Out of the corner of his eye, Woopie saw the woman who had helped him at the bank approaching. “I’m so glad you lived up to your reputation, superhero,” she said with a smile. “Would you be willing to help more pets in need?”

Woopie and Nina immediately agreed, and she led them to the pet asylum, which was home to hundreds of homeless pets. The sight that met them when they entered was miserable. There were elderly cats and dogs who were little more than walking corpses.

Some of the younger pets were biting at invisible flies while others wandered in aimless circles. The staff did what they could to help, but most of the pets showed no signs of recovery.

When the staff at the asylum saw Woopie enter with Allison (Woopie had learned the young woman’s name on their trip to the asylum), they welcomed him as if a god had come to answer their prayers.

“What happened to these pets?” Woopie asked Clive, whom Allison had introduced as the director of the asylum.

“Depression has taken hold of many of them. They have lost their senses after losing their loved ones or other traumatic experiences. Many of them die every day because they refuse to eat anything except cream pies. And we can’t afford enough cream pies to keep them all fed. We have tried everything, but it has all been in vain,” Clive explained.

Woopie toured the whole asylum and saw that all of the pets were totally out of sorts. When they reached the last corridor, Woopie saw the dark cages where some of the dogs and cats were imprisoned. The dogs were barking angrily and the cats were meowing furiously while trying to claw their way out of the cages. Clive told Woopie that these were the most mentally disturbed and frustrated pets. They had been so traumatized that they would sometime attack their fellow pets in the asylum; that’s why they had to be kept all alone.

Woopie could relate to their loneliness in a small way. Woopie was currently living away from his parents for the first time in his life. He could imagine what it would be like to have permanently lost a loved one or to have no hope of getting back to one’s family.

Woopie and Nina were deeply grieved by everything they saw. They promised Clive they would come back as soon as they had devised a cure for these pets.

“Nina, I want to cure them at any cost,” Woopie said as they returned to the laboratory. “I have a huge responsibility on my shoulders, but I don’t know what to do. I have never cured mental problems like these before.”

“Don’t let the pressure get to you. If anyone can do it, you can. And I am with you to help you,” Nina said. Her encouraging words were enough to get Woopie started as soon as they reached the laboratory, but he still didn’t know where to start. Woopie had never faced mental illness before – it was very rare on his home planet. He had always treated pets’ physical injuries and wounds. He lay on the floor that night and looked up at the stars. Woopie missed Dog & Cat City. He missed his parents and his own room too. Bt he reminded himself that he was doing something remarkable, and that brought him peace.

Before he fell asleep, Woopie asked the ancient dog king to give him wisdom. That night Woopie had a very unusal dream. He saw the dog king standing on the peak of a snowy mountain picking red flowers.

The flowers instantly brought a smile to the dog king’s face, and as he inhaled their scent, he was filled with calmness.

Woopie woke up with a start around midnight. Nina was sleeping nearby, and he shook her awake. After he narrated his unusual dream to her, they both knew what they had to do. Without delay, Woopie dressed in his orange costume and flew to Chuck’s house.

“Chuck! Chuck! I need to go to the snowy mountains. It’s an emergency,” Woopie panted.

“Right now?” Chuck asked drowsily.

“Yes,” Woopie said. “I know how to cure the pets’ depression.”

The three friends began their journey. After flying for hours, they alit on the highest peak of the snowy mountains. It was the same mountain that Woopie had seen in his dream.

Woopie asked Nina and Chuck to collect all the red flowers they could find. Chuck didn’t understand the purpose of this, but he trusted that Woopie had a great reason for it. Soon they had picked thousands of flowers.

They dropped Chuck off at his house on their way back to the laboratory. As soon as they arrived, Woopie and Nina began experimenting with the flowers. There had to be something in these flowers they could use to create a unique product to calm the frustrated pets. While he tried different combinations, Woopie asked Nina to bake cream pies since that was all the pets in the asylum would eat. Once Woopie found the perfect combination of vitamins and crushed flowers, he added the concoction to the hundreds of cream pies that Nina had baked.

After working for three days, Woopie called Clive. The treats were ready, but he needed help getting them to the asylum.

Clive sent all their vans and workers to help Woopie bring the treats to the frustrated and depressed pets. Each pet would be served a cream pie with a treat dose that was appropriate for his weight and size. The pets imprisoned in the cages were given a double dose of the calming treats due to their critical condition.

While serving the cream pies, the workers realized that they were going to run out of calming treats soon. They ran to Woopie and told him the bad news.