MOST RECENT CHAPTER EDIT: November 18th, 2015

Before Balto and Duke took off to find Dingo, we find out what happened to him.

Deck – Cargo Ship; En route from Nome, Alaska, to Kamchatka, Soviet Union

13:02; Sunday April 15th, 1928 (2 days earlier from previous chapter)

On the small cargo ship—which really felt large for Dingo—Dingo was on a large deck with a shipload of crates, and sailors sweeping the deck.

Tough poop, Dingo, he thought, You should feel ashamed of following that smell of minks. I can only imagine what would happen if I'm spotted on the ship.

He then hid in one of the open crates, and wondered to himself, I'm just gonna make a big commotion. Papa will go look everywhere to find me, and then Mama wouldn't let me go free running anymore! This cannot be much worse. I can swim, but I don't want to because the water is freezing, and it's too long of a distance as it is. I will just wait until they deliver me to this new world... that doesn't think I'm part wolf at all! Yes, Dingo! You're heading to paradise! Just enjoy the ride, and you'll be just fine. Then Dingo snuggled up in his crate.

Hours later, Dingo felt like his life took forever as the sailors said the ship is going to travel on the sea for over five days! The ship was going at such a slow speed he could do nothing! He just stayed in his crate and got bored out of his head. So he just lost his marbles, and wept on top of the deck. (It's a good plan :D .)

A few of the sailors saw him very sad and lonely on the deck, very hungry and extremely bored. So they brought him below the deck to have some food and some water, and immediately, he felt better! :D

Deck – Cargo Ship – Docked at Kamchatka, Soviet Union

13:58; Thursday April 19th, 1928 (4 days later)

Five days have past until they finally made it into a small town in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation), for Dingo to find his new world.

As the ship docked, Dingo made it off, and right ahead of him was a brand new looking town with lots of people, and with lots of dogs!

Dock streets; Village in Kamchatka, Soviet Union

Dingo walked pretty slowly because he didn't want to do anything stupid.

Later soon, a dog saw him, and some of the others did too, then there was complete silence for five seconds. After that, the dogs all came to Dingo to welcome him, and Dingo was puzzled.

All of the villagers came too to find him and they welcomed him too! saying lots of stuff in Russian which Dingo did not understand, and then, one of the dogs (good thing dogs speak one language) told him, "Why not you go and see our top dog?" Dingo did not answer as they led him there.

Once he made it, there in front of him was Steele, Balto's arch nemesis. Dingo never knew he was Steele, so he just walked up to him while Steele was wondering about something while seeing Dingo.

Dingo asked, "What's wrong, dude?"

Immediately a picture of Jenna came into Steele's mind, then Steele flattened his mouth, exhaling.

Dingo just started off the conversation. He said, "Hello... dude... My name is Dingo... I'm from Nome, Alaska."

Steele decided to get to the point. "Ah. Dingo. Pleased to meet you, Dingo. How are your parents?" he panted smirking.

Dingo was puzzled. "They're OK. Why did you ask that?" he asked.

"Because I too am from Nome," replied Steele, "If I am good with names, is your mother Jenna?"

"How did you know that?" yelped Dingo.

"Well, lemme tell you, boy, your mother Jenna, she was the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on back in my day," told Steele.

Dingo looked away. "Psst. I beg to differ."

Then Steele's girlfriend popped up, saying, "What did you say? Who's the beautiful one?"

Steele replied, "Oh you are, pumpkin!" Then he kissed her.

"Get a room," said Dingo.

Steele told his girlfriend, "Oh, pumpkin, I have some business to do here I'll catch a few sticks this evening." Then she left.

Steele turned back to Dingo. He continued, "Where was I? Oh right, Jenna. She was so pretty she looked like a slice of red velvet cak-" Then he immediately halted. I shouldn't sound like a serial killer, he thought. "She looked like a rose, and she was my entire life. I did everything I can to please her and make her feel good. But then, that wolf-dog came in, BALTO! He ruined my entire life!"

Dingo barged in, "That's my Dad!"

Steele barked frustratingly, "I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT-I KNEW IT!" then he punched the ground a few times.

Dingo barked in mild frustration, "Dude, do you need to see a vet?"

Steele went back to normal and turned back to Dingo. Steele continued, "I'm so sorry. I just will quickly explain this to you. Alright. So I tried to ask Jenna out and offer her anything I could! I was too late when I wanted to celebrate with her for me winning the sled race, offering her bones; she just rejected me! Balto just minutes earlier impressed her because of his Wolfy rape face! I still can remember it to this day! Then later that night I came with some sausages; she was with Balto, and she pretended to accept, while she lured me to a burning furnace door! She burned my Heine so hard! Then the next day she scolded me! I really felt like life was over!"

"Wow," said Dingo, "I never thought you saw my parents that way."

Steele continued, "I had to go rescue some medicine for many of Nome's kids including her owner, Rosy."

"My village always talks about that," barged Dingo.

Steele continued, "I got bombarded by a snowstorm and me and my entire sled team got pushed down a large icy slope! I thought I couldn't do anything anymore! But just weeks later, Balto came in with Jenna's bandana and he so badly wanted to take the medicine and take my spot as lead dog! He then lured me off a terrible cliff which I bumped down many times while I accidentally ripped off his bandana! I was so hurt I felt like I nearly died! And then-" Steele had to think of what to say next. I don't want to tell Bingo that I redirected Balto and the team to their death just so I could snack on Jenna, he thought, Oh! I got it!

"Balto... Took the most dangerous route possible! He nearly fell off a cliff, which seconds later, he did! And with the medicine which fell off the sled! After seeing all the snow get rushed into his mouth, and into this body, I thought he died! So I made it back to Nome, using his tree marks going back home, and then I made it!"

"Wow. My dad never told the story like that," said Dingo, "I never knew that you've been through all that."

Steele continued, "I made it back to town, tried to tell everyone they couldn't make it, and that Balto asked me to take care of Jenna; I gave her his bandana for some proof. She was deeply weeping, knowing that she's going to have to forget about that wolf she loves. She loved him SO MUCH she told right in my face with that extremely large wrinkle under her eyebrow-"

Dingo laughed and panted, "Yup, she has that alright!"

Steele continued, "She said, 'You're lying!' I was speechless. Then I knew she needed a little time. So I had to snack on a couple of other dogs named Dixie and Sylvie, which were extreme fans of me. So I thought, Who needs Jenna? So I told my story of how I was able to make it back to Nome to Dixie and Sylvie. Days later, when Balto did make it back, (I couldn't know how), Dixie told me, 'Steele, you are positively Dis-POSABLE!'" Steele started whimpering in insane sorrow, "Then she slapped the bone out of my paw, and everyone growled at me and left me! I was hated and nobody loved me! I was abandoned at that shed with tears coming out of my eyes. I knew my only place left was to be a lead dog on my sled team! But the other dogs didn't like having me around, and then, my mushers thought I was getting too slow, so they retired me!"

Dingo immediately saw large tears coming out of Steele's eyes. "Whoa," he said.

"Then, I was just treated in the entire town like a stray dog!" whimpered Steele sorrowfully, "Nobody wanted me! Nobody cared for me! I felt like climbing up Nome's church, making a leap of faith! I didn't want to live in this vessel anymore! So I hopped... onto a cargo ship. Where I knew that my life wasn't over!" Steele's tragic whimpering ended. He continued, "The sailors on the ship saw me weeping like a baby! So they fed me!"

Dingo barged, "Hey! That's exactly what happened to me!"

"And That's where I felt better," continued Steele, "I knew that even though Nome was Balto's heaven, with the dog he loves, and with amazing pups like you, and with a sled team to work for, on this ship was my mini heaven. The sailors cared for me, fed me, comforted me, I felt so good. Then I came to this town, and real heaven came in, the entire town welcomed me, they loved me, and I grew talent, and became the top dog." Steele wiped his tear with his paw, cracking a smile under his teary face.

Dingo said, "I'm so sorry what you've been through. I'm so glad to see you're happy now." Dingo layed down beside Steele.

Steele replied, laying next to him, "I'm so glad you came to join me. We will together have an amazing life here in the Soviet Union! We will forget all about that silly Nome hamlet! Whoa, after this entire story I told you, I didn't introduce myself, you can call me Uncle Steele."

Dingo replied, "Oh-Kay." Then he nuzzled him.

We will rejoin Balto and Duke in the next chapter! Stay tuned!