A/N: So it appears that everyone enjoyed me adding Buddy to the story. I am too. He's one awesome dog but not as awesome as Bolt of course. Bolt's top dog so that's why I had him take control of this story and the rescue operation. Now some of you have probably came to your own conclusions of what's going to happen to Mittens but hopefully I still get to surprise all of you with what I actually do. You all remember when Mittens was in the pound, in the movie, and Bolt with Rhino had to rescue her? And they did that by flinging Rhino in the dog area, inside his ball to get all the dogs going wild as a distraction for Bolt to get into the cat room where Mittens was and free her? Well I'm going to take that idea and morph it a little. Bolt do you have anything you want to say to our viewing public before you go on to start the chapter?

Bolt- Just this Mike. I'm glad the record's been set straight. I am the top dog in this story, the best, and most awesome dog ever. Bolt rules.

Me- Glad to see everyone, even our hero himself, loves Bolt. Ok let's start this bad boy. Rescue operations will begin in 5…4…3…2…1…

Chapter 11

"Yes you. Now here's what I need you to do. Since you're the best one here made for stealth I'm going to need you to…" Bolt began.

(10 minutes later)

Mittens began her trek into the pound by waiting for Lloyd to leave, walking through the opening double glass doors and then hiding behind the guard's desk when Ester got down from her chair to check who opened the door. With her preoccupied for the moment Mittens went further back into the building and found just what she was looking for. The back door. Behind the door everyone else was waiting for her to open the door for them. She did and all the others pilled into the building.

"Good job Mittens. Phase one complete. Now we move onto phase two. Does everyone know what to do?" Bolt asked. "Yes we all know what to do. Let's get this underway already." Mia said impatiently. "Ok. Calm down Mia. Alright everyone move out." Bolt said. Everyone walked behind Bolt in a tight group. Bolt ordered everyone to stop and peered around the corner of the doorway to find none other than Frank sitting in his chair reading a magazine just like last time. Bolt looked back at the group and told them to back up some. "Ok just like I thought. There's a guard in front of the door to the room where the dogs are kept. We're going to need some of our group to cause a distraction in another room so the rest of us can access the room to get to Knox and Mira. Mittens and Rhino you know what to do?" Bolt questioned. "Yes Bolt. I understand. Com'n Mittens let's make our friend proud. It'll be fun." Rhino encouraged his less than eager teammate.

The rest of the group held back while Bolt watched Mittens and Rhino silently run into the cat room. Once there Mittens looked at all the cats inside the room. There had to be about 12 cats inside at the moment. Most started starring at them once they saw Mittens and Rhino. "Hi everyone. I'm Mittens and I'm here to get everyone out but to do that I'll need all of your help. Will you guys help to free yourselves?" Mittens asked them and they all nodded. "Ok Rhino open all the cages up." Mittens told Rhino and they together started freeing the cats. Once all the cats were freed Mittens told them that they needed to make as much noise as possible to distract the guard so her friends could free the others. So that's what they did. They hissed, meowed, pushed down cages to make loud sounds which soon enough caused Frank to leave his post to see what all the noise was about. That's when Bolt and the other dogs made their move into the dog room to free all the dogs inside. Everyone started opening cages and freeing the dogs. Hunter and Mia looked inside each cage frantically looking for their pups. At last Mia spotted Knox and Mira talking to another dog in the cage beside them and she ran up to them.

"Knox, Mira, I'm so glad that I finally found you both. Me and your father have been looking everywhere for you both. We were so worried at both of you. Are either of you hurt?" Mia talked to her pups full of relief. "We're both fine mom. We were just talking to our new friend here." Knox said to his mother. "Pleasure to meet you miss. My name's Buddy and I've been talking to your pups for quite some time. So I understand the situation here." Buddy told Mia. "Hello Buddy. My name is Mia and what situation do you mean?" Mia asked Buddy. "About Knox and Mira leaving your house to go play but then they got lost and couldn't get back. Leading you, your mate, and your friends to come and find them. That situation." Buddy clarified. "Oh, well yes, I mean, that is why me, my mate, and my friends came all the way out here was to get my pups back. And that reminds me, Knox and Mira, both of you are in serious trouble when we get you two home." Mia told Knox and Mira with a stern look. They both gulped. They knew they were in trouble but hearing it still made them get a bit shaky. "We know mother and we're ready to accept it. We know now what we did to you and daddy was bad and we promise not to do it again." Knox told her looking into her eyes. Mia was very shocked by this and couldn't respond. "Like I said I talked to them for some time and showed them that doing bad things hurt the people around them. I don't think that they'll do anything to significantly bad ever again." Buddy told Mia. With her shock over Mia managed a "Thank you." Mia said to Buddy. "Your welcome Miss. Now would you mind getting us out of our cages?" Buddy said.

Mittens, Rhino, and the other cats had been keeping up the racket for a minute or two now and finally saw Frank enter the room. He was quite confused over how all the cats had gotten loose but he had to put that aside for now if he was going to keep all the cats from escaping. He was about to yell for help but was silenced after he felt a momentary pressure on his neck. He then fell to the ground unconscious. Mittens looked back at all the cats that were again shocked by what they saw. "Mittens how did you do that?" Rhino asked amazed. "Oh well hanging out with Bolt long enough you pick up on some cool moves. Like where to pinch nerves to knock someone out. This one should be out like a light for about an hour before he starts coming to again." Mittens answered Rhino. "Well anyway we should get going. Bolt and the others should be about done releasing all the dogs in the other room." Rhino said and everyone headed out of the cat room. The 12 cats all left out the back door as did the dogs that had already been released.

All that remained was Bolt's rescue group, Knox, Mira, and Buddy. "We should get going to. The sooner we leave here and get on the road, the sooner we all can get home." Bolt instructed his group. "Thanks again for keeping Knox and Mira company while they were here. It would have been very scary for them if they didn't have a nice person to talk to." Mia thanked Buddy. "It was no problem Mia. They looked like nice little pups and I was more than happy to talk to them and help them if I could." Buddy said. "Well it seems like you did help, quite a lot actually. I've never seen Knox and Mira this well behaved and respectful before. They are still in deep trouble for what they did but I'm glad we won't have to repeat this catastrophe again in the future." Mia said to Buddy while taking glances at her pups that had gone over to talk to their father. He just looked happy to have them back again and not at all angry at them. "Ya know they really do understand what they put both you through now and as honest as their little hearts can be don't and won't do anything like this again. There is no need to punish them badly. I've grown to like those two and I don't want to find out that they were put through a lot of pain." Buddy told Mia. "I would thank you to not talk anymore about the subject and for us to move on to a new one. Not that it's any of your business how me and my mate correct our pups behavior." Mia said.

"Ok guys we're leaving now." Bolt said. Everyone went out the back door and walked to the side of the road. They saw some disorder along the road where some cars had stopped. "The cats and dogs we rescued must have gone through the street and caused all of this. This is good for us though. Look over there. We can all climb aboard and get a ride home." Bolt said pointing towards a moving home on wheels like the one in the movie. Everyone started over to it and one-by-one jumped on. Once everyone got on, the truck started to move again. "Well now that we have a ride back to our homes we can relax for a bit until we have to get off." Bolt told the group. "I'm going to take a seat then and rest. Mia would you and the kids like to join me?" Hunter asked his family. "Ok dear." Mia said. "That sound ok I guess." Knox said. "Ok daddy." Mira said. They all cuddled up together and enjoyed each other's company until they drifted off. "How about the rest of you lie down for a bit while I talk to our guest." Bolt said to Copper, Danielle, Mittens, and Rhino.

Bolt walked over to Buddy. "So Buddy what are you planning on doing now?" Bolt asked straight forward. "I'm not sure. I've really grown to like those pups and I don't want to abandon them now since they want me to stay." Buddy said. "I see. I'm not sure what we could do for you after we get back. All of our neighbors have animals already and as far as I know don't want anymore pets. Do you have any special skills that could land you a home?" Bolt asked. Buddy gave a huge grin. "Oh I believe that I have quite a few special skills." Buddy said. "Like what?" Bolt asked. "Follow me and find out." Buddy said. We went up the stairs of the mobile home they were on with Bolt following. Once upstairs Buddy looked for the right room and soon found it and went inside. Bolt followed him and Buddy shut the door behind him. Bolt turned around quick. "So what in here are you going to show me?" Bolt asked with a bit of confusion. "Just sit back and watch." Buddy said. Bolt sat and watched Buddy go into the closet in the room and came back out a minute later holding a basketball in his jaws. Buddy then got into position some feet back away from the door where a basketball hoop was. Bolt wondered if Buddy planned on somehow shooting the basketball into the hoop. "Buddy what are you going to do?" Bolt asked and was shushed. "Just watch." Buddy said and then threw the basketball up in front of him, it came back down and bounced, and then when it came back up Buddy pushed it forward with his nose. The ball traveled the distance and made a swish through the hoop. Bolt was stunned at what he saw. "Would you consider that to be a special skill?" Buddy asked already knowing the answer.

Buddy continued to show Bolt all the different things he could do with what he had available to him. Bolt grew more and more amazed at what he was seeing. He knew that Buddy would have no problems getting a home now. "You sure are impressive Buddy. You'll get an owner easy." Bolt said. "Thanks Bolt. It took some time for me to even know that I could do all these things but once I did I could do it perfectly every time. It's a bit strange but I'm not complaining." Buddy said. "How about we go back down to the others. We should be getting off soon unless we want to pass right by all our houses." Bolt joked. "They wouldn't want that so ya let's go." Buddy said and they went back downstairs. They found everyone talking in a circle. Much unlike how they left them. "Hey guys. What are you all talking about?" Bolt asked. "Nothing much Bolt. Mostly small talk and we were going to start getting into Knox and Mira punishment when you and Buddy came back down." Mia said. Bolt noticed Knox and Mira give a sigh of relief now that they didn't have to be lectured further. At least for now. "Yes we came back down here so we could all get of this truck since we're back home." Bolt said. "Shall we then?" Buddy asked and the others nodded. Hunter and Mia each grabbed a pup and jumped off all together. Next Copper and Danielle jumped off together. Then Bolt took Mittens collar in his jaws to hold her, held on too Rhino's ball (similar to the movie jumping onto the moving train) in his front paws, and jumped off with his back paws to the ground below. Lastly Buddy jumped off by himself and landed on the ground. The three groups of jumpers joined back up together. "Well that went well." Bolt said.

A/N: Well this is the end again of another chapter. Not my best work here I'll admit but you should all get the drift of what I was going for. The rescue was a success, Knox and Mira are saved, and Buddy is fitting in well with the group. I guess that really shouldn't be all that hard given his talented personality. Now everyone is back home and everything is peachy. Well I guess everyone's peachy except for Knox and Mira. Those two won't be skinned alive that's for sure but they aren't off the hook either. Much to their disappointment but they are being very mature about all of this. They learned important life lessons from Buddy and are better dogs for it. Not much else to say except I hope all of you review for this chapter and continue to read my stuff. Until next time.