The Prophecy

The group walks into a room with pictures covering the walls of the pictures and symbols they saw in the Cave. "I'm guessing all this looks familiar."

"No. I've never seen any of this stuff before."

"Mater wasn't with us."

"Oh."

"So I'm guessing you all figured out what these symbols meant."

"It took us years, but we finally discovered it is a primitive form of communication called Pain-Panic."

Sarah looks at them. "It isn't really called that, is it?"

"Well, we cracked the language, so it's only fair it gets named after us! Anyway, we along with some of best and brightest scientists connected it to Egyptian. There are a few differences in the two, but we did manage to crack the code."

"So what does it say?"

"We can't tell you that."

"What?"

"Well, this still has to be unveiled to the scientific community and-"

"Come on guys! I really need this info!"

Pain and Panic looked at each other for a moment. "What's in it for us?"

Timon poked Pain. "How about neither of you get run over nor pummeled to death by my pure awesome anger!"

"We'll take our chances with that little guy." Sarah grabs Timon as he looks on the verge of snapping and hands him to Pleakley.

"Don't let him go! He's gone a little insane." She turns back to the two. "I have an offer."

"Let's hear it."

"If you tell us what all this means, each of you will get a kiss from Giselle." The two's mouths drop to the floor.

"What? I can't. Robert will-"

Sarah whispers under her breath. "Trust me." Giselle then nods and smiles.

"DEAL!"

"Alright. Now close your eyes." They both do. Sarah grabs a still raging Timon. "Pucker up!" Both lean in and end up kissing his furry behind.

"Whoa! Personal bubble!"

"Shut up." She hands him back to Pleakley and both open their eyes. "How was it?"

"Best kiss of my life."

"Now, tell us what the words say."

Panic grabs a notebook and starts reading. "'In the distant future, when the Land knows no greater peace, and evil shall come. Heroes shall go missing from all walks and reaches.'" Pain points to the picture of the figures in tubes. "'Their powers captured, harnessed for the greatest evil ever known. A team of six formed, though their destiny is unknown even to them. These misfits shall confront our villain, but will be too late. His wand is powered, the damage done, light itself banished. It will take another wand, buried among treasure to defeat this foe. But the leader shall need one more thing for defeat, the aid of a prince who destiny has called upon. A cursed prince, who has had his glory so he thought, but something greater waits for him.' And that's it."

"So the kidnapper is using the heroes to power some sort of magical wand that will harness the power of darkness itself. We need to find him fast. And we need to find the six. These six guys are the only ones that can save us."

"But first we need to deal with the issue of us having thirty-five hours of freedom left."

"Right. Is the leaf sample done?"

The two leave and quickly come back with a chart. "Here you are. There is only one possible place it could have come from. You're looking for Ant Island."

"Thank you. Let's go guys." They all start out the door when she grinds to a halt. "Where exactly is that?"

"It's off the coast here. It's about a three hour boat ride. There's a ferry that comes and goes quit often. Just follow the road south and there'll be signs to guide your way. It's a common ship-out point for berries and nuts."

"Thank you guys. We owe you one."

"We'll give you a call when we have your square."

"Okay." The group rushes out the door and all climb into Mater.

"Let's burn some rubber!"

10 Hours Later

The group claws up onto the grass of the island. They all look down and see the huge rocky bluff they just scaled before falling back and moaning.

"Stupid boats being out of service!" Sarah manages to rise and throws a rope over the edge. "Help me." Everyone tugs and they manage to get Mater up onto the grass, collapsing again.

"Now that was easier than pie." They all glare at him.

"How much time do we have?"

"It took us ten hours. We only have a day left."

"Great! And we still have to swim back. We'd better get the culprit fast then." Sarah rises and heads toward and anthill in the middle of giant blades of grass. "Things sure are big here."

"Or we're really small." The group comes to a huge clearing and what they see throws them into shock.

"Oh my."