Disclaimer: The Fox and the Hound is the property of Daniel P. Mannix and Walt Disney Studios, not mine.

Lone Wolfdog: Okay, you'll find out in the first paragraph! Just keep reading!

Forever Young: It's okay to guess, you won't be screwing up anything! But keep reading to see if your guess was right, whatever it was!

Anonymous but Impressed: Thank you, thank you, I really appreciate your positive comments, man!

SumRise19: Glad you liked the fight! And it continues in this chappie, so keep reading!

Tonyboy: Thanks! Yeah, I'm a sucker for fight scenes w/ dogs so I had to have a few in here! Glad you liked my last story as well!

Cathy: No, "flying through the air" was just a figure of speech, but good guess. Actually, I had been thinking about Big Mama lately and then I had a dream about her. Then I decided to add her into the storyline, but it will be quite a few chapters b4 I put her in.

Narfgirl: We'll see if he shows up, and thanks for reading!

The Fox and the Hound 3: The Next Generation

Part One: The Younger Years

Chapter Fourteen: Found at Last, Part Two

When suddenly out of the clear blue sky, the deep sound of barking could be heard and before anybody that was paying attention knew what was going on, a large gray dog came crashing in through the window and ended up knocking Marty down again.

"Oh no, Jeff, it's that crazy dog from yesterday!"

Smoky had squeezed his eyes shut during this, but when he popped them back open he nearly killed over at who he saw. "Unc-Uncle Chief?" This completely blew the pup's mind. He had thought that he was dead all this time, even thought it was his fault! Before he could ask how in the heck he had survived the blow to the head, he felt himself getting snatched up by the scruff of the neck

"Come on, kids, let's go!" Chief said with a mouth full of puppy, making a quick exit towards the door just when Copper was able to get back on his feet again. Truth be told, the hound was quite surprised to see that Chief had suddenly shown up, but he immediately went back into fighting mode when Marty started rising from the floor.

"Oh my gosh!" Ace had to gasp. "It's–It's Uncle Chief! Beulah, he's alive!"

"Oh wow, I don't believe it!" Beulah cried, absolutely stunned. "Boy, do we owe Smoke an apology."

"We can do that later, let's just follow him and get out of here!" Ace told her. He called Autumn and Swift over and together they made a run for the door. Chief got up on his back legs and pawed at the door handle and eventually the door came open. The animals noticed this and they all stampeded across the warehouse in order to be free at last. Chief dumped Smoky on the ground next to the rest of the kids and said, "Stay there," before rushing back into the house to have his share of "fun".

"Jeff this is crazy! We got two dogs and a fox trying to kill us!" Marty screamed when he was being ambushed by the older dog.

"Yeah, I didn't sign onto this deal to get massacred!" Jeff added, at long last flinging Tod off of him. "Let's get out of here!"

They fought their way through the mass of escaping animals and high-tailed it for their truck. When they reached it, they turned on the motor and slammed down on the gas pedal and they tore themselves out of there.

A forest ranger was up in his watchtower drinking his usual mug of coffee when he thought he heard some strange noises coming from the east. He listened closer and found the noise to be . . . a bunch of dogs? A some men? Mixed in with the sounds of some other animals? What on earth?

The ranger grabbed up the phone and called headquarters immediately. "Sir, this is Ranger Greer. I'm picking up the weirdest noises . . ."

"Describe please."

"Well, there's a few dogs barking, some men yelling, and I could have sworn I heard a baby deer, a raccoon, a fox, some hawks . . ."

"Wait a minute. We were told to be on the look out for some men who may or may not be poaching all the animals—Jeffrey and Marty Walden. We also have reason to believe that they have kidnapped some dogs as well. Where are the noises coming from?"

"The east of me sir, in sector 12."

"Okay, ranger, get down there and we'll have some men down to assist you. Don't let the Walden brothers escape!"

Amos was still moping around his house. Things had been so quiet without Chief, Copper, and the pups. Belle was outside in her doghouse, worrying her head off about the family. What if something had happened to them all? What if she never saw them again?

Amos was about to plop down in his chair and help himself to a lonely dinner of squirrel mulligan when his telephone rang. Thinking maybe something had come up about the dogs, he quickly answered it.

"Hello?"

"Mr. Amos Slade?"

"Yes, that's me."

"We believe we may have located your missing dogs. We're sending a couple of our men down to your farm to escort you down there to identify them. Be ready to go in about twenty minutes."

"Twenty minutes? I'm ready now, hurry up and send them over!"

Yay, now the humans have finally located them, and Amos is on his way! And, more yay, Chief arrived on the scene in the nick of time! Now Smoky doesn't have to feel guilty about having accidentally killed him! What's to happen next? Keep reading to find out, and please review!