Here it is! I am happy to introduce Sadie after all this time. Yes she was introduced in the last chapter but it still took too long to get this out. I hope you enjoy!
Chase woke up with a yawn, "Is it my shift yet?" He asked. He then noticed Rubble at Aqua's screen. "What! What time is it?" He then saw movement where Aqua slept.
"And here comes the fallout." She said. Chase was flabbergasted.
"What about my shift?" Chase yelled.
"Your shift was when you tricked Ryder to try searching all night. Everyone else had a shift on the pup camera through the night." Aqua explained.
"You tricked me?" Chase asked, looking more hurt than angry.
"I was making sure you were getting enough sleep. If you hadn't found him last night which, let's be honest, he was in a cave so it wasn't likely, you wouldn't have been able to help us today due to how tired you would be." She says in an analytical tone. Chase looked ready to argue, but stopped. He took notice of how restless the sleeping Skye seemed to be.
"Skye? Are you okay?" Chase asked.
"I'm sorry Chase," She muttered. At that Aqua frowned while Chase became confused and concerned.
"Guess my request was hard for her to accept." Aqua said sadly. Chase gently shook Skye awake.
"I'm so so sorry! I promised not to wake you and tell you her plan. I wanted you to be able to rest well." She yelled. Chase looked at her in shock. Aqua looked extremely sorrowful.
"Sorry to do that to you Skye, I didn't realize you would take it so hard." Aqua mentioned.
"It's okay Skye. As much as I hate to say it, Aqua is right. She was only looking out for me." Chase told her.
"Thanks for understanding." Aqua told him.
"Oh that doesn't mean I'm not mad, we will talk about this later, Aqua." Chase said roughly. Aqua gulped, but nodded.
"Rubble, anything to report?" Aqua said turning her attention to him.
"He ate two more scorpions and a small lizard. He is now just sitting in the shelter, something about conserving energy. He has also had water at a nearby oasis." He replied seeming very awake.
"You okay?" Aqua asked as Rocky walked up, having just woken up.
"Sadie made him pull off the tail of the second scorpion." Rubble replied. Rocky bristled.
"Rocky my sweet, please calm down. The tails are poisonous and if something happens to her before we get there he will need to know what to do." Aqua said worriedly.
"We are finding him today." Chase growled.
"Chase, please be careful, it is getting hotter. It's probably the reason he is sitting in the shelter." Skye warned. He looked at her apologetically and ran out to continue looking with the drone. Ryder came out then.
"Marshall and Everest, it is time to wake up," He said gently before talking more professionally to the rest. "Rocky, I heard that Chase is out there already, do you have anything to give him shade. If so, please set it up over him. Right now he is the only one I feel safe searching right now. I don't want Skye out in this heat in her helicopter."
"Don't lose it, reuse it!" Rocky called, some lingering frustration in his voice. Everyone looked at him concern.
"E-Everest, Marshall, and Rubble, please help him set it up." Ryder continued. They simply nodded, not enjoying the tension one bit. "Okay. PAW Patrol is on a roll."
"Can you talk right now Zuma?" Aqua asked. Zuma whipped to look at Sadie, who nodded.
"Yeah, but I don't think I should fow long." Zuma told her.
"Rocky is losing it," She said solemnly. She noticed he hung his head.
"Yeah..." Zuma said. "When you find me I need to talk to you about that. I've been thinking about asking if Sadie wants to wetuwn with us."
"What?" Sadie suddenly said, a shocked look on her face. "Even with how I have treated you?"
"If you wewen't tweating me like this, I might have panicked and died. I don't think encouwagement would have helped. I know what is at stake and I don't think I could push thwough it without youw commands." Zuma told her.
"I think I can see where the rest of it is going." Aqua said with a sad smile. "We can talk about it when you get back, but I think you need to think about it more."
"Thanks Aqua." Zuma replied. Shortly after, the rest of the PAW Patrol had finished the 'shelter' for Chase. He didn't acknowlege it but he seemed to breathe much easier and wagged his tail slightly. Skye then nodded to the others, who walked back to the PAW Patroller.
"I'll stay with you through the afternoon," she told him. When his eyes widen she continues. "The others already know and will be bringing water for me too." He then seems to relax.
"Thank you Skye." Chase said. Meanwhile, Ryder is having a breakdown. He then gets a call from Katie.
"Hey Katie, if it is an emergency you will have to call someone else." He told her.
"No but... wait, Ryder? What's wrong?" Katie questioned, sounding very worried. "I called to ask why you weren't at the lookout. You had said you were only going to be gone during the day yesterday."
"Zuma is missing." He told her, trying to hold back tears. "We know he is safe thanks to Aqua's cameras but we haven't actually visited the part he disappeared towards."
"I'll send help." Katie told him.
"What?" Ryder asked.
"The Turbots have been in that desert on several exhibitions, so they may be able to at least help." Katie explained.
"Do they know about a Rottweiler pup living in the area?" Ryder asked.
"I don't know, I'll ask though." She told him. Ryder began to become hopeful. He then got a call from the Turbots."
"Hey Ryder, Katie told us everything, where are you now?" The Cap'n asked.
"I don't think this area has a particular name but I will show you the surrounding area with the puppad." Ryder told them as he left the PAW Patroller. He then showed them the area around the PAW Patroller.
"Isn't zat what we called Coyote Valley?" Francois asked.
"WHAT!?" Ryder yelled.
"We haven't been there in three years. Even when we were there, we never actually saw a coyote." Turbot responded. "We just heard howling every night we were down there."
"That's strange, we never heard anything like that last night, and we had Zuma's audio all night." Ryder responded.
"I have a happily hopeful theory, what if that howling we heard was your Rottweiler friend. Not likely since I doubt he has been there that long." The Cap'n told him
"SHE mentioned that she had been here for five years." Ryder said. He ran inside and informed Aqua of the news.
"Of course, why didn't think of it sooner?" Sadie questioned. She began howling after stepping outside her shelter.
"What? Shouldn't we wait until sundown?" Zuma asked.
"You can if you want but we already know rescue is in the area." She barked back. "I'll be damned if I make you stay longer than you need to." Zuma winced then joined her.
"The drone is picking up howling!" Chase yelled. He then looked at Skye, who nodded. She ran to her helicopter and flew off.
"Hold up Cap'n. You may have already given the information we need." Ryder told the Cap'n, sounding very excited.
"That's okay Ryder, we were headed out here anyways." He replied as he pulled up next to the PAW Patroller.
"I see them!" Skye called.
"Please sky lift Sadie out." Zuma called. Skye nodded before lowering the harness. Zuma activated his hovercraft.
"Chase! Can you call your drone back slowly?" Skye asked.
"Lemme see. Drone! Return slowly!" Chase called. It began to slowly move back to his vehicle.
"Zuma! Follow me!" Skye called. Soon they had returned to the PAW Patroller. Zuma ran in, relieved as everyone gathered around with tears in their eyes and all talking at once. Then a low growling sound emerged and he got a sheepish look.
"Do you still have food, dudes?" He asked. Ryder smiled through tears.
"Of course, the container is still full. There is also plenty of water still." Ryder told him.
"I'm so sorry Zuma, I shouldn't have challanged you to a race back!" Chase said. Zuma looked at him, confused.
"What are you talking about? I made a simple mistake with my hovewcwaft." Zuma told him. Meanwhile Ryder looked thoughtful.
"We will need to return to Coyote Valley in order to map it." He said.
"You do realize that I have never seen a coyote here." Sadie stated more than asked. Ryder laughed.
"I think YOU were the coyote, Sadie." He explained. Sadie blinked.
"Well shit. So I guess the howling I did originally payed off in the end." She said. Then she noticed Rocky glaring at her. "What's your deal?"
"Rocky, don't make me drag you into the water when we get back." Aqua warned. Rocky sighed.
"Thanks I guess." He said finally.
"No problem Mutt." She replied. Rocky suppressed a growl. Aqua got a look of concern.
"Once we get back, let's see if we can fix the GPS locator, together." She suggested to Rocky.
"Are you sure?" He asked her.
"I think it may have something to do with my cameras." She told him quickly.
"That d..." Ryder began when he noticed Aqua vigorously shaking her head no to him.
"I don't think that that matters." Rocky told her.
"Oh, come on, man, can't you tell when she wants to spend time with you?" Zuma asked him.
"But if I start working on it, it may be late before I'm done." Rocky told her.
"I'll be with you, so I don't mind." She replied.
"Psst, Pooch, are Mutt and Nightlight a thing?" Sadie asked Zuma. Zuma gave her a look.
"Pooch?" He asked.
"You can't expect me, who knew noone for the longest time, to remember names. If you don't like my nicknames than tough." Sadie told him.
"Than why is Aqua Nightlight?" He asked.
"I saw the light around her when the sun set. What was with that anyways?" Sadie asked. Zuma laughed.
"So many questions! To answer the first, yes Rocky and Aqua are a thing. I unfortunately can't answer about the light. That is up to her." Zuma told her. "Also, can you not call my best friend Mutt? He already doesn't really like you."
"Frankly, I could care less what he thinks of me. I'll keep my distance if I must." She replied. Zuma frowned and looked at Aqua. She mouthed tomorrow and Zuma shrugged before eating his first full meal in a day. Sadie joined him after Ryder placed down an extra bowl for her.
Yes! Chapter 10 is out... Sad part is that isn't half of what I have ready for proofread. Yeah, I may have a lot of time on my hands but my proofreader does not. See ya next time!