March 23 2014
Chapter 8: Admitting mistakes and escaping
"Ahoy iceberg!" we heard Karnage's voice, "You are my prisoners!"
"Oh boy, we're in trouble" I said.
"What does that pirate want from us now?" Rebecca asked. Suddenly we felt how the whole ship started falling down and for a short time we were feeling weightless. Then the falling stopped and we were pressed down by the momentum. Rebecca and Kit were alright since they were still on their seats but I was only hanging on the back of Kit's seat so my knees smashed very painfully on the floor.
"Oh my gosh! Are you alright?" Kit asked as I lied on the floor holding my knees with my hands.
"Ow ow, my knees, my knees" I whimpered. "What the heck happened?"
"The iceberg was too heavy for this ship too" Kit explained. "They probably put the motors on full throttle to stop the falling".
"We better go out and find Baloo"Rebecca said as she took the book and prepared to go. "Can you walk?" she asked from me worriedly. Being taken prisoners had made her forget our argument.
"I-I think so". Kit helped me up and I let out a whine. My knees hurt, but nothing seemed to be broken and the three of us hurried out of the plane. We were in a huge hangar-like place and the roar of huge motors echoed from somewhere faraway. We saw Baloo hanging from one of the ice tips on the rope and we hurried to him.
"Baloo, you're alright!" Kit exclaimed happily.
"What are you doing tangled on the towrope?" Rebecca asked and I rolled my eyes. What kind of question was that in a situation like this?
"I towrope you, ya-" Baloo started but before he could finish we heard Karnage's voice again.
"So, Baloo, we meet again" Karnage said as he walked up to us and used his cutlass to spun Baloo around to face him. "And your cargo-" Karnage continued as he looked around the iceberg, "most, most interesting. I must tell you, I'm intrigued. Let me see-" he pointed his cutlass at Baloo, "last time you hid red rubies in red strawberry jam. Now you have a clear iceberg. What could you possibly be hiding in something clear?"
Gibber walked next to him and whispered something to his ear.
"Glass!? Not glass-" Karnage said and threw Gibber away again, "DIAMONDS!"
I bit my lip and tried to keep a straight face. This was so typical of him.
"Chop up the ice, men, there are diamonds buried in there!"
"Not my iceberg!" Rebecca cried out but the pirates were already ready and started chopping the ice with pickaxes, chisels and even a boring tool.
"You see Baloo? You can't make the fool of me twice" Karnage told Baloo.
"You are making it pretty easy to do" I said and he looked at me.
"What is that supposed to mean?" he asked coolly.
"Well, you think that just because he used the trick once he's going to use it right again, which would be stupid since it'd take hours to freeze the diamonds, if there were any, into the iceberg. And seriously, does that plane look like the kind that would continuously be used to haul jewels? No offense Baloo" I added as I looked at him quickly before continuing, "We're hauling that ice to some prince in the desert who probably has never even seen ice" I finished.
"Scouts honor" Baloo added.
"HA! And double ha!" Karnage said. "I do not believe you. You try to trick me. Well,-" he pointed the cutlass at me, "I have ways of dealing with you".
"Oh, like yer mom dealed with you?" Baloo snapped.
One minute later we were all in a cell for prisoners. Karnage hadn't liked the way Baloo talked about his mother and had become angry. The cell was dark and some water was dripping from the metallic ceiling and walls. I was leaning on a dry spot of the wall, Kit was sitting on a wooden box, Rebecca was searching something from the book to help us and Baloo was struggling to get free from the metal ball the pirates had chained around his leg.
"Stop doing that, Baloo, you can't get it off just by pulling it" I finally told him.
"Why do I have this hankeltank? You don't have one, Kit doesn't have one, Rebecca sure doesn't have one... at least that I could see".
"Well, you were the one to insult his mom"
"Don't start to lecture me about that, Lis."
"I wasn't going to".
"Escape? No..." Rebecca said as she was going through the book, "no.. no,no. This book has nothing that will help us, it's worthless. We need help!" she cried out as she fell on her knees and started crying.
"Hey, hey now" I tried to calm her down as I hurried to her side. "We'll get out of here, right Baloo?" I looked at him and he looked dumbfounded by his boss's mental break down.
"Baloo, you've got to help us " Rebecca sniffed.
"Woah, woah boss lady. Since when does the Miss I-Have-A-License-And-You-Don't listen to me?"
"But Baloo we're trapped, no hope!" she cried as she got up.
"I can't hear youuu" Baloo said, covering his ears like a child.
"Listen, Baloo, I'll admit it, just because I'm your boss doesn't mean I know how to do your job. That book did get me in trouble, I shouldn't have listened to it. I-I should have listened to you." She apologized.
"Well now you're talkin' Becky, I'll be glad to lend a hand. As long as you listen."
"Right, anything, anything"
"Fine, hand over the book"
"But-"
"A-a-a" Baloo shook his finger. Rebecca gave him the book.
"Great! Now let's put this thing to some good use." he said as he walked to the door. "Kit!" he threw the book to him.
"Right" Kit said and ran up to Baloo who lifted him up so Kit could see through the barred window.
"Nothing but a good book to put you asleep" Baloo joked when Kit had used the book to knock out the guard.
"That's nice, but how are we going to get out?" I asked. My question was answered when Kit pulled a Swiss army knife from under his shirt and used it to pick the lock.
"How are we gonna get to the Sea Duck?" Rebecca asked, "It's surrounded by pirates".
"Don't worry I have a plan" Kit said as he ran off to somewhere. Soon he returned with some clothes that obviously belonged to the pirates.
"I got these from the washing room" Kit explained as they put on the disguises. Since I couldn't really hide the fact I was a human I had to hide behind Baloo.
"Now, we're gonna have to sneak by ol' Karny, so try to look pirateish" Baloo told Kit and Rebecca as we started to sneak closer to the plane.
We walked closer and saw how MadDog told Karnage that they hadn't found anything from the iceberg. Karnage didn't like the news.
"A hundred tons of ice. Why would anyone want a hundred tons of ice!?" he asked angrily, not from anyone particularly. Gibber was there to mumble something into his ear again. "Perhaps, but where would they find a straw big enough? I'm going to ask the prisoners" Karnage said and started to walk towards the cells and at the same time, closer to us. "No, I will boil them in vinegar first. Vinegar and maybe some salt. Then I will ask them". He continued walking away as I wondered where they would get enough vinegar to boil us in. But then the metal ball Baloo had been carrying slipped from his hand and blew our cover.
"Uno momento, those are no pirates, those are the prisoners!" Karnage yelled.
"PULL CHOCKS!" Kit yelled and the four of us tried to ran to the plane, but the pirates managed to corner us against the hangar wall. We looked around to find a way out and Baloo noticed a red button on the wall.
"Wait, wait. What's this red button for?" he asked.
"Oh, that's the bomb-bay door release" Mad Dog answered his question.
"Thank you" Baloo said and pushed the button. Red warning lights started to flash and the pirates fled from around us to safety. We ran to the plane and prepared to be dropped out of the Iron Vulture. The bay doors were open and the chopped iceberg fell down and the Sea Duck started to plummet down as well.
"Start the engines, Baloo" Kit yelled and for the third time that day I closed my eyes hoping not to die.
"This hankelbracelet is caught, I can't fly" I heard Baloo's voice.
"I can" Rebecca's voice said "If you tell me how, I'll listen".
"Someone's better fly or we'll die!" I screamed. And so I listened how Baloo guided Rebecca to fly and land us safely on the chopped ice.
"Yahoo, you did it Miz Cunningham, you did it" I heard Kit saying happily and I opened my eyes again.
"Wo-hoo, we're alive! She did it!" I yelled happily.
"I gotta hand it to ya lady, it was a really pretty landing" Baloo told Rebecca.
"Really? I am getting the hang of it. Who am I fooling-" she suddenly said sadly, "you're the real pilot. I've been nothing but trouble not listening to you. And Elisabet, I'm sorry about what I said back before we were captured. You're right, I can't call myself a boss if I don't act like a one. Can you forgive me?"
"Of course I will. And I- I'm sorry about yelling at you." I apologized with my head down.
"I forgive you too" she said and once she got up the two of us hugged each other. "Well, I better go and apologize to the prince and give him back his 50 000 shapusies" she said as she walked out of the cockpit.
"Hey Rebecca-" Baloo rushed after her, Kit and I not far behind. Baloo gave Rebecca his cap "Look, maybe on the way back to Cape Suzette I could give you a flying lesson or..."
"Miss Cunningham! Hello, hello!" the prince we were delivering the ice for came running to us.
"I'm so sorry about your iceberg your princenes. The snow..."
"It is being wonderful!" the prince exclaimed happily. He explained that he had planned to chop the iceberg anyway in order to build himself a ski slope.
"But this much better. Come see, come see." he finished and ran off happily.
"I guess we delivered our cargo after all" Rebecca said happily.
"Oh well, all's well that ends well" I said happily.
"Speaking of which, Elisabet, are you still interested to have a job?" she asked.
"You serious? Of course I am!"
"Well then: welcome to work in Higher for Hire"she said happily and we shook hands.
"Great to have you on board" Kit said and gave me a small hug.
"Thanks Kit" I smiled.
"And I'll be glad to be yer pilot" Baloo added.
"Not for another week you are" Rebecca reminded him, "I'll have to fly 'til then".
"What! You're crazy. Gimme my cap back!" he said and snatched the hat off her head.
"Hey, who's gonna fly us home then?"
"Can I fly?" Kit piped up.
"NO" Baloo and Rebecca said together.
"Sigh. Oh well, this will be my life from now on" I thought as I looked how they kept on arguing.
Author's note
Phew, finally finished the episode. I hope you guys liked how it turned out. And again I have questions I'll be answering:
Q.1:Are you planning to write Darkwing Duck or Ducktales story similar to your story for next story?
A.1: Probably not, for two reasons: 1. I don't have those series on DVD and 2. Even though I love both of those series they're a tad too long to write as a story like this.
Q.2: What are your favorite movies?
A.2: Secret of N.I.M.H., All Dogs Go to Heaven, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung fu Panda 2, a whole bunch of Ghibli and Disney movies, etc., etc.
