As Ven, Tika and Biz reached the second to last floor, they found themselves in a large, barren... Kitchen? "What... Are we really going to fight in a kitchen. Why do I get the lame one?" Ven said with a sigh as they began looking around the room for the last Decaynine.
Tika glanced around, noticing that everything was powered off, which she just wrote off as the building being put on lockdown. She and Biz began going over any intel they had on Panila's guards, but they quickly realised that Panila's guards were a more closely guarded secret then they originally realised.
But as Ven was looking around, he heard a bizarre humming coming from a backroom. He looked over to see a bright orange fox in a black white and orange apron over their combat uniform. Ven tried to make out what gender they were but couldn't, as the Fox seemed to be cooking something.
"And the finishing tooouch..." They said as the put a singular piece of bacon on top of a ham and cheese sandwich. They stuck an olive on a top a toothpick before adding it to the sandwich with a grin before they sat down and began to eat, seemingly failing to notice Ven.
Ven motioned for Tika, who put Biz down behind a cupboard before coming over, seeing the Fox. "You reckon that's them?"
"No shit. I remember them from when I first got in the city. That's the last Decaynine." He said as he looked to Tika with a slight scowl at the dumb question.
"What are ya two talking about?"
"Watching this Decaynine." Ven said as he turned back to look at the Fox, only to quickly realise they were right behind them. The two quickly jumped back, readying their weapons. "How the hell did they move so quick?" Zamtika mumbled in confusion as the Fox was casually munching on their sandwich.
Biz seemed to feel something familiar about the Fox, but couldn't put her finger on it as the Fox gave a casual wave. "Yo. I'm Bite. Last one of Panila's guards. You're that rabbit, right? The one Panila hates. Neat."
"You're pretty casual for a guy we're about to kill." Tika smirked, looking the fox up and down as she slowly approached, trying to intimidate them. But Ven felt something was off as the Fox was casually holding a frying pan.
Tid-Bit suddenly took control as she went to yank the pan from their hand. "Don't touch the pan!" She yelled just as Zamtika touched it. Tika let out a screech as she was electrocuted beyond belief. "F-F-F-F-F-F-uuuucki-i-i-i-ing h-h-h-h-help m-m-m-me-e-e-e!!" She yelled as she was spasming from the high voltages of electricity running through her body.
Ven quickly snapped back control, shooting the pan as Tika fell to the floor, twitching lightly, completely incapacitated. Ven tried his best not to laugh at Zamtika being tasered as Bite was laughing their ass off.
"That never gets old. So, bun-bun. We fighting or what?" Bite said with a smile, readying their frying pan. "Alrighty almighty." He smirked, readying his gun-blade.
The two quickly went for each other, with Fox being surprisingly much faster then Ven had initially anticipated. They hit them with the blunt pan, almost caving his skull in with one good strike, luckily he couldn't feel physical pain. He quickly stabbed his blade in Bite's foot, firing a shot and mangling it.
"Ah. That hurts." They snickered, kicking Ven back with the now mangled foot. Ven began firing off pot shots at them, but they easily blinked in and out between the bullets, moving like an orange lightning bolt.
"You think you can dodge?" Bite smirked, going for an uppercut, only for Ven to open a portal just in front of his face in the nick of time, redirecting the hit into a wall. "Keep up, slow poke." Ven smirked and making them laugh lightly.
They backed off and began using the pan like a guitar, firing off lightning bolts in a horizontal line towards Ven, though he let it hit as he opened a portal behind him. Bite's fox tail went from wagging in excitement to falling limp when they saw that electricity wasn't going to work on the undead rabbit. "Aww? S-S-S-Surprised?" Ven said with a smirk, though seeming a bit glitchy from the electrification.
He quickly fired another pot shot at Bite, but they easily dodged. "Why don't you just mail me the bullet?" They snickered, failing to realise that Ven had opened a portal behind them, and as the bullet passed through the small portal, he smirked and jumped out the way as a enlarged bullet was now barrelling towards Bite.
Bite tried to dodge, but their left arm got caught, removing most of it rather quickly as it destroyed the kitchen pretty quickly. Ven smirked at them as they were clutching their arm in frustration. "What? Not so smug when someone can keep up-" Before Ven could finish his sentence, the fox was already in front of him, shoving their hand to his heart and unleashing a devastating amount of electricity.
He was sent flying back as he felt Tid-Bit shut down from the large amount of power surging through his corpse. "Not so smug when you're out of power?" Bite snickered, leaning down to his face. Ven tried to open a portal, but without Tid-Bit, couldn't use his heart power to its full extent.
As Bite was gloating, he noticed Biz slowly crawling towards Zamtika and her gun-lance. He thought quick on his feet as he asked; "Since this was fun, I'll answer any question you have."
Bite seemed to think over the question, and snapped their fingers with a smirk. "Alright then... Who is Biz?"
"Really? Out of everything you could ask, you ask me about Biz?"
"Yeah. Now talk!"
Ven began thinking over what he really knew about Biz, having only actually met her a few minutes ago. "Uhm... I know she runs the underground's underground. That's really it. But do you wanna know something better?"
"What?" Bite asked with a smug look as they raised their frying pan to Ven's head, ready to cave it in. "You should be more Biz-ness casual." He laughed and as Bite began to realise what he meant, half their torso was decimated by one shot of Tika's lance.
Bite was mortally wounded, but used any remaining strength to quickly blink away in a blur to the next floor.
Ven sighed, barely able to function as he kicked Zamtika to wake her up. And as she slowly stirred awake, everyone else, except Iyu and Nvr, had managed to catch up to them. And as everyone caught each other up on what happened, Rat let out a yell of rage when she heard that Vinea had lost Desire's heart to strike team Cerbi.
"Woah, relax Rat." Ven said as he gave Vinea a reassuring pat on the back, but Rat wasn't so much worried about what Panila could do with it, but what Cerbi themselves could use it for. Tika began trying to calm Rat down, but her rage had reached a boiling point.
"You better hope in my name we can beat them." She grumbled, and began making her way up the stairs. Everyone soon began following behind as well, but Biz couldn't help but still question herself on why the Decaynines were so familiar to her.
"Just who are they?"