Chapter 29: The Abandoned Warehouse

Putty and Mackenzie had barely returned to the apartment when the old landline phone on the wall rang with a shrill, antiquated tone. Putty was startled by the sudden noise and, purely on reflex, punched the device. The phone exploded into pieces of plastic and wires, flying through the air.

Mackenzie was outraged, eyes wide: — Are you crazy?! Why did you do that? It could have been Margot!

Putty didn’t understand anything, falling into total panic: — What do you mean? She could have been trapped inside that thing???

Mackenzie took a deep breath, realizing that Putty genuinely had no idea what a telephone was. She explained patiently, but still irritated:

— No ... I forgot you’re from another planet. That was a telephone ... An old telephone, but still a telephone. It’s for us to communicate with people who are far away.

Putty was relieved, letting out the air she didn’t even know she was holding:

— Ahhh, like the cell phone that Mary and Joan had on the farm.

She had barely finished speaking when the cell phone inside Mackenzie’s purse started ringing. The reporter ran, grabbed the device and protected it with her body in case Putty decided to destroy that one too. She looked at the unknown number and answered:

— Hello? Who is this?

On the other end of the line, Peggy’s high-pitched, irritating voice sounded: — Miss Alexaaah asked me to teeell you that she has already discovered where your frieeeend is.

Putty heard everything and, without thinking twice, grabbed Mackenzie in her arms as if she weighed nothing. She shoved the apartment window open and jumped outside, propelling herself through the skies of Gozopolis with a strong, noisy anal jet of diarrhea.

Mackenzie, still holding the cell phone, screamed in pure terror while flying. Peggy, on the other end of the line, got worried:

— What happeeeened? Why are you screeeeaming? Do you need heeelp? Oooh my Gooood!

A few minutes later, Putty once again went through the same reinforced window of Alexa Corp that she had destroyed before. This time the Soldiers did not attack, they had already been warned. They simply escorted her in silence to Alexa’s office.

Upon seeing Putty and Mackenzie, Peggy jumped up from her desk, ran to them and hugged them tightly, tears in her huge eyes behind her glasses:

— I thooought something had happened to yooou! Suddenly you started screeeeaming on the phone! I got so worrieeed! Thank goooodness everything is fiiine!

Putty and Mackenzie stood frozen, surprised by the hug. Putty asked, confused:

— Hmm, you know that your boss and I are enemies, right?

Peggy pulled back a little, still sniffling: — Yeees, buuut that doesn’t mean I want yooou to get huuurt...

The two looked at each other and shrugged, laughing softly. Mackenzie gave two affectionate pats on Peggy’s head:

— We’re fine. I only screamed because we came flying and I’m afraid of heights.

They entered Alexa’s office. The bald woman was standing calmly, pissing a strong golden jet straight into Iza’s open mouth, who was kneeling in front of her, swallowing everything without spilling a drop.

Without stopping what she was doing, Alexa said in a calm, provocative voice: — Your friend is in an abandoned warehouse at the docks. Typical ... It was one of the first places we looked. They’re probably just some lowlife thugs.