The carnage around me was unsettling, to say the least. Brutal violence never sat well with me, and seeing the workers here take to violence like moths to the fme was surreal. I had to remind myself that this wasn’t a day in the making. How many times did they get docked pay for an honest day’s work? How many times did they face punitive measures? How long was this fire building up in their hearts?

  I wasn’t a big fan of brutal violence, but you reap what you sow.

  Ding. The doors popped open, and the mob rushed out to take back what is theirs.

  It was the same office that Echo, Donald, and I came through, cleaning up the blood stains. Uwu and I held back, my arm draped around his shoulder for stability, while the workers rushed into the offices. Chaos was already in effect here. The guard’s backs were turned, trying to break up a fight between office workers. They never stood a chance as a hail of blows from makeshift weapons stabbed and beat into them. Their guns ripped from their corpses.

  An Anthro-Weasel grabbed the machine gun and turned it towards the gss offices from before. The Corporate bureaucrats all hid behind their small cubicle walls, peeking over to see what was about to happen.

  The Weasel opened fire, bsting clean through the gss, chips of clear, sharp glitter blew into the office with a hail of metal, cutting down the groups of hiding corpos. Blood spttered across the back wall, smattering against the rge, thick windows that gazed out onto the frozen wondernd.

  The Corpos inside ran for their lives, shouting and screaming, looking for any way out of this mess. Many of them never made it far before being cut down in a hail of bullets, leaving blood graffiti smattered across the wall.

  Uwu pulled me along, quickly sidestepping an Anthro-Badger beating the life out of a body of a Praxis security guard.

  He held me tight, “Rarely have I seen madness like this.” He gnced over at me, “A few times on Earth, during the Anthro-riots. Stay close…”

  He stopped mid-sentence as a rge body came crashing through the gss partition. It rolled across the floor, smming against the wall, leaving a rge bloody spt. A human woman jumped out broken window, cutting her legs on some gss, but with the look in her eyes, I could tell she didn’t care. She was a woman on a mission, the same woman that was demoted earlier.

  She brandished a knife in her hand, “Years of work for you, taking dick left and right for you, and you demote me? You piece of shit!”

  I gnced down at the rge body. It was the manger Rhino from before. Blood covered his expensive suit, seeping down from a rge gash in his head.

  “You crazy bitch, I should have fired you years ago.” He grabbed the wound on his head, inspecting the blood as he pulled his hand down. “You’ll be docked all pay, retroactively, and you’re fired immediately!”

  “If I’m fired, then who would you have stick that shriveled Rhino penis into then, huh? Janice? Zente? You fucking whore! And I’ll make sure you feel the crazy bitch radiate off of me!” She jumped on the Anthro-Rhino, knife in hand, stabbing him over and over as he held his hands out to protect himself. “Aren’t I beautiful? Wife material? A great employee? Huh, fucker!”

  I pulled Uwu past this one, “We don’t want to get involved. Lovers quarrel. Let’s go.” The sound of squishing flesh faded down the hall.

  We pushed down the hall, past the Pnt Manager’s office. The pce was on fire now, burning in an inferno. Smoked billowed into the hall. The Anthro-Dog butler was howling with delight, before turning to join the rest of us.

  The mob followed us down the hall to the security office. A rge hole was in the floor of the hall now. Plumes of steam seeped into the hallway. I gazed down all the way to the steam room below.

  “Damn, that’s a drop. Wouldn’t want to fall down that.” I smiled at Uwu as he helped me across the damaged hall and into the security room. I looked around, finding Speck in a chair, licking his wounds, and Echo slumped against the wall under a desk, not moving. I quickly hobbled over to Echo.

  Speck stopped licking himself long enough to speak to me, “I see you’re still alive, nice job.”

  Uwu busted the lock off a rge cabinet. Inside were guns, grenades, smoke bombs, and lots of ammo. He began handing them out indiscreetly to all the workers that followed us, they passed them behind with cheers as they ran off, passing out guns to other workers until the whole cabinet was gone.

  “Head to the terminal! The Corpos are almost here! Barricade, hold your ground. This is our pnt now!” Uwu shouted as the group dispersed, quickly rushing back down with a new-found passion for fighting.

  He stepped up to the Terminal, tapping away until the images of the rail car coming into view filled the monitors. “Here we go, let’s see if this stunt will pay off.”

  Small groups of workers held up here in there in whatever defensible position they could find.

  Uwu pushed Speck’s chair out of the way, “Any news on the Meowtws? It’s gonna be a short ride if they don’t show up soon. I don’t trust a bunch of untrained anthros to do well against the guards. I expect heavy firepower.”

  Speck grunted, “Not a word. They left us to die, most probably.” Speck let out a hushed growl, “Bastards.”

  Uwu loaded his pistol, examining it as he spoke, “I’m going down there. They need some leadership if we’re to get through this. The rest of you hold down the fort.”

  Uwu began to leave when Speck grabbed his shoulder, “I’ll come too. I don’t want to miss out on the hunt.” He chuckled as he left the room, hopping over the rge hole in the ground.

  “Hey!” I spoke up, “Be careful.” I couldn’t really make out much more than that. I was tired and my head hurt.

  Uwu smiled at me, that same damn cute smile he always did. If filled me up with warmth and made me blush. “You just take care of yourself. What kind of Captain would I be if I let my crew do all the heavy lifting?”

  He disappeared around the corner. I hoisted myself up onto a chair, watching the incoming rail car on the monitors. They looked packed full of guards; I couldn’t really tell from here. It was going to be a hell of a ride, and I just had to sit here and watch.

  Go get them, Uwu. Kick their asses and come back to me.

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