Cherry walked down the streets of Acmetropolis and waved her hand. Simon stuck his tongue out in disgust and babbled darkly.

"I smell a rat..." Cherry commented. "Or should I say skunk?" She could tell by the expression on Simon's face that he agreed with her. She then walked off, going to find Pierre as the Loonatics were looking for Patch and Duck.

"Yo, Cherry!" Ace noticed her with Simon.

"Maman!" Felicity ran to her mother's legs and hugged them. "We are looking for Pièce and Canard." she explained.

"I know." Cherry said.

"They were taken away." Tech added.

"I know..." Cherry narrowed her eyes slightly.

"By that one French guy!" Lexi put in.

"I know!" Cherry told them as her eyes flashed slightly to make them stop telling her what she already knew. "I know, I saw in my book while I was doing housework... Pierre Le Pew took them."

"Oh, then I guess we didn't need to tell you." Ace said.

Cherry sighed, rolling her eyes. "I thought it was a little too quiet around here without that Duck..."

"Maman, you know who this Pierre is?" Felicity asked.

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cherry sounded dreadful, even more than usual.

"Sounds like the guy is someone that you really don't want to talk about, Aunt Cherry." Vincent said.

"Nooo..." Cherry rolled her eyes sarcastically. "Whatever gave you that idea?"

"But you do know him, right?" Felicity asked.

"Yes..." Cherry nodded softly to her daughter. "Your brother does too."

Felicity looked curiously to Simon.

"Your other brother." Cherry corrected.

"Ohh, that makes much more sense." Felicity said, understanding.

Cherry gently stroked her hair. "You know your brother Thomas has a different father..."

"Oui, but Papa raised him like his own son before me or Simon were born..." Felicity nodded.

Cherry groaned with a slight sigh.

"Monsieur Le Pew is Thomas's papa, isn't he, Maman?" Felicity asked.

"I'm afraid so..." Cherry mumbled.

"What?! How is that possible?" Vincent asked her.

"Yeah, how is that possible?" Slam added.

Cherry slowly shut her eyes and sighed, shaking her head. "It's a very long story..." she didn't want to talk about this, but she felt like she had no choice. "You see, when I was younger and found out who my real family was, I was placed under strict protection. I was forbidden to leave the castle grounds without an escort... However, on my eighteenth birthday, my father actually decided to let me go out without an escort. When I did, I found myself in the streets and wondered what to do with myself... I actually had wanted to run away the year before, but since I got used to my environment and had to live with never seeing the people who raised me as their own child ever again, I had gotten used to it and I stumbled through the common streets of where we lived where people did not know who we were or where we came from."

"Wow, so was that when you met him?" Slam asked.

"Yes..." Cherry said as she sat down to tell them the story. "He thought I looked so lost and alone so he decided to let me come to his place... I have to admit, it was a very nice place, very rich and exotic... I was very angry with my father because he wanted to make me marry someone he and my grandmother who was the Queen of our land wanted... I was so angry that I decided to stay with Pierre... However, he got aggressive and it left a very unpleasant result on me and I ran away back home, avoiding him as much as I could..."

"What had happened?" Felicity asked.

"Thomas happened," Cherry informed. "I found out I was pregnant the next few days after that... My father was very angry with me, but he allowed me to keep the baby, but we remembered that I was going to be alone without a father figure and that was when Maestro Forte stepped in... He became Thomas's adopted father, he had always wanted a child to raise as his own, but he could never gain one for himself, so we all trusted him to help look after Thomas as he was growing up."

"Whoa..." The Loonatics replied.

Cherry wiped one eye, she actually looked like she had been crying. Felicity comforted her mother the best she could and even gave a small smile.

"It was hard on me to raise Thomas in those conditions..." Cherry said as she put an arm around Felicity. "Growing up not knowing about his other parent... Left alone with one biological one... Just wondering who they are, where they came from, if they even liked you... None of you can know what that's like."

Felicity glanced up at her mother for saying that. "Really? None of us?" she asked her for saying such a thing.

"I think Felicity can know what it's like." Vincent said.

"I'm sorry, Flick..." Cherry apologized for her choice of words.

"How bad is this Pierre anyway?" Lexi asked.

Cherry sighed, rolling her eyes. "He really likes to manipulate people... He usually gives men money and gives women compliments..." she replied dryly.

"How could you ignore his cologne?" Jenny asked in disgust.

"Don't ask me how, but a long time ago, I lost my sense of smell," Cherry replied. "It was the only way I could go anywhere near him..."

"Yikes, well, what if he saw Patch using his incredible strength against a woolly mammoth and a saber-toothed tiger?" Vincent asked.

"He'll probably use them for profit," Cherry suggested. "I've read it in my book that he's taken them to the Beemax Arena for training."

"Is that a bad thing?" Vincent asked about the last sentence.

"Most likely..." Cherry gave a nod. "That greedy monster... I want revenge on him sometimes... But, I feel I have to give up. I'm going home now..." she was then about to walk away.

Simon dropped to the ground and grabbed her by her pant leg, shaking his head.

"Maman, we are going to stop this man for you, for Piece, Canard, and anyone else he has hurted!" Felicity insisted. "We will assist you in revenge!"

"Yeah, I wanna get even with him too!" Lexi could understand where Cherry was coming from.

"You want to help me?" Cherry looked back to them as she saw they were honest and sincere about her plans against Pierre Le Pew.

"Vengeance!" Simon took out the knife he took from the grocery store kitchen cutlery and slashed it in the air. "Vengeance! Vengeance for my mama!" he then tossed the knife in the air and caught it on his fingertip like a young masochist.

"I... I don't know what to say..." Cherry sounded flattered.

"Wait, did Simon just talk?" Slam asked.

"He's still learning..." Cherry folded her arms. "He still hasn't called me mama or Charles papa though."

Simon put the knife between his teeth and crawled back up into his mother's arms, looking bloodthirsty and malicious.

"Is it okay if that baby scares me?" Jenny whispered.

Vincent slowly nodded in understanding.

"Do you know where this Arena could be, Cherry?" Ace asked the woman.

"Honestly, no..." Cherry shook her head.

"I'll find some technology and do a search." Tech suggested.

"That should do it." Cherry nodded to him.

"I hope so." Vincent said.

Tech took them back to the tower to do a search on Pierre Le Pew.

"Seriously, what did you see in that guy?" Lexi asked Cherry.

"You know how some girls can't resist accents?" Cherry asked her.

"Yeah?"

"I'm one of them..."

"I guess that makes sense." Lexi said.

Cherry sighed and shook her head. "Sometimes I wanna go back to my younger self and give myself a swift kick in the-"

"As I was saying..." Tech spoke up once he got reading on Pierre. "The Beemax Arena travels around the world and lures people in with its best and upcoming attractions."

Rev into one of his infamous rants which annoyed Tech.

"So that guy took Patch to make more money!" Ace concluded. "I dunno what he'd want with Duck, but how do you keep track of a place that's constantly movin'?"

"The rumors on those fights are painful," Tech looked grave. "They fight until... Well..."

"You mean, if Patch doesn't win..." Slam started.

"He's a goner." Ace concluded, sounding grave himself.

"We have to go and save him then." Vincent said.

"And fast!" Jenny added urgently.