(Running Through Time) ~ A Yearbook of Chase and Marshall ~

Chapter 10 pt 2

"The show was awesome!" Rocky went outside with the others.

"Yeah, the villain was weally stupid!" Zuma laughed, remembering about the show.

"And yeah, Apollo rules." Rubble agreed.

"W-wait, Chase. Were you waiting for your brother?" Skye asked the Shepherd.

"Yeah, I... was worried from the entire show. Why he hasn't retu-" Chase noticed that their ball has returned. "Guys, our ball has returned already." He gulped.

"Wait, you're right. Where is Marshall, then?" Rocky looked around.

"His house is gone!" Zuma pointed to a spot where Marshall house was usually located. Now there was nothing.

"...I had a bad feeling about him. But why?" Chase frowned.

"Guys? What's wrong? You all looked worried." Ryder appeared from the Lookout's entrance, approached those five dogs. "Where's Marshall?"

"That's what we are worried about, Ryder," Skye answered. "We were watching Apollo the Super Dog, and Marshall was chasing our volleyball that rolled over from the Lookout."

"And when we were done, Mawshall's gone but the ball is back alweady," Zuma added.

"Wait, let me call him." Ryder pulled out his pup pad and contacted Marshall.

"Hello, Marshall? Where are you?"

"Oh, hey Ryder. Sorry, I wanna leave the Paw Patrol. No one needs someone who kept on messing with their stuff." Marshall responded.

"Messing? M-Marshall! Why did you have that thought!?" Chase panicked. The other's eyes widened.

"A lot said that I'm useless, and the fact that I was messing up with stuff today really makes it complete that I am totally useless." Marshall's voice was starting to get distorted. "Goodbye, everyone. Please don't look for me. Let me live by myself now."  And the connection was cut.

"Marshall?" Ryder tried to contact him again. "I can't contact him. His signal is gone, and I can't detect where is he right now."

"H-he... useless...?" Chase thought for a while. His eyes were like when he just recently saw a horror movie.

"Okay, so what were you guys doing before?" Ryder started interrogating the five pups.

"Both me and Zuma offered him to play volleyball with us, but he hit the ball too hard and 'locked' us with the net and ball. The ball rolled over, Marshall tried to chase the ball." Rocky answered carefully.

"Then... I went outside, asking the others if they wanted to watch Apollo with me. Marshall wasn't there." Rubble continued.

"I was waiting for him to return, but he took too long. I left him because the show started." Chase also answered, but he was nervous and trembling.

"Then? What makes him think so?" Ryder put his hands on his hip. "Try to remember what are you guys doing that... caused this to happen."

"OH! NOW I REMEMBER! We were talking about the villain at the Apollo show, and it has connections with Marshall's words, "Messing up stuff" and "Useless"! Now I get it!" Skye hit her palm, remembered the whole thing.

"M-maybe, when we were commenting about the villain, Marshall was outside and thought that we were talking about him!" Chase added.

"Oh no..." They looked at each other in fear.

"So, if I can conclude this, it was a 'misunderstanding' case, huh?" Ryder frowned. Everyone nodded slowly.

"W-we better look for him now!" Rocky said.

"We HAVE to look for him! He's a part of Paw Patrol, and without him, we are not Paw Patrol! And besides, how can I stand it when my brother's gone!?" Chase was half-screaming.

"Calm youwself down, Chase!" Zuma held Chase's shoulder and stood in front of him. "I know you awe dead wowwied, but twy not to get too over with it! If you twied to seawch him with this condition, you might end up bweaking things like that time you guys fought ovew each othew!" Zuma stared into Chase's eyes.

Chase calmed down for a while and took a deep breath. "Come on. Let's go search for him. Thank you, Zuma." He said with a calm tone.

"You guys, try to search at the whole Adventure Bay. I will ask for Tracker and Everest to help us to search him at the jungle and the mountains. I'll go too. Now, go!" Ryder went inside.

The others turned their houses into their vehicles and started moving. Ryder also went out from his garage and joined the others.

"Marshall... where are you...!?"

"How was it?" Ryder asked.

"He's not at the sea, obviously," Zuma reported. "Twied to check to Seal Island but he's not there!"

"I looked at the farm, both Farmer Al's and Farmer Yumi's, and no sign of Marshall!" Rubble also reported.

"Looked out at the hills, no sign of him either!" Skye reported too.

"No Dalmatian at the south part of the city, Ryder!" Rocky responded with the others.

"Neither at the north part!" Chase also answered.

"Tracker, Everest, how's it at the jungle and ice mountain?" Ryder asked the other backup.

"No lo sé! I can't find him!" Tracker answered. "Siento lo occurido, Ryder. Hope you guys can find him soon..." He apologized.

"Marshall is not in the mountains, not even his pawprints. Sorry, Ryder, I'm truly sorry for what's going on. Hope that you guys can bring Marshall home soon." Everest reported.

"That's fine, Everest and Tracker. We appreciate your help, anyway! Thank you." Ryder closed the connection. "Guys, we have to go back to the Lookout. We have things to be discussed." He ordered the five dogs.

"Alright, Ryder..." Everyone answered and returned to the Lookout.

"Dear... what's wrong with you...?" Chase mumbled to himself. "What's it? What makes you think that we didn't want you?" Chase shed a tear. "Were... we too harsh at that volleyball game? Was it because I left you? Or... was it because of that time? The time when we fight?" Chase cried. "I'm not a good brother, heck... all I did was harshing you, moment by moment... I never actually make you happy..." Chase slammed his paw to the steering wheel and accelerated.

Please return back, my dearest brother! We are missing you!