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The Fall of Royalty

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Two-Tone was walking through the junkyard one cloudy night, Buster had gone off to gather food for his family while Two-Tone remained with her puppies. She laid down as the puppies scattered around the junkyard enjoying their playtime, everything seemed happy for the once former house pet. Two-Tone looked at the sky seeing the clouds gather. "Looks like a storm, guess the old bus will have to..." Two-Tone heard a crash, she went to investigate and saw a frightening sight, animal control agents entering the junkyard. "Oh god.." the dalmatian panicked as she saw them enter, she was paralyzed with fear as she hid, she could hear yelping and saw each of her mixed puppies being loaded into dog kennels for transport, she could hear them crying and rushed out only for the loop of a catch pole to find it's way around her neck, Two-Tone yelped as she put up a little fight but she was too scared to do anything more.

"Wow, look at this." The agent, a Caucasian male said looking at Two-tone. "you're a beautiful girl aren't ya? Sad to see such a good looking dalmatian like you in a place like this." the man told Two-tone, he knew she was scared so he tried to be as gentle as he could.

"Hey Joel check this out." a Hispanic male called over to his partner, he was holding a dirty blue collar in his hand "One of those dogs lost this, that or there was another dog here. Has a name and address on it." he said handing it over.

Joel took a look at the collar "Yeah, we better phone the number and see if they lost a pet recently. Meanwhile let's load the mother into a crate." Joel told his partner Ramon as the two animal control officers placed two-Tone into a larger crate, she could hear her puppies in the crates behind her but she had no way to see them and calm them.

"Think she had those mixed pups?" Ramon asked Joel

"I bet so, man who'd have thunk that mutt we've been after passed his genes to a new generation? Oh well least we can adopt these pups to a good loving home, the mother too if she's a stray." Joel told his partner as they drove from the junkyard to the dog pound, once inside Two-Tone now on a leash with a blue collar on her neck was led to an examination room where she was examined by a vet. She whimpered a bit having not been examined by a vet since she was a puppy on the farm. Luckily she was given a clean bill of health. Two-Tone was led to a cage and placed inside, she looked around for any of her puppies.

"Looking for something?" Came a voice across from Two-Tone's cell.

"Yes, my puppies, where are they?" Two-Tone asked

"Probably in the puppy wing with the other puppies there, some kids will want em, besides dalmatians are popular ever since that old battle axe Cruella De Vil tried to pupnap some dalmatian puppies along time ago." the dog, a female Pomeranian told Two-Tone, she gasped at that revelation.

"I was one of those puppies Cruella pupnapped." Two-Tone told the pomeranian.

"Get out of here! You were one of them??" The pom asked.

"Yeah, I was the daughter of Pongo and Perdita. The pets of Roger and Anita Radcliffe." Two-Tone answered. The pom looked surprised.

"Wait you are part of their 101 Dalmatians??" The pom asked surprised.

"Yeah, I was till I left and met Buster and got to be his girl and had his puppies." Two-tone sighed, she wished Buster was here, the pom laughed.

"I know Buster. Back in the day he was some pup along with Tramp too." The pom told Two-tone.

"You knew Buster?" Two-Tone asked.

"Yup, we used to be tight the three of us till the day Tramp went housepet and married Lady, Buster was furious when he found out, as for me? I've been here in the slammer, I heard about your folks through the twilight bark, matter of fact I still hear em calling you to come home." the pom told Two-Tone.

"Home.." Two-Tone sighed as she looked down "I burnt too many bridges back home. Hurt too many people, that's why I joined Buster as a street dog and his new junkyard queen." Two-Tone told the pom.

"and I thought Angel would have been his queen. They were cute together." the pom told Two-Tone, she nodded remembering Buster telling her about Angel and how she turned on him and left with Scamp.

"Buster will hopefully come and break me out of here." Two-Tone told the pom, she blinked as the pomeranian started laughing.

"Don't get your hopes up, you don't know Buster like I do. He's a player, he'll play you like a fiddle to get what he wants and when he's done with you he'll toss you out like the garbage in that junkyard he rules." the pom told Two-Tone.

"i refuse to believe that." Two-Tone laid down. She didn't wanna hear more of what the pom had to say, she wanted to escape and get back to the junkyard but she had to know if her pups were safe. Meanwhile the agents handed the old collar to their head supervisor, an Asian female whom took a phone an dialed the number on the collar's license.

"Hello?" Came a voice, it belonged to Roger whom had answered the phone.

"Hello this is Rei and I'm calling from the animal shelter in New England Town and I believe we might have found a collar belonging to one of your pets." Rei explained over the phone

"Oh? Hmm we are missing one of our dalmatians, a female with black ears, green eyes, a black spot on her face like a beauty mark, a wave across her back, sides, and stomach, black lower fur, and white spots on her leg." Roger described Two-Tone in detail "She answers to the name Two-Tone."

"We just picked up a dog that matches that description perfectly in the local junkyard." Rei said over the phone

"You found Two-Tone!? Is she alright??" Roger asked

"Yes she's in good health, though she was a bit scared. Has she been socialized in your care?" Rei asked Roger

"Yes as a matter of fact she was, along with her other brothers and sisters, though socializing 101 Dalmatians is a hard task." Roger answered, Rei looked thrown for a loop, 101 Dalmatians!? She wondered.

"Wait, did you just say 101??" Rei asked

"Yes, 15 were our original number, the other 84 were adopted not counting the parents." Roger explained

"Ah I see, you're the family that took in all those dalmatians after that dalmatian puppy crime spree happened, I'm glad the Gruetly division of the SPCA finally busted Cruella De Vil, the nerve of her having a puppy mill." Rei told Roger

"When can we go pick up Two-Tone?" Roger asked

"Anytime you can." Rei told Roger what he needed to know, meanwhile Two-Tone laid in her cage trying to figure out what went wrong. She was junkyard queen, she had a big family, now all of it was taken from her. A few tears ran down her face.

"Relax, you're young, you'll find a good home and a good family to care for you." the old pomeranian told Two-Tone.

"Ah ease off her Peg, she's suffered one heartbreak as it is, though if she was dumb enough to mate with Buster then she had it coming." A bulldog in the cage next to Peg's added in.

"Oh be quiet." Two-Tone told the bulldog. A few days later Two-Tone heard the door open, the dogs began to bark and wag as Roger and Anita along with Rei whom had a leash. Anita was holding Two-Tone's old collar in her hands.

"I'm sure she'll be happy to see you." Rei told the Radcliffes as she opened the cage door and brought Two-Tone out on a leash. Two-Tone looked at her one time owners, she wanted to show how much of a street dog she had become, she wanted to lunge and bite her former owners but deep down she couldn't, they were her family. She looked up at Anita and Roger and jumped up and started to lick them.

"Aww." Anita hugged Two-Tone as Roger pat the dog's head. "We missed you too girl, we missed you so much" Anita told Two-Tone.

"I did too.." Two-Tone replied though to the humans it was a sad sounding bark. Roger and Anita soon walked outside the shelter with Two-Tone as she hopped into the backseat of their car as they drove off, they arrived at Jim Dear's home where the Radcliffes were staying the night at, Roger was old friends with Jim and the Dear family allowed them to stay the night after hearing about Two-Tone. Once inside Darling gave Two-Tone a bowl of dog food which she ate without much problem, Lady and Tramp watched the hungry dalmatian eat.

"Tramp isn't she..?" Lady began to ask.

"I can smell Buster on her. But why is she here and wearing a collar?" Tramp wondered

"Yeah, I thought he'd come to save me from animal control. Guess I was wrong." Two-Tone looked down.

"It's okay dear, you at least found your family, your true family." Lady told Two-Tone.

"Yeah, and to be honest I miss the life of a house pet." Two-Tone admitted, she knew she could never say that to Buster, she would have lost everything like she had lost everything right there.

"You can't take the house pet out of a street dog, Buster should have known that when he dated Angel along time ago." Tramp chuckled.

"An old pomeranian told me you knew Buster." Two-Tone told Tramp.

"Yeah, sounds like Peg got herself in trouble again. Usually happens if she's in the pound." Tramp told Two-Tone.

"Lady, Tramp, I need to find Buster and find out why he didn't come to my aid." Two-Tone told Tramp and Lady as she headed off, Tramp decided to follow, as he did he noticed a familiar Scottish terrier join in.

"Ah see tha lass still has a heart fer that junkyard king." Jock told Tramp as they followed Two-Tone to the junkyard.

"Jock we better keep a distance, just in case." Tramp told Jock.

"Aye." the scottish terrier told the schnauzer. At the junkyard Two-Tone walked inside, she heard Buster's laugh and went to greet him but what she saw stunned her, Buster was snuggled on an old couch with a female doberman.

"Buster!? What the hell is this??" Two-Tone said in shock

"Tones, I found out something about ya that stunk in my book." Buster told Two-Tone as he stood up. "Erica here tells me you weren't born in the streets." He told Two-Tone.

"You believe her word over mine?!" Two-Tone said in shock

"yeah house pet, I saw you in Gruetly with them other house pets, all 101 of em!" Erica told Two-Tone. The dalmatian gasped, her cover had been blown.

"Buster you mean you intentionally let me and our puppies get captured by Animal Control!?" Two-Tone snarled. Erica started to laugh.

"Yeah cause I don't like being lied to Tones. And you lied to me about being a born street dog." Buster snarled back. Erica nuzzled Buster as she got up as well.

"What did you want me to do?? I wanted you to love me and you did!" Two-Tone told Buster

"Yeah and ya lied to me about being a street dog! I shoulda known seeing your groomed fur and collar. Erica opened my eyes and I made the choice to let you and our pups be taken away!" Buster told Two-Tone. It was too much to bare as Two-Tone charged at Buster only for Erica to tackle her down hard, Two-Tone yelped as Erica held her down.

"Get it through your thick skull house pet, beat it right now before I mess you up bad!" Erica snarled loudly in Two-Tone's face.

"Ya heard her Tones, we are through. Now get your house pet spotted rear out of our junkyard!" Buster told Two-Tone, crushed and humiliated Two-Tone got up and left, tears ran down her face as she started back to the Darling residence. Several times she consider just running into the street and letting a car hit her and end her life. Tramp and jock caught up with her before she could do that.

"Two-Tone we heard what happened." Tramp told Two-Tone.

"Aye, ah coulda told ye Buster was a scumbag." Jock added in. Two-Tone didn't reply, she just wanted to go home to the farm and forget Buster ever existed, instead of healing her heart he damaged it worse. She hated Buster for betraying her for Erica. The next morning Anita and Roger bid their farewells to the Darling family as they left, Two-Tone sighed sadly as she laid in the back seat, Anita grew concerned for her.

"Roger something seems wrong with Two-Tone." Anita looked at Two-Tone. Roger was driving and couldn't see.

"We'll have Dr.Whittaker look at her when we get home." Roger told Anita, it took hours before the Dearlys were back on their farm, Two-Tone looked around feeling the familiar feeling of home come through her, it would take her some time to get used to being a house pet again.

"I bet everybody I knew, everybody I grew up with is gone.." Two-Tone walked over toward the chow tower, she sighed as she thought about what she had thrown away by running away to New England to be with Buster. Was it worth it? Two-Tone wondered about it, ever since that night in the puppy mill she wanted to distance herself from the house pet life, and from Lucky. She had heard he was living with Rebecca and their family. Two-Tone finally collapsed on a hay pile and started to cry her eyes out. Her crying didn't go unnoticed as Cadpig walked up, she saw her sister and hugged her.

"Two-Tone! You're home!" Cadpig said in delight.

"Cadpig..... I made a terrible mistake." Two-tone sobbed

"I know sis, I knew Buster was bad news." Cadpig told Two-Tone. The elder dalmatian nodded her head in agreement.

"Even Mooch was better than Buster was...... Buster left me to rot in the dog pound, all because he found out about my life as a house pet...." Two-Tone told Cadpig

"How did he find out?" Cadpig asked

"Some female doberman told him, she knew I lived here." Two-Tone told Cadpig, the younger dalmatian blinked.

"How did that happen?" Cadpig wondered before it hit her "The twilight bark! Mom and Dad were using it to locate you, any dog either here in Gruetly or where you were at probably heard it too." Cadpig told Two-Tone.

"That's probably how Erica knew...... she blew my cover cause she wanted Buster...." Two-Tone growled angrily.

"Two-Tone there's nothing you can do about it. Just wait and karma will get those two hard." Cadpig tried to calm Two-Tone.

"Cadpig let's face facts, I lost everything, my lover, my puppies, everything." Two-tone sighed

"You?? You had Buster's puppies?? Oh Two-Tone why did you do something like that for??" Cadpig said in shock

"Cause Buster wanted me to give him heirs to his throne......... I knew I was only fooling myself, Buster used me and threw me away.." Two-Tone felt hurt and betrayed

"Just like Lucky..." Cadpig said

"What about Lucky??" Two-Tone asked, before she didn't even think of Lucky much since when they were puppies, but now she was showing concern for him, after all Cruella put them both through hell.

"Rebecca had Dipstick's puppies and Lucky found out, he tried to put it aside but it seemed Rebecca had more pups with Dipstick than she let on." Cadpig told Two-tone.

"oh god, what else happened?" Two-Tone asked.

"They had a big fight and Lucky ran off. Rebecca came here figuring Lucky would be here but he's not." Cadpig told Two-Tone.

"Where do you think he................ wait I might have an idea where he could be at." Two-Tone told Cadpig

"I was thinking the same thing, if we hurry we might be able to catch him!" Cadpig rushed off, Two-Tone followed. The two dalmatians ran till they were in Topstown and a familiar flat, the dalmatians entered through the opened window and looked around the empty house. The house where the original 15 dalmatians were born at. "Lucky??" Cadpig called out. Silence greeted Cadpig.

"Maybe he left for food or something?" Two-Tone told Cadpig.

"Maybe" Cadpig answered before hearing somebody coming inside, the two dalmatians hid behind a wall, just as they watched Lucky returned into the house. In his maw he held some food he found. He had moved in after learning of Rebecca's infidelity. Two-Tone and Cadpig watched seeing Lucky eat, he looked like he hadn't been eating much or doing much of anything except stay inside and waste away.

"Man, I can't believe Rebecca betrayed me.... I gave her a litter of puppies and for what? To find out Dipstick gave her a bigger one before he ran off with Dottie." Lucky grumbled, Cadpig stepped out from the hiding space.

"Lucky?" Cadpig said. Lucky froze and turned to see Cadpig.

"Cadpig?? How did you find me??" Lucky asked, he was stunned at how Cadpig found him so easily.

"I knew you'd come here to the old flat, the one place we all felt at peace as a family when we were young pups. Or at least we did till Cruella had us pupnapped." Cadpig told Lucky.

"Yeah, but why are you here? I know you didn't come this way to visit me since I heard you had pups with tripod." Lucky told Cadpig

"Luck, I'll break it to you easy, something terrible happened." Cadpig told Lucky.

"If it involves Rebecca then leave me out of it. I wish I never met her in ….. in where-ever the heck it was I met her at." Lucky told Cadpig, course he naturally didn't remember DeVilville due to Hester Hen's curse on the town robbing his memory of that.

"no, it doesn't involve Rebecca." Cadpig told Lucky. She frowned as she saw Lucky look disappointed. "Lucky, I can't believe you could hate her for lying to you about her litter with dipstick." Cadpig told Lucky.

"She should have been honest with me. If she comes to the farm tell her I got adopted by a loving family and I wanna start over without her." Lucky told Cadpig.

"I think that would go well with me too." Came a familiar voice, Lucky's eyes widened as he saw Two-Tone emerge.

"Two-Tone?! Wearing your old collar?! I thought you were ruling that junkyard with Bu.." Lucky was about to speak when Two-Tone silenced him

"Don't even say that dirty mutt's name. I hate him and that whore Erica." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"What happened??" Lucky asked.

"This female Doberman Erica blew my cover and told Buster I was a house pet and not a street dog born from the streets.. Buster let me and our family get captured by the dog pound, thank goodness Anita and Roger got me out of there, and they did adopt my pups to good homes so I know they are safe." Two-Tone told Lucky as tears were in her eyes.

"Man! I can't believe that worm did that to you, your the cutest dog on the farm and streets, he's a blind idiot to hurt you" Lucky told Two-Tone.

"I know, I'm not going back there. I'm gonna stay on the farm where I belong Lucky." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"I wanna go back to the farm but Rebecca will come looking for me there. I can't face her after what she did to me." Lucky told Two-Tone.

"But you can't stay here Lucky. Eventually somebody will rent this place out and what do you think will happen to you?" Two-tone asked Lucky

"You're right, but I'd rather take my chances at the dog pound than seeing Rebecca." Lucky told Two-Tone.

"Besides you do need company." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"Two-Tone no, I can't put you through that hell again. Not after our litter came out like they did." Lucky told Two-Tone.

"I know, but this time it's not by force. It's by will, my free will. That and we don't have to worry about chicken wire cutting our paw pads." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"True but I can't do that to you again. Our first litter came out deformed and …...." Lucky couldn't bring himself to finish as Two-Tone covered his muzzle.

"Lucky don't argue with me. I made a mistake going to Buster thinking he could heal my heart. I'm sorry I hurt you." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"Two-Tone I...... I was a fool to think Rebecca could heal my heart, I knew she had puppies with Dipstick but I didn't know she had so many with him. Dipstick must have told them to go to Rebecca so he could be with Dottie." Lucky told Two-Tone. The two dalmatians looked at each other. "We were blinded by despair and rage." He admitted.

"I know." Two-Tone nuzzled Lucky. Cadpig silently left them to chat. Sometime had passed as Lucky soon moved on from the old flat which had been rented out, he soon returned to the farm where Cadpig and Two-Tone remained, Two-Tone helped Cadpig and Tripod raise their pups during the time, she had finally broken out of the junkyard mentality and became her old self once more, although the yard sale box was too small for her to jump inside of. The day Lucky walked back onto the farm was a happy time for the now small dalmatian family.

"Welcome home Lucky." Tripod greeted Lucky as he walked up.

"Feels good to be home Tripod, had to do some soul searching but I realize I can't hide from my problems, I was a coward too many times to face reality, my first kids with Two-Tone I ran off from and allowed them to be taken by animal control, Rebecca betraying me that's something I'll never forgive her for doing no matter how much she begs me to take her back." Lucky told Tripod

"Yeah, Two-Tone went through hell too, can't believe that shameless jerk Buster left her to rot in the dog pound all because of her heritage. Believe me mom and dad wanted to rip him apart for hurting her. " Tripod told Lucky

"I know, but they can't be in a fight at their age. Buster will get his one day." Lucky told Tripod as the two went to the barn, Cadpig and Two-Tone were inside as they were watching the pups. Two-Tone looked up at Lucky and wagged her tail.

"Decided to come home huh?" Two-Tone asked Lucky as she got up.

"Had no choice really. The flat was rented out and I had to go." Lucky answered Two-Tone as he took her paws in his. "Besides I've realized I can't be a coward anymore, I left our pups to be put down by animal control, I ran from Rebecca, I can't let myself be a coward no more." Lucky told Two-Tone.

"I'm glad to see you came around Lucky, I hope things will be like it used to be along time ago when we were pups. Back before all that happened with the puppy mill, Buster and Rebecca, and the pain they caused us. Instead of healing our hearts they hurt them worse." Two-Tone told Lucky as she stared into his eyes.

"I couldn't agree more. We should have figured out what to do together." Lucky told Two-tone as he rubbed her paws.

"Two-Tone was a big help in helping me raise the pups." Cadpig told Lucky.

"Still maternal huh Two-Tone?" Lucky asked her.

"Yeah, guess I miss being a mother." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"I wish I could help you but I'm still haunted by our first litter and how they came out." Lucky told Two-Tone.

"Lucky did you consider that Two-Tone was under a lot of stress in the puppy mill? And the fact we know Cruella isn't a patient person. Put those two elements together and you have the perfect formula for birth defects." Cadpig told Lucky.

"She's right, Cruella yelled and screamed at me to give her flawless puppies when I was pregnant. Combined with the physical pain from the chicken wire on the bottom of our cage cutting my paws and the stress of labor, it caused our pups to be deformed." Two-Tone said sadly.

"Yeah, I'm still worried about trying again and another deformed litter coming out." Lucky told Two-Tone, he knew she missed being a mother.

"Lucky, don't worry about it. No matter what those puppies were ours even if they were deformed. I'm sorry I didn't love them like I should have" Two-Tone told Lucky.

"Sad they all were euthanized, they were too mentally unstable" Cadpig looked down sadly

"Maybe it was for the best, many of them suffered Cadpig." Lucky told Cadpig before he saw something coming into the farm, rather some one. "Oh no.." Lucky muttered going up to confront what he saw. "Rebecca what are you doing here?" He asked holding back a growl.

"Ah came ta apologize Lucky, ah didn't mean ta hurt ye" Rebecca told Lucky, it was obvious she was alone without her pups.

"I'm sorry Rebecca but I can't accept your apology. You betrayed me Rebecca, you lied to me about your pups with Dipstick, all of them. Glad he sent them to you, he opened my eyes to the truth. You didn't heal my heart after what Cruella made me do to Two-Tone, you made it worse!" Lucky told Rebecca now growling at her.

"ah didn't mean ta! Ah just wanted ya ta love me! Ah just...." Rebecca was visibly shaken, tears ran down her face as she tried to find words to tell Lucky she was sorry, Two-Tone walked up to see what was going on. Rebecca gasped seeing Two-Tone. "Tha junkyard queen! Lucky what's she doin here?!" Rebecca said as she backed away from Two-Tone.

"I'm not the junkyard queen anymore. Buster allowed me to be captured by animal control along with our pups. I found out why, he was disloyal to me the whole time. Never again will I be a street dog." Two-Tone told Rebecca. "He wounded my heart instead of healing it, just like what you did to Lucky." Two-Tone told Rebecca calmly.

"Ah didn't know, but what will ye do now?" Rebecca asked Two-tone.

"Staying here and helping Cadpig raise her pups with Tripod made me realize I shouldn't have left with Buster even after what Cruella made me and Lucky do. Lucky's too afraid to be with me because of that." Two-Tone looked down. After all she suffered at Buster's paws, after what she thought was love was nothing but lust from Buster, she wanted somebody whom could truly heal her heart, and now she knew that somebody had to be Lucky. But he was still traumatized from the puppy mill.

"ah understand, ah fooled around with Dipstick thinkin you and Lucky were happy together, ah had no idea till Lucky told me, but why abandon yer pups? Ah dunnae think it was right." Rebecca asked Two-Tone.

"I was frightened, it was a mistake Cruella forced on us. I... I wasn't ready to be a mother yet" Two-Tone answered. "I thought I was when I had Buster's puppies but Buster raised them to be aggressive, hateful toward house pets. He didn't let me have a say in how they were raised." Two-Tone lowered her head. "Only Felice wanted to know about the house pet life" Two-Tone said sadly though deep down she knew Felice would get her wish.

"Felice..... that means luck doesn't it?" Lucky asked, he had seen the two-toned mutt on the streets before.

"yes, I was thinking of you when I named her Lucky. About what we could have had before Cruella stole it away from us, like she stole our puppy hoods when she had us abducted for our fur." Two-Tone told Lucky as she trembled, she hated Cruella for all she did to her and to her family.

"Cruella won't harm us anymore, she's in jail now." Lucky tried to calm Two-Tone down.

"Ah shoulda known, even if you were Buster's girl ye still had feelings fer Lucky." Rebecca spoke up.

"yeah, to be honest I usually snuck out of the junkyard at night to come home and see you guys. I knew lucky wasn't there anymore." Two-Tone admitted.

"So it was you then, I saw you one night but I thought I was dreaming." Cadpig approached, she shot a look at Rebecca seeing her too.

"That's probably how Erica found out I was ….. I am a house pet. Besides mom and dad using the twilight bark to try to bring me back home." Two-Tone looked down.

"Erica? Who's that?" Rebecca asked

"Buster's new girl, they deserve each other and I hope they both rot." Two-Tone told Rebecca.

"What will ye do now?" Rebecca asked Two-Tone.

"Staying here where I belong comes to mind. I doubt there is anybody out there who can make me happy." Two-Tone told Rebecca.

"Ah understand, ah feel the same way after hurting Lucky. Ah feel awful." Rebecca told Two-Tone.

"Not your fault, you ran off with Dipstick thinking I'd stay with Two-Tone. Everything went to heck in a hand basket." Lucky spoke up.

"Ah know Lucky, but what now? Ad dunnae think ye'd be coming back with me after that." Rebecca asked Lucky.

"I know, but right now Two-Tone needs me. She suffered too much from Buster and I need to make things right with her." lucky told Rebecca.

"Ah understand, ah'll leave now." Rebecca turned to leave.

"Rebecca, just be careful." Lucky told Rebecca as she left. Two-Tone and Cadpig watched as well.

"Lucky she'll be fine. Right now we need to figure out what to do next." Two-Tone told Lucky. "Besides you said it yourself, we need each other now more than ever after what happened with Rebecca and that jerk Buster." Two-Told told Lucky

"I know it's just I'm afraid, I can't help it." Lucky told Two-tone as he walked to the barn, Two-Tone followed him as they sat on some hay together. "Two-Tone, if we are going to do this we need to do this the right way. To break this trauma in me." Lucky told Two-Tone as he looked at her.

"But I thought you were afraid?" Two-Tone began to ask before Lucky silenced her by pawing her muzzle.

"I need to face my fears." Lucky answered as he led Two-Tone back to the barn. Cadpig followed them as she heard them talk about what they were going to do. Time passed on the farm as Lucky and Two-Tone started to grow closer together though Lucky was still hesitant about mating with Two-Tone after what happened the last time, one night he walked outside and sighed still unable to mate with Two-Tone, was it because of Cruella and the puppy mill? The deformed pups they had? Or was it both? Lucky was unsure. Tripod walked up to Lucky and sat down looking at him.

"You know she wants to be a mother Lucky. Why deny her?" Tripod asked

"Tripod I'm afraid alright? I don't want to hurt her again like I did last time." Lucky explained.

"Lucky, look at me. I'm deformed yet I gave Cadpig beautiful puppies, sure Kickstand has a heart condition but he's as normal as a normal puppy can be. Lucky you need to break that trauma Cruella placed on you, sure you had no problem mating with Rebecca nor did Two-Tone when she was mated to Buster. Why is it a problem to mate with Two-Tone now?" Tripod asked Lucky.

"You're right, we both had no problem mating with Rebecca and Buster but …....." Lucky sighed "You're right I'm still haunted by what Cruella did to us. I need to break it some how but every time I try something keeps stopping me." Lucky told Tripod.

"Sense of guilt toward Rebecca?" Tripod jokingly asked

"No, Rebecca and I separated on good terms, it's just I have flashbacks to the puppy mill and Cruella screaming at Two-Tone to give her puppies, and me being a gutless coward letting her do it instead of protecting Two-Tone like I should have." Lucky told Tripod, the three legged dalmatian was taken back by what he heard.

"Luck, don't even speak like that. You are one of the bravest dalmatians I know and your letting this get to you. Luck if that had been me and Cadpig in that puppy mill I would have fought back, I wouldn't let Cruella scream at Cadpig. Lucky all I'm saying is that you need to face these demons and beat them." Tripod told Lucky

"You're right Tripod and I'm gonna face them now! Cruella maybe gone but that puppy mill remains. I have to walk in there one more time, to the cage she locked me and Two-tone in, and I need to face my fear." Lucky told Tripod as he stood up and headed toward Cruella's, Tripod shook his head and rushed off to the barn. Meanwhile Lucky stepped inside the old abandoned mill, since Cruella and her henchmen Jasper and Horace were all captured by the police, the mill remained abandoned. Lucky sniffed around till he found the cage, bad memories flashed in his mind as he glared at the cage. He could hear Two-Tone crying, Cruella's shrieks and yells. Lucky shook his head "No more! No more!" he growled loudly "You hear me Cruella.............NO MORE!!!" he snapped as he tackled the cage door growling and biting at it. He wanted to destroy it, the symbol of his trauma. His pain. He snarled as he yanked at the door trying to rip it from it's hinges.

"Lucky! Stop!!!" Two-Tone rushed up with Cadpig and Tripod following. "Please stop!" she pleaded.

"Leaver her alone you witch!!!" Lucky snapped as he continued to try to destroy the cage that imprisoned him and Two-Tone. Two-tone rushed up and grabbed a hold of Lucky tightly, Lucky tried to resist as Two-Tone held onto him.

"Lucky stop! She's gone now! She won't harm us again!" Two-Tone pleaded with Lucky.

"Two-Tone?" Lucky snapped out of his trance as he looked at Two-Tone and hugged her. "I'm sorry. I wasn't worthy of you. I failed, I let Cruella force us to mate. I let Buster have his way with you.. I...I..." Lucky looked down as tears flowed down his face. "I should have been a hero instead I allowed all this to happen. It's all my fault." Lucky told Two-Tone finally admitting from his heart he had failed.

"Lucky, don't blame yourself. I'm as much to blame as you are. I shouldn't have went into heat." Two-Tone lowered her head.

"Two-Tone no, your not at fault. We should have known this would happen, that Cruella wanted us for our unique fur patterns and what kind of puppies we'd create, instead we created a litter of freaks....." Lucky looked down.

"Lucky it wasn't either of your faults that happened I mean look around you, is this the kind of environment you'd expect from proper puppies?" Tripod asked Lucky.

"No.." Lucky answered as he held Two-Tone close to his body "Cruella didn't care, all she saw us as was her fur generators." he told Tripod.

"Course she wouldn't, and the other dogs that were here were for profit and nothing more. Neither of you two deserved this kind of trauma." Cadpig spoke up.

"She's right Lucky, we let Cruella ruin everything. Rebecca and Buster didn't help matters they hurt us when we needed them, guess we.." Two-Tone was silenced by Lucky.

"No Two-Tone we didn't need Rebecca or that jerk Buster. We needed each other all this time and we were too blind to see it." Lucky told Two-tone as he nuzzled her. "We need to start over, try to forget what Cruella did to us, and what Rebecca and Buster did to us too. Try to forget they both existed." Lucky told Two-tone.

"You're right Lucky, let's go home." Two-Tone told Lucky as she nuzzled him, Cadpig and Tripod nodded in agreement as the four dalmatians left the mill, some months passed as Lucky and Two-Tone felt a bond between themselves as they grew closer together. Eventually two months later Two-Tone laid in the barn curled up as she began to feel labor pains for the third time in her life. Lucky sat beside her as she soon had their second litter.

"Need a paw?" Cadpig asked as she watched Two-Tone birth another puppy, Lucky stood by and helped clean the pups already out of Two-Tone. Two-Tone took a breath and pushed as the last of their pups was born. She turned over and began to clean the last puppy off.

"Lucky are they.... are they good?" Two-Tone asked Lucky.

"Yeah, they look perfect." Lucky nuzzled Two-Tone as the pups wailed a bit, Two-Tone nosed them close to her side as the pups began to nurse. Cadpig watched in amazement as her newborn nieces and nephews nursed on their mother.

"They are beautiful guys. I hope these ones won't have problems like the first litter did." Cadpig told the new parents.

"Same." Lucky looked at the pups. Weeks passed as the pups eyes opened and ears unsealed, their spots began to come in. The pups were checked out by a vet.

"Well doctor?" Roger asked, he was concerned since the last set of pups on the farm were vicious and deformed.

"Mr. Radcliffe the puppies are in perfect health, and adorable." Doctor Whittaker told Roger.

"I'm relieved to hear that. The last litter Lucky and Two-Tone had were full of deformaties and mental issues, we had to have them all euthanized before somebody could be seriously injured." Roger told the vet, Dr. Whittaker nodded her head.

"I know, sad story too. And the parents?" Dr. Whittaker asked

"they ran away leaving their litter here. I'm glad Lucky and Two-Tone came back. Well Two-Tone was in New England Town, and Lucky who knows where he was at." Roger told the vet.

"New England Town?? Why on earth would Two-tone run away out there?" Dr.Whittaker asked.

"Dunno but the animal control there found her and called Anita and myself there to pick her up." Roger told Dr.Whittaker. Meanwhile Lucky and Two-tone sat and watched as the puppies were examined.

"Lucky I bet they will have your luck." Two-Tone told Lucky

"Yeah, and your beauty" Lucky told Two-Tone.

"Or a mix of both, that works too." Two-Tone nuzzled Lucky. Pongo and Perdita watched on, sure Lucky and Two-Tone were their children but they knew they were in love, besides they knew what hell Cruella put them through and how they felt pain away from the farm.

"Pongo I always said those two were perfect for each other." Perdita told Pongo.

"I agree, Two-Tone made a lot of bad choices in life, least she knew where to find true happiness" Pongo told Perdita as he licked her cheek. Perdita nods and nuzzled Pongo back. Soon after the vet leaves, Lucky and Two-Tone along with Roger, Pongo, and Perdita all headed inside the farmhouse where it was warm and a perfect place for Two-Tone to nurse her pups till they were weaned.

"Lucky you were right, we do need a new beginning and now we got it and with our second litter, I feel bad about our first litter." Two-Tone told Lucky.

"I know Two-Tone, we can't change the past but we can move on with our future and I can see our future is well in hand... err paw." Lucky nuzzled Two-Tone back as he looked at his pups, many of them had two-toned versions of Lucky's horseshoe, some had black fur and white spots on their legs like their mom Two-Tone.

"That we do Lucky, that we do." Two-Tone told Lucky as she nuzzled him.
Two-Tone's reign as the Junkyard Queen comes to a shocking end, what will she do now that everything's gone down hill for her? And will she ever find her knight in shining armor?

Lucky, Two-Tone, Cadpig, Tripod, Roger, Anita,Radcliffe, Dr.Whittaker, Cruella de Vil Rebecca,101 Dalmatians, Jim Dear, Darling, Lady, Tramp, Scamp, Angel, Jock, Trusty, Buster, Lady and the Tramp all (c) Disney

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I'm proud of you Two-Tone, for trying to step outside your box. The transition of Two-Tone from street dog to house pet is more believeable, and I like how you had her caring for Buster and their pups at first, even though you detest BustTone.

The same for Lucky's attitude toward Rebecca. He still seems concerned about her, even after he's pretty much decided Two-Tone is his one true love. It's different from the biased attitudes you gave them before in the past. It's a nice change of pace.

One thing wrong is that I'm not sure Rebecca would betray Lucky for Dipstick. I had them get together to fit in Tex's universe when there seemed to be no way she and Lucky would ever mend things. I'm not sure it would be considered betrayal if they aren't formally together..

And a lot of characters seem to know details they probably shouldn't or would even care about, such as the vet wanting to know about Two-Tone and Lucky.

but anyway =] good job.