Mr. Snippy sliced the air with his blades.
Snip! Snip! He moved closer to Roxy.
Roxy shot her eye laser beams at the blades.
Whiz-hoo! The blades exploded into little pieces.
"Gah!" cried Mr. Snippy.
"I don't care if you have eye laser beams.
You'll never stop me, Rocket Girl!"
Mr. Snippy ran to the back of the salon.
A tiny white poodle stood chained to a table.
"Yip, yip!" The poodle barked.
"Daisy just had a haircut," said Mr. Snippy.
"And now I'll put on her brand-new collar!"
Mr. Snippy put the collar onto Daisy.
Roxy gasped as the little poodle turned into a snarling monster dog!
"I was right, Snippy!" Roxy said angrily.
"Your collars are turning pets into monsters!"
Mr. Snippy had an evil grin.
"My apartment building doesn't allow pets.
So I had to give away my cute little puppy.
Now no one in Metro City will ever have a cute little pet again!"
"Ha-ha-ha!" Mr. Snippy's laugh filled the salon as the poodle leaped at Roxy.
"YIP, YIP!" Daisy barked.
"Ahh!" Roxy jumped out of the way.
The little dog was trying to attack her!
Roxy floated in the air above the barking poodle.
"I need a plan," she thought.
Just then she heard a whirring noise.
It was coming from behind a door.
"YIP, YIP!" Daisy was still barking.
Roxy used her x-ray vision to look through the door.
There was a room with video screens, switches, and blinking lights.
"I'll bet that equipment controls all the collars," thought Roxy.
She made a fist and flew at the door.
Ka-bam! She smashed the door into pieces.
Then—whiz-hoo! She fired her eye laser beams, and the equipment exploded.
"No!" cried Mr. Snippy.
"You destroyed Collar Control Central!"
"Yip, yip!" Daisy barked.
She licked Roxy's face happily.
She was a normal dog again.
Roxy waited for Daisy's owner to come.
Then she took Mr. Snippy to jail.
Roxy returned to Metro City Park.
She saw the man with one shoe.
He was walking Buster.
"I'm glad you're a normal dog again, Buster," said the man.
Roxy soon found her friends.
Max was still sleeping.
"Guess what!" said Terrell.
"Rocket Girl saved us from monster pets!"
Mara nodded. "The pets were awful!"
She looked down at Max and hugged him.
"Not like boring Max!"
Roxy laughed. "Good dog, Max!"