A/n: Thank you everyone for your kind reviews. I value your opinions so much and stand in awe of all of the talented writers on this site. I am not worthy! I've been trying to keep as faithful to the show as I can. Please don't let me make a mistake! Please let me know what I'm doing right, and more importantly, what I'm doing wrong! And once again, I know nothing about cars. I'm just borrowing a problem my brother's vehicle had recently.

Disclaimer: not mine! 'Ceptin the bad guys but that's just 'cause no one else would take them.

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"Breaker one, breaker one, might be crazy but I ain't dumb…Craaaaazy Cooter comin' at ya, seekin' out two Lost Sheep that went astray. Bo and Luke, you got your ears on? Come on."

Luke grabbed the CB mike while guiding Dixie one-handed over the bumps in the old dirt road. "Ten-four, Crazy C, read you loud and clear. What's on your mind?"

"Well, Emmett Larrabee just give me a call over the CB, said he run into a friend of yours. Goes by name General Lee, but the old boy's just settin' out here 'thout a friend in the world and a blowed-out front tire. I was just gonna hook him up to my tow-truck and haul him back to y'all's place, but thought you might want a head's-up first. Say, I was wonderin'," Luke could just hear the curiosity in Cooter's voice seep out over the radio as the mechanic added, "what's the General doin' out here all by hisself? Why didn't you an' Bo give me a call an' let me know he was ailin'?"

"Never mind that right now," Luke interjected. "Did Emmett say whether he seen any sign of Bo around where he found the General? Come back."

"Bo ain't with you?" Cooter's genuinely confused voice asked, giving Luke the answer he didn't want. "I thought y'all Lost Sheep come in pairs? Come back."

"Cooter, I'm gonna need to meet ya where ya found the General. What's your twenty?"

"Close by the old stone quarry." Cooter looked over at General Lee doubtfully, then picked up the CB again. "But, Lucas old buddy, ya sure ya don't want me takin' the General out your way? I can look for Bo while I'm at it. Come on."

Luke wiped a hand over his brow wearily. "Trust me Cooter. I got an idea of where Bo is, an' if I'm right he ain't gonna take too kindly to you movin' the General at the moment. Leastways not till I get there. Come back."

"That's a big ten-four, Lucas Dukas. But if ya change your mind or ya need me at all, just give me a holler an' I'll foller! I'm gone!"

"Ten-four, Crazy C. Over and out."

"As you can see," Cooter announced as Luke arrived on the scene and hopped out of Dixie, "I didn't touch a thing. Didn't even get the spare tire out of the trunk. Just sat back and waited for you like you asked. Now would you mind tellin' me what's goin' on, buddyroo?"

"Well, first off you wouldn't a found the spare tire in the trunk," Luke said grimly, fishing in his pocket for his set of keys to the General. Bo's set was nowhere to be seen.

He turned to Cooter, tossing his keys over to the mechanic while he dragged all the items he'd found littering the parking lot where the General had been parked earlier out of Dixie. Cooter stared down at the keys in his hand in confusion. "Luke, now I been waitin' for some kind of explanation for some time now. Ain't ya gonna give me at least somethin' to go on?"

Luke answered worriedly, "I don't think what you find in the General's trunk is gonna be in any kind of condition to help with a flat tire. But ya might want to check in there anyway, if what I'm guessin' is right."

"Can't just up and tell me, now can ya," Cooter muttered to himself, mentally shrugging as he unlocked the car's trunk, and then stared in disbelief at what he saw inside.

"Bo?"

Bo was just beginning to come to as a shaft of dim twilight dazzled his eyes, after the blackness of before. He stared fuzzily at his friend and his cousin. "Cooter? Luke? How'd I get here?" He tried to scramble out of the General's trunk by himself, but between the confined space, his cramped body and his own lingering disorientation, he needed Cooter's help to pry himself loose.

"Now I know how Uncle Jesse feels climbin' out the General's windows," Bo gasped, relieved as Cooter finally pulled him free, the mechanic also providing a soft place to land.

Cooter grunted from the impact of Bo's body landing on top of him. "Bo, buddy, you ain't exactly light, and my innards ain't used to this kind of abuse!" he complained.

Bo managed to disentangle himself from Cooter, rolling onto the ground while he tried to will his surroundings back into focus. "Hey, this is the old stone quarry, ain't it?"

Luke took a moment from getting the General roadworthy again to answer, "Yeah, we figure whoever it was that clobbered you was the one took the charity money from Miss Lulu. Did you see who done it?"

"There was a fella built about like you, Luke, 'cept he weren't quite as strong as you, and there was this girl…"

Cooter and Luke exchanged a knowing glance at Bo's mention of the lady thief. "Cooter, did Emmett Larrabee say anything about seein' anyone around the General?" Luke asked.

Cooter grinned, running over to his truck. "Why don't we just ask him?" he said, picking up the CB. He came back a few moments later as Luke and Bo were putting their tools and the flat in the General's trunk where they belonged. "He said he saw a dark-colored sedan pullin' away as he was drivin' past," Cooter said.

Luke let out a disappointed sigh. "That could be any number of cars in Hazzard!"

"But," Cooter added mischievously, "the one we're a lookin' for has a cylinder that ain't firin' right. Ol' Emmett said he heard the sound of it, plain as day! And he said they was headed out in the direction of the Boars Nest when he seen them," he said meaningfully. "Now, if y'all don't mind, I think I'm gonna just scout on ahead. Holler if ya need me!"

Bo grinned at Cooter's news. "C'mon Luke, let's get after 'em!" He was already sliding into the driver's side of the General as he spoke.

Luke disagreed. "Let's let Daisy and Uncle Jesse know where to look, and tell her where to pick up Dixie first. Them two thieves already got a head start on us, and you ain't up to drivin' yet, are ya?" he asked, unable to keep all his concern out of his voice.

Bo leaned over the car and fixed Luke with a determined look. "Luke, I could drive the General if I was half-dead, if I had to!"

"But let's not prove that anytime soon, alright?"

Bo shrugged, conceding defeat. Truth be told, his head was bothering him more than he wanted to admit. He slid across the seat as Luke climbed into the driver's side of the car. The General's tires smoked as the boys sped off to find the ones behind the robbery, before Rosco could find the Dukes.

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A/n: Sorry about the delay. I think I only have one chapter left to go and I'll try to get it up within the next week if I can. Thanks for sticking with me this far, and I hope I can live up to your expectations. Please let me know how I do!