Kitty Katswell sat at her desk filing some old reports, it had been a slow week, no Villains even tried to cause any trouble. She heard a bored yawn from a white dog as he walked up to her, "Hey Kitty I'm bored can I leave early?" She looked away from her reports after putting them away. "No Dudley. We're secret agents it's a 24/7 job not a going home when I feel like it job." Dudley sighed, "Yeah but I didn't sign up to just to sit on my hands".
Kitty rolled her eyes. " Well for starters you didn't sign up the Chief gave you a badge and called it good, second the City's safe that means we're doing our job, and third... you're not listening are you?" He was over by the window yelling, "Squirrel dude what's up!" Kitty was annoyed for obvious reasons, having to put up with a guy with an attention span of a lost ADD child in a candy store as a partner was quite vexing.
She was about to say something when a grouchy voice was heard over the intercom. "Agents Puppy and Katswell report to my office immediately." Dudley jumped up and down like crazy, "All right I hope it's a mission!" He said as he ran into the office that read Chief, Kitty followed shortly after. "What's wrong Chief? Is it SnapTrap or" Dudley cut her off, "or the Chameleon maybe even a new bad guy one that shoots pies in different flavors with Catapults."
The small Flea just went with it. "Uh, no agent Puppy, no pie catapults this time. Kitty's right SnapTrap is at it again, we just received Intel that he is trying to rob the first Petropolis bank so get out there and stop him." In just a few minutes they were racing to the scene in the T.U.F.F Mobile. Kitty was driving while Dudley was yelling "let's do this!"
When they got to the scene of the crime they jumped out of the car with guns raised, "Hold it right there Snaptrap!" said Kitty. The rat and goons dropped the heavy bags and pulled out their guns "fire!" Snaptrap yelled. The two agents ducked behind the car, Kitty fired a few blind shots.
"Dudley cover me!" as she said that she rolled out into the open and fired hitting most of the goons. Dudley shot a few times trying to get their attention. Snaptrap looked over at a small rat, "Larry use the secret weapon!" The small rat jumped on a cannon and fired it and a dog chew toy landed near Dudley, his eyes found it and his concentration was lost.
He tried reaching to it. "Must have... Chew toy!" He then jumped out of cover and grabbed it, "Get him!" Snaptrap and his goons all shot at him. Kitty noticed that her partner was open to fire "Dudley look out!" He looked over at kitty just in time to see her throw herself at him and push him out of the way.
Few bullets missed but she still landed on her feet and fired a couple more shots taking down some more goons. Snaptrap jumped in his getaway van and drove off. Kitty just stood there her hands shaking so much that she dropped her gun.
Dudley ran over to her. "Kitty are you ok!" She fell on her knees then completely on the ground, a pool of blood forming around her. Dudley rarely saw blood let alone this much, he grabbed his bone shaped phone around his waist and quickly hit the 911 buttons. "I have an Emergency, my partners been hit please hurry!"
An ambulance showed up a few minutes later. The Medics got her in the vehicle. Dudley got in the car and followed them, soon Kitty was rushed in the emergency room, and Dudley had to wait out in the lobby so he decided to call the Chief.
Ring-ring. "Hello? Chief speaking." He heard over the phone, "Hey Chief... something bad happened, can you get over to Petropolis hospital?" There was a bit of silence on the other line then the Chief spoke up, "I'm on my way." Dudley hung up and sat down.
About 30 minutes pasted but there was no sign of the Chief. Dudley didn't want to wait any longer so he got up and stretched. That's when a doctor approached the wary dog, "Excuse me are you the one who came in with that girl?" He nodded, "Yeah." The doc push up his glass's but Dudley spoke before he could say anything, "is she alright, how bad is it?"
The doctor held up his clipboard, "Well she got shot once in the shoulder, once in her arm, twice in the leg, and three times in the chest, she's lucky to be alive." When Dudley heard she was alive he got his smile back, "She's alive thank goodness." The doctor kept his eyes on the charts, "The question is how? Seven bullets hit her and a few hit vital organs. I believe she is alive do to a miracle or from shear willpower".
The Chief finally arrived with Keswick following right behind. "Agent Puppy is everything alright?" Dudley didn't even notice them, "So when can I see her?" The doctor knew that was going to come up. "I'm sorry but she needs time to rest and we mainly just stabilized her, meaning she will live but it's still too early to say if she will stay stable."
"So you don't know if she will live much longer. Then why are you here telling me this?" Dudley questioned, the doctor shrugged. "They wanted me to cheer you up, and it worked for the most part, but I must be going." He said as he left.
The Chief jumped on Dudley's head. "So what happened agent Puppy?" He leaned against the wall "Well Chief I messed things up big time," Dudley said. It took about 30 minutes to explain what happened. "I see," said the Chief. Keswick finally spoke, "Well it sounds l-like they planned to get rid of you a-agent Puppy but agent Katswell s-s-saved your life."
"Ah don't beat yourself up agent Puppy. She's been shot before. She can overcome this no problem," Chief said. Dudley sighed. "I guess but the doctor said it was a miracle she's alive at all. Just thinking I might never see her again. I don't know what I would do without her you know?" The Chief nodded and walked over to the information desk "I understand Agent Puppy I've lost partners on the line of duty before, you never really get over something like that." Then he gave the nurse a card, "Have the doctor call me whenever there's an update." He told the nurse.
"Come on agent Puppy we c-can't do anything here." Keswick said as he left Dudley and the chief followed. About two weeks went by and the only news they got was she stayed stable so that alone lifted their spirits.
Agent Puppy ducked behind a wall as bullets flew past him. "Oh man I wish Kitty was here." He rolled out of cover with his gun out, but the bad guys were driving off. "Hey get back here!" but they got away, "Jeez that's the fifth one to get away since Kitty was hospitalized." He got in his agency car and went back to HQ.
The Chief was in his office reading a tiny book when his phone rang. "Hello?...Really? We'll be there shortly!" When he hung up the phone Dudley entered, "Sorry Chief they got away...again." He said disappointed with himself.
"Don't worry about it Agent Puppy," Chief replied. "I just got news that Kitty's awake!" Dudley smiled, "Awesome!" He poked his head out the door, "Hey Keswick! Kitty's awake!" The three of them jumped down a hole and landed in the Agency car and drove to the hospital.
Meanwhile Kitty opened her eyes, "Uh," she groaned. She tried sitting up but her body felt a shock of pain so she didn't move. She saw a nurse come in, "So how are we feeling today?" the nurse questioned. The nurse seemed oddity familiar but she couldn't quite place her.
"Oh, I guessing by that look you remember me, or at least your getting there." The nurse smiled wickedly under her mask. "Who are you?" Kitty barely made a wispier. "Let's reveal the star of the show then." The nurse said as she took off her mask, Kitty's eyes got wide, the nurse looked exactly like her, it was like looking in a mirror.
"What's wrong sister? Cat got your tongue?" The lookalike laughed after she spoke. Kitty tried to speak but nothing came out, the nurse's facile expression changed from laughter to saddened very quickly. She sat on the bed faced her, "It hurts, you know? Losing everything you ever loved in the name of science." That last part was filled with anger with a hint of sadness.
"But don't you worry. I will get back at them, and everything will be the way things should have been." She said getting her smile back. She got on her feet and stood back up. "Well I can't stay, but don't worry we will see each other again, and I will count the days until then," and with that she left.
Kitty awoke to the sound of the hospital's busy day, "That was a dream… It felt so real." As she said this the doctor walked in. "Ah you're awake, how are you feeling miss Katswell?" She just watched him not specking a word, "All right you don't have to say anything." He walked up to her and saw her bandages were soaking wet with blood. "Oh dear, that much blood loss in just in hour. I'm going to need more gauze."
He left to get more bandages, and she saw a familiar group as he left the door open. "Dudley?" She asked recognizing the dog. His ears twitched hearing his name from almost a whisper, he looked over and saw Kitty and he got a big grin. "Hey Kitty!" He said as he walked in, "How are you holding up?" She held her side as she winched from the pain, "A few bullets can't keep me down."
Dudley felt bad, it was because of him that she was hurt. Now seeing her like this made him feel worse, "Hey Kitty I'm sorry. This whole thing was my fault. Is there any way I can make it up to you?" he asked. Kitty never saw him like this before now she was worried. "Oh come on Dudley. In this line of work people get shot, I've been shot multiple times before and this probably won't be the last."
Tears were forming in his eyes. "Yeah but my goof ups got you shot." Something inside Kitty clicked and snapped. "Would you stop?" she said suddenly. That caught him off guard. "What?" She glared at him. "I said stop it, you useless fleabag. All I ever hear from you are excuses. Like how you never read the Manuel or how you stupidly get in my way when I caught a bad guy, I wish the chief never made you my partner!" When it all came out she clasped her mouth with her right hand.
To say he was shocked would not begin to describe how he felt. That last part hit him the hardest. "You're probably right Kitty. I'll just be going then." He said as he ran off crying. Kitty sat up, "Tch drama queen." There it was again. Why was she saying these things? She would never say anything to hurt him before why know?