Searching was all they seemed to do. They were always searching and always looking around it was so painstakingly long. Nothing was happening, no stokers, no rogue waves, no new monsters, nothing. They were just running around a ship looking for a magic rock. The amount of nothing they were doing was insane. The first rock was on the forecastle so they looked on the other side of the ship, nothing. Inside the living quarters, nothing. Dining room, nothing. Nothing anywhere. It took so long for them to find anything at all, and who found it was Tucker. Tucker, though being colorblind, still saw the rock as yellow, just a brighter shade of it. It was in the engine room. Probably not a safe place with all the burning coal the stokers were launching at them.

"Good job Tucker." Skye said to him as they were walking away.

"Thanks." Tucker replied although he seemed reluctant.

They ran through the ship, constantly slowing for Zuzi as per usual, over to where the machine was. This time they remembered the exact location instead of just the general vicinity.

"Well. Here it goes." Ryder told as he put the stone in the other holder and stepped back.

Both of the poles were surging stronger than they were before and the machine started shaking a little. It wasn't shaking vigorously just a barely noticeable wobble. It wasn't that intense honestly there were no flickering lights or thunder or the ship wobbled. No, none of that. There was a lot of electricity on the poles, and the machine shook a tiny bit. What the machine did, however, was pretty intense although it took about two seconds. A blast of the electricity shot to the wall on the side of the machine the pups were not on and blew a hole in it. The hole in the wall revealed a secret room looking like a laboratory. It had a very artificial looking hole near one of the walls that they didn't want to look at just yet although they couldn't see into it.

Rico came back with the cliche he always had and had potions and all kinds of crazy things in there. It didn't make sense why he would make a secret room cliche, maybe he intended for it to be in the movie before and it was cut but no one knew. The stokers refused to go into the lab for some reason so it was a nice haven for a little while. Something bad did definitely happen, however. They were resting down in the lab because they just ran on, through and across an ocean liner multiple times, and the crew members came back. This is bad because they had tools they could throw, and the lab was full of potions.

First thing was some binoculars thrown and it broke a bottle. This kept happening and bottles kept breaking. The Pups were stabbed by glass shards quite often and the blue lab was turning red. Eventually, there was a momentary stop in things breaking. The potions were all over the ground and getting stuck on Ryder's shoes and the pup's paws.

"Ok, ok. What do we do?" Chase spoke quickly.

"Uh, I mean we-we haven't looked at the uh, the hole yet." Zuzi responded, speaking just as quickly as Chase.

"Drop a bottle into it and test it." Rocky suggested, said calmly although he was not calm.

They did exactly as Rocky had said, Ryder grabbed a bottle and gently dropped it into the hole. It made a sound like it was rolling down a slide and not just falling straight down. They heard the sound of glass breaking about five seconds after the bottle was dropped. Putting it all together it was a safe ride. Considering how Rico hid the exits in the other films, it might be the way out. You can't really blame Rico though, because he never intended for anyone to get as far as they did.

"What other choice do we have, honestly?" Zuzi asked, without studders too.

"Let's go, I guess." Marshall said, and it was obvious he was very nervous.

First into the hole was Rocky as a volunteer who, when he hit the bottom told the rest it was safe to come down. All the rest went into the hole, which was as expected like a slide pretty much. When they reached the bottom they were in the absolute bottom of the ship. No windows, and clearly one of Rico's strange little rooms he puts into these places that, clearly should not be in these places. Strange sort of surfboard kinda shape and not so high of a room. It was much smaller than expected.

"Ah, hey your here. Honestly off of everything you had done in my previous films I expected you to get here. The number of things I could've done to you before is much more than what I did. Besides knowing you, heh, you probably would've survived it. But here? What can you possibly do in here? It's an empty room. What can I do here? Well, just hang out and you'll soon enough figure it out." Rico monologued.

"I think it's safe to say this isn't the way out." Chase very anxiously said.

"We need a way out of here somehow!" Ryder exclaimed. "Skye?"

"Yeah but, what about you guys?" Skye explained showing concern.

"Could you carry any of us up?" Marshall questioned.

"I think, but, how long until Rico does whatever it is he plans to do?" Skye asked.

"Don't know don't care we need to go!" Chase stated, getting Skye to bark out her wings and get ready.

"Tucker, you're actually the smallest so you should go first." Ryder said, no one ever said smallest first but it made sense.

Tucker didn't actually want to go first. He wasn't the kind of person to throw himself in front of a bullet but he thought the others had more of a reason to go. As they were all friends, and he just didn't feel right going first. Shyness can get in the way of a lot of things though, and he was just too shy to say anything about it. He ended up going with Skye. He grabbed her paw and she flew him up with ease and immediately flew back down to get the next.

"Zuzi next." Ryder called out.

"Uh-uh." She replied, "Someone else go. I have an idea as to how to get out if Rico does what I think."

"Okay, then it's Rocky next." Ryder explained.

Rocky was taken up the tube just as Tucker was and dropped off as such as well. Skye flew back down to go grab the next pup who was presumably Marshall.

"Isn't Zuzi smaller than you?" Tucker asked Rocky, for once he actually got passed his shyness and let his curiosity take over.

"She is." Rocky answered, "She said she has a plan though. Never told us what it was only that she had it. She didn't want to come up because she had that plan so I was next."

"Ah, ok." Tucker replied.

Right after that, the ship started listing very quickly. It for sure was not sinking because it was way to fast for that. By the way, the ship was moving, it was probably a wave pushing the ship the way it was, but many times. Rico managed to create waves to constantly hit the ship. The ship ended up rotating to a list every time it hit and it stayed at an angle for a fair amount of time. Rico had the pups trapped in a room of nothing and pelted the ship with waves, this was his plan.

"Hey, it's starting. Good luck out there." Rico added, seemingly taking no notice to the two escaped pups. Both Rocky and Tucker were in bad situations too as they were in a room of broken glass with a ship that can't and won't stay upright. They got stabbed a lot and were very much bleeding but they left the lab and tried to keep themselves from sliding everywhere. They also were hoping that whatever Zuzi's idea was it was keeping them from continuously ramming into the metal walls of the room.

Skye never came back either so she was also stuck in the room. All but Tucker and Rocky were inside a tiny room with no escape. The only hope they had was whatever Zuzi's plan was.

The absolute happiness that swept over Tucker and Rocky when they saw Ryder come out of the hole in the wall where the lab was, was exponential. They all got out, how they did it wasn't to be known until there was time to be told. With all of them in the same room, they often bumped into each other and once Skye knocked Zuzi into the railing of the staircase.

When it all eventually stopped, Zuzi plopped straight onto the ground in exhaustion. She was also hurt more than either of them, having only three legs it was hard to do all that was done and she very often fell over and into things. Skye's wing was also somehow bent and neither Tucker nor Rocky know how.

"So how in the world did you get out of there?" Rocky asked Ryder, very confused and curious.

"Zuzi's idea is what got us out." Ryder started, "What we did was when the ship listed, and due to the room being so small, we were able to climb onto the wall when it turned and got into and climbed up the slide from there."

"That sounds like an action movie, not a horror movie." Rocky joked, but still amazed at the escape.

"We had to help Zuzi up because it was pretty much impossible for her to do it with her missing leg." Marshall explained.

"Zuzi's always getting us out of situations." Chase said, "But she rarely does something for herself."

"She lost a leg what do you expect from her?" Marshall questioned.

"No, no that's not my point." Chase answered, "It's that, we'd be nowhere without her and she'd be nowhere without us."

"Yeah, and what have I done?" Tucker spoked, a little down on himself.

"You saved Zuzi, who saved us." Skye told him reassuringly.

"Yeah, I guess I did do that." Tucker said, and that did make him feel better about himself really.

"Fucking hell!" Rico randomly shouted. "Every single goddamn place I send you to you end up getting out with nothing more than a little sweat!"

"Then you should let us go." Chase responded, "If we survive everything what use do you have keeping us here?"

"I got two of you don't get cocky." Rico said, but now all the sudden he just sounded tired.

"No, you got one. That one killed the other." Chase argued.

"It would be preferable if you shut up," Rico responded, angry again.

Chase rolled his eyes and did as Rico said. He wasn't really scared as Rico was probably using all his might to try to kill them already, so there wasn't a lot more than he could do. The pups and Ryder began to contemplate what to do.

"Rico wouldn't make this room so secret and then not use it, right?" Skye questioned.

"It wasn't really that secret." Rocky replied, "The electric thing wasn't hidden and it was obvious it was to be used for something."

"What about the gems?" Marshall asked Rocky, as the gems were hidden.

"It was obvious something went into the holders we just had to find it. I wouldn't consider that secret." Rocky replied.

"Hang on a second..." Ryder started, "The gems powered the machine's electricity, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Marshall answered.

"So the gems have to have some form of their own power, right?" Ryder questioned.

"I guess so." Marshall replied, "But what use would it have. We don't even know how to control it."

"So many different things, Marshall." Ryder answered, "We could try using it on the potions in the lab, using it to power the ship, etcetera."

"Then let's take one out and see what we can do!" Marshall responded.

"You should probably take both, just in case." Skye suggested.

Ryder went and picked up both of the gems from out of the electric machine, and, while watching the thing quickly lose its electrical strength, walked into the lab with the pups. Including Zuzi who got up from exhaustion to follow them into the lab. Ryder dropped a gem into a bit of potion on the ground and quickly backed up. It was risky indeed, but it did nothing either way. He tried putting the other gem in the same potion but still no dice.

"If it doesn't do anything on one potion it shouldn't on another." Ryder reasoned.

They turned around and almost left the room before Skye found something. It was yet another one of Rico's audio recordings. Skye showed the others and then turned it on.

"I was, in fact, born in Canada. I am Russian as you can probably tell by my accent. It's not a strong accent though and that's because the Russian in my family goes a while back. The accent just kept carrying over to each generation because that's how we taught each other. It's slowly fading away though and I'm sure the accent will eventually disappear completely. Anyway, on to what I actually want to talk about."

"I am no longer around any of my family members but I still keep tabs on them. I actually moved to Escapade City away from my family. I did not move very far, but I moved. My dad left me, uh, I have very faint memories of him actually, but I don't know where he is at now. I have one sibling, my sister, Daisy. I was the only male in the household after my dad left."

"Okay, okay, off topic again. My family supports me in everything I do and I sometimes go to visit them. One memory I have, which is what I've wanted to tell you about when I started this. By the way, my sister moved out as well, just in the same city as my mom. When I went to visit my sister, I saw that her little house was actually on fire, um. For those who don't know dogs are able to get their own houses and live independently. Uh at least around here, dunno about other places. Their houses are just to be smaller than a house owned by a human."

"Long story short, the fire was put out and she lost quite a few belongings. I helped her as much as I could after the fire, which Daisy had no idea how it started. It took her a little while to get settled back in but it eventually happened. Not really as much to talk about as I thought actually. I actually got a little to close to the original fire and burnt myself a bit. That's something."

"I've wasted enough of your time already so I don't wanna rant on anymore about my sister's house fire."

"Not sure your family would be supportive of you killing people." Chase said, almost as soon as the recording ended.

"That really didn't tell us much." Skye spoke.

"Rico has a sister that's what I got out of that." Chase replied.

"Well, guess we try to power the ship now." Ryder suggested.

"How would we go about that?" Marshall questioned.

"Put it in a coal pile maybe?" Chase answered Marshall's question.

"Wha- oh yeah we could try that," Marshall responded, not knowing what Chase meant for a second.

With that said they did as suggested by Chase, they all followed Ryder and he put a gem in the pile and it did nothing. He then put the second gem in and this time something happened, not what they expected but something did happen. What they were expecting was for the ship to propel forward, what happened was more Rico magic. Evil versions of each of them appeared with pup packs, clothing and all, unless they didn't have one of course, and they could only be differentiated by smoke coming off of the evil ones.

"Now what do we do?" Skye questioned.

"I'll take the gems out!" Ryder replied, quickly going over and, as he said taking the gems away.

When he took them out, the evil pups faded away fairly anticlimactically. They noticed something, something purple-ish inside the fading mirrors of themselves. They each looked at each other with an understanding of what it was. The portals were always purple and most of the time within a very strong monster. The weird thing was that each one of them had one, they thought that maybe each of them he had one but they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.

"Each of you fights yourself, we'll see what happens here." Ryder commanded as he put the gems back and the mirror images reformed.

Chase immediately shot a net at his mirror and it actually worked. It actually trapped it so Chase could attack however possible until the mirror escapes. Marshall had a water battle with his mirror for a while but ended up just brawling since Marshall didn't really have a lot in his arsenal for fighting. Skye and her mirror couldn't really do anything but brawl since Skye had a broken wing and that transferred over to her mirror. Rocky would've been using all sorts of tools and creativity but Rico stole it all so now he had nothing but paws and claws. Zuzi and the mirror weren't getting anything done with only three legs and nothing special to fight with, same goes for Tucker just with a little more action since he actually has all his limbs. Ryder was obviously fist fighting his mirror since he obviously didn't anticipate Rico sending them through hell so he didn't bring anything.

Chase just kept battering and bettering the mirror until it just poofed into a tiny portal which just flew up into the air after the fact. Apparently, his repeated abuse was enough to kill the thing. He looked around and decided upon trying to help Zuzi due to her troubles, and it probably being the easiest to go for, for now. As the others continued fighting to no avail Chase ran over to Zuzi and shot a net at the one with smoke coming off of it. He did it all right and the mirrored Zuzi was trapped in his net. Zuzi didn't say anything and nor did Chase as they both did all they could to kill this three-legged mirror as soon as possible. It died quicked than Chase's Mirror for obvious reasons and the same thing happened with the portal, it appeared and flew upwards.

They looked around for who to go for next and saw Skye starting to look fatigued, and they went to help her. Chase shot the net and the whole process repeated except the mirror actually managed to escape the net and attack Skye before Chase netted it again. The hit left a scar on Skye's face. The Skye mirror eventually died and the portal flew up again.

They tried to find who to go for next and Rocky was actually pinned by his mirror and was getting repeatedly smacked by it. Chase shot a tennis ball, at it as the cannon was already out, and it knocked the mirror off. As Chase netted it and the group of three began attacking it Rocky just lied on the ground presumably out of pain for the abuse he just endured. The mirror died, the portal flies, onto the next one.

Only Tucker, Ryder, and Marshall left. Ryder was perfect and neither Mashall nor Tucker was having issues so Chase began rushing towards Marshall since he was closer than the others. The cycle did as before and the Marshall mirror died, no issues. The portal went up and they advanced to Tucker.

Tucker's mirror actually dodged Chase's net and then proceeded to pummel Chase straight to the ground and slammed his head in the the metal floor over and over before Tucker managed to get over to his mirror and kick him off. Zuzi, Skye, and Tucker all stalled off the mirror Tucker for a little while until Chase managed enough strength to get up and shoot his net at Tucker's mirror. This time, it wasn't dodged and they finally killed this mirror. They looked over and say that both Ryder and Marshall's mirrors were gone as well, so now all the mirrors were gone.

When Chase walked over to Ryder and Marshall he asked, "Did you take down your clones?"

"Ryder finished his and then came over to help me with mine." Marshall answered, "How was yours?"

"Uh, Chase finished his and- helped us a-all out after." Zuzi answered.

Before anyone could say anything after that a portal slowly decended into the room. Nothing special it just floated in and sat itself down. What a relief it was.

"So all the smaller ones must've combined making this one." Chase said.

"How would Rico be able to use this then?" Marshall questioned, finding a flaw in Chase's theory.

"He has stokers." Rocky answered, calmly.

"Can you goddamn stop?! Blood has already been spilt and death has come to one of you so why don't you all just die?" Rico asked, not really so angry sounding compared to other times.

"We're getting out of here Rico, no matter how much you try to stop is." Chase said like authority.

"Good luck." Rico replied, then disappearing.

"Alright. Now we just go in here and, do as we always do." Ryder told, in a tone that just shows his exhaustion from all this.

They all walked into the portal and prepared for the next hellscape.

-Titanic Terror - Rico Winter

Took a while, oops.