Rocky tried fixing his pup tag for a while, but eventually, he gave up. As a result to the explosion, something must have broken in the communication chip, that he could fix with his tools but not with bare paws. Skye stayed in the same position since she couldn't move without moving her paws as well. Whenever she tried to change position, a huge pain reminded her to not to. The boy who saved them tried to make some phone calls, but without signal, he didn't manage to reach anybody, so it was a dead end too. Now he was staring into the distance, thinking about what will happen next.
"They will find us." Said Rocky, but he didn't know if he wanted to calm his fellow passenger down, or himself
"Hmm? Did you say something?" He asked back absent-mindedly. He was deep in thought, and Rocky had just pulled him back from them
"Try not to think about our situation, It's worse that way. Let's talk about something else. What's your name? I'm Rocky."
"I'm Andrew, and I guess your friend here is Skye"
"Correct"
"Well, it's nice to meet you…If I can say that around the circumstances" Andrew took a look at Rocky's pup tag "Assuming from your collar you are some kind of recycler dog, right?"
"Yes. the eco, and the inventor pup of the Paw Patrol"
"Paw Patrol? I've heard of them. They are the rescue team, who helps everybody, right? My little brother kept me updated about your rescues. Wait what's your name again?
"Rocky"
"Yeah, now I remember."He nodded" You are his favorite. When I tried to study, and he kept telling me what happened with your group that week. He always wanted to borrow my laptop to take a look at the official website. Tell me, is that true you helped a satellite back to orbit, or my brother just made up that story?"
"Well, it was Skye who made hard part of the job, but yes it's true."
"Huh… So he did tell the truth after all…"He sighs" I'm sorry I just can't think about anything else. What do you think, what happened back there? Terrorist attack?
"No. It was an engine failure."Rock shakes his head" I was there when the error occurred. I've worked with hydrogen before, and it's environment-friendly indeed, but dangerous to use. Oh, how many times, I blew up my work, because of wrong dosage."
"Oh yeah, I remember" Looked up Skye "Nothing better than waking up early morning, at the sound of a big explosion, and hearing your friend shouting 'I'm okay'"
Both Rocky and Skye Chuckled at the memory, and Andrew let out a smile too.
"Okay, but if it's that dangerous, why would anybody make an engine working with it in the first place?"
"The question is, why wouldn't they? It's really costly to make one of that kind but more beneficial in the long run. No harmful end products, and it can be reused with proper methods."
"Yeah… Maybe you are right. Still, I'd rather use solar energy"
"I Already tried… not that good. You need to charge the battery at least for half a day, to travel 100 kilometers." Rocky suddenly became silent, at the sight of something. "What do you think what is that?"
Andrew turns around, and spots what Rocky was talking about. His eyes widen at this sight "That's… an island"
Fortunately, the waves were taking them in that direction, so they soon took a better look at that thing. It was barely a few kilometers wide, and in the middle, there was a smaller mountain. In 2 hours they managed to finally reach the coast, just in time, since the sun was already starting to disappear behind the horizon. Rocky tried to help Skye stepping off the debris, but she was in huge pain. In the end, Andrew picked her up, taking care to not cause any harm.
"Thanks, Andrew." She said, letting out a smaller smile. It helped a lot, that she didn't have to hang her broken paw while walking.
"Don't mention it." He smiled back
After a few minutes walking, they settled down near to a forest. They didn't want to discover the Island, in total darkness. The moon barely gave a little light to see where they were stepping.
"Okay, so we should find out, how to start fire" Andrew raises the problem "Now I regret I never started smoking…"
"We can do it in the old fashion way…"
"Rubbing two sticks to each other? It would take hours to finally achieve something, and I'm not that patient"
Rocky sighs "There must be another way…You know what? Gather some wood, and'I will figure out something"
"On my way." Andrew stood up, and left in the direction of the forest.
"We are going to die here, aren't we?" Skye muttered after Andrew disappeared behind the woods
"What?! No! Why would you say such a thing?" The question got him unprepared, so he didn't know what to answer
"Come on! Don't tell me you can't see it. We are trapped here on an island, without any drinkable water, or food"
"We didn't walk around fully this island yet. Maybe there will be a water source or something"
"What if won't be?"
"There will be. Trust me and they are going to save us in no time. Maybe they are already on their way here"
"Yeah…I hope you will be right" She said, as putting down her head. Rocky knew, if the group most optimistic member lost hope, there is a big problem "Are they thinking about us? The others, I mean"
"I'm 100% sure, and Chase must be going Crazy, just to find you." Replied Rocky
Finally, a slight smile appears on the cocapo's face "You think?"
"I told you. 100% sure. Whatever you do, don't lose hope, Skye."
"Don't misunderstand it, but I'm glad you are here. You saved my life, managed to cheer me up. I owe you a lot."
"Isn't that what friends do? You owe me nothing."
"I'm going to sleep now If it's okay. I'm exhausted after this long day."
"I'll wake you up if anything interesting happens"
In 10 minutes Andrew returned, packed with a lot of sticks. After he put down those, he swiped the dirt form himself and turned to Rocky
"Okay, so…Now what?"
"I've been thinking about this and I hope we have everything to do it. You have your phone, right?"
The question was a little bit strange to Andrew. He thought they need to get back to the other plan. "umm…Yes, but it has no signal, which isn't surprising"
"I don't need your phone…Only it's battery"
"The…Battery?"
"Yes. The other thing, do you have anything made of cotton?"
"Umm… My socks, but tell me your play already."
"You will find out pretty soon. We still need a wire."
"I haven't got any of those, I'm afraid" Andrew spreads his arms
"I guess it's my turn to give something for the cause." He sighs and hands his pup tag over to Andrew. "Push the Recycling sign, and turn it right. You will see the chip, and the power source, connected by a wire. Just rip it out."
"You sure?" He looks up to Rocky
"Yes. It's absolutely useless right now. The communication chip isn't working, so it doesn't give any signal, not even GPS signal to let Ryder know where we are right now… Okay so, when you have the wire, take out the battery from the phone. Wrap the wire around your socks, and touch the one end to the positive pole, the other to the negative. It's going to start burning."
Andrew gives a confused look "If it works…I'll raise a statue for you." after he took the things that he needed, he gave back the collar to Rocky. He did what the half-breed said, and after a few unsuccessful attempts, it started to burn.
"So how was that about the statue?" Rocky asked while smiling
The rest of the night happened without anything. They changed a few words, but eventually, both of them became sleepy. However, they agreed to keep the fire burning, while they can, so Rocky took the first part of the night. He put logs on the fire in every hour, and after midnight Andrew took the rest of the night.
In the morning he woke up to the smell of cooked fish.
"Hey. You are awake"
"You managed to catch fish somehow?" Asked Rocky letting out a huge yawn.
"Yeah. turned out there are a lot of fishes, so I thought it would be nice to make breakfast. It wasn't easy to catch one, I can tell you. Oh, and I found a water source too with drinkable water."
"You did? Wow. Where?"
"On the other side of the mountain. It's a really small Island but we have everything to survive at least. No sign of any plane or rescue boat tough. I was watching the whole night." He took a look at Skye "Is she sleeping this much every time?"
"No, but she had a really bad day, we all had to be honest. I think she was really exhausted."
"You know…I'm worried about her paw…"Andrew changes the subject "It's going to heal eventually, but if in this position…It won't be good."
"Why? Do you have any suggestion?"
He sighs "It's not the best, but if no rescue boat shows up, we need to put it back in place right here"
"You mean…With your bare hands? Without X-raying it?" He learned it from Marshall, that you shouldn't move any broken body part until you know exactly what the problem was. However, he also knew that you need to put back the broken bone in place as soon as possible, or there will be consequences
"Do you have any better idea?" He asked looking deep into Rocky's eyes "Believe me, I wouldn't like to cause her more pain than she is in right now but I'll have to. Only for her sake"
"Yeah…you are probably right. She won't like it though."
"I can imagine. Oh, I found out where we are."
"Really?" Rocky raises his head
"Yep. Before the journey, they gave this paper with the free time activity possibilities and the road map." He pulled out a paper from his pocket. It was the same kind of map that Ryder had. Andrew unfolded it on the ground and both of them took a look at it.
"Okay, so we were somewhere halfway on our journey when the explosion happened, right? This map shows we were passing by this island group. We arrived the eastern part so these three can't be the right ones. It must be one of these five. We can take away these two, they are too big. This one has a lake, or a swamp in the middle and this one has a different shape…" Andrew claimed, pointing on different islands on the map"
"So we are on the most left one. It's good news! We know where we are."
"Take a look at the size differences"
Rocky's eyes widen when he saw it. The numbers showed that 1 cm on the map is 25 kilometers in real life. Counting with this method, they are about 720 kilometers away from the main island. A lot of day traveling, that can't be done on that little debris. It was a miracle they managed to get here, they surely can't make it further away
"This isn't good" Whimpered Rocky. He knew, if nobody starts to looking after them, they are trapped on this island…forever…
