Here, Max, Kate, and CatDog take an odd turn on their way to Yonderland. Sneasel and Wynaut catch up to the Greaser Dogs, and we check in on Riolu's group. Oh, and we also see how Scrat's doing as well. Enjoy...and fasten your seatbelts!
"Mother Ship, here we come! High-Ho-Diggety!" Dog was happily running in the direction of some sort of ship while the strange crowd was still happily waiting for said ship.
CatDog, Kate, and Max stopped with the crowd in front of a giant rock that oddly looks like a toilet. Max looked at the rock and tilted his head a little. "Now there's something you don't see everyday."
Cat shook off the pain he was in and glared at Dog. "Dog, this is not on the itinerary! Besides, there's no such things as aliens..." Cat stopped when they saw a light from up above.
The light came from a spaceship that landed on the toilet shaped rock and destroyed it. Then an alien with one eye stood in front of the crowd. "Uhh, welcome back to Earth. Please exit the aircraft in an orderly manner and, as always, thank you for choosing us for all your alien abduction needs."
Some of the people and Pokemon in the crowd happily gathered their family members that were released from the Mother Ship. Those who were abducted looked like they just got finished being experimented on by the aliens.
Kate and Max looked at those who got out of the ship. "They're...happy about all of this?" Max asked in confusion. "I suppose. But, I think all those that were on the ship should see a doctor." Kate replied. She felt sorry for those that were on the ship.
"Yoo-Hoo! Over here! Mom and Dad of CatDog!" Dog called out. He thought his and Cat's parents were part of the group of those who were abducted. So far, there was no sign of them. "Guys, do you see Mom and Dad? Huh? Do ya? Do ya?"
Max and Kate looked around, but everyone else already went home. "No sign of your parents around here." Max answered.
Two aliens then talked to each other. "I don't know why we keep coming to Earth." One alien said. "Nothing interesting ever happens here." the other alien added.
Dog was still looking around. "I told you, we're wasting our time." Cat told his brother.
"Cat might have a point. Looks like the aliens already dropped everyone off." Max agreed.
"Come on. Let's get back to the car and get back on the road to Yonderland." Kate suggested.
Dog, however, still thought their parents were abducted by aliens. "Well, maybe they're still inside, watching the end of the in-flight movie or having trouble with their seat belts."
Before they could stop him, Dog then rushed to the ship, dragging Cat with him again. "Wait, Dog!" Kate called out. Max thought fast and used Grass Knot to tie one end of the grass around Cat's wrist. "Hang on!" Max informed Kate. The Togetic held on to the Pikachu just before they got dragged along until they were inside the ship.
Inside the ship, Cat was banging on the door. "Open up! Help! Let us out of here!" Cat cried out.
"Cat, I don't think anyone's coming. And if someone IS, it'd be those aliens." Max informed seriously.
"And if they catch us, it's most likely that they'll do to us what they did to those poor souls they've just dropped off from their abduction." Kate added. She looked around nervously.
Cat realized that the two Pokemon were right. If they get caught, finding their parents would be the least of their worries. "Dog, we're trapped!"
Being the leader he is, Max tried to get Cat to calm down. "Relax, relax. All we have to do is quietly find another way out of here. Once we're out then we can get back on the road to Yonderland." The Pikachu said.
Dog then noticed two aliens walking over. "Maybe they know where Mom and Dad are."
Cat panicked. "No, Dog. They'll see us!" The four of them hid in a safe place and waited until the two aliens walked away.
Then, there was a flashing light. The four of them looked to see a shadow of another CatDog. Thinking it might be their parents, Dog happily ran over to the light. Max and Kate were right behind them. "Mom, Dad! Your little prides and joys are here! And with another pride and joy for the family!" Dog happily called out.
As they walked around, Cat, Max, and Kate were kinda freaking when they saw many strange creatures floating in tubes filled with some sort of liquid.
Cat shuddered. "This place is giving me the creeps!"
"I feel like I'm in a very bad nightmare." Kate agreed. She was shaking a little bit.
"I hope these mutants don't break out." Max muttered. Then something popped up on a tube in front of them. This made Max, Kate, and Cat scream in fear. It was only Dog looking from behind a tube.
Realizing it was only Dog, Kate then went into scolding mode. "Dog, you scared us!"
Dog just kept dragging Cat around, looking for the lost parents. "Mom, Dad, where are you?" Dog then stopped with Cat under some sort of ray. "Oh, Parents! Parents?"
Max and Kate caught up just as Cat got zapped by the ray above him. The ray morphed Cat into a bunch of random things, a cocoon, a corn on a cob, a glove, and finally a mutant. Kate and Max were shocked to see what the ray was doing to Cat. "This ship is too dangerous for us in more than one way!" Kate exclaimed.
"We've gotta get out of here now!" Max informed the others. "Not until we change Cat back!" Kate argued.
Dog finally noticed that Cat looked like a mutant. "Gee, Cat, why are you playing around with the extraterrestrial spaceman stuff? We're supposed to be looking for our parents."
"I'm not playing around, you ninny!" Cat told Dog.
Max then began to speak firmly to Dog. "Okay, that's enough! Your parents are obviously not on this ship! Now let's get out of this creepy ship before-"
Another voice interrupted the Pikachu. "There's the intruders!" Before they knew it, a bunch of angry aliens surrounded Max, Kate, and CatDog with their weapons aimed at them.
Instead of being startled, Max just had a dull look on his face with his ears drooped down. "...Before exactly that happens."
Cat got turned back to normal before he made a run for it. "Run, guys! Run!" The four Pride Team members ran up a platform...well, Kate flew straight up.
When they got to the top, they saw more aliens surrounding them. "Surrender, Earth creatures! Resistance is fu...futi..." One of the aliens had trouble saying something.
"Futile?" Max guessed. "Yes! Futile! Thank you, yellow Earth creature! A waste of time! Get'em!" The alien said.
Max and Kate got ready to fight the aliens. "Dog, Max and Kate can't fight this many aliens by themselves! Do something!" Cat cried out.
All of a sudden, Dog rose up and began to pat his head and rub his stomach at the same time. Kate raised an eyebrow when she and Max saw this. "Dog, what are you doing?" Kate asked in confusion.
"I'm doing something." Dog replied. Then he did the same thing to Cat. "No, no, Dog! Do SOMETHING...something!" Cat pointed at the controls above their heads.
Getting the idea, Dog began to push some of the buttons. Some of them placed a helmet on Dog and then strapped him to a table. Just then, the ship begin to shake violently.
Max tried to stay on his feet. "Uh, guys! I don't think we should be playing around with that!"
But, just as a blinking button flashed green, Dog pushed it. Before anyone on the ship knew it, the ship blasted off into space. Almost everyone on it screamed as the ship took off from Earth.
Since she was able to fly, Kate just watched as Dog tried to control the ship. But, the ship was flying all around space, and making Cat, Max, and the aliens fly around and making them bump into different parts of the ship.
"Cat? Max?" Kate asked in concern.
"Does anyone know where the instruction manual for this thing is!?" Max smashed against the big window next to an alien.
Finally having enough, Cat reached over to try and control the ship himself. Dog wasn't gonna give up, so he and Cat fought over the controls until the steering wheel they held onto snapped in half.
Even with the wheel in half, Dog was still able to steer the ship in different directions. This was making Cat and Max smack into a bunch of other parts of the ship.
"Dog, stop!" Kate yelled. That got Dog to stop and Cat and Max crashed on the table Dog was strapped to. Kate then flew over to Max and Cat. "Are you two okay?"
Max groaned in pain. "If by 'okay', you mean 'in so much pain', then yes."
"We must abandon ship!" one alien informed another.
"To the escape pods!" Soon, all the aliens on the ship began to shove themselves into escape pods that were on the ship for emergencies such as this one.
Then a door on the ship opened up to reveal...Winslow in a space suit. "Hey, Cat! Looks like your parent search is having a few ups and downs!" Winslow laughed.
"Winslow!" Kate exclaimed happily. "How did he get here?" Max asked in confusion.
Cat was relieved to see the blue mouse. "Winslow! Oh, thank goodness you're here. We need your help."
"Don't listen to your friend, it's an Earth creature's trick." one alien said to Winslow.
"Don't worry, you'll be safe with us." another alien grabbed Winslow and stuffed him in an escape pod.
"What are ya, nuts?" Winslow was then taken away with the aliens. Now Max, Kate, and CatDog were the only ones on the ship...that was currently on a course for Earth.
On Earth, the Greaser Dogs were on their motorcycles continuing on their road to pound CatDog and CatDog's parents and leader.
While they were riding, they saw a spaceship just above their heads.
They were surprised to see Cat and Max's faces pushed against one of the windows. "CatDog!?" Cliff asked in surprise.
The Greasers were too busy seeing the ship fly off with CatDog, they didn't look ahead of them...just as Sneasel and Wynaut were in the middle of the road.
Since they weren't looking where they were going, the Greasers crashed into the two Outsiders. Now the five of them were seeing stars.
Sneasel then shook his head and glared at the Greasers. "You stupid dogs! Why don't you watch where you're going!"
Back on the ship, Kate, Cat, and Max were holding on as tight as they could, even with Cat's fur starting to come off. "Where are the brakes on this thing!?" Cat cried out.
Kate then noticed a lever and guessed that it might be the breaks. "I got it!" Kate then flew over and pulled the lever. The ship stopped above a frozen lake...where Scrat was trying to hide his acorn.
"Huh?" Scrat muttered in confusion. He was wondering why a ship was hovering above him. But before he could ponder about it further, the ship fell to the ice and on him. The top half of the ship, along with Scrat, were now underwater.
Cat was dangling upside down with an annoyed look. "Terrific. You just had to get on the ship, didn't you?" He sarcastically asked Dog.
"Well, I guess it livened the trip a little...didn't it?" Kate smiled sheepishly.
"Next time, try finding a way to liven up a trip without throwing my back out." Max stretched and snapped his back back in place. "Ow!"
Dog then noticed Scrat and something else. "Oh, guys. Look at the little fish and that squirrel. Hello, little fishy and squirrel!"
While Max thought the squirrel looked familiar, Cat didn't care about Scrat or the little fish next to Scrat. "Forget about the stupid fish and the stupid squirrel!" Cat then tried to shoo the two away. "Get outta here, you little pipsqueaks!"
Just then, the fish opened its mouth to reveal...a big eyeball. Max, Kate, CatDog, and even Scrat saw that the little fish was actually a giant lake monster.
Scrat screamed and swam up to the surface. Since it was quite narrow, Scrat had to painfully squeeze between the cracked ice and the ship to get out of the water and away from the lake monster. Out of the water, Scrat quickly scooped up his acorn and ran away from the ice as fast as he could.
Back on the ship, Cat pulled up close to Dog while Max used Grass Knot to get closer to his friends. CatDog held on to each other and Kate and Max held each other. The four of them looked at each other before they screamed in total fear while the monster bumped against the ship.
Meanwhile, Riolu was taking the lead as he, Timon, Pumbaa, Norbert, Daggett were walking through the forest to find Max, Kate, and CatDog.
Timon was relaxing on Pumbaa's back. "Hey, Riolu? Are we getting any closer to Yonderland?" Pumbaa asked.
Riolu stopped to look at the map on the Expedition Gadget. "Not yet, Pumbaa. It's still far away from where we're at. It might take us hours before we get there and find Max, Kate, and CatDog."
Daggett was shocked by the answer. "Hours? HOURS!? We can't travel like this for hours! We keep going like this and we'll starve! Look at me, Riolu. I'm wasting away, I'm nothing but skin and bones." Daggett showed off flabby pink skin underneath his brown fur.
"Get a hold of yourself, Daggy-o! All we have to do is find a shortcut and we'll be able to reach Yonderland a lot quicker. Besides, we had breakfast just before we left Pride Rock." Norbert reminded his brother. Daggett then smiled sheepishly as he put his fur back on.
Timon then got off Pumbaa's back. "A shortcut? Norbert, look around, we're in the middle of a forest. How are we supposed to find a shortcut to Yonderland in the middle of a forest?" The meerkat asked skeptically.
Riolu looked at the Expedition Gadget again and thought about what Norbert said. "Actually, I think Norb might be on to something, Timon."
"What?" Timon raised an eyebrow at the Emanation Pokemon.
"Think about it, Zazu looked pretty worried about this news he's got about the Outsiders and the faster we can get to Yonderland and back to the Pride Lands, the sooner we can find out what they're planning this time." Riolu smiled and looked at the night sky. "Besides, me and Max were able to do the unexpected on some of our adventures, even when it was just me and him. So, I'm sure that a shortcut might be just the answer we're looking for."
Pumbaa smiled a bit. "That sounds like a good idea, Riolu."
Timon still wasn't sure. "I'm still not sure. What do you think, Dag?" There was no answer, only the sound of munching. Riolu, Norbert, Timon, and Pumbaa looked to their right and saw Daggett munching on a nearby tree.
Once Daggett had his fill, the tree was about to fall on top of them, but Daggett just sighed in satisfaction. "Now that was delicious! Anyway, what were you guys saying?" When he opened his eyes, he saw his brother and his three friends looking worried about something. "What?"
The tree then began to fall their way. "Falling tree!" Pumbaa screamed. "Come on, Dag!" Norbert then pulled Daggett away from the tree.
The tree tipped over, but then it began to roll their way. So, the five of them screamed and ran from it as fast as they could.
Back with Max, he, Kate, and CatDog were still scared because the lake monster was still banging against the ship they were still on.
"What is that thing!? Its hideous!" Cat cried out.
Dog then realized something. "Cat, it's theory #37!" Dog then pulled out his theory book. "Mom and Dad got swallowed by Bessie the Mysterious Lake Monster."
Kate raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Who names a lake monster Bessie?"
"It doesn't matter! If we don't think of a way out of here, we'll be eaten alive by theory 37!" Max yelled.
Dog then found an exit button. "Oh, great idea, Max! Mom and Dad, here we come!" Dog then pushed the exit button.
"NOOOOOO!" Cat, Kate, and Max yelled out. But, it was too late, the hatch opened up and they were now underwater...with the lake monster.
"Open wide, Bessie!" Dog called to the lake monster. To Cat, Max, and Kate's dismay, the lake monster turned to them.
Cat then began to swim away from the monster. "Wrong way, Dog! Wrong way!"
"Keep swimming away!" Max cried out.
Kate noticed Bessie quickly getting closer. "We're about to be swallowed!"
Sure enough, the lake monster sucked the four of them into her mouth, swallowing them whole.
Outside the water, the Greaser Dogs, now joined by Sneasel and Wynaut, came over and saw the ship that was still in the frozen lake. The five of them looked at the ship in awe.
While under the water, Max, Kate, and CatDog were being tossed around the lake monster's tongue. The only one laughing was Dog. Kate, Max, and Cat were yelping.
"This reminds me of how Dad used to bounce us around on his tongue." Dog happily said.
"How can you be enjoying this!?" Max asked. Then the four of them were tossed down the monster's throat.
Back outside, Cliff, Shriek, Lube, Sneasel, and Wynaut were getting a closer look in the ship through the windows...well, Lube just smacked his face against on the wall of the ship. "Ow! Duh..."
Cliff then scoffed. "This finally explains why CatDog are so freaky looking. Those guys are space aliens from another planet!"
"Aliens from another planet?" Wynaut asked. "I just thought they were the result of a science experiment gone wrong."
Sneasel shrugged. "You learn something new every day."
"We're on another planet?" Lube asked. "I wish I had a camera."
Shriek then sighed dreamingly. "I always knew that pooch was out of this world." Hearing that made Sneasel and Wynaut look at each other in confusion.
Inside the lake monster, Max, Kate, and CatDog were sliding down the throat on a one-way forced trip to the stomach.
"Through the lips and over the gums! Fear not, Mom and Dad, here we comes!" Dog cheered on the way down.
"This is the most disgusting slide I've ever gone down on!" Max yelled. "I'll be having nightmares for years!" Kate agreed. Cat just kept on screaming.
Then while sliding down, they suddenly slid down the rest of the way on their stomachs. "Belly slide to the belly! High-Ho-Mom and Daaaaaad!" Dog hollered.
"I'm gonna need a REALLY long bath after we get out of here!" Kate yelled.
"Remind me to ask Panpour to soak me down with his Water Pledge!" Max told her.
"Why meeeeee!?" Cat cried out. Soon, they fell down another part of the monster.
Finally, they landed in the stomach...on a disgusting pile of entrails.
Kate was quick to use her wings to get off the pile. "Ew! Ew! Eeeewww!" The Togetic shuddered in disgust.
Max got on his feet and shook himself to get the gunk off his fur. "Yuck! This is so gross!"
Dog looked around the stomach in awe. "Wow! The majestic abdominal cavity of Bessie the Mysterious Lake Monster. Spacious, yet homey." Dog then decided to call to the long-lost parents. "Mom, Dad! We're here to rescue you from theory #37 and take you home!"
"Please tell me this is just a bad dream I'm having." Kate groaned.
Max suddenly shushed her with his ears twitching a bit. "Guys, I think I hear something."
Dog's ears lifted up a bit. "Hey, I hear something too."
While Max and Dog kept their ears open, Kate looked up and yelped when some green fluid came raining down the stomach. The Togetic cringed in both disgust and sympathy when some fluid came down on top of Cat.
Cat then glared in Dog's direction. "Dog!" He gritted his teeth in anger.
Dog, however, just smiled when he saw a shadowy figure of another CatDog. "Mom? Dad? Oh, there you are!" He then happily raced over to the shadow, dragging Cat with him.
"Is that really them?" Kate asked.
Max shuddered when he looked down at the fluid, which is actually stomach acid. "Well...there's only one way to find out. Come on." With the Pikachu reluctantly beginning to swim in the acid, Max and Kate rushed over to CatDog.
"Oh, Mommy! Daddy!" Turns out that shadow was from something that looked like a tonsil and Dog was giving it a tight hug. The tonsil then imploded and popped, and Dog noticed that some of it got on Max and Cat. "Oops! Sorry, guys."
Kate floated above Dog and looked around the stomach. "Dog, I don't think there IS anyone else in Bessie."
Max and Cat glared at Dog while trying to get some of the splattered goop off of them. "This goes right to the top of my list of the worst things that have ever happened to me!" Cat complained.
Dog then smiled sheepishly. "I guess they aren't here."
"You mean you got us swallowed by a monster with a little fish for an eyelid for nothing?" Max asked.
Dog was about to answer when he noticed bubbles coming out of the acid. "Hey, Cat! It's like a big bubble bath!" Dog popped one of the bubbles and laughed a bit.
Cat then noticed that some of the fur was gone from his hands and part of Max's tail. He knew what this meant, and he was scared. "It's not a bubble bath. Guys, we're being digested!"
"WHAT!?" Max and Kate yelled.
"Is that bad?" Dog asked in confusion.
"Let's just say it's the most horrible and disgusting way to die!" Max answered while sweating a little nervously.
The room then began to shake as more stomach acid began to fill up the place.
Seeing this, Max, Kate, and CatDog got another gross pile to get off the acid, but it was still rising.
"So, what's the plan?" Kate asked Max.
"Um...maybe..." The Pikachu was having a hard time thinking.
"You don't have a plan!?" Cat yelled.
"Hey, I can't think well when I'm scared, okay!?" Max argued.
Just then, they saw something moving in the river of acid. It came up a little and they saw that it was actually a submarine.
The hatch opened up to reveal...Winslow in a sailor outfit. "And on the starboard side, you'll see CatDog, their sister, and their team leader in the middle of the digestive process." Turns out, the blue mouse was using the submarine to give out a tour to those inside the sub.
"Winslow, you gotta get us outta here!" Cat begged.
"Sorry, the tour's full! Why don't you try goin' out the back door?" Winslow smirked.
Max glared at Winslow. "Why, you little...!" Before Max could continue, some acid poured down on Winslow. Then a wave of acid dragged Winslow and his sub of tourists away...to the back exit.
Kate shrieked in total disgust. "There's no way I'm going through there! How are we gonna get out of here the way we were forced in!?"
Cat then suddenly coughed out a hairball. Seeing the hairball in his hand suddenly gave Cat an idea. "Hairball!"
"No thanks. I had one for breakfast." Dog replied.
"No, no, no! We can make a giant hairball, get inside and Bessie will hack us up to freedom!" Cat explained.
Kate smiled. "Cat, that's a great idea!"
Max agreed. "Gross, but at least we'll be leaving the way we came!"
Cat then ordered something to his brother and the team leader. "Dog, Max, start shedding!"
"Me!?" Max didn't like the sound of shedding his own fur.
"Do you want to get out of here or not?" Kate asked in annoyance.
Realizing that there wasn't much of a choice, Max sighed in defeat. "Okay, okay! I'll do it with CatDog!"
Quickly getting to work, Max and CatDog were beginning to shed their fur off to save their's and Kate's lives. Kate watched and also avoiding getting some fur in her face.
After a few minutes, Max and CatDog were completely out of fur. The giant hairball they made looked like a boat and the four Pride Team members were already on board.
"Anchors away!" Dog called.
"Come on, guys. Let's do it!" Cat told the other three.
Max tried to cover himself up. "I'm actually kinda glad Riolu isn't here with us. He'd never let me live this down."
Cat's plan was beginning to work. Bessie felt something off in her body, making her uncomfortable.
Kate notice that Bessie was getting the uncomfy feeling while the waves moved the hairball boat around. "Cat, your plan's working!" Kate happily hugged Cat.
Eventually, Bessie hacked up the giant hairball AND the four Pride Team members in it.
The hairball shot right through the ice next to the Greasers and Sneasel and Wynaut. The five of them were startled and looked on as the hairball kept flying in the air.
"What in the name of Moltres is that?" Wynaut asked.
"It's a shooting hairball! Make a wish." Lube answered.
Cliff and Sneasel noticed something along with the hairball. "Hey! That hairball's got CatDog and their Togetic sister, Kate inside!" Cliff said.
"Not only that, but it's also got that annoying Pikachu leader of the Pride Team as well!" Sneasel added. "Let us pursue them with vigor!" Cliff declared.
Sneasel smirked at the Greaser leader. "Cliff, I'm really starting to like the way you think. VIGOR!" The five of them ran after the shooting hairball to get CatDog, Kate, and Max.
In the air, Max, Kate, and CatDog were flying fast and far in their hairball.
Seeing that they were out, Kate screamed with joy. "It worked! We're out of that lake monster!"
Dog then happily hugged himself as another memory came to him. "Reminds me of how Mom used to wrap us up in hairballs and throw us into the air."
Cat shook some of the hairball that got in his eyes before he glared at Dog. "Enough of your silly memories! How are we gonna land this thing?"
Max hugged himself and shivered a lot. "Jumping Ice cubes! It's freezing without my fur!" His skin turned blue to prove his point.
While Sneasel, Wynaut, and the Greaser Dogs kept chasing the hairball, Bessie the Mysterious Lake Monster suddenly came up out of the ice.
The five of them turned around and ran from the monster, but Bessie was still able to swallow them before going back into the water.
Seems like Max, Kate, and CatDog are now on a high-flying adventure to Yonderland! Where will they land? Find out where and also find out what happens to Riolu's group in the next chapter!