The siege of the temporal lab

Well hello there chaps! It’s Lutra Longwhiskers!

My goodness it’s good to be back in here I can tell you! Well, back in here on my own without the extremely boring fellow Conrad for company! Terrible chap, not interested in good snacks or whiskey, not even gin and science! He only seemed interested in talking about how our wonderful temporal experimental experiments could benefit him… not pleasant company at all I can tell you!

I must say am somewhat nonplussed by the arrangement of this office too, those OIA scoundrels have been using it and it has lost all it’s charm, they have re organised things and put up rather stark looking financial charts and the like. I need to get this sorted out in double quick time and no mistake! I am going to let Lucy finish off telling you about what happened after she met Lontra Bigondegigantes. That way I will know too, its all rather muddled just now!

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Hi there everyone! It’s Lucy again, what a glorious couple of days we have been having! When I had to dash off last time, Lontra Bigondegigantes had just appeared behind me in the corridor just along from the living quarters which was the sign that everything was happening everywhere, all at once!

We are still pulling together the stories from all over the Holt about what happened when the brilliant Brazilian otters started appearing out of nowhere! Well actually not out of nowhere, out of Brazil in the near future but it didn’t look like that at the time! The idea was at a pre-set time (within the slightly unpredictable confines of the Home Time devices) the Rainforrest otters would fling themselves through time and space to land in one of three main areas of the Holt, this is why we had been rushing around attempting to syphon the OIA miscreants into clumps!

I’ll tell you what Lontra and I got up to first as I know the most about that, what with actually being there and all! Lontra and his two associates materialised and hailed me, then with no ado whatsoever we dashed off to Lutra’s living quarters where he was currently under some sort of house arrest with Conrad what’s-his-name and his by now quite frazzled guards! Lutra has been making them work their paws off fetching snacks and changing snacks and all sorts. I am not completely sure that he was doing this to make our job easier, but it definitely had that effect, When faced with charging giant otters, and me they were not really in the right frame of mind to put up a fight! In fact this phase of the operation was a lot easier than I had anticipated, the poor chaps took one look at us and sat down, with an exclamation of “just as don’t make us go back to the kitchen!!” Conrad was not so happy about this I can tell you but once we were in and Lontra was barring the door it didn’t take long for the other fellows to sit on him which really prevented any further argument! And I do mean sit on him, have I mentioned how large these chaps are? With them sitting his back he was doing no one any further damage! My Job in all of this was to liaise with Lutra and bring him up to date with everything that was going on! We got a little hung up on the quantum pockets part of the story, i think he might want to commission one for his office shack cupboard…

THe only other tale for the day that I can tell is that of the Siege of the Temporal Lab… which is what Zsofia called it, she does tend towards the dramatic but I am going with it for now!

The temporal team were barricaded inside the lab (mostly, they did have the time wheel so I am not feeling that sorry for them) for about 4 days in total. They had a lot to do in there getting the time wheel going and working out the timeline plan and of course defending the place from the OIA attackers (again Zsofia’s words). They used the heavy lab tables to jam up against the door to make opening it much harder, they then took it in turns to watch the proceedings through the door’s viewing window ready (of course) to leap into action should Horace need a hand at any point! Horace was of course doing a very fine job and relying mainly on menacing growls to keep the marauders at bay, when it came to go-time in side the lab the tables were cleared out of the way and the whole team was waiting just behind the door! As soon as Horace saw the Giant Rainforest fellows appear along the corridor behind the OIA he turned from mildly threatening to fully wild wildcat mode, he leapt forward claws extended all growls and snarls and swipey paws. This caused the besiegers to scuttle backwards in alarm right into the path of the Brazilian defenders who as one otter turned and with a swipe of their majestic tails knocked them all into the swimlanes!
Now, swimlanes are not normally a problem for otters of course, but this was our piece de resistance…as part of the otter appearance plan, three of the rainforest contingent secreted themselves in the swim lane ready to gather up the swiped OIA reprobates! Just as this was happening the door to the Temporal lab burst open and the temporal team tumbled out towing the quantum pockets, into which we stuffed the captured otters in double quick time!

Penny and Simon then made their way towards the other main OIA clump in the meeting ponds where a similar operation was happening taking another quantum pocket with them!

Right now the majority of the OIA have been scooped up and put into quantum holding cells (as the pockets are now being called) and the last of the hamster chasers are beign rounded up by Olivia and her team!

All in all it was an excellent operation and we didn’t need to resort to unnecessary violence! This is important, as according to Simon it is mentioned in the prophecy!