We are shown a different beginning. The Fudo siblings and Felicity are around their younger ages and are walking with a red-haired girl.
"So, Penny, what're you gonna name the dog when you find the right one?" Estelle asked the girl with them.
Penny held out the collar she was carrying for the dog she was going to adopt today. "His name will be 'Bolt'."
"Because he'll be fast and brave?" Akito asked.
"Yeah!" Penny beamed as she opened the door to the pet shelter as the man changed the closed sign to open and let the others in with her.
Felicity, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent looked all around for the perfect pet for Penny to adopt.
"The closest thing I have as a pet is Belle and Master Adam's dog, Sultan..." Felicity said as they glanced around to find the right pet. "He is not mine, but I love playing with him with Gabrielle and Chip."
There were several brown and white puppies who were arranged together in one habitat as a white shepherd puppy stared at a carrot squeaky toy. And where even if a human passed by, the carrot squeaky toy couldn't stay far from it's mind. The other puppies followed after the human. The shepherd puppy looked interested for a moment, but then continued to 'attack' the carrot squeaky toy. Penny kept looking with her new friends to find the right pet, but then came over to the puppy habitat.
"A puppy would make a great pet." Akito smiled.
"Yeah." Vincent smiled.
"Puppy?" Penny smiled.
"Go for it!" Felicity even encouraged.
"This little guy looks like he could do..." Estelle said as she saw one puppy who was not like the others.
The white shepherd puppy turned over with the toy in his mouth, looking right into Penny's eyes as she approached the habitat.
'He's looking right at Penny.' Akito thought to himself with a smile.
The puppy twitched, then suddenly barked and ran around in a circle to chase his tail like many dogs did. Penny giggled, she found that adorably funny.
"He's perfect." Penny smiled.
"He looks like a noble hero in training." Felicity said.
"Yep, he really does." Akito said.
"This one." Penny told the owner that she wanted the white puppy up front.
The man went over and put his hand in to pick up the puppy and allow Penny to have him as her very own pet.
"He sure is cute." Estelle smiled.
The man smiled as he gently put the puppy in Penny's arms.
"Here, boy... You're heavy!" Penny giggled as she took the puppy and set herself down on the floor to put his new collar around his neck.
The white dog smiled excitedly to Penny as she latched the collar around his neck.
"There," Penny pet the dog on the head. "You're a good boy..." she then hugged him nice and tight. "You're my good boy."
"Awww!" The Fudo siblings and Felicity smiled.
It was a lovely bond. Penny picked up her puppy, naming him Bolt, and came over to her home with her new friends.
Amber was making lunch, she was now all grown up and happily married with a daughter, Penny, of course. "I hope she found a lovely new friend."
The man at the table put down his newspaper with a smile to his wife. "I'm sure she did... She has your eye when it comes to pets, my dear."
"True." Amber smiled.
The couple then shared a kiss as Amber then continued to prepare lunch.
Penny came through the door, carrying her white shepherd puppy. "Mom, Daddy, we're back!"
"Oh, good!" Amber called with a smile.
"Well, where is the little guy?" Thomas asked his daughter.
"Right here." Penny came into the kitchen, showing her parents Bolt.
"Awww! He so cute!" Amber smiled.
"Oh, he's lovely." Thomas added.
Bolt barked softly and smiled to his new owner's parents, panting lightly. This was starting out to be the start of Bolt's new life and where his life would have more surprises.
"Do you think 'he' will like Bolt?" Amber asked her husband.
"I'll get him on the phone right away." Thomas agreed, then went over to the phone, putting down his newspaper.
"Who's Daddy calling, Mom?" Penny asked.
"His agent." Amber replied.
"Oh." Penny said then, now understanding.
"Sir, Penny found a dog," Thomas said as soon as he got on the phone. "He's an American White Shepherd... His name? Well, uhh..."
"Bolt, Daddy." Penny said.
"Yeah, his name's Bolt," Thomas said then. "I think you'll like him, sir."
"How could he not like Bolt?" Penny smiled.
"I'm sure he will, dear," Amber smiled back. "He looks like a lovely dog..."
Akito, Estelle, Vincent, and Felicity agreed.
"Really?" Thomas smiled. "Oh, thank you, sir, you won't regret this."
"That sounds like a good sign." Amber said once she was finishing making their lunch.
Thomas hung up the phone with a smile.
"What is it, Daddy?" Penny asked her father.
Bolt looked up to Penny's father as well, looking interested.
"Dear?" Amber asked her husband.
"You know how when I was around your age and I used to be on Thunderbolt as the little boy in danger?" Thomas asked his daughter.
"Of course, Dad, you've told me before." Penny smiled.
"When haven't you?" Amber teased her husband.
"Hmph..." Thomas glanced at his wife with a smirk, then looked back to Penny. "Well, I was wondering... How would you like to have your own show with your new pet?"
"I'd love it!" Penny smiled.
Bolt wasn't sure what was going on around him, but since Penny was happy, it made him happy.
"I guess Bolt likes the sound of that too." Vincent noticed.
"This means she won't have time to play." Amber said.
Bolt tilted his head.
"What do you mean, Mom?" Penny asked.
"You'll be an actress, honey," Amber said. "You'll be busy, busy, busy! My best friend from elementary school used to be an actress, but... We'll only do it if you want to... Do you want to be an actress, Penny?"
This was a hard decision for Penny to make. It sounded fun on one hand, but that would mean she wouldn't have much time for school and would likely have to be privately tutored, but she would be with Bolt all the time and they would live in adventures, even though they wouldn't have real adventures like the ones that her friends had been on.
"You should do it, Penny." Akito said.
"You think so?" Penny asked.
"It might be an amazing opportunity and interesting experience," Estelle said. "Plus, you'll be doing a TV Show and not a movie, so it should take less time than being on camera for a movie like a movie star in Hollywood."
"Yeah." Vincent said.
"I can think about it, right?" Penny asked.
"Of course, I would never wanna make you do something you wouldn't wanna do, but I hope you accept." Thomas replied with a smile.
"We'll be happy with whatever decision you make." Amber smiled.
Penny smiled back to her parents. "I think I wanna do it."
Bolt began to bark while wagging his tail, telling them he was excited.
"What is it, boy?" Penny asked.
Akito knelt down in front of the white shepherd. "You like that idea, boy?"
Bolt began to nod while barking excitedly.
"I think Bolt's up for it too." Akito said to the others.
Bolt nodded as he jumped around in excitement.
"Okay, then I'll make the call." Thomas smiled.
"Thank you, Daddy." Penny beamed.
"Remember, if you don't like it a whole lot, we understand, we won't think of you any less." Amber hugged her daughter.
"I understand, Mom." Amber smiled.
Amber smiled, patting her daughter on her golden red hair.
"Guys, before anything else," Penny said to her friends before showing her pinkie finger. "Can we promise that none of us will ever forget about each other?"
"A pinkie promise?" Felicity asked once she saw the gesture.
Penny nodded.
"Okay then." The Fudo siblings and Felicity said before linking their pinkie fingers together with Penny's.
"Best friends." Penny said to them.
"Forever!" the cousins added to her.
It was set, Penny was the co-star in an action television show with a super dog named Bolt. Thomas and Amber kept reminding Penny that she could stop whenever she wanted to, but she insisted that she was fine and Thomas reminded her of what she would be going through since he had done the same things when he was younger and the damsel boy in distress known as Tommy on Thunderbolt.