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If there ever was a BTD5 fan fiction thread on here, it must have gotten archived, so let's make a new one!

Part One:

As we plowed our way through the snow, a blizzard hit. The whiteout reduced visibility to just a few feet; I couldn't even see the tip of the barrel of my rifle when I put my face next to the trigger. Netherless, we trudged onwards, two ice monkeys, a ninja monkey, and I, a sniper monkey, through the blizzard. With the winds intensifying, we pitched our tent between the bottom of a cliff and a big rock for shelter from the snow and wind and went inside. Hopefully the weather would be better when we woke up tomorrow.

The ninja monkey and I had been shivvering for a few days, but something that I had never experienced before in my entire life was to be awoken by one of the ice monkey's teeth chattering. Everyone thought that ice monkeys never complained about the cold in any way and were overly sensative to high heat. Myths of today's ice monkeys' ancestors told of some spending several days buried in an avalanche, and when they were finally dug out, they hadn't even entered stage one of hypothermia or lost a single toe to frostbite.

However, today's ice monkeys were different. They didn't sweat in the spring sun, and they generated much more body heat: When you felt their skin, it wasn't ice cold; it felt warm! They didn't have to constantly have the ACs in their homes on high. It's a wonder that they could even still upgrade to Arctic Wind. I mean, not only could their body heat thaw the bloons if they became hot enough, but wouldn't ice monkeys also have to worry about getting hypothermia and frostbite from their job?

According to the two on this expedition, it was like that. "Every time I freeze some bloons, I worry that if my fire rate was just a little bit more, I would freeze myself. I don't know how I'm able to keep doing it," commented one. The other felt similarity. Could ice monkeys' move from cold mountains to relatively hot cities, living with the other monkey types, and their acclimation to higher temperatures be messing with their freezing abilities. Were their ancestors more powerful because their bodies were used to colder temperatures?

I didn't have more time to think about that when I heard the beginnings of an avalanche. I grabbed my snow shoes and then hurried to the tent door and out of the tent. We all exited the tent and then broke into a frantic run to get out of the avalanche's path, but it was too late: Snow poured over the cliff, fell down on top of us, and blanketed us to above our heads. 