The war of the races

Melanie jumped up, knocking the soup flying and started to shift growling.

Two voices were distuinguishable.

"Dag-nabbit-Damn it!"

"Sorry Engie..."

"Ah told ya don't touch that darn thing..."

Melanie crept cautiously over to the two voices as a lynx and paused under a chair, crouching to the ground, flicking her tail.

Todd and an indistinguishable figure could be seen.

Melanie stopped. Todd...he wasnt a threat but what about the other? Time to check it out. She slipped out from underneath the chair and stalked toward them.

Todd looked down. "I'm really sorry Engie."

"It's okay Kiddoe. Just be careful a'ight? We need these thing fer defense."

"Whats going on?" She asked. "Todd. Who is this?"

"Oh!" Todd said surprised. "Mel, this is Engie." The man steeped out and the first noticable thing about him was that he was Human. He wore a pair of black, leather overalls. A Blue button down Tee over a white tee. He had a pair of steel kneepads and wore a pair of tinted goggles. He also had a construction helmet on his head. His left arm was robotic. He addressesd Melanie and revealed his Texan Accent. "Howdy Ma'am" He said waving politely.

Melanie hissed surprised and jumped backwards into the chair, falling over it. "A human?!"

Todd stepped ahead of her. "He's on our side! Alot of his friends are Anthro."

"It's all true." Engie said.

Melanie got up slowly, eyeing the newcomer. "Very well." She then turned and looked at her empty soup bowl.

"Hey Engie! it's good to see you again!" Zad had finished up her meal and felt content, licking tomato sauce off her lips and she smiled at Melanie again. "You've never been here before have yah mate?" She patted melanie on the back then turned to hug Engie. "you're the reason why i still have some sort of faith in human kind. Thankyou mate," she looked around at all the weaponry and smiled. "oh.... you got anything for me?"

"Sure do." He said as he reached behind him and pulled out a Cristaline blade. "Took me a while to finish, but I finally finished it. Made of the sharpest diamonds and crystals I could gather and sharpened to an unimaginable point with a laser. This puppy could cut through anything." He said smiling.

Melanie looked at the dagger curiously. "Its beautiful." She said before sitting down. "Hey Zad. I have an idea."

"We could do some damage to the men in the upper town."

"Upper town?" Todd asked.

Melanie nodded. "From what I gather some generals of theirs live up there."

Engie rubbed his head. "I dunno Missy, Ya just escaped a platoon and one of their experiments. ya sher ya wanna go runnin' into more?"

"I want to get these mongrels back and I wont stop until we win." She growled.

Engie shrugged. "Alrighty then, but you're gonna need some new equipment."

"Such as?"

"Come with me." He said smiling.

Melanie followed him cautiously

Engie handed Melanie and diamond bladed dagger. "You'll like this."

"Wow." Melanie said in a hushed voice. "How'd you get this?"