"We'll need at least two groups; one to defend Droop when this doppelganger gets here, and another to be the main offense against them. I think it would be best if we have all except one of our power fighters tango with the impostor. So, that would be Doggie-" Ricochet was saying as he was cut off by the dog stating, "Daddy." "Alright, Daddy Doggie, Doggie Daddy, it really doesn't matter to me. What does is stopping this maniac from getting their goal. So, as I was saying before i was rudely interrupted, Daddy Doggie, Hokey, and Goku, you three go onward with the attack, while Huck, Quick Draw, Harry, Droop, and myself will be the ranged group defending Droop. Huck and Hokey, I hope you two have those funny looking swords of yours ready, not unless Hokey wants to try out that little electric stuff he just got. I'd love for Goku, Quick Draw, and Huck use those fancy emeralds like before, but something tells me we wouldn't be this far in trouble if you all had them." the sheriff commented, giving Goku an idea. "Hey, why don't Huck and I use our time controlling magic on this guy so we can actually see what we are dealing with. Then, I could take off my inhibitor rings so my dark energy rises to the point of me transforming. It'll make me stronger and have a better control of Chaos energy than what I already have. I would suggest my Fallen Angel form, but I think the Chaos Force would be better to use with this one." he explained, which Huck simply obliged to the request. "It shouldn't be as difficult this time around, now that we have a better grasp of the situation and more partners. I'll cast a time stopping spell, and then Flare, if that's fine with you all. I don't know Ultima yet, but Goku does." the hound mentioned, summoning his keyblade from thin air once again. "Sure, but it'll take some time. I do have a question though that isn't centered around this..." the hedgehog trailed off as he looked towards Hokey. "What exactly was in that bundle of toilet papers? You never did tell me." Goku asked, watching the wolf make a stoic face. "It's pretty obvious, Goku boy. Though what gender it is I have no clue." the older male stated as he walked over to pick up the said bundle to take over to the hedgehog. "Here's the little monster." Hokey told the teen as he handed the bundle over to him, and quickly the hedgehog peaked inside to only have his black nose be squished by the baby's fingers. "Hey! My nose isn't something that just anyone can touch, but I guess I'll make an exception, for you." the teenager said, watching the wolf cub squeal with joy every time it pinched his nose.
Everyone except Ricochet made a radial circle around the bundle, watching the infant play with the hedgehog. "It looks like a girl. A little girl version of Hokey." Huck pronounced, which made the wolf sigh in slight irritation. "Wait a second, now that I notice it, where are those two horses?" Ricochet observed, making everyone look around the station for the two. Walking with Hokey, Goku asked him, "Hokey, what do you think would be a good name for her? One that doesn't start with the first letters of our first names?" Looking at the smaller animal like he was seeing something unusual with him, Hokey raised an eyebrow and remarked, "You were serious with that? Oh, fine, you can have her. Just don't expect for me to allow you to have anymore because I'm not going to be left alone taking of a baby and a young teenager with another teenager. That's an unfortunate and miserable life style!" "Well, if you feel so fatherly towards Ding and I, then it shouldn't matter for her, now shouldn't it?" Goku replied. "It's strange for a parent of the opposite gender to raise a child, you know. Then I'd have to learn all sorts of things that I wouldn't feel comfortable even wanting to put any thought into it." the lupine noted, still keeping an eye out for the two look a likes. "I'll let Trish keep her for a while, since we're doing this. I hope you don't mind her being taken care of by a hedgehog, do you?" Goku suggested as Hokey made a sour face. "You mean that one long haired pretty hedgehog that likes to use guns and swords the same way you do? Oh, never! Please, that would make the little darling like her, Cereza and Jeanne. I don't want another gun toting, foul mouthed kid to look after since I have you to fill that spot. Maybe with your sister, or better yet, how about with your cousin Aurora? Her royal family should make the girl happy." Hokey expressed. "Alright, I'll go to Aurora's right this second." Goku acknowledged as he grabbed the bundle, brought forth his Chaos Emerald, and teleported away. Appearing on his home planet, Mobius, Goku was watching Trish right in the middle of finishing off some unfortunate targets. "Ugh, Goku, what is it you want this time, can't you see I'm busy?" she questioned, aiming flawlessly at the demons surrounding them, and blasting them with her twin pistols that were once the other's father's. "Well, I have a little thing that you could take care of until I finish the situation I'm in? It's a little girl, and you would be better suited for that type of-" Goku was starting to end until Trish abruptly stopped him. "Very well, but only because I owe you. You gotta start being more mature and look further on ahead, Goku. I'm not going to be bailing you out of every single problem you have that you 'can't handle' because you're a boy." the female hedgehog lectured as she roundhouse kicked a demon right in it's face to make it spin like a fan.
"Aw come on, Trish, you don't give me much credit, do you? I do generally solve my own problems if they deal with girls, either ones my age or older. I don't go young because I'm not trying to be seen as a pervert." he defended, ducking a swipe from one of the devils behind him only to give them a pay lay kick, still holding the wolf cub in his arms. "You are a very perverted boy, you know that? You go for people older than you, and I'm not talking about women my age, no, you have a thing for men of your own gender that are older than you. I'm not going to say how sick that is because it's really self explanatory, but, really? You've done the weird and nerve racking things that you know you did and you still deny that you have a screwed up head?" the woman inputted, spinning like a top on her head as her legs became electrified, shocking her enemies into obliteration. "Okay, everyone is fucked up in some kinda way. That's a given. I just have a tendency to be more upfront with it. It's not like watching the sad things that people view as 'pleasure'. Ugh, porn is gross, sex dungeons are for those who have serious complex mental issues, and those who like being actually dirty when touching someone else or their self is just a plain atrocity. But as long as they don't bother me with these things and I'm not going out there to find the shit, which I'm not, then I'm fine with it being a concept I'll never touch." he elaborated, reverse roundhouse kicking a demon behind Trish. "Yeah, yeah, that's what you always say when you're backed up into one of these conversations." she said, shooting a demon right behind Goku's head. "That's because it's true and you know that. Now here, take her and do whatever you can to keep her happy. She likes pinching things." Goku said, giving Trish the infant as she was putting away her guns and called her sword/scythe/lance back. Then he disappeared, leaving her with a very unsatisfied face and a baby that was reaching for her small black nose. "I see why Crystal says you are so immature. No, I've already been seen it, it's just that it's gotten worse now." she proclaimed, inspecting the young wolf.
Appearing back in front of Hokey, Goku said, "Done!" "Did you take her to your cousin like how I said, or did you give her to Trish?"he asked, placing his hands on his hips. "I took her to Aurora and my aunt and uncle. The other one I have that lives in a dimension parallel to mine."Goku lied, and looking at the taller wolf stare at him, he didn't seem too shook up by it. "Umm. I theek I found something, everyone!" Baba yelled, and so the two, along with everyone else, rushed to the burro standing on the front porch. "You all see that trail of bullets, right? Maybe it was one of the two leaving a trail for use to follow, for whatever reason." he thought of, picking up the bullet to see it was still usable. "Ah know he wants those back. So we all better start picking up the bullets and catching up on the trail if we're going to find any answers behind this." Huck reflected. So the nine of them started collecting the bullets and trace them to where they were angled. Back to Quick Draw, who was following Droop-a-long to what seemed to be a place he remembered. "Now hollllld on thar, isn't this the Lost Mine?!" he addressed, recalling the time he was lost in there while finding his old childhood rival, Little Varmint. "Yep, this is where we'll find the place. Have you been in here before?" the coyote questioned, in which Quick Draw gulped loudly at the question. "I was finding a little rascal that needed to be found. He went in there and so did I." the horse answered, lowering his tail from the amount of time he spent looking for the criminal. "Then this time, you'll have a guide that will help you out, and that's me, Mr. Quick Draw. So don't fret." Droop comforted, and moseyed into the entrance of the dark mine. "I really hope this will be better than last time." Quick Draw whispered to himself, stepping inside of the very mysterious and eerie location. Walking behind the younger male, Quick Draw looked around at what he could see; rock structures, walls, little puddles of water here and there, and some rather unfriendly bats that swarmed him constantly until Droop swiped at them. "Thanks, Droopy boy." the equine mentioned as they were getting closer and closer to wherever their destination was inside of the mine. Taking a few more steps until some little cracks of light appeared, Quick Draw ran over Droop to get away from the unsettling darkness the mine was so full of, before returning to the coyote on the floor to pick him up and apologize.
"Are you afraid of the dark, Mr. Quick Draw?" his Southwestern drawl made the question sound weird but usual for his accent to do that. "No, I just don't like this place at all. It's a bit of a dislike I grew to have for this place." the horse admitted as he turned back to see a beautiful and well lit waterfall inside the mine, along with sparkling and dazzling jewels like zits all over the walls of the area. "Wow!... This must be a sight to behold! I wonder if any of those no good crooks I jailed earlier were mining in here, or if they ever found this place at all." Quick Draw wondered out loud. "See? I new you would like it, Mr. Quick Draw. How about we make this where we have our first kiss?" he suggested, which made the horse brim with joy. Hugging the thinner coyote with all of the might he had, which was a lot, Quick Draw had finally felt like this could be truly be something he would be looking forward to besides sheriffing, besides having Baba as a close childhood friend, besides all of the other great people he has met over the years. "Oh definitely, Droopy boy! Let's make this a good one." he advised. At that exact point in time, Harry had just reached the beginning of the mine. "Well, this is where the guys will have to find there own way to me and McGraw. It is very dark, and I don't have anything to light it but matches. I'm not going to burn my hooves, so I'll do this a little differently." he said to himself, taking out not only his matches, but one of his cigars as well. "Heh, it'll give me time to smoke and relax before I see what McGraw wandered off into." he joked, placing the cigar in his mouth and lighting the match. Treading inside, he lit his cigar and puffed a little harder that usual to make it brighter to the point of a dim light. "Ah, at least that works. And they say sometimes you need a flashlight or a lighter for this type of thing. Ha!" Harry told himself as he continued his search for where Quick Draw was being lead to. Going to Quick Draw an Droop-a-long again, the two were looking at the view again, as Quick Draw thought about what to say for their first smooch. "You know, Droopy boy, I really do like you, and while today has been a rush of emotions, I have the feeling I won't be as nervous as I have been about it, now that I have someone similar to me that I can relate to. Whaddya say to that, Droop-a-long?" he asked, taking off his red Western hat and ruffling his shiny and unkempt mane. "I'd say that I would be delighted to be that person to be there for you, Mr. Quick Draw. Um, how about we get this over with?" the canine replied, adjusting his hat to where his eyes were visible under his hat.
"Oh, what pretty baby blue eyes you have, Droopy boy." Quick Draw complimented, as he began to close into the other's personal space. Knowing about how people generally close their eyes when they have a first kiss, he closed his and pressed out his lips to take part in his share of the act. Though since his eyes were closed, he didn't know what the coyote was doing to return the gesture. The horse felt something clamp onto his muzzle in an area the was more past his lips and closer to his eyes, and so he opened them to see that the coyote had put his whole mouth around his. "Uhh, Droopy boy? I don't think that's how a kiss is supposed to work. Maybe you can release my muzzle so we can try again? I rather not want to smell like your breath during this, so hurry it up." the sheriff advised, trying to pull his muzzle out of Droop's mouth. "Well, I would like to, Mr. Quick Draw, but I haven't had anything to really... practice with." the coyote remarked as he slyly was unbuckling the other cowboy's belt without him noticing. "Well, don't be all day, because the others won't know where we went off to." he uttered, looking back at the entrance of the segment to see if anyone would "coincidentally" appear there. The coyote kept on his little decision to move father upon the horse, this time catching his ears and the rest of his head. "Wait?! What are you trying to do, Droop-a-long? This isn't funny you know!" he exclaimed a little too loudly, which made the canine go even farther as he couldn't speak for the moment. As he reached to smack the coyote off of him, he wasn't sure if he'd get hurt too with his strength, and he didn't a sort of whiplash to happen to his neck because neck braces are a pain for him to put on. Instead, he searched for his guns, but they weren't where they should be, and neither was his gun belt, finally realizing that the Droop he was with may have been a fake. "Are you the real Droop?" McGraw questioned as he was staring at the canine's uvula dangling around. The coyote shook his head up and down, which made the horse think again about a better question to ask. "Well, what is Ricochet Rabbit's favorite dessert?" he quizzed, feeling the tongue of the coyote go to his bandanna. Heavily muffled, the coyote said what seemed to come out as, "Carrot Cake?" "Well I actually wouldn't about his likes, but I do know his dislikes. What does he despise the most?" the equine asked, seeing that he was going down into the throat's esophagus. "Injustice?" was what appeared to come out from the coyote with his stuffing Quick Draw down his throat. "Shoot, that is the right answer, but why are you really doing this, Droopy boy?" Quick Draw inquired, sensing canine slobbering up his bandanna and grouping his arms to his torso so nothing could interfere with the action. "It's because I really love horses, so much, I like having them for dinner!" his vocal chords managed to get out, which made Quick Draw lower his ears in being deceived by someone he was really starting to connect with.
"I thought you would treat me right and I would do the same to you, Droop-a-long. What happened to that?" he remembered, when the coyote came back to tell him the nice things he said. "Oh, that was just to get you to be here with me, Mr. Quick Draw. I really wouldn't have went through all of this trouble if people would actually have horse meat as an item for sale. I really don't care what it is, as long as it's pleases my eye." his muffled voice mentioned, wagging his tail as he was making good progress over the upper torso and getting close to the midsection of it. "Well, with that in mind, why don't you catch other horses, ones that preferably aren't here anymore so you won't be, you know, disobeying the law." he suggested, feeling his nose enter something he couldn't really see well yet, with it being so dark and all. "I caught you, Mr. Quick Draw. I said I liked you and I brought my part onto this relationship, now do yours, please?" Droop requested as he stood up to let gravity help him with his endeavor of conquering the massive gut the horse had. "Huh?! That's not how relationships are supposed to go! It's not a one-way road, we both contribute, and this ain't contributing. Not in the slightest." the sheriff commented, making the coyote angry at his constant banter. "Can you please, pipe down in there? I don't want to respond right now to these meaningless questions if you most likely won't be here after a few days. It makes me wonder why I like doing this stuff sometimes." Droop complained, watching his own bandanna fly off from the pressure. Quick Draw felt himself sliding more than he was before, now his entire head entered the space he was being piled into. "Yuk! This place smells really bad. What do you generally eat?" the horse nagged, which the coyote only hit his stomach to shut up the larger horse. Having a feeling that his legs were up in the air, that this wouldn't end well, but finally his arms were free of the constant smushing. Jabbing the coyote until his insides began to distend with Quick Draw's hooves, he felt an extreme urge to puke out the cowboy, but he was determined to get what he wanted since he got to where he was now, so he endured the struggling. Having almost made it through the bottom part of McGraw's belly, Droop sighed lightly as he continued onward with the engulfing.
Since he didn't have much space to use any of his dangerous moves and he didn't have his feet accessible to him, Quick Draw could only repetitively pound Droop, though it seemed he wasn't letting go of him. Now moving on to his somewhat smaller legs, Droop quickly gulped the last of the horse down, smiling with extreme pleasure. Noticing the enormous size of his belly now that Quick Draw was inside it, he chuckled, before correcting his voice to something Quick Draw never heard of. "Phew! That's finally done on my list. I hope you don't hate me for this, Quick Draw, but I'm a coyote that LOVES horses! I can't have a meal without it being in my food. It's a part of my diet. Though you do really compliment my figure by adding yours." the canine stated, patting the horse on where his muzzle made an outline. "What?! Who are you varmint?" the sheriff questioned in a fury of rage, letting loose his buck kicks that were infamously known for sending people miles away. Not withstanding the hits earlier, the canine began puking, but he still wouldn't cough up the horse. "Oh, shut up, has been, and stay still in there. I'll let you know I'm not giving you up no matter what, and my name is Calvin Coyote, not varmint." Calvin corrected as he took off the hat to reveal his medium long hair that Droop-a-long didn't have. "You do taste pretty well without anything, so I'll give you that. Just don't mouth off too much or I'll do my worst to make your last moments miserable!" he pronounced, watching the equine continue to fight back. "Ooh, that does not look healthy for me at all. What do I have that can get you to stop moving? Besides pills, because I want to enjoy this feeling of being full. Hmm." the coyote paused as he grabbed the horse's accessories and carried them off with him to a part of the cavern that he knew of. Luckily he had a spare bandanna to wipe the vomit from his mouth, and since it didn't get on his fur or hands he was happy. "Why are you so stubborn that you want to eat me?" Quick Draw posed, his arms and legs still being visibly seen on the coyote physique even without him fighting. "I keep telling you horse, I like horse meat. You were the closest one to me at that time, and so was that other one. Maybe I'll get him too, after you've become less than a part of my figure." Calvin insinuated, rubbing his fat gut and licking his lips. "Well, that's where you're wrong! If I somehow don't find a way to get out of you myself, then my friends will come rescue me." McGraw replied, hitting the coyote from inside with a uppercut, which started to make the coyote have serious second thoughts about doing this.
Ooooh, this little meal will pummel me from the inside out if I don't find something to keep him from attacking me. Is there anything I have that would work? the canine thought as he rummaged through his collection of items, and after minutes of searching, the coyote just gave up and decided to take the hits, even if it killed him. "You know, you're not making my health any better. If you kill me, then I won't be able to let you out. With that being said, you'd be stuck inside of me until you lose air or just starve to death like how I would if I didn't swallow you."Calvin tried to reason with the sheriff, who stopped his hitting for debating on whether he should trust the coyote knowing the position they were in right now. "How do I know you're not lying about that? You've deceived me before." Quick Draw stated, crossing his arms and still looking into the dark fleshy chamber that he was occupying. "You just have to hope, right?" Calvin grinned with his teeth turning into all sharp canines. "Oh, I hear someone coming. We'll chat later, but keep your mouth shut for now, unless you don't want to see the light of day again." the coyote threatened, which put the horse at a hard decision to make, but ultimately he chose to stay quiet. "That's a good meal, now sit tight, literally, while I go greet whoever we have coming, but from what I smell, it seems like the other you." Calvin mentioned, which almost made Quick Draw want to shout out for help, but he didn't want Harry to get caught in the awful scheme of the coyote's. Feeling a little lucky on his navigation, Harry was on the final ends of his light source as he was about to run out of room to put his hooves on, so he kept walking into a part where he saw a brighter light. Keeping his cool and not rushing in, the cowboy walked out of the entrance and looked at the underground waterfall. He heard something moving and saw some little pebbles fall from the ceiling so he looked up to see the coyote that was with Quick Draw had now gotten way fatter. Initiating his plan of landing on the horse, Calvin let go of the ceiling's jagged edges and let gravity do it's work. Be very good with his reflexes, the other armed horse rolled out of the way, still being active and maneuverable with his visible setbacks and watching the coyote hit the ground face first. "OUCH! Hey, watch it!" Harry heard from inside the coyote, which prompted him to call, "McGraw? Is that where you went?" "Horseface Harry?! Am I glad to hear you!" the captive horse exclaimed from inside the coyote, though Calvin slammed his fist on his gut punish the horse for saying anything. "I guess I'll have to go for a two piece. I hate to be a glutton, but you leave me no choice." the canine said, getting up and charging Harry. Still having his cigar in his hoof, he put it out on the coyote's nose, stunning him for a little as he began to prepare a hay maker for the other male. Smacking him dead on in the face with a blow, and then another, and another, until the coyote grabbed his waist. Taking advantage of the coyote's weaker fighting skills, the horse knee lifted him off and then began to launch him into the air with a buck kick, and then keeping his combatant suspended by repeatedly attacking him with various moves at different points in time. In the end, the horse drop kicked him into a wall, thus knocking Calvin out.
"That was a nice load of steam. I got to beat McGraw and a random stranger at the same time, you need to get yourself into these type of situations more often, McGraw. That is if you live from this one." Harry recommended, looking over at the coyote's pile of stuff to find some rope to restrain his arms with. "Thank you, Harry! I thought I was a goner. Still, don't say such mean things, not after the ride I've been on today." Quick Draw thanked, pushing out on the passed out coyote's belly to try and find something for Calvin's stomach to touch that he would be familiar. "I won't be able to get you out of there, nor do I want to, but I left the others a trail that I hoped they picked up on about now. I won't ever live this down. The day Quick Draw McGraw was beaten and swallowed whole by a coyote. I wonder where 'El Kabong' will be the next time he needs to save a poor typical Western ranch owner gal or something like that? Heh, to be honest, this made my day." the felon commented, looking at the eyes of the unconscious coyote. "It's not my fault that this impostor of Droop got the best of me, plus, you should have told me that something was funny, not in the 'haha' way but in the suspicious way." Quick Draw complained, feeling a little more squished than before inside of the coyote. Rubbing his own tummy he smirked at the sight of his nemesis and doppelganger finally getting what he thought he deserved, whether it was by his own hands or not. "You should have know it wasn't Droop, McGraw. I do know of one way how, but you should have at least asked both of them to do one thing for you." Harry put forward, and Quick Draw responded with, "Yeah, uh huh? And what might that question should have been?" "I'll let you find out for yourself when he gets here, meanwhile, you gotta worry about what happens to food, or in this particular case, you! Ha ha!" Harry laughed as he watched the horse shift around more at the negative things he was hearing. "It's about time I wake this sorry excuse for a coyote from his nap I gave him." the convict said as he looked over to the waterfall to see if he could go get some water, but after remembering how he was attacked, he collected a wad of saliva and mucus to spit on Calvin's face. Not waking up from that, Harry nodded his head as he pulled out one of his guns to shoot off right in one of the coyote's ears, which made his eyes spring wide open, frightening him. "AHH! What happened? All I know is-" Calvin began to say before he was cut off by Harry telling him, "That I beat your ass. Yeah, don't do that shit again, or else you may find one of my bullets being your dessert."
"Ugh, what's this damn gunk on my face?" Calvin asked, and then saw Harry open his mouth to show his saliva, which made the coyote shiver. "A coyote putting their slobber on a horse is fine, but it being the other way around defeats the purpose. So, what are you going to so with me now that I'm contained?" the canine questioned again, watching both Harry and his children's movements. "I'm not going to do anything with you. That's up for the people who are coming behind me. I truly don't care if McGraw meets his end today by your stomach, and I wouldn't be able to do anything about it because I'm not a doctor. As long as it's not me going down that throat of yours, stranger, then I'm fine." he explained, waving one of his guns around like it was his hand as he spoke. "Then hide me so the horse can digest, and you won't have to see me for the rest of your life. It'll make the problem between you two end and I'll be another happy customer full of horse once again." Calvin offered, making the felon concentrate on it for a while. After about five minutes, the criminal swished his tail and answered, "Nice offer that I would agree to on any other day but since I agreed to something else first, I have to complete that before I would accept that offer. Hey, here's the gang now." Running in the now completely illuminated cave, the other nine members of the group split off into duos to cover ground faster in the Lost Mine. Ricochet and Droop-a-long reached them first, then they called everyone else in to see what had happened. "What, the fuck, happened here?" Goku and Hokey asked, as everyone showed their own way of disgust at the sight that beheld them. "Don't look Augie, it's not somethin' anyone should see." Daddy advised as Augie tied his ears over his eyes, saying, "I don't want to pop. It doesn't look pleasant at all." "Aw, Quick Draw, Ah never thought you'd get caught in a sticky situation like this..." Huckleberry commented as he shook his head in a look of sadness and guilt. "Ding had his jaw hanging, and was grabbing a hold of one of Hokey's legs to take shelter behind. Goku face palmed himself, thinking of how and why this happened, and if there would be a good solution to it. Hokey just took off his own purple flat hat to reveal his puffy hair from underneath it. Ricochet lowered his ears and looked out of the corner of his eye away from the two that took this the worst was Baba Louie and Droop, Baba was beating on the tied up coyote ad Droop just took off his hat silently started to shed tears. Seeing their reactions, Harry knew he did the better deed of keeping the stranger in plain sight, so they would know what happened to him.
Enraged and spouting Spanish, Baba took one of Ricochet's guns from the holsters on his belt and centered it's aim on the impersonator's forehead, then demanding, "Tell us why you wanted to... eat Senor Queekstraw!" Knowing full well of what Baba used to do when he carried weapons, Ricochet put his hand on the gun and looked into the burro's eyes, non verbally telling him to control himself. "I keep telling everyone, it's not some complex scheme to take over the world or explain how temporal distortions work, I just wanted to eat horse, so I ate Quick Draw. He is a horse, and I like horse meat! It's not physics, guys!" the coyote yelled. "That's not something you want to be stuck on, coyote. I've been in that area with ducks, and it didn't end too well for me." Daddy tried to soften up the mood. "Then you're a lousy dog, because canines eat ducks." the male retorted, making the father get to warm to be cool anymore. "Hold up, everyone, what's your name?" Ricochet inquired, and watch the belly of his move as he said, "Calvin. Calvin Coyote, and I am not willingly at your service." "Hey, Ricochet? Doggie and Augie? Huck? Hokey and Goku, and Baba boy too? I'm all right in here, it's just I need to get out of here, and one of you might have a way." Quick Draw said, bringing everyone out of their state of sadness, but still having great concern for the dilemma. "Mr. Quick Draw! What got you inside this feller in the first place?" Droop asked, kneeing down and placing his hands all over the other coyote's belly, specifically around the horse sheriff's nose. "Well I uh walked with Droop into this here cave, and we came to this part for what was going to be what I thought was our first date, but it turned out the Droop that brought me here was an imitator in disguise that wanted to eat me alive! Then Harry came some time after I already was put in this here stomach and so I've been in here ever since." Quick Draw elaborated, pushing his hand out for not only Droop, but for Baba and Goku to touch. "This isn't right at all, Calvin. I'd like to say I have nothing against you, but this rules that out. Now one goes around eating me friends and gets away with it." Goku stated, trying to control his anger for his inhibitor rings. "We just need to get you out of there, Quick Draw. Maybe we can have Goku do his little phasing thing?" Huck suggested, making Goku seem as if he was the only one able to get him out. "Uh sure. Hold still Quick Draw." Goku warned as he began to make his arm vibrate very fast, and sticking it inside the body of the coyote for the horse to be pulled on. However, Calvin kicked the hedgehog in the process of doing so, making him lose focus and only more angry. "You know what, no. Huck, you deal with this shit. You can teleport people and objects, so do that to Quick Draw, that way, our little shit stain won't break your concentration." Goku complained, and Doggie patted him on his shoulder and told him to stay calm.
"Oh, sure then. It'll be a little time, Quick Draw. Just let me whip out mah wand." Huck mentioned as he brought his keyblade out of nowhere again, and then began spinning the weapon to ready his teleportation spell. Thinking of something quick to try and stop the hound fro achieving his goal, the coyote opened his mouth to make a large burp to disorient the dog from performing the spell by politely saying, "Excuse you, sir. Oh, I just lost mah focus as well. Can we get him out of there without the feller interrupting us?" Rolling his eyes, Hokey walked up to the impersonating coyote and pimp slapped him, making his brown electricity appear where the hit landed on his face, and it took care of Calvin. "There, now either one of you, please get Quick Draw out of there! It's a sight even I don't like, and I'm a wolf, keep that in your head." Hokey indicated, watching the two do the teleportation spell, and with two of them the time was shortened, and then Quick Draw appeared in the air, free at last, but he fell on his behind. "Yeeouch! That's smarts... But I'm out! Thank you, everyone!" Quick Draw congratulated as he tried to give everyone a hug, but they retreated from him because the coyote saliva and other bodily fluids he sat in for a while. Droop was happy to see the horse in the same condition as he remembered him, except his mane and tail were dripping wet, and he didn't have his gear with him. "Mr. Quick Draw, I hope you're alright. We tried to get here as fast as we could, but you know me. Did that other coyote hurt you?" Droop asked, extending his hand to study any difference in the sheriff. "No. He just hurt my feelings, that's all. I hope you aren't mad at me for saying the things I said the night before. I was new to this thing, and so I went running in because this varmint here said the right things to get the gears in my head working. I should've known that I was having someone pull the wool over my eyes, but it's all clear now. Besides, I wanted to ask you something for the longest." the horse told Droop, which made his quickly respond with, "Yes, Mr. Quick Draw, what was it that you wanted to ask me?" "Would you take off that big old hat for me to see your face? I never have seen it at all." Quick Draw let out, which the coyote instantly took off his hat to show his medium short hair that barely covered his eyes, which were the light sea green he was gifted with, and his bent ears. Turning to Calvin, Quick Draw opened his eyes with his hooves to see they were a bright blue. "So that's what you meant when you said that, Harry! I wonder why he didn't go after you if saw his eyes." Quick Draw noted, making Harry say, "It's probably because he still thought I was you. He knew there were two of us, but we look exactly the same, except for our belts, but I don't think he was paying as much attention as he needed to, and mistook me for you sometimes."
"The real question here is, how would he spy on us and since how long has this been going on?" Droop asked, fortunately Calvin was waking up again, shaking his head to recover some of his lost cells from the slap. "Huh? That wasn't so nice... Ah! Where's my horse?" he pondered, seeing that his stomach was back to it's regular skinny size. "Calvin, how have you been spying on us and for how long?" Baba asked, as he was returning Quick Draw's accessories to him to put back on. "Oh, I set up cameras for certain things, and I have a lot around that station. Then I did it as soon as I saw you were there, which I guess is around the time you got there yesterday. You will not believe the work I had to do setting those cameras where I did and how much I had to work on an impression of Droop-a-long over there. Your voice destroys vocal chords." Calvin babbled, which really only gave him a blatant expression from Droop. "So, you've been stalking us for the past day, only because you saw that we had a favorite type of food of yours in our party? That's a bit sad if you ask me. Persistent, but sad." Goku stated, though the coyote was fed up with the teen's words, saying, "Well, it's not that bad when you get to be around them as much as you do. I'm pretty sure you would go berserk for your favorite food. I have a smaller chance of getting mine because it means eating a person, whether dead or alive." "For your inaccurate information, I'm and omnivore, just like everyone else in this group, so don't think I go around eating fruits and vegetables all day because I also eat pizza, bacon, ham, sausage, well, not the other kind, but the already dead kind. I can understand if you want to chow down on your favorite food, but really? You're not even going to ask the dude if it's okay that he gives up his life for you? Maybe get something from amazon, or one of those fancy restaurants that may have what you want on the menu. I mean, now you just ruined a relationship and probably a friendship just for the sake of yourself in a way it can't be ever fixed. That's what I don't like about this." Goku explained, causing Quick Draw to apologetically look at Droop. "Well, I guess someone had to make a sacrifice, didn't they? I hope you all are happy now that he has to go on that way." Calvin uttered, making the group feel really uncomfortable, except for Hokey. "He's only trying to make you feel sorry, yes for Quick Draw and Droop, but that's for him to try and attempt a getaway!" Hokey said, and so suddenly something began to come inside of the area of the cavern they were in, and it began to try and shove everyone out of it's way to head for the pink coyote. Finally stopping the force right before Droop-a-long, Goku shouted, "CHAOS, CONTROL!" to slow time down, but as it was slowed down, the object was still moving at it's same speed. "Ah got it from this end, Goku!" Huck said as he began to pull the object away from the two in front of it, and swing it into the waterfall.
"I'll bring everyone except Calvin in this so we can get some help." Goku said as he pulled out his Chaos Emerald to think upon the action, and so everyone was released from the point of time they were in. "Alright, everyone, let's stick to the plan!" Ricochet ordered, as the three heavy hitters moved in on the object surrounded in light. Holding his fists together, Hokey smashed the creature into the wall of the cavern, then mercilessly bashing his fists in a way that some would have already passed after a few blows. The electricity surged even more greater with each hit he had make contact, and it was starting to irritate the object, so it shot the wolf off with electricity of it's own, but in a projectile form. Watching the wolf fly from the blast, Goku ran to catch him, seeing that the wound was of a type of force he never encountered. "Are you alright, Hokey?" he asked, seeing the lupine wiggle his tail and press on his chest where the hit made contact, feeling more like he was hit by magic. "I'll live, Goku boy. You just help out Doggie as I get myself together." the older one advised, and so with looking behind at his friend, Goku went to face the unknown creature that he was sure was the impostor. Rushing in like a spinning buzz saw drill, Goku smacked right into the creature and embedded it into a part of the cavern after Daddy giving it some "light punches". Taking off his rings, Goku let his anger he had endured today get the best of him on purpose to transform into his Dark form, and absorbing the light from the impostor. Only to see that it was never there, and he was holding nothing by his hand anymore. "Guys! Watch Droop real closely, I think the faker's either teleported or phased through the wall to get to him." Goku warned, and so Quick Draw, Harry, Baba who was now not afraid of much after seeing his friend almost go to a dishonorable fate, and Ricochet were checking the coyote out for anything unusual. Having prepared the flare spell, Huck was aiming his keyblade around to see where his target would be to fire the shot. The object reappeared from above as it dived through them and Droop, with Huck misfiring his spell on them. Without a second's notice, the five were hit with a massive explosion, sending everyone the directions they were facing as Droop was sent downward. Luckily the magic was non elemental, because the four stood up fine with only Droop lying in the rubble. "Gosharooney, fellers, Ah'm mighty sorry about that." Huck apologized, running over to go help Droop resurface.
"That's fine, Mr. Hound. You did your best, and so did everyone else. I do feel like I have something messing up my fur on my wrist." Droop acknowledged as Huckleberry pulled the coyote out of the debris he had on him with his unnatural strength. Watching the coyote fly up into the air, he caught the other canine by jumping, and then setting him back down. "Oh, I forgot all about you and your alter ego, Huckle Hero!" Quick Draw blabbed, and so everyone except Huck and Droop shrugged. "I theek it's kinda obvious when you look at the two, Queekstraw." Baba inputted his opinion, which triggered Quick Draw to say, "Now wait just a minute, Baba boy! I do the thinnn' around here, and donnn't you fergit it!" "Is that like a counter to whatever I say, Queekstraw?" Baba asked, which the horse had to dwell on. "You know something, Baba Louie, I don't know what it is. I guess I just like hearing myself say that whenever someone, namely you, says anything about thinking." the sheriff stated, which made everyone acknowledge that and move on. "Uh, I think the damage Huck caused to the cavern will make it seal up." Augie observed, scanning the ceiling with his eyes for the multiple rocks that were being suspended in the air by the slowdown in time. "That's no problem, bro, Dad, can you use your heat to melt the rocks back up there as Augie pushes them back to the top of the cavern? We don't want to demolish this place because that waterfall does look like a rare wonder, and the jewels in the walls could have some value." Goku advised. "Uh, sure, why not? It'll be something for Augie to have a father who is a natural hothead!" Daddy joked as he activated his Fallen Angel form again to mold the rocks back onto the ceiling as Augie also changed to produce strong wind gusts to push the rocks back and cool them off. "Now I can stop this and get our little 'friend' here into a better situation for him." Ricochet stated, as everyone began to leave the cavern, and Huck was carrying all of the coyote's collectibles on their way out of the mine. While walking, Droop was wanting to ask Quick Draw something, but he hesitated at the feeling of what would be expected again. "Droop, I've really been meaning to tell you something." the horse sheriff started, which brought Droop's head away from the floor. "You really are a nice guy, never getting mad at me for the times you asked me out and wanted to start a thing with me and how I rejected you. I really am happy knowing that there are people like you out there in the world." he mentioned, which brought the coyote to wagging his tail, saying, "So can we?" Thinking about what he was asking, Quick Draw grabbed the coyote by his torso and they shared their second kiss. "Well, let me recover from this and then we can do it. I don't know how long it'll be before I stop having myself remember the time I was eaten by a coyote." Quick Draw answered, which Droop looked down at Ricochet to see if he would allow it.
"It's your life you live, Droop-a-long, you choose who you want to be with, because you'll have to endure that struggle. You already remember what happened to my high school sweetheart when she came to visit me. And yes, I finished school, just not in the town we were previously sheriffing in, so that's why I got put in that class with you and Dinky. The point is, I'm fine with it, but I want to see at least every once in a while, not you just go and never come back." the rabbit opinionated, making his long time friend pick him up and hug him out of happiness. "Thank you, Mr. Ricochet! You're a good friend, and I don't want to leave you too. Maybe we can have me transfer between the two of you fellers and so I can be the only one having to alternate and not have Baba get separated from his pal." Droop suggested, encouraging Baba to silently thank him for the notion. "Well, I guess we couldn't do much with this, but we do have some new information about that crook and that's how they are able to go at the same speed even with time being slowed down, the damage it did to Hokey and the light I absorbed was from a type of energy that I have never experienced before, so it'll take some time before my body to analyze it. I'm sorry about that bracelet you have on you now, Droop. If only I'd brought my weapons with me, not my Caladbolg, but my other weapons I have, then this would have turned out differently." Goku apologized, with the coyote lifting him up as well to peck him in the face. "You all did fine. I'm not a goner, just gonna be a..." Droop trailed off as he was racking his brain to think of a good way to end the sentence. "What? A father? A single parent? A very ill or unnatural person?" Goku hinted, but Droop-a-long answered with, "No... it's none of those. I actually don't think I have a analogy for that one." the coyote replied, with Ricochet butting in and saying, "Ha! Looks like you don't have a remark for every situation, do your, Deputy Droop-a-long?" "Well, I never said that..." the coyote remembered that bet, and how he had his fingers crossed behind his back. "Look, guys! we're out of the mine." Ding mentioned, seeing the light of the noon sun hit their faces. "Okay, so what are you all going to do with me?" Calvin asked, blowing his bangs out of his eyesight to get a look at where they were headed.
"Hopefully, you'll get to go to jail." Ricochet advocated, hearing the coyote respond with, "What'll they lock me up for? Trying to eat a horse? That's not against the law!" "No, but attempted murder is, senor, and was already have a bunch of witnesses right here to confirm that." Baba addressed, which was passed up in Calvin's head. "Here are all of your bullets, Horses Face Harry." Baba remembered as he kept them all in his sombrero and handed them over to the horse. "Thank you, little guy. I don't know how I'd feel if you all never gave me these back." Harry told them, and so they continued on back to the station. "Droop and I will take the guy to that prison we took the other six to today, and I hope they'll believe us." Ricochet informed them before he and Droop carried Calvin off to jail. Still feeling a little helpless after Droop assured him, Goku just went inside and talked to Huck, who was taking off his cowboy hat to wipe his head. "What are we doing wrong, Huck? This is starting to become one of the wackiest and yet worst days of my life, because of how helpless I feel in rescuing my friends from something no one should have to go through. I know what I'm fighting for, I just don't know how to fight for it." the hedgehog told the hound, who rested his arm over the teen's shoulders and said, "Well, we'll just think of somethin' when the time comes. We, as in the rest of us and not you, were never good at solving problems right then and there. Though we would screw up until the cows come home and then all would seem to be lost, but we somehow found a way to foil those plans right when they're about to become true. You're asking a dog who has a pup was never from this planet, and still found a way to save others through either my clumsiness or my ingenuity. You might come from a place where you don't have that luxury of people who can wait for that type of strategy. Just do what you can and keep on moving forward is what I'd say." Looking at the dog who was looking back at him, Goku then changed his direction to his gloved hands, mentioning, "But it's been so long since I felt like was when I was just starting out on my adventures to save the world. I feel powerless, very vulnerable, and angry at myself for letting this happen. If Sonic and the others wouldn't be in need of the rest of the Chaos Emeralds all of the damn time, I'd be able to do something about this and end it when we met up with Quick Draw, Baba, and Harry. It's things like this that make me want to change the past right now, but I also know that I'm still powerless to that creature if it can time travel as well. I have also been meaning to tell someone this, and I guess you would be the first to talk to because Hokey is Hokey." "Goku, don't feel that Hokey will always be butting heads with you, because Ah know for sure he won't. He understands just as well as Daddy or Ah, even with all of the out-of-the-blue transitions he tries to do on people. Now what was it you wanted to tell me?" Huck ended, wagging his tail out of curiosity but his face remained the same old posture of being calm and relaxed.
"Okay, but don't blab about this to anyone else. I think I know how this outbreak will go, and even though you all follow me and we do end up to try and save that person, have you truly wondered how these are all predicted by me? Outside of using time to tell?" Goku paused to let Huckleberry think it over. "Hmm, well, you did seem to have met the people we've been saving so far during the course of the last two adventures we had. We didn't close the figment that separated your multiverse off from ours because we would want to visit each other again after working together to achieve a common goal. I really wouldn't be able to guess it because I'm not psychic." the hound rambled. "These people are connected in how I view the people I'm fond of from this world, and I'm not talking about just as friends, though that's what I generally see anyone as first. But first this started out with Hokey, who you and everyone else know I go coo-for-Hokey-puffs over. Then it's you, because of how inviting and kind you were to me when I first arrived here and had no idea where I was, and Hokey didn't help me but you did. That sets you at number two. Then Quick Draw was next, and I like him for his quirky personality and stance on justice, and so far, I've been developing feelings for Harry as well. He seems like a nice guy and while he did get one of the bracelets on him, it's really because of how he looks similar to Quick Draw. Remember Harry's went off first and he got his first. Then it's Dad who goes next, because of him resembling a familiar presence that I couldn't put my tongue on until I had my memories fixed yesterday. He reminded me of how me and my dad were, in a friendly relationship, not the other stuff one would think." Goku specified, which Huck only readjusted his position of sitting and nodded, saying, "I wouldn't really think that you and Doggie Daddy would be that way, but whatever flows your boat." chuckling at the remark to make Goku stare in an annoyed way. "It's not like that. We are fine being father and son, no inappropriate things go on between the two of us that deals with that type of interaction! Anyway, then it's Yippee, the swordsman that is somewhat similar to Quick Draw, but has some different preferences and things that I like him for. Then here we are with Droop, who is a more relaxed and calmer version of you with his own twists that make him unique. Maybe this creature has a connection with me somewhere in my mind, but it's not in my memories, so I that's why I don't know who it is." the hedgehog continued, with Huck still staring at him only for him to gasp.
"Ah think Ah get it now! So what you're saying is, this feller's been going after people you have a crush on, including little old me. Aw, that's just plum sweet of you. But the thing is, we're all out of your age range. Ah'm pretty sure it took a lot of will to tell someone else that." Huck commented, watching the hedgehog blatantly stare at him, then pulled up a wooden ring. "I'm guessing all of that working has made you forget about this when we were stranded on that one planet during our second adventure?" Goku called out, and Huck remembered what it meant. "Oh, that. Ah know we were doing that because you felt like growing on me at that point in time, and so I carved that ring and mine out of a tree for that. Ah also know you wanted to keep that a secret, so that's why I forgot about it. To preserve our promise of that." Huck explained. "I'm glad your memory is fast, because I would have been mad if you forgot that. Still, don't tell anyone of what you've heard in this room for this whole conversation. I don't know how the others will react." the teenager requested, and so he and Huck walked outside to see why no one else came in. Looking over the side of the station, they both saw a tail at the back end of the structure that belonged to Ding. "They were watching us? Ugh, Huck, corner them on the other side." Goku ordered, and Huck said, "Roger that, little feller." Sneaking up quietly on the others from their individual sides, Goku and Huck saw each other at the end, but no one else and then they looked up to see them on the roof. "Gotcha!" Goku yelled as he ran up the building and Huckleberry jumped up onto the roof, to see the others, some of them like Augie and Ding were snickering, and others like Harry and Hokey were just silent. "Yeah, I'm weird, but so are you guys, you each have a flaw that either you can't overcome or don't want to. I've been trying to get out of this by finding my father, but since he is very good at placing himself wherever he is, because I haven't found him for two year's." Goku spoke, which made Daddy look away as he bit his lip and Quick Draw just smiled. "Were these the reactions you were wanting?" Huck joked, as everyone just stared at the Mobian hedgehog for giving off his speech out of nowhere. "We didn't hear anything son, it's just that the boys thought it was funny about you and Huck having some rather fancy looking wooden rings." Daddy corrected, which made Goku feel like an idiot. "Fine, but I hope we can get to our next damsel in distress." Goku stated, bringing Ricochet to say as he and Droop saw the others on the rooftop, "Who will the next unlucky fella be? And get off the roof before the weight of you all collapses the station. They hound me too much about it when I do it myself." "Our next person to get to is Fibber Fox. I know how much you don't like him, Hokey, but it's something you'll have to get over." Goku advised, seeing the growing frown on the wolf's face. "We better get going then, before Hokey gets more aggravated." Droop suggested, and so the rest hopped off the station and Goku pulled Hokey off as they headed for the area where they knew if they found Yakky Doodle, then they would most likely find Fibber snooping behind the duck.