"Get inside!" Kitty annoyedly yelled as her claws tapped impatiently on the steering wheel. Kerry who hurried out of the small bungalow she and Rabbies lived in. Might seemed small but it was a more than nice place to live. Kitty and Katty knew that, they had been there a few times. Kitty even a few times more, if you count the occasions she had to arrest one of them.
Two bedrooms, a bathroom with gold-plated fittings, and a large tub, a big modern living room in which glass was the dominating material. It basically was a house that proved the old proverb 'Crime doesn't pay' a lie.
"I am here already." Kerry reflected Kitty's annoyed tone back at her.
"Good." Kitty hit the pedal to the metal in the second Kerry was inside the car pushing her into the seat.
"Fine now." Katty said yawning and stretching on the car's back bench. "What do you want from us?"
"Is it because of mom?" Kerry groaned and looked through the windshield. "Of course it is, what has she said this time."
"Probably mocked her again a-. Hold on a sec, Kerry. I think Kitty is beyond mom-angry…" Katty slowly, like something clicked in her mind, turned to her oldest sister. "You finally told her about the kiss, didn't you?"
"It is not because of the kiss." Kitty meant and it sounded like she was grinding her teeth to a fine powder.
"Yeah sure, so what's the plan now, Kitty? I understand that you want to shoot her but… come on, we are family." Katty laughed. "Can't you two just share him or something?"
"Hey hold up, you want what?!" Kerry panicking looked outside seeing that they were heading outside the city. "Kitty, please, I said sorry. I was just overflown with emotions."
"I won't help you hide her body." Katty jokingly huffed.
"You are not helping!" Kerry yelled at her.
"Hey, chill, we are talking about Kitty here. She won't do anything… although you deserved it, just saying."
"Could you two shut your idiot mouths for just three goddamn minutes?!" Kitty screamed and added a "Thank you" as the expected silence settled. She used the absence of bickering to navigate in peace through the all-surrounding darkness. It was thick even for out-of-city standards and as the fog started rising seeing into the distance almost became impossible.
Luckily Kitty knew the way to drive in her sleep. She probably also was asleep once she drove there, her memory was fuzzy regarding that. Kerry was the first to break the silence, her voice sounded composed and lacked the usual cynicism. It was an attempt to meet Kitty on her level. "Kitty, what's going on?"
"Everything went to shit." Kitty cursed and drilled her claws into the steering wheel. "I was fooled, twice on the same day. I am an idiot, I…"
"Kitty…" Kerry started again this time speaking slower. "What is going on?"
Kitty parked the car on the side of the road and turned off the engine. Soon the Katswell trio sat in a darkness just illuminated by the lights on the outer perimeter of the nearby building that stood in the literal middle of nowhere.
'Concrete complex' actually was a better description for the monstrosity someone had put into the no-man's-land. The barbed wire fence and the little guard post watching the only entrance to the facility didn't help giving the place a happier-looking exterior.
"They have Dudley…" Kitty pressed through her lips hatefully glaring towards the cement Moloch.
"Okay, hold up." Katty now intervened as she felt the nervousness rising in her oldest sister and the anger rising in her little bit older twin sister. "What happened exactly, tell us everything. One after the other."
Kitty slowly pulled her claws out of the steering wheel and turned around in the seat so that the two of them could see her barely lit face.
"I got this new job for this agency you two might know…"
"Ah, that's why we haven't seen you on patrol anymore." Kerry's statement was met by Kitty with a confused look on her face.
"We have started keeping taps on you T.U.F.F. dorks," Katty explained. "It makes work easier."
"Huh, well took you long enough to organize," Kitty grumbled and then took a deep breath. "What I am telling you now is top secret, and I am just telling you because I want to be open about the danger this could bring. Also, I am probably burnt after tonight anyway."
"Just spill the beans already." Katty nagged irritatedly.
"I am working for the D.E.U.P. and we are…" Kitty sighed, she knew a quick way to explain it to her sisters although it wouldn't describe it accurately. "You know the X-Files?"
"The old T.V. show?" Kerry asked and her eyes widened.
"Wait, are you trying to tell me that you are hunting aliens and ghosts and shit?" Katty leaned back into her seat and started giggling. "Good old Kitty is a ghost buster now."
"It's mostly phenomena that are not yet explainable and about aliens… my current mission was getting a hold of a creature that called himself the Advisor it… it is hard to describe what it is. A powerful entity might be the most fitting."
"Sure, yeah, go on." Katty grinned amusedly. Kerry on the other hand simply nodded along Kitty's words.
"We had a hard time even registering where it appeared before we got a clue. It had someone amongst the citizens working for it and… This collaborator was Dudley."
Kerry now burst into laughter and even leaned forward slapping her knees. "Sure, the aliens used Dudley for their plan. Now that fact ties it all together, Kitty."
"I have seen it! I talked with it!" Kitty yelled back at her not being able to stop the laughing fit.
Kerry, next to the two, stared for a moment at Kitty, a moment her mind needed to connect the dots and color the picture. "Do you mean this client of him? This Sam?"
Kitty turned abruptly to her sister looking at her with wide-open eyes. "How do you know that?!"
"He told me once." She shrugged. "I think he just wanted to tell someone back then and… I was there."
"But why wouldn't he tell me?!" For a moment, the cat fought with her tears before breathing them back down.
"He wanted to protect you… I think that was his goal. I mean he was doing these things for five years. Just a lot of pent-up frustration."
"Okay guys, now come on. Kerry, do you really believe that?" Katty wiped some tears out of the corner of her eye as her laughter was slowly dying down.
"It explains some things to me…" Kerry said and sternly gazed at her youngest sister. "You know what I mean."
"Geeze Kerry, okay, let's pretend I believe that Dudley is helping an alien and you, Kitty, are part of the men in black, what exactly happened?"
"Last night we met to talk about everything… Okay, it was also my mission to keep an eye on him. The idea was that he would lead us to the Advisor. Anyway, things went well between the two of us. We even made up. I think you know what I mean." She gave Kerry a pointed stare while saying that which made the older cat stare back at her like a deer in headlights.
"Gosh, we get it, you shagged." Katty rolled her eyes. "Explain what happened, you can mark territory later."
"After waking up the next morning, he had left and I had to follow him. It took me some time but I found him and… I told my higher-ups. The General said a lot of things that lulled me and… I went in and confronted them."
"Dudley and Sam, you mean?"
"Don't call it like that." Kitty corrected Kerry sharply. "But yes… I entered some kind of pocket dimension and… I met it there for the first time." Kitty shuddered for a moment before continuing. "We had a fight, but I could convince Dudley to stop the collaboration. I thought maybe if he helped us against the creature, the General would pardon him but…" she stopped and turned her head back to the fog-clouded facility in the near distance. "They tasered him and took him."
"Ouch…" Katty said, trying to look into her sister's face while ignoring Kerry's face, who grimaced angrily.
"You ratted him out." She said and stared down Kitty.
The former T.U.F.F. agent slowly turned to her sister. "What did you say?" She said and grabbed Kerry by her collar. "What did you fucking say?!"
"You sold him because your job was more important to you than he was." Kerry kept staring an unforgiving look at Kitty. Unwilling to give it up even if Kitty resorted to violence. "What did this General promise? A promotion? Or would that be more expensive? Would you have to throw some more lives in the pot for that?"
Kitty lunged out with her fist ready to beat Kerry right into the mouth but, luckily for them both, Katty held Kitty's arm in place.
"I JUST LITERALLY SOLD MY SOUL TO SAFE HIM SO DON'T YOU FUCKING TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!"
"OH, ANOTHER DEAL WITH YOUR GENERAL?!" Kerry yelled back ragingly.
"NO! WITH…" Kitty closed her eyes and said through gritted teeth. "With the Advisor."
"Ah sure, now you are the chosen one of the aliens," Katty said while the sarcasm oozed through the cracks of her stern façade.
"You did what?" Kerry whispered shocked.
"Listen, he told me where to go and showed me where to get some gear… Our end goal is the same, getting Dudley out."
"So is this the reason why we are here." Katty chimed in once more fixing her gaze onto the bright spot in the fog. "You want us to help you get him out of there?"
Kitty had pulled out her cell phone, she had almost forgotten. The number she had written down connected her to a latently angry-sounding elderly female voice that greeted her with the words.
"Josie's hideout bar, what do you want?"
Kitty took a deep breath and then slowly and articulately repeated the words from the page. "Is the order for Mr. Puppy ready?" The call was immediately terminated after that. Kitty put her phone away after that, hoping the message was delivered.
"So… we are also ordering to go now?" Katty still stared at the illuminated dot but couldn't keep herself from also grinning meanwhile.
"Look, I need your help." Kitty sighed and looked at her sisters. "Going in there is dangerous and I won't make it alone… I don't want to subject you to this danger, but I am out of options. No one else would be helping me besides you two."
"Kitty, for real now…" Katty adverted her gaze from the facility and gave her older twin one of her rare stern looks. "Your whole story sounds absolutely bonkers. Besides that, you want us to break into a government facility, which is rich, no actually, insane coming from you. And for what? For getting him out? Maybe he's free in a few days, or in jail. You can visit him there. They even have these cells for conjugal visits, believe me."
"If I don't go in there, he won't survive the night," Kitty replied with a tone hard like the concrete of the building in front of them.
"Now, Kitty, you are being dramatic." Sighed Katty. "Look, let's just turn this car around and go home. Tomorrow we can find a solution."
"No." Kitty simply said. She opened the car's door and walked to the trunk returning with a shotgun in hand and definitiveness in her eyes. "If you don't want to help me, it's okay, I won't make you." She loaded the shotgun and then said before walking towards the lights "If I don't come back tell mom… just tell her something that would make her happy."
The cat ran for a short while and her two sisters soon saw her crouching and sneaking toward the guard post.
"Is she serious?" Katty leaned forward in her seat watching Kitty moving gradually closer to the post.
"Dead serious…" Kerry said at the moment Kitty took aim at the guard in his little shack and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Shit, we got to help her… she's obviously crazy." Katty and Kerry got out of the car and the younger sister was about to run toward the guardpost but Kerry called her over to the trunk. Both of them needed a few seconds to process the duffle back full of guns their goody-two-shoes sister had transported.
But given the urgency they weren't bothering themselves with too many questions. Both of them grabbed a gun and arrived sprinting at the small building inside of which Kitty was holding a walkie talkie towards a bunny in guard uniform who was propped up against the wall holding his chest.
"Tell them everything is up to code, or I'll get the lethal ammo." Kitty hissed and then pushed the button on the walkie-talkie.
"Everything alright out here, don't worry." The bunny said trying to sound as normal as possible.
"All right…" The voice from the walkie-talkie echoed in the metal shack. "Stop making so much noise then."
Kitty nodded satisfied before knocking out the guard with a blow from the butt of her shotgun.
"Jeeze, Kitty, are you mental?!" Katty hissed shocked.
"Don't worry, he'll survive." She meant almost casually as she searched him.
"We got to go now, otherwise we…"
"Get down!" Kerry jumped at all of them and pulled them down to the ground. Before the sisters could complain they were silenced by the noise of several vehicles passing their guard post in a hurry.
"Now or never," Kitty said and crawled from underneath the cat pile.
"Wait, Kitty, how do we…" Kerry wanted to say but her sister simply called to her while running.
"Just follow me, I will explain the rest while we go in." And then she disappeared through a metal door into the facility.
Kerry looked at Katty and both of them sighed. They knew they couldn't just let Kitty run to her doom. After all, who would explain that to their mother? So, they simply nodded at each other and followed her sister into the bowels of the building.
-I wouldn't want to be the one to explain that to Mrs. Katswell.
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