1:30am – Back rooms of the Iceberg Lounge

Shego and the man with the pony tail sat in silence for their appointment with the man known to them as 'The Penguin'. They were there because of their need of a molecular deregulator and they were unable to find one that was being sold cheap enough or one that was in a good enough state to be worth the effort of stealing.

As Shego flicked through the latest issue of 'Vogue' which had been lying on the table, the blue skinned man anxiously glanced around, fidgeting and glancing at his watch every few seconds.

"Hey Dr. D," sighed Shego as she threw the magazine back onto the small coffee table. "Would you cut it out, he's a busy man. I'm sure he's just running a little late."

"Maybe you're right Shego," he sighed wearily.

Suddenly a woman wearing a scantly black leotard and matching bow tie came out of one of the rooms leading an angry looking scaly man, "Doctor Drakken? Mr. Cobblepot will see you now." She called over her shoulder as she led the man away. The burly looking thug that had been standing beside Mr. Cobblepot's office door moved out of the way and motioned for them to go in.

Shego and Dr. Drakken got up and smoothed out their clothes, wanting to look presentable for one of Gotham's leading mob bosses.

As they walked into the office they heard a door burst open, but as they turned to see who it was the office door was slammed behind them.

"Morning Maurice" Kat had announced her arrival by kicking the back door open. "I'm going to need to get in there." She told the strongly built bouncer as she pointed to the office door. She grinned as best she could in her tired state, but she was grumpy and in no mood to trifled with.

"I'm sorry Miss Animi," Maurice stumbled over his words. "Mr. Cobblepot's has got some clients in at the minute." He gulped noticing the look in her eye, that famous look in her eye that seemed to say, 'you better be joking or you better start running.'

"Oh well, you see," she began to advance on Maurice, "I am not going to wait for him to be finished after he called me, and woke me up for the best sleep I've had in months." She let her long claws grow as she placed her fingertips in his throat. He was frozen with fear and she laughed to herself at the thought of how much Jonathan would've enjoyed this. "So either you let me in or," she pushed on his throat, drawing out a bead of crimson blood. "I let myself in."

"OK, easy now easy! Let's not be too hasty there Miss Animi!" He stuttered, as he backed away from her.

"Alright, then open the door." She growled.

He fumbled for the door knob as her brown eyed glare burned into the back of his head.

"Go…go ahead," he mumbled as Kat daintily stepped through the office door.

"Such a good boy," she crooned flicking Maurice softly with her tail as she passed him.

As Kat waltzed into the room Oswald stopped mid sentence.

"Miss…Miss Tailer," Oswald stuttered his eyes flicking nervously between the woman with cat ears and a tail and his two clients sitting in front of his desk. "I'm in the middle of a deal here."

"Yes I know you are Oswald. But you called me here." Her voice was getting angrier as she spoke. "And I will not be summoned here like some mongrel pup and then told to wait as you finish up your business. Now where is this penguin and what is is wrong with it?" Kat's voice softened as she spoke about the ill penguin but it was still sharp.

"Um yes…please excuse me for a moment," he addressed his clients and walked toward Katherine. "It's the one you looked at earlier in the week. She's been regurgitating her food…" he explained.

"Wait!" she silenced him with a glare and a sharp word. "Is this the same penguin that I diagnosed a phantom pregnancy?" Oswald nodded oblivious to the anger welling up inside Kat, oblivious until she spoke again, "The same penguin I told you not to call me about if she did anything weird or maternal?" again he nodded now fully aware that if he didn't move right now he might in fact be stabbed to death by the daggers that were coming out of her eyes as she glared at him. She spoke again now yelling as she made her way over to Oswald's neat desk. "The same penguin which I left a list about what not to call me about and oh," she said as she lifted up a piece of paper to the read it. "Here it is, now tell me Oswald what it says. Eh? WHAT DOES IT SAY?" she shoved it in his face the anger that was boiling her blood was clear on her face. She had been called half way across Gotham at 1am for nothing, just because this man was too lazy to actually read the note that she had left for the well being of his animals. If the penguin had been vomiting, if any of the other penguins or seals had been actually ill she wouldn't have minded. But this was just pure ignorance.

Her eyes flicked back to the two clients who were still sitting there, speechless. As she looked them over her face softened, the woman had an odd green tinge to her skin, but she wasn't ill. Kat smiled a little, this woman reminded he of her friend Pamela except Pam had red hair while this woman's was black. "So," she addressed the man and the woman in the chairs in front of Oswald's desk. Her voice was gentler towards them as it was towards Oswald. "What's he flogging you?"

The man looked puzzled, "I'm sorry what?"

"Uh flogging, selling you." She smiled at them not understanding her.

"He's selling us a molecular deregulator," the man explained as Kat looked at the proposal that was written in Oswald's abnormally neat hand writing for some one who's hand resembled flippers. As she read the note her eyes widened at the amount of zeros for such a simple piece of equipment.

"For $100,000? What a rip-off! Oswald," she glanced over to the small man who was now rushing over to take the proposal out of her hand, but she stood up and held it just out of his reach. "I'm surprised at you, charging so much to these nice people." She tore the piece of paper in half and tossed it over her shoulder, walked to the front of the desk and sat on it. "Tell you what I have a molecular deregulator lying in the labs I'm staying in at the minute. I finished the last experiment I needed it for yesterday morning. I'll give you my one for free as long as you come with me right now and of coarse get it back to where you are from your self but completely free of charge." Her grin was menacing as she glanced behind her at Oswald.

"Miss Tailer please!" he pleaded coming up to look her in the eye. "I have a business to run!"

"Well considering you do this at least 5 times a day I think you have enough to keep your business a float, don't you?" she teased as her voice grew violent again. She got off the table and looked down at him with piercing eyes. "And consider the following if you call me at 1am with an actual reason and you have shown enough care to actually read the notes left by the vet, I will come, check over the animals, collect my payment and leave without a fight but if you ever exercise such an act of ignorance again, where you don't even care enough about your animals to read what I have left I will slit your throat with my claws and leave you to bleed in the gutter out side of you precious business. Got that?" she spat out the last few words and stared him out until he merely whimpered and nodded. As Kat turned to look at the man and woman her gaze softened. "So, come on," she smiled at them. "Let's get you two that molecular deregulator." She ushered the two of them out of the room before turning to Oswald, "And it's Doctor Tailer, not Miss." And she closed the door.

"Some one will need to fetch him a glass of water and some aspirin." Kat looked at Maurice as she closed the door, took out her note pad and quickly scribbled down what she was saying and signed it. "Doctors order." She grinned handing him a piece of paper.

He took it and quickly hurried off to the kitchens as she turned to the man and woman. "So what are you names any way?" Kat asked as she began to walk to the door that was now hanging off its hinges. 'Whoops kicked that a bit too hard.' She laughed to herself.

"I'm Drakken, Dr. Drakken and this is my assistant Shego." He stammered still a little shaken from the fiasco that had happened in Oswald's office.

"OK then," she smiled at them. "I'm Dr. Katherine Tailer, friends call me Kat, and the rest of Gotham calls me The Animi. And don't be scared love, I'm only dangerous when I'm angry or working." She could smell their fear.

"Yeah, so," Shego took the lead. "Where are we going?"

"Do you have a car?" Kat asked her.

"Yeah of course we do. How do ya think we got here?" Shego pointed to the small, black car.

"Alright," Kat put out her hand, palm facing upwards. "Car keys."

"What? No!" exclaimed Shego. "I'm driving!"

"Well OK, we're heading to the Abandoned Bio-Chemistry labs on the other side of town," Kat stated looking Shego straight in the eye. "Know where that is?" her tone was hard but still playful.

"No…" Shego sighed defeated and handed the keys to Kat.

"Oh! Oh! I call shotgun!" Dr. Drakken squealed gleefully as he ran up to the car. Kat glanced at Shego walking calmly beside her.

"And you work for him?" Kat was disbelieving, there was only one person that she knew who could match that man for giddiness, the bubbly blonde Harley Quinn, and she was never in charge in the teams she got into.

"I know right?" Shego clambered into the back of the vehicle which had been left unlocked.

Kat sighed to herself at the thought of how lucky they were it wasn't stolen, "Tourists!" she thought. She turned the key in the ignition and began to pull out of the alley. "Wait," she stopped. "Was this car expensive?" she asked.

"Nope." Replied Shego.

"Isn't even ours." Drakken grinned.

"Great! That'll save us at least 15 minutes, oh and put your seat belts on, you're going to need it." She giggled in her delightfully quirky British accent. Turning the corner she slammed her foot down on the gas and sped off down the road.