Oz: The remake of the Tale 1.11

8. Bees Trial.

 Droid stopped us on our track on the yellow brick road to let a train of rat sized ants crossed over. Its not that we feared the ants, but they are carrying their queen in a pallenquin. So I guess you respect that convoy of royalty; after all she is the Queen. Even the Witch would had stopped for her, but she is not here.

But the bad news was there came a horde of man eaters the sized of a house cat; that one ain't an issue as that was the size of them back home in Kansas. The ants fought the ant eaters but they are losing the battle. It was time to even the odds. I went in first with new set of dressing; I looked like a misplaced cheerleader doing the hula there.

I ran up and jumped up into the flight with a kick that landed one of the ant eaters over on its back. The ants did the secondary task of ending the threat. I was not stopping then, as I hit out at another ant eater with a kick on its rear limbs to shake it up. I reached down and pulled it up by the limbs and swing it towards a tree trunk. The ant eater dropped down dazed before it was set on by the ants.

I saw Droid getting to it, but his method was crude. It just swung the axe on anything that move and move on. It did not matter that the creature was an ant or an ant eater; dead or maimed, it only wanted to slash. Scarecrow ran up to the droid and stopped his maniac killing.

"Its okay, they are not threatening me anymore." Scarecrow consoled the droid who now stopped the slaying. The droid lowered it axe and then it emit out a low humming sound. Scarecrow held its right upper limb to her face. It rested there on the cheek and did not move.

Toto had evolved when she saw me fighting but she kept vigil on the ants and ant eater. It did not used its blue flame on the creatures.

Just as it started, it also ended fast. The surviving ant eaters have retreated and the ants are finishing off the last of the injured ant eaters. The Queen was unharmed and she motioned to her pallenquin carrier to move towards us.

"Thank you, young Munchkins." The Queen spoke. "I am ever thankful for your assistance. If you ever need my help, just call on me."

I thanked her and they moved on to their new home. Scarecrow walked up to me and whispered.

"Its rare we get to see the Queen, and more rare to save her. The whole nest would be appreciative of our help." Scarecrow smiled at me. "You are one unique girl."

We both laughed.

 

It was not fine much later when we saw a dead hornet on the yellow brick road. If the ants can be size of a rat, you would expect the same but this one different. The size of the bees are the normal size of a baseball you would find in Kansas, but their sting is abnormally long. I won't compared it to Hicks but its long for its frame.

Its dying as part of its wings were damaged and there were scratch marks on the insect. I reached down to assist it, but I was pulled back by Scarecrow.

"Look up there." Scarecrow point to the tree tops. There is a swarm of hornets bees buzzing towards us. You can't count bees, but you can said they numbered more than fingers on my hands. And her's too.

They landed at the injured bee and then some of them attended to it. Soon they were flying off leaving a small squad behind. The squad numbered ten of them and there was four of us. Cat gone AWOL since the battle started.

"You would come with us to explain the near extermination of our General" The leader of the hornets spoke to us. "If you refuse, we would be forced to bring you down."

I nodded and the rest put down their arms.

The Hive was built onto the side of a nearby hill. Its big as it covered more than a quarter of the hill side. Its a set of pock marked surface there but these openings have hornets flying out. We were escorted in to the Main Chamber and then we met the leader. Its the leader of the Elite Hornets Guards. They are responsible for the protection of the hive.

"One of you knocked down my General." The leader spoke out. "For that, you would stand trial."

"Hey, we did not touched your General." I stood up to the leader hovering near my nose. "You can't placed us on trial for a crime we did not commit."

"NO! I can. I ain't got anybody else to submit it for. So all of you would do. Its called circumstantial persecution. So move a muscle, my squad would you down with more stings that you can afford to be stung." The leader squeak out but I made my voice louder.

"Your name, soldier." I shouted. I learned that when some military unit came to our farm once before. The officer addressed his men in that manner. So I learned fast.

"Captain Bizz, First Squad." Then the hornet froze in its flight. "How come I am answering to you? Who are you?"

"Colonel Gale...... First Marine. So stand down, Captain." I shouted back.

The hornet drew back and then its went buzzing in the air before it flew back.

"First Marine ain't listed with us." The Captain shouted back. "Attack them."

I don't know what happened but I reacted in the only manner I knew; I screamed out loud. My vocals carried out my vocal sonic boom towards the advancing hornets. It blew them off their flies to land on their sting.

Ouch, that must \had hurt.

My vocal sonic boom cleared them off well. I then ran to the hornet which I believed to be the injured captain. I picked it up by its wings and raised it to the level of my eyes.

"You can understand my orders now, soldier."

The hornet sting slacked down to a whimper. I liked that attitude.

"There would be no more fight, Colonel Gale." The voice came to me by a hornet assisted by two others. "I am General Goney. I thank you for saving my furs and wings."

"General, we did...." I wanted to explained, but the General stopped by buzzing away.

"It was not your group that did me in. It was the Winkies. So we would battle them but not today." General Goney replied. "You have our debt towards you."

I dislike debts. I hardly get to collect them.