"Birdbrain. You little deviously fowl. Come out, come out wherever you are." called Kitty with subdued voice into the long hallway extending in front of her. With slow and careful steps she walked over the ground which was lighted with a dark blue light.

Bright enough to see the way and dark enough to overlook eventual traps. Traps were one of Birdbrain´s favorites, especially the one which were set off through stepping on a foot-operated switch on the ground. But the meters she already walked were quiet so Kitty was hopping that this wouldn´t change.

And oddly that happened. She opened the white door in front of here and entered the next room. Her hands shivered because of expectation. Birdbrain was the best hint so far and her gut feeling which was never wrong told her that he was the one. She wouldn´t let him get away with that. No captivities.

The hall she entered looked like some kind of meeting hall that was lighted by the neon tubes on the ceiling. On a solid birch table Birdbrain sat bend over some papers while his assistant Zippy flapped around his head.

"Sir, you don´t need a device to fly. You just have to believe."
"Ha, believe." Laughed Birdbrain bitterly. "Believe can´t overcome the cruelness of gravity. But science can! I think you have watched the news lately?"

"To be honest Sir, no I haven´t"
"The scientist proved the existence of the Higgs Boson. An elementary particle that supposedly causes the mass of all particles and so the gravity! My plan is to reverse this effect and use it to fly." Explained Birdbrain excited.

"And how, Sir?"
"I still have no idea…"
"Then I´m going to make some coffee." Sighed Zippy and was about to leave as Kitty interrupted the scene by raising her voice.
"I´m sorry to interrupt this physics lesson but there is something we have to discuss Birdbrain."

"Oh Agent Katswell, I haven´t expected you and so I haven´t prepared anything. But that doesn´t matter. I´m sure I´ll find something for you. Muhahaha." Birdbrain threw his head back and laughed towards the ceiling. This got way too stupid for Kitty so she reacted fast.

She pulled her gun out and shot. Birdbrain´s laughter was immediately cut short and turned into a pained scream. Like a pile of laundry he collapsed and blood began to color the grey floor red.
"Oh god Sir!" Zippy flew towards Birdbrain but Kitty caught her out of the air.

She looked smiling at the little bird in her claws and said. "I´ll deal with you later." Kitty walked beside Birdbrain whose face began to lose its color.
"You come in here, shot me, threaten my employees… do you even have a reason for that?!" hissed Birdbrain from the ground with pain in his face.

"You killed… sent my Partner into a coma. You have to pay for that!"
"I have no idea what you talking about." Meant Birdbrain.
"Usually I would say wrong answer now and do something terrible to you but look at your chest."

Kitty pointed at a little hole in Birdbrains purple suit which dyed the surrounding cloth to a dark red color. "I think you´re running out of time. Don´t you want to ease your conscience before you… you know. Die."

Birdbrain answered her by spitting blood in her face. Kitty wiped away the mixture of blood and spit calmly, almost cold. "Okay, If you don´t do it because of yourself maybe you do it because of her." Kitty raised her hand in which she still held Zippy in a stranglehold. She eased this grab and lay he thumb on Zippy´s neck.

"Only a little move of my thumb and you two can share a body bag."
"Please don´t…" Zippy wanted to beg for her life but prevented that by moving her thumb a bit what intimidated her.

"Okay, okay. But please leave her alone." Begged Birdbrain.
"That depends on you. Why have you destroyed the Puppy´s house?"
"Again, I haven´t done this! I…" Birdbrains breath became staccato and he fought to held his eyes open.

"Hey, stay awake and tell me what happened the day before yesterday!" Ordered Kitty while she snapped her fingers of her free hand in front of his face.
"…I..I was here. Zippy can confirm that as true to you. We.. were.. here and thought about how we could destroy the bank without… using the earthquake machine."

"What do you mean with that!?"
"T.U.F.F. took the device … away from us the day be… fore. This little guy called Keswick… was with them."

Kitty heart stopped. Birdbrain was also a wrong track? That couldn´t be. That would mean that she killed an innocent person. The inner voice in her became louder and finally drown out the headless voices in her that claimed revenge. 'I warned you a long time and now it´s too late. You done something you can´t rectify.' She let opened her hand and let Zippy go.

"Sir! No!" she screamed with her croaky voice.
"Zippy there is a street, there is a way… there is a light. It´s so beautiful."
"Don´t go into that light Sir!" Zippy cried tears into Birdbrains chest.

"There is standing something in that light. Smiling at me. Reaching its hand out for me."
"Don´t take its hand!"
"It´s not that I have a choice. It´s cold. So cold." Birdbrains eyes began to stare aimless to the ceiling and he literally breathed out his life.

Kitty backed away from the body and ran out of the door. She couldn´t stand the angry and disgusted looks from Zippy.

In the meantime Keswick was sitting beside Dudley´s bed and read for him out of the magazine 'Quantum physics today'.
"The Higgs Boson Dudley! Do you know what that means?"
"No and I don´t want to know it." Said Dudley with his inner voice. "Stop talking! Please!"

"Well I´ll explain you."
"Great, there it goes!" Dudley tried to move somehow, he wanted to run away but it still had no use. "Can someone somehow end this torture?" His prayers were answered by two figures which sneaked into the room. One of it was walking with the aid of a stick.

"So here lies the person that can cause a whole lot of trouble without even moving his eyelid." Said the figure without the stick.
"Rabies! Catastrophe! What are you doing here?!" Keswick jumped from his chair and tried to take a fighting position. But it looked more like he offered them a dance.

"Put your hands down, darling." Said Catastrophe who was helped on a chair by Rabies. "We´re not here to hurt you or him. We´re really just here to see him."
"Because villains always visit their enemies when they´re sick." Retorted Keswick sarcastically.

"We wanted to see the reason why Katswell wanted to massacre us… Why is he missing an arm?!" asked Catastrophe while Rabies was eyeing Dudley unbelieving. It must have been especially weird for him to see his almost doppelganger lying in that bed. For him it was like looking into a mirror which is able to let your arm disappear.

"The Doctor said it was too destroyed to fix it. Poor Dudley that will be a shock for him if he wakes up."
"That sounds hopefully. I saw a lot of comatose patients in my time as a doctor and all of them never woke up." Meant Rabies.

"You? A doctor?" asked Catastrophe surprised.
"Of course not legally. But back in the Kosovo conflict I patched up soldiers from the battlefield. And I saw really much comatose patients."
"I don´t dare asking on which side you were." Said Keswick.

"The side doesn´t matter for… I tried to safe lifes, not destroying them. And of course I haven´t participated ethnic cleansing."
"That c..c..could be true." Keswick´s eye wandered towards Catastrophe´s knee. "Oh god, what h..h..happened?"

"Katswell happened!"
"Oh g..g..god no…"
"Yes." emphasize Catastrophe with emphatically. "A clear shot through my kneecap. This strange Doctor said that even it heals well I won´t be able to walk without this crutch here."

"I a..a..apologize in the name of agent Katswell. She just doesn´t k..k..know what she´s doing."
"Another reason why we´re here. We try to understand. And now that I see him lying here in this pathetic condition…" Rabies shook his head instead of ending this sentence.

"You´re right, darling. Maybe I would have done the same. We just can hope that Birdbrain…"
"Wait. You sent K..K..Kitty to Birdbrin?!" interrupted Keswick shocked.
"That was the only way! She had killed us if we hadn´t spit out his name!" Rabies sounded guilty as he tried to justify what he done.

"We have to s..s..stop here!"
"Brilliant idea! A invalid, a heavy injured and the lord of nerds against T.U.F.F.´s number one agent. We will totally win." Mocked Catastrophe.
"But we have to try to save her!"

"Her? I doubt that she´s the one who has to be saved. I more worrying about Birdbrain."
"The goals we have are convergent. You want to keep Birdbrain safe and I want to protect Kitty of herself." Explained Keswick ready for action.

"Frankly, we don´t want to safe Birdbrain." Remarked Rabies.
"But you have to admit that we told Katswell his name." replied Catastrophe to him.
"You don´t come up with this gangster codex shit, do you?"
"Well you know how important the codex in this business."

"Codex?" Keswick was confused to hear something about honor from villains. That sounded like it was took out of these old gangster movies.
"Yeah." Said Rabies rolling his eyes. "Stuff like. Don´t send each other to our dooms… Okay. Let´s safe this stupid blue-bottom booby."

The three rushed out of the room and left Dudley alone lying in his bed.
"Finally alone… Maybe I can now catch some sleep."