After the feast, the king and his people went back to bed. Keith snuck into a storage room and took a boat. When he arrived to the dungeons, Bilbo had freed the dwarves using the keys that he had stolen from the sleeping drunk guards.
"How's your time with the Elves?" Thorin asked bitterly when Keith rejoined them.
"I'll explain later."
"What makes you want to come back to us?"
"The elves drank a lot during the feast. Therefore it was a good time to set you free. I wouldn't have forgotten about you, my friends."
"The burglar has done his job well."
The hobbit led the 13 dwarves and the man down into the cellar, "This way."
"I don't believe it, we're in the cellars," Kili spoke softly.
"You're supposed to be leading us out, not further in!" Bofur whispered.
"I know what I'm doing," the hobbit spoke softly but Bofur cut him off with a "shhhh".
"This way! This way!" the hobbit continued leading the group.
The guards found out the dwarves were not in their cells and they went off to report.
"Everyone, climb into the barrels quickly," Bilbo whispered.
"Are you mad? They'll find us," Dwalin whispered in concern.
"No, no. They won't, I promise you. Please, please, you must trust me," the hobbit whispered to assure everyone.
"Do as he says," Thorin supported Bilbo ordering the other dwarves to climb into the barrels.
"Move your big ginger head," Dwalin ordered Bombur. "Bifur, get in the barrel! Move!"
"Everyone's in," said Dori.
"What do we do now?" Bofur asked.
"Hold your breath," Bilbo spoke as he pushed the lever.
"Hold my breath? What do you mean?" the barrels began rolling down into the river as the door on the ground opened.
Keith and Bilbo got into the boat and positioned themselves on one end. The door opened as the boat slid down into the river.
"Well done, Master Baggins," Thorin complemented. "Go! Come on! Let's go!" As they got out, "HOLD ON!" the dwarf prince shouted.
"Hang on!" Bofur shouted
"Help!" shouted Ori.
"Ori!" shouted Dori.
Legolas came out and gave an order to another elf who blew the horn. As a result, one of the sentries pulled the lever down to close the gate.
"No!" Thorin shouted as the gate was closed causing the barrels to become stuck.
The sentries took out their swords but an arrow landed into one of them. The orcs began attacking both elves and dwarves.
"Watch out! There's Orcs!" Bofur shouted as the body fell right into the river.
"Get under the bridge!" Thorin ordered.
Keith turned off the safety of his pistol and opened fire at the orcs. He went for headshots to conserve ammo and sent them flying into the air. The V.S.S.E. agent had to pick them off carefully without giving his friends friendly fires.
Bilbo stabbed an orc with Sting while the dwarves used their fists to fight. They took any weapon from their kills to use.
After Kili got out from the barrel, Dwalin tossed him a sword to use. Fili hurled a knife at another orc to support his brother. Kili cut his way through the orcs to lever. Before he could pull the lever, the orc leader shot him on the leg. This caught the attention from Thorin and Fili. The injured dwarf fell onto his supine position and the orcs that attempted to kill him were shot by Tauriel. Keith hurried to Kili's position and pulled the arrow out causing him to scream catching the attention of Fili, Thorin, and Tauriel.
Legolas led a battalion of reinforcement releasing a stream of arrows into the orcs. Tauriel and Legolas swapped between bow and knives in combat.
Keith pulled the lever and tossed Kili into the empty barrel. The V.S.S.E. agent jumped back to the boat and let it go with the current. The orc leader ordered the hunting party to go after them. The orc archers fired at the dwarves and the arrows all landed into the barrels leaving the dwarves unharmed.
Some of the orc archers fired at the man, he used the boat for cover and returned the fire with his pistol. The fight in the river was different from chasing a particular enemy leader back in the Neodyne Industries incident. Some of the enemies were stationary and they were primitive archers. The rate of the orc archers firing critical shots was as high as those red soldiers of Neodyne Industries. The orcs who attempted to use melee weapons on the dwarves drowned themselves instead as they fell right into the river. Keith spotted an orc attempted to jump at him with a blade and countered the attack by giving the orc a headshot. The current was fast enough to hinder the accuracy of the orc archers. The elves went after the orcs and dwarves firing arrows at any orc in their path.
Before an orc landed on Balin, Keith gunned the orc down causing the body to land near Thorin. He tossed the orc's spiked club to Dwalin who passed it to Nori who then passed it to Fili. The young dwarf clubbed the orc on his shin causing him to fall right into the river. An orc landed on Dwalin who rammed him with his forehead. Dwalin threw the orc into the rocks and took its axe.
"Chop the log!" Thorin ordered as the dwarves with axes hacked into the log. The breaking of the log caused the orcs to fall into the river that drowned them.
"Bombur!" Dwalin tossed the axe to the corpulent dwarf who hacked the orc that speared the barrel. The spear's handle sent the barrel flying out of the water and the barrel rolled right into a line of orcs like a bowling ball striking out a cluster of bowling pins. When the barrel stopped rolling, the kicked the barrel lid out and used the broken barrel like a shell. Bombur used whatever weapon he could get from his kills cutting and slashing the orcs as he spun around. The corpulent dwarf got rid of the 'shell' then tossed the weapons to his friends. He jumped into another empty barrel.
Legolas somersaulted and stood on top of the heads of Dwalin and Dori. He fired any orc he saw and made a one shot two kills. After taking down more orcs, he used the dwarves as stepping stones to cross the river. Keith thought that it was not nice to do that and brained an orc from sinking its blade onto the prince of Mirkwood.
Most of the orcs continued chasing Keith, Bilbo, and the dwarves. The elves gave up the chase. An orc foolishly tried to kill Legolas but was subdued by Tauriel. The prince ordered that orc to be captured alive for interrogation.