*Skipper's PoV*

We arrive at BLowhole's base shortly. We park the pink, girly car a few feet away and enter the base. Blowhole rides out of the darkness.
"Come and see them," he smirks.

We follow him through a long, dark corridor. Doors on each side of the walls. I shudder to think what torturous devices lie behind each steal slab.

Blwohole finally stops at the end of the hall-way. He grins as he opens the door and leads us into the darkness. He flips a switch on the 墙 and lights turn on.

We see Kiva and Private sitting in one cage, and CC lying in another. Kowalski has a closer look at her and whisperes something to me.
"Judging 由 the way her left flipper is postioned and the look to extreame pain on her face, her wing is badly hurt."
"Well THAT complicates matters," I snap back in a whisper.
"Shut up," Blowhole snaps. "Do 你 wish to know how to save them?"
"How do we save them?" I snap back.
"Well, 你 have three options. 1, 你 give up CC and Kiva and save only Private. 2, 你 give up Private AND Kowalski and only save CC and Kiva," Kowalski gets a look of horror on his face. "And 3, 你 give yourself up and save all four of them."

"I bet 你 know what I'm going to choose," I growl.
"Yes?" Blwohole asks, expectently.
"I choose none of the above!"
"Wait, WHAT?" Blowhole shouts. "How do 你 propose to do that?"
"Rico," I bark and he chucks-up a big brick and throws it at Blowhole, who falls off his scooter.
"Oh the humility," he moans. "Knocked off my seg-way 由 a stupid, barfing penguin."

Rico gets ap paper-clip and unlocks the cages. Kiva rushes up to me and hugs me. I am taken 由 surprise, but return the hug none the less.

Private snatches the paper-clip from Rico's flippers and hastily unlocks CC's cage. She had been lying down the whole time, probably passed out from the pain she's in. When she hears the cage door open on squeaky hinges, she lifts up her head.
"mph, Private?" she groans, as he enters the cage and kneels down beside her.
"Are 你 alright?" he asks anxiously.
"I-I think,"

Kowalski goes into the cage and gently feels her flipper. She winces in pain and he turns to me.
"It's not broken, but badly sprianed," he explains.
"Does it matter? Broken, sprained, it'll still hurt," Private says, almost snapping.
"Private," I warn. "I know you're worried about CC, but that's no excuse to snap."
"Sorry sir,"

Rico had gone to make sure Blowhole didn't get away. He stuffs the 江豚, 海豚 into the cage Kiva and Private were in.
"LET ME OUTTA HERE!!!"
"Nuh-uh."

"SELF-DESTRUCT IN NINTY SECONDS!!! EIGHTY-NINE, EIGHTY-EIGHT, EIGHTY-SEVEN..."
"Looks like we have to get out of here," Kowalski points out, as the whole base begins to rumble.

*CC's PoV*

Rico scoops me up and ran out the door. I insist I can run fine, so Rico lets me down. Just as we were about to run out the door, Private and I behind the group, a beam falls from the ceiling and lands on 最佳, 返回页首 of Private, pinning him down. I turn back to him, the others oblivious to the fact we arn't following.

"No, leave me, go back!" Private insists. But I protest.
"I'm not leaving you!" I yell above the constant rumbling noise of the base. I faintly hear the count-down voice blasting out the fifties and I try to get the beam off Private.
"It's useless with one flipper!" he yells. "Go and save yourself!"
"NO!"
"Why not? 你 still have to get back to your family! We can't BOTH get out! JUST GO!
"NO!" I yell, emotion and stress whelling up inside me. "I'M NOT LEAVING YOU!! I'LL NEVER LEAVE A FRIEND!!"

The last sentence gives me new straingth and I pull, with both flippers, depsite the pain, the beam off of the boy's back. 由 the time he gets to his feet, we both want to cry, but the count-down is into the twenties. We run as fast as we can, ignoring our great distress of the situation. We'll have plenty of time to let it out when we get out.

IF we get out.

*Skipper's PoV*

I had called for a head count and two are missing. We soon realize it's Private and CC who are MIA.
"Good Galilaio!" Kowalski exclaims. "They must still be inside!"
"I'm not gonna let them die without a fight!" I snap, punching my fist into my flipper.
"B-but Skipper," Kiva stammers. "What if 你 don't get out?"
"At least I'd have tried," I say. "No-one follow me. I'm counting on 你 three to STAY HERE!" and with that, I march inside the dangerous building.

*CC's PoV*

"NINTEEN, EIGHTEEN, SEVENTEEN, SIXTEEN..." the voice booms as we run. Private is limping badly on his right foot, but that's only because his foot got into a funny postion when the beam fell on 最佳, 返回页首 of him. We get 更多 and 更多 distressed as the voice continues to count down.

Suddenly, Skipper appears out of no-where. I'm so relived to see him, I break down and cry, collapsing to the ground as I do so. Private does the same, hugging his leader around the neck.
"Stop crying," he says, calmly but firmly. He pulls Private off of him and helps me up. We keep running, hoping we make it out alive. I PRAY that we make it out alive. Private keeps limping and Skipper notices. He lifts Private up and continues on.

*Kowalski's PoV*

We can hear the voice counting down. We can see the whole base, rumbling violently. But we can't see Skipper, Private and CC. I start to worry and I know Kiva and Rico are worrying too. Then I hear it, the words I dread the most at that point in time.

"THREE, TWO, ONE...!"