Space pups

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  This is dedicated to a good friend of mine 😊

      From dusk till dawn, tears from hefty clouds fell in Adventure Bay. By morning, the rain ceased. Rocky awoke, frolicsome, he saw the waterlogged
vicinity outside and gagged, "Yuck!"
He walked over to the water dispenser, he used his paw to operate it and stream water into his water bowl, he lapped the liquid of life speedily.

     The grey mongrel looked at the digital clock in the lookout main area. He went back and lay on top of the floor to take a snooze. Chase rose up, he looked at Skye and smiled. He carefully maneuvered his way out of the sleeping bag so as to not wake her up. Once he got out, he stretched out to loosen himself up after being compressed cozily for a long time.

      Skye squirmed like a worm in the sleeping sack, snuggling the air thinking it was you know who. She woke up and saw Chase standing at the lookout's automatic doors, she walked to where he was. "Good morning, Chase," she greeted, bright as always. He greeted her back, he went to dress up and proceeded to wake up the other pups with his megaphone.

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      "I will cram it down your throat," Muttered Corinne in a dangerously quiet tone, not-so-jokingly. Her stepsister, Loretta insisted that she opened the gift she got her and Corinne gave her a response that made it clear that their past history had not been cleared up yet. She wasn't usually hostile towards others but some individuals like Loretta were exceptions.

       "I've turned over a new leaf," Loretta explained. "Can you try to get to know the new me, please?" Corinne remained silent. She took the medium-sized tawny box that was tied up with a golden coloured bow from her sister and opened it. Inside it was a bracelet embellished with trinkets of all sorts. "I made it myself," Loretta stated, beaming. "I made it to fit your aesthetic, you like it?"

       Corinne nodded and murmured a thank you. "My owner is waiting for me," Loretta said. "I have to go now, bye, see you later." Corinne waved her paw bidding a farewell to her, a deadpan look glued on her face.

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    Your ship is disabled, " Mr. Xander revealed. "It's not going anywhere too soon. "You disabled it, didn't you?" Chad remarked. "I'm not saying anything I don't know," A response came. He walked out of the cave, Dylan and Chad are forced to follow him because they didn't want to get lost.
They walk back to Nova Doma.

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       It was Saturday so there was no space training. The pups and Ryder were  at Jake's cabin /snowboarding and ski resort.  They played puzzles, board games and pup pup boogie. No, seriously, where can I get that game? It looks fun. Do the pup pup boogie, shimmie- anyways back to the story.
    Everest, Marshall and Rubble were outside.  "Are you strapped up, Marshall?" Everest asked. He had requested for her to teach him how to snowboard. "Yeah," Marshall said. " Wait, what did you say about snowboarding again?"

     "It's hard to learn but easy to master," Everest looked at him. "So don't worry if you don't get it immediately, it takes practice." 
"Woo-hoo!" Rubble exclaimed as he snowboarded over a small hill, flew over Marshall and Everest below and then came in for flawless landing.

"Well, let's get started," Everest told the spotted pup.

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Commander Roger's POV

     Chad and Dylan's families have been really worried. I don't blame them but we're doing our best to locate them. We've sent spacecrafts to search for a them and soon the paw patrol are going into space to continue the search. I hear my phone ringing. I answer it, "Not now Joe, I'm-" "Sir, the search spacecraft got something," Joe tells me. "We found where the  missing astronauts' spaceship  is, partly." Out of nowhere, I feel a rush in my body that I feel once in a blue moon. I don't know what the rush was but it felt like a sudden surge of energy.

"What!" I scream. "Give me all the details."

"I don't know much right now, sir," Joe notifies me. "But the odd thing is that the astronauts aren't in their spaceship!"

How? What? I have a lot of questions. This is getting really scary.

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Narrator's POV

"What do you want from us?" Dylan asked, raising his voice.

"Nothing." A simple reply was said by Commander Xander.

"Then why are you doing all of this?" Quizzed Chad.

"You will know later," Mr. Xander said, circumventing the astronauts' questions.

     He yawned. A lot of time had passed; it was equivalent to a day on earth to be exact.
Commander Xander brought two bowls of cooked myrtle. "Here, eat," he said to Chad and Dylan. "No, thank you," Chad refused. "We have food in our spaceship."
"You're spaceship is locked," Mr. Xander told him. 
Dylan's stomach growled. He took the bowl from Commander Xander and said," Sorry, Chad, but a hungry man is .... whatever the saying says." "Well," Chad uttered. "I'm not eating."

    "Suit yourself," Commander Xander said, he went into a chamber with metal automatic doors.

"What is this place?"
"How did it come to be?"
"How come Commander Benjamin is the only one  on Nova Doma?
"Why is it even called that?"
"What was that beam that brought us here?"
"How did he get into this place?"
Chad asked no one in particular.

     Dylan just nodded his head while ravaging the myrtle leaves ravenously, pretending to be listening to what his co-pilot was saying. 

"Dylan, are you even listening?"

"I just want to go home."

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"You're getting it, Marshall," Everest celebrated. "Let's take a break."

"Yeah," Marshall agreed.

 They went back into the cabin and joined the others who were listening to a mountain folktale that Jake was telling them.

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Seashells on beaches, raindrops on glass
Aesthetically calming
Fantasy, fallacy
Poetic ardency...

"This makes no sense," Corrine said to herself. She was typing a poem on a computer. She deleted the document and started again.

What would we do without a friend?
To help us go through every curve 
And bend of life until the end

"Sounds right," she said. "And now my brain has lost all creativity, writer's block?" She saved the document and left to respond to someone who  called her. It can get pretty busy at a space station.

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   Back at the lookout...

     Chase went over to Marshall's pup house. "Next week is the town's annual spring formal dance!" He panicked walking in circles. "Why are you so worried?" Marshall probed, he too was anxious  but didn't show it. "I don't know if I'll find the perfect thing to wear," Chase lied. "I'm not going." "You're worried that you won't find the perfect outfit and you don't want to go because of that," Marshall stared at his best friend.

   "If you're going to lie, Chase," he said. "At least do it properly." "I'm not l-lying," The shepherd defended himself. Marshall just deadpanned him.

  Chase hung his head and rubbed his paw. "You're right, I fibbed, but you see I have an actual reason for being worried about the dance."