Roxy is a Poodle belonging to Jack West Jr.
History[]
Early History[]
As a puppy, Roxy once belonged to a family who lived in the suburbs of Adelaide, primarily being loved by their eight-year-old daughter. One day, however, a pair of pit bulls living in the neighbouring house got under the fence and attacked Roxy. The little Poodle fought the larger dogs off even as they tore at her throat and left foreleg, holding out just long enough for help to arrive. Though the clinic she was brought to determined that Roxy would live, her owners believed their daughter wouldn't want a broken dog and abandoned her. Within a few weeks, Roxy had recovered enough that she only had a slight limp when walking, and during her time at the shelter, Roxy exasperated the staff with constant escapes from her cage.
In the months after the Dark Star's return, Lily West asked for a pet dog, leading to Jack and Zoe to arrange a trip to the dog shelter where Roxy was kept. Though Lily was quickly taken by the Labrador Ash, Jack was surprised by Roxy, who, having escaped her cage again, caught his attention by pawing at his legs. After hearing the poodle's story from the shelter keeper and liking her fighting spirit, Jack decided that they should adopt Roxy too.
Roxy enjoyed hanging around Jack as he worked on the farmland, and the Poodle's attempts to play with Jack's falcon Horus annoyed the old bird, and whenever she was particularly annoyed, Horus would take Roxy's favourite toy and leave it on top of a bookshelf, to Jack's amusement.
In November 2016, when Jack was called to a meeting at Pine Gap, Roxy was brought along on the Sky Warrior to the facility. Roxy and Ash were petted by General Abrahamsom before being left with Lily and Alby in the waiting room as Jack was being briefed. However, the Poodle was knocked out by a sleeping gas leaked into the facility, and was summarily taken away along with Jack and the others by a group of people led by Iolanthe.
The Four Legendary Kingdoms[]
Roxy and the others would wake up two days later inside a train-mounted cage, as a man calling himself Hades announced the beginning of the Great Games of the Hydra in the Underworld.
When Jack was reunited with his friends in the interim before the next Challenge, Roxy barked happily at his return and nuzzled up against his leg while Iolanthe Compton-Jones explained to the group about the Four Legendary Kingdoms with Jack being used as a last-moment replacement Champion with his human and canine friends being used as hostages to ensure his participation.
After the Third Challenge, Roxy ate with the others, and was wary of the strange Neanderthal man E-147, remaining in front of Jack protectively and barking as he began speaking.
The following morning, faced with a wall maze for the Fourth Challenge, Jack opted to choose Alby, for his brains, and Roxy, for her easy-to-carry size and protective senses to accompany him. At one stage Roxy leaped out of Jack's arms to attack one of DeShawn Monroe's companions as he attempted to ambush them. Roxy's surprise attack threw the Navy SEAL off-balance and caused him to fall off the ledge into the sulfurous lake below, with Jack narrowly grabbing the poodle before she was dragged down with him. As Jack attempted to grab Mephisto to ensure their escape, Alby held on to Roxy near the exit until Jack returned.
Roxy, Ash and Alby were left in the hostage train during the Fifth Challenge, but having learned that all the hostages were going to be executed, Jack fired an RPG at the train tracks, sending Roxy and the other hostages crashing onto the staircase. Once Jack grabbed Roxy, Alby, Ash and Scarecrow's hostage Tomahawk, they began their escape from the Underworld.
Roxy remained with the group when they later returned to the Underworld to free Jack and Lily, and returned home to the West farm when the ordeal was over.
The Three Secret Cities[]
In the days after returning from the Underworld, Roxy remained close by Jack's side at all times.
When Jack and the others prepared to go to New York, Roxy was left behind on the farm with Ash and E-147, with the minotaur being tasked with looking after the two dogs and being reminded not to try and eat them.
The Two Lost Mountains[]
While Jack and the team were off undertaking the Trial of the Cities, E-147 dutifully looked after Roxy, Ash and Horus, and the ever-playful poodle enjoyed fetching her ball when the minotaur played with her, and her own gammy leg gave E-147 a sense of kinship due to his similar recent injury. By the third morning, Roxy and Ash had gotten used to E-147, and both slept on his bed during the night, which caused the surprised-yet-pleased minotaur to start adoring them.
When the team started basing themselves at Hades's estate in Alsace-Lorraine, a private plane was arranged to fly Easton, Roxy, Ash and Horus to them. As they arrived at the estate, E-147 assured Jack that the dogs were well and reported that he had been a good dog minder and had not eaten Roxy or Ash; Jack understood that what he was really try to say was that he adored the dogs, and so praised his work.
Roxy remained at the estate over the next few weeks, and after Lily, Stretch and Aloysius Knight, all comatose after hearing the Siren bells' tone, were brought into a room to rest, E-147 - now Easton - placed blankets in the same room so that Roxy and Ash could stay and watch over them.
Later, when Yago DeSaxe and his forces invaded the estate, Roxy and Ash chased after Alby and Easton as they were rushing the sleepers to the escape train below. After emerging onto the platform, a piece of the ceiling was dislodged and fell between the dogs and the carriage, and though Ash cowered, Roxy leapt over the debris and onto the train.
After the team later reunited outside Dijon, Roxy was likely kept on the team's newly-acquired Super Galaxy, up until it landed in Jerusalem and Easton and Pooh Bear set off in a van to meet with Jack, with Roxy joining them. When they met up with Jack, he, Easton and Pooh were all knocked out by Jaeger Zwei's use of a Siren bell. As dogs were not affected by the bell's tone, Roxy remined alert, and as Zwei and his bronzemen approached the van, the poodle sprang from the van to Jack. Despite her small size, Roxy barked at the automatons and tried to pull Jack to safety in a vain attempt to defend her master, and the surprised-yet-annoyed Zwei decided to shoot her first. Fortunately, Zoe and Lily's group arrived and started taking down the bronzemen, with the now-awake Lily reassuring Roxy that it was okay as Tracy Smith woke Jack up.
Once back on the Super Galaxy, Roxy presumably remained onboard up until the team set off for the Supreme Labyrinth.
The One Impossible Labyrinth[]
After Jack had averted the Omega Event and saved the world, he returned to his farm, with Roxy continuing to live with him. As Easton began living in a cottage on the property, Roxy began playing with the minotaur often and occasionally sleeping at the foot of his bed.
Trivia[]
- Where Roxy, Ash and Horus were during the primary events of The One Impossible Labyrinth is unknown; they are not not mentioned to be with any on the teams outside the Supreme Labyrinth. As it is unlikely that they were onboard the team's planes during the approach to the Labyrinth's Gates, it is likely that they were left somewhere safe in Cairo before the team departed.