I'm back. Sorry for the long wait everyone, but there were things going on in the real world for both me and my partner Atlas. But things are going fine, and we proceeded to our work as planned. So without delay, we present to you the next chapter of this story, as well as the introduction of a new set of villains. Be prepared for the first bit of action that is in store for this story. Enjoy!
Reminder: Only me and my partner own the rights to our respective OC's used in this story. That is all.
Chapter 2: The Ambush
Ryder eventually caught up with the pups and regained control of the small convoy. He and the pups drove at full speed as they approached the bridge that connects between where the lookout tower resides, and to Adventure Bay. They sped across it with little to no effort, like they had done their whole lives.
Once across, they begin to speed their way into the heart of the little city. And almost immediately, they came across multiple safety hazards ranging from oil spills to small electrical fires. To avoid injury, Ryder stopped the team where they were.
"Alright," Ryder announced. "Let's get to work. We'll start from one end of the city and work our way through so we don't miss anything."
"Where do you want me, Ryder sir?" asked Chase, who still sat in his rig.
"Set up your cones around the hazard areas," Ryder said, pointing to a nearby oil spill. "And I want you to safely direct traffic around Adventure Bay. Keep them away from the dangers on the streets. Use sidewalks and grass areas to move them."
"Copy that, Ryder sir," Chase responded, as he began to perform his duties.
The German Shepherd pup started to lay out his bright orange traffic cones along the street. Once they had been laid out to the best of his ability, Chase called for his megaphone. "Rah, megaphone," he barked, and the device deployed.
"Attention citizens, please follow my instructions carefully and in an orderly fashion. There are dangers on the streets and I am to direct you around them," Chase spoke loudly into his megaphone.
So far things were running smoothly as the driver that heard Chase proceeded to taking another rout, so that they don't slip into any of the hazards. And while Chase proceeds with his duty, Ryder proceeds with giving Marshall his duty.
"Marshall," Ryder called, quickly finding the spotted pup. "I'll need you to start cleaning up oil spills and putting out electrical fires. Also, I noticed a couple of blown fire hydrants on the way in. Shut those off when you get a moment."
Marshall nodded and called for his fire hose. "Arf, water cannon," he barked, and it deployed almost instantaneously.
Ryder looked on as the two pups seemed squared away with their duties. The two were making exceptionally good progress after only a few minutes of working. At the rate they were working, if they could keep it up, would have the job done by the early afternoon.
"Guess Chase and Marshall have things covered here Ryder." Rocky replied.
Ryder nods in agreement, as he turns to Zuma. The chocolate lab sat at the back of the pack. "Hey, Zuma! I got a job for you."
The pup yipped happily and ran up to Ryder. "What do you need me to do, Wyder?" he asked, his impairment of speech slurring his voice.
"I need you to go help Mr. Porter complete his deliveries," Ryder said hopefully. "His van his damaged and he won't be able to finish his rounds without it."
"No pwoblem, Wyder," Zuma said cheerfully. "Lets dive in." Without another word, Zuma got in his hovercraft and sped away as fast as he could.
As for Ryder and the rest of the pups, they board their vehicles and drive off to take care of the other problem at hand. Leaving Chase and Marshall to handle with the problems to fix in the city.
Meanwhile, back with the train, it was still stuck between a rock and a hard place. With the bridge being blown out on the front, and the rockslide blocking the back, that train was stuck good. And the conductor was prettied worried that he might miss the deadline.
Just then he heard the sounds of vehicles approaching, and looks to see Ryder and the remaining pups arriving in the nick of time.
The conductor sighs in relief, "Oh thank goodness you made it. I almost thought I was going to end up falling behind the deadline."
"Don't worry," Ryder reassured. "We've come with the tools, hardware, and parts to fix the bridge. We will have you going in no time."
"Thank you so much, Ryder," the conductor said thankfully.
Ryder and Rocky with the tools in their hands quickly check out the damage that was caused. They were amazed as to how big the gap was caused by the explosion.
"Wow, this gap is huge." Rocky said.
"You can say that again," Ryder agreed.
"Wow, this gap is huge," joked Rocky, getting an annoyed look from Ryder. "What? You said I could say that again."
Ryder laughed. "How long will it take to get this bridge fixed? The conductor desperately needs to deliver his supplies."
"Well," Rocky said, doing some quick calculations in his head. "The gap might be huge, but the rails were blown clean off. And if Skye brings the rails we need to fix it, I should have it put back together in maybe an hour roughly."
"Will an hour still keep you within schedule, Mr. Conductor?" Ryder asked, looking up at him.
"It might be tight, but I think I'll be able to manage," the conductor responded.
Ryder nodded and pulled out his pup pad and called Skye. "Hey, Skye. Where are you?"
"I'm on approach, Ryder. The rails are heavy, so I can't go that fast," the Cockapoo said.
"Ryder look," Rocky said, pointing out in the distance. Seeing Skye coming this way, with a set of new rail tracks to install. "There is Skye."
"We see you, Skye. Set the rails down where Rocky tells you. Be careful," Ryder ordered.
"Roger that, Ryder," Skye yipped.
So Skye, taking it very carefully and cautiously, proceeds to lower down the new set of rail tracks. While Rocky helps guide her safely with placing them down to the ground.
"A little more.. a little more.. Easy does it." Rocky was saying, as seconds later the rail touch the ground. "Perfect."
With the tracks lowered, Ryder and Rocky pick up some and proceed to start putting them in.
"Arf, wrench!" Rocky calls out as his pup pad pulls out a wrench to help screw in the screws for the track. And soon enough, Ryder and Rocky proceed to work.
One hour later, the train whistle starts to blow as the train began to move, right along the newly installed train tracks safely.
The conductor pops out and waves at Ryder and the pups with a smile, "Thanks again pups, I owe you one."
"Don't mention it, conductor. Just take care of your deliveries," Ryder said, as he waved the conductor on. He was glad that they were able to fix the tracks for the train to continue on, but now it was just a matter of clearing that rockslide.
Of course he already had that planned out, "We better go ahead and clear that rockslide off the tracks so it doesn't block other trains that come by." Ryder says, turning to Rubble. "Think you can use your digger to clear the blockage Rubble?"
"Sure can Ryder." Rubble replied as he proceeds to work.
Driving his digger to the rockslide, he uses his scooper to start scooping up the rocks and off of the tracks one scoop at a time. Just then, his pup-pad rang, he pulls it out and sees that one of the pups was calling, so he answers the call to see Chase on the screen.
"Hey Chase, how are things going in town?" Ryder asked.
"Very well, Ryder, sir," Chase answered. "Marshall and I are finalizing a few little things and we should be done soon."
"Good work, Chase," Ryder congratulated. "Stay safe. We'll see you back at the Lookout."
"Copy that, Chase out," Chase said, before cutting the connection.
Ryder put his pup pad away and looked to where Rubble was clearing the last few rocks. "How's it going, Rubble?"
"It's going great, Ryder," Rubble smiled.
"Great." Ryder nodded in approval, "Looks like things are pretty much cleared up here."
Ryder climbs aboard his ATV, and as he puts on his helmet, he says to Rocky, "Time to meet up with Mr. Porter and help fix his van."
"Right." Rocky replied, as he hops aboard his truck.
Ryder and Rocky start up their vehicles and head off, leaving Rubble to finish up his job, "See ya back at the lookout." Rubble waved cheerfully, before going back to work.
Now ironically enough, as Ryder and Rocky proceed to meet up with Mr. Porter, they unknowingly find themselves taking the same road and path that Mr. Porter himself had taken earlier. And it's worth noting that as they pass a road sign, a dark figure peeks out and spots them.
The figure chuckled darkly, "It's showtime."
Back with Ryder and Rocky, the two continued to drive smoothly. But as they drove, Ryder was deep in his thoughts again, as if something was bothering him a little. It didn't take long for Rocky to notice, "Ryder? You alright?"
"No, it's okay," Ryder lied. "Let's worry about getting to Mr. Porter's van."
In all honesty he wished he would tell Rocky the truth, but he didn't want to make him worried. Cause the truth was that even though this triple jeopardy had occurred, they were handling and fixing the matter with no problem.
But he just couldn't get this problem out of his head, "I just don't understand, these 3 things happening all at once. It's just not a natural thing with the way they happened. I'm starting to think.. as if someone may have been behind all of these problems from the start. But who?"
Ryder continued to think, but then he was snapped out of his thoughts as he and Rocky suddenly hear something.
"You hear that?" Rocky asked Ryder.
"Yeah..." Ryder replied.
The sound was coming from behind and getting louder, the two turn their heads to see that coming up from behind them.. was five sets of vehicles. But they were not just ordinary vehicles, each of them despite having a different body shape, were all futuristic looking, all of them colored black.
Ryder and Rocky looked on in awe, they were so surprised seeing vehicles like these for the first time. But that's when Rocky suddenly remembered something.
"Hold on. Ryder, didn't you say that Mr. Porter mentioned about seeing a futuristic vehicle go by before he crashed?" Rocky asked.
"Yeah, he did," Ryder said, taking one last glance at the cars. Then gasps upon realizing what was going on. "Pedal to the metal, we're going straight back to the Lookout. We can worry about the van later."
"But, Ryder?"
"Go Rocky!" Ryder shouted.
Startled by Ryder's sudden outburst, he wasn't joking around. So the two proceed to pick up speed as they speed off. And for good reason. As for this group of 5, one of them spoke up.
"Look at them, running away like a bunch of sissies." The figure with long black hair, and wearing a dark blue jumpsuit said, "And I thought these so called Paw Patrol members are suppose to be brave and heroic."
"Considering it was just two of them against five of us.. I can see why they are trying to run.." Another figure, who had gorgeous blonde hair and make up in a red jump suit replied.
The figure with short dark brown hair, wearing a black jump suit leading the pack then spoke up. "Doesn't matter though, that little pup and kid have no idea who they're trying to escape from, but right now we have a mission to take care of. Motor 6 gang, speed attack formation!"
"On it!" The other members shouted in unison.
The back tires for all five vehicles screeched as they picked up speed.
And although Ryder and Rocky tried to speed away, it was only a matter of time before the five vehicles caught up with them and began their assault.
One of the figures in a dark green jumpsuit rides up besides Rocky, rolls down their window and pops out, wielding a steel crowbar. "Hey you little mutt, it's illegal for pups to drive vehicles. Time to pay the price." He says as he proceeds to attack Rocky by banging the crowbar hard on his truck sides, then proceeded to attack the pup himself.
"Woah!" Rocky says, suddenly ducking his head, avoiding the collision to the head from the crowbar.
"Hey, leave Rocky alone!" Ryder shouts, not happy seeing one of his pups being attacked. But then starts to get bashed hard by one of the other riders wearing a purple jumpsuit, wielding another crowbar smashes the hood of Ryder's ATV.
"No can do kiddo, this is how we roll when anybody confronts the Motor 6." That figure replied before striking the ATV again.
The Motor 6? So this was the name for these group of five. But if that's the case, then where was the sixth car? Ryder didn't have much time to think as he and Rocky had to get out of here before these vicious riders kill the two.
So pulling back a little, he manages to bash the front of the dark green jumpsuits vehicle, causing him to falter back a little. Giving Rocky a chance to escape along with Ryder as they go full throttle on their vehicles.
The shadowy figure in his black jumpsuit spoke up, "Try as you might, there is no escaping from us."
Unfortunately he was right, cause due to their vehicles being futuristic. Not only could they go faster than any other normal car, but they all suddenly converted to hover mode, allowing them to travel faster.
Much to Ryder and Rocky's shock and horror, as the gang quickly starts to close in on them again.
"What do we do now Ryder?" Rocky asks in panic, "We can't shake them!"
Ryder looks ahead and sees an upcoming fork in the road with two different roads, this gives him an idea as he says to Rocky, "You go right and I'll go left. If you can, go into the forest. They may be futuristic, but they are large and shouldn't be able to follow you."
"You got it, Ryder," Rocky said.
"Three….two….one….split," Ryder ordered, as he began to take the left road and Rocky to the right. Three cars followed Ryder and two cars began to follow Rocky. But something was off.
The two cars following Rocky stopped and started to follow Ryder. One of those two drivers spoke up, "Geez, that was a close one. We almost went off track with our mission."
"I suppose with that little mutt he should consider himself lucky." The other driver added, "But as for that kid though.. He's about to experience hell.."
The two cars sped up to catch up with the other cars. Back with Ryder, he tried his hardest to shake off the three cars that was hot on his tail. But as he looked behind him, he wide eyed in shock as the other two cars caught up, now all FIVE of those cars were chasing Ryder.
"Barricade trap formation, go!" One of the drivers commanded.
The five cars each drove into their designated position as they formed a small circle around Ryder, and each of them began to bash into Ryder's ATV, each time nearly making lose his focus and almost drifting out of control.
The fear and panic began to set upon Ryder. His hands were numb from gripping the handlebars on his ATV. The constant bashing and slamming from the five cars was giving him a headache.
But what really got to him was the condition of his ATV. The suspension system was starting to give out making Ryder feel every single little nook and cranny on the road. The tires had lost their balance weights and were wobbling. And the engine was losing power.
"I'll never get away from them," Ryder whispered.
As this beating continued, the vehicles were approaching another bridge over a huge gap. Upon noticing the location, one of the driver's spoke out. "Cease the bashing, fall back."
Following the command, they stopped beating on Ryder's ATV as the futuristic vehicles backed away. Much to Ryder's confusion.
"Why did they stop?" Ryder asked himself.
Just then he head the sound of a speeding car, it was close and it sounded like it was coming this way. He looked ahead, just in time to his horror, notice a SIXTH futuristic car which was all black and had a death skull on the front, comes charging in from out of nowhere.
It was going at a deadly speed, and it was in a direct path.. with Ryder. And in a massive collision, the futuristic vehicle makes a deadly and powerful head on strike and impact top Ryder's ATV.. and Ryder himself. The result of the impact caused the vehicle to be thrown off the road, and into the air.
Time seemed to slow down as Ryder could see where he was going to fall. He was airborne over a massive gorge with sharp rocks at the bottom. The people in the cars were trying to kill him. But why?
That didn't matter as time sped back up again and the gorge bottom became more and more closer in Ryder's eyes.
However, he suddenly felt himself being pulled from his ATV as he ends up taking a harsh and petty brutal landing along the grass and ground by the edge of the gorge. While his ATV falls within the gorge, colliding a few times along the side of the cliffs, before finally crashing at the bottom below. Smoke started to spew from the wreckage.
From a distance along the road, the six drivers looked on and saw the damage they had caused. As the sixth driver looked on, and gives a dark smirk.
"Mission accomplished. "The driver who had a British like accent said, "Let's go."
Seeing their work accomplished, the six drivers in their futuristic cars take their leave and drive away from the sight of the crash.
Ryder moans deeply, slowly opening his eyes. He then tried to crawl to his feet, but only got to his knees due to the impact of his landing on the ground, he felt like he was in pretty bad shape and soar. That's when his eyes caught smoke rising from the gorge.
Looking down at the bottom, he could see that the smoke was coming from his now totaled ATV. The boy could not believe this had just happened, but how he was still alive is surprising enough.
"Ryder, you there?"
That sounded like Rocky, so digging into his pocket. He pulls out his pup pad and answers it, seeing that it was Rocky calling.
"I managed to shake off those drivers in the forest like you told me. Looks like your idea worked." Rocky said.
"The drivers were never following you, Rocky," Ryder groaned.
"What?" Rocky exclaimed. "What do you mean they weren't following me?"
"When you went right at the fork, the drivers started following you, but they got you running and then turned around and followed me," he hissed in pain and agony.
"Ryder, you okay?"
"Come down to the gorge and I'll let you know then," Ryder said.
"Okay. I'll be right there Ryder." Rocky replied, hanging up.
A few minutes later, Rocky was able to catch up to where Ryder was. And immediately saw smoke coming from the gorge.
"Woah, what did those drivers do Ryder?" Rocky asked Ryder after running up to him.
"I don't think words can describe what I just went through," Ryder said, trying to stand up. Only to fall when a sharp pain went through his left leg. "Ow! I think I busted my leg a little."
"Want me to call an ambulance?" Rocky said.
At that moment, sirens could be heard and an all too familiar ambulance came over the bridge.
"I already called one in," Ryder smiled.
Arriving on the scene, in his Ambulance shaped Truck was Marshall. As he stopped, he hops out and runs over to Ryder, "Got here as fast as I could Ryder, is everything okay?" Marshall asked, but then noticed smoke coming from the gorge.
"Yeah, I'm fine Marshall." Ryder replied. "But you see that smoke rising, that's coming from my ATV, it fell down to the bottom after a head on collision with one of those futuristic cars."
Marshall raises an eyebrow, a bit confused. "Futuristic cars?"
"I'll explain later. Right now, do you think you can use your X-Ray to check on my leg?" Ryder asked, "I think it might be broken or something."
"Sure thing Ryder. Arf, arf! X-Ray screen!" Marshall called out as a X-Ray like screen pulls out from his pup pack.
Marshall takes the screen and hovers it over Ryder's left leg and take a good look at it. And could see the bone within the knee cap is a bit out of place, but not completely snapped off.
"Well there's no broken leg, so that's good news. Though it looks like you dislocated your knee." Marshall replied.
Ryder sighs with relief a little, "Guess it's better than a broken leg."
"You said it. Good thing I got my first aid kit." Marshall says, "I'll get some things from it to help you on your feet again."
The dalmatian runs over to his truck and digs within it, until he pulled out his trusty first aid kit. So within a couple minutes, Ryder's knee was bandaged up nicely and was able to stand on his two feet with the use of crotches.
"Thanks Marshall." Ryder replied gratefully.
Marshall smiled, feeling glad to have helped out. Though he looks back to see Rocky looking down at the gorge. So walking beside him, he too looks down and finally noticed Ryder's ATV at the bottom, wrecked good.
"Woah. Now that's what I call one messed up ATV." Marshall commented.
"You said it, I'm just glad Ryder didn't end up falling down the gorge with it." Rocky added, looking at Marshall. "Otherwise he might have ended having more than just a dislocated knee."
As the two looked on, Ryder was looking back out on the road. With those drivers, he couldn't believe how much of a threat they could cause, let alone nearly kill him. But why would they do this? It just didn't click.
"Ryder?"
Ryder snapped out of his thoughts upon hearing his name being called, and looked over at the two pups in front of him. They noticed the look on Ryder's face and were a bit concerned if he was alright.
"Don't worry pups, I'll be fine..." Ryder assured them, then looked to Rocky. "Say Rocky, maybe you should go ahead and help with Mr. Porter fixing his van. He's probably wondering what's keeping us so long."
He had a point, as Rocky nods. "Good point Ryder, but what about you?"
The boy gave him a calm smile to Rocky, "I'll meet you back at the Lookout when I'm done, first I got to salvage up my ATV. I promise."
"Alright.." Rocky responded as he runs to his truck, starts it up and drives off. On his way to help Mr. Porter fix his van.
As for Ryder, he looks back down at the gorge where his ATV was.
"It sure is a long way down to the bottom." Marshall said, "Any idea of how were suppose to get to your ATV? Or I guess... what's left of it."
"I got that covered." Ryder answers as he taps on his pup pad, calling on one of the pups. "Skye, are you there?"
"Hey Ryder. I was starting to worry since you hadn't made it back to the lookout yet. What's going on?"
"Well.. Let's just say me and Rocky had a little run in. But don't worry, we're okay. But my ATV kind of fell to the bottom of the gorge and it's in pretty bad shape. Do you think you can use your cable hook and strap it top a metal sheet so that we can load up the ATV onto it and bring it back to the lookout for repairs?"
"Sure can Ryder, this pups gotta fly."
He hangs up his pup pad, a little glad knowing that Skye is able to help out with the salvaging. But still couldn't get the thought of how this all happened off his mind.
"Just who were those drivers? And why would they try to kill me like that?"
Meanwhile, little away from the gorge. There was that same group of futuristic cars again, and the six drivers were out of them, each congratulating one another for a job well done.
"That was awesome! Did you see that kid shaking in his boots?" The dark green jumpsuit figure, who is named Dustin said. "I tell ya, we are so good at what we do."
"Hon.. I'm not sure if that was your best work out there." The female of the group commented. "All you mainly did was harm just the pup with a crowbar, you hardly did much with the boy."
"Oh shut up Elisa, I did my part of the job! Besides crowbars are a deadly choice for a good weapon." Dustin barked out, "Besides, did you see Michael with how he used HIS crowbar? He did a lot of damage to that ATV."
"That's only because I'm more skilled with how to use a crowbar for real damage." Michael spoke, smirking cocky like. "You hardly damaged a fly with the way you used it. Being the coward that you are."
"What's you call me!?" Dustin shouted, offended by what Michael called him.
"That's enough you two!" The short brown haired figure named Blister spoke out, "This mission was not about who caused more damage. This was about taking out that kid. We each did our part, so that's what matters."
The figure in the dark blue jumpsuit who was named Shark jumped in, "Besides, I think we ought to give credit to the one that not only came up with the plan, but dealt the massive collision to that brat. Our leader Bradshaw II!"
Sitting on top of a rock, wearing a dark pitch black jumpsuit, that had a symbol of a skull and crossbones on it was Bradshaw II, who was the leader of this group.
"Did you see how that brat flew into the sky because of him? There's a reason why he's nicknamed the assassin." Shark complimented.
Bradshaw smirked, "I appreciate your compliment Shark. But I promise you all, that the Motor 6 has only just begun with what's in store. So far the child had a sample of what were capable of. But once we eradicate him from existence, the Paw Patrol will be easy pickings to eliminate one by one. And all of Adventure Bay shall be ours to control."
The rest of the group cheered with excitement, praising their leader who plans for all of them to rule as King's! And I guess for Elisa, Queen as well.
Though as the group celebrate, Bradshaw turns away looking towards where Ryder was and sees Skye arriving, lowering how hook cable down the gorge with Ryder on the metal sheet.
"More importantly, at least for my own goal. I'll have the satisfaction of obtaining my revenge." He thought to himself looking on.
The hook cable rises up enough as Ryder stood on the metal, holding on tight to his balance with the wrecked ATV salvaged. Soon he, along with Skye and Marshall take their leave, heading back to the Lookout. And Bradshaw watches Ryder leave, with a deep, cold, and sinister glare.
"Very soon father, your death shall be avenged. That I promise..."
So we now know the identity of this group of drivers with futuristic drivers, the Motor 6. And it's amazing the kind of impact they have already caused, with their leader nearly killing Ryder in the process. But with what Bradshaw II just said at the end of this chapter, what did he mean by all that? Did he have some sort of past with Ryder or something? As this story goes along, more of this question and mystery will be answered and revealed.
For now though, will see the aftermath of all of this in the next chapter. As Ryder still having worries about this sudden group he and Rocky encountered earlier. Plus will get a first glimpse at the gang's hideout and their next plan of action for the plan.
Till then, please read and review your thoughts on the chapter. And until next time, I'd like to thank Atlas FF (That's his new username in case your curious) once again for his contribution with co-writing in this story. You'll be expecting plenty more of this as the story goes along. See you next time folks!
