Piece By Piece

Prank War

It was a beautiful day on Bird Island. The sun was shining, hatchlings were singing, and everyone was happy. The birds traveled across the island using giant slingshots, ever since one came in handy during the Battle of Piggy Island. A few years back, the birds received a visit from green piggies. But after they tried to steal and eat the eggs, a young female bird named Red convinced her people to fight back and they won. The event became historical and Red was hailed as a hero ever since.

Two little hatchlings, Zoe and Vivi, were building a sandcastle on the beach, with their parents keeping an eye on them. Without warning, Red popped her head out from underneath the sandcastle, looking around.

“Bomb, anything from Piggy Island?" Red asked the big black bird, who crawled out of the sand.

“Nope," he replied.

“Chuck, anything to the north?"

Chuck emerged from the sand and gasped. “Nope. Nothin'."

“What's that?" asked Vivi. Red looked through a pair of binoculars and saw something white hurdling through the air.

“Incoming pie!" Red alarmed.

“It's coming straight for us!" Zoe shouted.

“What do we do?!" Bomb asked worriedly as the pie got closer and closer.

“Duck!" Red ordered as everyone got down. Unfortunately, a duck looked up and got hit in the beak by the cream pie.

The birds looked towards the distance and Red zoomed the binoculars in to find a dozen green piggies celebrating next to a slingshot and some more pies. One of them, King Leonard Mudbeard, especially made Red's blood boil.

“Those pigs..." she growled.

“Are gonna pay..." Chuck added angrily.

“For our lunches!" Bomb joined in.

Red was confused, but she tried to fix it. “Uh... Because of our hunger to give them..."

“A taste of their own..."

“Quesadilla!" Bomb finished. Red gave him a look. “What?"

“Okay, enough talk," she decided. “It's time we took action."

Red, Chuck, and Bomb raced into town with a giant bottle of hot sauce and headed for a slingshot.

“It's Red!" an excited hatchling said.

“I'm sorry, everyone, but we're taking over the blue line," Red announced. “Official business."

“Of course!" Pinky said, understandingly. “Anything for you, Red."

“Hey, Red!" shouted Alex, who was painting a billboard. “Isn't it funny how nobody liked you until you saved Bird Island, but now we all love you?!"

Don't remind me, Red thought, but it was true. Everyone saw her as the ugly tomboy with thick eyebrows and anger issues until she saved the eggs from being eaten by the Bad Piggies.

“Ha! Thanks so much for bringing that up!" Red said with a fake smile, then loaded the hot sauce bottle into the slingshot.