Humdinger sat at his desk drumming his fingers on the desk. An attorney walked into his office.

"Well" said Humdinger "Has that little brat talked to the police?"
"No sir" said the attorney "But there's no way they're going to let him out."
"If he talks it will cause problems" said Humdinger "Make sure he doesn't flap his lips to try and get a lighter sentence. I told him to keep a low profile and not get caught."
"Yes Sir" said the attorney leaving the office.

Humdinger stood and turned to the window overlooking Foggy Bottom.
"I don't know how" said Humdinger to himself "But somehow the Paw Patrol is behind him getting caught. As soon as they get back, I'll find a way to break that bunch up. This is my town and I'll take it back."

***
The pups had returned from rescuing Chickaletta and were ready for dinner. Ryder quickly went to the kitchen and poured each of the pups their dinner.
"Ah! I was hoping for something special our first night back" said Marshall
"Well I didn't have time because of the call" said Ryder "But I did get us all dessert"
"Yeah!" shouted all the pups
The finished their dinner and dessert and decided to watch some TV before going to bed. The pups walked into the lounge and sat on various pup pads. Chase plopped himself down and immediately a strange smell hit him.
'It probably just that we've been going so long the pup pads got dusty.' thought Chase
The pups tired out quickly and decide to go to bed early.

The next morning Chase was up early as usual. 'Time to get us back to our routine, but first my patrol' thought Chase 'I've missed this place.' Chase was walking past all the pup houses when he came to Rocky's pad. Chase paused and took a deep breath before walking on, but stopped dead in his tracks 'There's that weird smell again.' Chase was about to turn around when he heard a loud yelp coming from Zuma's pup house. Chase dashed to Zuma's door and began knocking, Chase put his head to the door and heard Zuma yelping and crying out. Chase stepped back and kicked the door open. Zuma shot out of bed and fell on the floor.
"Stop or I'll..." yelled Chase
"Chase what the..." yelled Zuma
"I heard you yelping" said Chase "I thought something was wrong"
"It's nothing" said Zuma "I'm fine, but my doow isn't."
Chase looked at the broken door and laughed for a second 'At least that door breaching thing worked' "I'm sorry Zuma, I really thought something was after you. I'll fix your door."
"Not as good as Wocky could have" Zuma immediately began crying.
Chase ran to him and held him for a long time letting him cry it out.
"Zuma, I know Rocky was your closest friend" said Chase "And if the tables were turned and it was Marshall that was gone, I'm sure I'd feel the same way. But we're all here for you. No one and nothing will ever come between us and you can come to me anytime."
Chase looked at a pill bottle laying on the ground. "Um, Zuma" said Chase "What's this?"
"They'we just sleeping pills" said Zuma "I got them because I can't sleep without dweaming about Wocky."
"That's all" said Chase raising an eyebrow "You weren't considering anything else were you?"
Zuma broke down cry again "I didn't do it ok! I wanted to, I wanted to be with Wocky so bad."
"Zuma" said Chase "No matter what, that's not the answer."
"I said I didn't do it," whimpered Zuma. "But I hate this. Wocky was just defending hew. That bastawd took him because his son was monstew. It's not faiw, I hate him. He took my best fweind and now I can't even think cleawly."
"Zuma Buddy" said Chase sympathetically as he could "I know I'll never replace Rocky. I wouldn't even try. But if you need anything, even someone to talk to no matter what time of day or night it is, you come get me."
Zuma smiled and lifted his head "Thanks Chase, youw the best. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have you guys."
"Are you OK now?" said Chase
"Yes, I'll clean up and see you at bweakfast" said Zuma "Aftew will you help me fix my doow?"
"Sure Buddy" said Chase "Zuma, I love you like a brother. I'll never leave you."

Chase walked out the now busted door.
'That's what Wocky said too' thought Zuma

Chase had forgotten about the smell. He was debating with himself about whether on not he should talk to Ryder about Zuma. He broke his thoughts and began waking the other pups for breakfast.

At breakfast Ryder noticed Chase was distracted.
"Chase is something up?" asked Ryder
Zuma looked at Chase
"No" said Chase looking back at Zuma "I was uh, thinking about the painting case. It just seems weird that someone would steal the paintings and then hide them in the City Hall."
"Ok pup" said Ryder, Zuma went back to eating.
"You right" said Ryder "Why don't you call you friend at the FBI and see if they heard anything else yet."

After breakfast Chase went down to help Zuma with his door.
"I thought you were going to tell Wyder" said Zuma
"No" said Chase "It's between us, for now. As long as you come to me if you feel like hurting yourself and let me help. It will stay that way."
"Thanks Chase" said Zuma "Hey, you did a good job on my doow. Thanks again. Let's go play tag."
"I gotta go make a call" said Chase "I'll be back in a little bit."
"Ok, I'll go find the guys and see if they want to play" said Zuma "See you in a bit."

Chase went into the lookout to call his friend at the FBI.
His friend came up on the screen "Hey Chase" said his friend "Let me guess you're calling about the stolen paintings."
"Yeah" said Chase "It's good to see you Thomas. How'd you know?"
"Well the good news is we have a lead on who's selling them" said Thomas "I'm heading down to Foggy Bottom with a team to make the buy this weekend."
"What do you mean" said Chase "We recovered the paintings yesterday and they've been sent on to the next city."
"Wait what?" said Thomas "We've been working this case for weeks now. The seller assured me that the paintings were ready for sale."
Chase explained what Major Goodway had told them and how the note lead them to the paintings.
"Do you think the paintings the mayor had were fake?" asked Chase
"I don't know" said Thomas "Hang out for a bit and I'll call you right back."

A few minutes later Thomas called back.
"Chase" said Thomas "We checked with the Museum and they had someone check the paintings for damage already. They're the real paintings but they weren't in their original frames. Maybe someone else switched the paintings but why and what does the seller have?"
"I don't know" said Chase "Did you say you were coming to Foggy Bottom, can I help."
Thomas smiled "I was going to swing by and see if you could"
"I'll talk to Ryder and see if it's ok" said Chase "I'll do anything to bust anyone from Foggy Bottom. Do you know who the Seller is?"
"Not yet" said Thomas "We've only talked to them on the phone. The meeting is Friday night near the docks."
"I look forward to seeing you again Thomas" said Chase
"I'll see you Wednesday" said Thomas

Chase hung up and went to find Ryder. He was in the bay working on his ATV when Chase found him.
"Ryder" said Chase "Can I talk to you?"
"Sure Pup" said Ryder putting down his tools and sitting up "Is this about what was bothering you earlier?"
"Uh, yeah yeah it is" said Chase "I talked to Thomas and he told me about a case they're working."
Chase went on to explain what Thomas had told him. Then he asked if he could go with the team and help out.
"You know how much I hate that Town for what they did to Rocky" said Ryder "If you promise to be safe then I guess I have to let you go. If the FBI calls I have to let you go that was the deal."
"I promise" said Chase "I'm going to go play with the other pups."

Chase ran out and played the rest of the afternoon with the other pups. Chase was too busy thinking about the upcoming mission to remember the strange smell from earlier.

Wednesday came around and Thomas arrived. Chase introduced Thomas to Ryder and the Pups. They sat and talked about Chase in the academy and Thomas told stories of how hard Chase would push himself to prove how good he was.
"Yeah" laughed Skye "He does that everywhere."
Chase just stuck his tongue out at her. Skye laughed and did a backflip.
Thomas turned to Ryder and asked "Is it ok for Chase to come to the um, training Friday evening?"
"Sure" said Ryder catching on to the comment "Y'all just be safe."

"Well Chase" said Thomas "I need to go set up the training. I'll pick you up Friday morning."
"Ok" said Chase "See you"
"Bring the black uniform" said Thomas
"Got ya" said Chase

"What was that about?" asked Marshall
"We uh, wear our black uniform for tactical work" said Chase "The uniform has pockets all over so we can carry things. It's part of the training class."
"That's so cool" said Marshall "Can you tell me about the training or would you have to kill me"
"I don't know about it yet" laughed Chase "I'll try to tell you about it later."
"Promise" said Marshall wagging his tail
"I promise" said Chase

Marshall, Chase and Zuma were outside playing tug toy on the lawn as Ryder called them for dinner. Little did they know they were being watched from the shadows.

"Abort!" said a shadowy voice "I say Abort! Paw Patrol is back in the Lookout, repeat Paw Patrol is back in the Lookout. I'll meet you back at base." 'Soon brothers, soon' thought the Shadow as it drove away.