Annie, Hallie, and Domino came into their grandfather's office and were looking for something.
"What're we looking for?" Domino asked his twin owners.
"A picture of Grandmother," Annie replied. "I don't even remember her, and Hallie should know her too."
"How hard is it to find one picture?" Hallie asked.
"Girls?" Charles's voice asked.
Hallie, Annie, and Domino suddenly froze in place.
"What are you doing in my study?" Charles asked his granddaughters and their Dalmatian.
"I... I just wanted to show a picture of Grandmother to Hallie and Domino..." Annie spoke up. "I mean, I was only a baby when I met her, and she's their grandmother too... They should be able to know her too, shouldn't they?"
"That's right." Hallie added.
"Please, Grandfather, I know you miss her, but please..." Annie told her grandfather she was close with before her mother reunited with her long-lost father. "For Hallie and Domino..."
Domino even nodded in agreement with a slight puppy dog pout and whimper.
"Well... I suppose I could..." Charles sharply sighed as he then soon went to open a secret drawer. "Losing her was just the hardest thing I've ever had to go through."
Hallie, Annie, and Domino looked to each other as they waited in anticipation.
"Heh... Well, here's one old picture in her youth, I'm sure you'd find her adorable." Charles chuckled before showing a very old picture of his late wife in early childhood and she looked just like Hallie and Annie in older times.
"She looks beautiful." Annie smiled.
"How old was she in that picture?" Hallie asked.
"I believe she was twelve there." Charles smiled back to his granddaughters as he continued to look for pictures of his late wife.
"She must have been lovely." Domino smiled.
"Do you have any wedding pictures, Grandfather?" Annie hoped.
"Oh, of course I do." Charles smiled.
Hallie and Annie smiled back. Charles soon took out his wedding photograph of him with his late wife and showed it to them.
"So, she was Scottish?" Hallie asked as she took a look at their grandmother with Domino.
"Oh, yes," Charles smiled. "Going as back as far of the castle days of Scotland, though after the time of Princess Merida of course."
"Wow." The twins smiled.
"I've always wanted to bring Annie to Scotland sometime to discover her roots about her grandmother, but of course, we never had much time before..." Charles chuckled.
"Do you think maybe we can go soon?" Annie asked hopefully so Hallie and Domino could also discover the family heritage from their late grandmother.
"Oh, I'm not sure, dear..." Charles replied thoughtfully. "We'll have to see what your mother is up to, I do know she has to travel soon to check out the new Fall collection."
"Well, maybe we'll go there someday." Domino said.
"I'm not sure, I suppose we'll have to see..." Charles pondered about this.
The phone then rang and it was answered by Martin who passed it onto the girls and it seemed that luck was on their side.
"You guys wanna come to Scotland?" Darla invited her friends from Walden Summer Camp. "Atticus is entering in an event called the Highland Games."
"Awesome!" The twins smiled.
"I guess you like the sound of that?" Darla giggled.
"Actually, Darla, we were just finding out about our grandmother being from Scotland," Annie replied. "We were hoping to visit to find out more about her, I only met her when I was a baby."
"Aw!" Darla smiled.
"So, if you could, we'd like to come with you to Scotland," Hallie replied. "Domino too."
"Of course Domino too," Darla agreed. "He is Patch's nephew."
"Great." Hallie smiled.
"Sounds like we're all in for an adventure," Darla smiled herself. "Plus, Annie, you could learn how to defend yourself better instead of being so scared all the time."
"I do not get easily scared!" Annie huffed with a pout.
"Uh-huh, sure." Hallie smirked playfully.
Annie pouted to her twin sister.
Darla giggled as she talked with the twins for a good while before she would tell Atticus about them coming along for the trip.
"I don't think I have any Scottish ancestry..." Cherry commented to Atticus as she looked in a big book of her family's genealogy which her mother often worked on and updated due to being interested in the family's background. "My mother's family was mostly Polish and Russian like in An American Tail."
"Wow." Atticus said.
"Hmm... Don't think I can find anything on the Fudos." Cherry took a break.
"Same here." Atticus said.
Cherry shrugged to him. "Sorry, buddy."
"Do you still wanna come?" Atticus smirked. "You might meet a vampire."
Cherry gave a deadpan expression before she found herself agreeing. "It beats staying here and doing nothing."
"That's the spirit!" Atticus smiled to her acceptance.
"And best of all, no important assignments." Cherry smirked.
"Yeah!" Atticus added.
Cherry looked around and breathed in relief. "Thank Celestia, no Drell."
"Well, we better get packing." Atticus suggested.
"All right." Cherry replied.
"You can pack yourself..." Atticus told her.
Cherry sighed to that, but gave in as they then split up to get ready to go to Scotland while Darla was still on the phone with Annie and Hallie, and where they would be there in time for the games.
Annie and Hallie then told their parents about going to Scotland while begging and pleading them.
"You guys know you can't say no to those faces." Chessy teased Elizabeth and Nick with a smirk.
"We know." Elizabeth and Nick chuckled in agreement.
"So, can we?" Annie asked.
"Well... I suppose that would be all right..." Elizabeth replied. "Are you absolutely sure, Annie?"
"Yes, Mum, please..." Annie nodded while Hallie smiled to their mother.
"Alright then." Elizabeth smiled.
"Yay!" Annie and Hallie cheered with Domino.
"Adventure!" Domino laughed in excitement. "This is going to be great!"
Elizabeth and Nick smiled to each other as the girls went off to pack with Domino.
Back with Cherry and Atticus...
"Hmm..." Patch hummed to himself. "Domino is with Annie and Hallie... Oddball's with Jessica... I wonder what ever happened to my other nephew, Little Dipper?" He decided to do some research on where his other nephew was.
"Hey, Atticus, you ever wanted to eat some sheep's lung cooked its own stomach?" Cherry smirked, trying to disgust Atticus with the food they usually had in Scotland.
"Maybe." Atticus shrugged.
Cherry narrowed her eyes and then flipped the page in her guide book. "How about blood pudding from blood sausages and pork fat?" she then smirked.
"Might be interesting." Atticus shrugged.
Cherry narrowed her eyes as she was failing to gross Atticus out for her own sick amusement.
"Done?" Atticus smirked playfully.
"I hate you..." Cherry muttered in defeat.
"I know." Atticus smirked playfully.
Patch pondered in thought.
"Are you okay, Patch?" Atticus asked. "I thought you'd be excite to bond with Domino again."
"Oh, I am, it's just... I wonder whatever happened to Little Dipper," Patch explained. "I mean, Hallie and Annie adopted Domino and Jessica has Oddball... What could've happened to Little Dipper?"
"I'm not sure." Atticus said.
"Can't you ask one of the Pound Doggies?" Cherry asked.
"Pound Puppies." Atticus and Patch corrected.
"Whatever." Cherry shrugged like it didn't matter.
"Anyways, she's right, can't you ask one of the Pound Puppies?" Atticus asked Patch.
"I never really thought about it," Patch replied. "Will we have time before we go to Scotland?"
"I'm sure you will, boy," Atticus smiled to his dog. "Why don't you go check on them?"
Patch smiled back as he then went to try and do that and once he got there, he met and greeted everyone before asking them if they could find out anything about his other nephew.
"Little Dipper, hmm?" Strudel hummed in thought as she checked out her computer with the squirrels. "Now, let me see..."
"He has spots on his back which look like the star sign 'little dipper', he was both named after that and he's more like my brother Dipstick." Patch told Strudel about his missing nephew.
Strudel began to type in those descriptions into her computer. Patch stood beside her as he felt anxious to know more about his nephew. Not even Dottie and Dipstick knew what happened to him after the adventure with the escape from deVil Manor when he visited with Oddball.
"Hmm... This Dipper boy, was he a troublemaker?" Strudel asked Patch.
"Hmm... Yeah." Patch nodded.
Strudel hummed to herself as she found several other Little Dippers come in the search and found other Dalmatians.
"No... No... No... Oh, him!" Patch looked at the options before seeing a puppy with black front paws with a blue collar. "That's him, he has Dottie's eyes."
"Hmm... It appears that he is in Scotland." Strudel revealed.
"Scotland?" Patch asked.
"Yes..." Strudel replied as she stepped aside to let him see for himself and he could even see who Little Dipper's new owner was. "See for yourself."
"Little Dipper's in Scotland..." Patch said before he looked. "And someone's adopted him..."
"Do you know that human?" Strudel asked.
"No, but she looks just like Daphne." Patch said.
"Daphne? Daphne... Daphne..." Strudel paused to think.
"Um, she's that one girl in Mystery Inc," Patch explained. "She usually got kidnapped."
"Ah, her..." Strudel replied. "Hmm... I never met this Daphne girl, but if that other human looks like her, there must be some sort of resemblance."
"Yeah," Patch smiled. "They must be cousins."
"I shall, and thank you so much, Strudel," Patch beamed. "I was so worried about Little Dipper when his parents told me that he disappeared."
"He either must have ran away or got lost until...Wait, let me find out her name." Strudel said, referring to Daphne's cousin.
"All right, we still got time until our plane leaves," Patch nodded. "Cherry's parents wanna leave later tonight so we can get there at a good time in the morning."
"Let me see here..." Strudel continued until she then found out the name. "Ah... Here we go. Shannon Blake."
"Cool name." Patch smiled.
"And it says here that she adopted him in...Scotland?!" Strudel said out of shock.
"Little Dipper ended up in Scotland?" Patch asked out of his own shock.
"Well, I'll tell you one thing," Strudel told him. "Once you find your nephew, you should talk about how he even got there."
"Sounds good." Patch nodded in agreement.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you more about this Shannon Blake, but enjoy Scotland." Strudel smiled.
"Thanks, Strudel," Patch smiled back. "You're the best."
Hours later at the airport...
Cherry was the only one really awake, as well as her dad, but for a different reason.
"I hate traveling early, but at least we're almost there..." Michelle yawned. "Just gotta get our luggage together and go through the check-outs."
"Honey, we already are." Bud said.
"Oh... I knew that..." Michelle smiled sheepishly and wearily. "I'm just so tired..."
"We better get you some sleep..." Bud replied. "You can lay your head on my shoulder all you want."
"Thank you, dear." Michelle smiled sleepily.
Bud smiled back to her.
Everyone soon did what they needed to do to get on the plane for Scotland which was about eight hours, and where the ones that were excited to get to Scotland were Atticus and Patch.
"I still can't believe our grandmother's from Scotland..." Hallie said to Annie. "I wonder if she even knew about me?"
"Probably..." Annie replied. "I mean, Grandfather did before Mum and Dad separated us sometime after we were born."
"Possibly." Hallie said.
Annie and Hallie just hoped they would both make it to Scotland okay and they even squeezed each other's hands for support.
Cherry struggled as she couldn't seem to fall asleep and looked quite miserable.
"Want a sleeping spell?" Atticus asked.
"That never works, but hit me with your best shot." Cherry scoffed.
Atticus smirked to himself and then cracked his knuckles and shot a magic blast at Cherry. Cherry's eyes widened slightly before she sighed and passed out in her seat, snoring.
"Knew that would work." Atticus smirked before he decided to watch last year's Highland Games. He put on his headphones and watched the video as he leaned back in his chair casually.
They even seemed to involve his favorite thing: Strength.
"Sweet..." Atticus smiled. "I knew there was a reason why I accepted this Scottish vacation," He soon saw that most of the games involved something that would be in the Olympics and even involved having to lift up a very big and long wooden pole. "Hmm..." He hummed to himself as he took note of the activities and smiled as he felt like if he did well enough, he would be able to win even if he was American.
The next day soon came and the plane soon landed. Cherry was still asleep due to the spell.
"Cherry? Cherry!" Atticus tried to wake up his best friend. "Oh, yeah, the spell!"
Cherry soon began to sleepily eat the flower from a woman's hat until she suddenly woke up with her hand in the air. "Check, please!"
"Ahem!" The woman glared.
Cherry blinked and smiled nervously. The woman huffed as she took her hat and stormed off.
"Well, that's one way to wake you up." Atticus smiled.
Cherry hummed firmly before rolling her eyes. "I'm just looking forward to a visit with no homework, no pop quizzes, and best of all, no Drell."
"Same here." Atticus replied.
Everyone soon left the plane and gathered their things.