Disclaimer: I dont own HTF, Prototype, or any of their characters.

Note: This chapter is gonna be my own version of the HTF episode "Remains to be Seen" but I'll try to keep some of it cannon.

Saved by a Monster

It was Halloween night in Happy Tree Town. Everyone was out trick-or-treating. Everyone of course except Flaky since she found Halloween rather frightening. But being a multi-phoebic personality, thats no surprise. Flippy, the war vet with PTWS (Post Trauma War Syndrom) was also not trick or treating. Instead he was busy driving a truck loaded with barrles of toxic waste to be disposed of while whistling a little tune. When he saw his friends in various costumes about to cross the road, he stopped the truck to let them pass.

As he patiently waited, the exaust part of his truck shot off like a gun which surprised Flippy and he took cover. And thats when his "evil" self took over and drove the truck at max speed at the other tree friends, running over them, then crashing into a tree while the toxic waste was spilled all over the ground and on the mangled corpses of the tree friends, Flippy included.

(Sevral minutes later)

Flaky made her way to the cemetary. After she had heard of the accident with her friends, she decided to pay her respects to them. Even though everyone in town would come back to life in a day or 2, it was still devestating to see your friends die in such horrible ways. She arrived to see Lumpy struggling with Nutty's corpse. A limb was sticking out of the grave, and every time Lumpy shoved one in, another would pop out. After shoving a 4th limb back in, the head popped out which scared Lumpy and Flaky. What REALLY freaked them out though was that Nutty, even though mangled, was alive. Before either Flaky or Lumpy could comprehend what was going on, more corpses started rising from their graves and thats when it dawned on them. They were comming back as the living dead!

Lumpy and Flaky made a run for it. Well, Flaky did. Lumpy tripped on a rock before he could even begin running. The zombies were already upon him and he scremed in a high-pitch as he was being eaten alive. Flaky began to panic even more as she heard Lumpy's screams. In her panic, she was not watching where she was running and ran into a dead end. She looked back and saw her zombified friend Petunia stalking towards her. Flaky fell backwards as she looked in terror when Petunia was almost upon her. She looked away, closed her eyes whimpering, hoping her death would be quick. Instead, she heard the sound of something landing infront of her then hearing what sounded like flesh being torn to shreds by blades. She heard several groans, then a thud.

Flaky was afraid to look, but she looked back to see what had happened. There, standing in front of her was what looked like a wolf with grey fur and a pitch black tail. He was dressed in a white shirt and a black jacket with a strange red insignia on the back, over a light brown hoodie, light colored blue jeans, and black shoes. There was also some kind of assault rifle straped to his back. What really cought her eye though, was his arms. They were formed of some sort of black mass with red streaking in some places. His hands were deadly looking claws which were currently blood-stained and saw Petunia was cut into pieces. Flaky became incresingly afraid of this person as she watched his arms become covered in red and black mass for a moment and saw they had morphed back into a normal pair of arms and hands.

Finally, the stranger turned to face Flaky. She looked up at his hooded face as his icy blue eyes pierced into hers. Although scarred out of her mind, she managed to slowly stand up, not taking her eyes of the mysterious wolf. Before Flaky could say anything, the wolf suddenly yelled "Duck!" not a moment too soon, Flaky did so as the wolf shot his arm out as a whip-like mass shot out towards the zombie, Mime, and right through his head. He retracted his arm as it morphed back to normal when Mime fell to the ground. Flaky looked behind her, surprised. She turned back to the wolf who had walked towards her hand held his hand out as he spoke "cmon. I'm getting you outta here. It's not safe." Flaky was hesitant. Though he saved her twice now, she still wasint sure if she could trust this wolf with these stanges powers. He spoke again with a little more force "You wanna live? Then come with me, stay close, and just trust me, okay?" he said with his hand still extended.

Realizing that he might be her only hope of getting out alive, she slowly took his hand and he gently helped her to her feet. He took the rifle from his back, turned around and said "stay behind me, okay? And watch my back." Flaky nodded meekly as she wrapped her arms around his left arm. The wolf winced slightly at the contact, but decided to let it go unnoticed and lead the frightened porcupine towards an exit while shooting any zombie that came too close. As they were walking the wolf spoke again "Oh yeah. Name's Alex. Alex Mercer." Flaky hesitated, then replied "Umm...F-Flaky. My n-name's Flaky. and...t-thank you for h-helping me, Mr. Mercer." She said in her usualy nervouse tone. "Screw the formalities. Just call me Alex and I'll call you Flaky. Cool?" Alex asked as he wasted another zombie.

Before she could reply, they heard sadistic laughter on their right and saw Flippy dashing towards them. Flaky screamed and Alex opened fire on him, but Flippy dodged his shots. "Shit! This guy's quick!" he shouted as he contiued to try to hit the elusive zombie. Flippy jumped into the air and launced himself at Alex. Alex fired another burst of gunfire and this time the bullets hit, but they did little to stop Flippy. At the very last second, Alex pushed Flaky out of the way as Flippy pounced on him. As they struggled, Alex relized this guy was lot different than the others. After a few moments Alex closed his eyes, then opened them again and gave Flippy such an evil smirk, it would've rivaled his own. Flippy became confused at that until he saw Alex's right arm became covered in mass and it morphed into a giand sword like weapon. He looked at Alex,whos smirk hasnt left his face, in surprise. Before he could react, Alex sliced Flippy's arms off, leapt to his feet, jumped in the air and brought his blade arm down on the bear, cleaving him right in two.

Flaky watched as it all took place. Although she was still afraid of Alex, she began to somewhat become fasinated by him and his abilities. Before she could think any further, she saw 2 zombies heading right for her and screamed. Upon hearing the scream, Alex quickly grabed his dropped rifle and shot down the zombies with deadly accuracy. He then rushed to Flaky's side "You okay?" He asked. Flaky nodded slowly as Alex helped her back up. They looked behind them and saw more zombies headded their way. "Man, these assholes just aint getting the point." Alex said humorusly. He aimed his rifle and pilled the trigger, but there was only a clicking sound. He squeesed the trigger a few more times, still only clicking "Ahh dammit. Empty." Alex grumbled as he threw the rifle at the nearest zombie.

The zombies were closing in on them "Oh well. Guess my fun is over for today." Alex said as he picked up Flaky bridle style "Hang on tight! It might get a little bumpy!" he said as he took off like a bullet, running at super human speed and jumping over tall obsticals. Flaky gasped as she held on tight and buried her face in Alex's shoulder as they moved at high speeds out of the cemetary. After getting quite a long distance from the cemetary, Alex skidded to a top in the middle of the road. He saw Flaky still had her face in his shoulder and said "you can look now." Flaky slowly looked around and saw they were far away from the cemetary and zombies. Alex slowly put her down on her feet. Flaky almost immediately put a little distance between herself and Alex.

She looked at his face. She wasint sure, but she thought Alex looked a little hurt when she backed away from him. "Scared of me, huh?" Alex asked in a somewhat sad tone. He looked away from Flaky as he put his hands in his jacket pockets "I don't blame you. Afterall, people usually have a bad habit of dying around me." he sighed. Flaky regreted belittleing him like this and qucikly tried to apologize "oh n-no please I'm sorry. I-it just...w-well I'v never seen anything like y-you before." "I'm a monster. A living nightmare. What else is ther to say? Anyone I try to help, they just run from me cause...of what I am." he said quietly.

Flaky decided to try another apporach "If you really are a m-monster...then why d-did you h-help me?" Alex looked back at her as she continued "A m-monster wouldn't have s-saved someone like me. You could've j-just left me for d-dead or k-killed me yourself. But you chose to save me. You made sure I was safe and protected. If anything thing, you're m-my saviour, and I'll always be greatful f-for what you did for me." She said as she wrapped her arms around Alex's arm. Alex's spirits brighted a little at that and gave Flaky a small smile. She smiled back. The two were silent for a few moments before Alex spoke "So uhh...I'll give you a lift back to your place. U-unless of course you'd rather walk." Flaky seemed to think for a few seconds before responding "Actually, I'd love a ride b-back." Alex smiled as he picked up Flaky again "Then hang on tight." he said softly. After pointing to the direction of her house and making sure she had a firm grip, they sped towards town to Flaky's house.