Authors Note: Once again let me apologize for the lack of updates, I know it's been slow I have no intention of quitting though. This current crisis in the world just is making things harder to operate through.


Three weeks had come and gone since Professor Venomous and Boxman's wedding. K.O. was waking up like it was any other morning. He stretched and was about to get ready to do his exercises when something caught his attention from the glorbucator by his bed.

K.O. quirked a brow, going over and opening the glorbucator top and taking out the artificial womb. His eyes were wide with awe. A baby had begun to form. A silhouette of a tiny fetus inside of the orb. He was amazed.

"Fink is going to be so excited to see you…" the Level 4 hero told it with a smile, his heart melting. He gave the small ball of liquid a gentle hug, and then he gently returned their future child to the glorbucator before closing the top. "Come on! You can help me with my training," K.O. eagerly said as he put the glorbucator on and strapped it to himself. He had to get stronger. He decided it was time to up his weight amount. His scholarship letter to P.O.I.N.T. prep academy was hidden away for the time being.

As he worked away at his basic morning routine, he struggled about how to go about telling everyone about everything. A confusing whirlwind of emotions hit him. He was happy with life, everything felt like it was simply perfect, discounting Dendy hating his guts. He just hated knowing that it would probably get rougher once he did drop the bombshells in the future. He hoped that Fink was doing okay, since she had been more or less burying herself in her studies.

The bodega cleaner knew that Radicles had more or less wound up in the exact same position the young boy himself had been in when his new relationship became public. Being treated like a slowly corrupted inevitable villain, or the exact opposite, with him trying to bring Shannon to good, when the alien and robot held no care for good and evil alignments.

K.O. wished he could help his friend. He hated acting selfish. It wasn't in his nature, but because he had a family to take care of right now... What choice did he have?

"K.O.!" Carol's voice suddenly made him snap out of his train of thought. He looked up, having been in the middle of a simple set of sit-ups. A normal thing in his daily routine exercises before bed and after he first woke up.

"O-oh, good morning, mommy. Is something wrong?" K.O. asked, realizing his mother looked worried. He also felt very sore all of a sudden.

"Yeah. You've been working out two hours longer than normal. You missed breakfast," Carol insisted. K.O. realized fast that maybe it was why he was feeling so achy right now. His mother helped him to his feet.

"Sorry, mommy. I guess I lost track of time…" said a sheepish K.O. His deepest thoughts were really starting to drag him out of reality, it would seem.

"I know it's your day off, but you should try and take it easy," Carol tried to say to her son. The young boy nodded as he looked over at his alarm clock, and realized it was already ten in the morning. It shocked him that he really lost track of time.

"Oh no! I need to hurry! I was supposed to be meeting Fink!" The level 4 hero scurried off in a desperate rush. "Bye, mommy, I love you!" he quickly called out before leaving. His mother remained there in surprise, but she giggled to herself.

"Young love… it's always a beautiful thing," Carol giggled. Her son really had gotten far more energetic recently, and his strength sure seemed to grow by the day as well. It made her feel like a proud mother.


Fink felt award. She sat at a small fast food joint she chose to come to, for a nice change of pace for a date. She was kind of sick of going to nice restaurants. She'd prefer some junk food for a change. Now, the henchwoman was no longer in the stage light of her boss's life, though she wasn't too bothered about it at all. Fink was simply surprised that she was able to live with the idea of boss not being the only important person in her life. A year or two ago Fink would have gone crazy if that happened.

"Is this what growing up feels like…?" Fink looked up rather tiredly. She was frankly exhausted of feeling so uncertain. It was a lot to absorb. It felt overwhelming to her to be growing up. She had to admire that K.O. was taking it in stride.

"Hey, Fink," K.O.'s voice suddenly brought the young mouse back to reality. She saw him standing there, he looked like he had gone through a rougher morning than usual because of the over exercising.

"Jeez… you look really tired. What happened to you?" Fink greeted her boyfriend as he set down, keeping that honest smile on his face.

"I might have overdone it today on my morning training… but I have something to show you!" K.O. began to take off the glorbucator. He laid it on the table and tapped on the glass, motioning his girlfriend to take a peek inside.

"What is it?" Fink leaned in curiously. Her eyes widened at their child now forming inside the artificial womb, instead of just the liquid that had been there for a long time now. Happiness quickly overtook her. K.O. was glad to see her pleased look. All of her hard work was finally taking shape. The joyous henchwoman pulled her boyfriend into a tight hug, almost squishing him.

"Y-you're a lot stronger than you look…" K.O. coughed, feeling like his girlfriend was crushing his lungs. The mouse replied by pressing her lips against his.

"I was scared the glorbucator wasn't working… I've been waiting for this day a long time," Fink confessed after she pulled her lips away, seeing a crimson blush on K.O.'s face.

"Of course, it worked, Fink. You made it after all," The level 4 cleaner reassured his girlfriend while the two took their seats. The aspiring young hero had to admit, he was losing some control with his imagination lately. He imagined them in a similar position after their child's birth, all sat at a table just eating out and enjoying the peace. "Has everything been okay?" He questioned, wondering if things had really changed that much back at her home.

"Everything's great. Everyone is so happy, especially Boss and Boxman," Fink claimed with a smile. Even the Boxmore bots were all pretty happy as well, like their families becoming larger as a whole was a mood booster to all. "Shannon's a little stressed out, but I think Rad is keeping her in check."

"Ahh…" K.O. nodded, feeling nervous by the mention of Shannon's name. Maybe telling her that he had informed Shannon about her future aunthood wasn't the brightest idea. "And how has research been going?" K.O. tried to keep up the positives as he asked about the tons of books Fink buried herself into, including some of Shadowy's.

"Why don't I show you?" with a smirk, she reached into her side bag and took out a large book, opening it for him. Many medical questions were answered by this book. A kind of book that Dendy would write, thorough to the letter. One that he obviously had trouble understanding.

"Wow… you did all this, Fink? I don't think Dendy could even come up with half of this stuff," the brushy haired boy said. It was like reading a medical journal. He wasn't able to understand half of it.

"You can do a lot when you have the right motivation," Fink smiled, radiating a sheer aura of pride. It matched K.O.'s own aura over their parenthood.

"You could actually publish this. It would be amazing to have all of this information about newborns' health in one place," the Level 4 hero suggested to the henchmouse. She had combed through probably a hundred books by now about birth defects, including possible turbonic types. Turbonic energy was a new, trending topic around the world now. One that P.O.I.N.T. probably was running experiments for, but the hero did not want to imagine that as is.

"Really? I never thought about actually publishing it… I thought it would be just our own little book, but maybe it could be more," Fink nodded, now that he mentioned it. The two were perfect at upholding a relationship so far. They seemed to be able to find opportunity and hope as they stepped toward the future together, that they would not have been able to discover on their own.


As the two talked, Fink found herself thinking back on K.O.'s earlier offer a month ago, during one of their first dates. That cold winter was warmed by the heat lamps, making all feelings of loneliness leave her. She just stared while her boyfriend shared a story about a practical riot that had happened at the bodega during a massive need of healing potions. She looked at their child in the glorbucator window. Her mind was made up.

"I want to move in with you," Fink caught the bodega cleaner off guard in the middle of his story. He had not even brought it up. He had offered her that over a month ago. He figured the lack of an answer meant she declined.

"R-really? I thought you were worried about upsetting Professor Venomous," K.O. claimed, but his girlfriend shook her head.

"He's happier than ever and doesn't need me anymore. I owe him my life, sure, but there are plenty of others to take care of him now. Plus, I want to be with you two more," Fink exclaimed. It was clear that she was a little jealous of her expanded family, but it was mostly her desire to move on in life that made her decide to go with her inner desire.

K.O. gave a nod and a smile on his face, happy that Fink was being honest and open with him. He had gotten used to it a long time ago, even if it was surreal to see her act as a far cry from her bullying nature.

"Alright, Fink. Don't worry, I'll get everything ready," K.O. claimed. There were many favors his mother and Mr. Gar both owed him, though maybe he burned most of Mr. Gars favors out when he demanded an actual paycheck and raise. It might be hard though, given his mother was pregnant, they needed more space, not less. "Would you be okay sharing my room with me?" he offered. His girlfriend gave a toothy smirk.

"Of course, I don't mind as long as you let me continue researching and working away," Fink winked in trade.

"Sure! A good half of my rooms just wasted space now anyway. I'd do anything for you two after all," K.O. patted the glorbucator. He had been imagining what it would be like to change his room for a while now, especially since he had to grow up so fast. He stood up and pulled his girlfriend into a hug.