Author's Note: Hey, guys! This is PenGator3 here with chapter twenty-two ready, willing, and enjoyable for the whole audience out there in the midst; sorry for the delay but that's okay because I am here, alive and kicking as usual.

Enjoy...


Rush Hour

The sun had started to twilight over the fair city where lights soused every single urban establishment and resident, big or small, in a luminous wave; even the stoplights made Christmas come earlier than usual and unexpected like a package from a foreign country, despite being about over a month away. The automobiles that had drove through (and around) every route possible were ironically less numerous given the time of day that was starting to be raveled by such darkness. A calm breeze strolled through the town offering a sense of serenity to passers-by; in turn, many pedestrians (and bicyclists) were all aware that the breeze would keep many of them cool and unperturbed as most started to go on back home. The wind even titled the nearby forest back and forth peacefully (and carefully) while attempting to detach all the dew from the green greens on their heads; some the leaves however, fluttered up into the heavens. Even without a care in the whole wide world, the big blue sky was about this close to be bellowing from the top of its own voice, "I am the night–color me black!"

Anyways, Ella was now in her workstation in little to no time at all, revealing to be a bunch of squarely diced cubicles within the morning sea of blandness. Everything around here was just of field of nothingness that had surrounded the tangerine feline with cleanliness; of course, because it was a part of the iniquitous headquarters, the neat tide was anything but holy. In front of her was a dark blue mainframe that was adorning its own monitor with a series of number and letters here and there for general purposes only known to herself alone; even the loneliness of it all grown beyond was proof of her privacy. Sitting down on a ligneous pew already at once, Ella focused on that screen with a headset communicator in tow, earphones to listen into and a speakerphone to natter into as well during conversations. The tangerine feline punched in a few keys here and there, now and then in a set function for her to proofread over and back again for more to ghostwrite, a task that was also synonymous for tasks likes storytelling for example; but, this latter purpose was already make redundant. A small stack of paper laid out in a spread for her nearby to look over as well and review them meticulously as possible, a task that was bestowed upon by none other than Eradicus himself with the utmost importance.

"Good…" was all that Ella had simply just said to herself at once before signing off and shutting down the computer before continuing onward, "all in record time and plenty more to boot." The tangerine feline had then got up from her wooden armchair and closed the blue laptop in front of her at once for it to be left alone. She picked up the papers nearby the processor and aligned them neatly in its rightful stack for them to carry in her hands, replacing them with the headset in its place. "Done so soon, Miss Ella?" a voice was heard belonging to the blood red griffon who had watched said employee exit the cubicle with the aforementioned documents in the latter's possession quickly. Turning to face him instantaneously, the tangerine feline then answered the former quickly at once with the papers in front of her, "here are the reports you have asked me for, sir…" "Ah, very good, the modern age is starting to mess with me already; even so, I almost broke the movie trying to get that blasted 'DVD' out of there," Eradicus said to her as he received the diaphanous mound, "even worse, it turns out that this movie I got was not short of a cheap secondhand facsimile; all that accursed snow and refractions was getting in the way of the story."

"So what is our next move, sir…?" Ella asked, wondering about the griffon's statement in a cerebral stance as she found herself alone with such thoughts. At once, he had finally answered, "well it should be obvious: the first thing we're going to do is hunt down the fiend who sold me this piece of garbage; the next we going to do is take over a motion picture library; and then, I can get myself a legitimate videodisc to watch but not before starting up another hostile business takeover." "Hmm… alright then, we'll layout another plan tomorrow for it; there is a failing Chartbuster Video store right up north of us that we can seize…" the feline inquired, bringing a hint of interest for her employer to hear, "I figure that the deficits over there are too much for them to continue on; what do you think about it, sir?" "Brilliant, be back here by tomorrow morning and make sure that you have the customer survey results sorted out for review as well; in the meantime, you can leave," Eradicus commanded as he had directed the female to the egress in front of them.

In a nutshell, today was a good day (for her that is to be frank)…


Author's Note: Well, my friends, it seems to all of us out here are by far not satisfied with how it has turned out for the both of us; however, you all deserve an explanation for such a result. Since I was still reeling over from making the fanfics throughout the year, especially for such stories like Yangnesia, No Love, and Re; Yin Yang Who? or Yin Yang Yo! Forever, I was starting to doubt myself on what to do after when I setup the bowling game that the people will play later on; (as a) matter of fact, I'm not sure what to do for the golf game in Yangnesia later on since I'm starting to hate it at once. Rest assured, I will take you all there so don't give up on it yet; I'm not some quitter nor I will ever will be (not yet)... 'Til then...

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