The kids slowly continued to explore Bogie Swamp in search of several things, a power source in order to power the machine back at Rock Bay, the tethers keeping the Airship hovering in the skies over the swamp in place, and for their missing parents, hoping that they are some what hiding in the Swamp somewhere.

Hours passed as the four kids explored the entire swamp, both evading beasts, that infests it, and using what vents or spilled containers of powers that were left behind by the swamp's previous inhabitants.

Unfortunately for the kids, there was no sign of their parents anywhere in the swamps. This sad outcome did indeed make the kids miserable and depressed, but at the same time their confidence grew in order to continue their quest to find them.

As of now, the kids had just reached another part of the deep swamps, however as they were approaching a large rock formation that was leaning against a large log fortress like wall, where their Skateboards, and equipment was found, waiting for them. "Dude its our Skateboards and backpacks!" Twister stated in shock. As Otto approached and picked his board up examining it. "

But this is impossible I thought we left them back at the hut." Sam suggested quite surprised only to be answered by Otto as he placed his back pack on and said "Looks like they grew legs and followed us, but who cares guys we have them now, grab your equipment and lets continue on." Otto left as the rest of the kids were able to grab their skate boards and back packs, before quickly racing over to follow him, most of them still questioning on how their equipment ended up in the swamp to begin with.

As the kids were walking around through the thick muddy woods, they searched multiple sections for their parents, but were unable to find anything. "Otto we searched all over this swamp, their is nothing on our parents." Twister stated with a hint of disgusts. "How about that power thing that we're trying to find." Otto then asked, as Reggie quickly walked over and said. "Nothing on that either." Sam couldn't help but adjust his glasses, and say "Where ever our parents are, those jerks must have really hid them well, because their no where in Rock Bay, Ruin Basin, or out here in Bogie Swamp."

Otto did some thinking as he sat down on a log. "We might as well continue on taking out that one Air Ship in the sky, maybe if we can't find our parents here, we can at least help clear this place out." Otto then got up and walked over into another portion of the swamp followed by the others, just then they reached a large open land scape, where they are stunned at what they saw.

The landscape contained large lakes of black tar, and several wooden platforms, that connect with one another with logs. It looked as if it would be perfect for skateboards or skates in general.

"Yo dude, check it out." Twister said amazed as he just approached the black tar and keeled down to get a better look at it. "What do you think it is?" He then asked as he reached a finger down in an attempt to try and feel it, only for his hand to be stopped just 1 inch form the liquid. "HEAL!" A voice cried out as Twister turned to see that it was Sam that had stopped him.

"Twister, that is black Tar down there, You don't just Touch! Black Tar." Sam snapped, as he let go of Twister's hands, as he glared with annoyance. "Geeze Sorry." Otto and Reggie walked up to the too, as both of them were surprise to see the tar filled field ahead.

"Whoa!" Otto stated with amazement as Reggie finished off with a look of surprise. "Sam what is this stuff?" Otto asked as he couldn't take his gaze away from the scenery.

"It's Black Tar, It was said in my science class, that if you touch any of this stuff, even with your finger, the chemicals in the tar will burn your finger up in seconds, until your hand is nothing more but a mir skeleton." Sam quickly said as he pointed at the horizon, Sam couldn't help but chuckle a bit as he saw that Twister had just turned from a very annoyed and frustrated kid into a fearful looking kid as he was just an inch from touching it if Sam hadn't stopped him.

"So how do we get across this large pit?" Reggie questioned as she was constantly scanning the entire area that was plagued with nothing more but endless tar pits with only elevated wooden platforms with fallen down logs standing directly above them.

Otto just stared up at the platforms for a few seconds while rubbing his chin puzzling very hard trying to come up with a suggestion on how to cross the muck, until all of a sudden an idea popped up in his head.

"Dude! I got it." The others turned to look at Otto, as he pointed at the tall platforms towering over the black tar. "Those wooden platforms could be a perfect advantage to pull off some moves with our skate board." At first the others just grunted with annoyance, as they had thought that Otto was just messing around with them. "Otto this is serious! We're on a quest to find and rescue our parents." Reggie snapped, only for Otto to do a Its not what you think gesture with his hands.

"No guys listen." Otto started up as he was forming a dangerous, but yet extreme sport idea that could allow all four kids to make it across the boiling hot tar pits. "You see those platforms, they are all linked with a log attached to them," He said revealing his discovery as he pointed up at the platforms in order to reveal the small wooden sessions that were clearly linked to the other platforms. "If we can grind our way carefully we can make it to the other side without any danger."

"I don't know Otto man," Twister said with a hint of fear in his voice as he stared at the platforms that Otto was just explaining. "Those supports don't look that strong." Reggie then stepped up and agreed with Twister. "He is right Otto and besides one slip up, and we're all toast!" Reggie added on much to Otto's annoyance.

"I'm sorry Otto, we maybe great at sports, but there is only a 4 percent chance that we are going to make it across this tar lake in one piece." Sam then added only making Otto even more annoyed, but one final set of words would eventually set off him of.f

"Maybe we should just turn around and head back to Ocean Shores, we have the map, we can still have the police find our parents for us." Twister then suggested as he turned to everyone as Sam and Reggie just shrugged their shoulders not knowing what to think.

At this point Otto just clenched his fist and snapped "Enough of that talk everyone!" The three just stared at Otto surprised from his outburst. "Our parents have been kidnapped and are being held who knows where, and we're standing here acting like a bunch of babies." Twister opened his mouth in an attempt to protest, but he was immediately shot down by Otto.

"Twister, you out of all people know that we can't just turn around and go back, don't you remember lamo? when we first came all the way out here? the bridge in that fiery canyon collapsed, so how are we going to return back to Ocean Shores? By swimming through Lava?!" Twister's face went wide as he face palmed himself completely forgetting about that one disaster that they went through the first time they showed up at Rock Bay.

Otto then turned around to glare at Reggie, as he said through a voice of disappointment, " And you Reggie," Otto started off as he pointed at her while shooting her a look of disappointment.

"I can't believe your against this too, don't you wanna see Dad again," Reggie just stared motionless not knowing how to answer Otto, she did know however that whatever Otto was planning it had to be dangerous, as usual, but now he is talking to her as if she is completely cool about what happened to Raymundo.

Before she could talk, Otto then quickly turned his gaze over to face Sam and said "And Squid you out of every one of us is dying to find your mom again, isn't that right?",

"Don't you wanna be happy with your mom again Squid?" Sam tried to say something but he was interrupted as Otto continued to talk his eyes locked on directly onto Sam's "I do recall you Sam, always staying up all night when we were here for almost 2 days, trying to get the network connection back to the point that Reggie had to get you to go to bed, and now your just going to turn your back on it, just because of some stupid substance in this swamp?!" Sam looked around as he tried to find words to defend himself, but before he could mutter a word, Otto then quickly turned his face back in Twister's direction before pointing back at him and finishing off what he had to say.

"And Twist, you may not like your brother, but you do love your mom and dad right?" Twister just looked and before he could speak Otto just turned his back and began to walk towards the base platform muttering his final sentence, "You guys can go back to Ocean Shores if you want, but I'm not going to stop until I save my dad." He then began to climb the base platform eventually reaching the top.

"Otto Get back here!" Reggie yelled only for her voice to be ignored, causing her to sigh with annoyance. "I'm going to strangle that Imbecile" Reggie growled as she quickly went running after her younger brother, with Sam coming up from behind trying to stop her. "Reggie wait! We don't know if that thing will support all of us! Oh man," Sam quickly follows after, as Twists just remains behind and thinks about it for a second then says. "If it isn't one thing its another. Wait up!" He yelled as he was the last to follow the group up the base platform.

From up ontop of the platform, Otto stared directly on the line of rope which spread to the other side of the lower platforms from down below, he drops his skate board on the ground as he looks over to the others, who by now were able to climb up to meet him, where he smiles and says. "Changed your minds huh, good choice now just stick with me and we;ll be fine." And with that, he leaped into the air with his skateboard landing dead center on the rope line much to the horror of the others, as they watch him zip line with the skateboard down the rope onto the next platform, where he dose a twist stunt and lands dead center on the next rope making his way down, he then leaps into the air grabs another rope and while holding his skateboard in the other hand swings himself into the air, where he back flips and lands on the other side on a wooden pier. Where he looks at the others way on the other side with a smile on his face while the other kids including Reggie has looks of shock.

With a bow Otto then screams at the others to the other side saying to come over, and to treat the ropes just like the railings of Madtown Skate park. The others look at each other a bit nervous, but Twister gathers the courage to grab his skate board and leap down on the rope as well dead center, he tried to mimic the moves that Otto did, but was not as good, he was able to make it over to the other side just in time before he nearly lost his balance.

However instead of landing on his feet, he landed face first on the ground, much to Otto's annoyance as he face palmed. "Oh Twist, what am I going to do with you seriously." He then turns over to Reggie and Sam who are the only ones left on the other side and screams. "Alright Reg, come on Sis!" Reggie took a bit gulp a she placed a hand on her chest gripping her shirt, as she looked down. "Alright, here I go." She said nervously, as she dropped her skate board next to her feet. "Just think of it almost like the Power Girl Surf!" Otto called out, as Reggie leaped off the platform and slowly and cautiously tried to make her way down the rope, she was rapidly losing balance, she was able to make it as well despite almost falling down the second rope line, where she met the others on the pier, where Otto smiled congratulating her, before he turned to Sam who was the final one on the platform.

"Alright Sam, now its your turn! Come on Squid, try and make it here!" Sam gulped, a he dropped his Groovie tune land cruiser, and gripped his hands into a prayer like pattern. "Please let me get passed, pleased let me get passed please let me get passed." He begged himself as he rolled off the platform and landed dead center on the rope making his way down, as he shut his eyes in horror, the others cheering. "Come on Squid you can do it!" Twister yelled as he watched Sam was almost halfway down towards the lower platform ahead.

All of a sudden unknown to Sam, a large gurgling occurred under the Tar, which soon caught the attention of Twister while the others were too busy trying to cheer Sam on so that he can make it passed. Twister then moved closer to get a look, then saw what appeared to be a large arm splash out of the surface. "SAM LOOK OUT!" Twister cried loud enough for all of the others to hear and notice, much to their horror. It was the monster that was on the cliff taht was bombarding Rock Bay with the boulders. Sam screamed in horror as the giant mechanical like monster just grinned menacingly and snapped the cable causing the eleven year old boy genius to fall towards the tar below.

"NO SAM!" Reggie cried as Sam splashed into the Tar screaming for help. "Help ME Ahhhhh!" Sam screamed as he tried not to sink, but was panicking so much that he was just sinking faster. At this point the monster snatched Sam out of the Tar, and looked at him menacingly, causing the young computer genius to shiver in horror.

Otto quickly ran along side the beach front of the Tar lake unknown that he stepped into a large bulk of Yellow Gas, He soon noticed the markings on his body glow again, meaning that he got his power again to shoot fire balls. "Hey you!" Otto called out, getting the monsters attention as he fired several fire balls from his hands striking the beast in the torso and chest forcing him to let go of Sam, as he landed on the lower platform on top of his skate board.

"Squid get off that thing!" Twister yelled as Sam quickly ran for his life while the monster roared in anger, and send an attack down at the lower platform destroying it, and catapulting Sam towards the other side, where he landed in the mud just behind Twister and Reggie, who immediately rushed to his aide.

In response to Otto, the beast's arm soon turned into a cannon and began to fire multiple Flaming boulders as it crashed all around Otto, destroying everthing it landed on. Otto attempted to try and shoot one of the boulders, but his fire balls proved useless. One splashed into the muck nearly coating him with tar. "Ah Dude!' He stated in disgust, only to look up and see a boulder about to land ontop of him. "AHHHHH!" Otto screamed as he ran out of the way, and retreated to where the others are. "Run! Lets go!" He yelled as the other kids followed along as the Monster stomped out of the muck and bombarded their path with more boulders.

"WHICH WAY!" Twister yelled in horror, as Otto looked around, desperately trying to find a means of an escape, and fortunately was able to spot a cave that was too small for the monster to fit through towards their left. "In there!" Otto instructed, as the four kids made their way for the cave and narrowly entered just in time for the last boulder to hit, narrowly almost crushing Reggie.

Breathing heavily from their encounter, and almost near death experience, Otto turns to the others and says."Is everyone okay?" Everyone is so exhausted that they could barley speak, but Twister is able to answer for everyone when he gathers the energy he has in order to say, "We're good Otto man."

"Dude man, that was the monster that was attack Rock Bay." Sam stated in horror, as he looked back towards the direction they came in. "How did he get here?!" Reggie then demanded with alot of fear in her voice, "But most importantly, how did it know where we are?" Twister couldn't help but ask as he rubbed his chin thinking hard, but was unable to come up with any conclusions.

Otto after resting for a couple of seconds finally was able to gather his strength back up again, where he was able to stand up and look at everyone else. "I don't know how that thing managed to follow us, but I think we lost him," He said trying to lighten the mood, before turning around where the exit of the cave was located. "Come on guys I think I found us a way out of here, this way."

The others followed while Otto led them out in a spot of the swamp that appeared to border the ocean, their was no one around besides hostile creatures and frogs, that Otto was able to easily defeat with the use of the rest of his fire balls before his power retired again. "Nice shot Otto man!" Sam stated with a smile as the group slowly made their way through the muddy beach area, until they found another Tether located on a second platform.

"Otto look!" Reggie cried as every one looked to see that Reggie was pointing at a tether. "The second Tether, good eyes Reg," Otto stated praising Reggie, as he tapped her shoulder, and looked only to see that the Tether was well defended by monster frogs, giant swamp rats, along with the platform being surrounded by Tar, which makes climbing it impossible, however Otto then moved his glance to the lower right and notices four floating clusters right on the field just 14 yards away from them, all four of them were that of a different color, one that matched the markings of Sam, Otto, Twister and Reggie.

After doing some quick thinking, an Idea soon popped out in Otto's mind, as he quickly turned to everyone and said "Alright guys it looks like that those floating clusters are around and that Tether is heavily defended, so I have an idea. gather around." All of the kids gather around as Otto discusses a plan, about having to destroy both those dangerous frogs rats and tether at the same time.

"The clusters are enough to clear this whole area, I will focus on the rats, while the rest of you clear the frogs," The other kids nod in agreement as Otto continues his plans. "We clear this area as hard as we can, if we succeed I will have enough power to shoot the boulder tether." The other kids nod in agreement. "You got it Otto." Otto smiled as all four kids dispersed then dashed at fast speed towards their color clusters, Sam, blue, Reggie, Red, Otto, yellow, and Twister, Green.

As several Swamp rats are walking through the muddy fields, Sam gets their attention by running at fast speed, where they give chase, but Sam is too quick, as he is easily able to jump on multiple rats in front of him squashing them as he kicks another group in the nose. The rats the were chasing Sam were soon attacked by Reggie who lower kicking some of the rats and punching several others at lightning speed, as her red glow terrified some of them. A group of frogs shot their electrified tongues at Twister, but he dodged out of the way, and with his skate board bashed several of them in the face, then as one was coming from behind he struck from behind, doing a martial arts noise.

As the fight was going on, Otto was blasting his way with fire balls passed several swamp rats and frogs, until he was close enough to hit the rock. He was about to shoot a fire ball at the rock until a frog gripped his side, causing him to panic. "Hey let go!" He yelled as he noticed an electric surge coming his way, slowly flowing through the tongue towards him.

Otto tried desperate to shot the frog with Fire balls, but the beast easily hopped left and right dodging every projectile that he was throwing at him, Otto stopped as he realized that he was draining his power with each failed shot that he was missing, and noticed the electric current closing in on him. Otto closed his eyes and braced for impact, until a blue lighting boy ran from the right and bashed the frog out of the way causing the grip on Otto to break.

Otto then opened his eyes and smiled, saying. "Thanks Squid." Sam just smiles adjusting his glasses before saying, "We're even now Man. Now take the shot!" Sam instructed as he dashed away ramming into other giant rats and frogs in his path. With his power running low, Otto focused his sites and sent a fire ball at the boulder, exploding it, and causing the air ship to rock in the sky and elevate even higher in the air.

As soon as the boulder exploded the remaining Swamp beasts retreated into the deep forests clearing the entire field, as the other kids moved in to regroup with Otto. "Nice going Rocket boy," Reggie stated with a smile elbowing her little brother, "Now all we have to do is find the remaining two tethers, and that dirigible is finished." Sam stated as all four kids stared up at it.

"Alright dude where are we going to find the other two Tethers." Twister asked as he looked at Sam with concern, as Sam just chuckled at his response and just pointed at the two remaining ropes holding the ship down, and began to follow its path with his finger. "Just follow the ropes." Otto smiled as the ropes led to a small cave located behind a mountain wall. "Come on guys lets go." He suggested as all four kids raced through the well lit cave, until they exited and noticed another strange launch platform on the ground, which was almost like the exact same one that Sam launched from hours earlier. "Hey guys looks like their is one of those launch things," Sam suggested as he slowly approached it, which to him was very difficult as the blue watery substance inside him was making it difficult for him to move slow.

"Maybe it will take us to where the other Tethers are?" Reggie asked with concern, as she turned to Otto who was thinking. "Or it could lead us to more monsters." Twister then said with a little chuckle much to everyone annoyance. "Sam how much of that blue watery stuff you have left inside that is powering you now?" Otto then asked as he looked over at Sam with a look of curiosity as Sam just shrugged, "I don't know maybe a lot, or maybe very little. I wouldn't know."

Otto looked at his markings which by now have spread to his arms and legs, he noticed that they weren't glowing anymore, as he had used up the last of his power destroying the second Tether, as he just sighs and says, "Sam your the only one who can launch from those things, so I suggest you go over and find out whats on the other side."

Sam did a look of nervousness at first, but then thought about his mom, then changed into a look of determination and said, "You got it Otto." With that he ran at fast speed toward the platform and jumped into the air launching several hundred feet, until he landing the middle of what appeared to be like an arena, he was amazed as he saw that their was a gate in front of him, but on the other side he could see what the airship above was trying to lift out of the muck. It was described as a robotic like arm that was muscular and advanced beyond anything he had ever seen.