"So, which way back?" Scruffy asked Akito.
Akito magicked up a compass and then held it in his hands. "Should be the other way, down there." he then pointed to the way they had come from.
"Perfect." Larvitar smiled.
"If you guys wanna go back home, you'll follow Akito." Eloise told the others.
Oliver frowned as they were leaving so soon. "Oh, must we go back home now?"
"What's the matter?" Jenny asked her kitten.
"We just got here... And... I met my dad..." Oliver sounded like he was going to cry.
Akito soon got himself an idea and where he then 'accidentally' broke the compass. "Oh, no...!" he then called out.
"Akito?" Vincent asked.
"It appears I have broken my compass and I forgot where to go..." Akito acted.
Jenny smiled as she saw what he did.
"Hang on, Akito, I'll give you a new one." Estelle said, about to use her magic.
"No, no, Estelle, we can't use our magic or any of our powers here, so we'll have to trust Mr. O'Malley to bring us home..." Akito said before winking to her to play along. "Understand...?"
"Ohh." Estelle nodded, understanding and decided to play along.
Akito smirked and nodded to her and Estelle then nodded back.
"Oh, no, did it rain last night?" Estelle acted along herself. "That can affect our powers."
"What now?" Larvitar asked.
Oliver soon decided to go and see if his father could help. Thomas went to go away.
"Da-Erm, I mean, Mr. O'Malley!" Oliver called as he came beside the adult male cat. "Say, you seem to know a lot about these parts, why don't you give us a paw?"
Thomas began to think about that for a moment and where it would give him the perfect chance to get close to Duchess.
"I mean, if you don't mind," Oliver said. "I know about the streets myself."
"Is that so?" Thomas asked him.
"Oh, yes," Oliver nodded. "I'm friends with a dog pack back home."
"Really?" Thomas asked, very impressed.
"Yeah," Oliver smiled. "Dodger, Tito, Rita, Francis, Einstein... It's cool."
"And they let you in?" Thomas then asked in surprise since he was a feline and not a canine.
"They didn't like me at first, but then they grew to love me, especially Mr. Fagin, but then I met Jenny." Oliver smiled at the bonding.
"Who are Mr. Fagin and Jenny?" Thomas asked.
"That would be me, Mr. O'Malley." Jenny greeted.
"Oh, hello there." Thomas looked over.
"Such a nice specimen you are." Jenny smiled.
"You say that to all the tomcats," Thomas smiled bashfully before doing a double take. "She speaks 'Cat'!"
"Not just to cats, but to all animals." Jenny said.
"I have so many questions." Thomas replied.
"They'll have to wait, now, if you would be so kind to show us your 'magic carpet'." Jenny then said, using air quotes.
"Yeah." Oliver said.
"So?" Jenny smirked to Thomas.
"Come on, guys, we're going on the magic carpet!" Oliver called to the others.
"Yay!" The kittens, Pokemon, and puppies cheered.
"Let's just hope our parents don't mind us being gone for a while." Felicity said.
"Keep your pants on, we'll be fine." Vincent soothed.
"I don't wear pants." Felicity looked down to her golden dress.
"It's a figure of speech." Vincent said.
"Oh..." Felicity smiled sheepishly.
"One magic carpet coming up." Thomas told the others before he climbed up a tree.
"What is he doing?" Teddy asked.
"We can only watch, Teddy." Estelle sighed as she wasn't sure she was going to like where this was going.
There was a car riding up then as Thomas got into the tree.
"I think I know his plan." Akito said.
"Is he crazy?" Scruffy asked Akito.
Thomas then jumped at the windshield and screeched which startled the driver.
"I'd say yes." Akito said.
The car then stopped and the driver looked for him, but had no luck and was starting his car again.
"All right, step lively, all aboard for Paris!" Thomas told the others.
"Wow, that was amazing." Oliver smiled.
"Was it?" Mismagius deadpanned slightly.
"Why, Mr. O'Malley, you could've lost your life!" Duchess gasped to the adult male cat.
"So I got a few to spare," Thomas shrugged with a smile. "Nuthin'."
"We better get in the vehicle while we still can." Estelle said.
"Hurry up then!" Ditto called.
They all then rushed over to the vehicle before it would drive off without them.
"Won't you come with us?" Oliver asked Thomas.
"Oh, you don't need me along, you'll all be better off without me." Thomas replied.
"How can we ever thank you?" Duchess smiled to the help.
"My pleasure entirely." Thomas replied as this looked like goodbye.
'This can't be goodbye.' Oliver thought to himself with a frown.
The truck then started moving as Thomas told them goodbye.
"Sayonara, Mr.-" Marie was about to say.
'Sorry about this, Marie.' Scruffy thought to himself before purposely pushing her off, knowing that Thomas would be kind enough to save a kitten in danger so he could make the adult male cat stay longer, having a feeling that he needed to be with the family. "Oh, no, Marie has fallen off!" he then acted.
Dot gave her brother a look, having a feeling that he had pushed her off.
"Marie! Marie!" Duchess panicked for her only daughter.
Thomas then picked up Marie and helped her back into the truck. Dot soon saw why Scruffy did that.
"Oh, Marie, are you all right?" Maisy cooed to her niece.
"Yes, Aunt Maisy." Marie nuzzled against her.
"Oh, thank goodness." Maisy sighed.
"Haven't we met before?" Thomas smirked as he climbed into the truck.
"Oh, and I'm so very glad we did." Duchess replied.
"Thank you, Mr. O'Malley for saving my life." Marie smiled to the adult male cat.
Oliver was happy that Thomas didn't leave.
"No trouble at all, little princess," Thomas smiled to Marie. "And when we get to Paris, I'll show you the time of your life."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, but, well, we just couldn't," Duchess replied. "You see, my mistress will be so worried about us. No doubt about the kids and their parents too."
"Well, humans don't really worry too much about their pets or children." Thomas shrugged.
"Hey!" The kids glared.
Thomas looked to them nervously.
"Clearly you don't know humans that well." Maisy told the alley cat.
"Yeah." Scruffy said.
"Well, I haven't been able to get to know humans better honestly." Thomas said.
"I didn't think I'd like humans either until I met Mr. Fagin and Jenny." Oliver replied as he nuzzled against the human girl who raised him now.
Jenny smiled down at Oliver before petting him. Oliver purred from the petting.
"Well, looks like you're gonna stay with us after all, Mr. O'Malley." Eloise said as she held Weenie in her lap.
"Yeah." Weenie smiled.
"Sure looks that way..." Thomas replied. "Say, you look like that woman in the fashion industry around here: Darla Fudo."
"She's my mother." Eloise smiled.
"Oh, I see, she calls New York every day." Thomas smiled back.
"Once in a while." Eloise shrugged.
"Or else we'd miss her too, too, too terribly." Ditto said as he crawled on top of Eloise's head.
"I'm getting hungry." Larvitar said.
"Me too..." Vulpix agreed.
"Me three..." Teddy pouted.
Meanwhile back at the mansion...
Cherry looked down to a mouse who was Roquefort as he was going to the horse, she then picked him up by his tail and looked up and down to him. "You look like The Great Mouse Detective." she then chuckled to the mouse's outfit.
"I was out all night looking for Duchess, Maisy, the kittens, the puppies, the Pokemon, and the children." Roquefort told her.
"Yes, we've heard they were missing..." Cherry replied.
"I searched all night, but couldn't find them." Roquefort said.
Atticus came in with the paper. "Have you seen this? Can you believe it?"
"Atticus, I swear, if this is another article about sneakers being on sale-" Cherry slowly shut her eyes.
"It's not about sneakers." Atticus said before showing her what was on the front page.
Cherry took the newspaper and looked at the front page as the mouse then moved to her shoulder. "'Mysterious Catnapper Abducts Family of Cats along with Strange Creatures and Dogs'."
"Looks like our catnapper has made the front page." Atticus said.
"Morning, all..." Edgar came over. "Oh, is the paper in?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact it is." Cherry said as she showed it to him.
"Well, we better go inside and see how thee others are doing." Atticus said.
Edgar took the paper and decided to show it to Frou-Frou while Cherry and Atticus went back inside of the mansion. Atticus decided to use his super-hearing so he could hear what Edgar was saying. Roquefort told Frou-Frou about his dilemma as Edgar came outside with the newspaper.
"Morning, Frou-frou, my pretty steed, Edgar chuckled to the horse while waving the newspaper. "Can you keep a secret? Hmm? Of course you can. I've some news straight from the horse's mouth, if you'll pardon the expression, of course. Look, Frou-Frou, I've made the headlines. Mysterious catnapper abducts family of cats, strange creatures, and dogs. Aren't you proud of me?
Atticus soon started to become angry as he now knew who the catnapper was.
"So he's the catnapper!" Roquefort whispered to himself.
"The police said it was a professional, masterful job, the work of a genius," Edgar chuckled before slapping the newspaper on the horse's backside. "No bad, eh, Frou-Frou, old girl?"
"He shouldn't have done that." Atticus said.
"Mm-mm..." Cherry shook her head firmly at Edgar, now disliking the man for obvious reasons.
"Oh, they won't find a clue to implicate me," Edgar continued, not realizing that he was being watched by Cherry and Atticus who haven't lost their touch even as adults which had been inherited down to their children, especially Akito. "Not one single clue. Why, I'll, I'll eat my hat if they-My hat! My umbrella! Oh! Oh, gracious! I've got to fetch those things back tonight!" he then rushed off, leaving the horse and mouse alone while he dashed away.
"Bingo." Atticus smirked.
"So, are we gonna bust him now or later?" Cherry asked.
"Later, but it should be fun to see what happens when he tries to get his hat and umbrella back." Atticus said.
"Mmm... Not sure what you're going with this, but okay." Cherry shrugged.
"Don't worry, I just know he'll possibly be in pain when he tries to get them back." Atticus said.
"Sabotage..." Cherry smirked darkly.
"Shall we tail him?" Atticus smirked.
"Let's do it." Cherry agreed.
"Why that sneaky, no-good, crooked butler!" Roquefort snapped about Edgar, coming out of Frou-Frou's oats. He soon saw Atticus and Cherry.
"Hello there." Frou-Frou greeted.
"Hey, girl, we heard everything..." Cherry stroked her face gently the way her father used to when training equines himself before big and important shows.
"So, you guys talk to animals, huh?" Frou-Frou asked once it was just them and Edgar had gone.
"Yep." Atticus nodded.
"Amazing..." Roquefort whispered. "How do you do it?"
"Well, it's hard to say," Atticus shrugged. "My mother was born a mermaid and knew all sorts of sea creatures, my dad was friends with King Arthur back in the day and his dog Dig-A-Lot who discovered Puppy Power."
"I'm also curious, my parents seem normal compared to his." Cherry added in.
"Your parents sound amazing." Frou-Frou said.
"Anyway, don't worry about Duchess and the others, our kids are out there and they're smarter than they look." Cherry said to the female horse and male mouse in reassurance.
"That's cuz they don't go to public school." Atticus couldn't help but joke.
"Then how did they get so smart?" Roquefot asked.
"Oh, our children are very gifted," Cherry replied. "Mo home-schools Akito, Estelle, and Vincent, Eloise is tutored, and Felicity is mentored by her father and Monsieur Webster."
"Interesting." Frou-Frou said.
"Besides, 'Kito's a lot like me and Vincent has street smarts like Mo." Atticus smiled.
"And he wonders why I call him 'Baby Atticus'." Cherry replied about Akito who was basically a seven-year-old version of Atticus.
"So, we don't need to worry?" Roquefort asked.
"Not at all, our kids got this," Atticus reassured. "And look at me and Cherry, we've been through our share of adventures."
"Oh, man, not just Hawaii with Lilo and Stitch, but on Hanahuna when we were with Mystery Inc when you entered the surfing contest." Cherry then said.
"Yeah, and I killed those waves." Atticus said.
"That was a crazy one and I thought after the 625 experiments, our adventures with Lilo and Stitch in Hawaii were over." Cherry replied.
"Same here." Atticus said.
Frou-Frou and Roquefort smiled to Cherry and Atticus once they decided they could trust the two and their kids to bring Duchess and the kittens back home safe and sound.