With the heat brushing against her fur, her eyes started to twitch with both opening in unison, looking directly at the fire before feeling the soft comfort of a blanket around her, standing up as small cricks in her bones sounded off as she moved. The bright fire in front of her proving too much for her eyes at once as she squinted away and looked all over. Closely observing the interior of the Cabin as she eyed outside the windows.
Her heart dropped as she raced over the glass and looked outside to see her favorite white ice covering the ground, she had missed it so. Looking around her environment to also see Pine Trees and the beautiful stars in the night sky. "Oh great, you're awake" Everest happily stated as the space dog turned around to see the Huskey behind her.
"Oh wow, you speak English?" She seemed surprised which made Everest a bit perplexed at the sudden 'new findings' by the canine. "Ummm Of course I do, why wouldn't I?" Everest asked.
"I guess it doesn't matter, I just can't believe it, I'm finally back home" She said throwing herself down to the ground and relaxing on the wooden planks. "Uhhh, Well Welcome back to Earth I guess" Everest replied.
"Oh, forgive me where are my manners, I guess however long space travel does that to you. Anyways, I am Laika, I was sent on a daring mission across the stars to our brilliant scientists' sake of research. I guess they never for saw I would be in space for so long, but that doesn't matter. All I need to do is hang around here until the Red Army finds my craft and picks me up" Laika said stretched her body trying to relief some body pain as Everest stood just feet away, totally jaw dropped at what the mixed breed canine said.
"Uhm, The What Army?"
"Duh, The Red Army, The Strongest, Most Fierce and Most Vigilant in the World, The Soul Protects of the Soviet Union" Laika responded as Everest stared blankly at her, knowing that asking more questions and getting more answers would only lead to more confusion and awkwardness.
"Hey Everest, I heard talking, Is she awake?" Jake asked, walking in and seeing both the dogs engaging in a pleasant but not some understanding conversation. "Ah another Comrade to thank for my Daring Rescue from the Cold" Laika uttered out with open paws.
"I uhm-"Jake stuttered
"Don't worry my fellow comrades, your country will revere you for saving me" Laika said reaching over and grabbing a hot chocolate from Jake's hands. "Hey, that was mine" Jack stated as Laika hovered her nose over the steaming beverage before taking a few sips.
"I think you mean…Ours" She stated boldly "I must admit, this hot chocolate is amazing" She stated after each continuous sip, slowly raising the mug up higher and higher as it poured down her throat. "Thank you, Made with Top of the Line, Grade A, American Chocolate" Jake pointed out, all sudden for the mixed breed canine to spit it out at first hearing, letting the hot chocolate spray from her mouth all over the floor and walls.
"Excuse me?!" Laika shouted with a rough shake in her body, looking down at the down empty mug with hot chocolate residue dripping from the sides. "Are both of you crazy?!" She shouted as she pushed herself into the corner, her face frozen and her body trembling as if she knew she had just drunk poison.
"Woah calm down, We can make you another one if you-"Everest offered before a sudden screech came from the Mixed breed.
"Get that sludge of Western Degeneracy away from meeeee!" Laika screamed as both Everest and Jake backed away leaving Laika to fester in her own madness in the corner. Observing she from a distance as Everest nudged Jake. "Call Paw Patrol" Everest whispered as Jake gave a thumbs up, visually displaying his understanding to the Huskey.
"You SICK Monsters, why in the right mind would you give me that!" Laika said, as Everest slowly approached her. "But you liked it just a few seconds ago" Everest pointed out to her. "YOU NEVER SAID IT WAS MADE BY THOSE…THOSE…DAMN AMERICANS!" She spoke with such conviction, such hate and such meaning in her words.
"Hold on a second, American Products…. None of you Speak Russian. Am I even in the Soviet Union?!" She asked out, Everest looked from side to side, not sure how to answer that question. Obviously, she wasn't, but a small hunch in the Huskey's body made her think if that she said no, all hell would break loose.
"O-Of course you're in the…Soviet Union, Uhm…Comrade?" Everest shrugged, looking over at Laika to see her cringe in response. She wasn't stupid, and certainly wasn't calm as well. "I knew it, this is America, Im being enemy lines, I've been captured!" Laika said as Everest rushed over to her, placing a paw on her chest in a calming manner.
"Wait no Calm down!" Everest tried to reason gentling pushing her against the wall to keep her still. "NO, YOU WONT CAPTURE ME!" Laika exclaimed, grabbing the huskey by her side and reversing their positions in a forceful manner, pinning Everest against the wall. Bringing her paw back and thrusting it in front of her to strike Everest in the muzzle.
Everest yelped as Laika continued to deliver strike upon strike before throwing her to side, sending the Huskey crashing against a nearby table. Causing the items on the counter to fly over onto the floor peacefully or heavier items to fly across the room. Everest groaned whilst on the floor, within moments Jake came rushing in.
Seeing Everest in pain on the floor and a furious Laika staring down at her just a few feet away, Sudden seeing Laika her sights away from Everest and then onto the human. "W-Woah, Easy there Laika, W-We saved you remember?" Jake claimed as he extended his hands outward in front of him against Laika, slowly backing up as the mongrel dog slowly pressed forward toward him.
"And you'll be the end of me as well if I didn't realize it sooner" Laika stated as she crept on the Human, Jake looked from right to left trying to think of a quick way out. Whether it was to fight back or just escape. He was in the center of the room, no time to just out a window never minds the glass he would be hurting himself with even if he did that.
Laika brandished her teeth in full as she readied herself to pounce before abruptly being stuck in the head by something solid "Ouch, Who threw that!" She yelped out before looking behind her to see a German Shepherd tackle her to the ground, with other canines of different breeds also present.
"Just in time Chase" Jake thanked as he shot the Police dog a thumbs up, Chase nodded as he pressed his paw down onto Laika head, further pushing her down to the ground and restricting her movement. "Everest, are you okay?" Marshall threw himself to the huskey who was still on the ground, groaning in pain.
"Y-Yeah, Im good" Everest muttered, Everyone and their grandmother could wholeheartedly admit Everest was a tough nut to crack in any mission she faced, but this didn't stop Marshall from babying her like she was a newborn pup. "No, we're going straight to Katie's, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if you got hurt" he said, lifting Everest up to her paws.
"You two can do that, As for you, Have fun spending time in the slammer" Chase taunted as he produced handcuffs from his canine vest, Its metal parts jingled like keys on a right. Chase zipped the cuffs to place around Laika's paws just before Everest stopped him.
"Wait Chase, she needs help too, I don't believe she's in the right mind. Think about how traumatic it must be for her to come back to earth. She believed she was in the Soviet Union just a few minutes ago" Everest pleaded; Chase looked down at the mixed breed with a bit more sympathy.
"YOU'RE THE ONE THAT NEEDS HELP, Наглый американец!" Laika shouted, gaining head turns and confusing looks all around.
"Does anyone know what she just said?" Marshall asked
"Nope"
"Not a Clue"
"Sounded like Gibberish to me"
Laika rolled her eyes as in her mind, she was surrounded by Idiots. "I called you all Insolent Americans, Western numbskulls!" She said with a final act of defiance as she spat on the floor in the others general direction. "I guess you got a point Everest, we'll take her down to Katie's right away" Ryder relented, Ryder motioned his head to Chase.
Giving the German Shepherd the green light to bring her up and take her with them, All Laika's weight was thrown up as Chase successfully interlocked her paws in front of her and lead her out the door. However not without a fight as she was still held onto tightly by the German shepherd as she constantly pushed and pulled away.
"Я не сдамся живой, я никогда никому из вас не сдамся, клянусь своей Родиной и ее лидерами, что не остановлюсь, пока вы все не умрете в моих лапах!"(None of you will take me alive, I'll never surrender to any of you, I swear by my Homeland and its leaders that I will not stop until all of you are dead at my paws) Laika screamed at the top of her lungs out into the open air.
"Sorry lady, we don't speak Communist" Marshall stated oh so bluntly, obviously it was meant as a joke as it caught on quickly, The Dalmation achieving a few laughs as he always does.
Hours later with the Sun already bright out, Yesterday seemed like an eventful memory as everyone in town went about their business, almost as if the space ship crash never even happened. However, life goes on, as people attended their jobs bright and early in the morning. Ryder's job however was the keep Adventure Bay safe for another day.
First stopping by Katie for a quick check up on their newfound 'friend' who gave them a bit of trouble last night. "Hi Katie, I just came to check up on that Dog we brought in last night, how's she doing?" Ryder asked.
"If only It was an easy task, so far she's literally resented anything I've brought her, Every time she yells, she yells in Russian and I have to use a Translate app on my phone just to understand her" She explained as she motioned for the Paw Patrol leader to follow her. With a few moments they found themselves walking down a narrow corridor.
Katie and Ryder walking side by side as on their left and right were empty spacious cages at Katie used for animals that she deemed were acting to 'rambunctious' as one would put it. "Sorry I had to put you through all of this, But you're the only person I know that can work miracles like this" Ryder said.
"It's okay, Despite Dogs like this I still like my job, Just give me a few hours with her and she'll be a sophisticated canine" Katie promised with a smile, Ryder looked beyond the Veterinarian to see the familiar space canine locked behind the small bars of the cage, desperately trying to unlock herself.
"I don't suppose Lockpicking is something a 'sophisticated canine' would do, would it?" Ryder commented as she pointed at Laika, who was busy trying to use two thin pieces of metal to pick the lock that held her inside the cage. Katie froze as she rushed over and grabbed the two bent pieces of metal out of her paws.
"Когда я выберусь отсюда, я оторву вам пальцы и засуну так глубоко в глотку, что вы и пискнуть не сможете на пути в Вашингтон" (Once I get out of here Im going to cut your fingers off and shove them so far down your throat that you'll be screaming Yankee Doodle Dandy all the way back to Washington) Laika growled and barked as both backed away. "What did she say?" Ryder asked, looking back at Katie with a confused face on the mixed breed's foreign words.
"Best if you didn't know" Katie replied as she walked off, Leaving Ryder for just a second before Ryder made a surprised noise. "Oh, is this the cat I brought to you last night?" He asked, looking at the Feline sitting in the cage with an innocent face.
"Oh yes, thank you for bringing him to me. So far I've looked at him and I didn't see any injuries, Im just keeping him here until his owner comes looking for him" Katie stated before the two walked off further down the corridor to tend to some other matter or talk about another topic.
Leaving both the Disappoint Laika and Orange Feline just a few feet apart from each other, Both on the same level but separated still, directions in front of each other as both waring species locked eyes with each other. "Тупой комок шерсти" (Dumb Furball) Laika muttered as she whisked her head away from the small narrow bars that kept her confined.
"I'm not a dumb furball" The Feline stated with a stern male voice, which made Laika jump at the sudden realization that her foreign words were once finally understood. "Wait a minute, you understood me?" she asked.
"So it would seem for you, But lets cut the chase and get the meat of the matter, I know you" The Orange cat so boldly proclaimed which the mixed breed canine scoffed at. Thinking he was joking, yeah sure he knew a bit of Russian, so what.
"Yeah right, Next thing you're going to tell me is that I've been in space for 40 years" She jokingly said, looking back at the feline to see him smile as well. "You're a little bit short on the 40 years there love"
"No, you're lying, Sure everything here looks a bit too modern, but there's no way I've skipped 40 years into the future"
"Would you believe me if I told you something only you would know?" He asked with a quick of his fur, cleaning it before laying down some facts. "Fine, Tell me something only I would know and I'll-"
"Your name is Laika Rekunov, Born a few years after World War 2 under a burning bridge, You were Homeless on the streets of Moscow and then taken into the Soviet Space Program where you launched into space in 1959, Want me to continue?" Laika couldn't believe it, listing off a summary of her life story in the blink of an eye, all whilst giving himself an old fashion tongue bath.
"I would mention your first take off in 1957, but by the looks of those scars on your muzzle, I feel like that's a touchy subject" He said, referencing the small patches of skin across Laika' face where her fur refused to grow back. Laika shielded her face away from the mysterious feline in embarrassment. "Fine, I believe you, so tell me, what has become of my Nation?"
"I would love to be your personal Q and A Machine, but I have somewhere to be right now" He claimed, reaching out his orange paw out the cage to grasp the lock that held him in, feeling around for a sweet spot. "Don't get me wrong, you're a smart furball, but even you're smart enough to know we're both stuck in here" she said. The Cat chuckled in response, as he had an ace up his sleeve that he had yet to show.
"You know Laika, even though you've only known me for just a few minutes, you speak so little of me" He stated as she backed away from the bars of the cage further into his cell. Taking off his collar that he wore to reveal a string of tools hidden instead.
Thin and Flexible enough to slip into the seems of his collar, slowly pulling out a lockpicking tool and treading over back to the edge of the cage, doing his magic against the lock as Laika looked in shocked as the cat she had called dumb was as prepared as a prepared as a Soldier and seemingly as well equipped as a SWAT Officer.
A sudden but small 'ping' rang out in the corridor as the bolt that connected the lock together suddenly threw open, letting the Feline grab his collar and push open the cage door gently. Taking his sweet time to tighten back his collar around his neck as he looked Laika in the eyes with no emotion.
"Alright Alright Fine, you're smart and well prepared and all that, now you mind getting me out of here as well?" Laika pleaded as she rattled her own cage to get his attention and mercy, The Feline just flipped his lockpicking tool up in the air and catching it back repetitively, taunting the mutt.
"Hmmm No I don't think I will" he said, as he looked up above Laika to see an open window, catching back his tool and slipping it back into his collar with ease. Hoping onto other Cages and Final Laika's to reach the windowsill.
Looking out the window as the Sun light flash banged his eyed, sticking his nose out and getting whiff of the cool breeze "Ahhh, Sweet Freedom, just like how I like it" He complimented the land before turning back and sticking his head down, just a few centimeters away from the cage door, so much so that Laika could easily reach out her paw and grab his face.
"So that's it, you're just going to leave me stuck in this cage like some Prisoner of War?" Laika asked. "That girl you saw earlier is going to come back soon, she'll let you out and try be all buddy buddy with you until you learn some manners. Personal advice, I suggest you learn those manners real quick"
"I'll think about it, What's your name by the way?" Laika asked, all the sudden seeing the Feline roll his eyes as he brought his head back up away from the cage door. "Listen, there's just somethings I prefer not to tell people, and my name is one of them"
"До свидания (Goodbye) Laika, I promise you this won't be the last time we see each other" He gleefully exclaimed as he dashed out the window like a superhero from a comic book.
Laika listened as he heard the Cat's bell collar jingle in the distance before hearing nothing more, giving the sign he was gone. Laika slouched back in her kennel, looking ahead of her to see the cat's empty cage. Suddenly, seeing Katie appear out of the blue. Peaking inside Laika cage with a smile "Hey there, Time for some you and me time" she said, grabbing a key and unlocked the cage, reaching in a grabbing the Soviet dog. Katie finally turning around and looking at the open cage.
"Oh no, I guess didn't lock the cage properly, I'll look for him later" she said as turned away down the other way of the corridor with Laika on her back.
"We're going to have so much fun, I promise, It'll just be you and me sitting in a room for hours"
"Blyat"
"…. In Therapy"
"Double Blyat"