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Chapter 4: Rain, Rain, but the paper didn't go away?
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Dog Man went to the park first thing after eating breakfast. While entering the park there was a huge crowd and a police tape line and other officers stopping people from getting close to the paper castle.
"After it rained all night, how is this still up?" Chief yelling out in anger.
Dog Man ran over the the Chief barking excitedly.
"Now is not the time for the jumping all over me thing! Why didn't it disintegrated? It should have fallen apart!"
Dog Man sniffed the air, yuck, yuck, gross.
Dog Man coughed and gagged a little.
He signed out, 'It smells like plastic and chemicals.'
"Plastic and Chemicals? I get the chemicals because some paper gets bleached. But why plastic?"
Patty yelled out from the crowd,
"That's because weather proof paper has a coating of plastic that stops it from going bad when wet! I only get the best stuff at my store!"
"Thanks Patty!" Chief yelled out to her giving her a thumbs up.
"So, they thought of everything. Alligators in the moat and drawn up drawbridge."
Chief and Dog Man look at each other,
"The perp is insane!"
'They're inside!'
"Yeah, insane to live inside a paper castle."
Dog Man side eyes the Chief.
Chief scratched his head, "How are we going to get in there?"
They didn't have to dwell on that question long.
"Dog Man! I brought 80-HD with me to check out the castle!" Lil' Petey exclaimed as he and the robot made it over.
' Where's Petey? '
"Papa should be here soon, he said something about paper needing to be shredded? I don't know. " Lil' Petey shrugging his shoulders as he says this.
"You know Papa."
Dog Man nodded sagely.
Chief chuckled,"Well, nails aren't going to cut it for this job! Unless he's bringing a industrial sized paper shredder. Please tell me he's bringing a really big paper shredder."
"I'll do you one better!" Petey shouted as the crowd moved outta the away for him and a really, really big box.
"The Supa Paper Shredder 2000! Hopefully, this can help."
Chief does a little fist pump before realizing something is missing. Shoot.
"Wait where's Sarah? Shouldn't she be reporting this?"
' She's out on vacation with Yolay remember.' Dog Man answers quickly.
*Cuts to a scene with Sarah, ZuZu and Yolay out in some place not near by*
"What? We needed a little vacay. Have fun with that paper castle! I'll be enjoying my lemon raspberry tea!"
"Sorry! I forgot, keep having a good time out there!" Chief exclaimed.
Sarah, ZuZu, and Yolay nodded and waved good bye.
"How embarrassing, how could I forget they were on vacation!"
Chief gets back to the situation at hand. He claps his hands together, "Alright! Now we just need to figure out how to get in without drawing any attention to ourselves."
At that moment 80-HD scoops up, Dog Man, Lil' Petey, Petey and Chief. His arms extended over the castle walls. Setting them down gently.
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Chapter 5: Paper Playground
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"Let see that they have hiding around here!"
"WOW! This is so cool!" Lil' Petey exclaimed.
Nothing could prepare them for this.
Inside the castles court yard was a cute paper flower garden with all types of paper animals and bugs.
Petey muttered, "Why would someone go through the effort into doing all this?"
Suddenly all the paper animals and bugs started unfolding themselves and turning into walls and surrounding them, before they knew it, they were surrounded!
"Hey! What the flip?" Petey shouted as he was pushed by one of the paper walls.
Dog Man started licking all the paper around them, some got gross other tasted terrible. 80-HD was picking up and balling up as much paper as he could.
"Look an opening!" Lil' Petey shouted.
Everyone pushed and focused all their efforts into tearing, shredding, spiting and crushing as much paper as possible until freedom!
"My hands are covered in so many paper cuts!" Chief grumbled loudly, he turns to Petey, "Alrighty, let's see how that paper shredder works!"
Petey looked a little embarrassed, "We left it outside, it was too heavy for 80-HD to bring it in."
"How in the world are we going to get it in here now!"
80-HD pointed at the draw bridge. Right next to it was a big lever that was clearly labeled, flipped on the closed option.
"Why don't you stretch your arm out and open the lever then?" Chief asked.
Lil' Petey explained, "Because that would be too narratively convenient!"
"Oh, I forgot about the need for comprehensive narrative structure." Chief said sarcastically.
The rest of the group started talking amongst themselves about what would be the next thing to do. Chief rubs his hand across his face, unbelievable. He shouted loudly,
"I don't care about the narrative structure! Go open that draw bridge now!"
80-HD made an attempt to reach his arms out to the lever but conveniently for the narrative structure, the Chief's yelling brought back the attention of the paper creations once again, cornering them once again but seemingly out of nowhere then they scattered away.
"Well, well, well. Look who it is!"
A shadowy figure spoke from one of the tall castle tower pillars.
Everyone looked up. No, it couldn't be...
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Chapter 6: Paper Got Back
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"Ha! Ha! Ha! So you thought you've seen the last of me!" As the voice spoke stepping out of the shadows.
"Flat Petey!" Chief gasped with suspense. Dog Man howled, Lil' Petey, 80-HD and Petey looked a little confused, but went with it anyways.
The paper cat yelled out. "What? Oh, yeah. No, my name is Paper Pete now!"
Everyone nodded, then yelled out in surprise.
"Paper Pete!"
"Yes! It is I! You're old arch nemesis! Thought you could get away with slobbering all over me and have me get chased by a pair of magical scissors! Well, YOU THOUGHT WRONG! After figuring out that body transfer spell-"
While Paper Pete was busy monologuing the group whispered amongst themselves.
"So what do we do now?" Lil' Petey asked.
They all looked at each other all Petey states "He seems full of himself. Maybe we can use that."
Dog Man nodded and signed,
'Maybe while he's talking we slowly move to the lever and let down the bridge and get the paper shredder.'
"Then we arrest him! But, what jail would he even go to?" Chief spoke out a little too loudly.
"Hey! What are you all talking about?" Paper Pete getting very frustrated with the situation in front of him, how dare they ignore me!
"We were talking about how cool your new name is!" Lil' Petey stated. "Also, I don't think we met. I'm Lil' Petey!"
"Thank you! After all, I'm not Petey, just made in his likeness and I'm made of paper so I'm naturally flat, it became a little redundant to just be called Flat Petey."
Paper Pete studies the kid from his location, he does look like a baby, so they certainly haven't met before. "I see, then for you Lil Petey, since you are so kind! Let me explain what happened! It all started when I first gained consciousness after being sprayed with living spray since they thought Petey the Cat was flatten to death,"
While he was explaining his backstory everyone looked at each other and slowly made their way to the draw bridge. They were almost there when Paper Pete noticed.
"Where do you all think your going?"
"We weren't doing anything." Petey yelled out.
"Then how come you guys are all the way over there now!"
"We were just stretching! Our bodies hurt if we stand in one place for a long time!" Chief stammered out. "You know, the pain of not being made of paper, such as yourself."
"Okay, but just to make sure you guys aren't up to any funny business. I'm coming down there."
Paper Pete threw himself off the top of the tower and gently floated next to them.
"Okay, where was I?"
"You took the loot and started driving away!" Lil' Petey replied quickly while he knew they were busy trying to escape, but he was interested in the paper man's story. He felt someone tap him, he turned and saw it was his papa. Petey mouthed to his son.
' Distract him. '
Lil' Petey nodded his head and continued,
"So, why take the loot?"
"Because I thought it would make me rich."
"Why?"
Once they all notice Paper Pete had his full attention on Lil' Petey. They all started moving closer to the door again.
"Hey! You all keep getting closer to the gate!"
Lil' Petey moved in front of the paper cat and asked,
"What happened after you crushed the car?"
"Oh, yeah. As I was saying, HEY! Grrr, Don't distract me! GO GET THEM!"
Nothing happened, Paper Pete rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. "Ugh, Please."
Suddenly a swarm of paper origami cranes started circling the group.
Chief asked in an annoyed tone, "Please tell me you can you use your robot arms now?"
80-HD nodded and arms stretched out and were able to grab the lever, he pulled it up to the open setting, but nothing happened.
"Ha! HA! HA! YOU FELL FOR MY DECOY LEVER! You guys are so gullible!"
80-HD then moved his arms farther to the right to push against the bridge itself.
"Wait, no stop that!"
80-HD pushed harder and the bridge fell down. No matter what, metal is stronger than paper. The rest of the police department wheeled in the Supa Paper Shredder 2000. While Paper Pete distracted by all the commotion, Dog Man cuffs him.
"No! No!"
"Ha! Any last words Paper Pete!" Chief yelled excitedly.
"This isn't fair! First you use my body as a snow board and scratch me all up, now you want to throw me in a paper shredder!" Paper Pete started crying.
"What! No man, you're just arrested! Anyways you tried having us freeze to death at the top of that mountain first! How else were we supposed to get down?" Chief explained trying to calm down the paper cat, this does look pretty bad. He clears his throat,
"Besides, we are using the paper shredder to get rid of this castle you made."
Patty bursts through the crowd,
"WAIT! Since most of this is my store materials, could we move this to my store? It would be a shame to get rid of all this. Look how elegantly folded all the birds! It would be a waste of good craftsmanship." Patty pleaded.
"I think I have a good idea."
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Chapter 7: Let's Wrap This Up!
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A girl jumped excitedly, "Can you make me a puppy?"
"Yeah, whatever." Paper Pete scoffed.
"Pete." Patty glared at the paper cat.
Paper Pete glared back and put on a forced smile and positive tone, "I would love to. What kind of puppy do you want?"
"A cute one!" The girl replied quickly unable to contain her excitement.
Pete rolled his eyes as he folded the paper in front of him into a puppy and sprayed it with Living Spray, New Enhanced Formula.
The paper puppy came to life. Paper Pete pointed to the girl. The dog ran to her and started wagging it's tail and jumping all over her.
"Yay! I'm going to name you Poppy!" The girl holding the dog as it barked excitedly and started licking her face.
The girls mother smiled at the sight, "Thank you for doing this, once we found out my daughter was allergic to all types of pets we were sad that she wasn't going to get that puppy she worked hard in school for, but once I heard about the Paper Pal's Program. I knew I just had to take her here."
Patty was beaming with joy, "Of course! We figured this would be a great alternative to people unable to have traditional pets! Now here's the instructions and care package for your new paper friend!"
Ha, take that mom!
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Nurse Lady smiled, "It was really nice of you to make that rehabilitation program for Paper Pete."
"Yeah, figured since Petey could change, why not give the paper copy a chance." Chief replied quickly and took another bite of food.
Nurse Lady and Chief continued chatting about their day over dinner. Meanwhile elsewhere.
"Do you know if we have anymore chicken legs?"
' We finished them two nights ago. It's on the grocery list. '
"Man, the kid is going to be thrilled to have pizza tonight."
' We can cook something else. '
Petey sighed, "Honestly, I don't want to cook anything at all. Let's just get pizza. You good with extra anchovies?"
Dog Man nodded and gave Petey a thumbs up.
"Good, I'll call it in." Petey replied as he walked back to the kitchen. Dog Man made his way to the living room and sat on the couch.
Lil' Petey ran over to him, "Dog Man! Check out my new comic"
Dog Man pulled Lil' Petey onto the couch next to him as Lil' Petey settles in and started reading the comic aloud.
Dog Man smiled to himself while listening to Lil' Petey, the story surprisingly mirroring their adventure earlier in the day.
Halfway through the comic, Dog Man felt his eyes getting heavy, he yawned and stretched. Soon he was snoring.
Lil' Petey gigged and kissed Dog Man on his forehead.
"Good night, Dog Man."