Piece By Piece

Attack on Bird Island

Red woke up at 4:00 in the morning to the sound of someone knocking on her door. Very groggily and without thinking straight, she fell out of her nest and yelled out in pain. When Red got to the door, with bags under her eyes and her head feathers messed up, she found a teenage pig with short auburn hair and blue eyes standing at her doorstep with a bouquet of roses.

“Oh, sorry, sir," she said. “I must have the wrong house."

“I'm a woman," Red grumbled. The teenage pig raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, I get that a lot."

“My bad, I see it now," the teenage pig apologized, and gave Red the bouquet. “I'm Courtney, I work for your man."

“My man?" Red asked, confused.

“Yeah, he wants us all to meet at that mountain shaped like an eagle's head for a top secret meeting. Don't tell anyone."

“I won't," Red assured her. “Let me just get ready... and put these in a vase. And he's not my man."

As Red went back inside, Courtney looked at her phone and texted a friend.

“Can't talk now, saving the world 😩"

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Inside Mighty Eagle's cave, the heist crew, consisting of Red, Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Leonard, Courtney, and Mighty Eagle, gathered together to hear about the mission.

“Each of you has been selected because you're the best in your field..." Leonard began, “... that we could find. Your skills will be put to the test, facing this!"

Using a bamboo chute as a pointer, Leonard dramatically revealed at a photo of Eagle Island on a screen, and Bomb and Chuck stared in amazement as Silver took notes.

“As you can clearly see this is a--"

“A volcano!" Red interrupted, snatching the pointer from Leonard's hoof. “‘A volcano' is what my assistant was going to say."

“‘Assistant?!' You're the assistant!" Leonard argued, trying to take the pointer back. But all they did was jockey over control of the team.

“They remind me of Mom and Dad," Chuck whispered to Silver, who raised her wing and cleared her throat, causing them to stop fighting.

“Actually, it's a composite volcano," she pointed out. “You can tell by the height and the clearly apparent vent clusters."

“Okay, forget I said volcano," said Red, letting go of the pointer. “This is a, um... it's a superweapon!"

“Weird, 'cause it looks just like a volcano," Bomb said.

“Yep, and here's the scary part: this is their psychotic leader!" Leonard announced, pointing at a new image that popped up on the screen. Noticing odd looks from the group, he turned to find an embarrassing selfie he had taken.

“Oops! Heh... How did that get there?" he chuckled nervously. Unfortunately, more selfies popped up on the screen. In some of them, he had weird outfits or filters on. “Next! Next! Next! Courtney!"