Some elements in this fanfic are (c) to Sega, DiC ent, and Archie Comics publications. Battle Ship is a (c) of Milton Bradley. Previously in this fanfiction series a tropical depression was monitored over the ocean and building strength. When Jaxson first heard of it he thought it would miss Cyprus Knee like one before it did, he was wrong. In the last story he found out that it had became a hurricane and was headed toward them. The time limit, one week. We pick up were the last story left off, with Jaxson and Robert discussing the hurricane. HURRICANE WARRNING (Eplogue to the Hurricane mini-series) By JaxsonJaguar "A category three you say?" Asked Jaxson "Yes, a high risk hurricane in fact, much stronger than the last one." Replied Robert "So what your telling me is that we got one week to get ready for a category three hurricane which might cause extensive damage to this village and all who live in it. Yeah. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TELL ME AS SOON AS IT BECAME A HURRICANE. I was still tracking it. No excuses, look I'll announce to the villagers' o this new problem. Meet me in the meeting hut later, we've got to start with the preparations. I'll be there. You better. Jaxson walked to the center of the village. There stood a large poll with loud speakers connected to it. Jaxson picked up a microphone and said..."FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND OTHER VILLAGERS LISTEN UP. I HAVE JUST GOT WORD THAT A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE IS HEADED OUR WAY. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO GET READY FOR THIS. I REPEAT, WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO GET READY FOR A CATEGORY THREE HURICANE. THAT IS ALL THANK YOU." Jaxson then walked over to the Freedom Fighter meeting hut expecting a large crowd. Sure enough, the rest of the Freedom Fighters were there. "Well, any questions?" Asked Jaxson as he entered the hut. "I got one." Said Kevin raising his hand. "How are we going to clear out the watch towers, board up our windows, and store food in one week. Easy. Robert, Julie, and Zach you three start clearing the towers. Albert, get a crew together and get your boats out of the water. Nick, D. J. get the jets and airplanes into the hangers. Kathryn and Stacie you and some volunteers start covering up or put up any thing that would be a hazard. What do you want me to do Jax?" Asked Donavan. "You can help me clear out my tree. Okay. The rest of you get going." With that the meeting was adjourned and everybody went and did what they were ordered to do. Meanwhile in River City Edwin was also preparing for the hurricane. Edwin was in his war room studying diagrams of the city on his giant computer screen. The diagrams showed areas that would be affected by stormsurge. "According to these diagrams a little less than half the city well be damaged by stormsurge alone. There must be some way that will allow me to drain the acceswater." Edwin stepped and looked at his diagrams to try to come up with the solution he needed. Suddenly it hit him. "The swamp that's it. Not only will I be able to drain the city but also flood my enemies as well. Plus I'll get to test some new bots I invented." "Swat bot 001, assemble the miner bots on the West Side of the city to get started on digging a canal from the river to the swamp. YES SIR." As the swat bots went off to carry out there duties Edwin sat back in what used to be his thrown and looked out over the city toward the swamp. "Just try and stop me this time Jaxson, just try." Back in Cyprus Knee, Jaxson and his cousin Donavan were busy clearing out Jaxsons tree house and putting the stuff in his hut. "You got a lot stuff up here J. J." Said Donavan. "That's why I built this thing, to store my stuff and have some time to my self." The tree house wasn't that big but it was big enough to walk in. When Jaxson built the tree house he built it very precisely so he wouldn't have to cut off any limbs. When he nailed on the boards he would dab paint around were nails went in at so as not to let the tree catch any diseases or get infested with bugs. He didn't make steps or ladders to this house so the only way in was if you had claws, that was one of the ways Jaxson kept others out. To get down he had sort of an elevator that would go down if more than 50 lbs. was placed on it when taken off it would shoot right back up. Even though Jaxson had worked hard to build that tree house he was more worried about what he kept in it. Over the years Jaxson had gone into River City to the place him and his parents used to live. He would go in after photoalbums, framed pictures, and other irreplaceable valuables. And when he ran out of room in his hut he put it in the tree house. "Is that all of it?" Asked Donavan "Yeah, that's everything. Common lets go." The two jaguars stepped on the elevator and down they went. As soon as they got down they started to put the things they had brought down with them. On the other side of Cyprus Knee, Albert was getting the last above water boat out of the water and putting them on trailers so they could be transported to the hanger. "Alright boys, the easy stuffs over now the subs." Albert and some otters jumped into the water with chains to attach to the subs. Above the surface a large crane was standing by to lift the subs out of the water. Albert popped out of the water and gave the thumbs up to start the crane. Slowly the sub was lifted out of the water. All of a sudden the crane stopped. "Hey, what's going on up there?" Asked Al. "There's to much weight, it automatically shut off. Okay it's high enough out of the water we can swing it over to the trailer." The crane operator slowly turned the crane. Al was on the ground motioning to the operator were to go. "Hold it, hold it, we have a problem. The sub is to low for the trailer. We need to find some way lift it." Al thought about this as he looked around the docks for anything that would be useful. That's when he remembered that they had another crane to be used for the subs. "Common people lets get this other crane attached to the sub." Al and his crew attached the other crane to the sub, cracked it up, and finally were able to get the sub up on the trailer. "Alright it ain't over lets get the other one." A couple hours later while Kevin was taking inventory of his lab when he noticed his computer screen notifying him that he had e-mail. "What the..." Thought Kevin, but he then noticed that it was from the Cyprus Knee Spy Network, or C. K. S. N. The C. K. S. N. is a spy network made up of the robotisized citizens of River City, one of them being Kathryn's mother Sarah. The message read... "Freedom Fighters Edwin is building a series of drainage canals leading from the river to the swamp. He hopes to use these canals to drain stormsurge into the swamp. The accesswater might be enough to flood Cyprus Knee. Be careful C. K. S. N." As soon as he read this he ran out of his hut to Jaxsons hut to deliver the news. "JAXSON, JAXSON!" He yelled "Kevin, calm down. Now what's up? I got e-mail from the C. K. S. N. It said that Edwin is building canals to drain the stormsurge from the river into the swamp. Al right, I'll send Kathryn, Nick, and Albert out to check on this then report back here to report what they saw. We can't rush into this the villagers are as busy as it is. Okay, but how are we going to handle this? We'll think of something we always do. Donavan will you go and tell Kathryn, Nick, and Albert to meet me here. Sure Jax. Cool, now go." "You're all probably wondering why I told Donavan to tell you to come here?" Jaxson asked the group. "Oh, and Stacie and D. J. you didn't have to come. Well we thought it was important." Said Stacie. "Okay, well the rest of you I'm sending you into River City on a spy mission. It seems that Edwin wants to drain stormsurge from the river into the swamp. All I want is to go in observe the progress of Ed's bots and report back here. Got it? Got it." Answered the group. "Well then grab some binoculars, cameras, and a gun on your way out and don't forget to stay in touch. Well then go and don't comeback until you have something we can use." With that the meeting was adjourned and the group was on their way. "The rest of you get those hovercycles we stole a while back ready. I have a feeling will need them later." Kathryn, Nick, and Albert were soon in position watching the digging process. Kathryn and Nick were wearing camouflage clothing. Al didn't need to course, he already blends in. Kathryn was holding the video camera and reporting back to Cyprus Knee. "You guys were right they are digging canals from the river to the swamp. Have they reached the swamp yet?" Asked Jaxson "No not yet it will probably take them a day or two. Uh, Kathryn. Yeah Nick. Do you have that camera on total zoom? Yeah, why? Do you have good view of those bots down there? Not really. Well then look through these." Nick handed Kathryn his binoculars. She looked through them and noticed that the bots doing the digging were unlike any bot she had ever seen. "Guys need info down here." Said Jaxson "Jax, you won't believe this but there I think Ed's got some new bots. Okay Kat, describe them for me then get out of there. Okay by the way they're the ones doing the digging. Okay we got their main function down now what do they look like. They look like swat bots, the only difference is that they are yellow and black and their heads look more like hard hats. Okay that's all we need now get out of there you three. Hold on where's Al." Replied Nick. Al had wondered off with the video camera to get a closer look at the work in progress. With the camera in one hand and a small laser gun in the other he crept closer to the canal. Mean while Kathryn and Nick where looking for him. "Where is he? I found him and he's way to close, we got to get him out before he kills himself. I couldn't agree more Nick." The two then started to run to get their friend out of the dangerous situation. Back down near the canal where Al was the swat bots watching over the dig spotted Al and commenced firing. "OH NO YOU DID NOT JUST SHOOT AT ME." Yelled Al as he started to return fire at the bots. "Albert, you crazy moron." Commented Kathryn. " Let's get out of here before it gets really ugly." The three then started running back to the swamp avoiding laser fire and trying to protect the camera. By the time the trio got back to Cyprus Knee they were dead tired and almost out of breath. "You three go take a brake me, Stacie, Kevin, and Zach will take a look at this tape. Oh and Albert. What? You pull another stunt like that one backthere and I'll suspend your butt for a month. Understand? Yeah man. Good now go get some rest." Jaxson, Stacie, Kevin, and Zach started to study the tape. "What do you guys think of these new bots?" Asked Jaxson. "I think they'll be tough to stop cause who's to say that they don't have more armor than the normal swat bots." Commented Kevin. "I agree, but what about the canals?" Asked Stacie. "Somebody go get me D. J." Said Jaxson. "Why?" Asked Zach. "Just do it." With that Zach bolted out the door to go get the rabbit. A minute or so latter Zach and D. J. stepped into the hut. So what do you need? Asked the Rabbit. "How many bombs do you have in the hanger?" Asked Jaxson. "Give or take about ten, why? I have an idea on how we can get rid of those canals. Well, what is it?" Asked Kevin. "Well I figure we bury the bombs in between the canals and the force of the blast should cause the outer walls of the canals to collapse and act as a dam when the stormsurge comes in. Good idea, but how are we going to pull this off with out being caught?" Asked Stacie "Well it's obvious that these new bots don't fight so we got to distract them some how giving the moles enough time to dig the holes and some people on the surface enough time to connect a detonation wire to the warheads of the bombs. Any other questions? What if there's trouble?" Asked Zach "I'll have a team here with the hovercycles ready to move out. Any more? Then meeting adjourned" The time was around midnight when the first team was set out on the mission. All the teams had the advantage of darkness thanks to heavy cloud cover from the upcoming storm. The first group was the decoy group made up of the fastest runners in Cyprus Knee, D. J. was the leader of the group. "Alright, you guys know what to do, fire at the swat bots and head lead them away from the canals. Let's go." After that the group ran out of the swamp firing their laser guns at the bots as they led them away from the site. The next group was the moles who dug their way to the spots in between the canals, planted the bombs, tied the detonation wire to the warheads, and pocked them out of the ground for the last group to take over. Jaxson was the leader of this group who tied the wires together so for detonation. Jaxson's group ran out as soon as they could. Just as the moles had finished collapsed their tunnels as everybody regrouped back at the edge of the swamp. "Nick, whenever you're ready." Said Jaxson as he gave the signal to detonate the bombs. Nick pressed a small red button on the control panel the wires were connected and with a violent explosion the bombs ignited sending dirt and rock raining down upon every thing and everyone. The plan had worked but the victory was short lived as the remaining swat bots and miner bots began to attack. Jaxson tried to shoot the miner bots with a normal hand laser gun but the beams just bounced off their armor. "I was right it's time to bring out the big guns." Jaxson reached behind his back and pulled out what looked like a shotgun. He cocked it once, aimed, fired, and as the large laser beam hit the minor bot, the bot exploded. "Yeah I like this gun." Said Jaxson as him and the others started to fire at the on coming bots. Seeing that the other groups were out numbered, group four, led by Kathryn, flew out on the hovercycles firing on the bots. "Your timing is impeccable." Said Jaxson. "As long as I'm here, right? Right, now let's blow this party." Jaxson reached into his jean pocket and pulled out a small detonator pressed a green button and blew up the last bomb destroying the last of the robot army. "EVERYBODY BACK INTO THE SWAMP BEFORE MORE OF THEM COME." Announced Jaxson as he jumped on the back of Kathryn's' hovercycle and flew off into the swamp. Edwin, back in his war room, saw what had happened and was actually taking it very well. In his mind he knew that the project would not work. Instead he saw it as a learning experience. One to test his new bots, second how long it takes for the Freedom Fighters to respond to something like that. Then he said to himself... "My plan may not have worked out as well as I thought, but at least the city won't be badly damaged by the stormsurge. Because I may not be able to drain it into the swamp, but it will drain. Next time Jaxson; think about the mission in total detail. Because if you remember that's what killed your father. Mahahahahahahahah" He laughed as in the distance in plain sight the storm could be seen getting closer in the distance. The next day in Cyprus Knee the residence were putting the finishing touches on their preparations for the up coming hurricane. Back in Kevin's hut the main Freedom Fighters were having a video conference with none other then King Maxamillion Acorn himself. Unfortunately the conversation wasn't going so well. "What do you mean you won't be able to send aid out here after the hurricane." Jaxson boomed. "I'm sorry, but we're not so sure about your region. Not sure. Not sure about what? It's a swamp and a war zone. I will not risk the lives of my men for simply cleaning up after a hurricane." Jaxson started getting agitated and his eye started twitching. Donavan and Kathryn knew it was time to hold him down. "All right Jax, calm down back away slowly and breathe." Said Kathryn as she led the adjitated jaguar out of the room. "Stacie, maybe you should take over. Maybe I should." Stacie then sat down in front of the screen to continue the meeting. "Hello, I'm Princess Stacie Leo, heir to the throne of Leo. King Acorn, there must be some settlement we can come to. What do you have in mind? Well maybe if we gave you an estimate on the damage you can then send help if you choose. Good proposal, I'll go over that with my council then I'll get back to you with the decision. Thank you for at least considering it your majesty. Your quite welcome, Mobotropolis out." With that the screen went black. All the Freedom Fighters could do now was wait for a reply from the king. "Maybe we should have tried to contact Sally." Said D. J. "We did, but we couldn't reach her." Replied Kevin as Jaxson, Kathryn, and Donavan walked back in to the hut. "So how did it go?" Asked Jaxson we're waiting for the king to call back. We were able to get some type of settlement, but we're waiting for him to finish going over it with his council." Said Stacie. "Well, you guys better get comfortable cause it might tack a while. How do you know?" Asked Stacie. "Well I may be right or I may be wrong. We'll just have to see now wont we." The group sat and waited for a reply from the king. To pass the time Nick and D. J. were teaching Donavan how to play poker, Stacie and Kevin were playing chess, Jaxson and Albert were playing Battle Ship, Julie and Kathryn were playing checkers, while Robert and Zach continued to watch the hurricane. All of a sudden King Acorn came up on the computer screen (it's a videoconference need I remind you). "Freedom Fighters of Cyprus Knee, I have came to a decision. I will send you aid after the hurricanes as long as the estimate of damage is high enough you need our help. Mobotropolis out." With that the screen went black. Stacie then looked up at Jaxson with an, "I told you so," look on her face. The group eventually broke up and every one went back to their huts to finish up their preparations for the hurricane. Later that day Jaxson and Kathryn went out to a beach about five miles south of River City looking out in the direction of the hurricane. All they could really see is a gray blur on the horizon with some visible flashes of lightning. Surrounded by white sand and a light sea breeze blowing in their faces, Jaxson and Kathryn sat with their arms on their knees on a green beach towel talking about nothing much but the hurricane. "I wonder if it will be as bad as the last one?" Wondered Kathryn. "I don't know, in fact I was thinking the same thing." Replied Jaxson. "Well I'm sure that we'll survive like we did the last one." Said Kathryn. "I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later." Replied Jaxson. "You know my job will pretty much be shot after that storm." Said Kathryn "Why?" Asked Jaxson. "Well all of Edwin's' computers will be down leaving me with very little to work with in the area of computer hacking." Said Kathryn. "I don't think you got much to worry about." Said Jaxson. "You know I wish I had brought a camera. A that hurricane would make good for my scrapbook." Said Jaxson with half a smile. He then slowly tuned to and looked at Kathryn. She did the same. Their eyes met, they slowly got closer, and just as they started to kiss D. J. and Nick came up to them on hovercycles. Jaxson looked up and said..."You guys better have a good reason for being hear. "Well it looks like we came hear just in time." Said Nick with a sly look on his face. "Kathryn, you get the hovercycle and I'll give these guys five seconds." Said Jaxson as Kathryn jumped on the hovercycle, Jaxson grabbed the beach towel and jumped on behind her as they chased the rabbit and fox back into the swamp. An hour and a half latter Jaxson and Donavan were sitting down at the dinner table in their hut Donavan had a concerned look on his face. "What's wrong big guy?" Asked Jaxson. "How bad was the last hurricane? Not that bad. Was any body killed? No, we did have some injuries though but no one died, lucky for us. What was the worst injury? Kevin slipped and fell on a tree trunk tearing a ligament in his knee that's all. Why are you asking? Just curious, I've never been in a hurricane before. Donavan, you have nothing to worry about cause in the end it's all just a bunch of wind. Thanks Jax. Don't mention it." While Jaxson, Donavan, and the rest of the village was starting to relax after a long day of preparations few villagers were still working hard. The people on lookout duty had to try to stay awake for the only piece of lookout equipment they had were pairs of binoculars. Robert and Julie continued to keep an eye on the storm, and Kevin was busy setting up a communications system for when the storm hit. He was in the middle of one of putting together a ham radio when he heard a beeping noise come from his computer. Kevin rolled the chair he was sitting in over to the computer screen and found out he had gotten e-mail. He checked it and found out it was another message from the C. K. S. N. It read... "Freedom Fighters Edwin has anticipated power downs in the power stations near the river. He has shut them down and switched to the back up stations on the northwest side of the city. There will still be one main station up and running the one on the west side of the city. You must use this opportunity to take out the main stations therefor causing the back ups to work over time eventually causing them to over heat and shut down. Good Luck C. K. S. N." Kevin then called an emergency meeting of the Freedom Fighters. "This better be important Kevin." Said Stacie who was wearing a white bathrobe. "The C. K. S. N. has sent us a hot tip." Kevin said pointing to the computer screen. "Good idea but it won't be easy." Said Jaxson. "Al, you get a crew together to take out the river stations. Kathryn, you Nick, D. J., and Donavan take out the west side station. Jaxson, did I hear you right?" Asked Donavan. "Yeah man I want you to go on this mission so you can get a feel for night missions. Cool! Keep an eye on him for me Kat. You know I will. Thanks." Jaxson then looked around the room and said..."Now I want this to be a clean mission no explosives, instead throw the proverbial wrench in the works. All right go, go, go!" The meeting broke and the teams went out to get ready for their missions. Kathryn stopped by her hut and got her hand held computer. She then joined Nick, D. J., and Donavan at the hanger with the hovercycles. Donavan rode with Kathryn as they flew off to the west side power station. Albert assembled a crew of three otters and two gators down at the Cyprus Knee docks. The two crews jumped in to the hydroplanes and headed up river. The two teams had to pass through a series of canals the Freedom Fighters constructed to keep out attackers. They eventual made it to the main river and started trip up river to the power stations. The river they were traveling on flowed north making it easier for the hydroplanes to get to the stations barely making a sound. On the west side of the city, team one was ready for action but was waiting for team two to call in. "Where are they?" Wondered Kathryn who was starting to get impatient. Just then Al contacted Kathryn on their two way head sets. "It's about time you got here." She said into the head sets microphone. "Well I'm here now let's get it on." With that team one started to break into the station. "Kat, how are we going to this?" Asked D. J. "Well First I'll see if I can implant their system with a virus if not through in the wrench." The team climbed through the air ducts. All but Kathryn was wearing a brown backpack filled with things like crowbars and old hammers to through into the generators in case the virus didn't work. The four crept toward the main computer ready to start taking out the station. "D. J., Nick, I need you two to create a diversion so I can have an opportunity to implant this virus. Will do." Said Nick as he and D. J. ran off to divert the bots. "HEY BOT BOYS, WANT A LUCKY RABBITS FOOT? WELL COME AND GET IT." Yelled D. J. getting the bots attention. "Good it worked." Said Kathryn. "Now I got only a few minutes to try and implant this virus. What can I do Kat?" Asked Donavan. "Have a crowbar ready to chunk into that big generator over there in case the virus doesn't work." Donavan then pulled a crowbar from his backpack and stepped back as Kathryn started to implant the virus. "Okay let's see what we can do?" She said as she started to hack into the system. Unfortunately se ran into a few problems. "Kat, what's going on?" Asked Donavan. "Edwin added more blocks to the system. Can you get through? Yeah sure, it'll just take longer then expected." Suddenly Nick, D. J., and the bots chasing them were headed toward Kathryn and Donavan. "On second thought Donavan, hand me a crowbar. Sure, now what. "NOW CHUNK IT." The two jaguars tossed the crowbars in to the turbine of the generator causing it to suddenly stop. The generator then started to explode and others with it. The four Freedom Fighters ran out the front of the station and leaped into the air as the entire station went up in flames. "Now that was DA-bomb." Commented Nick. "Nick, I speak for all of us when I say, dry, now let's get out of here." Kathryn said as the four went back to the hovercycles. Meanwhile near the river team two saw the explosion and started on their mission. The gators took the east bank of the river while the otters took the west bank. The gators and the otters stopped at the doors of their station kicked open the doors and started firing laser rifles at the generators and it worked. The two teams then hurried back to the hydroplanes. Just as they gotten in them three speedboats with swat bots came after them. Al and the guy who was driving the other hydroplane kicked them into high gear and headed for Open Ocean so as not to tip them off to the river local of Cyprus Knee. As soon as they got to open ocean they tuner the hydroplanes around to attack the swat bots. "Alright guys, let's ram these punks." Albert said as he pushed a button on the planes' control panel, which made a metal shield, cover the front of the plane and the engine. The other hydroplane did this as well and they went right through two of the speedboats. Al then turned around and started firing on the last speedboat with lasers that came up out of the sides of the hydroplane. Soon the swat bots boat was dead in the water. Al then headed back to Cyprus Knee. Back in River City Edwin saw the smoke from the west side power station. "I didn't think they would go after that one, but at least I fooled them with the river stations. They would have never had guessed that those two were the back up stations. Their attack had absolutely no purpose. So that makes it one for the Freedom Fighters two for me. Mahahahahahha!!" Laughed Edwin, as he knows that he had won and the Freedom Fighters didn't even know. Back in Cyprus Knee the Freedom Fighters stated to count down the days and hours before the hurricane hit. "All right people two announcements." Announced Jaxson. "One, all Freedom Fighters are to meet in the weather center during the hurricane. Everybody else will go to the shelters. Second I would like to be the first to congratulate my cousin Donavan for completing his first night mission." The crowd applauded and cheered and soon calmed down for Jaxson had one more thing to say. "Now you people go back to your homes and finish preparing we have almost five days left and I don't want any body being unprepared." With that the crowd broke up and every body went back to there huts to call it a night or finishing up there preparations. Coming soon, the Hurricane mini-series. This series will have four parts and an epilogue. The mini-series will feature Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles"Tails" Prower, riding out the storm with the Cyprus Knee Freedom Fighters. Also the rest of the Knothole Freedom Fighters will appear in the epilogue to give the Cyprus Knee F. F. a hand with cleaning up. So until then C-Ya.