"Do you hear that?" Scamp lifted up his ear as he heard other dogs on the street.
"Yeah I do," Atticus said. "And it sounds like it's coming from the other side of the fence."
Scamp went to the fence and popped his head in. He grew very excited. There were a few dogs messing around with the unlucky dog-catcher. Scamp barked, wanting to be in on the fun with them and he saw one dog who noticeably caught his attention and eye. He thought she was very pretty. Atticus also looked and saw the dogs and also saw that they were having help with the dog-catcher by a human girl and where he thought she was pretty.
The girl stopped and the girl dog looked back at them. They were both smiling fondly to the boys looking at them.
"Come on, Angel!" one of the bigger dogs called, then this made the other dogs come to the puppy and boy's attention. "Don't you wanna come on and play?"
Scamp struggled in the fence. "I wish we could..."
"Yeah, but we can't." Atticus said.
"Uh-oh, we gotta go." one of the smaller dogs said.
"Angel, come!" the girl told the female dog, patted her lap and ran with her and the other dogs.
The dog-catcher was running with his net to capture a bigger dog, a Rottweiler.
"We gotta get out of here." Atticus said.
The dog-catcher's had been a game to the stray dogs. It even landed in the Brown yard in front of Scamp. Angel barked for Scamp to give it to them so they could play and maybe even let him join in the fun. The street urchin girl was looking through the fence too, wondering what Atticus would do. Atticus gave the hat to Scamp who then gave it to Angel.
"Atta boy." Atticus said to scamp as he ruffled the top of scamps head.
Angel took the hat and gave Scamp a little kiss to thank him.
"Thanks." the human girl whispered to Atticus.
The dog-catcher was coming back for his hat and was nearly scolding Scamp for it, but Angel gave him a bite on his rear-end and the catcher's net went on the Rottweiler. The Rottweiler tricked the catcher and made him get caught on his own net and was on top of the dog pound car with the hat in his mouth. He gave a wink to Scamp.
"That was so cool! We gotta meet them, Atticus!" Scamp struggled to get out of the fence, but couldn't since he didn't have hands and there was a lock on the door.
"Yeah, we gotta meet them." Atticus said, he struggled to get the fence unlocked.
Scamp tried to get out and started to run around the yard of how great it would be to be a stray dog like those cool dogs they met. That night, Scamp was finally freed from being chained. "Hey, look, I did it! Whoo-hoo! So long, house dogs! Come on, Atticus, we're out of here!" he told the human boy and found a way to free them both from the fence.
"Yeah!" Atticus said and then began to get some distance from the fence and then began to run towards it and then jumped and unlocked the fence.
Scamp cheered and they ran down the neighborhood streets, which nearly woke up everyone else. Scamp barked around, hoping to find the dogs to befriend them, but so far couldn't find them. He looked in any possible place to find a street dog, but had no such luck and was about to give up.
"They have to be around here somewhere."Atticus said.
Scamp sighed as they walked along. There was familiar yipping and rat squeaks.
"BACK! BACK!" a sharp young voice called.
"Wait that voice and that yipping those must be that girl and puppy we saw with those dogs." Atticus whispered to Scamp.
Scamp hid a blush as Atticus mentioned Angel the puppy as he went closer. He then decided to help her out by barking loudly to scare away the rats he could see shadows of. The rats heard this and ran away.
"I don't know how that happened, girl, come on..." the homeless girl said to her puppy and started to collect any food they could find together.
"Come on, this is our chance to meet them." Atticus said.
Scamp and Atticus went into the alley.
The girl was looking for some edible food for herself while Angel was looking in the trash for some scraps. Atticus and Scamp saw them and found this the perfect time to go and meet them while looking like they were also looking for some food and scraps.
The girl glanced at Atticus with a smirk and kept looking for edible food. "Hey... I know you... You're that kid at the Brown house... I never thought those people had any other kid besides that baby." she said as she tossed a banana peel over her shoulder.
Angel glanced at Scamp the same way and continued to look.
"I'm not their kid I was just visiting them with their niece, I'm an orphan." Atticus said as he continued to look.
"Oh, welcome to the club..." the girl said, softly. "My name's Mo."
"Pretty name my name is Atticus." the boy said.
"That name makes me think of that book I used to read, To Kill a Mocking Bird..." Mo glanced at him. She was a little rough in appearance, and could be easily mistaken for a boy. She had short brown hair with a red bandanna with a dirty pink shirt, black finger-less gloves with a white vest, blue jean shorts and dirty gray boots.
"So, where you two from?" Atticus asked.
Scamp was telling Angel that his collar was a symbol of graduation, even if she didn't really buy it, but liked him anyway.
"It's a long story..." Mo rubbed her arm, glancing at Atticus.
"I've got time." Atticus said.
"It's quite long... I can just say I have foster parent issues." Mo hinted as Angel showed Scamp some street dog tricks. "We better catch up or we'll get left behind." Mo led Atticus to where the puppies were. "You better get home, the streets are rough."
Angel giggled and kicked an overturned trashcan on Scamp off from him.
"Angel, come!" Mo summoned her puppy and went down the street way with Angel following swiftly.
"Wait for us!" Atticus said.
Scamp and Atticus were after Mo and Angel. The boys tried to copy the girls' moves, but had trouble than the girls did since they had been doing what they've done a long time.
Meanwhile, back at the house, Cherry was washing her hands and looked down at Lady. "You think we should get the boys inside? They've been out there a long time."
"Yeah, we should." Lady said.
Cherry nodded and opened the door for them both to get out. "Scamp, Atticus!" she called. She then gasped as she didn't see Atticus in the backyard and the chain was unlatched by the doghouse and the fence was open.
"What is it, Cherry?" Lady asked her.
"Look!" Cherry pointed to show neither Scamp or Atticus were in the yard.
"Oh, no." Lady said out of sadness.
"We better tell the others." Cherry ran back inside the house with the spaniel mother.
Atticus and Scamp kept following the girls. Angel went through the secret entrance while Mo crawled through because of how small it was for her. Atticus and Scamp continued to follow them.
Scamp went first while Atticus crawled. "Wow... It's a dog's paradise, Atticus!" he barked happily as he saw the other dogs. He looked around to see the dogs doing things he would never be allowed to do before. "Jumping on the sofa, digging in the trash, and breaking stuff! If only there were hats to chew on..."
"Yep, because then that would make this the perfect place." Atticus said.
Scamp found a hat being chewed on by the Rottweiler from earlier and another dog. They were fighting for it while a small dog and a sheepdog were watching it.
"Go, Buster, go!" the sheepdog cheered.
"Woo hoo hoo hoo! Good-bye home, hello freedom!"Atticus and Scamp said out of joy.
Scamp cheered and dashed over to see the dogs as the Rottweiler won the hat and tossed the loser dog into the stove.
"Haha, now which one of you thinks that you can take the Buster on?" The Rottweiler named buster asked the other dogs.
The dogs ran down together to get the hat, but Buster had put it down like a red cape and removed it to make them charge like a bull. The sheepdog laughed while the others moaned in the crash.
"That's gotta hurt." Atticus said.
Scamp nodded, but still smiled. "Still looks fun!" he wagged his tail, excited to meet some new friends.
Buster was boasting about how the junkyard dogs ruled the world and he ruled them and tried to get Angel's attention. Angel rolled her eyes at him as Mo was lying next to him, filing her nails in a broken down car. Atticus kept his eyes on Mo.
"I'm not your girl..." Angel huffed at Buster, then nuzzled against Mo.
The street girl extended her hand and pet against the puppy's gold-like fur.
Buster howled which made the other dogs howl. Scamp did as well, which grabbed everyone's attention.
"Scamp, I think that just caught everyone's attention." Atticus said to the puppy.
Buster came down the top of the car as the older dogs looked down to see Scamp.
"Look, Angel, it's that kid and dog again." Mo noticed.
Angel turned her head and looked to see Scamp and went down with Mo to look at them. Scamp stopped howling once he saw that his howling caught everyone's attention. The dogs all wondered where he came from and were surprised he was off his leash, but still had his collar on. The older female dog was sniffing Atticus to see if he was friendly or not.
"It's alright, girl, I'm friendly." Atticus said to the older female dog.
Buster came to break it up. "Whoa, whoa, hey..." he looked down at Scamp. "I'm the top dog around here. And nobody joins the Junkyard Dogs unless I say so, so, what's your and your pet's name, Sport?" he asked the puppy.
"My name's Scamp and his name is Atticus." Scamp said.
Buster chuckled and circled them. "You wanna be one of us, one of the rules is NO house dogs or humans with families."
"I'm not a house dog!" Scamp argued.
"And I don't have a family!" Atticus argued.
"Oh, yeah, then what's this?" Buster looked at Scamp's collar, making the other dogs laugh.
Mo and Angel were silent, but they were quietly jealous that Scamp and Atticus actually may have had a place to call home.
"Okay, first of all, Scamp ran away from home with me and second, I'M AN ORPHAN!"Atticus exclaimed.
"Yeah, the house dog life is rough, we wanna be wild and free!" Scamp told Buster.
"You ought to know what it takes to be a Junkyard Dog and street urchin." Buster told the puppy and human.
"Tell 'em what it takes, Buster!" the sheepdog jumped up and down excitedly. "Tell 'em what it takes!"
One of the dogs pushed down a piano to help Buster teach them their ways in song. Atticus and Scamp paid close attention to what Buster had to say. Buster taught of the society with the other dogs showing examples to their new life. And where to Scamp and Atticus, it seemed like a life they would like to have.
"Baby, I always get my best ideas when you're around." Buster told Angel after the song ended and Scamp and Atticus were welcome to join their lifestyle. "That's why you're my girl."
"I'm not your girl." Angel growled at the Rottweiler.
Buster then went to teach Scamp as Atticus found Mo.
"Hey, Mo." Atticus greeted.
Mo looked up at him with her hands on her hips. "Hey, kid..." she greeted hotly.
At the Brown house, Lady and Tramp were waiting outside while Elizabeth, James, and Cherry were discussing Scamp and Atticus's disappearance. Scamp's sisters were outside with their parents. Tramp was comforting Lady as Trusty and Jock came. Their owners have heard from James and Elizabeth and came for moral support for the parents grieving over the loss of their only son.
Cherry came out in her jacket, feeling comfortable and secure again. "I can't believe even Atticus is gone..."
"We came as soon as we heard!" Jock tried to come in through the fence as the spaniel triplets rushed to him.
All three of the cocker spaniel triplets came over to Trusty and Jock and talked at the same time.
"Not to worry, little ladies," Trusty tried to soothe them, even if they were speaking at once and hard to understand, but they really missed their brother. "I got my grandpappy Old Reliable's keen sense of smell! Say, did I ever tell you about the time I saved your father from certain death?"
The triplets said no.
Gah, here he goes again..." Jock muttered. "I told you, there'll be no livin' with him!"
The triplets started talking about their brother, they didn't seem to care about him coming back or not.
"Especially that boy, Atticus." Annette said.
Danielle huffed. "I don't even want Scamp back... And that human Atticus was so weird..."
"Yeah, who cares? They should've known better than to run off." Collette added.
"This human Atticus, I am guessing he is your friend, Cherry." Jock said to the human girl.
"Yeah, he is," Cherry looked down at him with her hands in her pockets. "He wasn't here last time when I was visiting you all. He kept telling me he always wanted to be a dog... He even had a dream about it when we were flying here on the plane."
The triplets kept talking about their brother as Lady came by them and sent a scolding look to the one talking about slippers and making fun of Scamp.
"My bad, Mom." Collette said to her mother.
Lady softened her look on her daughter.
"We really miss him, Mom..." Annette said coolly.
Tramp tried to assure his daughters that Scamp and Atticus would be brought back in no time and that Tramp was the same, sly, street smart dog he once was, even if he was older now with a family of his own. He then turned his head as James called for him. They all began their search.
"Come on, let's see what mischief our pup's gotten himself into." Tramp told Lady and they went off to find Scamp and Atticus.