Rocky's POV

I slowly opened my eyes. I stood there still, lying on the soft sand. That until a big wave came and crashed on me, soaking me to the bones.

"Arg! Wet wet wet!" I said and jumped up.

I shook the water off my fur and then I looked around me. I didn't know where was I. My surroundings didn't seem like anything I've seen.

"Wh-Where am I?" I asked myself.

I thought for a moment.

"Wait... Where's Zuma?" I said and frantically looked around for him.

I finally saw a pile of brown fur lying on the sand some meters away from me.

"Zuma!" I yelled.

No response.

I run next to him and nudged him. He didn't move at all. At first I thought of the worst.

'What... What if he is dead?' I thought and panicked.

I pressed my head against his chest, trying to hear a heartbeat. To my relief, I felt the steady, normal heartbeat.

"Thank god..." I whispered and sighed in relief.

"Zuma... Zuma, you have to get up." I said and nudged him.

"Five mowe minutes..." he said.

"Zuma..." I said in a demanding tone.

"Ugh, fine..." he mumbled and got up.

He looked around us confused.

"Whewe the hell awe we?" he asked.

"I got no idea." I said to him and then noticed a huge scratch on his side that was dripping some blood.

"Zuma, you're bleading!" I said.

"What?!?" he said and looked at his side.

"Let me help you with it..." I said to him.

I walked over to him and I licked his wound clean. He winced a bit at first, but he didn't make any other sudden reactions.

"Thanks Wocky." he said to me when I was done.

"No problem. Anyways, do you see if our pup packs landed on the shore with us? They could be really helpful right now." I said to him.

"Hmm... Check the beach ovew thewe I'll check ovew hewe." he said to me.

I went to the place he told me to search and I started. I tried using my nose, but then I realised that I couldn't possibly catch their scent since it must have been washed away by the ocean.

"Object completed." I heard a female, robotic-like voice say.

"Hello! Is Anyone there? If yes, me and my friend could really use some help!" I said loudly and waited for an answer.

Nothing. Really nothing, not even the wink could be heard. Dead silence. I shivered a bit.

"I-I guess I'm hearing things..." I mumbled to myself and turned back to searching.

But I am sure I heard that voice. And I WILL find out what it was.

?'s POV

"Object completed." was heard from the clone.

Oh god, I forgot to silence her...

"Hello! Is anyone there? If yes, me and my friend could really use some help right now!" I heard the grey pup yell.

I stood there in silence,making sure that nothing could be heard.

"I-I guess I'm hearing things..." the grey pup finally said and left.

"Phew... That was close..."" I whispered to myself.

Then I turned to the clone.

"Sound levels at 30 per cent." I commanded.

"Voice command accepted." she said in a much lower voice.

"Show results." I commanded again.

"Voice command accepted. Results for which one?" she asked.

"The grey pup." I said.

"Results... Name: Rocky. Breed: 28% German Shepherd, 22% Husky, 50% Grey Wolf, but doesn't seem to have the wolf's insticts. Age: 6. Eco/Repair pup on Adventure Bay's Paw Patrol..."

"Analyse... Paw Patrol." I interrupted her.

"Voice command accepted." she said and explained me what Paw Patrol is.

"Wow... Okay, now show results for the brown pup." I commanded again.

"Voice command accepted. Name: Zuma. Breed: Chocolate Labrador, originally trained for hunting. Age: 5. Water Rescue pup of Adventure Bay's Paw Patrol..." she said.

"Any other interesting details?" I asked.

"Rocky has aquaphobia. Zuma has a lisp and can't pronounce r's, sometimes l's too. Also, there is a feeling I tracked on Rocky for Zuma. A feeling you humans call love." she said.

"Uh-huh... That's interesting..." I said.

"Agent Collin?" the clone agent said to me.

"Yes?" I replied.

"Can you... explain me what love is exactly? I don't have enough info about it in my database..." she asked.

"Why do you want to learn that?" I asked her.

"Just curious... And I want to learn what it is." she said.

"Curious? That's really... human..." I said her confused.

You see, clones have the shape of men and women, but with 5 times the power of a normal person. Also, their brain is as developed as a new born baby's brain. Instead, thay have a... 'mini computer' inside their heads. They don't have emotions, and they don't really have anything... human on them. Only the body SHAPE. Just male clones are twice the size of a man and females have... an unhuman beauty. They are really pretty, but no one would ever dare to come close to them. That beauty causes... horror. Yeah... That is what clones are. That is why the words 'curious' and 'want' took me by surprise.

"Clones like me are build in order to adapt to be like humans. Have emotions and show them with our facial expressions, live like humans, talk like humans... And understand the feeling called... love." she said.

Oh. I didn't know that.

"Okay... Well, Heleni, love is... complicated. I realy, don't know how to explain it to you, or to anyone. We, humans, can nearly understand it. But I can tell you that love is a feeling, that if you share it with someone, it makes you feel... like you will never need anything else." I said to her.

"Oh... I guess then that love... is a rather strange encounter." she answered.

"Yes it is... Anyways, let's get back to our base." I said and started walking.

"Yeah, if we are late the boss will shout us fire." the clone said.

"Er... Was that humor?" I asked.

"Yes... Was it good?" she asked.

"Em... It was... an okay attempt..." I said to her.

With that we started walking back to the base, to report the results we found. But in my head I was asking of one thing.

Why did she want to learn what love is so much?

Whoever knows Alex Scarrow's series called "Time Riders" will know what the clones are. Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter! If you did, please press the little star in the corner! It shows me your support to the story. Anyways, that's it for now, later guys!