"Alright...looks like we're a-headin' on outta here!" Lucas whooped. "YEE-HAW!"
"Rawhide!" Tony added with a laugh.
"I think you guys and us are gonna get along just fine." Thor chuckled to their Wild West counterparts.
"Same here!" August beamed.
"Don't worry, Maggie, we'll help ya," Clementine said. "It's been that way for a long time now."
"You guys are close with Maggie, huh?" Atticus asked the Wild West group.
"Of course," August smiled. "We're best friends."
"Yup," Lucas replied. "Never would've met this bunch if it weren't fer Maggs. She's like a sister t'me!"
"That sounds like quite the story." Mo said to the group.
"Oh, it is!" Lucas nodded. "Maggs was how I met Clementime...and she introduced me to th' others!"
"Are we gonna see a flashback?" Cherry asked.
"It might be a good idea." Atticus replied.
Cherry shrugged and soon let it happen.
Flashback
Abner was seen cleaning up with Lucas's help around the barnyard of Dixie Ranch.
"Lucas, how would ya feel if we had some extra help 'round these parts?" Abner asked the boy who he saw as a metaphorical son.
"Extra help?" asked Lucas. "Well... I reckon that'd be awful nice!"
"I was hopin' ya'd say that," Abner smiled, feeling glad that he was accepting of the extra help. "I sent out letters throughout town to ask people for helpin' us. I just thought maybe we could use some with it bein' the two of us."
"Well... Having some new faces 'round here oughta liven things up!" Lucas beamed.
"That's a good boy," Abner chuckled. "Someone should be comin' eventually."
Maggie began to graze with her friends which were plenty of bulls as she was the only cow.
"We're gonna have some new buddies!" Lucas told Maggie.
"Well, you and Abner need all the help you can get." Maggie said as she began to eat the hay given to her.
"We sure do." Lucas replied.
Meanwhile...
"Helpin' out on the Dixon Ranch..." Clementine said, reading aloud from a letter she got in the mail. "Well... I guess I could do that with some of my pals..." she then turned to her friends who had come over. "So, ya up for it?"
"Ya know my answer!" August smiled. "I love tough work and helpin' those in need!"
"Me too!" Tony added.
"I'm in," May smiled. "This girl ain't afraid to get down and dirty."
"Then let's go for it!" Clementine replied.
The group soon packed up their things to leave.
"Tony? I need you." Clementine called.
Tony soon walked in, leaning against the wall in a sassy way. "What can I do for you, my darling Clementine?" he then asked, trying to sound playfully snobby.
"Y'all can get yer bottom up and on this case filled with our stuff!" Clementine told him.
"Of course!" Tony then smiled and ran over before jumping down onto the case to slam it shut and clicked it shut once he weighed the top down over on it.
"Alright gang, let's head 'em up and move it out!" August called to the others. "We're burnin' daylight!"
Tony giggled as he soon got off of the case and walked off with them to go to the place called Dixon Ranch.
After several hours, they eventually arrived, while Lucas was snoozing on a pile of hay.
"Hey... Hey, buddy, wake up!" Clementine called out to Lucas as she walked up to him.
With a snort, Lucas woke up, only to see Clementine looking at him. "Whoa... Am I still asleep?" he asked curiously as his face went red.
"Uh... I dun think so." Clementine said to him.
"Hey, wake up!" Maggie told Lucas. "Oh... You're up. We got company, kid."
Lucas got up. "Oh! Y-You must be the new help. Name's Lucas. Pleased t'meetcha, purty lady." he grinned sheepishly.
"Heh... Dunno 'bout being purty." Clementine replied.
Maggie smirked between the two as she sensed a connection.
"Aw, c'mon, you definitely are!" Lucas replied. "You'd hafta be blind not to see it!"
The others soon came over to see Clementine and Lucas.
"Howdy," August smiled. "I'm August and this is my l'il Mayflower, Maybelle, also known as May."
"August." May blushed from being called a mayflower.
"Nice t'meet you both!" Lucas tipped his hat. "I'm Lucas, and that fine bovine over there is my best friend, Maggie!"
"Well, I'm Clementine." Clementine said.
"Hi." Tony smiled.
"This is Tony." Clementine then said.
"Yer best friend is a cow?" Tony then asked as he looked up and down to Maggie. "She's a beaut."
"Ah, not to brag... Even if I'm a professional show cow." Maggie smiled bashfully.
"Nice t'meetcha all!" Lucas beamed.
"Likewise," August said. "So, do ya live here together?"
"Pretty much," Maggie replied. "Lucas usually helps out Abner, but it ain't easy with just the two of 'em, so seeing you guys around should help out plenty."
Lucas nodded. "It's gonna be nice having some new friends around..." he blushed at Clementine. "'Specially you..."
Clementine seemed oblivious towards Lucas's affections so far.
And so, they met Abner, and it began. The group would stay with Abner and Lucas while helping out on the farm which mostly had bulls on it except for Maggie of course, and they soon saw many prizes that Maggie had won, showing she was amazing as she said she was.
"She's plenty amazin', ain't she?" smiled Lucas. "Helped raise 'er since she was a calf!"
Maggie smiled and nodded as that was true.
"Well, congratulations," August smiled back to them. "That sounds mighty amazin'. Maybe we can all be friends."
"That would be nice." Maggie replied.
"Then it's settled!" Lucas shook August and May's hands, gave Tony a hug, and kissed Clementine's hand. "Friends, and maybe more!"
Tony looked over from the hand kissing, a bit unsure about that while August and May simply smiled to Lucas.
End of Flashback
"So that's how it happened," Atticus smiled. "Sounds like a nice friendship adventure."
"And the tale keeps on going to this day," Lucas replied. "May, Tony, and August are still mah best human hombres, and I still got it bad fer m'darlin' Clementine!"
"Interesting." Atticus smiled.
After a while of traveling, Grace began to sing, but it sounded a bit annoyingly painful.
"She better hurry up around that mountain, 'cuz I cannot take this much longer." Maggie grumbled.
"Maggie, may I be frank?" Mrs. Calloway asked.
"Only if you let me wear the hat." Maggie smirked, nudging up against her.
"Ahem. Lowbrow remarks may work for you, but we prefer the gentle approach." Mrs. Calloway soon said.
"Well, she better stick a sock in it soon," said Maggie. "The vultures are beginning to circle."
Overhead, a pair of turkey vultures were hovering about in circles.
"Hey!" called Lucas. "She's not dying!"
The vultures stopped.
"You sure?" One asked. "We could wait around!"
Grace continued to sing her little song, oblivious to the world around her.
"We'll keep you posted!" Maggie called to the vultures.
"False alarm, Clem!" The vulture told his friend.
"Roger dodger, out like the wind!" The other vulture replied before they flew off together.
"Hey, guys, how do we find the sheriff's office when we get into town?" Grace soon asked as she walked over to them.
"Elementary, my dear Grace," Atticus stated in his detective voice. "If we find that horse, we find the sheriff."
"That horse is a legend in his own mind..." Mrs. Calloway remarked as they kept on walking.
The others then shared a laugh to that as they soon walked off together into town. Tony looked to Lucas and Clementine before pouting.
"Aw, chin up, buddy," Atticus smiled. "Maybe you'll meet a nice... Uh... Filly uptown!"
"Yeah!" Mo replied. "Everyone's got a special someone out there; just gotta keep looking!"
"Yeah... You're right..." Tony smiled.
"Believe me, buddy, I know how ya feel." Thor replied before winking to Lionel.
Lionel winked back and gave a thumb's-up. They soon continued their journey into town.
We are then shown a scene that looks like it came from a cliché Wild West flick as Buck the Horse was shown to be karate fighting against evil cowboys like he was awesomely talented which had to be too good to be true, and it was.
"Buck. Earth to Buck? Buck!" A voice called as Buck showed some karate moves until he looked around, seeing he was by the sheriff's office with an old dog in front of him, showing a Tic-Tac-Toe game in ground. "It's your move."
Buck gasped and looked around, seeing that he was only dreaming. "Ohh... Great."
"You were sleep-fighting again," The dog said to him. "Almost threw a shoe. You've been doin' that ever since the Sheriff's niece went missing."
"Sorry, it just feels like all the other horses are out there, fightin' bad guys an' takin' names!" explained Buck. He whipped his reigns around a pole, but ended up pulling himself towards it and klonking himself in the head. "Who put that there?"
"Oh, Buck, this ain't no Dodge City, but we get our share of excitement, and I'm sure l'il Zylphia will be back home before we know it." The dog said, scratching himself.
"Hey, sheriff! Been waitin' a long time to give you this!" A booming voice announced, waking up the Sheriff instantly, making look up and around and saw that he had company. "Telegram!"
"Oh, howdy, Morse," The Sheriff smiled curiously. "What you got there?"
"Hmm.. 'Got Evil Eye Joe'. Stop," The man began to read aloud. "'Bringing him today'. Stop. 'Have money ready. No sign of your niece though, but I'll keep tryin'.' Signed, Rico'."
"Ha! Oh, yeah! Rico caught another one already." The Sheriff remarked. "Might as well give him the key to my safe."
Buck grinned. "You hear that, Rusty? Rico's comin'!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah, Rico. I'm old. I ain't deaf." said Rusty.
"Boy, wouldn't that be the life?" asked Buck. "Ridin' with Rico, cleanin' up the west. Kickin' bad-guy behind! Whoo! Wah-yah! Watch out, sucker!" he made more karate noises.
The Tic-Tac-Toe game was shown to be ruined which frustrated Rusty as he lay on the ground while Buck continued to have his own little fun.
Meanwhile, the others were shown to be in town.
"All right, guys, we're goin' in." Maggie told the others as they went into town.
Grace gasped once she realized something. "Look! There's no fences. What keeps the people from roaming?" she then asked.
"They appear to be domesticated," Mrs. Calloway said before seeing the people going about their normal business. "It doesn't feel dangerous at all."
"It's perfectly safe," Maggie reassured. "Quiet as a farm at milkin' time."
Just then, two kids set off a firecracker.
"What was that?!" asked Mrs. Calloway. "It's a gunfight!"
All over, people were doing things that seemed to spook the cows.
"Hit the dirt!" yelped Maggie.
"Who LIVES like this?!" asked Mrs. Calloway as the cows, and their friends ran into an alleyway.
"Hey, calm down!" Cherry told them. "It's not a gunfight!"
"Look, there's a star on that door!" Mrs. Calloway pointed out as she ran with the other cows.
"That must be the sheriff's office!" Maggie guessed as they ran in there.
The two groups soon ran after the cows, but soon stopped.
"Dang... They went into the saloon." Atticus realized.
"That's gonna make for quite a bushel of confusion..." Lucas replied.
"Should we go in after them?" Thor asked.
"I dunno if that's a good idea." Cherry said nervously.
"Well, we gotta keep them outta trouble," Lionel replied. "We'd do the same for any one of us."
Lucas sniffled. "Aw, gee, fella...you're a true pack of pals, that's fer certain!" he smiled.
"We try." Lionel smiled back.
"Come on, let's go." Cherry then said.
They soon came in through the door where there were some show girls singing for the patrons, but their singing wasn't exactly exciting or engaging.
Eventually, the three cows made it in which startled the show girls instantly and vice versa.
"GET THOSE COWS OFF THE STAGE!" The barmaid yelled out.
The show girls growled like pit bulls.
"Maybe we came at a bad time?" asked Grace.
"Chaaaarge!" The show girls called out and ran towards their intruders.
Mrs. Calloway soon ran off as Maggie soon ran up to one of the show girls and butted against her.
Lucas grabbed her, spun her like a wrestler, and tossed her aside. "Keep away from my pal!" he snapped.
"I see that cow really means a lot to him." Cherry then said.
"Why, sure!" Clementine replied. "Those two are tighter than bark on a tree."
Mrs. Calloway yelped as she stepped into a spittoon and went sliding across the floor before crashing into a table which made two cowboys laugh.
"How dare you?" A show girl glared as she chased after Grace.
The show girl that Lucas handled soon went flying down the bar table and ran into one cowboy as a wig slid off, showing she was actually a man.
"Daddy?" The man who caught him asked.
"Son!" The other man replied.
"Okay... Awkward..." said Mo.
Mrs. Calloway soon opened her mouth to find a pair of golden dentures inside before spitting them out. A guy was shown to be drinking his beer until he got hit by the dentures that then landed in another guy's beer.
"I say..." The man mumbled only to get hit by the man who got hit.
"That does it!" The barmaid glared and soon threw out the three cows. "Hoof it on out of here, ladies! Go on!"
"Oh, come back!" A guy cried out as he came out to them only to be dragged back inside by the barmaid. "That was the best dang show we ever had!"
"THAT... Was a close one," said Lucas.
"Is everyone okay?" asked August.
"Yeah, we're good," Cherry said. "At least that wasn't as chaotic as I thought it would be."
"And it was mercifully short!" Lucas added.
Grace groaned as she looked a bit dizzy. "What kind of sheriff's office is that?" she then asked.
"Dancing girls, gambling... Ha!" Mrs. Calloway huffed from the water trough. "How does he ever get any work done?"
"If that's the sheriff's office, this town rocks." Maggie laughed.
"I don't think that was the sheriff's office." Lucas replied.
"It wasn't, it was a saloon." Cherry replied.
"Oh, man..." Thor said.
"It wasn't that bad, Thor," Cherry said. "I mean, sure, we met a drag queen in a Disney movie, but-"
"No, not that." Thor said, pointing over to a horse who walked by.
"Well, if it isn't three maids a-milkin'?" Buck smirked to the cows. "You girls a little far from home, aren't ya?"
"So what if we are?" Lucas asked.
"Well, if it isn't The Phony Express," Clementine glared before taking out the form that Pearl was given, putting it in front of the horse and dog. "We want a word with you about this."
"What's that?" Buck asked.
"What is that?" Rusty repeated.
"I believe you left this on our farm." Maggie replied.
"Wai-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute," Buck said to them. "The place went bankrupt. Your farm is history."
"Don't you heifers get it?" Rusty added before going off with Buck.
"That's why we need a little more time!" Lucas explained. "We're gonna go to the fair and get the money to save the farm!"
"Yeah! We'll make 60 bucks! At least!" Maggie added.
"Ah-ah-ah. You got three days to pay or get on your way," Buck smirked. "And 60 bucks don't cut it."
"Looks like you need about... Hmm, I'd say..." Rusty said before sniffing the paper as that seemed to help him count up how much money they needed. "750 of 'em."
"But, Maggie, where are we gonna get all that money?" Grace wondered.
"Well, maybe Maggie can just pull it out of her ear." Mrs. Calloway smirked.
"Ah toldja, we got an idea if the fair doesn't work out!" Lucas replied.
"Always have plans no matter what might happen." Tony added out of excitement.
"Yup!" Lucas nodded to his friend.
Suddenly, the sky turned dark.
"Wuh-oh..." Clementine said. "Must be a storm comin'. I can always tell."
"No, it's not a storm," Buck smiled out of excitement. "It's Rico."
"Rico?" The others asked.
As the sky got dark, everyone could tell it was about a guy named Rico who had a big reputation in this town.
"This Rico must be a pretty big fella in this town." Lucas remarked.
"Kid, you have no idea." Buck smirked as a mysterious man soon came into town.
A bug soon flew by the mysterious stranger until he shushed it, making it fly away.
"Don't you know a hero when you see one, huh?" Buck glared before beaming to the mysterious man who approached the Sheriff. "That's Rico: the best dang bounty hunter this side of the Pecos."
"Cool..." August and Atticus whispered.
"Interesting." replied Lionel and Lucas.
"This feels eerie..." Cherry commented about the doubles.
"Just go with it." Mo suggested.
"Well, I dunno if I can even trust him." Clementine said, referring to Rico.
"I could guess from here to tomorrow, but I don't know how you do it, Rico." The Sheriff smiled as Rico soon tossed over his latest victim.
"Where's my money?" Rico growled.
"Well, all right, I got it right here for you." The Sheriff smiled as he paid the bounty hunter.
"Hey, they're giving away free money!" Maggie smiled to the others as she came over.
"Oh! Maggie!" Mrs. Calloway groaned and rolled her eyes.
"Really, Maggs?" asked Lucas. "Then let's help ourselves!"
"This guys aren't too bright, are they?" Cherry mumbled to herself.
"Ah, they're okay," Lionel replied. "They just don't get how some stuff works."
"Hm." Cherry let out a small snort.
"So, who else is out there?" Rico asked the Sheriff.
"The only varmint left is that low-down, good-for-nothin' Alameda Slim," The Sheriff said, taking the wanted poster. "Cattle rustler. I betcha he took my darlin' little honeysuckle.
Rico then took the poster away from him before asking, "What's the bounty?"
"$750." The Sheriff replied.
"What'd I tell ya?" asked Lionel to Lucas. "Us Tee-riffic 10 are gonna track down that no-good cattle jacker and claim the bounty!"
"Boy howdy!" Lucas beamed in response.
"I am deeply unsure about this." Mrs. Calloway remarked.
"Oh, wake up and smell the alfalfa!" Maggie smiled. "It's perfect!"
"I'm gonna need a fresh horse." Rico told the Sheriff.
Buck gasped to that like a fanboy.
"Hmm... A horse. A horse. Let me think," The Sheriff replied while Buck tried to show off what he could do so that Rico would take him along for the ride. "I reckon you'd want a fast horse, huh? Real fast? 'Course, he'd also have to be able to go for days without food or drink, stealthy, sure-footed in any terrain. Well, huh..."
"What about that horse?" Rico suggested.
The Sheriff chuckled as he held onto his horse. "What, you mean Buck here? Boy, I don't know. Buck's fast, all right, but he's kind of a handful."
"He'll do." Rico said as he put his saddle onto the horse.
"Well, suit yourself." The Sheriff allowed.
"Hey, Rusty! Rico's saddle!" Buck squeaked out of excitement. "I'm wearing Rico's saddle! I'm wearing Rico's saddle!"
"Great," Rusty rolled his eyes, walking away from the horse. "I'll leave you two alone."
"He's bein' a might ridiculous, ain't he?" asked Lucas. Lionel nodded in agreement.
Maggie's eyes lit up. "I got it! Why don't we go nab that Alameda Slim and use the reward money to save the farm?" she asked.
"Oh, that IS a sensible idea," replied Mrs. Calloway sarcastically.
"I knew you'd love it!" Maggie beamed. "And the others are gonna love it, too!"
"Talk about a Crazy Horse." Cherry said, referring to Buck, acting like a fanboy.
Thor soon laughed out loud from that. "Crazy Horse! That's a good one, Cherry!" he then slapped her back while laughing.
Cherry felt a bit stiff from that, shaking away some pain, though she wasn't fully mad as she knew that he didn't mean to hurt her.
"No, no, NO." Mrs. Calloway protested. "There is no way in Heaven or Earth that cows and children can catch an outlaw."
"She has a point," Cherry said in a bit of a strained voice before taking a breath. "Ahh... Much better."
"Look, all we've got to do is follow this chuck wagon to a cattle drive," Maggie told her before she soon found some vegetables behind the wagon and began to eat them, talking with her mouth full which splattered food everywhere. "And then, you see, we let the bad guys come to us."
Mrs. Calloway groaned as some food got in her face before glaring. "We've no reason to believe this chuck wagon is heading off to a cattle drive."
"Hey, Tommy!" A passing donkey smiled to the longhorn steer up front. "Have fun on that cattle drive!"
"All right, then," The steer replied as he got into position. "Mm-hmm."
"Your evidence, clear as day," replied Lucas. "Need we say more?"
"I think it IS headed toward a cattle drive." Grace whispered.
"Duh!" Thor said as even he could see that.
"Shh... We are not following this wagon, and that is final." Mrs. Calloway told them.
"Aw, come on, Calloway!" Maggie said, nudging her. "It'll be fun!"
"Yeah!" replied Lucas. "Besides, we aren't exactly flush with options! This could be just what we need to nab Slim but good!"
Mrs. Calloway looked annoyed with being nudged.
"It's the best we got besides that state fair plan," Clementine said before looking to Maggie. "Okay, Mags, y'all best cut it out."
"I'm just havin' fun." Maggie smirked.
"That's fair," Lionel shrugged. "Now all aboard who's goin' aboard."
"How're we gonna get a ride though?" Cherry wondered.
"Well..." Lionel cracked his knuckles. "One doesn't need to GET a ride when he can just MAKE rides for himself and his friends."
"All right, thrill me, Magic Man." Cherry smirked a bit playfully.
"But of course, milady!" Lionel smiled, before putting out his hands and shooting out 10 magical blasts, which formed into hovercrafts. "TA-DA! The big red button on the dashboard turns them into rocket horses!" he added.
The Wild West adventure group looked a bit wide-eyed and jaw-dropped.
"You'll get used to that." Thor smiled to their Wild West counterparts.
"I reckon we'll have lots of time to..." Lucas replied. "Anyways...climb aboard!"
The others looked to each other and they soon came to join the ride.
"Come on, girls!" Cherry told the cows. "The sooner you get on, the sooner we can save Patch of Heaven!"
"Ah, what the heck?" Maggie shrugged. "Can't be worse than hoofin' it. Make room, Lukey-boy, I'm a-comin' aboard!"
The others scootched over. Mrs. Calloway sighed and shook her head.
"Let's go, Mrs. Calloway." Grace smiled to the older cow.
With a sigh, Mrs. Calloway climbed aboard.
"Now what?" Grace asked.
"We follow that chuck wagon." Atticus suggested.
"Whenever it goes... I guess..." Cherry said as it seemed to be taking a while.
Eventually, the Sherrif came out, tied the cows' ropes to the back of the wagon, and told the driver to get rolling.
"{Wow! Free cows? What a country!}" exclaimed the driver as he got up front, and started the bull walking.
Buck seemed to laugh at them as he was on his way out with Rico to a different direction. "Hasta la vista, heifers!"
"Not exactly what I had in mind, but this'll work." Maggie smiled to the others.
"At least it's a way to get that fat idiot, wherever he might be." Cherry narrowed her eyes.
"Adios, Buck," The Sheriff told his horse as he soon left. "Take care of Rico now."
"And so, the Teriffic Ten begins their daring journey to bring the evil Alameda Slim to justice!" Lucas exclaimed triumphantly, pulling a guitar out of nowhere.
"Are you gonna use a country singer accent?" Cherry asked a little sickly.
"Naw, course not!" Lucas replied. "I'm not gonna do that to my friends. But sometimes practicing my guitar helps me think..."
"Well, okay then." Cherry replied.
"Carry on, Lucas." Clementine smiled to him.
Lucas blushed. "Aw, shucks, Clementine; y'always give me unexpected inspiration... A-HYUK!" he hiccuped. "Sorry..."
"Hm..." Clementine hid a small smirk to that. "I do my best."