>>321139New anon here, I think I made my post is too long, but hopefully it's good. I also made a drawing of the previous anon's post.
>>322184"Are those… converses?"
"More specifically, Jack Purcells. I thought it'd be fitting, ya know? Cassowary, converse, they just sound good together."
I guess I had to agree with him there, but before I could respond, an obvious thought popped into my mind. Why the fuck is a talking, converse-wearing, cassowa—
"Oh, you're probably wondering a lot of things. Yes, I know the situation is strange, but I've got a mission to give you."
"A mission for me?"
"Yes, you. I'm an operative of a three-letter agency, you don't need to know which one, but you do need to know that if you disobey, I also have a secondary mission to eliminate you."
I was already sitting still, but at this point, I was frozen. Okay, that bird thing is probably trained in black ops techniques, so no chance head-on. Maybe make a run for it? Okay, yeah, keep the conversation going and escape when the time is right.
I slowly opened my mouth and said, "Okay, got it. Just tell me what to do."
"You see that flash drive over there? It's got a special-purpose operating system in it designed to give you a debrief of your tasks and has some useful tools built in, a bit like a spy version of Tails OS. Just boot from the drive, enter the password, and open the mission portal."
"Hang on, how do I know it doesn't contain a virus?"
"Look, if I wanted to harm you, I could kick you so hard in the balls right now that it undoes puberty. Just trust me here."
I got up and tried to reach for the flash drive again, but my years of sedentary behaviour betrayed me here, and when I tried to squat down to retrieve it, I groaned in pain and fell back down to the couch. The cassowary sighed and just used his shoes to do what appeared like a kick flip with the flash drive and then handed (or should I say winged?) it over to me. I plugged it in and was then met with the login screen.
"So… what's the password?"
For the first time, I saw a non-neutral expression on the cassowary's face; it was a mix of many emotions, but I could make out that there was a tinge of embarrassment.
"Fuck_ostriches2145"
I couldn't help but let out a slight chuckle at this, to which the cassowary urged me to just keep going in a dismayed tone. I opened up the portal and saw…