The protagonist is an anthropomorphic urban red ant, formerly a dashing soldier but now—at the time the game’s events begin—weary of military life and having traded the noise of the metropolis for the idyllic seclusion of a dense forest. One day, however, his peace is disturbed by a messenger from his fellow ants, who reports that the ants in the city have been enslaved by rats and hamsters and begs the warrior to save them. He answers the call and, at the same time, sends word to two forest anthills inhabited by red (but wild) and gray ants respectively. In response, they provide him with their finest fighters.