"What do you want, Steele!?" Balto demanded.

"I'm impressed on what your two devils pulled off. You knock out Kaltag and chew off the line you guys were on. Don't think I'm not angered!"

Jenna tried to get to her paws. Balto kept her on the floor.

"You won't get away with what you've done to them!" Jenna said as loud as she could.

She still wasn't able to fully function.

"I believe the town already knows the lie! Best case scenario for you two is to go back to that pack full of scumbags!" Steele taunted.

"Hey, they were good wolves! I loved my packmates!" Aleu snapped.

"We can take you out right now!" Kendo yelled, "You're all by yourself!"

"If you kill me, all of you will become outlaws! Besides, I can still run from you guys!"

Kendo lunged for Steele. Steele just knocked him down.

"You're not going to get away with what you've done to my family!" Balto yelled in Steele's face.

"And what are you going to do about it mutt!?" Steele challenged.

"I'm gonna give you a taste of your own medicine!"

"Just you try it!"

Steele headed out of the house.

"At this point, if try defending your son, let alone turning the town back against me, they'll turn on you, Bingo! I don't suggest doing it!"

He ran out of the house and headed back into Nome where he was now welcome. The dogs in the bathroom didn't know what to think.

"This can't be happening!" Kodi said.

Kodi dropped knowing things will never be the same again. Aleu laid right next to him and cried and comforted him. Dingo ran after Steele. Yukon was on stand-by to make sure Steele didn't try to kill him. It was no use to attack if they were going into the town.

"Hey, get back here, Steele!" Dingo called.

They were already close enough to the town to catch the attention of all the dogs, so violence wasn't a good idea.

"What do you want?" Steele asked.

"Stop harassing my brother! You're just as rotten as you used to be!"

Dingo got the attention of a few dogs around him.

"Your brother mated with your sister! Incest is a bad thing to do! Of course they'll be looked down upon!"

"THEY NEVER MATED! YOU ENSLAVED THEM!" Dingo roared.

That got every dog in range to focus on them.

"You don't know that for a fact! You believe the same brother that mated with his sister about me enslaving them! I may still hate your dad's guts, but I wouldn't make his kids pay the price!"

"Yes you would! That's what you did!"

"Dingo, I know what I saw, you don't! Stop arguing!"

Steele walked further away. There were a few dogs that came up to Dingo.

"Dingo, he may be your brother, but that doesn't mean you have to defend him. You have all of the town's respect, don't blow it," a dog said.

"Kodi didn't mate with Aleu! I'm telling you! I know my brother well, and he would not mate with her! If he did, he would take the blame and except exile!"

"How are you so sure?" another dog asked.

"Do you see that monster walking away!? He enslaved my brother and sister! He treated them like crap! They would be his slaves under the condition he wouldn't lie to Nome about them mating… WHICH THEY DIDN'T DO! But he lied to the town while they were enslaved, so there was no point!"

"And you know all this how?" a retired sled dog named Oliver asked.

"Oliver, you were a sled dog during the serum run! What did Steele do?"

"He lied to the town to keep his reputation. Everyone knows that!"

"Everyone hated my dad because he was part wolf! He was an outcast. But guess what? When Steele was out of his way, everyone discovered how truly honorable he was! They also saw how dishonorable Steele was! This is the same scenario! Steele is lying and being a dishonorable scumbag to make the lives of his enemy's pups hell! He making us take the price for our dad proving his honor!"

Oliver was piecing everything together. The other dogs around who weren't born until after the serum run had no idea what Dingo was talking about. They're so ignorant that they don't even want to believe Steele's lying to them. Just like everyone before the serum run!

Oh Steele is smart! Dingo thought, He knows the ignorance! He knows everyone from back in the serum run is either dead or old!

Dingo ran back to Jenna's house to talk to Kodi. Well, everyone needs to know how to deal with this and what to expect. The ignorance is the biggest factor. When Dingo came into Jenna's house, Nunivat and Saba were nudging and greeting their found brother and sister.

"Dingo! Look who it is!" Saba exclaimed.

"I can't believe they're here!" Nunivat said.

"It's good to have them back!" Dingo said, "Maybe not so much Kodi though. I didn't miss him!"

"I'm really regretting coming back to you, Dingo!" Kodi said.

"You love me!"

"I love you too!"

Kodi nudged Aleu as well, "Sorry if you feel left out."

"I understand, Kodi! I was only here for the first year of my life! You made a big effect on this family and the town!"

"Guys, I need to talk to you! I figured out some tactics!" Dingo said.

He immediately got everyone's attention.

"Steele is extremely smart! He knows everyone from back in the serum run is dead or old!"

"What does that have to do with anything?" Balto asked.

"Dad, you know how you were disrespected by the town and you had to prove your honor with Steele's dishonor?"

"Yeah, what are you getting at?"

"Steele's arrogance caused ignorance throughout Nome! Am I right?"

"Yes! Dingo, what are you getting at!?"

"It's a new wave! A new generation of ignorant and clueless dogs who believe anything some liar tells them!"

"I hate to see the fellow dogs of my own town that way, but it's true!" Kodi said, "They're all ignorant! Because of one dog, I lost my dignity!"

"So if we can hit the soft spot, we can throw Steele right off the train he hi-jacked!" Dingo said.

They all looked at Dingo with shock.

"And that makes up for the lack of common sense," Kodi said.

Jenna still was out of it. She wasn't in the best condition after she technically died.

"So if we can say the right things, Steele will get drawn away again?" she asked.

"Exactly! They need to know the truth! We gotta say the right things to the right crowd! If Kodi is accepted back and I quit, he'll get his job back!" Dingo analyzed.

"Don't quit the team, Dingo! I want to run again, but you're more deserving of it than I am!" Kodi insisted.

"You want to run, I don't feel like running anymore! I don't get enough time with Matt!"

"You don't want the job?"

"I belong to a 10 year old boy! My job is to make him happy and give him love! Not to pull a sled! You're meant to lead that team! It's your job! Not mine!"

Kodi couldn't be happier to hear that. He can get his job back without Dingo missing it. Aleu thought of something. A problem. A big problem.

"Kodi and mama have the same fur line," Aleu said.

"Yeah, don't rub in the fact I've looked like a female most of my life," Kodi said.

"When the pups are born they can have that fur line!"

Balto realized what she was getting at.

"If mama has that fur line, I'm carrier of it! It could translate into my pups and they'll look like Kodi!"

"What's the big deal?" Saba asked, "They'll know you carried the traits over."

"The ignorance, Saba! You gotta remember that!"

"Unless they look a lot like me and Star, we're screwed! If just one looks like Kodi, we're screwed!"

Kodi's anxiety started going again, "We're screwed! This is bad! It's all bad!"

"Don't think that way Kodi!" Yukon said.

"I need to tell you all something!" Kodi said, "Two things… first… I'm gay. I've been reluctant to tell you all that. Especially dad, but he came back after turning away. Thanks dad."

"It was wrong of me to turn away! I'm sorry!"

Jenna gave Balto a bad look.

"Is that true!? You turned away from your own son for being gay!?"

"It was selfishness! It was also shock! I had enough crap going down, that piling on top of it all didn't help! You know I don't… well, didn't support gay rights.

Now, son, I do."

"Only Aleu knows this one," Kodi said.

It wasn't going to be easy telling his family that he mated with Steele. He mated with Steele! What a mistake that was! Kodi still can't believe he did it! God, that was stupid!

"I kind of… I mated with… um… I… uh…"

"Relax Kodi. Who did…"

The room filled with silence.

"You and Aleu did mate!" Balto said.

"No! No! It's not that! Ok, maybe it's not so serious."

Kodi cowered out of telling them that he mated with Steele.

"Sorry, I guess it's not so serious then. You know what? Dingo knows too. I mated with Kirby in his sleep."

The room now filled with laughter.

"Kodi! We don't care!" Yukon said.

"It's not a big deal at all! You worried us for nothing!" Balto said.

"Who cares!?" Saba said.

Kodi realized this wasn't as bad of a sin compared to what he's done and what he's being accused of.

"Isn't it wrong though? Isn't it technically rape?" Kodi asked.

"Hey, it wasn't against his will because he didn't know about it! Don't tell him and everything will be just fine! Why didn't you just do it while he was awake? He's bisexual anyway!"

"I didn't know that at the time! But, as long as he doesn't find out, my chances of mating with him for real are there! I hope I'll be able to!"

Now that they knew how to steal back the hi-jacked plane, they might as well start now. As long as the puppies don't end up with Kodi's fur line, it's their victory!