Warning: Vee has a potty mouth

"TOOOOORN!" Tess screamed at the top of her lungs from her room. She was standing on her bed pinned against the wall with her gun in her hand. Her gun was shaking in her hand and her breathing was shallow. "TOOORN!" She yelled again when he didn't come right away.

Bursting through the door with his own gun in his hand Torn looking around for what was causing Tess to scream like this. Jinx followed quickly behind him along with Vee and Jen who all had their weapons drawn.

"What? What is it!?" Torn said looking around franticly for an intruder or KG in the room, but he found nothing.

"Look!" She said and looking down to where her gun was pointed. The group looked down and saw a fairly large spider crawling across the floor.

Torn sighed and put his gun back in his thigh holster along with everyone else. He folded his arms and looked at Tess who was still on her bed and still had her gun pointed at the insect. "A spider?" he asked.

"But look at the size of it!" She whined. "Kill it, kill it."

"I'm not going to kill a spider, come down here and kill it by yourself."

"No! I'm not going anywhere near that thing." She said slowly bringing her gun down.

"Well don't kill it." Vee said stepping forward and sliding her gun back in it's holster on her leg. "It didn't do anythin'." She said and scooped it up in her fingerless-gloved hands.

"Yea, it wasn't gonna hurt nobody." Jen agreed. "Pretty nasty lookin' bugger though."

"Ew how can you touch that thing?" Tess asked as she slid down the wall and sat on her bed with her legs up to her chest.

"Easy, ya put yer 'and down and it crawls on." Vee said as she stood with the spider in her hands.

Torn rolled his eyes and turned to walk out of the room.

"Ya save a spida, but ya won't save my ass when the KG are shootin' at me?" Jinx asked Vee. "Ya know I got shot in da arm that day."

"'Ey, you disserved it; ya were being a total prick. But this spider did nothin'." She said and walked out of the room and to the door to let it outside.

"Torn?" Tess said as she followed everyone in the main room. "What if there's more in my room? I can't sleep in there now. What if one crawls in my mouth while I'm asleep?" She asked with a horrified expression on.

"I'm sure that would never happen." Torn said trying to reassure her while absent mindedly sorting papers on the table.

"Ya know eight spiders crawl in your mouth while you sleep in the average life span." Jen said in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone and Vee nodded in agreement.

Tess quickly covered her mouth with her hands and looked mortified.

"In fact ya probably already swallowed a couple. What are you twenty-one? Twenty-two?" Vee asked and Tess let out a high pitched moan and put her face in Torns chest.

Torn looked down at Tess practically crying in his chest, he looked up at the three Underground agents standing in front of him with a complete lost look on his face. He shrugged and mouthed to them 'what do I do?'

Jinx stepped forward and silently told Torn he would take care of it. "It's okay, baby." He said and pulled Tess into a hug. She quickly pulled away and slapped his chest a few times taking a few steps back.

"Pervert." She said and folded her arms. "But Torn," she said turning to him and he rolled his eyes. "Look in my room for more, cause I am not sleeping in there if their in there." She said just as the door at the top of the stairs opened and Ashelin came walking down.

"Hey guys." She said as she walked in the room and looked at Tess's expression and at Vee and Jen covering their mouths to prevent laughter. "What did I miss?" She asked putting her hand on her hip.

Torn opened his mouth to explain but was quickly cut off by Tess. "My room is infested with spiders and other creepy crawlies and Torn says I have to stay in there."

Ashelin opened her mouth in shock ands looked up at him. "Torn?" She asked staring at him.

"I didn't say that!" He protested. "We found one spider in her room, that's it."

"But where's there's one there may be more." Tess said.

"I'll go take a look..." She said sighing and walked to Tess room. Less then a minute later she came walking back with a stiff expression on. "You guys need an exterminator, now." She said and folded her arms.

"Is it that bad?" Jinx asked and she nodded.

"You're infested."

Jen and Vee exchanged glances and they both bolted away to their rooms. Torn sighed and walked off to his rolling his eyes.

Vee and Jen came walking back in the room with disgusted looks on. "Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew." Vee said and sat down on one of the beds. "They're all over my fuckin' room." She said in a low voice. "They have to die."

"I thought ya were all fer savin' their little asses." Jinx said with a smirk on.

Vee looked up. "Not when they're in my bed and crawlin' up my dresser." She shouted glaring daggers at him. "I should just shoot the little buggers myself, but I like that dresser."

"Okay, okay." He said and leaned up against a pole. "What about you, Jen?"

"Everywhere." She said simply sitting down next to Vee. "How the hell did this happen? I mean last week it was like we would never find one bug or anything, but now they're crawling everywhere."

"Well I can't sleep here now." Tess said and stood up folding her arms. "They're everywhere, I can't go anywhere in here now without thinking that I'll see one or touch one or urg!" She said and went in a full body shiver.

"Yeah, you really need an exterminator." Ashelin said and sat down with Vee and Jen. "You really need one fast. By how many are in here I wouldn't be surprised if this place started falling apart."

"Exterminator? We're a secret hideout. We can't have an exterminator come." Torn said. "Besides it's just a few bugs, no need for one."

"Torn." Ashelin said in a warning voice. "You are getting someone to come down here, I don't care who it is, what you do what you buy but this place needs some serious help." She walked over to him. "I'll take the girls and they can stay with me for a few days, by the time they come back I want this place rid of bugs and insects and whatever else is hiding around here, do I make myself clear?" She asked in a stern voice.

Torn smirked and shook his head. "I'm not in the guard anymore. You can't boss me around."

"Can't I?" She asked staring at him. "Now, when I take the girls you will call someone and you will get rid of all this shit."

He stared at her and grimly nodded. "Alright, come on, let's go pack some clothes. Mar knows you can't stay in those for three days."

The four women left the room and Torn was stuck with Jinx. He puts his arms on the table and hung his head. "What the hell did I just agree to?" He sighed.

"To let'a complete stranga in the hideout ta get rid of a few bugs." Jinx said.

"Thought so."

"Ya know I could always just set off a couple explosives. Dat always seems ta get rid'a unwanted stuff." He offered.

"No, I prefer to keep my home in one piece, thank you very much." Torn said standing up straight.

"Whatever ya say, Boss." Jinx said and went back to leaning on a pole.

The four girls walked past them quickly saying their goodbyes and jogged up the stairs. Torn didn't say anything just gave them a quick wave unlike Jinx who tried to get a 'goodbye hug'. Sighing Torn sat on one of the beds trying to think up something to do, if he knew someone who was already in the Underground and was an exterminator that would be great. But he wasn't that lucky.

The two men sat there for some time trying to think up something to do. They considered just going in there with a spray can and killing them all that way. But with their sweep through HQ they decided they couldn't possibly get them all with just spray cans.

While they sat there in silence the door opened and Karne walked in. He came down to the table and leaned up against it facing the two men who didn't even pay the slightest attention to him. He stayed there staring at them for another couple of minutes until he got tired of it and sighed. "Okay is one of you going to tell me why you're in such deep thought?" He asked.

"We need and exterminator, we have a bug problem." Torn mumbled not taking his eyes off the wall."

"So… What's the problem? Call someone up."

"And lead them straight to the HQ?" Torn asked looking up at him.

"Point taken, but just let me call my brother. He's all against the Baron he likes the underground. He's an exterminator. And I bet if he can't come kick some buggy ass he has a friend that hates the Baron."

"Really?"

"Yeah, just gimmie a day or so and I'll have a guy here tomorrow." He said and headed down a hall in HQ. "As for now, I'm hungry. I'll be raiding your frig."

The next day Torn was hanging out in the HQ around his table talking with Jinx. They were waiting for Karne's brother to show up. Or at least they were hoping it was his brother, they really didn't want anyone else coming that they didn't know. Torn met his brother at one time, he seemed like a nice guy but it was only for a second while they were being introduced. They didn't talk much.

There was a knock at the door and Torn got up to answer it. When he opened the door he saw a man standing there with a pack on his back and he was holding a spray nozzle in his hand.

"Somebody call for an exterminator?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yea, your Karne's brother right?" Torn asked and the two walked down the steps.

"Yup, Royce, nice to meet 'cha… Again." He said sticking his hand out.

Torn shook it. "Torn. Well the main problem is in the bedrooms I guess. I don't know that's what the girls were complaining about."

"Well then that's where I'll start. I suggest you guys leave for a few hours until I finished. Unless you want to inhale toxic fumes," he said shrugging. "And that'd be bad if ya did, means ya can't pay me."

He walked out to the bedrooms while putting a mask over his face. Torn and Jinx took this as their sign to leave the elf to do this work. They walked out of the Underground HQ and into the back alley, Torn looked around for any KG's before stepping out onto the main road.

"Ya know it's a good thing we ain't wanted criminals." Jinx said sarcastically, "'Cause that would make this really hard."

"Shut up." Torn said shooting Jinx a look. "We're not that wanted anymore, just kinda like they're keeping their eyes out for us."

"Ain't that the same?" He asked and Torn smacked him on the shoulder.

"Come on, let's go to da bar." Jinx said as he jumped on a zoomer.

"Hey!" Torn said walking over to him. "That's my zoomer, get off! Where's yours?"

"I crashed it on my way here today." He said.

"Then get off mine."

"No."

"Come on."

"No."

Torn pushed him off the edge of the zoomer and Jinx fell t the ground as Torn jumped up. He floored it and he sped away down the road to the bar.

"Basta'd." Jinx said as he got up off the ground and stole the nearest zoomer and followed him.

AN: Well here's the end of this chapter, I really am sorry for the lateness, I expected this to be up last weekend. In fact I was sure of it, I was on a role and then I just hit a wall and it went to hell. But it's up now and lookin' good. And thanks to cOme as yOu are for the only review I got last chapter. Come on where are my loyal readers!? And I am sad to say this story is coming to a close. It will be ending with the first scene with Torn in Jak 2 in case you're wondering.