----Chapter 17-----

"I have a job for you! There is a sheepy-type plane outside. I want you to go bring it here." Karnage shouted down to his crew who were in the hangar getting their planes back into their normal positions.

"Dumptruck, Zoll...Will and-" Karnage looked for the last person in his lineup and found him coming down the stairs. "Mad Dog. You will go fleece the sheep."

"What about me?" Camdyn asked.

"Well, I suppose you are going to be learning sometime. You go, too."

Before he changed his mind, Camdyn took off to where her own plane was. She could feel the others staring at her. She ignored them and got her plane into position, next to Mad Dog. He looked over at her and shook his head.

"You really are a moron." he mouthed. He would have been drowned out by the running engines anyway. Ratchet was running from plane to plane yelling instructions at them.

"MAD DOG! Don't use the overdrive! I swear, this is the last time I'm rebuilding it!" he called out as he went by. Camdyn was surprised she could hear him. The sound was deafening. It reverberated around the inside of the ship. Camdyn looked over at Mad Dog and he pointed to Will. Camdyn nodded that she understood. Follow Will.

Camdyn's hands were sweaty and she felt like her heart was going to jump out and start running in circles around the room. She'd done this before, she kept telling herself. The only trouble was that the last time, Mina had been flying. Before she could start looking for the bear, Will had given the signal and they'd taken off. Camdyn fought the urge to close her eyes as she lifted off and went out the hangar door. She managed to make it out without mishap. She looked back up and searched for Will's plane. The others were heading off after the wounded plane. As she watched, it's wings quivered and she realized it was trying to turn. Camdyn tried to hang back since she had no idea what she should do. Mina had never actually had her fly in formation.

"Get up here and help, girl!" Will's voice crackled over the radio.

Camdyn didn't have the nerve to try and answer him and instead brought her plane back up into the formation. They were close enough to the plane now to see the occupants. Camdyn detachedly thought that Mad Dog must have a sixth sense because it was the same dingo from Louie's. The hyena flying was milking as much as she could from the plane and was headed right where they wanted them. Straight to the vulture.

Camdyn almost sighed in relief as the plane continued toward the airship. Will's voice brought her back to where she was.

"Get around them! They're goin' for the roof!"

Camdyn didn't wait, she didn't want to be yelled at again and tried to get on one side of the plane and block them from turning toward the roof. The hyena flipped the plane around and went under Camdyn to the roof. Camdyn yelled something that would have curled the women at the finishing school's hair. Zoll went after the hyena, Mad Dog right behind him. Camdyn followed them, unsure of what to do.

The hyena managed to land on the roof of the airship and both occupants scrambled out as Zoll overshot his landing and nearly clipped the hyena with his prop. Mad Dog didn't miss his landing. He jammed the brake on and jumped out in one movement that may have saved his life. The Hunter fired a handgun at the mutt and missed, the bullet riocheting off the covering around the engine. Mad Dog still had his rifle, and now had it trained on the two bounty hunters. The Hunter and Mad Dog were in a stand off.

Karnage had managed to get the rest of the crew to the roof as soon as he realized the hyena intended to land there. He wasn't particularly worried. Two people were hardly a match for thirty pirates. They came to a halt as they saw Mad Dog and The Hunter. Somehow, Camdyn managed to land her plane in the hangar and was scrambling up the stairs as Will, Zoll and Dumptruck were getting out of their planes to go help. They were all certain that the plane they'd chased down wasn't in any condition to take off again.

Just as Camdyn reached the top of the stairs, two shots rang out. She climbed onto the roof in time to see Mad Dog drop to his knees. The Hunter had missed again, intending to shoot Mad Dog in the head, he managed to hit him in the side instead. The Hunter though, didn't have to worry about being a piss poor shot anymore. Mad Dog hadn't missed.

It felt like years to Camdyn as she ran across to the mutt. He was now laying face down on the top of the ship. Sophie was there seconds later. The tigeress rolled him onto his back and he coughed.

"You aren't gonna die. I'm not letting you. I still owe you one for that time you snuck that turtle on board and stuck him in the soup. Lucky thing for him it was cooling off when you let him start swimming in it." The tigeress rattled on with various things that Mad Dog had done to incur her wrath that she still had to repay. She'd started investigating his wound.

"Did I-" Mad Dog started, then stopped, trying again he managed to get it all out "Did I get him?"

"Yeah. Yeah. I think you did. Anyway, you gotta teach me how to be a pirate since Mina's busy. Remember?"

"How could I forget? You think I'm a moron like you?" he winced as Sophie pulled his vest open. She extended her claws and looked at Camdyn.

"You might not want to watch this...Just hold his mouth shut so he doesn't bite me."

"What?"

"Look! I've got to get the bullet out of him so that I can fix him up before he bleeds to death out here. If you don't hold onto his mouth, I'm gonna have an extra set of stripes." Sophie snapped. Mad Dog looked at Camdyn.

"Do it." Sophie snapped.

Camdyn didn't argue, she just did what she was told. Mad Dog fought as Sophie pulled the bullet out of his side. Camdyn was glad that she didn't have to look. It was about this time that she realized that the rest of the crew was standing there watching.

"There." Sophie held her claws out with the bullet in them. "You can keep this as a souvenir." She handed it to Camdyn, who'd let go of Mad Dog when she'd realized Sophie was done.

"Is he gonna be ok?"

"Yeah. He'd make too many people happy if he kicked it all right now." Zoll said with absolute certainty.

Sophie picked up the mutt, who protested, and carried him inside after she'd temporarily bandaged him.

Camdyn followed them all inside, then abruptly sat down in the middle of the hallway and started shaking and crying. She buried her face in her hands. She looked up only when she felt someone touch her shoulder. Half expecting it to be Mina she started to say something, then stopped as she realized it wasn't.

AN: I've got more written to this, but I didn't like the way I handled the next scene, so I'm rewriting it. I'll have it up sometime in the near future. If you liked what I have so far, leave a review so I know. Otherwise, I'll never know if anyone actually reads the new chapters or not. :)