Arctic Dogs: Metamorphosis

Chapter 28 - You Know My Name

Wednesday, Third Week of December

Week 3 (Day 1) of Filming

Inside Otto van Walrus' Lair

6.50pm

With the cameras not rolling, the crew had about ten minutes to take a breath as the lair sailed to old Beidongshan. "You guys ok?" Grandpa Walter asked everyone.

Everyone nodded. No one got injured amidst the chaos. The camera crew gave out bottled water for everyone to drink up and hydrate themselves. "This is going to be a tough night," Grandpa Walter motivated the team. "But if my two grandsons can stand up and with his team film the best student film ever made, they will!"

"Yeah!" Everyone's morale went up.

"Now, Swifty, anything to say to them?" Grandpa Walter got to Swifty. The young white fox shook his head. "I'll let the acting do the talking, Grandpa."

The team stood behind the entire puffin army as they prepared to take over Taigasville. Grandpa Walter received a message on Swifty's phone and told everyone, "We're almost here."

The camera crew got up and started recording the footage inside the lair. It was time to head off. Grandpa Walter felt tired, but he was not ready to throw in the towel yet.

The front entrance to the lair dropped forward and the puffin army marched out as upstairs, in the observation deck of the lair, Otto made his appearance and spoke out through an old-school microphone. "Citizens of Taigasville, if I might have your attention," Otto introduced himself. "Drum roll, please!"

Otto heard one of the puffins drumming his stomach. Otto had to stop him from doing it again. "It's just an expression."

Meanwhile, inside the lair, as the SwiftyTV gang, Magda, Grandpa Walter and their camera team prepared to get going, they heard the mega drill turning on. "Get ready," Swifty shouted to everyone. It was now or never.

"Action!"

The team head out into the town and ran out of the lair. Rather than following them, Grandpa Walter stayed behind so that he can get the Top Dogs to get to position. Duke reversed the snowblower and moved forward to just before the exit to the lair. At that moment, the rest of the main team hid behind a snow mount as the puffins started attacking the team with their snowball guns.

"We need to find a clear path to the drill," Swifty told the others that followed him. Around the town, chaos dominated the atmosphere as the puffins attacked the citizens of Taigasville."

Lemmy looked up and peered out, only for a barrage of snowballs to smash him in the face. "If we move at all, they will see us," Magda warned everyone.

"Let me double check," Lemmy peeked up again. Another row of snowballs hit him in the face. "They saw me.," he spit out the snow.

"They won't see me."

The team looked at Swifty. He had just stripped himself nearly naked. Only a pair of white briefs separated him from being completely naked. Fifteen minutes had already passed since landing onto old Beidongshan, known in the film as the arctic town of Taigasville.

Swifty showed why he went almost naked. He manoeuvred around them and their eyes blinked. They could not see Swifty clearly when the arctic fox blended into the snow. It was the perfect environment for Swifty! Camoflauge!

Jade was looking concerned over the prospect of Swifty destroying the drilling machine by himself. "Swifty, this is crazy. I can't let you do this. You could be killed."