Morning came by Adventure Bay fast. The first pup that woke up was Chase, he woke up the rest of the pups and noticed that Skye and Catherine weren't responding to anything he was saying. He walked to Skye's pup house while telling the others to check the Lookout. He realized that Skye wasn't in her pup house and was starting to worry.
"Chase, they're not in the Lookout." Zuma said running back to the pup.
"Something happened last night, look around for anything that could help." Chase ordered to the rest of the pups.
"You think Rocky got to her?" Zuma asked as he followed the pup.
"No way, we would've heard it, I'm thinking Catherine had something to do with this." Chase declared.
"What about Maverick?" Zuma asked again.
"That's going to have to wait until we find Skye and Catherine." Chase stated as he left the water pup alone.
The pups looked around the Lookout for almost an hour and didn't find a clue to what happened last night.
Chase looked around the area a bit farther from the Lookout and noticed disturbed dirt near a tree. The pup approached it and started digging, his suspicions grew larger as he noticed what was buried.
It was Catherine's bag.
The pup got it out and took a peek inside the bag.
"What are you hiding from us, Cathy?" Chase said as he rummaged through the items in the bag. He stopped as he saw multiple syringes at the bottom of the bag.
That confirmed Chase's suspicions, he stopped looking and headed straight back to the pups.
Chase went inside the Lookout and put the bag on the ground in front of the pups.
"I found this buried not too far, you aren't gonna like what's in it." Chase moved the irrelevant items from the bag and showed the syringes to everyone.
The pups looked in shock, some confused on why they were even there to begin with.
"She played us? All that stuff she said was all lies! We let her get close and look what happened..." Chase lowered his ears but realized something. "The cameras...Ryder check the cameras from overnight, maybe we can see where they went!" Chase ordered quickly.
Ryder went to the main monitor and showed the camera footage from last night, showing Skye turning into a werepup and them running out of view and into the town.
"Skye's a werepup? I thought she was cured?" Rubble asked.
"You think Catherine did that to her? I mean she has the syringes, maybe she gave one to Skye when none of us were around?" Everest theorized.
"None of that matters right now. What does matter is that we find them and bring them back. Zuma, Tracker, you're with me." Chase motioned for the two pups to follow him to the Paw Patroller.
Catherine awoke from her slumber to find herself tied up, she looked around and noticed Skye was near her.
"Skye!" Catherine shouted.
The now wolfified pup looked at her and rubbed her eyes.
"Catherine? Where...where are we?" Skye asked.
"I-I don't know, are you okay?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah, I think so." Skye answered.
The pups stopped talking as they heard the clacks of paws coming towards them, they looked towards the direction and saw three pups.
Maverick, Rocky, and Sweetie faced the tied pups. The Terrier stayed behind the two pups, with a guilty look on her eyes.
"You should be asking yourself that, Cathy." Maverick said as he walked towards the pup. Catherine stayed quiet as the pup continued. "Don't you love the burned aroma this place gives off?" Catherine didn't answer as she kept fidgeting her paws to get loose. "What about you, my sweet werepup?" Skye started growling at Maverick, who showed no fear. "I'll give it an hour before the feral instincts take over." Maverick looked over at the once friendly eco pup. "Do what you want with them Rocky, it is my gift to you." Maverick said as he started leaving the warehouse. "Come on Sweetie, we still have lots to do before we head off to Barkingburg."
The two pups left the warehouse and Rocky smiled at the pups. "I have a game to play with you two..." Rocky opened a door that held back some feral pups. "Let's see how long you last against them." Rocky let the feral pups loose and got to a safe place just as Catherine got herself untied, she quickly cut Skye loose and they started fending off the feral pups.
Catherine dug her claws onto a feral pups neck and brought them across the pups neck, Skye pinned a pup down a bit into that one's neck, it was a pretty tough fight but they still had to deal with three other feral pups as Rocky watched and smiled deviously at the sight of the two pups fighting for their lives.
As they finished off the rest of the feral pups, Catherine and Skye fell to the ground, exhausted and in pain.
"You poor, poor pups." Rocky said to the two.
Skye looked at the pup with anger in her eyes. "You were my friend Rocky! You know deep down Maverick caused all of this! Not Chase!" Skye yelled out.
"It doesn't matter what you say to him Skye...he's too far gone, I mean, just look at him, he almost killed us." Catherine stated as she was holding her side.
"You're hurt!" Skye pointed out as as she ran up to the pup.
"One of the ferals got me, I...I just need to patch it up and I'll be fine." Catherine assured as Skye helped her up.
"Poor Catherine, Maverick told me so much about you, how you helped him before Sweetie came along. How you despised the pups for a sole reason and now you're helping them?!" Rocky asked as Catherine had guilt in her eyes.
Skye looked at the Retriever with those 'please don't tell me it's true' eyes. Catherine looked away from Skye.
"You didn't need to know, not like this at least." That was the only thing Catherine managed to say.
"I'll give you a chance." Rocky came to the pups and offered them a syringe. "The last one standing takes the syringe and leaves alive." Rocky dropped the syringe and walked back to his safe room.
"Catherine you need it, you're hurt, I'm still fine!" Skye said as she looked at Catherine.
"No...no...you take it...I just gotta rest here a bit." Catherine said as she lied herself down on the ground.
"Catherine?!"
"Catherine!"
"Catherine!!"
"Honey? Are you ok?" Catherine immediately perked up at the voice and looked around.
"Is Cathy ok?" A little girls voice was heard in the next room over.
"Yeah she's okay, I think she just had a nightmare. You ok, Cathy?" The lady walked over to Catherine and start to gently pet her.
"What? What happened?" Catherine asked the lady.
"Oh honey, you just had a bad dream, do you want to talk about it?" The lady asked as Catherine looked up at her.
"I was in a...burned down warehouse with a pup from the Paw Patrol." Catherine explained.
"Oh, you and the Paw Patrol, I know how much you and Kylie love those pups. It was just a nightmare, it wasn't real Cathy. Go back to sleep, we'll see you in the morning." The lady finished petting the pup and walked away. "I love you Cathy."
"I love you too..."
Catherine opened her eyes to see Skye facing her with a worried look on her face.
"One of us has to get to the pups and tell them, tell them everything you know, they'll trust you." Skye said as she injected the syringe into Catherine.
"How disappointing, I was expecting you to kill one another." Rocky looked at Catherine. "You heard the pup, go and tell them what you know, tell Chase everything, let's see how the trust is then." Catherine left the warehouse, holding her side to relieve the pain.
She roamed through the streets, leaving a trail of blood behind her. It didn't take long before she collapsed yet again due to blood loss.
The pup was still conscious by then but not for long.
"Zuma, Tracker! Get her inside quick before the feral pups show up!" Catherine heard Chase's voice but just barely.
"Oh, dude, she's bleeding bad!" Zuma stated as he put pressure on the pup's wound.
"Get us back to the Lookout fast!"
It was quiet at the Lookout, Chase and the others got back and Catherine was being treated for her wound. It took some time but the pup eventually woke up.
Chase was the first one to notice the pup and greeted her. "Hey, you're finally awake. That was pretty close back there, you lost a lot of blood."
"What...what happened?" Catherine asked.
"I don't know, you tell me?" Chase asked as he threw Catherine's bag on the ground, making the syringes fall out. "You thought we wouldn't find out?" Chase questioned.
"You don't understand..." Catherine said.
"Oh I understand quite enough, you bury this, Skye turns into a werepup, then we find you bleeding out in the middle of the street. What? Were you just trying to seem like a good pup?" As Chase finished talking, Ryder and the rest came in and saw what was happening. "Speaking of which, what happened to Skye?"
Catherine had to tell them the truth one way or another.
"It was Rocky, he took me and Skye to this burned down warehouse and made us fight for our lives." Catherine stood up slowly and looked at everyone. "She saved me but I couldn't save her."
"You're not saying what I think you're saying right?" Everest asked.
Chase assumed the worst when he heard those words.
Out of a fit of anger, he attempted to rush towards Catherine but was held back by the pups.
"She's still alive, I was infected and Skye gave me an injection, those injections are the same ones Skye gave me." Catherine pointed at the syringes on the ground.
"How do you know all this?" Zuma asked.
Catherine finally had to tell them the truth. "Because I made them, I helped Maverick with this whole thing a long time ago."
The pups let go of Chase but regretted it when he ran towards Catherine and tried attacking her again. The pups grabbed him and pulled him back again.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right now!" Chase yelled out.
"Chase! Stop, let her explain!" Ryder ordered.
With that, the wolfified Shepherd eased down as he let the pup continue.
"It was around the time Maverick found Chase when he was presumed 'dead'. He made me take blood samples of the pups he captured like Skye, Marshall, Rocky and you." Catherine looked at Chase. "I did it because I despised you all, I lost my owner because of you and I let that take me down a dark path. After you saved Chase, I stayed for a while and eventually left, Maverick didn't like pups who left him and nearly killed every single one that failed him or wanted out. After figuring some things out, the pups blood besides Chase didn't work so we scrapped them and made the samples out of his old blood. I knew Maverick was crazy and in case I ever failed him, I made those syringes that slow down the effects depending on the breed. Sometimes it either slows down the effects or just gets rid of them for a good while." Chase looked at the syringes and noticed they were similar to the vial that he got from Maverick back at the warehouse before it burned down.
"So I was never cured..." Chase said to himself.
"Do you know the cure, Catherine?" Zuma asked.
"I never figured it out and I don't think Maverick has either, I really don't know what the cure is, if there even is one to begin with." Catherine said as the room got quiet. "I did a terrible thing to everyone of Adventure Bay and to you pups." Catherine lowered her ears. "I hope I can make it up to all of you."
The silence continued to fill the room but Chase broke it.
"I've done terrible things too, things I'm not proud of." Chase walked up to the Catherine and placed his paw on her. "But you can make it up by helping us and stopping him once and for all." Chase looked around at everyone.
"Rest up everyone, this ends tonight."
