Robyn gasped for breath and tried to fight her impulse to retch. She'd seen Tick being killed and what was left over and it had sickened her. Kit sat next to her concerned and rubbed her back trying to ease her problems. After a few moments Robyn's breathing calmed and her stomach stopped doing somersaults. Kit hugged her gently and she rested her head on his shoulder.

"You ok?" Kit whispered in Robyn's ear.

Robyn shook her head, "one of the Shadows got torn to pieces by the dogs and I saw it. I think it was Tick but I can't be sure."

"How many are there now?" Kit asked both interested and sickened by what he'd been told.

Robyn closed her eyes and tried to remember, "Three." She said at last.

Kit was surprised. Robyn had only mentioned seeing Tick being killed so someone else must have died before. Three against three made things a lot more even and if Sportacus was unharmed they'd have no trouble at all getting out. The only thing that tipped the scales against them was the two dogs but Ché was worth two or three men in himself.

On the approach to Crazytown Harbour Kit took out of his bag all the things he wouldn't need. He kept in some juggling equipment, his throwing knives and a length of rope which also served as a tight rope on occasion when he tried to refine his skills. The juggling equipment would serve as part of the diversion and the rope could be used to tie up any members of the Shadow gang that attempted escape. His throwing knives were for self defence and again for part of the diversion.

Robyn concentrated and tried to pick up the connection she'd had with Sportacus. She didn't know how to go about this and hoped it would come to her as it had done before. Upon flying over the harbour she knew instantly where Sportacus was and let everyone else know. Ché stopped piloting and engaged the airbrake to stop the airship going anywhere while they were attempting their rescue.

After wishing each other good luck they quitted the airship and prepared for what could be a hard fight.

Snatch growled alerting his mistress to trouble. Aurora looked up to the ceiling of the warehouse when she heard footsteps which sounded like they were coming from the roof. She couldn't begin to fathom how someone would get on the roof of a warehouse when the only access to it was on the inside. Looking at Meat Head Aurora gestured that he should investigate.

Meat Head walked over to the metal ladder at the far end of the warehouse which was at the opposite end to where Sportacus was. He climbed the ladder gingerly as it squeaked and screamed under his weight and its age. Reaching the top of the ladder Meat Head pushed open a hatch to the roof and climbed out closing the hatch behind him.

The two remaining Shadows jumped in shock when the warehouse doors burst open and a giant emerged. The giant smiled and looked at them, "My name is Ché. I believe you have my friend here and I've come to take him back."

Aurora looked to her two dogs and issued her fatal order but neither one would obey. They were too frightened by the sheer size of the man that had walked in. After a few more orders to attack Cuddles built up the courage to obey his mistress and did as he was bade. With his companion gone to attack Snatch followed by example and ran after him.

Ché was prepared for the dogs and knocked both aside when they leapt for him. Though phased the dogs attempted to attack again but were once again knocked aside. Satisfied that the dogs had been beaten for now Ché ignored the two shadows and walked over to grab Sportacus his long strides getting him there as fast as a runner would. Ché was about to break Sportacus' bonds when he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder. He turned his head to see where it had come from and saw a knife sticking out of his shoulder and The Surgeon smiling at him.

The Surgeon ripped the knife from Ché's shoulder and was about to imbed it fatally into Ché's minorly injured body when a knife flew into his own shoulder painfully. The Surgeon cried out and tried feebly to remove the knife but to no avail.

Aurora looked to see where the errant knife had come from and saw Kit on the ladder.

"Kitten!" She shouted with surprised triumph.

Kit nodded and dropped himself down from the ladder and went into a parachute roll when he reached the ground. The two dogs recovered themselves and decided that Kit was a much easier target than the giant. They began to stalk up to him growling and baring their teeth but ground to a halt when Meat Head fell from the hatch in the ceiling and landed on the ground in front of Kit. Meat Head was injured but not fatally so and Aurora looked up to see how he could have been stupid enough to have fallen through hatch. Aurora was very surprised to see Robyn sitting on the edge of the hatch looking down at her.

The Surgeon was still struggling to remove the knife Kit had thrown in his shoulder and Ché was getting fed up with the man's whining and pulled the knife out for him before landing a punch on the man's head effectively knocking him out. Once he'd taken care of The Surgeon Ché snapped Sportacus' ropes easily and making sure Sportacus was ok went back to deal with the two dogs.

Aurora looked around her and could see she was surrounded. Snatch and Cuddles betrayed their mistress and ran out of the still open doors. Sportacus, Ché and Kit were advancing on her and she thought quickly how to get out of this situation. The only thing she could think of was reaching the ladder and climbing up as fast as she could. One thing was stopping her making it to the roof though and that was Robyn.

With lightning fast speed Aurora unsheathed her knife and threw it upwards at Robyn to the great shock of everyone. The knife barely missed the girl's throat but caused her to overbalance and she fell through the open hatch and hit the ground with a sickening thud.