Bolts P.O.V.
It was pretty late, almost 3 a.m., and outside was dark and cold. I was laying down on the lawn with Mittens on my chest, and Rhino on a pillow next to me. The little guy was already asleep, and I felt tired too.
Since Mittens and I became mates, we hadn't had any secrets, and I got to know a completely different side of her! Who could have known what a lovely cat she actually was deep inside? To everyone else she was still kinda harsh and sarcastic, but she treated me differently!
Rhino was really happy for us two, he told me that he listened to my conversation with Five back on Maximus and knew what was going on even before that. Since we still had the speech converter, I told Penny about me and Mittens.
Her reaction was priceless. The whole day she was giggling and excited, so much actually that it surpassed the level of Rhinos hyperactivity marathons, and she talked to us the whole day about how it happened and how we felt about it.
Suddenly the cat started moving and mumbled: „Boltie, I'm cold..." I knew what she meant by that, after all, we've been mates for almost a year and a half now! „Sure thing Mitts!" I raised my arm and layed it over Mittens, who instandly stopped shaking.
„Thanks..." I guess she was really tired too. „Should we go insi-" I was apruptly cut off by a flashing light in the sky. „What was that?", I asked, but I assumed that my brain just made it up. But there it was again!
„Mitts?" - „Hm?" - „Could you please look to the sky and see if there is something flashing?" She put a lot of effort into opening her eyes and not closing them again. „I don't see anyth-" Again!
Now she was fully awake. „Was that..." Without any warning the light came back, but this time it stayed on, and was moving towards us!
„Uh oh..." We jumped on our paws and woke Rhino up, just to see an object coming down. At first I couldn't quite make up what it was, but then I noticed its shape: Almost like a jet, without wings and four tubes attached to its side with blue orbs hammering out of them.
I was immidiately thrown back to the day we met the commander for the first time. What was his name again? It began with E... Exo... ExoSkull! Right! But that didn't look like his ship, actually, now that it came even closer, it didn't look like anything I ever saw, but kinda simmilar to the cruiser we stole!
It landed right next to us, and the engines were shut off. The visor slided to the right and out jumped a very familiar figure. It was too dark to make any colors out, but when he started talking, we instandly know who we were facing.
„Hey guys, how have you been?" - „We are doing pretty well Mauser! Nice to see you again." The light brown boxer moved close enough for us to see him now. „What takes you to our lovely planet?", Mittens asked with a very sarcastic, and very tired tone in her voice.
„I need you to come with me! You are my- I mean the Skulls last hope!" - „What do you mean by that?" - „I'll explain it on the way!" I wasn't really sure if I could take another adventure, but Rhino was excited about it.
„Oh please Bolt! Can we come with him? Can we? PLEEEEEASE?" - „Yeah, can you? Pleeeease? I really nee- I mean, the Skulls really need you!" I sighed. „If this is what you want... But what are we going to do about Penny? She will worry about us and not sleep while we're gone!"
Mauser looked down and thought about it. „We can write her a letter..." - „Really? This is thing you mastermind came up with? I mean, I would have imagined something like clones or holograms or something like that!"
The boxer chuckled. „It's not like we DON'T have clones of you..." - „WHAT?" - „Yeah, the scanner that Exo used to get your language right also scanned your DNA! Didn't he tell you that?"
I vaguely remembered him talking about it. „So you just keep clones of us? Why? And why are you not taking THEM with you?" - „Uhm... First off, I'm not just keeping them so that I can tell them that you love each other and see how they blush and confess it... Over and over again..."
Even after being mates, hearing this just made us both nervously blush and laugh. „Yeah, ok, you convinced us that you don't do that. Definately. But why aren't you taking them instead?"
„Because, well, clones don't have that long of a livespan yet, due to problems with the mashine, but we'll figure that out too someday. Also, I- I mean we need the originals for that!" We all looked at each other and after a bit more begging finally accepted. „Ok, no clones. We will pull out the letter idea. I don't want Penny in any other paws than my ones, even if that's technically me!"
„And you propably don't want Penny seeing a clone falling in on itself melting away. It's not very scary, but if she thinks thats you..." We all nodded and recorded a message for Penny, which we then placed inside on a shelf before going out to Mausers ship. „I can't believe that we're actually doing this..." - „Ah, you won't regret it!"
„Am I supposed to believe that?" - „You could try..." And thus we took off from the earth and hyperjumped to a new adventure, a new journey.
Did I say that BNAB was my last story? Weeeeeeell... I'm back? I've been asked to write more, and I think a sequel wouldn't hurt the original! So yeah, we are going to meet some old friends again, and a whole bunch of new ones! Be prepared for a new journey between nuts and bolts in space!