"But, Mr. Peabody, I don't have to talk to a princess." said Sherman as my group and Milo returned to the palace.

"Of course you do, Sherman. It's so simple." I replied. "You ask her some of your questions and she'll ask you some of her questions. Besides, it'll give you all the information you'll need for your report."

"Looks like a win-win." said Penny.

"All right, let's do this." said Milo.

Before we could walk up to the door, Kida snuck up behind us, restraining Milo and putting her hand on his mouth.

"I have some questions for you," she said. "And you are not leaving this city until they are answered."

"Yeah, well, I...OK!" Milo said before Kida covered his mouth again.

"Come with me." she said to us.

We followed Kida through a secret passageway that led us to a immense jungle.

"It's like a greenhouse." commented Sherman.

"Oh, there is so much to ask about your world." Kida said to Milo. "You and your friends are scholars, are you not?"

"More like archaeologists, Your Highness." I said.

"Well, judging from your diminished physique and large foreheads, you are suited for nothing else." said Kida. "What is your country of origin? When did the flood waters recede? How did you..."

"Wait a minute. My friends and I got a few questions for you." said Milo. "So, let's do this, OK? You ask one, then I'll ask one then you, then me, then...well, you get it."

"Well, then, what is your first question?" asked Kida.

"Well, OK," said Milo. "Uh, how did you get here? Well, I mean, not you personally, but your... your culture.I mean, how did all of this end up down here?"

"Legend says that the gods became jealous of Atlantis." explained Kida. "They sent a great cataclysm and banished us here. All I can remember is the sky going dark and people shouting and running. Then, a bright light, like a star floating above the city. My father said it called my mother to it. I never saw her again."

"I'm sorry." said Milo. "If it...if it's any consolation...I-I know how you feel, because I lost my..."

"Wait a minute. Wait a minute! Whoa, back up!" interrupted Penny. "Wh...what...what are you telling us, that you remember because you were there?"

"No, that...that's impossible, because, I mean, that would make you...you know, eighty-five...eighty-eight hundred years old." guessed Milo.

"Yes." answered Kida.

"Wow!" exlcaimed Sherman.

"Wow indeed." I concurred.

"Hey, uh, pfft! Lookin' good." said Milo. "Just, uh, ahem...You got another question for me?"

"Yes. How is it you found your way to this place?" asked Kida.

"Well, I'll tell you, it wasn't easy." said Milo as he pulled out the Shepard's Journal from his satchel. "If it weren't for this book, we never would have made it."

Kids quickly grabbed the journal and looked through the pages as Milo went on, "OK, second question. Legend has it that your people possessed a power source of some kind that enabled them..."

"You mean you can understand this?" interrupted Kida.

"Yes, I'm a linguist. That's what I do, that's my job" said Milo. "Now, uh, getting back to my question..."

"This, right here, you can read this?" Kida said, holding the Shepard's Jorunal in front of Milo, who replied. "Yes, yes, I can read Atlantean, just like you."

Kida looked at the journal again.

"You can't, can you?" guessed Milo.

"No one can." explained Kida. "Such knowledge has been lost to us since the time of the Mehbelmok."

"The Meh-what?" said Sherman.

"The Great Flood." I said.

"Oh."

"Show me." Kida said to Milo, who proceeded to read in Atlantean.

"Follow the narrow passage for another league. There, you will find the fifth marker." Kida translated.

"Yeah. Yeah, that's it." said Milo. "How was my accent?"

"Boorish, provincial and you speak it through your nose." said Kida.

"Yeah, gotta work on that." said Milo.

"Here, let me show you something." said Kida as she removed a tarp, revealing what appears to be a vehicle in the shape of a fish.

"Wow." exclaimed Penny. "It looks like a motorcycle."

"Yes," I concurred upon examing the vehicle. "So it does."

"No matter what I try, it will not respond." explained Kida. "Perhaps if..."

"Way ahead of you." said Milo. "OK, let's see what we got here."

He looked at the instructions that were translated in Atlantean.

"OK. 'Place crystal into slot.'"

"Yes, yes, I have done that!" said Kida.

"'Gently place your hand on the inscription pad.'"

"Yes!"

"OK, did you turn the crystal one-quarter turn back?"

"Yes. Yes!"

"While your hand was on the inscription pad?"

"Ye...No."

"Ah, well, see, there's your problem right there." concluded Milo. "That's an easy thing to miss. You know, you deserve credit for even...even gettin' this far."

The rest of us stared at him blankly.

"OK, uh, give it a try."

Kida removed her necklace, placed her crystal on the slot and turn it one-quarted turn back, with her hand on the inscription pad.

This time, it worked. The vehicle magically came to life and started floating.

"A flying motorcycle. Now I've seen everything." exclaimed Penny.

"Oh, th...this is great!" said Milo. "With this thing, I could see the whole city in no time at all."

"Can I go first?" asked Sherman as he reached for the inscription pad.

Of course, I tried to stop him. "Sherman, no!"

But it was too late. The vehicle flew all around the jungle and then crashed into the wall.

"This is precisely why I never let drive you the WABAC." I reminded Sherman, who just said. "Oops."