Alexander the Alpha

“Why is it suddenly so damn warm?”

The owner of the voice raised his voice as he got back on his feet taking some time to let his vision clear a bit before observing his surroundings. He appeared to be in the middle of a jungle. “What the fuck happened?!” The biped asked himself as he tried to remember what exactly happened. The biped was dressed in nothing else besides a boxer short with various emoticons on it. “At least I didn’t end up completely naked like that time on Vagis 13,” the biped mumbled while scratching the back of his head messing up his brown hair a bit before rubbing his eyes one to get the sleep out of them and secondly to make sure he wasn’t dreaming this after it was obvious that he wasn’t dreaming.

Alexander A Ackerson famous or infamous (depending on which side you were on)  treasure hunter and commander of wolf squad four in the department of special research from the intergalactic federation of human systems a beautiful term for basically the guys who kill traitors and secured important research for the federation and stole it from others.

“Okay Alexander what did you do last night? Let me think there was the worker party, an after part, a pizzeria,” by the memory of the pizza Alexander started day dreaming about pizza’s again before shaking himself out of his trance and continued his small memory walk. “okay, that aside then there was uhm was it first the horse race and then the ice cream shop or first the ice cream shop and then the horse racing uuuuuuhhhhmmmm trailing off again let’s see after those two there was the striptease bar, the female stripper I hope was an actual female and the motel room,”

He looked around the small clearing he had woken up in and saw it contained some empty pizza boxes, some empty energy drinks and a few empty bottles of water with them one half empty bottle and a small combat knife which he probably had used to cut the pizza’s with seeing as the knife contained some cheese on it. Alexander took the knife, the half full water bottle and a tin can that laid by the pizza boxes hopefully to cook water in as the water in jungles was often times infected with bacteria that he could kill by heating the water.

He looked around to see if something had changed in his surroundings, but saw there was nothing new.

“Great just great where am I going to find someone to give me directions to the nearest space port in a jungle?” He mumbled annoyed before his eyes suddenly fell upon some ruins in the distance.

“Well it’s the closest thing to a civilization in a big ass area!”

Alexander started trudging off towards the buildings he had seen leaving behind some pizza boxes, water bottles and empty energy drinks when suddenly he hear some snoring by a nearby bush. He silently made his way over to the bush while thinking of which creatures he would encounter when he was able to see it.

“Perhaps it’s a tiger or a panther or a,” He stopped thinking when he had made his way around the bush. “Or perhaps it is my sleeping HENTZAL RAPTOR COMPANION!!!!” he exclaimed loudly at the sight of his beloved raptor sir Thompson Snatch the third.

The Hentzal raptor looked like an Utah raptor only instead of having feathers he was completely covered with scales.

The noise woke the confused raptor who started scanning his surroundings calming down when he saw his companion. The raptor let out a small growl as to say “shut up dude I got a hangover!”

Alexander crossed his arms and whilst giving the raptor a disapproving glare said. “Hey, what the fuck dude? I thought you were the one driving you are the one who is supposed to be sober!”

Thompson looked at him with a look that said. “I was sober well most of the times I was sober!” making Alexander’s glare harden on him.

The raptor sighted and Alexander knew what it meant it was Thompson’s way of saying. “Okay fine I might have been drunk most of the time.”

This made Alexander roll his eyes. “You got dared by that Keplan raptor again didn’t you?” Thompson looked away from Alexander. “You got challenged again come on how many times to I need to say you can’t win from a Keplan raptor those guys are bigger thus making them more resilient against the Sloknot!” Sloknot was basically the alcohol for raptors this earned him a huff from Thompson.

“Fine perhaps you can win, but first we need to find a way back home in case you haven’t noticed we’re stuck in the middle of a jungle so follow me,” Alexander said before trotting towards the temple he had seen followed by his still slightly hung-over raptor companion.

Alexander had walked for hours by the time he arrived and he honestly could say he was quite happy as the sun began to set and you don’t want to be in the jungle after dark whilst he didn’t knew which creatures resided in this jungle the memories of his experiences in the Kerdanian jungle was still fresh and those memories were far from pleasant. Seeing as the branches were too low he hadn’t been able to use Thompson to ride upon.

Alexander and Thompson advanced further and further inside the temple complex. By now Alexander had figured out that the buildings they had seen were part of almost an entire city, well not city, but this place was clearly some kind of religious center or it had once been in any case for the jungle was taking over and the temples were falling apart on certain spots.

Alexander had always had a passion for history it was part of the reason he had joined the special research department rather than the intelligence and security department for his current job didn’t only evolve killing and blowing stuff up, but also researching stuff like temples and other stuff. They hadn’t encountered living alien live most stuff they discovered were cites etc, but they hadn’t found any trace of the inhabitants of those cities or the creators of them so seeing the beautiful architecture he could not help himself, but to study the pyramids.

However how beautiful and fascinated he also found it he knew better than to stay out at night in a jungle even if he was in a more civilized area of the jungle so he made his way towards what looked like the main temple as it was the highest temple there was his first plan was to make his way on one of the platforms on the temple as he didn’t trust these types of temples their inside how many explorers hadn’t died by ancient booby trap.

Alexander saw something in the entrance hall that got his attention. “Are that burning torches? Civilization here I come!” Alexander happily made his way inside the temple signaling Thompson to stay outside as he did not want Thompson to accidentally activate a booby trap of some sorts following the torches until after quite some time he finally found two big wooden doors by that time however he was tired as fuck as that walk to civilization was a lot longer than he had thought. “Bloody hell *pant* when I get my hands*pant* on the guy that *pant* choose that route I am gonna *pant* kill him!!!*pant*” Alexander cursed whilst trying to regain his breath.

He heard something break on the other side of the door and a lot of screaming and cursing sounded like a female. “They better have an answer on my question for a space port,” Alexander cursed before opening the door.

To say Ahuizotl had a boring life would be a lie oh he had many enemies. The ponies especially that Daring Do that Pegasus that always managed to best him on the last moment, but she wasn’t the only one being ruler of an abandoned jungle temple that he had as enemy. Oh no Ahuizotl had faced many enemies. The manticores, the timberwolves, the diamond dogs all enemies that have tried to kill him on one or more occasions definitely the latter had been getting on his nerve lately.

Ever since those dogs had kidnapped a pony they had been driven more and more into the jungle area of the everfree and thus causing more and more trouble for him luckily they weren’t the smartest and were often easily beaten back by calling upon his cats none of the dogs were really fond of fighting his companions and definitely not for some old ruins.

However fate had it he had found a small patrol of them which was assigned to escort some higher rank dog in their ranks and you could have guessed it Ahuizotl had kidnapped her to get some ransom and to weaken their influence in the area luck had it that on the way to the dungeon he had managed to sneak upon Daring Do so you could say this had been his lucky day.

“RELEASE ME THIS INSTANCE!!!!!!” the female Alpha dog shouted whilst she gave another few violent shakes against the chains that bound her to a pillar. Ahuitzotl looked at the pillar next to the Alphaness one where he had chained Daring Do to.

“Seriously how long can you two yell and fight before it finally gets into you two your heads you aren’t going to escape!”

“We are getting out of here,” Daring shouted as she gave another violent twist to the chains.

“If they pay your ransom you do and you better pray they do for you two can be used for other functions than only room decoration!” Ahuitzotl shouted angrily which shut the two females up instantly at the thought of being forced to do it with him both cringed.

Ahuizotl grinned wildly at the two females when suddenly the two big wooden doors opened and a strange biped walked in.

“SLAM!!!”

“Good evening everybody could someone kindly give me directions to the nearest space port please?” suddenly Alexander saw the situation he was in two what he guessed basing on their figure females bound to a pillar the Pegasus wearing some kind of camouflage outfir and a tropical hat whilst the female dog creature wore a similar outfit only with shoulder blades and a strange purple monkey/cat creature wit an extra hand on the end of his tail. “Oh am I interrupting something here?”

“WHO ARE YOU TO ENTER MY LAIR UNINVITED BEAST!?!” the creature roared quickly putting himself between the females and Alexander.

Alexander really didn’t appreciate the beast reference a lot so he replied. “Just to let you ape uhm whatever it is you need to represent know I was elected the best looking pyro-maniac AND explorer during the yearly department awards THIS year!!!”

“MY NAME IS AHUITZOTL AND YOU WILL PAY FOR SUCH DISRESPECT!!!”

By now It was pretty clear for Alexander he had hit a nerve if the twitching of the creature’s eye and the clenching of his wrist hadn’t given it a way then you could say the banzai charge the creature had begun straight at Alexander did. Alexander tried dodging, but unfortunately for him after he had successfully dodge Ahuitzotl he was gripped by the hand on the creature’s tail and thrown against a pillar.

This was quite painful as he was only wearing his boxers, but rather than to keep fighting Alexander pretended to be death fooling both the trapped females and Ahuitzotl whilst the females lowered their gaze Ahuitzotl started cheering. “YOU SEE I AM THE MOST POWERFULL CREATURE OF THE EVERFREE!!! I AM THE RULER OF THE JUNGLE!!!!”

Alexander decided he had enough of the self-boasting speech and stood up searching for something to teach that thing a lesson which he found in the form of a spear after making sure the spear was sharp enough he aimed and threw it at Ahuitzotl who was still bragging on about how awesome he was.

“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!”

That was the response of Ahuizotl after the spear hit it’s mark and pierced through the flesh of Ahuitzotl’s right buttock this also startled the pegasus and the big dog creature who looked up again in response their looks changed from confused into dumbstruck when they saw the biped was still standing.

“WHAT!?! HOW !?!” Ahuizotl exclaimed angrily as he saw the biped was still standing.

“What never heard of playing death? It means you trick someone or something into thinking your death,” Alexander explained.

“I KNOW WHAT IT IS YOU INSOLENT BEAST, but you won’t trick me a second time and this time you are unarmed,” Ahuitzotl finished while grinning wildly. The two females looked worriedly as their only hope of escaping Ahuitzotl’s grasp was indeed unarmed standing over an armed and extremely pissed off Ahuitzotl.

“You know there are a lot of words to describe my current situation uhm you have bored, annoyed, hungry, tired, disappointment, cold, pained and I guess disgusted by your presence too, but unarmed nope,” the biped started rattling on confusing both the female Pegasus, dog creature and Ahuitzotl.

“And what pray tell do you have as a weapon,” Ahuitzotl asked annoyed in response Alexander showed him the combat knife he had with him which caused Ahuizotl to break out in a loud laughter and the two females to frown. “granted it was weapon, but what did the biped hope to do with the small knife to Ahuitzotl.

Suddenly the room was filled with what needed to sound like laughter, but sounded more like a dolphin trying to laugh this made Ahuitzotl shut up and look over towards the entrance where a familiar now pissed off Hentzal raptor was now blocking the entrance and growling menacingly at Ahuitzotl who was taken aback by the sudden appearance of a completely unknown specie strong as Ahuitzotl may have been the stinging pain in his butt from the spear, the slight bit of fear that washed over him at the sight of rows of razor sharp teeth in the mouth of the creature made him run off through a different entrance.

“That was awesome that growl was just a goddamn masterpiece,” Alexander complimented his raptor friend who had by now crossed the distance between the two and nuzzled him as a sign of appreciation. Alexander however remembered they weren’t alone in the room.

“Oh yeah say ladies could you two give me directions to the nearest owh they fainted,” Alexander stated after he saw the two females were just laying near the pillar motionlessly, but still breathing.

Thompson looked at them as well before shooting Alexander a questioning stare. “Yes, it is your fault I think.”

Which earned him an annoyed huff from Thompson as to say. “Not my fault they can’t handle my awesomeness!”