Baa-Ram-Ewe!

-Pokémon Realm, Underworld Bureaucracy of Souls, Yveltal-

“Fou.” Stated the threatening beast that is unstoppable by most and was on par with legendary Pokémon.

“Look even if your resume’ is good for wrangling souls, it still doesn’t mean you’ll be able to go after Pom.” I stated blandly. “Otherwise I can hire you to hunt down souls that try to, or have already, escaped.”

“Fou.” Stated Fou a little bit sadly, but he was still interested in the job.

“Look Fou, I know you liked hunting Pom, but she’s kind of out of your reach and still among the living.” Let’s see who she is… ah yes, Mash, she deserved a long fulfilling life for helping save a multiverse strand from total utter destructive collapse. Now you see, this is why we have legendary Pokémon like Giratina around, Giratina would not let something so simple be a lynchpin of the entire universe on our watch. “Do you still want the job? If so, then you’re hired.”

“Fou!” He seemed eager to get started, we did have a few loose souls that need to be captured and sorted that weren’t liable to become Ghost Type Pokémon.

“I wonder if someone else is having a more interesting day.” I muttered as I looked over the souls I had sorted. The Sailor Scouts had too many reincarnations with their memories intact, because some mortals had been playing at memory immortality. It was easier to scrub their souls when there wasn’t a sudden massive influx of them.

Didn’t want any of them going to the same place, especially not Tuxedo and Moon together.

Sure there’s true love, but then there’s tying you’re reincarnating life to someone else until the heat death of any universe in the form of utter insanity. It wasn’t a very healthy soul obsession and I think they should see other people.

-Petopia, on the way back to the tent, Pom-

“So we can do you’re training tomorrow and you can just stick with us until you’re ready to go back home, because I’m sure there is a way home for you.” As I said this to Marshall, I tapped my bond with Dolly to remind her not to cause problems for the locals and ask a bit about them. “Dormarch and I promised to help you, so you have nothing to worry about.”

“Okay!” Marshall seemed much cheerier after playing with Dormarch and so did Dormarch seem happier after having played with him.

Dolly sent me back some information she picked up, apparently the animals here weren’t exactly wary of newcomers so we should be able to openly interact with the locals without much trouble. To get here to this world you needed to do something that generated a lot of love and happiness through a bond that sounded suspiciously like the familiar bonds I’m aware of.

Huh… well this world sounded like a novel idea. Similar to how pets on Equus extend their life with familiar bonds, pets extend their lives here by coming to this world we’re currently occupying to get extra time and they get particularly social here.

So at least every dog here should already have a bond with someone else and I wouldn’t usurp it, Marshall told me about Ryder and his adventures so that was a relief. Unlike everyone in Dolly’s family being an unattached canine, which led to me and Dolly being best friends for life.

Just because it was a rule for pets to end up here, it didn’t mean there weren’t other ways to get into this world through less than good means. Given that we were here, they probably couldn’t avoid problems of something dangerous coming here forever either if some kind of dark god sent envoys here. Also just because pets can make someone happy doesn’t mean they have good personalities, so there could be jerks I might want to keep Dormarch away from among the populace.

The pets could come from anywhere on the world connected to this one to be here, apparently pets lives were consistently stressful with white alien invasions, super villains, monsters and other far more normal things in their lives that they come here to get away from for a while… maybe talk about how to help their owners or what to do in emergencies. The pets here were veterans of a strange world, but the big things in general only impacted certain cities and thankfully there were super heroes to deal with it all, so I didn’t exactly feel the pull of needed to try and figure out a way off this world without Arceus’s help.

There was an ample amount of curiosity though.

Also there was something about time being twisted by being here that Dolly didn’t quite understand, but apparently Marshall would leave at the same time he entered and wouldn’t exactly be missing. It begged the question at what times do the pets enter this world and how long could they put off their woes, normal or extravagant given the next door world sound fairly dangerous when someone robs a bank with a gun that basically fires ice magic.

-Not too far away, Dolly-

“So you can just pick up a key and get back out of dodge as if you didn’t spend a lot of time away from them?” I asked, this place seemed overly nice. Something Pom direly needed at the moment.

“Yup, you just need to register for it after first entering the world to get out, confused me my first time too!” The bundle of peppiness that was Roxy had been rather informative, reminded me of my sisters Deedee and Dizzy. “It’s getting late, see you tomorrow!”

Everyone left after the tour and I dumped the information I had on Pom. The next door world had heroes like my world did… a little more emphasis on the ‘super’ than ‘gadgetry’ the kind. Ace the bat hound was brought up as being one of the gadget users, Tusky acted a little sketchy after the name was brought up by Roxy as a shining example of animal kind.

“So… is Tusky Husky your actual name as much as a code name?” My question surprised Tusky.

“Yes, on the life of my mother Tusky is my name eh… the ‘Husky’ part is a bit more contentious given that I’m an alien. Now as for my other companions in Dog Star Patrol… they live mostly by their code names.” Tusky looked around as if he thought he heard something.

“I already told you about how awesome I am and my name, let’s go inside and we can talk a little more openly… my code name is Caper Canine, you wouldn’t believe some of the things I’ve done.” Yep, bringing out my hero identity from my world and polishing the rust off of it. I already saw that Shanty brought back some friends too. “I hope you don’t mind that my friends are a little… odd.”

“Of course not, I’ve seen plenty of odd thing and my team is made up of alien canines from all over the sector of space we live in and we have a green lantern squirrel for serious galactic threats eh.” Did not know what Green Lantern was Tusky, but I was okay with squirrels as one was one of my best friends. We walked in and Tusky noticed Dodo, Smolder and Ocellus were all odd and alien immediately. “Odd is the life I lead compared to the rest of my large family still drilling through the tundra on my home world, is that a dragon?”

“Yes, a small one.” Which is why my friend Ocellus called her Smol-der every once in a while whenever Smolder called her Ozzie. Oh hey, I can remember their names beyond just Shanty now!

“Wait is that… yes, I can finally say what I wanted to say!” A goat, that wasn’t Shanty ran up to Tusky and hugged against his chest. “Thank you for saving me from those goat abducting aliens!”

“Now where do I remember defeating an abduction raid… ah yes, the chupacabrians… nasty piece of work those guys eh.” Tusky hugged the little goat back and eventually got him to let go.

Every animal here was basically the same size and nearly the same weight, but it was magic and there were some outliers. So that goat was probably bigger back in the other world connected to this one.

“What? Dude, you didn’t tell me you almost got abducted by aliens!” The slightly hamster stated with his fist on his hips.

“Would you believe me if I had told you about it?” The goat said back.

“Yes, the whole world getting invaded by those evil white shape shifter things kind of makes it hard not to believe in that kind of thing!” Giving the hamster a questioning look I leaned towards Husky. “Also, hello, we come to a magical world to get a break from everything and do things we wouldn’t normally be allowed to at home, what isn’t believable at this point Quincy! Also weren’t we talking about Sunil the mystical mongoose earlier, a mongoose with actual known magical powers?!”

That caused Tusky to perk up curiously and make a humming noise as if he was going to inquire into that later.

“Oh right… sorry Trip.” The goat, Lychee, stated while rubbing the back of his head with a hoof.

The hamster sighed audibly before fist bumping Flinchy’s hoof.

“You’re my best friend dude, I’ll always forgive you!” The hamster was a cool guy at the very least.

“I wasn’t around for the white shape shifters, but I heard it was quite bad eh.” Tusky whispered in my ear and made me shudder, I really did like the sound of his voice and that accent.

“At least I know why you refused to leave Paw-tucket for an entire week now.” The hamster sighed before looking to me.

“Dolly Danger Dalmatian, one hundred and twenty percent awesome!” I answered the unasked question.

-Tusky-

Sure Dolly might have a crush on me, but at least she was getting more confident in talking to me without her face being constantly red and I respected that about her eh.

Let’s see, the dragon, she is not threatening at all and I should not step on her pride at any point eh.

Strange bug, possibly empathic like most alien bugs tend to be if she has a hive mind system, so think happy thoughts around to not give her a headache and should make nice with her. She seems to have individuality eh.

Naturally occurring living biomechanical entity? Most curious one, but seems happy to be here and I wouldn’t want Snooky to get his dirty paws on the thing, seemed to be affectionate with the goat that smells of the sea and is spitting up pastries in a benign manner. Definitely filing that one away for protection status and maybe ask it for a treat eh.

The goat was clearly dangerous, but friendly. Nothing that I saw wrong with her aside from the adventurous look in her eyes eh.

Clearly nothing to worry about here as far as abnormal visitors, their supplies seemed to be mostly vegetables. I can see why Dolly wanted the kibble now eh. Well aside from two locals being present, one of which was a fainting goat I’ve met when stopping a poaching abduction raid.

“So can I get an introduction to your other friends Dolly? They seem fairly nice eh.” I knew I would protect everyone here from what is one of the most evil felines ever if I needed to.

If Snooky showed up here, I would not hold back my tooth one bit.

“Sure, but don’t tell my partner Pom, AKA Leap Lamb, about the evil cat thing… she’s supposed to be on vacation and relaxing. Plus there’s the whole her having a shattered leg to worry about.” Nodding to Dolly in understanding, she showed me to her friends. “So… uh…”

“Name problems again Dolly?” Stated the bug as if she could tell that Dolly had forgotten some of their names.

-Heading towards the pet apartments, Roxy-

“So Dolly and Tusky were getting along great… wait where’s Jade?” My roommate wasn’t following us back into Paw-tucket Town proper.

“Probably in a tree somewhere, there’s nothing to worry about around here.” Bev stated as she continued to follow along, never met a more adventurous box turtle in my life. “The night patrol will get her down like last time.”

“Yes, at least you don’t live in high villain activity areas. Goodness knows how Zoe Trent lives with being on the same street as a Luthor Corporation building after they did a merger with the Biskit family.” Edie ever the dramatic bird thought that Luthor Corporation was suspect in many of the things they do.

“Oh come on, we can’t think the worst of every large pet shop… even if the Biskit family are part of a soulless corporation brand.” There’s been several arguments about all the heroes and villains running around being backed by corporations like Luthor, but I didn’t see it as super villains were smart enough to build their stuff out of junkyard scrap. So I would personally have all the junkyards watched constantly. It was just best to avoid the trouble that villains caused entirely, I’m just a small dog and I couldn’t fight anyone that scary.

“Soulless is right, their turtle treats could stop tasting like cardboard any day now and I’d be a little bit happier.” Bev was probably really glad she could come to Paw-tucket to get a decent meal every once in a while.

I can’t imagine not having a place to go to get my mood back up after so much trouble, at least I lived on the same street as Jade back in the world outside of Paw-tucket. So I was never without a friend whether I was living here or not. Best roomie ever!

-Evening outside the tent, Pom-

“So we’ll be more open about who we are tomorrow. There isn’t much dangerous here, but I wouldn’t want to leave this world without Arceus to assist us or I might end up getting sucked into a whole mess of other people’s problems.” I’m actually kind of glad to know Arceus prevented me from doing that here really.

I’m not a pet and I wouldn’t get a key to let me out of this world. Marshall was a pet and worked with Ryder so he could go back to Adventure Bay easily enough once he got his key and registered it to return to Paw-tucket at any time he needed a friend.

This world was as safe as Arceus could find and I was going to trust that he was right that I could get a full vacation here. All the animals here didn’t seem threatening… or couldn’t seem threatening to me even if I was functionally a three legged mentally scarred ewe at the moment.

“Do you think they’ll be accepting of me?” Anyone that doesn’t accept you Dormarch has to answer to me. Nobody was going to bully my son if I could help it.

“I think they will, this place seems bright and cheery like home.” Marshall stated enthusiastically before flopping onto his chin, at this point we think his paw pads might be more slippery than a normal dogs given how often his clumsiness acted up when he was moving and even the slightest bit distracted by something.

“Hey guys, I’m back to cook dinner!” I called out. I took in our guests at the tent. Hamster and fainting goat, not a problem. Alien dog next to Dolly that she’s obviously attracted too, not a problem, but might become my problem. Depends on Dolly really. Black cat sneaking into the tent behind us, I snatched her up by the scruff and looked her in the eyes, she scrunched up adorably. “Ocellus get out the soup pot, Shanty can you get me some fresh water? I’ll start getting the ingredients out.”

The cat whines and her ears wilted having been suddenly caught after thinking she could sneak right by me, I sighed and put her down before lightly pushing her towards the hamster and goat, the locals were already curious as cats… in a literal fashion it seemed. I sighed and tried not to worry about it.

“So… what’s the situation?” I said hoping to not hear any bad news.

“For once, there’s actually nothing going on Pom… except for Ocellus anyway. She can’t open her mouth without it getting filled with the love in the air around here.” Smolder was being even toned with me still, but eventually I’d crack through her pride just by my being nice to her. I’m giving her all the time she needs.

Ocellus nodded and tried to open her mouth and looked like she immediately gagged on the air around us as soon as her lips parted even a millimeter. That’s one less hungry mouth to worry about and Smolder won’t have to worry about feeding her so that takes some stress off the both of them, well maybe Smolder. Ocellus is going to be stressed by wanted to talk and being incapable of doing so.

“Tusky is a really cool guy!” Dolly said excitedly with a wagging tail.

I rolled my eyes as I had heard about and knew how Dolly got around a husky named Hansel.

“I not be seeing many threats… even the sharks here are being small and friendly.” I would ask Shanty, but I don’t feel like I wanted to know.

“Okay for my vacation I’m going to try to let my leg heal up, I’m pretty sure I got all my bone back in my leg so it’s only a matter of recovery time.” Time before we had to drop into Tambelon and who knows what’s going to happen there. Tianhuo has already guessed it was going to be decidedly hostile because of Grogar the demon goat and his army of Troggles becoming immediately aware of our presence when we arrived. “Time during which I want to spend some one on one time with all of you so we can talk about any issues we may currently have and finally straighten out or dispositions, yes even you Dodo. Ocellus, we’ll find you something to write on, given that you can’t talk without your mouth flooding with love and possibly drowning you in it.”

Dodo warbled in a friendly manner, he spat strawberry muffin at me and I caught the warm treat and started eating it immediately. I needed a lot of energy and nutrients to heal, this was just Dodo’s way of helping with that.

Ocellus nodded to me with a thankful and weak smile.

“I’ll be making soup fit for most animals to consume, now anyone have any questions?” I asked and the black cat, who was standing next to the hamster and goat, spoke up.

“Uh yeah, are you guy’s aliens?” The cat asked as her curiosity seemed to demand that she sate it.

“Yes, dimensional traveling aliens, most of us are simply trying to get home. Dodo is already at home with Shanty over there. As for Dolly and Dormarch, they are following us for their own reasons and Dormarch is my son… so if you do anything mean to him you’ll answer to me.” My glare made a few of them shiver, before I lightened my tone once more. “As for Marshall here, he said he tripped into the portal leading to Paw-tucket and doesn’t know how to get home.”

“Yeah, we can help with that, he just needs to register at the Little Pet Shop and get his magic key. This world is like one big therapy group when we run into trouble outside of it… though I have to wonder why he doesn’t seem to be shrunk down to size like the rest of us. I’m Jade Catkin by the way.” The black cat Jade may share a partial named with Jaded La Perm, but she didn’t strike me as someone who’d constantly attack Saddle Arabia in over the top ways.

So this world provided many therapeutic ways to relax. Sounding better and better as time goes on.

“Yeah, he might need that therapy group aspect soon and I’ll be training him to be a bit less clumsy as his biology isn’t doing him any favors when it comes to moving around sometimes, he just found out he might be descended from aliens which explains him not being shrunk down like everyone else native seems to be here…” My gaze slid over the dog that had Dolly’s clear infatuation given the redness in her cheeks and I could feel her wanting to rub against him every other second like a pulse that matched the beating of her heart. “I take it the Husky is also an alien Dolly?”

“Yes ma’am, my species are ice drillers and breakers, we live on fairly cold world eh.” With that Tusky seemed to relax a muscle in his face and released a giant tooth that was more of a single, incredibly massive, pointy tusk that hung all the way down to his paws. “I’m here on vacation as much as you are, Planet Petopia or Paw-tucket is a nice place to visit. Mostly safe aside from resident related incidents that happen around here. Your son wouldn’t happen to be a homeless mer-pup by any chance?”

“My friend Roxy causes most of the incidents, so I can confirm that.” Jade said as she stretched out, then started to stare at Dormarch’s flicking fish tails curiously. “So you can cook food for animals?”

“Well you’re in for a real treat tonight if you all stick around for a sleep over.” I actually felt like cooking something that everyone can enjoy.

“You’ve met the mer-pups too?” Marshall stated curiously after a moment of thought. “Huh small world.”

“Yeah, strange thing meeting them that was eh.” Tusky said with a bit of a chuckle. “They are a species normally found on aquatic planets, don’t know how they ended up on Earth without a spaceship. Probably appeared there before my friends started watching out for the planet on occasion.”

“Earth is that the name of the world you all know?” Well that was curious, given I got nods from all the animals here that weren’t part of my traveling circus. I’m going to give you a sarcastic thanks for putting that thought in my head Arceus. “Well this might confirm that Marshall is a descendant of aliens at the very least, as are possibly most of the animals in the part of the world he lives in if Tusky’s existence is anything to go by. Also no, Dormarch is not a Mer-pup, he’s an informational entity. Take of that what you will, but he’s always going to be my son.”

Three happy wagging fish tails followed my declaration.

“Yes, I am compatible with regular husky and other dogs of Earth, but I haven’t partaken, just some genetics testing by a friend eh. Though now I am curious to hear about this place Marshall hails from, so I can tell a friendly group of concerned aliens about it to make sure nothing shifty is happening there.” The way Tusky worded that… I glanced at Dolly and she didn’t seem to be reacting to what he said, it almost felt like she was diving into her infatuation with him to avoid something… I trust Dolly so if it wasn’t anything to be concerned about, I trusted my Dalmatian partner.

I mean the guy was also part of stopping a poaching according to the goat… he’s a super hero dog isn’t he? Hopefully that was not a portent to an oncoming disaster occurring in what is supposed to be a ‘safe’ world.

“So do you guys want to hear stories of Leap Lamb and Caper Canine while I cook? I’m sure Dolly can exaggerate them to make them seem far more interesting and less life threatening than they actually were.” I was silently telling Dolly no gory descriptions of what happened to ‘fake paint entity Pom’ if she talks about Splatter Phoenix, she gave me a smile and assurances she wouldn’t go too far.

“Ooh… so let me start off by saying Saint Canard was a nice city… was being the keyword, we had arrived at the airport by crash landing. Since our pilot was Launchpad McQuack we were perfectly fine…” Of course Dolly remembers Launchpad’s name, it was quite unforgettable after being through several crashes with the guy.

How anyone could get into a vehicle Launchpad was going to be piloting after the first three times was quite beyond my understanding, even if his crashes have never miraculously ended in a single fatality at all. It had to be dumb luck, outrageous skill to account for how a vehicle would break apart upon impact or a super power all of its own to never grievously hurt anyone by crashing into things violently.

-An hour later during dinner-

“Leaving Leap Lamb all messed up, but as you can see… she got better.” Dolly wrapped up our whole escapade with the crime crisis in Saint Canard. “Minus the whole leg being maimed from our most recent adventure of course.”

“So wait… her disguise is wrapping a piece of pink cloth around her forehead?” Marshall seemed as confused as I was when some people saw me as being an entirely different person when I wrapped a pink strip of cloth around my forehead.

“It’s probably something like what Krypto the Super Dog has going on when he puts on a cape. Don’t know what he looks like as a normal dog, but that red cape is memorable and it probably helps that he looks similar enough to other dogs too. Probably even comes here from time to time if he’s Superman’s dog like everyone thinks he is.” Trip offered as I tied a pink strip of cloth to my forehead. “That’s it? Huh… don’t know how anyone can’t tell it’s you Pom.”

“Eh, I had what looked like a dimensional sister in that world named Mopsy Muttoncoddle… it was pretty weird to see someone that looks so much like me.” Yeah, not everything I’ve been through has been bad, just the most of it. “Also Ocellus, if you could demonstrate…”

Ocellus transformed into a copy of Mopsy, not me, there were key difference between me and her.

“Huh… neat.” Everyone almost expected Quincy to scream and flop over from Ocellus bursting into flames to turn into a noticeably different copy of me. “So is you’re costume more interesting Dolly?”

“My costume is my indestructible helmet and trademarked equally indestructible skateboard… as long as magic isn’t involved.” Nobody here questioned magic, given this magical world still had a day and night cycle yet the pets that come here return at the exact same time they left to come here. Time really is wonky around magic, so I wasn’t going to question the inconsistencies of multiple animals coming into this world at different times from all over an entire planet. Aging clearly wasn’t a problem for anyone here. “Tusky why don’t you test you’re tooth on my board for a few seconds.”

Tusky looked unsure, but still stabbed his tooth into it and drilled the board for a few seconds with his rapidly spinning tooth and then pulled back. The skateboard looked perfectly unblemished by his attempt to break it and everyone had heard the grinding noises.

“Wow… what is that board made of?” Jade asked with wide eyes when the alien, possibly super hero, dog tried to drill into it.

“Wood.” Dolly stated with a cheeky grin and those who didn’t know turned to me.

“Yes, its flexible wood aside from the axles and wheels of course, but what she isn’t telling you is that she incidentally varnished every single part of her board with a magically reactive metal called electrum. Add some magic, it becomes nearly indestructible.” I pulled out my dented bell to show them. “It has saved my life once already to have some magically charged electrum on me. It’s really hard to physically damage, but magic or some greater forces can still do so. We’ve only ran across one person so far who did damage it.”

“Yeah, did not like the events going on at the sky city place.” Dolly grumbled as she was clearly remember the whole thing with Gilgamesh’s bridge to the place of power.

“Sounds like you guys have been through a lot together eh?” Tusky glanced between me in Dolly in a friendly manner.

“Yeah, we’re cool like that.” It seemed Dolly was exuberantly happy to tell Tusky anything and her heart was going a mile a minute at any amount of attention from Tusky.

“How’s the food, anyone want seconds?” Everyone looked at me except Ocellus, even Jade’s tail was wagging expectantly.

-Nighttime, Forest, Mammoth Mutt-

Scoot Racoonerson was a fountain of information and a decent mechanic, we could use one of those in Dog Star Patrol, I told him to stay away from Snooky if he spots him and to not doing anything to draw the cat’s attention and to keep all forms of workable metal away from him.

Snooky wouldn’t be building something that was for the safety and peace of this world, I knew that much if Agent 9-L was helping with whatever he was making. Mechanikat couldn’t be too far behind them either.

So far my scouting of the forest didn’t reveal anything. Just a few friendly owls and bats that spoke of no cat related activity from pets in the area recently. I just had to find the threat before they caused trouble here.

“This is Mam, has Tusky reported anything?” I ask because if Tusky was doing his job and not distracted with other things, he should have spotted something.

“A few things, he came across a team of interdimensional travelers… some of which are heroes in their own right from the way they tell things.” Oh good news then Brainy, we could use reinforcements if things go bad here… things generally did when Snooky was skulking around. It’s how we first met ‘Krypto the Super Dog’. What a misunderstanding that had been and I tried to tell him, but things resolved well enough… now if only ‘Ace the Bat Hound’ would get that stick out of his rear end, the guy was handsome but his personality left something to be desired. “Activity in town, aside from Pocus chasing after known criminal cat Isis, is currently zero and anywhere in the populated area. Snooky Wookums is clearly not trying to hide in plain sight this time and has gone to ground.”

“Ugh… do I have a fallback point that won’t lead Snooky to hijacking our landing pod hydrants again?” Asking because I was getting tired after a full day of working around the base.

“Yes, apparently Tusky has acquired lodgings with the friendly dimensional travelers and says it’s okay for you to show up. Hot Dog, Tail Terrier and Bull Dog are just about finished in orbit and you’ll be reinforced soon enough to go looking for Snooky tomorrow. I’ll even recall the landing pods remotely to make it less likely that he finds and uses them for spare parts again.” Yeah, that’s happened to us several times Brainy. Snooky was a horrible menace. “Go get some rest, Tusky has acquired the help of Dolly D. Dalmatian and she goes by the handle Caper Canine. She will be assisting you so that her partner doesn’t get dragged into this mess, it sounds like her partner has a completely crippling inability to stay away from danger if others are in trouble and she’s faintly aware of it. Poor thing, I’d protect her with my very life…”

“Uh, Brainy, are you okay up there… that sounded a little oddly overly affectionate coming from you.” That didn’t sound like our no nonsense, mostly business, leader to me.

“Huh, oh, yes, I’m fine, quite fine… though I’m starting to wonder when I’ve taken up arts and crafts…” Something was up with Brainy so I called Hot Dog, Tail Terrier and Bull Dog to keep an eye on her. “Excuse me Mammoth Mutt, something has come up.”

-In space, at this moment, Brainy Barker-

I slowly backed away from the exquisitely paw and psychic powers sculpted clay statue of the ewe, that I had made, quite fearfully. It was quite beautiful, but it scared me that it was so lifelike.

I hadn’t even realized that I had even been making it while talking to Mam the whole time!

Hugging a plush toy to my chest in worry I… wait, since when I did own a plush toy?! Plush toys were too childish for the likes of me or my brilliant mind, ever since I was a little puppy I had no need of such comforts. I felt around my so called plush toy, with my paws and my eyes widened in absolute horror.

Looking down at my paws, I screamed and jumped back in fright as the plush toy of the ewe sailed out of my paws and softly hit the floor as my panicked breathing picked up.

Where has all of my carefully constructed control over my faculties gone when it came to that utterly beautiful being?

I shivered, backing away from the sweet looking toy as if it were a serpent from the planet of Fetchit Nine.

My obsession with the alien dimensional traveling ewe was getting worse, if Hope Corgi were here he’d tell me that ‘all is okay’… I still wouldn’t feel it in this moment though.

Maybe if I sat just down and had a drink…

I picked up a mug of water to lap up some fluids and looked at it and, in the most unladylike fashion that wasn’t becoming of me, I spat out a jet of water. I calmly place the mug down, not wanting to destroy it.

The mug had the ewe’s image on it wearing socks with half lidded eyes and a particularly pleasant smile that… did I always wear a hat?

No, I currently did when I usually do not…

Levitating my white hat off my head, my mind boggled at how long I had been wearing a hat with the image of the ewe on it with the words ‘I heart cuddles’ written on it as she laid flat on her belly in an adorable sleepy manner. Looking down I saw that I also had on a shirt with the image of the ewe with her front legs spread wide out for a hug and bright wide open eyes.

How long have I been wearing this shirt with the words ‘I Heart Ewe’ on it?

Searching my perfectly controlled mind and photographic memory I found it to be… the entire time since I first made it?! Did I just ignore putting on a shirt I made myself entirely?! Did my paws seriously craft a shirt while I was guiding my companions in the cordoning off of Petopia to prevent those felonious felines from going anywhere?

I think I was going completely mad. I needed an intervention or some form of help as my condition is worsening. My head was being messed with and I needed something to get my mind back in order.

My breathing was panicked as I pulled the shirt off of me and pushed all the ewe based paraphernalia as far away from me as I could and sat quietly sat in a corner quivering to myself… trying to find some solace in the fact that my mind was currently being tampered with through unknown means. Yet I didn’t know how and that worried me immensely.

I might be… compromised.

…

WHY WAS I CURRENTLY SEEKING COMFORT IN THE EWE PLUSHY… AND WHY IN THE WORLD WAS IT WORKING?!