"I ask again, who said that?!" Dudley was amazed. Was that a dream or did somebody really talk to him? Did somebody really answer him?
"That was me." Said a dark demonic voice like it was the most normal thing in the world to talk to somebody in a deep coma.

"And before you ask , my name does not matter. All of our names do not matter."
"Well…okay. At least I have finally somebody I can talk to."
"You will have much time to talk. Soon." Another voice suddenly began to speak.

"Yes, much time. Soon." The first voice confirmed.
"Soon" the two voices said now at the same time.
"Okay folks, that´s creepy… what´s going on here?"

"The process." A female voice added her voice to the others.
"Yes, the process." The other voices hissed in unison.
"The process?" Dudley couldn´t be more confused. The whole conversation had somehow no sense.

"Time to go. Soon. The process." The first voice said while the second and the female voice began to sing in the background "Time, soon, process! Time, soon, process!" accompanied by drumbeats on every word.

"Wait from who´s playing these drums?"
"TIME, SOON, PROCESS! TIME, SOON, PROCESS!" the two voices almost screamed at him.
"What does that mean? Am I going to die?" Dudley asked nervously and intimidated by the voices.

"Ask your friend. He will know. And do not come too late! Nothing shall vanish today."
The other two voices stopped singing for a second and repeated "Today!" Then they continued chant.

Dudley couldn´t express his confusion in words and if he had the chance to move the muscles in his face he would just contort them all. "Uhm… Am I getting crazy?"
The two voices stopped singing and said together with the first voice insistently. "YES!"

Dudley sat up drenched in sweat in his hospital bed and began retching. He still had the tube for the stomach probe in his throat. With the arm that still had a hand he pulled the tube out of his mouth.
"Disgusting." He croaked out of his sore throat.

As he stopped retching he looked at the stump on his left arm. "I´m awake!" he exclaimed happily. "I´m missing an arm but f*ck that! I´m awake!"
"Dudley! You´re a..a..awake?!" Keswick who regained his consciousness after getting hit by the door rushed to Dudley´s bed.

"Yes, I know." Replied Dudley with a ridiculously high voice.
"That´s… awesome. I always b..b..believed that you would wake up. You have to know that I was here every d..d..day and visited you." explained Keswick to him.

"I know." Meant Dudley clearing his throat. "I overheard everything. Thanks to you I know how to water my rhododendron… Boy, that was really boring but nevertheless thank you."
"Really that is of course s..s..scientific…"

"Yeah whatever." Interjected Dudley before Keswick would start one of his famous monologues. "I need to know something. I know that Snaptrap did that to me and I know that Kitty is on her way to him. But what I don´t know is where Snaptrap is."

"Please don't t..t..tell me that that you are also on this r..r..revenge trip!"
"No!" replied Dudley firmly. "I wanted to prevent Kitty from doing something bad to Snaptrap."
"Okay, that´s of course n..n..noble but why?"

"Because this is all my fault!"
"What?! Why?" Keswick stepped confused away from him.
"No time to explain! Just tell me everything what´s necessary, but fast!"

This question also preoccupied Kitty. She drove to D.O.O.M but didn´t find Snaptrap there, just Larry sitting on a chair beside the shark tank with fishing rod on which a steak was fixed. He was making fun of the sharks by pulling the rod up every time when a shark was trying to catch the steak.

"Stupid sharks!" he laughed at them without seeing Kitty entering the HQ. She sneaked up to him, grabbed him by the collar and held him over the shark tank.
"Tell me, where is Snaptrap." Kitty said curtly.

"Do you really think that you can scare me with the stupid shark tank? Do you have any idea how often I was in that thing? I know every shark by his name." replied Larry with a really bored expression on his face.

"Oh, believe me that was just the start." Kitty took some of the fishing line from the rod and tied Larry to the chair. "Good that you bought the extra tear resistant one."
"Well, when the sharks get the steak they really pull hard." Larry stayed calm all the time even as Kitty began to drag the chair up to the roof of the building.

But as he was up there and the cold wind blew around his nose he began to ask himself what she was up to. And as Kitty put the chair with the back close towards the edge of the building he was getting also kind of nervous. "Would you be so kindly to tell me what you are up to?" he finally manifested his nervousness in a sentence.

"Back then in Vietnam-war the troops there developed a special interrogation tactic. You took the two suspects and put them into a helicopter. With that helicopter they hovered maybe 15 or 20 meter over the ground. There they began with the interrogation.

The two of them got the same questions. The one who was less cooperative by every question got pushed a little closer to the edge. Until one of them got the final push. The funny fact was that no matter who fell towards the ground in the end the other one always talked." Kitty told this little anecdote with a disgusting smile.

"Well, That is a problem Katswell. I´m alone."
"I first thought that too. But then I realized that it doesn´t matter. If you won´t talk the others will talk after I showed them the rest what´s left of you after you… hit the floor."

Larry realized the logic that was behind Kitty´s argument and that made his nervousness to panic. But he still wasn´t willing to tell her anything. "You don´t dare to push me from the edge!"
"Really." Kitty turned Larry around so that he could see the lights of the city. Petropolis by night was always a great view but not if you about to get pushed from the building.

"Katswell… uhm…"
"Yes?" Kitty just finished doing something on the lean of the chair, maybe checking the line so he couldn´t escape.
"Nothing."

"Okay." She just meant and pushed the chair closer to the edge. "Do you still don´t want to talk?"
"Yes!"
"Okay." She repeated and pushed the chair again closer to the abyss.

The next push would send him immediately towards the ground. Larry was now able to see the sidewalk under him and that was kind of persuasive for him.
"It´s okay Katswell. I´ll tell you where he is. Just please don´t push me down there!"

"I think it´s too late, Larry. I expect more cooperation form the people I interrogate." She said baldy and kicked Larry over the edge. "Nooooo!" screamed Larry as he was falling. Kitty just giggled and walked to the stairway. At a leisurely pace she strutted down the stairs, through the entrance hall and outside the building.

There on the façade, circa in the height of Kitty´s head, dangled the chair with Larry on it on the thin fishing line. Kitty stepped directly in front of him and grinned into his face which was white of the shock. "As I said, good that you bought the extra tear resistant one."

"Oh my god, I think I had one of these near death experiences. I saw my whole life passed by in front of my eyes." He coughed and breathed heavily. "And it was boring!" he added.
"Well sorry, but if you don´t want to see the most boring movie again you better tell me where Snaptrap is."
"Katswell your just sick!"

"I see that as a compliment… By the way, I would really recommend to you that you talk now. I don´t know if the fishing line can make another fall without ripping but of course we can always…"
"Okay okay okay!" Interjected Larry fast. "I´ll tell you and that will surprise you."
"I´m listening attentively."

"Snaptrap searched for the best place to hide from you and then he had a really brilliant idea. There is no better place to hide from you than right under your nose."
"What do you mean with that?" Kitty was really interested what would come now.

"He hid in your apartment! Ha! I still can´t believe that this was his idea! I guess you weren´t in your apartment since you searched for the culprit?"
"IN MY APARTMENT?!" She shouted. "Good, now I have two reasons to kill him!" Kitty turned around and tramped angry away from the hanging Larry who screamed after her.

"HEY! DON´T LEAVE ME HANGING HERE!"
Kitty ignored that. "Some will come sooner or later and cut him loose" she thought and jumped into the T.U.F.F. car. Snaptrap´s idea of hiding in her apartment maybe was a pretty good one but he forgot one important thing. Kitty had a key to his hiding place.

And now that she knew where he was it was just a matter of time till she added some bullets to his inner organs. She steered the car to her building and parked near the entrance. It was in the parking ban but that wasn´t important for her.

She jumped out of the car and ran up the stairs. The elevator would be too slow. In front of her door she pulled out her keys and her gun. She rushed into the apartment and caught Snaptrap sitting in front of the T.V. in her pink bathrobe. "Freeze!"

"Damn, I´m watching… Oh agent Katswell…" the anger he first had in his voice yield immediately as he saw Kitty pointing with her gun at him.
"Finally" laughed Kitty released. "Finally I found you. You wouldn´t believe what I done to found you.

I threatened, I hurt, I even killed. Just to have some time alone with you." She laughed like she was crazy what made Snaptrap walking away from her backwards. She followed him with her gun aiming on his chest. "But before I knock your light out, before I watch how the life will vanish from your body, I want to give you the chance to justify yourself. So why did you sent Dudley into that coma?"

"I…" Snaptrap sighed exhausted like finally some heavy weight fell from his heart. "I, didn´t want that. You have to believe me. It really wasn´t my intention to hurt anyone."
"Sure." Sneered Kitty.

"Seriously, I didn´t want that! I just want to destroy the house. I thought that anybody would be in the garden, at the party."
"Fast Snaptrap, come to the reason with that you want to justify what you done. My trigger finger is itching." She meant impatiently.

"My motive was anger. I was angry because I wasn´t invited to the party."
"WHAT?!" Kitty hadn´t expected such a crummy motive what made her even angrier. "You just done that because you weren´t invited to this stupid party?" Kitty jumped on Snaptrap what sweeped him of his feet.

Triumphing she stood with a foot on his chest and her gun pointing at his heart above him.
"Pull the trigger. I´m just happy this hunt ends. I´m just to tired."
"You´ll have enough time to sleep soon!" Kitty led her finger slowly to the trigger and was about to pull as someone behind her suddenly screamed.

"STOP IT!"
Kitty turned her head around and looked into Dudley´s blue eyes who stood also with a gun in his hand in the door.
"Dudley?!" Kitty was so surprised that she sank her gun. Dudley was the last one she had expected.

"Kitty lay down that gun. Everything is okay."
"You´re alive?!"
"Yes. But put down the gun! And leave Snaptrap alone." Said Dudley calmly.

"How could I? Can´t you see what he done to you?! Just look at your arm!"
"That doesn´t matter for me."
"How? How could that not matter to you?! It´s all his fault!" asked Kitty unbelieving.

"It isn´t, to be honest it´s my fault. Snaptrap…" Dudley began to address Snaptrap. "I was the one who wrote that fake card to my mom about you having kidney stones."
"You were that?" panted Snaptrap who´s air was pressed out of his chest by Kitty´s boot.
"That doesn´t matter for me. That is still no motive to destroy a house and sent someone into a coma!" deemed Kitty furiously.

"But is revenge a good reason to kill someone? Keswick told me before I came here what you done to Birdbrain. Kitty you have to stop this. Being angry on someone is like drinking poison and then expecting the other person to die! You have to stop this, NOW!"

"I can´t stop now! I have to end this." Kitty raised the gun in her hand again and aimed at Snaptrap´s head.
"You don´t leave another choice to me!" Also Dudley raised his gun but instead of pointing it on Kitty or Snaptrap he pressed it on his own head.

"You don´t do that!"
"Maybe I´m supposed to be dead. Should I stand in the way of destiny´s plan?"
Kitty turned her head away from Dudley and looked into Snaptrap´s tired eyes until the sound of a shot made her spun around.

Dudley still stood there and pointed with his gun at the ceiling. He didn´t shot himself, just in the ceiling.
"Kitty, believe me. The next time I´ll hit my aim."
"Dudley don´t do that!" Kitty put her gun down and walked away from Snaptrap. Dudley´s determination convinced her. He really managed it to turn the tables. Now Kitty had to play the rational, a role that suits much better to her.

"Kitty, answer me that one question."
"Okay, but stay cool." She said with her hands in front of her trying to persuade him to put the gun down.
"How about Saturday?"
"What?!"

"Cinema. Saturday. You and me. A date. What do you think?" Dudley looked into Kitty´s confused eyes and waited for an answer.
"Yes, but just don´t shoot yourself."

Dudley threw his gun to the ground and hugged Kitty. "It´s over."
Kitty returned Dudley´s hug and felt released. The crowed of angry voices in her head disappeared and all the anger fall of her. Dudley was right, it was over.

-There will be one last chapter after that and I hope it will clear all the questions in the reviews in explicit and implicit ways :D-