103 23: THE ESCAPE PLAN.

MEXICO, DEVIL'S ISLAND

Meanwhile, in the country of Mexico, far out in the ocean, there was a huge island called Devil's Island. A place that had been around for ages. No one had ever been on this island for decades, nor did anyone live on it. At least that's what's believed.

Deep within the dark jungle, in the bayou swamp part of the island, rested a Mississipi Riverboat on the sea green waters of the island. Devil's Island was a deserted place and had been that way for years and years and years. Nobody had ever come here. If one wanted to keep a secret and make sure that it stayed that way...this was deffinently the place to do it. And that was exactly what someone was doing right now. On board the Riverboat, inside the top room, the sound of constant barking could be heard coming from behind a door that a man stood at.

"Quiet pups. You're driving me out of my mind. Now be good dogs and stay for me." Said the man before closing the door. But do not before two Dalmatian puppies unnoticably sneaked out of the room. One puppy was Moose and the other one had black spots, black ears, brown eyes and wore a blue collar around his neck.

The two pups ran down the steps and hid underneath them.

The man closed the door and left out of the room.

Moose and the other Dalmatian poked their heads out from behind the steps and saw that the man had left.

"Okay, he's gone." Said Moose. He and the other Dalmatian headed towards the opened exit of the room. They then stopped in their tracks when they reached the exit. "Wait here." The six week old pup slowly and carefuly exited the room and looked to see if there was anyone around. Fortunantly, there wasn't, much to Moose's relief. "All clear, Nicky."

"Right behind you, Moose." Siad the second Dalmatian puppy known as Nicky, with a british accent, as he exited the room, joining the other Dalmatian. "So what's the plan?"

"First we've gotta find a way out of here." Said Moose.

"Then we go for help, right?" Said Nicky.

"Right. We find a way out of here, get help, and come back for other 101 Dalmatians." Said Moose.

"Okay. Let's do it." Said Nicky. "Uh...which way?"

"You decide, Nicky." Said Moose.

"Okay. I choose...that way." Said Nicky as he looked back at the room they had just come out of.

"That way? But Nicky, we just came from that way." Said Moose.

"I know, but it wouldn't hurt to look, would it? And who knows? Maybe we'll find a way out." Said Nicky.

"(Sighs) Fine. Lets go." Said Moose.

The puppies re-entered into the room and looked around for an exit, but much to their disappointment, there wasn't one.

"There's nothing in here but a closed off room." Said Moose.

"So much for finding an exit in here. Come on, let's go. There's nothing here." Said Nicky.

"Right." Said Moose.

As the two pups turned to leave there was a big flash of lightning and a huge crackle of thunder that lit up the dark room, revealing a huge Grizzly bear standing on it's hinde legs in front of the two pups.

"Yikes!" Said Moose and Nicky. The two puppies' fears were soon short lived, as they quickly realized that the bear was stuffed.

"Aw, it's only a bear." Said Nicky.

"Yeah, dumb bear." Said Moose. "Come on, let's keep moving." The six week old pup then left.

"You don't look so tough for a bear. (Growling)." Said Nicky before leaving to join up with Moose.

Moose stopped in his tracks. "What was...very funny, Nicky."

The puppies exited out of the dark room.

Nickey spotted an ax leaning up-side-down against the wall and walked over to it. The puppy touched the handle of the ax with his nose, sniffing it. This caused the ax to fall to the floor and Nicky whimpered.

"Shh. Nickey, careful. It makes a lot of noise." Said Moose.

"Okay." Said Nicky. The puppy then spotted a flight of stairs that led down from the room. "Over here, Moose."

The two Dalmatians walked over to the foot of the stairs and stopped.

"I'm pretty good at helping you figure stuff out." Said Nicky.

"Cool. I'll remember that." Said Moose.

The puppies ran down the stairs and stopped when they reached the bottom. They then spotted another room cordoor leading into another room.

Moose looked at Nicky. "Later, Alligator." The six week puppy then ran inside the room.

"Hey! Hey, wait for me!" Said Nicky before running into the room after Moose.

Once inside, the puppies quickly figured out that it was a bedroom.

"What is this place?" Asked Nicky.

"If i had to take a guess...i'd say it's a bedroom." Said Moose.

"I know it's a bedroom, genius, i'm just trying to figure out who's it is." Said Nicky.

Moose then looked up at a picture. Hanging on the wall was a framed photo of Cruella as a little girl, pulling the head off of a doll, and her Nanny, who appeared to be really scared. "Well, maybe this explains it."

"What does?" Asked Nicky.

"Look, Nick. A picture of the Devil lady when she was a Devil girl." Said Moose.

"And she's with her nanny." Added Nicky.

The puppies then looked at a window that was opened a little.

"Look at the window, Nicky." Said Moose.

"It's opened a little bit." Said Nicky.

"I sure hope it leads somewhere." Said Moose. The six week old puppy hopped onto the bed. "Here goes." The Dalmatians jumped off of the foot of the bed and landed on a loose piece of board attached to the window, opening the shade just a little bit.

"Moose, the window's open a little bit." Said Nicky.

"Awesome." Said Moose.

"Keep doing it." Said Nicky.

Moose hopped back onto the foot of the bed. "Weeeee." He said as he jumped off the bed and landed on the loose board again, opening the shade on the window some more.

"Moose, it's working!" Said Nicky in excitment.

Moose jumped onto the bed and landed back on the board again, this time lifting the window shade all the way up, allowing wind the blow inside the room. The wind also blew away a piece of the wall paper from under a table, revealing a hole. "We don't worry about that window being locked up."

"Yeah, but it looks like the wind knocked this wall stuff out for us." Added Nicky.

Moose walked over to the table, removed the stool and investigated the hole in the wall. "Check it out, Nick."

Nicky walked over to where Moose was standing and viewed the hole in the wall with him.

"Look at this." Said Moose.

The dogs looked inside the hole and saw a sticky note taped inside with a number written on it that said '31-17-28.'

"Look, Nick, a bunch of numbers." Said Moose.

"Huh. 31-17-28. I wonder what it means." Said Nicky.

"Could be some kind of combination, i guess." Said Moose.

"Yeah, but to what?" Asked Nicky.

The puppies then came out from under the table.

"Hey, look, what's that?" Asked Moose.

"Huh?" Said Nicky.

The puppies looked and saw that there was a small elevator above them in the wall above the table.

Moose used his X-Ray vision to look through the device and saw what it was on the inside. "It's a small elevator. We can use it to get out of this room." Said Moose.

"I don't know about that." Said Nicky.

"One step at a time, Nicky. Maybe there's something we can climb up on." Said Moose.

"There is, the stool." Said Nicky.

"Good thinking." Said Moose. He hopped up on the stool and then onto the table. But when he got to the top and tried to get it to work, he didn't know what to do. "Hey, what's wrong with this thing?"

"I don't know. Try pushing one of it's buttons." Said Nicky.

"Good idea." Said Moose. The puppy pressed a red button with his right paw and the elevator door slid open and Moose hopped inside. "Come on, Nicky."

Nicky hopped onto the stool and onto the table and got inside the elevator with Moose and the door slid closed.

"Going down." Said Moose and Nicky as the elevator took them down to the next floor.

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