The weather began to cry, and rains fall from the night sky, wetting the grounds and buildings. In the streets of London, Ran and Nanny rendezvous with the Oozora and Radcliffe family under a bus stop. Too bad for them, they could not find Hiro or the puppies anywhere. Pongo and Perdita did heard the Twilight Bark but could not get information accurately.
They tried to bark repeatedly but to no avail. No one replied their barking chains due to the weather being heavily wet. Haruka gave Ran the souvenir that Hiro bought for the redhead, telling her they only found this and some of his other stuffs but not himself.
Ran looked at the souvenir and opened it up before seeing the saying of love that Laura told Hiro on the box of chocolate. The redhead without further hesitation took one chocolate and made a wish. To unite with her lover, Hiro once again.
Back at the warehouse, Hiro could only stared sadly at the space in front of his eyes. His ears could grasp the sad moaning of Patch's other siblings, who wanted to go home and also misses their parents.
Come to think of it, he really misses his parents and even Ran while wishing that they would come and rescue him since he could not do anything while being a dog. If I'm a human right now, I will definitely save these puppies right away. Hiro thought.
Thunderbolt and Patch tried to look at each other but unfortunately, the latter refused to make eye contact at all, which made the former do the same after him. In the cage next to where the trio dogs were locked up, Lucky approaches as far as he could to talk to Patch.
"Patch, are you okay? Patch?" Lucky called out and the mentioned pup heard the call. "Dad was right. I'm just one of a 101" Patch acknowledged. "I'm sorry, Lucky. This is all my fault" he blamed himself.
"Hey, didn't Thunderbolt get out of the cage like this one before, you know like in episode 13, 'Flaming Flea Circus'?" said Lucky. "It's episode 18..." Patch corrected but soon realised and gets up. "Episode 18!" he exclaimed, which made Hiro and Thunderbolt heard his sudden loud voice.
The Dalmatian pup walk to the back before preparing himself to make an attack on a prey. Patch then quickly charged before kicking the cage's door as hard as he can, opening it and gets out from there.
Everyone, even Patch himself was surprised that he managed to escape from the cage by himself. All of Patch's siblings began complimenting him in whispered. Hiro was also impressed by this. "Hey! Stop your yapping!" Jasper ordered, which made them scared.
Luckily, the said human was just talking in his sleep. He and Horace each wore just only their hat, singlet, white-grey socks and boxer of red polka dots. Both of them are sleeping soundly at the moment. "Okay, you guys, stick together and be quiet" Patch ordered as he unlocked the cages on the bottom while Hiro opened up the one on top.
All of them sneaked past Jasper and Horace into the maze of Lars' paintings, with Patch being the last on line. The pup turned and saw that Thunderbolt is not following even though he can get out. The German Shepherd turned on the other direction and remains.
Seeing this, Patch decided to help his siblings and Hiro first. He ran through the crowd of his siblings and peep at the end of the paintings' maze. He saw that Cruella is there, talking to the gaged and tied up Lars. Patch glanced around and noticed there is an elevator.
"Perfect! Episode 53, 'The Mine Shaft Mix Up'!" Patch exclaimed before turning to Hiro and the others. "Everyone, stay here until I say it's safe to come out" he ordered before going out of the maze. "Hey, who are you?" Penny asked after Patch left, referring to Hiro.
"I'm Hiro" Hiro introduced. "I wish I could explain any questions that you wanted to ask but now let's be on standby. Those two men might be awake anytime soon and begun searching for us. If that's happened, we have to hide ourselves" he reminded.
At the same time, Horace is sleepwalking towards a fridge near the sofas and collided his head inside after opening it, which not only made a loud noise but also woke Jasper. "Oh! What is it with...?" Jasper questioned annoyingly before he screamed after seeing that the cages were all opened, with the puppies missing and only Thunderbolt remained.
Horace also noticed this as he and Jasper walked towards each other with a weird stare before giving a glare. "You let the puppies get away!" Jasper and Horace blamed each other while pointing their respective index finger.
Hiro and the other puppies noticed Jasper's scream and the noisy bickering of the siblings, which made them be on alert as they heard Jasper saying that the siblings should start searching for the puppies. In response, the puppies run around the maze and hide.
As they went for hiding, the two siblings begun searching for the puppies. Stealthily going around the maze, Jasper and Horace tried to locate the puppies. However, despite the number of puppies are too many for the maze to hide them, the siblings could not found them anywhere.
Unbeknown to the siblings, Hiro and the other puppies actually disguised themselves as paintings by blending themselves into the empty painting boards. After the coast of the siblings is clear, the puppies went out to another hiding spot.
Patch who was already on the top side of the elevator platform realised that the siblings are searching for Hiro and the other puppies. During that time, Horace and Jasper are still searching for the puppies but they are near to where Cruella and Lars were.
"Oh if that crazy bird finds out we lose them again, she'll skin us" Jasper whiningly whispered though Cruella can still heard him. "Horace! Jasper!" Cruella called out sternly which made the two stood startlingly. "What are you looking for?" she questioned in a demanding tone.
"Nothing, Ma'am..." Jasper lied with a grin. "We haven't lost the doggies or anything..." Horace blurted out, which made the lie is obvious and Jasper had a change of expression. "You let them ESCAPE?!" Cruella berated with her hands around her waist.
"Jasper fell asleep" Horace accused. "You were snoring like a train!" Jasper countered but their attentions were averted towards the elevator as they heard Patch's barking. "The lift is barking" Horace stated as Cruella went to check out the elevator.
With a devil grin that had the meaning 'Found you', the woman opened up the elevator's door but disappointed when there is nothing but only empty floor. "Those mutts must have already been downstairs" Cruella deduced grumpily as she enters the elevator with the two brothers and presses the necessary button.
"Funny how we never heard the lift" Horace remarked sarcastically as the elevator went down. "Shut up, you!" Jasper snapped. Patch's plan work well as he leaped out from the platform upper and outer side before heading towards Hiro and the other puppies.
"Come on, they'll be back soon" Patch ordered his siblings and Hiro to escape. "Aren't we going down?" Lucky asked. "Nope! We're going up!" Patch answered as his eyes is looking at the ceiling's window with everyone following his gaze.
Patch told them the plan to get up there and they set up a trampoline using four paint cans and a painting board near the metal cupboard. Hiro and Patch are on top of the stated cupboard while the other puppies are lining up. Rolly is the first one on the line to jump.
"Ready, Rolly?" Patch asked as he moved back and wiggled his tail while preparing to charge. "No, no, no, no, no, no...!" Rolly shook his head in denial as he refused to jump. However, Patch knocked him down which made his chubby sibling screamed as the latter fell on the trampoline.
In return, the trampoline safely bounced Rolly out through the ceiling's window. "Can I do that again?" Rolly asked as he realised that jumping from the trampoline is fun. "Well, if we are not in an emergency situation" said Hiro. "Okay, now the rest of you" Patch ordered.
And so, everyone, one by one quickly jumped onto the trampoline and bounce out through the same window. Hiro jumped out too along the way with Patch counting. "97, away! 98, away! 99, away!" Patch counted as everyone gets out but did not noticed that Cruella and the gang had already returned.
The villains were very much too late as Hiro and the 98 Dalmatian puppies had already escaped when they noticed the puppies leaped using the trampoline. Though, they removed the painting board aside and standby to catch Patch.
"100, away!" Patch yelled as he looks down but cried in shocked when he saw Cruella tried to catch him with triumph. Too bad for the villains, Patch landed on Cruella's face, making the woman unbalance as she collided onto Jasper and Horace.
The villains fell down sprawling like a triple layers of bread. Panicked, Patch quickly run through the maze of paintings with Jasper and Horace chasing him. Passing through a corner, Patch noticed a table from afar with a wide wooden plank that is longer than the table and painting cans of colour indigo and orange on the board.
He quickly reaches there and jumped on the plank with full force, causing the plank to throw the cans directly backward. Jasper and Horace who just got out from the same corner noticed the cans and cried shockingly as the colour paints drenched them completely from the front.
The two siblings were attached temporarily to an empty painting board as the colour cans dirtied them before they fell to the ground, lying face backward while leaving a pattern of themselves on the board.
Patch noticed the hanging black spots pieces from the ceiling at the same place where he and the others made the trampoline. He gets back to the leaping spot and grabbed one of the nearest black spots with his mouth before spinning around once. The Dalmatian pup were finally able to escape using the concept of rotational force and inertia.
Cruella growled frustratingly as she saw this and had her underlings to quickly change their clothes to go after the puppies. Thunderbolt, who was inside his cage smiled with a praise as he watched everything until the pup who admired him escape.
Thunderbolt noticed that Cruella and her gang are going out as the elevator makes a loud sound, which made the dog to walk out from the cage. The brown dog walked out of his cage only to see them had left and also the tied Lars, who's struggling to escape. Both of them noticed each other and raised their right brows after some time staring.
Meanwhile outside the warehouse, Hiro and the Dalmatian puppies had went down to the ground. Patch and Hiro noticed there is an empty double decker red bus that just parked nearby a stall. They saw that the bus driver had just finished buying a newspaper from the stall's owner.
"There's an empty bus..." Hiro muttered as he and Patch noticed the driver is occupying himself by reading the newspaper. Patch realised that they need to use the bus in order to escape from Cruella. "Come on, we're going to hitch a ride" Patch announced.
The puppies then hastily sneaked towards the bus and everyone began to board the bus, with Hiro and Patch watching out the coast. So far so good as most of them managed to get inside. However, as soon as the last puppy were out of sight from the green door of the warehouse, Cruella forcibly opened it with an angry look and growl.
The puppies, both on board and currently going on board noticed the devil woman and her gang were already wondering outside. While the remaining puppies fasten up their pace, the ones inside had begun panicking. "Here they come!" Penny panicky screamed as she accidentally pushed Lucky.
The pushed Lucky fell off from the seats and unintentionally pushed the gear, shifting the bus to drive mode. As Hiro and Patch noticed that the bus had begun moving after the rest had went inside, they quickly rushed and board it too.
While the driver and stall owner were left stunned why the bus moved on its own, Cruella and the gang then noticed that the puppies are inside the moving vehicle. "There they are! Get them!" Cruella ordered.
Patch and Hiro quickly went to the driver seat and were shocked to learn that the bus had begun moving. "What happened?" Patch asked panicky. Penny and Lucky are at the pedals below. "She pushed me!" Lucky accused. "Did not!" Penny denied.
As Hiro and Patch looked forward, they saw a quite steep plane in the way and both of them screamed doubtingly as the bus went through the plane. The other puppies cried happily as if they went down the slide. Jasper and Horace attempt to catch on ride but failed.
Luckily for the two siblings, Cruella came to fetch them with the stolen KANINE KRUNCHIES truck before they began chasing after the bus. Patch quickly take countermeasure and stirred the steering accordingly using his mouth while Hiro and Lucky keep an eye on the road as they drive.
A few of Patch's other siblings helped to push the pedals accordingly to speed up or slow down the bus. As they drove through London while being pursued by Cruella, Lucky looked behind from the driver's side window and screamed after he saw that they were being chased.
"The crazy lady's right behind us!" Lucky reported. The involved puppies take initiative and drove faster before the bus passed by a fountain, which made the public screamed as they run away while making the bus nearly stumbled to the side. The puppies were all accumulated to one side.
Everyone else, performing their own roles quickly had themselves to balance the bus again and they succeed. They are still being pursued by Cruella even though they managed to prevent the bus from falling. Rolly and the others who were at the very back and upper deck's seats stoop their heads after seeing Cruella had an eerie look while driving.
While the KANINE KRUNCHIES truck is maintaining the speed and approaching the bus as close as possible, Horace carefully attempted to get onto the bus with Jasper covering him. However, his attempt failed when they passed through a flock of pigeons that began flying on the opposite direction of the moving vehicles.
Jasper quickly pulled his fat sibling back inside since it is too dangerous. Unintentionally doing so, a pigeon entered Horace's mouth during the commotion before and the fat sibling were forced to vomit it out when the bird started moving around in his mouth.
Rolly and the puppies at the back seats laughed when they saw this. "He had a bird in his mouth" Freckles stated. "Oh you idiots!" Cruella reprimanded the siblings for their incapability to get the puppies. "Here, take the wheel" she ordered.
The devil woman then gets out from the car and stood on the truck's front while Jasper took over in driving. Hiro and the others in front noticed a junction and Patch quickly spin the steering in counter clockwise, making the bus turned to the left.
Unfortunately for Cruella, their truck is not behind the bus as a green-white van is now in front of them, making her frustrated. "Speed up, you imbeciles! Or we lose them!" Cruella ordered and Jasper step up the gear, colliding with the van and also the bus while still moving.
Everyone in the bus were startled from the momentum caused. Rolly and the others who were on the back and upper deck's seats had their windows opened and they stumbled out but luckily not falling from the bus due to the collision.
The chubby siblings and the others panicked and quickly attempted to get inside after they saw Cruella climbed the van and approaching the bus. Most of them succeed in getting in quickly but Rolly was react too slow and ended up getting caught by Cruella before he could get inside. "Ha ha. That's one! Just 98 more to go!" Cruella claimed in triumph.
Simultaneously at the park, the TV staffs are shooting for the show of Little Lightning with the background and stuffs arrange accordingly. "Okay! Okay! Quiet on the set! We're rolling! And... Action Possum Tommy" the director commanded.
On the stage, there is Lightning and the boy who acted for Possum Tommy. "Oh, Lightning. You are one of a..." Tommy claimed and about to hug Lightning. However, his action was halted when everyone heard a loud honking approaching.
The staffs and actors then noticed that the same red double decker bus is speeding up towards the shooting site. Everyone quickly take cover and abandoned their stuffs but unfortunately Lightning was too scared to move, causing him to get caught in the ride.
The Corgi was stuck at the bus's front driver window, leaving Patch and the others stunned until they crashed onto another stage where the audition last took place before. Cruella were surprised too until the blue fabric used for decorating the audition fell onto her face, forcing her to release Rolly unintentionally.
The chubby Dalmatian puppy ended up on the truck's engine cover. Freckles quickly informed the other puppies to pass on the bad news that Rolly had been kidnapped until it reaches Penny at the driver seats. "Patch! Bad news! Rolly got caught by the devil woman on the upper deck" Penny reported.
"What?!" Patch exclaimed in shocked. "Let's save him right away" Hiro proposed and Patch nodded. "Lucky, Penny and the rest here. I entrust you to handle the driving" Patch ordered. "Yes!" Penny and the others responded. "Let's go!" Hiro declared as he and Patch rushes as soon as possible to the upper deck.
By the time the duo reached there, they found that Rolly is on the KANINE KRUNCHIES truck. "Patch! Help me!" Rolly screamed for help as he tried to avoid being captured by Horace and Jasper. The two pup then jumped down from the window to save Rolly.
However, their jumps were somehow imperfect and both pups ended up stumbled between the van and the bus. At that time, Cruella had regain control of herself and had the blue cloth in her hand. Both of them screamed as they looked down and saw the repeating collision between the bus and the van.
That can only mean one thing. If one of both of them fell down, they will get squashed in between the two vehicles. "Well, well, if isn't the half pipe hero again..." Cruella greeted before she laughed evilly.
For both Patch and Hiro, the way Cruella laughed made them remembered the scene of Thunderbolt's show latest episode, the part where Dirty Dawson sneered at Thunderbolt when he got trapped in between the coaches.
Remembering what actually happened in the episode, they glanced to the left and saw many cars moving in the opposite direction. Knowing that in mind, both gave a victory smirk to Cruella who was surprised to see this.
The two pups reacted in unison as they jumped onto one of the opposing moving cars and leaped back to behind Cruella. Without conveying any words, the two had understood of what to do. Patch grabbed the end of the blue cloth with his mouth and Cruella tried to swing the pup away but failed.
Hiro bite her leg which made her stop resisting and Patch quickly tied the devil woman, just in the same way Thunderbolt did for Dirty Dawson in the previous episode. Cruella's mouth was gaged and she could hardly move. "Wow! Check out Patch" Freckles said in awe.
Patch quickly threw the blue cloth to Rolly and the latter managed to grab it with his mouth. Hiro also grab the cloth too. He and Patch pulled the cloth and soon released it, forcing Cruella to move on the opposite direction until she tripped into the hole of the van.
Rolly still hold the rope at that time. The force generated by her falling pulled Rolly as he crashes onto Hiro and Patch, sending all three of them back into the bus. The bus is then separated from the van and truck.
Everyone was glad that Rolly was okay but the moment was cut short as the bus soon crashes onto a lamp post. The collision not only broke one of the windows but also diverge the bus into an alley at high speed.
Lightning screamed panicky by this and even more due to the fact that the alley had a dead end when he faced the other direction. Lightning had his eyes closed, scared to know what will happen to him. Hiro and Patch quickly rushed back to the driver seat and do what is necessary. Hiro presses the brake pedal while Patch pulled off the handbrake with his mouth.
The bus slowed down though no one can tell if it will make it on time. Luckily, it did and Lil' Lightning soon collapsed when he saw that he nearly crash against the wall. Though, this is no time for the puppies to feel relieved as they heard a familiar noise of a certain loud engine.
Hiro and Patch went to the back window of the lower deck to check the situation while ordering the others on the same level to go to the upper deck immediately. The two pups were shocked when they saw the engine noise was indeed, to their fear belong to the KANINE KRUNCHIES truck.
The mentioned truck was off the track at first but quickly reversed and entered the alley with the lights on. What shocked all the puppies even more is that Cruella and her gang, with an eerie smirk of triumph got the puppies cornered, leaving no path for them to escape.
"What do we do now, Patch?" Lucky asked worriedly. The mentioned Dalmatian pup and Hiro glanced around for a way out and both of them saw a few opened windows located on the buildings of the alley. "See those windows, we can reach them from the upper deck" Patch stated.
"But we got to do something about these guys first" Hiro remarked as he and Patch saw the villains halted their vehicle and get out from it. "You all go ahead, Hiro and I will hold them off" said Patch as he and Hiro approaches the exit but soon halted their steps. "Somehow..." he said doubtingly.
It is not a surprised though because they are up against the experienced human adults. "Don't worry, Patch. We can do this" Hiro assured the Dalmatian pup. "At the very least, let's buy time as much as possible for your siblings to escape" he reasoned.
With that in mind, the two pups quickly came out of hiding and confront the villains. They tried to scare Cruella and her gang with their heroic but squeaky barks. Too bad for them, they had no reaction of surprise, not even a bit. "Here's the fussy ones" Jasper chuckled as he approaches with Horace and Cruella.
Terrified that this might be the end, the pups tried to bark for the last time before the bark was heroically enforced with a familiar startling bark. The two heroes and the trio villains were shocked and turned behind, only to saw that Thunderbolt had arrived. He stood on the roof of the KANINE KRUNCHIES truck. "Thunderbolt..." Patch and Hiro muttered.
The mentioned dog turned behind and saw that Lars, with his glasses on, sitting inside his black car gave a thumbs up before driving away. Thunderbolt then broke through and landed near Patch and Hiro. The Dalmatian pup still could not believe why Thunderbolt came when he thought the latter believed that he is no wonder dog.
"How're you doing, buddies?" Thunderbolt asked. "But I thought..." Patch muttered. "Come on! Haven't you seen the show? I'll always arrive just in the nick of time" Thunderbolt reminded and Patch, for no reason became happy. "I may not be a real wonder dog... but I can act like one" he claimed before bravely does his heroic bark at the trio villains.
Lightning who was hiding under the bus was shocked to learn that his hated rival returned. During the bark, Hiro and Patch went back inside the bus to have the other puppies evacuated. Despite the bark being shocking at the first try, it does not work for the second time.
Jasper with an evil grin attempt to smack Thunderbolt with a pipe. The brown dog then make reacted with fear and told Lightning who the former had already noticed not to have Cruella and her gang killed him. Not only that, he acted like he is having a heart attack and behave like a rabid.
Though none of the villains could tell that Thunderbolt is pretending to be crazy and in suffering. Cruella had already lost patience and decided to do what she believes she should. "Here, give me that!" said Cruella as she grabbed the pipe from Jasper. "I'll put this mongrel out of its misery" she claimed.
The devil woman attempted to end Thunderbolt's life for good but unfortunately the brown dog not only avoided her attempts to smack on purpose, he also made her bashed the heads of her underlings. Jasper and Horace collapsed as they got hit while Thunderbolt made Cruella tripped onto a trash can. During this time, the other puppies had finished evacuating.
Still, the acting had yet to end. Thunderbolt acted like rabies for the last time and told Lightning not to moan for the former when he passed away until it happened. The brown dog, though unbeknown to the others except Patch and Hiro was pretending to be death as his tongue went out from his mouth. Lightning then burst into tears as he actually fell for it.
"Goodbye...Sweet prince" Lightning bid farewell before crying loudly again. At that time, Hiro had shift the gear of the bus to reverse mode and Patch pushed down the handbrake, making the bus moved backwards. They even opened up the window on the back.
When Thunderbolt heard this, he with a grin of victory, opened up his eyes and licked Lightning on the cheek once, leaving the Corgi stunned before the brown dog leaped into the moving bus. The other puppies watch the bus reverse while Thunderbolt catches up with Patch and Hiro as the three sprint towards the front broken window and exited the bus.
Lightning who soon noticed the incoming bus shrieked in fear and begun running. Cruella who was under the trash can noticed this too, followed up by Jasper and Horace as they run too. Going through the narrow gap by the parking truck, they still run as the bus collided with the truck, forcing it to reverse as well.
Still panicking, they continue running straight without even bothering to change direction due to their fears. Horace grabbed Lightning along the way too. The four of them leaped into the river and screamed. Even the KANINE KRUNCHIES fell into the river as it crashes the fences.
How unfortunate for the four villains, including Lightning. The four of them struggle to have themselves floating since they could not even swim. The sun soon shines down from the cloud onto a pillar nearby the river. Patch, Hiro and Thunderbolt then jumped onto the same pillar before the big brown dog perform his heroic bark.
Afterwards, Patch and Hiro performed their heroic bark as well but this time it really worked and no more sounds of squeaky toys. Patch in particular was happy that he managed to bark heroically like Thunderbolt.
Later...
Noises of a few sirens can be heard, which were caused by the patrol cars. The place they were before is now surrounded with polices who were called by Lars. The puppies are there too but they are no longer in danger with the cops around.
The cops had rescued the drenched villains and this time arrested them. There is a pair of police dogs who rescued Lightning and arrested him. Lightning tried to persuade the police dogs into believing that he was trying to help Thunderbolt but to no avail.
Patch and the other puppies had convinced the police dogs earlier that Lightning was a villain too. This time, it is Thunderbolt who smirked in triumph. As for Lars, he started whining about how cruel Cruella is, rejecting his full effort of painting spots and so on to an inspector.
Soon, Nanny arrived in another patrol car as she was contacted by the police. The Radcliffe family were also informed. "There they are, those are the ones!" Nanny claimed the first thing she gets out of the car as she saw the drenched Horace and Jasper.
"She made us do it!" both the siblings pointed out to the real culprit, Cruella De Vil. After being rescued, Cruella had already gone insane and the cops decided to send her to the mental institute. "Spots. I do see spots you know" Cruella said while chuckling crazily and looking around.
She was carried by two medical officers at that time before they throw her into the van. "They're everywhere" she continued and chuckled in the same manner again before the two medical officers shut the van completely and drove her away. "Spots, spots. Spot!"
Then the Radcliffe family, Pongo and Perdita arrived with their car. They were overjoyed when they saw the puppies and greeted them. Pongo and Perdita were glad that they were all okay. Patch noticed his parents' arrival and barked as he approached them.
Hiro and Thunderbolt were glad that Patch had reunited with his family. "Patch, you're safe" Perdita muttered in relieve as they reunited. "We were so worried about you" she stated. "We missed you very much, Patch" Pongo added. "You did?" Patch repeated, still could not believe what he heard. "Of course, son" Pongo replied.
Then Patch noticed Hiro and Thunderbolt approaching. "Mom, Dad. This is Thunderbolt and Hiro. They saved us" Patch informed. "I don't know how to thank you for saving my family" Pongo stated as he approached the two dogs.
"No, no. Don't thank us. It was your son, Patch" Thunderbolt corrected. "Yeah, he did most of the job. I'm just helping what I can for him" Hiro added. "Mom, Dad. The devil woman got us and we were trapped. And then Patch got us out!"
"Yeah, Patch made a trampoline" Rolly continued. "You should had seen Patch, Mother. He was fantastic. Just like Thunderbolt..." Lucky remarked. Then Patch's siblings began to surround their mentioned brother. This time, they all see him in a very unique way.
A saviour, a hero that saved the day. Patch was overwhelmed and at the same time happy that everyone begun to see him the way he wished to be. "You know, they're right, kid" Thunderbolt concurred. "Me, I'm just an actor. But you. You are a real. One of a kind wonder dog" he stated and Patch chuckled excitedly when being nosed by Thunderbolt.
"Yup. So true" Hiro added. "Hey, lads! They're over here" a photographer cried and all the dogs smiled for the camera. Patch sat on Thunderbolt's head while Hiro stood under the brown dog. "Say spot!" he ordered and snapped photos of them.
After the photo session is over. Pongo and Perdita wondered who Hiro was. The name sound familiar to their ears but they could not remembered where they heard such name. "Oh yeah, everyone. This pup, Hiro here is actually a human" Patch announced. "Eh?!" everyone else except Hiro and Thunderbolt cried in surprised.
"You're a human?" Pongo asked in bewildered. "Yes. My full name is Oozora Hiro. My parents' name are Akira and Haruka" Hiro answered. "A lot of things happened but I wanted now to meet my family again. Just like Patch right now" he explained. "Well then, follow us" Perdita stated.
And so, the Dalmatian family brought Hiro the pup to where the Oozora family was. That is they are waiting under a tree at a park. Haruka and Akira sat on the bench together. Excited to see his parents again, Hiro barked as loud as he can while heading towards his parents.
Haruka and Akira heard this and were surprised when they saw a blue pup approaching before it jumped at the former. Haruka, subconsciously grabbed the blue pup. "A puppy?" Akira muttered as he was surprised why would a puppy suddenly jumped at his wife?
Though for Haruka, she felt something familiar about the pup, especially the eyes, face and the locket it wore. Then she saw a brief silhouette of the pup's true identity in her eyes, which is none other than her son, Hiro. "Hiro!" Haruka exclaimed and hugged the pup.
"Hiro? You mean this dog?" Akira asked. "Yes! There's no doubt about it. I can tell, dear. This dog is actually our son" Haruka told him. Akira then noticed and recognised the pup quite well. "Hiro, you turned into a dog?" Akira asked and Hiro the pup barked in response.
Even though they cannot understand barking of dogs, they can still understand Hiro from the bottom of their heart. "I see... Welcome back, Hiro" said Akira with a smile. Then, Ran, Haneotome, the Yamano family together with Cobra and Mongoose came.
Hiro was completely surprised when he saw that Ran was there. The Oozora family then explained everything and everyone was surprised to learn Hiro had turned into a puppy. Ran, out of all people could not believe it too.
Hiro the pup had about the similar size to Haneotome. Ran happily told her boyfriend that she had accepted his souvenir from Haruka and that it reunites them. Hiro was actually disappointed that he could not hand over the souvenir directly but then happy as he remembered the legend told by Laura about love of the bought souvenir.
Regardless, the case had over. The Dalmatian dogs and also Thunderbolt are glad that Hiro reunited with his family. Hiro was not able to turn back to his human self for a few days but he did awesome things while being a dog.
He was invited to be a guest of the Thunderbolt Adventure Hour along with Patch and the Dalmatian puppies. He was also in the newspaper. Ran is even willing to have pictures with him while he was a dog.
After he reverted back to his human form, his close friends of LBX players that affiliated with NICS teased him that Hiro looks better in his dog form. Hiro could only grumble and gave them a glare for that. Still, Hiro was more than glad to help Patch became a hero of his own. He thought this might have been fate for them to meet each other.
