Hey guys I'm back and I hope you're all doing well through this whole quarantine thing. A couple things to get out of the way. So this story was recommended by one of the readers but I recently found out that there was another person who did a concept similar to this story a while back. So go check out A Pup Switcheroo by LovingGinger30. I didn't take anything from their story but it was technically their idea first even if I didn't know about it. Again this is my first time writing a mission and really any sort of action so it's probably gonna suck and its long. Anyway I hope you're all doing well and please enjoy the story.
"Calm down Chase you've watched Skye fly her helicopter a million times, it can't be that difficult right?" Chase thought as he looked over the buttons and switches deciding which one to press.
"Skye are you coming?" Ryder asked, while Skye was slowly figuring out how to drive Chase's police cruiser.
"Uh yeah just give me a second" Chase replied.
"Well it's now or never" He decided on a red button which looked like it would start up the blades
*CLANG*
"Well that wasn't it,"Chase winced "How about you?" Chase said pressing a green button which started up the blades.
"Whew, now let's get you up in the air" Chase said while pushing a lever up which he knew meant take off.
He was slowly ascending into the air when suddenly he stopped "Oof, what the hell? maybe this thing needs more power" Chase said while pushing the lever as hard as he could.
"What...the" Marshall said exasperated while watching the monitor.
"WHAT IS SHE DOING!" Zuma yelled.
Chase couldn't figure out why this was so damn difficult until he heard a familiar voice, his own.
"Skye your winch!" Skye yelled from the cruiser.
"My what?!" Chase thought as he looked over the side of the helicopter and what he saw explained everything. The reason that it was so hard to get off the ground was because her winch was caught on Zuma's pup house. Which was now a good twelve feet off the ground.
"Uh oh" Chase said as he disconnected the winch, sending Zuma's pup house crashing down.
It didn't look like there was too much damage but Chase guessed Zuma was none too pleased.
"We'll deal with that after the mission, but Skye right now I need you to find Humdinger" Ryder yelled to Chase.
"On it!" Chase yelled back as he flew easily up without the weight of Zuma's pup house "That's going to be a little tough to explain" he thought as he gazed down and saw the water pup's house on it's side.
Chase had been flying for a while now and steering was getting a lot easier. Every once and a while a strong wind would come along and knock Chase off course but for his first time he wasn't terrible.
"Hey I'm starting to get the hang of this, I can't say the same for Skye though'' He thought as he looked down to see the confused pup driving down the road "It must be tough when there are other people on the road as opposed to flying in the air with no one even close to you".
Truth be told Chase kinda enjoyed being up there not having to worry about the problems on the ground. It was freeing to know you could do whatever you wanted because there wasn't any traffic rules in the air.
"Maybe there are some perks to being up here who knows maybe I could just-" His thoughts were interrupted by the sighting of a purple figure running down below "Wait a second is that?" He thought while zooming in on the moving shape and quickly realized who it was "It is!".
"Ryder I've spotted Mayor Humdinger," Chase said, as he excitedly activated his pup tag.
"Great work Skye, where is he?" Ryder asked.
"He's moving toward the woods, don't worry I'll get him!" Chase said, his instincts kicking in.
"No Skye, Chase and I will handle it, feel free to head back" Ryder said quickly.
"No that's ok I've got him" Chase said, sending the helicopter diving towards the trees.
"No Ch- I mean Skye stop your helicopter isn't big enough!" Skye yelled through the pup tag.
"That idiot he can't fly through trees he barely got the damn thing off the ground and he practically wrecked Zuma's house in the process" Skye thought, angry that Chase was being cocky and worried for his safety.
But it was too late Chase was in full go mode. He had already broken the tree line in pursuit of the chicken knapping mayor.
"You can't run for much longer Mayor Humdinger!" He said closing the gap between them quickly.
"You'll-," Chase was cut off by the tree directly in front of him as he barely managed to avoid it "Woah, that was a close one," Chase said relieved .
But it wasn't the last one there were many trees blocking Chase's path to the thieving Mayor
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea, '' Chase said, finally realizing what he had gotten himself into .
He was swerving left and right trying to dodge all of the trunks and branches, but his luck ran out very quickly and he broke one of the propellers on a sturdy branch.
"Shit!" Chase said, realizing that he was losing control and turned on his pup tag. "Ryder, I'm going down mayday! mayday!".
"CHASE NO!" Skye screamed, too panicked to think about the whole body swap thing.
"SKYE!" Ryder yelled, practically ignoring Skye's comment cause at the moment frankly he didn't care.
Chase tried to pull the stick up but he wasn't strong enough "Dammit why am I so weak!?".
His efforts were futile as the helicopter crashed and he flew out and hit the ground.
"Ughhh, well that could have gone better" Chase said to himself, in pain but not unbearably so.
"Skye do you copy?" Ryder asked, worry heavy in his voice.
"Yeah I'm all good, just a bit shaken up, little to no injuries" Chase replied.
A sigh of relief came from both Ryder and Skye.
"Do you want me to send Marshall?" Ryder asked.
"No no I'm all good just gonna lie down and rest for a bit" Chase replied, clearly worn out.
"Ok Skye we'll finnish up this mission and pick you up on the way back, are you sure your okay?" Ryder asked.
"Yes I'm fine go save Chickaletta" Chase said, turning off his pup tag and lying back down.
"All this for a damn chicken" Chase laughed as he thought about it but slowly exhaustion creeped in and he fell asleep.
"Weady thwee, two, one, puuuuuuush!" Zuma said as he and Marshall pressed up against his sideways pup house.
"Almost...there!" Marshall grunted as the two gave the final shove putting the pup house back up, leaving the two panting on the asphalt.
"... Thanks dude" Zuma said, gasping for breath.
"No…huh...problem," Marshall said, finally catching his breath "It would have been a lot easier had Rubble agreed to help".
"You'we telling me his diggew would have made this a piece of cake" Zuma said.
"Yeah but it really seems like he's not going to budge for the rest of the day" Marshall answered.
"I don't blame him, did you see that sweet set up he's got, snacks, dwinks and mowe pup treats then I get in a yeaw" Zuma said.
"He takes Apollo pretty seriously, Skye said he actually drew up blueprints for that bean bag fort" Marshall said, impressed.
"The little dude is committed but he's gonna have to move when the Lakews come on" Zuma replied, still determined to watch the basketball game.
"Ha you've got a better chance to get Rocky to go surfing with you than you do of getting Rubble to move" Marshall said as the two went back up to watch the rest of the mission.
"Eh I'll find a way" Zuma shrugged.
"I hope we didn't miss too much of the mission. Rocky was right it sure has been interesting" Marshall said as the two got up and headed toward the Lookout
"Yeah Interesting" Zuma spat out the last word shooting an angry glance towards his pup house.
Skye and Ryder were now in pursuit of the purple wearing chicken thief. Without Chase pinpointing the mayor's location they were having a difficult time finding him.
"I get that the two Mayor's have a rivalry but really chicken knapping that's low even for you Humdinger" Skye thought annoyed that she wasn't in the air right now.
Mayor Humdinger had stolen plenty of things from trophies, to scrolls, to even a statue of the Mayor Goodway's beloved chicken, but never the actual chicken.
"Hey Chase come here" Ryder called.
Skye was still in thought about what the point of all this was until she realized he was calling her and quickly ran over.
"Something on your mind Chase?" Ryder asked.
"Yeah, it's just why would Mayor Humdinger do this?" Skye asked. "He didn't lose any competitions so he doesn't seem to really have a motive this time?".
"Good point Chase but we'll ask him after we save Chickaletta, can you tell me which way they went?" Ryder said holding out a feather in front of Skye.
"That's right I now have a super sense of smell" Skye remembered as she took a huge sniff of the chicken feather in front of her. She immediately regretted doing so as it felt like her nose was on fire.
"ACHOO!" Skye let out probably the hardest sneeze of her life but as soon as the fire like sensation was gone something else hit her. It was almost the smell of Chickaletta was in a line like a path that she could easily follow.
"Woah," Skye said to herself then turned towards Ryder "They went this way!" she said excitedly as she charged toward the smell.
The scent lead them toward what appeard to be an abandoned warehouse in the middle of the woods.
"Ugh this place just screams creepy" Skye said just loud enough for Ryder to hear.
"I know, but we've got to be prepared for anything so be on your guard Chase" Ryder said as the two approched the warehouse.
"Alright on three we go in" Ryder said, receiving a nod from Skye.
"This is so nerve wracking, how does Chase stay so calm?" Skye thought to herself. She had been in plenty of tough situations, ones that people always praised her for being calm and controlled. But this was a different kind of pressure than what she was used to and she didn't really like it.
Ryder looked at Skye one more time and then started his count down "One...Two..Three!". On three the two of them busted through the door to see the mustached mayor standing next to a table with a crate on it.
"Ah well hello Ryder, Chase" Mayor Humdinger said acknowledging them both.
"Alright Mayor, just hand over Chickaletta," Ryder said calmly.
"Oh but I can't do that you see I'm lacking funds for something personal" Humdinger responded.
"Care to say what that might be?" Ryder asked slowly "and why do you need Chickaletta?".
"Didn't anyone ever tell you it's rude to mutter in other people's business, and as for your chicken friend I'm guessing Mayor Goodway will pay quite the pretty penny to get her back" Humdinger said turning to face the two.
"So it's ransom?" Skye asked, getting the gist of what was going on.
"You always were perceptive Chase, more so than your other useless teammates" Huminder replied.
"Okay ouch" Skye thought at the rude comment.
"And as much as I dislike that term, yes you could call it that" Humdinger said reaching for the crate.
"Hey hands away from the crate" Ryder said firmly.
"So sorry but this is something I need!" Humdinger said as he swiped the crate away and made a break for the exit.
"Chase now!" Ryder said to Skye.
"Uh right arf tennis ball cannon!" Skye said as it was the first thing that popped into her head and she proceeded to aim it at the running mayor.
"This is harder to aim than I thought," Skye thought as she nervously aimed it, her whole body was shaking but she knew if she waited any longer he would get away.
"Okay here goes nothing" She thought as she fired the cannon. She missed the mayor completely but managed to hit the crate that Chickaletta was in knocking her out of the Mayor's grasp. As she did she heard the chicken kaw out most likely from shock and hopefully not from pain.
"Sorry Chickaletta" Skye winced.
"I guess that works but, Chase we still have to catch the Mayor!" Ryder said quickly.
"Oh uh right" Skye replied alarmed "Um arf net!".
But she was too late the man had already escaped through the back and hopped on his kitty carrier and sped off.
"Better luck next time Paw Patrol!" He yelled as he escaped through the trees.
The two went over to the crate and found Chickaletta unharmed.
"Well Humdinger got away but at least we saved Chickaletta" Ryder said, picking up the crate.
Skye gazed off to where the mayor had escaped and thought about all she had just experienced.
"What a weird old man" Skye remarked.
