Fro author: Apologies for no story these past few days - I was on vacation. To make it up, 3 chapters with a happy ending! Kind of...


I suppose this is the part where I'm supposed to reflect on my past self, "When did I go wrong," that sort of bullcrap. Well I'm still bitter about Skye and Chase and Ryder and his not doing anything. Blah bleh blegh, fuck I'm pissed. I need to relax or something, so that's why I've decided to head over to the outskirts of the city to give myself some quiet time.

Ugh, I don't know what to do with my life anymore. Ryder's annoyed at me, Chase doesn't love me – not in that sort of way, Rocky might also be angry at me for punching his eye – everything is just so exasperating.

"Hey, who the hell are you?" I look behind me and I see a malamute behind me. Just great. One thing after the other, the world just laughs at me.

"Marshall, member of the PAW Patrol?" The malamute narrows his eyes. "Then what are you doing all the way out here?"

"I've kind of been kicked out, so I'm here to take a break from it all or something." The malamute narrows his eyes. "Well you're in my territory buster, and I don't like no folks being in my territory. Even if you are a member of the PAW Patrol. Where's your badge, anyway?"

"I'm off the radar. Got kicked out, remember?"

"Oh good. Then that Ryder kid shouldn't come running if I do this." With that, he punched me in the face. Ouch.

"What the hell was that for?" I ask reeling, but then he punched me again. A few more times, and I was much too bewildered to really put up much resistance. He also kicked me in the groin a bit, too.

By the time the dog was finished I was in pretty bad shape, with cuts, bruises, scratches and a black eye. Even now I'd like not to talk about what happened next but he peed on me to mark his territory.

"Ew, gross – do you have to do to that?" I ask, sputtering a bit. "Gargle gargle…"

"Hey, don't take it too personally. Just let that be a warning to stay out of my domain. Nice tail, by the way." With that, the brute walks away. I look down at my tail and saw that it had been tied into a knot around a pole.

"Great. How lovely."