A few hours later, the gang had arrived on Pig Planet and landed in a spaceship garage. This planet was millions of light years away, but spaceships in this story are faster than light. Much, much faster.

The spaceship garage they found themselves in was an extremely large building, about 5 kilometers across on each side and 1 kilometer tall. Spaceships were parked on massive shelf-like structures which extended from the floor to the ceiling, and one of the walls of the building was missing, letting you fly out. Elevators carried people up and down the shelves. Plagiarize left his space horse on the ship for safe keeping.

Upon opening one of the many ground-level doors on the sides of the garage, the gang was met with their first extraordinary sight of Pig City. Hundreds of buildings and skyscrapers were everywhere, and a lot of the skyscrapers were so high they went beyond the clouds. Not only were there all sorts of vehicles on the streets, but there were flying trains going through the air. Pigs walked everywhere, going about their daily lives. To say the city was bustling would have been an understatement.

“These pigs must be far superior to humans,” said Plagiarize. “There isn’t even any pollution whatsoever. And the traffic is super smooth! Omg I love this place already.”

Mushpuff, being from a planet with many cities, could understand and relate to what Plagiarize was saying, but Bird was entirely lost. On his planet there were only small towns with a few igloos here and there. There were no cars and he had never even heard of pollution.

It was at this moment that Mushpuff’s eyes fell upon a certain store called Very Big Very Good Store™. It was not hard to miss because it was directly across the street and had many flashing neon signs with arrows and words such as “BIG!” and “GOOD!” and “VERY!” and “STORE!” and “SALE!” and “STUFF!” and “FREE CHEESE SAMPLES!” and “ARCADE!” Before Bird and Plagiarize knew what was happening, Mushpuff was dragging them towards the store. They were pulled across the street (miraculously not getting hit by a single vehicle) and to the front of the store.

“No, Mushpuff!” said Bird. “We are here to get supplies for our journey! We must save our money!”

“But… PLEASE?!??!?” said Mushpuff, giving Bird some very cute kitten eyes. Bird could not resist and the three of them walked into Very Big Very Good Store™.

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Meanwhile, in the Emergency Lookout Station of Pig City, a pig sat at the top of the very tall lookout tower, which was above the clouds. The air was very cold up here and she had to wear a coat and the top of the tower was enclosed in an Oxygen Bubble, a magic bubble surrounding the tower to provide oxygen which was nearly invisible, allowing for easy lookout-ing.

“I hate my life and I want to kill myself,” said the pig to herself as she sat at the top of the tower. She had to sit at this tower for 12 hours every day and she had no family or friends.

Just then something appeared in the sky. Five somethings, rather.

“Hmm, I wonder what those are?” said the pig. She looked through her binoculars at the objects. “Spaceships, I see. But they are not going towards the garage?? They are heading straight towards the massive energy shield surrounding Pig City which protects us from the harsh weather conditions of Pig Planet??? Are we all gonna die????” she pulled the alarm and jumped with joy at the fact that she might die. Then she jumped off the edge of the lookout tower because she wanted to die sooner.

The pig’s suspicions were correct. Out above the energy shield surrounding Pig City, in the middle of the eternal darkness of the thunderstorm, five Bear Army ships were flying at high speeds towards the shield. Then they launched missiles from the front of their ships… missiles made with BEAR TECHNOLOGY! ABLE TO TAKE DOWN ENERGY SHIELDS!!! The missiles exploded in brilliant flashes of light and the shield started to come down. The 100 mph wind, rain, and constant lightning began to strike Pig City.

From the ground looking up, one would see a massive rip straight through the bright sunlight, for the shield created fake sunlight using technology. And that’s logic. From beyond the rip one would only be able to see dark, dark clouds and constant lightning. This is what pigs on the ground saw as they ran for the Pig Bunker (because the alarm was going off).

When the alarm went off, the gang was inside of Very Big Very Good Store™. Since they had no idea what was happening, they assumed it was a drill and continued shopping despite the fact that hundreds of pigs were running past them towards the exit. It was only when they heard sounds that were suspiciously similar to explosion sounds that they went outside. What they saw caused them to make the very smart decision of going back inside, because a lot more than 5 bear ships were flying everywhere, launching missiles in all directions and destroying everything. There were hundreds of them.

“I think we oughta stay here and hope this building doesn’t explode,” said Mushpuff. “If we went outside they would see us and shoot us.”

“Great idea, yo,” said Bird.

Just then a sound happened. It sounded like a pig at terminal velocity crashing through 50 floors of a building and landing at the bottom and then saying “ow.” And it turns out that’s just what it was.