(Authors note: Please not that this is a REWRITE. The original is written by Janus Oberoth. Please leave reviews.)

"Peace is disturbed war."

Evil-Copper

It's a fairly warm day on the Dalmatian farm and Perdita strolls into the barn in search of her pups. She had decided to spend as much time as she can with her puppies while her mate, Pongo, is away with Roger in London.

As Perdita opens the barn door, she sees that several puppies are playing inside. They are playing the usual tug of war, chase and other games of interest for their age. As Perdita enters the puppy filled barn and goes to the bottom floor, she sees that Lucky, Rolly, Cadpig and most of their brothers and sisters had crowded around the television.

"Hello, my darlings", Perdita says approaching her pups, causing them to turn their heads and look at her. "Hi Mom" they all reply, while turning their attention back to the television. Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig shift up to make space for their mother to lie down.

"What are you watching?" Perdita asks curiously, unfamiliar with the program. "It's a show about famous dogs" Rolly replies, being the first to respond to the question. "Really?" Perdita asks looking at Lucky, he nods as if to agree. "They must be expecting to see Thunderbolt" Perdita thinks. She knew that her puppies admire Thunderbolt.

She decides to watch the show for interest's sakes with her pups, but then the show was put on hold due to a news bulletin. After the logo came an image of a burning house, with a reporter explaining the incident. "I'm here in central London where a house has caught alight, fire-fighters are trying to take control the situation" the reporter says while the camera focuses on the house.

There is woman who is completely hysterical, screaming and fighting her way to try and get in the burning house, but does not succeed. "My baby is inside!" the woman cries as she struggles with the police. The camera focuses on the determined woman who tries by all means to return home. Then, out of nowhere, a Dalmatian ran though the camera frame and the attention is moved onto the dog running towards the blazing house's entrance. He has breached the front door.

"Pongo!" Perdita shouts as she realises the Dalmatian running in the house is her mate. She is not the only one worrying as she realises the puppies' expirations. They instinctively think the worst, fearing that they will lose Pongo in the fire. Perdita notices that Roger is looking at the house with a worried expression on his face. In his hand, Pongo's strap remained.

A moment later, one of the downstairs windows shattered as Pongo breaks through it. He had a light blue coloured blanket on his snout, with the baby wrapped in it. Pongo limps towards the firemen and lady who was glad to see that the baby was in her arms again as she takes the baby in her arms as she wept for joy.

One of the firemen checked the baby while Roger approached Pongo, relieved he is safe, and checks him for injuries. The reporter and cameraman inch closer to the hero, the camera focusing on Pongo's right foreleg; there is a piece of glass embedded in it. They are soon joined by one of the firemen who examined the wound.

The fireman and Roger exchange quick but meaningful looks, Roger holds Pongo for comfit while the fire-fighter slowly removes the glass piece from Pongo's injured leg. A moan of pain escapes his mouth. After a lengthy extraction process, the glass is removed and the foreleg bandaged. "I do not think it's something serious, but take him to the veterinarian" the fireman says looking at Roger. The reporter interviews Roger about Pongo's actions.

A few moments later, the fire-fighters took over and managed to get the fire put out. They celebrated like everybody else and Pongo was given a fire fighting helmet placed on his head. Back at the farm, the news ended and the previously playing program continued to play. "Did you see that? Dad is a hero!" Lucky says trying to get attention from his siblings. "Dad was very brave" Penny continues with the sentence. They were all very excited; talking about what they had just seen.

Perdita doesn't pay attention to her pups' conversations. She has a mixture of emotions running through her mind: anger, joy, pride and concern. It was overwhelming and yet unusually strange because she knew because that Pongo was safe.

Quite a while later, the pups and Perdita hear a car closing in on the farm. They all got up and anxiously ran to the car stopping in front of the house. Roger gets out of the car and opens the passenger door to let Pongo out to his awaiting mate and pups. The puppies can't help but notice that Pongo is still wearing the fireman's helmet and his bandaged leg.

"Dad you were great" Patch exclaims as he jumps excitedly around his father. "We saw what you did on the television" Cadpig says noticing the look of surprise on his father's face. "Didn't you have fear?" Rolly asks looking at his father. "How did you find the baby?" Penny asked confused. "Why are you using that helmet when you don't need it?" Two-Tone asks looking at the helmet.

Perdita stares at Pongo, smiling at their pups' bombarding him with every question under the sun and being answered without the slightest hesitation. After the puppies eventually have all the questions answered, Perdita approaches Pongo; she comforts and nuzzles him affectionately with her mate returning the favour.

"I'm sorry if I made you stress. Were you worried?" Pongo asks Perdita. "Yes, but if it wasn't for you, that baby wouldn't have seen another sunrise" Perdita responds. "How is your foreleg? What did the doctor say?" Perdita asks looking at Pongo's bandaged leg, noticing the blood stained bandage. "Yes, the doctor said it's nothing too serious." Pongo answers gladly. Perdita nudges him. "You seem more

handsome with that helmet!" Perdita exclaims smiling at her mate. "One of the fire-fighters forgot it in the midst of the rubble." Pongo says looking to Perdita. The puppies smile and cheerfully laugh. Pongo spends the rest of the day with the puppies and Perdita.