant-Commander Oqulus. I command the third division of Malcolm's
        forces. I have been order to capture your cano-mutator and to stop your bid
        on Perris Park." 

Nitro notices the crystal eye.

Nitro:"What's with your eye?"

Oqulus:"Your friend, Striker, stuck a needle in my eye and rendered it useless. Thanks
        to this crystal I can now see as if it was my real eye." 

Groomer:"Where's the General?" 

Nitro:"And Bear and the other Road Rovers?"

Oqulus:"By now they should have been killed by our little gift we left for them back
        at the installation. Pity that I couldn't be there to see their demise, 
        especially Striker's."

Nitro:"Bear's dead? You're joking."

Oqulus:"I'm not. Private. Show them."

Private:"Yes, sir!"

A screen appears with a satellite image of the installation. Where it should be there
nothing but debris and a huge crater. 

Oqulus:"See? No one could have survived that explosion."

Nitro and Groomer begin to cry a little and then turn their angry faces to Oqulus.

Nitro and Groomer:"You bastard!"

Oqulus:"Orders are orders, so don't blame me."

Nitro:"Why have you kept us alive?"

Oqulus:"I am hoping that the Groomer, who knows so much about this cano-mutator,
        could possible work for us. As for you Nitro, I think you should join in
        our campaign againts humanity. You're a wolf-sapien, just like us. Why do
        you work for the U.S. goverment that thinks it can handle anything but in
        reality can't keep the peace in it's own backyard and has to send in these
        'Road Rovers' and 'Strayers' to do their dirty work for no payment? That is
        such a pathetic line of work. If you join us you could stand gain a lot. 
        Who knows? You might even become the husband of the Supreme General himself."
         
Groomer:"Never. I will serve my General Parvo till I die!"

Nitro:"I will not join this mad orginization! I have sworn to fight for all that is 
       right. And my heart is with Bear! I would rather die to be at his side that
       become a evil stooge to you!"

Oqulus:"Die, you say? Very well then, since you both failed to accept our offer you
        can join your friends in death. Private!"

The soldier grabs Groomer while Oqulus takes Nitro. They then drag them to the closed
slider door of the carriage. Two other soldiers stand ready to open the doors. Oqulus 
and the private are holding guns againts Groomer's and Nitro's head. Oqulus looks at
Nitro.

Oqulus:"Goodbye, honey. Hope you find Bear."

The slide door is opened. There Oqulus loses his smile as he sees the Bulldog-ship 
flying alongside them. The side cargo door of the ship is open where Hunter, Bear,
Fluffy, Parvo and Striker are aiming their weapons at them.

Nitro:"BEAR!!!"

Private:"Uh oh."

Oqulus:"Qoute me on that too, Private."

Oqulus and the Private throw Nitro and the Groomer into the back of the carraige
and arm themselves, the three soldiers with their strange guns and Oqulus with a
type of rifle. They begin to fire of the Bulldog-ship. The Rovers fire back and
dodge the shots fired at them. Oqulus goes behind the wall and starts radioing 
the other soldiers on the train.

Oqulus:"All Squads! We got Hostiles! Defend the train at all costs!"

Soon all the soldiers respond and begin to fire on the ship with rockets. One
nearly hits the ship.

Parvo:"Pull up! Now!"

The ship soon climbs above the heavy fire from the soldiers, but no sooner had it 
gone above the fire when the rear cargo door opens and the Rovers and Parvo 
jet-pack to the roof of the sixth carraige. Colleen quickly goes over to hatch 
that was just opening. When the soldier emerges Colleen quickly grabs his arms.

Colleen:"Prins Charles!"

Colleen flings the soldier off the train and into a tree. They then climb into the
carraige and close the hatch just as the bullets fly by. Inside the Rovers find 
their weapons on the racks that lined the carraige's sides. They quickly grab 
their weapons. Blitz quickly runs to the door only to get trapped behind it by
the soldier that had just opened it. Hunter aims his tennisball-shooter at him and
he aims his gun at Hunter.

Soldier:"Surrender now or be destroyed!"

Hunter:"This is quite the stand-off."

Soldier:"No, it isn't. Your tennisball gun is nothing to my KH-50 gauss rifle. 
         I can kill you all before you can pull that trigger."

Suddenly the soldier screams in pain and jumps through the roof high in the sky 
before falling back into a pond next to the tracks. Everyone looks at what 
happened and sees Blitz taking some metal parts and clothing from his mouth. 

Blitz:"These tooshies are like nuts; a hard shell on the outside and the good 
       stuff on the inside." 

Exile:"You disgust me."

Hunter:"Let's go!"

They make their to the fifth carraige door. Exile uses his heat beam to melt the
lock and open the door. Just as they walk in they see the Private holding a gun to 
the Groomer's head and Oqulus dragging Nitro out to the fourth carraige. Nitro 
gets Oqulus' hand from her mouth.

Nitro:"Bear! Look out!"

Bear:"Let her go!"

Oqulus:"In your dreams! Private, delay them!"

Private:"Yes, sir!"

Oqulus and Nitro leaves the carraige while the Private turns to face the Rovers.

Private:"Stay back or she dies!"

Sierra appears behind the Private, obstructs his sight with her one hand and pulls
his gun away with the other.

Sierra:"Guess who!"

Private:"Get off me you!"

The Groomer comes loose and Parvo comes up. He grabs the Private and throws him 
through the wooden carraige door out into some cacti. Hunter comes up to Sierra.

Hunter:"Where did you come from?"

Sierra:"I jetted here from the ship and saw you guys were in trouble."

Striker:"Groomer, where is the cano-mutator?"

Groomer:"It's in the next carraige."

Parvo:"Come on! We have get to my cano-mutator back!"

Exile:"Where is vechiles?"

Groomer:"It's on carriage in front of the one with the cano-mutator."

Parvo:"Groomer, take this jet-pack, get onboard the ship and prepare to pick 
       the cano-mutator."

Groomer:"Aye, sir!"

The Groomer takes the jet-pack and leaves the carriage with Colleen following 
behind her. Once outside Colleen helps the Groomer put on her jet-pack.

Colleen:"You better not fly away and leave us on this train."

Groomer:"I won't leave until the General and the mutator is onboard."

Colleen:"That's good."

The Groomer takes off and flies to the ship. Just there Oqulus appears behind 
Colleen and gives her a shock with his pistol. He then flings her over his 
shoulder and walks to the last carriage. Just outside the fourth carriage 
Hunter opens the door slightly and throw a gas-bone in. The soldiers inside see 
the bone just as it releases the gas. Soon the cabin is filled with gas that 
the soldiers can't see through. The Rovers come in and begin to shoot the soldiers
still trying to get out of the cloud. One of them fails to see the open door and
falls out onto the grass next to the tracks. The others get injured and as soon 
as the gas clears crawl out. Inside the Rovers find the cano-mutator and Nitro
tied up. Bear unties her and she gives a big hug.

Bear:"Did those wolves hurt you?"

Nitro:"No. Lucky I'm fine. You should have rescued me two minutes ago. I can see
       you're getting old, Honey."

Bear:"I am not!"

Nitro:"Yes, you are."

Star:"Spare your arguement until we get home, okay?"

A soldier appears behind them and prepares to fire. Huntress quickly reacts and
fires her gun at him. The shot penetrates his armour at the heart and he falls
to ground. Silver runs up to his body and feels for a pulse. She then turns to
Huntress.

Silver:"You killed him."

Huntress:"I..I...killed him?"

Silver:"Afraid so."

Striker:"Well done! Your first kill. You have guts for a young girl such a you."

Silver:"Come on, Striker. Don't you have a little sympathy for him?"

Striker:"No."

Huntress:"That's cold, you know that?"

Striker:"Sorry, but it is just a habit."

Parvo:"Enough talking. Let's get the cano-mutator off the train."

Parvo fires a hole in the roof large enough for the cano-mutator to go through.
Parvo radios to the Groomer.

Parvo:"Groomer, come and winch this up!"

Groomer:"Yes, sir."

Hunter:"Rovers, lets go and get our vechiles."

Nitro:"Hang on! There is a machine gun nest on the carriage that will cut you to
       ribbons."

Hunter:"Bummer."

Shag takes his launcher out of his furr and taps Hunter's shoulder.

Hunter:"Good idea, Shag. We'll open and you fire."

Blitz:"Be sure you aim the right way, Mop-boy!"

Shag:"Rha!"

Hunter goes over to the door while Shag gets ready to fire. 

Hunter:"NOW!"

Hunter opens the door and Shag aims the opposite way, since we all know he keeps 
holding the launcher the other way. This time, however, he aims the way he's  
looking and fires it at Parvo. Parvo sees this and in defence picks up a u-shaped
pipe and holds it in front of him. The missile goes in the one end and comes out
the other. The missile flies to the machinegun nest and causes the soldiers to
run into the second carraige. The missile destroys the nest.

Silver:"Shag, it's the first you held the launcher the right way."

Parvo:"He must get more training with that weapon."

Blitz:"I hate to say that I agree with him."

The Rovers run over to their vechiles, take the sails off and climb onboard: Bear
and Nitro on the Cyclborg; Blitz, Star, Sivler and Sierra in the Street Rover;
Exile and Shag on the Cycle Rover; Striker and Huntress in the Rhino. They set their 
vechiles to fly mode and take off. The Rhino's wheels turn downwards and the propulsion
engines appear on the back. It then takes off like the Time-car (Back to the Future). 
Hunter stays behind to help Parvo get the cano-mutator on the ship. Suddenly the  
carraiges begin to slow down. The Rovers see that the soldier have unhooked the
second and third carraiges from each other and that it was beginning to go 
backwards downhill. Parvo hooks the cano-mutator to a winch from the ship and
radios the okay. The Groomer winches the cano-mutator and Parvo up. Hunter then
prepares to jump off when notices something.

Hunter:"Where's Colleen?"

Everyone suddenly realizes that she wasn't with them.

Exile:"Comrade Colleen must still be on runaway train."

Blitz:"Let's leave before bad wolves make brakwurst of us."

Hunter:"Play dead, Blitz! I'm mot leaving Colleen behind."

Striker:"Be careful. There may still be soldiers on the train."

Hunter then begins to make his way through the carriages looking for Colleen. 
When he goes into the last carraige he meets face to face with Oqulus. Colleen 
is unconsious on the floor. Hunter growls at Oqulus.

Hunter:"What have you done to her?"

Oqulus:"I have given her a little shock treatment. She won't wake up again
        because at this speed the train will derail, killing her....and you
        as well." 

Hunter:"That won't happen,...er...who are you anyway?"

Oqulus:"Luitenant-Commander Oqulus. That is all you need to know. Now I will
        add you to my kill count."

Hunter:"No way, Hosay!"

Oqulus takes his rifle out but before he could aim, it Hunter kicks it out of
his hand. The rifle flies out the open door. Hunter looks at Oqulus. 

Hunter:"Now it's a fair fight."

Oqulus:"Then it is hand-to-hand, eh?"

Oqulus tries to land a blow on Hunter but he uses his super speed to run out of
the way. Hunter then starts running in circles around Oqulus. Oqulus picks up a
pipe and hits Hunter on the chin. He falls to the floor. Oqulus raises the pipe
above Hunter's head.

Oqulus:"Die, Rover!"

Hunter braises himself for the blow but it never came. A heat beam hits Oqulus
in the back from Exile. He turns around to see who attacked him and when turns
around Hunter jumps up and kicks him with both feet in the chest. Oqulus falls
out the door and into the same cacti the Private had fallen. Oqulus sees the 
Private.

Oqulus:"I'm in considerable pain. Ouch."

Private:"Luckily these cacti broke your fall, sir."

Oqulus:"If I wasn't lying on my back in some cacti with a severe chestpain I
        would have hurt you for that remark."  

Meanwhile Hunter comes and picks up Colleen. He then carries her to the door
and radios the others.

Hunter:"Guys, we are going to jump off this train."

Striker:"Are you mad?! The train is moving too fast. You will kill yourselves
         if you jump off now."

Bear:"The river! There is a bridge up ahead. Can they jump there?"

Striker:"If there is a river there is a chance they can jump without breaking
         their necks. After that there is a sharp corner where the train will
         leave the tracks and fall into the canyons." 

Hunter:"We'll go for it."

Hunter looks at the coming bridge and then at Colleen who is still unconsious
in his arms. He wishpers in her ear.

Hunter:"Hold on. We're going for a swim."

When they come to the bridge Hunter jumps off and into the river below. They hit
the water with a big splash. Just there the others see the carraiges leave the 
tracks and fall into the canyon. When they hit the ground they explode with a
loud boom that echos throughout the canyon walls. In the river Hunter has just
surfaced, but Colleen was nowhere in sight. Hunter dives down into the river and
finds her lying on the bottom. He picks her up and brings her up to the surface.
He then puts her down on the bank and feels that she isn't breathing. He begins
to do CPR. On a neaby clearing the Rhino has just landed and Striker and Star 
begin to climb down to them. Hunter is still blowing air into Colleen's lungs. 
Just as Striker and Star arrive Colleen coughs up the water and wakes up. She looks 
around her.

Colleen:"Blimey. What happened?"

Star:"You just went for a little swim."

Hunter:"Are you okay?"

Colleen:"I'm fine, Huntie. Where's Parvo?"

Striker:"He left the area when he got his cano-mutator. I'm rather glad that it
        is in his hands instead of the KH Military's hands." 

Hunter:"Come on. I'll carry you."

Hunter picks Colleen up and they begin to climb up to the Rhino. Hunter gently
puts Colleen in the back seat while Striker radios the others that they are safe.
After that they take off and join the others. Hunter is comforting Colleen.

Striker:"By the way, Colleen. You should thank Hunter for rescueing you."

Star:"Yeah, you owe him one."

Colleen:"How about I repay you now, Huntie Wuntie?"

Hunter:"Umm..maybe later."

Striker:"Let's return to base."

The Rovers then begin to fly back to Mission Control. In his Bulldog-ship Parvo
was busy talking to the Groomer.

Groomer:"I can't believe that you allied with them, sir. They are our enemies."

Parvo:"Maybe, but they helped me get you and my cano-mutator back."

He then walks over to the cockpit window and looks out at the night sky.

Parvo:"Thanks, Rovers. But next time I will not be so generous. Groomer, take
       us to our backup base."

Groomer:"Yes, sir."

The ship then changes course to it's unknown destination. For the first time the
Road Rovers and Parvo worked alongside to defeat a common foe. Will such an 
alliance exist again or will Parvo and the Rovers go it alone against the might
of the KH Military? Only time will tell.

THE END