Ryder watched from the balcony atop the lookout, staring down at the pups as they played. It was a day on Spring, the flowers blooming and the birds chirping, but that's when Ryder caught onto something. He stared to find the six pups serperated into groups of three, consisting of Skye with Zuma, playing pup pup boogie, or at least practicing for a match of one, the two pups doing various dance moves. Chase and Marshall, playing a game of tug-of-war, which was seen pretty often, the two pups sharing a deep bond with each other, a bond greater then the others pups had for anyone one else. And then came Rubble with Rocky, Rubble testing out various items in Rocky's truck, helping Rocky figure out if any of the items were suitable to use during missions, and if not, then to use around the Lookout, using them as toys or contraptions to help out. He then spotted Everest and Tracker, the newer of the pups, even if Everest was on their team for a while, Tracker was the newest one. Both Carlos and Jake went out and asked Ryder if he could watch over Everest and Tracker while they were gone, not giving him a real reason as to why, but he accepted nonetheless.
"Hmm..." Thought Ryder, rubbing his chin almost as if he had a beard. Thats when it happened. He grabbed his pud pad and pulled out a dashboard to the right of the pad, pressing the multi color button, causing all of the pup tags to go off, informing all the pups. In unison they all shouted, "Ryder needs us!" All pups dashed inside towards the elevator, Tracker and Everest feeling a bit awkward as they didn't really join them in the elevator often, both pups taking a side next to Zuma. Of course, they were missing a certain pup, Marshall who came late always. This time he came riding in on some skates, crashing into the elevator and all seven pups flying into the air, before coming back down. Everest and Tracker couldn't help but laugh first, which caught on and all of the other pups laughed minus Marshall. "Aww, I didn't even get to come up with a joke!" He said as the elevator closed, Marshall kicking off the skates while they rode up. They soon came to the Paw Patrol's logo, a second later all eight pups were in their gear.
The elevator door opened up, letting them jump out in front of Ryder, minus Everest and Tracker who once again felt awkward and both appeared next to Marshall, chuckling awkwardly to themselves. "Paw Patrol ready for action, Ryder, sir!" Barked Chase.
"Thanks for getting up here so quickly pups, but their is no emergency this time," Ryder explained. To this all eight exchanged looks before looking back up to Ryder. "But why?" Asked Marshall, who was probably puzzled the most, questions rushing through his head. Ryder smiled, "Well, I've been thinking, and this will be more training then an actual mission.
Chase's tail wagged, hearing the word training come from Ryder. Chase was one of the pups who probably loved training the most, compared to the other pups, who didn't mind, or didn't like it as much, seeing how it would cut into their own play time.
"This training session will be based on team cooperation. I've been noticing that you guys play with some pups more then others, like when you play tug of war. You cooperate with your teammate to help beat the other team. So today, I'm going to tie you up with a partner, for twenty-four hours, you must learn to cooperate with your chosen teammate and get through the day. Hopefully this'll help in later missions, and as for teams, I'm pairing you with the person I don't think you'll do well with, this way it'll be much more challenging," said Ryder with enthusiasm in his voice.
All of the pups once again gave each other looks, all looking back to Ryder. "Sounds fun," said Rocky, his own tail wagging. "I second that," said Zuma who raised his paw. All the other pups caught on and one by one they raised their paw, all seeming to agree with the idea.
Ryder smiled, "Great! Now as for team," he grabbed rubber cords, each having a hook, walking over to Skye, and attaching it to her pup tag firmly, "Skye, your partner will be Tracker, even if you do hang out with him a little, he, and Rubble are the only ones as short as you, this way you guys won't have problems with height," Ryder finished, before leading Skye over to Tracker and doing the same, attaching the hook to his pup tag as well. Both Skye and Tracker traded looks, before Skye yipped, "Let's do this!" Tracker barked, "Let's go!" They both ran off, down the elevator, where they went down and that's the last they saw of those two for now.
"Next we have," he came to Zuma, once again, attaching the hook to his pup tag. He then walked over to Rocky, attaching the hook to Rocky. "I know Zuma loves water, but Rocky doesn't, this means you'll both have to find something you can find in common in order to get along," said Ryder. Both Zuma and Rocky looked to each other. "This is going to be hard," they said in unison before both heading off towards the elevator, which came up only a few seconds after Skye and Tracker went down.
"And then their were four," Rubble said, causing all four pups to laugh. Ryder went up to Rubble and attached the hook, before coming to Marshall, doing the same. Marshall and Rubble both stared at each other, before both howling and high pawing each other, "Awww Yeah!" Said Marshall, who ran around Rubble. Rubble only laughed, "C'mon Marshall, let's go see who can eat the most puppy chow without getting full," said Rubble, licking his lips, and patting his tummy. Marshall smirked, "Oh your on!" They both ran to the elevator, rushing in and both pups gently rough housing inside as it went down.
Chase turned to Everest and Everest looked to Chase. They both knew what this meant, as they were both partners. Everest was a bit nervous, wishing she would have been paired with Marshall or Skye instead, but she was paired by Mr. Bad Cop instead. Ryder attached both ends of the hooks to each of their pup tags. "Alright, I chose to pair you two because of Chase's serious and complex nature, compared to Everest's carefree and playful nature, I'd like to see how you two work out in the end," said Ryder, giving them both a closed eye smile with one hand on his hip.
Chase smiled, It can't be THAT hard, right?" Asked Chase. Everest nodded, "Yeah, peice of cake!" She said before rushing down to the slide, while Chase went over to the elevator. The rope between them stretched, and they both struggled to get to their destinations before both gave out and were yanked back, both pups crashing into each other. Ryder chuckled at this. Chase got up and helped Everest up, "I guess we'll go down the slide then?" He sighed, before gasping as she ran towards the slide and slid down, Chase following close behind in fear they could end up crashing into each other again.
Everest was launched into the bar, and fell into Chase's pup house. She was confused as why she landed in his cruiser instead of her puphouse, watching as the the pup house transformed into a police cruiser. Chase fell into the back, the cones moving out of the way, it was this way for each vehicle, in case there was to be another passenger.
"What are you doing in my cruiser? And where are we going?" Asked Chase, before watching as Everest stared over his controls curiously, "Oh, you'll find out soon enough," she smirked, evily before slamming her foot down on the go pedal and the two taking off. "EVEREST," yelled Chase as the two left at high speeds, leaving Ryder worried about the choice he made when pairing up Chase and Everest.
I hope they down get into too much trouble.