So I'm just going to stop trying to make a definitive statement on how many chapters this story is going to be and just be 'However long it takes to tell this story' but I realize this is a lesson in not every story has to gon into double digits I think I just have a case of 'complexity addiction' where I feel I have to leave no stone unturned and make the story as large and grandiose as possible but upon writing The Twilight Express it just suddenly came to me that keeping the scale small often makes the the story more relatable

Just then the Boxers noticed two Mutants who didn't seem to be a part of the original group that was described to them, a small white puppy dog and what a garter snake both looked two young and also seemed to be female. The Garter Snake upon noticing they had been spotted ducked back behind the corner of the boxing ring.

"Er..." Little Mac said "...Hi?"

"Oh!" Said Rover "Sorry, those two girls are from the Beginner Class, and we met them outside the gym and I decided to invite them in, the Dog is Scruffles, she was a pet before she mutated and her humans decided to raise her as their child, she still lives with her human family, and the snake is Lovelace...D-Don't asked who named her."

The Boxers could see the metal arms attached to the snakes body and they knew all to well how she got them, Lovelace wore a green tunic to hide the scars where the metal arms had been attached to her body.

So the Boxers tried to be welcoming.

"Hey Girls!" Disco Kid said "Great you could join us!"

"Yeah!" Said Bear Hugger "You two are just little darlins!"

This caused both the Mutant Girls to giggle and Lovelace felt extremly bashful and had to turn away, she could see these humans were friendly and really she was feeling overwhelmed by the emotion.

Then the various boxers whose Native language wasn't Enlish gave their greetings

"Bonjour"

"Willkommen"

"Kon'nichiwa" "Namaste" "Hola!" And the Troubadour Wolf who had been secretly watching from the Shadows felt an intense feeling of hatred bubbling up inside him watching these humans greet the Girls, he had to do something to disrupt anymore fraternization between man and beast from taking place, so he made his move...He began playing his lute while singing but in this time in the most annoying voice possible throwing in his canine voice for some high pitched wines and yowls "It's so heavenly here! Pure and perfect Sublime and shining Every cloud has a silver lining..."

Now if Aran Ryan had been there the Hyper Irishman would have knocked the irritating wolf flat on his rear for 'crimes against eardrums' (Which would be pretty rich considering the amount of illeagal earclap moves in the W.V.B.A) But Doc Louis quickly cut the Troubadour off with "Sir...This isn't a music hall...We box here...If you like Disco Kid could introduce you to his favorite dance clubs, they could all see this was a Humanimal not a Native Mutant Animal... "Good Sir..." The Wolf-Man said in a slimy kind of voice "I was in the middle of giving the two young Mutant Girls a lesson in Humanimal History when the Mutant Boys rudely interuppted and took them inside! "Well...I..." Rover was trying not to start a fight by saying he got a bad vibe coming off the Humanimal... "I just asked them if they wanted to see history in the making..."

The Humans seemed to be on Rover's side "OK..." Doc Louis said folding his arms "...Are you their official teacher or something, cuz from outside it looked like your were just a street performer..."

A dangerous spark flashed in the Troubadour's eyes Lovelace, while she was very timid around humans was pretty brave around fellow Animal People so she tried to descalate the situation by quickly saying "We were listening but, you were using a lot of words we didn't understand...What was that story you were telling?"

And the Troubadour flashed an evil grin and said "I was talking about the marriage practices of Wrangler Humans..."

And what he said while he wasn't singing, Rover still could barely understand because of a lot of the bizarre future lingo and references to other planets and history of another dimenstion, but the Boxers, most of whom were adults seemed to understand a little better and they listened closely because if First Earth really was an Older World more advanced in its timeline, were their possible hints for the future of their own world? What little Rover could gather was that these 'marriage practices' were to keep the Wrangler Humans from 'developing emotional attachments' and Rover was watching the faces of his idols and he was seeing they were slowly growing from horrified to visably sickened by what they were hearing fearing that this might be their own future and humans will be forced to live this way! Particurally horrifying was what was said about childrearing the only part Rover understood in any great detail, seems when Wrangler Humans had children, it was customary after the children were born to just abadon them in the nursrey room to be taken care of by the Robot Nannies so the adults could continue their lives of pure pleasure without the burden of responsibility. At that was the point when Bear Hugger said "I think I'm gonna be sick..." That was when Rover snapped into action "Stop already!" The Young Wolf snarled "Can't you see you're upsetting the humans?!"

And it seemed the Troubadour was so caught up in his tale that the mask completely slipped off "Yeah so? They deseerve it! Humans are nasty creatures! They willingly let their tender emotions be removed from themselves because they viewed them as weaknesses!" I think I'll leave it on that mic drop line as we get a sense of what the Troubadour's Problem is