Paw Patrol: Separate Ways

(S-2B) Chapter 17 "Awareness"

Pages were heard flipping in the nearly quiet safe house, the board that pieced the investigation altogether still stayed the same, relatively, and Ryder, waiting to hear back from his pups, decided to take on the large stack of books talking about the city that he and the others were currently investigating.

As he kept on reading, he heard footsteps approach him. He turned his head and saw Ramirez leaning on the doorframe, sipping his cup of coffee. "From the looks of it, I take it you didn't get to read much about Boroughton's history?" The agent asked as he set his cup down.

"Not really, but I'm reaching the modern day, somewhat." Ryder answered as he kept reading. "Crime rates skyrocket between dogs and cats of Boroughton. It boggles my mind knowing how...influential these animals can be."

"Don't forget dangerous." Ramirez added as he set down his coffee cup on the nearby table.

"Yeah...that too." Ryder kept his mind pondering on the various things he read about the city. "It's been quiet, you think they made contact with one of the crews out there?" Ryder asked as he set one of the old newspapers down.

"Possibly, Decker decided to go radio silent for a while, he and the pups should fill us in soon. Our insider, however, hasn't been saying anything, if we don't hear back from them soon, then we're going to have to assume the worst." Ramirez answered as Ryder sighed, worrying for his pups as he asked another question towards the agent.

"How long do you think this will take, really?"

Ramirez gave it some time before answering the boy's question, he wasn't sure about the longevity of the case but gave an estimate regardless.

"All depends if we even find Chase and nothing happens to Decker and the rest, all goes well, I'm thinking about a week or two." Ramirez answered as he grabbed his coffee cup, finishing it as he gave the kid a reassuring nod. "Don't worry, Decker knows what he's doing, your pups are in safe paws."

The agent soon left the room, leaving the boy back to learning more about Boroughton, hoping to find something that can help, even in the slightest. After some more digging, he spotted a book titled 'Boroughton's Industrial Age'. Upon opening it up, he was hit with old photographs and summaries describing the many factories that were around the city. The boy kept reading on in his head.

"When Boroughton was sighted as a civilized city after years of it being built from the ground up, many people flocked to it, as well as multiple pets and strays. We knew a high majority of them could talk and handle their own kind of tasks, one way or another. After some time, they helped us out with many things..." Ryder trailed off in his head as his eyes peered off to a small scaled blueprint of one of the factories with text beside it. "Many of these factories had underground access for drainage tunnels due to massive floods that occurred to the city year after year." Something lit up in Ryder's head, he grabbed the book and went to find Rich and Ramirez.

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Water was gently poured onto the plants in the greenhouse that Mika inhabited some time ago, as it was a way to calm the nature loving pup down, that near-death incident with Mavis was still affecting her, as it would to anyone else. As time passed while everyone was freshening up, the only thing she wanted to do for the time was tend to her small garden that was slowly showing signs of revitalization.

"Hey, you holding up alright?" The Mountain Dog jolted, dropping her water can from her mouth as she turned to face the dog who checked up on her. "Sorry for startling you."

Mika steadied her breath as she assured the Australian Shepherd that it was alright. "It'th fine...I'm fine." A little smile was seen on the Mountain dog's face as she picked up her water can again, tending to her plants as Delta grabbed one nearby to help her out.