That night, all the pups were enthusiastically rushing to the meal table for dinner... except for Dawkins, who was still working on the safe for the Skelefile (which was carefully placed right on the same desk where he was working). DJ, who was passing by his genius brother's room, turned to go in and ask, "Dawkins, didn't you hear Mom and Dylan? Dinner's rea-"

  The musical pup was quickly cut off mid-sentence by his shock at what he saw lying on Dawkins' work desk. The freckled inventor turned his head over to his headphones-wearing brother. "Huh?"

  "What the Dog is that murder tool doing here!?!"

  Perplexed and somewhat startled by his brother's sudden exclamation, Dawkins turned over to the weapon in question. "You mean the Skelefile?"

  "Of course I mean the-" DJ began bursting out, "wait, is that really what you're calling it?" 

  "Well, it was Pearl's words, not mine," Dawkins pointed out, "you just heard it from the horse's mouth."

  "Wait, Pearl?" DJ was now confused, so his freckled brother explained, "Yes. She gave me the Skelefile for safe keeping."

  "She entrusted you with the weapon that belongs to a murderer who tried to cut us into pieces?!?!" DJ exclaimed in a combination of shock, anger, and confusion, "Why not just keep it in a safe?!?"

  "Actually," Dawkins began answering, "I happen to be the process of creating a small, high-tech safe specifically designed for containing the Skelefile."

  "Oh," DJ was now relieved, but only somewhat, "well, this still isn't good. I mean, do you have any idea how Dylan's gonna react when he finds out that his own sidekick is harboring a murderer's weapon right in this house!?"

  "You mean if he finds out," Dawkins retorted, prompting DJ to argue back, "Dude, we can't just try to hide this from Dylan! He'll just find out later at the worst time and in the worst way!"

  "I suppose you're right," Dawkins sighed in agreement, "but we should probably save it for after dinner."

  "Agreed," DJ responded, immediately followed by a growl from his stomach. "Speaking of dinner..."