Lightning awoke to the sound of a car going over a speed bump.
He squinted, his eyes adjusting to the red light. Where was he?
Getting up, Lightning felt a sharp pain on his neck. Somewhat like a pin.
"Ow…" Lightning held that spot with his paw, soothing the pain a little.
Blinking twice, the dog panned the area. It seemed quite small, and it was hot and stuffy in there.
"Hello?" Lightning took a few steps forward before bumping his head on something.
Lightning jumped back in surprise.
"What the…" he moved closer and nudged whatever he hit with his paw.
Squinting, his vision became clearer and he saw what it was.
"A cage door? What am doing in a cage then?" he ranted.
"Hey," he suddenly heard. From a voice that sounded very well-rounded. Lightning jumped back in surprise, yet again.
"Is anyone there?" the voice went again.
Lightning answered hesitantly. "Uh, yeah."
"I could use some held over here."
Moving closer, Lightning still couldn't see who was talking, but there was definitely someone there.
A few steps later, Lightning saw a black cat in his vision.
"Hey, a dog. Of all things a dog, wow." The cat said. "I could really use some help with this wire." He said, pointing to his lower left leg.
Lightning inhaled.
"Okay…" The cat muttered.
The cat moved his leg forward to the front of Lightning's cage, giving a short cry of pain. Lightning began removing it with his teeth.
"Hi-ouch- I'm Vic." The cat introduced himself.
Lightning didn't look up from what he was doing. "I'm Lightning." He said, a little understandable.
"Lightning, huh? Isn't that ironic." Vic said.
"How so?" Lightning moved his eyes up a little.
"Well-ouch!- I used to star in a TV series called Bolt, until it was cancelled. After that Matt, he's the cat over there in the other cage, (Lightning looked at the cage while Vic was talking.) and I got lost and we were picked up by some blonde guy and here we are." Vic explained.
"Yeah…" Lightning said. Then he suddenly stopped untying the wire. "Wait, did you say Bolt?"
"Yeah, why?" Vic asked.
"Well, you see, I was just picked me up too. I don't really remember what happened, but before that I met a dog named…Bolt." After having his share of talk, Lightning continued untying.
"Was he white, with floppy ears, a bushy tail and was overprotective of his owner?" Vic interrogated.
With the last statement as his solid evidence, Lightning said. "Yes!"
Vic sighed. "I could be the king of irony right now." He said. "You know I was never really nice that dog."
"I see…" with one more clutch of his head in strained effort, Lightning removed the wire and Vic got on all-fours again.
"Thanks. You know this is the first time a dog has ever been good to me, let alone a stranger." Vic said gratefully.
"Just doing my part." Lightning said. And then they felt another speed bump-like jolt.
"So, where are we anyway?" Lightning asked.
"I think the trunk of a car. So as long as we're on the move there's no getting out."
Lightning grinned at Vic's statement. "I know a little something about cars…"
