"Chase?"

An excruciating pain ended Chase's sleep. Wincing loudly, he found himself strapped to a chair. He struggled and he twisted, but nothing he tried could even make the ropes budge a centimeter. Sniffing the air, Chase caught a whiff of flowers and berries. Somewhere in his mind, that rang an alarm bell. But an alarm bell for what?

"Chase, what happened?"

Although his basic body functions were beginning to kick in, the spy Pup unluckily continued to ignore the frantic pet groomer. His spy suit and gear had been shed and laid out neatly on a table, taunting him to break out and put it back on.

"Chase! Are you listening to me?"

"Huh? Who is it?" Chase finally responded. Whoever was talking to him sounding very familiar, yet he couldn't get a grasp of who it was. What was happening to him?

"It's me, Katie!"

Chase perked up at the name, and turned sideways to see a blonde girl wearing a gloomy expression who was bound tightly to a chair, just like he was.

" Katie, I'm so sorry I didn't hear you! Are you all right?"

"He never laid a finger on me, but I still hate his guts. As soon as we're out of these blasted ropes, I'm going go over to him and rip his tongue through his cheeks." Katie snarled.

"Who's he?"

"Looks like Ryder. Talks like Ryder. Walks like Ryder. Only difference is that he isn't Ryder. And that's why I hate him."

"How can that be? Is it like his twin brother, long lost twin brother?"

"No, Ryder would've told us a long time ago if you were right," Katie seemed to have calmed down, but the murderous look in her eyes persisted, "So Chase, how did you end up here? Were you on like some kind of a spying mission?"

Recalling the information in detail, Chase told Katie how Ryder sent him in to find where she was, how he followed her perfume scent to this room and how the ninja Pup picked a fight and eventually knocked him out.

"This Ryder lookalike and his dog are very evil. We have to stop them from getting to Ryder at all costs. Luckily, they seem to be the only ones here." exclaimed Katie, "Considering the conditions they're keeping us in, who knows what he might do to Ryder!"

"We have to warn him, but how?"

"He's already warned, mes amis." spoke a slight accented voice from behind the two.

"Let us go, we have done nothing wrong!" barked Chase.

As a dog emerged into their view, they both shut up. Without a doubt, the voice belonged to the ninja Pup who had attacked him earlier: red beret, a black jumpsuit and a balaclava. 'Can it be-no, no, no. Talon would never betray us!' thought Chase. In an attempt to appear fierce, he growled menacingly and twisted and turned violently. The ninja Pup appeared unimpressed.

"Save your energy for later, mon ami, you'll need it." he commented.

"Who are you?" Chase demanded, determined on unmasking the enemy, "Why do you want Ryder?"

"Mon ami, I don't want Ryder." he replied coolly and grinned, "Maybe it's time for a little introduction, perhaps?" A robotic arm slid out of his Pup Pack, wielding a razor sharp katana that was gleaming hauntingly in the moonlight.

Chase and Katie gasped in terror as the ninja Pup slowly advanced, slashing the air in front of him with the weapon. Whoosh! Whoosh! He stopped in front of the Chase and rested the blade flat-side-down on his shoulder.

"You're such a brave PAW Patroller, mon ami, but too bad you couldn't keep your mouth shut like your furry comrades. An extra mutt to look after isn't what we need."

"Back off, you monster!" Chase starting barking crazily, hoping to cause some intimidation.

The ninja Pup chuckled and withdrew the robotic arm back into his Pup Pack. "My human companion and I may be les monstres to you fools, but in reality, we fight for justice. We fight it from infidels like Ryder."

"Don't call Ryder that!" thundered Chase.

"I can call him whatever damn I want, mon ami. And why don't you shut your mouth like ce human here," The ninja Pup gestured at Katie, "because she clearly acknowledges when to surrender."

Chase glanced back at his friend, and frowned in dismay. Katie had become over-killed. Her eyes froze in place, her face revealed a grotesque look and her muscles twitched locked and refused to budge. The neurotoxin inside her body had begun to wreak havoc again. There was nothing Chase could do to stop that.

"She's injected with a non-lethal neurotoxin we commonly use in the Army, mon ami. She'll be fine." stated the ninja Pup.

"I promise when I'm set free, I will teach you a painful lesson on never touching the PAW Patrol again, and you'll thank me for it." threatened Chase, "And even if you and whoever you work for want Ryder here, you shouldn't have done this in order to get him."

"Oh no, mon ami, we gave a warning. A good warning, but guess who ignored it? Ryder and his PAW Patrol."

"And what was that good warning, if I may ask?"

"Mon ami, the warning I'm speaking of may have seen accidental but it was all intentional. It was a trap, and of all the PAW Patrollers, you were affected the most."

"You mean -"

"Yes mon ami, the lightning strike that hit your Lookout a month ago was neutralized safely by lightning rods. Too bad they couldn't defend against une bombe."

"WHAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH -" Chase's face was flushed with the deepest shade of purple. His eyes glowed an angry crimson, his fur stuck on ends and his bared mouth formed a downright terrifying howl, threatening to break loose and dismember the ninja Pup. "PAIN I HAD TO GO THROUGH? GO TO HELL! AND NEVER -"

The ninja Pup suddenly lunged forward, the katana sprung into his paws and brushed it against the snout of the spy Pup, forcing him to cower back.

"Ferme ton bouche, mon ami, or I'll do it for you."