Charlie started to groggily wake up, pain shot through his head like needles sticking into his head, once his vision returned he finds his hands handcuffed to a railing, he looked over to see a familiar boy beaten to a bloody pulp and handcuffed to another railing.
"Hunter?" He called out to which Hunter shot up upon hearing his named called.
"Charlie! Thank goodness your awake." He said with joy.
"You okay? You look like you been through hell."
"So have you, I saw them taken the pups down to the storage area." He explains.
"Yeah I know, I saw them until I got wacked in the back of the head."
"What's worse my grand aunt is aboard."
"Your grand aunt, you mean Cruella?"
"Yes!" He answered suddenly the heavy iron door opened to reveal two armed soilders enter.
"Come on you two, the boss wants a word with you." He said as he uncuffed Charlie's handcuffs which gave him the opportunity to throw a punch right at the soilders face, the soldier quickly retracted back to give the other one time to pull out a shock baton and wacked him with it.
After a few whacks and a couple of shock treatments, Charlie went down in pain and was dragged along, followed behind him was Hunter who immediately winced back to not take the hits from the soldiers.
"Come on, asshole." The soldier said as they dragged Charlie out of the room and into the hallway where the only sound was the echos of their footsteps. Soon they reached their destination where the sounds of whining pups could be heard suddenly the two soilders threw down Charlie with a thud as another man walked up and tilted Charlie's head to look up at a younger man with an evil smile, the red light lit up his face to represent how evil he was.
"Ah I see we finally meet face to face." The man said, "You know Charlie, you put up one hell of a fight protecting these dogs." He said standing back up, "Treating them like family." He added glancing over to the pups with evil intentions.
"W-who are you?"
"Who am I, Who Am I?!" The man asked in anger but soon smiled, "Don't you recognize my looks, my posture, my voice?" He asked, to which Charlie just shook his head, "Of course you would forget all about it would you, that unfortunate attack by those terrorists, leaving me to die in Iraq."
"No... you can't be..."
"That's right... it's me bro, Kyle." He announced out stretching his arms, "Live and in living color."
"B-but you..."
"I died?" Kyle guessed, "Of course you would think that, anybody would think, leaving me to die like that, but I survived with the only thing that I could feel, hatred and thanks to some new friends they helped me gain back my strength." He explained as he paced around Charlie, "Behind all of the strikes and drones you've seen and been through were all done by me pulling every little string hoping for you to slip up, but as expected you would prevail succeed in stopping every attack that was thrown at you, you and your precious dalmatian family, that you treasure so much."
"They have nothing to do with this Kyle let them go." Charlie persuaded.
"Charlie, I would love nothing more than to let them go... however, my partner that I hired has a... sort of history with this Dalmatian family."
"That's right." A voice said as a woman appeared she looked like she was in her 70's wearing a black jump suit, her hair was split in half, black on one side and white on the other, she also was carrying a small flak of something that sprayed a green mist, "I want to personally thank you Mr. Osborne for capturing them." She said as Kyle smiled.
"Of course, just remember that you get them after I finish off my brother."
"You bastard! How could you!" Charlie yelled out before the two soilders grabbed him and held him down.
"Don't you call me a bastard! If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be in this situation, you held the entire world on your shoulder and that could have been us, but now it's gonna be me and only me, and how should I proceed?" He asked grabbing Charlie by his cheeks, "I got an idea, how about..." he soon pulled out a knife and held it up to Charlies throat, "A slow, long, satisfying cut, right on the throat." He said before looking over to Hunter, "Miss. De Vil may I ask do you need your great grand nephew?"
"Eh, just throw him overboard he's not worth breathing the same air on this ship." She said smiling at the pups who backed up whimpering.
"I swear to god you lay one hand on those pups, you are gonna need facial reconstructive surgery!" Charlie warned as they grabbed Hunter and dragged him out of the room to which Cruella just laughed.
"Oh really that's alot of talk coming from one person." She teased as she looked over at the cages and opened one, grabbing Dorothy by her collar, "So you've taken care of them this whole time huh." She said inspecting poor terrified Dorothy.
"Put her down you creep!" Dolly yelled out in anger, but only Charlie could hear her while everyone else got barking and growling.
"Put her down!" Charlie yelled before getting smacked with the shock baton again.
"Hey, I told you, your not allow to touch them till after I finished off my brother." Kyle said.
"Oh hush now darling this is payback, how about we give a little test run for my machine." She laughed evily while her large machine activated.
Meanwhile
The soldier dragged Hunter up to the top deck and hoist him up over the edge.
"Wait wait wait please you don't have to kill me." Hunter begged.
"Sorry kid, boss doesn't need you anymore." He said as he hoist up Hunter and was about to throw him overboard, suddenly a pack of wild creatures jumped and pouched onto the soldier the soldier dropped Hunter, getting him to crawl over to the railing and watch the carnage follow, soon the soldier crawled away in pain leaving the wild pack of animals in victorious.
"Wait a minute I recognize you, you're that fox." Hunter said, getting Fergus to turn around and smile.
"Well come on you two, we got to find Dolly an them." Fergus said.
"Oh I hope you're not too late." Summer said.
"Big Fee, 50 Nuts see if you can find them." Fergus said as the two were about to climb into the ventilation system, but Hunter stopped them.
"Wait, I know where they are, I'll lead you to them." He said to which everyone looked at each other.
"Should we follow him?" Spike asked.
"It's probably our best chance." Fergus said as the rest nodded in agreement.
"Lead us." Summer said, Hunter only heard barking but understood what she said and leas the group of animals.
Meanwhile
Charlie looked on in horror as Cruella slowly walked over to the large machine every step she took made his heart beat faster and faster in panic rhythm.
"Don't try and squirm too much, it will only hurt worse." She laughed. Dolly had enough if this and need to act fast. quickly she thrashed in her cage until finally was able to break the lock, peopleing her cage.
"I'm free! Now you're gonna get it!" She growled and raced up to her. Most of the henchmen that spotted her, they tried to grah her but she was too nimble and quick for them, "BOW WAKKA WOW!" She yelled out her signature catchphras and pounched onto Cruella, bit her in the hand.
"Arghhhh!" She yelled out, dropping Dorothy in which Dolly caught while she kick flipped off of her with Dorothy in her mouth and sprinted over to Charlie, "You spotted rat get her!" She demanded, as two other soldiers tried to grab her but she dodged and weaved between them.
"Charlie! Take Dorothy!" Dolly yelled and tossed Dorothy to Charlie, causing her to slide across the floor for him to catch with his body.
"Heya Dorothy." He greeted her, tp ehich she nuzzled against him, "Think you can help with my cuffs?" He asked her. Dorothy pondered to herself before nodding her head. While she was busy with Charlie's cuffs Dorothy charged at Kyle and headbutted him in the process.
"Argh you stupid bitch!" Kyle yelled out but now blinded by rage, he quickly grabbed Dolly by the collar and threw her down to the ground before putting a knee on her neck, then pulled out a knife, "I should skin you alive!" He said. Unbeknownst to him, Charlie managed to escape his cuffs thanka to suddenly Charlie jumped onto him causing the knife to cut into Dolly's ear, she howled in pain as she jumped back holding onto her ear, it wasn't gushing blood, but it was cut from midway down to the tip of her ear, Kyle managed to kick Charlie off and retrieve the knife.
"Argh look what you done, you ruined my coat!" Cruella screamed in terror at the sight of Dolly holding her ear close, "You ruined my Coat!" She then threw her vile of green liquid at Kyle which hit his face.
"Arghh you Stupid bitch!" He screamed as Charlie tackled him and they both went through a door which let them downstairs.
"No matter I'll just have to make a light jacket." She said as she snapped her fingers, to the her henchmen, "Throw them in, I'm gonna enjoy this." Suddenly a howl could be heard as Spike pounced onto Cruella.
"Don't you hurt my girl!" He yelled out.
"Spike?!" She called out in shock and confusion."
"He's not the only one here Dolly!" A voice said as she looked up.
"Fergus!" Dolly yelled out in joy as Fergus Big-Fee, Sid, and Hunter all jumped down.
"Summer!" Dylan yelled out as Summer ran over and nuzzled Dylan through the cage.
"I'm glad to you guys aren't hurt." She said to which Dylan smiled.
"Can you help us out?" Dylan asked.
"Oh course." She said to which she barked to Hunter for help.
"You pesky, flea bag mutts, I'll have your skins for this!" She yelled out charging at them.
"Big-Fee, you know what to do." Fergus said as Big-Fee quickly pounced onto Cruella's head who immediately freeze's as Big-Fee waved to her.
"Ugh a Rat!" She cried out trying to swipe away Big-Fee but she was too fast for her to get off, she was distracted enough for Dolly to quickly run over and crouched behind her, causing her to fall over and roll into a open cage to which Dylan and Spike quickly closed, "Argh you pesky filthy vermin's." She yelled grabbing hold of the bars, "You think this little cage will keep you safe, mark my words, I, Cruella Da Vil will have my fur, and I will not rest till I..." She swore but Hunter quickly placed a sock in her mouth.
"I've heard enough out of you!" He said as he looked over to the everyone with a smile, Dizzy and DeeDee quickly tackled him and started licking his face.
"Mr. Funny Face!"
"We've Missed you!" They said tickling Hunter who was crying with laughter.
"Ahhh, alright you two I missed you too!" He said as he stood up, "Quickly everyone let's get you all out of here." Hunter said.
"What about Charlie?" Da-Vinci asked worriedly.
"Don't worry Da-Vinci, Charlie can handle himself, I hope." Dolly said.
"Come on, come on we don't have alot of time!" Fergus yelled as he and Hunter led everyone out of the room into the hallway.
With Charlie and Kyle
A door burst open as Charlie and Kyle roll down a fleet of stairs which led into the engine room Kyle was able to kick Charlie off of him causing him to land on the on a large part of the engine.
"Argh look what that bitch has done to me!" Kyle yelled as he looked away holding his face.
"You deserve it after what you've done to me." Charlie yelled to which silence took over only the sound of the engine running.
"What I've done, no... what YOU'VE done!" Kyle yelled as he looked back to Charlie who was horrified at what what he sees, where Cruella threw her bottle of green liquid on Kyles face was melted revealing a glowing robotic eye and and some endoskeleton, "This is what you've done, you made me into this machine!" He yelled as he ripped off a piece of railing, "And now I'm going to show how much pain I went through!" He said wielding the piece of rail and tried to stab Charlie, luckily Charlie rolled out of the way, causing the railing to puncture the machine letting sparks and wires fly out, Kyle with the list for blood and destruction ripped out the man made metal spear and went to stab him again this time.
Charlie again ducked but wasn't quick enough as the spear scrapped passed him puncturing another part of the engine causing it to light on fire, Charlie crawled away as much as he can before getting cornered by the very large pistons, Kyle then took the spear and held it up against Charlie throat choking him Kyle quickly lifted up Charlie by his throat along with holding the spear at his throat and started walking forward, pushing Charlie back more and more closer to the pistons, "This is it brother, all that we've waiting for, all of the time we had, this will be sweet and glorious, what do you have to say about that huh, Huh!?" Kyle asked with cackle as Charlie grabbed onto the spear knowing his strength isn't enough to push back, but with a calm and collective head looked at him.
"You... are... my... brother!" Charlie grunted as he quickly dropped down and put his feet underneath Kyle monkey flipping him over himself where the piston was coming down, Kyle quickly reacted by grabbing the piston and using all of his might to hold it up, but with his strength the entire engine started to go haywire, "This isn't you Kyle, you 'were' my brother, I never meant to hurt you like that, I thought when you died I wouldn't be able to cope with the loss, but then I inherited the Dalmatians, I felt like my family was back together, I saw little pieces of you everyone of them, mostly seeing it in Dolly and Dylan, they reminded me of you, Hell if I was a dog I would feel right at home with them, especially with Da-Vinci by my side!" He said as tears started to form, "I loved you Kyle!" The sounds of screeching metal could be heard as Kyle just stares at Charlie who was kneeling down in front of him, but Kyle screeched at him in pain, his arms started to reveal metal parts puncturing the skin as blood oozed out of the body.
"I HATE YOU!" He said before the piston was too much for him. Kyle then lept off the piston before it came crashing down causing a huge explosion sending Charlie to fumble for a bit, after a small emotional moment Charlie quickly ran out of the engine room, red lights flashed throughout the rooms as Charlie exited the storage room where the entire engine exploded causing the ship to quickly lean to one side, throwing Charlie at a wall where everything suddenly went dark.
Heavy breathing was all that could be heard, darkness was all that could be seen, nothing felt real, nothing seemed real, all he could feel was numbness, his mind went into complete distraction mode trying to shield Charlie from reality when suddenly a voice could be heard calling his name, at first it was muzzled for a hard to hear.
"charlie." The voice called out as Charlie's hearing started to come back, "CHARLIE!" The voice was now screaming to which Charlie eyes shot opened to see Dolly covered in soot and cuts, red lights flashing everywhere covering the hallway they were in, "Charlie Come On Bro We Need To Get You Outta Here!!!" Dolly yelled as she helped Charlie get to his feet "Come on Bro Get Up." She yelled as the intense heat was felt, having trouble with standing, Dolly swooped underneath him and held him up.
The fire, the smoke, it all in his face, then the memory's started to come back, the fight, blood... it was all coming back.
"D-Dolly?" Charlie asked very weakly.
"Come on Charlie I'm not Giving up on you." Dolly said as she kept him on his feet as they moved througj the fire engulfed hallway.
"Did... Did everyone make it... make it out?" He asked her.
"Everyone got out, Da-Vinci didn't want to leave you behind so I told her I'll get you." Dolly explained as they room tilted just a bit causing Charlie to stumble and hit the wall with a large thud.
"Ow." He winced in pain as he grabbed the side of his body only to reveal his hands to be covered with blood, "Oh shit thats blood, thats alot of my blood." He said as he looked down at Dolly who was having trouble holding him up.
"Come on big guy, lets get you outta here." She grunted as she pushed the weaken Charlie to move forward. As they reached the end of the hallway, the Dalmatian Mobile was leaning more in than usual to as the fire
"I knew the old girl could do it." Charlie joked as Dolly grabbed the two ropes that hanged in front of them and started to tie it around him.
"DYLAN YOU SET?!" She yelled up to the opening.
"We're set Doll, Alright Everyone PULL!" The voice echos down to Charlie and Dollys ears. Charlie smiled as he hears his family.
"Stay with me Charlie I'm not losing you!" Dolly said but Charlie wasn't paying attention as he held onto the rope, "Hold on to the rope Charlie, the sooner we get out of here the better." Dolly said as she grabbed her rope and and started to climb up.
UP ON THE DOCKS
"Keep pulling everyone!" Dylan yelled as the pups along with Percy helped pull the two ropes with all their might, "That's it everyone that's it!"
"Man Charlie needs to lose a few pounds." Spike joked as they continue to pull.
BACK WITH CHARLIE AND DOLLY
Charlie tries to climb as well but his weaken body wasn't much help to him as he gave way to the pain. He closes his eye thinking of everything... the loving warmth of home, the hot meal he'll, the love of his girlfriend, the sound of the rope splitting, the laughter... wait rope?
BACK ON THE DOCKS
The pups that were pulling Charlie's rope suddenly flew back all piling up on one another.
BACK WITH CHARLIE
"The Rope!" He heard and looked up, only to witness his rope snapping, and he started to plummet down to the firey depth of his demise but before he went far, what was left of his rope was snatched up by Dolly. Now holding him by her teeth she literally was now holding him by a thread. Charlie looked up to see her struggling to hold onto both hers and Charlie, since Charlie was alot more heavier than anyone else in the family.
"I'm not letting you go that easy." Dolly grunted as she held onto the ropes but her grip was starting to give way... Dolly and Charlie looked on at each other with dire looks as Charlie looked back down to see fire starting to enter the elevator shaft.
"Dolly this clearly isn't going to work."
"No it has to, we gotta get you out of here."
"Dolly don't you see, you cant hold me up by your self."
"I'm not letting you go."
"Dolly you need to let go!"
"Never!"
"Look around us, you can't hold me up and fire is rising down below not to mention the car above is starting to lean more in!"
"But we need you!"
"I KNOW!" Charlie yelled as he looked away the sounds of explosions could be heard around then as he looked back up, "You need to let me go."
"What no, no I'll never let you go we can make it out of here!" Dolly said.
"Dolly it's best for you to go I'm weighing you down you need to let me go!"
"No I won't, I can't, I don't want to!" She yelled as tears started to form in her eyes.
"Dolly, look at me." Charlie said as Dolly looked away sniffing, "Look at me." He said again getting her to look at her, "I know this is scary to process, but you have showed me that you are capable of handling yourselves."
"No no, we can't live without you, I can't live without you, things won't be the same without you!" She cried.
"I know but..." Charlie winched at the pain he was in, "You need to be strong."
"No please..." She choked on her words as the tears started to blind her vision.
"Tell Da-Vinci I loved her, tell everyone I loved them."
"We loved you too, all of us."
"I know." Charlie said quickly reaching into his pocket and pulled out a knife he had on him and cut the rope, Dolly watch in horror as Charlie plummet down.
"CHARLIE!" She screamed as she was pulled hard flying over the Dalmatian Mobile which started to to lean in more. Charlie felt his entire body pushing against gravity as he fell staring up at the car and to see Dolly fly over the car, soon giving a smirk as he was reminded of something.
"Superman." He said as he closed his eyes ready to take the impact.
Dolly landed on the top deck, where all of her siblings along with Fergus, Percy Hunter, Big-Fee, Sid, Summer, and Spike who quickly ran over and nuzzled Dolly who nuzzled back.
"Dolly!"
"Are you alright!?"
"Are you alright?!" Everyone asked in jumbles as the sound of screeching metal can be heard behind Dolly, the Dalmatian Mobile slid the rest of way down and fell to the bottom of the elevator shaft causing a major explosion which rocked the entire ship causing all of the animals to stumble for a bit, soon a bunch of helicopters flew over them shinning spotlights onto the wreckage.
"CPD, Stay Right Where You Are!"
LATER
The sky filled with smoke as firefighter's did their best to put the fire out, Delilah and Doug waited desperately to see their pups, once the rescue team managed to help the animals off the ship all the Dalmatians quickly ran over and tackled Doug who immediately cried with joy, Delilah quickly ran over and nuzzled Dylan, Dolly and Da-Vinci.
"Oh my Dog, your okay!"
"We're fine mom, we're all okay." Dylan said as they looked over to see many soldiers getting arrested and put into paddy wagons, two police officers carried a cage with Cruella in it.
"You cursed pups you have not seen the last of me, I will have my revenge I will!" She swore as she was thrown into the back of the paddy wagon and drove away.
"Well we won't be seeing her again for awhile." Doug laughed and looked over to see Dolly who was staring off at the ship, tears were streaming down her face, "Hey now that I think about it, did Charlie make it out?" He asks, soon everyone looked at Dolly who was trying her best to keep from breaking down.
"Don't worry Dolly, like you said he can handle himself, he'll be back, right?" Da-Vinci asked Dolly hoping she would back her up.
"No... he's not coming back." She answered.
"What you mean he's not coming back?"
"HE'S DEAD OKAY!? HE DIED... He died to save me, he... he died because of me." Dolly screamed at everyone tears broke loose, "I had him in my hands, then he sacrifice... sacrifice himself for us..." She started to choke on her words as other pups started to tear up, "He... he wanted me... t-to ..." At this point she couldn't speak, she just cried, cried and cried Delilah quickly ran up and nuzzled her trying to calm her down, Triple D huddled up to each and whimpered, Delgado had his head down in shame as some tears fell, Dizzy and DeeDee quickly latches onto Hunter who tried his best to calm them down, Dylan looked back at the ship and just stared at the ship.
"N-no there's no way, it's Charlie. H-he could never die, there has to be explanation." He said trying find hope but Dawkins pulled on his collar.
"Dylan judging by the amount of damage that was caused I don't believe he would survive." He said with a heartbroken tone, Dylan looked on in disbelief as tears started to fall from his face, but the worst out of all of them was Da-Vinci, poor Da-Vinci her entire heart shattered at the news, she completely went limp as she started to cry.
"Da-Vinci I'm... I'm so sorry..." Dolly cried as she looked over to Da-Vinci but noticed she was gone, "Da-Vinci?" She called out.
"Wait where did she go?"
"Da-Vinci!"
"Da-Vinci!" The pups all called out but no answer back. To Da-Vinci she didn't know what she was doing, she didn't know what to think, tears streamed down her face as she ran, running to who knows where, all she knew was Charlie's gone and never coming back, her whole life her love for Charlie shattered, her glow was burned out completely she just ran, ran as fast as she could to anywhere, soon stopping at the canal where Da-Vinci for the first time laid eyes on the love of her life, her future mate if it was possible, was it wrong for a dog to love a human, it's a weird kink that's for sure but Da-Vinci didn't care about that right now, all she sees is that her love one is gone.
"Why, why, WHY?!" She screamed in anger as she laid down near the edge of the canal balling her eyes out, her heart was completely broken, "W-why did you... you have to go?" She whispered as her voice cracked and grasped with tears streaming down her muzzle and cheeks, she just laid there crying as a foggy mist took over the land.