It was the next morning when Chase woke up. There was a strange, unsettling feeling that rushed over him. As if something wasn't right. But he tried his best to ignore it. Chase opened his door and came outside. He did a little stretch and turned his head to Skye's puphouse. He then looked down, sadness taking over again. He then looked to his right, where the other puphouses were. 'Time to wake up the others' he thought as he walked in that direction. He wanted to let Skye sleep in, for she seemed to have a rough day yesterday.

Once he finally got to Skye's puphouse, something caught his eye. 'A note? What does it say?' He grabbed the note and started to read it.

Ryder, pups..

You don't have to fake it anymore. I now know the truth. I understand that you hate me and I no longer want to be a nuisance to you guys. I have ran away, I'm not yelping for help so you can leave me be. I'm offering my role to this other pup. If you see a black and white pup who goes by the name Mabel, that's the pup I'm giving my role too.

Your dearest

Skye

Chase couldn't believe it...Skye ran away. In doubt, he knocked on her door.

"Skye?" No response. He started pounding on her door. "SKYE?! PLEASE ANSWER! ARE YOU IN THERE?!" Still silent. "Nononono, Skye?!"

Tears were now falling down his cheeks at this point. Chase moved his paw up to an emergency open button on the side of her puphouse and pressed it. She wasn't there. He went up to her pupbed and picked up something that was resting on it. Her puptag. 'She left her puptag. We can't track her.' He walked out of her puphouse and sat down in fronted it, looking at her puptag in his paws. His own tears splashing on his paw, a few even landed on the puptag. He scrunched up his paw and pressed it against his chest, holding the puptag close to him.

Marshall walked up to him, not failing to notice is best friend's condition.

"Hey Chase, what's wrong?"

Chase turned his head to face his friend,then back to the ground. He slowly set his paw on the ground, then lifted it back up, revealing the puptag. Marshall walked closer, curious to see what his friend had. His eyes went wide.

"Skye's puptag?!" Chase slowly nodded. "Why is it–" Chase shoved the note to Marshall's paw. The Dalmatian picked it up and read it.

Once Marshall finished, he was stuttering. "W-we need to t-tell R-Ryder about t-this..."

Chase started sniffing the ground. He then stopped and looked up into the direction he was facing. He then turned his head to face Marshall.

"You need to tell Ryder about this." He said with a stern voice.

"But what about you?"

"I'm going to find her."

And with that said, Chase ran off into a forest nearby. Marshall wanted to run after him and chase him down but he might get lost. And even if he did manage to catch up to Chase, he can't be persuade otherwise, as he has his heart set on finding Skye.

Marshall rushed into the Lookout searching for their owner, Ryder.

"RYDER! RYDER!" He was screaming at the top of his lungs, frantically looking and running around the Lookout main floor. This spooked the other pup who were seated in front of the large tv.

"Woah! Chill dude! What's wong?" Zuma asked the worried Dalmatian.

"SKYE RAN AWAY AND CHASE LEFT TO FIND HER! WE NEED RYDER!"

The pups were glancing worried looked at one another.

"RYYDEERR!!" They all rushed into the boy's bedroom. Ryder jumped at the sudden screaming and almost fell out of his bed.

"W-What?"

"IT'S CHASE AND SKYE! THEY'RE MISSING!"

"CHASE LEFT TO FIND SKYE!"

"No...all paws on deck. Since our two best tracking pups are gone, this search will be harder. I'll call the Mayor to set up a search party. You all take your vehicles and go off in separate directions to cover more ground." The pups nodded. They got into their attire and jumped into their, now transformed, puphouse vehicles and sped off in different directions.

Ryder then rung up the Mayor's phone and asked for a search party, which the Mayor immediately agreed to.

Meanwhile, back with Chase. He was still running at full speed, stoping every now and then to find the sent. He kept searching and searching until he heard a yelp, followed by some giggling. He went through bushes, following the voices.

Once he got though the last bush, he saw her. Skye was curled up on the grass, a few cuts and bruises decorated her body. A black and white pup was circling her, insulting her and making snarly comments.

He felt a wave of relief rush over him, but it quickly turned to rage. Chase dashed over towards the two pups and jumped in between them, facing the other pup.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" He literally screamed in her face.

"Chase..." Skye muttered, confused on why he was here.

"Awe. Prince Charming finally came to the princess's rescue." The pup mocked.

Chase just growled.

"Awe, what's wrong, baby?" Mabel smirked.

"Baby?!" He yelped.

"Of course Chaseypoo, you can see I'm worth much more than this...this...this mutt."

"Skye is much, much more than just a mutt! She's one of the most talented pups I'd ever seen!" Skye blushed a little at his statement.

"SHUT UP! You're ruining my plans!" Mabel quickly covered her muzzle with her paw.

"Plans?" Skye questioned.

"What plans?" Chase ask, his tone showing his obvious suspicion.

"You have no clue how hard it was to convince Skye that no one liked her! I'm surprised it even worked to be honest."

"Why?!" Chase growled once more.

"I wanted her role. I wanted to be the princess in the play. I wanted to be saved by you."

"You...you like me?" Chase was stunned. This was the last thing he would have expected.

Mabel nodded with a shy smile.

Chase took a deep breath in and out. "Sorry, but I don't like pups who hurt others for their own well being." He then turned around and started to help Skye up.

This got Mabel furious, she wasn't the type of pup who would take no for an answer. "If I can't have you..." she whispered to herself, "NO ONE WILL!" And she dashed towards the two friends.

As soon as Skye was on all four paws, Mabel slammed right into Chase, sending them flying and then rolling. They kept rolling and rolling until they fell out of sight. They rolled off a cliff.

"CHASE!!!"