The next morning, Katie woke up and pulled out a dress she had forgotten to unpack. She got changed into it and woke up the two men. Zak was still sleeping. Cherry actually woke up and stretched a little before getting up and about, but heard some a bone or two pop. The men were asleep themselves, seeming lazier than certain employees of theirs for the summer job.

"Wakey, wakey, boys~" Katie cooed, smiling.

The men, who were named Tony and Ralph, mumbled a little.

"Five more minutes, Mom..." the bigger man mumbled.

"I'm not your momma..." Katie chuckled. She fake sighed and pouted.

Tony opened the door and looked out to see Katie, he did a double take at her once he saw she was in a dress, he was surprised and a little excited. "Well, good morning..." he chuckled to her.

Ralph woke up too, and looked over her appreciatively.

"Let's get to work~" Katie cooed.

"You got it, girly..." Tony chuckled, then thought with his stomach like most men did. "But first, I need a 'little bagel'."

"Why don't you boys get that big ol' beautiful machine started and I'll get you breakfast?" Katie smiled.

Ralph looked at Tony then nodded. "Yes, ma'am." he smiled.

Tony nodded with Ralph and he was eager to go first since he first saw Katie. They have both been seduced by her to get their lazy bums into gear. Ralph went with Tony and set the machine on. Katie went and got them both a breakfast bagel each. She smirked a little. Tony smirked back and gave a wink to the 'pretty lady' and went with Ralph to get their work together.

Cherry was lying down and decided to get up and get ready, stretching herself again, she looked concerned though that Katie wasn't next to her anymore and pouted.

Katie looked at the big machine and smirked, darker than before now no one was looking at her. "Rise and shine, Boss, you can get your energy back." she said, her voice quiet, so no one but him would know what she was saying.

Zak woke up, and seeing Katie with Tony and Ralph decided Cherry could come with him and the chainsaws.

'Excellent...' Hexxus's voice crept in her ears again. 'I shall reward you... And how exquisite you look...'

Katie smiled and even blushed again. Hexxus laughed once he was ready and going to have a ball with Katie's help. Ralph looked down at Tony. Katie looked at the big machine. It would help with her Boss' plan.

Cherry hid a yawn, but she followed Zak to start their job. Zak gave her a chainsaw.

Cherry carried it a little better this time, she had a funny feeling about this, but they had to do their job. "We all set?" she asked.

Zak nodded.

The other works went to where they were assigned to. There was something blue and sparkly seeming to follow along the canopy as Cherry and Zak got to work. Katie climbed up to sit on a safer bit of the big machine. Zak looked at the blue glow. Hexxus seemed to be growing slightly as he ate up the pollution that the machine was causing to Mother Nature.

Cherry was focused on one tree, then she noticed the blue glow too, wondering if it was really there or not. Katie smiled up at her Boss.

"Let's go look." Zak says.

The blue glow seemed to be going somewhere.

Cherry set her chainsaw down, turning it off and went with Zak to follow it. "What is that thing?" she muttered to herself quietly.

Zak shrugged as he followed with Cherry.

"Hey, wait up!" Cherry followed, then slowed down as she had to step over a turned down tree trunk.

The blue glow kept going along. Katie held onto a bit of the machine to keep from falling off. Ralph continued driving too. Zak jumped over the trunk and helped Cherry over. Tony was eating nosily as they went along with Katie as their escort, little did they know that this was extraordinarily dangerous.

Ralph was eating, but less noisy. Katie smirked and hummed softly.

Cherry dusted herself and came closer, the blue spark seemed to stop behind a giant leaf and she caught whatever it was in her hands, though not in a way to harm it. One of the trees that was farther behind them was being cut down and now coming down behind them. Katie giggled quietly. She obviously wasn't herself, but only those who really knew her would know that.

Zak didn't notice it. The spark was actually not just a simple spark as the tree trunk was coming down and going to hurt them. Though, there came sparks around Cherry and Zak and they were now changing in size. The tree trunk had missed them, but Cherry and Zak were now stuck in a spider's web. The tree trunk was now being cut up by the machine, much to Katie and Hexxus's delight. Zak tried tugging to get free.

"Ugh... What happened?" Cherry mumbled, looking around and her eyes widened. How was she stuck on a spider's web?

Someone came, trying to help them off the web, but she got stuck herself and gasped in horror as they were closer to being cut and chopped up like the tree's untimely fate. To the rescue, there was yelling heard and the bat from earlier was coming right over and saved Cherry, Zak, and the third one who tried to save them in time. Zak held in a scream as they were carried. After all, any normal person would be scared. Cherry looked around, this could not have been happening.

"Lift, I need lift!" the bat cried. "'Don't go', I said... 'Bad idea', I said... But would you listen?" he then muttered to himself, seeming to blame someone as he carried the three of them in his talons. "Well, what do we have here?" he then looked down to Cherry and Zak. "Shoes! Animals don't wear shoes... Or glasses... The one with glasses looks familiar... HUMANS!"

"A tree!" the new girl pointed ahead.

"Whoa!" the bat yelled and accidentally slammed into the tree, dropping the three of them, but they didn't fall to their deaths and were still safe.

Zak sat up with a groan. Cherry was knocked out too briefly. This girl had frizzy and short black hair with pointed ears and aqua eyes with red clothing that looked like she belonged to a village. She seemed to be staring at both Cherry and Zak, quite curious and entranced. She reached into Zak's pocket and took out his wallet and saw his locked up knife, her curiosity really taking over her state of mind.

"Watch out." Zak says, about the knife.

Cherry woke up and flinched from the strange girl. "Please, don't kill us..." she sounded weak and scared. "I never been robbed before and I don't want ever to be!"

The girl looked back at them like they were the strange ones and she tilted her head to them. "Are you two alright?" she finally spoke up.

Cherry then noticed they were somehow sitting on a tree branch. "How did we get here...?" she wondered.

"There was a monster going to eat you." the girl explained.

"Monster?" Zak asked.

"My friend and I saved you." the girl then smiled for them that they were safe, she then called out for her friend who was 'Batty' and she flew off to find him. It was then realized that this girl was actually a fairy.

Cherry shook her head, then rubbed it again. "Must have hit my head harder than I thought..."

Zak looked at her. Cherry tried to get herself up and helped Zak as she looked around. This could not be really happening. Zak looked around too.

"HUMANS!" the bat yelled once he saw Zak and Cherry.

"Those are humans?" The fairy sounded amazed.

The bat and the fairy fell next to the two and the bat tried to look tough, protecting the fairy. Zak looked at Batty.

"Puff your chest," Batty told the fairy, trying to stand his ground of the humans, not being really fond of them. "They hate that!"

"We won't hurt you." Cherry told him.

The four of them tried to get used to their new surroundings and possible new friends, Zak ended up leaf surfing and Batty, the fairy, and Cherry went after him. No doubt the forest was going to be a lot more dangerous at this size for Zak and Cherry.

Katie smirked. "It's working, Boss, and you feeling any stronger?" She asks quietly.

'Very much...' Hexxus chuckled darkly. 'Delicious... Like mother's milk.'

Katie smiled. There was a small voice at the back of her mind, a bit not clouded by Hexxus, telling her that she should be worried about Cherry which was why she didn't smirk darkly.

"I'm almost there... Just a little more destruction and I will be eternally happy for your help...' Hexxus said to Katie.

Katie smiled. "Happy to help, Boss." she said. She did start to look a little worried though.

'My dear, what ever is the matter?' Hexxus seemed to notice her melancholy.

"My friend... I haven't seen her today." Katie said quietly.

'Oh, come now...' Hexxus cooed. 'You don't need to worry about her...'

Katie looked in the direction her Boss's voice came from. "I... Do though... Don't I?" She wonders quietly.

'You will be just fine...' Hexxus cooed to her. 'You have your Boss now...'

Katie bit her lip softly. "I have my Boss..." she did agree. She blinked slowly, her eyes becoming more like Hexxus' were going to be, though she didn't notice it. She started to hum a tune.