Fidget delighted himself as he took Olivia away from Ratigan's hands and shoved her in the green wine bottle "That outta hold ya!" he blew a raspberry at her and clopped away as his boss praised him "Oh the uniforms, ah fidget I knew I could rely on you!" he chuckled and looked at the small bat "Now, you didn't forget anything?"

He chuckled "No problem! I took care of everything! Everything on the list." he looked through his pocket and saw that the list was missing, he muttered to himself "What's wrong.." Ratigan sneered.

Fidget searched around him as Ratigan questioned "Where's the list?" Fidget started to breath heavily, pleading his case "Well, it was like this; I was in the toy store..then I heard a roo- aroo!"

"Your not coming through.." Ratigan rubbed his temples

"A dog came, I ran! I had baby bonnet, girl in bag, and Basil, He ch-chased me!"

Ratigan's eyes lightened "What?! Basil on the case!" he nearly clutched his chest, as if he had a heart attack, he suddenly grabbed Fidget calmly like a baby and cradled him "Oh my dear Fidget, you have been hanging upside down to long.."

He wrapped a wing around his back as they turned a corner "You mean your not mad? Oh im so glad your taking this so well.."

Suddenly, the small twinkle of a bell was heard and also the blood curdling scream of Fidget. Felicia had grabbed him and attempted to stuff him in her mouth "Not me, you idiot. No, stop you stupid fur ball! Open up! Open up! Ai, ai, ai! Oh, ow! You're hurting my wings!" Ratigan looked at himself in the mirror in disgust "How dare that idiot Basil poke his nose into my wonderful scheme and foul up everything!"

"Help!" Fidget pleaded. Ratigan held on to the wine bottle "Oh I can just see that insufferable grin on his smug face!" he banged his head on the glass twice, causing him to wince in pain. He suddenly looked up and instantly smiled, as if he knocked a new scheme in his head "Yes..Yes I can just see it..Hee-hee.." he chuckled and snapped his fingers "Felicia, release him.."

Felicia spit out the small little bat, mangled with holes in his ears. Ratigan picked him up with delight "Oh Fidget you delightful little maniac! You've presented me with a singular opportunity.." He sympathetically frowned "Poor Basil…Oh he's in for a little surprise.."

"Boss! We got her!" The thugs ran in holding a struggling Ella, she cried for help underneath the wrap that was holding her mouth shut. "She was about to fly the coop professor, but we grabbed her just in time.." one thug held her close and she rightfully stepped on his foot.

"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.. Ella, I was worried sick about you, so you could only imagine that I took the liberty of having you escorted back here.." he took of the handkerchief covering her mouth and pulling through her dark red hair "I'm stronger than you think.." she muttered bravely.

"You know I love you Ella, like a daughter.." he stroked her face gently.

She scowled at him "You have a funny way of showing it." she was restrained back by two larger thugs "Your plan is done for..he won't come back."

"For me he won't.. but maybe something or someone else could change his mind." He smiled and waved at the thugs "Lock her up.. she needs some time alone." she stepped on the thugs foot again and attempted to run away, then she suddenly saw Olivia in the green bottle "O-Olivia? No..this is all my fault." the little mouse nodded and she attempted to pull the cork to free her, but was grabbed by the thugs once more. She was thrown into a barrel next to Flaversham's "Let me out! This isn't right! You cant do this!"

"Ella?" she heard a muffled sound as she crept next to the wooden wall "Hiram?" tears rolled down her white fur, "I-I'm sorry.. I thought she was safe, I knew I should have grabbed her, this is all my fault.." Hiram reached his hand underneath the wood, softly touching her hand "There, there Ella.. its fine.. "

The trio finally made it back to Basil's flat. Basil fiddled with the piece of paper "Offhand, I can deduce very little. Only that the words are written with a broad pointed quill pen which has spattered, twice. That the paper is of" tosses it in his hand, testing the weight "native Mongolian manufacture, no water mark. And has" he puts it to his lips and smacks it several times "been gummed, if I'm not very much in error" he sniffs at the paper, then holds it at arms length in disgust "by a bat who has been drinking Rodent's Delight! A cheap brandy sold only in the seediest pubs.."

The prince looked at him, then suddenly remembered what had happened minutes ago "Basil! I've seen Fidget before.." Basil was astounded "What do you mean?"

"When me and Lawrence were looking at all the eligible Ladies, one woman on the list was Ratigan's daughter.."

Dawson yelled "He has a daughter?!"

"Of course he does Dawson.. one of the most-"

Leo finished "Spoiled, pampered, women in all of London.."

Basil held him on the shoulders "Do you have any clue where his lair is.." Leo rolled his eyes "I had to be blindfolded the entire way there.." he crossed his arms "So Ratigan is the cause of all of this.. mess." He thought of Ella, "Oh no I have to go and-" Basil hushed him as he stepped to his test tubes and chemical table "All in good time.."

Moments passed as he inspected the letter "Hmm-hmm. Hmm. Coal dust. Clearly of the type used in sewer lamps." He burned the small piece of paper Basil lets the ashen remains of the paper fall into a bowl, and he pats it down with a small wooden masher. He pours the contents onto a glass jar of a yellow chemical, which turns blue. Dawson stares at the liquid with his bifocals, but Basil has returned with a vial of a red chemical.

"Excuse me Dawson..." holding the red chemical over the jar "Steady hand."

Basil lets a single drop fall. A small puff of smoke comes out as the chemical turns violet. Basil sets the jar below a glass spout and reaches to the other side of the chemistry set to turn on a small flame. The green chemical inside bubbles up and slowly makes it's way through the tubes, Basil encouraging it soflty.

Basil mutters to the tubes "Yes, yes. Good, good. Come along, come along, come along, come along. Come along, come along, come along come along... Haha... Yes, yes, good, good. No, bad. Good, good, oh, no. Come along, come on. Yes, come on."

Basil, Leo and Dawson watch intently as a single green droplet is hanging above the violet chemical.

Basil whispers "Yes... Yes..." the drop falls, making the chemical turn red "Ah-ha!" puts his arm around Leo "We've done it, old fellow! This reaction could only have been triggered by the paper's extreme saturation with distillation of sodium chloride."

Basil moves away from the table as Dawson continues to study the now-clear chemical.

Dawson and Leo say at the same time "Salt water?"

Basil begins rummaging through his maps "It proves beyond a doubt, this list came from the riverfront area." Leo muttered to himself, the same time as Basil "The Rat trap.." Basil uses his darts to pin the map to the wall. "Ah, now steady on there, Basil." Said Dawson calmly "We-" a knock was heard at the door, Dawson answered it and noticed Jeremy, out of breath and almost falling to the floor, he locked eyes with the grey mouse "Leo! Leo! I-" he fell over out of breath, Leo poured a glass of water on him "Jeremy, Jeremy are you ok?"

He sat up almost reaching the ceiling of the house "I was flying.." he chuckled "Well of course I was flying.." Leo rolled his eyes and pulled his face to his "What happened?"

"Some thugs took Ella away!"

Leo screeched "What? Who?" Basil muttered to himself "Ella?" he shook it off simply "See here, I don't have time for this! I am on a case!"

Jeremy continued "It went like this.. A big thug grabbed her and said 'Your coming with me you little princess' and she yelled 'I aint your princess, leave me alone!' she started fighting him and like a coward I hid and came to look for you..she's in trouble Leo, she needs your help!" he handed Leo the letter "She dropped this when they took her away..its for you."

He cracked open the letter, reading it in his head:

Dear Leo,

This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, and I hope you'll understand. We can't be together. I can't tell you why. My whole life has been nothing but darkness, and I can't wish the same upon you for the rest of yours. Please believe that this is the only solution, don't follow me. I wish you the best. I still really do believe you're going to be a great king.

Goodbye forever. Ella.

He crumpled the letter, dropping it to the floor. Leo looked up "We have to get her back.." Basil patted him on the back "All in good time.. for right now we have a case on our hands.. we have to find Ratigan's lair." He looked at his wardrobe, then back at Leo and Dawson "But not looking like this.."

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