Politics In London

It was another beautiful morning in Camden as everything was going on track for Dylan. Military music began playing as marching could be heard.

"And a-one, two... one-two-three-four!" Dylan ordered as the pups marched in a single file behind, "One-two-three-four!" He continued as they marched and passed the flight of stairs where Dolly was laying on the railing while Charlie was shown sitting on the steps. The two watches before they looked at each other and Dolly rolled her eyes.

While Dylan marched on proudly, Dolly suddenly appeared in front of Dylan hanging off of something, startling him.

"Uh, we're heading to the bathroom, Dylan. Not war." She said to him, while the other pups stopped to look up at at her. Suddenly the lights went out...

"TAKE COVER ALL!!" Dante screamed in panick.

"N-no no no, no. No Dante, not now." Charlie immediately said but Dolly stopped him.

"Hang on, let him cook."

"My dreams forecast division and disaster!" He said before looking at two pups that are closest to him, cause then to back up a bit weirded out by his sudden rant of doom, "On DALMATIAN STREET!!!" He screamed out.

"WOAH Woah woah! Dante!" Charlie yelled out getting him to look at everyone with a worried look.

"Also rain." Dante added.

"Bet ya didn't forecast this, Dante!" Dylan said before pushing Dante out of the way, getting the lights to turn on, "Behold!" He announced gesturing to the bathroom. Everyone looked in to see what he had created (including Dante), " Dalmatian Nation, check out my latest creation!"

"Wow a shower curtain!" Charlie sarcastically said. Getting some of the pups to giggle, Dylan... not so much.

"No, not that. This!" Dylan corrected him and gestured to a machine that was made of tubing tied together with ropes. A wire was shown wrapped around on tubing that was connected to a button and on the other side were two tooth brushes attached with rope.

"Oh this thing, what is this thing?"

"It's a faster way to brushing our teeth." Dylan said, to which Dolly chuckled and rolled her eyes.

"Oh brother." She said as everyone watch Dylan push on the button. The machine started to shake as three tubs of a toothpaste were squeezed together, letting its contents fall into a funnel that was tied with ropes and landed perfectly into Dylan's mouth.

"For a precision polish to scientific standards!" He said through his teeth as the electric toothbrush started working on his teeth. Some of the pups seem infatuated with this, while others including Dolly and Charlie, simply look on, awaiting for disaster to happen.

"Scratch that!" Dolly said now showing she was top of Dante.

"When does a break?" Charlie asked as Dolly  jumped above Dylan and onto the sink, "Wait, Dolly."

"Everybody say 'ah'!" She said.

"Ahhh!" All the pups repeat and Dolly pushed down the toothpastes, causing toothpaste to fly at the pups.

"AHHH!" Charlie screamed out and unfortunately for him, he and the rest of the pups were splatter with toothpaste. Everyone groaned in pain while the tile below them popped opened, revealing Diesel.

"Mmm! Minty fresh!" He said with his goofy smile. Dylan however groaned in disgust, and was grotesque at the sight of toothpaste bring everywhere.

"Dolly! Toothpaste everywhere!"

"More like foam par-taaaay!" Dolly screamed before laughing, "C'mon, Diesel!" She yelled out excitedly. Diesel hurried over to the tub and turned on the faucet. Dolly quickly grabbed the shower head and got in front of Dylan (who was watching in pure disappointment) to spray the pups with the water, causing a foaming substance when mixing with the toothpaste.

All the pups were having a blast with the foam as all of them were shown sliding down the hall and down the stairs with poor Dylan in front taking the brunt of the slide. Finally the sliding ceased and the pups were shown yapping and laughing from their enjoyment, even Charlie popped out from the foam laughing.

"That was fun." He said as he shook himself before sitting down. He then looked up at the clock and noticed that it was almost breakfast time, "Oh hey! Everyone! It's... BREAKFAST TIME!" He shouted getting the pups prop up in anticipation before charging to the dinning room table, creating the normal tsunami of black and white which makes a pretty good transition to the dinning room.

Dolly approached the kibble machine and was just about to push on one of the keys before...

"No! Wait, no! Dolly, go easy on the..." He warned but of course Dolly smirked and pushed the very top key down.

"Kibble Unplugged!" She shouted.

"Kibble pump..." Dylan finished as a large amount of kibble started to flow down the hose expanding through the hose into a big ball. Once it reaches the nozzle, Dolly quickly strapped on the harness that holds the hose, all awhile Dylan and Charlie watch on. Dylan mostly sighed in defeat while Charlie watched with widened eyes.

"Uhhh, Dolly?!" He asked and was to intervene but it was too late. The hose exploded from the overlord, sending kibble, Dylan, and of course Dolly flying across the room. Poor Charlie had the worse of it as he sat in front of the launching kibble. He tried to move out of the way, only to get smacked by the launching kibble and it sent him flying over to the table where the pups watched as he and the kibble landed with a loud splat.

Course, most of the pups just laugh at this and began to dive in while Dolly popped out of a large pile of kibble before looking down to see some of the pups chasing one another, trying to eat the kibble off the floor.

"Five second rule still applies!" She said out loud, "Quick, gobble up, everyone!" She shouted, getting the pups to cheer as she looked around to see Charlie.

"Please don't!" He could be heard underneath the pile of kibble but the pups could care less and jumped onto the pile of kibble.

"Wow, you just couldn't resist!" Dylan said angrily until Dolly gets in his face.

"Hey, it was wound too tight! Bit like your tail!" She fired back.

"You're a disaster dog!"

"You're a control freak!"

"That's it, I'm telling Mom!"
That's it, I'm telling Dad!" Both Dylan and Dolly yelled out, getting everyone to stop what they were doing and look over before the siblings butted heads and separated, leaving Dante to watch in anticipation of this happening.

"Cue division." He said dramatically, "Dog. I'm good." He said as Charlie popped out from the kibble.

"What happened? What did I miss?" He asked groggily and shook his head. After he blew some kibble out of his nose, he looked around and noticed that Dylan and Dolly had disappeared, "Oh no, where'd they go?"

"Going up to tell their parents about each other." Dante explains to him.

"Oh that's not good. I can already see where this is going." He said and hurried off after them.

Meanwhile, Doug and Delilah were getting ready to head off for work when suddenly...

"Dolly's running this house like a game show host!"
"Dylan's acting like a dental hygiene-obsessed drill sergeant!" Both Dylan and Dolly said to Doug and Delilah who seemed very weary at this and they immediately sank down, letting Dylan and Dolly to butt heads.

"There could only be one Top Dog in this house!!" They both said angrily at each other.

"Woah! Woah woah!" Charlie could be heard as he slid over to them and separated the two, "Please for the love of dog let's talk this over." He begged.

"Jinx." The two said to one another with a smirked before looking over to their mother who seemed rather impatient to deal with this issue.

"Ugh! Just figure it out yourselves. We're late for work." She said before dipping out the door, leaving Doug to finish his goodbyes.

"Hey, why not decide this with a..."

"Election?"
"Cage match?" Both Dylan and Dolly suggested.

"Uh, Dylan's idea sounds... safer?" Doug questioned before dipping out the door, leaving the two in silence before Dylan smirked at her.

"Oh no, no no no no, no!" Charlie immediately said, "I cannot and will not let this house become diplomatic. I've already left the country that has this problem. I'm not going through this again."

"Oh come on Charlie it's the only way for us to know who could be Top Dog in this house."

"Look, I rather much have a cage match than have a diplomatic election."

"I second that." Dolly smirked.

"Not helping, Dolly."

"Besides, like anyone's gonna vote for him." Dolly spat out.

{LATER}
"Things are heating up here at 101 Dalmatian Street, as Dylan and Dolly battle for the Top Dog spot. Dallas, what's your take on the two contestants?" Destiny asked Dallas as their pup-made studio there cuts to Dallas who was surrounded by her brothers and sisters.

"No idea. I've been in make-up for the last hour. How's my spots?" She asked before it cuts to Deja-Vu.

"Wonder-fab! Dolly's all freewheeling fun." She gestures behind her as Dolly was shown rolling down the stairs with a rubber chicken in her mouth, she bit down on the chicken making it squeak before running off to the left, followed by a tsunami of black and white spots, "But Dylan's got some tricks of his own." Deja continued as her face was all the reader could (She loves the camera) before side stepping to show Dylan standing on large books with banners of himself hanging behind him.

"My fellow Dalmatians, now, I love my dogs but who likes wet dog smell? Yuck!" He answered his question before the camera zoomed onto his face, "That's why One of my promises is... 101 fur dryers!" He announced before picking up two hair dryers and firing them off, getting the pups to howl in unison, "That will be one of my promises to being Top Dog!" He said when suddenly the camera got right into his face.

"EXTREME CLOSE UP!" Charlie could be heard yelling.

"You're so not helping my cause, Charlie." Dylan said rather annoyed before showing that Charlie litterly right in front of Dylan with Triple D's tablet that they use to take pictures.

"Oh... Heh, sorry." He said with a chuckle before it cuts back to Dylan holding the hair dryers.

"The only way to decide this popularity contest Is for Dylan and Dolly to go muzzle the muzzle." Deja finished her report when a set of paranoid eyes immediately jumped up, covering the screen...

"Up next... DISASTER!" Dante yelled.

"JESUS!" Charlie yelled out scared at what he saw and dropped the tablet, "Dante, don't do that!"

"Yeah! You are so ruining my close up!" Deja yelled angrily at her paranoid brother.

{LATER}
A stage was set up as a machine was shown next to a microphone that Dawkins tapped on, getting feedback.

"Tails at the ready?" He asked before getting a nod from everyone.

"Every tail is ready." Charlie said to him.

"Excellent. First condition to make our wag-o-meter wag all the way becomes Top Dog." He explains showing off his machine, "Any questions?" He asked and at first no one raises their paws... until two raised their paws. Those two being Charlie and Dante, "Charlie." Dawkins gestures to him.

"I have several questions actually, do we have to do this? Is it worth my time? And is mayonnaise an instrument?"

"Yes, depends, and no." Dawkins answered rather unamused.

"The last question was a trick question."

"Any other questions?" He asked, deliberately trying to avoid Dante question, "Anyone else? No?" He asked hoping someone else had a question, only to sigh in defeat, "Fire away, Dante."

"What are you planning to do about the..." He began to ask before he dipped down from behind the crowd and immediately appeared in front, "END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?!"

"Nothing! Let's Just have fun while we still can!" Dolly answered getting the pups to cheer and wag there tails, showing the wag-o-meter has increased its levels.

"I like Dolly's thinking, there's so many things I haven't sniffed yet, like my own butt. No wait, I smelled that before." Charlie said getting the pups to laugh.

"What's your policy on bedtime? Like, do we even need it?" Both Dizzy and DeeDee asked, jumping up and down.

"We sure do, so. I prepared sleep schedules for each and every pup complete with customized treats and bedtime stories." Dylan answered the question, getting the pups to cheer and smack there tails on the floor getting the wag-o-meter to rise a bit higher than Dolly did. Dylan looked on with confidence but Dolly rolled her eyes.

"Pfft, That's enough to put us all to sleep right now!" She argues.

"Aw, c'mon! Rules can be cool!"

"Said no pup ever!" Charlie commented before Dylan and Dolly got into the tablet.

"We want to have fun!"
"We want cool rules!" They said, " wag if you're with me!"

However... the pups seemed confused, even looking at each other wondering who should they cheer for. On one hand, they do want fun and play all day, but they all know they need sleep and need to eat in order to keep playing, but they don't want to say it's because rules are better than playing. So instead they all went silent... not a peep was heard out of them as they stared at the two. The only noise that anyone heard was Charlie suddenly sneezing.

"Sorry." He said.

"Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig!" They all heard and suddenly... Crash!!! Diesel dug through and bursted through the ground in front of everyone.

"Where am I?" He asked looking around a bit confused.

"Hi Diesel!"

"Hello Charlie! What's happening?"

"We're voting! We're voting!" All the pups chanted to him.

"The paw means pause!" Both Dylan and Dolly said as they raised their paws to the pups getting them to stop and stare at them.

"What ya voting for?"

"We're voting on which of these two should be Top Dog." Charlie explains to him but Diesel looked confused.

"Why are we voting for hot dog?"

"Not hot dogs Diesel, Top Dog." Dylan corrected him as Diesel looked over to Charlie.

"Why aren't you competing?"

"This isn't my fight, Diesel. I don't have a problem on who's Top Dog."

"Hot dog?!" Diesel asked again... clearly his mind on something else, "I could dig a treat."

"Treat! Treat! Treat!" The pups chanted as they wagged there tails extremely hard, "Diesel! Diesel! Diesel!" The pups chanted to the point where Diesel seemed confused on why his brother and sisters were cheering his name. The wag-o-meter however told a different story... it immediately spiked to maximum height... Signaling that...

"The wag-o-meter has called it!" Deja announced, "Diesel is Top Dog!"

"I am?" Diesel asked completely confused.

"What... just... happened?!" Both Dylan and Dolly asked, completely shocked at what just transpired.

Charlie:

"You've been FOOLED!!! That's what happened!" Charlie laughed hysterically, before falling to the ground continuing his laughter.

{LATER}
"Aw what? You're Just going to split 'cause you're not Top Dog anymore?" Dolly asked Dylan who was putting several items into a duffle bag.

"I'm moving to the treehouse. Diesel's got kibble for brians. He's already declared his tail an enemy of the state!" Dylan explains as we see Diesel running around in n circles trying to catch his tail before cutting back to Dylan grabbing his duffel bag with his mouth.

"Fine, be that way! Who needs ya anyway?!"

{MEANWHILE}
"Alright, Dorothy, ready to catch the ball?" Charlie asked Dorothy who was ready to pounce. After Dorothy nodded, Charlie rolled the ball to her and she immediately sprinted to it and pounced onto it, "Very good, good job Dorothy!" He clapped his paws together cheering Dorothy when Dylan stormed by, "Oh, hey Dylan." He greeted only to get ignored and watched Dylan exit to the backyard, "Uhh, okay? That's new." He said before he started hearing commotion going on in another room, "What is going?"

"Charlie." He heard and saw a random pup looking rather stressed out.

"Hey what's up little dude?"

"I want walkies." The pup demanded.

"Well where your leash?"

"Diesel banned them."

"Oh he did, did he?" Charlie questioned suspiciously before getting up to his feet and headed over into the room where a large group of pups had surrounded poor Diesel.

"We want walkies!"
"Is there a cuddle shortage?!"
"When's breakfast?" Triple D asked rather impatiently, "We gotta know!" They yelled out, scarring Diesel who was curled into a ball while trying to cover his head from all the yelling that he was getting from the pups.

"Ah! I don't dig this!" He said when Dolly appeared behind him and grabbed him by his dirty collar and hoist him up into the dumbwaiter (which is a small elevator that lowers into the elevator) and closed the door. Leaving the whining pups to continue to complain.

"Woah, dude. Being in charge is way hard, huh?" She asked him while petting the scared Diesel's head softly.

"I know right?"

"Hey, a Top Dog should be livin' it up. Doin' his own thing." She said before smirking down at Diesel trying to sucker in her little brother.

"Ooh! Like digging?" He asked... she got him on the reel now.

"Sure!" She answered but soon gasped as she got an idea, "Why don't you go do that while I run the house for you?" She suggested.

"Hot-diggety! I owe you one, Dolly!" He said which she smiled evilly, knowing she found a loophole and become top dog again. Diesel quickly opened the dumbwaiter door and hopped out of it, leaving Dolly looking proud at her work.

"Dolly is large and in charge. So clear the Halls! I'm unplugged!" She yelled out excitedly before jumping out of the dumbwaiter.

{MEANWHILE}
Night time has approached London and Dylan was shown looking through his telescope, looking at the stars above.

"Ah, just me and the stars!" He said with a sigh. ASuddenly party music started playing.

"Whoo-hoo!" Dolly could be heard as Dylan turned his telescope to the house and see that she was skateboarding inside. Pups were shown flying about through the windows as she continued to shred through the house.

"Huh! They'll get bored with too much fun..." He said as he continues to watch Dolly trash the house, "... someday." He added a sort of concern with what's going on in the house. Suddenly an eyeball appeared in the lens, "Aah!" Dylan yelled out and backed up from his telescope.

"Doomsday more like!" He heard... of course it's Dante.

"Hey!" Dylan called out rather annoyed that it was Dante and watched as he slid down the telescope and into his treehouse.

"Just going to crash here..." Dante stated resulting in Dylan retracting from his sacred stance to a semi laying down stance, "The end is nigh back there, thanks to you!" He said pointing to Dylan, blaming him for walking out on them.

"Oh, for the love of dog." Dylan responded rather appalled that this was his fault.

{BACK INSIDE}
"Whee-hee!" Dolly could be heard yelling at she landed in the door laughing through the rush of adrenaline, "Is everybody having fun?" She asked... only to hear crying. A lone pup wanders in front of her with a can on their head which got her to look ahead. As normal chaos can be on this house, this wasn't the normal chaos that the siblings or Charlie would deal with... this was a different kind of chaos.

"Aah!" Triple D could be heard crying out as they were shown cast in a shadow, " I never thought I'd have to live through a kibble shortage!"
"Oh, what will become of?"
"We're puppies in peril!"

"Okay, now. The paw means pause!" Dolly shouted putting her paw out.

"What in dogs collar's name is going on in here?!" Charlie appeared before looking over to Dolly as she tried to get the pups to stop, but they didn't even take a glance at her.

"Why isn't this working anymore??" She asked, looking at her paw.

"You're not in charge anymore." Charlie answered when suddenly...

"'Cause Diesel's Top Dog!"
"Everything's gone to the dogs!"
"You and Dylan just gotta... BRING BACK THE NORMAL!" They yelled while attaching themselves to Charlie who immediately shook them off of him and looked around

"Where's Diesel?!"

"Uhhhhh, I don't know. Maybe he's digging." Dolly answered as her eyes darted around, only making her more suspicious.

"What did you do?"

"What do you mean 'What did I do'? Are you saying I had something to do with this?" Dolly asked as if she was appalled that Charlie would she think she had anything to do with Diesel sudden disappearance. Charlie gave her a stern look to which she sighed, "All right fine. I told Diesel I'd take over for him while he takes a break from all the stress."

"Nice going genus, but you miss one jey clue in your plan of world domination, they're only going to listen to Diesel and unless Dylan's here to help us out. This place has gone to chaos."

"We don't need Dylan. We're not exactly in sync right now.

"When have you ever not been in synced?" Charlie asked her.

"Look the solution is simple. We just gotta find Diesel."

"And do you know exactly where he is?" Charlie

"I mean he's probably digging so that's a start. Just lemme talk to him, where he is anyway?" Dolly asked Triple D.

"In his new presidential 'digs'." Destiny pointed out the table, where in front of the table... was a massive hole.

"HE PUT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR?!" Charlie asked as he and Dolly peeked into the hole, "OH MY DOG THIS IS WAY WORSE THAN I THOUGHT!" Charlie yelled out in a total panic.

{MEANWHILE}
Dylan watched the chaos unfold through the telescope.

"Diesel's destroying our home!"

"Meh, it's not the end of the world. Oh wait... It is." Dante said dramatically.

"You're a real fun roommate."

{BACK IN TH HOUSE}
Dolly traversed her way down the hole only to see that led just beneath the very foundation of the house. As she squeezed her way through the tight spaces she came to a spot where she could see light peeking through what looks like tiles, she must be near the kitchen when Diesel popped up from underneath the cement.

"Dolly! Welcome to m'digs!" He greeted her with a huge smile.

"Yeaaah, cozy." Dolly said sarcastically as she looked up hearing more and more destruction, "But, listen. You gotta lay down some rules upstairs!" She said pointing to upwards with her paw, "Everybody's going bonkers and they'll only listen to the Top Dog!"

"Okay, cool." Diesel responsed but suddenly thought about it for a second, immediately confused on what she meant, "Who's that?"

"You, remember?!" Dolly reminded him rather angrily before sighing, "Now try to keep up. We gotta sort out the food sitch, then bring back naps, regular cuddles, and then--" She listed, but Diesel seem conflicted with this long list of things that they needed to fix.

"You're just starting to sound like Dylan." He said cutting off Dolly, "Wait, are you Dylan in disguise?" Diesel asked, raising his ears up with anticipation, "And if you are, who am I?" He asked outloud, to which Dolly facepalmsd herself.

"You're you, I'm me, and Dylan can be right sometimes!" She blurted out in frustration before gasping, "Did I just say that?"

"All I know is you're giving me a big ball of stress in my tummy and that only makes me wanna... did even deeper!" He yelled out and began digging again.

"Stop!" Dolly yelled out in desperation, but it was no used he already disappeared into the hardened dirt, "We gotta get everybody working together again." She said when Diesel popped up again.

"We could all dig together!" He suggested excitedly and immediately jumped up and impressively started to dig straight up.

"What?! No!" She yelled out but she couldn't stop him as he immediately started drilling up to the floor above.

{MEANWHILE}
"Alright everyone, let's all calm down." Charlie tried to say over the chaos, "No need to panic everyone, we are working on the kibble shortage."

"But what about cuddles?!"
"And I'm tired!" Some of the pups cried out.

"I know everyone I know, I wish I could help with this situation, but you all pick Diesel as Top Dog." He reminds the pups who looked at each with disappointed.

"I wish Charlie was Top Dog!"
"Yeah, me too!" Some of the pups cried out when Diesel popped out from the table and howled... getting everyone's attention.

"Brothers and sisters! When times are tough, all ya got to do is..." He says before entering a block before poking his head out, "DIG IT!"

"Dig!
"Dig!
"Dig!" All the pups chanted and shouted in unison.

"Oh, no." Charlie watched in horror as the pups are mindlessly agreeing with Diesel.

"So now let's all dig a tunnel under this house! The deepest tunnel, the bestest tunnel. It's going to be... beautiful. Dig! Dig! I'm digging!" He yelled and jumped into the pile to start digging into the floor.. The rest of the pups began to tear into the tiles and began digging up dirt.

"B-but what if you hit a sinkhole?! Or the Tube!?" Dolly asked meaning the subway.

"This is all your fault!" Charlie yelled angrily at her as she got out of the hole.

"My fault?! How is it my fault?!"

"You just had to get hungry for power!"

"Well it's not like you were gonna do anything!" She argued back.

"Look, we're gonna need Dylan, wherever he is."

{MEANWHILE}
"This is it, Dylan." Dante said to his annoyed brother, "Thanks to you, the end is nigh, nigh, nigh." He said, intimating an echo to Dylan.

"Oh, cut the drama, Dante. Lemme enjoy my me time." Dylan said as he sat up to look out his telescope. He could see a consolation through his telescope when an eyeball appeared in the telescope, scaring Dylan as he backed up away from his telescope.

"DYLAN!" Charlie yelled out as he jumped onto his telescope, "We have an issue."

"What now?"

"Diesel's gone digging mad!" Dolly yelled out, joining Charlie.

"He could destroy the house, and we need all paws on deck for this one!"
"You gotta help us or this is the end as we know it!" Dolly and Charlie said, even Charlie looked over to Dolly with a concerned look.

"Told ya so." Dante gloated to Dylan who immediately shoved a squeaky toy into his mouth.

"Geez, I wasn't thinking that was a problem." He said to her before looking back to Dylan, "Dylan we really need your help, Diesel has gone cuckoo for kibble and has literally everyone digging."

"Ho ho!" Dylan chuckled, "Oh, so fun's finally gotten a little old, huh?"

"Never!" Dolly immediately yelled in his face before backing up to Charlie, "Okay... maybe." She mumbled to herself but, "Now, don't let this go to your head but, yeah..." She said but looked away from Dylan, clearly not wanting to say what Dylan wants to hear, "Sometimes we need rules."

"I'm sorry, what was that?" Dylan asked leaning up against Dolly hoping to hear what she said.

"Dude! This is not the time for gloating." Charlie said and pushed Dylan off of Dolly, "And may I remind you, you are also at fault with this too."

"Not you too."

"No, I'm being serious. You tend to take things way too far." Charlie explains to Dylan, "Just like Dolly when she comes to fun. You both take things way too far."

"You think the precision tooth brushing was a little much?" Dylan asked, to which Dolly and Charlie gave him a angry look, "Yeah, okay. Oh, some leaders we are." Dylan added upon seeing their faces and sighed, lowering his head in shame.

"What makes you think that?!" Dolly mumbled to herself but Charlie and Dylan heard her.

"Dolly, let me handle this." Charlie said sternly before turning back to Dylan and sighed, "Look I understand you want to keep the house in order but the pups are not robots. They're not always going to follow your orders." He explains before turning to Dolly, "And Dolly , you are a blast when it comes to having fun, but these pups they don't have the energy like you. Do they need rest? They need to eat. They need some type of guidance. They can't play all the day and you saw what happened today. They get grouchy, and no one likes a grouchy puppy." He explains to her to which she sighed.

"I guess your right." She said the last part more, "Some leaders we turn out to be."

"Agh! Now you three are depressing me!" Dante cried out, "Do Something!" He yelled out angrily.

"Dante's right? It's okay for us to make mistakes but right now we have to fix the bigger problem that's in the house..." Charlie said pointing back to the house when suddenly... a large crash could be heard, causing everyone to run over to the telescope to see what was happening.

Through one of the windows that they spied through water could be seen spouting out through the window, causing Dylan to panic.

"Uh, oh. I think they hit the water line!" Charlie yelled out in a panic as the older dogs hurried to the house.

"You didn't say anything about an indoor water park!"

"Woah! That's unplugged!" Dolly said as Charlie peeked over them to see what was going on, "Uh, in a bad way!" She explains herself but Charlie immediately jumped over them.

"C'mon!" He yelled out, followed by Dolly and Dylan who landed in a dry spot. Seeing that the house was starting to fill up with water.

"Diesel, what did you do?" Dylan asked loudly while the pups looked over to him with concern looks.

"Uh, either I hit the ocean or a water pipe." He explained as he floated away to another room, leaving the trio look on in shock.

"Argh! What do we do? What do we do?" Dolly asked as the water starts rising faster.

"Everyone! Do not panic." Charlie said outloud getting everyone's attention, "First thing we gotta do is get these pups upstairs!" He said before training to Dolly and Dylan, "Go Dalmatians Go!" He yelled out and the trio split apart.

"And a-one-two-three-four! One-two-three-four!" Dolly yelled out as she swam behind some of the pups to get them to head upstairs, while carrying Dorothy behind her back. Unfortunately the water just continued rising faster and faster, "Bro, we're gonna run outta floors!" She yelled out, as Charlie pulled out Triple D who were still in their signature pose.

"My fur!"
"We're drenched!"
"To the bone!" They whined.

"Better that than being drowned!" Charlie said as Dylan was behind him, carrying more pups, "Where's Da-Vinci!?" He asked looking around.

"Over here!" He heard and looked over to see Da-Vinci was trapped on a floating table, "I don't think I can stay on this much longer!"

"Hang on Da-Vinci!" Charlie yelled out and plopped Triple D onto Dylan's head, "Finish taking them I'll go and get Da-Vinci!" He said and jumped over Dylan, landing in the water and dog paddled over to her. But before he could reach her, she slipped down and fell into the water, "Da-Vinci!" He yelled out and immediately dove down to her popping back out of the water with her on his back, "Hang on to me Da-Vinci!" He said and she clunged onto him as he reached the staircase where he dropped to floor trying to regain his.

"Thank you for the save, Charlie." Da-Vinci said and nuzzled her hero.

"No... problem."

"Argh, if only we could fix this with something as dumb as digging." Dolly said as she threw Dorothy over to a pillow while Charlie helped Dylan out of the water.

"Nah, I've tried." Diesel could be heard, "You can dig water all you want but the hole just keeps filling back up." He said as he tried to dig again with no result, "See?" He gestured to Dolly who facepalmed herself again, but suddenly Charlie had an idea.

"Wait that's it!"

"Uh oh, don't tell me."

"This pup got a plan!"

"Yep I knew he was gonna say that."

"But we need to work together on this one."

"Charlie's right. We need to work together, so what's the plan?" Dylan asked Charlie who smirked.

"Dolly, you swim down to the bathroom and shut off the water valve. Diesel, Dylan will create a puppy chain to lower you down with this..." He said revealing a chew toy that was perfect for the hole, "To plug into the main line. I'll stay here and help Dylan with puppy chain while searching for anymore pups that needs rescuing, everyone got their jobs?"

"Yep!"
"On it, Charlie!"
"Just give us the word!" Dylan, Diesel, and Dolly said together.

"Then Go Dalmatians Go!" Charlie yelled out and the trio separated. Dolly immediately sprang into action, diving into the water before swimming to the bathroom where opening one of the cupboards she sees the valve that she need to turn.

Back with Dylan and Charlie, they managed to get the pups to be lowered down outside by having them bite one smothers tail with Diesel in front with the ball.

"Dig on down, Diesel!" Dylan yelled out and Diesel proceeded to dig down, "Dig! Dig! Dig!" He cheered as the pup chained let go of diesel and he was off to races.

"Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig!" Diesel chanted to himself as he tunneledchus way through the dirt. Unfortunately he wasn't going straight down he was going off course and went left.

"No the other way!!!" Charlie yelled out and Diesel changed his direction by going diagonally right.

"The other, other way!" Dylan corrected Diesel. Diesel popped out from the middle of the intersection and looked up, a bit confused.

"Dig! Dig! Dig!" The pups chanted. This got Diesel to ponder and he suddenly figured out where he was supposed to go... straight down. Soon he proceeded to dig in the correct direction, reaching the broken pipe and shoved the ball into the broken pipe (though I don't think that's a way to fix it... but there dogs... So what am I gonna say.)

Soon the water started to drain itself from the house, to which Charlie and Dylan cheered.

"It's going down!"
"It's working! Go team!" Dylan and Charlie cheered. The pups even got a little on the action as they rode the rapids waters down the stairs.

{LATER}
Once the water finally drained itself completely from the house, Dolly was the first to step up and began counting the pups one by one as they went to the bathroom to dry.

"92, 93, 94, 95, 96..." She counted as Dylan, and Charlie hurried down the stairs.

"Everybody accounted for?" Dylan asked rather impatiently while Dolly and Charlie looked around.

"Uh, where's Diesel?" She and the duo screamed in terror, only for Diesel to pop out from underneath the floor boards.

"Hot dog! That was diggity!" He said only to get cheered by the pups and get dog piled on by the pups.

"Diesel! Diesel! Diesel!" The pups chanted while the older dogs watched before smiling, seeing that everything has gone back to normal.

"Well I gotta say, we did a pretty good job back there. Diesel" Charlie was the first say something.

"Yeah, thanks for helping us save the house, Diesel, But you think I could go back to being Top Dog?" Dylan asked as Diesel popped out from the dog pile.

"You can have it!" Diesel said while he was being toppled over by his brother and sisters.

"Yes!" Dylan selflessly cheered himself, Dolly however, gave Dylan an immediate angry look knowing that he could go overboard with the rules."

"Woah, whoa! Hang on now. Dylan." Charlie immediately intervenes, "You being Top Dog is not a good idea."

"Yeah, who said you could be Top Dog."

"Neither is you, Dolly." Charlie added getting Dolly to look over to him with widened eyes, "As much as I love that you all have this little truce about who could be Top Dog. It's just going to start all over again. Dolly's way too much fun, and Dylan is into too much rules." He explains.

Unbeknownst to him, all the pups slowly got off of Diesel and started surrounding Charlie as he explains his issues to the older siblings.

"We've got to find a balance. Of course these pups love to have fun. That's how they get their exercise, but too much fun could lead them into being, tired, hungry, and without the key ingredients of food and naps and cuddles then... What's the point of having so much fun?" He questions before continuing, "Rules are something that we need to have in this house. Whether it's a tight schedule on you know... W. A. L. K. I. E. S... or the other trigger words that we have in this house, but we can't go overboard with rules." He explains.

"In my previous life I sometimes hated roles when I was younger cuz that's not fun. Cleaning your room or doing the dishes or taking out the trash. That's not fun for a kid, which goes back to our first issue,... Too much fun, having no rules and having too much rules could cause these pups to be rebellious and be destructive. You all saw what happened the first thing diesel thought that would help us all was to dig and like what that got us..." Charlie gestured behind him to Diesel, "Look you two. They're only kids. They're not going to have the same mental responsibility like you. Dylan, and they're not going to have the same amount of energy that you do. Dolly. That's why there has to be a balance, And you two are not fit to be Top Dog on your own."

"Why don't you be Top Dog Charlie?" He heard a pup behind him and looked back to see that everyone had surrounded him.

"You seem capable!"
"Yeah capable!" Dizzy and DeeDee chanted as they jumped and down.

"Yeah! Charlie could be our Top Dog!"

"Now wait a minute..."

"Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie, Charlie! Charlie!" The pups all chanted in unison getting Charlie to look back to Dylan and Dolly.

"You think I could be a good Top Dog?"

"I think you'd be a splendid Top Dog." Da-Vinci blurted out, getting Charlie to smile over to her, which of course made her blush as she looked away from her crush.

"I mean the pups have spoken so I don't know why you shouldn't try." Dolly said though it was clear on her and Dylan's face that they wanted to become Top Dogs again but they knew Charlie was right. They're no fit to lead separately and between the two, a division would just start all over again with a new issue down the road.

"Whatever you decide, Charlie, we'll support you."

"All right I guess... I guess I'll be Top Dog." He said with a sigh. The pubs have ever cheered in unison as Charlie turned back to Dylan and Dolly both still having sad expressions on their faces. He could see that they were not happy with the result of the pups choosing Charlie over them, which he pondered before getting an idea, "All right then! As first order as being Top Dog... I am promoting Dylan and Dolly as my second commands." He announced getting both Dylan and Dolly to look over to him with widened eyes.

"Wait what?!"
"Are you serious?!"

"I am definitely serious. They know how to run this house better than I do which is why I'm promoting them. But I want one rule in this house under my watch. You are going to listen to them and they need to work together as a team to get this house moving. If there is any..." He stopped before turning to Dylan and Dolly, giving them a very serious look, "Any hint of a division or separation against the two, then you will all listen to me until they figure out their issues. Do I make myself clear?" He asked Dylan and Dolly mostly who both nodded their heads as their tails wagged excitedly.

"Not to mention when Mum and dad get back to this disaster." Diesel mentions. Dylan and Dolly widen their eyes before running and peeked behind a corner, to which they gasped in horror. The whole house was a wreck not to mention water damage.

"Oh dog! It's going to take forever to clean this house!" Dylan cried out in fear but Charlie kept his smile.

"Don't worry guys, this involves teamwork. Dylan, didn't you say you were going to give these pups... hair- er uh, fur dryers  during your campaign?"

"Yeah, why?" Dylan asked, to which Charlie gave him a smirk. Dolly quickly caught on to what he was thinking and smirked back.

"Cue chaotic clean-up!" She yelled out. And through a montage. All the pups helped out with drying up the house. Dylan and Dawkins had cleverly taped the hair dryers onto helmets to which the pups walked around and began drying the floor, walls, ceiling, and furniture with ease. Soon they all stand in front of each other and began drying themselves off, while Dawkin was performing CPR on a stuffed animal until Charlie jumped on the stuffed animal causing the water spurt out more.

{LATER}
Finally, the house was completely dry and looking completely spotless too.

"Where'd you get all these fur dryers anyway?" Dolly asked. Dylan who huffed with pride, giving Dolly a proud smirk.

"I always fulfill my campaign promises." He said as Charlie entered the room..

"All pups are accounted for and are put to bed." He announced, resulting in Dylan wipe wiping the sweat off his brow.

"Whew. That's relief. You know after all that cleaning they should have knocked themselves out." He jokingly said, to which Charlie laughs.

"Yeah, I know how that feels sometimes."

"So what's next? Fearless leader." Dolly asked. But before Charlie could answer he yawned and stretched out his front paws.

"Bed that's what's next."

"Yeah, I agree. I'm tired." Dylan agreed and yawned too.

"Ha! Not me. I'm not..." Suddenly Dolly yawned tirelessly, "I'm not tired." She said as her eyes started to droop down.

Well I think we all deserve some rest after the day, but hey I'm proud of you two seriously."

"Thanks Charlie, good night."
"Night dude."

"Good night, you two sleep well."  Charlie waved goodbye to the siblings before trotting off upstairs to his bedroom. Upon entering the room, we can see that the room hasn't changed since he's been resurrected into a dog so not as clean as those before or as tidy but it was still his room and the pups rarely go in to ruin or destroy. The only time you ever come in is if they want to sleep with Charlie.

Once Charlie circled in bed, he laid his head down and was just about to go to sleep. When the door opened up again. He opened up one eye to see that it was... Dolly.

"Hey Charlie? You awake?" She asked him while pushing on him.

"I wouldn't be if you didn't wake me up." He said before sitting up, watching her jump up to the bed to his eye level with a sad expression, nah I'm kidding. I was just about to go to sleep. "Wh-what's up?"

"I wanted to ask you this." Dolly said before looking away for a bit. Wondering if this was the best time to ask him, "But I'm starting to think that maybe it's not the best time to ask this."

"I mean you can tell me whatever it is. I don't bite." He said reassuring that whatever she wants to ask she has his full attention. Upon hearing this Dolly side before looking back to him.

"Do you think I'm reckless?" She asked him. Charlie was a bit taken back for this question, why would she be asking if she was reckless?

"That's an interesting question, why do you ask that? Is it because of what happened today?"

"I just I just can't stand rules, I just want to have fun but today... I don't know. Today... I just felt like I took things too far, then there was Boom Night, and any human that Dizzy and Deedee brought in..." Dolly said clearly being overwhelmed. This is definitely not the side that Charlie has seen her in, in which he quickly wrapped her into a hug.

Whoa! Whoa! Hey hey hey, take it easy, Dolly." He said in a very soft tone to which he can hear her begin to sniffle, "I don't think you're reckless." He said getting her to pull away from him and look at him dead in the eyes.

"Y-you don't?"

"Nope, never have and never will. you want to know why?" He asked her, to which she shook her head, "It's because unlike Dylan, you're fun to hang out with. You're never boring if that makes more sense." He said, "I mean who take care of the pups your way which is Way different than any of us. Take care of the puppies and that's okay, it's okay to be different." He said to her. A sudden smile started to grow onto Dolly's face upon hearing his soft words, "Besides, who else am I going to go to for cool games that keeps the pups on their toes?" He added getting Dolly to giggle in response.

"Yeah, I guess I guess you're right."

"Well you know that's just one thing I love about you. You're never boring..." He said before looking away from her, "Also I think you're kind of pretty." He mumbled to himself. However, Dolly caught what he said and her eyes immediately widened.

"Wait what?!"

"Huh, what?" Charlie asked looking around frantically, "Did you say something? Or was that the wind?" He asked trying to play off what he said.

"No what did you say? Did you... Did you say that? I'm pretty?" She asked him. Charlie, now trapped in the corner side in embarrassment.

"Uhhhhh, I did?" He asked outloud trying to push down the tension but he was really bad at this and he wasn't going to back out of this problem. He sighed embarrassingly, "Yeah, I-I'm sorry I just... I-I do think you are very pretty. I just slipped out." He stammered with his words, awaiting Dolly to cringe at him or be angry at him but instead...

"Awwww, that...that is wow. Wow, that, that actually made me feel better actually..." She chuckled nervously before her eyes darted away from him, "That was a lot coming from you." She said the last part as a somewhat small burn started to form in her cheeks, "I mean I mean, I have been following what Dylan has told me and I've been well... b-been grooming myself lately. You know, heh." She said, to which Charlie smirked at her.

"Oh really? Is that before or after you go into a mud bath?"

"Hey! Come on now." She chuckled as did Charlie before the two looked away from one another.

"You know this is nice. Just us too talking."

"Yeah, we should do this more often. I mean i-if you want that is I-I mean... I mean, you know."

"Do you want to sleep here tonight?"

"Yes!" She answered, to which Charlie chuckled before getting up.

"Well come on, hop next to me." He gestured and Dolly immediately pounced next to him, unknowingly to each other They began to nuzzle one another. Like a cute couple but that didn't stop them as they snuggled up with one another.

"Good night, Charlie."

"Night Dolly." Charlie, Charlie said before the two finally fell asleep. Leaving us to look outside of the home before the screen goes black.

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