Chapter 8: Fidget's Failure and Finding the Flavershams

Kaitlin's POV

There I was, climbing down the sewer, away from Basil. I felt so much better after I said what I wanted to say to him because he really hurt me and I was done with him for being a jerk. I didn't care if he was sorry; he needed to be aware of how he treated others, instead of being disrespectful and rude! I was in pain! When Olivia was kidnapped just like her father, it got a lot harder on me than it already had been before. I did my best to take my mind off Basil and focused on getting Olivia and her father back just as I guaranteed. Speaking of Olivia, I trusted her to keep my necklace safe and I'd like to believe she kept her word. Maybe she forgot she had it. Even if she did, it would've been safe with her.

I jumped down and inside the underground sewer was bigger than I anticipated. How will I find Olivia and her father? There was only one way to find out by following their voices and that was all I needed to do. I took a deep breath and whispered, "Follow their voices and I should find them." I was going to search and rescue the Flavershams in any way I could and I wouldn't stop until they were out of harm's way.

Third Person POV

Ratigan opened Mr. Flaversham's prison door to see his project being built by the saddened toymaker. "Ah, Mr. Flaversham!" he said with a wicked smile and chuckled. He blocked the exit with his cape. "Allow me to present...your charming daughter!" He uncovered the exit with his cape to reveal a bat with the toymaker's daughter, held captive.

Hiram stood up to see his daughter. "Olivia!"

"Father!" Olivia cried, but when Fidget refused to let go of her, she stomped on his foot.

"Ow!" Fidget yelped as he clutched onto his only foot, watching her go. "My foot! My only foot!"

"Father!" Olivia said, crying tears of joy as she threw herself into her father's arms. "I thought I'd never find you!"

"Oh, there, there, there, my barin! I'm alright," Mr. Flaversham assured her as he comforted his sniffling girl, "I was just so worried about my little girl." He hugged his daughter some more and thought of the girl who looked after her. "But wait! Where's Kaitlin?"

"Probably in the toy shop," Olivia answered, but little did she know that Kaitlin was already looking for her and her daddy in the forsaken sewer. "The bat punched her in the face!"

"I'm sure she did her best to protect you," Hiram told her.

"Aww, how sweet!" Ratigan said sarcastically as he grabbed onto his tissue and fake cried, "Aww, I just love tearful reunions!" He pretended to wipe tears from his eyes.

The father and daughter happily hugged, but their reunion was cut short when Ratigan grabbed Olivia by the hand. "Now, come along, my dear," Ratigan said.

"Oh, please! Please!" Olivia pleaded as she ended up back with Fidget, pulling her away from her father. Ratigan covered Mr. Flaversham's mouth and ignored both his and Olivia's pleas. "Father!"

"Oh, please, Professor!" Hiram begged as Ratigan held him by the apron straps, sending him back to his work chair.

"Now, now, now! Fidget will take good care of her!" Ratigan feigned sympathy and laughed darkly before scowling. "That is as long as we have no further delays!" He set the tomaker down.

"Yes, I'll finish it!" Mr. Flaversham said, grabbing his wrench and other tools used to build the robot. "Please, don't hurt my daughter!"

"Remember," Ratigan warned, before leaving him alone and stuck his head out the door. "It must be ready TONIGHT!" He slammed the door shut. Little did he know that Kaitlin heard this and she flinched as the door slammed. She was hiding, so he wouldn't get to her. She sat down because she ran a lot and climbed down the sewer, which gave her exercise.

Olivia struggled to get out of Fidget's grasp as he pulled her over to an empty wine bottle as Fidget hummed. She screamed, kicked, and pounded him. "Stop!" she yelled fiercely. "Let me go, you ugly old thing!" Fidget threw her in the bottle halfway and reached for the cork. Olivia kicked, but she couldn't free herself.

"That ought to hold ya!" Fidget mocked, pushing the cork against her behind.

Once inside, Olivia was inside, her screams were muffled. "Help! Let me out! Let me out!" She wasn't asking him to let her out, she wanted the heroes to.

Fidget hopped over to her. "See how you like that!" he snapped and childishly blew a raspberry at her. He left her sad and alone. It wasn't because she felt bad; he was making her mad.

Kaitlin scoffed at Fidget's behavior. "That's childish and cruel! She wasn't asking you for help, idiot! She was asking the heroes! You made her mad!" She hissed, but lucky for her, he didn't hear her. He just walked away with his head up confidently.

Kaitlin rolled her eyes and growled. "He's just as bad as Basil, minus the criminal deeds. Is Fidget deaf or is he full of himself? Maybe the latter." Was Fidget pretending she wasn't there?

"Ah! Uniforms! Oh, Fidget, I knew I could rely on you!" Ratigan said, browsing through Fidget's stolen items in a sack. When he saw Fidget, he asked, catching his henchman off-guard, "You didn't forget anything?"

Fidget chuckled. "No problem! I took care of everything! Everything on the list!" He was about to show his boss the list from his pocket in his wing, until he found out it was missing. "Uh, oh!"

Ratigan's joy turned to frustration. "What's wrong?" he demanded.

"The list! I know I had it! I-" Fidget stuttered.

"Where's the list?"

"The list, yeah, yeah, yeah," Fidget began nervously, "Well, you see, it was uh, it was like this: I was in the toy store getting uniforms when I heard an AARROOOHH! AARROOOHH!" He did a howling dog pose to get his point.

"You're not coming through," Ratigan said impatiently, rubbing his eyebrow, thinking this was just random nonsense.

Fidget panted like a dog. He pretended to run and he tied his ears around his chin, as if he was wearing a bonnet. "A dog came, I ran. I had baby bonnet, girl in bag, this older girl shone a light in my eyes, and Basil ch-ch-chased me!"

Hearing that name he despised so much, Ratigan asked surprised and angry, "What? Basil's on the case? Why you gibbering little-"

Kaitlin witnessed Fidget wrapping himself in his wings, hiding as Ratigan towered over him and Ratigan clutched onto his chest, as if he was having a heart attack. The girl did feel bad for Fidget, although what he did was inexcusable on many levels, whether any of his family members worked for Ratigan or not. She thought to herself: It was Ratigan's own fault for hiring him and if that rat wouldn't have handed him the list, Basil and the others wouldn't have tried to track Ratigan down! Ugh! This is so degrading!

Ratigan's face turned red and finally managed to calm down. He snickered. Fidget was back on his feet and shielded himself as Ratigan acted polite towards him. "Oh, dear Fidget," Ratigan said affectionately and picked him like he was a baby. "You've been hanging upside down too long."

"Poor Fidget's naive," Kaitlin whispered somberly, "If only he can get out of this." She sighed. "If only."

"You mean, you're not mad?" Fidget turned cheerful and laughed as Ratigan carried him to Felicia's lair. "I'm glad you take it so well."

"Oh, but will it last?" Kaitlin asked herself with sarcasm. "There they go to Felicia's."

Ratigan rang his bell to call Felicia, making Fidget scream.

The girl facepalmed. "Oh, no!" The sight of villains treating their own henchman so horribly made her angry! If she were there, she'd put the main villains in each of their places and quick them to the moon.

"Not me, you idiot!" Fidget cried as he fell victim to the cat who was about to eat him, but he was able to fly away. "No, stop! You stupid furball!"

Felicia, having enough of him trying to escape, grabbed him and put him in her mouth.

"Open up! Open up!" Fidget screamed, although his screams were muffled. "Aye-yie-yie! Ooo-ooo, Aye! You're hurting my wings!"

When Ratigan's done being mean to Fidget, I'll go talk to that rat, Kaitlin thought.

Ratigan was rubbing his temples as he sat next to a wine bottle. "How dare that idiot Basil poke his stupid nose into my wonderful scheme and foul up everything!"

He's quite the complainer, Kaitlin thought, shaking her head, And a spoiled brat, I might add. Your mind's gone, Ratigan! Where'd it go? I don't know! It's gone!

Inside Felicia's fat cheeks, Fidget was flapping his wings struggling to get out. "Let me out! Let me out!" he shouted and opened her mouth wide enough with his foot and pegleg, so he could come out. "HEEELP!" But Felicia poked him to get him back in her mouth, causing him to say, "Ow."

Ratigan frowned at his reflection and continued to fume about Basil, "Oh, I can just see that insufferable grin on his smug face!" He banged his forehead against the glass, making a ding and clutched onto his head because it hurt. Then he remembered Fidget speaking of the girl, Kaitlin, who had Olivia under her care. She was with Basil for all he knew, but what he didn't realize was the two got into a fight, so they went their separate ways. With the girl in mind, he smiled maliciously. "Yes," he said and while this was happening, Fidget cried out in pain. "Yes, I can just see it." Ratigan snickered with glee and turned to Felicia and sweetly said, "Felicia, release him."

Felicia looked surprised and disappointed, hearing this. She wanted to eat Fidget, who was still in her mouth, but she had to do what her owner said. Fidget said, while in her mouth, "I'm too young to die!" She spat him out in disgust and he fell onto the floor with a grunt. He was in bad shape because his body was twisted, his ears had holes in them, and his tongue lolled out of his mouth. Ratigan picked him up by his chubby cheeks.

"Fidget's got chubby cheeks!" said Kaitlin as she smiled in adoration, "I'd like to pinch and massage them one day, if he's nice." But she knew Ratigan was faking being nice and he'd roughly pinch and massage his cheeks.

"Fidget, you delightful little maniac," Ratigan said, shaking Fidget a little bit and Fidget looked sad as his boss said, "You've presented me with a singular opportunity." Ratigan dropped Fidget and Fidget landed with a plop. "Poor Basil," Ratigan said, pretending to be sad and with an evil smirk, he added, "Oh, he's in for a little surprise!"

Fidget recovered to regain his senses and said, "What about the older girl? Should I get her, too?"

"No, let her come to me," Ratigan replied. "I don't want any damage done to her."

Or does he? Kaitlin wondered sarcastically.

"Okay," Fidget said and yawned. He'd had an awfully long night gathering up items he'd stolen from the toy shop.

Seeing the bat fall asleep, Ratigan said, "Long night, hasn't it?" He knew he wouldn't answer because it was rhetorical. He bent down to pet him. "Such a tired baby. Sleep tight."

Kaitlin watched this, thinking it was cute, but at the same time, she wanted that rat to buzz off, so that she and Olivia rub the poor bat's back or pet him, if Fidget redeemed himself. To the girl's surprise, Olivia watched, too.

As soon as Ratigan left a sleeping Fidget alone and headed to his office, so that Fidget could rest, Kaitlin tiptoed over to the bat, who was snoring. She thought maybe Ratigan was used to Fidget snoring, but she didn't like the fact that he woke him up because she found it unnecessary. She pet him and faced Olivia, who was in her bottle prison. "Shh…" Kaitlin hissed with her finger to her mouth, smiling at her. Olivia grinned back, relieved to see her again. To Fidget, Kaitlin said, "You must've been up all night, haven't you? Yeah? I know how that feels." With one more pat, she got up and went to find Ratigan, but not before she gazed at Olivia saying, "I'll come back for you, Olivia."

AN: Will my OC get Olivia and her father back? Stay tuned and find out in the next chapter.