The kitten ripped Toby's throat out with its teeth. I turned away in disgust.
"Poor Toby," I said. "He was a good dog. Yes he was! Who's a good dog? You're a good dog! But now you're dead."
"Don't worry, Wackson, that wasn't the real Toby," said Dr Dave, unmoved by the canine's brutal death. "That was just Toby's twin brother who they kept locked up because he was a bastard."
"Oh, never mind then!" I said.
"It doesn't matter!" said the crazed Inspector Tomtrek. "I'll kill you both anyway! And even if I don't, I've already told my boss Chief Inspector Headvoid that the Chinaman hasn't REALLY returned! That it was all just a hologram created by that HUSSY Cassie! You'll go back to prison for murdering those nuns!"
"...those nuns who are still alive?" I asked. "Those nuns who now SURROUND you?"
"Darn!" said Tomtrek. "But ha! What do you think you're going to do against me, you pathetic nuns!"
"Don't you understand yet?" asked the Spokesnun Nun. "The kittens were just the first prototypes. An early experiment by our father Bacon. They were created to have superior minds, to not age, and to be able to KICK SOME BUTT. And guess what? So were we!" And then all seventeen nuns attacked Tomtrek, brutally beating the stuffing out of him.
"Bravo!" I said. "But why didn't you use your fighting skills before?"
"Because our skills are such that we can kill a man without a second thought," said the Spokesnun. "Our father told us to NEVER use our abilities unless it was absolutely necessary. Or unless someone really pissed us off! For, you see, just to make things absolutely clear...WE are the Deadly Kittens."
"Well, that statement pretty much wraps things up around here!" said Cassie. "We know that the Prawn King was just a pawn employed by the REAL villain of the piece, Inspector Tomtrek of the Yard! Now that he's been caught, the nuns can live normal lives!"
"All seventeen of us together, in a big nun castle!" said the Spokesnun.
"Hmm," said Dr Dave, thinking. "I agree that everything SEEMS to have been wrapped up, but there's something still bothering me. I just can't put my finger on what..."
"Hello hello hello, what's all this then!" said Chief Inspector Headvoid, entering the zoo. "Toby the dog's evil brother dead? The Prawn King and Tomtrek all tied up? Seventeen living nuns? What has been going on here, Detective Dr Dave?"
"Allow me to tell you everything from the start!" said Dr Dave, smiling. He loved telling everything from the start. I smiled. Everything was okay. Life was good. Dr Dave and I would go on to have many more adventures, each sexier than the last!
EPILOGUE
Inspector Tomtrek sat in the police interview room, waiting. He had said he'd come to see him. The Master. Where was he? Finally the door opened. Tomtrek breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally!" he said. "I thought you'd never get here! Dr Dave foiled my scheme, as you can see!"
"Yes," said the Master, disappointed. "He always does, doesn't he? But it wasn't your scheme, Tomtrek. It was mine. Dr Dave has no idea that I brainwashed you into carrying out my will. He thinks you're the real villain here, when in fact you're as much of a pawn as the Prawn King was. I'll just have to find another way to get my hands on those seventeen Deadly Kitten nuns."
"Yes, Master," said Tomtrek. "And I'll assist you, as I have been programmed to do."
"Of course you will!" said the Master. "I just have one more question. One of vanity."
"What is it, Lord?" asked Tomtrek.
"You didn't see me for a while," said the Master. "While you were carrying out my plans..."
"No, Master," said Tomtrek.
"Well, did you miss me?" asked Dr Dace, Tomtrek's Master and the real villain of the piece!
THE END!?