Five to Six Hours Later...

"Why does this happen every time we play this game?!" Snowball cried. He and the rest of the gang were frantically searching Gidget's apartment in yet another game of Hide n Seek that became a search and rescue party. Once again, no one had been able to find Tiberius anywhere in the apartment. And they had searched EVERYWHERE. Three times.

"He's not in here!" Buddy called from where he and Mel had been checking the dishwasher.

"Nothing in the bedroom!" Duke cried, lumbering back out into the living room.

"He's not under the couch or the chair!" Max informed the gang.

"How bout the refrigerator?" Pops asked, strolling towards it. The elderly basset hound was about to open the door when Chloe peeked out from inside of it, her face stained red. "Don't bother checking, I've already looked," the tabby explained, adding when she saw horror and confusion written on everyone's faces, "And it's just punch, not blood." She went back into the refrigerator. Scratching his head, Leonard mumbled, "Okay then..."

"I've checked this entire closet and he's not in here! Just a bunch of coats, blankets, shoes and whatever this creepy thing is!" Ozone yowled, tossing the item he had described back into the closet before shutting the door.

"Maybe he's hiding outside somehow?" Norman squeaked.

Gasping for air after he had resurfaced from his descent down the sink, Sweetpea chirped and whistled.

"Right, where is the one place Tiberius would most likely hide in this apartment?" Gidget murmured, looking around. Padding over to his girlfriend, Max piped up, "I would say in plain sight since he camouflages so well but there is no way he's gonna camouflage himself in here."

"So much white..." Mel mumbled, laying on his back in the center of the living room floor. Max gestured towards the pug, evidence to what he had just claimed.

"I'm gonna check the hallway out here..." Duke muttered, heading towards the front door. Opening it, he peeked his head out while back in the kitchen Leonard and Ozone were dragging Chloe out of the refrigerator. Pulling his head back inside the apartment and turning to face the rest of the gang, the giant mutt reported, "Hallway's empty." A chorus of groans broke out. Throwing his paws up into the air, Snowball exclaimed, "Where the heck is he?!"

"Found him!" Norman's squeaky voice called. All eyes turned towards the young guinea pig to find him peering inside of an air vent. Bounding over to their youngest friend, Gidget looked inside with him. Curled up and somehow fitting quite well inside the air vent was Tiberius, who was sound asleep and snoring softly. Shaking her head quietly in disbelief, Gidget reached in and tapped her friend on the shoulder. Blinking his light brown eyes open, the old red tailed hawk yawned and mumbled, "Did I win?"

"How in the world did he fit in there?" Mel asked Buddy, who shrugged his shoulders in reply while Sweetpea whistled.