Finally.
That was the second worst sale the alien and ninja had to endure yet, next to Super Black Friday.
The store was now cleansed of any Mid-February gifts, cards, décor, etc. All that remained were the two poor bodega-men that were stuck with those animals for the past three hours before the final customer left with the last heart shaped chocolate box. KO had never returned from his break, which left Rad and Enid a little worried for their little friend. He was never gone for this long, he's just a little 7-12 year old boy.
"BODEGA MEN!" The young adult coworkers all shot up at the booming voice of their boss, Mr. Gar. "I have to say, that was probably the most hectic sale we've had since Super Black Friday. Enid, excellent marksmanship with that price gun." the ninja blushed at the praise. "Radicles, nice job with the supply stocks."
"All part of the job, boss." Rad beamed with ego.
"And KO, wel-!" he looked surprised with the little outline where his youngest employee/potential-son-in-law was supposed to be. "Where is KO?" he demanded with a serious tone.
"W-w-we don't know sir, he went on break but never came back. We're worried something terrible happened to him." Enid explained.
Gar blinked under his shades, "Break, but KO never takes breaks. That is a little suspicious. I've got some work to do, find KO and makes sure he's home before dinner. If Carol finds out anything happen to her little boy, may God have mercy on all of us." Gar told them as he went to his office.
"Great, how are we supposed to find KO when we don't even know where he ran off to?" Rad questioned.
Enid hummed in thought for a moment before getting an idea, she did some cool ninja gestures before her eyes started glowing. She looked to the ground to see a trail of child's size 6 footprints, with toe prints included. "Bingo. Follow me Rad." she said as she started following the trail.
"Oh right, ninja senses." Rad replied as he followed her using his levitation powers. Thanks to the fact that KO is the only kid they knew that doesn't wear any kind of footwear, it was pretty easy to know these footprints were his. The two coworkers followed the prints, which went around the plaza a couple times before they ended up in the woods. This brought up some concerns that KO had ran into Shadowy Figure again, so they kept going.
Until they eventually heard noises behind a couple trees, one of the trees had a large kitchen knife lodged deep in the bark. "Bingo."
They jumped out of their hiding spots, but stopped whey they saw KO was hooked up to some kind of machine by his other best friend Dendy. A scientific prodigy kappa girl with her goggles, yellow jumpsuit, and hack-pack as she calls it. "Okay, let's try this again. After months of hard labor and trials, I think we can finally found a breakthrough. Turbo Control Test #75, commencing."
"Uh, what's going on?" Enid wondered.
"Oh, greetings friends." Dendy said without turning away from her hack-pack. "We were just about to start our next retrial of KO controlling his turbonic energy, but without summoning his unstable counterpart in TKO. Hopefully if all goes well, we should be done just before KO has to be home for dinner. If not, then we can have plenty of time tomorrow during Mid-February."
Enid and Rad turned to their friend, who was shirtless and had wires hooked up to him along his chubby yet ripped adolescent torso. "Oh, if you were just hanging out with Dendy, you could have just said so." Enid said with a light smile.
"Yeah man, it's okay if you were going to help your little girlfriend with her science stuff." Rad complied.
"SHE'S/I'M NOT MY/HIS GIRLFRIEND!" the two kids shouted simultaneously, the young adults chuckled at their beet red faces and shocked expressions.
"Okay, since you're okay we'll get going. But your mom wants you back home before 7, or else she have a cow. Gar's words. Later." Enid said before she disappeared in a puff of purple smoke, and in her place was the signature log.
"Yep, gotta run. Got some new mods to my van, prepping for tomorrow. Gonna finally see who my mystery online gf is, I'll see you little dude on Monday!" Rad said before he left.
KO got up to make sure they were really gone, he expertly jumped up a tall tree to get a better view. He can vaguely spot Enid walking in the direction to the haunted house on the hill she calls home, and Rad's van pulling out of the parking lot to his parents house. KO chuckled a little before he hopped back down, where there laid a checkered blanket and picnic basket full of delicacies sat. "Okay, they're gone."
"Finally!" 'Dendy' groaned before she pulled off a rubber mask, and ribbed off her costume. This action revealing that this was not KO's intellectually gifted peer, but instead was the minion of Professor Venomous: Fink that Rat. A humanoid anthropomorphic mouse mutant, with mint green skin, dark green hair, pink gloves, grey shoes, and a lab coat style dress. "It was getting seriously hot in this thing!" she complained before tossing the costume into the bushes.
"Well, you better get used to it. Because you're gonna have to deal with that costume the entire day tomorrow for my plans for our first Mid-Feb together." KO told her as he sat down on the blanket.
Fink rolled her eyes, but silently agreed as she sorted through the many treats she brought. The two have been secretly dating for about a couple months now, and they would like it to stay that way. Something about being illegal after something that happened 100 years ago, she doens't care as long as she's with her sweety face. She handed him a small plate of finger sandwiches, "Are you sure it will work?"
"Totally, Dendy's out of town for a family reunion, she won't be back till after tomorrow." KO said as he tossed a sandwich in his mouth. "What's the worst that can happen?"