Chapter 2

Violet groaned as the two Irken females walked down the long hallways. Ruby had tried to occupy herself by humming to herself, which was wearing on Violet's nerves greatly.

"Ruby, will you stop humming! It's getting on my nerves!" Violet said, loudly, and the red-clad female Irken frowned, but stopped humming and crossed her arms.

"Nervous about meeting the Tallest?" Ruby asked, her frown turning into a smirk as Violet's eyes widened.

"N-no! Not at all! I'm not n-nervous. Are you?" Violet asked, making Ruby's smirk widen.

"Naw, I'm not nervous, but you definately are!" Ruby said, laughing at her friend, who was blushing, slightly.

"Just shut up and walk." Violet said, trying to hide the crimson coloring on her greencheeks.

Ruby contented herself with snickering behind Violet's back, as Violet was, now, walking ahead of her to keep from looking at her friend.

Violet arrived at a door marked 'Tallest's Private Breakroom: Keep Out!'. Ruby ran into Violet, not realizing she had stopped and the violet-clad Irken turned and rolled her eyes as she looked at her friend.

Violet looked at a keypad that was near the door and sighed. She punched in a number combination and waited.

"Yes?" Said a voice, sounding like the purple tallest.

"We're the technicians you sent for, my Tallest." Violet said, nervousness apparent in her voice.

"Come in." The cheery purple tallest said and the door opened to allow the two in.

Ruby looked around, seeing Red sitting on the couch and Purple standing near the doorway.

"What is it you needed us for, Sirs?" Ruby asked and Purple looked down.

"Our paks are not working properly. We believe someone has tampered with them." Purple explained and Violet and Ruby nodded.

"We cannot take your paks of your backs, so we need the both of you to stand and turn around." Ruby said, setting her toolbox down on a table and opening it.

Red grumbled something, staying where he was. Purple glared at him and hovered over to were he was. Purple and Red talked quietly for a second and Purple pulled Red into a standing, or hovering, position. Ruby and Violet looked at each other, not knowing if they should laugh or not.

Red hovered over to where Ruby was and turned around, crossing his arms, while Purple went over to Violet and turned, watching Red out of the corner of his eye.

Ruby opened the pak and got out a screwdriver type object and poked around a bit, to see what was wrong. Violet did the same with Purple.

Ruby got out a laser and turned in on, pointing inside the opened pak and pressed the button, making in go off and fix a few snapped wires and other things that were messed up.

Red nearly jumped out of his skin when the laser went off, but he simply turned his head to look over his shoulder, only to see the crimson-clad technician with a laser and a smirk on her face with her tongue sticking out of her mouth.

Violet repaired wires without a laser, mostly because she didn't like them. Lasers were not her strong point because she always hurt herself with them. Purple watched the laser-bearing technician in fear, knowing he was going to get hit in the eyes with it sometime, be it by Ruby or Red.

Ruby finished early and closed the pak back up and played with her laser for a minute. Violet looked over at her friend in fear, knowing the laser would come after her momentarily.

Red turned and looked Ruby over, smirking when he saw that she still had the laser out. The red tallest and the crimson technician locked eyes for a minute and both smirked as Red pulled out a laser, too.

"Red, what did I tell you about pulling lasers out when we have company?" Purple asked and Red looked at his counterpart.

"Don't pull out lasers when we have company?" Red asked, raising one of his lowered eyelids.

"Exactly, now put that thing away." Purple replied and gave him a scolding look, as did Violet with Ruby.

"You, too, Ruby." Violet agreed and Purple looked at the purple-eyed technician with raised antennae.

"Awwwww!" Red and Ruby groaned as they put their favorite toys away.

Red and Ruby lowered their antennae in dissatisfaction and crossed their arms in unison, making Purple and Violet snicker.

"What?" Red and Ruby asked together and they looked at each other.

"You two are like twins. You're doing everything the same." Purple snickered.

"Well, someone has to be like the amazing Red." Red said, striking a pose.

Ruby started to snicker at that and Red tilted his head to the side, looking at her weirdly.

"Um. . .my Tallest?" Violet started and Purple and Red looked at her. "Are we allowed to leave?"

"Yes, yes. I have to teach Red some manners, anyway." Purple said, putting his hands on his hips and Violet bowed to the two tallests, forcing Ruby to.

"Bye, my Tallest." Violet said and Purple nodded to the Irken female.

"Yeah, bye, my Tallest." Ruby said, absentmindedly, and Red smirked and her.

Violet glared at Ruby as the red-eyed female gazed at the purple Tallest strangely. Violet grabbed onto the back of Ruby's collar and pulled her out of the room, the door shutting behind her.

Tallests Red and Purple smirked at the door as it shut. Red steepled his fingers with an evil smile spreading his green lips.

"I think I've just gotten myself a plan." Red muttered to himself and he started to laugh evilly.

"Red, you need a shrink." Purple said, shaking his head, sighing.