Marshall yawned and he paced through the halls of the underground settlement of Christians, his eyes closing and opening one at a time, showing how tired he was due to the events of the everything that had happened, and anxious to know what it is about to happen. Marshall kept walking down the halls, trying to find where Skye was sleeping. Within every step, Marshall's paws got damp with mysterious fluid that covered the floor.
Marshall didn't think too much of it and didn't want to. Acting like he didn't care, but in his mind, He was praying it was just water. Whilst walking by, Marshall heard small whispers from around the corner, the halls echoed the small sounds, making it very blatant to the Dalmation's hearing abilities. He started to close in as he slowly toed lightly, not daring to alarm who was making the noises. Soon, He got closed to tell what the person was saying.
"Yes sir, their munitions very from small arms to bombs, But their bombs are active I've heard…. Of course, Send the further information sooner today, Eastern Standard Time. They're planning a full assault tomorrow…No Sir, I'm unsure when exactly, I will find that out" The voice, Marshall didn't hear a second voice. The person must have been communicating through a device.
"Marshall!" Marshall heard his name being blared from behind him, turning around to the see the young religious Shibu with a concerned smile on her face. "H-Hey Alevia, What's going on?" Marshall turned back to her but still eying behind him. "Hope you're not busy with…stalking down the hallways I guess, I just want to let you know Skye is trying to find you" Alevia pointed out.
"Okay then, I'll check in with her soon" Marshall smiled, Alevia saw his eyes once again starting to dart back behind him, giving off a very confused look from her. "Are you okay Marshall, It seems like you're hiding something" Alevia suggested.
"Hiding something, Oh no, I'm just looking around for the room with all the weapons, I want to see what kind of stuff you people have" Marshall said. "Oh well, You passed the Weapons Quarters back down there, There should be a grey dog in there too, his name is Rocky, ask him anything about the guns and he'll tell you" Alevia said before turning around and head back where she had snuck on Marshall from. Marshall turned his attention back to the sound only to hear it had stop, he walked over to end of the hallway and around the corner to see no one was there.
"Damn…" Marshall said to himself as he look even further down another hallway to still see nothing, no lights were lit and the walls looked even more deteriorated than the ones he had already seen behind him. "Hmm…" Marshall sighed as he headed back to where everyone resided, mostly to find Skye and see what she was look for him for.
"Amazing…These are Mark 2 Block Bombs, how did you acquire these?" Lupe asked, very much taken back by the mere presence of such a high-tech bomb in hands of Armed Christians taken refuge in a Sewer. "We had managed to steal one from an Army based nearby, after that we took it apart and were able to make more…It's a destructive piece of weaponry that we will use" The Old Shibu stated as he brushed off the dust from the shell of the bomb.
"Indeed, This kind of stuff will level the Plainfield tomorrow…Lambeth, what your thoughts on these?" Lupe said as he turned to his colleague. "It's definitely useful, but how are we gonna use them?" He asked. Lupe sighed as the canine had a point, the bomb weighed way too much to just be thrown at the enemy. It was surely take a whole team to just take it out of the sewer.
"Good point, Maybe we can plan ahead, Place these along the roads outside, So when they started rolling in their big toys…Boom" Lupe expressed a mushroom cloud with his paws. Lambeth thought of the preplanning as he looked at the bomb and give it more thought. "Yeah, that could work, I can disguise them to look like bushes too" He stated.
"Place them along the roads, Wont that endanger the lives of the innocent?" The Shibu asked, very much concerned for the lives of the people who want nothing in the act of warfare. "Maybe…But that's a risk I'm willing to take, Defeat is something that's out of the question and we need to take every opportunity to make sure it doesn't happen" Lupe said.
"I guess you're right about that, I may need more time to decide on that"
"Well don't take too long, Tomorrow is the going to be the day that changes everything" Lupe stated as he turned back to walk and face a mixed breed canine. "Hey lad, Rocky right?"
"Y-Yeah, you need something?" Rocky looked up from the small desk he was using to modify weapons. "Mhm, Those Rifles…they going to be done by midnight?" Lupe pointed to the tuned Rifles already laying next to him. "Yup, tuned up and Sighted in" Rocky responded.
"Now all that's need is…" Lupe said before Eli the German Shepherd and Bellion walked right in, already eyeing all the weapons on the tables and walls. "Oh Eli, How's Everest doing with Training?" Lupe asked. "Actually, that's what I came to talk to you about, she's finished Training everyone"
"Really, Everyone?" Lupe asked back in slight shock.
"Yup, That Huskey works fast, Glad she's on our team to be honest" Eli smirked as he looked past Lupe and eyed the Old Shibu behind him, only scoffing and returning his glance back to the grey wolf in front of him. "Bellion, What about you?" He turned to him, the only human in the room.
"I was able to find put together a plan on how we can take over the town above us and secure it against an invasion" He suggested. "Sounds good, we can talk about it when I'm done going over everything in this room" Lupe said.
Marshall walked from room to room and hallway through hallway before reaching back to the central of the Underground maze-like Structure. Reaching around the corner and seeing Skye playing with Tony, with a very concerned look across her face. Like she had seen a ghost do twisted things and was forced to watch. "Skye…You uhm, want to talk to me?" Skye looked up to see Marshall, as small grin appeared across her face, make the one before vanish.
"Y-Yeah, I want to talk to you about something" Skye said, slightly pushing away Tony from her to talk to Marshall. "What's this about?"
"When we were going into California and I woke up and had a dream" Skye closed her eyes and remembered that time.
"Yeah?"
"I had this dream where…I saw people I had never met before at that time"
"Skye, These are just dreams, You've probably met these people but forgot or something" Marshall explained, shaking his head slowly from side to side and smiling as well, taking Skye's concern as a big joke instead.
Skye looked at Marshall's cocky grin and started to become more agitated. "Marshall Im serious, Then I had a second dream where I was in Hospital and all these people greeted me, the same ones from the first time. Their names were Rocky…" Marshall looked over as the hearing of the mixed breed's name, who was just sitting across the room.
"That Rocky?" Marshall pointed over to the canine.
"Mhm, A German Shepherd too"
"You saw Eli?"
"No…Well I mean yes, But there was another one too, Zuma too" Skye said
"The Labrador?" Marshall spoke again, now pointing to the Chocolate Labrador talking to Alevia. "Yeah, and I saw you too" Skye pointed out.
"Well of course you would see me, You and I know each other, You were probably just so excited to see me that your brain just…I don't know, included me in everything or something" Marshall shrugged off as he began to stretch his paws from side to side. "That…makes sense, I guess I did see you in my first dream" Skye began to think more as Marshall planted a small kiss on her cheek before slowly walking away in a chill manner.
"Told you, You're just a little coo coo in the brain is all, We can talk about it more if want before you head to bed, It does sound pretty-"
"Ryder" Skye muttered to herself, Making Marshall stop dead in his tracks and his heart sink to the deepest parts of his body. The Dalmation froze for a split second as he remembered that name, the name that he loved so much.
"What did you say?" Marshall turned back to face Skye in a shocking way, looking paler than his fur.
"Ryder…That was one of the names I remember from my second dream, He was a human, Young, Brown hair-" Skye detailed more about the Character she had never known but Marshall had known ever since he was a pup. Marshall dashed back over to Skye's side and grabbed her and starring directly in her eyes. "How do you know him?!" Marshall clenched on Skye's forearms, tightening his grip each second and his breathing became more and more intense.
"M-Marshall, you're scaring me" Skye said trying to back away from Dalmation who was becoming not so friendly and smug just a few seconds ago. "I-Im sorry Skye, Its just that name means a lot to me and hearing you detail him out like that, down to a T, I-I feel like this is something you should look into more" Marshall said, letting go of the cockapoo and holding his down in a form of apology.
"Wait, so you think these aren't dreams?"
"Before I thought so, but now, No, I think these mean way more, I think there's another world out there and your brain is trying to tell you that, Trying to tell you that maybe something is wrong" Marshall said before both of them turned their head to see multiple people running past them, armed and ready.
When turning around, They see a bunch of people hoarding around a small space, curious to see what has happened. Skye and Marshall, both feeling the same way as everyone else, got up and decided to see for themselves. "Is he still alive?" One voice said out loud.
"Where did you find him?" Another voice asked. "Outside the Wall, Further down the line" One of them responded, seemingly to be the one who found the person who they were mentioning. Marshall and Skye both gently pushed and shoved to get to the front to see who it clearly was.
It was Chase.
Both Skye and Marshall were stunned to see the familiar German Shepherd, laying almost half dead right in front of them, already drooling from the mouth and with a stomach so sucked by from malnutrition. "What is going on?" Finally, the Old Shibu stepped in, pushing aside everyone until he saw was laying down on the floor, unconscious and in need.
"Someone carry him to the medical center and give him aid" She elder canine ordered, until Marshall grabbed the Shibu to get his attention. "No, Throw back in the sewer and let him rot, You have no idea what this person has done to me and how many people he's tormented" Marshall stated until being pulled away from by the Shibu.
"Everyone is deserving of the right to life until God makes his final judgment to end it, We shall what his fate is if he doesn't pull through" The Shibu said before walking away, leaving him with Skye. "That's him" Skye said.
"What?"
"That's the German Shepherd I saw in my vision; I remember his face" Skye stated.
"Ahh!" Chase shouted at the top of his lungs after shooting up from a clean white hospital bed, He immediately realized everything was dark, Nothing he thought was too abnormal, looking out a large window and seeing it was night time.
Chase narrowed down his eyes as he tried to survey everything within his range, flowers and balloons wishing him a speedy recovery with a full plate of food right next to him on a tray that hadn't even been touched.
Chase looked at the meal, seeing his appetizing it was to him at first glance, but for some reason…he wasn't hungry at all. "The Hell?" Chase realized as just a moment ago, he remembered crawling around, desperate for just a small bite of anything to not having any sort of craving at all. Chase tossed away the bright covers that wrapped around him to get up on his feet. Immediately falling to the cold tiled ground, feeling like he hadn't used his legs in months.
Chase slowly walked over to the Window seeing a small town, lit up with lights and large building that was under construction. "Wait…wasn't that building on fire?" Chase said to himself, remembering the last time he was in this new reality.
The German Shepherd looked at the hinges of the window, sparking an idea and trying to pry it open to hopefully escape from whatever strange world he was in. Unfortunately for him, It was sealed shut and wasn't going to budge anytime soon unless he was Hercules's canine companion.
After that, Chase turned around to see a door and ambient orange ray of light seeping through the bottom where it didn't cover. Chase walking over, now starting to regain his full movement of his paws, slightly opened the door to see the outside. A brightly lit Hallway that was empty, only a few trays and wheelchairs were all to be seen.
As Chase was about to fully open the door, a doctor and a nurse, dressed in their appropriate garbs stopped right in front oh his door. "Doctor, the two men from last month are here at the front desk and wish to see the patient in room 207" The nurse said almost in a panicking manner.
"The Cockapoo with Paw Patrol?"
"Yes"
"Are they relatives?"
"No, They just said it was extreme urgent to see her" The nurse replied. "Fine, I'll go talk to them" The Doctor walked off, leaving the nurse to walk off in the different direction. Leaving Chase puzzled, "The Hell is even going on?" Chase mumbled to himself as slowly crept from outside the room and investigating more before looking across the hallway and spotting a door with the numbers '207' written in bold. Chase felt like this was something he had to investigate. Walking over to the door slowly, trying not make a sound, before hearing footsteps coming up a staircase. "I don't see why you want to see her at this time of night" The doctor from before said.
"I advise you don't question our Intentions Mr. Charles" A Deep and threating voice said, responding to the medical professional. Chase, now more vulnerable than ever, ran for his life to the door and immediately went in.
As expected, The room was dark and finding the light switch was out of the question. Chase running over around the corner of the room and seeing a cockapoo, laying unconscious in her bed, her canine body illuminated from the moon light peering from outside the window. Chase looked from wall to wall, seeing no hiding spot. His heart dropped when he heard the door knob jiggle behind his around the corner.
"This damn door always budges" The doctor commented as he walked in with the two men, One of them wearing a Flannel shirt and Jeans. Very casual for their style as their dark tinted shades would send unsettling shivers down anyone's spine, The other one dressed similarly but was carrying an army style backpack on his back. All three of them walking around the corner for them to see Skye sleeping in her bed, unaware of reality. Unknown to them, Chase's quick thinking lead him to hide under the bed Skye was resting on.
"Turn on the damn lights, I cant do anything in here" One of the men said as the Doctor walked over to the nearest wall and flipped a switch, illuminating the whole room, but still keeping Chase's figure anonymous.
"Good, Administer the dosage now" One of men said to his partner, the other nodding his head to his colleague and placing down the backpack, unzipping the top compartment and slowly pulling out a while metal box. "What are you doing?" The doctor asked, stepping forward to try and get a better look until being pulled back by the other man in casual wear. "This doesn't concern you….Go back to your Medical duties" he sharply said.
With the mysterious white box now in hand by one of the men, Unlocking the box and carefully extract in a syringe filled with a strange yellow liquid whilst slowly walking over to Skye. Then Doctor started to become more agitated and nervous as to what he was witnessing. "You cant just inject some liquid into a patient, this is ethical, Call of your friend!" The Doctor demanded.
"He's actually my brother, but in this line of work, I do consider him just as Friend and Family" The other man said, hinting his occupation. "Your working, What the hell do you work as?" The doctor asked as he became more and more tense. The man just looked agitated before reaching into the waistband of his orange and white flannel shirt to reach for something.
The Doctor backed away, suspecting he might be reaching for a firearm to put an end to his questions, but instead, came the answer he wanted, but not the answer he was expecting.
"Special Agent Holland Douglas of the Central Intelligence Agency" The man said, holding his Federal Badge in front of him. "You..You…You're CIA?"
"That's right, A few years ago, The CIA had developed a new chemical compound that could allow supernatural occurrences, Its so strange, you would think its magic" The Agent proclaimed, as he explained, his brother started to administer the dose to the Cockapoo.
"What do you mean 'Strange Occurrences'?" The Doctor asked.
"If I told you, you'd think I was bluffing…. But since you see that we're CIA, that's out the window. This liquid as the ability to connect two minds each other and basically dream the same dream. I don't know the sciency stuff behind it, all I know is what it does" He said as he turned around and slowly walked over to Skye, brushing his hand against her forehead.
"Dream the same dream, that's impossible"
"Oh Doctor, We've seen the waves and done the tests, It for sure works. Speaking of tests, We've tested this compound on rats, goats…even humans, the only thing we haven't done it on…. are canines, so far the tests have just shown that memory is another factor when the subject wakes up. You see...One woken up the first time, the person will have absolute no memory of who people are what their past entailed, all they'll know is what they have learned in the dream world, but when woken up a second time, Their memories will start to slowly come back with a few hours, without any help or rehabilitation" He stated.
"So…These dogs, these citizens, They're just guinea pigs?!"
"Pretty much, The real beauty of this compound is that in dream word, Time goes much faster than normal. 1 hour in this world can feel like an entire day in there. When the CIA saw this dog injured in that firework incident a few months ago, we knew it was our time"
"And what of the German Shepherd, Chase, did you do the same to him?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes…we did, Funny you mention him actually, we have another syringe with Grade A serum in it with his name on it" The Agent said with his brother behind him already pulling out the second white metallic box.
"Now, What's his room number?"
"I-Its 215, I swear" He replied, stepping aside for them. "Appreciate the compliance and have a nice sleep" The agent said as he pulled out a grey dark gun, shooting the Doctor in the chest 3 times. The Man of Medicine falling to the ground and immediately falling unconscious from the compound behind pumped through his blood stream.
"He should awake in about 10 minutes, no memory of who we are and what I just said" He said as they both walked out the door. Leaving the lights on and the doctor on the floor, a perfect time for Chase to arise again. "Oh God!" Chase said as he was on the verge of a breakdown, still denying everything he lived in his dream was all fake.
Chase tried to control his breathing as he tried to open the window of the room, trying yet again with another spark of luck. Fortunately, Lady Luck favoured him, and the window's hinged became loose and the window's inner frame went upward, giving the German Shepherd enough room to climb through and jumping a few feet below. When touched down, Chase felt the grass was different and felt much more familiar to him in this world.
However, Chase knew it wasn't the time admire the green vegetation he was on, now was the time to find even more answers, running away from the Hospital and toward the well known town of Adventure Bay.