Ch. 3: Old Enemies Return

Rigby awoke from a pleasant sleep when the sun broke through the curtains and onto his face. He groans lightly as he blocks the sun with his free hand. He then looks down at his side to see a sight to behold in his eyes; Eileen, sound asleep in his arms. Her gentle breathing felt good as it tickled his fur. He sighed as the whole scene felt too comfortable for him to even want to move any part of his body till he saw the clock and realized he had to go to park to work.

Rigby tried to work his way out of the bed without waking Eileen and seemed to have some success before trying to silently get out of the bedroom to get something to eat. He stops at the door when he hears Eileen beginning to stir before falling back asleep. Rigby smiles and continues out to the kitchen. He looked into the cupboard to see that they were out of cereal.

"Well," Rigby spoke to himself. "I guess I could just make something for me and Eileen." He wasn't the best cook but with Eileen's help, he was starting to get the hang of it. Though how hard could it be to make decent eggs. Rigby ate his breakfast and left a plate for Eileen in bed with a note saying where he was going.

Rigby went to the park on foot as Mordecai wasn't there to pick him up like they agreed when Rigby made the decision to move in with Eileen. He arrived just in time as everyone was gathering on the steps

"Hey Rigby," Benson greeted along with the rest of the gang. "Where's Mordecai?"

"I don't know," Rigby stated plainly. "Maybe he overslept or something."

"I doubt it," Skips spoke up. "Margaret's not the kind of person to just let him sleep in on work days." Rigby couldn't argue there. Margaret can be pretty demanding when it comes to waking up others for important things... like your job.

"Well we need everyone today as we're setting up for our next scary movie night for Halloween and I want it looking even better than last year's," Benson turned his attention to Rigby. "Rigby, go to Mordecai's and find out what's going on with him," He nodded as Benson threw the keys to the cart to him. "And if I don't hear anything from you within an hour, you're fired along with Mordecai!" Benson shouted but calmed down quickly after he saw his point had been made.

"You worry too much!" Rigby said as he turned the cart over.

"No I don't worry enough. One of these days, you're notorious stunts are going to get someone killed again." Rigby pushed the gas petal and drove away. Along the way, Rigby couldn't help but grumble to himself though Benson did have a point but Rigby would never admit it. At the very least he didn't have to actually work yet.

As Rigby pulled up the condo where Mordecai and Margaret lived, he made his way up slowly, intent on making this take as long as needed. The longer he could postpone actual work the better. But when he went to knock on the door, it instead fell over like the hinges were missing, shocking Rigby. When Rigby looked at the hinges, he saw that the bolts that were supposed to be holding the door to the frame weren't there anymore. Rigby looked inside the apartment to see the place had been ransacked; TV destroyed, glasses and vases shattered, furniture ripped to shreds. It looked like a tornado made of razor blades ran through the place.

"Mordecai?! Margaret?!" No answer. Rigby frantically looked all over the apartment for them but couldn't find them or anything to tell him where they were.

"What's the matter, Rigby?" Rigby then heard a voice from the coming from the back room. It sounded familiar but he knew one thing; it wasn't Mordecai or Margaret. Rigby followed it until he arrived at the destroyed bedroom. It was a small square room with a queen-sized bed and a TV. It had a full closet though it too was ransacked with everything in it destroyed and an adjacent bathroom. The room was dark as the only light was a few cracks coming from the drawn blinds on the only window in the room.

"W-who's here?" Rigby shuddered as he tried to sound brave but failed.

"You don't remember me? How hurtful," the voice spoke again although Rigby was starting to think he recognized the voice. "I guess when you fight monsters like a soldier defending a country on a daily basis; I would just fall through the cracks."

"Wait a minute… Don't tell me," Rigby knew who this voiced belonged to. "Doug…"

"Bingo! We have a winner!" Doug stepped out of the closet to show himself to Rigby. "Took you long enough to figure it out. Though to be fair with your level of intelligence I'm surprised you figured it out at all." Rigby couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"What are you doing here?" Rigby demanded. "Shouldn't you be behind bars?"

"Rigby… Have you forgotten what I'm capable of doing to people? I steal people's lives by impersonating them! All I had to do was become a guard and walk right out the door." Rigby had to admit that made sense that he would escape that way.

"Where're Mordecai and Margaret?" Rigby demanded again coldly.

"I don't know… why would I know?" Rigby was through with playing games as he jumped at Doug who simply sidestepped Rigby and watched him fall on his face. "Just as hotheaded as ever…" Rigby remained undaunted and waited for Doug to get closer. When he did, Rigby knocked him down with his tail, before pinning him down on the floor.

"Now talk!" Though instead of an answer, Doug himself started laughing instead.

"So you think you've won? Let's try this again, shall we?" Before Rigby would even react, Doug's wrist started to glow and when it finally subsided, both of them were back in the same spots they were standing before Rigby jumped at Doug.

"W-what?" That was all Rigby could get out before Doug tackled him and pinned him against the wall with his forearm at Rigby's throat.

"Oh how I wish I could just end you here but where's the fun in that?" Doug instead threw Rigby across the room, causing Rigby to land hard on his back. "As for your friends I'm afraid you'll never see them again no matter what you try," Doug turned to leave before stopping and cocking his head to look at Rigby out of the corner of his eye. "Thanks for the field test by the way." Doug then showed off a blue, advanced looking watch as he turned the dial and disappeared into a clock that vanished with him.

Rigby was stunned and at a loss for words. So many questions ran through his mind but then suddenly something occurred to him.

"Eileen!" Rigby ran out of the condo and got into the cart before flooring it and heading back to see if Eileen was okay. Once he arrived he ran up the steps and into the apartment. The place looked just like how he left it and Eileen was coming downstairs getting ready for work. Rigby sighed heavily with relief that she was still okay. Eileen was surprised to see him back as he should be at work.

"Rigby, what are you doing back?"

"Eileen, did anyone show up here while I was gone?"

"No… Why?" Rigby hesitated for a second but then realized she needed to know. He explained what happened at Mordecai and Margaret's condo, which left Eileen speechless and in shock. Eileen asked who Doug was and what grudge he could have against Mordecai and Margaret. He went on to say what history Doug had against Rigby. Eileen was shocked that someone like that could take Mordecai and Margaret just like that.

"Well I see you beat me here," Both of them turned to the doorway to see CJ leaning against the door frame. Both of them were stunned to see CJ out of prison. "Apparently Doug should spend more time taking care of Mordecai and Margaret and less time giving away plans."

"Where's Mordecai and Margaret?!" Eileen demanded. "Why can't you just leave us alone?!"

"Didn't Doug already tell you? As for why… I'm not going to let what you've done slide and with the help of this," CJ showed off a watch identical to Doug's. "I have all the time in the world to do so…" CJ then vanished the same way Doug did and left them again at a loss for words.

Suddenly before either of them could say anything, the whole building began to shake violently.

"Now what?!" What happened next shocked both Rigby and Eileen; everything in their apartment began to blink before fading away along with the walls giving away to an endless white void. Rigby and Eileen grabbed and locked their hands together before hanging on for dear life. They both started to lose grip as a portal opened and a hand emerged from it to grab Eileen. The last thing that could be heard before the whole white world became silent was the screams of Rigby and Eileen as they were dragged through the portal to god knows where…

A/N: Oh no bros! What's gonna happen to Rigby and Eileen?! Well come back in 8 months and I'll tell you! (Kidding on the time)

Next answering the guest review:

o3O: Well it's a good thing I'm not making it… or rather I'm not planning on putting it in the story itself as I don't want to up the rating. If I do decide on trying a lemon for this, it will probably be like a "deleted scene" or something. As for Rigby's character I could go on close to an hour about the difference between how Regular Show develops characters over episodes and how I do it so I'll give you the short version: This Rigby and the show's Rigby are different in one aspect: Learning from experiences. How often has Rigby (or any character for that matter) actually carried anything he's learned over one episode? Not often and that goes for all the other characters as well. But this isn't an 11 minute short it's a written story and the rules of the characters need to change on what the writer thinks healthy character development should look like. Yes, Rigby would seem OOC if he had a bit more maturity and common sense but that comes with time and in this story, he's got 5 months of dating with Eileen, a person that if you think about it is the polar opposite of Rigby in terms of character. And yes this is the short version.

Till next time, Sal out!