The pups in XLS were able to see the Valkyrie overhead. Rocky gunned it to keep up with it. Eventually, they got to the Paw Patroller, where Merryweather was gone. The pups in the XLS pulled up behind the Patroller, and Skye landed the Valkyrie in a field. The males got out of the XLS and went into the Patroller. They were definitely left with a surprise. Ryder was not going to be happy. Ryder and Skye were walking to the Patroller.
"Hey uh… Ryder? There's um… a bit of a problem," Chase said.

"What happened?"
"They smashed up the interior," Rocky said.
"They did what!?"
Ryder ran into the Patroller. Robodog was gone! Their old trucks were gone! His old ATV was gone! They smashed the TVs, they smashed the pups' food dispensers! Those monsters took everything! Ryder was fed up enough with losing his temper. It didn't do him any good, so he was able to stay calm.
"They took everything… What we have left is at the lookout."
"Which is a lot! This thing is still in wunning condition! We have evewything at the lookout except Wobodog and the twucks!" Zuma comforted.
"We lost a member. Robodog was a good pup. The trucks too! My ATV!"
"We have the new trucks!" Chase testified.

"Can they do the same things our old vehicles do? No! They can't! Don't give me false hope!"

"I can put water tanks on the XLS! You would not believe what that thing can do! If you saw the dashcam footage, you'd be glad to have it instead of the firetruck! I can put water tanks and a water cannon onto it! And lights! And a siren!" Marshall persuaded.
"Survived what!? You running into a pole!? Getting shot at by a couple of hood thugs for being an idiot!?"
Marshall became insulted by Ryder calling him an idiot. It was worse than Rocky cussing at him.

"We're millionaires after that bank heist! It's not going to be hard to get new and improved ones custom built! Or we can get Zuma an amphibious vehicle, get modifications done on our new vehicles, and keep it like it is!" Rocky stepped forward.
"You don't understand! I put forward all this work, and it's gone, just like that! And you don't fucking appreciate it!"
"We've appreciated everything you've done for us Ryder! You're letting this problem flip you the fuck out!" Chase yelled back.

Skye was back crying into her paws. Zuma wasn't far, and Rubble was cowering behind the empty truck rotator.

"You've lost your loyalty! Some pups you are!"
"You've lost your mind! That's worse! We're supposed to save Adventure Bay! Not grief about problems on the way!" Rocky yelled.

"Are you going to do what you always have, or are you gonna sit here and mope, yelling at your pups!?" Marshall asked.
"How about you back off my ass! You're so disloyal and unhelpful! Every one of you!"
Skye was done. She was done crying, done listening to Ryder.

"THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!?" she outbursted.

Ryder was shocked at Skye's outburst.

"I'm your worst nightmare! You're all horrible pups!"

The pups were shocked. None of them could get a word out. No one in the world could call them horrible pups, and it actually affect them. No one but Ryder. Once Ryder said it, they felt like their lives had gone sour. They never thought they'd hear him say it. Ryder broke down immediately after, regretting saying that more than anything he'd ever said.

"If that's how you feel, then we'll leave. You'll never hear from us again!" Chase offered.

"No! That's not how I feel! That's not what I want!" Ryder cried.

"Then why would you say that? That really hurt," Rocky said.

Ryder had broken down completely. He couldn't speak. He just blamed the pups for everything that had just happened. He took his anger out on the pups. The pups don't deserve anything going on right now. They deserve better. If this is how he was going to treat them, then maybe they are better off leaving. It's not what he wanted! He wanted to keep the pups happy! He wanted the Paw Patrol to stay together!

"This city is… tearing us apart! This… Merrywether… they're destroying us!"
Chase was the only pup that was risky enough to still approach Ryder. Ryder held him close. He held him tight.
"Please pups… please stay!"
Ryder cried into Chase's fur. Rocky and Zuma still had the loyalty to comfort Ryder. Skye, for once, was going to be the hardest to convince.

"I'm sorry for what I said! You're all good pups! I'm horrible! I'm useless! I shouldn't have the privelege to have you pups!"
"Don't say that Ryder!" now Chase was breaking down, "We all love you! We're nothing without you!"
Rubble and Marshall nudged their way to Ryder as well.

"I love you all! So much! Don't ever forget it! Never think I don't!"
Skye was still not taking Ryder's apology.

"The way you treated us just now! The way you just bullied them, that's animal abuse! I don't care if it's not physical!"
Ryder had his face dug in the rest of the pups.
"You don't even have the nerve to show your face to me!"
Ryder did just that. His face was so red, his eyes were bloodshot. He truely had lost al control he had. It made her feel for him, but it didn't get to her heart. Ryder knew, and got up and approached Skye.
"Don't touch me! Don't approach me!"

Skye stopped. Those words… it brought her to a flashback. It brought her back to when she first saw Ryder. It was those exact words she said to him, scared, abandoned, cold, hungry, lonely… so young. Ryder picked her up and held her close. Just like he did when he first found her. He held her just as, if not closer than he did those many years ago.

"It's ok, I'm here for you! Everything will be ok!" Ryder… or Skye… who said that?

In Skye's flashback Ryder said it to her. Here, she said it to Ryder. The situation was the same, but roles were almost reverse. Ryder picked her up as she cried into his shoulder with him comforting her. Or did he cry into her fur with her comforting him? The flashback was messing with Skye's thought process. She felt braindead in a way.
"I love you Skye! I regret everything bad I did or said!"

Skye rested her head onto Ryder and passed out. Just like that. After a few minutes of Ryder holding her, he tried to wake her up. She was too sweet to take out of her sleep, so he set her down gently. That was really for nothing, because Trevor barged in.

"Alright, enough of the mourn session! Time to get this done so we don't have to mourne! How does that sound, eh?"
The pups, for once, actually felt better in Trevor's presence.

"That sounds good to me," Ryder said.
"The wrath of Mary's weather is smashing us up!" Chase made a pun.

The pups looked disapprovingly at Chase.
"No? I'm not very punny after all!"

The pups kept the same stare on Chase.
"Wow, now I know how Marshall falls!"
"That's enough," Zuma said.
"I don't know what's with me and puns right now!"

Michael walked in, "Hey, Dave… what the fuck happened here?"
"Merryweather had a smashing gift for us!" Chase said.

The pups looked at Chase with the same disapproving look.

"I'm sorry! I can't help it!"

"Merryweather smashed this place up before they left," Ryder said.
"Looks like you could use a rennovation. Anyway, Dave is getting the LAPVs and attack chopper as we speak!" Michael announced.
"Yes! That'll be a big help!" Ryder celebrated.
The sun was starting to set in Los Santos. All that's to the west is ocean, so it'll a great sunset! One that they couldn't get in Adventure Bay.

"Hey Wyder, can we go to the beach and enjoy this sunset?" Zuma asked.

Ryder thought about it. After today's breakthrough, he expected the pups he and the pups were cleansed of their sin.

"You're all such good pups! I believe you pups deserve some time at the beach! Stay together, keep a buddy system, make sure to of you always stay together!"

Ryder wasn't trying to be strict, he just wanted them to be safe. The pups all howled, got in their new vehicles and headed to beach. They managed to get to Vespucci beach before it got dark. Skye didn't want to keep flying her helicopter after the hell today, so she road with Chase. They sat to the left of the pier. The problem was, some dude's yacht was in the way. It was a black and white 210 footer. It didn't block the sun luckily.

The humans were trying to figure out what to do. Trevor and Lester wanted to get drunk, but Franklin and Michael didn't want to get drunk with Ryder there.

"What the hell else is there?" Lester asked.

Suddenly, a black and purple Obey Tailgater rolled up. They looked back, wondering who the hell it was. Out stepped a guy dressed in all black, with black hair and a blonde patch covering an eye.

"Oh look who it is! I didn't think you were alive!" Lester said.

"Hey, I know you!" Trevor said, "You helped me transfer that classified shipment!"

"Chase Carmichael! Previously Chase McClaine! You changed your name and moved to Los Santos after you killed your dad, who was a fashion designer, because he was doing all sorts of illegal stuff behind your back," Lester said.

Chase backed away. How did Lester know!?
"Ah, still don't talk much, huh? I bet you're wondering how I know. Well, I always do an identity check after I work with professional thieves on two bank heists! Although, I should probably do it before. That'd make more sense…"
A black and blue Karin Sultan rolled up. Was it another one of those creepy quiet weirdos? Out stepped a militia looking guy. He had on matching pants and an army hat, along with a gray combat vest and a black undershirt. He had a full round goatee and sunglasses.

"Ah, another one I worked with. You two are the ones I did the Fleeca job with. Darrell Osweiler, denied into military the military because of lung issues, still aspired to do something with your military training, so you became a professional criminal! So you found your opportunity here in Los Santos, moving away from your hometown in the midwest."
Darrell did a that's me gesture.

"Ah just like old times! Fleeca and Pac Standard!"
"And series A!" Trevor intervened.

"And nothing's changed! You still don't talk! Where are the other two you did Pac Standard with? You parted ways, huh? Are they dead? You don't know… well we'll find out soon enough, right?"

Meanwhile, the pups were enjoying the final sliver of the sun as it finally faded into the horizon of the water. The blue and green lights on the yacht out in the distance came on. They envied it! Turns out, the yacht belonged to Darrell. Rocky, Zuma, Marshall, and Rubble all stayed on the beach, but Chase and Skye got into Chase's new Buffalo cruiser and headed out into the city. Ryder said keep a buddy system, so they were allowed to do this.

There was a 747 that landed at LSIA. Rocky and Marshall wanted to see the airport, so they headed to the airport. Marshall had to deal with the bullet holes in his XLS, but Rocky's Contender was intact, even after running from the cops.

"What do you wanna do, Zuma?" Rubble asked.
"I weally totally wanna go foaw a swim! I've always wanted to swim at Vespucci Beach and the Del Pawwo piew!"
"Del Perro? I thought this was… uh… nevermind. I don't know about swimming, there could be sharks!"
"We'll be fine dude!"

"Puppies! Look!"
There were a group of teenage girls, one of them being Tracy, Michael's daughter.

"You're so cute! Can you fetch?"
"I love fetch!" Zuma said.
Zuma talking freaked out the girls, and they walked away.

"Well, that sucked," Rubble said.

About a half hour later, Chase and Skye were parked in an alley. It was dark.

"Today was crazy!" Skye said.
"We were killing people, running from them, you and Rocky ran from the cops, we males were lost in a subway tunnel, you were in you first helicopter battle, then Ryder went crazy! I've never lived a crazier day in my life!"

"I almost didn't forgive Ryder, but I had a flashback that… it took me back to the day when Ryder first found me."
"Really? I've never been treated like that before."
"My parents kinda turned on me. I was just a little pup, born out in the stick in Alabama. Such good days, sunny warm, the farm, the farmer's truck. My puppy days were amazing, then… my parents just abandoned me. It was a family trip to Skyline Ridge, and they just... abandoned me. They didn't abandon my brother or my sisters. Just me. The farmer, I still can't remember his name, didn't even notice I was gone. I spent days in the cold, no food, no one to comfort me. Then Ryder came along and rescued me."
"Ryder found you in Skyline Ridge?"
"Yup. And… it'll be destroyed as well if we can't stop this bomb. I still remember… I developed my love for flying when the farmer would hold me on his lap in the truck, and I'd stick my head out, I felt so high in the air! That's how he named me."

"Well, everything happens for a reason, right?"
"Yeah, I'm glad Ryder found me. I would've never had a chance in the Paw Patrol, I would've never met Zuma, or Rocky, Marshall, Rubble… and I would've never met you!"
Skye didn't mean to awkwardly say Chase last like that… or did she? She was starting to… no, it's her mind fooling her again. She remembered what happened with Rocky.
"Wait, why are we sitting in this dark alley?"
"You know, I thought it might be a nice spot to get away from everything that happened to us today."

"You've really been there for me since I got here. I really appreciate it."
"I felt bad. You were abandoned. My parents wanted me to live an innocent life. They were both involved in crime. They went to kids begging for them to take their pups so we wouldn't end up like them. I was the last to go. And… Ryder was the last kid in the neighborhood, so he took me in. Turns out, my life wasn't so innocent. Well, not until now I guess."
"We were all innocent until Merryweather got here."
"I guess we never get it back."

Chase and Skye looked and stared at each other. Skye was having real feeling this time! It wasn't Los Santos corrupting her, like what happened with Rocky. She'll find out soon enough. For Chase, he was unaware about what happened between Skye and Rocky, and he just let his emotions flow. They leaned in towards each other. Skye knew it was real, she knew it was love this time.

They were about to kiss when a pair of headlights was suddenly aimed at them from the alley entrance. Make that two! A black Cheval Fugitive was forced into the alleyway by a blue Vapid Sadler. Two people in the Fugitive were confronted by three in the Sadler.
"What the fuck is your problem!?"
"I'll tell you what the fuck our problem is! You fucking our lives up!"
Chase and Skye thought it was road rage, but it escalated higher.

"You work the the wrong branch of the government Karen!"
The two recognized that voice. It was Agent 14!

"Your hypocrisy is something else motherfucker!" Karen yelled back.
"Take these two out!" Agent 14 ordered.
The two guys Agent 14 rolled up with attempted to take out Karen and the agent she was with, but the agent, well trained, took out both of those guys. Agent 14 didn't panic. He ran, tackled Karen while dodging the other agent's bullets, then took out that agent with his own gun. He threw Karen to the the ground.

"Adios bitch!"
He attempted to shoot Karen, but the gun jammed.
"Fuck! You're coming with me then!"
"To hell I am!"
He knocked her out with the butt of his gun, then carried her into the Sadler. He placed a bomb on the Fugitive, then gunned out of there.
"Oh my God! Oh shit! What just happened!?" Chase was shocked.

He thought his bad language was done after the breakthrough with Ryder.
"We… we gotta call Ryder!" Skye said.

"No! He's going to get worried, we need to call…"
Out of nowhere, the Fugitive exploded. Chase was just glad they weren't caught in the shockwave.

"Well… uh… We need to get out of here! Call Dave!" Chase commanded.
Chase gunned it, used the bullbar on the Buffalo to shove the Fugitive out of the way, the turned on his lights and siren to make sure civilians got out of his way.
"Dave!? Why Dave!?" Skye asked.

"He can help us with this government agency lingo! He can help us with that explosive situation!"
"Now's not the time for puns!"
Skye dialed for Dave, "How are they going to believe a couple of pups about something like that!?"
"We have the dash cam!"
Dave answered, "Special Agent Norton."
"Dave! This is Skye! The pup that flew around the Valkyrie! Something crazy just happened!"
"I'd love to help, but I'm kinda busy for puppy play!"
"No! This is serious! Chase and I were in an alley, when a car and a truck pull in as well! Three agents kill each other, then Agent 14 kidnaps Karen Daniels!"
"What!? That's a serious problem! He's making this all worse! Did you tell Ryder or Michael!?"
"We called you first! They would've been too concerned about us!"
Speaking of Ryder, Chase got a call from him. The other pups were already back.
"Chase! You and Skye are together, right? You know I don't want you roaming this city alone!"
"Yeah!... uh… we're together… uh…"
With Chase's stuttering, and being in a dark car, there was one of three things, either Chase left Skye alone, they were doing things they weren't supposed to, or they're in trouble.

"What's going on!?"

"Well, Skye and I didn't want to tell you until I had to in person. Skye's talking to Dave right now. We were in a dark alley, just sitting, minding our own business… when…"
"That's giving me the wrong vibe! This city is corrupting us, and I don't want you doing something that you'll regret!"
"No! Hear the full story! Out of nowhere, a car and a truck pull up. Agent 14 kills some agent, then kidnaps Karen Daniels! The guys he was with got killed by the agent he killed, the he blew up the car that Karen was in, but Karen was safe in the truck, and now Agent 14 has Karen, and it can make it worse between us and the IAA! And…"
"Chase, slow down! So Agent 14 captured Karen Daniels?"
"Yeah! Skye's calling Dave to try to take care of it, and…"
"You called Dave before you called me?"
"I didn't want you to be worried!"
"I'd rather be worried than not know that my pups are dead, Chase! You know that!"
"I'm sorry Ryder! I'm just trying to save you the grief!"
"Just come back to the Patroller, please!"

"Dave's on his way too! He has the LAPVs and attack chopper ready to go!" Skye said.

"We might be able to leave a day early! That's great!"
Chase got back to the Patroller as fast as he could. He made sure he wasn't tailed by a blue Sadler either.