Normally KO was a bundle of bright sunshine and was very eager to work at Gar's Bodega, and he always liked when his mom always took him to work. He was thankful she got Gar to let me work at his store, even before she and Gar started dating she had a major effect on the muscle bound store owner. Even though KO has many heroes he looks up to like Gar, the hero team P.O.I.N.T, and Chip Damage (Before the stuff that happened at P.O.I.N.T Prep). His all time favorite had to definitely be his mommy, as she trained him all his life of the ways of a true hero.

But after last night's news story of KO and his relationship with and evil minion, things have just been super awkward. This morning KO called her to pick him up from Fink's residence since he never returned home, after giving her the address Carol just went straight to her car and drove over to get him so he can get to work.

For the whole ride neither of them spoke, Carol just kept her eyes on the road to Lakewood Plaza. She knows her motherly side should be happy for her son to have his first girlfriend, but a tiny part of her was worried for his safety since his 'girlfriend' was a minion to one of the top 3 evil professors in the world.

"Sorry I never called mom." Carol heard KO utter lowly, "I'm sorry I never told you who I was seeing. I understand that heroes and villains dating was always a sensitive topic, and that they all never worked out great. But, I think that with Fink. It just... it just might maybe... maybe it could work. Maybe, I don't know." KO sighed as he held his head down.

Carol sighed as she rubbed his head with one hand while keeping the other on the wheel, "KO, I'm not mad at you. And, I'm not mad that you were conversing with a bad guy." KO looked up for a moment, he was glad that she wasn't furious. But the tone told him she wasn't happy either. "I'm just, kind of disappointed. Mostly from the fact that you kept this a secret from, and for three whole months! It's just I'm your mother and you always told me everything, I had to raise you to be a good hero and person so you don't... I don't know."

"Don't what?" KO raised an eyebrow.

"Look, KO." she gave a sigh as she put her hand back on the wheel. "You remember how I said your father was a good man who loved you, before he... disappeared?" KO nodded slightly, "Well, he kind of made a some... pretty bad decisions."

"What do you mean?" KO asked.

She stopped the car in the parking lot, which was pretty packed. "Look, it's just really complicated and... kind of hard to talk about right now. All I can say is, Gar and Laserblast." she looked away, KO knew this was the sign that it was extremely personal.

"It's okay mom, maybe some other time." KO said as he unbuckled himself, before exiting the car. "Love you, mommy." he said before running back to give her a kiss on the cheek. He then made his way to the bodega, which was pretty far since cars had filled up any closer spots to the store. As KO made his way through the parking lot, he kept on noticing the weird looks he's been getting. Some had fear on their faces that he was possibly becoming evil, a couple people gave him death stares for 'turning his back on good', and some people he was pretty close to gave him uncomfortable glances. It was clear to KO that everyone saw that Action New 52 story on him and his date, and they certainly didn't seem all too excited that he was dating someone on the side of evil.

Just then he was hit in the back by a soda can, "RAT-SUCKER!" he heard from that lizard kid that challenged him to a dad vs dad fight, or more like a dad vs mom fight. Since KO, doesn't have a dad. KO didn't even flinched, as that was the tamest of insults he had gotten since leaving the car.

KO reached the front door of the store, "Hey, babe." he looked up to see his girlfriend Fink on top off the 'A' on the store sign.

"Oh, hey honey. What brings you here?" he asked with a little less enthusiasm then normal.

Fink dropped down to the ground in front of him, sticking the landing. "Just wanting to check on my little Puppy-Face Sweetykins." she said as she scratched underneath his chin, KO comically lapping like a dog and shaking his leg like a dog. He told her at one point the time he and his friends turned into were-animals to fight Mikayla, the animal like bot from Boxmore.

He stopped when she retracted her finger, he then looked down. "Not very well, everyone's been giving me a hard time about our relationship. I've already had six fingers, thirteen death threats, and seven fruits flown at my head." just as he said that a watermelon exploded on the back of his head, the juice seeping into his clothes. He should have brought a dark colored shirt. "Make that eight!" he grumbled.

Fink took a piece of watermelon out of his hair and bit into it, "Mmmmm, juicy with extra seeds." she threw that piece in a nearby trash can. "KO, don't let them get to you." she said resting a hand on his shoulder, "Trust me, I've gotten much worse than anything you're getting. Boss is having working at Boxmore!"

"And that's... bad?" he shrugged.

"Believe me, with Darrel in charge it's even worse. It's all moving heavy robot parts and highly toxic acids, at least under Box-butt I would have been destroying this plaza." she saw the look KO was giving her, "But I would have left you bodega in peace." KO rolled his eyes at this.

"Fink," he gave her a small hug, she returned it with content "Just be careful, and don't break anything."

"No promises." she said as they broke the hug, Fink gave him a light peck on the cheek before running across the street to the factory.

KO turned around and entered the store, he can see Enid wasn't look slacking off like she usually does when they are no customers. Plus, Rad was restocking some of the shelfs with his hands and not his finger beams. He can tell they were still reeling from what happened at the restaurant, both physically and mentally. His two closest friends were not even acknowledging him as he walked in.

"Um, hey guys." he lowly greeted, but he didn't get a response. He just went and grabbed a broom and started sweeping the floors, all while the ninja and alien didn't even look at him. "So, what do you call it when a team of brooms that win a tennis match? A clean 'sweep'!" (ba-dum-tiss)….. his coworkers didn't even react to it. He slumped, "What do you call a vampire who's car breaks down three miles from a blood bank? A CAB!" (ba-dum-tiss)…... still nothing. He then placed a chilly dog on the floor, then walked away. When he came back he slipped on the dog and fell butt first into chilly.

"Anything?" he pleaded but got nothing. 'Sigh, guess they're still on about last night.' he thought as he picked up the broom and kept sweeping, he just gave up on trying to get a laugh out of them. 'It's not that I wanted to hurt them, they were threatening my girlfriend. I don't let anyone hurt the people I love, even if they were my own friends. This was exactly what I was afraid of, that everyone would hate me for dating a bad guy. And Fink is not a bad person, she does have a heart, at least to me she does. I just hope she's okay.' he then looks out the window towards Boxmore.

-with Fink-

For Fink it was torture in the factory. Lord Cowboy Darrel had given all of the robot labor to her, so now she was having to do all of the work herself. She had been running around the factory all day building robots, carrying toxic waste, shine Darrel's cowboy boots, and clean the toilets. Robots don't even use the bathroom, it made no sense to her. But you know the worst thing she had to do all by her self... paperwork. She had to negotiate deals with other villains on robots, do the bills, write an important email to the board of directors, do the taxes, everything.

Fink had to do an entire company's worth of manual labor and paperwork all by her self with no assistance what so ever, she didn't mind as she did a lot in Venomous' lab. But what she hated most was that she was made the personal servant to the other robots, the very robots she hates. She entered the robots play room dressed in a tiny maid outfit and a scowl, and she was carrying a tray of glasses.

"One sparkling oil for Shannon." she grumbled before handing the teenage like yellow robot her drink, which she took while looking at her phone. "One 'imported' oil for Raymond." she said as she handed the flamboyant robot his drink, who took it graciously while admiring his reflection.

"And one bowl of nuts and bolts for Makayla, extra bolts." she said before placing a little bowl on the floor, before a Makayla bot walked in on all fours and nuzzled her leg before eating.

"Anything else!" Fink tried to not blow a gasket, she was beyond exhausted and her fingers were extremely sore from all the writing she had to do.

"Nah." they said. Fink giving a sigh of relief, before hearing the PA go off.

"Ms. Fink, I request your presence in my office PRONTO!"

The boom in 'pronto' shook the entire room, Fink hurrying on over to the CEO of the company.

As she entered, she saw Lord Cowboy Darrel turn around in his chair with a smug look. "What do you want this time?" she demanded.

"I'd watch that tone of yours lady. But anyway, it seems that you have just completed an entire month's worth of factory work in just under three hours. It seems I'm running out of tasks for you to do." Darrel rubbed his chin in thought, Fink pumping her fists in victory 'yes, finally I'm-'

"Oh wait, I've got one more thing!", 'Dang it' she thought as he held up a big red button.

"Uh, what does that do?" she asked.

"You'll see." he said before pushing it.

Just then she found her self in a wooden crate and sent away, she screamed as she felt the box move at hyper speeds until she felt a screeching halt.

-with KO-

"Guys, come on!" KO yelled at his friends before running out after seeing the big light that signaled a robot attack, his friends sighing as they came out ready for a fight.

But when they saw the box open up, KO gasped when he saw it was Fink. Who was panting hard and was sweaty from head to toe, "Fink!" he ran to her side and caught her as she collapsed right into his strong arms. "Fink, are you okay?" he asked in concern.

"(pant, pant) I'm fine, just...(pant, pant) a little tired. Darrel had me do a lot of work today." she let out, she then hugged KO tightly as she rested her head on his shoulder. KO held her as he patted her on the back, as she wept into his jacket vest.

"There, there. It's okay, I'm here now." he whispered to her, his voice soothing her aching body. To Rad and Enid, this still made them uncomfortable. But in a way this was kind of adorable, and he really seems to care about the little mutant.

"Come on, Fink. You look like you need a break, a long one." Enid said leading the kids into the store.

"Really?" she asked the older woman, who nodded simply.

"Yeah, I may not like you. But KO does, even though I don't get it." she responded.

"Aw man, I was hoping to bash some bots." Rad complained as he followed them inside.