"That blue hair gel thief has some explaining to do," Finn snapped suddenly as Stork pressed the button to open the hangar doors. The sharpshooter crossed his hands and tapped his foot, annoyance rising fast. It wasn't because of all that stupid lying, but the sneaking food that got him on edge. The way he saw it, if you couldn't trust your friends with something as vital and as basic as food requirements, you couldn't trust them at all.

And all that, for some stupid girl. If he ever did find her…Forget it. Finn didn't want to find her any more.

Aerrow entered the bridge first, carrying a groggy but conscious Radarr. Giving a moment for his friends to see that the creature was very much alive, he said, "I'm going to put him to bed, okay? The vet said he needs plenty of rest," and with that, exited again to his room.

Stork then diverted his attention to Piper and Junko. "Well?" he demanded. Junko heaved a shuddering sigh in response, and sat down on the couch. He dropped his head in his hands.

Piper smiled tiredly, placing a soothing hand on Junko's shoulder. The girl put on a brave face and answered, "He was on a drip. They had to give him this whole variety of medicines, and the vet said that if his heart rate continued to drop like that, he'd have to be placed in the ICU…we thought he was going to die. But the medicines seemed to work because we were allowed to bring him back here."

Stork nodded solemnly, thoughts of the previous detective adventure long gone from his mind. "Is he still on medication?"

"Obviously," Junko muttered. "We got them…some five types of pills."

Finn shivered. If he didn't like doctors, he hated pills even more. He was always scared he was going to choke and die on them. Plus, if they tasted bad, that was even worse. For Radarr's sake, he hoped they were those plastic-like capsules.

"How about you guys?" Piper asked rather hurriedly in an attempt to change the subject. "Any problems?"

Stork and Finn exchanged glances. There was some silent communicating going on here. It was the merb who finally answered. "Not really. Finn was just hungry. That was annoying."

Finn, who genuinely was hungry, asked, "You got those bananas I asked for?" and grinned a fake grin as Piper showed him a paper bag of groceries. "I'll put these in the kitchen," he declared. Emphatically, he gave Stork a look and walked off.

The merb wasn't too far behind.

"What?" he asked Finn behind the closed kitchen door.

"What do we do now?" the blonde asked. "And why do you think we shouldn't tell the others about this whole thing with Radarr?"

"I just want to be sure, that's why," Stork replied. "And I want to speak with Radarr myself." Watching his partner in crime nod, he added, "Let's just keep it low for a bit. There's still the entire afternoon to go. Let's just keep looking for more evidence. And I'll check our flight history. See where we've been stopping over the past week. That should help figure out where and how this girlfriend survives unseen with six people on board."

"Good idea." Finn tore out a banana from the bunch and offered it to Stork. The merb declined. So Finn took a bite of it himself. "What sort of evidence are we looking for now?"

There was a long, thoughtful silence. Finally, Stork said, "From the both of us, you're the wannabe womanizer. What do you think?"

Finn took both the words 'wannabe' and 'womanizer' as insults, but said nothing about it. Instead, he scratched his head in thought. This wasn't easy, because he didn't know what sky monkeys found sexy (And honestly, he didn't want to know.) Stuff like lipstick, strands of hair and small perfume bottles came to mind, but he couldn't imagine sky monkeys wearing any of that—and the hair could just as easily be mistaken for Radarr's.

And just then, the kitchen door opened, and Junko entered. He dove straight for the cookie jar on the shelf, and as he chose a chocolate-and-vanilla biscuit, simply happened to mutter, "Funny smell in the air lately."

It sounded so cryptic, that Finn took a large bite from the banana.


A/N: I am SO sorry for such a late update. Exams! And I got a new computer. Sure, I'll miss Old Fossil, my trusty but ancient laptop…we've been through hell and high water together. But I can't say I mind a keyboard that actually works. Haha.

Anyway, I felt this was comparatively a very sober chapter. I imagine it's going to pick up from the next update.

Hang in there, the story's almost complete! :P

Thanks for reading. Please review!