Roxanne and Michaela found it hard to walk naturally in their new disguises as none of them had wore and walked in them for so long, but they tried their hardest to not draw attention to themselves. They wondered how the Phantom managed to walk in clothes like these, even with all her experience her whole life.

They kept their eyes peeled as they searched the whole yacht for the keys to free Max and to avoid the Phantom and her AI robots. Then Michaela quickly dragged Roxanne into the nearest room and ducked her under the nearest window.

They had barely began searching for the keys, but Roxanne quickly learned why Michaela did what she did. It was because the Phantom and her AI robots were coming the other way and they were hiding from them.

"I think they're gone now," Michaela said to Roxanne.

"Michaela, I think you brought us in the right room. And I don't mean just for hiding."

Michaela was about to ask Roxanne what she meant while she turned around, but she didn't need to as she saw what she meant. The room they were in was an office. Judging by the size, the metal cabinets and the massive oak-made desk, this looked like the yacht captain's office.

"I bet the keys to freeing Max must in here somewhere," Roxanne said, as she went to look around the room.

The girls searched the whole office. While Roxanne was searching the metal cabinets (none of them were locked), the drawers and the trash cans, Michaela was busy trying to find something that wasn't on show but hidden, so she took down all the paintings on the wall to check if there were any hidden safes behind them. They weren't any. The very last one she took down to check was the very biggest one, which was a painting of the Phantom that was painted by, she thought, the AI robots. And there was the hidden safe she was looking for. She was betting (hoping, actually) that the keys to free Max would be in there because neither she nor Roxanne dared to go out and look for them because they were running out of time to free Max, unless they really had to. Then Michaela got out a picklock set out of her ripped jeans pockets and used them to picklock the keyhole.

"You have pick-locking skills?" Roxanne asked.

"I learned how to do them when I was very young," Michaela said. "I only used them to hide from bullies at school or abandoned city buildings. I never used them for stealing or any crime at all, I swear." Then the picklock she used broke and she started to use another one. "In answer to your next question, this is my only set of picklocks. I didn't want to use them on Max's padlock in case they all broke on that and there'd be nothing else to find something would free help him."

Roxanne thought that was a good idea. After all, she couldn't see any emergency tools like a fire axe to help free Max in this office. She couldn't find anything at all as she looked around the office. She couldn't even find any information about the Phantom. She told Michaela about it.

"Well, don't ask me," Michaela said. "The Phantom never told me any about her personal life or how she manages Max's career and I haven't been able to find a single clue about it." Then another picklock broke and she moved onto the next one.

"Do you ever know if she mentored any other rock stars before Max?" Roxanne asked.

"No, not to my knowledge." Michaela was on her very last picklock and she prayed it would get this safe open. The picklock got ruined like the others, but it did manage to get the safe opened. To the extra relief of both Michaela and Roxanne, there was a set of silver keys in it. It was the only set in there. Michaela checked if there were any loose keys of any type left in the safe, but they weren't. After chucking the set to Roxanne, she closed the safe and put the giant painting back up.

"Okay, now let's find Max," Roxanne said.

After they left the office, Roxanne and Michaela resumed looking around the whole yacht for Max. They checked through every window and every open door as they approached them, but he wasn't in either of them. There was only one place left to check and that was the sun deck.

"Stand still," Michaela whispered to Roxanne. "Don't move a muscle or make a noise until I tell you."

Roxanne saw that two AI robots were approaching them. She tried her hardest not to move a muscle, make a noise or sweat when they looked at her and Michaela. It was very hard to do.

"I don't remember those statues of Mother being there," Botty said.

"Maybe we're so good at making stuff that we forget that we made them," Screwy said.

Roxanne tried to control her sweating of fear as she waited for Botty to say something, but she didn't know how much longer she could keep it up.

"I guess so," the robot said. "Now, where were we?"

"Mother told us to check on the fuel or something," Screwy said.

"That's it," Botty said. "Well, what are we standing around here for?"

"Because we're looking at these statues of Mother that we made. That's what we're standing around here for."

"That was a rhetorical question, Screwy."

"I don't know what that means."

"And you never will, unless Mother updates your brain," Botty said under her breath. "Come on, Screwy. Let's get back to work."

The robots finally moved on.

"Come on, Roxanne," Michaela said. "We can

Roxanne took a deep breath of relief as quietly as she could as she followed Michaela.

Soon there was only one place left for Roxanne and Michaela to look for Max and that was on the yacht's sun deck and they were very delighted to find Max. He was just sitting there, still wrapped in chains, but they were very happy that he was alive, especially Roxanne. She was so overjoyed that she felt like running to free him at once, but Michaela pulled her again and told her to hide under one of the two sun deck chairs. She learnt why. They saw the Phantom and Nutsy passing them and approaching Max. Michaela told Roxanne in sign language to be silent as Nutsy stood by to do his guard duty.