finished.

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Coco was running through the park with Scruff clinging on to his back. "Wheee!" he squeaked.

"Hey, do ya think I can jump over that tree stump?" Coco said.

"Yeah!" Scruff answered. Coco ran towards the stump and jumped clean over it.

"Uncle Coco, that was great!" Scruff yipped, hugging Coco's head. Coco blushed.

"Should we do it again?" Coco asked.

"Yeah!" Scruff agreed. Coco kept running, jumping over every stump or rock he saw, but he didn't notice that he was getting closer to the woods. Eventually they jumped into the woods and kept going. Coco didn't notice the high ledge that he was getting closer to. Coco jumped over another stump and skidded towards the edge of the ledge. he slipped of it. He grabbed onto the edge and tried to pull himself up, he couldn't. Scruff was hanging onto Coco's legs. He was really scared and started calling for help. The screams reached Tangerine back at the Junkyard.

"Scruff!?" Tangerine dropped the bone she was holding in her mouth and ran towards the screams as fast as she could. She made it to the two dogs. She noticed that the part of the ledge that they were holding on to was cracking. Coco and Scruff were too heavy for it to handle! Tangerine gulped. "Hold on, Scruff, I'm coming," Tangerine said. She stepped towards them and reached out her paw. But as she stepped on the crackly part of the ledge, it just cracked some more. "What do I do?" tangerine thought frantically. Suddenly, she got an idea. "Coco! Swing your legs and toss Scruff up to me!" Tangerine said. Coco did as he was told and swung his legs. Scruff let go and clung on to Tangerines stretched out paw. "Hold on Scruff, I'll pull you up," Tangerine said. Scruff was slipping and tears were falling out of his eyes like crazy, it hurt for him to hold on and eventually, he couldn't hold on anymore and fell down. "SCRUFF!" tangerine yelled in fear.

"TANGIE!" Scruff yelled back. Coco clambered up just as the crackly art of the ledge broke off and fell down after Scruff.

"I have to get him back!" Tangerine took a deep breath and jumped, but Coco grabbed her neck scruff and pulled her back.

"Don't. He's- he's gone," Coco wept.

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Scruff opened his eys, he had passed out before he'd hit the ground. He found himself staring up at a white wolfdog. he jumped up and backed away.

"Hold it, fella," The wolfdog said as gently as he could.

"How did I get here?" Scruff asked, shaking.

"I caught ya. You were falling down a cliff and I thought I'd catch ya," He said.

"Cool," Scruff yipped. "But can you take me back up?" Scruff asked.

"Sure, no sweat," The wolfdog shrugged. Scruff climbed on the wolfdogs back and he carried Scruff towards the top of the ledge.

"Oh, Coco, I never even told him I loved him," Tangerine sobbed into Coco's fur.

"Tangie!" A familiar voice called out.

"Scruff?" Tangerine frantically looked around her. She saw Scruff on the wolfdogs back. She rushed over and hugged Scruff tightly. She looked at the wolfdog and recognised him.

"Zero?" She cocked her head in shock at Zero saving a pups life.

"You guys?" Zero rolled his eyes.

"Yep. He saved me. He's really cool and knows all these great moves and he's free to do whatever he wants!" Scruff said. "I wanna be just like him."

Tangerine's eyes widened. She didn't want to let Scruff out of her sight, she wanted to be with him forever. "No, you won't," Tangerine argued.

"It's really cool," Zero urged, laughing slightly.

"You keep your fur out of this!" Tangerine barked. She turned her head to Scruff. "And you. how could you. You went into the woods. You promised me you wouldn't,"

"I'm sorry," Scruff whimpered.

"Hey, don't upset the kid," Zero chuckled.

"Shut up!" Tangerine growled. "We're going home. She looked at Zero.

"You, get out of here." Then she turned to Scruff.

"You, owe me an apology. Then she looked at Coco.

"And you, Junkyard, now!" Tangerine, Scruff and Coco went back to the junkyard, while Zero went back into the woods.

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A few days later, Tangerine was licking Scruff clean."Tangie, can I go outside today?" He asked. Tangerine thought about it for a while. He thought that Scruff had learned his lesson about going into the woods and agreed. Scruff went out of the bin and walked towards the park. He took one look at the woods and bounded over to it. But Tangerine had given him strict instructions not to go in the woods. he hesitated, then ran into the woods...then ran back out of it again, and he did the same again. He repeated this for a few times. All the running around and panting, woke Bandit up, who was taking a nap under a nearby tree. He walked over to Scruff and the wolfdog pup stopped running.

"Uncle Bandit, please don't tell Tangie that I'm trying to go into the woods. It'll make her so upset.

"It looks to me like you're trying to stay out of the woods," Bandit said. "What you need is a boost!" Bandit said.

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Bandit wasn't kidding when he said 'boost' Bandit made a catapult out of two tree branches, tied together to shoot Scruff into the woods. Bandit had gotten Coco to help him. "Okay, are you ready?" Bandit asked.

"Yeah!" Scruff laughed.

"NO!" Tangerine suddenly appeared and marched over to take Scruff away from the catapult. "You are deliberately trying to get Scruff into the woods!" Tangerine yapped.

"But you said that it was only Zero that couldn't encourage him," Bandit said.

"When I say wolfdogs, that means dobermans, too!" Tangerine shouted at Bandit. She looked into Scruffs eyes which were welling with tears.

"I'm sorry, Tangie, but I just have to go into the woods. It means everything to me," He said.

"Does it mean more than I do?" Tangerine said, with her eyes wide.

"Hey, Tangerine. I think you should move out of the launch zone?" Coco said, still holding onto the edge of the catapult.

"Just let go of that!" Tangerine said.

"But-"

"NOW!" Tangerine snatched that branches out of Coco's mouth, but she was in the launch zone, so, the branches sent her flying into the woods. Scruff ran after her. Scruff weaved his way through trees, jumped over logs and jumped through the tree's until he found Tangerine deep within the woods. She was against a tree, unconsious. Scruff grabbed hold of her hind paw and dragged her back to the wood entrance. She gained consiousness a few minutes later.

"Am I dead?" She asked.

"Nope. Scruff saved you," Bandit said.

"Wha- how!?" Tangerine asked.

"I went into the woods after you, Tangie. Now I'm brave enough to run free!" Scruff giggled.

"You did WHAT!?" Tangerine gasped. the other two dogs congratulated Scruff. Tangerine drooped away. Scruff noticed and started crying into Bandit's