Hello, fellow fanfic readers 'n' writers! What is with me? I've just missed more days than there are chapters in this story! Well, now I'm back, and let's jump into the seventh chapter of 'Misadventures' and the second part of 'Marshall and Everest'. Please read, enjoy (if you are able to do so), and review!
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Everest arose from a sudden deep slumber in a surprisingly small and dark area. She tried to look around to discover where she was, but could not find any familiar things. She began to wonder how she had gotten into this mysterious place.
Then a supremely toneless voice was heard. [Not who you think it is.]
"Everest."
The owner of the name jerked to attention and scoured the area for the source of the sound. She saw nothing, and so thought that it was a figment of imagination.
"Everest."
Well, it's not my imagination. I heard that, Everest thought. But where could it be coming from? [That's 'from where could it be coming'. But, hey, I'm not a fanfiction writer just to be a grammar Nazi.]
"Everest." [Rule of Three.]
Everest was becoming more puzzled. And as she grew more puzzled, she grew more fearful. She wanted this nightmare of a situation to disappear and she wanted to go home.
"Everest." [I said 'Rule of Three'! That's, ironically, rule number 3 in shows and movies.]
The voice was directly behind her now, but she was so frightened that she dared not turn around. Visibly shaking, she closed her eyes and awaited whatever was to become of her.
"Walk." [This guy legitimately sounds like a good/bad kidnapper.]
Everest practically ran away from the voice, into a tunnel, and out into a larger space. This one had light, too, but that was by reason of a gigantic, unsurmountable bonfire blazing to her right. [Plot device. Not Deus Ex Machina.] She whipped back around and ran back the way she came, only to find the tunnel blocked.
She was trapped.
Everest was about ready to break down in tears. She slowly and solemnly sauntered straight to the space sporting the supersized firestorm. [I aim to apply added alliterative appeal to anything.]
As she arrived, a toneless voice rang out. [May not be who you think it is.]
"Crying shame, isn't it?"
Everest's blood turned to ice and her paws to stone. She stood stock still and involuntarily silently listened for the voice to speak again.
"You and I, both in this cave, trapped by this massive holocaust, with some weird guy in a black cape imitating my voice. Mostly upset about that last one." [That's a version of the AMJ - Arson, Murder and Jaywalking - trope.]
She looked around the area and saw a white pup in the opposite corner. The silence induced by her fear broke and she erupted in complete rage. [Uncommon for Everest. Though that may be due to the nature of the show.]
"Who are you?! What is your name?!" [She might as well turn into Jack Bauer with the way she's asking these questions.]
The pup responded, "I don't have one."
"A likely excuse. Why am I here?!"
The white pup returned, same as ever, "You've been pupnapped."
"What?! Who did this? Was it you?!" She began to vent in the pup's face. "You better tell me how I got here, who brought me here, and why I'm here. Now!" [Yeah, she's definitely gonna turn into Jack in about two minutes.]
The pup's face was still devoid of emotions. "Since you asked so nicely, I will."
Everest growled threateningly. "I don't want your sarcasm, I want answers."
Still no facial change. "You were pupnapped by that same weird guy. [He just said that.] You are here to keep me company until we are rescued."
"How do you know that we'll be rescued?"
As if on cue, a hooded figure of a pup strolled in and wordlessly dragged the white pup away.
Everest watched as the two pups exeunted. "Now what'll I do?" [I don't know. Maybe make a bunch of plans for telling Marshall how you feel about him? ... So sorry.]
The Expert and The Criminal dropped character and took a breath. [I don't think that The Expert dropping character is much of a drop, considering stoicism.]
"I hope Marshall gets here soon. I don't know how long I can keep this up," The Criminal whined.
The Expert reprimanded him. "You've been doing it for five minutes. I've been doing it for six months."
"I don't care. I like to laugh and smile. Not smiling is a pain to me. It's impressive that you could do it for so long."
"I'm more impressed by how you managed to keep that fire raging for ... what was it? 45 minutes?" [Yeah, actually. A bonfire as big as the cave tunnel itself must use so much fuel it isn't funny.]
Suddenly, a siren was heard in the distance. The Criminal grinned. He then made a strange request.
"Would you mind if I whipped you?" [What will you use? Cat-o-nine-tails? ... Wait, what?]
Marshall, now outside the cave, saw a great light in it. He barked out his ladder and climbed up to investigate. Indeed, the conflagration present was still burning away and his firefighter instincts took action.
The Dalmatian tried to peer through the flames, but the fire's immense size made it opaque and therefore almost impossible through which to see.
But the flicker of the inferno allowed some brief moments of visibility, and Marshall thought he saw a spot of blue-violet fur on the interior. [I know so little about these character designs. I did research for this. I'm so stupid.]
Everest? Marshall's heart began to race with worry and excitement. He barked, subsequently saying, "Water cannon!"
The words echoed throughout the cave.
The Criminal and The Expert were about done with their flogging session when they heard Marshall's voice. They looked at each other silently, before the smaller albino Bernese mountain dog literally threw the larger out of the chamber in which they were. [Ouch.]
The Expert landed face-first in front of a now enthusiastic Everest. He saw her and immediately resumed his role.
"What's going on? Has someone come to save us?"
Everest was practically bouncing with liveliness as she stated, "Yes! It's Marshall! He came for us!" Then Everest realised a little detail and became confused in favour of being excited. "But ... how - "
"The fire. It's so big that anyone will see it from outside." He still hadn't risen from his faceplant. [You know we must have one of these in every chapter. It's a requirement now.]
Everest stopped in her tracks and wheeled around to face her 'imprisoned' companion. She then tried to ask a question that is never completed if it is directed to The Expert.
"How - " [We can let Rule #1 slide here, as Everest hasn't met him before. But after, we are gonna blast her for it.]
And The Expert answered in typical The Expert fashion.
"I'm an expert at these things." [Oh, yes. What an accurate sentence to describe that.]
At this point, Marshall had doused the fire. The first thing that he saw was the fire damage dealt to the walls and roof of the cave. [Did I get you?] The next thing was Everest. Though, it was rather involuntary, as he was pinned by the husky and showered in thanks and licks to the face, thereby conveying her affection for him to him. She didn't bother to stop herself; emotions were flowing uncontrollably and she thought it futile to try to limit them.
Marshall, meanwhile, had slipped into a state of catatonia and remained almost lifeless on the floor of the cave. [Considering that this isn't a faint, I can't say 'Oops.'. Too bad.] The Expert, in the background of these events, simply headed to the exit, with his still bloodstained back.
Marshall escaped from his catatonia in time to see the red impact lines on the albino's back, and immediately asked if The Expert was okay.
"Just fine. This is nothing compared to what I've suffered before." [Absolutely nothing.]
"What is this?" thundered a voice at the back of the cave. All heads turned to see a cloaked pup.
Everest was just about to charge at him, but The Expert reached him first. The pup was quickly apprehended and taken out of the place, Marshall following. Everest decided to run back toward Jake's cabin, located on his own mountain.
As The Expert neared the station to turn over the shrouded pup, Marshall went up to him and asked, "Who is this? I want to know who captured Everest."
The disguised pup grinned and removed the hood to reveal himself.
At first, Marshall was a bit appalled that The Criminal would kidnap Everest, but then smiled pseudo-disdainfully at The Expert, who just half-shrugged and wordlessly took The Criminal in. [Another scheme. Sometimes being smart is a thing that causes schemes like these to be created. Makes me glad that I'm stupid. But then, I wrote this, so...]
As they left, Marshall shook his head. "A crazy and dangerous plan to get me and Everest together. Somehow, that sounds just like them."
Meanwhile, Everest - who had made it back to Jake's Mountain - was pondering the past events. Who was that white pup? she thought. [The most dangerously smart pup ever to grace the Earth. Nothing more to be said.] She eventually decided to pay him a visit. Marshall seemed to know him, so she would ask her Marshall.
My Marshall... Something she wanted to be able to call him; now she had her chance. [How nice. We'll have that sorted next chapter.]
And we are done! My hiatus syndrome is gone for now, so I'll probably be back with more stuff and stupidity soon. I hope you enjoyed this chapter; if you did, be sure to leave a review, please.
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