and Brent (with time machine in hand). The rest of the dogs stayed with Young Balto until he woke up.

Brent ran through the forest, with Jenna and Balto right beside him. Right behind the trio, both Young and Older Steele were decreasing the gap between them and revenge. Suddenly, Brent, Balto and Jenna burst out on an airfield. There, sitting on the airstrip, with its engines on, was a six-propeller cargo plane. Brent ran for the plane and opened the cargo bay door. Balto and Jenna jumped in, and Brent threw in the time machine. He then closed the door and jumped into the driver’s seat. He pushed the throttle stick forward and gripped the steering stick. The plane slowly started to move forward. Unaware of the trio, Older Steele had seen then get into the plane, and he had set four small bombs on one of the right propellers and on all three left engines. They were set to go off in two minutes, and the plane would crash once they do. Older Steele guided his younger self to the inevitable crash site.

Meanwhile, in the air, Brent was piloting the plane easily. The ride was going smoothly, when the bombs Older Steele planted exploded. The shockwave vibrated the whole plane. It threw Balto, Jenna and the time machine to the back of the plane, and Brent into the seat. When he recovered, he saw smoke coming from both sides of the plane. He knew what had happened. Four of his six engines had exploded, and the plane was going down. He grabbed the microphone to the cargo bay and yelled, ‘’grab a parachute and jump. The plane’s going down!’’

Jenna was the first. She hurriedly put on her chute and waited for Brent and Balto. Brent grabbed a chute as well. He opened the door and watched as Jenna jumped from the cargo bay. He turned and saw that Balto had disappeared. He figured he had jumped already and launched himself from the plane.

When both Jenna and Brent landed, they looked for Balto.

‘’Hey, where’s Balto?’’ Jenna asked.

‘’I thought he was with you.’’ Brent replied. Then they both looked at each other and exclaimed, ‘’he’s still on the plane!’’

Immediately, both Jenna and Brent scanned the skies for the plane. Suddenly, Jenna spotted it. The army green cargo plane was heading for a glacier.

Inside the cockpit, Balto pulled with all his might as the plane nosed upwards. He held his breath and watched as the right wing clipped the glacier, knocking out one more engine. The plane headed upwards, then pointed back to the ground, this time for good. Balto held on as the plane slammed into the forest, knocking parts off, and ripping the cockpit off. Inside, the time machine exploded, causing a giant time warp to appear. From where they stood, both Jenna and Brent watched as this time portal stretched across the sky. Brent’s jaw dropped.

‘’The Reverse Time Warp effect. It was only a theory I developed.’’

Jenna looked at him.

‘’What?’’ she asked. Brent cleared his throat and explained.

‘’The Reverse Time Warp theory only works when a time machine exploded. A giant time portal is created, sucking in all those who are not in their proper time period.’’

Suddenly, Jenna started to rise off the ground, as did Brent. They were sucked into the portal, which disappeared after Balto and Older Steele were inhaled as well. 

November 28, 1947,

A time portal appeared in Brent’s workshop, spitting out Brent, Balto Jenna and Steele into the bright room. Brent checked his lab clock. It read 4:23 pm. It was the exact time that they had departed for 1925.

‘’Are we back?’’ Balto asked. Brent nodded.

‘’We’re back, and it’ll be like we never left either.’’ He explained. Steele then grinned.

‘’Good, then your stupid time machine will still be where I hid it!’’ he then ran off. Brent turned to Balto and Jenna and replied, ‘’stay here! If it’s my machine he wants, he’ll have to go through me first!’ and without letting both dogs object, Brent ran in pursuit of Steele. Balto knew he couldn’t let his new friend get hurt. And besides, he owned him a rescue. Balto bolted after Brent, leaving Jenna in the lab.

The boiler room, ten minutes later…

Steele ran into the crawlspace and headed for the hidden time machine, with Brent right on his heels. Steele had just uncovered the machine, when Brent confronted him in the crawlspace. Steele smiled maniacally at Brent and replied, ‘’so, you think you can stop me?’’

Brent gave the same grin.

‘’Of course I can.’’ He answered and charged at Steele. He sidestepped and tripped Brent, who went head-first into the adjacent wall. Steele then slashed at Brent’s back. On the hay floor, a pile of fur started to build. Just then, Balto jumped in and sunk his teeth into Steele’s back. Steele yelped in pain and threw Balto over his shoulder and onto the ground. Steele then gave a small smile of satisfaction.

‘’Finally, wolf-dog, I have you right where I want you. I can finally make you pay for what you did to me the day you stole my team, stole my popularity, and stole my woman! You will die for making that mistake!’’ Steele then threw his front paw up and exposed his claws, ready to strike at any moment. Brent then decided to pull out a gadget he had saved only for an emergency. He reached in his pocket and pulled out a small ray gun.

‘’This’ll shut you up!’’ he yelled and pulled the trigger. A beam shot from the gun and froze Steele right in mid-step. He floated for a few seconds, and then disappeared. Balto got to his feet and stared at Brent.

‘’Where’d you send Steele?’’ he asked.

‘’He was being a bad dog, so I sent him to where all bad dogs go.’’ Brent explained as he holstered the ray gun. Balto then grabbed his by the neck and stared straight into his eyes.

‘’What did you do with him? Tell me!’’

‘’Okay, okay. Just let go of my neck,’’ Brent choked. Balto released his hold on Brent’s neck and waited for an answer. Brent sighed.

‘’I didn’t think I had to tell you his, but I guess there’s no choice. I am not from this time period. I come from the time 2025. That is why I am so good with technology. You see, dogs of the future have become as intelligent as mankind, and are considered as citizens of the world. And yes, in the future dogs always get to sit at the table. But back to more important things, about 200 000 000 miles above the Earth’s surface orbits a space colony called K9. It is inhabited by dogs, and on this colony is a prison where all the dog criminals are put. I sent Steele there.’’

‘’But how could you do that if the colony exists in 2025, but we are in 1947?’’ Balto asked. Brent smiled and showed Balto the ray gun.

‘’This is standard issue for all agents that inhabit the colony. I was hired by the President of the United States (his dog actually) to travel through time and capture all criminal dogs who have made the world ramped with crime. You see, I am truly a dog.’’

‘’But how can that be?’’ Balto asked. Brent then smiled.

‘’Technology in the future has advanced so much, that I can change myself into a giraffe if I wanted to. But enough talk, I must return to the colony. I hate to go, but I must.’’

Suddenly, Brent’s watch started to beep. Brent pressed a small button on the side of it and a small hologram appeared with the head of a general inside the beam. Brent saluted the general and replied, ‘’Agent Brent MacWolf reporting in, sir!’’

‘’It’s terrible! The colony reactor is about to explode. That maniac Steele has made the nuclear core unstable. It’s about to…’’ The line then cut out. Brent was stunned, and he turned to Balto.

‘’We have to go to 2025, and stop Steele from destroying my colony! My family, my friends, my life is aboard that colony, and the creep Steele has wiped it out. Let’s go ahead one day. That should give us enough time.’’

Brent set the destination time on his ray gun and was about to fire, when Jenna ran in. She jumped at Brent, which made him pull the trigger accidentally. Jenna froze in mid-air and disappeared. Brent checked the time and gave a sigh of relief.

‘’Whew. She’s on K9. But you’d better go first so that you can tell her the story. See you in a few!’’ Brent then pulled the trigger. The beam rushed from the gun and surrounded Balto. He went as straight as a board and disappeared. Brent then turned the gun on himself and sent his body to 2025 and colony K9.

Space Colony K9, November 28, 2025,

A brown and white husky walked slowly down the hallways of the space colony K9. He was a lonely husky with no friends, and the bullies teased him about his liking of Balto. Suddenly, the husky heard something. He looked up and saw Jenna heading straight for him. The husky tried to run, but Jenna landed right on top of him. Then Balto and Brent did the same. Under the three bodies, the husky yelled, ‘’can you please get off me! I can’t breathe!’’

When the three friends got off the husky, he casually brushed himself off, muttering to himself as he did so. Finally, he turned and started to rant.