Short Story - A Battle in the War of the Squirrels

It was early in the morning in the middle of the forest. A young squirrel in the good squirrel army named Rakou was waking up to start his day at his outpost up high in an oak tree. As he was cleaning the scope on his sniper rifle, he heard the sound of a tank not far off in the distance. He looked through his scope in that direction to see one of the evil squirrels’ tanks along with twenty other troops on foot. They were still about eighty yards off and hadn’t spotted him yet, so he sprung into action. He leapt a couple of trees over and threw a satchel charge on the ground in a clearing where the tank would most likely be going over, then hopped down and quickly planted four mines. After climbing back up to his sniper’s nest, Rakou made sure his clip was full and his belt was packed with ammo. He waited until they marched into his trap, and watched as the mines exploded, killing seven evil squirrels. Luckily the tank stopped right on top of the satchel charge, so Rakou yanked the pull igniter and it blew off the right track of the tank. Unfortunately, the tanks main gun still worked so it aimed up in the trees and fired, hitting the next tree over from the left of Rakou. Rakou knew that if he stayed in his stand he would be blown up within seconds, but he still had the advantage of them not knowing where he was. He quickly shot three evil squirrels as fast as his bolt action rifle would let him, swung his rifle on his back, and jumped four trees to his right. Right as he landed on a branch of the tree he looked back and saw his nest explode as the shell from the tank hit it. By that time the evil foot squirrels realized that the threat was in the trees so they started spraying machine gun fire haphazardly upwards. Rakou knew he couldn’t expose himself to get a clear shot without getting killed, so he pulled the pin from one of his grenades and threw it over the edge of his branch. When he heard the explosion that killed another two evil soldiers, he jumped as fast as he could to circle around to the other side of the evil squad. They didn’t notice, and while they were still firing the other way, Rakou slung another satchel charge covered in sap as hard as he could at the tank. It hit the base of the barrel and stuck, so Rakou pulled the pull igniter and it exploded the main gun of the tank, leaving it inoperable. Rakou only managed to get off to get off two more shots, killing two more squirrels, before he had to reload and the evil squirrels found out where he was. So he threw a flash bang and while all the evil squirrels were stunned, he jumped to the trees on the left side of them and reloaded his rifle. He realized that with eight of the squirrels still out there looking up in the trees, he would have to change his strategy. He quickly descended the tree to attack from the ground, hoping that the soldiers would keep their eyes upwards. When he landed, he pulled out another grenade and cooked it before chucking it at the four soldiers that were standing next to each other trying to see in all directions. It landed in the middle of them and exploded before they had a chance to realize their mistake. Rakou noticed that the evil squirrel nearest him saw where the grenade came from and was about to yell a warning to his allies, so he pulled out his pistol and shot, killing the squirrel before he uttered a word. Realizing his pistol didn’t have a long enough range and his sniper rifle wouldn’t be fast enough for the squirrels on the other side of the clearing, he ran out to shoot them hoping they wouldn’t notice him until it was to late. He managed to shoot the first squirrel, but as that squirrel fell his finger stayed on the trigger, shooting the pistol out of Rakou’s hand. Rakou knew now he had to act fast or die. He pulled out his knife and jumped on the nearest squirrel and stabbed him. As the other squirrel was pulling up his gun to shoot, Rakou pulled the knife out of the corpse and threw it as hard as he could at the enemy, and the last evil squirrel had a knife sticking out of his neck before he could manage to pull the trigger. Rakou stood up in the middle of the clearing that now had a destroyed tank and twenty evil squirrel corpses and sighed, ready to fight another day.