#the tax documents that would implicate their employers in massive fraud when all they want is the tack

[badolmen]

Obsessed w the dream I had this morning about bird spies.

#ra speaks #personal #very pixar feeling but with a guardians of gahoole level of violence and cruelty #humanity like up and disappeared for no reason and a bird society quickly filled the gaps #so there’s governments and class divides that run between ‘the wild birds’ and the ‘feral pets’ #so like song birds/etc. are the respected wild birds but pigeons/hawks used in hunting are ‘feral pets’ that are less well off #worldbuilding aside the main character is a passenger pigeon #there was some human project to revive the species but after they disappeared the population couldn’t sustain itself #they canibalized their parents as they hatched bc there was no other food in the rookery and there was a cage around it #until she was the last egg laid and hatched who ate her parents bodies alone after they died #she would have died that first year if this old crow called kanuk didn’t find her cage and drop food into it #they talked and she learned about the outside world from him and he tried to figure out the mechanism to open her cage #but it required a keycard he couldn’t find #one day he stopped visiting and as the days passed she grew hungry and weak #until like this team of specialized human intelligence recovery birds investigated the research building and found her cage outside #there was this yellow crownedkinglet called martyn who found her and took her into intensive care #fast forward a few years (idk birds live longer now) and she’s part of a team w martyn and other birds to recover human data for the gov #they’re on some mission to get this thumbtack that’s a secret memory stick from these rich birds #there’s this long fight/flight scene w the cork board the tack is pinned to and the rich bird’s security thinks they’re trying to steal like #the tax documents that would implicate their employers in massive fraud when all they want is the tack #it’s a little ridiculous like there’s a bald eagle guard holding up one end and two hawk agents holding the other while the smaller birds #fight it out #one of the guards gets injured and the pigeon and the medic (a stellar sea eagle named Stella) get separated w him #they liked crashed into an abandoned sky scraper that birds haven’t renovated for themselves yet #Stella treats the guards wounds and he’s surprised they don’t kill him/leave him to die #the pigeon finds a cork board w a tack identical to the one they need to steal #so the two rejoin the fight and do a pass off w martyn who has the real tack but isn’t strong enough to pick it off the cork board #Stella crashes into the board to break it along a crack sending everything flying long enough for martyn and the pigeon to swap out the tack #and then the team scatters while the guards try and collect all the paperwork stuff #as Stella and the pigeon fly back together Stella gets a ping that tells her martyn got injured/stopped flying