"I called you here an hour ago. You decided to show up an hour later." Those were the words of Quicksand, or Boss.

Sitting on chairs in front of us were Boss, Boss, and other Boss. In other words, Boss, Lady Boss, and Boss 3. In other other words, they were Quicksand, Cicada, and Gravel.

But I like to call them Boss, Lady Boss, and Boss 3. It's much easier.

Instead, I asked, "Hey, Boss, I thought we were kicked out of here."

Trivia glared at me. "Are you trying to get on his bad side?"

Pay murmured, "Target doesn't even need to try to do that."

"ALL OF YOU! QUIET!" One of the Bosses yelled, in a deep booming voice. I'm pretty sure it was Boss 3, also known as Gravel.

The other two Bosses were staring at us. Lady Boss, Cicada, had her jaw clenched tightly. Like she was trying to crack a pistachio, the ones that are completely covered by the shell without an opening, with her teeth. Quicksand just looked barely amused.

"This is what you interrupted my game for?" Lady Boss growled to Boss, glancing at the room behind.

There was a door at the side of the bookshelf, where the lights were currently turned off. But almost everyone knew what the room was. Or, at least I knew what was in the room, I'm not sure about the rest.

The room was what was known as the game room. All the victims we interrogated, all the witnesses we caught, all the government people or defendants we caught (if lucky) went in there. Sometimes they're screams were heard. The screams only appeared when Lady Boss was there, playing her little games, having some fun torturing them. Other times the walls were painted in red, splatters of red.

Sometimes Lady Boss came out of the room, also covered in splatters of red, whenever she was done with her games. She found it fun. It was all a game to her.

I guess we all had different definitions of fun.

"You know very well why you're here. And you also know that this can't be made with just the two of us," Boss replied hastily.

"Fine, fine. Let's make this quick: we have some news to tell you," Lady Boss's raspy voice cut through the silence of the three of us non-Bosses.

"After lots of discussion amongst ourselves," Boss started. "we have come to a consensus."

I raised my hand.

Lady Boss snarled. "Put your hand down or I chop it off for you!"

"It's important," I insisted.

Lady Boss started to unsheathe her sword. She slowly raised it upward.

My hand lowered and I crossed my arms before it could get cut off.

Words were muttered under my breath. "I just wanted to ask what they were discussing about." They never gave us context. How were we supposed to know anything without context? That was like asking us to do algebra without giving us a math problem! Or calculus without teaching it to us!

"If we have no more interruptions, I'll happily move on. Unless, of course, you want to spend your entire free day in here," Boss told us.

Right, the free day for us was today. I'd completely forgotten about it. Us Crowns get only one day off out of the entire year. It could be used for free time, vacation, or sick leaves. But we only got one.

Unless of course, you were killed or fired. Then you had an unlimited amount of free days. Though you wouldn't be a part of the Crowns anymore. And may not have any life.

Taking Boss 3's advice from earlier, I kept quiet.

Boss continued on with his speech. "Anyways, all of us have come to a conclusion after a long thinking process. We took a lot of time and reflected on this decision-"

"Spit it out already!" Trivia said. "We don't have all day! I'd like to use the one free day I have "

Boss 3 exchanged glances (if that's physically possible) with the other Bosses. Lady Boss and Boss nodded in return. Boss 3 looked back at us and spat out the words. The words I've heard about two hundred times in my life, maybe even more.

"You're Fired."

"WHAT?" Trivia shouted in outrage. "Why are we fired?"

"This isn't the first time you messed up your mission" Boss three plainly replied. "We're tired of it. We don't need your incompetence on our team."

"No we haven't," I argued. "We've only set the back on fire once while stealing money, about three months ago. And we've gone to jail only twice before, but escaped in 24 hours. And yesterday the police saw us escaping with the elephant. That's all!"

Trivia slapped her forehead very loudly to my right. Was there a mosquito on her forehead?

"That's Target's fault! She's the one always getting us in trouble! She's the incompetent, stupid one! If anything, it should be her who's fired. Not me." Trivia argued.

"Trivia, I'm right here," I told her. "Also, I don't think I'm incompetent. I was fighting the police officers while you were looking at your compact mirror last night. Unless we have different definitions of incompetence..."

Lemonhead's face was red when she looked at me, and I don't think it was a sunburn, as there was no sun in here.

"And as a team," Boss continued, ignoring my mini-speech, "you should've stopped her by all means necessary." As if right on cue, the Boss (regular Boss) smashed a grape in half. Where did he get a grape? I didn't know.

"Listen up before we dismiss you. Starting from now, you'll have 2 hours to get ready and leave," Lady Boss snapped. "Stay here for more, and we'll collect your heads as prizes."

At those words, Lady Boss's face seemed hungry, like having heads as prizes was fun. She did have a whole room full of heads in her office area. I've never seen it, those were just rumors from other people who have seen it.

But collecting heads as prizes just sounded really messy. Plus it involved a lot of blood and stained blades.

"When do those two hours start, exactly?" It wasn't me who asked. Instead, it was Pay. Trivia seemed surprised that I wasn't the one talking. I myself was also very surprised.

Lady Boss let out a thin smile. "Now."

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A/N:

To be honest, this wasn't really my favorite chapter to right. It didn't really meet my personal expectations.

Anyways, I don't know if you can tell or not, but Lady Boss (Cicada) is a bit... unhinged. 

But from here, I guess you can say the action starts. So, that's fun. And I promise you this won't be the last time you see all 3 Bosses. Or should I say, ex-Bosses?

Have an amazing day/night!