Dudley could not believe his fortune. With more than enough power in his new arsenal, he had brought crime to the brink of extinction, made a very believable appearance to everyone that he had more than enough potential for running a secret agency, and had his fellow TUFF agents all in the palm of his hand. Yep, things were looking up. Even though his new base was in an abandoned warehouse, his new minions had the place redecorated. While Bird Brain and his fellow fliers patrolled the perimeter, and Snaptrap and his harvesters practiced their fighting skills, Chameleon and Francisco were using their transformation abilities to reinforce the technology that they were provided with. Dudley looked at all Petropolis under his view and felt like smiling. Even though they did save people the way TUFF did, there was a catch: Dudley's agency charged people for their services. Sounds unfair, but in the business world, money was all anybody kept score off. TUFF was now low on agent activity. Even though Herbert had offered his minions and him TUFF jobs, Dudley stubbornly refused saying that if he was going to work for TUFF, he'd take Kitty's job. Triple his paycheck as well. Yep, with all this tranquility, who knew the easy way would be so nice? But that was about to end.

"00 to Dudley", a voice rang in his head, "Your heroic days are over."

Dudley turned fast to see 00 appear in a reflective surface on the wall.

"00?!",Dudley yelped.

"You may think you're hot stuff now, but now is the time for other missions."

"Uh.. what do you mean?"

"I'm saying that your exalted image is like an investment that grows, and keeps growing til it's all sold out. That day is now Dudley. Find FLOOP, and collect the payment they owe me."

"What if they don't want to?"

"If they don't WANT to?!", 00 sneered as he flew right out of the reflective surface and had his pointy nose piercing into Dudley's, "KILL THEM!"

"Kill?! Isn't that a little too mean?"

"That's the idea", 00 insisted still sneering as he walked a little ways away, "Someone doesn't pay their dues, they pay with their lives."

"I'm not killing anyone!", Dudley declared but found it hard to do so.

00 turned around with a devilish smile across his face.

"You don't have any choice. You're under contract remember?"

With that, 00 snapped his fingers, and Dudley instantly felt like he had lost control of his own body. Searing pain erupted throughout his whole body, and in the reflective surface, Dudley say his fur turn bushy, dark gray and his once short tail turn long and bushy. The dog Dudley was was long gone, and the gray monster wolf was in it's place, and it was out for blood.

Back at TUFF, Kitty was in her office looking both confused and worried. Herbert had recovered and had hopped over to comfort her, although it hardly did any good.

"Kitty? You okay?"

"How can I be okay, when my partner just SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL?!", Kitty screamed as her eyes got all teary, "I knew Dudley would go bad, but not THIS bad!"

Herbert felt her pain. He knew all too well what that felt like. At that moment, Keswick radioed in to the office.

"Attention everyone, I'm getting intel that FLOOP is reporting in. Apparently someone really beat them up."

Kitty and Herbert checked the monitor and sure enough, FLOOP was there bruised, bleeding, and bones broken in several places. This was enough to get Kitty into a fearful state. What kind of monster would be so cruel and merciless to have committed such a terrible thing? Herbert saw the look on her face and instantly got the remaining TUFF agents on the line.

"Attention TUFF! I am officially declaring an all out search for Agent Dudley Puppy! Find him, and get answers!"

All of TUFF kicked into high gear immediately. They stopped lounging around and instantly were on the computers getting full city scans and pedestrian viewing angles. Kitty watched all of this and really hoped for the best. Deep in her heart, she knew Dudley wouldn't even think about going this far into evil without a proper reason or was tempted by someone. She had a feeling, but she could guess that Donnegan had something to do with this. At first she thought it was a feeling, now she was convinced it was more than that. As much as Dudley ment to her, she had to find him to be sure that she was right. FLOOP was taken into the medical ward for recovery so they could tell their story.

By now, Dante had gotten back to his own foothold and was consulting Otto and Alicia on his discovery. After following 03 and 04, he saw them plant some small devices on the sewer floor. At first he had no idea what they were until he caught a conversation they were having with their boss 00.

"The "special delivery" is now planted."

"Excellent. And with 01 under my sway, I've got this whole city exactly where I want it. I've already positioned the other "special deliveries" in all the cities that the Undercover Fighting Forces occupy. Once my army is complete, I'll have all of our enemies under my heel, and the world will be mine for the taking."

"01?", Dante thought to himself, "What's this have to do with him?"

"Soon, the planet will be OURS!"

03 and 04 laughed horribly, and as they finished planting the rest of the devices they were carrying, opened a portal, entered through, and vanished. Once Dante confirmed they were gone, he came out of hiding, and retrieved one of the devices. It seemed to be containing something, but what? He figured Otto would know so he left the way he came out and after assembling his motorcycle again, was off to the foothold. Otto had run a scan across the device and sure enough, it was a containing timed device with a Plague Organism egg inside. Dante and his fellow operatives were all too familiar with these. The Plague Organisms were mindless abominable creatures that acted like a virus. They didn't know who was friend or foe. All they knew was devour, murder, and multiply. Being bisexual, the Plague Organisms could reproduce at will and without mating. Having regurgitating the egg sacs, the eggs hatched almost immediately, and the whelps matured just as fast. Without something to blow their brains into oblivion, they would keep multiplying until the entire planet was nothing but a lifeless husk.

Alicia had gathered information on Donnagon and confirmed that he indeed had a part in this infestation. Now all that was enough to get Dante to call for back up, but that would be suicidal. Knowing Donnagon, Dante knew that to take him down, he needed something that could blow his whole image away and reveal the "real" him. Otto had analyzed the container and had it transported to Dark Wolf for special reasons. Now that they were awaiting further instructions, they figured of ways of keeping an eye on this 01 character. If Dante did know him, he kept that information hidden.

"You honestly think 01 can be what we need Dante?", Alicia asked him.

"Well if Donnagon is going to pull the big guns out, we better keep our guard up. Who knows what this 01 is able to do?"

"Good point", Otto agreed, "My recent scanning is showing a surprise increase in activity on criminal side of things. And it's not good activity."

"Well, we best get a move on. Alicia and I will investigate the matter. And Otto, figure out how to blow these Plague Organism egg containers to rubble."

"Understood", Otto answered and was already on his laptop while Dante and Alicia made their exit and were on the move.

Kitty had never felt so worn out. After this occurring string of strange crimes being committed, she was trying to piece together everything. First some visiting Russian architect had been ambushed, a hazardous waste disposal ship had been raided, and now collection of enormous glass cylinders had been stolen from a glass making factory. And now she found out something else. Each of these crimes had been the cause of Dudley's new minions and this new dark gray monster wolf that accompanied them. Was this another one of Dudley's new minions or was he something else?

"Jeez, what does this all mean?", she often asked herself.

After going through the paperwork, she got a report from FLOOP. Apparently they were minding their own business when out of the blue, a very mean and violent wolf showed up and demanded they pay their dues. Since they refused, this wolf attacked and was quite the fighter. Before the wolf could finish them, the cops had shown up and he had to make a retreat. Fortunately for them, the cops were nice enough to give them a lift if they cooperated. After hearing this, TUFF decided that no arrest would be made, so FLOOP got off with a warning.

"Come on Dudley, I know you're out there somewhere", Kitty said to herself, "And when I find you, I'll bring you back, have Keswick do a full reasonable scan on you, and we'll soon have everything back to normal again."

It could have been part of her subconscious, but she could have sworn she heard Dudley's voice agreeing with her. She didn't know why, but now she felt like she had lost a best friend. Maybe she would be better off if she had not gotten Herbert's job. But as she remembered, the rules were the rules. But that doesn't mean she could appoint someone else to take the position for her, did it? She got out a copy of the TUFF rulebook and scanned it over.

"Let's see.", she muttered, "Can't shirk work for over two years, no using your spy skill for personal gain, no prolonged fighting on the job, ah, here we are."

She had made her way to the center of the book and found what she was looking for.

"If the new chief of TUFF is in anyway feeling overwhelmed or thinks they don't have what it takes, they can give their position to someone else as long as the former chief is not decommissioned."

Well that certainly got her in a state of thought. Then she looked over the occurring crimes and something else got her eye. Sticking out from under where the rulebook stood, was a very old looking paper. After retrieving it, she put the book back and unfolded it. What was on the paper made her nearly pass out. She instantly got Herbert on the line and informed him to meet her immediately. Herbert was there in a jiffy.

"Yes Kitty, you got intel?"

"No chief, look at this", Kitty in formed placing the paper she found on the desk.

Herbert looked at it and he turned to Kitty fast.

"You don't think that Agent Puppy could have?"

"I think I know why those things were stolen. Somebody's rebuilding Donnagon's old laboratory to recreate his research. But as long as that data is safely on a flash drive in the back of the vaults, there's nothing they can do."

"Unfortunately, Agent Puppy got into those vaults and got the drive Kitty."

"Dudley FOUND the FLASH DRIVE?!" Kitty screamed, "What did he do with it?"

"I told him to get rid of it, but something tells me he-", Herbert started than snapped his fingers, "He gave it to DONNAGON!"

Now Kitty was starting to panic. If Donnagon had that research, who knows what could happen. Say, didn't something like this happen before? She ran to the TUFF database on the chief's computer and pulled out a file and she now looked horrified. She had to get the city secure and fast.

By now, Dudley had made quite a display of menacing proportions. Now his reason had gone up in flames and now he gained pleasure of just watching people get injured by his own hand. His minions added spice to it, and he was loving it. But inside, Dudley was in total shock. 00 had lied and was now using him to make himself look like a secret agent gone rouge, and it was working.

"Nah, what do I care", he thought, "I don't need them. Not Kitty, not chief, not Keswick. And not even Mom?!"

That last comment was NOT his own thought. Mentally, Dudley tried gaining control of himself again, but his minions saw this.

"Remember.", Bird Brain instructed, "We belong to him."

"But, I don't want to do this anymore.", Dudley strained to say.

The more Dudley tried to regain control, the more pain he felt. It was like being in an armor that was fused to his fur, and was getting hotter by the second. And then, 00 appeared in a flash of fire.

"I told you that you don't have any choice 01. And besides, it's not like TUFF is going to take you back after what you said to them."

00 had one of his hands in a pinching like state. The tighter he pinched, the more pain he inflicted. And Dudley's minions just stood there in silence.

"00 stop the pain, please.", Dudley moaned.

"I can do this all day.", 00 answered ignoring Dudley's plea, "And unless you want me to kill you, you will do exactly as I command."

00 released his fingers, and Dudley's pain faded away. Slowly faded away. As Dudley lay in agony, 00 stood over him.

"It was all in the contract, 01.", 00 informed him as he pulled out a paper from his coat and showing it was Dudley and 00's agreement, "I would make you the chief of TUFF, and all you had to do was hand over your loyalty."

Dudley just looked up at him in a very annoyed and accusing look.

"You..you tricked me."

"What gave that away?", 00 asked very smug, "The temptation, or your limited IQ? Face it 01, you can't outsmart a genius. And if you wish to endure the pain I just inflicted, continue to defy me or you can do as you're told. Your choice."