21 — Stickam Caps Dog

With Tech-Tech’s help (and a chaotic cameo from a teleporting, caffeine-obsessed chameleon named Zee), Max navigates collapsing tunnels, dodges rogue cleaning robots, and solves a riddle etched into the walls: “To fix time’s thread, walk where the past sings.” They decode it as the “Chime Tower,” a clockwork landmark hidden beneath the city. At the Chime Tower, Max places his paw on a resonant crystal, which syncs with the collar to unlock a portal. The trio leaps into the shimmering vortex, where Max finds himself in a pre-automated Lumina—a forested haven before the city’s expansion. Here, he meets young scientists (including a wise, old-forest-talking turtle named Professor Hikari) who reveal a corporate plot to erase that era from history.