Chapter 2: Date, Interrupted

Downtown Petropolis, Cat Walk
Kitty Katswell's Apartment, 6:31 PM

Dudley was right outside of his partner's apartment, this was it. It was certainly preferable to the circumstances the last time he had come here. He knocked on her door and after a few seconds Kitty opened up. Dudley thought that she looked amazing in what she had picked out.

Kitty thought that her partner cleaned up rather nicely, in spite of his current lack of fur. But after about several seconds of awkward silence caused by the two checking the other out, she cleared her throat. "So you ready Dudley." Kitty asked him. "Oh yeah of course." he replied snapping himself out of his trance as they went outside and got in the TUFF-Mobile. The Chief had told Kitty to bring it back to her apartment with her. He wanted them to have it at their disposal in case if any villains did attack.

"Okay so what did we narrow it down to again?" Kitty asked as Dudley took a paper pad out from the glove box that he'd been writing on earlier. "Um... let's see here. That Italian restaurant you used to go to with Jack." Dudley started. "I thought I said I never wanted to go back there." Kitty added in. "Oh right sorry forgot that." he apologized crossing that off of their list.

"Guess 'Our Old Stomping Ground' is also out too. Huh, in retrospect maybe I shouldn't have been the one to do this." Dudley said crossing that off too. "I got an idea. How about that new steak and seafood place that opened last month." Kitty suggested. "You mean the one that just opened downtown, what was the name of it. Oh, Surf and Turf Grill. Hey sounds better than any of the places I came up with." He said happily as Kitty started driving downtown.

Petropolis Museum of Natural History, Back Entrance
7:04 PM

The last light inside of the museum had gone out a short while ago. Snaptrap and Ollie were hiding in the bushes along the back driveway, Larry and Francisco were in the museum's basement waiting to give Dr. Billuck an opening to disable the security measures in the building.

"What's keeping them. This is taking forever." Snaptrap complained.

"Keep your jaw shut, the truck is right on schedule. You're all at your positions, and for now, TUFF is none the wiser. Follow through on the plan or you will regret it, acknowledged." Dr. Billuck said to his underlings.

"Yes sir." "Jerk."

"Keep that mouth closed Verminious." Garret ordered again. "Target is inbound, no moving until I give the order." the platypus said as he watched the unmarked truck pull up the the back gate of the Museum. The back door of the truck rolled up as Larry and Francisco watched the drivers and museum personnel offload various Egyptian artifacts. Finally seeing the jewels be the last out. "And, start."

Downtown Petropolis, Surf and Turf Grill
7:46 PM

The restaurant wasn't too crowded, which surprised the two agents since the food that they had just ordered was extremely good. Dudley ordered a porterhouse steak, and Kitty got the restaurant's specialty grilled tuna. They were talking about how they needed come here more often now, but then Kitty asked Dudley about his dad since she'd never heard him or Peg mention him.

The heavy sigh and tears that were forming in the mutt's eyes told her all that she needed to know. "I'm so sorry to hear that Dudley. How old were you when he...passed on."

"I was one."

"Sorry for bringing it up." Kitty apologized. "It's okay. You had no way of knowing that." he assured her.

After they'd paid for their food, they were going back to Kitty's to watch a movie when both of their communicators went off. And Chief Dumbrowski showed up on them.

"Agents Puppy and Katswell, DOOM is taking the Jewels of the Nile from the Petropolis Museum of Natural History."

"Well, there goes the rest of our night." Kitty said disappointedly

"Let's get going. The faster we stop them, the more time we'll have." Dudley said jumping into the passenger seat. "Right." Kitty said following suit.

Author's Notes

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