So I'm trying to speed up the rate of this story a bit so here's chapter 9. An important chapter for me as some of the idea's expressed here have been on my mind since the start and a few which I just came up with before I typed them. Enjoy, Read & Review.


Chapter 9

Balto awoke when a delightful scent touched his nose. His eyes opened slowly and he stretched out his arms as he yawned. He sniffed again to discover what exactly the smell was.

'Hmm…Bacon' Balto thought to himself. He noticed Jenna wasn't next to him in bed, but a second later realized the master bathroom shower was on. Balto threw the cover off of himself and climbed out of bed, only half dressed, just in time to see that his cell phone had a message on it. Balto grabbed the phone, flipped it open and started the message.

"Hello, Brigade General Balto Leonhard, I am Dr. Donovan Calico. I was the oversight director of "Project Phantom" of which was recently classified as a failure due to termination of all generation 1 experiments; however, experiment 14, codename: Bolt, has yet to have been terminated; therefore, the file cannot yet be closed. I understand that you confronted experiment 14 yesterday and managed to be successful in removing the use of his genetic enhancements and therefore he is no longer a threat. Thank you for your brave acts in this difficult time. Now I must get to the matter at hand, Now Bolt is the last remaining experiment and even though he is no longer a physical threat he still understands far too much of what our project was about. Balto I am asking you to neutralize the threat of an information leak via Bolt. A package should arrive at your home within the week, inside will be a chemical cocktail similar to the one administered to prisoners on death row. You are to administer this lethal cocktail to Bolt by any means necessary injection is preferred but ingestion will be equally as effective. If you do manage to complete this task, which I'm sure you will be able to do, there shall be more than adequate compensation for your time and effort through this entire ordeal. There's no need to contact me I will contact you after the package has been delivered. Goodbye Balto."

Balto was wide-awake now and he could do little more than stare at his phone in shock.

'I can't kill Bolt, especially not like this.' Balto thought to himself as the bathroom door opened

"Moring Balto!" Jenna said happily as she walked out of the bathroom fresh from her morning shower, when Balto failed to reply she took notice and said "Balto…Sweetheart are you okay."

"No…Jen I'm not okay." Balto replied rather flatly. "I need you to come listen to this voicemail on my phone."

"…So anyway Mittens and I haven't spoken to each other in over six years, five of those where taken up by Project Phantom of course, but I don't think she even knows I was there." Bolt had just finished answering all of Aleu's questions about his onyx and alabaster better half.

"Wow…I never would have guessed a dog could fall for a cat, and so hard too." Aleu chuckled lightly; she had taken a seat next to Bolt at the table.

"And now I believe we had an agreement." Bolt gave a sly smile and looked at Aleu through the corner of his eye.

"Alright, you held up your end so I'll hold up mine." Aleu said as she got up from her seat and walked over to the counter to prepare Bolt's breakfast. "You know Bolt if you love her you should find her and tell her."

"Look Aleu, I told you Mittens and I are over now. She's probably settled down with some decent tomcat and had kittens by now. I mean how would you feel if some guy you knew, who hasn't spoken to you in six years shows up at your door and says 'Hey look sorry I haven't spoken to you in so long I was a prisoner of the government so I could earn a couple of bucks, but anyway I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you'" Bolt's voice was laced with sarcasm.

A redheaded woman sat on the edge of a hotel room bed and signed as she looked out of the window at the falling snow outside.

'Bolt used to love the snow" She said with a sigh. The woman appeared to be in her mid to late-twenties and she seemed to be waiting on someone. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Coming!" She said smiling to herself; she already had a pretty good idea of who it was at the door.

"Mittens! It's so good to see you!" She greeted her visitor, a black and white cat.

"It's good to see you too Penny, it's been such a long time." Mittens replied as she embraced Penny in a friendly hug.

"Well come on, let's get this vacation started and see what Nome has to offer." Penny said as she led Mitten's down the hall toward the elevator.