Rico was watching Zuzi the whole time that she was running through the hellish tunnels. He never said anything but he knew what was happening and he was even the one who made the pile of dirt fall on Zuzi. She couldn't get out of the pile, she only had one back legmakes it very difficult to struggle. So she was just left sitting there. Front Paws weren't any help, they were trapped. Dirt doesn't seem like the most useful thing to use to trap anything but Rico has a strange ability to make anything happen. He did, however, forget one important detail.

Zuzi felt something tugging on her one leg sticking out of the dirt. She was eventually pulled out of the dirt to be immediately be greeted by another pup, who was a white boxer. She had never seen him before, but he just saved her.

"Hey, yeah, we need to go. Now." He told as soon as she popped out.

"Wh-who are you?" Zuzi asked.

"My name is Tucker, but we need to leave." He explained, pulling her in the direction he was going.

"Do you know where to go?" Zuzi questioned as they both ran.

"Yeah. I saw it before. Rico put me down here. There's a weird gray thing in front of it though." Tucker told her, "Can we not talk and just try to get out of here?"

"Sure thing."

So Zuzi just followed him down the tunnel. He clearly knew that Zuzi had only three legs so he kept slowing down sometimes to let her catch up. There was nothing in the tunnel right now. Rico probably thought they were dead so just let them be in that place. That idea was quickly shot down however when they took one turn. Right after the turn, the hands started poking out of the walls.

"Oh, God," Zuzi mumbled when the hands started coming.

"Try your best to ignore it all." Tucker explained, "They aren't threats, they just want to scare you."

"I-I'll try..." Zuzi told him.

She was constantly falling over because the hands grabbed her one back leg and that threw her entirely off balance. She always just got right back up though and just followed Tucker, who was slowed down for her.

"If we ignore it all, we just run through this tunnel." Tucker told her, "The thing at the end is the only threat."

Zuzi said nothing and just kept going. There were sounds, but Tucker convinced her that they were nothing. They ran for a while but they did eventually reach the end. As Tucker said, the gray humane character that picked up Zuzi before was standing there, staring like it was before.

"Okay. Listen to me." Tucker grabbed Zuzi's attention, "As soon as I begin to run, you run."

"W-why?" Zuzi questioned, afraid and confused.

"Yeah. You'll just have to trust me." Tucker told, and looked at her until she answered.

"Well, o-okay then" She confirmed, now waiting for Tucker to go.

"I'm gonna run slow because you can't run very fast." Tucker said to her, "It's very understandable."

Tucker made sure she was a slight bit behind him, and that no hands were in front of them as they would prove a threat in this situation. Tucker did a countdown and a very short time before he finished he ran, to make sure Zuzi was behind him. He just ran straight forward and so did Zuzi. Zuzi had no idea what the plan was here. They were both running right directly into the one thing Tucker said was a threat, but she went with it. Good that she did. When Tucker was almost directly in front of the figure, he rolled. He rolled under its legs to avoid the grab. While it tried to grab him, that gave Zuzi time to just run past it with no threat whatsoever. Right behind it was a staircase that leads to a door on the ceiling above them. When they opened it, they were inside a house.

"Thank you. So much." Zuzi thanked but she had no idea what to do to properly thank him.

"I was crushed too. Except I was able to get out." Tucker explained, "I heard the whimper you let out as you were crushed and I had to help."

"I-I-I don't even know how to thank you," Zuzi told him.

"Why even?" Tucker asked, walking out of the house which thankfully didn't collapse.

"Y-you saved my life. H-how am I n-not supposed to?" Zuzi questioned, walking out with him.

"I never asked for any return." Tucker told her.

Zuzi just ran up and hugged him. It felt kinda awkward for Zuzi because she had to stand on one leg to do it but she did it nonetheless, and Tucker allowed it.

"Can I ask, why you don't have that leg?" Tucker said, cautiously.

"Ri-Rico blew it off." Zuzi told him, with no hesitation.

"Oh." Tucker exclaimed, "Yeah, that must've hurt a lot."

"Well no duh." Zuzi joked, "Explosions hurt."

"So do you know how to leave this place?" Tucker asked her.

"I have some, uh, friends somewhere around here." Zuzi explained to Tucker.

Just before Tucker could respond to that, they heard Chase's voice quietly echo through the city, calling for her. They were able to figure out what direction it was coming from and they both ran towards it. A whole lot of things collapsed as they were running towards Chase's voice. Many flickering light poles, fronts of houses and sometimes mailboxes just fell over. One of the light poles nicked Tucker but he convinced Zuzi that he was fine. Took a bit longer than expected for them to reach the rest of the team, but they did.

"She's here! Zuzi!" Marshall shouted out, being the one that saw here appear from the fog.

They all ran up to her, surprised, happy, and excited to see her. There and alive. It took them a few seconds to realize that Tucker was there too. As they were all ecstatic that Zuzi was there.

"So. Who's he?" Rocky asked, nudging his paw in the direction of Tucker.

"Yeah. My name is Tucker, I came with her." Tucker explained, trying to stray attention back to Zuzi.

"H-he saved my life." Zuzi told everyone, "I-I'll ex-explain where I-I was later. Right now I just wanna rest for a while..."

"Yeah. Let her sit. She just went through a lot." Tucker told them.

"So. I think we should introduce ourselves." Ryder suggested, looking to Tucker, "Where a team called the PAW Patrol and I'm the leader, Ryder, the blue police pup is Chase. The-"

"I'm colorblind." Tucker told, cutting Ryder off.

"Oh okay then. What color is he?" Ryder asked, now curious.

"Blue."

"Okay. So you're not blind to blue." Ryder jotted down in his head.

"What color am I?" Marshall asked, walking over to Tucker.

"Yellow-ish." Tucker wrongly stated, but it's what he saw.

"No. I'm red. My name is Marshall." Marshall said to Tucker, then walking away.

"Red is my biggest issue."

"Okay. My turn!" Rubble shouted, going over to Tucker, "What color am I?"

"Yeah. You look yellow too." Tucker said, and this time he was right.

"I am yellow! My name is Rubble."

They did this for Skye as well, who Tucker wrongly saw as blue. It would've been nice if they could have Rocky do as well, but he didn't have anything on because Rico took everything. They had to explain that to Tucker. They asked Tucker what he saw green as, and he knew because he had to see yellow plants all the time. Everyone says its actually green, so that was something he knew.

"What do we do now?" Skye questioned.

"I guess we just, rest like Zuzi is," Ryder stated, as they all just sat down and waited for her to be ready again.

When you have only three legs and you were running around for as long as she was, along with the actual traumatization she went through beforehand. She was understandably tired out from all that she did. Since Rico wasn't there to do anything, they just took one of the rare breaks that they got.


When Zuzi finally got back up from her pose while lying on the ground, which actually wasn't painful to lie on, it took some help because she still wasn't entirely used to having three legs. She explained what Rico had done to her, and every one of them was extremely empathetic. They still had no leads to how to get out of the place, so they were still just roaming around no matter what was happening.

"How far out does this fog go?" Tucker asked them.

"It goes a bit outside of the town." Skye told him, as she was the one launched out and met the end.

"Speaking of this fog actually." Chase started, "I think our only chance out is to just leave this fog. Me and Skye talked about it and we think we'd most likely still have a chance to live if we go out."

"As much as I hate to admit, he's probably right." Skye supported, nervous about it though.

"If the exit is outside the fog, what other decision do we have in this situation?" Chase explained, making all the others think.

"How do you know this?" Tucker asked as he didn't hear Rico explain all this.

"We were told. By Rico." Chase replied.

"Why?" Tucker asked.

"We have no idea." Chase answered and this was something they weren't told.

"If we do walk out, do we go together?" Marshall asked.

"I think we should. If there is something out there we'd have more of a chance to survive. If there isn't anything we're all just out there." Ryder explained, and it seemed like a good idea.

They all took quite a while to think about this. It seemed like the only decision bit there's also the chance they would just die there. Rico always has something at his disposal though so if they just stayed there forever they would eventually die anyway so they all came to decide the only decision was to just walk out. So they walked straight to the entrance of the town, and just prepared themselves to leave. They were all afraid but they were ready. They all simultaneously walked out of the fog and saw all that was outside of the town. It was a hilly, grassy area, and they were all alive to see it. Nothing was there. Just the hills and the grass.

"So you decided to make it outside. Not a great idea. I have a friend for you." Rico chimed in.

"Oh boy." Zuzi exclaimed, scared, but not at all surprised.

"Oh, and when I said a friend. I really meant it." As Rico said that, a familiar pup in orange appeared on one of the hills.

"Lemme just tell you now. He's not your friend anymore."

"I never knew this guy e-existed." Zuzi told since no one ever told her about Zuma.

"He's a part of our team. He was taken away before." Ryder explained, Zuma still just standing there.

"Oh yeah! About that. The pup you saw getting taken away wasn't Zuma. It was a doppelganger I had with you from the start. I had the real one the whole time." Rico told everyone, dumbfounding them all.

"Why was he so useful to us then?" Skye questioned, as fake Zuma had saved them and killed many threats.

"Either for the movie. Or that I knew you were going to get out of the situation anyway, so I just sped it up." Rico explained.

"I have no idea what's going on." Tucker said, failing to comprehend any of this.

"Me neither." Zuzi told, same as Tucker.

"Eh, whatever. I'm just gonna let him kill you now. a-bye bye!" Rico told, Zuma now starting to move towards them.

"What do we do? We can kill him!" Marshall questioned, really nervous about if they or Zuma will die.

"Rico would've made it so Zuma has the portal." Ryder told.

"Why does Rico even have these portals?" Chase asked, now just beginning to question it.

"Probably to access all these films without running all around." Ryder explained, thinking of where the portal could actually be.

"R-Rico couldn't just p-put a- put a portal inside of, uh, Zuma, right?" Zuzi started, "He couldn't just-just change the insides of a-a living being. That's a-a living pup. Just probably brainwashed I think."

"Yeah. That doesn't seem possible." Tucker said.

"He still has his pup pack." Rubble told them all, and they all took heavy notice.

"He's getting pretty close." Chase spoke, "We should probably get going now."

They ran off to the right, away from the fogged town and away from the chocolate lab coming after them. To the right of them was no hill, just an open plain that they could easily run through. Zuma wasn't exactly sprinting at them so they didn't seem to have to run far. They made sure everyone was looking out, as they tried to hatch out a plan.

"What do we do?" Chase asked with a very concerned tone, "That's Zuma we can't kill him!"

"There's no way the portal is inside him." Zuzi explained, "Rico couldn't. He just couldn't."

"Well, then where could it be?" Skye questioned, pretty confused at the situation in the first place.

"Rico didn't just now make this area so it can't be with Zuma." Zuzi told, "No idea where it could be though. Nothing else seems alive around here."

"Maybe the tunnels you two were in?" Marshall suggested.

"Maybe. When were you put in the tunnels, Tucker?" Zuzi asked him.

"Rico kept throwing me in there multiple times." Tucker started, "I was put in like twenty times from all kinds of places not even around this town."

"If you were in there for so long then Rico wouldn't be able to do anything down there. Depending on how long the delay was between each time you went." Zuzi explained.

"Zuma's coming." Rubble abruptly said, with Zuma just popping over a hill.

"How often are we going to run." Zuzi reasonably complained as she had only three legs it's hard to run if you're a pup.

They each began to run. Sadly though, one of them didn't get to finish running. Rubble never got his chance to run away, as Zuma lunged at him and just killed him on the spot. No chance to escape, no chance to talk. Dead.

"That's what I like." Rico spoke but in a seemingly emotionless tone, "Also, Tucker I just noticed your ass. Did you have fun?"

"We can't- we can't. I can't..." Marshall shuddered, unable to speak at the sight of Rubble's death.

Chase just tapped Marshall's side to get his attention to make sure he wouldn't suffer the same fate as Rubble did. Zuma clearly wasn't full speed, or else he wouldn't stray so far behind so easily. None of them knew why he went so slow, but it helped them a bunch. They were easily able to get back to a safe plain to continue talking about escaping. Except they were gonna be better with managing time this time around so no one else died. None of them spoke of Rubble's death, just so it would be that little bit less painful to bare.

"Okay, okay, so, Tucker, how long where you normally in the tunnels?" Zuzi asked, slowly turning into a detective.

"Different every time." He responded.

"How long was the delay between when Rico put you in?" Zuzi questioned.

"Also different every time."

"Welp, this isn't good." Zuzi exclaimed in a white-flag kind of a way.

"How long ago did this start?" Skye asked him, seemingly stealing detective roles from Zuzi.

"Some hours ago." Tucker responded.

"Wasn't that about the time Rico left us alone on the island?" Skye questioned, now starting to get somewhere.

"The tunnel did seem quickly improvised." Zuzi explained, "Not very well made and, for Rico's standards not really... Normal."

"So there is definitely nothing of importance in the tunnels?" Ryder all around questioned, with agreement from all.

It took a very long time for them to find everything. Zuma was constantly chasing them, though at snail's pace and he was a constant nuisance everytime they needed to discuss something. It was painful and difficult for Zuzi to be at constant duress from the handicap she has. Everyone did there fair share of giving ideas. You'd think that after they escaped Zuma do many times Rico would speed him up or something but nope, same pace whole time. Rico never spoke a word either. The last thing he said was when he just noticed Tucker was with them.

It took ages but, yes, they did fund the portal. Rico is just full of surprises and from what they figured out, Rico had no big monster to hold the portal for him in this one. One of the hundreds of hills scattered around the place had a door in it. Inside the door was just, the portal. It was a simple place but very far away from the actual town.

"Rico will never stop confusing me." Chase said, shaking his head.

"Some for all of us brother." Zuzi replied, and she just so happened to be the one next to him so she patted him on the back.

"We should probably leave right now before Zuma comes in the door." Ryder explained to them.

They all agreed with what Ryder said and they stepped into the portal. Eventful this one was.

-Down Death Avenue- Rico Winter


Oh if there's any one of these I want an opinion on its this chapter along with the last. This is a little bit different from what I normally do, so I'd like to see if its good.