The hair stood straight up on their backs. Hinata even accidently had a small hiss escape her lips. Which she regretted soon afterward.
"Two very bad little neopets must be punished." Dr. Sloth frowned and began to pull his arm from his garb.
"Run!" CBub shouted and launched himself back toward the panel.
Hinata delayed for a moment before she too, without question, followed CBub up onto the panel.
"There's no use in running, pitiful Neopets, you will all soon be my slaves." He did not follow them he turned to the door. "Guards!"
CBub and Hinata did not turn to look to see as a armored Shoyru and Gelert entered the room.
"Get them!" Was all they heard.
"Keep running Hinata!" CBub yelled.
The two were scrambling all over the panel, pressing buttons of all sorts, but that didn't seem to be on their minds, they were headed towards the open vent duct. Well, it wasn't on their minds- until a robot voice broke through their fear, only to make it worse.
"Warning, Self destruct activated, time before explosion, 10 minutes and 15 seconds."
CBub looked back down for a moment giving him enough time to realize that he was the one that activated the alarm.
They continued to the air duct and jumped in.
