Petropolis. Night.
Two shadowy figures peer into the alley from the corners, looking for something inside this alley. Two shadowy figures quickly jump out of the corners, hiding behind a dumpster and a small staircase. Both start talking to each other.
Male Voice (quiet):
He is already here, I hear his steps...
Female Voice (quiet):
Great... now we're waiting for just the right moment...
Two shadows look into the alley. Suddenly, an emergency exit opens from the right building of the alley and someone in a trench coat and a hat is standing inside, but his face is not visible. The man looks around and then closes the doors behind him. He takes out a walkie-talkie and starts talking into it.
UNNAMED №1:
Blue Flock, I'm at the meeting place... No threat detected around...
Unnamed №1 puts away the walkie-talkie. Suddenly a crow-like scream is heard. On the roof of a nearby building in the alley, the shadow of another man in a trench coat and hat appears, but this time he is not alone, but with his henchmen in the form of bats. The man raises his hands, after which his henchmen fly up and take him with their feet and lower him down and towards the first unknown man. Bat henchmen sit down on the ground, and their leader begins to talk to the Unnamed №1.
UNNAMED №1:
Did you bring my stuff?
UNNAMED №2:
I wouldn't be here without it, but I'll only give it back when you give me what I need!
UNNAMED №1:
*Sigh* You are always trying to complicate everything with your nuances, so that later all of us get nothing because of them...
UNNAMED №2:
You better not joke with me, I spent so much nerves for the sake of your stuff, and I'm asking you to give me the simplest thing... *extends his hand* Give it to me...
UNNAMED №1:
*Sigh* Alright…
Unnamed №1 reaches into his long pocket and pulls out... a package of batteries... Unnamed №2 takes them.
HENCHMEN:
*looking at batteries* Woooooooooow…
UNNAMED №1:
Be grateful that I even managed to find them in another city... I don't understand why you still use a very old radio...
UNNAMED №2:
Huh, it's a pleasure to do business with you when you can actually do it... Well, it's time for your reward...
Unnamed №2 motions for one of the henchmen to come over. He comes up and gives the leader a suitcase.
FEMALE VOICE (quiet):
Almost there…
MALE VOICE (quiet):
We need to intervene now...
FEMALE VOICE (quiet and angry):
No, don't even do that, it's too early...
Unnamed №2 opens the suitcase... there is a large pile of money in it... Unnamed No. 1 is delighted.
UNNAMED №1:
It's… beautiful…
UNNAMED №2:
Everyone already knows that they are beautiful... the most important thing... you can do your diabolical plans that you want...
MALE VOICE (quiet):
I can't listen to this nonsense anymore...
FEMALE VOICE (quiet and angry):
DON'T DO THAT!
UNNAMED №1:
You know what... maybe not all of my plans yet... but one day... thanks to them... my power will begin...
Unnamed №1 begins to reach for the suitcase and almost reaches it.
A suitcase with money is suddenly hit by a blaster beam. The suitcase flies off and the money begins to burn. Both unnamed quickly turn in the direction from which the shot was fired. The light of the street light hits their faces and it turns out that Unnamed №1 is Snaprtrap, and Unnamed №2 is Bird Brain. It also turns out that the one who fired was Dudley, who jumped onto the small stairs holding a blaster. The other shadow figure turns out to be Kitty, who is still sitting near the trash container, looking at Dudley in shock.
DUDLEY:
…Playtime is over, villains…
BIRD BRAIN:
INTRUDERS!
Snaptrap, Bird Brain and the henchmen pull out their blasters and start shooting.
KITTY (to herself):
Great…
Dudley and Kitty jump into the action. Dudley and Kitty start dodging the shots, with Dudley running on the wall (don't ask) and Kitty using acrobatics to dodge. Dudley jumps forward, stands in one place and turns towards Kitty.
DUDLEY:
Kitty, NOW!
Dudley folds his arms and ducks slightly. Kitty runs towards Dudley and jumps with her foot into Dudley's arms, after which Dudley immediately raises his hands and Kitty jumps very high. Kitty does a somersault in the air, then quickly fires many blaster shots at enemies like rain. The shots hit the bats, but not all of them and not Snaptrap and Bird Brain.
Kitty lands, after which Dudley and Kitty immediately engage in close combat with the villains. Dudley and Kitty hit some henchmen in different places with their hands and feet. The henchmen bats begin to fly around the agents, but Dudley and Kitty successfully fire blasters at them and they fall to the ground.
BIRD BRAIN:
We're so TIRED OF YOU, YOU DISGUSTING AGENTS!
Bird Brain suddenly takes out a submachine gun and Snaptrap an axe. Bird Brain immediately starts shooting, and Snaptrap attacks with an axe. Kitty tries to quickly dodge the shots, and Dudley tries to dodge the swings of the ax. Both understand that it has now become too dangerous, because there are many enemies, and Bird Brain's weapon fires too quickly and you can't keep track of everything. Dudley and Kitty quickly jump back from the villains, hiding behind another dumpster and a small ladder.
DUDLEY:
It's bad, Kitty! We must come up with something to stop Bird Brain and Snaptrap, otherwise we will be destroyed!
Kitty quickly looks around, trying to find something that might help. Suddenly Kitty finds a trash can lid and gets an idea.
KITTY:
I have an idea! Take that lid!
Bird Brain is still shooting towards where the agents are hiding. Suddenly, Bird Brain stops firing, as they realized that the agents were hiding for some reason. Snaptrap begins to slowly walk towards the agents' hiding places.
SNAPTRAP:
Ooh, agents! Are you afraid to confront us? Ooh, what a pitiful situation we have made for you...
Beat.
DUDLEY (V.O.):
If you don't stop saying that now, I'LL PUNCH YOUR FACE!
The villains were perplexed after this phrase.
SNAPTRAP:
Wait what…
BIRD BRAIN:
YOU HEARD HIM, IDIOT!
KITTY:
NOW!
Dudley immediately slams a trash container towards the villains, distracting them also getting rid of henchmen. Kitty immediately comes out of hiding, and Dudley runs towards her with the lid. Dudley jumps and Kitty grabs Dudley by the legs, after which Kitty immediately begins to spin strongly in place with Dudley, and after a second Kitty immediately stops spinning and launches Dudley towards the villains, and Dudley himself holds the lid in front of him. Bird Brain starts shooting, but Dudley's lid deflects the bullets. Having flown closer, Dudley immediately does a Puppy Punch and Bird Brain flies into the air from the impact, and the submachine gun breaks. Bird Brain falls straight into an open trash container, after which it immediately closes.
It's Snaptrap's turn. He swings an ax, but misses, although sometimes he almost hits. Dudley and Kitty immediately both do a kick and hit Snaptrap, not only knocking him to the floor, but also breaking his ax in half. Dudley and Kitty, after this final blow to the Snaptrap, bow to each other (and also using their hands: one hand on the chest, and the other towards the defeated enemy or the done deed), as if making a victory pose that the mission is completed.
The villains are defeated, Snaptrap lies on the ground, groaning. Dudley and Kitty approach him.
DUDLEY:
It's over, Snaptrap! Your next idea to take over the world failed before it even started… just like all your other plans...
KITTY:
All you have to think about is that you'll be in jail for a very long time...
SNAPTRAP:
Okay, okay, it will be your way... However, you did not take into account the fact that you did everything much better...
Dudley and Kitty wonder what Snaptrap means and are shocked by his calmness and sinisterness.
SNAPTRAP:
You see, I am grateful that you helped me get rid of Bird Brain... The money that I received from him were almost nothing, because all I just lacked was the power so that I could rule this city, but you... gave me this opportunity...
Snaptrap snaps his fingers. Suddenly a very large flock of henchmen bats jump out at Dudley and Kitty. Dudley and Kitty try to fight back but cannot and end up receiving a lot of blows in their direction. Henchmen deliver their final blows and fly away.
Dudley and Kitty fall to the floor with their backs on top of each other. Both of them have their eyes closed, as if they were unconscious. Snaptrap approaches them with slow steps and a serious face.
SNAPTRAP:
You have been trying to stop me for many years... so much pain throughout my entire existence... fail after fail… but today... *pulls out blaster* you will be finished... and you will evaporate from this world as useless dust... Any last words?
Beat. Suddenly Dudley and Kitty open their eyes and make unsurprised faces.
DUDLEY:
This attempt was stupid, right?
KITTY:
I can't help but agree with this...
Kitty takes some kind of remote control from her pocket and presses a button.
It all turns out to be a simulation at Keswick's Simulation Station. The simulation is interrupted, the villains and things around disappear and the whole place becomes a space of green lines. Dudley and Kitty stand up. Next to Dudley and Kitty, the passage leading to TUFF HQ appears and Keswick is standing there.
KESWICK:
Not bad, Agents Puppy and Katswell. I can't say much about some parts, but it's still much better, th-th-than that attempt on the big mountain. Although I won't lie, the idea of catching villains while falling sounds interesting...
Dudley and Kitty leave the station. Keswick stands next to the computer next to the station.
KITTY:
Dudley, listen… you're impatient and that's the problem. You can't wait for the right moment to distract and capture the villains, and because of this, you don't follow our plans.
DUDLEY:
Kitty, I'm still following our plans, but I just… can't wait and listen while the villains say their horrifying speeches of taking over everything, and because of this I want to stop them quickly.
KITTY:
I understand you, but you still need to be more restrained during this, otherwise our missions may not go according to plan.
DUDLEY:
Come on, Kitty, we still carried out this mission perfectly despite this. Also, who could have known that Snaptrap would suddenly set Bird Brain henchmen on us?
KITTY:
That's the problem, Dudley! You distracted the villains ahead of time, which is why the seemingly ideal actions turned out to be useless, because we were caught in a mistake.
DUDLEY:
*Sigh* Ok, ok. I admit, I did it wrong. I'll try to fix this next time, but… I don't know how yet...
KITTY:
Trust me, you can do it... we have plenty of time, and sooner or later you will be able to overcome this...
Dudley and Kitty go to Keswick, who is already in the other room. Suddenly, The Chief enters the room through the door hole.
THE CHIEF:
Hey guys! I have something I want to show you!
DUDLEY:
Wow, we rarely hear something like this from you, so it's definitely something good. What is it?
THE CHIEF:
A-a-a... it's not that simple... Before I show you, you must first guess what I'm going to show...
DUDLEY, KITTY AND KESWICK:
Hmmm…
DUDLEY:
If you think about what the Chief brought before, then I think it's... Furniture?
THE CHIEF:
No.
KITTY:
Computer?
THE CHIEF:
Nope…
KESWICK:
Vehicle?
DUDLEY:
Weapon?
KITTY:
Books?
KESWICK:
Food?
DUDLEY:
What Keswick said.
KITTY and KESWICK:
Yeah!
THE CHIEF:
All of these are no! Okay, I won't bore you for long... you know that I love different plants in our offices, as they create a better atmosphere for our agents... so for TUFF I brought one major addition...
The Chief takes something from the other side of door hole using his hands from the monitor cart.
THE CHIEF:
BEHOLD!
The Chief shows a well-grown bonsai tree. Dudley, Kitty and Keswick are shocked.
DUDLEY, KITTY, KESWICK:
Wooooooooow…
All three begin to examine the bonsai tree.
DUDLEY:
It's beautiful...
KITTY:
Where did you get it?
THE CHIEF:
Ahh, I found it on a flower stand. Flower Girl said that her friends did not find time to car for the tree, so I decided to take this bonsai. You can say I'm lucky that at my age I come across such things.
KESWICK:
Yeah.
KITTY:
Chief, if I'm not mistaken, then growing a bonsai is a big responsibility… you know, it grows for a very long time and you need to monitor its position all the time.
THE CHIEF:
Don't worry! The bonsai has already grown, it just needs to be watered, but I will still take care of it so that it continues to grow properly. Speaking of big responsibility, what about your training, agent Puppy and Katswell?
DUDLEY and KITTY:
Oh, um... well... you know... there were some problems and...
THE CHIEF:
Everything is clear with you... *Sigh* Okay, I'm in a good mood today, so I forgive you... but make sure next time everything works out for you!
DUDLEY and KITTY:
Phew…
THE CHIEF:
Okay, you can go to work... *takes out a watering can* while I water my bonsai, because even if they grow for a very long time, they still can't go anywhere without water...
The Chief is about to water the bonsai when suddenly the bonsai begins to glow green. The bonsai turned out to be The Chameleon!
THE CHAMELEON:
Oh... what an irony…
The Chameleon transforms from a bonsai into his true form.
THE CHAMELEON:
It is I, The Chameleon! The Master of Transformation and a terrible nightmare for the inhabitants of the entire Petropolis!
KESWICK:
Master? Nightmare? Huh, you seem to have overestimated yourself when your previous transformation is literally a c-c-cup of tea.
THE CHAMELEON:
Past transformation is not important. My transformation is not only for transforming into ordinary ones, but also for scary things that you can't even imagine in yours, and for which I was charged as a nightmare!
DUDLEY:
Girls Nightmare doesn't count...
THE CHAMELEON:
Stop mocking me, give me at least one minute of my glory after so long, GEE! Anyway, I pretended to be a bonsai tree to sneak into TUFF and carry out my next diabolical plan! Clever, isn't it?
THE CHIEF:
Are you saying that you were also that Flower Girl?
THE CHAMELEON:
What… No, her name is Mary... I met her once in a supermarket, by accident, when I was choosing eggs and couldn't pull them out properly. Also, I had to throw away her bonsai just to take its place...
THE CHIEF:
*shocked* You did WHAT?!
EXT. Petropolis Street
Meanwhile, on the street of Petropolis there is a bonsai on top of a trash can. Suddenly, Daisy accidentally passes by the trash can, skipping along the street. Daisy notices the bonsai.
DAISY:
Wow, what a beautiful little tree. And it's also free!
Daisy picks up the bonsai and begins to walk away with it.
DAISY:
Finally, I will have a real tree in my house so that I don't have to go to the park for a long time!
Back to INT. T.U.F.F. HQ
THE CHIEF:
*angry* You monster, what do you want from us?
THE CHAMELEON:
Believe me, it's not about what I want from you... it's about what I want to do - DESTROY TUFF!
DUDLEY:
Believe me Chameleon, we have stopped you many times... You won't be able to do this!
THE CHAMELEON:
But I will do!
All four pull out their blasters and shoot at Chameleon, but he dodges. The chameleon begins to crawl along the wall, all four try to hit it with blasters, but fail. Eventually the Chameleon crawls away and hides.
THE CHIEF:
Find this lizard before he causes any more trouble here!
Dudley, Kitty, Keswick and Chief separate and go to different rooms.
Kitty comes into the room with Simulation Station. Kitty takes steps gradually and carefully, holding her blaster at the ready. Suddenly, quiet sounds of crawling along the wall are made, which Kitty hears (cats have good hearing), but turning in the direction of the sounds, she finds no one. The quiet sounds continue and Kitty tries to listen to them, looking around...
Suddenly a voice is heard...
THE CHAMELEON:
Looking for me?
It turns out that the Chameleon was above Kitty's head on the wall of the station. Kitty turns around but before she can do anything, the Chameleon immediately hits her, causing her to fly towards the wall and then fall to the floor. The Chameleon immediately jumps off and runs to fight Kitty.
The Chameleon tries to fight with his hands first, but Kitty successfully dodges them. Kitty also tries to punch and hits Chameleon in the stomach once, but Chameleon is not going to give up. He successfully manages to hit Kitty 2 times in the arm and stomach, but Kitty immediately strikes 3 times at the Chameleon: with her hand, her foot, and then with her fist on Chameleon's head. The Chameleon immediately uses his tail and knocks Kitty to the floor.
THE CHAMELEON:
Why did you fall so quickly, Kitty? Have you lost your former strength and vigilance?
KITTY:
Unlike you, I still have enough of them to resist you!
Kitty grabs the Chameleon and does a forward somersault, then immediately throws it forward and the Chameleon flies straight inside into the Simulation Station. Kitty runs inside the station and the fight continues there.
The Chameleon starts punching Kitty and Kitty also tries to punch him. During the battle, sometimes they hit each other, sometimes they don't. The Chameleon immediately begins turning his arms into various weapons and swinging them around, while Kitty pulls out her claws. The Chameleon swings his weapons violently, changing the shape of the weapon with each attempt to strike. The Chameleon still manages to hit Kitty sometimes.
THE CHAMELEON:
What are you doing, Kitty? Tired or something else? Maybe you need to see a doctor, right?
KITTY:
The one who needs to go to the doctor IS YOU!
Kitty jumps towards The Chameleon and uses her claws to suddenly cut The Chameleon's hands from his body (hands are still in weapon form). Chameleon's hands fall to the floor. The Chameleon looks at this in surprise, but then, after a second, smiles evilly.
THE CHAMELEON:
Clever, Kitty, clever...
Suddenly, the Chameleon's hands on the floor move and turn into a green mass (well, the one you see during transformation). The green mass creeps back towards the hand area and forms back into the shape of the Chameleon's hands. Chameleon's hands are back in place, as if nothing had happened.
THE CHAMELEON:
However, now it's my turn to show WHO WILL GO TO THE DOCTOR!
The Chameleon immediately makes a large fist out of his hand and hits Kitty hard. Chameleon continues to successfully hit Kitty hard using different techniques and shapes of his arms into various forms. Kitty tries to resist, but cannot, because the Chameleon no longer plays around, but really fights.
Kitty falls to the floor again from such blows.
THE CHAMELEON:
Well... Here we are again in the same position as 2 minutes ago… You know, I never thought that I could knock the best agent to the floor 2 times during the fight... You know, usually with almost every crime we commit you show a skill that not a single villain could resist, but now… the best agent in all of TUFF somehow lost in an easy battle... What happened to you?
KITTY:
Why are you acting like you're surprised?
THE CHAMELEON:
Well... I know that you have lost to us before... however, here the situation is completely different, because you seem to have become... weak... although you just recently threw a lot of villains into prison like skittles... So what's wrong now?
KITTY:
Catching the villains is not an easy task as you might think... Every day is one continuous training, every day brings lessons for us that never end, again and again, day by day, and we can sometimes lose to you if we are not trained enough...
THE CHAMELEON:
"We"? "We"... So this is what's happening to you...
KITTY:
What?..
THE CHAMELEON:
It's about you... You said that "we" sometimes lose to us, but not "you" or "I"... This is where your problem lies, Katswell… your former greatness of catching villains began to slowly but progressively fade away... You have ceased to be able to cope on your own and now you win battles only when your useless partners are next to you...
KITTY:
I can take care of myself, Chameleon… and my partners are not useless, they are the best people I have ever met!
THE CHAMELEON:
They may not be useless, I admit... but the uselessness now comes only from you...
THE CHAMELEON:
Your words are now empty, because you don't want to look at reality… Your time is long past, Kitty Katswell! Your outcomes are now depend on the presence of other people, and not on the presence and capabilities of yourself…
You know, Kitty… if you get into danger, I know your partners can easily save you from it... but I know for sure… you will not be able to save yourself...
Kitty begins to seethe with anger at the Chameleon.
KITTY:
I. AM. NOT. USELESS!
THE CHAMELEON:
*with a proud face* …yesyouare…
Kitty immediately takes out her blaster and quickly fires in Chameleon's direction. The Сhameleon dodges the shot in panic.
Kitty's blaster shot comes out from inside the station and starts bouncing off the TUFF walls.
The blaster shot hits the station's control computer and it breaks. Large sparks and rays of electricity begin to come from the control computer. Simulation Station suddenly starts to turn on, but the electrical beams from the station's towers spread chaotically throughout the room, instead of just connecting with each other. Inside the station it's no better... the lines start to glitch, the station itself tries to create landscape and other things, then remove them and it all turns into a glitchy mess right before the eyes of Kitty and Chameleon.
THE CHAMELEON:
You know what, Katswell? You've already caused me a lot of problems in my life… and I won't tolerate another one!
Chameleon pushes Kitty, runs to the station exit and leaves. Kitty, having come to her senses, runs after him, but suddenly the passage back to TUFF HQ simply disappears. Kitty tries to knock hard to make the exit appear, but nothing helps. Kitty tries to call for help, but to no avail. Ultimately, Kitty begins to see only the station's glitches, to such an extent that it hurts her eyes to look at. Kitty, not knowing what to do now, sits on the floor and covers her eyes with her hands. Everything becomes very bright inside.
The station cannot withstand the load and explodes. Dudley, Keswick and Chief come running into the room.
DUDLEY:
KITTY, WHERE ARE YOU?
THE CHIEF:
Agent Katswell!
DUDLEY:
KITTY!
Suddenly, Kitty emerges from the wreckage of the station, slightly damaged and dirty from the explosion. Dudley, Keswick and Chief quickly approach her. Dudley and Chief help her up.
DUDLEY:
Kitty, what happened? Are you okay?
KITTY:
Chameleon... he was here, I tried to stop him...
THE CHIEF:
Darn, we didn't have time... he obviously already ran away...
KESWICK:
It doesn't matter if we catch him sooner or later...
KITTY:
I fought with Chameleon inside the station and accidentally damaged the station with a blaster... Everything started to sparkle and glitch... Chameleon escaped, but I couldn't and was inside during the explosion...
KESWICK:
Inside the station? Wait... How are you feeling now?
KITTY:
I feel... surprisingly well, even despite the explosion... as if nothing had happened... well, almost... *looks at her dirty clothes and the debris around them*
KESWICK:
Hmm, strange and su-su-surprising...
DUDLEY:
Strange, smange… the main thing is that everything is fine with her!
KESWICK:
Well, that's also true!
All four of them leave the center of the station wreckage and stand near the station.
THE CHIEF:
Well, agents. The Chameleon is still on the loose and it is unknown where he is. I don't know what kind of plan this lizard head had in mind to destroy TUFF, but he definitely didn't succeed in it.
DUDLEY:
Knowing the villains, after the crime they flee to their lairs, which we have known for a long time. I think the ideal plan to catch him would be to surround his lair...
THE CHIEF:
No use, Dudley. The Chameleon with his costume can be anywhere. His suit is his backup lair, from which he will not emerge until it is safe for him to show up again.
KITTY:
We'll catch him sooner or later, Chief! The Chameleon knows that he won't be able to hide from us for a long time until we...
Suddenly Kitty freezes in place and takes a very heavy short breath, and her pupils have shrunk... as if she had stopped breathing at that moment... A second later, Kitty unfreezes and begins to breathe fearfully and grabs herself with one hand above her stomach.
KITTY:
Wha… that was… weird…
KESWICK:
Are you okay?
KITTY:
It seems not... I don't know what exactly it was... I haven't felt this way before at all...
DUDLEY:
Maybe it's just from the fight with the Chameleon? You know, maybe somewhere he hit you very hard or... maybe from the debris...
KITTY:
No... it was something else... It was something sharp and it was happening inside me...
It was as if I had been pierсed...
Suddenly, Kitty feels a sharp pain and begins to scream. Kitty's entire body becomes a glitchy hologram of itself, becoming slightly transparent. Kitty falls to her knees on the floor, holding her stomach with one hand and the floor with the other, groaning and screaming in pain. Dudley, Keswick and Chief are shocked and scared as they don't know what to do.
DUDLEY:
KITTY! KESWICK, WHAT'S GOING ON?
KESWICK:
I DON'T KNOW! IT LOOKS LIKE THE STATION EXPLOSION DID SOMETHING TO KITTY!
THE CHIEF:
DO SOMETHING, SHE CAN'T TAKE IT FOR ANY LONGER!
KESWICK:
WHAT CAN I DO? I HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED ANYTHING LIKE THIS, HOW CAN I EVEN HELP WITH THIS?
DUDLEY:
WHERE ARE OUR BRAINS WHEN WE NEED THEM?
Suddenly, Kitty's sharp pain stops and she ceases to be transparent and like a hologram and becomes herself again. Kitty is breathing heavily after all this and cannot understand what it was.
KITTY:
What… was that?
KESWICK:
I don't know for sure, but that explosion has clearly done something to you now...
Dudley helps Kitty up.
KESWICK:
Kitty, I'm going to take some of your fur to scan your DNA and find out exactly what the problem is.
Keswick takes the tweezers and takes a small piece of fur from Kitty's tail. Keswick walks towards his laboratory.
5 minutes pass. Dudley, Kitty and Chief are sitting near a wide seat next to the large safe handle-shaped door to Keswick's laboratory (the door itself is closed). Kitty sits tensely and also tensely, but slowly wags her tail. Dudley and Chief are sitting next to her, but both don't know how to help in such a situation and just sit in a little sadness. Suddenly, Keswick opens the doors to the laboratory, and he comes out of it.
KESWICK:
Guys, I have bad news and you definitely won't like it! I built the station so that it would not affect things from our world, but as we have seen, this has changed. Those glitches and explosions that Kitty was talking about damaged her DNA and because of this, she now has no specific origin.
DUDLEY:
What does this mean, Keswick?
KESWICK:
This means that Kitty is now part of a non-existent simulation, and what happened was an attempt to g-g-get rid of the remainder of it. However, this did not happen now, since Kitty is both from our world, and Kitty's body is trying to fight this, so to speak, glitch of the simulation, because this glitch acts like lice that cannot be easily removed... slowly but progressively...
THE CHIEF:
Is there a way to fix this?
KESWICK:
I'm not sure, but it's worth a try! We need to fix the Simulation Station as quickly as possible and restart the s-s-simulation. We have until evening to build the station and save Katswell, before it's too late…
THE CHIEF:
Wait... What will happen to Agent Katswell after the evening?
Beat. Keswick makes a nervous swallow.
KESWICK:
She'll disintegrate into the air…
DUDLEY, KITTY and CHIEF:
*shocked* WHAT?
DUDLEY:
Waitwaitwaitwait... Guys... let's not rush to conclusions! You know, when something happens here, it's always something bad or terrible, BUT… we don't try to look at these situations from a calmer side...
THE CHIEF:
What are you talking about, Agent Puppy?
DUDLEY:
What I'm saying is that instead of calmly sorting out situations, we just think about bad things. You know, like: "What if this happens? What if that happens? And here it's written that everything is bad, WE NEED TO ROUND THE ALARM!"
KESWICK:
And what do you suggest we do for this?
DUDLEY:
Easy... we all just need to calm down and solve the problem at a calm pace! We just do what we need to do, without thinking about anything bad... Speaking of a calm pace, I also think that Kitty, especially now, needs to spend time in peace and usefully… maybe in the company of friends... or perhaps family... And I also think that TUFF is not suitable for this at the moment... it's too... unwelcoming here now...
Suddenly, one of the simulation station's electrical towers falls and breaks. All four were not worried about it, looking in the direction where the tower fell.
DUDLEY:
…and sharp…
…Okay, it's time for us to go! Come on, Kitty, we shouldn't waste time on this wonderful weekend... just a regular wonderful weekend... LET'S GO!
Dudley takes Kitty and puts her on his shoulder and runs out of the room. Keswick and Chief are left on their own.
KESWICK:
Well, there's nothing left to do but immediately start trying to rebuild the S-S-Simulation Station while we still have time.
THE CHIEF:
Keswick, will this plan actually work?
KESWICK:
The thing is, Chief... I don't know! The simulation does not work in such a way as to create DNA, it only creates a sh-sh-shell based on data from my computer... Even the time until the evening was an assumption, because the glitch is not stable and it also depends on how Kitty herself fights with it... which we cannot predict in any way...
THE CHIEF:
Are you saying that... there's no way we can help Kitty?
KESWICK:
I can't say for sure... but I have a guess that if I find Kitty's old DNA sample and try to link it to the station, then I think we have a chance to help, but even so, the outcome of all this will still be unknown...
THE CHIEF:
No matter how it turns out, we should try and not think about the worst. Okay, I'll go make a call about urgent delivery of parts for the station.
KESWICK:
Okay, we'll try to do everything we can before evening...
THE CHIEF:
Couldn't have said it any better…
The Сhief leaves the room, and Keswick begins to sort through the rubble and look for the necessary parts to restore the station.
Everyone thought that the Chameleon had left, but in fact, no... On the other side of the room there is a small clot of debris, which turns out to be the Chameleon and he heard the entire conversation. The Chameleon imperceptibly turns into a green mass and crawls away into the ventilation leading down and being the Chameleon's way out of the HQ, unnoticed by everyone...
