Hello, fellow fanfic readers 'n' writers! Final chapter up and running! I'll admit, I have an incredibly stupid tendency to do something up until the very end. This chapter was actually supposed to be released in tandem with the others but of course everything went horrendously wrong and here we are. One day, I won't be stupid and I'll actually get things done properly. Anyway, enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Big things are happening! They don't involve rights to this show being given to me, so don't think that.
"Oh, well, would you look at that? He's figured it out all by himself. Whoop-de-doo. Way to go, Marsh." [Starting off straight away with the snark, I see?]
"Yeah, thanks!" Marshall said enthusiastically, before doing a double take and replying, "Wait - what?"
"Never mind," The Criminal said cheekily, bringing back memories if his old self. [Well, good to see he's returning to his normal behavioural antics.]
"Uhh... anyway, how did they tell you they lied to you?" [How did they tell you? Wasn't it just a 'We lied to you.'? Or am I missing something here?]
"Wouldn't that work better when everyone else is gathered to listen?" The Expert remarked, having suddenly appeared.
Both parties jumped when they heard his voice, with The Criminal quickly asking, "How long have you been listening?" [Long enough...]
"Well, it was hard not to hear you. You stopped right by the tree where I was."
"So - "
"Mhm. Pretty much everything." [Even a hiatus of length forever can't stop the speech prediction.]
"And that means...?"
"Yes."
"Can I get a hug then?"
The Expert would-have-smiled and allowed his brother to swamp him in a gigantic bear hug. [Ahh... Feels good to say that.]
"Brother! I missed you so much. I love you! Even before I found out that we were brothers I loved you like one. I can't - "
"Aaaand we're done," Marshall cut in, splitting them up. "We still have a job to do." [Thanks, Marshall, for making this chapter unnecessarily shorter.]
"Yeah. I want to catch that guy who kidnapped those kids!" The Criminal stated, quickly back on track and strangely enthusiastic. [... Okay.]
"Oh, that. All done," The Expert said. He gestured to a nearby oak where there were two children sleeping at its roots and a man who was lying unconscious a few metres away. Marshall was slightly shocked. [Only slightly.]
The Criminal, on the other hand, was upset. "You're no fun."
The Expert half-shrugged. "I'm your brother. It's my job to be no fun," he smirk-said. The other two shared a laugh. [Hahaha... yeah, that's completely true. Big brothers and sisters are born not to be fun.]
Since they had resolved the situation, they returned to the Lookout, where the other pups awaited them with eagerness.
Marshall immediately bounded in front of the other pups and excitedly asked, "Okay, now can you tell us how they told you they lied to you?" [I just said how! They literally just said 'We lied to you.'! Listen to me for once!]
"What, are you talking about, Marshall?" Skye questioned.
"Exactly. We don't even know who his brother is," Chase spoke up.
Marshall wheeled around and spoke bluntly. "Oh, it's The Expert." [Well, then.] He turned back around to meet two completely deadpan faces, not noticing that all five behind him had fainted.
"Five minutes," the blue-eyed albino Bernese mountain dog guessed.
After five minutes, the recovery was made and the story begun. [Because I was way too lazy to add more dialogue.]
"Well, the policeman who told me the story, he - it started like this: he told me that my father actually hadn't died before I was born. He was still alive - they had just said that because they didn't know if he actually did die after his mate's imprisonment. When the crime of his murder was brought to their attention, they realised the mistake that they made with me, and just tried to cover it up and pretend that nothing happened." [Nice and concise.]
"That's not really cause for what was basically a fit of rage," Chase put in.
"I think the main issue is that they had waited so long to say anything considering his familial situation," The Expert returned. [True.]
"Combined with the fact that he could have gone and seen his father when he was alive, but couldn't..." Skye added.
"Because he wasn't told that his dad was actually not dead," Marshall continued. [Also true.]
"And so he thought that there was nothing for him family-wise in the world and just accepted his loneliness in life," Rocky finished.
"Also, wemembew that The Expewt wasn't given any indication eithew that he had a bwothew, despite the othews cleawly knowing that he did," Zuma said. [Okay, now you guys are having a laugh.]
"So The Criminal had a right to be angry in two aspects," Rubble concluded.
"And I thought I was good at picking up clues and piecing them together," Chase laughed. Everyone who regularly laughs laughed. [But The Expert doesn't laugh, so he didn't laugh. ... I just wanted to say that. We all need some stupid things in life. Take the time out to find the stupid things and idiotic people and thank them for their inputs, no matter how useless.]
"Well, that doesn't matter now. All that does is that we are reunited at last!" The Criminal stated enthusiastically as he hugged his brother again. [Yay!]
Okay! Done! There! Now I am gonna take a break from this as I prepare another story for you. Stay tuned for that to happen, okay? Good. Wow that took way more time than it should have ever done.
Bye! Have a nice day! See you in the new series! Don't forget to review! Send a PM! Maybe some ideas, alright?
