Marahute did more tricks, then took the kids back to her nest, smiling down to them.

"Thanks for the ride!" Penny giggled, flattening her hair. "That was great!"

"I never did anything like that in my life!" Mo added, straightening her bandanna and tying it back on her head.

Cody smirked. "Glad I could help."

"Thanks for bring us up here to meet Marahute." Atticus said to Cody.

"Sure, it was my job, plus you got to meet her too," Cody smiled. "We better go meet your dogs and other FRIEND."

"Cherry must be worried." Penny nodded in agreement.

"Yeah." Atticus agreed.

The others met up with Cherry, Scamp, and Angel.

"There you are..." Angel nuzzled against Mo. "We were worried sick!"

"Well, mostly Cherry." Scamp admitted.

"Is it lunch time yet?" Cherry asked a little hungry.

"Should be by now, come with me." Cody took them down a way to get them HOME.

"Great." Atticus said.

The kids and dogs were on their way, until there was a squeaky cry for help.

Cody looked ahead and saw a mouse dangling from a vine, tied with a string and bell. "Oh, no... We can't leave the little guy like that."

"Go help him." Cherry told him.

Cody nodded, then came to the mouse with his new friends.

"Hey, little fella, what happened to you?" Atticus asked the mouse.

The mouse struggled as Cody tried to help him. The mouse seemed as though he didn't want to be saved.

Scamp sniffed something odd. "Angel, get back!" he bit onto her new collar, pulling her back against the bushes, then went to help the kids, but they had fallen through what looked like a Burmese trap. They were lower underground now.

"Are you okay?" the mouse asked them.

"Yeah, we think so..." Penny rubbed her head, looking up to the mouse.

"Oki-doki!" the mouse said, then scattered away quickly.

"Hey, come back!" Cody yelled.

"Come back!" Atticus yelled.

Cody tried to climb up and get them out, but he fell back with the debris crushing on him, but luckily, no one was hurt. Scamp and Angel came to the edge, smiling.

"Don't worry, he's going to help you." Scamp assured them.

The mouse smiled, coming back with a long root for them to grab onto so he could pull them in. "Here you go, grab on!"

"That's great!" Cody beamed. "Come on, guys, it's time to climb!"

"Yeah." Atticus agreed.

The mouse smiled down to them, but then there was rumbling around. There was a giant vehicle coming up, but the root snapped, making Cody fall back and the mouse hid in the boy's shirt. There was a green goanna that came to them and hissed to them, looking aggressive. Angel and Scamp came to the reptile/amphibian and growled to it.

"Well, Joanna, what have we got today?" a dark, yet familiar voice to Mo called to the goanna.

Atticus became protective as soon as he heard the dark voice.

"A dingo?" the voice continued, but it was a man with a fedora, vest, and a gun. "A fat old razorback or a nice big...Boys and girls?" he saw Cody, Penny, Cherry, Atticus, and Mo.

Angel sniffed the man, he seemed familiar to her too somehow.

Joanna growled at the kids as her master kicked her for digging holes 'again'.

"It's a trap and poaching's against the law." Cody informed this man.

"Yeah!" Atticus added.

"Trap?" the man tipped his hat. "Where'd you get an idea like that? You've been in that hole too long..." he handed over his gun, the kids flinched at first, but they saw he was handing it for them to grab onto and get them out. "Well, come on, grab a hold..."

One by one, the kids grabbed on and they were pulled out and back onto the surface.

"We'll get you out of this little lizard hole and you can just run along home." the man told them.

"This is a poacher's trap!" Cody glared at the man.

"And you're a poacher!" Penny added in equal anger.

The goanna tackled on Cody and tried to bite his backpack to get something, nearly shaking the boy.

"Leave him alone." Atticus said as he hit the goanna on the head.

The man had fallen in the hole, then tried to get himself back up and threatened to kill his pet goanna for making him fall. He got his gun out to shoot her, but when Joanna kept trying to dodge the bullet, he looked ahead and noticed something on Cody's backpack. It was one of Marahute's golden feathers.

"Good job, Joanna," the man grinned as he picked Cody up by his backpack. "Where'd you get this pretty feather, kids?"

"Hey, put him down!" Penny looked angry.

"It was a present..." Cody didn't exactly lie about the feather.

"That's real nice," the man grinned darkly. "Who gave it to you?"

Atticus then stepped on the evil man's foot really hard. "It's none of your business, mister!" he retorted.

The man growled as he accidentally dropped Cody, but Mo helped him up. He kept the feather though and put it in his hat. "That's no secret... You see..." he took out a golden feather that looked a little old. "I already got the father."

"You're why Marahute's eggs don't have a daddy..." Penny whispered harshly.

Cody looked horrified.

"Now, you just tell me where Mama and those little eggs are..." the man grinned darkly to the kids.

"NO!" Cody ditched his backpack and ran with the others.

"Where are we going?" Cherry asked.

"Anywhere but here!" Mo replied quickly.

The goanna was coming after them, looking sick and menacing.

"I hope we lose that goanna and I hope it gets trapped by something." Atticus said while running.

The kids however got to the end of a cliff with water, but there were hungry looking crocodiles.

"Oh, my..." Penny trembled, this made her think of Brutus and Nero.

Cody looked back, he took out his switchblade knife, about to use it against Joanna, but he dropped it and the man stepped on his hand before he could get it back up.

"You're coming with me, kids..." the man grinned darkly.

"Cody's mom will call the rangers!" Cherry threatened.

"No, not the rangers, what will I do?" the man feigned fright. "Don't let his ma call the rangers, please!" He then threw the backpack into the water for the crocodiles to rip it to shreds and eat as Joanna laughed at them. "Let's go, you five!" he grabbed the kids, threw them in the back of his vehicle, then started to drive them away.

"HELP!" Cody cried as they were taken away.

The mouse from earlier saw them in trouble and new what to do, he had to get help for the poor kids. Even if he had powerful strength, this was too much for Atticus to rip apart and get out of.

"Come on, open, you stupid cage!" Atticus said as he began to try to pry open the cage with all his strength.

Mo looked to see Scamp and Angel were left behind.

"Come on, we have to tell Jim Dear and Darling!" Angel told her mate, they went back.

However, the puppies forgot one thing.

"Mo, Atticus, Cherry, Penny, and Cody were taken," Scamp and Angel told the human adults. "We gotta save them, and-" Their voices came out as barking and woofing to the humans.

"Isn't that cute?" Elizabeth giggled. "It's like they're trying to talk to us!"

James chuckled as he played with Junior. "I wonder what it would be like if dogs could talk."

They were then given necklaces from Mo to wear and right now was a great time. Scamp and Angel growled and whined. James and Elizabeth forgot about the necklaces right now.

Carla came by. "I wonder what's keeping Cody..."

"I don't know... We told Monique she shouldn't stay out on the streets at night anymore." Elizabeth said.

"Anymore?" Carla looked to the couple.

"She used to live on the streets with Angel." James explained.

Angel in question, rolled her eyes that they were ignored as Junior was on the floor.

He actually looked worried. "Trob-ble...?"

Scamp looked to him, then the barking started again, but it sounded like English to the boy. "Yes, Mo, Atticus, Cherry, Penny, and Cody are in trouble! They were taken by a bad man!"

"S-Save um..." Junior seemed to be able to understand the dogs.

"Yes, now tell your parents and Carla." Angel said.

Junior crawled over. "Mama... Daddy..." he spoke up.

"Hi, sweetie!" Elizabeth picked him up. "What's wrong? You hungry?"

Junior shook his head.

"Wet?" Elizabeth checked his pants.

Junior shook his head again.

"Oh, I know... You're tired..." Elizabeth stood up. "We should probably get to the shack."

Carla smiled. "Okay, I hope the kids come back soon."

"No!" Junior screamed, telling them that he wasn't tired.

"Oh, my... He's very fussy..." Elizabeth had never seen her son act like this before.

Carla went to the door as there was a knocking and she saw a ranger. He came with a torn up backpack which belonged to her son. She looked very devastated. Her son had died... Or so she thought of course.

"That's it, we're going to have to save them ourselves." Scamp said.

Angel sighed, rolling her eyes again. "Humans... Why can't they all talk to us?"

Carla held the backpack close as she was going to mourn the loss of her only child. The radio made it sound as if the kids had died and were eaten by accident by the crocodiles, the adults believed it.

"Come on, we're going out there to find and rescue them." Scamp said.

Angel looked back to the humans. "Junior... Take very good care of your parents and Cody's mother..." she whispered before running off with Scamp to have another adventure with him.

They both ran out the door and into the Australian Outback.

"I know that man who took them seemed familiar... I don't know why though..." Angel said to Scamp, she then buried her nose to the ground and sniffed and looked up as she got a scent. "This way!" she told Scamp, then ran with him in the distance.

"Let's hope they aren't hurt." Scamp said while running.

Angel nodded as they kept going, she looked fierce and dominant. "If that human lays one paw...Erm... Hand... On my Mo, he's gonna get a bite on the butt so hard his grandchildren will feel it!"

"Yeah!" Scamp agreed.

The pups kept going, not stopping for anything.