The trip back to safety was far less treacherous than the journey into the island. Once they made it back to the wall, Englehorn put his jacket around Sadie's shoulders and gave her some water to drink.
She was not the same person who had gone through those gates. She had been subjected to things he never wanted her to be subjected to. But her stubbornness against him made her defy his orders and join the search party. She got that stubbornness from him. He just wished he had known sooner that she had snuck through the gates. Then he could've gotten to her before she had become so worn down.
He watched as Jimmy held her in his arms. The two of them sat in silence, his arms wrapped protectively around her. He had to admit that from what he knew about Jimmy, the boy would gladly risk his life to protect his daughter.
As the sun began to show its face, loud roaring sounded across the island that could only come from one creature.
"Carl!" they suddenly heard from the other side of the bridge.
"Please!" Ann's voice yelled. "Somebody help us!"
Sadie let out a light gasp. Ann was on the other side of the bridge with Jack! He had actually found her!
"Carl!"
"Drop the bridge. Do it now!" Preston said firmly to Carl.
"Not yet," Carl answered, never taking his eyes off the gate. "Wait. Wait." Preston moved towards him, but Carl held out his hand. "Wait!"
After a few more seconds, Preston could wait no longer. He grabbed the knife from one of the crew members and sliced the rope keeping the bridge up on the other side. The rope snapped and sliced Preston on the face, leaving a deep gash on his cheek.
Ann and Jack quickly ran through the gate and appeared before the remaining crew members. Ann looked pretty rough, but not as bad as Sadie thought she would look after being kidnapped by a giant gorilla.
"Ann!" Sadie ran up to Ann and hugged her tightly. "You're alive! How…how are you alive?"
"Uh…"
Ann wasn't paying attention to her. She was looking around her at all the weapons and chemicals everyone was gathering to capture the ape. They were readying guns, ropes, harpoons, and many bottles of chloroform.
Suddenly, the ape came bursting through the large gate and took a fighting stance in front of all of them.
"Now!" Englehorn yelled. "Throw them! Throw!"
The crew members threw their grappling hooks onto the ape letting them sink into his skin.
"No!" Ann screamed.
"Hold him!"
"Are you out of your mind?" Jack yelled to Carl.
Englehorn threw a bottle of chloroform at the ape and it crashed on the ground underneath his face. The ape noticeably weakened as he began to breathe in the resulting smoke.
"Stop!" Ann cried.
Sadie looked over at Ann and saw tears in her eyes. Had she really grown to like this gorilla that much? Just what had happened to her in the last 24 hours?
"Keep him down!" Englehorn ordered.
Two crew members pushed down a couple of rocks and a net crashed down over the ape, pinning him to the ground.
"Please!" When Ann saw Englehorn about to throw another bottle, she ran to him and desperately tried to grab it from him. "No! Stop!"
Jack ran up to her and tried to pry her off the man.
"Get her out of—"
"They'll kill him!"
"There's nothing we can do," Jack told her.
"No!"
"Get her out of his sight!" Englehorn yelled.
"It's too late," Jack said calmly.
"Throw it!" Carl yelled to Englehorn.
Englehorn threw the bottle of chloroform and the ape became even weaker.
Ann furiously took Jack's arms off her. "Let go of me."
Jack paused for a moment before wrapping his arms around her and practically dragging her back to the ship. "We gotta go. Come on. Come on."
"Stop it. Leave me alone!"
"Ann, please come on."
Noticing Ann struggling against Jack, the ape growled fiercely before ripping the net off him and tossing the crew members into the air.
Sadie looked from Ann to the ape. "Daddy, stop this!" she cried. "He's reacting to Ann struggling!"
"Kill it!" Englehorn ordered.
"No!" Carl yelled. "No!"
"It's over, you lunatic! All of you, run!"
Jimmy pushed Sadie in the direction of the boats and all of them started running away from the ape.
They all frantically tried to ready the oars and row away with the gorilla hot on their heels. A couple of crew members shot at him, but they were soon crushed by his large fist.
Jimmy stood in the gorilla's path and aimed his gun at him. "Come on!" he screamed in a fury.
"Jimmy, stop it!" Sadie screamed. "Come on!"
Jack pushed the both of them into the nearest lifeboat while Englehorn hopped into the other one.
"Come on, Carl!" Jack yelled.
Carl quickly hopped into the lifeboat with the ape right behind him. Another crew member tried to shoot him, but the ape viciously grabbed the crew member and bit his head off before tossing him into the wall.
Jimmy furiously attempted to shoot the gorilla again, angered at him for killing the only man who ever cared for him.
"Jimmy, no!" Jack yelled.
"Stop!" Sadie screamed as she grabbed his shoulders. "Stop it!"
She screamed as the gorilla grabbed the boat and threw it into the wall where it shattered and all the members inside fell into the water.
"Sadie!" Jimmy yelled.
Sadie swam over to him and latched onto him as they stayed near one of the walls and away from the gorilla. She looked over to find her father readying a harpoon.
"Daddy, don't!"
Englehorn fired the harpoon and it sank into the gorilla's leg. The gorilla let out a loud agonized cry of pain. He readied another harpoon as Carl climbed up the rock to the gorilla's eye level.
"Wait!" Carl yelled to Englehorn.
He waited for just the right moment to throw another bottle of chloroform right onto the gorilla's face. It finally weakly sank down onto the rock.
Sadie watched in amazement as the gorilla held his hand out to Ann who had tears streaming down her face. This ape cared for Ann in a way no one thought was possible. Even more shocking was that Ann returned those feelings.
The ape rested its head on the rock and succumbed to unconsciousness.
Carl walked over to the large animal. "The whole world will pay to see this. We're millionaires, boys! I'll share it with all of you! In a few months his name will be up in lights on Broadway! Kong! The Eighth Wonder of the World!"
Sadie made eye contact with Ann. She had never seen the woman look so hurt and betrayed. And after seeing the way the ape looked at her, she didn't blame her one bit.