"Oh, Furious Squirrel. Where'd you go?" The officer jumped when he saw the hero appear.
"Just talking to a friend."
"Glad you're back. We need an identification from you for this case, you didn't send us your usual pictures."
Furious filled out the report for the police. Handing the pen back to the officer, Furious asked, "Hey, you have any strange reports about... eggs?" He didn't know how to ask this.
"Eggs?" The officer frowned.
Furious said, "Never mind, I..."
"No, wait, there's something. Not sure if it has anything to do with eggs, exactly, but we have had some strange reports of a loud clucking sound near Dynasty Park."
"Clucking?" Furious asked.
"Yeah, loud, deep clucking. Everyone says it sounds like a chicken. Might be related to your egg problem."
Furious tipped his top hat to the officer, "Thank you, I'll check it out."
It was the dead of night when Furious first smelled the odd scent of cooked marshmallows near Dynasty Park in the heart of Neo Utopia. His jet pack kept him aloft as he buzzed over the park, looking for evidence of the missing eggs.
"Wait? What is that?" Furious noticed the bright white shape of an egg near the ground, but it was far too big to be what he was looking for.
Furious landed in the park near a batch of lights along a walking trail. In the dark, behind a bush, rested what looked like a large white egg.
"What on earth?" Furious though he saw it move. He walked toward it, slowly pulling out his electro pistol.
Suddenly, two eyes opened on the egg and an angry mouth snarled. It turned and rose up. The egg was merely the head of some kind of creature. It had perfectly white skin wrapped in military garb.
"Go away!" It stated as it pulled out a strange looking weapon.
Furious fired his pistol at it, but it dodged out of the way and then ran. Running after this egg monster, Furious was certain this had something to do with the missing eggs. He ran around a tree and the egg creature was gone.
"That was random." Furious commented and then tapped his comm unit. "BADGE, I have a situation."
Nova answered, "What is it this time, Furious?"
"Well, kinda hard to explain. But, I just chased an egg headed monster in Dynasty Park. It vanished and... I don't have anything else to add."
"Have you been drinking?"
"Not since lunch. I know it sounds nuts, but EB said that no blank eggs have been coming out of Neo Utopia, the police said the heard some random loud clucking around this park and I just encountered what looks like an egg soldier who ran away and vanished. And... admittedly, that all sounds like I have been hitting the vodka again."
"Sure does. We aren't showing any morphon spikes in your area or other reports. If you find anything solid to report, get back to us." The comm shut off.
Furious said, "I get tipsy that one time and report purple elephants on mainstreet and suddenly I'm just crazy."
Furious Squirrel spent the better part of the night and early morning hours searching the park for any other evidence of egg soldiers or eggs. Nothing.
"Maybe I am nuts." He said as he rested on a park bench, ready to collapse from exhaustion.
The sun was just showing through the trees and early morning joggers had been rushing by him. He wanted a bed or a strong cup of coffee. Several people took note of the steampunk man resting on a bench, a few even recognized one of their town superheroes.
It wasn't a cup of coffee that got him to wake up quickly, but the blood curdling screams from people in the park. Furious looked up to see several of the joggers who had just run by him now coming back in a mad dash as what looked like giant puffy yellow bunnies running after them. These were cute bunnies or people in costumes, but what appeared to be marshmallow bunnies with odd melted holes that seeped red ooze.
"Oh, Nova is NOT going to believe this." Furious charged up his gun and raced toward the two bunnies chasing park goers.
The shambling creatures staggered and stumbled like zombies as they attacked people. One knocked down a woman protecting her child and started gnawing on the womans arm. Furious shot a clean blast and took off the monsters head. The head splatted against the ground and the body began to melt.
"It is marshmallow." Furious commented. He turned to find the other one, but it found him first. The monster rushed at him, its mouth open and dripping red. As it got closer, her could tell the red wasn't blood, it was raspberry raspberry jam. It swung and missed and Furious rammed his raygun into the things gut and fired. A melted hole replaced its body and it flew back and smashed against a tree, blobs of marshmallow and jam littering the ground.
"This is insane." Furious stated just as something bit his leg.
The head of the first one was still trying to attack him. He kicked it away and then melted it with a direct shot.
"You should have quit while you were a head.... HA!"
The screeching sirens of the police arrived and several officers came running up to him. "Furious Squirrel, we got reports of attackers in the park."
Furious looked around to be certain the enemies were gone and then put his gun away. "There were two marshmallow bunnies attacking people."
"Marshmallow bunnies?" The officer frowned.
"They were like zombies."
The officer paused and looked at one of his fellow cops, then back at Furious. "Zombie marshmallow bunnies. Uh, sorry to ask this, but are you feeling okay?"
"I'm fine. But, I might have a hard time selling this story to BADGE. Do me a favor and clear the park and put some officers on the outside for now. I think I know who I can talk to that might help."
The officer said, "You've never steered us wrong, Furious. We'll keep this place secure."
"If you see any more bunnies or egg soldiers, don't hesitate to shoot. They are dangerous."
The officer looked a little worried about Furious, but said, "Will do."
"I'll be back. EB! BEAM ME UP!"
This drew further confusion from the cop, which was only compounded when flower petals appeared and he Furious was suddenly zapped away in a flash.
Furious Squirrel stood still as he waited for what was going to happen in less than five seconds. Right on cue, here comes EB racing up to him.
"FURIOUS!" EB plowed into Furious and was hugging his leg.
Furious casually said, "You know, this looks kinda bad the way you hug my leg."
EB jumped off. "Ew, that's gross. I never took you for that kinda dirty mind."
"Sorry. You're the one hugging legs."
"Did you call for me to transport you just to make fun of me?" EB asked.
Furious said, "Nope. I have found some stuff and I want to know if you have any idea who might be behind this."
"Great, whatcha got?"
Furious explained in detail what has transpired with the egg soldier, the zombie peeps, and the park.
EB hopped around as he contemplated all this. He paused and then slowly put his paw on his face. "Oh, don't tell me. Yup, it has to be that nutter. Seriously, with this guy."
(To be continued...)
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