MOST RECENT CHAPTER EDIT: August 1st, 2017
Small office – Balto's warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:23; Sunday July 27th, 2014 (DAY 25) (The next day)
In the crammed warehouse office, everyone was glad to have everyone ready and accounted for.
"Where you live, Balto, is awesome!" panted Blueberry, looking around.
"Thanks," replied Balto (in dog), "We will spend this last day here before we go back to Nome tomorrow morning."
The human "wolf-pack" grabbed chairs and arranged a circle. "Alright, guys," said Craig, "Now that we have an almost equal amount of humans and dogs, we can finally spend our last day with the dogs by buddying up with one of the dogs! Spend our last day by doing some really fun stuff with them!"
The humans oohed.
"I didn't expect this to come!" panted Kirby as he was in the centre of the circle with the other six dogs.
"It feels like we're in a puppy box getting adopted all over again! I can't wait to get a human again!" panted Kodi.
"Yeah, but by humans we already know!" panted Ralph.
"Humans youse already know," panted Blueberry, tilting her head to Ralph.
"I hope I get Paul!" panted Ralph.
"No! I'm getting him! He's mine!" retorted Dusty.
Craig wielded Charlotte's hat and said, "I put each of the dogs' names in Charlotte's hat, and we're going to reveal which ones we get." The hat was passed around the circle, and the human crew revealed their papers counter clockwise.
Charlotte was first. She grabbed a name from the hat. "Alright, I've got... Ralph!"
Nooooooooooooooo! thought Ralph, I wanted Paul! Oh well... as long as Dusty doesn't get him. He slowly jumped on Charlotte's lap. "Take it easy now, you're huge, boy!" she said.
Paul was second. He took a name from the hat as Charlotte passed it to him. "Alright! I've got... Kodi!" said Paul.
Kodi raised his Rave Face, erected his tongue, and then he hopped onto Paul's lap. "Heh, good boy!" said Paul, patting him. "Awesome! I heard he was good!" said Kodi to Dusty and Ralph.
"Uh, Paul, I wanted him; can we trade?" asked Craig, who didn't get a dog yet and wanted Kodi.
"Sure," said Paul—who didn't care. Paul lightly pushed Kodi and then Kodi stood up from Paul and walked onto Craig's lap. "Heh! Good boy, Kodi!" said Craig.
"Looks like I'm going again, govenas!" said Paul. He took out another name from the hat. "Alright! I've got... Dusty!" he said.
[slow motion] "YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!" barked Dusty while jumping in happiness and excitement while with a Rave Face and her tongue erect. She landed straight on top of Paul's lap. [/slow motion]
Oh come on! Me and Dusty again?! thought Paul in frustration, I end up having to get paired up with THE SAME FEMALE DOG OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER AGAIN! Well, I mean, she's a good dog; I like her, but do I really have to be stuck with her all the time?!
Andoru was third. He took a name from the hat as Paul passed it to him. "I'be got... Bruberry!"
Blueberry grew hearts in her eyes with a tongued smile as she jumped with a slam on Andoru's lap. "Hehe, take it easy, girr!" said Andoru as he patted her on the head.
Kerr was fourth. He took a name from the hat as Andoru passed it to him. "I have... Kirby!"
Kirby grew his tongued Rave Face like the other dogs and he jumped onto Kerr's lap. "Yeah! Good boy!" said Kerr as he patted him on the head.
Balto was left in the centre of the circle unadopted. I'm happy for my "pups" to have some owners for themselves, thought Balto, looking around smirking, I don't really need one myself because I already have all of my followers, and forever I lived as a stray dog, so forever I will live as a stray dog.
"Remember, show your dog something really interesting before they leave tomorrow!" announced Craig, "At 4:00, we're to meet at Kitsilano Beach. I'm sure everyone can make it there by bus and SkyTrain. Well you, Kerr, are lucky enough to have your car. After we go bonkers at the beach, I'll let Paul, the Red Menace, choose where to go next for dinner."
"How about we all go to eat some Persian food in North Vancouver?" suggested Paul, raising his finger.
"Okay." replied everyone else, nodding at each other.
"So let's get leashed up!" announced Craig as he stood up and scooped with his arms.
Dining area – Steak House in downtown; Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:35 (Over 1 hour later)
Craig spent his day with Kodi by progressive eating. Craig took him to an all-you-can-eat steak house in Downtown Vancouver where they kept eating as much as they could.
"I hope it's delicious, Kodi! Because I'm paying for the whole thing!" said Craig, turning his head to him as they were eating together. They continued munching and munching over all the steak.
North Grandview Highway; Vancouver, BC, Canada
Kerr spent his day with Kirby with driving. Kerr was sitting in the driver seat of his Mitsubishi Pajero with Kirby on his lap and both of his paws on the steering wheel.
"Alright, Kirby! I'll do pedals, you steer!" said Kerr, "Let's go once around the block! Hopefully ICBC doesn't give me a driving prohibition for this! Then let's go to my house and pick up my speedboat from by garage! Don't crash please!" "Oh, by the way," said Kerr—facing the camera if this was a movie—"Do not let your pets drive your car at home kids, unless your parents and your driving organization are extreme idiots who don't care." They then drove the SUV away.
Sanctuary Pond – Hastings Park; Vancouver, BC, Canada
Andoru spent his day with Blueberry by fishing. They were at a pond in Hastings Park in Vancouver and that's where Andoru used a pole to fish and where Blueberry got herself wet in the water to catch some fish by swimming to get them as Andoru's bait was in the water.
She was able to get a large fish in her snout as she left the water. "Rearry good'job, Bruberry! I expected you to rack disciprine!" said Andoru as he collected the fish.
14:33 (More than 2 hours later)
Later that day, Andoru made it back to the pond with a block of pure cesium. "Arright Bruberry, I'm' going to srow zis cesium into ze water, zen we quickry get a serfie wiss ze exprosion in' ze background." he said. "Do not try zis at' home, kids," said Andoru—who would be looking at the camera if this was a movie—"Unress your parents are extreme idiots who don't care."
He and Blueberry layed down with their backs behind a log which has a view of the lake in the background. Andoru booted up the camera on his Samsung Galaxy phone. Then, Andoru unsealed the cesium from its package, and catapulted it behind him to fly into the pond.
"Hai cheezu!" said Andoru, making his grin for the phone camera. As the cesium reacted with the water in the pond, a part of the pond blew up, making an explosion. Andoru quickly hit the capture button and he ended up with a nice picture of him, Blueberry, and the explosion in the background.
Outside wall of the small office – Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:35 (More than 2 hours earlier)
Charlotte and Ralph were laying on the ground right at the small office's window. Charlotte had a selfie stick erecting her phone to see what's behind the window. She whispered in Ralph's ear, "Oh boy! Stalking Paul is awesome! But remember, Ralphie, do not make a single sound! We do not want him to find us. In case he does, we will burn rubber out from here and I will need to ride you."
Small office
Paul, uniquely spent his day with Dusty staying in the warehouse office, on the computer to watch some fail videos. Paul had no idea he was being stalked.
Paul was cooking some more chopped sausage with rice on a frying pan as Dusty watched panting eagerly to was even eating some of it as it was cooking. She ended up burning her tongue.
Oogh! Hello! That's hot, Dusty! she imperatively thought as she walked to the other end of the wall, You better wait for the food to finish!
"Alright, Dusty!" said Paul as he turned off the stove in the small room, "I'm going to show you one of the most important things you'll ever remember to bring back to your world!" he said raising a grin.
Lemme guess, it's how many dumb things youse humans actually do? she tilted her head, wishing to say.
"And it's how many dumb things we humans actually do!" he said as he then served her portion of the food into her dog dish. Dusty then raised her eyebrows in quite shock.
Paul then moved one of the two-seating couches in the room to go to the back of the computer desk. He then took both the frying pan and Dusty's dog dish from the centre of the room floor and brought them to the computer followed as she was desperately waiting to be able to eat.
"Alright, Dusty! Eat up!" he said as he pointed to the dish. She started gobbling like a wolf as Paul then started eating from his frying pan too.
Dusty finished really fast, and then she started eating from Paul's dish. "Hey! No! That's my lunch!" he said. Paul! Don't just sit there! he thought, Fight fire with fire! You've gotta stop being too soft with people!
"Bad dog! Get off of my food!" he scolded, shooing her off with his arms. "I already gave you yours and you were eating when I was cooking!" She flinched the first time and tears filled up in her eyes from guilt.
After a few seconds worth of a regretful stare, she slowly walked off the couch and sat facing the wall. She whimpered in sorrow and wept.
Paul thought, Great. THAT'S why I was always too soft with people back in my days. Gee, I feel sorry that I hurt poor Dusty's feelings. Besides, it's her and the other dogs' last day and I'm having a big dinner anyways so I should give the rest of my food to her then.
He then stood up from the couch, wielding the frying pan and then he placed the frying pan on the ground in front of Dusty. "Sorry for being harsh, girl. You can eat the rest if you like," he said. Dusty then started feeling comforted and she immediately started eating.
Hooey! I'm glad she and the other dogs are gone tomorrow! thought Paul. I don't need to put up with this barbarism anymore!
After that, Paul then was booting up YouTube to show a fail video. Dusty just finished her food so then she jumped to the couch beside Paul and then she cuddled up to his side. Paul looked to his side and then gave her a hug. "Aww, I love you, too, girl!" he said.
He then released. Then Dusty sat on her butt with her hind legs out in a position a human sits like. "How about I show you some videos! I hope you're able to see what's on the screen," he said as he then booted up the video. "Watch this!" he said as he hit the play button. She then stood up onto a sitting position and opened her eyes to watch the screen.
On the video it showed a skateboarder dressed in a football suit attempt to do a stunt in a skateboard park of a high curved wall, but as he made it to the top, he accidentally let go of his skateboard and he hit the ground straight on his butt.
Outside wall of the small office
Ralph started to pant laughing from seeing the video while stalking. Aw man! I REALLY wish Paul got me instead of Dusty, he thought.
Charlotte was not feeling the same, however. Her eyebrows lowered and her eyes narrowed. Ugh, Paul! she wished to say, people getting hurt is not funny!
Small office
Paul and Dusty then laughed hard from seeing that man get hurt in such a dumb way. Dusty then made a concerned face, thinking, Oh no! I just laughed from seeing a poor human get hurt! I hope Paul didn't get offended.
Paul then turned to her with a smile. "Don't worry! These people who do dumb things like that are just humans!" he cheered, "Besides, the most funny parts are that most of them are fully grown people who should know better than that! So it's okay to laugh when watching Fail videos! That's why I always watch them! And you've got that amazing silly-sounding human laugh, so watching is even funnier now!"
The two then enjoyed laughing their butts off from watching more and more fail videos for the entire time. Paul was laughing even harder from Dusty's idiotic laugh which her alien capsule granted her.
Once after Paul had whiplash laughed, his nose then smelled something. Wait! What was that smell? he thought. He then found out that the smell was from Dusty's paw pads. After he then took a closer sniff, he recoiled and said, "Oogh! Smells like Frito's!"
Dusty pant laughed hard and then she chased him to the edge of the couch with her hind paws aiming to his face.
"Dusty, what are you doing?" asked Paul as he was now at the edge of the couch, blushing.
I've got the sweatiest, slipperiest, smelliest paws in Nome! she wished to say. Take a whiff!
She then buried the soles of her hind paws in Paul's face with one of them right on his nose.
Outside wall of the small office
Ralph was pant laughing really hard. Charlotte couldn't control her laughter endurance from what they just saw, so she then unleashed her laughter. "PWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" she laughed.
"Charlotte! You are one dead chick!" shouted Paul from inside the building.
"Oh heck! He found us!" rushed Charlotte to Ralph, "You've gotta get me outta here! Burn rubber!" She then mounted herself on Ralph's very large back and then he tried his best to carry her away from the block.
"Dusty! Attack them!" commanded Paul. "You're so disobedient! This is why I always liked Ralph better than you!"
Ralph smiled as he heard that.
"I should've known female dogs act like female humans!" ranted Paul.
Parking lot – Kitsilano Beach; Vancouver, BC, Canada
16:35 (More than 2 hours later)
At the beach was where the entire "wolf-pack" rendezvoused to do some miscellaneous stupid things in. The sun was starting to set and there was a nice view of downtown Vancouver behind the water.
After the "wolf-pack" finished changing, they all ran to go push Kerr's speedboat which was hooked to the back of his SUV. The six dogs had harnesses and ropes were tied up to the boat and they were pulling it like it was a sled.
"Mush! Mush!" commanded the five humans who were also pushing from the side of the boat.
Beach waters
17:02 (Less than 30 minutes later)
After they all got the boat in the water, the humans then played Ultimate with the dogs in the moderately deep part of the inlet where the water goes up to the humans' waists. The humans were throwing Frisbees and the dogs attempted swimming and jumping to grab them. When they missed, they dove in the water to retrieve the discs and they brought them to one of the five humans. Everybody was wet and everybody loved it. "Woo! Our hair and the dogs' fur look awesome when we're all wet!" said Paul.
Once Charlotte threw a Frisbee, and then as Blueberry attempted to jump and catch it, she was too late and the disc hit Paul on the side of his large head. "Aouch!" he exclaimed.
"Boom, Headshot!" called Craig. Everybody else—including some of the dogs—started laughing.
Paul then started massaging his head with his hand.
"That was exactly where I was aiming!" called Charlotte.
"Yeah! Nice one, Charlotte!" called Paul. They continued their fun for another few minutes.
Deck – Kerr's speedboat – Driving on Burrard Inlet; Vancouver, BC, Canada
17:28 (Less than 30 minutes later)
After that, Kerr's speedboat finally got fired up and then the "wolf-pack" was sitting in it while a long chord was tied to the back of it and the other end was tied to a large board where everybody including the dogs took turns to surf with by being pulled by the boat. Everybody enjoyed it.
Baseball field – Norgate Park; North Vancouver, BC, Canada
20:36 (Over 3 hours later)
After that amazing day at the beach, with the sunset and extreme motion, Paul wanted to treat everyone to his favourite Iranian restaurant in North Vancouver that serves a dog-friendly dish. The dogs weren't allowed to enter the restaurant so they went to a nearby park to eat in the sunset in. Everybody was sitting down at the baseball field's grass to eat on.
Everybody then started eating. "Oh yeah! This is delicious!" munched Ralph as he was in a row with the other dogs and the humans were sitting behind them.
"Ralph says this is delicious," said Balto to the humans.
"We all say this is delicious!" said the human band simultaneously to him.
Kerr turned to Paul. "This food is the bee's knees Paul; how come you can't cook like this?" said Kerr.
"After all the RICE things I cooked for you?" asked Paul, raising a spoonful of rice. He then made that same "pistol" figure with his fingers and winked at Kerr. The humans around row groaned from the bad pun.
At the dog side of the grass was where the dogs had their mouthful conversation too. "Too bad we weren't allowed in the restaurant," said Kirby.
"What could be wrong, Kirby?" panted Dusty, "It's much better out here! It was crowded in that darn restaurant anyways! Hey, Hey, Kodi, now you know how much fun we just had at the beach!"
"Yeah!" panted Kodi.
Ralph wanted to make a speech. "In terms of recreation, this place was really an awesome experience!" he confessed turning his head to look at the other dogs, "But as all of youse, I'm not used to this at all. I find that this time is way too busy and complicated. I'm too used to Nome in 1928 where everything had a routine and everything was nice and simple; you do not need to do so many things at once and when you do the same things everyday, you get used to it and enjoy it, as we all enjoy running the mail daily. Plus, in Nome, food was always pure; even though Paul cooked delicious food for us—in Nome, food was made to be in top quality rather than cheap price. Society in Nome was stable, unlike today where society is corrupt, humans are extremely dumb,"
"And humans do too many stupid things!" interrupted Dusty, panting.
Ralph continued, "Yeah! That's it, Dusty! And there are way too many humans and there are too few dogs. I also missed back in Nome when we used to go see the doctor!"
"Yeah, Ralph! The doctor used to give us rear-end exams!" panted Kirby.
"Wow, Ralph," said Balto, in dog, "I agree with you. I just wanted to have this last day where I can show Kodi, Kirby, and Blueberry a glimpse of the adventure I had with Dusty, Ralph, and our humans. Tonight is the night we finally withdraw the money from our bank and we all sleep and wake up in the that big oversized flying thing, then to go back to Nome!"
"Alright, Dad! I cannot wait to go back to Nome!" panted Kodi, all excited to go back to the simple world he lived.
"Me neither!" panted Kirby.
"I can wait," lightly barked Blueberry, joking.
They had some more munches in their food. "If nobody can finish, give it to Kirby and Kodi. They're still skinny and they need food!" said Balto, to his dog friends.
"Oh no, Dad! Not me! Craig and I stuffed ourselves at an all-you-can-eat steak house!" replied Kodi.
"Then give it to Kirby," replied his father, smirking.
"Oh wait! Give some to Paul! I ate his lunch today!" panted Dusty.
"Are you nuts, Dusty? Dog saliva and fluids are harmful to humans!" said Blueberry.
"No way are we giving our food to the humans!" said Balto, facing Dusty.
"Hey Dusty, did you really eat his lunch?" panted Kodi.
"Yes, Kodi! I really did!" she replied panting.
"Ehh, he needed to lose some weight anyways," panted Ralph, squinting to Paul who was behind him.
"Yeah, kinda like you, Ralphy boy!" panted Kirby. The dogs, with the exception of Ralph, laughed. They laughed harder and Ralph laughed too thanks to Dusty's idiotic laugh. They then all continued digging into finishing up their food.
20:49 (Over 10 minutes later)
When everybody finished their food, the humans and dogs were in a circle on the grass field of the park with an empty water bottle in the centre. "Alright," announced Kerr, "Because the dogs are gone tomorrow and we will miss them and they will miss us, we will now show some affection by playing a P.D.A. game called: 'Spin the Bottle!' When you spin the bottle, whoever the bottle is pointing to means you need to hug, or nuzzle that person or dog. After the person or dog gets hugged or nuzzled, they go next! It keeps going until we have had enough. So let's do this! I'm going first!" he then spun the bottle. It then landed on Charlotte. "Alright! Charlotte!" he said. They then hugged.
"Aww!" said everyone else except for Paul.
The dogs were laughing from the sight.
Charlotte then spun the bottle. It landed on Paul. Aw crud, he thought.
Ugh, thought Charlotte, "Air hug!" she said, making her arms in a hug position with the air.
"No air hugs! It has to touch!" said Andoru.
"Fine!" she replied. She then hugged Paul. Both were reluctant in doing so.
"Aww!" said everyone else.
Paul then got ready to spin the bottle. Please not Dusty! Please not Dusty! he thought as he spun it. The bottle then actually landed on Dusty. GOSH-DARN-IT! Oh well, he thought. He then walked over and gave her a big hug as she nuzzled him tenderly back and licked his cheek.
"Aww!" said everyone else.
Ugh, is this how they associate me with Dusty now? thought Paul. He then went back to his spot on the circle.
"Hey Paul, somehow you always manage to get a lot of interactions with Dusty," said Craig, smirking.
GRRRRRRRRRR! thought Paul, I knew someone would say this! How awkward is this now? Now it looks like Craig thinks we're are a cute couple. Screw this squad! I must be glad the dogs are gone tomorrow and I'll be back at home on my computer where I like it best.
The game continued being played for longer. Most of everyone were enjoying displaying their affection.
Cabin – Kerr's SUV – En route from North Vancouver, BC, Canada to Vancouver, BC, Canada
21:25 (Less than 30 minutes later)
Most of the humans in the SUV was sleeping in the car due to tiredness and enjoyment. The dark purple night sky looked absolutely beautiful and the street lights were creating passing shadows of the windows and the car's seats. Paul was still up and was looking around. Oh boy, he thought, this sight and sound of the night sky, streetlights and shadows look totally beautiful.
Ralph and Dusty—flanking Paul—then pressed each of their heads on each of Paul's sides. "Oh Ralph... I wish that Paul can come to Nome with us," said Dusty.
"Fine, but under one condition," replied Ralph, "He's MY owner. You already have an owner in Nome and I don't and I have to sleep on my makeshift wooden bed out on the streets everyday."
"No! He's not coming back to Nome with us!" stated Balto, "He belongs in this world and should stay here!"
"Come on, Balto!" said Ralph.
"If he cooks us food there every day then I can run the mail—" said Dusty.
"No! He's staying!" vetoed Balto, "My decision is final."
ATM area – Superstore (Grandview Highway); Vancouver, BC, Canada
21:34; (Less than 10 minutes later)
After everybody enjoyed their delicious Iranian dinner, the band drove the SUV out from North Vancouver, and then back into Vancouver and went to Superstore to go to the "Prime Minister's Choice" bank machine to withdrawal their one million dollars which they worked really hard for.
"Remember, doggies," said Craig looking down to the dogs who are looking up to him, "In these envelopes are a really valuable payload. I need each one of youse to guard us while we get escorted back to the SUV." The dogs stuck close to the human band on their way out from Superstore.
Outside entrance – Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
21:46; (Over 10 minutes later)
As the SUV was parked outside from the warehouse as always, everyone inside dismounted.
"Oh boy! That was one of the best days of our entire trip here!" panted Kodi as he walked with his dog friends back into the warehouse.
Small office
21:47 (About 1 minute later)
As they made it into the small, very dark office, the human band was really tired and they just slammed themselves into their sleeping bags.
The dogs slept and curled up into their beds. Kodi, Kirby, and Blueberry—who had no beds—layed down on one of the sleeping humans to sleep on. Kodi layed down beside Craig as Craig turned his head to say something to him.
"Oh Kodi," said Craig, "We wish to keep you longer, but, at least we've all had a great time." He gave Kodi a hug.
Balto walked over. "I'm going to miss you too, Craig." he said. He mounted a hug on Craig while Craig hugged him back.
Balto then went to his bed. "Goodnight, govenas!" said Balto.
"Hey, that's my line!" pointed Paul. They then all slept in the small dark warehouse, ready for the "rapture."
Cabin – In a rented car of the thugs – En route to Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
02:16; Monday July 28th, 2014 (DAY 26) (The next morning)
In the car was the thug gang of five, ready to make their move as they were driving to Balto's warehouse early in the morning.
"Alright guys, zis is ze moment we've been waiting for!" announced Joshua, fcing his other four thugs in the seats to his right and back, "We're undercover again, so we'll be wiss masks and we'll call each ozer by code-names again. I have ze floor plan to Balto's warehouse. We'll equip our night vision goggles, get in srough zis vent, find where Balto's friends are sleeping, inject anaesssezia—" [anaesthesia] "—into zem, find any safe or money container, lock-pick it if needed, grab ze money, zen get out of zere. Remember, we'll be calling each other by our code names instead of real names."
Outside behind the building – Balto's Warehouse; Vancouver, BC, Canada
02:19 (Less than 3 minutes later)
The car was parked behind the warehouse, then the five thugs dismounted.
"There's the vent!" whispered Gerald, pointing to the vent which was a few metres from the ground.
"Good eyes, Mohawk," whispered Joshua.
The five thugs made it to it. "Somebody remove ze cover," whispered Joshua.
"I've got it!" said Al. He took out a screwdriver and unscrewed the vent screws and then they removed the cover.
"Nice job, Tiger," said Joshua. Joshua looked up and found out that the vent was about three metres off from the ground. "Uh, sugs? A little boost?" whispered Joshua, looking to his thugs.
They boosted themselves up and crawled through the vent as quietly as possible to find where the unknown sleeping location is.
In a vent leading to the small office
"Night vision," whispered Joshua, equipping his goggles. All five thugs raised their goggles.
The office was right to their right as they crawled deeper through the vent. It was visible through a few bars opened. "Bullpup! There it is!" whispered Sarah.
"Good eye, Atlanta! Open ze cover," whispered Joshua.
Sarah opened the cover with the help of her screwdriver.
Small office
All five of them took turns to belly flop to the ground from the vent. They wielded their anaesthetic injectors. "Zere's ze sleeping beauties! Inject zem!" whispered Joshua, pointing to the sleeping "wolf-pack."
They injected all of the dogs, and the loudest snoring humans.
Al looked around and there was a mildly glowing safe at the desk close to the "wolf-pack's" computer. "Is this the safe?" he whispered.
"Good eyes, Tiger," whispered Joshua. "Planks, lock-pick it."
Pierre picked the lock of the safe. Inside were the one million dollars that Balto needed to get back to Nome with.
"Victory! Thank you Tiger!" snickered Gerald and Sarah.
Joshua took all of the money from the safe and then he ripped small sheet of paper and a pen from Balto's computer desk and wrote, "HASTA LA VISTA, IMBECILES!" on it. He snickered as he wrote it and taped it on the empty safe. "Let's blow zis joint," whispered Joshua.
The thugs have successfully left the building through the vent they're entered through without being seen or noticed. "That was the world's easiest heist!" whispered Gerald, as he was screwing the vent cover back on.
Outside behind the building
02:22 (Less than 1 minute later)
The thugs scrambled back to their car with the money. "I don't think this is a lot of money!" whispered Gerald.
They then all mounted inside. The car drove away through the night morning sky.
Cabin – In the thugs' rented car – Driving south along Rupert Street; En route from Vancouver, BC, Canada to Stanwood, WA, United States
02:26 (Less than 4 minutes later)
"Alright! Let's count zis dough," commanded Joshua.
Sarah then went onto counting all of the money. She counted that there was only $1,000,000.
"1 MEASLY MILLION?!" ranted Joshua, turning his face to the back seats where the other thugs were. "I LED A BANK ROBBING TEAM TO PAINSTAKINGLY BABYSIT SREE DOGS ALL ZE WAY FROM ZE UNITED STATES TO CANADA FOR JUST 1 MILLION?!"
Al looked with guilty puppy-dog eyes. Oh no, thought Al, my life is over and now Joshua is ranting like he's Hitler!
"Yeah!" supported Gerald, facing Al with a scolding face. "We make more than $20,000,000 every heist!"
"You promised us this would be worth all the time we wasted!" scolded Sarah to Al.
"I'm sorry guys," defended Al. "I—I thought that this would—"
"'Oh I'm sorry guys!'" imitated Joshua right in front of Al's face. "You are an absolute traitor to zis squad!" he ranted.
"If it weren't for your stupidity, we would have been in Kansas by now, robbing their banks!" ranted Gerald.
"The fact that we even have kept you here all this time is something we greatly knew was a bad idea from the start!" scolded Sarah, punching him on the shoulder.
"Pierre, stop ze car here at zis field," quietly commanded Joshua. Pierre obeyed orders and parked the car.
Gravel field – Sir Wilfred Grenfell Elementary School; Vancouver, BC, Canada
02:28 (Less than 1 minute later)
The thugs dismounted from the car and then they dragged Al all the way to the gravel field of the closest elementary school. All of the other thugs then started to brutalize him physically and verbally. They were throwing punches and kicks sprinkled all around with slurs that I—as the author—should not even write down. Joshua smashed Al's Nokia phone with his foot.
02:30 (Almost 2 minutes later)
The other 4 thugs were finished brutalizing Al, so they all ran back to their car. Al was in horrible condition. Gravel was all over his body, his clothes were torn, he had so many wounds and scrapes on his face, and he was unable to move from the brutality. He watched as the others then drove away as quickly as possible.
Al then started to weep while ranting furiously. "SCREW YOU ALL!" he screamed. "IF YOU THINK I'M A TRAITOR THEN YOU WILL REALLY GET ONE! I'M CALLING THE COBS! Oh wait, no, if I do and accuse them for robbing all of those banks then they'll arrest me too for helbing them all of those times. But you guys will see what I'll do next!" He then cried, all helpless on that gravel field in the dark, starry morning.
How will Balto make it back to Nome now? Keep reading!