Colleen gallantly give me her arm and we both walked out into the main room. Wow, they were not kidding! Dr. Blight was frozen in a huge block of pure ice and her machine was now scattered around in millions of pieces all over the room. Other human-like dogs were in the room and all turned as we came out. There was a Siberian Huskey I recognized as belonging to the Russian President, a Doberman I knew was the Grman Chancillor's, and a Sheepdog I knew belonged to the Swiss President. Hunter smiled. "Mrs. Blair, ay I introduce the Road Rovers. This is Exile," he ppointed to the Huskey, who promptly shook my hand.
'A pleasure to meet you!"

"Thank you."

'This is Blitz," he pointed to the Doberman."

"An honor."

"Thank you."

Hunter pointed to the Sheepdog. 'And this is Shag."

"Nice to meet you all. Thank you so uch for all you've done. I'm so grateful, believe me."

"Mrs. Blair, I don't know if Colleen told you, but.."'

"I know, your identies must be kept secret. Rest assured, it will be! I won't speak a word of this to anyone."

"Thank you, Mrs. Blair. We know the authorities are coming to see that you get safely home. Colleen will join you there in a few minutes.. Come on, guys, back to the Cloud Rover!" Giving a huge group howl, the dogs all ran off, except for Colleen who said behind.

"Huntie? I think I'll stay with Mrs. Blair for a little bit."
'You sure?"

"Yes, Groomer didn't adjust that Cano-Mutator, so that'll work."

"All right, see ya later, Again, it was a pleasure to meet you, Mrs., Blair." Hunter than left. I turned to Colleen and smiled slyly at her.
"What?"

"I saw that, Young Lady!"

"Saw what?"

"That look that you gave to Hunter." I raised my eyebrows knowingly.

"I..I don't know what you're talking about…" Colleen said quickly,.

"Oh, come on, I'm a happily married woman, I know that look! You like him, don't you?" Colleen blushed a bit. "Now, Dear, nothing to be ashamed of. I still give Tony that look when we're alone. You do like him." She glanced at me..and I knew the truth. I laughed a bit. "Oh, Dear, I wish we could talk..just like this. Just the two of us, like this."

Colleen smiled. "I'd like that as well."'

I grinned. "You know, Dear, if I send the aides out of the room at a time when Tony's busy, maybe you can sneak over in this form, and we can talk then. Just the two of us!"

Colleen's face brightened. "That would be nice to do." But then we both heard voices, in particular Tony's, outside. We both knew the time had come. "So..you have to go now, huh?"

"I'm afraid so."

I hugged her goodbye. "Than goodbye, Colleen, until the aides go away!" Colleen hugged me back and slowly stepped into the Transdogmifier, becoming my pet once more.

A little while later Colleen and I emerged from the hideout to flashing photographs and reporter vans. There was a rustle in the crowd and Tony came running out crushing me in a huge hug and a kiss. "I was so worried about you!" he said fiercely. "Are you all right, Dear?"

"Oh yes, I'm fine."
"Once those witneses at the park reported your kidnapping to the police…I got so scared. I had every single cop within 50 kilometers trying to track you. Thank God Colleen escaped."

'Colleen?"'

"Yes. I don;t know how she did it, but she managed to get free and made her way back to the house, She scratched and barked until we followed her, We lost her halfway here, I guess she got too excited and beat us, but we could find our way from where she left us."

I winked at Colleen. "Yes, she's a smart little dog!"

A few weeks later I was playing happily with my dog in our backyard, tossing her squeaky toy. I few times a week I did manage to scoot the aides out of the room so Colleen could become a Cano-Sapien. She told me about her adventures, but she also said she just loved being an ordinary dog and playing with me. It would seem boring to be doing that if it were me, but that's her form of relaxing. Suddenly she stopped in the middle of our play, and stood stock still, with her ears perked up. I at first wasn't too sure what was happening until she turned and looked at me. "Dear? Is it time?" she nodded. "Than go do what you have to do!" She began to take off. "Be careful out there, and God be with you all!" I cried out, knowing my fine brave pet, who's part of the most heroic team ever, would be back real soon with another adventure to tell.