Credit goes to AShruinger for her character Bubby, Sid's Gorilla. And of course to divergent_spn61 for help in writing most of this! :) 

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Back in Tampa, Florida, at Amalie Arena,

Tyler Johnson looks at the silver plate and sees the cookies on the ground and mumbles, "Kuch would never do that to cookies. Even if crumbs of cookies were on the ground, Kuch would still eat them...something isn't right here!"

Vladdy steps into the room and gasps. "What in the world happened here?"

"Either Kuch went crazy eating cookies, or someone took him and Pally." TJ looks around the kitchen and sighs. "And by the way it looks, it seems like someone kidnapped them. SOMEONE KIDNAPPED MY LINEMATES!!!"

Vladdy holds his hands out in a 'settle down' motion. "Whoa, whoa, Johnny. Who would want to kidnap Pally and Kuch? We had all of our suspects in that meeting, did we forget anyone? And where is the proof of them being kidnapped?"

TJ points to the wreckage in the kitchen. "Other than what's around us and we heard someone screaming...wait! Kuchereon!" He then starts to walk quickly towards the Bolts' locker room.

"Kuchereon?" Vladdy can only look at him in confusion, wondering what in the world TJ is talking about. Then he follows the small man out of the room and toward where the locker room is. What does Nikita's favorite stuffed animal Pokemon have anything to do with this? He can't quite know what he is talking about because he isn't...constantly attached to the Triplets like TJ is.

TJ opens the door to the locker room and sees the rookie Brayden Point holding a small stuffed blue dog-like creature. The stuffed animal is light blue for the most part, with purple eyes. The ears are a light golden yellow, with an aqua border. The stuffed animal has a Tampa Bay Lightning pet collar on it, and the tag is a shiny Bolts blue and silver.

Brayden is trying to read the name on the collar, but he can't. He hears Vladdy and TJ walk in, and yells to them, "Look what Brayden found! But there's something funny written on the name tag of this stuffed animal."

TJ runs over to Brayden and takes the stuff animal from his hands. "Yup. Kuch and Pally have been kidnapped. Kuch never goes anywhere without Kuchereon." He smacks his forehead with his palm.

Brayden points at the stuffed animal. "Is that what the collar says?"

TJ glances at Vladdy, who sighs and rolls his eyes. "Well, there isn't a real Russian word for Kuchereon, so Kuch put 'печенье питание Бадди' on it instead." (Cookie eating buddy)

"It's a Vaporeon from Pokemon...don't ask. It was something JT introduced him to," Vladdy sighs. "He's the Pokemon Guru."

"Wow...Brayden didn't realize Kuch had something like this. Does anyone else have something like this in the NHL?" Brayden questions, his eyes shimmering in the light with his burning curiosity.

Vladdy sighs and rolls his eyes. "Don't even get me started on Bubby..."

"Who's he?" Brayden questions aloud.

TJ laughs and smiles. "Well, when you get the chance, ask Sidney Crosby about that. It's best if you ask him when he's not mad at us."

Brayden shakes his head, maintaining his smile. "Brayden wouldn't have expected that."

TJ nods. "Yeah, and Kuchereon is always with Kuch. So, if he's not with Kuch, then that means..."

Vladdy blurts out, "He's been kidnapped! Along with Pally! We have to let the team know about this now!"

TJ nods his head in agreement as Brayden jumps up to his feet. The Spokainian keeps Kuchereon, the Vaporeon in his hands as all three of them run out the locker room and back into the meeting room, where they see Steven Stamkos sitting in a chair.

Steven instantly sees them come in. "Did you find anything?"

TJ, who frantically wants to go find his friends, states, "Yes, we found-"

Jonathan Drouin shouts out as he stands up, "YOUR MOM!" The three Bolts who'd ran in look at him in disappointment, and he sits back down, quietly saying, "Your mom will be sorry about how you reacted."

Steven sighs. "Anyhow, what did you find?"

TJ frowns. "Brayden found Kuchereon in the locker room. Meanwhile, Vladdy and I saw the kitchen. It looks like mass chaos occurred there!"

Vladdy continues on, "Johnny thinks that Pally and Kuch have been kidnapped by someone! And we know that they're gone because Kuchereon is still here and there's a mess of cookies - two abnormal things, so who could it be?"

"It can't be anyone that we thought. Who knows who it could be now? For all we know, someone else could be suffering because of this person!"

"Well, you know it's NOT me!" Sidney Crosby's voice comes from the entrance of the room.

They all spin to him.

The Penguin walks in holding onto a stuffed Gorilla. "Oh my Bubbys, I could never ever ever harm someone - even a Bolts!"

"Brayden would hope not," Brayden states.

TJ walks over to the Penguin captain. "And what are you doing here?"

"Bubby has news! Bubby talked to Kuchereon and then told me that Blondie and Small Dude are right!! The Baby and Babysitter were kidnapped!" Sidney reports.

TJ looks at the Vaporeon in his hand. "Kuchereon, is this true?" There is silence as Brayden and Vladdy share a look with one another and then TJ looks around awkwardly. "Why am I talking to a Pokemon stuffed animal? I'M GOING CRAZY!! STAMMER!!"

"TJ, settle down." Steven looks at Sidney. "Sid, did YOU see who kidnapped them?"

Sidney looks at Bubby and lifts him up to his face and then says in another voice, like his Gorilla is speaking, "Yes, I did."

Steven sighs and rolls his eyes. "Who was it, Sid?"

Sidney lowers the Gorilla and looks at the anxious faces of the Bolts. He drops his childish act and says normally, "It was Auston Matthews."

Steven gasps and looks at his friends, who look up at him. Vladdy shakes his head. "That means..." He looks at the door with wide eyes.