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"Oh Bolt!" "You saved me again!"

Penny was cuddling Bolt after his big infiltration in Calico's latest base atop a mountain in Rio de Janero. Bolt barked happily at the sight of his human accomplice. Penny was held prisoner by Calico's special army, waiting for Calico's arrival there with Penny's dad also prisoner beside him as he still was trying to get special information out of the professor's mind by persuading him to speak! So, they found Penny and tied her up so that they could torture her until the professor spoke. But Calico's plan had already failed as his torture subject was running away with Bolt by her side. Calico arrives shortly and screams…

"YOU FOOLS! GET THEM!"
"Right away, sir!" replies one of the soldiers.

As that got them to pursue the two companions, helicopters started flying out the sides of the base, motorcycles exited as well, a lot of them! As they continued their pursuit through the streets of Rio, Penny decided to use Bolt's speed capability to try to lose them.

"Bolt, zoom- zoom!" she commanded.

Bolt's speed started to affect the pursuit, as they started edging away from Calico's men. Until, they finally got out of visual range from the enemy. They quietly made their way to a dark alley within Rio where they believed would be safe from Calico, for that episode.

"Woo hoo! One for the album!" exclaims Penny as she snaps a picture of her and Bolt in Rio. "That's a keeper!"
After that, they walked into their caravan while everyone else outside cleaned up the Rio set. Penny mounts another photo onto the wall she keeps all her adventure photos on. Bolt pranced up to her and she stroked him for a while. One last cuddle with Bolt and then Penny walks out the caravan to join the Bolt TV Show production team, along with her mum. They were all watching the Rio episode they just filmed.

"Great work, guys!" called out the director. "Hey look, our big star is here!" as he points to Penny, who is just walking into the room. Everyone starts walking towards her and congratulating her on another great episode.

"Good job, sweetie!" says Penny's mum.
Just then, Mindy Parker from the network came into the room with another man who looked like some sort of doctor.

"Penny, come with me please" she requested.

Penny looks up at her mum anxiously.
"It'll be ok, baby" Penny's mum replied. And with that, Penny came to Mindy and followed her and the doctor to some sort of room.

"I didn't know this place had a sick bay" chuckled Penny.

"Indeed, honey" grinned Mindy. The door shuts behind them as they approach a bed in middle of the room. Penny slumps down in it, and then asks.

"What's going on?"

Mindy replies, "Well, one of our audience members requested something new for our series"

"What is it?"

"The member requested another Bolt"

"You mean, like a girlfriend for him?" she asks, getting excited.

"We'll yes"

"Oh, Bolt will be so happy!" she rejoiced.

"Ok then, if you think that's great, guess what?"

"You've got the female Bolt with you?!" she asked, almost squealing.

"Well, uh, actually, that's where you come in"

"Easy, I'm his owner so I have full responsibility for him!"

"Well, yes and… the female Bolt is actually going to be you" Mindy confessed.

"How?!" Suddenly, a thought came into her head.

"Suspicious sick bay, suspicious doctor, me, female Bolt!" she thought.

"So you're going to do what to me?" she asked, nervously. Then she saw a needle emerge from the doctor's bag.

"Umm, were going to inject you with some of this serum" Mindy replied, chuckling. "Hold still, this will only sting for a moment." Penny screams as it's injected into her bloodstream. She faints due to the dizziness caused by the serum.

"Her transformation will commence within a half an hour period" the doctor explained.

"Excellent!" "Take her to her caravan" commanded Mindy.

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Later that day, Penny awoke feeling really dizzy and confused. As soon as she got her eyesight back to normal, she realised that she was lying on her couch inside her caravan. Bolt was resting in his bed in the corner of the caravan. As she tried to stand up, she felt a bit of a pain in her legs. She still got to her feet anyway and walked over to Bolt to give him a kiss on the head. As she leaned down to pat his left ear, she realised that her hand was covered in tiny bits of white hair. She tries to pluck one of them off…

"OW!" Penny gasps, "How long has that been there?" She thought. To her horror, she gaped down at her fingers as her fingernails started growing and changing into a black colour. Her finger bones started shifting into a different place and her thumb was just a useless, black nail on her wrist. She turned over her palm, only to realise that some pink pads were growing on the inside of her hands. Pure white fur was growing on every place on her body at this time. She rushes over to the mirror and sees herself with little white fur growing rapidly on her face.

"What the…" she cried as her shoes started adding a lot of pressure onto her foot. Suddenly, her shoes burst open, revealing white, furry paws which were quite large! To her astonishment, she realised that her hands also had the same changes as her feet. As she was about to go back to the mirror, some bones in her legs shifted, causing her to face plant into the floor. She was struggling to get up as her legs started shifting as well. She is forced to stand on her hands and legs, although they aren't really classified as hands and legs anymore. Front legs and hind legs is probably the way to classify them now. Her spine was starting to extend at this point.

"HELP!!!! WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?!!!" she cried as pressure started building in the back of her pants. She looked back to see what it was, it was a lump that was growing rapidly. She started try and get her pants off by kicking, she couldn't take the pressure anymore! The pressure on her new addition to her body was unbearable. The pants started to stretch to its limits.

"C'mon, c'mon!" she was hoping for the pain in her behind to stop. She let out a few moans before her pants finally split open; forcing a long, white tail to erupt from its new hole. She exhales as the most painful part of the transformation was over, her new tail waving around happily. Now a new change is progressing through her skull. Her face was stretching forward! It felt as if her skull was splitting into two parts. A few of her teeth started to get pointier. Her old ears disappeared, her new ears were growing on top of her head in the midst of her brown hair, and also white fur was growing on it! A black nose on the end of her muzzle, now fully transformed!

"BOLT… H… HEL… PP!!" Bolt woke up to this cry, all he saw was a white, female dog standing in front of him. He looked at her suspiciously; she seemed to look a lot like him, except for the brown hair. He sniffed her.

"Who are you?" growled Bolt, Penny realised she could recognize what Bolt was now saying. He sniffed her again.

"HEY!" gasped Penny. To this word, Bolt stood there completely speechless.

"Penny?" he asks, anxiously.

"Hi, Bolty!" Penny replies, "Yeah, I know, I'm a little different now"

"You understand me as well?" Bolt asks, now getting a little more serious. Penny just nods. Bolt just smiles and approaches Penny asking for a hug. Penny knew he was going to do that, so she brushed off the last remains of her t-shirt and her panties which were dangling off her tail. Bolt puts one of his paws on Penny back and he snuggles up to her, Penny did the same. As they kept snuggling, the door opens.

"I see you've finally realised the doctor's handiwork cast upon you!"
It was Mindy!

"HAHAHA, The new part of this show is going to make us rich!" she grins.

"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CHANGE ME INTO A DOG?!!!!" Penny growled. She just remembered that humans can't understand dogs.

"Yes, I know, you can bark!" she replies. Penny just stands there and growls at her. "Well, you can have some of the money!" Mindy confesses. "We start filming tomorrow, get some rest!" She shuts the door.

"We'd better listen to her" Penny says to Bolt.

"OK" Bolt replies, they both go up to Bolt's bed. Penny quickly falls asleep in Bolt's paws.

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Penny wakes up in the middle of the night; she decides to check the time. Suddenly, a thought came into her head. She thought that if she's now a female Bolt, she can be much closer to Bolt in a relationship. Although, she thought to herself that she's not going to be a dog for her whole life, she could only hope. But she could get used to it. After checking the time, Penny wanders to Bolt's bed and snuggles up to him tightly, finally realising that this transformation could mean something else…

In the morning, Penny wakes up alone in the bed; she looks around for Bolt until she finds him trying to get to the dog food.

"Penny, can you help me with this?" he asks, quite frustrated.

"Umm, I'll try" she replied, thinking it will be harder than it used to be. She was right; she could hardly even stand up on two legs. She decided to slide a stool next to the couch, and then she would jump up onto the table from there, sliding the box off the table onto the floor. But she'd make sure the bowl was under there first. She did that and it did work, it was harder than how she used to get it, but it still could be done.

"Thanks, Penny" smiled Bolt, licking Penny on the face. Penny just smiled and continued eating from the bowl. Suddenly, the door swings open. Mindy is there.

"C'mon guys were starting now!" Mindy commands. They just keep eating.

"Grant!" A man appeared behind her, holding Bolt's favourite toy, Mr Carrot. He squeezes it. It lets out a squeak. Penny's ear raises at the sound of its squeak, the transformation also added a few dog instincts to her mind. She runs towards Mr Carrot alongside Bolt who also went for the noise emanating from Mr Carrot. Mindy shuts the caravan's door, they approach the new set prepared for their next episode.
As they were filming the episode, outside, Penny's mum was arguing with Mindy about her daughter being a dog.

"Indeed, but you will get some of the money we earn from this week's episode" said Mindy.

"BUT MY DAUGHTER IS A DOG!!!!" yelled Penny's mum. Penny and Bolt leave the building after the episode was recorded. They were heading for the caravan until they heard Mindy and Penny's mum arguing.

"Hey, cheer up!" "Maybe from this Penny could get even closer to Bolt in a relationship!" Mindy suggested. To this, Bolt and Penny looked at each other, grinning.

"Come on, Bolty!" "Let's go!" Penny said. They ran all the way to the caravan, to finish their breakfast even though it was lunchtime. After that, they decided to pass a ball around the caravan by hitting it to each other with their paws.

"Umm Bolt?" Penny asked.

"Yeah, Penny?" Bolt replied.

"Now that I'm a dog, I feel closer to you in a relationship sort of way and…" Before Penny could finish her sentence, she felt herself press her lips against Bolt's. "I know this is human behaviour but, I feel a sort love connection between you and me. And now that I'm a dog… uh, yeah, you know the rest!" Penny confessed.

"I feel the same way Penny; now let me show you something I learned from those love shows on television, the way humans do it!" Bolt grinned. He does the same thing that she did, but this time with anticipation. They rolled around, kissing. Then a dog type of kiss comes from Penny. She gives a big lick on Bolt's face. Now feeling, much tighter, they lay down on Bolt's bed. Sleeping the rest of the day off…

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Penny wakes up in the morning, earlier than Bolt this time. She checks the clock, it says 6:30am. After that, she turned back to Bolt and stared at him for a moment. She thought that if she’d leave the studio with Bolt, they could run away and make puppies, although she didn’t really know how dogs did that. But it would make Bolt really happy, not so much for her mom though. But Penny was feeling some sort of hunger, deep down inside her, Penny loved Bolt. She wanted to go have children with him, even though she doesn’t really know how to do that. Penny just sighed and walked up to the box of Bolt’s toys and she pulled out the tennis ball. She kept throwing it at the wall, letting it bounce back to her. Bolt raises an ear at the sound of the ball bouncing on the floor. He stands up, and walks to Penny. He realises that she’s a bit sad.

“Penny? What’s wrong?” he asks, Penny lifts her head up.

“My mind is at war right now, I don’t know which side to follow” she answers.

“Ok, what are the sides to support in this war?” Bolt asks, Penny pauses for a moment then finally says, “Bolt, the two sides are… um… never mind”

“No Penny, I want to know even if it might not be what I’d have expected!” Penny finally answers, telling him all about the ideas how she wants to have kids with him and how if she did that her mom would probably get so angry at her. But then she remembered, their show is not going to be filmed until one month and a bit, because of public holidays.

“Penny, you know what, I was hoping for this to happen one day, I’d meet a nice bitch (SKAULDRICH NOTE: Female dog, by the way, just in case you got the wrong idea), she might’ve even been much closer to me than I would’ve thought and we would have one peaceful family.” Bolt confessed. “So Penny, what’s it going to be? Stay or leave?”

“Bolt, I’ll leave, oh I love you!” Penny cried, she ran to Bolt and hugged him, tightly. They left the caravan; they knew they had a long time to get some distance from the studio before someone would check the caravan to see if they’re there.

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Penny and Bolt continued their escape from the studio, when Penny had an idea of what to do with Bolt that would make him really happy. She thought that they could hitch a ride to Las Vegas, where they’d hang around for a bit, as a romantic getaway for them both.

“Okay Bolty, follow me!” said Penny. She ran with Bolt to the local Taco Bell down the street where a big SUV was parked, it looked as if it was somewhere from Nevada, since it had a license plate that said it was from Nevada and that it had tons of stuff in the boot and on the roof as if the owner was on a vacation.

“Bolt, hide, someone’s coming!” alerted Penny, as a man was leaving Taco Bell and coming towards them. Penny had a good look at the person who was coming towards the car; the man had denim jeans, a red jacket with a white t- shirt under it. But the thing that captured the most of Penny’s attention was the cap he was wearing, since it was written “I (love heart) Las Vegas” on it.

“Bolt, get on top of this” Penny suggested, as she was climbing up the car using the ropes that were tying down a mattress on top of the car. They reached the top, slumping down amongst some bags which were also tied down. Nobody could see them, unless a helicopter was passing by quite closely.

“Um Penny… where exactly are we going?” asked Bolt, quite concerned.

“That’s for you to find out!” Penny smiled. They were driving for a few hours on Highway 15 until a sign which caught their attention! A ‘welcome to…’ sign was in front of them, Penny spotted it 200m ahead of the car, they were advancing on it quickly, it read…

“WELCOME TO JEAN, Bolty! It isn’t that far now!” chuckled Penny. A few moments later, another sign came up. ‘Welcome to Las Vegas’ it read. Penny didn’t want to scream out that they were there, because then it wouldn’t be that surprising. So, she took Bolt deeper into the pile of bags where they couldn’t see outside, she planned to keep Bolt in there until they reach central Las Vegas.

“Ok Bolt, we’re going to have to stay on the roof until the man stops his car somewhere, preferably his house” instructed Penny. Just then the night started to darken, making it perfect to see all the spectacular lights there! The first skyscraper of Las Vegas passed them; Penny blocked Bolt’s vision by obstructing his eyes with her paws. She brought Bolt to the top of the car so he could see the city at night; she removes her paws from Bolt’s eyes, smiling. Bolt’s mouth gapes open to the sight of the amazing lights of Las Vegas. His eyes wander to everything lightened up. Bolt, completely amazed, losses control of his legs from amazement which made him collapse into Penny’s soft, furry body, it felt really good, snuggling up to Penny. They both fell asleep, both feeling really safe. Little did they realise that while they were asleep, the man parked his car into his garage in Tonopah. He began taking things off his car when he found two white dogs on his roof, both sleeping. He called the local dog pound, they arrived, taking Penny and Bolt to a containment unit inside the pound. After half an hour of sleeping, they finally woke up together realising they were both inside the containment unit along with two other dogs.

“Hey look Cyril, they’re up!” whispered one of the dogs to the other.

“Greetings, fellow canines!” called out a white and brown English bulldog. “My name is Cyril, and this is Kurt” pointing towards the dog next to him, a brown Chinook.

“Hello, guys. Umm, where are we?” asked Penny. “And I’m Penny and this is Bolt, we are both white German Shepherds”

“This is the pound, I’ve been in this place since ’93, I can’t remember the outside now. And I haven’t seen a NASCAR race for ages; I’ve wanted to watch the championships since then, I used to… my favourite is Dale Earnhardt. How is Earnhardt going?!” Kurt explained.

“Uh Penny, what is NASCAR?” whispered Bolt, to her.

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“It’s The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing; it is a sport where cars drive around a tri-oval for a number of laps, forty-three cars contest for the first place in each race! I love it!” explained Kurt. “If you want to know how we got here, I’ll tell you right now. I got here when I was quite young; my owner was really busy and kept forgettin’ to give me some food and I was starving. I decided to go outside and sit in the sunshine, a van came past me, it had the logo of my dog food on it, and I thought that if I’d follow it, there’d be food to where it would end up arriving. And so I did, but instead of gettin’ food, I got a trip here, they fed me well and so I stayed here!” he explained. “Cyril… uh… well… um, take it away!” he points to him.

“Okay, I got here from the day my owner’s family and I came to Tonopah for a holiday, we hailed from England back then. So we stayed here for a bit until my owner’s wife was summoned back to London for an urgent conference they were expecting for her to come to. So they packed up and completely forgot about me. A week later, someone else rented the house for a vacation, the pound was notified, they arrived and they imprisoned me here. When I came here, Kurt was already here with another dog, Blake was his name. He was a Labrador; sadly he was adopted three days after my arrival.” Cyril kindly explained.

“Yeah, he was a great guy, Blake” said Kurt, sadly. “Anyway, how did you guys get here?”

“Ok well, here’s our story.” Explained Penny, and so she explained how she became a dog and how they decided to leave the studio and how they ended up here. After she finished the story, Cyril and Kurt sat there completely speechless.

“You… you were a human once?” Kurt splattered. Penny nodded. “Hey, uh, what year is it exactly?”

“Twenty- thirteen” Penny said. Kurt gasps.

“I didn’t we’ve been so long here!” he splutters.
And so, days come past with nothing but some chatting amongst themselves. Until, some families come to the pound for an adoption.

“Oh boy!” Cried Cyril, “Adoption time!”

“What?” Bolt asked.

“It’s when humans come to the pound to adopt someone, one of us could be getting out of here” Cyril answered. Penny didn’t want to be separated from Bolt. A pound guard came up to their unit and took them all out. He took them to a platform where they, and some other dogs, were lined up. The first family came in; they were a couple of seniors.

“Please, take all the time you need” the guard instructed.

“Thanks, sir” an old woman replied. They started to go up and down the platform looking at all the dogs.

“We are going with that one…” the woman pointed at a basset hound down the other side of the line. It came out and jumped into its new owner’s arms.

“… and that one!” the man pointed at Kurt. He turned around, tears rolling down his muzzle.

“It’s been nice knowing you guys” he sobbed.

“Bye” they all cried.

“OK, NEXT!!” the guard shouted, another couple came in. They looked like a tough bunch. Just like the other couple, they scrolled up and down the line finally making a decision.

“We’ll take that bulldog!” a man covered in tattoos points at Cyril.

“Oh my, bye guys” Cyril groans. They take him, and then they leave. The door shuts behind them.

“Ok guys, let’s get you back to your units” the guard suggested. He took hold each dog, one by one they entered their units. Bolt and Penny got to their unit, sadly now they don’t have anyone to share it with.

“So… what shall we do now?” Penny grins, Bolt knows what’s coming, he nods, also grinning.

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A few weeks come by with more dogs coming in and out; Penny and Bolt had enough time to produce a puppy in the time they were there…

“Come on Owen, here boy!” Penny shouts, Owen runs happily to his mum. “Hey Bolty, Owen can now walk to me on command!” Penny rejoiced, “well, almost” Owen falls over his tail, his head flops up and then he stands up as if nothing happened. “Hey Bolty, come here why won’t you try?” Bolt just turns his head around and nods, then he turns back towards the view he was looking at through the bars. Penny walks up to Bolt and looks at him. “C’mon Bolt, what’s wrong?” Bolt turns to her and sighs.

“Penny? Umm, I was thinking of leaving this place, I wanted to figure a way out of here” Bolt explained.

“Bolt, I’ve been sitting here with you for the last eight weeks, I want to too but I think this is the place for us, since we can’t get back in time when Mindy and the rest of the production team come back and that we can’t get our own food anywhere!” Penny sighed, patting Bolt on the shoulder.

“Wait, Penny, if we get back in time for when the production team get back, we could go there and pretend this never happened, we’ll hide Owen from them until he gets much older, then we’ll introduce him to your mum as if he were another person’s pet and that you got him for me so that I wouldn’t feel lonely” Bolt explained, getting somewhat happier.

“Really? You think we could do this for that long, until he’s grown up? What if it doesn’t work out?” Penny shivered, Bolt grinned as another idea popped into his head.

“Penny! I have it under control! When the next adoption comes, you know when a couple comes in and the doors open, and then we’ll sneak up close to the door and when it opens we’ll quickly run out the door, down the hallway and out of this place. Then we’ll find a transport to take us back home.” Bolt plotted, a smile started to emerge on Penny’s face.

Later in the evening at about seven o’clock, Bolt, Penny and Owen were all looking through the bars as to if the doors would open for adoption making. Suddenly, the door swung open and closed, a guard came in!

“Adoption time, my pretties” the guard sang, happily. He started going through the units, taking dogs out and lining them up on the platform again.

“Hey Penny, I hear someone coming…” Bolt whispered, as the guard started taking a border collie out of the unit on their right. The man put it on the platform, then bending down to take Bolt, Penny and Owen out of their unit. Bolt nodded to Penny, she took Owen and put him on her back.

“Hold on, Owen” Penny whispered to Owen, she knew what Bolt was planning. Owen didn’t really understand what Penny meant by ‘hold on’, so he just tilted his head to the right a little as a sign that he didn’t get it. The guard unlocked the unit, and brought the bars up, at that same time, another guard was coming through the door as it swung open. The guard reached into the unit…

“NOW PENNY!!!” Bolt screamed, as he ran up to the guard’s arm, launched himself off it, out the unit. Penny doing the same, Owen, by his instincts, grabbed onto Penny’s fur. They both hit the cold, hard floor running. They were making their way towards the door which was still open.

“STOP THEM, YOU FOOL!” yelled the guard, the other guard by the door quickly ran to the door and pushed it closed as Bolt, Penny and Owen went through. The door shuts on one of Penny’s hairs on her tail, plucking it off. Ignoring the pain in her backside, Penny continued on alongside Bolt through the hallway towards the exit. They came to hide in amongst some couches in the visitor area.

“YOU LET THEM ESCAPE!!!” the guard screamed.

“Don’t worry, they’ll show up again” the other guard reassured the other guard. They walked over to the dog room to continue the setup for the adoptions.

“Phew! That was close, now we just need to get past the counter; I think it’s going to be easy to pass it.” Penny sighed, as she looked over to the guard at the counter desk who was obviously a new employee. She knew it was easy to get past him because they could see that he was too interested in the heavy metal music he was listening to through his large earphones, he was even imitating himself with a guitar, shredding some chords. They got past him easily anyway. Just as they were coming through the automatic doors, Penny looked back and tried to identify what band he was listening to as she was quite interest at how the guy was so into it.

“Come on, let’s get home…” Bolt nodded, he was smiling immensely.

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Half an hour passes; Bolt, Penny and Owen sneak into a van which was obviously bound for somewhere in California. They have begun their journey towards a mysterious destination; Penny was following the route using a map she had found in the back of the van.

“Hopefully, this van will take us somewhere close to Los Angeles…” Penny exhaled, as the map shows they are about north from Los Angeles. Owen yelps at this comment. His tail wagging excitedly.

Another hour goes by, and the van suddenly screeches to a halt. Penny looks at her map and gets puzzled.

“Ok, it’s either: this van has just stopped in Bishop or has just stopped on the side of the road.” Penny said. She leans over and pokes her head to the window. “Yep, looks like we’ve stopped in Bishop. We should get out of here and find another transport.” They all step out of the van which was neatly parked near McDonalds. They look around for another ride to get them to Los Angeles in time. While they were walking down the road through the homes. Ahead of them, they could see someone walking their dog. Bolt tilts his head in a kind of surprised kind of way. The two figures approach slowly but become much clearer to Bolt as they approach them. At about ten meters away, they finally recognise them both. It was Kurt, the Chinook from the pound and the old woman. As they were about to interact, Bolt and Penny’s smiles disappear as they find out that Kurt has tears rolling down his muzzle. They could also hear him mumbling sadly. They finally started to hear what he was saying.

“February thirtee… n… n… th… D… d… ale… Earnhardt… C… c… c… rashes…” Kurt suddenly breaks out into a sob. At this, Penny and Bolt are already next to him.

“Hey Kurt, what’s going on?” Bolt asked, trying to be soothing and gentle. Kurt’s muzzle looks up at them and a tearful smile appears. All that lasted for about two seconds until he bursts out into another round of cries.

“Ar… ar… aren’t I glad to see you… oo… oo…” Kurt sobbed.

“Hey, hey, hey! Calm down… Take a deep breath…” Penny comforts Kurt. Taking a long inhale and exhale, Kurt joining her. “Relax… Now what’s going on, Kurt?”

“Ok” Kurt exhales. “Well you see, when I got home with my new owners, the old man went to the television and turned on the news. I’m not sure if you knew, but today is February the thirteenth and also the twelfth anniversary of Dale Earnhardt’s d… d… death.” Kurt explains, breaking into yet another sob.

“Come on, Kurt. Don’t interact with strays…” the old woman tugged on the lead. Kurt obeying with a paw to his face.

“Bye Kurt!” Penny and Bolt farewell Kurt. They continue to walk down the street.

“I feel so sorry for him…” Penny sighed.

Another half an hour passes…

“Penny, we’ll probably need a fast vehicle to get us home now.” Said Bolt, quite nervously.

“Funny you should mention that…” Penny exclaims, as she points out a Ferrari parked outside a local Krispy Kreme store. They waited next to the yellow Ferrari Enzo. The car was bound for Long Beach as they could interpret. Suddenly, the Krispy Kreme store’s door swung open. A funky-looking man came out and approached his car which seemed to be the Ferrari next to them. He could see them, he seemed pretty into dogs.

“Hello there, little guys, looks like you could use a lift…” the man said. Penny gave a practical nod and lay the map down in front of the man, and then she pointed her muzzle at the area named ‘Los Angeles.’ The man nodded in agreement.

“Oh, that’s perfect. I’m off to Long Beach; I guess I could drop you in the central.” The man explained, Penny gives him another nod. “Come on, let’s go.”

The man revs up the engine, Owen lets out a bark. They all enter the car. The car gets out of the parking lot and makes its way down the road.

“Don’t worry guys. As soon as we’ve left the town and onto the highway, we’ll be able to speed up and get to reach Los Angeles much quicker.” The man grins. He was right. As soon as the ‘Leaving Bishop, Come Again Soon’ comes passing by, the car speeds up immensely. Bolt, Penny and Owen launch straight into the car seat they were sitting in from the enormous speed. The man still keeps grinning.

“Check this out!” the man shouts, over the noise of the engine. He puts down the windows, all their faces were getting blowed on by the wind. Especially on Owen, as he decided to lean his head out the window. Also bringing his tongue out for the extra experience. Penny chuckles at the sight.

For the first time, their Ferrari trip seemed to last a really short time, considering it’s a long drive from Bishop to Los Angeles. And they also didn’t fall asleep in that trip, for the first time.

“Alright, we are officially in Los Angeles. Time to slow down!” The man said, as they passed the Welcome to Los Angeles sign. Owen whines at the news of slowing down, he quite liked the experience. Bolt, Penny and the man all chuckle at the look of Owen’s face. The car weaves through many of the streets until he reaches the centre of the city.

“Well, I guess the adventure ends here. Bye!” the man exclaims, letting them out. Then speeding off. They wave goodbye by lifting up one paw and leaving it up for a bit.

“So Penny, where now?” Bolt asked, pretty frantic to get home.

“Well, the studio is down the road…” Penny answered.

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Penny, Bolt and Owen all sprint towards the studio, about two-hundred metres away from where they were dropped off. They ran as fast as their legs would go. Owen was, again, on Penny’s back as Bolt and her attempt to get home quickly.

“That’s it!” Bolt exclaimed between pants, as they neared the huge archway at the entrance of the studio. They go through it, under the boom gates and into the studio. They look around frantically for their caravan.

“There!” Penny shouted. She pointed at the caravan in the dark shadowy area. They ran there, using all the energy they had left. Pouncing at the door, it opens with a loud BANG! Then they all ended up inside the caravan. Everyone’s landing was a bit different. Penny and Owen landed on the hard floor; luckily Owen was still on Penny’s when she landed, Penny was alright anyhow. Bolt made a much more comfortable landing on the couch, lying on it on his back.

“Are you guys alright?” asked Bolt, realising Penny and Owen landed on the floor.

“Yes, I’m alright” Penny answered, Owen barks. “He is too…”

They all get up and walk around the caravan; Owen is off Penny’s back.

“Do you think they know we left?” Penny asked Bolt, rhetorically.

“I think I’m going to catch a few zs” Bolt said, yawning as the same time. He walked over to the bed, Owen was following him, and he was also really tired. They became asleep really quickly. Penny was the only one awake in the caravan. She was thinking of what to do.

After a few minutes of thinking of what to do, Penny decided to pour some cereal into Bolt’s bowl because she was really hungry. Considering they had a pretty long trip there and they didn’t have food for a while. Besides, she wanted to get the horrible taste of dog food from her mouth, the ones she ate while in the pound. She puts the bowl down to eat, while she was eating, she was watching them sleep, snuggly. Suddenly, she remembered…

“I have to hide Owen, if the crew see him, they will know we’ve been doing IT…” she thought.
She quickly ran over to the bed. She took Owen tenderly, wrapped him in a cloth and brought him somewhere undercover. As she walked to the cabinet (where she was going to hide him), with Owen wrapped snuggly hanging from her mouth, the door swings open. A man appears. After a few seconds, Penny recognises him. It was the man always having problems with the director about the boom mikes used. He stares at Penny for a few seconds, and then finally shouted.

“M… m… Mindy!!!” he screamed, trying to get attention.

Penny knew they were in for it. She went straight to the cabinet, and hid Owen in it. Bolt, who was up and confused, woke from the man’s scream.

“What’s going on?” Bolt asked, frantically. Penny was far too busy trying to find a better hiding spot for Owen. Then she got a plan to get Owen to the cabinet above the sink where she could possibly move Owen behind a box or something. She took Owen from the cabinet and started pulling him towards the destination by her mouth. At that second, the door slams open. The man appears once again, Mindy suddenly emerges from behind.

“Mhm, so the little scheming rats have returned to its home after all!” she chuckled, putting on a grin. “And got busy too!” she laughed, obviously seeing what was hanging from Penny’s mouth. “Ha, I got to tell your mum about this!” She snapped a picture of the scene with her phone. Penny and Bolt both face her, bearing their teeth and growling.

“There’s no need for that…” Mindy chuckled, again. Two other men come from behind Mindy, who was attempting to send the photo. They both approached Bolt and Penny, at the same time; they drew out a needle and some sort of gun. They both load the weapon with the needle, then aim and fire at their two targets. Bolt and Penny get the same feeling. A sort of ecstasy probably. They both collapse to the ground...