It was a beautiful day out today and it felt like nothing could go wrong.
"Here's your lunch, Tod, I'll see you later," Widow Tweed smiled to her fox as she set a bowl of food down for him outside. "Now, you stay out here until I'm done cleaning."
Tod smiled back to her before eating the food as she went inside to do some spring cleaning. After finishing his food, Tod soon went on his own. Suddenly, a hole was being dug up and Patch came out.
"Patch!" Tod gasped.
"Hey, buddy," Patch smiled to the fox kit. "You busy?"
"Nope." Tod said.
"Okay, you wanna come to HQ?" Patch asked.
"Hmm..." Tod hummed before looking back to Widow Tweed and shrugged. "Sure, why not?"
The two then dug underground together to get to Pound Puppies Headquarters as Patch had something to show Tod.
"So is something happening?" Tod asked.
"We found out something that you might be interested in." Patch replied.
Tod looked excited and curious. The last time was finding out that Nick Wilde from Zootopia was his long-lost uncle, what was next? Once they got to the HQ, Tod couldn't control his excitement.
"Tod!" The Pound Puppies greeted just like he was one of them even though he was a fox kit.
"Hey, guys!" Tod smiled back. "So, uh, what's up?"
"Tod, we found another one of your relatives." Strudel informed.
"Really?" Tod smiled out of excitement.
"Yep, and guess who's going to come with you to meet them?" Lucky asked.
"Is it Copper?" Tod's eyes lit up hopefully about his best friend in the whole wide world despite the difference in their species.
"Not just him." Nick's voice said.
Tod turned around and gasped. "Uncle Nick!"
"Hey, kiddo..." Nick smiled before looking around. "Huh, so this is the part of the world you live in?"
"Yep." Tod nodded.
Copper was now walking over to Tod.
"Copper!" Tod beamed.
"Hey, Tod!" Copper smiled back before seeing Patch's girlfriend there. "Oh, hello, Colette, how's, um, Danielle?"
"She's doing great." Colette said.
"Why?" Patch smirked.
"Erm... No reason..." Copper blushed.
"You like her, don't ya?" Colette smirked.
"What? No..." Copper blushed and nervously scratched behind his ear as a nervous twinge.
"Sure." Patch smirked playfully.
"Uh, so, Uncle Nick, do you have a daughter?" Tod asked his uncle.
"No, why do you ask?" Nick replied.
"Patch says we're gonna see my cousin." Tod explained.
"Cousin?" Nick paused to think. "Hmm... Oh! You must mean Foxy Loxy... I forget whose side of the family she's on, but she's a sneaky little thing sometimes."
"That sounds bad." Tod said.
"Yeah, I'm afraid Foxy's a bit of a troublesome kit from what I remember..." Nick replied. "From what I remember, she's in somewhere called Oakey Oaks."
"Yes," Patch nodded. "Drell said there's an important factor about to go on over there with the one they call Chicken Little."
"Chicken Little?" Tod asked out of confusion.
"Yes, he let me borrow this book," Patch replied before taking out a book and held it in his paws since he was a familiar now. "The only child born to Buck Cluck and his late wife, Chloe Cluck, in the town of Oakey Oaks. He is a middle school student who is more or less the town laughing stock for thinking that the sky is falling."
"Why did he think that?" Tod asked.
"That, I haven't been able to figure out, but it says something fell on his head and his father thought it was an acorn." Patch replied from reading the Chicken Little booklet.
"Wow." Copper said.
"I feel like maybe he had a dream," Patch guessed. "Dreams can impact people a lot sometimes, especially Cherry."
"Right," Lucky nodded. "So, you guys will visit Oakey Oaks to help out Chicken Little and his friends, Abbey Mallard, Fish Out of Water, and Runt of the Litter."
"Familiar time..." Patch said before standing on his hind legs like a young boy. "Does anyone have clothes we could borrow?"
"I should have something in the closet." Cookie offered as she walked with Colette.
And where they had plenty of clothes for the group.
"Pick your favorites." Cookie smiled to the younger ones.
"Thanks, Cookie." Patch smiled back as he walked into the closet with his friends for their adventure.
And where they soon chose what clothes to wear. Nick waited for the others as he was checking out his phone and soon smiled as he liked status updates from Judy with a rather dreamy look in his eyes despite him being a fox and her being a bunny rabbit.
"Okay, we're ready." Copper said.
"Oh, uh, good!" Nick smiled to them. "I'll drive."
"Cherry and Atticus won't mind you gone, will they?" Copper asked Patch since he didn't see the usual humans going on an adventure themselves.
"Nope." Patch said.
"What're they up to anyway?" Colette asked.
"Some emergency festival, I think..." Patch shrugged. "I think it might be Twilight's Friendship Festival that she's going to invite everybody in Equestria for with that pop star: Songbird Serenade."
"Why aren't you going with?" Tod asked.
Before the Dalmatian could answer, Atticus came in his dog form.
"Atticus!" Patch beamed. "How's the preparation for the festival going?"
"Um, I apparently got the day wrong; it's not today, but a week from today." Atticus smiled bashfully.
"Aw..." Patch replied. "So, where are Cherry and Mo then?"
"Mo's stuck in her annual lessons with her Aunt Sarah and Cherry, well, she's getting used to walking on all fours." Atticus said.
"Cherry's coming too then?" Patch asked.
"Yeah, she was right behind me, but like I said..." Atticus nodded.
"Why, me?" Cherry groaned as she came in in her own dog form. "Why did I have to be a smelly, lousy, loud, annoying-" she then looked to the other dogs and smiled nervously. "Eh... Hello there, Pound Pooches."
"Pound Puppies." Atticus corrected.
"Right..." Cherry smiled nervously. "Uh, I wasn't talking about you dogs, I meant some others."
"Anyway, let's change the subject." Patch said.
"Right... So, where are we going?" Cherry asked.
"We're gonna see Chicken Little." Patch replied.
Cherry's eyes widened, she soon let out one leg and zipped out of headquarters to avoid going. She was soon blocked by a dog version of Drell.
"Erm... Nice doggy?" she smiled nervously.
Drell bit onto her collar and dragged her back to the others.
"I'm going, aren't I?" Cherry groaned.
"Yes..." Drell replied.
"You look kinda scary as a dog..." Cherry shivered. "Why did you have to be one of the scariest dog breeds in the species?"
"I don't know." Drell shrugged.
Cherry shivered and hid behind Atticus.
"Shame that Mo can't join us, but we're all set to go if you guys are." Atticus smiled to his dog.
"Thanks, Atticus," Patch smiled back. "And I can't wait until that Friendship Festival in Equestria."
"You mean the one that's next week?" Drell asked.
"Yes, that..." Patch nodded.
"Twilight asked us to come over to go over some planning before she would tell Celestia, Luna, and Cadence." Atticus explained.
"Ooh." Drell smiled.
"Yeah, I'm really excited for when it starts!" Atticus smiled back. "It's gonna be bigger than the Grand Galloping Gala, the birth of Flurry Heart, the Canterlot Wedding, it's just gonna be amazing!"
"It sure is." Patch smiled.
"Well,... I'll check my schedule to see if I can make it..." Drell replied to them. "But for right now, we must go to Oakey Oaks."
"Why do I have to go?" Cherry complained. "I don't even like the story of Chicken Little."
"Because if you don't; I'll torture you by sending you into Pinkie Pie's mind." Drell smirked.
"NO! PLEASE!" Cherry begged. "I'm so young!"
"Then you're going with them." Drell said.
Cherry shuddered and groaned.
"I'm looking into the coordinates right now." Strudel told the others as they got dressed.
"That's good." Atticus smiled.
"It shouldn't take so long," Strudel replied. "I really hope you all have a good journey."
"I'm sure we will," Atticus replied. "I mean, what could possibly go wrong?"
Cherry face-pawed at the question especially since she was forced into this.
"Got it!" Strudel told them once she found them a way into Oakey Oaks.
"Perfect." Atticus smiled.
Once they had the information, they were then set to get going on their mission. Drell and the others went underground while Cherry just stood there and smirked as she was about to dig the hole back up. Unfortunately for her, she was stopped. Cookie took a deep breath and barked loudly. Cherry yelped and soon fell into the hole after the others.
"Nice for you to join us." Drell smirked.
"I hate you..." Cherry mumbled as she was literally dragged into this.
Patch took the lead as everyone followed after him.
"So, first I have an uncle, and now I have a cousin..." Tod commented. "I wonder what's next, I'm descended from Robin Hood?"
"Robin Hood wasn't a fox." Cherry scoffed.
"Let's keep going." Patch said.
"Good boy." Atticus smiled.
Soon enough, Patch dug up into the surface as he came up in front of the welcome sign of Oakey Oaks along with a billboard for a movie called 'Crazy Little Chicken: The Movie'.
"Wow." Patch said.
Everyone else soon came back out of the hole as they were in Oakey Oaks now.
"Okay, according to this, Chicken Little is a school student, and we need to see Principal Fetchit to get enrolled." Patch told everyone as he read a plan he made since Atticus taught him how.
"Which way is it to the school?" Tod asked.
"It should be... That way." Patch replied before pointing one direction.
There was a school bus that had a bunch of animal students run to get onto it, though a young chicken boy seemed to miss it and it seemed to be driving off without him.
"One of us should stop that bus." Copper said.
"Got it!" Atticus said before zipping off like a cheetah.
Cherry spun around slightly in dizziness before flopping on the ground.
"Goosey, when that chicken starts running after the bus, hand me my acorns." Foxy Loxy smirked to her sidekick.
Goosey nodded with a honk. The bus was soon driving off and Chicken Little soon tried to run after it since the driver didn't seem to notice him. Atticus soon arrived in front of the bus. The bus driver whistled to himself before jolting slightly as the bus was suddenly stopped, and which ruined Foxy Loxy's plan.
"Excuse me, but you forgot some new students and a regular one." Atticus told the stork bus driver.
"Oh, uh, my bad..." The stork smiled sheepishly.
"Come on, gang!" Atticus smiled to the others.
"I'll meet you guys in school!" Drell called out as the others came onto the bus with Chicken Little.
"Dang it." Foxy Loxy groaned.
Goosey Loosey did her best to comfort her friend. Foxy Loxy rolled her eyes as Chicken Little and the others came onto the bus. Atticus smiled politely before he went to sit down with Cherry while Patch decided to sit with Chicken Little to become a helpful friend. Tod and Copper soon sat together. They smiled to each other as they were going to be school students for today.
"So, uh, do you really like Danielle?" Tod asked.
"Yeah..." Copper stared at the floor while blushing. "Isn't there a fox girl that you like?"
"Nope, I've never met one..." Tod shrugged. "I'm the only fox in the neighborhood."
"Oh, well, I'm sure you'll meet one someday." Copper said.
Tod nodded before looking out the window. Goosey honked to her best friend and gestured to Tod.
Foxy Loxy looked over to Tod before shrugging. "No, I don't think I know that kid."
Goosey began to honk a few more times as she looked at both Tod and her best friend.
Foxy Loxy looked to both Tod and Copper. "He's friends with a hound dog?!"
Goosey nodded.
"Why?!" Foxy asked.
Goosey shrugged a questioning honk. Tod and Copper began to get curious looks at them from almost everyone.
"I kinda wish Uncle Nick could've rode the bus with us." Tod muttered as he hugged his own tail in worry.
"Don't worry," Copper soothed. "He and Drell will be at the school."
"Hey, uh, thanks for stopping the bus for me..." Chicken Little told Patch. "No one's ever done that for me before."
"No problem." Patch said.
"You're new kids, huh?" Chicken Little asked. "I guess that's why you're being nice to me. Everybody calls me The Crazy Chicken."
"Why's that?" Patch asked even if he did know.
Chicken Little sighed. "Well, last year, I was sure the sky was falling... I saw something shaped like a stop sign, but it was blue with a white cloud on it, but my dad told everyone it was just an acorn and everyone keeps making fun of me for it."
"Yikes." Patch winced.
Chicken Little bowed his head with a sigh. "Oh, well, at least I still have my friends."