Nathaniel Honkus

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*"Well, you know what they say- fair exchange is no robbery!"*

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-Nathaniel Honkus, Gallant Geese Book 2: Revolution!

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Nathaniel Tobermory Honkus, colloquially known as Nathan, was hatched in 2012 to parents Ignotus Yellowbeak and Helena Honkus, in a rural English village. He hatched 3 hours after his brother Preston, but the egg that Nathaniel hatched from was laid a day earlier than the egg Preston hatched from. This has led to a long-lasting debate between the two brothers over who is older.

**First Employment**

Nathaniel was hired by his brother Preston when Preston took over their mother's science company and began hiring more employees. Nathan protested against Preston's actions when Preston relocated the company to St Andrews and hired a chicken as his secretary. Eventually, Nathan trapped Preston's brain inside an enormous, but immobile, computer. Afterwards, Nathan shut down the company and the Honkus Science Innovators lab fell into a state of disrepair.

**Cluckus Industries**

Nathan handed over the deeds to the lab to his brother's chicken secretary, who immediately set to work converting the old coal mine into a bunker. An impressed Nathan joined her and some other chickens to work on building the bunker. The bunker finished construction in late 2022, and soon after, became the C.I.S. *Patriot*.

Once Cluckus Industries had been established, Aurelia Cluckus formally hired Nathan as a bounty hunter, often sending him to steal plans for other experiments and occasionally the experiments themselves, at any cost. This lead to the subsequent deaths of 80 human scientists. However, Nathan's greed got the better of him and he eventually decided to steal the profits of a bank robbery from Cluckus Industries. This failed, and Nathan was fired and arrested, but he escaped custody and his arrest was later revoked. His role was later taken up by James Pond.

**The TASM**

After Preston Honkus managed to obtain a physical and mobile form again, he attempted to destroy everything except for the goose homeworld. Tristan was able to stop him, giving him the TASM and telling him to make up with Nathan. Preston found Nathan in the director's chair of a well-off publishing company. Nathan was surprised to see his brother again, and agreed to go exploring with him. The two ran into Tristan again a few times, often under dubious circumstances.

After a while, Nathan commented on the obvious state of disrepair that the TASM was in. Being too lazy to fix it, Nathan decided that they should steal a new one. Eventually, the crew of the TASM encountered Tristan's TARDIS, and the two crews boarded each other at the same time, causing Nathan to quote that, *'Fair exchange is no robbery!'*

**Quinton**

In December of 2021, Nathan and Preston crashed on *La Planeta Fantasma*, a remote planetoid in the depths of Bakresh space. There they found their brother Quinton, who had also been sucked in by the planet's many temporal and physical anomalies. After repairing the damaged TARDIS using parts of Quinton's shuttle, the three brothers took off.

**Yellowbeak Conflict**

Over the course of the Yellowbeak Conflict, Nathan worked with his brothers Preston, Quinton and Wilbur (and later, Montgomery, Viola, and Augustus) helped Cluckus Industries against their father. This involved methods such as crashing a helicopter through the viewscreen of the S.S. *Yamato Ketchup* and removing Ignotus's access to the Honkus Doors.

**The Institute**

After the Yellowbeak Conflict, Quinton purchased every share in Honkus Science Innovators for a tiny price using his holding company Seraphim 5. He then sold this holding company to Valery Cluckus-Grey, the leader of the Cluckus Institute, who instated HSI as a division of the Cluckus Institute focused more on research than product development and production. Nathan and Preston were offered jobs as co-directors of HSI again, positions which they gladly accepted.

**The LaVaunt incident**

A short while after the Yellowbeak Conflict ended, the 7 brothers returned the TARDIS to Gallifrey, and headed home in the restored S.S. *Pathfinder*. During their flight home, they came across the C.I.S. *Yamato II*, and stopped to talk with Hillary and Merida. There, Nathan and Preston discovered that the Comet Plasma Engines, which were Preston's design, had been greatly reduced in efficiency by Minerva LaVaunt and Morpheus McCluck. This discovery led to a chain of events involving the attempted robbery of Zircon Safehouse and culminating in the arrest of LaVaunt and McCluck by the Cluckus Institute.

**Theme Song**

You can listen to the official Nathaniel T Honkus theme song here.