The sun rises in the middle of a decent dessert. The landscape was warm, the temperature was normal. Anything good for a deservingly good day.
On the other side of the desert, Kitty Softpaws wakes up from her nap. She yawns and stretches her whole body in order for Kitty to feel free and energetic. She gets up and, to her surprise, she sees three dirty, bruised, and smiling Puss in Boots, Dulcinea, and Jose sleeping in a circle with their swords in the middle of that circle.
"You guys always love to spar, huh?" says Kitty as she was chuckling by the fun her friends had at night. She didn't waste time and grabbed the map and headed to find her black and grey horse so that she can start her journey to Santa Felipe.
Jose slowly wakes up from his sleep, along with Puss and Dulcinea.
"Ahh, what a sleep I had!" said Jose as he was yawning and slowly standing up.
"Yeah. my body feels a bit sore after our spar," said Dulcinea standing up as she felt agony in her chest and back after her spar with both Puss and Jose.
"Yeah. I do not know who won? Probably me," said Puss as he too felt a bit of bothersome in his body. Jose and Dulcinea glare at Puss and put up some smirks after Puss said that he won that spar. The three were joking about the spar and claiming why they've won moments after.
"Are you three done with your friendly competitions?" said Kitty as she was chuckling, looking at her friends enjoying whatever memory they had last night.
"Yes, Kitty. We are done. Let us get moving to that cave!" said Puss, putting on a smiling determined look on his face as he and his friends hop onto their horses and were galloping right beside Kitty's horse.
"Ready?" said Jose while Rocky, Jose's most trusted horse, was huffing around because he is ready to begin the journey.
"Yes!" Kitty, Puss, and Dulcinea said it proud and loudly as everyone rides off with their horses and began the journey to the cave of Santa Felipe.
The group of friends rode far and wide, through the thrill and excitement of the desserts. Each one of them had such determination with each galloping their horses made. They were ready to go into the cave and rescue el Guante Blanco and discover more about the Chaos Emeralds.
The team arrives at Santa Felipe. They climbed a couple of trees as they saw countless of thugs digging holes, presumably looking for some clues. Jose uses his binoculars to see the view from afar.
"What do you see, Jose?" says Kitty.
"I see a few of them on the far right. Others are on the left side. There is no one in the middle."
"You sure, Jose?"
"Wait. I see Guante, Kitty. He's being captive. They are taking him somewhere."
Jose followed every movement the thugs were doing. As soon as he said el Guante Blanco's whereabouts, Kitty gasped in shock while Puss and Dulcinea look upon her friend.
Let"s go!" says Kitty as she rapidly wants to save her presumed uncle, but was stop by a paw on her chest by Dulcinea.
"Dulcinea, what...?" Kitty says before Dulcinea signal her with her left paw as she was about to talk.
"It's alright, Kitty. We need to be cautious about this. So we have to stay calm. Okay?" said Dulcinea. Her words really made Kitty think before she could had made a costly mistake. She waves her head down, signaling yes, as everyone smiles.
"Let us go," Puss whispers as he and his friends get off the trees and started walking slowly into the cave. They used their ability to hide, and stealth to their advantage as every single soldier didn't find them, in which Puss, Dulcinea, Kitty, and Jose took advantage of their distractions and walked right past the middle and darkest part of the cave.
There, Dulcinea uses her tulpa powers to fire up a tulpa blast on her left paw and it rapidly lightens the cave by simply igniting the cones stuck on a couple of walls on this place.
"Let's walk," Jose says and his friends listened. They walk around the place. Jose was looking at this cave like he remembers this place. Then his head was having a headache of memories of his times with his family in this very cave.
"Jose. are you alright, amigo?" said a worried Puss. He was holding onto Jose's pants to try to get him to look at him. Jose then gets out of whatever trance he was in and looks at his buddy Puss.
"Yes, Puss. I'm alright. Just looking back at some memories," Jose answers. Puss puts on a slight smile as he was relieved that Jose was all good. Dulcinea looked at them and she could tell by Jose's voice that Jose was extra emotional about going into the cave, so she paid close attention to her best friend.
The gang then walked into a dead end. Kitty was groaning in frustration, same as Puss.
"Let me see here," Jose said as he was looking at some old texts. Dulcinea, Kitty, and Puss were waiting for Jose to decipher those texts so they can keep moving to their mission.
"Hurry up, my friend!" says an impatient Puss as it got Jose distracted. Jose puts on an angry look on his face and stares down at Puss because he didn't like to be distracted.
"I am concentrating here!" says Jose as he was trying to get his concentration back. Dulcinea walks in and pulls an unamused Puss back so that Jose can have his focus.
"Let's wait here, Puss. Jose knows what he's doing, hehe," said Dulcinea as she giggles. Puss comes to realize that he did a mistake ruining Jose's focus.
"Okay, Dulcinea," he answers as he gives her a kiss to her forehead and she smiles. They waited in the back alongside Kitty, who was doing some acrobatics with her dagger to kill off some time.
Jose touches on a couple of walls to try to find something. Then, he touches a very rare wall and everyone falls down the dead end.
"Ah!" Everyone screams as they slide down in different directions of the cave as if they entered into some sort of labyrinth. Jose slowly gets up and realizes that his friends are no longer with him.
"Puss! Kitty! Dulcinea!" Jose shouts their names as he uses his powers as a light guide and starts walking through a pile of darkness and rocks in an effort to find a way out of this ancient family place and reunite with his friends.
Jose kept walking and walking for minutes. Then, he stumbles on a rock as he fell down.
"Ouch!" he shouted as he hurt his body a but. Luckily, it wasn't that big of damage as he stood up. But then, something was glowing right between Jose's forehead. He turns around to the point of the mysterious glow and sees a key of some sorts.
"Hmm?" he murmurs as he was looking at the key with such curiosity. Then, he opens his eyes as he realizes that this is one of the keys for the Chaos Emeralds.
Meanwhile, Puss, Kitty, and Dulcinea were slowly getting up after they fell down hard. They were worried about Jose, who was separated from them.
"Jose!?" every cat said as they were stuck in what it seems to be another route in Jose's family cave. Then, Kitty kittens to a few voices with her ears, which Puss and Dulcinea did the same.
"Let's go," says Kitty with a serious and determined tine as she, Puss, and Dulcinea run towards the location of those voices. Once they reached there, they saw countless soldiers still digging holes, trying to find the Chaos Emeralds or even the keys.
"Get back to work!" said one thug as he yells at one of the slaves who was getting tired from all the work he's been putting on. Puss, Kitty, and Dulcinea were watching those events being fire road closely by hiding under a few rocks like stealthy cats.
"Ye-yes sir," says the slave as he was trying to get up. The bossy thug was unamused by the weak slave's struggles, so he draws out his ropes.
"Hurry up, you black piece of trash!" said the thug as he whipped and slashes the back of the poor slave in the back. The slave screamed in exaggerated pain and agony while he was crying in shame by such a humiliating position. Dulcinea gasps in shock and was crying after seeing what is happening. She was in internal pain because she couldn't believe that they are people who are just cruel and sickening, that she sometimes thinks what is she doing in this world.
Kitty and Puss see her lying down in the back crying while they felt her pain and anger that she was having.
"Stay here and warn us if they come," said Puss aa Kitty nodded her head.
"Sure," she responds, and Puss leaves his post to walk and sit down with Dulcinea. He hugs her and rubs her head as well as her back so he can comfort her. Dulcinea holds him tight and cries into Puss' chest in an effort to be free from all this pain.
"Why are people so cruel!?" says Dulcinea, letting out loud tears. Puss felt her suffering because he knows the type of cat Dulcinea is, and probably she doesn't know the world's evil colors, especially considering the fact that they have been in different dimensions for so long that it may have forgotten about the cruelties this world possesses.
"Dulcinea. The world does bring in the worst in people, but it also brings the best in us. There are some that will hurt the innocents every time. But as long as heroes like you, Kitty, Jose, and I stay together, then we can always trust that we do our best to make our world a better place," said Puss as his words melted her heart with happiness. She wipes off her tears as Puss offers her his right paw, which she kindly accepts and uses it to stand up.
"Thanks, Puss," she says as she kisses Puss on the lips, which he and Dulcinea embraced it so romantically.
Then, Kitty gasps as she sees her supposed uncle digging holes like he is one of the slaves. She whistles her friends as Puss and Dulcinea broke up their kiss and went back to their positions.
El Guante Blanco was struggling with his breath, clearly showing his whips and slash that he took by those powerful lassos. He falls down as he was slowly losing air.
"Don't stop, old man!" said one of those thugs. Dulcinea, Puss, and Kitty were on top of a rock, waiting to get the jump.on the thugs and start fighting their way of this place so that they can save el Guante Blanco.
"Ready, girls?" says Puss as all three cats put on a determined stare on their faces and nodded yes.
Then, the thug was about to whip Guante Blanco again with the lasso, unaware that it was the perfect time to strike.
"Now!" says Puss and he, Kitty, and Dulcinea jumps landed it a powerful takedown to the thug that it knocked him down out cold. Every other thug heard the loud sounds as the turned their heads around and saw the three cats with their fighting stance and their swords in their positions.
"Gi... Ginger?" said a weary Guante Blanco as he closes his eyes and falls unconscious due to his injuries, and Puss turns around and checks on his maestro.
"Maestro, it is I, Puss in Boots. Just hang on while we get you out," said Puss in a soft tone. He checked his vitals and were good, but he needed to leave the place and find a safe place so that he can get treatment. Then, Puss looks dead serious at those thugs, who yelled and began to run towards him and his friends.
"En garde!" said Puss as he runs to face them, while Kitty and Dulcinea follow his lead and yelled as well to be ready for the fight.
"Capo Ferro!" Dulcinea yells while twenty thugs came in and confronted the tulpa. They use several swings at their swords together but Dulcinea's quickness and accuracy made her appalled their attacks with her sword.
Kitty and Puss were handling twenty more thugs with their skills. They dodge and counter every sword swings with their incredible chemistry and were able to kick a few thugs in their face and continued their attacks.
The three cats were merely unstoppable as El Guante Blanco slowly opens his eye. He wasn't going to keep them open for long as he was very weak, but before he could go back to sleep, he was watching Puss fighting the thugs and was very curious about Kitty and Dulcinea.
"Who... are those two?" he says before he passes out again.
The thugs brought more reinforcements and they all centered on Dulcinea. Puss see it and looked straight at Kitty.
"Kitty!" he says as he and Kitty grab their paws, spins around and jumps high, which it ended this feat by hitting five thugs trying to surround a busy Dulcinea from behind and knocks them out.
"Thanks!" said Dulcinea as she looked at her friends and saw what happened. Kitty and Puss nodded and the three cats quickly came back to face the thugs, this time together. The three cats use their combined powers to kick butts and take names. Even Kitty and Puss were used as a trampoline as Dulcinea jumps on their paws, gets very high, spins around with her whole body turning very white energy, and with her white paws, she punches the floor hard as it created a huge quake that put every single thug fall over in pain.
"We did it!" says Puss, already claiming victory. But then forty-eight thieves came in to face the three cats with nine lives each.
"Oh, come on!" says Puss who was beyond mad because they won't run away. But then, one of the thugs shoots his shotgun high, giving them a warning because he was standing just inches closer to Puss' weary master. Puss and Kitty turn around growls in anger at the face of the thug, but quickly change to desperation looks as they saw Puss' master and Kitty's supposed uncle in danger.
"Let him go!" says an anger Puss.
"Or what?" the tall and buffed thug responds as he reloads the weapon and points it at Guante Blanco's head.
Dulcinea was slowly drawing her sword but was dead tired due to her big attack wore down her energy. But then, thirty thieves took advantage as they all jump and squashed Dulcinea.
"Ah!" she screams in pain as they were running towards the shotgun holder and immediately throws her to Guante's position.
"Dulcinea!" Puss screams in a lot of fear as Dulcinea couldn't get up because the thug placed his big right feet on her right head and was quickly breaking her bones.
"Stop it!" Kitty and Puss yell, begging him to stop hurting Dulcinea. The thug smirks as he ordered one of his henchmen to bring his tall and powerful lasso.
"His life, or her capture? You decide which one of them you want to spare," The thug made a sickening offer, one where Puss was at a crossroads.
"Why are you being so cruel to them? They have never bothered you nor met you in their lives to have such injustice!" says Puss, crying and clenching his fists in the midst of a hard decision, one, not even his heart wanted to answer for the sake of not hurting his loved ones.
You're right, they didn't do anything to us. We just want to your little thunder boy fall on the knees of our boss and ruin his life to the corpse," said the tall and cocky thug as one of his partners got him the tall black lasso and whips it to the floor so hard it made a crack on a medium sized rock. Dulci ea was gritting her teeth as she was still being squashed in the head by the thug's giant right foot.
"Please! Don't hurt them!" Kitty yells as she was holding her paws pounding her chest while crying, begging for him to release her friends. Puss was speechless. He couldn't and doesn't know what to do.
"Hmm. I guess I will..." The thug said as he was about to wound somebody until he was interrupted by Dulcinea, who hit him with her right claws on his left foot. That didn't bother him, but she wanted to have his attention.
"If you want him so bad, then you better make me hurt, bub!" Dulcinea says with such intensity because she wanted to spare Guante's life. The thug was overly angry as he increases the pressure of her head and she was screaming to the highest point of her lungs, as a way to see if she will rethink her words.
"No!" Puss says, extremely angry because his enemy is hurting Dulcinea, as he draws his sword and comes at this thug before Kitty stops him because ten thieves released their guns and were about to shoot Puss.
"Please, Puss!" a frightened Kitty said as she holds his right paw holding his sword, still with that angry look on his face. He then slowly changes his expression as he looks at his current situation, the sad look, Dulcinea's pain as well as his maestro, and like a hero who has no choice, he drops his sword to the ground. His head down in shame but still doesn't know what to choose.
Dulcinea saw it with sadness as she couldn't believe Puss would just surrender. She thought of a way out of the hole, but it was gonna be painful. She closes her eyes and starts communicating a destroyed from the inside Puss with her mind.
"Puss. Is okay, I can take it. Do you trust me?" she says telepathically as Puss was confused, but quickly knows it was her speaking.
"But Dulcinea... I cannot get you hurt!" he said it in his mind as well, looking at her as she was giving him a slight smile.
"I know. We need Jose to find us in this labyrinth. Please Puss, you gotta let me do this," says Dulcinea. Puss knew she was right, they needed Jose so bad. Puss takes a deep breath as he was about to make an answer to her, one he hopes could change the angle of their problems.
"Okay, Dulcinea. Do it. Please hang on," says Puss as he and Dulcinea smile softly so that the enemies couldn't tell what they are plotting.
"Hehe, I had worse beatings before. Thanks," she says as she gets out of her telepathic communication with Puss. Then, back to reality, Dulcinea opens her eyes and lets out a huge roar.
"Hit me with your worst!" said a determined Dulcinea, who was trying to spare el Guante Blanco, which surprised the tall thug. The thug was feeling humiliated by Dulcinea's toughness, and he was ticked off.
"Get her over there, now!" says the angry thug as two of them grabbed Dulcinea, tied both her paws with chains and they put her in the middle of a rock. They stretch her arms high with Dulcinea gritting her teeth. The tall thug then rips off her armor, leaving her fur wide open.
"Dulcinea!" says Kitty was she wants to help, but Puss stretches his right arm and hits her chest softly, stopping her in her tracks.
"Trust her. She would had not been in this position for nothing," said Puss. Kitty wanted to help her friend, but she listened to Puss and trusted his guts, as well as Dulcinea's heart.
"Now, will you be acting like a charm and listen to me, or be the tough cat and suffer!?" the thug yells at Dulcinea by the ear, while Dulcinea was still grunting in pain.
"I won't listen to you!" says a defiant Dulcinea, as the tall thug wasn't amused by it. So he lets out a huge spin on the lasso and hits her back with such force.
Dulcinea was screaming in pain, in such slavery position. But she knew that she had to do it to save Puss' master and old friend. As the thug continues to wipe her with the lasso, leaving countless marks on her back as well as a bit of blood, Puss and Kitty sit back and cry as they watch heir friend suffering by this imbecile.
Jose was still on the other side of the cave and was looking at the key in hand. Then he hears screams. Painful screams. Jose was listening as he was trying to pinpoint who was the scream coming from. He closes his eyes and heard the screams, over and over. Then he heard Puss and Kitty crying. He didn't know why they are crying. But then, a huge roar of pain was here loud and clear. And Jose's powers was flowing through his body as he gets up, shaking his fists in intense motion, and looked on the right side of his position like he knows where he needs to go.
"Dulcinea!" says an angered Jose as he opens his eyes in his blue thunder power, and rapidly runs fast, punching through holes after holes.
Dulcinea was getting very weaker as she was struck a hundred more times with the tall thug's lasso. Then, the thug grabs her head and squeezes it. Puss and Kittu couldn't bear watching, but they've heard noises. noises of thunder coming from afar, and Puss knows those all too well.
"Hang on a bit more Dulcinea," Puss whispers as he was praying for Dulcinea to stay tough.
"So, dear cat, how do you choose to die?!" the tall thug says as he spits a few of hos saliva towards her bloody face. But Dulcinea, despite as many as three hundred thugs surrounding her friends, El Guante Blanco lying there in his weak state, and Jose looking for her, Dulcinea kept her determination in her heart and refuser to give in to the thug's ruthless games.
"No!" she screams to the top of her veins, and the thug in mere anger. As he was about to swing his lasso for the final blow, a small pile of rock from the roof hit his head and made him stop his attempt at hitting Dulcinea. He was curious like a dog preparing for danger. But then, a pile of lighting broke through on top of the rock roof and hits the thug hard. Was screaming in pain and was killed off by the full power of the thunder, crashing through various walls of rocks.
Then, in the midst of the thunder, the thugs were angered, while Puss and Kitty were beyond relieved and happy, as Jose appears and uses his thunder streak to shoot the two thugs holding his tulpa friend's chains. Then he runs towards her and releases her chains. Dulcinea's eyes were blurry and her body trembling in pain, but she smiled at the arrival of Jose.
"You... came," she softly says as she closes her eyes and passes out. Jose slightly smiles back when he checked on her and was happy she was okay.
"You rest, Dulcinea. While I get us out of here," said Jose as he took Dulcinea on his back like a backpack. Then Puss and Kitty draw their sword put, ready for a fight out of this place. Jose sees it and shoots a thunder streak up high, breaking the roof and the foundations of this cave. Then, everyone looked confused as loud thuds were heard. And they realized that the cave was breaking apart and Puss and Kitty see it and quickly hits ten thugs on the way towards Jose and the rest.
"Grab Guante and get out of here quick!" says Jose as they did just that.
"What about you?" said Puss as they were running quickly out of this broken cave.
"I'll follow you and get as many stupid thugs as I can, so we can escape easily while I take Dulcinea with me!" Jose shouts as Kitty and Puss took Guante Blanco runs towards the exit of the cave before it crumbles down with them, kicking a few enemies while they reach their escape.
Jose was running while holding a very weak Dulcinea aa the pile of rocks was coming down rapidly. He and countless thugs were running for their lives. Then, a few thugs attacked Jose, but Jose dodges it and hits them with his sword, knocking them out and the rocks squash them. Jose keeps running and doesn't look back. But a few more thugs use their guns and fired at Jose. Jose usee his sword to repelled against those. Then Jose gets his energy up as he swings his sword and quickly smashes the enemies with his thunder powers, hitting them hard on the chest and lets the falling cave eats them alive.
Time was running out as the gap of the exit was closed, Jose runs as fast as he could to leave just in time. He was getting closer and sees Puss and Kitty taking El Guante Blanco safely out and riding on their horses, but then he was shot in the leg by a combined thirty thugs. Jose falls down, gets up and was limping in pain. Then, the remaining thugs combined their gins to create a super bazooka and quickly fires at Jose.
Jose was done for as he couldn't reach the exit in time and was about to go down and be buried alive along with Dulcinea because the thug creates a strong shield to survive the crumbles of the cave. But then, Dulcinea wakes up, with her eyes white and her paws bursting with energy, and punches the bazooka and she turns it over to them, this time adding her own powers to break the shield and destroys them.
"Dulcinea?!" says a surprised Jose as Dulcinea smiles and uses her remaining energy she hs left to create a speed boost and both friends were as fast as a rocket and pushes through.
"Hang on!" says Dulcinea as they all scream with efforts. Then, they made it through the exit. The sun was getting down as it was sunrise, and both Jose and Dulcinea fall down on the sands. Jose gets up, but Dulcinea was back on her unconsciousness as before and Jose grabs her.
"Thank you," Jose says as he gently smiles at his sleeping friend. He puts her back on his back and gets inside his horse Rocky and took Sweetness with him, and took Dulcinea in a sleeping position on her trusted horsey companion.
The horses run across the deserts, trying to find Puss and Kitty and get to a safe place in San Felipe.
On the way to catch up to Puss and Kitty, with an also weary Guante Blanco, Jose sees his weary friend, her wounds, lasso marks on her back, and blood coming through her body, and he was sad that Dulcinea had to go there so he can reach her. But was happy that Dulcinea was brave enough and strong enough to do what she did, as well as saving him, and his heart was feeling joyful and honored to have her by his side.