MOST RECENT CHAPTER EDIT: March 17th, 2019

Living room – The thugs' motel; Denver, CO, United States

13:34; Saturday July 26th, 2014 (DAY 24) (The next day)

The five thugs were busy having lunch while Kodi, Kirby, and Blueberry ate the dog chow that Al had to buy. "Mmm!" said Kirby, "This dog chow is more gluttony, but tastes a little better than what we got back in Nome!"

"Oh yeah!" snapped Kodi.

Now with the human conversation, "Well thugs," said Sarah, "The dogs are to be at the airport at three hours ahead of the flight takeoff time."

"We could have easily done one more heist by that time," said Gerald.

"Oh yeah!" snapped Joshua.

Al concernedly said, "Shh! The dogs might hear about our..."

"No zey won't!" retorted Joshua. "Dogs are idiots! Zey are barely obedient! Zey don't understand English nor any ozer language, and zeir IQs are so low that it's only an eyelash above yours, Al!"

Al looked back in frustration, while the others laughed.

Oversize baggage drop-off – Denver International Airport; Denver, CO, United States

14:20 (About 45 minutes later)

The dogs—caged up in their cage kennels with the newspaper on the floors and the extra bowls for food and water—are now finally being dropped off. Their cages have a label saying "LIVE ANIMAL" stuck on the cages to make sure.

They were placed on a conveyor belt on their way to the plane. "No! Don't leave us! We're...!" whimpered Kirby as the sight of their temporary owners shrank, and vanished in the distance.

"I'm so scared!" whimpered Kodi. "I'm stuck in this cage and we're being towed all the way away from any humans we're familiar with!"

"How come I'm not scared?" asked Blueberry, raising a smirking eyebrow.

"Because you've lived in this century since you were born!" replied Kirby.

"And how long are we going to stay in these cages?!" asked Kodi, whimpering in fear.

Blueberry answered, "So our flight will take off in about three hours,"

"Three hours?!" interrupted Kodi and Kirby.

"..and our flight should take that same time, and once we make it there that should be extra time to get us to the other end of the airport, so about six hours."

"Six hours?!" yipped Kirby.

Kodi whimpered in despair.

Cargo hold – In the airliner – Parked at Denver International Airport; Denver, CO, United States

17:01 MDT/16:01 PDT (About 40 minutes later)

"Ugh! At least we're finally in the plane," said Kodi, looking around at the view of the cargo hold.

"Yeah, I'd rather at least feel how the takeoff feels like rather than to just stand around doing nothing," said Kirby.

The plane cargo door has finally closed, and then minutes later, a slow sudden feeling of motion carried the dogs in their cages.

"Finally! We're moving!" said Kodi, impatiently.

"Why are we going so slowly?" asked Kirby. "Bush-planes travel much faster than dogs and I go twice the speed of this!"

"Kirby, if you haven't realized, we're taxiing," replied Blueberry. "The plane needs to make it to a runway—a very long road—in order to take off."

"Well that's stupid," replied Kirby. "Dog-sledding teams don't need 'runways'!"

The plane then engaged to take off. A loud winding of engines spurred into the dogs' ears. "We're taking off boys! Hold positions!" yipped Blueberry in excitement.

Suddenly, a fast swoosh pulled all three dogs off of their feet. "Whoo! This is actually awesome!" panted Kodi, as the air blew his fur behind him.

From there, they felt a noticeable upward tilt. "We're flying!" panted Kirby.

"Yes! Dad was right!" panted Kodi. "It's like we're soaring above the clouds, free!"

Parking lot – Vancouver International Airport; Vancouver, BC, Canada

19:01 PDT/20:01 MDT (About 2 hours later)

Balto's "wolf-pack" drove to the parking lot of the airport. All eight of them dismounted and raced their way to the arrivals lobby.

"Mush! Go! Go! Go!" mushed Balto.

"I'm hungry! I wanna get some burgers!" said Paul as he ran, panting.

Balto turned a stink-eye to Paul. Paul was able to see his own reflection in Balto's eye. "Or not!" responded Paul.

Arrivals lobby

Once they entered the building, they raised their large paper sign saying,

"KODI,

KIRBY,

and"

because they didn't know Blueberry's name.

In the airliner – Landing at Vancouver International Airport; Vancouver, BC, Canada

19:19 PDT (About 18 minutes later)

The plane has finally landed and successfully stopped. "We're here! They delivered us finally!" panted Blueberry.

"Oh boy! I can't wait to get out from this smelly cage and get to the others! Oh my gosh!" panted Kodi.

"Me too, Kodi! I can't wait to meet your dad and your friends!" panted Blueberry.

Baggage claim terminal

19:26 (About 6 minutes later)

The dogs, in their cages now on a conveyor belt, were pushed towards a light at the end of the tunnel.

"Yes! It's the humans! I'm so glad!" panted Kodi.

The thugs noticed their canine cargo immediately at the baggage claim, then let the dogs out from their cages. After that, Blueberry tackled Joshua in excitement, licked his face, and nuzzled him, she then did the same for the others. After that, the thugs escorted the three dogs to the lobby.

Arrival lobby

Just the second when the thugs made it out of the doors to the waiting room where Balto and the others were waiting patiently for him, Kodi howled, "Dad!"

Balto immediately woke up. A smile of relief and excitement raised on Balto's face.

"Missile away!" called Joshua, releasing the leashes of the dogs.

"Kodi!" shouted Balto, in human.

Kodi, Kirby, and Blueberry ran as fast as they could on the carpet airport floor to their long-gone friends. Kodi ran to his father and gave him a big nuzzle, and Kirby ran to Dusty and Ralph and gave them nuzzles.

The crowd (except for Paul) all said, "Aww!"

Gee. I still don't want to have kids, thought Paul.

Blueberry came after Kodi to have a nuzzle with Balto. This, is the only time I know I can nuzzle Balto, she thought. "Balto!" she yipped, nuzzling him immediately after Kodi hopped away.

This is quite odd, thought Balto. "Hello there. You must be the famous Kirby's girlfriend. What's your name?" asked Balto.

"My name is Blueberry," she panted with excited hearty-eyes. Balto yipped after Blueberry stomped on his paws in excitement. "I'm your biggest fan, Balto!"

"Careful where you're smashing with those paws, Blueberry," said Balto.

Now with the other dog conversation, "Well if it ain't Kodiak the Zodiac!" panted Ralph, while tapping Kodi's shoulder.

"Be quiet Ralph!" chuckled Kodi. He looked at Dusty and he stood like a statue for seconds in relief. Oh phew! he thought, Dusty is still skinny, she's still young, and best of all, she hasn't had any pups!

"Uh, Kodi? What's wrong?" she asked.

"Oh sorry, Dusty," he replied. "It's just that... I'm glad to finally get back to you."

"Me too! I was so worried about you!" she panted. "We didn't know youse were here until we saw you in the news! It was really cool when you were driving that automobile and crashed it too!"

"Yeah!" replied Kodi.

"Hey Kirby, who's your friend there?" called Ralph to the other conversation.

"Oh, this is Blueberry," said Kirby. Kirby noticed Dusty standing right next to Kodi, and decided to gallop over. "Hi, Dusty," he said, smirking teasingly.

"Hey, Kirby! What is it?" she asked, slightly concerned.

"The real reason Kodiak here," said Kirby, grinning while holding one of his legs around Kodi's neck, "stood staring at you was because he had a bad dream that you had pups with Ralph."

"WHAT?!" yelped Ralph and Dusty with agonized faces. Both of their eyes popped out from their sockets briefly.

Dusty barfed on the carpet airport floor, and Ralph ran as fast as he could to the restroom; he tripped a few humans over on the way.

The rest of the dogs got interrupted by Balto's "wolf-pack". "Everybody, this is Kodi, my son," announced Balto. Kodi stuck his tongue like how a dog usually does so. "This is his friend, Kirby, and this is Kirby's girlfriend, Blueberry." Balto's audience came in to give the new dogs pats on the head and body.

Balto then looked up at his heroes—the five thugs. They looked down at him with utmost pride.

"I'd like to thank all five of youse for doing this task," said Balto.

"You're welcome!" replied Al. "You can keep the cages because we'd have no more uses for them."

"Thank youse!" called Balto. "Come on, team. Let's get in the SUV," said Balto as he turned his head around to the rest of his expanded "wolf-pack" of now six dogs. They all then left the airport.

Cabin – In Kerr's SUV – En route from Vancouver International Airport to Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada

20:11 (Less than 42 minutes later)

The SUV was really crowded with bodies with the expanded "wolf-pack" in. The five humans sat in their usual seats, while Balto sat on Craig's lap in the "shotgun" seat; Kodi, Kirby, and Blueberry sat on Paul, Andrew, and Charlotte's laps; Dusty and Ralph sat in the third row behind them with their seat-belts fastened.

"So, Blueberry," panted Kirby to Blueberry, "Do you think it's now a fair price to trade your owner for all of us in Balto's life?"

Blueberry hesitated as she looked to her side to think about her answer. "I... do not.. really think it's fair to say that I... traded.. him for you guys... but at least, I might actually like what's going to happen next."

Kirby solemnly turned his head to Balto. "Balto..." he mentioned.

"Yes, Kirby?" asked Balto.

"I.. uh... take back all those times... in which I used to tease you for being half-wolf... back when you were stray."

"Mmh..." responded Balto. "What made you change your mind?"

"Kodi and I got to learn exactly how hard it actually was for you to live in Nome before you arrived with the medicine in 1925."

"Oh... how?" replied Balto, nodding.

"We had no humans who wanted to keep us in a house," listed Kodi, "we had very low food (we had to get our food from a garbage can), and the only ones we could talk to was... each other. Just like how the only one you could talk to was... Uncle Boris."

"Ah..." responded Balto, in a very sombre tone of voice. "I'm actually sorry for the experience youse had."

"Oh well! At least the humans didn't treat us like we were half-wolves," panted Kirby. "Instead, what made up for that instead was EXTREME heat and unspeakably horrendous insect bites."

"At least youse can now stay with us for one last day before we get back to Nome," said Balto.

"We're going back to Nome, Dad?!" panted Kodi in excitement.

"Yup!" replied Balto. "We'll tell you all about it!" panted Ralph to Kodi and Kirby.

Tune in for chapter 12 to find out what happens after!