The basket was under a bridge and a thunderclap had woken up Duchess instantly.
"Oh! Oh, where am I?" Duchess asked instantly worried and anxious. "I am not at home at all. Children, where are you? Answer me! Berlioz? Toulouse, Marie, where are you?"
"Duchess?! Children, where are you?!" Maisy called out as she came out from the water.
"Maisy?!" Duchess called.
"Oh, Duchess!" Maisy ran over to her sister and hugged her. "Thank Heavens."
"Have you seen the children?" Duchess asked.
"Here I am, Mama and Aunt Maisy." Marie appeared then.
"Oh, Marie..." Maisy comforted her niece.
"I guess I had a nightmare and fell out of bed." Marie pouted.
"Where are the others?" Maisy asked.
"Mama! Aunt Maisy!" Berlioz's voice called out.
"That's Berlioz." Marie recognized the sound of her brother's voice.
"Over here, darling," Duchess called soothingly. "Berlioz, here we are. And don't worry, everything is going to be all right."
"I'm coming, Mama..." Berlioz came over, looking very wet and miserable. "Gee, I'm cold and w-wet... Mama?"
A frog then croaked at him.
"MAMA!" Berlioz cried out in fright once he couldn't see his mother or anyone else he knew which worried him.
The frog croaked once again.
"Mama!" Berlioz cried out before running into the two adult female cats.
"Oh, darling, that's only a little frog." Duchess soothed.
"But he had a mouth like a hippopotamus." Berlioz replied.
"Yeah, frogs can somehow be able to do that with their mouths," Maisy said. "Have you seen Snow White, Oliver, Toulouse, or the Pokemon?"
Toulouse!" Marie called.
Everyone then yelled the other orange kitten's name, but he was still in the basket and looked a little cranky from their yelling.
"Hey, what's all the yelling about, huh?" Toulouse asked as he came out with Snow White and Oliver.
"Yeah, we're trying to get some sleep." Oliver yawned.
"I hate my naps to be interrupted..." Snow White looked the most grouchy of them all.
"Why didn't you guys answer?" Berlioz asked.
"Mama, Aunt Maisy, they've been here all the time!" Marie firmly informed.
"Mama?!" Teddy's voice called out from behind a tree.
"What just happened?" Vulpix asked as he shook himself a little.
"I don't know, but I don't like it." Larvitar replied.
"Neither do I." Mismagius said.
"Same here." The Ralts twins added.
"Mama..." Teddy pouted as he couldn't find Estelle anywhere.
"I was having a funny dream, Edgar was in it," Toulouse said once he woke up a little more. "And we were all riding and bouncing along-"
"I don't think it was a dream." Oliver said as he saw their surrounding.
The frog then croaked again.
"It wasn't..." Dot then pouted as she then came out with Scruffy and the Pokemon slowly and carefully came down the tree.
"Edgar? Oh, darling..." Duchess replied in doubt. "Why that's ridiculous."
"I know it was him, I just know it was." Snow White said.
"I knew I smelled something rotten in Denmark." Scruffy glared.
"You sure it isn't you?" Dot deadpanned slightly.
"Maybe you guys just fell on your heads." Berlioz suggested.
"He must be after your mistress's money, I mean, think about it; after your mistress dies, she would leave her money and riches to you and your children and since each cat has nine lives, by the time you each died, Edgar would be gone himself by then." Maisy said.
There was then a thunder boom heard which startled the little ones and it even made Teddy cry like a baby.
"Ah, Teddy, it's okay..." Mismagius tried to soothe the Teddiursa. She soon then started to cradle him.
Teddy cried while Mismagius soothed and gently shushed him to calm him down, he was just like a baby without his mother.
"Mama, I'm afraid, I wanna go home now." Marie pouted.
"Now, now, my darling, don't be frightened." Duchess cooed.
"We'll have to wait until the storm is over." Maisy said.
The thunder got louder and it was enough to even startle the adult cats.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear, let's get in the basket!" Duchess rushed. "All of us!"
They all went into the basket to be safe and dry, luckily, the basket seemed to be big enough to fit them all.
"What's gonna happen to us?" Toulouse pouted.
"I'm sure we'll all be just fine in here." Scruffy said.
"I hope everyone's okay without us." Weenie pouted.
"Oh, who knows how they'll react once they wake up?" Oliver frowned.
Back at the mansion...
Nanny and Madame Bonfamile were fast asleep in the bed they shared together, but they were both suddenly awakened by the thunder which startled them due to how loud it was.
"Oh, my, what a storm." Nanny frowned.
"Oh, I had the most terrible dream..." Madame Bonfamile held her head, she then came out of bed and looked to the area where her cats slept and then decided to comfort them as they were probably afraid of the storm as well. "Thank goodness it was only a dream. Oh, dear, what a terrible night. Now, now, my darlings. Don't be frightened. The storm will soon pass," she then opened the curtain to see that the basket was gone which had terrified her instantly. "Oh, no!"
"M-Maybe they're just sleeping with the children." Nanny smiled nervously.
The two older women then left the room. Madame Bonfamile was very worried for her cats. Nanny came into the room where the kids were playing earlier that day, only to find the others with a note that Jenny wrote about where she and the others would be in case they woke up, worried sick over them.
"Dear Mom, Dad, Mr. and Mrs. Fudo, and Mr. and Mrs. Forte, and Nanny and Madame Bonfamile,
We're going out to save the pets and Pokemon as they have been kidnapped by someone and I'll give you a hint; his name starts with an 'E', anyways we'll be back as soon as we can. -
From, Jenny." The note said.
"Oh, our little baby..." Natalie sounded worried.
"There, there, sweetheart, she's a smart kid now that she's friends with Mr. Fagin." Gregory soothed his wife.
"Yes, but she's never been to Paris before." Natalie frowned.
"Alone." Gregory added with a just as sad frown.
"She won't be alone." Mo said.
"They're bright kids, they'll all be okay." Atticus agreed knowingly.
"Well, all right." Natalie sighed.
Cherry didn't seem that all worried with the kids being out like Atticus and Mo. This was kind of a normal thing for them now that they could never worry when the kids would go out and have an adventure to make things right in the end just like they did back in the day.
"We should try and sleep." Forte said.
"How can we sleep with our children lost out there in the big world?!" Natalie panicked.
"Now, now, now, I know that seems rash, but it'll be fine..." Nanny put her hands on the woman's shoulders. "It'll be all right... If I know Eloise and her cousins, things will turn up in the end, you'll see."
"Okay, okay..." Natalie still sighed sadly.
"I'm sure that Vincent boy will keep a good eye on Jennifer." Gregory soothed his wife.
"You're quite right." Natalie said.
Gregory smiled.
"Celestia, if you're listening, it's us..." Atticus whispered in a prayer stance. "Please... Watch over our children... And everyone else..."
Roquefort overheard the commotion from Madame Bonfamile and decided to try to help find Duchess and the kittens.
Meanwhile with the kids...
Felicity took the lead for the most part since she was born with night vision. Akito had used his magic to keep his Ponyta's flames from going out as he had brought it out to help search for the pets and the rest of the Pokemon. Jenny stayed close with Vincent and he held her protectively as they walked along together.
"Sure is darker than closing time at the Plaza around here." Eloise said as she held a flashlight.
"Yeah." Ponyta said while his flames were protected from the rain.
"You doing okay, Ponyta?" Akito asked.
"Just fine, thanks." Ponyta replied.
"Well, it's a good thing I found a spell that would protect your flames from the rain." Akito smiled.
"I appreciate that." Ponyta smiled back.
"Where could they be?" Jenny asked.
"At this rate, it'll be morning by the time we find them." Vincent complained as he held Jenny protectively.
"Let's check the bridge." Jenny said.
Ponyta and Felicity then took the lead and went toward a bridge.