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weird, seeming to come from everywhere at once. King Cluck’s beak didn’t ever move. He just stared at the screen.
    “Poland has fallen and is ours. The following changes will be made. As it is now part of the glorious Chicken Empire the name of the capital will be changed from Warsaw to Warsquawk. The flag will also change appropriately. Red and white are not good colours.” Behind him a new flag appeared, striped green and yellow. Briefly a picture flashed up, of a white bird on a red background wearing a crown. “The coat of arms is, however, acceptable.
    “Now that we have Poland you must be wondering what we’ll do next. The answer is Turkey. We will complete our long-term goal of conquering that country and renaming it Chicken. Because we are the superior bird and we will conquer the world!” King Cluck started cackling.
    Noah reached forward and turned off the TV. “That chicken is crazy.”
    “Yeah, but he’s beating us,” Hazel chimed in.
    Cody sighed. “Yes he is. What about resistance in other countries or cities? Are any of them fighting back?”
    Noah shrugged. “We don’t know. The truth is they could be and we just haven’t heard anything. We sometimes intercept communications from big countries like America who have satellites, but we haven’t recently.Of course if you want us to contact them we could try to get that thing Glen keeps asking about.”
    “The magic satellite whatsit that will solve all our problems?” Cody rolled his eyes. “The one that’s miles away in Garthdee, an area we haven’t even begun to explore yet, which is probably very dangerous?  No, we’re not going to get it. We need Glen. Every council member is too precious to risk, especially those who can’t take care of themselves. Glen is our communications expert. If we lost him, what would we do?”
    “Why can’t someone else just go get it?” Sally spoke up.
    “We don’t know what it looks like,” I told her. “Glen would have to come with us and it’s quite far away.”
    “So why do we need it anyway? We’re getting signals from America and Europe. Why can’t we send them back?”
    “From what Glen tells me it’s not that easy.” Noah made a circular shape in the air with his hands. “Earth is a ball, right? Well we can only send signals in straight lines. To get them as far as America or somewhere we’d have to bounce the signals off satellites. To find the satellites we need that device.”
    “Which is too risky right now.” Cody interrupted. “You can tell Glen – again – that he’ll get the chance when we need it. Let’s move on.”
    Noah winced, obviously not happy with Cody’s decision but unwilling to fight him over it. He sat back down.
    “Now, there was an attack yesterday. The foraging teams were hit and several people were abducted.We were well prepared, but our effort proved… inconclusive,” said Cody.
    I saw again Sam getting plucked into the air and heard the wails of his sister as I told her what had happened. She was probably still in her room sobbing. They’d only been back together for a few months but I could tell they were very close. We had to keep an eye on her. A few siblings and friends had given themselves up to the chickens after their loved ones were taken. They were so desperate to see them again.
    “These attacks are getting more frequent but they’re sending less experienced chickens, which are less of a danger,” Cody continued.  “That means—”
    But we didn’t get to find out what it meant, because that’s when the  giant robot chicken burst through the ceiling.

CHAPTER 5
    There was a moment of shock where none of us reacted. I mean we were in the centre of Aberdeen here. We had lookouts and guards. There was no way a chicken should have been able to get that close without warning. But here it was.
    Percy was the first to react. “Get down!” he yelled, leaping forward and pushing Cody out of the way. The chicken pecked down as he