We were floating into a cloud of thick fog. It was eerily quiet, only the sloshing of the water from the boat could be heard. We looked around and we noticed right away that we were surrounded by many giant ships.

'Maybe they are pirates...'

"Oh. I feel a little nervous inside, but that's normal, right?" Bomb asked out loud.

Red nodded with furrowed eyebrows as he stared at the boats, "Yeah. Yeah, I think so."

Bomb spoke up again, "Uh. Anybody else got butterflies in the stomach?"

"Yeah," Chuck responded.

Red smirked, "Probably because you ate too many caterpillars."

We finally hit the shore. Red ran up towards the front and jumped off, "Drop your nuts and move your butts!"

As I followed behind Red and the others, I stopped with an eyebrow raise, I looked behind me and saw two birds shoving walnuts in their mouths and stopped, dropping everything, and began to follow everyone. I just shook my head and kept running up the grassy hill in front of us.

"Come on, let's go!" Red shouted.

All the birds were shouting and yelling. Screaming out their battle cry.

"Oh no." I heard Chuck mutter.

I huffed as I caught up with them and instantly noticed what was in front of me. My eyes went wide, "What in the..."

"Whoa." Bomb commented.

"I wasn't expecting this," Stella added.

The birds all around us started to mutter with each other as they stared.

Pig Island was nothing like Bird Island. At least, their 'village' was nothing compared to ours. Their buildings were tall and all compact together, surrounded by a tall white wall as if it was trying to contain the mass amount of buildings. The houses were pretty much balancing on top of each other and seemed sturdy enough. At the back, there was even a larger and taller building, a castle, something I only read in story books. There were three sections and the middle was the tallest. From afar, the walls were covered with windows. A wooden ramp-like structure was circling the middle section, and on the top of the middle portion of the castle, looked a tall thin golden crown and a large boulder was in it.

Red seemed to furrow his eyebrows and took a step forward, "Well. Hold on a second. That guy is the king?"

'He's the WHAT?!'

I looked closer at the castle and I saw it. Along the castle wall, there were banners purple and gold colored banners of spoons and forks, but the one that caught my eye was a large banner of Leonard who was smiling, he was holding a large egg with one hoof above his head. I also saw two other banners at the front of the castle wall gate. It was a picture of Leonard, his hooves up to his cheeks with a smile, he was wearing a tall gold crown and a red cape with white fuzz along with black polka dots. And he was sitting on a pile of eggs.

"He's got to have the eggs with him in the castle!" Red exclaimed as he looked back at the flock behind him.

"What the heck is a castle?" A bird shouted from the back

"And that's where we're going." Red finished.

Matilda took a step forward, "Hey, guys. Do you remember everything you learned in my class?" Matilda asked as she stood in front of Red, Chuck, and Bomb.

"Yep." Red smiled.

"Nope," Chuck said as he stared blankly.

"What class?" Bomb followed with confusion.

She walked closer to the three, "Well, forget all of it for now! Now it's time to let loose." Matilda exclaimed, as she expanded her wings and made a little wiggle.

"Oh good!" Red exclaimed as he did a quick eye roll, "Because I never learn anything anyway."

Chuck shook his head, "Oh, me neither. I actually just came to socialize." He smiled.

"I came for the snacks." Bomb smiled, he then furrowed his eyebrows, "You don't happen to have any of it now, do you?"

"Oooh!" Matilda squeaked out, "Deep breath. Deep breath.
DEEP BREATH." She growled as she walked away from the group.

"How are we going to get over those walls?" Stella asked as she pointed.

Red turned around, looking away from the flock, "Uh...," he paused and turned back towards the flock with a determined smile, "I'll tell you how. We're gonna fly."

Meanwhile, I just continued staring at the castle ahead of me.

'He's THE king?! Wait a minute...THE KING WANTED ME TO LIVE WITH HIM?! No, he probably meant live in his kingdom...'

I shook my head. It didn't matter. It didn't matter if he was a king or a peasant or a pirate. I wouldn't have agreed either way.

"Fly? Even though we're birds we can't fly! How are we going to do that?" Chuck exclaimed, looking at Red.

"The slingshot." Red smiled he then looked over at Terence, "Terence, I need you to bring the slingshot."

Terence nodded and started to go back to the boat. The crowds started to chatter again about the idea of getting slingshot.

"Alright everyone, listen up!" Red exclaimed, the crowd became silent, "We need to enter the castle and retrieve the eggs. And to do that, we need to slingshot ourselves in."

The crowd chattered once again as they looked at each other nervously about the idea. Soon enough, Terence brought the slingshot up to the highest point of the hill and placed it on the ground, even twisting it a bit into the dirt.

"Remember. The goal is the castle. Get to the castle!" Red shouted, pointing at the large stone building, "Who wants to go first?"

"Over here!" Bomb shouted.

Although, Matilda butted in as she raised her wing, "I do!" She started to walk towards Red.

"Me! Me! Me!" Bomb kept shouting.

But Red ignored Bomb, "Hey! Alright, Matilda."

"Aww, always a bridesmaid." Bomb muttered.

Meanwhile, Chuck was pulling the red band back and Bomb grabbed it as well, pulling it behind Matilda's back.

"Step right up! Keep your wings, legs and beak inside the slingshot--."

"Shoot it!" Matilda yelled, looking ahead with determination.

"At all times..." Chuck finished quietly.

"Okey-doke," Red said as he raised his wings and took a step back. He then pointed at the air, "Fire!"

Bomb let go of the band and sent Matilda flying. Matilda's shouts echoed, when she flew, she seem to crouch and an...egg shot out, and on impact, it exploded with purple smoke along with purple flex of light.

I noticed some pigs fly up from the ground as they shouted in surprise.

The force of the egg coming out of Matilda made her fly further, she hit a house's wooden beam that held it up making it fall down, "Boom, baby, boom!" I heard her shout echo as she flew.

"Well, how about that? My teacher can shoot fireballs out of her butt." Red commented in awe, he looked over to the next bird, "You, what's your name?
Hal? I've seen you do something strange before, right?"

Hal started to stumble in front of the red band, "Well, pbbblrr, let's see. I'm really good at boo--"

Red interrupted him as he pointed up, "It doesn't matter. Launch him."

Bomb let go of the red band, sending Hal spinning towards the castle as he screamed.

"Oh, this guy looks good." Red nodded.

"He's gonna make it," Chuck muttered in awe.

"This is incredible!" Bomb grinned, "We're witnessing history right now."

"He's gonna make it to the castle!" I exclaimed excitedly. He was super close to the castle. In fact, he was so close to hitting the golden snout decoration above the castle's gate.

But I started to notice that he began to spin back towards us. In fact, everyone did.

"No, he's coming back," Red murmured.

Hal started to spin towards us at a very fast speed.

"He's coming, duck." Red spoke a little louder, "Get down! DUCK!" He screamed.

Everyone, including me, yelped and shouted as we all got down and out of Hal's way.

"Whoa whoa whoa...!" Hal yelled. He then hit the trunk of the tree and his body hung there, "Uh...Did we win?"

Red stood up and looked over at the bird, "Uh, no. Not quite yet, buddy." Red slightly turned his head to the side, "Uh, we're still tied. Hey, can we get an ice pack for Hal?"

Chuck appeared in a doctor's outfit as he held a med kit, "Medic!" He then zoomed up to Hal.

"Alright. Who's up next!" Red exclaimed, he turned his head and noticed Cyrus standing in front of the red band, "Whoa whoa whoa...What can you do?"

Cyrus breathed in and sneezed. Causing Chuck and Bomb to let go of the band, sending him flying.

Meanwhile, the snot from Cyrus splattered on Red's face. He shuddered roughly in disgust, "Uh... Yuck."

"Uh, need a tissue?" Bomb said as he offers Red a single tissue.

Cyrus was flying across the pig's buildings. He landed between two buildings that were connected by a white paper bellow. When he bounced off of it, the houses rammed into each other, and then he hit a large board that had the words 'Calvin Swine' on it. It also had a picture of a pig wearing undergarments. Cyrus slid down the board, leaving a trail of green snot. Making it look like the pig had snot coming out of his snout.

"Who's next?" Red asked, he saw a mime who was mocking him, "We need flyers, not standbyers! Let's go!"

The mime gave him a sorry smile and started to slowly back away.

Chuck was scowling at him and then quickly grabbed him, "You go out there and you show them how frightening mimes can be."

"Yeah!" Bomb smiled.

The two birds placed the mime in front of the band and quickly let go.

"Oh, my Gooooooood!" The mime screeched as he flew towards the piggy's homes.

He hit many of the pigs' homes, knocking them down, but he didn't go far enough.

Another bird stood behind the band and was shot out towards the piggy town.

"Fire!" Red shouted as another bird was shot out.

While a bird named Brad stood in front of the slingshot's red band, I could hear Leonard's voice echoing out and everyone seem to freeze, "Citizens of Pig Island! If you spot any birds destroying your neighborhood, - please capture them. There's been a change of plan. We will eat the eggs...for lunch!"

"Did he say...eat the eggs?" Stella muttered.

Chuck and Bomb stopped pulling on the band as they had their beaks open in shock. They accidentally let go of the band, sending Brad flying.

A mother bird beside me held her mouth as she threw up a bit. And not the good kind of throw-up.

"What?!" I screeched out. This was worse than what I imagined. For some reason, it didn't occur to me that they stole the eggs so they could eat them!

Of course, it was all right in front of me. Literally. The utensils on the banners. His weird obsession with eggs. When Leonard gave me that weird look when I said I was going to eat the eggs because they were so cute.

My stomach started to turn, but I quickly shook the feeling off. Now wasn't the time to feel like this.

The next bird was Bubbles. He was a small orange bird with black around his eyes and little black feathers on his head.

"Okay." Red said, looking at the small bird, "I want you to curl up into a little ball, alright? Make yourself aerodynamic."

"Like this?" Bubbles blew himself into a small round ball.

"To the left! To the left!" Chuck yelled, pushing Bomb.

"Let me at 'em!" Bubbles yelled out.

Red pointed to the sky, "Launch!"

Chuck and Bomb let go of the band, launching Bubbles into the sky as she screamed out.

"Don't mess with Bubbles!" He yelled as he flew towards the sky. When he finally landed, it was difficult to see him from afar, but something must have triggered the bird because Bubbles started to expand into a huge round bird, so big, we could see him up from the hill, "I TOLD YOU: NOT TO MESS WITH ME!" Bubbles screeched, knocking down a whole area.

Red looked at the flock behind him as he had an odd smile, "Wow, that blows. Uh, in--in a good way!"

Next up was Stella. She stepped up in front of the band and Chuck and Bomb pulled back.

"To the left!" Chuck yells out again.

"Oh. Hold on, wait. My left of your left?" Bomb asked Chuck, with a look of confusion.

Chuck let go of the band as he let out an annoyed sigh, "My left is your left. We are facing the same direction!"

Red just faced palmed himself as he shook his head.

Bomb nodded, "Right. Good call." He began to move to the right.

Chuck furrowed his eyebrows and began to push Bomb to the left.

"Just look where the last bird went and adjust from there," Red said in a bit of annoyance.

Stella looked straight ahead, looking determined, "I got this you guys."

"Alrig-"

Before Red even finished his sentence, Stella was shot into the air as she shouted out, almost like letting out a battle cry. She went through some buildings and climbed on some, but then went through another one. Stella fell to the ground as a house falls right behind and on top of her. We waited from afar, wondering if she was okay. We saw her rise from the debris, pushing a broken piece of a house off of her. The pink bird looked behind her, she noticed the castle in front of her but wasn't close enough. She looked back at us and shook her head.

"She got far, but not far enough," Red commented out loud. He then placed a wing up to his beak in thought.

I noticed Bomb picking up Peckinpah, he let out a yelp and was then placed in front of the already stretched back red band.

Red seemed to furrow his eyebrows further, looking more frustrated, "We have to get closer!"

Bomb let go of the band and shot Peckinpah into the sky, with the help of Chuck's wing signals.

The bird let out a brief shout, he then let out a bellow, "Judge power!"

As the Judge was flying across the sky he hit a huge stack of boulders and let out a yell. He spun to the right and hit other houses as they all crashed down and exploded into a fiery flame.

I cringed back a bit and Red let out an audible 'that looks painful' sound.

"Trial by fire!" Bomb screamed out.

Meanwhile, Chuck was pulling back on the band for the next bird, "No, literally he's on fire right now. Can somebody please help him?"

Luckily, the next bird Bomb picked up was Dr. Wingstien and he was shot into the sky towards where Peckinpah was.

"Terence!" Red called out as he turned around and ran in front of the stretched-out red band, "I got an idea. Do you think you can pull the slingshot back far enough to hit that giant boulder?" Red pointed ahead, I looked to see and in the distance, I saw a few boulders of different shapes stacked upon each other.

Terence just let out a grunt.

"Okay. Launch me right towards the top of that thing. Ready." Red grabbed a hold of the band and Terence began to stretch back the red band, further than Chuck and Bomb could ever do. The crowd around started to mumble and looked a bit distressed.

I started to walk beside Red as he was hanging onto the band, with Terence still pulling, "Red, you sure this is a good idea?" I asked him, I wasn't sure what exactly he was planning, but it was making me nervous.

Terence eventually stopped pulling, Red looked at me, giving me a confident look, but I could tell there was a hint of fear on his face, "Well, heh, I'm not sure. But you believe in me, right?"

"I mean, yes, but-"

Chuck dashed beside me and stood inside the red band, interrupting me, "Red, I'm not going to lie to you. I am..." Chuck started to let out a sob, "going to miss you when you die!" He slid his wings down Red's face and then held up a feather finger against the red bird's beak.

Red furrowed his eyebrows up, looking more uneasy.

"Rest in peace, my friend. Rest in peace." Bomb mourned as he shook his head.

I shake my head, as I glanced between Red and his friends, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! He's not going to die!" I exclaimed, scolding his friends. I paused and stared at Red, "...you're not going to die, right?"

Red shook his head, and his worried face changed to a more determined one, "Hey, guys. Let's not get cheesy, okay?" He looked at each of us, even Terence. Chuck moved out of the way and Red looked straight ahead of him, "Ready. Fire!"

Terence lets go of the band, sending Red into the sky. He let out a short wail, but then stopped and was flying fast, straight towards the weird perfectly stacked boulders. He hit the top of the stacked boulders and bounced off of it, making him fly even closer to the castle. This caused him to let out a scream and then, before we knew it, he broke through the roof.

Chuck, Bomb, and I ran to the edge of the hill as we stared closely. I held my breath and we all stared in anticipation.

"Did he make it?" Chuck muttered.

"I hope he's okay." Bomb commented.

I continued to hold my breath, "I believe in you." I whispered.

Red popped up as he stumbled and waved, "I'm in!" He yelled.

I let out a heavy sigh, feeling relief wash over me. The flock of birds cheered, along with Chuck and Bomb. Everyone was jumping and yelling as they all whooped and celebrated this small victory.

"Yeah. I knew he would make it!" Bomb cheered ecstatically, holding onto Chuck and lifting him up with his wing.

Red held his wings up to his beak, "Send everyone else!" He shouted and then ran off to the side.

I decided to take this opportunity to join everyone in this fight. I walked over to the band and held onto it, "Alright, it's my turn!"

Terence grabbed the red band and started to pull me back, lifting me up at the same time as I held onto the band. My heart started to pound in my chest and I began to hear it in my head. The whole moment felt like it took years, but it was not much longer than thirty seconds. I took a deep breath, "Ready? Yeah." I murmured to myself.

Daisy walked up to me, her worried expression prevalent, "You sure this is a good idea?"

I gave her a little laugh, "Well, Daisy, I'm not su--" In a split second, I was pushed forward with immense power, as I heard the red band snap behind me, "UUUURRREEE!" The skin on my face felt stretched back as I was flying in the sky, I can feel my arms just flailing around. I glanced down and my heart dropped instantly into my stomach, my eyes went wide and I was distracted by the distance between me and the ground as all of a sudden it seemed like the ground sunk down further. I glanced up and noticed I wasn't paying attention dodging anything and I hit a tip of a random house. I let out a sharp yelp and instincts told me to curl into a ball. When I did, I felt like a ball getting kicked around, I felt myself bouncing all over the place and hitting multiple buildings as I heard other pigs shout and yell with the sounds of wood breaking and ear-piercing shatter.

I eventually stopped moving and sprawled out my arms and legs, that's when I realized I was on the stone ground looking at the sky, with the castle only a few yards away from me. I sat up and saw some pigs wearing some sort of dark dirty green helmets, they noticed me from a distance and stared in my way, they seemed unsure about what to do with me. To my left, I heard some loud groaning and the creaking sound of wood under pressure. I looked up and houses that were stacked up on each other were losing their balance and were leaning toward my way. I let out a gasp and rolled over a few times over, the structure fell, barely missing me. It shook the ground hard and created a cloud of thick dust all around me.

I stood up to my feet as I coughed, accidentally breathing and swallowing in the dusty air. I swiped around my face to get the dust cloud away from me. I heard some weird vocal call in the sky and looked up, through the cloud of dust, I saw Bomb crashing through the castle wall. I couldn't help but smile and silently cheer that he was able to make it. In my peripheral vision though, I saw some pigs cautiously walking up to me holding plungers. I turned towards them, I raised my hooves up as I nervously chuckled at the pigs, "Uh, hold-hold on guys, I'm one of you."

One of the pigs narrowed their eyes, "You were with the birds and you're destroying our town!"

"I was-I'm just playing along! I'm not-I'm not really with the birds." I laughed. The pigs took a step forward and I took a step back.

Not before long, there were some deep whirling blares, "What's that sound?" I turned around and looked towards where the noise was coming from and noticed that it came from a large building that stood out from the other homes. It was more stone-like, boxy, and had wooden wing-like structures coming out from the side, and of course, it had a large metal pig snout decoration on it. It also had a wooden ramp attached to the building that slightly curved up at the end and it had small green lights lined down and were blinking. The wooden door on the building started to slide open and vehicles were going down the wooden ramp were flying in the sky. When looking closely, pigs were riding them and were holding something in their hooves.

"My loyal subjects." Leonard's voice echoed once more, "The treacherous birds have repaid our friendship with an unprovoked act of aggression! The attack will fail! We have glass! We have wood! We have TNT. We tried to kill them with kindness and now we're just gonna have to... Well, you know...!"

I saw Leonard standing on his balcony wearing some sort of red outfit. I glared at him, seething with anger. Surprisingly, it seemed like he noticed me and even though he was far away, I could tell he had a smirk on his face, "Oh, and also make sure to capture that pig...you know who I'm referring to."

My face fell when he called me out, "Crud..." I muttered, and the group of pigs in front of me started to run after me, shooting and throwing plungers.

I quickly ran through and climbed over the mountain of debris behind me, to get away from the pigs. From a distance, I saw some familiar faces, it was most of the birds that got slingshot out at the beginning. I began to run towards them, and as I did, I noticed some shadows on the ground that zoomed by all over the place. I looked up and saw the pigs' contraptions, flying above as they held red dynamite sticks. The pigs were dropping them and when they did, the dynamite exploded every time it made contact with the ground or building. They were creating even more damage to their own town than we were!

"Run!" I heard Matilda scream in the distance.

I ran towards the group, as they ran away from the other pigs and the falling TNT. I was trying to dodge the dynamite falling from the sky as well as the plungers getting thrown at me. Although, unfortunately for me, even with my best effort trying to dodge the explosives, one landed very close to me, making me fly forward.

🎶🎶🎶

Everything was fuzzy as my ears rang. My sight was blurry as I looked around me with a bunch of smoke surrounding me.

I heard a voice echo, "(Y/N), are you okay? (Y/N)?"

I looked over and saw Matilda trying to quickly lift me up as more dynamite fell and exploded along with plungers flying towards us. As I struggled to run with everyone, I saw a familiar rumble in the distance.

I looked up and saw a motorbike...coming towards us.

An idea suddenly popped in my head. I looked over at Matilda, "Matilda, I need you to hit that pig with the motorbike."

"W-what??"

"Just do it!" I shouted, "Just-just don't damage the bike!"

🎶Legends never die
When the world is calling you
Can you hear them screaming out your name?
Legends never die
They become a part of you
Every time you bleed for reaching greatness
Relentless you survive🎶

Matilda nodded and aimed carefully. The bird released her explosive egg and hit the pig, making the pig fly off in one direction as he shouted and the bike and his helmet flew towards another direction. I ran over to the fallen bike and picked up the pig's helmet and placed it on myself.

"I'm going to the castle!" I yelled, looking at Matilda.

🎶They never lose hope when everything's cold
And the fighting's near
It's deep in their bones, they'll run into smoke
When the fire is fierce
Oh, pick yourself up, 'cause🎶

I lifted the bike, turning the throttle as the machine roared. I pushed the visor down over my eyes and jumped on the bike and started to make my way towards the castle.

"Good luck, (Y/N)!" Matilda shouted after me.

I glared at the castle, "You want me that bad? Then, I'll just go to you."

🎶Legends never die
When the world is calling you
Can you hear them screaming out your name?
Legends never die
They become a part of you
Every time you bleed for reaching greatness🎶

I dodged the lit dynamite that was getting thrown from the pigs flying above me, I noticed some unlit ones on the ground and leaned to the side, snatching them up.

🎶Legends never die
They're written down in eternity
But you'll never see the price it costs
Scars collected all their lives🎶

I leaned forward, trying to make myself go faster. I felt tears coming out of my eyes as I thought back to when I first rode the motorcycle with Leonard. I let out a little sob. I shook my head, getting myself out of my thoughts.

'Not now. Come on!'

🎶When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts
And avenge defeat
Before it all starts, they suffer through harm
Just to touch a dream
Oh, pick yourself up, 'cause🎶

I clenched my teeth as I continued to quickly make my way towards the castle's entrance, dodging the pigs on the ground, who were throwing plungers with a rope attached to them, and the falling dynamite from above.

I could see the pigs trying to hit my motorcycle through the mirrors. I leaned left and right, trying not to get hit.

🎶Legends never die
When the world is calling you
Can you hear them screaming out your name?
Legends never die
They become a part of you
Every time you bleed for reaching greatness
Legends never die🎶

As I got closer to the castle, a pig hit my helmet with his plunger, yanking me off my bike. It felt like I was going in slow motion, but only for a split second, it ended when I hit the ground.

🎶When the world is calling out your name🎶

Once I hit the ground, my body flipped and slid on the ground. I had to hastily throw off my helmet. I painfully, but quickly, got to my motorcycle and lifted it up.

🎶Begging you to fight🎶

I turned the throttle all the way and hopped onto the bike as I zoomed towards the bridge. When I did, there was a giant hole ahead of me, "I can make it."

🎶Pick yourself up once more
Pick yourself up, 'cause🎶

I jumped over the crater and lit up one of the dynamite, throwing it towards the giant golden double doors that would lead me into the castle walls.

🎶Legends never die🎶

Once entered, I saw a long wooden ramp circling around the castle. I started to drive on the wooden ramp as it falls apart behind me. I saw some movement to the left of me inside one of the long towers.

The color that got my attention? Red.

🎶When the world is calling you (the world is calling you)
Can you hear them screaming out your name?🎶

I turned the motorcycle, jumping into one of the windows. I quickly lost control, but also quickly gained it back.

As I was driving in the hallways, ripping up the carpet. I saw Bomb ahead of me who was looking at large golden double doors.

🎶Legends never die
They become a part of you (they become a part of you)
Every time you bleed for reaching greatness🎶

"BOMB MOVE OUT OF THE FLOCKING WAY!"

🎶Legends never die🎶

Bomb turned around and jumped out of the way as I lit the last dynamite and threw it towards the doors, exploding them open.