Morning finally hit Adventure Bay, Ryder was already up still worried about Rocky and Skye, he greeted Chase then went outside to greet the rest of the pups. Marshall soon stepped up and asked Ryder to if he can talk to Chase privately. Ryder agreed and Marshall ran inside the Lookout to talk to his friend.
"Oh, hey, good morning Marshall." Chase said calmly.
"Chase, we need to talk about what's going to happen to me." Marshall stated.
"Ok...how were you feeling last night?" Chase asked.
"I don't know, I barely got any sleep last night because of it!" Marshall replied.
"Marshall, you have to relax." Chase eased..
"How? Tell me how I'm supposed to relax knowing that I'm going to go feral any second now!" Marshall yelled out.
"Just relax Marshall, that's all I got to say. Look, the best thing I suggest for you to do is to tell everyone right now." Chase said.
"But...but what if they-?" Chase cut him off.
"They aren't going to do anything besides try to help you!" Chase stated. "It's best to do this now rather than later because it might be too late, the longer you wait, the more damage you'll do, trust me on that." Chase assured.
"How did you handle this Chase?" Marshall asked.
"What? Handle being a wolf or something?" Chase asked.
"Yeah, how did you handle that?" Marshall asked.
Chase sighed. "Marshall, I don't think now is the time for that, but I'll give you a quick answer, it was rough but that was different." Chase said. "Look no more questions, tell everyone to come in here so you can tell them about what really happened last night."
Marshall didn't want to listen to Chase but he realized that he was right.
"I...I...you're right Chase, I'll tell them later, guess I'm just overthinking this." Marshall assumed.
Ryder was in the garage of the Lookout, working on making a new pup pad until he was interrupted by Zuma.
"What is it Zuma?" Ryder asked.
"Um...Mayor Goodway is outside and she wants to speak with you." Zuma answered.
"Mayor Goodway? Why does she need to speak with me?" Ryder asked himself while leaving the garage.
Ryder approached Mayor Goodway who was in a rather sad mood.
"Mayor, what's wrong, why did you want to speak with me?" Ryder asked.
"It's something urgent, I need to speak with you privately Ryder." Mayor Goodway stated.
"Oh, yeah sure, come on we can talk up in the Lookout." Ryder said before him and Mayor Goodway went up to the Lookout.
"What do you think that was about?" Zuma asked.
"I don't know, let's just hope it's nothing bad." Rubble said.
"So what is it that you wanted to tell me?" Ryder asked.
Mayor Goodway sighed and began to tell Ryder.
"Earlier this morning, some of the residents in Adventure Bay saw Rocky's rig near the beach and found 3 dead pups surrounding it." Mayor Goodway explained.
"Three pups? Marshall said there was only one." Ryder thought to himself.
"Ryder, what's going on? You have to tell me so I can do my best to protect you and the citizens of Adventure Bay." Mayor Goodway stated.
"Look,I can't explain it but Chase can, come on he'll tell you-." Ryder was cut off by the sound of screaming in the distance.
The pups also heard the screams and headed up to the Lookout, getting their gear, they were up in the Lookout to talk to Ryder about what they just heard.
"Pups, no time, just get in your rigs and see what's going on!" Ryder ordered.
The pups listened and went to their rigs.
"Mayor Goodway, go down to the main floor and watch over Chase, what ever is happening could be dangerous for you and everyone else." Ryder said to the Mayor before going down to his garage.
"Pups, let's split up, Rubble you're with me, Zuma and Marshall head to City Hall." Ryder advised.
Ryder and Rubble headed towards the town and stopped,they slowly drove down the road leading to Katie's due to people running away from that direction. Ryder asked if anyone knew what was happening but they were just focused on getting away.
"What are they running from?" Rubble asked.
"I don't know but we have to see what's going on." Ryder replied with a worried look on his face.
The two were stopped by a car in the middle of the road,blocking the way to Katie's place.
"Oh no, come on, we'll leave our vehicles here, let's go Rubble." Ryder said to the bulldog. As they were going in they heard a loud crash near City Hall.
Zuma and Marshall took the road leading to City Hall and looked around, seeing many of the citizens running, Marshall took the lead and saw City Hall down the road, him and Zuma picked up speed but was hit by a speeding car, Zuma was fine but Marshall's rig tipped over and resulted in him almost falling into the bay.
"Marshall!" Zuma jumped out of his hovercraft and headed towards the Dalmatian to check on him. "Oh no, Marshall! Marshall are you ok?" Zuma asked the injured Dalmatian.
Marshall gasped for air as he opened his eyes, he saw Zuma and caught his breath.
"Yeah...I'm fine...just hurt." Marshall assured. Zuma helped the dally up and walked to his hovercraft.
"Come on! I gotcha!" As the Labrador helped his Dalmatian friend get to his rig, the two heard a voice behind all the panicking that was happening.
"Now ain't this a surprise..."
Ryder entered the parlor along with Rubble but the lights were out and it was dead quiet.
"Katie? Are you in here?" Ryder yelled out.
The two looked around noticing blood on the floor. Ryder saw a door and slowly approached it, upon opening it he saw Katie holding Callie close to her, scared along with Everest and Tracker.
"Katie? Everest? Tracker? What're you doing here, what happened?" Ryder asked.
Katie looked up and saw Ryder and hugged him with tears coming out of her eyes.
"Katie, relax, tell me what happened." Ryder eased, gesturing her to sit down.
Katie took a deep breath and began to explain.
"There was this crazy pup, it just ran in here trying to attack me but thanks to Everest and Tracker showing up, they injured the pup and it ran away, heading towards City Hall." Katie explained.
"Are you all okay though?" Ryder asked.
"Yeah we're fine, the pup didn't do anything to us. Where are the other pups?" Everest asked.
"Marshall and Zuma should be at City Hall right now, Rubble, call them to see what's happening over there." Ryder said.
"You got it Ryder." Rubble called Zuma's pup tag and he immediately picked up.
"Zuma, how is it over there?" Rubble asked.
"..." There wasn't a answer.
"Zuma?" Rubble called.
"I'm coming for you and those other three other pups!" Maverick yelled through Zuma's pup tag.
At this moment Ryder turned off Rubble's and the other's pup tags.
"Ryder, what're we going to do?" Rubble asked.
"I don't know, we can't go out there, as long as he doesn't trace your pup tags, we should be fine. I don't know about Zuma and Marshall though." Ryder replied with a worried face.
Chase was worried about what was going on in Adventure Bay, Mayor Goodway tried calming him down by petting him but the pup was still worried, looking around the room he noticed the syringe that Blizzard gave him, Chase didn't want to even think about that option but something was telling him that he needed it.
"Mayor, hand me that syringe." Chase said.
"What? Why do you need it?" Mayor Goodway asked.
"Something doesn't feel right, I think...I think the pups are in trouble." Chase said.
Goodway grabbed the syringe and handed it to Chase. "What's in this syringe?" Goodway asked.
"You'll find out, Mayor, go up to the Lookout and lock everything down." Chase said.
Mayor Goodway didn't respond but rather listened to the pup and headed up the Lookout.
"Time to see if he was telling the truth." Chase said while injecting the syringe into himself.
Everything was quiet in the parlor for a while until the sound of Maverick's voice broke it.
"Ryder, get out here, get out here now!" Maverick called out. "I know you're in there, Ryder. You and those three pups!" Maverick said, still calling out to everyone.
Ryder and everyone else froze in place upon hearing the pups voice.
"Ryder, don't make this harder than it needs to be, give me those pups and you can go!" Maverick yelled out.
"Ryder, you're not actually going to listen to him right?" Everest asked.
"Of course not, I'm not letting anything happen to you pups. Katie, is there another way to get outta here?" Ryder asked.
"I'm afraid not Ryder, the only way in and out is through the front." Katie replied.
"I'm getting impatient here Ryder, come on, I know you don't want to lose your Dalmatian here!" Maverick said.
"Damn it, he's got Marshall!" Ryder advised to the pups.
"That other pup, what's his name, Zuma? He's fast I'll give him that but I'll find him eventually! I'm giving you thirty seconds before we get to see what's inside Marshall's guts!" Maverick yelled out.
"Pups, there's nothing else we can do, we might as well just go out there." Ryder said.
"What?!" Katie yelled out.
"20 seconds!"
"We don't have any other choice..." Ryder stopped as he heard Rubble's pup tag beep.
"Zuma and I got the drop on him, head outside and try to stall him, once everything goes down, just get to your rigs and get out of here, at least get the pups out."
"Who was that?" Katie asked.
"It sounded like...Chase."
"10 seconds!"
"You pups know the plan." Ryder assured before leaving the parlor.
"Ah, there you are, I thought you were going to let me kill Marshall here. Hand over the pups." Maverick ordered.
"Everest, Rubble, Tracker...come out." Ryder called out.
The pups listened and went outside to their leader.
"You know, I'm surprised you just gave them up like that Ryder, I mean, aren't they like family to you?" Maverick asked.
Ryder didn't answer, he looked at the pups around Maverick and noticed Skye was among one of them.
"Where's Rocky?" Ryder asked sternly.
"He's surviving, probably has some broken ribs but he's fine, now the pups...hand them over." Maverick ordered yet again.
"Hand over Marshall first." Ryder ordered.
"No, no, no. You don't have control over this situation Ryder." Maverick said putting his claws up to Marshall's neck. "I do, so hand over the pups."
Skye looked glanced over at the deranged pup with a worried look, even she knew he was losing it.
Chase and Zuma watched over as Maverick began to lose his patience.
"You ready Zuma?" Chase asked.
"Ye-yeah,I'm ready." Zuma replied.
"Ok, remember, don't get bitten." Chase assured.
Zuma got into position but noticed that Skye was with Maverick, along with two other pups.
"Chase, you see-?"
"Yeah, I see her, I wish we can do something to help her but we can't. Just make sure Ryder and the pups are fine and get out of here safely." Chase ordered.
"I'm beginning to lose my patience Ryder!" Maverick yelled out as he started to dig his claws into Marshall's neck.
"Ok! Ok, take the pups, just don't hurt Marshall." Ryder gave in to the pups demands.
"Always knew you were going to sell out your own pups, Ryder." Maverick smiled.
In an instant Maverick was tackled to the ground by Chase, Ryder took this chance and grabbed Marshall.
"Ryder, get him to safety, Zuma and I will handle this!" Chase yelled out.
"Are you insane?! You two of you can't take them-!" Ryder was cut off by Chase.
"Just go! There's no time!" Chase yelled out again as he was pushed off by Maverick.
Maverick rushed towards Ryder but was quickly tackled by Chase again.
"You're not laying a paw on them!" Chase said with hatred in his eyes. He began to press his paws on Maverick's throat.
"Chase...I don't think...you should...kill me...don't you want the cure?" Maverick asked through breaths.
Chase didn't listen to his brother, he just put even more pressure on his throat until he got tackled by another pup. Maverick took this time to catch his breath.
Chase got up and saw the pup, it was no one he knew, just another pup that was getting used by his brother.
"You're making a big mistake helping Maverick, once he gets what he wants, he'll just leave you for dead." Chase said even though he knew he couldn't get through the pup.
The pup charged at Chase again with surprising strength, knocking the wolfified Shepherd to the ground and quickly pinning him down, going for the kill.
Zuma was watching over Ryder and the pups, making sure they got to their rigs.
"Ryder, you almost ready to get out of here?" Zuma asked.
"Yeah, come on Marshall, I got you buddy." Ryder said comforting the pup.
"No...Ryder let me go, I need to help them!" Marshall yelled out.
"No way, we gotta patch you up!" Everest yelled out. "Ryder, come on, we gotta go!"
Marshall was squirming in the boy's arms realized it was no use.
"I'm infected!" Marshall yelled out.
The pup had Chase pinned down hard, he was about to end Chase but was quickly knocked off him. Chase looked over to see who just saved him.
It was Skye.
The pup got up from the knockdown and began to argue with the pup.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I should be asking you the same thing, Maverick wants him alive!" Skye said.
"I don't follow Maverick's way of doing things, I do things the way I do, and that means ending the pup's life!"
"I won't let you go near him!" Skye assured getting into a defensive position.
Chase was confused,was it Skye following Maverick's orders or was it actually her protecting him?
"You're infected?" Ryder asked as he set the pup down.
"Yeah...I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, I should've told you on the night it happened but...look there's no time, you have to go, please. Chase and I will handle them." Marshall said.
"Oh Marshall..." Everest said as she nuzzled him.
"You heard the pup, come on, let's head back to the Lookout." Zuma said as the pups heard his voice breaking.
"No, we can't go back, he'll know we're there. We gotta leave town, make sure he doesn't find us." Ryder explained.
Skye struggled against the pup but managed to get on the pup's back, while the pup struggled, Skye kept clawing at his back. Eventually, the pup managed to get Skye off him and throw her across the road, upon impact, the small pup was knocked out.
The pup noticed this and headed towards Ryder and the rest.
Chase ran back to the pups but was stopped by another one of Maverick's pups.
"Going somewhere, Shepherd?"
"I'm not even going to waste my time with you, either get out of my way and leave, or die, it's your choice." Chase said with a deadly look in his eyes.
The pup looked at him and was intimidated by his look, he slowly backed off and ran away.
Chase got his mind off the pup and ran towards Ryder and the pups, he noticed the pup that was attacking him earlier was heading towards Ryder and the rest. Chase managed to tackle the pup before he attacked the others.
"What the hell are you waiting for?! You need to leave now!" Chase yelled out as he was pinning the pup down.
"Ryder, we gotta head to the Lookout and take Mayor Goodway with us, we'll go to Farmer Yumi's place." Zuma quickly advised to Ryder and the pups.
"Alright, come on pups, Chase meet us there and protect Marshall." Ryder ordered as he and the rest of the pups drove back to the Lookout.
Chase picked Marshall back up and was surrounded by Maverick and the other pup.
"Where's Skye?" Maverick asked the pup.
"She...she betrayed us Maverick, she's over there." The pup pointed.
"I've should've expected it, anyway. Chase you're outnumbered here, hand over Marshall and I'll let you go, I don't have a use for you, at least not now." Maverick said to the Shepherd.
"Yeah, I'm not buying any of that." Chase defended, getting in front of Marshall.
"Chase, listen to me and listen closely, you and I both know that Marshall is infected, you can't save him...you can't save anyone, just hand him over." Maverick declared.
Chase was furious, he was about to strike but he was stopped by Marshall.
"He's right." Marshall said to the shepherd.
"What?" Chase replied in shock.
"You can't save me Chase, I'm already infected, he's giving you a chance here, don't waste it." Marshall defused.
Chase didn't say a word,he looked at the Dalmatian with guilt in his eyes.
"Head back to the Lookout and figure out a plan to end this." Marshall whispered as he handed Chase his pup tag and left with Maverick but as they left, something hit Chase, it was a tranquilizer dart. As Chase fell to the ground he noticed a white pup walking in front of him, he could just barely see who it was.
"Sweetie?" Chase weakly questioned.
"Nighty night Chase." Sweetie smiled as Chase blacked out.
