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This is another chapter in a story that goes back over 10 years ago, this is the introduction of an old character Auto, who now goes by Otto.

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About an hour and a half later, the pizza had not come yet, but there was an interesting show on, called Rise of the Jellyfish. On tv, a young female lioness was fishing for box jellyfish.

Suddenly, Fox's stomach growled loudly, right as the lioness caught her first jelly.

"Shh!" Falco exclaimed.

"Shh!" Said Firefox.

Denali giggled as she said "Shh!"

Fox looked down at his tummy. "Shh!" He whispered.

Half an hour later, their show ended. The pizza still had not come, and by noez everyones' stomachs were growling.

Finally, there was a knock on the door. Firefox answered it.

"Sorry I'm late! I got caught in a cloud burst, and could'nt get outside for a while. I'm really sorry." Said the pizza guy, a cheetah no younger than themselves.

"That's OK, dude. It's all good." Firefox told him.

Denali came back up behind her sister. "Oh," Denali squinted at the pizzas guy's name tag. "Auto, you're soaking wet!" She said, handing him a towl.

Why dose that name sound familiar? Falco asked himself. He had a flash back of himself as a seven-year-old, playing under a tree with a seven-year-old Auto. Both youngsters were laughing hysterically about something. Present day Falco jumped up and turned around. "Auto!" He exclaimed, running to the door.

"Heyyy, Falco! Wassup, man?" Auto asked in his raspy, strept-throat-like voice.

"You know him?" Firefox asked.

"Heck yeah, since third grade!" Falco playfully punched Auto in the shoulder. The two slaped hugh fives and laughed about some inside joke.

"Well, I'd better get goin' then." Auto said.

"Naw, man. It's pouring out there." Falco aurgued.

"Man, dude, I know. But I gotta get going. Hafta get ready for campin' tommarow." Auto said.

"Holiday?" Falco asked.

"Yup." Auto replied.

"We're going there tommarow! You should so totally come with! Of course, if it's allright with you guys." Falco said.

"Fine be me." Firefox told him.

"I dunno….." Auto looked down. Without lifting his head, Auto fixed his gold eye and green eye on Falco. "You got room in that big truck of yours?" He asked, allready knowing the answer.

"Heck yeah!" Falco exclaimed.

Auto looked up, and one corner of his lip curled up into a crooked smile. The two BFFS did a secret handshake, and then they all invited Auto in for pizza.

"So, Auto, how long have you worked at the pizza place?" Denali asked while they all ate pizza.

"Oh, man, about a year now. It's real boring, but at least I get to eat pizza on lunch break!" Auto chuckeled.

"Yeah. Didn't we used to call you the "Pizza Man" in eighth grade?" Falco asked.

"Ha ha, yeah, man. Now I really am the Pizza Man!" Auto exclaimed.

"Ohhh, now I remember you!" Firefox said.

"And you are…..?" Auto asked.

"Firefox." She replied.

"Oh, you were the one who kept picking on me in grade school." Auto said, remembering.

"Yeah…..'bout that…." Firefox began.

Denali nudged her. "Fire! You acually liked……" Firefox shoved a piece of pizza in her sisters mouth.

Firefox was so engrossed in stoping Denali from finishing her setence, she didn't notice Fox had suddenly stoped eating his pizza, untill he stood up with his ears twisting and turning around.

"Do you guys hear that?" Fox asked.

"No, what's it sound like?" Said Denali.

"Kinda like…..scratching." Fox told her.

"A mouse, probably." Firefox said calmly.

"Or maybe your imagination, dude." Auto joked.

"Wait, no, I hear it too. Listen." Falco said.

Sure enough, they all heard scratching noises coming from a drawer in the nightstand!

Firefox curiously strolled over to the drawer, and pulled it open. A little white mouse was hudled in the corner on top of a phone book. "Look at that, it's a mouse!" Firefox exclaimed, picking up the little creature.

"Awww. Can I hold him?" Denali asked.

"I think he might be someone's pet. He's very well groomed." Firefox pointed out as she handed Denali the tiny mouse.

"Yeah. Or maybe this hotel is infested." Falco said in an eerie voice.

Auto laughed. "Totally. Attack of the fluffy fur-balls!" He exclaimed.

"I think we should take him to the front desk, see if he belongs to anyone." Fox pointed out.

So the group walked down to the front desk. A young lioness named Ellie came to their aid. "How may I help you?" She asked.

"Uh, we found this little eavesdroper in our room." Firefox replied, holding up the little mouse.

"Snowball!" Ellie exclaimed, picking up her little pet. "I am so sorry, Snowball is always geting out of his cage." Ellie apologized, and scolded her mouse.

"That's okay. Snowball is really cute, it's like staying mad at a puppy: it's next to impossible." Denali smiled.

Ellie grinned.

"We'd better get back to our room so we can acually wake up in the morning." Falco said.

"Yeah. Nice meeting you, Ellie!" Denali called as they turned around.

"Nice meeting you, too! Thanks for bringing Snowball back!" Ellie exclaimed.

Everyone walked up to their room, and finished eating their pizza.

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Later, they all sat around, watching more Discovery. Now, it was on commercial. Auto's voice broke the silence of the moment:

"Dude, did you just, like, eat a whole, large, pizza?" He asked Fox.

"Yes." Everyone answered.

"They know me too well." Fox said.

"Whoa, dude! Awesome!" Auto exclaimed.

As their show came back on, Denali walked over to Fox, who was lying on the bed with his paws on his stomach. "Is your tummy full, Fox?" Denali asked as she rubbed Fox's tummy like he was a puppy.

Fox nodded and snuggled closer to Denali.

Suddenly, everyone hear a loud thump. Auto had fallen on the floor between the two beds, asleep.

Falco threw a blanket over him, and they all went to bed too.

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