Welcome back to Green Grove, where we're entering into Chapter 12! Since there's a lot to cover in this chapter it is being divided into two separate posts (A & B), therefore here's Part A!

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Green Grove is a story that, at its most basic level is about the difference between age and appearance. It will contain mature components and some adult content including sex (all adults-- some more consenting than others). Due to this contrast there will be some chapters marked as adult. This story was prepared for Spinyfur Spinyfur with art provided by the amazing Savannah Horrocks. You can find her website here:

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Many/most of the characters in Green Grove are the property of Spinyfur as this is a commission story but I have filled out sections of it with contributions of my own; there are also a few characters that were contributed by Wolfsinn.

Part A of Ch 12 focuses on Dr. Wyesinn who, being the innocent, well-meaning, genteel Fox he is, spends his day hard at work looking after of all of those under his 'care'... but, unbeknownst to him, Nymeria gets into trouble on her first full day of class, and so he goes (not so) immediately to her rescue!

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Green Grove
Ch 12b: A Trio of Toy Terrorists

Lion's heart had been beating a mile a minute ever since he heard it was meatloaf night; meatloaf was his favorite. Not only was it meatloaf night but it was also the night when he and the rest of his secret band of super pups could get together before bed! He always tried to make sure they could gather two times a week but it didn't always happen... and there was so much to discuss!

The trip down to the basement wasn't a long one but he had to be careful that none of the CTs or Guides saw him... if the teachers knew that Lion was the leader of the Super Power-Pups then he would get in a lot of trouble, and it was the kind of trouble that meant his family would be called... and if that happened he'd probably be grounded for, like, a WEEK! Still, the Super Power-Pups were important enough that it was worth the risk.

There weren't a lot of students in Green Grove willing to stand up to all the wrong stuff that happened, but Lion and his friends did, and they were good at it! That Stupid 'Honorary Badger' book got read all the time and it was boring... so it had to go away. None of the teachers ever looked in the lost-and-found, so it was the perfect place for it. That Stupid Big Orange Cone that always sat on the edge of the red ball court caused more skinned knees and elbows than Lion could count... so it had to go away. The trash compactor took care of it just fine and it hadn't been back since.

Those achievements were nothing compared to what Lion had planned next, and his friends needed to know about it. The best way for them to know? With a meeting in their secret 'Basement of Cool Stuff' Base... and that meant they needed time to meet... and what better time to meet than the hour between dinner and bed when they got free time to play? Little did the teachers know that play was the last thing on their mind! No... Lion and his Super Power-Pups were getting ready for war!

Lion was the first to arrive, and so that meant he was the one to grab their computer and pull it out from behind the school's furnace. The 'Super Smartputer' was only a flattened cardboard box when the Super Power-Pups first found it, but with enough time and crayons it became something so much more. The little Pup pushed it up against a wall and unfolded part of the bottom so it would stand on its own, and then he went over to a tarp so he could free their 'Super Planning Table'-- (it was carefully disguised most of the time as a wooden crate).

The 'Super Basement of Cool Stuff' Base was coming together by the time the second of the group arrived. Lion always knew that basements were the best place for a secret base because 'base' was in its name. The fearless Super Power-Pup had everything mostly ready to go so he turned to face his companions: Soni and Charyn.

Soni, being nine years old, was the oldest of the group but she was a girl so it didn't count... at least, not to Lion, who was the leader. She was a Papillion, which meant she looked a lot like her Southern Shepherd family, but little did they know that she, like Lion, was a Super Power-Pup, and she fought the evil that crawled through the halls of Green Grove. Her Super Power-Pup mask was tucked into the ribbon of her dress, much like his own. "Hi, Dandilion! I got here as quick as I could. Marni wanted to go outside and play but I told her I couldn't but we could do it tomorrow instead."

Lion remembered how his dad always said how much girls liked to talk, and that brought one of his dad's favorite sayings to mind. He rolled his eyes just right to mimic his dad as he noted with a sigh. "Women."

Soni cocked her head to the side. "Huh?"

Lion shook his head. "Never mind. And remember: call me Lion."

Charyn padded into view just then. "Hey guys. So... are we finally gonna deal with that stupid hamster?"

Smiling, the Pomeranian nodded, motioning for the rest of his team to gather around the 'Super Planning Table'. Back when he was adopted two years ago Mom and Dad had to explain that 'Pomeranian' was 'Small Chow' in some ECC language, which made sense, because his parents were Chows and he was smaller than they were. It was a lot like his name, 'Dandelion', which they told him meant 'Amazing Lion'. He usually just went by 'Lion' because he didn't want anyone thinking he had a big head.

Soni and Charyn both sat down on the floor next to the 'Super Planning Table', each careful of their dresses. It took Charyn awhile to get used to wearing a dress; he said the old school he went to only had girls wear dresses-- the whole idea seemed funny to Lion and he'd said it at the time. Charyn eventually came to his senses and he had worn his dress like a normal puppy ever since.

Once his teammates were seated, Lion went up to the 'Super Smartputer' and pushed some of the drawn-on buttons, mindful to make the 'beep-boop-beep' sounds lest it not work right. Once the proper code was keyed in it was deemed suitable to put his drawn plan up on top of it, carefully affixing it with craft tape so the plan didn't risk falling off of 'Super Smartputer'. "Okay... so here's how we're gonna get rid of Mrs. Mynster's stupid class gerbil."

Charyn shifted on his butt. "It's a hamster. His name is Mung."

Soni quickly corrected Charyn. "Shush... I wanna hear the plan."

Lion pulled out the Super-Broken-Antenna-of-Pointing and, after extending it, used it to motion to the first part of the diagram. "First we wait 'til everyone's asleep."

Soni took HER turn to interrupt him. "We're not gonna HURT it, right?"

Lion rolled his eyes. "We're heroes, Soni... not villains... no, we're not gonna hurt it."

Once his two companions had gone quiet, Lion referred again to the picture of the plan with the Super_Broken-Antenna-of-Pointing that he'd carefully drawn earlier in the day. The hamster he drew with an orange crayon because orange was a stupid color and the hamster was stupid. So everyone would know the plan, Lion also circled the stupid hamster and drew a line through it using a green crayon because the Super Power-Pups chose green as their color and the plan was to get rid of the stupid hamster.

Charyn was usually the best thinker of the group so it only made sense that he asked the important questions. "So... how're we gonna do it?"

Soni, who was more than ready to do good, was bouncing up and down on her knees. "Ooh! We can go into the Super Vents like when we covered all the Stupid White Boards in Mrs. Keever's class with blue marker!"

Lion shook his head. "Nuh-uh... we still have a box of Stupid Honorary Badger books in the Super Hiding Spot up in the Super Vents."

Soni's ears drooped a little more than usual. "Oh... right."

Stealing that Stupid Honorary Badger book had been the first Super Good Deed the Super Power-Pups had done, and tossing it into the Lost-and-Found bin was perfect, but it took practice. When the book ended up missing from Mrs. Gyldir's class she just up and got a replacement from the school's storage closet, and THAT experience taught Lion two things. First: never understimate the power of a teacher, and two: always be ready to try again. Once the Super Power-Pups found a way into the storage closet it was easy enough to get the entire stock of books and store them up in the air vents... nobody ever looked in the Super Vents.

A long pause stretched out between Soni's comment and when Charyn spoke up, but, as usual, he had some really good advice. "We can't go after ten... Dr. B. has his apartment at the end of that hall and he's always home after ten."

All of the Super Power-Pups shuddered at that thought. Dr. Berthfurt was an old and angry Hound and there was nothing he liked more than interfering with the Super Power-Pups' plans. Over the past few months he had become their greatest and worst arch-nemesis, and that meant they needed to take the proximity of his apartment to the hamster into consideration. Soni looked even more downcast. "So that gives us..." she paused, counting off the numbers on her paw. "Um... one, two... three hours?"

Lion looked to the Super Wall Clock and noticed that it was-- he wasn't sure; he never learned to read clocks with arms. "Um... what time IS it?"

As usual, it was Charyn to the rescue. "The big arm is the minute and the small arm is the hour... see how the big arm is pointing at the seven and the small arm is half way between the six and seven? That means it's 6:07."

Soni clarified. "Six thirty seven."

Lion was a lot better at math than he was at telling the time, and with help from the piece of pap-- with the help of Super Smartputer and a pen he was able to figure out that they had a little more than two hours. "Okay... so we have to get to Mrs. Mynster's class without Dr. B. finding out, then we have to get that Stupid Gerb--"

"Hamster."

"Right... Hamster. We have to get the Stupid Hamster out."

Charyn offered more advice. "We should probably take the whole cage... that way it won't be able to get away."

Soni didn't agree. "The whole cage'll be big and heavy."

Charyn's nose crinkled up as he snorted. "It's not THAT heavy."

Lion tapped the Super-Broken-Antenna-of-Pointing against Super Smartputer to get everyone's attention. "Come on, guys! We only have two hours and a lot of minutes to get the Stupid Hamster out of Mrs. Mynster's class. After nine only the night crew'll be in the halls and you KNOW they'll be easy to get past."

Soni once again went to counting on her paws but she came to the answer much faster. "That'll only give us an HOUR."

Charyn was much more optimistic. "An hour'll be plenty of time. We can get Mung out real fast and.... uh.... Lion, what do we do after we get Mung?"

Lion grinned wide. "We bring him to the garbage chute!"

Soni gasped, paws going up to either side of her muzzle. "You said we weren't gonna hurt it!"

The leader of the Super Power-Pups let out a sigh as he began rummaging around in the frills of his dress looking for his Super Power-Pup Super Mask. "We're not gonna hurt it... there's tons of trash at the bottom of the chute so it won't hurt when he lands."

The Papillion sighed in relief and Lion rolled his eyes, bringing to mind his dad's favorite saying once again. "Women."

With the plan ready, Lion was feeling much better about completing the night's mission, but Charyn once again brought up an important detail. "What if Dr. B. comes back early?"

It was Soni finally who provided a solution. "Oh... he won't. I heard he and Dr. T. were gonna be at the lab for awhile 'cause they had to do some kinda study-thing on some sickness-thing or something one of the Dolls got."

Dr. Tinlynson, or 'Dr. T' as they preferred to call him was not really anyone important to the Super Power-Pups, especially since he didn't usually interact with Tier 2 students. However, if he truly WAS going to be keeping Dr. B busy then that almost put him on even ground with Dr. Y., who was the only adult ally of the Super-Power-Pups in the whole school. Lion paused for a moment as he considered all the really tough names the Doctors at Green Grove had. Was having a long last name a requirement to be a doctor?

The sound of a carbonated metal pop-top opening caught his attention and pulled him out of his musings; Charyn had just opened up a Super Spark Energy Drink; they ALWAYS had Super Spark Energy Drinks whenever they had Super Duty at night... it helped them stay awake and alert and... well... Super! Soni popped one too and she began her dainty little sips; it always took Soni FOREVER to finish her Super Spark Energy Drink. She also used to think they were called Super BARK Energy Drinks because of the burps that followed drinking em.

Lion held out a paw and Charyn obediently put one of the cans into it; unlike the cola his mom and dad never let him have, Lion loved the fact that the Super Spark Energy Drinks came in a can the size of his arm... and tasted-- well... they tasted really bad... kinda like medicine, but at least they were sweet. And, if what the can said was true, they had 500% the daily recommended dosage of caffeine, which was, like, two times more than a growing Super Power-Pup needed... or something-- Lion hadn't learned his multiplication tables yet... but he knew it was good!

The Super Spark Energy Drinks were the last thing the Super Power-Pups needed to awaken their Super Abilities, which meant that they were ready for action... all except the fact that they had to report back to their beds for lights-out. Most of the other Pups would drift off to sleep within a pawful of minutes of the lights going out, but not the Super Power-Pups... not after their Super Spark Energy Drinks! They would wait just long enough for the supervisors to wander away and then they would meet back in the 'Super Basement of Cool Stuff' Base and put their plan into motion.

Lion closed up the meeting with a reminder. "Remember to bring your masks... you can't be a Super Power-Pup without a mask. It's the Rule."

As usual, it was Soni who objected. "I don't think I should have to wear a mask all the time... The Blossom doesn't."

It wasn't the first time she brought up the comic book Collie and Lion knew it wouldn't be the last. He didn't know comic books as well as Charyn, who fortunately came to defense of the Rule. "Well The Blossom isn't part of a team. Everyone in the Justice Pack wears a mask... and all of the Megamutes do... and so does every last member of the Hero Hounds."

Soni huffed and pouted, taking another sip of her Super Spark Energy Drink. "Yeah? Well all the Hero Hounds are boys! I wanna be more like The Blossom."

Charyn objected. "The Blossom works alone. You need to be more like Iceflow from the Megamutes... she's a girl."

The Papillion huffed again. "But Iceflow's a Malimute... I'm a Collie like The Blossom so I don't think I need ta wear a--"

Lion brought the argument to an end. "It's the Rule, okay? We all wear masks!"

Charyn agreed. "Yeah... we all wear masks. Super Masks."

Soni wasn't done however. "Well your mask has a mane on it... why don't all our--"

The Pomeranian rolled his eyes, ready to use his dad's favorite saying again, but he was saved by Charyn. "Well, that's cuz Lion's a Chow like 'The Green Guardian'... he needs to have the mane."

Lion added a very eloquent "Yeah."

Soni set down her empty can (she'd only JUST finished it) and folded her arms over her chest. "So you're a Doberman like 'Bat Dog', and Dandelion's a Chow like 'The Green Guardian', but I can't be like 'The Blossom' even though were both Collies?"

Charyn rolled his eyes. "Cuz 'The Blossom' isn't part of a team! She works alone!"

The Papillion hrumphed. "She doesn't work alone-- she has her sidekick 'Petal'."

The MiniPini crossed his own arms. "Yeah? Well 'Bat Dog' doesn't wear a dress, but you don't see me complaining."

Lion sighed. "Guys! Come on! Those are the rules: Masks and Dresses. Okay?"

Both of the other Super Power-Pups crossed their arms and slouched, noting in unison "Fine."

Smiling, Lion was willing to call that a win. "Okay... so... back here after lights out, then we go get that Gerbil."

"Hamster."

Lion threw his empty can into the Super-Recycling-Bin-of-Heroism. "Whatever."