Well, I finally did it, I finished this story. Anyways, there's probably a ton of predictable stuff in this chapter, but hopefully you enjoy, so here's the final chapter, chapter 14!
Rocky and Chase circled and glared at the newly formed pitch black pup. He had no notable features other than the fact that his fur was completely black and his eyes were a deep red.
"You know, I never thought it was possible to split me from my vessel before, until now. I have to say, thank you Rocky, but now, I have no need for both of you to exist, so prepare to die!" The Devil shouted. He jumped and pounced at Rocky and Chase, both of them narrowly dodging the attack.
"Hmm, I must be getting use to my new form, I feel much more rusty than before. No matter, I can still kill you both like this!" The Devil commented.
"That was rusty? Rocky, we may have some trouble!" Chase panicked.
"Don't panic Chase, it will make the situation much worse for us. We need to get outside, come on, there's a ladder somewhere over…" Rocky called to Chase. Rocky scanned in the area of entrance in the ceiling but the ladder was nowhere to be seen. The only thing left was a few shards of metal on the floor that Rocky assumed that it was the remainders of the ladder. Rocky cursed after realizing that they had no way of escaping the lab. He started to think of other ways to exit, maybe create another ladder from his spare parts, or maybe he could jump out and find another ladder, but that means leaving Chase behind with The Devil.
"Uhh, Rocky? I suggest you start running!" Chase hollered.
"Wha?" Rocky responded, snapping back into reality from his thoughts. He saw The Devil charge up a giant dark sphere, ready to launch at them. Rocky quickly dove into action, jumping up and over to the other side of The Devil. Chase, on the other hand, was hiding behind a toppled table, hoping that whatever The Devil had conjured wouldn't be able to penetrate the solid table surface. Rocky watched as The Devil turned around and launched the ball right at Rocky. Rocky jumped once more, his paws skimmed the top of the ball, and landed right next to a giant crater that the energy sphere had created. Rocky started to panic a little, because those energy balls could absolutely demolish his entire lab and them with it, meaning he and Chase needed to get out immediately.
"Rocky, if you have any good ideas, we really could use them now!" Chase screamed over the table to Rocky.
"I'm thinking about it, I don't have any ideas yet!" Rocky screamed back. His mind was blank. None of his ideas would be able to work, he simply didn't have enough time or resources to execute anything. Rocky also couldn't focus properly as The Devil launched attack after attack at him and Chase. Then, Rocky thought about carrying Chase on him. Chase wasn't that heavy, Rocky thought, so decided to give that a try.
"Hey Chase, I have an idea on how to get out, I just hope you haven't gained weight since, I don't know, maybe from a few months ago?" Rocky asked after diving behind another table for cover.
"What? Of course I've gained weight! I'm still a growing pup, just like you!" Chase replied.
"Ah yes, growing, how could I forget that. Whatever, it doesn't matter. Chase, I want you to climb on my back. I should be able to jump out with you, I hope" Rocky commanded. Chase nodded and attempted to get over to Rocky. One of the problems about shouting your plan across the room is that the enemy can hear them discuss. The Devil switched his focus over to Chase and attacked Chase repeatedly, slowly breaking away Chase's protection. Chase had a worried look on his face, knowing that if any of the spheres hit him, then it would be over in an instant.
"Come on Chase! You've been through worse, you can do this!" Rocky encouraged. Chase gulped and ran from his cover over to Rocky with The Devil shooting ball after ball, fortunately none of them hit Chase. Chase got over to Rocky, panting hard.
"I'm never going to do that again, ever." Chase gasped.
"I agree, but first we need to get out. Quick, climb on!" Rocky told Chase. Chase
slowly climbed onto Rocky's back, gripping Rocky's sides. Rocky grunted as Chase got on. He had underestimated how much Chase had weighed and his legs were barely able to support him and Chase. Rocky stumbled around a bit, leaning from the weight, then slowly regained balance. After being able to stand still with Chase on him, Rocky tried to jump out. He went out from his cover, but realized that in his attempts at regaining his balance, The Devil was now guarding the exit.
"You thought that I would just stand over there? Of course I would try and stop you!" The Devil smirked. Rocky growled. He also hoped that he could do it fast enough that The Devil wouldn't have time to block the exit, but now things just got much harder. Rocky grunted once more and tried his best to circle The Devil, waiting for the right moment to escape. The Devil smiled evilly and conjured another ball. Rocky watched as his ball got bigger and bigger, but never throwing it at Rocky. The Devil was also waiting for Rocky to jump, neither making a move. Suddenly, The Devil launched the ball towards him and Rocky saw this coming. Rocky jumped for the exit, soaring above The Devil and landed right under the entrance and jumped up to the exit. Then, Rocky felt a shock right under him on his stomach. Rocky flinched, howled, and barely missed the edge, falling back onto the hard steel floor. The Devil had planned for Rocky to jump after his first attack and quickly charged another ball that would hit him right underneath. Rocky recovered from the blast quickly and stood back up, the pain still in his stomach. Rocky looked around for Chase, but didn't see him anywhere.
"Rocky! I'm up here, you need to get out!" Chase yelled from above. At that moment, The Devil had launched another ball at Rocky, Rocky barely dodging it, skimming his back leg. Rocky felt a jolt of pain crawling up his leg, a feeling that Rocky had never felt before. Rocky suddenly had a look of fear on his face, realizing that he could very well die if he made another slip up. The Devil noticed this and smiled. He conjured another energy weapon, this time it resembled an long shard the length of a spear. Rocky eyes grew wide and quickly stumbled to his feet. He knew that hitting him in the right spot with it would be able to do enough to hinder him from fighting back or even possibly kill him, but the living metal inside of him should be able to withstand it.
Rocky quickly jumped out of the way of his attacks, but following the one spear, The Devil had made many more at the ready to launch at him. Rocky jumped out of the way and behind a table, but the spears that came hurling towards him and pierced the table with no trouble at all. Then, Rocky finally realized what The Devil had done. He made them think that he was still adapting to his new body, when in reality he waited for Rocky to be alone to take him out with his stronger attacks.
"How do you like those? I never used them until now, and since you don't have anyone to help you, you are going to die here!" The Devil chuckled evilly.
"Those things will never kill me! It may be able to pierce the table, you won't get them anywhere near me!" Rocky hollered back. Rocky peeked over the table and saw that The Devil had conjured many of the spears and was preparing to launch all of them at the table, hoping one of them would get Rocky. Right when The Devil was about to launch the spears at Rocky, Rocky suddenly jumped out from behind the table and landed right under the exit once more. He knew that he could get out fast, but realized that he had just trapped himself. The Devil evidently had multiple spears ready to launch at the entrance and at him, meaning that unless he got lucky and his shots were aimed improperly, Rocky would be hit whether he jumped or tried anything else. Rocky cursed when suddenly he heard a voice from above.
"Ruff! Net!" Chase hollered and a net flew out of the launcher, ensnaring The Devil.
"What?!" The Devil hollered, getting knocked back by the net and losing focus to the energy spears, causing them to disappear.
"Quick! Get out!" Chase hollered down to Rocky. Rocky jumped right out of the lab, hugging Chase right after.
"What took you so long? I was almost dog food! Literally!" Rocky questioned.
"Well, It's kinda hard to get into the lookout to get my pup pack when Ryder's not here. But I realized something, When you separated me from The Devil, his powers were also split, half in me and the other half in him" Chase explained excitedly.
"Wait, so you're telling me that you have his powers?! That's so useful! I think if we use his own power against him, we can actually beat him!" Rocky exclaimed. Suddenly, they heard a deep growl from the lab and The Devil raised himself up from the entrance, holding a shredded net in his paws, throwing it down onto the ground.
"How dare you! I had him right where I wanted! Argh, you're so annoying! I think I'll kill you first!" The Devil growled.
"No you won't! I bet you couldn't even hit me!" Chase teased.
"Hey, you'd better watch your mouth if I were you!" The Devil growled back. He made a few more energy spears and launched them right at Chase. Chase gained a burst of speed, dodging every single spear. Both Rocky and The Devil gawked.
"You have powers?! More specifically, my powers?!" The Devil stated, then growled. "Just because you have my power doesn't mean you can beat me, You probably don't even know how to control it yet!"
"I may not know how to control some of your power, but I do know how to control the basics, such as lightning speed and energy spheres, after all, you did show them to me when you were controlling me" Chase replied. The Devil growled and created a massive amount of spears. The spears circled around him, all pointed towards Chase. He was about to fire them at Chase until Rocky bashed into The Devil, making him lose balance and all the spears missed their mark.
"How dare you!" The Devil shouted at Rocky and attempted to grab Rocky, but Rocky's amazing speed allowed Rocky to dodge The Devil's paws. Chase was up next, he conjured an energy ball and launched it at The Devil. The Devil was hit directly on his back while he was turned towards Rocky and immediately snapped back to see Chase. The Devil growled and pounced at Chase, knowing that his powers wouldn't do him any good against Chase. Pounce after pounce, The Devil missed and Chase was able to wear him out. Panting hard, The Devil slowly started to grimace, then started to smile, and then laughing.
"Come at me, I dare you!" he shouted at the two pups with a psychotic tone. The two pups looked at each other, confused at The Devil's sudden change. Chase responded by conjuring multiple spheres around him and launching them at The Devil. The Devil jumped out of the way of all of them, and then proceeded by tackling Chase. The two tumbled and fell onto the driveway, The Devil pinning Chase to the pavement by his throat. He conjured up a spear and was right about to stab Chase right in the heart with it until Rocky came running towards The Devil, trying to get him off of Chase. Suddenly, The Devil snapped up and looked at Rocky, smiling, and when Rocky was right next to him, kicked him, knocking onto his back and stabbed Rocky right through his back leg. Rocky felt the shock running up his leg once more and screamed. The Devil had now gotten up from the gasping Chase and right in front of the helpless Rocky.
"I finally pinned you down, I can deal with you first" The Devil spoke.
"Like I said before, you can't kill me! Anything you try won't be able to pierce my living metal!" Rocky retorted.
"I thought you were the smartest pup in the Paw Patrol. C'mon, think about it. I'll give you some time to think" The Devil sneered. Rocky was confused what he was talking about until he calmed down and thought about it. He looked back and saw his pierced leg with the black spear in it, staking him to the ground. Rocky turned around with a blank stare in his eyes, deep in thought.
"Pierced through my leg, down the center, meaning…" Rocky started and suddenly his eyes became as big as dinner plates. "No, don't do this! Chase help me!" Rocky pleaded. Chase got up from the ground groaning and saw The Devil had pinned Rocky with a spear at the ready, and Rocky having a panicked look on his face. Chase recognized what was happening and dashed over to try and save Rocky.
"Too late Chase" The Devil taunted and drove the spear right through Rocky's chest. "Haven't felt this pain in a long while, huh Rocky?" Rocky gasped as the spear drove deeper, draining the remaining life out of him.
"NO!" Chase screamed and pounced towards The Devil, but The Devil jumped back, pulling the spear out from Rocky's chest. Blood was spilling everywhere and Chase quickly tried to apply pressure to stop the bleeding, which was what Marshall told him to do if anyone was bleeding out. Chase held the wound for a while, his paws being stained by Rocky's blood. The Devil stood in the back, watching Chase clinging to his dead friend. Chase tried to find a heartbeat in Rocky, and started to tear up. He felt no heartbeat in Rocky. He had witnessed himself killing Gray, and now he witnessed The Devil killing Rocky. He let his tears spill out onto the ground, clutching the lifeless Rocky in his paws.
"Rocky…" Chase muttered.
"Don't worry, you'll be joining him soon enough!" The Devil remarked.
"No, I won't" Chase growled. "I will not die by you!" Chase shouted back, and a black aura sprouted around him. Chase's fur turned to a midnight black, eyes turning red. Chase felt a rush of energy, an energy for vengeance that enhanced his ability by tons. He slowly turned around and faced The Devil who was smiling.
"Well well, it seems you're completely shrouded by darkness. You must be pretty angry right now. But I'll have you know that I control darkness" The Devil commented.
"It doesn't matter. I will kill you for what you've done" Chase retorted.
"Now those are some bold words for a pup that can't even use his powers fully yet" The Devil teased. Chase growled and took a stance, slamming his paws into the ground. The area surrounding Chase and The Devil turned to darkness, surrounding both Chase and The Devil in black. Both Chase and The Devil were able to see clearly through the darkness, their red eyes glowing.
"My my, what a strong use of my power, I was going to use it on you, but it looks like you beat me to the chase!" The Devil complimented. Chase didn't respond and pounced towards The Devil. The Devil swiftly dodged the attack and fired a massive energy ball at Chase. Chase conjured a spear, launching it at the ball, causing both weapons to explode. The two dueling pups skidded back, then suddenly charged towards each other, creating their own weapons to clash with. The Devil created dual daggers, while Chase conjured up a massive sword. Their powers in the darkness seemed to increase significantly, and neither pup was sparing any effort to kill each other. The Devil and Chase clashed, one slashing at the other, not making any significant progress toward one side winning over the other. After a few minutes of fighting, Chase started to feel exhausted from creating mass amounts of projectiles and weapons and was starting to stumble a bit. The Devil took this moment to overpower Chase by swiping at Chase's feet, knocking him to the ground. The surrounding darkness faded back to reality, and The Devil went over to Chase with one of his daggers still intact.
"I told you, you can't beat me, I thrive in the darkness, I will always win" The Devil sneered.
"No, I won't allow that, you will never win!" Chase hollered back.
"Well now, it seems here that I've killed Gray, and your friend over there, Rocky. I'd say I've won. Heh, it's kinda sad how you thought you could get revenge, when obviously you could never beat me" The Devil replied. Chase let those words sink in. He was right, he could never beat him, he was simply not strong enough, not strong enough to protect his friends, family, not even himself. Chase changed back to his old German Shepherd look and closed his eyes, accepting his fate, knowing that he was a failure. The Devil was just about to plunge his dagger into his chest as well with a smug look on his face when, Suddenly, Chase felt time freeze, stopping The Devil right where he was. After a while of tension, Chase opened his eyes and looked around. He noticed that everything had froze in their place, The Devil's dagger almost touching his fur. Chase became very confused at what was happening.
"Is this what dying is like?" Chase asked. He stood back up and walked around, gravitating towards Rocky. He looked at Rocky's lifeless body, and began to cry once more.
"I'm sorry Rocky, I wasn't able to protect you, I'm a failure, a mess up. I couldn't even save myself" Chase whispered, crying to himself. "I hope you will forgive me in dog heaven, if I even go there after what I've done." Chase cried for a while until he had no more tears to shed. He looked back at the situation, and started to question further what was going on. Chase thought that maybe he was dead already, but then The Devil hadn't plunged the dagger into him yet. Suddenly, Chase started to get an idea. Maybe he wasn't dead, maybe he was doing this. He closed his eyes once more and concentrated on time resuming and suddenly, the flow of time continued, and The Devil stabbed his dagger into the air.
"What?! Where did you go?!" The Devil shouted and looked around, seeing Chase standing next to him. "How is this possible?!"
"Well, I may had just figured out that I am able to manipulate time and may have just moved when you were frozen" Chase explained.
"Impossible! My powers don't include anything like stopping time!" The Devil shouted.
"Then it might be a power that I always had!" Chase exclaimed. The Devil growled and pounced towards Chase, but Chase just blinked away. Chase turned up right next to The Devil and kicked him right in the side as hard as he could and The Devil went flying towards the lookout. Chase once more blinked behind The Devil and smacked him one more time, knocking him to the ground.
"This isn't funny! Come here and face me!" The Devil spoke in a panicked voice.
"Why should I? This is fun" Chase replied, laughing, and continued to beat The Devil to the ground.
"Fine, then kill me! You know that I will just go back into your body!" The Devil shouted at Chase. This made Chase stop. He knew all too well that The Devil would come back as him if he killed him. Chase realized that he really couldn't kill The Devil, he could only toy around with him. Then Chase remembered something in Rocky's stories. Rocky always had a necklace that stored his powers. Maybe he could use that to "store" The Devil when he infests his body again. He went over to Rocky's lab after freezing time once more and climbed down into the lab. He looked around the lab, scanning every object in detail. He noticed multiple blueprints of unfinished project Rocky was going to make, truck upgrades, new pup packs for future members, and improvements to the elevator. This made Chase feel bad that Rocky would never be able to finish them anymore. Then, he saw the necklace in a corner of the lab, encased in glass. He rushed towards the glass, shattered it and took the necklace out immediately. As soon as he touched the necklace, He suddenly felt himself dragged away and into another dimension that was unlike earth, a world that was pure white. In front of him, he saw a massive white dog.
"Hello there young pup!" the white figure spoke.
"Hello ma'am, who are you?" Chase asked.
"Why I'm the owner of the necklace of course! I'm wondering why you have it on you, I'm pretty sure I gave it to Rocky" the white figure responded.
"I'm sorry to say that Rocky is dead, he was killed by The Devil, and now, I'm alone to fight him" Chase answered.
"I'm sorry to hear that, but how are you going to fight him?" the figure asked.
"Well, I was hoping that this necklace would be able to contain his powers, just like it did for Gray" Chase replied.
"Like Gray huh? Well, that I can do, but you would also need to give something in return. What would you be willing to offer?" the figure responded.
"I do have some powers of my own, such as time manipulation. Would that do?" Chase wondered.
"Hmm, that would be a good payment for my service. That means that all of your powers will be stored here, including The Devil and your time manipulation powers. Do you agree to these terms?" the figure responded. Chase hesitated. He finally found something special about himself and how he was asked to give it all up. But Chase knew that if he denied the offer, he would never be able to get rid of The Devil, so he nodded.
"Good, now I need you to tell me when you want me to absorb his power, all you need to say is "Your Majesty" when you are ready" the figure informed.
"Ok I will. Wait a second, are you The Queen?" Chase asked.
"Why yes I am!" The Queen laughed, delighted.
"Then that means you're Rocky's mother!" Chase exclaimed and immediately bowed. "It's a pleasure to meet you your highness!"
"Oh please, you don't have to be that formal. After all, you did help my son, and I'm very touched that you cared for my son as you did. Now go and avenge him for me!" the figure replied and faded, pulling Chase back to reality. Chase looked around, noticing that time was no longer frozen, and Chase slowly climbed out from the lab. Chase saw The Devil looking around frantically for Chase so that Chase wouldn't sneak up on him.
"Ah, there you are! And it seems you're wearing Rocky's necklace! I want that, so give it here!" The Devil told Chase after finding him walking over.
"Like I said, I will beat you, you will never win!" Chase hollered back. Chase froze time once more and ran up to The Devil, kicking and clawing at him once more. The Devil started to obtain some minor physical damage and started to show some signs of weakness.
"You're actually trying to kill me! Hah, foolish pup! You're basically giving in!" The Devil laughed.
The Devil was in major pain, scratches in his side and battered from all directions. He wanted to give Chase his last sense of major pain before going back to mentally torturing him once more and attempted to pounce on Chase, but to no avail. Chase was just too fast for The Devil. Chase needed to finish The Devil off before things got too dragged out, so Chase took a deep breath and froze time for the very last time of his life. He walked over to The Devil and conjured a energy spike with his own dark powers and stabbed it into The Devil's side. The spear stuck in The Devil's side like a pin in a pin cushion, almost piercing to the other side, just barely missing the heart.
"Like I said, you can't kill m-" The Devil started and suddenly he felt a jolt of pain in his side.
"Wow, you did it, you actually stabbed me" The Devil coughed. "Congratulations, but no matter what, I still win"
"No you won't." Chase said flatly. "Your majesty, I'm ready."
"What are you talking about?" The Devil coughed as he faded into black dust. Suddenly, a burst of light came swirling around Chase and the black particles from The Devil. The light enveloped everything, consuming the darkness and Chase, Chase feeling his own power draining, darkness and all. The light glowed brightly for a few minutes, absorbing every bit of the black dust and soon after, started to fade. Chase opened his eyes and looked down at the necklace, seeing the necklace centerpiece was now swirling with both light and dark intertwined with each other. Chase felt different, he no longer had his powers, but that didn't bother him, it was just like his old self. Then, he heard a growling behind him.
"Chase!" Cheetah shouted. "Are you back to your old self or are you still evil? You look much different!"
"Yup! I'm back to my old self, thanks to The Queen!" Chase replied happily. Cheetah, once hearing this, surrendered out of his attack position and ran over to hug Chase.
"That's great! But where's The Devil, and more importantly, where's Rocky?" Cheetah asked. After hearing about Rocky, Chase's ears drooped.
"I'm sorry, but Rocky wasn't able to survive The Devil's attacks. He ended up being stabbed in the heart" Chase told Cheetah painfully. Cheetah stared at Chase with sorrowful eyes and started to cry.
"So you're telling me that… that Rocky is gone forever?" Cheetah bawled. Chase nodded.
"But what about his living metal? It's supposed to keep him alive!" Cheetah asked.
"The Devil was able to penetrate it and stab into Rocky's heart" Chase replied blankly. The two police dogs walked over to Rocky's motionless body, and both Chase and Cheetah howled in mourn for Rocky.
"We need to let the other pups know" Cheetah spoke after a period of silence. Chase only nodded and Cheetah went off and called the other pups. Chase watched Rocky, remembering the times that he had helped him fix a multitude of items, most of it being his truck. He was about to look back at Cheetah and ask him when the Paw Patrol would be back when suddenly he noticed something. The wound in Rocky's back leg was no longer an open hole, the living metal was fully intact, the living metal had repaired itself and looked as strong as ever. The open wound on his chest was also plated with metal, as if the living metal was doing all it could to save Rocky. In fact, he could see a bit of a rise and fall from Rocky's chest! Chase quickly jumped up and ran over to Cheetah.
"Cheetah! Tell Marshall to come over, quick! There might still be a chance that Rocky could live!"
Meanwhile, Rocky found himself in a hallway of pure white. He remembered that he was stabbed by The Devil, and assumed that he was now in heaven, back home where he belonged.
"Rocky! You're here!" a familiar voice shouted at him. Rocky turned and saw a dark gray pup running towards him.
"Gray! It's nice to see you again! Is this heaven?" Rocky asked.
"Yup! You'll love it here! Come on, let's go meet our mother and then I'll show you around the palace!" Gray exclaimed ecstatically. The two pups walked up to a giant door and entered, seeing a white furred dog sitting on a cushion.
"Hello my children! Gray! Rocky! It's great to finally see you in spirit!" The Queen spoke.
"Hi mother! Rocky's here! We can be a family now!" Gray replied, bouncing up and down like a puppy. Rocky looked at The Queen with a confused expression.
"Is something bothering you?" The Queen asked Rocky.
"Well, wasn't I cursed with being reincarnated? Shouldn't I still be down there?" Rocky asked.
"Well, after seeing your fight with The Devil, I felt that you deserve something better after he killed you, especially how brave you were to sacrifice yourself for your friends, so I was able to remove your curse and be able to come here!" The Queen answered, excited.
"But mom, can I still go back?" Rocky asked. The Queen was thrown off by this question.
"What do you mean? You want to go back down to the mortal world? Wouldn't you rather stay here?" The Queen inquired.
"I mean, I do like it up here, it's just that, well, I had a loving family, something that I never had before, and I feel like leaving them in their state would, you know, be damaging and I would like to return so that they won't have that void without me" Rocky pleaded. Both The Queen and Gray smiled.
"I told you, I knew he would say that" Gray replied. "Here, this is the power that you gave me, I would like to return it" Gray continued and handed Rocky a necklace just like his old one.
"So you're saying that I can return?" Rocky asked, overjoyed.
"Yes! How could I say no? You proved to me that you really do love your family and they truly love you too. I will allow you to return to your family this one time" The Queen decided.
"Thank you!" Rocky replied, hugging The Queen. The Queen smiled and Rocky closed his eyes and spiraled back down to the world, to the Paw Patrol, to his body, to his family.
"Marshall! You came! Quick! Rocky's over here!" Chase called over to Marshall urgently.
"Woah, I didn't think it was that bad. You said he stabbed him through the heart?" Marshall asked. Chase nodded in response.
"Well I can try to heal him, but I don't know if I can heal a dead pup" Marshall commented.
"Well, he's not dead, he's clearly breathing. You have to try!" Chase urged. Marshall sighed and held up his paws like before and a green light pulsated from his paws once more. Marshall winced as he felt a twinge in his own chest, his heart and back leg throbbing from absorbing the pain, as well as the wound on Rocky's leg. Soon enough, Marshall's healing power had finished doing it's thing and both Chase, Marshall, as well as the police dogs and the Paw Patrol were watching, waiting to see if Marshall's magic had worked.
Rocky slowly opened his eyes, looking around him.
"He's alive!" everyone cheered. Chase ran up to him and gave Rocky a big hug.
"Yea, I'm alive, thanks everyone" Rocky groaned.
"Come on guys, Rocky needs to rest. I don't think dying was a pleasant experience for Rocky" Marshall ordered. The rest of the pups and dogs went over to help Rocky, carrying him into the lookout. There, they placed him into his own bed, letting him sleep for a bit. As Rocky was sleeping, Chase was tasked with the duty of keeping watch, just in case something happened to Rocky and needed immediate care. Chase lied next to Rocky in his own bed, watching Rocky take breath after breath, each breath soothing Chase more and more. Finally after three and a quarter days, Rocky woke up. Once Rocky woke up, he felt much better, but was still kind of groggy. Chase noticed that Rocky was about to wake up, as Rocky started to fidget a bit in his bed, and Chase went to the kitchen to see if Ryder could prepare a breakfast for Rocky. Soon, Chase returned with a plate on his back and found Rocky sitting up on his bed, staring out of the window.
"Good morning Rocky! I made some bacon and eggs, your favorite!" Chase exclaimed.
"Chase, that's our favorite breakfast silly!" Rocky laughed.
"Well, it still can be yours! Coffee isn't really good for you, you know" Chase laughed back.
"But it gives me energy!" Rocky complained.
"Well, for these next few days, I'm going to take care of you, and I say no coffee for you mister!" Chase exclaimed.
"Hmmf, like I care, I'll just go get some myself" Rocky murmured.
"No you won't I won't let you. Plus, I'm pretty sure Marshall tied you to your bed, knowing that you would want to leave the day you woke up" Chase told Rocky. Sure enough, there was a rope tied around Rocky's leg and the bed, pinning him to the bed.
"Argh, but it's such a pain staying in one spot! I want to work on my inventions!" Rocky complained.
"Don't worry! I'll help you pass the time. Wanna play checkers?" Chase asked.
"You know that I always beat you" Rocky answered.
"But I also know that you enjoy beating me" Chase responded playfully.
"True, I guess we could play" Rocky sighed.
"Great!" Chase replied and walked away, trying to find the checkerboard, leaving Rocky to think. He looked down and saw the necklace that stored all of his power. Rocky smiled and thought about Gray, all the times he was in his head, and now he was home with mother. As Rocky daydreamed about Gray, Chase came back with the checkers set in his mouth, struggling to get into the door, as the set was too large to fit in the doorway.
"It's stuck!" Chase mumbled as he rammed into the door multiple times.
"Have you tried turning your head?" Rocky joked.
"Oh yeah, I should probably do that" Chase laughed. Chase set the board right in front of Rocky and started to play a few matches.
"You know, the first few moves are what counts the most. Like now, I've already won" Rocky explained.
"No you haven't, all my pieces are still on the board!" Chase exclaimed.
"You'll see" Rocky replied, and sure enough, Rocky beat Chase with all his pieces remaining on the board.
"Man, you really are good!" Chase remarked.
"Well, I am the smartest!" Rocky replied in a bragging voice. "Say, you got the same necklace that I do!"
"Huh, I never noticed" Chase replied. "When did you get yours? Mine was from your lab."
"My lab? Why were you there? And why did you take it?" Rocky asked, curious.
"It's a long story, I'll tell it to you at some point. What about you?" Chase asked.
"It's a present from my mom and Gray" Rocky replied.
"Really? That's nice. Wait, does that make us BFFs?" Chase asked.
"Sure does!" Rocky responded happily. After Rocky beat Chase multiple ways at checkers, they decided to put the checkers set to the side and started to talk.
"Remember the time when you used to hate me because you couldn't catch me?" Rocky asked.
"Yea I do, it was the first job I had, and I was afraid that I would fail my first mission in the Paw Patrol!" Chase responded. "I thought that Ryder would fire me!" The two pups smiled and laughed, continued by discussing other events of the past that they found hilarious, laughing loudly and cheering up both Rocky and Chase.
"Hey, why don't you tell me what happened after The Devil killed me" Rocky asked and Chase agreed. Chase recalled the events of which he fought The Devil one on one, slightly skewing the truth so that Rocky would have a good time hearing the story. After Chase finished the story, Chase found Rocky with a look of awe in his eyes.
"You're telling me you did all that? That's amazing! I wish I could've seen you use your time freezing ability!" Rocky exclaimed. Chase smiled and then Marshall came into the lookout.
"Hey Rocky, I think it's okay for you to leave. The truth is that I didn't bind you to the bed because you were injured, it was because me, Ryder, the police dogs, and the pups were trying to plan a surprise for you, and now it's done!" Marshall explained. Rocky was confused, then was excited. The pups had never really given a surprise to Rocky before, so Rocky was jittery. Marshall untied Rocky's restraint and Rocky zoomed out into the driveway. There, all the pups and police dogs were standing outside the door, greeting Rocky. Rocky looked around and saw a shiny, well polished green truck waiting for him.
"Is this mine?! It's amazing!" Rocky exclaimed.
"Yup! We all pitched in!" Cheetah replied. "Ryder and Rubble created your truck from a few blueprints in Ryder's office and the rest of us help decorate and clean it!"
"Wait until you see the lab!" Zuma told Rocky. "We made it much bigger and cweated another exit, you know, just in case that happens again, as well as wepaiwed evewything." Rocky immediately rushed into the lab with the pups , the police dog and Ryder following him except for Chase and Roger.
"Hey Chase" Roger started.
"Yea dad?" Chase responded.
"Why didn't you tell me something was bothering you? I could've helped you deal with the pain" Roger asked.
"I don't think you could've done anything, he threatened me not to tell anyone, or else he would make me kill everyone I loved" Chase replied.
"Well, you old pap isn't as weak as you think! I'm still part of the police force, I can still fight!" Roger exclaimed jokingly.
"Yea, sure dad. I believe you" Chase laughed and pressed his muzzle into Roger's fur, hugging him. "I'm just glad I'm free now. No voice telling me what to do."
"I'm happy for you too Chase" Roger answered.
"Oh, did you tell mom?" Chase asked.
"Mom? Nah, she doesn't need to know that you were cursed by The Devil, she was almost killed by him, you know" Roger replied.
"Yea, I know, Rocky told me" Chase responded. That that moment, Roger's tag went off.
"Hello? Who is it?" Roger answered.
"Roger? Is Chase safe? I heard there was a situation from your colleagues at Adventure Bay!" Kristi hollered over Roger's collar. "You've got a lot of of explaining to do!" Roger went into the lookout, describing the situation, leaving out the detail that Chase was The Devil. Chase was left outside and Rocky and the gang was just leaving the lookout, the new exit attached to the elevator.
"That's amazing! Thanks so much! How did you finish all that?" Rocky asked.
"It's kinda surprising how much we can get done in three days" Tiger laughed.
"Man, It's almost noon, we should leave, we have work to do after all!" Tiger told the group of police pups. "Where's Roger?"
"Right here!" Roger yelled as he ran out the door. The police dogs gathered up and jumped into their own respective trucks, said their farewells and left, with the pups waving goodbye and watching them drive off into the distance, but not before Cheetah could get a picture of him and Rocky together. Soon, the pups had their lunch and played around, luckily there were no missions on that day, and so the pups decided to have a race.
"Who wants to see who's the fastest? Marshall or Chase?" Rocky told the gang.
"Of course I'm the fastest!" Chase spoke out.
"Nope, I am!" Marshall fired back. The pups laughed and prepped the two pups at one end of the driveway, and the two raced along it, but no pup cared who won, as they were all having a blast doing so. Soon, the sun was about to set, and the pups were getting tired from all the running, all except Rocky, which everyone expected. Ryder had just called them inside to sleep and the pups fell into their beds, most of them fell asleep almost immediately. Rocky and Chase watched as everyone slept, seeing how peaceful it was.
"Hey Rocky," Chase started, "is there even is a doggy heaven?"
"I can assure you that there is a place that dogs go after they die, I could probably invite you to live with me and The Queen, you can probably meet The Queen too. That way, I will never leave your side" Rocky whispered.
Rocky and Chase smiled. It was getting late, so Rocky rested his head on the pillow on his bed and Chase on Rocky's side. That night, they both dreamed about arriving at The Queen's palace, together, hand in hand, or in their case, paw in paw.
The End. I hope you guys enjoyed this story, sorry about the break in the middle of the story for uploading, but I hope that this story was a pleasure to read, and let me tell you, it was nice to finally put down one of my fantasies on this website. For now, I'm going to focus of my other story, and hopefully complete that one as well. I'm not sure I'm going to continue this story, but if anyone wants to use any of these ideas that I've created, then I wouldn't mind because I know of one particular person that really wants to use some of them. Anyways, comment, grammar, thanks for reading!