We start off with Becky and quickly build up from there!

Becky's fun to write.

 
Slight language

For those of you who've never, ever heard of Becky Joy before, here's the skinny. She's about 22 to 24 years old, but acts like a hyperactive brat kid most of the time, prone to rash decisions and brash actions, which is why she skipped off around the block as her Knob Goblin guards dining, and Todd Blackpaws, whom she was travelling with, flirted with a cute neko at an ice cream shoppe.

But Becky suddenly felt the wild uncontrollable urge to skip around the block after finishing off her pasta! Go Becky, it's yer bir'day! Becky was still hypnotized by this futuristic city, which had concepts that amazed her. She didn't know what was magic and what was non-magic even! The street lamps clearly weren't gas lit lamps. Becky had no idea what they were- but that's okay cause when you're skipping, electricity doesn't matter.

Lotta battle scars in this city, Becky thought ominously to herself. I better be careful and make sure I don't get sidetracked so I can bounce right on back to Todd and my Knobbies pretty soon.

Moreover, something suddenly didn't feel right in the air to Becky. Not far away the sound of echoing boots on the streets could be heard. The direction they were headed seemed to be unknown but it was close by.

Oh sweet Jarlsburg!! Becky thought to herself, getting wildly excited and happy. Parade!! Boots mean marching and marching means parades!

With that, Becky spun in a full circle, then rushed after the sound of the 'parade,' only to find instead a group of soldiers leading away a group of prisoners. As Becky gets closer, she saw that the prisoners were in fact Knob and Brutes. A further look and she was able to make out the form of Sir Fumblies Falanges.

"Uhho!" Becky said, a little too loudly! She backed up so she wouldn't be spotted, covering her mouth, as her mind instinctively told her things she could do.

Attack them and take them by surprise!

Steal him when no one's looking!

Go get ice cream!!

Dress up like a ghost, and scare them!

... said Becky's tactical voices.

"Oh, I'll go get ice cream!" Becky said, turning around and starting to skip off. Then she did a "!?!" expression, turned around and jumped out in front of the soldiers carrying Fumblies away. "Hey, I gotta borrow him to get ice cream for me! I broke!"

The soldiers were unamused at her antics and prepared to attack while Fumblies tensed up, ready for action even with his shattered arm. The guards had each of his troops well guarded, at least four to one while they marched them down the down the road.

"Hey, play nice or you're gonna get in trouble!" Becky ordered. As she did, she pulled that toy yeti focusing device from a spare pocket and frowned deeply. "Are you gonna be nice or am I gonna have to rough ya up?! Todd taught me to say that! Cool huh?!"

Fumblies merely shook his head as he watched the closest Philler Gang soldiers lunge to attack. Mistake. Becky had been using her silly antics as a cover to focus a bigger attack, just in case they weren't inclined to 'play nice.' The second they moved to attack, Becky throw a powerful second level snowstorm at both of them, throwing the enemies off guard as Becky raced forward to help Fumblies!

Fumblies turned towards his lead Brute and nodded, giving the signaling; in seconds all of them started to attack the Philler Gang as Fumblies tried to help out as best he could with his shattered arm. Becky made a sad face seeing he was hurt and said to him, "We gotta get you some ice cream so you can heal your arm!"

"Not going to be that easy, Becky." Fumblies shook his head and returned to fight off as many of the Philler Gang as he could. Becky helped him, throwing up ice shields around Fumblies and his warriors before throwing out attacks with wild abandon.

"Do you think I think we're in trouble?!" Becky asked, scared and wishing she had her Knob Goblin buddies here! Oh and Todd and Zanther Wolf, and ice cream cause she didn't get any.

"Yeah you could say that, Becky." Fumblies dropped to a knee as one of the Philler Gang came at him with swing an axe at his head. He countered with a fireball to the half giant's chest. This only served to piss the Philler Gang member off, causing him to start swinging with deadly intentions.

Fumblies felt the wind of the axe blade when, out out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black blur. Before he could feel the impact, he found himself on the ground with a smiling panthress on top of him. "Are you all right? You are a hard man to follow."

Fumblies blinked slightly as he looked up at the panthress on him, with his mind momentarily thinking about the fact this wasn't quite the way he had envisioned the event. His arm having hit the ground from the impact caused him to grit his teeth in pain. "Well not by choice." The pain from his shattered arm were making his words come out in a growl.

Fahari smiled at that growl, nearly giving herself over to a fit of rubbing before sliding off with a wince of her own. Having reset the shoulder didn't mean it didn't hurt and she was doing her best to not whimper like a kitten as she turned on the giant who was reorienting on them.

From the ground, Fumblies sent fire ball right into the axe swinger's center mass causing the giant to fall back into a few other of the Philler Gang members. As this happened, Fumblies got up to a knee. "What a pair we make."

"What a trio!" Becky dove in for hugs. But they were surrounded by enemies. Becky's dive happened to catch Fumblies's shattered arm, jarring it to casing him to yell in pain.

"Sowwie," Becky said, absentmindedly standing up and blasting the enemies. Fortunately, a group of six or eight heroes, Becky wasn't sure which, had also attacked the enemies. This attack caused the now overwhelmed Philler Gang to retreat leaving a few of the injured and incapacitated behind.

"It is okay, just need this taken care of before too long." Fumblies fell silent as he realized that some of the Goblins were still in the hands of the Philler Gang. All told, all the brutes and most of the Goblins had been freed but it looked like at least three of the Knobs were being taken by the retreating enemies.

"We need a plan," Becky said in a moment of realization. "Let's take naps!"

Becky then shook their head and she tugged at Fumblies's sleeve. Even if he didn't have a sleeve. Oh, oh and she asked, "Fumblies, I don't wanna take a nap! Can we save our Knobbies instead?!"

"Well that is what I would like to do but do you think we have enough to make the rescue?" Fumblies was a bit frustrated by the whole thing as he was in pain. Pain on top of anger was not a good thing to have. Yet, there was more to that then just the pain and anger that had his mind whirling at that moment. "I suggest we regroup, get some information and then go get our Knobs."

"What if we lose them?" Becky went up to someone at random and asked, "'Scuse me, can you help me save someone, pllllease?"

Fumblies just stared after Becky and shakes his head. He knew that there was a risk of the Philler Gang but he doubted it would be too hard to find them again. After all they seemed to be pissing everyone in the city off somehow.

It turned out the "stranger" Becky was asking wasn't a stranger at all!

Vixen turned around and replied, "Sure I will, Becky."

Becky smiled and squealed at the green furred vixen. "What're you doing here, fox buddy?! Where's bunny buddy?!"

Vixen smiled back at her. "In some hole somewhere probably.. heh, I'm just in the right place at the right time."

Becky looked around, wondering what to do next. She took stock of the situation. Sure, Vixen was here but she didn't necessarily know what was going on, Fumblies was hurt, Knob Goblins were being stolen by the mean gang, heroes were helping, but Fahari seemed to be missing. Sooo, Becky spun around (right round round, like a record player) like she was chasing her tail.

Then some of the Philler Gang came back, so Becky started blasting them with high intensity snow balls! It was like she had some kinda snow-paintball gun but it shot snow instead of snow paintballs. Also, she was using her hands instead of a gun!

"Great they are coming back for more." Fumbles sighed as he used Fahari's helps to stand up. She was right next to him still, right where she had been when Becky and dove into them, but Becky didn't notice that cause she was too busy hugging Vixen and fighting. Too bad, Becky! Pay more attention next time, Becky!

"What do you think, Cattaras?" Aleena asked. She was referring to the battle that had just come into view far down the street, but it took Cattaras a moment to realize what she meant. "Do we want to get involved?"

Cattaras purred. "You have to ask me if I want to get into a fight?" He looked hard, trying to make some sense of the mob. "Looks like it's a pretty big mob up against a few unfortunates- Shall we change their luck?"

"I'm not sure how Becky Joy's gang is unfortunate -- except maybe in the IQ department, but aye, let's go take a look."

Fumblies by now was once more battling with a member of the Philler Gang. A grungy looking elf who happened to be swinging a mace.

Cattaras chuckled as they headed in that direction. "Don't let her fool you. I think she's plenty smart, when she decides to use it." Aleena jogged towards the combat. Elves may be quick runners in comparison to humans, but to a Feline, even elves run in slow motion.

Fahari grabbed one Philler in a headlock and as his friend came to his assistance used him to raise up and kick the other in the chest, continuing over and dropping the body of the first to the ground. She turned, and stopped. The field of battle seemed to open for her between herself and a familiar face, who smiled.

"Ready for another beating, pussy?"

What else was there for it but to roar and pounce the bitch?

Fumblies pointed down the burnt axe swinging giant half-orc and chuckled. "Seems you are in for another beating?" Fumblies used his uninjured arm to draw his sword and begins to fight with it while unaware of the back up that had arrived.

Meanwhile, Becky and Vixen decided to work as a team! Vixen knocked a few of the enemies out with her staff, ones that tried to take Becky down from behind. Becky thanked her by taking out a few Knob Goblins behind Vixen with a double-cold ice blast!

Vixen kicked one in the knees, then took him down with a bonk on the head, which Becky approved of with a thumbs up. Vixen gave Becky a thumbs up back. "I guess.." She pulled out a pair of sunglasses and put them on. "'He was weak in the knees.'" The guy she kicked screamed in pain, "Yeeeargh!"

Aleena had just reached the fight when suddenly some large, six foot guards surrounded her and grabbed both of her arms! A mage blasted her with a zap of lightning, stunning her. And if that wasn't bad enough, a craaaaazy fox from Hey Daze had clubbed Vixen, and loudly proclaimed, "Haha, girlie, I bet you didn't expect me to be summoned from Hey Daze into this city, so I could extract my revenge on you! I'm gonna drag you down to overtime for eternity for this! And then you're gonna rub my feet when your shift is over! Caause I'm craaaaaaaazy!"

Fumblies by now had gotten hit in the side of the head with the mace. This had caused him to crumple to the ground at the elf's feet. This in turn caused his shatter arm to lay at crooked angle while it made a strange bone on bone grinding sound.

"We gotta help Fumblies!" Becky yelled, but before she could, a bunch of Heckions pulled her down into a strange, dark ally and threw up multiple fire cages around her. The heat almost instantly made Becky faint!

Even the other heroes were in trouble when backup showed up and the tide started turning against them.

Cattaras turned and saw the mage zap Aleena and went nuts. He roared and charged the group, pouncing the guards surrounding him. The result was not pretty.

Another fight in the 'not pretty' stage was between Fahari and her new 'friend'. You know- the one she was trying to kill? Well right about now neither was saying much- staring each other down after a first round of mayhem. Fahari was bleeding from her nose and several other places where her fur had matted to stop the flow- while the human was suffering from several severe clawings. They both panted and then exploded together to start the fight all over again.

The mage frowned, watching the battles go on. "This will not do." With that he zapped Cattaras in the gut and the big cat fell- perhaps not to the lightning but more to the three big guards beating him down while he was stunned. The mage then turned his attention to Fahari, giving her the same jolt just as she staggered her opponent with a heavy left.

The woman nearly roared at him. "I don't need your help, spellcaster!"

"Of course not, dear. I am sure that, given time, you would have prevailed. However time is not something we have in abundance. She is only stunned though. I am sure you can have plenty of enjoyment putting her completely out. But do not kill her. Not yet. No- not yet." He smirked and turned away.

What plans would the mage have for them? What would be Becky's fate at the hands of the Heckions? And what's wrong with that weirdo from Hey Daze that dragged Vixen off?!

Whoa, things didn't end so well for our heroes, huh?! Well, that just sets up more story! Actually, it helps set up the ultimate Finale later on, too. We've only got four more to go before the Finale. Aleena and Cyber Sunset are up next!