"Foxglove!" Dale cried as he and everybody plummeted towards the traffic below, "Pull up! Pull up!"

Foxglove did her best to simply bat her wings, but it was no use as they were stuck tightly together. "It's no use!" she cried, "This gum is too sticky!"

"GMM?!" Zipper cried, grinning as he licked his lips. He wriggled anxiously out of the net and popped out, then immediately zipped up to Foxglove's side and chomped onto the gum that stuck to Foxglove's wings. He quickly and aggressively chewed off wads of gum, then turned his head and spit it out to the side.

"Hurry, Zipper, hurry!" Gadget cried.

Zipper chewed and spit over and over, as fast as possible… until he finally chewed off the last bit of gum, allowing Foxglove to flap her wings furiously. The gang soared down before swooping back up into the air, just narrowing missing the tip of a taxi's roof.

"Whew…" Dale breathed a sigh of relief, "Cutting it a little close, but hey, nice safe, Foxy."

"Let's not forget Zipper's untamed taste for strawberry gum," Monterey Jack grinned.

"We can't risk going back to the police station to grab the plane," said Chip, "Fat Cat's mooks could be waiting for us, if they don't already think we're dead… Foxglove, do you have enough energy to take us back to our headquarters?"

"After that gum escapade," Foxglove smiled, "I think my arms had enough of a break. I can manage."

The next day, Gadget holed herself in her workshop, doing double duty with both deciphering Fat Cat's phone call and doing some work on the toy Black Hawk whenever she could.

Meanwhile, the rest waiting out in the living room, gathered on the couch. "Guys," Foxglove sighed, "I'm really sorry I didn't listen to and stayed behind. I really just wanted to help you."

"Aw, Foxy," Dale wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "You helped us big time. And besides, ya didn't do much worse than what I did." The chipmunk then began chuckling, "I totally screwed us up last night!"

Chip rolled his eyes. "Yeah, and yet we let you along on every mission," he sighed, before glaring at the female bat, "As for you, Foxglove…"

Foxglove looked away in shame.

"It looks like you have what it takes to be a Rescue Ranger after all. After all, if it weren't for you, this would've been our last case for sure."

Foxglove looked back up. "You mean it..?"

Chip nodded. "We'll take it slow, but maybe it is time we considered bringing you along on more missions."

Foxglove couldn't help but squeal in delight. She even jumped off the cough and hopped from one foot to the other. Dale decided to join her and dance alongside her, even grabbing her hands and jumping in the air with her.

Zipper, Monty, and Chip gave teasing love-lust sighs and giggled afterwards.

"Good news, you guys!" Gadget suddenly burst into the room, and froze at the sight of Dale and Foxglove hopping with each other while holding hands. The two immediately stopped and looked over at her, as she scratched her head. "Sorry, did I interrupt something?"

Dale and Foxglove looked over at each other, and suddenly realized they were holding hands in a way that looked rather scandalous, and quickly released as their cheeks burned brightly.

"No worries, Gadget," Chip answered, "What's your good news?"

"Well, maybe 'good' isn't exactly the best way to describe it," said Gadget, "I was just excited that I finally unscrambled the phone call. Fat Cat was on the phone with his cousin, Maltese de Sade, who's in town. Here, have a listen." She pulled out her device, fiddled with some of the buttons, and the filtered voices played through the speakers.

"Oui, my cousin… I 'ave captured ze dogs zat are part of ze event. It was noting to eet…"

"Yes…" Fat Cat's voice was a little clearer, "All is going according to plan…"

"And zere is to be no interference be zeese 'Rescue Rangers', yes?"

"No… You let those rangers know that if they do anything to try and stop us, those dogs we have will be in far graver danger than they already are."

*SKREEEEEE!*

Gadget quickly shut off the device. "Yeah, you know what happens after that…"

"Dogs?" Monty scratched at his mustache, "I ain't know nuttin about no dogs…"

"That's because they weren't on the SD card," Chip replied, "I'm guessing Fat Cat doesn't want us to know about them. He probably wants to use them as a trump card if anything goes wrong. Regardless, the Ark and the summit is going to have to wait. We have to rescue those dogs!"

"But we left the Ranger Plane behind at the station," said Dale.

"No worry!" Gadget grinned, "I'm a pretty good multi-tasker. While I was working on decoding the phone call, I finished up on the Black Hawk helicopter. She's ready to go!"

"Any room for me..?" Foxglove meekly asked.

The four rangers looked to each other, exchanging looks of apprehension and pleading. Foxglove could sense the doubt mingling in the air. The team then looked back at the bat.

"Foxglove…" Chip started.

Foxglove already hung her head.

"I think it's time you finally had some field experience."

At this, the bat jolted her head back up. "For real?"

Dale smirked and gave her a thumbs up. "For real, Foxy!"

"Oh thank you!" Foxglove leaped forward and hugged Chip tightly. He gently removed her.

"You should really be thanking Dale," he said with a smile, "He's the one that fought hard for you."

Foxglove looked over to Dale. "Really?"

Dale sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Well… yeah, I guess I did…"

Suddenly, he was glomped hard as the bat threw her arms around his shoulders. Dale was flabbergasted for a moment, then smiled and returned the hug.

The rest of the rangers watched with dopey smiles. "Awww…!"

That evening, in an abandoned warehouse across town from the summit, the French-equivalent of Fat Cat paced menacingly across a cage, which incased a group of young Shih Tzu's against the wall. His two henchmen, Le Sewer and Rataouille, stood guard.

"What are you going to do to us, Maltese?" one of the Shih Tzu's, a female, demanded.

"No worreez, ma chere," Maltese sneered, twisting at his thin whisker-like mustache, "No harm weel be brought to you et your fellows puppies…" He gave a sinister grin, "Assuming, of course, ze Rescue Rangers try to stop my cousin Fat Cat's robbery plan. Zen it weel be, what you say, 'lights out' for you and your puppy pals."

The Shih Tzu bared her teeth. "You cruel coward!"

"'Zat eez za price of being evil, my dear Roxy," Maltese gave a haughty laugh as he left the room, leaving his two henchmen behind to keep watch.

Fortunately for the rangers, the warehouse building had enough space under the roof to leave plenty of room to scamper around, so it was easy for the team to sneak in and search every room for where the dogs could be hidden.

"Bingo!" Gadget grinned, "I knew the signal from my handheld cellular retriever led to here! This is exactly where Maltese and the hostages are hiding out."

"Good job, Gadget!" Chip nodded, then scanned the room below. "No sign of Maltese, but who knows how long that will last. We've got to take out those guards while we can."

"Any ideas how?" Dale asked.

Foxglove cleared her throat slightly. "Maybe I can help…"

"Woof woof!" Ratatouille mockingly barked.

"Heeeere puppy puppy puppy!" Le Sewer wagged his bottom quarters at the dogs, then jumped away when one of them angrily swiped at him. The two henchmen had a good laugh as the dogs growled in frustration.

"Geronimo!"

The weasel and rat barely had a chance to look above them before two chipmunks, tucked in like balls, landed square of their heads, knocking the two unconscious. Chip and Dale bounced off and rolled back onto their feet upon hitting the floor. "I'd give that landing a ten!" Dale laughed as he high-fived Chip.

"Nailed it!" Chip said, "Great plan, Foxglove."

The bat, flapping a few feet above, did a quick salute. "Happy to be of use!"

Monty and Gadget made their way down to the others while Zipper simply flew. "You pups all right?" Monty asked.

Roxy nodded. "Yes," she replied, "But Maltese has the key to this cage. He was planning to hold us hostage so that you wouldn't intervene with this plan his cousin has."

"We know," said Chip, "Fat Cat's planning to use this thing he calls the 'Ark', whatever that means…"

"It might have something to do with all those stinky things Maltese's men brought with them," barked one of the other Shih Tzu's, "Snails, sardines, dirty socks…"

Roxy nodded, "Not to mention Fat Cat has a bunch of other things like dynamite and electric watches."

"Hmm…" Gadget rubbed her chin, "It sounds like Fat Cat's putting together some sort of stink bomb."

"You would be correct, ma chere."

The rangers twisted around to see Maltese standing by the doorway. "Ze Ark is a massive stink bomb, conducted by the likes of my cousin and myself. We are going to clear out ze Autism Awareness Summit so zat Fat Cat can steal all ze fund money, and split it fifty fifty!"

"More like zero zero once we're through with yas!" Monty shouted, tightening his fists.

"Not if I warn Fat Cat first!" Maltese whipped out his cell phone and was about to dial a number,when-

*SWOOP!*

A small,pink bat dove in and snatched the phone right out of his hands. "Sacre bleu! Come back 'ere with zat!"

Foxglove laughed as she dove left and right around the warehouse while Maltese gave chase. Gadget looked around for a tool she could use, and noticed something on Roxy's collar. "Hey, what does this do?" she asked as she came closer to inspect.

"It's a magnet," Roxy replied, "It's supposed to keep us dogs calm during stressful events like big crowds in a summit… Not TOO effective when being held hostage, though…"

Gadget's face brightened at the word "magnet". "Can I borrow that?" she asked as she climbed up the side of the cage, and began to undo her collar.

Once she had what she needed, she jumped down and aimed the magnet carefully as Maltese raced by. The key slipped out of Maltese's pocket and zoomed right to the female mouse, who grabbed it with ease.

"I said come back 'ere!" Maltese screamed as he jumped to grab Foxglove, who easily evaded.

The little bat was enjoying herself too much, and even looked behind herself to blow a raspberry.

*BONK!*

Unfortunately, that move made her miss the beam right in front of her. She ended up falling straight to the floor… and Maltese hovered over her threateningly.

"As I was saying," he snarled, "Hand over zat phone, if you value your health…" He loomed over and extended his sharp claws.

"Grrrr…!"

Maltese's face suddenly contorted with fear. He nervously peeked around his shoulder, and shrieked at the sight of the four Shih Tzu's now cornering him and inching closer. He leaped away and raced around the room as the young dogs gave chase.

"Le Sewer! Ratatouille!" he screamed, "Wake up and protect me!"

The weasel and rat stirred awake, blinked at their surroundings, and noticed the dogs chasing their boss. "Hey stop zat!" Ratatouille shouted.

"We'll save you, boss!" Le Sewer called as he and his partner ran after the Shih Tzu's… only to turn tail and scream in terror as the dogs began chasing THEM.

As the dogs chased away the villains, Dale approached the delirious Foxglove and knelt by her side. "Foxy?" he spoke, taking her by the hand, "Are you all right?"

The bat shook her head clear, and looked up at the chipmunk of her dreams looking down at her with concern. She gave a broad smile. "I am now."

Dale smiled back and pulled her to her feet. Roxy then came trampling over to the rangers. "My friends have Maltese and the others on the run," she said, "Thank you so much for saving us!"

"No problem," said Chip, "But we can't stick around. We've got to get to that summit!"

Later that night, the ballroom was packed with guests for the Autism Awareness Summit. People gathered by the podium as the main guest speaker approached. "Hello, y'all," she spoke, "Mah name is Temple Grandin, and welcome to the city's annual Autism Awareness Summit. Tonight-…"

While she continued her speech, Fat Cat and his henchmen crawled carefully through the vents above. Right in the center, they put the stink bomb in place.

"Once the room is cleared out, we'll be clear to grab the donation money and run with it!" Fat Cat announced, in typical villain fashion. He placed his gas mask on, as did the rest of his henchmen, then set the timer on the bomb.

Just as things looked as they were according to plan, Mole happened to glance to the side, and spotted a strange looking helicopter toy hovering by the skylight window. He thought one of the children was playing around, until it skillfully maneuvered through the window. As he came closer towards the vents, he could get a clear look at who was inside.

"It's those medelin' Rescue Rangers!"

The Black Hawk flew around the room discretely, as the rangers searched around below. "I don't see Fat Cat or the stink bomb," Gadget reported, "Where do you think they are?"

"I see the safe, safe and sound," said Monty, "At least they didn't make a move for it yet."

"Maybe Zipper and I can go out and cover more ground," Foxglove volunteered. Zipper zipped up and saluted.

Chip nodded. "All right, but be careful."

Foxglove swung open the door hatch and she and Zipper flew out, soaring across the room.

Across the ballroom, Fat Cat's head peered around the food table, and he spotted the helicopter flying by. "If at first you don't succeed," he sneered as he pulled out his gum-gun again. He took aim and shot at the copter as it passed by. The gum struck the tail rotor, causing the Black Hawk to spin out of control.

Gadget did all she could to try and maintain altitude, but it didn't help Dale as he was flung out the still open hatch, and landed square into a fish tank. The chipmunk shook his head clear, still a bit dazed, but clearly noted he was in a fish tank as he was holding his breath under water… As he went to swim back up, he suddenly locked eyes with a ferocious looking piranha.

Meanwhile, Foxglove and Zipper watched with horror as they witnessed the Black Hawk go crashing into the floor. "Uh oh!" the bat cried, "Black Hawk down!"

As she was about to zoom down to help, something caught her eye and she looked over at the fish tank… and Dale inside! Furthermore, she gasped at the sight of him being surrounded by a bunch of piranha fish…