-Petopia, Paw-tucket airfield, Pom-

After calling ‘playtime’, we were following the plan.

“Was Dolly always able to do that eh?” Tusky asked of Dolly’s ability to accelerate to absurd speeds while under haste.

“Yes, but she really shouldn’t do it too often.” That caused the present Dog Star Patrol members to glance my way. “Anyone that particular magic is applied to immediately gains double reaction speed, overall speed and in particular the speed of thought, friction works less on you and it doesn’t accelerate your aging. It comes with some downsides, but those are easily mitigated and it lasts about five minutes.”

“I’m assuming the downsides are the reason you don’t want her using that ability often.” Mammoth Mutt was quite cute, hard to imagine she was something like a biologically living balloon. Where does all that mass and weight even go or come from?

It’s not magic, I asked Ocellus about it given she can get a unique perspective on any animal, person or sometimes things. Apparently it was a naturally occurring biological ability, similar to what an Al-mi’raj does magically as a defense mechanism. Only the growth wasn’t temporary and it wasn’t as limited to occasional kaiju size increases, they could actually hold that form for as long as they needed it.

“She can only use it on one target once an hour and said target must be alive for the effect to take place. So it’s best used in an emergency, so now it will be an hour before she can use it again. Now onto its problems, one is that it’s a very highly addictive effect, at least the addictiveness wears off quickly as in two to three hours. Another is that the faster you are to begin with the stronger the effects of haste so time becomes a bit blurred to the one under the effects so five minutes can seem like thirty and it messes with your head. Lastly and the worst side effect of all is an overall dangerous heightened amount of aggressiveness.” Which comes from the fact that you are now think at twice the normal speed, for me it’s more like four times the normal speed. “Said aggressiveness when combined with the addictive nature of the magic being cast every hour on the hour… well you can see why I wouldn’t want Dolly, Caper Canine, abusing that.”

“So the addictiveness of it can build up and cause a feedback loop.” Brainy looked thoughtful as she drew our attention to her. The lavender furred psychic dog was very friendly, also an overtly obvious ‘doggy messiah’ cultist given how affectionate she was towards me. “Where for five minutes that obviously seems longer to her out of every hour, she’s likely to hurt friend as much as foe.”

“She was going that way once, but she got set straight and I’ve been teaching her how to focus better.” Which she was currently doing and Dolly was excelling at what she’s known for. “Now if we could get back to what’s going on and why I’m holding Dog Star Patrol back for the time being. To start thing off, I’m sorry I invaded your privacy by asking you questions in you were asleep, you answered every single one of them in as unvarnished a manner as possible Brainy Barker and are how I even set this all up to begin with.”

“Apology accepted!” Yep, Brainy is definitely a doggy messiah cultist, I might actually have to give her a belly rub. There’s no way she wouldn’t ask for a few more after this, but at least she seemed like she was going to be polite about it.

Skye’s Fly Wheel came in for a landing and she hopped out, a number of hamsters ran up to it to load it with another pair of fireworks fire bomb and charge it up. She quickly came over to us to see how things were going outside the city outskirts which were being overrun with barely held back cat-bots.

“Edie, please start the retreat fully, Jade Catkin is set up for it.” I said into Roxy’s paw pad. “Another thing is that the pets of paw-tucket need to learn how to defend themselves, they can’t always expect you to come in and save them as you might not be here the next time Mechanikat somehow finds his way here again. Thus I started the Paw-tucket Pet Patrol initiative.”

“She’s got a fair point, wish most civilizations that Mechanikat chooses to mess weren’t incapable of defending themselves effectively. So what’s the plan in full?” After Hot Dog said that, I started telling them what everyone would be doing and Ocellus’s part in this plan and what I needed from her.

-The Paw-tucket front lines, outer edge of paw-tucket city, Marshall-

We were now in retreat, while I was worried about Dolly… she obviously could take care of herself given how many cat-bots she was taking down on her way to face that scary Snooky Wookums cat that could have targeted us more with those missiles.

Normally pitching machines were fun, well when you knew how they work and they could play fetch with you automatically. Fetch was far more fun and competitive when you had friends to play it with. In this case the pitching machines were being used as weapons, a bit upsetting, but understandable in these circumstances.

Golf balls, baseballs and tennis balls were flying from the machines as other pets loaded the hoppers. They dented the metal on the cat-bots and those that broke their armored bodies did a lot of damage when the robots exploded and slowed the rest of them all down. I was standing beneath the long barrel of one of the pitching machines going full blast, a pitching machine wasn’t dangerous unless you were standing in front of it and these had pets actively aiming them.

“We’re now in retreat!” Edie called out from behind the several pitching machines, said machines started to slowly be pulled backwards by teams of pets as they continued to fire shot after shot at the cat-bots.

I hoped Dormarch’s big sister was okay out there. Chase patted my back with a paw as we continued to stay near the front of the pitching machines barely pushing back the cat-bots. If they got close enough then Chase and I would have to push them back.

-Dolly D. Dalmatian (The Courageous Caper Canine) vs. Snooky Wookums and the Menacing Mad Cat Machine (Ferocious Felonious Feline), (Music: Ain’t Nothing Like A Funky Beat, Lethal League Blaze)-

“Give me one of them funky beats~!” Dolly shouted out and felt the invisible music start pumping her up, even if she wasn’t going to be singing along with it she was going to enjoy the rhythm.

She threw the stone bone and it imparted a devastating amount of a cat-bot coming for her, she caught the bone on the rebound and slung her skateboard out in a wide circle taking down numerous other cat-bots around her. She landing on her board and pushed it forward towards some more cat-bots.

Kicking her board high into the air, Dolly ramped it off the face of cat-bot. Said face imploded on impact as she closed in on the Mad Cat Machine rapidly by gliding at it while avoiding the beams fired from the can shaped machine’s tail.

The Dalmatian had a grin on her face as she swung to left and right around the beams looking to be surfing through the air as she did so, she then swung up the bottom of her board when the next beam enlarged in diameter to try and stop her from veering around the next particular shot.

Snooky’s eyes twitched as a super charged energy beam was parted by what he believed to be a stupid plank of wood with wheels and the dog behind said board was now strangely glowing. He hadn’t seen her moving this fast before, but he was quite sure she was going to be quite a hellion to take in close combat at the moment.

Once Dolly built up to a counter rave she let herself fly.

Snooky fired some missiles at Caper Canine’s body as she started to surf up onto the top of the beam. In two flashes his missiles were deflect into a number of cat-bots, which to him were just dumb muscle and easily rebuilt credit-a-dozen robots he could practically make in his sleep.

Eight following flashes blasted around Snooky in a quick octagon and suddenly there were no cat-bots around him that were left standing, given they looked like their bodies had been blasted apart or sheered in half by the speed Caper Canine had been moving at. He had actually lost track of the dog despite her having gone a full circle around him.

Wanting to see how far she’s come since joining up with Pom, Dolly had something to prove here against the machine piloting psycho cat. As such she came in from above at the viewport with the stone bone swinging down in her left paw.

The machine rocked and actually staggered with the frightening impact of full momentum boosted strike, the view port cracked where the bone connected as Dolly bounced into back flipping and twisting around to land on her skateboard.

The Dalmatian held the bone at the ready with both front paws and had her right hind leg off the board, with her left hind leg firmly planted on the middle of aforementioned board.

Dolly seemed to be mumbling something quietly to herself as she stared down the machine, it was much easier for Dolly to do magic if she chanted the spell before using it and cut the cost by a third up to half where instant casting would drain her like it normally did. She couldn’t increase her capacity, but Pom did work with her on her efficiency. The time to actually use the spell however would increase dramatically when chanted, which means doing something Dolly wasn’t known for, sitting in one place as it was hard to move while chanting.

Sure Dolly didn’t like to be patient, but she was well aware that her patience would be rewarded by the eventual dumb look on Snooky’s face. That and she was currently high on the euphoria that was ‘Haste’, which would boost her spell casting speed when she wasn’t going instant use with them. Pom was keeping her on task mentally.

Snooky didn’t even try to talk or ask what was up with Caper Canine suddenly stopping, as he sent the Mad Cat Machine lunging forward with its right claw pulling back. He recognized something was up and that had made the dog a bigger threat than she normally was the last few times she fought alongside Dog Star Patrol.

With machine like precision, the right claw of the machine slung forward in an attempt to cave Dolly’s head in or carve it entirely from her body, possibly both. It didn’t matter which happened.

“Float!” A grinning Caper Canine announced and cast the spell almost point blank, ducking under the claw while swinging upwards into the chest of the machine as she leapt into it with her stone bone. “You are not ruining Pom’s vacation, not here, not now!”

The metal on the Mad Cat Machine’s chest actually dented inwards and Snooky was immediately rendered dizzy as the Mad Cat Machine spiraled into the air out of control. In spite of this, he was still relatively capable of aiming the missiles and the laser at Caper Canine who was still running on haste for another two minutes.

Dolly was a bit shocked as she was blown over by an almost direct missile explosion and quickly rolled away from the explosion of a second missile that sent her board flipping away until it planted nose first into the ground. That the missiles were almost on target as they were was a nasty surprised, with how fast the floating machine was flipping about in the air one would think Snooky would be incapable of reprisal.

Dolly still had the stone bone in paw and made for her board as several cat-bots got in her path, she tossed the stone bone at one and quick cast Blizzard to impale the other two out of the way with pillars of ice erupting from the ground.

Caper Canine quickly jumped up, caught the stone bone in her teeth and dropped into rapid roll under a beam of energy. This got her into position to grab her board. A second later the slightly scorched Dalmatian had to avoid a second sweeping of the laser beam by hunkering down and blocking with her board and helmet.

Even while the machine was wildly spinning out of control, Dolly wouldn’t have been able to manage that kind of accuracy that Snooky was getting in his current condition of spiraling out of control.

Several cat-bots were torn apart by the energy beam and Dolly growled as she raised the stone bone up while taking to her hind legs to use her board as a shield, she begun muttering her next spell.

Two more missiles flew forth, despite the wild random spinning of the Mad Cat Machine they were both fired precisely at where Dolly was and the tail was angling itself oddly preparing for an eventual rotation into position. Snooky Wookums genius level intellect was making doing such things far easier, his calculating mind was working to a ridiculous degree.

Dolly kept up her chanting under her breath as she eyed both incoming missiles, she was about to run dry on ‘haste’, once that happened she was going to be in some trouble. She still had enough time for one really cool trick she’d likely never forget.

Dolly tossed her board forward with her right paw with momentum added to the throw, she ran forward several steps towards the first missile while her board was in the middle of hitting the second. Her eyes were on the tail of the cat machine, she could see where the beam would sweep through and would still risk what she was about to do.

The Dalmatian could practically feel Pom’s worried eyes on her in this moment as she continued chanting while in motion, the world seemed to have an incredible flow and she felt pumped up by the tune in the background of her head.

The skateboard impacted the first missile and sent it flipping back Caper Canine’s way, as that was happening she was stomping on the first missile as she hopped forward onto it and kicked off of it to point the missiles at the ground and she brought her hind legs up. Her left paw still have a tight grip on the mystical stone bone as her hind legs met with the board as it blasted towards her, she followed the rotation of the board and the first missile finally exploded.

Having gotten the board in the way of the blast, Dolly road her board upwards high into the air as it absorbed the impact of the first missile exploding.

Time was moving in slow motion as the beam on the Mad Cat Machine activated and started sweeping straight for where Dolly would be as her last thirty seconds of ‘haste’ were quickly petering out. Missiles spread of missiles were launched to prevent her from dropping down below the beam.

Caper Canine saw the beam coming at her from the left, the prehensile tail of the machine angling it to actively hit her, she gripped the stone bone in both her front paws and kicked off the board with a high jump.

The Dalmatian slowly rotated backwards as if she was a pole vaulter going over a high bar, and this one in particular was quite deadly, as it swept towards her back. Dolly flexed her whole body into the evasion and she felt the heat of the energy beam singing the fur along her spine as she pulled her hind legs towards her belly and tucking her tail between her hind legs helped her avoid losing it to the beam of raw energy as she fully completed her back flip and then raised the bone high above her head pulling it back as far as she could stretch her front legs.

It was there that Dolly saw it. A glaringly big, exceedingly bright and rather impossibly imposing green triangle in her sight and a grin started expanded across her whole face threatening to cut off the top half of her head from the sheer exuberance she felt when she immediately hit the feeling of another ‘triangle moment’ brought about her flowing from one motion into an even more devastating motion as her body automatically acted on instinct.

As Dolly continued to bark, yip and whine the words to the spell she carried throughout all of her last few actions in slow motion. As she started to rapidly flip forward building up rotational momentum as she came down at the Mad Cat Machine.

“Gravity!” Announced the spotted canine as her bone started glowing purple as the spell was applied to it and not the still floating machine she was rapidly approaching.

“BOW-WHACKA-WOW!” Dolly D. Dalmatian screamed her catch phrase as she swung the stone bone downwards with all she had.

A trail of magical sparkles followed Dolly’s motion in a glitter of small faint green triangles, the last vestiges of haste magic in her went into this one attack, the end of her bone was covered in gravity infused magic about to hit a floating target and her momentum magic boosted the power of her swing immensely on top of making it impossibly fast.

One second the Mad Cat Machine was in the air, the next it was buried into the ground back first and creating a massive shockwave the wiped out any nearby cat-bots.

This attack heavily damaged the laser beam shooting tail to being inoperable. The shoulder launchers exploded and blasted the machines slightly rumpled armor further. The exploding launchers created to pillars of flames to both sides of Dolly who struck a dynamic pose in the air raising up two digits on her right paw, while her left paw was holding the slightly smoking stone bone out to the side, a bright grin on her face.

The grin soon disappeared off of Caper Canine’s face as she felt quite drained a second later and started falling towards the Mad Cat Machine with increasing speed. Said machine was even still quite active, even if it had just lost all its ranged options.

Dolly also used up quite a bit of her magic so she could hardly slow her fall down as she fell right towards an opening left claw going straight for her throat. It raised up towards her neck and then a loud crunching noise occurred.

It thankfully wasn’t dolly’s head being removed from her body, but a cat-bot’s body being impaled by throwing itself into the path of the claw and catching a falling Dolly by the chest with its right upraised arm as its left steadied it on the Mad Cat Machine’s chest.

The front half of Caper Canine’s body slapped against the large mechanical limb sent Dolly’s back half rotating downwards and forward and she performed a forced back flip and actually stuck the landing a second on all four of her paws. She looked a bit dizzy as she stumbled about for a second.

“Whew… almost lost my head there.” Mumbled Dolly as she continued stumbled about slightly before shaking it off.

“What the?!” Snooky was quite angry, he had almost ended the annoying skateboarding mutt then and there. HE glared at the cat-bot and immediately noticed something off with it, its eyes were blue before the light in them soon died out. “Who the hell hacked one of my cat-bots!?”

“Well it wasn’t that hard for Caper Canine’s little brother of course, Digi-dog! Also, in all honesty, the coding of your robots is really, REALLY, bad… like worse than a Saurian targeting program bad. Didn’t think it was possible…” Dormarch stated with a grin as he poked his head out of the cat-bots chest while raising his goofy claws in the air, sitting in a digital pool of energy that wreathed his torso as he pulled himself free. He was like a ghost that was finished infecting a dying machine, he had his blue defense scarf wrapped around his forehead and had quickly pulled himself out of the dead machine. “Dolly run, I’ll get your board, go-go-go!”

Dormarch teleported to Dolly’s board and grabbed it up, his search engine nature at least allowed him to teleport with objects even if he couldn’t teleport living beings around. It would have made some previous things easier if he could do that.

“I thought you would go for something like analog dog… oh wouldn’t that shorten to… okay I can see why you didn’t… never mind little bro, I see it, going now!” Dolly didn’t need to be told twice as she saw a shadow looming over the scorched battlefield and there were too many cat-bots around for her to fight at the moment, stomping over the remains of the burnt and melted fallen cat-bots. She could maybe take Snooky, but the giant robot that was the size of a building, nope… not sticking around to die to the evil cat piloting that thing. She started running. “That Menacing Mat guy is really overcompensating for something with that thing!”

Dolly yelped when a massive blast of energy sent her tumbling, she quickly got up and kept running through the cat-bots trying to intercept her escaping the wrath of the giant robot. Her adrenaline definitely spiked her body into ‘haste’ levels of movement as she flowed around several powerful blasts of energy that threatened to wipe her out.

“It’s Mechanikat! Ugh… good help is so hard to find these days, do I have to do everything around here myself!” Shouted a loud voice from a machine slowly standing up, it looked exactly like mechanikat… only bigger. Dolly had the right idea about his ego compensating for something.

Slowly Snooky pried the Mad Cat Machine out of the ground and ran a diagnostics on it, even if Caper Canine alone had almost totaled it with that one devastating hit… he decided it was still viable for fighting or assisting Mechanikat in moving for Paw-tucket city which was now currently being overrun with cat-bots. First he’d repair the tail, sure it won’t have beams anymore, but it would still be able to fire some quick shots.

Dolly, with her stone bone in her mouth, managed to make it through a number of cat-bots and reach one of the cities buildings to run up a wall much to a chasing cat-bots confusion when it slammed straight into said wall face first.

“If you can think of anything better than Digi-dog or Dynamo Dog, then I’d like to hear it big sister. Digi-dog is short and descriptive for what I do.” Dormarch stated as he soon joined her on the rooftop and passed her back her skateboard, the two promptly went their separate ways. One with a bouncing leap to glide through the cat-bot infested streets and the other teleported to join the infiltration team.

-Frontlines, Paw-tucket city, Edie-

“Ooh…” I saw that one of my flying friends had gotten a recording of Caper Canine’s epic attack with a smile on my beak. Sure she might have almost gotten killed after that stunt, but it had worked out. Also all the birds scattered when the giant cat robot started glaring in their direction and they retreated to flying over the city. “Oh, where were we… right! Incoming Fly Wheel support everyone!”

The second round of Fly Wheels bombardment hit the streets covered in cat-bots in front us and did quite a bit of damage as the Fly Wheels swooped down and then started to return to the air field after dropping off their payloads. It was helpful and a rather uneventful bombardment.

“News from the front Pom, Mechanikat has his big machine on the move for the city… it’s a good thing it’s slow.” Still fast enough to be quite threatening to the birds recording these events for posterity on paw pads. “Pom when do we start? The pets here are getting quite angry that Paw-tucket is getting damaged.”

“Lure the cat-bots in further Edie, everything for the counter-offensive is all set. Get them into the square Jade Catkin is waiting.” Pom reassured me with a smile and I nodded. Though I wondered why she kept saying Jade’s full name.

“Oh we are failing to defend ourselves, it would be quite terrible if every cat-bot in the city were to attack this square right now where all our pitiful forces have gathered!” My theatrics were probably going to be panned critically, but I think I’ve got the spirit of a great actor.

“You’re acting is still overly dramatic.” Oh a shot to the heart from one of my dear companions Bev, how cruel! Wait, Bev? Ah, Pom did say everyone was ready. Bev waved at me as she skated off, that turtle was going to have some fun soon.

“Everyone’s ready! Into positions pets, don’t get caught in the coming crossfire, move those pitcher turrets now!” I called out and flew a fair distance away to get a good recording of this.

-Coming out of the sea on a submarine, Petula-

“Woolsworth here, my team has gone ashore and is preparing to sneak in. Send Dormarch over here immediately and we’ll do our part in this Pom.” Sure I learned ‘a’ lesson, but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t be a brat… still this was going to be fun.

Dormarch appeared seconds later in a flash and the three fish tailed dog gave me a slight glare. I understood why, but I think we had bigger things to worry about. Sure I was a snob and I could be quite a jerk, but I was still a good pet darn it all!

“Let’s go!” I mean, how often did one get the chance to mess up an evil invading alien’s spaceship when they were not at home? Sure the cat-bots were terrifying, but we had a few things going for us… like the ability to fit into vessels vents easily compared to those large bulky walking trashcans. They wouldn’t catch us, my snail friend maybe if we were unlucky, but not the rest of us.

“Still can’t believe I’m working with you.” Trip grumbled with crossed limbs. Oh right, Quincy and Trip were here too I guess.

-Front line, Paw-tucket city square, Paw Patrol leader Chase-

Okay… so cat-bots were all gathering on this block for the party. Marshall and I were standing in front of the few pitching machines trying to keep them from being attacked.

It was a good thing everything was ready, because we were running out of sporting equipment to shoot at the robots, at least Marshall could easily refill his water tank at the nearby hydrants. We were chewing through ammunition figuratively… though some dogs were bravely doing that literally as they ran out to retrieve shots that bounced off the bots to be reused.

My pup pack was at half power thanks to having to use the taser function more than once with Marshall’s assistance to splash them with his water cannons to help take out multiple cat-bots.

So far we kept the cat-bots from grabbing anyone, but I was out of wire nets.

“Snooky will be coming ahead of Mechanikat be ready for that. Dolly really reduced his combat capacity, but he’s still highly dangerous.” Pom stated as she called out from Edie’s paw pad. “Everyone prepare to let loose the counteroffensive. Stay well away from the building sized cat robot, that’s what all the setups are for.”

A cat-bot came at me and was stopped when Dormarch’s big sister, Dolly, came out of the sky and jammed the nose of her board through the back of it. With a kick at the back of her board with her left hind leg, the board ripped the cat-bot entirely in half and destroyed it.

Dolly basically just kick flipped her board out of its back and landed on it in a stylish twirl and bowed to us while holding a tail stall.

“Caper Canine, Dolly, hang back for a bit and rest, only join in to keep pets safe and no going on the offensive. Okay Jade Catkin your up! Show us how the pets of Paw-tucket will defend their home, oh and enjoy yourselves while you’re at it.” Hearing that I had to wonder why cats in particular were fascinated with doing what Jade was about to do.

-Rooftops, Jade Catkin the black cat-

Have you ever heard the story of crossing paths with a black cat? Well we’re about to take that to eleven here and now, besides… I couldn’t have my rent rates go up my apartment because of a robot attack. It was already bad enough with how destructive my roommate and best friend Roxy was at times!

“Okay now everyone, push, throw and do what all cats love to do when it comes to knocking things off of things!” I lifted up on to my hind legs and pushed a precariously placed potted plant with my front paws, I had a wide grin on my face as I watched it sailed off the edge of the building into the cat-bots below.

There was no way we could miss any of the cat-bots with how many of them were packing the streets. Pots, plants and other heavy stuff toppled over the edge and rained from the above. Most of said pots were filled with sticky, slippery or even caustic substances. Chaos was the name of the game and the cats of Paw-tucket always want to do something like this, now we had an absolutely good reason for it!

The last few days at arts and crafts had been a blast, plus getting to destroy it all by pushing it off of high place, even better and a bonus! Good pets would never dream of knocking precious objects off of shelves, here in Paw-tucket it just actively became a civic duty! Woo, watch all that stuff fall to shatter on the cat-bots, heh heh heh!

The cat-bots filling the square were bombarded from all sides. There joints got glued up by various sticky substances. The slippery substances sent them careening into each other and or into the line of fire from whatever remaining shots the pitcher machines could shoot if a pet couldn’t run out to retrieve ammunition for them. A few of the cat-bots immediately exploded when the caustic substances from some of the shattering pots touched them, said substance was produced by a happy mouse who was the pet of a chemist.

All throughout the streets cat-bots were being taken down and some were taking out each other in the occasional explosions. While we were pelting them from the rooftops, the pitching machines and our forces on the ground were pulling back for an ammunition reload and a refresh. From what the birds are showing on the paw pads, we’ve already dealt a major blows to their numbers.

Still, a single cat-bot would be more than enough for even fifty pets if given the opportunity and we were playing fair. We’re not playing fair though, we’re absolutely going for overkill on that giant robot I see stomping this way in the distance. That thing looks tough.

“Incoming crazy cat in the smaller robot, what should we do about that Pom?” We do not want to attempt to fight that thing without fully loaded pitching machines, given the video I saw of Caper Canine almost getting her head popped off like an overly clawed catnip toy.

“I think Caper Canine already took care of most of his ranged options so the rooftops should still be safe until the giant robot gets there, but don’t count on it. Avoid attracting his attention, he’s a cold blooded cat and will try to kill you.” That sent shivers down my spine. No pet ever actually died in Paw-tucket, not for the lack of injuries or sicknesses mind you. “Leave it to Caper Canine, Marshall and Chase… I’ll send in some extra help. The pet bird’s estimate we’ve wiped out approximately seventy percent of their forces already from this, be prepared to evacuate the rooftops. If they can manufacture cat-bots, then we’re already taking care of that.”

“Well they are just practically throwing all of these things at us without much thought put into it.” Really had to wonder about the expenses of an evil alien guy that wanted to be an overlord, could he really afford to easily lose so many of those tall bipedal metal monsters? This Mechanikat guy was giving us cats a bad look.

“It’s a good thing they are only short term thinkers at best, because otherwise what we’re doing wouldn’t work.” Good to hear Pom. “Also I’m sending in the derby teams to back up the street forces when the cat-bots get clear of the mess you’re making.”

“Okay everyone, throw whatever we have left, even the garbage and then we’ll skedaddle out of here!” It’s a good thing we’ve already prepared walkways across the rooftops as an exit strategy once we’re finished having fun knocking stuff off of buildings like they were oversized shelves. I would leave the next part to the derby teams, the pets who were good at roller skating.

-A bit further back on the streets, Chase-

I slung Marshall into the cat-bots chest and he blasted it point blank with a powerful burst of water that sent him flying back towards me as my grapple line slackened. I manage to catch him back to my back and he rolled off down my tail and onto his paws. The blast of water and torn the cat-bot apart.

“Watch out, incoming psycho kitty!” Dolly called out. “Looks like he’s got the tail working again, how smart is this Loogie Wookie Slums?”

“It’s Snooky Wookums!” The tail aimed and fired two shots, both Marshall and I dodged by hopping over them as they struck the ground. The third shot was fired at Dolly, instead of jumping she brought her board up with both her paws and timed her swing to send the spherical blast of energy flying back into the tail damaging it. “Gah, Caper Canine!”

That was a very angry cat we have to deal with, if the red glowing viewport was anything to go by, the machine charged for Marshall who panicked and fumbled in place.

“Grapple!” Didn’t even aim my shots, I got him and pulled him out of the way as the machines right claws shredded the street.

“Thanks Chase!” Marshall called out.

Dolly went skidding past us as she blocked a left claw strike with her board and managed to stay standing. I saw a strange energy flowing into her body and she grinned slightly beneath her skateboarding helmet.

“Taser!” I fired a taser and it didn’t very little to the cat piloted machine and it retracted without doing an ounce of damage to the already damaged machine.

“Hah, a puny little electrical weapon system for incapacitating, do you really think something like that will even do anything to the Mad Cat Machine? Even as damaged as the armor is, my machine is still capable of taking all of you out!” Snooky jumped it forward and tried to land on me, Marshall hit me with his grapple and pulled me out of the way. “This thing isn’t one of those dumb muscle cat-bots!”

A second later a bone that looked like it was made of stone slammed into the head of the machine and knocked it off balance flailing its arms and its right leg lifted off the ground.

“Marshall the tail!” I called out hoping he’d know what I meant as I ran forward, he followed my lead.

“Grapple!” Marshall and I called out as we launched both our grapples to grab the side of the machine’s tail and the two of us pulled it even more off balance.

“Gah let go of the beam tail you little pieces of…!” Snooky tried to swing the upper torso’s left claw out for us and our grapple lines, we managed to maneuver it so it missed cutting through our grapple lines, but if the tail fired now we would be in a world of hurt.

The machine managed to stomp its foot forward and this forced our grapples to retract as we were sent tumbling, then the machine turned to us and tried to move.

The Mad Cat Machine promptly flopped onto its face into the street in an embarrassing display as it lifted the leg that hadn’t stomped down on the perfectly fine skateboard Dolly had slid underneath the raised foot.

Dolly’s board slid out from under its foot and was sent sliding towards the cat-bot horde being pelted by objects thrown from the rooftops.

“Grapple.” I got up and my pup pack grappled Dolly’s board before it got too far away and pulled it back towards myself.

The Mad Cat Machine was already getting back onto its feet and attacking my line and attempt to get the skateboard back to its owner. I could actually see the malice in the blue furred cat’s eyes through the broken view port.

I released the grapple to prevent my line from being cut by the cat machine’s right claw, it hit board’s nose and sent it flipping toward Dolly who caught it with her mouth.

“Blizzard!” A muffled Dolly shouted and a temporary spike of ice rammed into the torso of the machine putting a hole in it as as Marshall and I back away from it.

“Gah, why you!” The Mad Cat Machine stumbled backwards, but despite its appearance it was still very threatening and still quite tough even with parts of its innards exposed.

We’ve never had to actively fight like this before, but I would like to think we were helping to the best of our abilities. It’s just that that machine was a real monster.

“There has to be some way to deal with it…” Marshall mumbled and then looked at a fire hydrant in the distance behind us as the defensive line of pitching machines had fallen back that far down the street, barely any of them were firing anything at the moment. As their ammunition had been completely depleted. “With enough pressure I might be able to make a water laser from my puck pack’s water cannon, can you help Caper Canine and give me some time to set up my pup pack for that?”

“We need to give Marshall some time to do something, let me help you with that thing!” I didn’t know what I could do, but the grapple was the cheapest costing thing on my pup pack to use at the moment that could do anything as the battery was running the battery down on it.

“Looks funky don’t it~?” Dolly called out with a nod to me as I joined her side in facing off against the machine as Marshall went down the street towards safer territory to attach his pack to a fire hydrant. “Heh heh heh, alright now~!”

The Mad Cat Machine sent a blast at us and Dolly deflected it back with her board, only the returned blast didn’t strike it as it dodged charged forward at us at a frightening speed. Only for a Fly Wheel to come screaming from out of the sky at full speed and it rammed the Mad Cat Machine with an explosive force before Dormarch’s big sister could make a move to defend us.

The Mad Cat machine now had a big hole in its chest and was now on its back, I saw its claws still moving so it was still dangerous.

“Grapple!” Skye’s voice called out as she swung back and forth until her momentum died down into having her paws slap against a nearby building and she quickly repelled down to the streets with us. “Well so much for my Fly Wheel, but it was for a good cause! I still have my jetpack, just say the word and I’m in the air, but it looks like I won’t need…”

“Go help Marshall set up, it’s not done yet!” I called out and Skye didn’t second guess me and was immediately rushing towards Marshall to help him.

“What is it with dogs and heroically ruining our plans?!” The Mad Cat Machine, despite the sizable hole in the armor, was standing up and it hadn’t slowed down in the slightest. “This should have been an easy conquest and staging area, but no, the pets living here are apparently fighting back better than we could have ever thought, it’s infuriating!”

The machine lunged forward we both frantically dodged its clawing attacks. It was getting harder to dodge and I noticed Dolly was flagging. She had to be exhausted after dealing with this thing alone for so long… I saw something that she didn’t and I moved to stop it from happening.

I quickly pushed Dolly to the side and the left claw clamped down on my pup pack screeching as it tore into the pack. I was quickly lifted into the air and I realized that I’d just entered a hostage situation… as the hostage. Not good!

Dolly looked like she was going to make a move only to feel something lightly press against my throat, I gulped and looked down. The left claw was digging into my damaged pup pack, this was going to take some explaining to Ryder… if the right claw didn’t tear my throat out.

“Kind of whished it was you that I had grabbed so I could slowly watch the life bleed out of you!” Snooky the cat looked at me and I whimpered. “Guess, I’ll have to settle for…”

“Hey, let my friend go, pup pack full power- ruff-ruff water, now, please?!” Marshall called out urgently and desperately. A massive beam made of water ripped through the central torso of the Mad Cat Machine machine and moved upwards as Marshall was blasted off his paws by the force of his own pup pack firing.

What happened next was a bit blurry, but then I saw Skye’s worried face, I slowly groaned and barely sat up to see that the Mad Cat Machine had been blown entirely in half. Upper from its lower Half.

“Finally got you!” Dolly shouted as she tackled Snooky trying to slink away from the wrecked machine. She rapidly started to punch him in the face several times with a curled up paw. She kept hitting him until his nose was broken, his face was bloodied and he stopped moving… he didn’t stop breathing though. “Hey is Chase okay?!”

“I’m feeling… okay… everything hurts and I’m feeling a little dizzy.” I felt myself being put on something, was it Dolly’s skateboard?

“Let’s get him out of here, he’ll be fine.” Dolly stated as she walked over to us on her hind leg with an unconscious cat slung over her back. “We need to move, those cat-bots are still coming.”

Saying that I watched as Dolly turn and threw her strange bone and it broke a cat-bot coming at us with a devastating impact and she caught it as it came spinning back to her.

“Pom providing evac for a brave little dude and the big menace is coming up fast!” Dolly stated as she looked at the giant cat robot causing fires and slowly wreaking havoc through Paw-tucket. “Have some Sitrus Berries ready, Chase got injured because of me and my big sister instincts are kicking me hard for letting something like that happen.”

“The derby teams will finish off the cat-bots, then we’ll really give Mechanikat what’s coming to him.” Hearing Pom’s voice was rather soothing and I smiled a little at hearing it, my tail even started wagging. “Secure the prisoner for detainment and make sure he can’t hurt anyone while getting him to us. The pets will have to handle things on the front for now, thankfully we only have one major threat left.”

“Get some sleep Chase.” Feeling Skye lick my cheek, I drifted off.

“On the… case…” I mumbled sleepily.

-Mega Mechanikat, Mechanikat-

I so do love the smell of fire and destruction. I’d love to see Dog Star Patrol come up with something to deal with this thing without some of the strongest super pets available.

-Backside of the Paw-tucket front line, Udder Chaos-

Now that Mechanikat’s minions had hurt one of the Paw Patrol puppies, a highly protected subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises to make sure nobody experiments on those poor very friendly talking alien animals around the Adventure Islands region highly protected by Wayne enterprises and watched over specifically by our ally Master Higgins. If people thought the talking animals was even vaguely weird, then we’re lucky nobody knows about all the intelligent dinosaurs that count as endangered species on the other nearby islands.

Given that Pom’s plan was all but assured to work now… it was time to take out my frustrations on my enemies in the only way a cow like me can.

I whipped out a jump rope with my teeth and growled as I snapped it like an actual whip scaring my friends Fran and Hiss slightly as I narrowed my eyes. Bev was already being pulled back in a stretching cord ready to launch herself into danger shell first, we’re all ready to let loose some justice on the remaining maniacal cat-bot forces.

Sure I was changed to fit in with this magical world’s aesthetics and was visiting Paw-tucket to spend time with my distant friends, Mechanikat couldn’t have possibly known that I have access to Paw-tucket or he wouldn’t have tried this travesty against the good pets of my home world.

In any, case my good friend Pocus sends his regards!

For I am vengeance, I am the sour cream personified to villainous laughing hyenas everywhere, I am…

Bat-Cow!

“Okay, how did lightning just strike?” Fran stated in a very confused tone after a flash and bolt of lightning occurred. “I mean seriously, those are smoke clouds from the fires, not storm clouds.”

“Yeah, that was kind of weird.” Miss Hiss’s inability to stop would actually be quite boon for finishing off the remaining cat-bots. There were still a lot of them and I would be at forefront of the takedowns, I couldn’t allow any of my allies to get hurt unnecessarily.

“Don’t worry about it Fran, Hiss, just worry about not getting hurt and watching each others backs.” I glared ahead. “All derby teams, moo-ve out! Let's go Thunder Clouds, show them what we pets are made of!”

Author's Note

Adventure Bay and Adventure City are part of the 'Adventure Islands', Master Higgins is what I would consider to be a 'mostly normal' hero with a completely absurd life. One who rides friendly dinosaurs, beats up aliens, monsters and animals or just other weird things in general with magical throwing stone axes and is constantly hungry for high calorie foods.

Master Higgins is a larger than life figure that fights ridiculous supernatural odds and wins, after all he doesn't have super strength after eating something like Flint the time Detective does.