Felix hummed to himself as he worked in the garden, carefully sewing new seeds into the freshly tilled dirt.

"Hey babe," Tamora boasted, kicking open the back door as she wheeled out a big box on a dolly.

"Hi darlin,'" Felix got up and dusted himself off. "Whatcha got there?"

"Oh you'll see…" Tamora grinned, cutting the top of the package open with her combat knife. Reaching inside, she hoisted up her brand new gadget—the Bug Zapper 5000.

"Oh my land; that thing is huge!" Felix gaped, clapping the side of his face with his palm.

"Yep, just about as big as you short-stack," Tamora chuckled as she set the zapper down next to her husband. "No bug stands a chance against this baby!"

The handyman was absolutely speechless as he watched Tammy attach her new toy to the underside of the 2nd floor fire escape platform.

"That ought to hold it," Tamora said, satisfied with her handiwork. "Fix-It, mind plugging her in?"

Felix scrambled to catch the plug his lady tossed to him, and balked when he saw just how hefty it was.

"Tammy, how many volts does this thing use?" he asked.

"Not important, just plug it in," Tamora waved him off, eager to get the zapper up and running.

With a sigh, Felix walked over to the outdoor outlet. Saying a little prayer, he inserted the plug into the socket.

In an instant, the zapper sparked to life, the radiant glow of the UV bulb nearly blinding the pair.

"Just listen to that baby purr," Tamora laughed. She certainly seemed proud of herself. "Pretty magnificent, don't you think, Fix-It?"

"It sure is…somethin' alright," Felix feigned a smile, keeping a healthy distance.

Later that evening, Felix and Calhoun worked together in the kitchen to make their dinner.

"Oh shoot," Felix frowned in the middle of seasoning the pork loin.

"What's up?" Tamora asked, just finishing up her task of cutting vegetables and placing them in a pan.

"I forgot to cut some sprigs of rosemary from the garden earlier, I'll have to go get some real quick," Felix moved to wash his hands.

"I'll do it," Tamora volunteered. "You keep watch on these veggies."

"Can do," the handyman smiled. "Thanks, honey."

"No prob," the sergeant leaned down and placed a kiss on his cheek. "Be right back."

Tamora made her way downstairs, opening the back door to the garden. She smiled when she was greeted with the purple, radiant light of the bug zapper, pausing a moment to marvel at it once more.

Taking out her knife, the sergeant moved to the rosemary bush and diligently set to work, cutting a few sprigs from it. As she did so, the annoying buzz of a mosquito flew past her ear. With a growl, Tamora slashed at the air with her blade.

"Damn bugs!" She grunted. Pausing, she looked to the zapper. "I'll show them…"

Stepping on the fire escape ladder, Tamora reached and turned up the voltage dial.

Felix froze in place at the stove when the lights in the apartment shut off.

"Huh," he mumbled curiously, taking the vegetables off the hot burner before inspecting the problem.

Grabbing the emergency flashlight, Felix walked up to the apartments electrical panel and opened it. He reset the breakers; growing more confused when nothing happened.

Opening the front door, Felix peered into the dark hallway. Some of his and Tamora's neighbors also peered curiously out of their doors.

"Everyone okay?" Felix asked, the neighbors nodded. "Don't worry, I'll have things figured out in a jiffy!"

Felix opened the door to the stairwell, and about halfway down, realization hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Tammy!" he rushed down the remainder of the stairs and flung the door to the garden open, where he found his wife sitting on the ground. "Tammy, are you alright?"

"Fine, Fix-It," she groaned, rubbing her back. "Just fell off the ladder."

"My lady, you just caused a block wide black-out," Felix remarked, staring up at all the darkened windows of their apartment complex.

"Sorry," Tamora felt guilty. "Can you fix it?"

"Of course I can," Felix spoke casually, stepping up to the power box on the back wall of the building. "But you've got to either turn that thing down back to where it was, or we're getting rid of it."

The sergeant heaved a sigh and picked herself up. Climbing on the ladder, she turned the dial on her beloved bug zapper back to its original setting.

"It's done, do what you have to do," she pouted.

Felix opened the power box and reset the blown circuits in a flash, illuminating the windows of the apartment complex.

Noticing the frown on his lady's lips, he joined her at her side, wrapping an arm lovingly around her leg and patting her thigh as he leaned against it.

"Oh Tammy Jean, your bug zapper will work just as well at the…definitely lethal levels of voltage it was originally set with," he said in a comforting manner.

As they stood there, a poor, unsuspecting mosquito flew just a little too close. And with a loud, electrical 'POP' that caused the couple to step back, it was zapped into a little, flaming crisp.

Felix stood and stared at the charred mosquito as it fell to the ground, utterly horrified; Calhoun laughed.

"I suppose you're right, Fix-It," she said optimistically. It seemed that watching that unsettling display had cheered her right up. "Come on, let's get back to dinner."

"Mhm," gulped, having entirely lost his appetite.