Chapter 04 OWCA to help?

"No, absolutely not." Monogram snapped as Agent Dennis delivered his report about the hospital.

Dennis remained calm whiles standing with 3 other Agents behind him, Monogram has called them to give him a bit of protection in case Dennis decided to attack him, and all the OWCA Agents wanting to arrest him. But Dennis had a free pass to save his neck again, which was a mission on his own hands he has to complete.

"And why not? Isn't it one of the goddam OWCA laws; to free the person imprisoned when no felony charges have been set up against this imprisoned person? And when life is on the line of an innocent man?" Dennis snapped.

Monogram glared hard at him, "We will not risk the neck of OWCA just to free one LOVEMUFFIN member and convicted prisoner."

"Monogram, Dr Rodney von Rodenstein has paid his debt off. He is now a second unwilling prisoner to Dr Piranha!" Dennis snapped.

"And that is another problem, Piranha hasn't shown up on our grid, we only know of the flowers he sent us that he is alive, but since then nothing. We don't even know where his current hideout or base is. He could just as well be-" MM snapped, but was then cut off.

"Southshore Hospital Center." Dennis cut his superior off showing him the photos on his iPhone. And then he snapped, "The same hospital where Pinky is being treated for his panic attacks. He is even his goddam main doctor."

Monogram was silent for a while, "And what can OWCA do against it, Dennis? Nothing. That hospital is nationwide respected, honoured, and well received by many patients. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, practitioners and so on are worldwide respected, if we march in with an arrest warrant for Dr Piranha then we are to damage the Hospitals reputation as well as his own. We would be suspended from the grounds and Pinky will be forced to cure himself without the visit of his OWCA friends, for example, Perry."

Dennis nodded his head, "Can I at least free Rodney from his prison there?"

"No Dennis. If Dr Piranha knows you know that Rodney is being held captive he will surely run. And then it will be decades before we track him down again." Monogram said. "Drop the topic and focus back on your work."

"But-" Dennis said.

"NOW!" Monogram snapped.

Dennis gritted his teeth, stood straight and saluted him, he left the head office and returned to his own. Throughout the rest of the day, he has done nothing but work on one report out after the next. He was very far behind in finishing his work.

' 'It will be decades until we have him again.' Absolute bullshit Monogram. I will free my love if it is the last thing I do. At least I know he is still alive.' Dennis thought and sighed.

He remained completely focused on all his reports, scanning one blueprint in after the next. After 7 hours working none stop he had his last report finished and saved off. Just as he exited his Word Documents he stared shocked at his hands.

He has forgotten that he was still wearing his wedding and engagement ring to Rodney von Rodenstein, he pulled from his bag the wedding and engagement ring of Rodney and stared at them for a solid 3 minutes. Dennis carefully touched his ring finger with both rings on it and almost shook, looking back and forth between the 4 rings. The memories of that man's proposal, their planned future and their wedding a few months back were almost too much to bear. Dennis could feel his heart twisting and hurting him in his chest.

And knowing his lover was now being held at the South Shore Hospital Center, and he wasn't allowed to do anything to get him out of there, was driving him half mad and scared.

'Why won't OWCA help me? Why?' Dennis thought and shook again, it was mainly a rhetorical question to himself out of fear, rather than a serious question.

He collapsed tired and exhausted in front of his computer and his eyes closed. Time for another round of nightmares. Dennis continued shaking as he tried to sleep.

After a few minutes, he woke up shocked again, this time in his dream he was forced to watch as Dr Rodney von Rodenstein was forced into a sexual activity from 'Dr Piranha'. Dennis shook harder and harder, wishing nothing more than to be now in the embrace of his 'husband' and lover. To tell him everything will be all right and he will do anything to keep him safe. He ripped his hair out of his head whiles trying to remove those thoughts from his head.

Peter has also finished all of his reports as well in his OWCA office. As he left his office he walked sadly up to Pinky's office slowly. That has been on a deadlock for over a week now, and no one was allowed to enter it. Plus Pinky had the only key to this door, just like every other OWCA member to their own offices.

Peter sulked and collapsed outside of the closed door. It was ice cold because the heating had been turned off the last time Pinky was in there.

'Pinky, please get better soon. Please love... I'm missing you.' Peter thought as tears gathered in his eyes.

Peter hung his head, after almost falling asleep he was awoken by a soft knocking at the door.

Peter blinked, as his eyes focused again he saw Dennis was knocking at the door and chuckling down at him. Dennis had woken from his nap and just left to go to the toilet.

"Knock, knock Peter. We are not paid by MM to sleep during our shifts." Dennis said and yawned as well.

He sat next to Peter and rubbed tired over his face, he looked just as shattered as Peter felt.

Peter glared at the white-haired man, "So Dennis... any adventures in Honolulu?"

"Not you too, no it was just a relaxing holiday for me, had a nice heat every day, coconuts and other exotic fruit to eat. Nice Hawaiian dressed women to look at, but that is mainly it." Dennis snapped. But he then calmed down and smiled a bit, "I'd rather be here. Fr- people to talk too, the same language mind, jobs to sort out, bills to pay, not getting sunburned every day, just living a normal and regular life."

"Why are you being now all of a sudden on a friendly term with me?" Peter asked suspiciously.

Dennis sighed and rubbed over his pure white hair, "If I as much as break one of the OWCA members hair, then MM will ship me faster to jail then I can free Dr Rodney von Rodenstein. I don't want to risk anything. Before I go down with my ship I want Rodney safe."

Peter chuckled and nodded, "Ok, ok Romeo. I understand. So... any plans on how to save him?"

"Sadly none so far, that don't involve either death or breaking and entering," Dennis said shaking his head. "The safest bet would be to have the arrest warrant, then Dr Piranha can't stop the OWCA anymore."

"And MM doesn't want to do that," Peter concluded.

Dennis nodded, "He says: If the arrest warrant is handed out then we would damage the South Shores Hospital Center's reputation for being one of the nations best clinics. Blah, blah, blah. The most dangerous thing that can happen there is: that I'll rip Dr Piranhas head off."

Peter chuckled again, "No doubt about it Dennis. So... are you just going to let Dr Piranha get away with it?"

"If you know me, Peter, you know the answer is no. I just don't have a plan on how to get Rodney out of there without Piranha noticing anything." Dennis sighed. "The safest bet would be to kill Piranha, then he can't stop me anyway, but I don't want to end another 10 years or more in jail. I want to live life a bit, instead of being on the run all the time. And the second safest would be to have the arrest warrant."

"That's understandable, and after you freed Dr Rodney?" Peter asked.

Dennis's eyes almost turned to hearts and his cheeks turned pink, "To apologise to the man of my dreams. Talk things out... and maybe be back together with him. Even if its just friends. I... I miss him and I miss everything about him."

Peter continued smirking, "That's a good plan, Dennis. I can tell Dr Rodney has struck lucky with you."

This snapped Dennis back from his fantasy trip quickly, he gave Peter a scared look and quickly backed away from him, his cheeks turned red as he glared at him a bit. Was Peter seriously trying to flirt with him again?

"Sorry Garry 'gay man', not interested in you," Dennis said glaring at him.

Peter rolled his eyes, "Barking at the wrong tree Romeo. I am not hitting on you Dennis, I love Pinky and always have been... despite Pinky not loving me back. I'm just trying to comfort you."

Dennis blinked surprised, "You two broke it off?"

Dennis saw a heart-broken look shooting over Peters' face, the slightly older man looked worn out through his broken relationship with Pinky; almost as much as Pinky was in the hospital.

"Yes." Peter said as he shook, "Pinky accused me of cheating on him, first with you and then on some Japanese people as I had my mission in Japan a few weeks ago. But I showed him that I only photographed various buildings and flowers, no humans. But he still broke it off with me."

Dennis blinked as Peter shook in his body, "Why... why can't he see that I still love him? I have never stopped thinking about him, and now he wants to break my heart?... love is not fair."

"Love is a battle that no one can win, if there are more then three sides involved then all of them will lose at the same time," Dennis said.

Peter nodded his head, so true. Dennis felt Peter's eyes on him and he quickly decided to straighten something about them out. Before Peter gets the wrong idea about him again.

Dennis then glared at him, "And no Peter. I don't see you as a romantic link at all. You are a good friend, and that's it. And you definitely need to work on your 'flirting with men' technique, the weird gushy words you told me on our first day were not my type. Yuck."

Dennis scrunched his face and stuck his tongue out. Peter chuckled, he got the message alright.

"Sorry then. C... can we maybe just be friends? Without holding a gun to our heads all the time?" Peter asked.

"As long as you don't mind having a convicted criminal as a friend, sure. Just no relationship and no friends-with-benefits bullshit." Dennis said smiling, "I'm still going to go after Rodney with everything I have, and I can't cope if I have to drive a two-way train, with you and Rodney in it."

Peter nodded his head, very true. Both men shook hands and smiled a bit. Before getting up then and getting themselves some early breakfast together. Just as work colleagues and friends, nothing more.

Back at the hospital with Dr Rodney

Dr Rodney von Rodenstein was still lying locked up in the hideout. He was thinking over the plan as to what Dennis had told him, which was basically to cheat on him with Dr Piranha, to give in to Dr Piranhas demands and let that brown and red-haired man have what he wants.

But Rodney didn't feel well about it. He only wanted to love Dennis, and as far as his 'ex-lovers' experiences go, cheating was a big no-no in his book. So that he was basically asked to cheat on his beloved fiancée was not an easy pill to swallow.

'I don't want to hurt you, my love. But I also don't want to die down here... what to do, what to do...' Rodney asked himself.

He still didn't have a plan as suddenly the door opened again, Dr Rodney looked up and saw, as always Dr Piranha enter. Rodney asked himself if any other Doctor in this cursed place knew of this hideout or if it was just Dr Piranha.

So far he thinks only Dr Piranha and now Dennis knew where he was being held 'prisoner'.

"Good morning Dr Rodney, breakfast is served." Dr Piranha said smiling.

He moved the tray up to his 'prisoners' bedside table, Rodney peeped his head at the side of it, there was a fruit salad, a glass of water, a glass of orange juice, some toast with fried eggs on them and more pills to swallow.

Dr Piranha took the chair, moved to the head of Rodney and helped him sit up, using the knife and fork Rodney was being fed by Dr Piranha.

After eating the first few bits Rodney decided to question him, "Say Dr Piranha, why can't I just feed myself?"

"Because I wish to take care of you, sweety." Dr Piranha explained as he held a glass of orange juice with a straw in it.

He pushed the straw between Rodney's lips and made the man drink it. "Isn't it nice to be taken care of someone who loves you?"

Rodney backed away as the next full fork was shoved to his lips, "Dr Piranha; for the tenth billion time, I don't see you as my lover or boyfriend at all. You are always jumping too quickly on the 'wedding horse' without actually getting to know me at all. What do you know about me anyway?"

"Your full name is: Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galan Gary Cooper von Roddenstein, you are very handsome Dr Rodney despite having no hair, you are 6'2 heigh or also 1.87 cm, you weigh about 150 lbs so 68 kg, you have a child from your first marriage called: Orville von Rodenstein, currently you are divorced, but still open to take lovers. You were sentenced once to live in prison for moving the sun or earth away from each other but you broke out years ago and never returned to jail, and you have a female robot called Chloe who is your assistant. She also can dance. Ah also you are bisexual, you take male and female lovers. Whiles Dennis, as far as I know, has always been gay, his entire lifetime, you have had more than 3 lovers so far in your life, your last engagement was to Dennis 'a.k.a Bunny' who ran off on you." Dr Piranha explained smirking.

"Not bad, Wikipedia right?" Rodney asked smirking a bit, despite the last fact being completely wrong.

Dr Piranha just nodded his head and left again after Rodney finished his last bite of the meal. Whiles the Doctor was gone, Rodney noticed he dropped his phone.

'Chloe of course, she is my ticket out of here.' Dr Rodney smirked.

He moved from his bed and grabbed the phone, quickly opening it he dialled his robots phone number.

Chloe von Rodenstein was currently asleep in Dr Rodney's hideout, she found it a bit strange that she wasn't activated for almost an entire year now or longer, but her dreams were nice anyway.

She blinked as she felt herself vibrate, quickly Chloe woke up and looked around her room confused.

"Um... hello?" Chloe answered the call blinking.

"Chloe, is that you? Did I get the right number?" Her head was asking herself in a male's voice.

Chloe blinked and got more up, "Dr Rodney? Yes, its still the same old me, where have you been for the past year? There has been no evil plans, no LOVEMUFFIN meetings, nothing. What's going on? Where are you?"

Dr Rodney sighed a bit, "Its a bit of a long story, one for which I don't have all the time in the world, just quick summary: A) I have a new lover Dennis, B) about 3 months ago a Dr Piranha has found me and taken me prisoner, C) I'm still being held at a hospital prisoner. But I have to get a message out quickly and you are my golden ticket for it. Call all of the LOVEMUFFIN members back together, inform them: That Dr Piranha is still alive, and is currently resigning at the Southshore Hospital Center. Tell them to work together with OWCA and the police to break into the Southshore Hospital Center, and have Dr Piranha arrested for kidnapping."

"Why can't I just break in there and get you out myself? You know nothing can harm me that isn't a computer virus." Chloe asked him.

"Otherwise Dr Piranha will run again and maybe kill me, that's why. Please." Dr Rodney said.

"Ok, I'm on it, sir. See you soon, and hold on." Chloe replied back.

After she had his message recorded Chloe exited her masters home, she walked through Danville and reached the OWCA in minutes.

During her walk, Chloe has phoned all of the LOVEMUFFIN members and informed them to meet up at the OWCA instantly.

At the OWCA as Heinz has just had his morning hot chocolate, he was confused as he saw every LOVEMUFFIN member walk up to the OWCA hideout.

"Francis Monogram, the LOVEMUFFIN has returned," Heinz called out and ran back inside.

Monogram glared at him, "Did you phone them up?"

"No, he hasn't Francis. Chloe von Rodenstein has phoned us up. Something has happened and she is about to tell us." Dr Diminutive explained.

Chloe just arrived herself, she checked everyone off the LOVEMUFFIN list and knew everyone was there now.

Chloe nodded her head, "Correct. I take it all of you still remember Dr Piranha?"

The LOVEMUFFIN's all smiled a bit and nodded their heads, "Yes what about him?"

"He has captured my master Dr Aloyse von Rodenstein a.k.a Rodney. I am certain he is being held somewhere... give me a-" Chloe was about to say as Dennis cut her off.

"Southshore Hospital Center," Dennis explained and appeared at the side of the female robot.

The LOVEMUFFIN's looked at Dennis confused, "He told you?"

"No I visited him as me, Peter and Perry went to see Pinky again. I found him being held captive in the cellar. By Dr Piranha." Dennis explained.

Chloe nodded her head, "Correct, Dr Rodney's idea to get out is for the LOVEMUFFIN and OWCA to work together and free the hospital from Dr Piranha, his captor."

Dennis shook in his fur, "I told you MM, I told you he was there."

"Yes, that is all well and good Chloe, however, we can't break in there and just free him. Like I said I don't want to disturb the hospitals' reputation." MM explained.

"Oh for the love of life, Major Monogram stuff the goddam hospitals' reputation up where the sun won't shine. A humans life is on the line and without immediate help, Dr Piranha is sure going to do worse things than have Dr Rodney tied and gagged in a cellar." Dennis and Chloe snapped at the same time.

"True," Perry spoke up, "But like you said, Dennis, if Dr Rodney has been held captive for 3 months and he is still alive, then Dr Piranha must be taking good care of him. Despite his reputation with you."

Dennis was about to strike another combat... as he suddenly realised something.

"Oh... oh no... no, no, no, no, no not good," Dennis said shaking his head making his white hair bounce left and right.

He fell back in his chair and shook his head, his mind has just worked out that there was something even bigger than just luring him back to Danville. Dennis grabbed his hands and ran them through his hair shocked, before grabbing a fist full of them and pulling them almost out of his scalp.

"Dennis?" Chloe asked bending down to his level, "Your face has just gone pale, what is it?"

"Piranha is planning something bigger than just kidnapping and blackmail... that rotten man wants to cut me deep as his revenge," Dennis said. "There is no other reason he would keep Rodney alive for 3 months and counting. He wants his bait fresh and cooking all the time until the 'fish/me' bites on and be dragged onto dry land."

Chloe blinked and worked out what else the 'bait' could mean, "Oh no... he wants you harmed and hurt as badly as he can, first suffering under the heartbreak and then death either through his own hand or madness."

Dennis nodded his head and shook, "If that's what that idiot wants then I should basically just give up."

"No," Heinz said, everyone, turned to him confused. "No, you shouldn't Dennis. If you give up now you let Dr Piranha win. He will get Dr Rodney and do god knows what else to him, and maybe because you ain't biting at your 'husband' anymore he will kill him."

"But there is no way I can win this; if I get into Dr Piranhas shooting range that mad man will have me killed. And if I don't bite he will have my 'husband' harmed. How can I then win this?" Dennis asked.

Everyone remained silent as they thought it over.

Chloe then had an idea, "Well Dennis... don't bite onto Dr Rodney von Rodenstein, but also show you are not giving up on him. What was it that you told him? He should give in to Dr Piranhas demands and make him 'like' him back in return. So, if somehow Dr Rodney can get Dr Piranha to open up about his bigger plan, then he can update you on how to spoil it. And once he is free then you two could get back together again."

"I've told him that already as well. But if Dr Piranha only knows the slightest bit that Dr Rodney von Rodenstein is only pretending that he likes him, then he might have him harmed, killed and even run again. I don't want him to be hurt." Dennis said bowing his head and shook again.

"We can't determine if he will be hurt by Dr Piranha, but if he walks into the trap then he will be caught. Once and for all. Ok?" Chloe suggested.

Everyone agreed. Chloe nodded her head and checked the time. It was just past 8 PM in the evening now. So most likely Dr Piranha was back at home. Chloe got her phone out and updated Dr Rodney von Rodenstein about what he had to do for tomorrow.

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