Nightfall in a black colored abandoned shack, safe enough to live with plenty of resources, Puss in Boots and Kitty Softpaws were helping a sleepy Guante Blanco, who was recovering from his injuries from those disgraceful criminals. Puss was using a towel to clean up a few wounds that his mentor has, while Kitty helps him out. Both cats were thinking about how did El Guante Blanco became Kitty's uncle. Then, the old cat slowly opens his eyes as he groans a little bit.
"Gi...Ginger?" he says as his voice was soft due to still suffering those effects from the cave slavery, while Puss gasps at his maestro.
"Maestro. Is it really you?" says Puss, who is very worried and concerned for Guante Blanco. A concerned Kitty placed her paws on Puss's left shoulder to see her supposed uncle. El Guante Blanco gives a small smile to Puss.
"Yes. What are you doing here?" El Guante Blanco says as Puss was very grateful and hugs him.
"Oh, maestro! I was so worried about you!" a crying Puss says as he lets out some tears to share his emotions and worries to El Guante Blanco.
"Ah, Puss. it is very good to see you, too," says a smiling Guante Blanco.
"Mmhm.. You must be Kitty Softpaws," he says as the black cat as he was intriufed by the pressnce of Kitty, who was confused and her mind rattle by all of this confusion and mystery that has brought her here.
"Sir, why did you leave me alone all those years?" Kitty says, confused by her feelings, letting her self doubts cloud her judgement, as she was reffering to how she knows by some theory that he is her lost uncle.
"I see. Well then, there is much to discuss," El Guante Blanco stated as he looks at Puss and Kitty sitting on some couch, ready to begin his explanation behind all of this and his version of this struggle.
Jose, meanwhile, was at a white and black room up top of the shack as he was putting a towel on some cold water, and springs it. He then walks towards a very hurting and sleepy Dulcinea, who was in a bedroom sleeping throught some of her injuries she took by the lasso of those thieves, especially from the main leader. Jose was removing her armor from her
"Hey, Dulcinea," Joss whispers gently, while Dulcinea slwoly opens her eyes, groaning in pain as her body was trembling and bothering her a bit, but she manages to pull through that little bit of pain to fullly wake up.
"Yes, Jose?" she says.
"Hehe. I am glad that you are fine. Now try to relax while to clean you up," Jose says as she nods. Then, he slowly puts the towel on her back as he was beginning to clean her wounds, but she was gritting her teeth as she was on agonizing pain by it.
"Easy, easy," Jose says as he rubs her back and head to calm a very hurt Dulcinea down. She screams in agony by every swipe of towel in her body, but she purrs with every soft rubs of Jose's right hand to help her get through this.
Jose kept swiping her wounds, until then, he finishes up and Dulcinea was groaning in relief. Jose then massages her back and neck to help her feel better.
"Thanks, Jose. For helping me back there," Dulcinea says, happy that her best friend helped her back at the cave.
"That is what friends do. And I will be here for anything you and Puss want me to do," Jose responds with a smile on his face. Dulcinea's heart melted with joy as she was getting up from her bedroom and putting back her armor.
"Let's go ahead and see Puss and the rest," Jose says as he prepares himself to go to the living room where Puss, Kitty, and El Guante Blanco are at. Dulcinea smiles and nods at Jose as she walks with him to join their friends.
Five minutes later, everyone kinda understood what was going on between the connection of El Guante Blanco and the adventure for the Chaos Emeralds.
"So let me get this straight. Ten months ago, you've were on an adventure with an ugly duckling and stumbled upon a discovery in which you've found out about Kitty being your niece and that she lived in San Ricardo?" says Jose as he was confused by all of this and wanted to understand everything he can.
"Yes, mister Jose," the old black cat replies.
"But before you were about to meet her, you got dusted away, but by the time you suddenly came back to life, you had to rush in on your student because it wasn't with you when it happen," Jose states as he became more intrigued by this, while and Dulcinea were paying attention to every detail because they were surprised that he was affected by the then menacing Thanos's Decimation.
"Yes. And it was the worst day of my life," Guante Blanco says with the heaviest of words because he still hasn't gotten over that painful moment in his life.
"Not the only one with this particular nightmares, maestro," Puss in Boots responds, remaining his teacher and the rest of the group about his moments during these times, while a sentimental Dulcinea holds his right shoulder and cuddles him tight and warm.
"And nine months later you found that duck, but you were kidnapped by the thieves who slaved you in that cavecave and told the duck before that to find Kitty, where she later finds out about your identity," Jose finishes off his sentence, and Kitty looked at her supposed uncle and gets up, clearly feeling all mixed about this.
"But I don't understand. If you are my uncle, why you didn't take care of me, and left me in that house so that she cuts my claws. Why you left me all alone and had to learn how to defend myself? Please, be honest and tell me the truth," Kitty says as her words came from the heart after years of being a lone cat, fighting through suffering, pain, and the pressure of always being a loner. The old cat slowly gets up and breathes heavily.
"Mi amor, it wasn't my intentions to hurt her. When I was young and in my best shape, I saw a little kitten in the dessert if an unpopular town, and some thieves came from a bar to kill you after they were attacking the citizens. I, of course, stopped them and saved you. When I hold you in my arms, I knew I needed to find a place to keep you safe from the vile and cruel world we were living back then. So I traveled for two days and that's when I dropped you to that house, but by looking at the window after I did, my heart felt heavy, something I never had before in my life since I felt it for my love of adventures. Years later, I heard about this Kitty Softpaws helping the town of San Ricardo, and I wanted to see you, but I was dusted. Then I tried again, and I got kidnapped and enslaved by these... these miserable cowards. But now, all I can say is I'm sorry, Kitty. Sorry for not being there with you when you were a little kitten,"
The old cat said as his words were full of regrets, and sorrow. Kitty felt kinda sad at first, but she was deeply happy knowing that her uncle really cared for her. She hugs him as he was surprised.
"Thank you, uncle," says Kitty as she cries for this moment of happiness, and her uncle gladly embraces her. Puss, Dulcinea, and Jose were happy to see those two finally having their long awaited reunion.
"Hehe. Thank you, Kitty. I am very happy that you've grown up to be a great being," says Guante Blanco, breaking up his hug with her while paying his respect towards Kitty, while she smiles.
"Mister Blanco, I'm sorry to interrupt, but do you know anything about these thieves you have encounter?" says Dulcinea as the old cat stares down at her.
"Nothing much, miss?" he says as he was confused because he doesn't remember her name yet, or in this case, he doesn't remember her at all because of the time reversal Sino did a long time ago in order for the world to be restored, a very powerful and monumental moment for her and Puss.
"Oh! Hehe, Ducinea," she says in her normal, high spirited voice as everyone happily smiles at her.
"Thanks. I do not know anything, but they always keep talking about this plan, this Chaos Emeralds obsession that they had with their boss. I don't know why, but whenever I heard then saying those words while being enslaved, it makes ne wonder what were they up to. I though it was nothing, but until they faced you three, I knew that you had something involved in this. And thanks to Puss, he told me everything," El Guante Blanco says, and Jose quickly looks at Puss with the though of knowing this.
"Puss. It is time," Jose says with a determined voice, while Puss stares him down and nods.
"Yes," he responds, then he looks towards his teacher.
"Maestro, we are going out to find out more about all of this. Would it not be a problem staying here for the moment? I promise we will return once we get everything solved," says Puss, holding El Guante Blanco's left shoulder with his right paw so that he can speak to him on an understanding level.
"Do not worry, Ginger. You do what you got to do. Just please, swear to me, you will bring Kitty along for the ride," the old teacher responds as Kitty looked at him with open eyes, while Jose and Dulcinea left the shack with smiles on their faces and prepared their horses for the ride ahead.
"I will, maestro," says Puss as he assured his teacher Kitty will come, which he smiles. Then Puss left the shack to prepare as well, as he looks at Kitty and smiles at his friend before that. Kitty then walks towards her uncle with a worried look, but she was confident he would be alright while he recovers from his agin and hurt body.
"Please be safe, uncle. I don't want to lose you to those thives, soldiers, or whatever they want to call themselves, says Kitty, as those words towards those delinquents who hurt her uncle lighted a fire inside her that mare her determine to stop their plans, and her uncle couldn't be more prouder.
"I will be, my niece. Now go ahead and join your friends, Kitty Softpaws. I love you," he says as he hugs her for a brief moment. Then, Kitty breaks it up, and looks at him with a happy expression on her face.
"I will. Take care," she says as she runs towards outside the shack, while he waves goodbye to her. El Guante Blanco slowly walks outside and sees Jose, Dulcinea, Kitty Softpaws, and Puss in Boots riding on their horses in the middle of the night, with the stars brightening. He closes his eyes, and looks up to the skies, and prays to Felina, the somewhat cat God Puss always prays for most of the time.
"Felina, please guide Ginger, Kitty, and the rest of their friends," he says as he opens his eyes and walks inside the shack to rest, with high hopes.
Just by the medium cliff outside the shack, the vigilante followed thethe group of cats and young man and stayed there, with its horse watching alongside the vigilante, waiting for any sudden moves and danger that may cone to that little old shack.