It was a midnight of the clearest night this side of Donald's dock. It was quiet, so quiet that you could hear the wind whisper and whistle around the palm trees. A thin, light red she-cat walks down the empty docks of the playground followed by a tan horse, and a blue dog.

The three toons were newly recruited toon resistance rangers, in charge of investigating the cog's secrets and plans.

The rangers quietly head through the tunnel leading to the empty Chip and Dale's Acorn Acres playground.

"Hey Rosie!" The medium height and weight sky blue dog gestured to the red cat.

"What Gloop?" She spat.

"Do you think this is okay? I mean we didn't tell Lord LowdenClear we were going to investigate anything, or anyone for that matter, and we aren't exactly, well... Experienced troopers ya know? I mean, what if we get into troub-" His teammate cut him off.

"Gloop, I know this mission is a bit blind, but imagine! If we do this right we might even be promoted to team leaders! Besides," Rose looked back at her partner, "Isn't it every toons duty to protect each other from the cogs?"

Gloop looked a bit off-put at this point and sighed a mere, "alright."

The toons approach the entrance to the playground and make their way into the acorn acres. Rose leads the two boys over the grassy field and near the construction tunnel entrance.

Rose then huddles down with them and whispers,

"Okay, so remember how I said I found something important in Bossbot HQ?"

The tan horse, named Reecee, reply's, "Yeah?"

"Well, here it is!"

The light red cat lets down a grey piece of paper with the words "ATTN ALL COGS" written on the top.

Gloop looks amazingly flabbergasted, "H-How did you find something like that!?"

Rose remembers the day she had acquired such information.

It was the day when she found out her application for the toon resistance had been accepted. She had been so excited to help the toon society, that she decided to take certain matters into her own hands. That day's night, with only her flunky cog disguise as a deterrent from the cogs, she snuck into the Bossbot clubhouse and into the building where the C.E.O was located. He was currently dinning on "food" at the head of his room with his army if cogs, which were dozens and dozens of Big Cheeses. Rose of course, was behind the doors to the dining room in a cog-waiter's attire, listening to the C.E.O to hear what he would say to the other cogs, because of course, 'cogs only get together to talk about how to make toons miserable.'

"ATTENTION!" The C.E.O exclaimed.

The room fell silent.

"You all know why I gathered you here today. Yes, the toons have been peskier than usual lately, busting more and more of my corporate creations than ever before... The Chairman and I have been discussing plans, and I believe we have created a way to destroy the toons once and for all!" He shouts with a voice deeper than the depths of the very ocean itself, raising his fists in the air.

There is a great rumble of approval from the audience.

"You see, with my amazing plan, we won't just make them go sad, no. That would be silly. We'll use their abilities for OUR benefit!"

An even greater roar of approval launches from the crowd of cogs.

Rose does not like where this is going.

"Club president," The C.E.O motions to the v.2.0 big cheese waiting by the conveyor belt.

"You may pass out the memos now."

The cog begins passing out the memo of toon destruction plans to the other cogs at the table. Whilst a few papers fly out of the big cheese's hands while he's passing them out, each cog gets one. It just so happens that rose is lucky enough to snag one that lands near the entrance of the door. She takes that time to leave before the cogs start to make their way out as well. Though, she is able to hear one last thing before her exit.

"Make sure that you-know-who is taken care of-"

She answered her friend's question with a white lie.

"Um... Well, I was in a cog building and found this memo, it flew off of a big cheese I had defeated!" She couldn't tell Gloop that she had risked her safety like that, he would have a cow.

"All right", Gloop sighed, "But Rosie... why did we have to come out here, especially at this hour?"

Rose pointed towards the paper "It's all in the memo my friend"

Gloop picked up the plan paper, and as he read, his eyes widened with fear.

"ATTN ALL COGS,

As you know, the C.E.O has explained to you the basics of my scheme. To spread the well-being, and corporate doings of all cogs, we must stop the toons for good. My plan will not only ensure that much, but as well harness the toons abilities and re-establish them for our usage. How might I do that? I have built a factory for toons themselves. Meet my executive outside of the quarantined Chip and Dale's entrance at precisely 12:30 tonight for further in-tell.

Signed~

The Chairman"

"Oh dear. Why would you want us to come here without backup, Rosie? These guys could kill us!" Exclaimed a most horrified Gloop.

"Not if we aren't seen! Besides," She went on, "If we get more information on this whole set up, think of how highly the citizens of Toontown would think of us! We could be heroes!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah, dead heroes..." murmured Reecee, inaudibly.

"Well look, it's already 12:25, so there no backing out of it now, if we leave we'll just be seen by the enemy. So either you're with me, or against them, like right now." Snorted Rose

"Fine! Gee, I just... I can't believe you would put our lives in danger like that, Rosie." At that moment, a large commotion is heard coming from the golf tunnel at the edge of the playground. Rose grabs the boys and the three of them hide behind the checkered picnic table, out of sight in the dark shaded atmosphere.

A mix of all types of cogs round out of the tunnel in large handfuls, as if a mass production of them had just occurred. No doubt they were here for the meeting, why they had chosen this place to hold it was a mystery. They were right on time, because the minute they arrived to the construction tunnel, a sly dark figure ripped its way out of it.

"Welcome cogs." The shadow said in a voice the hiding resistance rangers found sort of familiar in a quite distorted way.

"I will now inform you all of the intended plan directly. I'm going to keep this short and simple, so I expect the lot of you to pay attention," The figure continued in a quite devious tone.

"When the toons find you-know-who, mysteriously missing, with a trail leading here, they will have no choice but to peak their curiosity and venture inside of this precise tunnel. When they do, they will directly be taken out to CogNation from there. Any questions?"

A level one Flunky raises its hand.

"Yes?"

"Will we receive any snacks and/or beverages after the meeting?

The shadow cranks a most fowl glare, presenting it's serrated frown to the cog. With a raise of it's hand, it swiftly slaps the idiotic bossbot.

"Ow"

"Any questions that AREN'T beyond redundant?" The shadowed cog ghoulishly peered around for an answer. "No questions at all then?" It slowly lifted it's dimmed head, and with a wicked grin roared, "GOOD."

The figure snaps back to the topic at hand.

"Before we put this particular plan into action however, I think there are some naughty spying toons that need to be dealt with... Immediately."

The ominous shadow shot its head toward the picnic table in a genuinely twisted way. It lunged at the table right before the petrified toons decided to make a run for it. It then chased after them before all of the cogs finally surrounded the unfortunate eavesdroppers.

The last thing that was seen by the new rangers that night was the shadow's face. It's heart stopping, gut wrenching, familiar, face.