The sun beated down on the Dalmatian Residence as the sounds of drums played. Inside the house, Charlie was pacing back in forth in front of a large group of pups, behind him was a whiteboard.
"Alright listen up pups!" He commanded getting the group of pups their attention, "At ease. Now as you may know we have been getting attacks by an unknown enemy, now last time they strike we held them off with small margin of knowledge, but this time we need a stronger grip on our defenses." He explained smacking the whiteboard which had a drawing of the house.
"Really? Bringing in the war-like vibes huh Charlie." Dolly asked with a snicker, putting the serious situation on hold.
"Too much?" Charlie asked taking off his helmet.
"Uh yeah, it's not like their gonna strike any time soon after the beatdown you gave 'em."
"Well it's better to be prepared then not being prepared." Charlie noted as he put his helmet back on, "Wait weren't you supposed to go somewhere right now?"
"Oh right thanks Charlie, I have to meet up my friends at the park."
"Park?"
"Park?!"
"Park!!"
"PARK!!"
"Oh no..." Charlie squinted his eyes as the sea of black and white sped by running him over, bursting through the front door leaving Charlie in a paw-print-rugged-up state.
"Opps... trigger word." Dolly snickered, jumping down and hurrying out the door grabbing her skateboard and out the door.
"Oh Charlie are you alright?" Da-Vinci ran over after hearing the thunderous sound of the puppy tsunami.
"I've been better." He groan as Da-Vinci licked his face making him laugh, "Am I taken this thing too seriously?"
"What you mean?"
"I mean trying to protect you guys, am I taken this too seriously?" He asked which Da-Vinci pondered.
"I mean... I don't think you are, you protecting us is what I like about you." She explained with small blush.
"Thanks Da-Vinci." He hugged her gently then stood up, "I guess a little break wouldn't hurt anyone right?"
"I believe so, and you definitely need one." Da-Vinci giggled.
"Well, you wanna come along?"
"No thanks, I got some projects to work on."
"Well suit yourself, bye Da-Vinci." He waved to her as he shut the door.
At the Park
Dolly was running at full speed.
"I got it, I got it!" She yelled out before jumping into the sky catching a frisbee while doing a sumer sault and landing perfectly on the ground.
"Way to go Dolly." Charlie yelled as she walked up to him with a grin, "Alright let me have it." He held out his for the frisbee but Dolly started to playfully growl.
"You want it?" She asked through her teeth.
"Yes, give it to me." Charlie grabbed the frisbee and pulled but Dolly pulled back, holding her grip, "Oh we're gonna play this game are we?" He laugh as he and Dolly started to tug at the frisbee, "Let go!"
"Nuh uh!" Dolly said side stepping to the right as they locked horns trying to out maneuver one other in gaining the frisbee, suddenly Charlie and let go of the frisbee causing Dolly to fly back landing on her back.
"You should've let go." Charlie laughed as he picked up the frisbee.
"Thats no fair, you let go!" Dolly said with disappointment.
"Oh relax Dolly, you better get ready cause this one gonna be a whopper." He said reeling back and letting the frisbee fly, Dolly watch it goes for a couple of seconds before speeding off after it laughing away.
Charlie suddenly heard the sound of a motorcycle and looked over to see a man on a motorcycle speeding around the park then with no hesitation the motorcyclists did a front wheelie and pulled out an Uzi firing it upon Charlie. Charlie hit the ground hard as the motorcyclists drove off, Charlie laid there clearly in pain but luckily no bullet holes in him, instead he felt burn marks all over his body.
"Charlie?!" A voice called out, but the ringing in his ear made it hard to hear, soon everything went dark.
Later
Charlie slowly opened his eyes, at first his vision was blurry, but after a while his vision became more clearer. He was in the hospital with bandages wrapped around parts of his body, Delilah was laying her head on Charlie's hand to which he moved to pet her.
"Oh Charlie! Thank goodness you're alright." She smiled.
"Ah... I see your awake." A doctor walked in holding some papers, "Those were some burn marks you received."
"Burn marks?"
"Yep, looks like you were shot with blanks." He said reading the report to him, "Though you should be lucky they were only blanks, if they were live rounds we would've been dealing with an entire different situation."
"Right..." Charlie tried sitting up but pain shot right through his upper body, causing him to winced in pain.
"You might not wanna move for a couple of hours there Mr. Osborn, the healing is still in effect."
"How long do I have in here doc?"
"Oh I say about a couple of hours or so, just for a bit till you can move around better." He explained before walking out leaving Delilah alone with Charlie.
"Dolly was completely shook up from what happened." She explained.
"Oh I bet, how's Da-Vinci?"
"She cried out for you." Delilah explained, "She slept in your bed all through the night."
"Oh, well let's hope I can make a quick recovery from this, I need to start making some rounds."
"Rounds... you don't mean?"
"Oh no no no... I'm not killing anyone, not yet at least." Charlie said, "I need to figure out who attack me and see if they're connected to the first attack."
"Thats alot of ground to cover."
"Not if I have help and I think I know who's willing to help."
Later
"Absolutely not." Cindy said licking her paw.
"Oh come on just this one time." Charlie pleaded.
"And what's in it for me hmmm?" She asked.
"A date with Deepak?"
"With Deepak?!" She stammered as her eyes widened, "Deal!" She held out her paw in which Charlie shook firmly.
"So... do you have information about the motorcyclists that shot me?"
"What can I recall was he was heading off to the country side, possibly to hide from the police." She explains.
"Great, that lowers our search radius."
"But the country side is super huge, how are you ever gonna find them."
"I don't have to, a little bit of exposure on TV could get someone's attention."
Later
["We're here live with the survival of yesterday's attack. Mr. Osborn, any ideas on why a sudden attack on you, who you think is behind it?"
"I don't know who is behind, but I'll tell you this... it's gonna take more than a bunch of blanks to hold me down."
"Any idea where they're gonna strike next?"
"I don't know but let's hope they dont try something like again, now that police are involved, then again I'm here to tell 'em... you didn't finish the job."]
Suddenly the TV was paused.
"Draw me out of hiding huh... that's a good one... well I'll play your game Charlie, Private!" A voice called out as a scared soilder ran up.
"Y-yes sir?"
"The target has made it clear to us that he's throwing a challenge to take him on, I think it's best for us to take his words and shove them back down his throat." The voice explained, "Wouldn't you agree?"
"Y-yes Sir!"
"GOOD!" The voice boomed, "Tonight... we strike... send the best men for the job... and if those dogs get in the away... capture them... I know our back up plan would love to have them as a coat.."
Later that Night
"Alright everyone the plan is in place, it's almost midnight. If we're correct, our plan should follow through soon." Charlie said grabbing his gear and putting his helmet on, "Now you all remember your jobs?" He asked the pups who all nodded, "Good, Da-Vinci?!" He called out for, who immediately appeared out of no where.
"You called?" She asked.
"You know what to do... time for you all to blend in." He smiled.
Some Time Later
All is quiet as the streets of Camden were like a ghost town not a soul in sight, that is until a big Swat-like armored truck pulled up in front of the Dalmatian residence. The back doors flew open as armed men ran out of the back and lined up in front of the house.
"Alright, now here this our enemy has foiled us before, but we are not gonna let that happen again." The Commander said as he pulled out his pistol, "Now let's storm that house!" He yelled out as they changed to the house wielding military like weaponry. Upon reaching the front door, instead of jackimg into the bio scanner and placed a small little device on it, once they backed up one of the soilder pulled out a little controller and pushed down on a big red button causing the little device to explode, shattering the door into pieces.
"We have breached the location." The soilder said as they ran through the destroyed door, turning on their night vision, "Search the area, don't let the target or the dogs escape." He commanded as they split into three groups, one team went upstairs, second team headed into the kitchen, and the last team went downstairs.
With Team One
They quietly went upstairs looking through every nook and cranny they could see with their night vision.
"So far no sign of them." One said when suddenly from the shadows the sounds of something rolling behind them. They quickly turned around to investigate only to see a skateboard with a small note.
Welcome to our lovely home
"That's creepy." One soilder said as another sound of movement was heard behind them. They turned around quickly only to see a concussion grenade, "Oh Shi..." He said before the grenade went off blinding the soilder, stumbling over each other a rope was then placed in front of them causingbyhem to trip over and hitting the floor. The puppies revealed themselves with some sort of camouflage paint to match the walls and other objects in the house, they hurried over and tied up the soilder quickly while Dizzy and DeeDee bounced on their backs.
"We did, we did it!"
"We caught the bad guys!" Dizzy and DeeDee cheered.
"Get 'em!" One of the soilders yelled out and two of them went to jump onto them. Only for Dizzy and DeeDee to run off of the soldier they were bouncing on, creating a dogpile as they escaped from the soilders.
Outside
"Keep your eyes open men, they could be anywhere." One of the soilder said as they looked around outside, suddenly they heard some movement from behind a bush one soilder snuck over quickly and pulled back on the bush only to find nothing.
"Clear!" He said when all of a sudden the bush exploded, sendind the soilder flying back.
"What the?!" The other soilders stammered as the soilder that was near the rigged bush landed with a hard thud thankfully not severely injured but left with burn marks.
"Ow..." Was all the soilder could muster before falling unconscious.
"Search the area! Leave no stone untouched!" The soilder yelled out. Suddenly, a tree branch came swinging out and smack him in the face, the other soilder spun around in a panic, then suddenly the floor gave way on them, causing them to fall into a hole.
"Nice job Diesel!" Dylan said leaving his hiding place (which was in front of his tree house) when Diesel poped out of the ground.
"Thanks Dylan... wait what did I do?" He asked in confusion.
In the House
One by one the soilder were taken out in humiliating ways, some being hit with dog bowls, others being tripped over with wires, it had gotten bad enough that the remaining men refused to enter the house.
"Cowards all of you fine I'll go in myself!" The Commander growled cocking back his pistol and stormed in the house. Once inside he pulled down his night vision goggles and turned on infernal vision, "Now you won't hide from me." He whispered as he started to look around.
In his infernal vision the entire house was a cool blue but anything with body heat can be detected and were shown as yellow and or red, and in this case alot of body heat is being shown.
"Gotcha!" He yelled out and fired upon the heat area which immediately darted off, then he turned to face another heat area and fired causing the object to jump and run off, "You Can't Hide Forever!!" He yelled out as he rushed after them. The two pups hurried upstairs while bullets flew by them, ducking into one of the rooms, "I got you two cornered now." He said as he aimed his pistol, "Say yourYOWWW!" He screamed as he felt sharp teeth pierced through his leg, he looked down to see a baby Dalmatian biting his leg like a rabid dog, "Oi! Get off of me, you crazy mutt!" The Commander yelled as he shook his leg as much as he could, finally he was able to get Dorothy off his leg causing her to fly back, luckily she was caught by an intercepting Dolly.
"Alright punk, no one hurts my family!" Dolly barked out revealing her fangs in anger.
"This place is fucking crazy!" The Commander screamed out holding onto his leg when suddenly Charlie pounced on him putting him in a sleeper hold, however the Commander pushed Charlie back into a shelf knocking over books and other items, soon many Dalmatians joined the commotion barking like crazy, the two tossed and thrown each other through many items but soon the Commander pulled out a knife and stabbed Charlie in the shoulder causing him to go down onto the top stairs, the Commander grabbed Charlie's throat and held the knife up to it, "You American Bastard, your lucky he wants you alive." He said.
"Well your in luck." Charlie said grabbing the Commanders neck, "I don't feel like dying today." He placed his feet on the Commander stomach and pushed up and threw him over, (called the monkeyflip) making him roll down the stairs before stopping infront of Dylan who Whacked the Commander with a frying pan, "Well I see the traditional welcoming scenario is still in affect." Charlie joked as he held his shoulder, soon the puppies all gathered around.
"Did we get em?"
"Yeah did we?"
"Did we win?" Some of the pups asked when suddenly the Commander groaned causing the pups to scatter and hide, once the Commander came to, Charlie grabbed him by his collar and threw him against a wall.
"Alright buddy who are you working for, and why does this person want me dead?" He asked.
"Go to hell!"
"Buddy, we can make this so much easier with you tell me who you're working for!" Charlie demanded.
"If I told you, h-he... he would kill me!"
"Would you wanna die by my hands?!"
"Ok Ok Ok, I'll tell you!" He screamed out allowing Charlie to let go of him, "I work for..." Before he could spill, he was shot in the head by a sniper, Charlie ducked down and looked around trying to see where the shot came from, unfortunately it was dark enough for whoever fired to slip away.
"Son of a bitch!" Charlie cursed as he grabbed ahold of the dead commander, however he noticed the commander phone which he plucked and inspected it, "Dawkins?" He called out and right on cue.
"Yes Charlie?"
"I need your tablet skills can you get me information from this phone?" He asked and gave the phone to Dawkins.
"I'll uh, see what I can do."
"Great thanks." He said turning to the hurt soldiers, "As for the rest of you, your getting an all expense paid trip to the slammer."
Later
As last the final solider was placed into the paddy wagon and a office hit the back of it signaling it to take off.
"Well I have to say Charlie, you handle yourself pretty well with these mercenaries." Pearl said.
"Hey, just protecting the ones I love." Charlie explained, Da-Vinci looked over and smiled at him.
"With your skills you would make a fine police officer, say I have overheard that there's a opening for someone like you, maybe you should consider applying." Pearl suggested.
"Oh, I don't know Pearl."
"Hey it's only a suggestion, but think about it for a while. Now I must be heading back to the station, have a goodnight." She said and trotted off after the paddy wagon.
"Night Pearl." The pups and Charlie said waving goodnight to her.
"Well pups I think it's time that we all hit the sack." Charlie said to which the pups all groan.
"But Charlie." One of the pups groaned but yawned, "We're not sleepy yet."
"Alright everyone let's get you to bed, Dylan?" He glanced over to Dylan who saluted.
"You heard him pups, let's get you all to bed." He ordered which the sleepy pups all lined up ready to be counted.
Later That Night
Da-Vinci tossed and turned but jolted up panting heavily. She looked around to see she was in Charlie's room and sighed in relief. She looked over to Charlie and carefully crawled over to him softly shaking him with her paw.
"H-huh wah... Da-Vinci? What's wrong?" He asked very tired like.
"I... I can't sleep." She said with teary eyes.
"Oh... You thinking about what happened earlier?"
"Mhm."
"It's gonna be okay Da-Vinci." Charlie said as he hugged her, "Come here." He patted next to which Da-Vinci snuggled close to him, "There ya go, nice and comfy." He said gently and yawned, "Night Da-Vinci."
"Night Charlie." She said and looked up to see Charlie fast asleep, she then sighed and licked his cheek, "Love you."