Oddball's Adventures of Snow Buddies

chapter 13

Meanwhile, back with Patch and the others as Adam followed Shasta into the shed...

"Hey!" Adam chased after Shasta as he had one of his human's book in his mouth.

Shasta dropped the book in the middle of the floor as Adam came through the door to see his puppy.

"What is it, boy?" Adam asked.

Shasta grabbed onto the tarp with his mouth and pulled it down to show his human the sled.

"You know Dad won't let us sled, besides, we don't even have a team." Adam said to his puppy.

Shasta turned over. "Now, guys!" he yipped to his hiding friends.

"You heard him." Patch whispered.

With that, the puppies flooded out to meet the boy, one-by-one.

"Whoa, Buddha?" Adam checked out the first golden puppy. "As in, the Zen Master?"

Rosebud came next, followed by Budderball, B-Dawg, and MudBud. Shasta then summoned for Patch, Colette, and Oddball.

"Hi." Patch smiled.

Adam did a double take. "Did you just talk?... I must be dreaming..."

"Nope, you're not dreaming, Adam." Patch smiled.

"Wow..." Adam replied.

"You can thank Puppy Power." Patch then looked to the others to see they were positioned like how Shasta wanted them to.

"I've been studying for this," Adam grew excited. "We'll need some equipment, we can do this!"

"But where can we get the equipment?" Patch asked.

"I know where we can find some." Adam replied as he stood up.

"Great." Patch smiled.

Adam then went to get the equipment to get the dogs ready for their first ever race.

'This is so exciting.' Oddball thought to herself.

Once Adam came back with the equipment, he had the dogs ready.

"Don't worry about us though, Adam," Patch said since there were more than six of them. "If anything happens, I, Colette, or Oddball will step in to help."

"Why do they call you Oddball?" Adam wondered about Patch's niece's name.

"Well, you see...." Oddball said before starting to tell him her story due to the help of Puppy Power. She went on about how when after she was born, she was born without spots and she was a little stranger between her siblings: Little Dipper and Domino. And where she even tried to use ink from a piece of paper on a copy machine to make it look like she had gotten her spots.

Adam laughed at some parts and was surprised at what he was hearing. "Sounds like you've been through a lot, Oddball."

"Well, not as much as Uncle Patch, but yeah," Oddball smiled. "He taught me that I should be one of a kind like when he was a puppy and met Thunderbolt."

"Cool." Adam smiled. He then frowned.

"What's wrong, Adam?" Colette asked.

"It's too big," Adam said about the attachment around Shasta's body since he was just a puppy. "Guess I should measure you guys first before I make some new ones."

"You sew?" Patch asked, curiously.

"Yeah, I love sewing." Adam admitted proudly.

"Wow, and at such a young age." Patch smiled.