Traitors and Roses- Animal Jam Story

VIII.

Victory did not enjoy the hiding spot much. It was dark and silent, and the wood creaked when he moved. He didn't even know this person, and it seemed Commander was gone.

But if he left, he'd let his sister get caught, so he had to wait to leave. Where could Commander have gone?

But then he heard footsteps, and quiet voices. "Major, do you have any idea where we're going?" one asked.

Another voice (probably Major), replied, "Uhm... out?"

"Oh, thanks, Magellan! That helped soooo much!" The first voice commented sarcastically.

A slapping noise.

"Oww!" The voice whined.

A snort. "Then don't complain about my pathfinder skills!" The second voice complained.

Eternal edged her way up to the trapdoor.

"Then be a better pathfinder!" the first voice argued.

A quieter voice this time. "You're gonna get us caught... stop arguing, please," it whispered.

Eternal chose that time to pop her head out of the trapdoor. "Hey! Do you know any way out, then?"

Someone shrieked, and someone else tripped and fell. A clang of metal hitting stone. Someone jumping straight into the air. 

"I'm sorry," squeaked Eternal. She sunk a little.

"Y-you just startled us," a new voice explained. "We thought you were phantoms. I am not going back in that slimy cell. Blecch!"

The first chimed, "Is there anyone else down there?" 

"Uh, yeah!" Eternal replied. "There's me, my brother, Victory, Commander (I think) and this girl named Infinit-"

The voice interrupted her. "Infinity!" The owner of the voice yelled. "Infinity, please tell me you're okay!"

Of course she was. But she had been sleeping. But she jumped up, startled by the yelling. 

"W-what? I never dream about..." she trailed off, shaking her head.

"Infinity!" The voice repeated.

Her eyes went wide. "Legit."

Eternal grabbed her brother's paw, and dragged him out of the trapdoor to the sludge-lined world above.

A pink arctic wolf, a lavender fox, a mauve wolf, an odd-looking penguin, and the sound of phantom movement greeted Victory, and after a heartfelt reunion ("You came back for me!" "Of course! You would!"), a meet-and-greet (So the pink one is a typical girl stereotype. Huh.), and a quick synopsis of what happened (Two days down there! Two days!), he took the reins.

"We have to find Commander," he started.

The fox looked at Victory confusedly. "Who's Commander?"

"Friend of mine," he quickly added, then continued. "He just disappeared. I'm not a jerk who'd leave his friends behind like that anyway."

And of course, they all agreed. That is why the majority were there in the first place.

Might as well stay a while. Get to know the neighbors.

"Put them in their place," Victory finished.

Might as well. Isn't that the point of adventures? To teach those jerks a lesson?

But in their rage and concern, they forgot something so important.

Why do phantoms only have one eye?

Because they never learned that an eye for an eye leaves the world blind.

Big oversight, huh? Beating an enemy isn't about becoming them.

But that was what the ragtag band of rejected Zootopia characters was about to do.