welcome to the technically and chronologically twenty-eighth chapter of my own version of '102 Dalmatians' as though it actually had been animated into a cartoon, like that with the way it should have been. this still has some of the events from 'Patch's London Adventure' tied to it, but they won't matter by the end of this story. this technically and chronologically twenty-eighth chapter of my own version of '102 Dalmatians' is a good, fulfilling two-thousand-four-hundred-twenty-one words worth of storyline long. it's a storyline that ultimately still excludes this explanatory headnote, the (mandatory) disclaimer which makes up the paragraph following said headnote, and all the comments from yours truly to my own story disguised as author's notes. there are three of those total in this chapter, by the way. OK, enough jawin' about. time for the obligatory disclaimer.

disclamation: I don't own '102 Dalmatians' in any way, shape, or form. I mean, I own it on DVD, but I was only seven when it first appeared in theaters, at all. so, it wouldn't even be natural for me to have owned '102 Dalmatians', at all. I also don't own either of the '101 Dalmatians' movies. I was but two or three years old when the live action remake came out, and when the original animated classic of '101 Dalmatians' came to theaters, I didn't even exist, yet. all these films are owned by the Walt Disney Movie Productions Company and by Dodie Smith.


Meanwhile at the Sefton apartment, Kim had still busied herself with getting ready for the date she had with Ray when the chocolate brunette's blond date suddenly arrived at her front door. Suddenly, the apartment's own doorbell rang. Shamrock and Speckle Eye started to argue in their own canid tongue over which one of them should have gotten the door for Kim as she still got ready.

Shamrock: I've got it, mum and dad.

Speckle Eye: No! I've got it!

Shamrock and Speckle Eye just argued over which of them would get the door for Kim while she finished getting ready for her date with Ray, until the dalmatian family finally settled on Patch getting the door, himself. As soon as their father got the door, Patch opened up Kim's front door to receive that of Ray, his lead dogs, Bitsy, Slobberton and Diggit, and finally the blue Spix macaw who thought he was a dog, Spixington. The stubbornly delusional blue Spix macaw even called out to the entire dalmatian family as he sounded off the same kind of call Santa Claus would have usually given to his reindeer on Christmas Eve while delivering his presents for good little children.

Spixington: On Dasher, on Dancer, on Diggit, on Slobberton! Look at me! I'm Rudolph, the red-nosed rein-dog, with a present for Miss Oddball!

Ray then spoke out to Kim, wondering where she was, as she continued to get ready for the date ahead of the two of them.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Hello?

Kim then called back out to Ray as she continued to get ready for the night ahead of them both.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: I'll be right out, Ray.

Raymond had no worries about where he and Kim were headed on their date for the night ahead of them. He had wanted nothing out of said date except to be near the woman with whom he was in love.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Take your time.

Then, Ray started imagining what Kim would have worn that night as soon as she got ready for their date. For one reason to the next, he could suddenly picture her in a fancy dress for the evening ahead of them both before Bitsy came up to him, barking at him once to remind him that they were all still there.

Bitsy: Hey, remember me and the others?

Then, Ray looked directly at Bitsy as soon as she barked at him. It reminded him that she had brought a movie with for Spixington and the dogs to watch while Ray and Kim were on their dinner date.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson (continued): Oh, right. Bitsy's brought her favorite video. Is that alright?

Then, Kim came out to the living room/kitchen in which Ray waited on her getting ready for their dinner date.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: Is it suitable for the children?

As soon as she made it out of her room, Ray suddenly answered her question just in time to look at what she wore for their dinner date.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Yes, it's absolutely fine.

The movie Bitsy had brought for the dogs and Spixington to watch that evening was 'G' rated, anyway. The appropriation of the film for the puppies was actually the absolute least of Kim's concerns, though, especially since Ray started staring at her like something was wrong with her. Of course, it had only been all too natural for the chocolate brunette to have been curious about what the blond was thinking at the time.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: Is everything alright?

Everything had been alright for Ray. He was just very distracted by Kim's outfit for the dinner date the two had ahead of them.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Yes. Beautiful.

While Kim did not know whether to wonder if anything actually was wrong with her blond date, Ray just stared at his beloved chocolate brunette, mesmerized by her. His heart even moved into his throat as he swallowed it back into his chest before chuckling at the possibility that he suddenly looked to have been such an idiot in front of the girl he had dreamt of for the past few weeks between their first meeting at 'Give a Dog Another Chance at a Home' dog shelter and their most recent encounter with one another by chance just a few hours prior at the puppet show gone awry thanks entirely to Oddball. Speaking of the unspotted dalmatian pup, Ray realized he had yet to tell Kim of the actual good news about Oddball's little escapade in the puppet theatre. The blond spoke to the chocolate brunette, rather bashfully though.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Um, Spixington, um, he-he's brought a present for, uh, for Oddball.

Then, the blue Spix macaw spoke to the spotless dalmatian pup as she tried to reach up at his height for her present.

Spixington: Yeah, about time. This thing was getting a little heavy. Hang on, pup. Keep your spots on_

That was when Spixington suddenly realized his error in mentioning even the word 'spots' to a spotless dalmatian puppy. The stubbornly deluded blue Spix macaw realized it must have sounded rather insensitive to the unspotted dalmatian pup.

Spixington (continued): Whoops! Sorry. Ya don't have any. Anyway, here ya go. There.

Oddball growled excitedly as she tore into her present from hers and the family's new friend, Spixington. Then, she barked happily as she saw what the family's new friends had gotten for her.

Oddball: Will ya look at that, mummy, daddy? Look at what I got from our new friends.

It was the spotted dog puppet that Oddball had previously commandeered from the puppet theatre. Only the puppet had its head and its hands removed. It had been made into a sweater. Ray spoke to Oddball as she held onto the spotted sweater.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Come on. Show us.

As Oddball showed off the spotted dog puppet that was made into a sweater just for her, Kim marveled at the sight of it. Meanwhile, Ray held onto the unspotted dalmatian pup as the blond explained to his chocolate brunette crush.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson (continued): Mr. puppeteer and I came to an agreement.

Kim just stared at it for a moment or two before her reply to Ray's explanation came.

Kimberly 'Kim/ Kimmy' Sefton: Oh, Ray. Thank you. It's absolutely brilliant.

Then, Kim readied the sweater to be put on Oddball so the unspotted dalmatian pup could rock the look.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton (continued): Come here, you.

As soon as she put the spotted sweater on her unspotted dalmatian pup, Kim smiled at the interesting fashion choice that sat in her date, Ray's, arms.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton (continued): Well, I think it's a success.

Ray chuckled and released the dalmatian pup from within his arms. Then, Oddball strut her stuff in her new spotted sweater. Spixington decided to comment on Oddball's new look.

Spixington: Looking good, girl! Lookin_

Then, Spixington realized something embarrassing about Oddball, even if it was not even supposed to have been a fact at all.


A/N: I suppose it goes in part with his stubborn delusion of dog-hood.


Spixington (continued): Oh, no! Oddball's got no underwear!

Then, Spixington even started yelling to no one in particular about Oddball's default condition as a dog.

Spixington (continued): Look away, children! Turn a blind eye!


A/N: dogs aren't even supposed to wear underwear, Spixington. your overreaction is so unwarranted.


Of course, Bitsy paid no mind to her blue Spix macaw friend, Spixington's, overreaction. She simply removed her video from its case and gave it to Patch, the dalmatian father, to pop into the VCR. Of course, the dalmatian dad did just his Boston-Yorkshire terrier mix guest had wanted from him and popped the video into the television's VCR decidedly for the master bedroom. Patch then spoke in his own canid tongue to the other dogs when he pulled off popping the video into said VCR.

Patch: Got it.

Meanwhile back at the bed as the dogs all got ready to enjoy the movie Bitsy had brought for everyone, Spixington showed up beside Oddball.

Spixington: Excuse me, young lady. Is this spot taken?

Meanwhile, Piper then shot off the dimmer switch for the bedroom so that everyone could truly enjoy the movie. After she fired off the dimmer switch, the dalmatian mother sat at her place on the bed. Then, her foster brother turned marriage mate, Patch, fired off the remote to play the film. Diggit and the boy dalmatian pups sat on the floor, though. Diggit because he was the tallest of the dogs, and Shamrock and Speckle Eye to make accessible room on the bed for their parents, their sister and the other guests.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton: I can see we're not needed. As soon as the video's over, straight to bed for the children. No more telly.

After she reminded everyone of the children's curfew, Kim then whispered her farewell to her dog family.

Kimberly 'Kim/Kimmy' Sefton (continued): Bye.

Then, Ray took the time to remind Spixington and his dogs of something on the way out of the apartment.

Raymond 'Ray' Millerson: Be good.

The dogs all looked at Ray as though trying to reassure him that he and Kim had no reason to worry about them. Patch even spoke to Ray in his own canid tongue to reassure the blond that nothing bad was going to happen on his figurative watch.

Patch: You've got nothing to worry about, Raymond. This isn't my first time being without humans.

That was when Spixington derailed the dogs' word for reassurance towards the blond and the chocolate brunette.

Spixington: Anybody wanna order take-out?

Obviously to Patch and Piper, Spixington was the ring leader in the order of misbehavior amongst the shelter dogs. To the foster siblings turned marriage mates, it was no wonder as to why Ray always had such a difficult time keeping the shelter dogs under control with a bird like Spixington in his entourage of animal companions.

Patch: No. We'll not order any take-out.

Of course, the stubbornly delusional blue Spix macaw did not understand why the dalmatian couple did not want to order take-out, at all.

Spixington: I don't get it. What kinda dogs would turn down ordering take-out from a restaurant?

Patch then tried to reason with Spixington about the dalmatian father and his family's responsibilities as house pets that already had a home.

Patch: For one, we who already have a home of our own also have responsibilities that come with that home. And a gross irresponsibility would be to order anything without permission.

Spixington had only wanted to misbehave since birds had always just mindlessly repeated the words they heard from humans.

Spixington: I don't get what's wrong with a little misbehavior every now and then. Come on, Patch. It's fun. A little fun never hurt anyone.

Of course, Patch, the responsible fatherly adult he was at the time and had always been to a certain degree even as a puppy, only felt it necessary to tell Spixington what he knew would have happened at the end of the month in the apartment in which they all were at the time. Then again, Patch had always been the most mature and responsible of even his birth siblings. It had always been as though he was trying to shield them from the terrible fate that he had accidentally left them for when he ran away from them all, believing they did not care about him. It was definitely a heart-breaking accusation.

Patch: Need I really tell you that it won't be anywhere even close to as fun as it'd be right now when Kim gets the bill for our take-out order?

Patch had only ever wanted to instill a sense of responsibility into his only daughter out of his own three puppies. Piper, herself, agreed with her foster-brother-turned-marriage-mate about his newfound philosophies on all the responsibilities of house dogs.

Piper: And if you think you can get me to understand anything about misbehavior, Spixington, you can just think again. Rules aren't meant to be broken. They're meant to be obeyed without question, because breaking rules doesn't come without consequence. Rules always find a way back to any and all rule-breakers. The trouble with bending the rules is that they always come back to snap in your face.


A/N: hate being a killjoy, but I'm afraid that it's the truth about breaking, or even just bending, the rules. rule-breaking never comes without a consequence of some sort, or two or three.


After the revelation about what they had done with breaking the rules in tug-o-war against Raymond, the same man who gave them another chance at having a home, himself, before, Bitsy, Slobberton and Diggit all realized that they were not very nice to the blond about the way the behaved at the time. They realized that a desire to win was no excuse for cheating at anything.

Slobberton: Maybe, we should've let that one tug-o-war game be a fair fight against Raymond.

Diggit: Slobberton's right. It was just a game, after all. It's not as though our dog couldn't have won the next one.

Bitsy: Yeah. It's not like Slobberton wouldn't have done any better against Ray if he'd just tried a second time.

Of course, Spixington, being the overconfident and stubbornly self-delusional type, only blew the dalmatian parents' warning out of his beak holes upon having finally been told the truth about misbehavior.

Spixington: What're we all? Lame? Dogs aren't supposed to know how to behave right away. There's a reason that dogs need to be trained into the right kinda behavior.

From just those comments from Spixington, alone about the way they had always behaved during the tug-o-war competitions between Ray and Slobberton, it suddenly became painfully clear that Spixington was not a good example for Bitsy, Slobberton or Diggit to follow. Actually, it suddenly seemed as though Spixington was a bad example for pretty much any of the shelter dogs from 'Give A Dog Another Chance at a Home' to follow. With their realization, Diggit, Bitsy and Slobberton all voted Spixington out as the shelter's top dog.

Diggit: Listen, Spixington, we all talked it up and we've come to the conclusion that_

Slobberton took over for his friend, Diggit, when telling Spixington that he was out as top dog.

Slobberton: You're kinda bad for all the rest of us dogs at the shelter.

Then, Bitsy gave her own input to Slobberton's comment to Spixington about the macaw.

Bitsy: We just can't afford to keep you as the top dog of the shelter, anymore, especially if what these house dogs say is true about being owned by someone.

Of course, Spixington was naturally hurt by what the three dog guests told him about voting him out as top dog at their dog shelter. It was not as though he did not expect it to finally happen, however.

Spixington: Oh, I guess it really is for the best that I'm no longer the top dog at 'Give a Dog Another Chance at a Home'. Maybe_ maybe, I really do deserve to be thought of as a bird. It's practically what my name is, so why not? I guess I'd just been stubborn all this time.

Oddball, herself, felt bad for Spixington, but she still knew that it was the truth about the stubbornly delusional blue Spix macaw.