A loud clanging echoed throughout the lab room. Rafael was already sleeping, Nico was close to it, it was easy to see he was trying to fight it off. Blu watched as Pedro tapped on his own cell, almost unheard due to the clanging, however Nico seemed to hear it. They went to the cage walls closest to one another and stuck out their hands, their fingertips just barely touching. Then Nico curled up, using his wings as a makeshift blanket. Pedro smiled and leaned against his cage wall, waiting for sleep to take him. Blu couldn't sleep like the others, simply because of the clanging noise. He turned to glare at the cause of it. Jewel was banging the shackle around her foot against the cage bars, trying to dent them enough so she could slide through. The pep talk earlier had brightened her sprits, however they'd fallen when she realized Blu didn't have an immediate plan for escape.

She was a girl of action, not waiting.

"Jewel do you mind? Some people are trying to sleep!" said Blu annoyed, she'd been at this for the past few hours.

"Oh I'm sorry sleepy head." said Jewel tauntingly making Blu roll his eyes. Her wings shot out, as though she didn't want him to come near her. Blu glared, only to notice the plates of bird seed someone had brought them earlier for their meal. Blu had cleaned his plate, licking the plate clean like everyone else did. Jewel's however was still filled with the seeds.

"You didn't eat?" Blu asked, turning to look at the girl.

She turned around and blinked. "No, and you shouldn't either! Who knows what's in there!"

"Jewel lower your voice!" Blu whispered in a hiss. "And it's just seeds Jewel, you have to eat."

Jewel shook her head. "No, I'm not!"

"Jewel do you want to escape?" Blu asked, now really annoyed she wouldn't listen to him

"Yes of course I." she started, only to be cut off by Blu.

"Then you need to eat!"

"Don't you start telling me what to do!" she snapped back, an angry glare in her eyes. "I don't need your help Mr. I don't even have a plan!"

"I do have a plan Jewel! We need to wait!"

"Wait? Wait for what until they decide to kill us?" She asked.

"Woah woah can we chill people?" asked Pedro. They both turned to look at him, only to see Rafael staring at the both of them and Nico's eyes opened, curiously watching the two argue.

"Awkward." chirped Nico.

"Guys come on do you know what time it is?" asked Rafael with a bit of annoyance as he extended his wings, giving them a stretch.

"No, and you probably don't either." said Jewel with a roll of her eyes.

"Look I though we agreed, if we're gonna get out of here we need to work together." Nico said quietly. "I don't see how arguing is getting us anywhere."

"Well I thought somebody had a plan!" Jewel snapped at Nico, making him shrink back in his cage. She hadn't meant to snap at him, she should've snapped at Blu.

"Do not yell at him!" Pedro yelled angrily at Jewel.

"Alright everyone SHUT UP!" yelled Blu, making everyone stare. Blu realized all attention was on him and he blushed. "Uhm, well, hi, uh."

"Oh great, stammer king." Said Jewel with a roll of her eyes.

"At least he's got more sense then you." snorted Pedro.

"Alright all of you enough!" said Rafael angrily. The four kids quieted. "Now, let's all get some shut eye, and well plan in the morning.

"You just want to sleep." said Jewel with a roll of her eyes, when suddenly the door to the room opened. It immediately quieted, and all the kids strained to see who it was that entered the room.

"It's Fernando." said Pedro with a happy sigh, relaxing.

"Fernando?" asked Blu and Jewel together, making them glare at one another.

"Yeah he's just a kid, an orphan right?" asked Rafael, getting conformation from Nico and Pedro.

"Yeah he's a cool kid." said Pedro. "He talks to us a lot, sometimes he brings us food!"

"Human food." Nico clarified. "Like chocolate!"

"How is he allowed in here?" asked Jewel.

"He works for free cleaning up everything." said Pedro.

Soon the boy came near them and Blu couldn't help but stared, he was really a young kid, maybe ten or eleven.

"Hey guys." said Fernando with a smile, "I brought you guys something." He reached into his pocket and pulled out something, handing it to Nico. Nico immediately grabbed it, giving Fernando a smile. Fernando turned, and noticed Blu and Jewel. "Oh so you two have got new friends huh?" He looked at the two, Jewel let out some kind of hissing noise and Blu just stared, first at her, then at Fernando.

However the boy ignored the hiss and then took another thing out of his pocket. Blu noticed it was a chocolate bar.

"Here, take it." said Fernando with a smile. Jewel didn't touch it, Blu however reached out to take it, only to get hissed at by Jewel. Nico and Pedro had split that bar and now, with chocolate covered faces, stared at the three. "What's wrong?" asked Fernando. "You don't want it?"

Jewel let out a whine and lifted her foot, showing her shackled foot.

"Oh, are you guys chained to the cage?" he asked, noting the chains. Blu realized what Jewel was doing, and when he heard a clinking noise he knew he was right.

The boy was stupid enough to believe they were actually chained to the bars of the cage. Meaning he'd open the cage door to try and give them chocolate. The kid truly had a good heart.

The kid got the lock open, and before Blu knew what had happened Jewel charged, causing Blu to be dragged. She threw her weight against the door, causing it to swing open and send Fernando into Nico's cage, his head slammed against the bars knocking him unconscious.

Proudly Jewel turned around.

"How's that for an escape plan?"