True to the word of Lou, all he needed on his day of filming was Penny and Heather while everyone else went on their heist.

Now, the heist itself would be different, because as mentioned earlier, three others would be absent, and those three were particularly important in the heist roles. RJ would go over why they were important, but he already mentioned that one chapter earlier, so going over it again would be redundant.

Thankfully, he had an ace up his sleeve, or really, a whole nother group. That being Luby and her family.

While Verne was okay with Lou and Penny just needing Heather, as he did believe that RJ could pull off a heist with the skeleton crew of him, Hammy, Stella, Ozzie, and Tiger, bringing in Luby's family was a risky decision to him. For one, only Luby had been on a heist before, and granted it was to the Taxidermist's house, which Verne heard the kids describe as "speedrunning", but it still didn't make up for the fact that Luby was still rather inexperience with heisting despite her clearly taking to it quickly. Add a whole family in, which consisted of a ditzy owl, two overly curious rabbits, and an incredibly aloof frog, and now the chances of things going wrong were exacerbated tremendously.

To make matters worse, Tiger still hadn't recovered from receiving the world's worst acupuncture. Even with all the help from Penny and a very apologetic Lou, Tiger was in no condition to be heisting. It actually got to the extent that Tiger had to go back to his former owner's house to get treatment.

Pretty sure that would only make Glady's hatred of them even more pronounced, but tough decisions had to be made.

In the end, even with all the odds stacked against them, and even with the heist being incredibly last minute and pretty much thrown together, they managed to get out without any sort of problem.

The house RJ chose to pull the heist on was thankfully vacant, as the only person inside was out at the hour at his or her job. From what RJ gathered, they worked as a lawyer of some kind. Not sure what kind, but he made enough money to recoup the losses, so that meant he was fair game.

Anyways, inside the house, everything went off without a hitch. Luby managed to lead everyone in clearing out the pantry, including Jasper which was a very pleasant surprise. RJ on the other hand got everyone to clear out the fridge, and it was even to the extent that the two raccoons made a bet on who could clear out their side faster.

RJ won by a landslide, but for an inexperienced heister, Luby put up an extremely strong effort. It was just unfortunately dumbed down by Norbert continuing to drop things.

"Uncle RJ, how did the heist go?!" Quillo immediately asked as soon as the gang got back. He remembered that he had left Quillo in charge of looking out for any danger while Bucky and Spike just did their own thing. Judging by the fact that nothing seemed to be wrong, the triplet did a good job.

"Quillo, the heist was perfect." RJ replied. "Seriously, we did so well that Luby and I made a bet to see who could clear out their side of the kitchen first!"

"That could've been a whole episode." Verne spoke up.

"But it wasn't Verne, instead we're focusing on the movie plotline." RJ said. "Speaking of which, have the others come back yet?"

"No, mom and dad are still out with Heather, and Tiger hasn't come back yet." Quillo replied. "He's going to be okay right?"

"Of course he is, he's getting the best possible attention he can!" RJ said. "In fact, it's such good attention that the only thing we'd have to worry about is him missing the movie premiere!"

"Movie premiere?" Luby asked, taking a moment to set down a box of crackers. One other thing was that in return for helping the Hedgie's out on this heist, Luby and her family could take some food back with them. Verne of course was a bit against this, but RJ found it fair. After all they were on the heist with them, and anyone who's on the heist gets their share. "You're making movies now?"

"Of course, we got everything lined up, from action movies, to sci-fi, to horror, it's going to be a great time!"

"You are remembering all the mishaps that happened during filming, right?" Verne asked.

"Hey, like Heather said, she'll edit it out."

"Seems to be a common theme." Stella spoke up, carrying a box of some kind over to the log. She could never resist throwing a little jab in. RJ on the other hand ignored this, and just continued his spiel to Luby.

"Right now, Lou and Penny are out doing their own filming of their road trip movie, last day of it." RJ spoke. "Sure, we had a few mishaps, again, nothing a bit of editing can't fix."

"Sounds like fun…" Luby replied, before looking back at the others. "You guys head back, I'm going to stick around a bit…I kind of want to see how these movies turn out."

To be honest, Heather didn't have high hopes for Lou and Penny's film.

Sure, it would probably be the easiest to edit, on account of the fact it didn't involve anything like explosions, aliens, or wacky horror movie creatures, but Lou and Penny…this was going to be tough to say.

Heather had known the porcupines for a couple of years now. Ever since she was sixteen, she's watched them take care of the kids, interact with each other, and just kind of do their own thing for the most part. They weren't bad by any means, they were perfectly pleasant, but Heather couldn't lie and say that on occasion, she forgot they existed at points.

In other words, they were really boring.

That was the reason why she didn't really have the most enthusiasm for Lou and Penny's film. They didn't really come off as creative, they were mostly occupied with their kids, and really, nothing about them screamed "movie star". In fact, they kind of reminded her of that one movie with the talking animals that they think should've won the Fry award. It was a good film all things considered, but there were these characters that pretty much everyone agreed were pointless and added nothing. They weren't funny, didn't contribute anything to the plot, and just ate up screen time that could be better utilized by better characters.

Again, she didn't hate Lou and Penny by any means, but she didn't really find anything to write home about them, and of course, she wasn't going to say that out loud.

"Heather, you recording?" Lou asked.

"Yeah, it's rolling." Heather replied, doing her best to avoid sounding like she'd be off doing anything else. Thankfully, Lou didn't seem to notice as he just started driving.

Actually, something Heather found rather interesting was the fact that Lou seemingly didn't have a script on hand for him or Penny. Were they going to improv this? She was there for what happened last time that happened, and if her own dad couldn't improv without things going wrong, then there was no chance that Lou and Penny could do the same.

"So uh, hun…we're alone." Lou spoke, looking over at Penny.

"We are dear." Penny replied. This only caused Heather to get just a little bit nervous.

"Is there…anything you want to do?" Lou asked.

If this was going in the direction she thought it was going, she was going to scream.

"I might have a few ideas…" Penny replied.

She did not sign up to direct this.

"Wanna talk about them?" Lou asked.

We're really pushing that T rating.

Penny suddenly let out a sigh, and turned away. Heather would've done the same, but then she noticed the expression on Lou's face. He seemed…down. Like, he was hoping for something to happen. Hopefully not what Heather was thinking, because otherwise she would've had the urge to jump out of the car.

"Are you alright hun?" Lou asked, to which Penny nodded her head.

"I'm okay Lou, it's just…it's hard to really have conversations that don't involve the kids." She spoke.

"Did I use a poor choice of words?"

"...you did." Penny spoke. Heather on the other hand couldn't actually believe what she was hearing. Actually, this seemed worse than whatever she was initially thinking they would do. At least that scenario Heather would feel justified in jumping out of the car. Here…it seemed rude to interrupt but at the same time it was awkward to be here, especially since this seemed personal.

"I'm sorry hun, it's just been a while." Lou replied. "How long has it been since we've had the kids?"

"Not long before Verne showed up at the log." Penny spoke.

"So…a while, maybe four winters? Just a rough estimate."

"And for four winters, we've just never had time for each other…we've just been looking after the kids and even after that, we're just focused on either heist plans or the kids."

Heather then realized the camera was still rolling.

"Uh, hey." Heather meekly spoke up. "Do you want me to stop recording? This just seems a bit personal."

"It's okay Heather, we just got a bit real." Lou replied. "Besides, you can just edit it out."

Heather would've made a snarky remark of how impossible it would be to even cut anything considering pretty much all that she's recorded was the conversation. Before she could do so however, Penny let out a shout, and she was suddenly lurched forward. She was lucky enough to avoid being launched into the backs of Penny and Lou, the latter not even having the chance as he was also launched from the car.

"Lou, are you okay?" Penny asked.

"I'm okay hun, whatever we hit broke my fall thankfully." Lou replied. That just raised the question of what exactly they hit. That question was almost immediately answered with a groan of pain.

"I just got back…" Tiger grumbled in pain, slowly getting back up with Lou stuck in his back once more. Heather had to resist the urge to laugh at just the poor luck Tiger was having this week, in fear that either Stella or Tiger himself would retaliate. Plus, she wasn't about to laugh at someone else's misery, regardless of how funny it was.

And then RJ and the others showed up.

"Hey, so how's the-" RJ didn't get the chance to finish that sentence as he took in the scene before him. Penny was sitting in the passenger's seat of an RC car, Heather was in the back with a camera that looked comically large in her possession, and judging by the position Tiger was in, he was not only hit by the RC car, but the impact was so powerful it ejected Lou from the front seat and caused him to again get stuck on Tiger's back. He was about to say something else, likely to make an unwise comment about Tiger's predicament, before Luby beat him to the punch.

"Are you okay?"

Based on what literally was described in the last paragraph, the answer to that question was obvious.

"No, I'm not." Tiger bluntly replied. "Help me."

That was Heather's cue to leave, especially since Luby was here. As Verne and Penny made their way over to Lou to free him from Tiger's back, Heather noticed the kids running over to join them. That of course resulted in Penny going over to the triplets to check in on them, leaving Verne to try and pull Lou off Tiger. While doing so, she took note of the conversation between them.

"Mom, did you do some cool action stunts with the car?!" Bucky asked.

"Or shoot some bad guys?" Spike spoke up.

"Or defeat the evil monster?" Quillo said.

"No, we didn't, we just took a drive." Penny replied, before looking over at the car and sighing a bit. "It was nice."

"Sounds kind of boring." Spike said.

"It is a bit, but I think all you need is a drive." Penny replied. "Sometimes you don't need to have all these big scenes with car chases, bad guys, or evil monsters, you just need a nice movie to have fun with."

A nice, fun movie.

Just hearing that made Heather realize that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't about the big effects. Maybe a movie didn't have to be loud and in your face with these intense action scenes, or expansive world building, or even expansive special effects. Maybe it just needed to be a movie.

Maybe this was all that was needed.

"Alright guys, I'm going to get to editing!" Heather spoke. As she walked off, she found herself with a new sense of vigor. She had previously been dreading the editing process for a while, knowing she would need a lot of coffee just to get through it. RJ's could be easy sure, but Ozzie's and her's were going to be nightmares. Now she just could make something that was just pure fun. It didn't need to be perfect, it just needed to be a movie.

The moment she looked at the camera however to stop recording, she realized just one major problem.

Do my eyes deceive me? Lou and Penny having depth to them? What madness!

But it's kind of welcome.

Next chapter should be the last, and with that will come an announcement.