Thinking about the conversation, this kept Shark
and Piranha up all night, thinking about what Wolf said. Later that night, they both got up, can't sleep due to Shark's rumbling belly and what Wolf and Snake said. Then went into the kitchen to get a midnight snack, Piranha still puzzled about the conversation.

"Hey Shark?" Piranha said.

"Yeah Piranha?" Shark said.

"Did you think that Wolf would leave us for the
good life?" He asked.

"What? No, of course not." Shark chuckled.

"That's never gonna happen, Wolf would never
abandon us." He said.

"Huh I guess your right." Piranha said. But as they entered the kitchen they saw that someone else was awake too...Princess.

They were both shocked as they saw her standing
on the edge of the counter holding the last push
pop. She giggles then when they saw her get up and walked.

"PRINCESS!" They both gasped.

When She fell off the edge of the counter, she
screamed laughing unaware that she was going to
hit her head, shark and piranha panicked.
Shark ran then he fell and caught princess in his
large hands. He breath in a sigh of relief to see she was okay, she laughed as Shark hold her up and puts her back on the counter.

"You got to be more careful, we don't want to be
held responsible for you getting hurt." He rubs her head when she giggles at him.

"But maybe Wolf is right." Piranha says.

"Huh what do you mean?" Shark asked as he walks to the fridge.

"I mean what if we could be more then just bad
guys, have you ever wondered what it would be like if people could live us instead of being afraid of us?" Piranha said.

Shark takes a moment to think about the serious
thought then he laughs.

"Yeah like that will ever happen, I mean if the
world loved us then how come we're not free, man I'm starving I wish Snake would've just give me that push pop, I hope that Guinea pig still got more of that push pop." Shark said.

Shark reaches for the top handle of the freezer.

"Uhh isn't that stealing?" Piranha asked.

"It's not stealing, we're just borrowing it." Shark
chuckles but as he opens the fridge, he frowns
when he sees that it's empty.

"Aw there's no more." He moaned. He closes the fridge then walks over to the other side of the counter where Princess was sitting, he sits down next to her, frowning.

"I guess Princess took the last one" shark sighed
sadly.

As Princess opens the push pop and is about to eat it, she stops when she sees how upset shark, how badly he wanted a push pop, she looks at the push pop then backs at Shark.

Then the most cutest thing ever happened, she
gives him her last push pop, she holds it out to him. Shark glanced but was surprised to see Princess holding the push pop to him.

"Your giving me your push pop?" He asked and gasped as Shark gently takes the push pop.

Princess smiles and nods her head.

"Thank you." Shark was speechless as he smiles at
princess then suddenly his fin started to wag.

"Whoa!" He was surprised by his fin as much as
piranha was.

"Whoa what was that?" Piranha asked, "What's going on with your fin?"

"I don't know?" Shark said as he grabs his fin and tries to calm it down. They both looked at each other and realized something.

"Was that the good tingling feeling that Guinea pig was talking about?" Piranha asked.

"I don't know maybe but it felt so good." Shark says as he smiles at the thought of his fin wagging, he liked that feeling.

Moments later, they walked upstairs and carried
princess to bed. Piranha had hold princess in his arms, cradling her, he sees her looking at him smiling and patting his chin. Piranha looks at her and smiles back.

"Okay you little tiny terror, it's time for you to go to bed, we got some important things to do in the
morning." he coos her.

"Ok." she giggles, as Shark hops on the top bunk
bed, Piranha walks over to the crib and places
princess in.

He tucks her in bed and puts the blanket over her,
but princess gets up, places her little paws on the
handles and faces piranha.

"Well it's time for bed little chica." piranha rubs her head then suddenly... He sees her smile at tenderly touch, she giggles at Piranha then she grabs both of his cheeks.

"Huh hey what are yo-" He bewildered when he saw how she was rubbing his cheeks, he felt the warmth of her touch, savoring her touches.

He closes his eyes and smiles as he felt that same
feeling wolf was feeling, unconditional love from a child. He quickly lets go although he wanted her to continue on, he takes her hands and pulls them off. Then his Mohawk started to wag.

"Ah!" Piranha screams as he tries to keep it still then tucks her back in bed and dashed off.

"Well good night bye." He said as he hops back in bed, surprised and shocked of what just happened, he breath heavily.

"Hey" Shark whispers, "you okay?"

"Yeah-yeah I'm good hermano." He said as he looks back at the crib Princess was sleeping in and smiles.

The next afternoon, the Bad Guys prepared for
their big night as early coverage of that evening's
gala filled TV screens across the citv. Wolf was going over the plan, while after last night's encounter with princess had piranha and shark thinking everything they been through and the love they saw in princess's eyes.

"Alright, guys," Wolf said, drawing the other guys in
close. "

This is the big one." He explained the challenge that lay ahead of them, considering the extra protections that were in place for the Golden Dolphin statue after their last heist attempt. The Golden Dolphin is inside a titanium case controlled by a randomly generated five-digit code- a code kept safe and secure inside a briefcase, handcuffed to the chief of police.

Piranha whistled. "She's not messing around."

"The code is only accessible with her
authorized fingerprint." Wolf said.

"Leave that to me," Snake assured the others.

"While Snake gets the code," Wolf went on, "Shark will secure the fake dolphin."

"I like the sound of that." Shark smiled.

"Meanwhile, the rest of us plant circuit jammers."
Wolf explained.

"Allowing me to hack into the power grid," Webs
said.

"At the end of the night," Wolf went on. "We toast
the professor. Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda, and when I say Marmalade, lights go out, and
we'll have exactly four seconds to make our move."

Snake chuckled. "The ol' switcheroo..." He could
already imagine their moment of glory: He'd enter the code to crack into the titanium case, it would open, and they the Bad Guys would swap the Golden Dolphin for a dummy dolphin. They'd close the case back up, quick and easy, and the lights would be back on again.

"Chief hands Marmalade his fake dolphin, we get
our pardon, applause applause, exit stage right,
and... By the time they realize what happened-"

"SO LONG, SUCKERS!!" A pre-programmed,
mocking GIF of Wolf lowering a pair of sunglasses onto his face flashes across the screens onstage. Wolf nodded, proud of the plan, "We'll be driving off into the sunset, like a legacy cemented."

Everyone chuckles.

"I gotta hand it to you," Snake said to Wolf. "You're a real artist."

"Thanks now while the chief , the JL, and all of the police force scattered around the city looking for us, we'll be at chesterfield mansion where he'll be having his anniversary party there while all will be busy staying on guard, Snake will sneak in Thomas master bedroom, grabs the loot and leaves Princess tied up where Thomas will find her unharmed but his safe broke, we'll have the money and golden dolphin, Princess will be out of our hair then we'll be living the rich live out of this city free in no time." Wolf explained.

As everyone clapped, Shark and Piranha looked
distracted as they realized that they won't be seeing princess any time or soon.

"Alright everyone let's get ready." Wolf said. everyone goes to get dress in some formal nice clothing, Wolf was in a room with Princess.
She was looking at him while babbling baby words at him.

"Hey you finally ready to go home, you ready to see your dad again?" he bends down while playing with her, she laughs cluelessly of what he was talking about.

"Of course you are." He tickles her tiny stomach
then he tries to fix his tie but struggles with it.

"Ugh as soon as I fix my tie." he said as he was still bending down next to princess, she watches him struggle with it then. Wolf stops when he sees princess reaching her hands out to him then fixing his tie. He was surprised but grateful by the kind gesture.

"Oh thank you." he stares at the baby kitten then
starts to wonder about that time when she created chaos in their hideout.

"Huh you know I wonder how did you dad ever
handle you, you little troublemaker" wolf asked her then suddenly...She did something that changed his life, she hugs his chest, nuzzling her head against him, looking up at him with the most adorable puppy eyes and says: "Daddy" she cooed.

This shocked Wolf as he realized he broke the
number one rule of kidnapping: never fall in love
with the captive or in this case a child.

Wolf felt that good tingling again as he tail wagged. princess let's go and looks at him smiling tenderly. Wolf places both of his big large hands on her soft fuzzy small cheeks and started stroking them with his thumb, he saw how she was giggling by this tender moment, smiling, she puts her hands on top of his thumbs, savoring his warmth. He smiles as he continues to rub her cheeks, he then felt that unconditional love again when he smiles. This has him thinking about the plan as he wondered.

"Could there be a better live for us, should I risked everything for a child, for Princess and what will Snake and the other guys think?" he thought to himself.

Wolf then wanted Princess to be more then just a
abduct gold mine, oh no he wanted her to be more then that. Just then as Wolf starts to let one hand go if her, Piranha and Shark were standing at the door, watched the whole thing.

"You felt it too didn't you hermano." Piranha said.

Wolf screams as he turns to see a concern look on their faces, he was startled by them as he lets go of princess. Wolf felt terrified but he knew he had to come clean.

"Guys I-" he looks at Princess then makes a serious look.

"Look guys I been thinking about this a lot lately
and-"

Wolf look there something you need to know, last
night we went In The kitchen to get a snack when
we saw Princess on the kitchen counter" Piranha
says.

"Then I saved her and she gave her push pop and it felt so nice, I felt a wagged in my tail." Shark told him then this made Wolf smiled as he knew they felt what he felt.

"So you guys felt it too right the wagged, the good
tingling feeling." Wolf grins.

"Yep" Shark nodded.

"I went to put her to bed then I felt it in my
Mohawk, unconditional love from a child and it felt good." Piranha said.

"It feels so good and-" Piranha was interrupted by
Shark.

"We loved that good feeling, we want to feel it again even if it involves with giving up everything." He said.

"We were thinking that maybe we should give up
being bad guys just for Princess." Piranha said as he frowns sadly but Wolf thought about it.

"I'm sorry guys but we have to stick to plan, we
can't postpone the heist, even for a child, Snake
wouldn't like it." Wolf said sadly.

The three frowned.

Just then, Marmalade knocked on the door and
opened it, flung open the door.

"Hello guys are you ready?" He asked.

"Uhh yeah we'll meet you downstairs in a minute." Wolf said.

Professor marmalade nods his head, closes the
door and leaves. Wolf looks back at Piranha and Shark who were looking down.

"Look guys I'm sorry but it has to be this way, even if I'll hate it but this is no life for Princess, I mean come on criminals with a child, I don't think we'd have a chance with Princess." Wolf sigh sadly.

"Alright we understand hermano, but just know we saw that same look in princess eyes when she was with you it was the same look she saw in us, she loves us, I JUST hope your making the right
choice" Piranha says.

"Yeah you do this and you'll be letting of such a
great thing, it's your call Wolf." Shark added.

Wolf thinks about what Piranha and Shark says as the three exit the room with Princess. Meanwhile on the other side of the outside the
room, Snake overheard everything, he begins to
worry. Downstairs, Wolf goes downstairs to see everyone waited for him.

"Oh good your here let's go." Webs says.
Then Wolf sees professor marmalade carrying a
sleeping Princess and puts her in the pen.

"Alright you be a good girl and we'll all be right
back." He said.

Wolf felt unsure of leaving Princess alone.

"Whoa she's not coming with us, I thought she was coming with us, why are we leaving her here, we can't leave her here by herself!" Wolf shouts.

"Oh, she'll be just fine, my servant will look after
her." Marmalade added.

"I don't know if it's a good idea to leave her here."
Wolf howled.

"She'll be fine Wolf." Professor Marmalade tells him as he walks past by him to the door the snake
follows.

"Yeah why do you care, it's not like you care about
her do you." Snake says suspicious,"Come on let's go."

He slither to the door as everyone leaves, Wolf looks back at the sleeping Princess then when she turns her head facing him, he smiles then shuts the door.

Tiffany Fluffit was first on the scene of the charity
event, reporting live from the red carpet, a few
hours before the start of the festivities.

"What up, We are just minutes away from Marmalade's Gala for Goodness, where the legendary Love Crater Meteorite will be on display for the first time ever!" she said, smiling into the camera.

"But what everyone is really buzzing about,
Tiffany said over the footage, "is the Bad Guys
whose heart-melting rescue video has made them
an overnight viral sensation."