The Secret of the Shelter

Spike and Tyke where halfway there to the animal shelter. They had just finished their afternoon nap and snack.

"You think Jerry finally reached the Animal Shelter Daddy?" Tyke asked.

"Probably, I mean Jerry did leave way before us", Spike replied.

The fact was, they were wrong. Jerry had run into some trouble again. Except the good thing was, he wasn't going to get eaten. The bad thing was, he was lost. Jerry thought he had remembered all the directions to go to the Animal Shelter. He didn't know what he had done wrong. Based on his memory, he should already be at the shelter. But instead, he was standing in front of a huge junkyard.

"Huh, maybe I took a wrong turn at the last signal," Jerry said to himself.

Tom was heading toward the house to even things up with the new cat that took his place when he suddenly had a thought.

Wait, I wonder what Jerry is doing right now? Did he come looking for me or is he celebrating that I'm gone now?

Whatever, if Jerry wasn't in the house he would eventually find him. All that mattered to him was crush Dennis in the face and drag him to that Freak face's sewer by his toenails. Well, only if he felt like it.

"I see ya escaped huh?" Tom heard a voice.

"How did YOU get here," Tom grunted.

"None of yer business," Dennis said.

"Well, I'm here to even things out here! Nobody takes my place!"

"Too bad, I'm now a street cat again"

"Why? Was it too much for you?"

"I have important matters to take care of so move out of me way!"

"No"

"Heh, whatever", Dennis just walked past Tom.

Tom ran in front of Dennis to stop him.

"What problem do ya have against me ya moron!" Dennis growled.

"FOR TAKING MY PLACE, THAT'S WHAT"

"I never wanted to be adopted anyway" Dennis muttered.

Tom looked at him. He wasn't sure what to say. He never met a cat who wanted to live on the streets, except Rugged Hugo. Rugged Hugo was one of those cats who loved to scrounge through trash cans looking for leftover apples or cans of soup people throw away. It's surprising how much food people throw away. Rugged Hugo apparently even found a pizza box with actual pizza in it! Strange, who buys pizza and doesn't eat it?

"What business do you have anyway?"

"Concerns you" Dennis replied quite calmly.

"Anyway, how'd ya get outta the Animal Shelter huh?"

"Cause I have a brain unlike you do?" Tom said. "I heard all about you in the shelter. They all hated you, for being the mean scoundrel you are. You have no right to take my place!"

"Man, you have some temper issues yourself!"

"ARGH, I COMMAND YOU TO COME WITH ME"

"Heh, as if I would obey" Dennis smirked.

Tom wasn't planning on taking Dennis to whomever that FiercePaw was. He was planning to take Dennis back to the shelter.

"How would you like to go back to where you came from?" Tom asked.

"Oh, not that horror place! You don't know what you're doing yourself, it's lucky you escaped."

"Afraid of not being fed properly?" this time Tom smirked.

"Do you even know about FiercePaw, or that shelter?"

"What? Does FiercePaw call you names?" Tom laughed.

Dennis lunged at Tom scratching his face.

"I HAD ENOUGH OF YOU! YOU IGNORANT KITTEN!" Dennis shouted.

"I'm neither kitten nor ignorant. Now get off me!" Tom yelped.

Dennis got of Tom who had a slight scratch on his face.

"Now if you want to live, listen quietly to what I say." Dennis said.

"Fine" Tom said.

Meanwhile in the Animal Shelter…

Jerry finally found his way to the Animal Shelter after getting lost. He didn't know what he did wrong but he found his way to his destination. He sneaked inside a small air vent to get in the building. He navigated his way through many twists and turns until he found the end. He slid out of the vent and found himself inside a strange room. It looked like a laboratory. But what would a laboratory be doing in a shelter? Suddenly, 2 men entered the room. Jerry intently listened to their conversation.

"How has your research been going Dr. Brad?" one of the men said.

"Excellent, here is our next test subject" Dr. Brad said. He was holding a cage, inside there was a small puppy.

"What are they going to do with that puppy?" Jerry thought.

"Man, I really want our old test subject back. It was our most successful one" the man said.

"Whatever, back then, our antidote was not complete. It still isn't sir, we need one more ingredient!"

"Yes, the body of a dead mouse. How hard can it be?"

Jerry's heart was pulsing. He was a mouse. What would happen if they saw him? He had to flee! But he also wanted to know what the 2 men were planning.

"Hard, mice are fast and hard to catch. Plus, we don't work for Animal Control, we are only innocent scientists who just need money."

"I wouldn't exactly call it innocent sir, but we are just doing our job"

"Ok, back to work", Dr. Brad said. They got out a syringe and opened the cage. Before the dog could escape, they stuck the syringe into its back.

"WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, WOOF," the dog shouted.

Jerry understood what the dog was saying, it was asking for help. Jerry needed to help the dog. He couldn't just stand there while the dog was barking pain. Jerry ran in front of the guards. He realized he had no idea what to do.

"Well well, well, it seems, we have a rodent here, just what we need right now. Our luck is great today. Right Connor?"

"Ya, Dr. Brad, it is" Connor said.

Jerry jumped into the cage trying to pull out the syringe.

"Jeez, the mouse is smart, it's trying to help the doggy. The perfect mouse for us."

"Wait, I never knew that!" Tom said.

"Yes, the Animal Shelter is secretly a way just to obtain animals. They use the animals for their own purposes."

"What are their plans though?"

"I don't know, but they just use them for their lab work. They don't care of the animals survive or not. I believe what they're after now is a mouse."

"Wait, Oh my! What if Jerry is at the-" Tom didn't waste any time bolting towards the shelter.

Dr. Brad got his syringe full of poison ready to inject it into the mouse. Jerry couldn't escape because they trapped him in a small narrow cage. Just as they were about to kill the poor mouse –

"ARGGHHH! WHO DID THAT!" Dr. Brad screeched.

In front of their eyes stood a muscular cat with long claws dangling from its paws.

"Experiment #586! Get him!"

Dennis had told Tom all about FiercePaw. FiercePaw was once known as Experiment #586. Dr. Brad and Conner were doing their experiments on that cat while they came upon success. Dr. Brad and Conner's deeds were just for sport. It was just for the cruel fun of it. Anyway, they had come upon success in their experiment. They had developed a chemical that could lengthen the claws of an animal. This is why FiercePaw is called FiercePaw. But the problem was, since he had such sharp claws he broke out of the lab easily. Taking advantage of this power, FiercePaw terrorized all the animals of the city. Dennis inferred that FiercePaw is also looking for the same ingredients as them so he can use whatever chemical Dr. Brad and Conner were developing on himself.

"This is going to get tricky," Dennis thought. "Especially with Tom and Jerry around."

Author's Note: So, that is the end of the chapter. Hope you like how things are going so far. Please leave reviews on how you honestly think the story is. I welcome criticism and I will consider any suggestions given to me. Thank You.