103 18: THE MISSING DALMATIANS CASE.
At the carnival, Clark and the kids and his four dogs were searching the park for Moose.
"Where did you guys look?" Asked Clark.
"Everywhere. All out in the carnival and even out in the street at the end." Said Max.
"There's a chance he might have gone back to the dog groomers." Said Clark.
"After i told him to stay?" Said Max.
"Might have missed him on the ground. He could be wondering around looking for you right now. Come on, we'll find him." Said Clark. He, Max, Lucas, Brandon and the four dogs resumed their walk through the park in search of the six week old Dalmatian.
"Moose!" Shouted Max.
"Moose!" Added Lucas.
"Moose! Here, boy! Come here!" Said Brandon.
Just then, a male police officer walked over to Clark and the others. "Hi, Rex, Lassie, Jake and Foster." He greeted the four dogs in a british accent. "Hello, Clark."
"Oh, hi, officer Dan. How are you?" Asked Clark as he shook hands with the policeman.
"Fine." Said officer Dan.
"Excuse me, sir, you haven't seen Moose anywhere around here, have you?" Asked Max.
"Well, i can't say i have. Not around here, anyway. The only time i've seen any is when my wife and i went camping out in the forest of London, England." Said officer Dan.
"No, not the animal kind." Said Lucas.
"Well, what animal are you talking about?" Asked Dan.
"We're talking about my brother's girlfriend's dog, Moose. Have you seen him?" Asked Max.
"No, i haven't. Is he missing?" Asked Dan.
"Yeah, we left him and the other dogs with Clark while we went to check out the snake pit, but when we got back, Moose was gone. Disappeared." Said Brandon.
"Vanished, even." Added Lucas.
"Gee, that is strange. What kind of dog is he? Maybe i've seen him." Said Dan.
"He's a six week old Dalmatian puppy." Said Max.
"Did you say Dalmatian?" Asked Dan.
"Yeah." Said Max.
"Oh no, not again." Said Dan.
"Again? What do you mean again? Has this happened before?" Asked Clark.
"Yeah, i'm afraid it has, Clark. Way more than it should. For the past several weeks we've been getting reports from countless people all over London that their Dalmatian puppies are missing. As of now, the whole Dalmatian puppy population in London is gone." Said Dan.
"No way! The whole population?!" Max gasped.
"That's what the people say. They say no one's seen a single Dalmatian puppy anywhere at all this week. Even the pounds and pet stores called in to report all of their Dalmatian puppies missing. There aren't even any stray Dalmatian puppies on the street anymore." Said Dan.
"Do you know how many are missing?" Asked Clark.
"Well, we did keep a list to number each puppy that was reported missing, but after the Dalmatian puppies living on the streets started vanishing too, we lost count of how many had vanished. So my guess is as good as the next person's." Said Dan.
"When did these disappearances start happening?" Asked Clark.
"They started on May the 1'st and ended on May the 31'st. Or so we thought, anyway. Now that your girlfriend's dog had disappeared as well, it seems that the vanishings have started back up." Said Dan.
"Why do you think this is happening?" Asked Clark.
"It's too much to be a coincidence. There's no doubt about it. Someone is breaking into these homes and other places and stealing these Dalmatian puppies and picking the strays up off the streets of London. What that reason is...we do not know." Said Dan.
"And you think that whoever is doing this has abducted Moose as well?" Asked Max.
"...Normaly, i'd say no, but given the nature of this crime...i'd have to say yes." Said Dan.
"Oh, no." Said Lucas.
"Wait, wait, wait. Now don't panic. Maybe the people who took him are still around here someplace. Are you gonna be around for a while, Dan?" Said Clark.
"About an hour." Said Dan.
"Keep an eye out for anything suspicious, will you?" Said Clark.
"Will do." Said Dan.
"Come on, let's go." Said Clark to the kids and the four dogs.
With all of that said and done, the gang went off through the carnival, in search of Moose again.
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Mia came up to the floor of Cruella's office in the glass tube elevator and the glass doors slid open and the young American designer exited the elevator. As she walked through the room, she saw that there was no one in sight and headed for Cruella's office. Mia walked up to the silver double doors and they slid open, allowing her to enter into Cruella's office. But when she got inside, however, she saw that the place was empty and that Cruella was nowhere in sight. But she did see Cruella's black and white laptop resting on her glass desk. Perfect. This was her chance to finally get some real work done and see what Cruella had really been up to for the past 10 years since her release from prison in (2007). Mia walked over to the glass desk and sat down at it in front of the laptop. The word "DE VIL" was rotating on the black screen of the laptop and Mia slid her finger across the computer and an image of Cruella came up on screen with several different icons to click on.
"Okay, miss Cruella De ViL...let's see what you've been up to these past 10 years since your release from prison." Said Mia.
Mia reached into her pocket and got out a black flashdrive and inserted it into the laptop on the left side to download any useful information she could find on Cruella. Sure, she may have deleted some things off of her laptop, but even if she did, the flashdrive would still be able to find and download it.
Once Mia had placed the flashdrive into the laptop, a sign came up on screen that read "WARNING! SECURITY BREACH." A screen then popped up on the laptop screen with all kinds of writting on it. Mia pressed one of the words and the warning sign was immediantly replaced by another sign that read "HOUSE OF DE VIL. ACCESS GRANTED." Files then appeared on screen and Mia started looking through them. As she did, another file appeared onscreen. A file that read "TOP SECRET INFORMATION."
"Top Secret Information? Hmmm." Mia said.
Mia clicked on the file and opened it, revealing several other kinds of different files laboled "TOP SECRET INFORMATION" The American designer clicked on one of the top secret files, opening it up. And her eyes went wide. While she was hoping to find some incriminating evidence on the laptop, she never expected to find anything quite like this. Neither would anyone else. It was too horrific...and desturbing...for any dog lover to ever imagin. When Mia had clicked on one of the TOP SECRET files, several more files came up, revealing all of these pictures of fur cloths and pictures of all of these different kinds of dogs that were the exact same color as the fur cloths. Each file having it's own year date of when it was made. Some were made in (2007), the year Cruella was released from prison...others were made in (2008)...(2009)...(2010)...(2011)...(2012)...(2013)...(2014)...(2015)...and finally...(2016). Mia clicked on several more of the TOP SECRET files. They all revealed the same thing: That Cruella had secretly been using dog fur in her fashion line since her release from prison in (2007).
Mia then clicked on another TOP SECRET file and up came a picture of a white hooded fur coat decorated with black spots all over it. writting then appeared the screen that read "PROJECT-17."
"PROJECT-17? What are you up to now, Cruella?" Asked Mia.
She looked down at the bottom of the drawing and saw the year date it was drawn. Or should she say...year dates? For at the bottom were two different dates that read "96/00/17."
"What in the world?" Asked Mia. "Wait a minute." She looked at the year dates again, and a light bolb went off in her head. "96 is short for (1996), 00 is short for (2000)...and 17. (2017). That's this year. But why would she put three different year dates? Unless..."
Mia clicked on another TOP SECRET file. This time, instead of pictures, a video came up. It was a video of two men dressed in skeleton costumes and black suits and black hats. One of the skeleton men was holding a sack full of something. Apparently, this was a video message they had sent to Cruella. Mia clicked on the video and it began to play and the skeleton men began to talk. Unfortunantly, the conversation was in Spanish and she couldn't understand what all they were saying. Mia then typed in translate and hit "ENTER," transitioning the language from Spanish to English.
The skeleton man, who was holding the sack, opened it up and the other skeleton man reached inside and pulled out a Dalmatian puppy.
"You did not tell us that the 103 Dalmatian puppies you paid us to help your company steal were going to be made into a spotted fur coat. Nor did you inform us of your previous two incarcerations for stealing 99 Dalmatian puppies in (1996) and 102 Dalmatians in (2000), as well as your failer at both attempts to turn them into a Dalmatian coat. You also didn't inform us of your turnning all of the other dogs you paid your company to steal for you over the past 10 years into fur cloths to use in your fashion line. As you can see, miss De ViL..." Said the lead skeleton man.
"Oh my gosh." Said Mia.
"...your deception and lies will cost you dearly." Said the skeleton man holding the sack. "The price to help your company steal all 103 Dalmatians has just gone up. If We're going to help steal these last few Dalmatians for you, as well as the 103'd one from this Lois Richards girl, you better put some more money on the table. Got it?"
Mia pressed a button on the screen of the laptop and began to download all of the information and TOP SECRET files into her flashdrive.
"So..."
Mia gasped and looked up to see Cruella standing at the entrance of her office, holding Fluffy in her arms.
"what are we going to do about this?" Asked Cruella.
Mia watched as Cruella entered into the room, while at the same time watching the laptop screen as all of the information was being downloaded into her flashdrive.
Cruella walked over to a wheeled stand, put Fluffy on the floor. "I know what you and the other girls are going through, darling." Cruella picked up a fancy glass bottle of red apple juice. "Lois. She always gets the good stuff, doesn't she?"
Mia grinned at Cruella.
As Cruella opened the fancy glass and poored red apple juice into a fancy whine glass, Mia placed some files on top of the flashdrive to hide it. She then saw Cruella and Fluffy coming over to the glass desk where she was sitting. But as they did, the computer had just barely manage to complete it's download and the laptop went off, revealing the word "DE VIL" once again.
"I was so happy when Lois came to work with us here at the House Of De ViL. It was like we got an savior for the business. Now i realize...well...Lois never really did come here, did she? She left a part of herself back home in New York. It kinda breaks my heart."
"Well, she's a complicated person." Said Mia.
Cruella took a sip of her red apple juice.
"She's been through a lot. I think she'll be alright." Said Mia.
"You are a very rare young lady." Said Cruella. "Lois doesn't know how lucky she is to have a conpanion like you."
"Thank you. Thanks." Said Mia. "Well, i'd better get back there." She picked up the files that were resting on the desk, as well as the flashdrive that was covered by them, and headed towards the doors.
"Is that today's paper?" Asked Cruella, stopping Mia in her tracks.
"Yes." Said Mia.
Cruella walked up to Mia. "Do you mind?"
"Not at all." Said Mia as she handed Cruella the paper.
"Thanks, darling." Said Cruella.
"Of course." Said Mia before she resumed heading toward the doors.
"Take care, darling." Said Cruella.
"You too." Said Mia. The young designer headed out of Cruella's office and into the other room, where she looked at the black flashdrive she held in her hand. As she headed for the glass tube elevator, Mia got out her cellphone and called someone. "Hi, it's me."
"Oh, Mia, hi. It's nice hear from you after three whole months. I was begging to think you forgot all about us. You have an asignment. Did you forget about your asignment?" Said an American female on the other end.
"That's actually why i'm calling. I've recently come across some incriminating evidence against Cruella De ViL." Said Mia before pressing a button on the glass elevator.
"How recent?" Asked the woman.
"Just now recent." Said Mia.
"Really? Well, i hope it's useful." Said the woman as the glass doors to the elevator slid open and Mia entered inside and pressed a button.
"Trust me, it is. I am gonna give you and the Humain Society the information of your lives." Said Mia as the glass elevator doors closed and the elevator took her down to the next floor.
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Back at the carnival, Clark and the others were still searching for Moose, but like before, they hadn't had any luck in finding him. They soon came to a stop in front of the dog circus tent.
"Did you look in here? Maybe he smelled the other dogs." Asked Clark.
"No, we were in there. Moose did a trick, then two men dressed in skeleton costumes wanted to by him for 103 dollars." Said Max.
"What?" Asked Clark.
"The show was closing up, but we talked to one of the men. He said he's teach us a trick for Moose to do." Said Lucas.
"He said it was a hard trick, but Moose did it on the first try. Then another man came in and wanted buy him." Added Brandon.
"Wait right here." Said Clark before walking off.
As Max and the others waited for Clark's return, Dr. Skullier came out of the tent.
"My, back again, huh? Did you change your minds about the dog?" Asked Dr. Skullier.
"No, we're looking for him." Said Max.
"What did you do, lose him? You should have taken the 103 bucks i offered you." Said Dr. Skullier.
"Where's the guy that wanted to buy Moose?" Asked Clark as he and officer Dan walked up to the three kids and the four dogs.
"It's him." Said Lucas, pointing at Dr. Skullier.
"Do you know anything about this missing Dalmatian?" Asked officer Dan.
"No." Said Dr. Skullier.
"You tried to buy him." Said Clark.
"There's nothing wrong with buying a dog, is there?" Said Dr. Skullier.
"Mind if we take a look inside?" Asked Dan.
"Nothing to see. Go ahead." Said Dr. Skullier.
Clark, Dan, the kids, the dogs and Dr. Skullier entered into the tent and saw the other skeleton man folding up a backdrop.
"Sorry, folks, we're closing up." Said the skeleton man. He then looked and saw that it was the three kids and four dogs who had been inside earlier, with a young man and a police officer. "Oh, hi, kids."
"He's the one who showed us the trick." Said Brandon.
"We're looking for a young girl's dog. A six week old Dalmatian puppy." Said Dan.
"These kids and four dogs were in here with it an hour ago." Said the skeleton man.
"Yeah, i know, but the pup's missing now. And we thought maybe it wondered back in here." Said Dan.
"I've been here all the time. I haven't seen it." Said the skeleton man.
"Where do you keep your dogs?" Asked Dan.
"In cages. Right now they're in the truck." Said the skeleton man.
"Where's the truck?" Asked Dan.
"Out in the ally." Said Dr. Skullier.
"Let's take a look." Said Dan.
The group followed Dr. Skullier and the other skeleton man outside the back of the tent where a circus truck was.
Once outside, officer Dan got a near by stool and used it to climb inside of the back of the truck that was full of crates and cages. He searched the back of the truck, but didn't find Moose. He then opened a cage, revealing a West Highland White Terrier.
Dr. Skullier then opened another cage, revealing a Begal inside.
Dan jumped out of the truck and Dr. Skullier closed the Begal's cage and the other skeleton man closed the Terrier's cage.
"What's in here?" Asked Dan, noticing a chest on the ground.
"Cloths." Said the skeleton man.
"Open it." Said Dan.
"I'm telling you, there's nothing in there, but cloths." Said the skeleton man.
"Open it." Repeated Dan.
"I'm not sure i have a key." Said the skeleton man.
"We can break it open with a hammer. Go see if you can find one, guys." Said Dan.
"Wait a minute." Said the skeleton man before pulling out a key from his pocket. "This may be the key." He bent down to the chest and used the key to unlock it and open it up.
Dan searched through the chest, but all he found was a bunch of cloths.
"I told you, nothing but cloths." Said the skeleton man.
Clark walked up to Dr. Skullier. "You better be sure you don't know nothing about this, mister."
"Oh, don't push me around, boy. I've got dogs on that truck worth a hundred times more than i offered the kids for the Dalmatian. Who needs it? Get the rest of this stuff loaded." Said Dr. Skullier before walking back inside the tent.
The skeleton man went inside the tent where his boss was. "Okay, let's go get him."
The two skeleton men then went to get Moose.
"There's no point in looking around anymore. We should probably go home. Miss Della's probably worried." Said Clark.
"I'll keep an eye out, kids." Said Dan.
"Okay." Said Max.
"Thanks, Dan." Said Clark. "Come on, let's go."
Clark and the kids and the dogs then walked out of the ally, along with the officer.
Meanwhile, back inside the tent, Dr. Skullier and the skelliton man carried a crate outside the back and loaded it on the back of the truck.
"Okay, let's go." Said the skulliten man.
"Right. But...first lets inform the boss that we've captured the target." Said Dr. Skullier. He got out his cellphone and called his boss. "Hi, it's me."
"Oh, Dr. Skullier. To what do i owe this sudden out of the blue phonecall?" Asked Cruella on the other end of the line.
"I have something to tell you." Said Dr. Skullier.
"Really, now? Well, this better be good news, doctor." Said Cruella on the other end.
"It is. I've called to inform you that the mission was a success. My partner and i have the Richards girl's puppy with us as we speak." Said Dr. Skullier.
"What? Say that again." Said Cruella.
"Mission accomplished. We have the target in our possession. We're leaving the carnival right now. We'll have the Colonel call you after we've dropped the package off in Mexico." Said Dr. Skullier.
"I'll be waiting. Thanks so much for your assistance." Said Cruella.
"You're welcome, miss De ViL." Said Dr. Skullier before hanging up. He and the skelliton man then got inside the truck and drove off from the carnival, with Moose, the six week old Dalmatian puppy in the back.##################################################################################
"They've got the last one. Add him to the other puppies they and the company have already stolen and shipped off to Mexico...and my collection of Dalmatian puppies is complete. Who'd thought that this was going to be so easy? Why, would've done it sooner, had i known. And just think, Fluffy," Cruella held Fluffy up in front of her. "all i had to do to get the last puppy was set up a contest in the United States, make Lois the winner of it, and get her here so that i could steal that cute little puppy of her's and add it to my collection. Hahahah. I'll be wearing a Dalmatian coat made out of 103 Dalmatians. Hahahahaha! Hahahahah! Hahahahaha! AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHA!"
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