Chapter 6

They ran and ran, with the poacher behind them with his gun. He fired it. The animals all still ran for their lives.

"I always hate gunshots!" Snowflake confessed. "They're so loud and scary." Another gunshot.

"Well, I'll protect you always!" Promised Dexter. "No need to fear!" The cat looked at the beagle and smiled.

"Thanks Dexter." He compliniminted. "You're a true pal."

"Don't mention it, anytime!" More gunshots.

When they passed the photo shop with the mailbox by it, Perry quickly skitted to a halt. The animals all bumped into him. Perry stared at the mailbox.

"What's wrong Perry?" Pinky asked.

"Yeah!" Dexter added. "Why the holdup?"

"Hang on!" Perry told them. "I think I've been here before." Snowflake looked back. Richard was on their trail! The cat quickly looked back.

"The poacher's coming!" The kitten cried. "Hurry!"

"Can you hurry this up?" Dexter said. "We got to run!"
"That's it!" Perry cried out, snapping his fingers. The platypus walked over to the mailbox.

"What's it?" Snowflake wanted to know.

"This mailbox is the exact same that I hid behind where my nemesis and I first met! It's the birthplace of our rival and it's still here, in great condition!"

"Uh that's great Perry," said Devon. "But can we go, like NOW?!"

"WAIT!!" Pinky shouted. The tiny dog stepped forward, and sniffed the mailbox. "I think I smell something familiar." Perry leaned over to the dog.

"Really?" He asked. "What do you smell?"

"Monogram! Carl! Dr. Doofenskirz!"

"Uh.. that's Doofensmirz!"

"Follow me guys!" With that all the animals run after Pinky with the poacher at close range.

"This way!" Perry shouted when just ahead of them at the Dansville Park, sitting on a bench was Major Monogram, Carl, and his nemesis.

"We're almost there!" Pinky cried. "I knew my nose would lead us to the right place!" The animals ran to them.

"I miss Perry," Dr. D still cried holding a picture frame of his nemesis. "He was like a son to me."

"Very awkward if he was your son." I added. "Since he's a platypus, and he had to be your hated son."

"Very true." Dr. D agreed. "That would be very weird if he were."

"Just like that story where the humans accidently got a crocodile for a son!" Carl chipped in. We looked at him, Carl shushed up. Dr. D hugged the picture frame up close and cried into it. "Poor Perry! I miss him terribly! I don't know what I'll do without him!" He cried, and then heard a welcoming excited chatter. Carl and I both looked up started.

"What was that?" Carl wanted to know. I shrugged.

"I mean I can still here that platypus chatter he makes." Dr D. sadly tried to badly imitate Agent P's chatter.

"Pinky then barked.

"What's going on?" Carl asked.

"I don't know." I admitted. Then we heard a squawk, another bark, and a meow.

"Cats? Birds? Another dog?" I asked. "I don't get this at all. Usually the pets at this park are well behaved." We all heard them all again. We all turned, excited about the oncoming animals.

"Pinky!" Carl cheered, welcoming the tiny dog.

"Perry!" The doctor shouted with rejoice as the platypus rammed into him. He fell down, but he didn't care, he was just happy to see this semi-aquatic mammal again. "At last, I have my frienemy again! You do not know how mush I missed you!"

"And pets we never saw before!" I welcomed the newcomers. "Where you come from?" Then we all heard a gunshot. All of us fell dead silent as we saw the man with the gun step foreword.

"I'll be taking my animals back if you don't mind." He sneered.

"Hey! I know you; you refused to let us take back what was ours!" Dr. D said to him.

"Yours?! What was yours is now mine! I like them back if you don't mind." I stepped up.

"You can't have them!" I told him. "And poaching is against the law here in case you didn't know. We can call the police and will!"

"Oh, I don't think so!" He motioned the animals to come. "Come on; I won't hurt ya's!" The animals stayed put. "Come on!" Still not coming. He fired his gun madly. "Come on you stupid animals!" Perry burst forward, on his two feet.

"Oh, you're sending a stupid mindless platypus to fight me? This will be easy." Pinky went foreword, hat on head, growling.

"Oh a tiny purse dog and a platypus? I'm equally scared now!" The rest of the angry animals stepped forward, eyes on the poacher. Perry then showed the man the badge. The man looked at it and laughed.

"O.W.C.A?" He roared. "Organization without a Cool Acronym? That's a stupid name for an agency; it's Pathetic! Whoever came up with that name lost their brains for sure!" We gasped. I was insulted. This man must be stopped!

"ATTACK!" I commanded. Agent P and the animals tackled the man to the ground. The man got up, grabbing his gun, and pointed it at Agent P.

"Stand back!" He ordered. "Or I'll shoot starting with this platywuss! You can't be agents; you're just a bunch of stupid animals!" He got ready to pull the trigger.

"You're bye-bye ducky thing!" Pinky strolled up to him and bit him on the rear as he fired. Agent P jumped out of the way. The man screamed.

"Get off your stupid dog!" He slapped Pinky away hard. Pinky laid on the ground. We all gasped. The man then sacked up the Dodo when we were all in shock. Pinky got up and shook off.

The Dodo squawked loudly.

"Shut up you stupid bird!" He was about to set him on his truck when I came up to him and punched him in the face. He fainted. I went over to the bird, helping him free.

"Don't worry, little fella." I told him. "You'll be out soon" I got him out and held him. "See? What I tell ya? Nice and easy." I set him on the ground. The bird looked surprised.

"Here kitty kitty!" The man cornered Snowflake! The kitten had no where to run! He shook with fear. "Don't worry, I won't kill ya!" He was about to grabbed the frightened cat when Dexter burst out. The beagle growled, baring his teeth. The man snicker to himself, then tried grabbing the two. Perry saw this, and tackled Richard to the ground. Snowflake couldn't believe it!

"Y-you saved me!" He said.

"Well of course I did!" Dexter replied. "I told you I would, didn't I?" The silk colored kitten rubbed himself on the dog, purring.

"Somebody needs to call the police." Carl informed us.

"I think someone did." Dr. D. said.

"What?!" Sure enough as we turned around, there was the police! The police walked towards us.

"Who called you?" I asked an officer as he put handcuffs around the ceramal's wrists. "How did you know to come? We didn't call you." The officer looked at me.

"A little boy did." He answered. "By the name of Phineas Flynn, know him?

"Nope!" I shrugged. "I don't know any Phineas Flynn." I looked at Agent P. "Do you Agent P?" The platypus nodded. "But apparently Agent P does." The officer bent down to the platypus.

"Is he your owner little guy?" Again, Agent P nodded. The officer patted the mammal's head. "Don't worry we're get your home." The police man then stood up.

"How odd." He pondered. "He told me his pet was named Perry, not Agent P."

"Oh well," I nudged my intern on the soldiers.

"Hey!" My intern shouted.

"Carl here likes agent movies and since that platypus winds up at our place allot, he calls him Agent P."

"And does Phineas know he likes to wonder to your place often?""

"Uh, oh yes!" I told him. Only half of what I told him was true, I didn't want to tell him that Agent P was a real agent working for us.

"Well." The police officer changed the subject. "At first when he called we didn't believe him, because you know, he was just a kid, so he might have been planking us. He then called again, and he sounded desperate. We were about to hang up on him, until he begged us. At that point, we realized he was not joking, he was telling the truth! So we talked to him and he told us where to go. So we went to that one place and nobody was there. We figured he was lying and scolded us for all being such fools in believing this little boy. When all of us were passing this park, we saw strange activity going on. We decided to investigate and by the man's actions towards the animals, we knew right on there he was the culprit, and the boy was telling the truth after all."

So here we are, capturing this poacher, and arresting him for his illegal ways of poaching." He changed the subject again. "Anyways, is Pinky here? Isabella Garcia's dog?"

"Arf! Arf!" Pinky barked. The man once again and patted the chihuahua's head. "Don't worry. We'll take you home along with Perry in my police car. You'll be with your owners soon." The tiny dog barked again.

"How about you guys?" The officer turned to the beagle and the kitten. "Do you have loving owners you can get back to?" The beagle whimpered with his sad eyes, his ears dropped to his sides.

"No? Well then, my son always wanted a dog, how about you come live with me and my family?"

The dog perked up, and ran to the man, licking him all over. The man laughed.

"Okay, okay!" He laughed. "Welcome to the family; you'll love it!" They then looked at the sad retreating kitten.

"Woof, woof, woof!" The beagle got out of his new owner's hands, and went over to the lone cat, barking excitedly. The cat looked at him, then at the officer.

"You're saying you won't come until we bring your friend along too?"

"Woof!" The dog nodded.

"Well okay!" The two pets brightened up. "I don't see why not! Welcome cat!" The kitten went by the man's feet and purred. The officer picked his two pets up. "Well come on Perry and Pinky, let's go to your owners, they sure will be surprised to see you guys safe and sound." The platypus and the chihuahua hopped into the police car. The poacher sneered at them.

"I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for these meddling animals!" The poacher said.

"Yeah, yeah." The 2nd officer said, leading him away. "It's not like these pets are agents working for a secret organization we don't know about. Come on, let's go."

We waved as the cars drove off.

On the way home, Perry and Pinky said their farewells to their friends.

"Pinky, Perry," Dexter said. "Good luck on all of your future agent missions, I'm sure you'll do fine." The agents smiled.

"Good luck at being pets." Perry told the beagle. The beagle smiled.

"Thanks." He said. Pinky then looked at the cat. The tiny dog looked down as if saying at what he was about to say, was painful to him.

"Congrats." The Mexican dog began. "You know, on finding a home again. I'm really glad for you two." Snowflake smiled.

"Thanks!" He said. The platypus smiled at Pinky. He was happy to see Isabella's pet congratulating a cat who he disliked since they met.

"The car then stopped. They sad goodbye to their friends, hopped out, and ran to their loving owners. The car drove off.

"Perry!" Phineas hugged his pet in his arms. "I knew you'll come back pal!" The platypus gave him a loving chatter.

"Pinky!" Isabella cried out, hugging her slobberly dog. "I was so worried about you! Did you miss me?" The dog barked, as she hugged him again.

Ferb then walked into the backyard with his crushes. Phineas ran to his stepbrother with Perry in his arms.

"Look Ferb!" He exclaimed. "Perry's back!" Ferb smiled.

"He always comes back Phineas." He reminded his stepbrother. Perry smiled, his UK owner was right! Although he was in crushes, Perry was glad to see him all right.

They then all heard a squawk. They turned and saw a Dodo. The kids all ran to the bird.

"Wow, a Dodo!" Phineas said. "Somehow I knew we'll see one up close and personal this summer." Ferb nodded as if he agreed.

The Dodo then ran as Candace came out of the house. The teenager stopped, looking at Perry in her brother's arms. She then ran back.

"Mom!" She cried out happily. "Come here, you won't believe your eyes; Perry's back!"

"As long as Perry doesn't disappears when he arrives with mother." Ferb said. They all laughed at Ferb's joke. Phineas then looked at his pet and hugged him one last time.

"Welcome home Perry!" He said. "Welcome home!" The platypus smiled and agreed, it was good to be home.