A few weeks come by with more dogs coming in and out; Penny and Bolt had enough time to produce a puppy in the time they were there…
"Come on Owen, here boy!" Penny shouts, Owen runs happily to his mum. "Hey Bolty, Owen can now walk to me on command!" Penny rejoiced, "well, almost" Owen falls over his tail, his head flops up and then he stands up as if nothing happened. "Hey Bolty, come here why won't you try?" Bolt just turns his head around and nods, then he turns back towards the view he was looking at through the bars. Penny walks up to Bolt and looks at him. "C'mon Bolt, what's wrong?" Bolt turns to her and sighs.
"Penny? Umm, I was thinking of leaving this place, I wanted to figure a way out of here" Bolt explained.
"Bolt, I've been sitting here with you for the last eight weeks, I want to too but I think this is the place for us, since we can't get back in time when Mindy and the rest of the production team come back and that we can't get our own food anywhere!" Penny sighed, patting Bolt on the shoulder.
"Wait, Penny, if we get back in time for when the production team get back, we could go there and pretend this never happened, we'll hide Owen from them until he gets much older, then we'll introduce him to your mum as if he were another person's pet and that you got him for me so that I wouldn't feel lonely" Bolt explained, getting somewhat happier.
"Really? You think we could do this for that long, until he's grown up? What if it doesn't work out?" Penny shivered, Bolt grinned as another idea popped into his head.
"Penny! I have it under control! When the next adoption comes, you know when a couple comes in and the doors open, and then we'll sneak up close to the door and when it opens we'll quickly run out the door, down the hallway and out of this place. Then we'll find a transport to take us back home." Bolt plotted, a smile started to emerge on Penny's face.
Later in the evening at about seven o'clock, Bolt, Penny and Owen were all looking through the bars as to if the doors would open for adoption making. Suddenly, the door swung open and closed, a guard came in!
"Adoption time, my pretties" the guard sang, happily. He started going through the units, taking dogs out and lining them up on the platform again.
"Hey Penny, I hear someone coming…" Bolt whispered, as the guard started taking a border collie out of the unit on their right. The man put it on the platform, then bending down to take Bolt, Penny and Owen out of their unit. Bolt nodded to Penny, she took Owen and put him on her back.
"Hold on, Owen" Penny whispered to Owen, she knew what Bolt was planning. Owen didn't really understand what Penny meant by 'hold on', so he just tilted his head to the right a little as a sign that he didn't get it. The guard unlocked the unit, and brought the bars up, at that same time, another guard was coming through the door as it swung open. The guard reached into the unit…
"NOW PENNY!" Bolt screamed, as he ran up to the guard's arm, launched himself off it, out the unit. Penny doing the same, Owen, by his instincts, grabbed onto Penny's fur. They both hit the cold, hard floor running. They were making their way towards the door which was still open.
"STOP THEM, YOU FOOL!" yelled the guard, the other guard by the door quickly ran to the door and pushed it closed as Bolt, Penny and Owen went through. The door shuts on one of Penny's hairs on her tail, plucking it off. Ignoring the pain in her backside, Penny continued on alongside Bolt through the hallway towards the exit. They came to hide in amongst some couches in the visitor area.
"YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!" the guard screamed.
"Don't worry, they'll show up again" the other guard reassured the other guard. They walked over to the dog room to continue the setup for the adoptions.
"Phew! That was close, now we just need to get past the counter; I think it's going to be easy to pass it." Penny sighed, as she looked over to the guard at the counter desk who was obviously a new employee. She knew it was easy to get past him because they could see that he was too interested in the heavy metal music he was listening to through his large earphones, he was even imitating himself with a guitar, shredding some chords. They got past him easily anyway. Just as they were coming through the automatic doors, Penny looked back and tried to identify what band he was listening to as she was quite interest at how the guy was so into it.
"Come on, let's get home…" Bolt nodded, he was smiling immensely.