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Ooh! Joe! *watches Joe scream in her cup as she spoons him out and eats him* Well, sorry for the late replies again, and thanks red muse for replying, no one has been for AGES. Sorry if that last chapter was gruesome, I just loooove gore. Enjoy the next chapter!

Chapter9: How to Become Alpha in Three Easy Steps

Karma waited until the shadowy darkness of night fell upon them to use it as camoflauge to hide themselves before sneaking out. The humans would be asleep, with the exception of a few night gaurds, which usualy sat in the lounge eating donuts or sleeping. No one had found Food Man yet, since no one ever really went in the "deep fryer" that often, and the door was closed tight, so no one could see him.... or smell him for the fact. The entire time we was being attacked by Karma, her good nature desintigrated and her insane raging fury unleashed upon him, no one had heard a single scream. Not when she tore off the chunk of his arm, which had come off farely easily since it was mostly fat, not when she dug into his neck, not even when she gored out his throat, his final gurgling cries fading like smoke into the night and never to be heard again except echoing through Karma's mind like a cawing raven soaring through a desert canyon. Finaly, their time had come. It was the hour of judgment, who would escape and be free, and who would perish amongst the many others who had there before them. Karma didn't need to worry about puppies, it was too early for them to have any side affects from them that would slow them down. Most of them probably didn't even have puppies, since the males they hated with where either farely old and starting to deteriorate, or young and unexperienced, as most of them were. As Karma climbed the chain link fence with Food Man's tinkling ring of keys slipped around her bushy black tail, she lept over the top and landed firmly on her paws. In the shadows of the dark blanket of night, all you could make of her were two peircing green eyes, and two zig zags of white fur, running down her cheeks like lightning bolts. She ran to the nearest cage and tried to figure out how Food Man had used his keys. She stuck a small copper one in the keyhole on the cage door, like she had saw Food Man do, and turned it, but it would not budge. That was strange, she did exactly what Food Man had done. Why wasn't it working? She suddenly remembered the several other shiny metalic keys clinking on the ring. She tried several keys, all of them either failing to turn, or not fitting into the key hole at all. Finaly she came to a long silver one, jammed it in the door, and turned it. A satisfying click resonated through the mechanical lock, and the wolf imprisoned on the other side lept out like a wild animal set free. The young gray wolf jumped happily and tried all she could to keep from howling with joy. The other wolves and dogs who were bigger and stronger had started to climb out of their cages up the chain link fences too, as Karma did. The whole yard looked like it was filled with monkeys rather than wolves and dogs, trying to flee from their cruel masters. Karma ran to the cadges of the few young ones who could not climb the fences, Luna and Blizzard being amongst them. As they lept from their imprisoning cells, the shook off and welcomed her. "Thanks for that Karma!" Cried Blizzard. "I'd climb it myself but I'm afraid of heights." Blizzard lowered her head a bit and smirked shamefully at her phobia. "And obviously Luna couldn't climb out because she's too crazy. She probably doesn't even know what's going on!" Karma and Blizzard laughed together as they searched through the stampede of escapees for Berzerk. Obviously she was one of the stronger, larger wolves who could climb out of their cage by themselves. Karma shouted amongst the howls and barks, but her voice was drowned out and blended in with the rest of the background noise. "Berzerk?! Berzerk?! Where are you?!" Suddenly, the magestic, rustic colored wolf poked her muzzle through the crowd and spotted Karma with her muddy earthen brown eyes. Had she actually heard her over the crowd? Naw, she must have just stumbled upon her by chance. No wolf could ever hear that good, or be able to pick out one specific scent amongst a crowd this large. Berzerk smiled, the rebelious, fiery look resonating through her eyes like a laser bouncing off a bunch of mirrors. "Well well, if it isn't the little freedom fighter." Her fierce, determened grin spread from ear to ear as she snickered. "Those gaurds must be really stupid if they're still sleeping through all this. A nuclear bomb could go off and destroy the whole world and they'd still sleep through it!" Karma and Berzerk laughed and suddenly remembered that there were gaurds, no matter how fast asleep or into eating their donuts they were. Karma ran to the front of the group and shouted. "Okay people, let's try not to make that much noise. Beleive it or not, there ARE gaurds. No matter how stupid they are, they could still ehar us, so let's try to keep it down a bit, okay?" Karma's small lecture had no effect on the shouting, excited creatures. They kept right on barking and howling with glee. "I said, let's try and be quiet!!!.......HEY!!! I SAID QUIET!!!" Karma shouted as loud as she could to no prevail. She had only added to the risk of them being heard. She was about to hop back down off the crate she was standing on when Berzerk came to her rescue. She growled fiercly, so fierce it sounded more like a roar than a growl. Her sparkling canines as white as Sasha's fur shown behind her furry red lips, which had withdrawn into a snarl. The roar had gotten the crowd's attention. They stopped chatting immediatly and stared dead struck at Berzerk. "Didn't you just listen to a word she said? HUH?! Karma had the courage to do what you stupid pathetic wimps couldn't. Stand up for your idiotic selves and fight for your freedom!!! I doubt any of you dubious fools could ever even think up a plan, let alone put it into action! If you want to keep talking, be my guest, but you'll be spending the rest of your lives here, having no further purpose but to have puppies. Mate, have puppies, and mate, thats all you'll ever be good for. Now, if you want to get your weak pathetic butts out of here, I recomend that you respect Karma as your alpha and leader. Anyone gets out of line, and they will have to answer to me and Karma's jaws. Now I suggest you shut up and start taking orders from her, or you'll be pushing up daisys. GET IT?!!" The crowd stared in awe at Berzerk, her snarl intesnified and the rebelious glint in her eyes shining more fiery than Karma had even seen before. Berzerk broke her laser intesnity glare that seemed to be boring into them like a drill, and turned to Karma. "Well, you're the alpha leader aren't you?" She asked calmly. "Well....I guess so." Karma replied meekly. "You guess? Well our alpha must be sure of herself and make her own desicions. Not guessing all the time. So, are you alpha or not?" Karma stared at the ground worredly for a moment. Did she want to take responsibility as alpha? Could she handel it? Surely Berzerk would make a much finer alpha than she, I mean, look at the way she just handeled the crowd, making them dumb struck for the second time that day. Karma then remembered that when she got herself into this, she made a promiss. A promiss that she would protect her fellow friends and would fight with them until the bitter end. Karma's worried look became a determiend glare, not too different from Berzerk's, and she looked back at Berzerk, straight into her muddy brown eyes, looking into her very soul, and smiled the same rebelious, fiery grin that Berzerk always had. "Yes, I am alpha leader of this pack." She said firmly, and the crowd cheered. She pounced on top of the crate Berzerk was standing on, and liked her muzzle in thanks. "Thanks so much Berzerk, you're the greatest pal I could ever have." Karma smiled warmly, her eyes shinign with all the thanks she could ever give. "No problem Karma. You're the one who freed us all anyway, you deserve respect and honor, and no one can take it from you." Berzerk replied, and her tough, hardened glare softened for a moment, and she suddenly looked more like a playful puppy than a fierce, adult wolf. "Oh, and one more thing Berzerk." Asked Karma. "Ask away bud." "Dubious?" Karma tilted her head and laughed lightly. "Hahaha, you'll find out some day. After you hang out with British people more." The both laughed together and talked a bit more about their plan. "Well, I guess all we have to do know is go to the boys' pens and get them out." Said Karma. "Allready did that for you bud. All the males made it out easy, except for two of them that we have to go grab." Karma was surprised. Not only by the fact that Berzerk ahd gone through the trouble to climb over to the male's pen and tell them about the revolution, but that only two couldn't make it over the fence. "Really? Only two? Who were they?" Karma questioned. "A little tan chihuahua named Peso, and this big wimpy white wolf. He was pretty strong looking and big, but he was just too chicken to climb over. Heh, pretty boy. Probably worried about staining his," She imitaded how a fashionable girl walked, and fluffed her fur. "beautiful good looks, and white fur. Or he might stub his claw. Oh what a tragety that would be!" She pretended to act dramatic and acted out a girl flipping out at a scuffed claw. "Hmm..... a white wolf you said? Heh, probably WAS afraid he would get his coat dirty. What was his name?" Karma asked. Berzerk scratched her chin with her paw and thought deeply for a moment. "Deputy..... or something like that." Karma was taken back by the sudden rememberance of her old childhood friend. Suddenly, it all came back to her a flash. The games of tag with him, herself, and Blitz, the Twilight Brothers at the human settlment, the helicopter, Sarge, her parents, the parents that Blitz never had, it all came flooding back to her like a dam that had been blocking her memories had finaly broke, and the water crashing into her like a tidal wave were her hidden memories and knowledge that she hadn't seen in so long, stored in the catacombs of her minds and burried beneath the sands of her memory like an ancient Egyptian tomb. Suddenly, she felt horrible about calling her childhood friend a coward and a pretty boy, and realized that she had been still seeing him all these years as glimpses of him at lunch time through the chain link fence, seperating the girls from the boys. And all this time she hadn't even noticed him. The snow white wolf with the electric blue eyes. The only reason the Boss hadn't bred Karma with him was because he was a wolf too, and he wanted wolf dog hybrids only. Karma suddenly felt her heart leap with excitment at the thought of meeting her best friends once again. Her paws left the ground as she howled with joy and she skiped amongst the front of the crowd, not noticing everyone staring at her. She felt slightly embarassed, then remembered her place as alpha. "What are you looking at? Get going to bunch of mangey slobbering mutts!" She barked at them. Her glare turned back to the sweeping monitoring look of an alpha as she searched the crowd for anyone saying mutinous things of her or Berzerk, but secretly, she was as happy as she had ever been in almost a year."Deputy!" She thought to herself. "I'm going to see Deputy!"

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