Chapter 3

It was Ursula. The Sea Witch. Her black tentacles were wrapped around David, pinning his arms down as he was struggling against her grip. Having to hold his breath to prevent breathing in the water since fear was making him loose his DHI.

Finn narrowed his eyes on her, but knew he had to be careful or she'll hurt David. Luckily, he was calm enough to stay in his DHI form allowing him to stay in the water longer.

"Oh, you boys are quite the troublemakers. Especially this one." She sneered as she lifted David up for Finn to see. "Let's just see what happens when I squeeze the rest of the air out of him."

Finn noticed that David was trying to move his hand towards the Sea Witch's tentacle that held him down. Closing his eyes, David tried to focus on his power. Last time he did this, his powers didn't work after being in the water. But he had to try something or else he would be dead in the hands of Ursula. Finally, he caused a small electric spark on her as she tried to give him a squeeze. It was small, but it was enough to cause pain. The witch cried out, forcing herself to let David go. Finn paddled his way over to David, grabbing his hand and pulling him up towards the surface as Ursula was distracted.

"You foolish boy! I'll kill you for this!" Ursula growled in anger as she swooped upwards with her tentacles, trying to catch up with them.

Despite his lack of his swimming skills, David remembered to use his arms to paddle himself upwards with his feet kicking till he reached the surface with Finn.

"Come on! This way!" Finn called out as he offered an arm to wrap around David, pulling him towards the Liberty Bell boat. Having him climb onboard before joining him. Ursula tried to grab Finn by his ankles with her tentacles, but he moved quickly before she could proceed.

"Curses!" Ursula growled in anger as she glared at them from beneath the water.

"We need to find the others. They could be in as much danger as we are." David said with concern as he stared down at the waters. Not seeing Ursula anymore. But knew that they were still being tracked down.

"Follow me." Finn ordered. Both of the teens charged their way towards the control room of the ship. Finn was still under experience from driving a car, but he knew a little from watching movies to figure out how the boat would move by taking the controls. It was a whole different experience from a car. But he was getting the use to it. He began to take the controls and led the boat towards the main deck.

David glanced over to the other side of the pond, seeing the pirates running towards the deck where they're supposed to land upon. If they gotten off the boat, the pirates were such to catch them. But he would see in Finn's eyes, that he had a plan. Following Finn's eyes, he could see that the boat was going full speed, heading straight towards the pirates. With a hit of the deck, it knocked the pirates over. Some of them landing on the ground or into the lake.

"Now's our chance. Run!" Finn exclaimed as he and David ran out of the control room and made a jump over to get back onto the deck. David hurt his foot while doing this, but he couldn't stop there. He forced himself to run alongside Finn to get passed the pirates before they stood up again.

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"I lost them! What should we do?" Nikki looked back at Maybeck with a worried look as he was using the chairs to keep the demonic birds away from them.

"I don't know! Busy at the moment!" He swat the chair at the oncoming birds.

Looking down at the phone, Nikki tried to think of a way she could try to contact the others to help them. She lifted her head, seeing a computer on a deck close to the controls.

"Maybeck, can you keep them busy? I'll try to contact Philby with that computer over there." She spoke up, picking up a user manual book to cover her head for protection.

"I can try. Though I can't guarantee that they'll be easy on me. Plus there's too many of these rats with feathers." Maybeck spoke as he kept swatting at the birds.

"I just need to get to Philby and have him send a message to Finn and the others. We have to find them." With that, Nikki hurried passed Maybeck and charged her way over to the computers. Some of the birds turned onto her, hitting at her with their beaks.

"Nikki!" Maybeck cried out as he watched the birds now turning to her. He tried to rush over to her but was blocked by the other birds.

By the time she reached the computer, the birds piled upon the book that she used as protection. As she moved her hands towards the mouse, Diago dove towards her. Hitting the beak onto her hand. Making her pull away for a moment. Seeing the cut onto her hand. But she moved her hand quickly to the mouse and moved the arrow on the screen. Clicking on the DHS website that Wayne set up for them. She moved towards the inbox, trying to type out a distress message to Philby's account. It didn't make it easier for her since she kept getting hit by the birds' beaks.

Diago made a u-turn up close to the ceiling before he dove towards Nikki again. This time hitting her onto the back. The impact made her almost fall onto the computer. Though, her hologram hand suddenly fell into the screen. She glanced in shock as she saw her hand moving around, forming into pixels and forming like a character in a video game.

"H-How is this possible?" She examined the hand before trying to pull her hand away from the screen. But it was stuck. She kept trying to pull her hand with no luck of getting it free from the computer.

"Maybeck!" She cried out as she kept pulling.

Maybeck quickly turned to her, his eyes widen. Cursing out a word that wouldn't be used in church. He pushed the birds away, rushing over to her.

"How did you do this?!" Maybeck grabbed hold of her wrist and helping her pull.

"I don't know!" She cried out before Maybeck managed to get her hands free. Still having hold of her, he pulled her to safety by running out of the building. Once outside, both of them pushed the doors closed onto the birds before they could reach them. They could hear the beaks crashing into the wooden flame.

Maybeck signed with relief, swiping the sweat from his forehead. "That was a close one. I thought for sure we would going to be bird chow."

Nikki laughed a little by this comment. "No kidding." She frowned slightly, looking down at her hand. It was back to it's normal, solid self.

"Hey, you alright?" Maybeck looked at her with concern.

"Yeah. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what just happened." She rubbed the palm of her hand to study it. Still confused by the whole situation.

"You looked like you were turning into a pixel character. Like the glitch girl from Wreck it Ralph. Like our characters in the chat room." He walked over to her, still trying to figure out what just happened.

"I thinking…" She paused, turning to Maybeck. "I think in DHS form, I can enter the computer. When the raven hit me, I fell over the computer. Then my hand was able to go through the screen and enter the computer world."

"Like the Tron movies?" Maybeck raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, something like that." She mumbled.

"Maybeck? Nikki?" They heard Willa's voice. Seeing her run over to them from Fantasyland. "Thank goodness I found you both. I was being chased by the goons from Sleeping Beauty. I lost them way back there. But I was worried that something bad happened to you guys. Where's Finn and David?"

Maybeck and Nikki glanced around, having worried looks on their faces. "We thought they were out here. They must have been chased out by the Overtakers." Maybeck explained.

"Don't worry, guys. We're alright." Finn called to them with David standing behind them, waving.

Nikki smiled at them, relieved that they were alright. Soon the five of them reached each other close to the bush near the Magic Carpet ride. Sharing a conversation about the Overtakers. But Nikki didn't want to explain the computer situation. Seeing her silence, Maybeck kept quiet about it as well. Thinking she didn't want to tell anyone yet till they can fully explain what happened.

Finn reached his hand into the bush, feeling the Return button within his grasp. The other soon joined hands with each other.

"We'll all meet at the ice cream shop tomorrow and discuss this with the others." Finn explained. Which everyone nodded their heads. Nikki kept silence, studying her hand once more before Finn pressed the button to transport them out of the park.