As Ratchet and the others finally arrived at their apartment, the orange one decided to take a bath after this successful day, whereupon Rivet joined him directly. After a few minutes, both lombaxes found themselves in the warm water, whereupon the rebel leaned her head on the hero's chest and stared at the ceiling with him, relaxed. "Ratchet..." began Rivet suddenly, while her boyfriend almost fell asleep, "Yes?"
"Even though it went well today...I still kind of have a really bad feeling about it. The first guy was a plant...a plant! Ever seen anything like that?", Rivet feared that there were more of these strange guys, among which each one couldn't be more different, and Ratchet heard that as well, "Are you saying that there could be even worse guys in the gang?"
"Yes," the Rebel straightened up and turned her blue eyes to her beloved's green ones, "And besides, I don't trust our new allies quite as much as you do yet. I guess I'm a bit of a handful with that, aren't I?"
"Hey," now Ratchet took his right hand out of the water and gently placed it on the female Lombax's cheek, "Whatever happens, whether we meet whatever or who betrays us: I will not let anything happen to you. I understand your concern, even if I think rather the opposite, but still I stand by you. I love you."
"Ratchet," Rivet didn't hesitate and kissed her partner after these touching words, "I'd say we go to bed now. Have to be fit tomorrow". After that, the time passed quickly. Both of them got out of the tub, drained the water and dried themselves, also helping each other. Finally, both strode into their bedroom and lay down cuddling each other in bed to finally put the day behind them.
And tomorrow would show what will come to the heroes.
The next morning dawned at the large window panes of the boss.
She had already gotten her overpriced breakfast and now stood calmly in front of her large windows on the marble wall, which gives a view of her city. Already in the morning hours she drank her alcoholic drink while classical music was playing. After all, she was the lead and could do whatever she wanted. The boss sipped the glass with pleasure and listened to the instruments of the orchestra on the radio that gave her joy, "I love Tchaikovsky."
Her good mood would change in a moment.
"Uh...Boss," a robot-bodyguard entered the large door made of the finest wood. The boss didn't even turn around, but still had a slight smile on her lips, "Ah, I suppose Savage Garden is here with my highly desired weapons that I ordered. He must have wrapped the money in a rose again. Karlo is just a charmer." The Boss put her purple lips to the glass again and took the liquid before the bot behind her began to sputter, "I...m...sorry to report that, but Savage Garden...is dead."
With all her might, she spat the alcohol against the window before wiping her mouth with a cloth, "My window is dirty." A bot came out of the corner and cleaned it while the boss turned her attention to the informants, "And my guns?"
"They were handed over to the Megalopolis police," the robot was already twitching in fear as the pink woman began to grin, "So, So. Someone is trying to annoy me! Did my bots make a recording?"
"Yes, but it's blurry," the informant opened the last memory of the fallen robot, which still caught Ratchet and Rivet, even if the image was not quite visible.
"Lombaxes? How can an extinct race give me trouble?!"
"Actually, they are not extinct. One day they all disappeared and then..."
The robot didn't get any further, as a glass full of alcohol hit his skull, damaging his internal circuits, and he sank to the floor with his head sparking. "If I had asked for a smartass, I would have said something already," the boss turned to her office desk and pressed a red button that activated her volume throughout the building.
"To all my dear family members: gather in my office, hurry up", already the request pronounced the pink one sat down on the comfortable chair again and watched how the broken robot was dragged away.
"They want war? They can have that one!"
Finally, everyone entered. Not only James and his friends, who hid that they were planning an uprising, but other bizarre figures hidden in the shadows. The Boss stood up, briefly presented her red body-hugging dress, and then got straight to the point: "My dear friends...with a grievous heart, I sadly have to announce that our beloved tabletop Savage Garden is no longer among us. We will miss Karlo." With acted sadness, the pink lady sobbed before her gaze turned stock dark again, "There are two missing? Where are they!"
"You gave one leave and the second is still on a mission, Boss" one of the bodyguard bots reminded again, at which point the boss lady felt a little silly, "Oh...forget the question!"
"Why are we still here, Boss," the tiger alien pretended to show interest and made the first move, "Who killed Savage Garden?"
"These two," the Boss again showed the picture of the two lovers who escaped in the van: "Two lombaxes that the universe just shit out because it''s against me, I guess! They gave my precious weapons to the police and threw away a large sum of money with them. I want them both here!" The pink lady calmed down once again very briefly. Before she would burst with rage, she calmly turned to her gangsters again, "The one who volunteers, or I ask into my office, will go to Megalopolis, and hand over the two fur-balls to me. Make them talk, to find out who they are and who they work for, before I blow their brains out!"
And with that, the criminals left the office and headed back to their respective posts. So far, no one volunteered and no one was invited in yet that James would give the chance to wait outside the door and discover the first threat to his plan.
"James," Rihan whispered to the big tiger. The blue alien stepped a little closer to the leader of her group, who was still staring at the big door, "We have a problem now. If just one of these guys, who aren't our friends finds out, that Ratchet and Rivet are working with us, we are dead!"
"It won't come to that," James whispered back, "The first one I see, I'm going to tell them his name right now and prepare them before he..."
"Mr. Sandman," a robot stood next to the big gangster who had not seen this one coming, "Your next assignment has been brought forward! Proceed immediately to the port with Rihan." "Uh...of course," the two criminals strode down against your will, but equally didn't want to blow your cover and followed the order.
"I'll let the two of them know personally later, that someone is coming," was the last sentence of the tiger before they both had to separate.
"And I have decided that you will be the first to bring both of them to me," the boss sat with folded fingers in her office, where in front of her table stood one of her henchmen. He belonged to Qwark's race, you could tell by his three-fingered hands, but he was quite overweight and his double chin jutted down from under his mask, much like the green hero. "Oh boss, it's an honor to be given this task. Thanks to my hypnosis weapons, I get the two troublemakers under my control," a small demonstration followed. On the palm of the glove covering the forearm were built-in hypno watches, powered by a mini drive on the bracers, now spinning in front of the boss.
"You know that doesn't work on me," the lady said unimpressed, pointing her finger toward the door, "Now get your triple sized ass to Megalopolis and get me those lombaxes!" So the fat gangster made his way to the exit to fulfill the order he would be happy to do.
"And don't forget, Notorious! Don't have too much fun with your victims!"
"Of course, boss," however, that was a lie from the criminal. His grin revealed that he was going to have a lot of fun with the two heroes.