Just as I jumped into my room, I heard alarms begin to ring throughout the compound. I grinned to myself. Private and Kowalski must have finished letting everybody go. I glanced at the surprised faces looking at me. "Who wants to get out?"

Everybody yelled with joy. As I unlocked the different cages, I came to one with a squirrel. "You must be Fred," I said.

He looked at me. "Is the hotel stay over?"

I stared at him. He continued. "The room was okay, but the 食物 is horrible. They don't even have acorns!"

I shook my head and decided to play along for the sake of everybody else. "We're having a 火, 消防 drill. Just follow the crowd outside."

"Okay." He got out of the cage and followed everyone out.

I sighed in relief and continued freeing the 动物 from their cages. As the last animal was freed, Private and Kowalski came over. "Oh!" exclaimed Private. "This room is already done!"

I turned my gaze to them. "Are the rest of the rooms done?"

"As we know, yes," 说 Kowalski.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"We're not sure," 说 Private.

At that moment, an officer came in. He looked at us, and Private gasped. "It's Officer X!"

"Penguins," 说 X in contempt. "You caused me my job, but you're not going to do that again."

He made a lunge for us, and we all jumped out of the way. "Wasn't it jobs?" I teased.

Kowalski turned a flip away from X's grabbing hands. "You know he can't understand you, so he doesn't know that 你 are taunting him, right?"

I somersaulted over the officer's head. "Everybody knows when somebody is teasing them, even if it's just squawks."

X growled. "Come back here!"

We slid out of the room and began sliding for our lives. "So," I said, "Any options, Kowalski?"

He glared at me before answering. "If we can find the rest of the team, we might have a higher chance of defeating him."

"Good." I slid ahead of them. "Follow me!"

I turned left. Private and Kowalski were right behind me. "How do 你 know where to go?" panted Private.

"You can call it a hunch." I shrugged. "Gut instinct, I guess."

Kowalski groaned. "Great! Our lives are placed in the hands of a hunch!"

"Hey!" I snapped. "Respect the gut. It's saved my tail feathers in countless of times, and I don't think it's going to let me down now."

"Can we save this for another time?" asked Private.

"The boy is right," I said. "Save this for later."

"How is it my fault?"

We turned left and nearly collided with Rico. "Sorry, Rico!" I yelled. "Can't stop now! 你 might want to 加入 us if 你 value your life!"

"It's X!" explained Private as Rico slid 下一个 to us.

Rico jabbered something incomprehensible. "What did he say?" I asked.

"He wants to know if we can bomb X up!" 说 Private.

I thought for a while. Kowalski gaped. "You're not seriously considering it, are you?" he gasped.

I turned an apologetic glance to Rico. "Sorry, Rico. As much as it's appealing to me, we have to save it for later."

"Save it for later?" repeated Kowalski. "Do 你 want to bring the whole roof on us?"

"Hopefully, no," I replied. "Just a start of a plan."

As we turned another corner, I yelled out. "Look out, Skipper!"

Skipper shifted in time to jump up and slide 下一个 to me. "What did 你 do?" he yelled.

"Why don't 你 look behind us?"

Skipper glanced behind. "Oh," he said, "I see you've found X."