Chapter 166: Scarlet joins the squad

"Why in the world is he here?" Thankappan asked as he pointed at Scarlet.

"Well, I just had to." Taro replied.

"I know every one of your faces." Scarlet spoke with a confident smirk on his face.

"Okay dude! Were you just threatening us?" Thankappan asked as he grabbed Scarlet's collar.

"Not really. I just gave out one of the many reasons why you should help me." Scarlet spoke.

"No one's gonna believe you. You know that, right?" Thankappan asked.

"Yea, an MIB agent's word would be more credible than a robber's. However, in certain cases where the evidence is too in your face to miss out, they will have no choice but to believe in them." Scarlet replied.

"Like right now?" The MIB agent asked.

"Exactly. The people from the headquarters are here. I can literally walk out of this house like right now and have a little chat session with them." Scarlet replied.

"Goddamn it! We're trapped!" Thankappan exclaimed.

"I got a way though. And that involves you saving my ass." Scarlet replied.

"How exactly do you want your ass saved?" Thankappan asked.

"Well, accommodation with you will be sufficient for me." Scarlet gave out a genuine smile this time around.

"You do know how small this room is, right?" S asked.

"I'm well aware of that." Scarlet replied.

"Then why would you do something like this?" Thankappan asked as he internally sighed.

"I don't have many friends. So no one's gonna save my ass other than myself if I'm trapped in a jail situated in one random planet. Also, me not having friends also means that I don't have a place to take refuge." Scarlet replied.

"Hmm. That's actually a pretty valid reason." Taro replied.

"Wait, there's a problem." Kunjan raised his hand just as the deal seemed official.

"What is it?" The MIB agent asked.

"John and Lonappan. Especially John since he lives with us. How the hell are we gonna hide this person from him?" The plankton asked.

"Ha. I didn't think of it before, but how are we gonna deal with—is what you thought I would say. But no. He is a great robber, isn't he? Surely he can escape through a few old doors!" Thankappan came out with the proposition.

"So, we're really gonna have him crash on here, huh?" Taro asked, as if finalizing the decision.

"Unfortunately, that's the only way I see." Thankappan replied.

"Yay!" Scarlet thought of yelling it out but was happy with a small cheer as well.

"Remove that t-shirt. We'll do a proper first aid for your hand." Kunjan spoke as he took out the first aid kit.

As Kunjan was tending to the wound that Taro caused in Scarlet's hand, a call came to Thankappan's phone, which he obviously answered.

"Hello." He spoke.

"It's Ponnappan."

"Hello, sir. How are you-" Without giving Thankappan a chance to complete his sentence, Ponnappan got to his point.

"What the hell happened there?" He asked.

"Huh?"

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"I don't get it, sir! What do you mean what happened? Nothing happened." Thankappan replied in a stern voice, but his face was completely nervous.

"Is that so? We got news about a weird alien lurking around in your area and I thought they were talking about Taro. It seems that I was wrong." Ponnappan replied.

"Is that so? By the way, how is it going with John?" Thankappan asked.

"I prefer not to talk much about it." Ponnappan answered.

The junior agent chuckled. "Seems like you had quite some fun."

Ponnappan sighed. "If endless suffering is your means to have fun, then yes. I did have plenty of fun." He replied.

"I see. Okay, sir. See you tomorrow then." Thankappan quickly wrapped up the conversation worrying that he might bring up some information about Scarlet.

"So, what was it about?" Kunjan asked.

"Well, a rumor about one weird alien lurking around in our area." Thankappan replied.

"Taro?" Kunjan asked.

"That's exactly what Ponnappan sir thought as well, funnily enough." Thankappan answered.

"Hey! Don't make jokes at my expense!" The Wadorian cried, but his pleas were falling in empty ears.

"By the way, I found something weird." Thankappan diverted the conversation.

"And what would that be?" Kunjan asked.

"So, since Ponnappan sir knew about Scarlet lurking around and stuff, I thought he would definitely talk about the bouncing of the spaceship or at least spaceship in general." Thankappan explained.

"But it seems like he didn't." Kunjan spoke.

"Exactly! Why didn't he talk about it? Isn't that like the first thing that he would? That only means one thing." Thankappan spoke.

"The guy's who came here didn't explain to him about it. Guess they don't want the other bases to know about their minor defeats." Kunjan gave out his assessment, which made the MIB agent quite angry for some reason.

"Dude, stop stealing my lines like this! I won't have any at that point." Thankappan cried.

"I'm simply a step ahead. Literally and figuratively." Kunjan replied.

"Oh my. The smugness is something that I can't and don't want to handle." Thankappan scoffed at the sight of it.

"Then just don't. What else can I say?" Kunjan shrugged, which made Thankappan even more angry. But the plankton was having his fun with it, unbeknownst to anyone since his monotonous voice didn't let people know about it.

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A few hours ago. John was having a pretty good time alongside Ponnappan. Normally he would've been in the Holy Land, but Ponnappan borrowed him for a week straight for some reason, but he didn't complain about it. He felt that it was more fun that he usually has.

He never experienced going to the beach and stuff once he set foot in Kerala, but he was able to do it that day. He sure felt like it was bliss. But this thought didn't last long as it was interrupted by one of the phone calls.

"Hello. Ponnappan here. Who's this?" He asked as he picked the phone up.

"I'm from the headquarters. I'd like to speak about something to you." Once he heard the reply from the other side, the castle he built up surely crumbled.

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