Chapter Two: Just Talking

Kitty sat in her house looking for jobs online. She'd already paid her taxes for the month. She couldn't find any jobs that were interesting to her, so she gave up and started looking in the newspaper.

Before she looked for jobs, Kitty noticed the front page story, and found out the name of the newspaper that bought the place previously occupied by T.U.F.F.: The Petropolis Gazette, owned by Verminious Snaptrap, who had been imprisoned for the past five months, and had just been released for good behavior.

''Verminious Snaptrap... Wait a minute, could this be a sign that Snaptrap bought the building for his own presumably evil use? There's no telling what will happen to the T.U.F.F. building, or what will happen in the Petropolis Gazette! Probably something about T.U.F.F. agents being bad people… But what if Snaptrap decided to be good again? I don't know if Snaptrap is going to be good or not! Oh well, I'll find out soon…'' thought Kitty.

A few weeks later…

Dudley was in his racecar bed sleeping. He was still sad about the closing of T.U.F.F. He started dreaming. He dreamed that T.U.F.F. re-opened again. Everybody was super happy and had a big party. Meanwhile, the Chief was in his office giving out assignments to some unhappy agents who weren't partying with the rest of the crew.

Around 7 am, he woke up and sighed. He started watching the morning news.

Said the newscaster, ''You might remember that a few weeks ago, the infamous Verminious Snaptrap bought the long-running newspaper, The Petropolis Gazette. Then, they moved into the T.U.F.F. building, which shut down due to crime problems and other stuff. Now, the newspaper has officially moved into the building after remodeling the place to be suitable for the paper. The Petropolis Gazette promises it'll still deliver the best news in Petropolis, and that Snaptrap won't be doing crimes anymore.''

''Snaptrap bought the Petropolis Gazette, huh? I'd better tell Kitty about this.'', said Dudley.

He got out his bone-phone (T.U.F.F. allowed the agents to keep their supplied weapons and other things) and called her number.

''Hello?''

''Dudley?'' Kitty realized that Dudley was talking to her.

''Hey, Kitty. I haven't talked to you in a while. How's things going?''

''What are you doing calling me early in the morning when I'm trying to sleep?'', replied Kitty grumpily.

''You know that the Petropolis Gazette is now owned by Snaptrap?''

''I already knew that! Now, I really need my-''

''WAIT! Snaptrap said he'd be good!''

''Oh yeah? Remember when he wouldn't be bad anymore a few years ago? Remember the Snappytown Mall? There he said he was still evil. He tricked us!''

''He did? I've forgotten most of my early T.U.F.F. missions.''

''Anyways, he'd probably make his plan go so well, we won't know that it's a sham until the last second!''

''Maybe. And maybe not.''

The conversation continued. Kitty and Dudley started talking about what would happen when Snaptrap revealed again that he was still a bad person. After about 28 minutes of talking, Kitty hung up, and Dudley went back to bed.

At 9am, Dudley woke up again and went outside. The birds were singing. The sun was shining. Dudley got in his T.U.F.F. Mobile and started driving around, to nowhere.

After a bit, he stopped off at the gas station to re-fuel. A familiar-looking peach-colored animal, now working as a gas attendant came near the driver's door.

Said the gas attendant, ''Can I huh-huh-help you please?''

Dudley looked at the person's face. Then he realized it was Keswick, who apparently found a job between the 6 weeks that passed inbetween T.U.F.F. closing and Dudley talking with Kitty.

Dudley was surprised. ''Hey Keswick. Wait. Is that really you? Or someone else?''

''Yes, it's me. I worked at T.U.F.F.-'' replied Keswick before he got cut off.

''I know that, but what are you doing here?''

Keswick got out the oil pump.

''Shhh….. Ok, I'll tell you after I fill your ca-ca-car up. What amount of oil do you wa-want?''

After Keswick filled Dudley's T.U.F.F. Mobile up with a medium amount of oil, and after Dudley paid for it, they went behind the gas station.

''Ok, huh-huh-huh-here's the thing: After a few days of being with my parents I got t-tired of them, so I left them and took up a job with this ga-gah-gas station to earn money to buy a house.'', whispered Keswick.

''Okay… How's the job, Keswick?'' said Dudley.

Keswick sighed, wiped his forehead, and said ''Oh, muh-muh-man… This job is so boring. I don't know what I was thinking when I took up this job…''

''Yeah…. I gotta go home now though. Later!'' Dudley jumped in his car and drove home.

What will happen next? Find out in the next chapter of ''Dudley and Kitty'', coming soon.

To be continued…