Shrike One

Shrike One is the fourteenth episode of Happy Insect Friends. This episode introduces Shrike, the murderous shrike who enjoys impaling.

Starring

 * Shrikes

Featuring

 * Hercules
 * Twiggy
 * Skittery
 * Maggie
 * Bright
 * Lighty
 * Needley

Appearances

 * Squag

Plot
Hercules, Twiggy, Skittery, Maggie, Bright and Ligthy sit around a bonfire. As Hercules tells a ghost story, a large silhouette flies above everyone, frightening Twiggy into hiding in a nearby thorn bush. Everyone else is willing to hear how the story ends. Suddenly, a scream is heard and they go check out the noise.

Skittery stares in utter horror at Squag, whose body is impaled to a thorn branch. Her fear gets even worse when she encounters Shrikes towering above her. The gang arrives in time to see their friend impaled. When Shrikes spots them, they all run for their lives. Maggie, however, crawls toward Skittery's body in hopes of eating it. Shrikes catches sight of her so she tries to seduce him, only to be swatted.

Twiggy stands still in order to disguise himself as a branch. Shrikes is fooled by the trick and tries to skewer Maggie's corpse on Twiggy, crushing him in the process. Hercules comes out of hiding and actually puts up a good fight against Shrikes. His mandibles clamp onto Shrikes' thumb. Shrikes flails his arm to get the beetle off, sending him right into a thorn branch.

Upon finding Bright and Lighty, Shrikes finds it impossible to impale them because of the objects they are encased in. He suddenly sees Needley wanting to challenge him. Shrikes makes several attempts to capture the swift wasp, eventually stepping on Brights' lightbulb and Nightly's light, setting them free. With glass puncturing his feet, Shards falls onto a small wooden post, getting himself impaled but still alive.

Bright and Lighty thank Needley for saving their lives and setting them free. The black wasp simply impales them with his stinger. As Shrikes tries to free himself, an unseen policeman spots him with a flashlight. He is presumably returned to jail as the episode blacks out.

Deaths

 * 1) Squag, Twiggy, Maggie and Hercules are impaled to thorn branches.
 * 2) Twiggy is crushed with Maggie's body.
 * 3) Lighty and Bright are killed by Needley's stinger.

Injuries

 * Shrikes gets glass in his feet and is impaled on a wooden post.

Trivia

 * Since both Needley and Shrikes kill mostly by impalement, Shrikes will also be a character for the main HTFF series, similar to Buzzles.
 * The title is a pun on "Strike One".
 * There will be two continuations of this episode - one called Shrike Two and followed by Shrike Three, You're Dead - which will be listed in the regular episode list.