~THIRD PERSON~

Fierce Fox eyed the tall rocks surrounding the alien spaceship. It was shaped like an island that had been pulled out of the Earth. The pink windows gleamed in the pale light and the blue water bubbled. Cautiously, Fierce Fox drove the sub towards the structure. She passed a rocky entrance and came to a pink, glass wall. She wasn't sure what to do.

"Hey!" Alice's voice came through the radio. "It's me! Smash through those pink walls. Then take pictures of the glyphs."

"Alright." Fierce Fox replied. She rammed her ship into the glass; it shattered, giving her a clear path. The ship seemed to be made of grey walls, tubes, strange symbols and things that Fierce Fox didn't understand. There was a glyph on the grey wall.

"Yeah! Take a picture of that one!" Alice told her. Cam clapped in the background. Fierce Fox focused her camera on the glyph, keeping it steady. The light flashed. She got a picture.

"You got the shot." Cam told her, sounding pleased. Fierce Fox grinned and headed forward. She found a strange, silver, circular door, nearby an old, tall, glowing chair. The door was divided into three parts, each illustrated with a different sea creature. "What is this place?" Cam asked. The realization hit Fierce Fox like a bullet.

"It's a city! An enormous underwater city!" she answered, grinning broadly. She shined the light on the door.

"Is that a doorway?" Cam asked, staring at the door. "There must be a way to open it. Look around!"

"We can open it," Alice told Fierce Fox. "Head down first. It's the room with the puffer fish." Fierce Fox obliged and drove downwards. She came to a room with dirty gray walls and a pink tubular system. The system led to a containment area. However, the system had been jumbled up, much like other pipe puzzles in Poptropica. Fierce Fox waited for Alice's instructions. "Okay, first head down and take a picture of the glyph there."

Fierce Fox drove past the tubular system and found the glyph. Using the sub's camera, she took a picture.

"You got it." Cam told her. Fierce Fox smirked and drove up to the system. She cleared her throat.

"Okay," Alice began. "There's a piece in one of those tubes which you'll need to open that doorway. To get that piece, you'll need to fit all the tubes together, loop them around, and make sure they end at the tube with the piece."

"Got it." Fierce Fox replied. She drove the sub over to the pipes and began switching them around so they formed a path. Indeed, there was a pizza-slice-shaped piece of stone inside a tube, which Fierce Fox ended the path at. She pushed the red button.

A puffer fish came out of a tube, went through the system, popping out of the tube with the piece. Fierce Fox grabbed the piece. It went into her inventory.

"Great!" Alice told her. "Now you need to power something. You see that containment? Make the path flow all the way to there. Then push the button again." Alice, with her directions, helped Fierce Fox switch around the tubes, turning them into a path. Fierce Fox pressed the button. The fish flowed through the path again, ending up in the containment. It glowed pale orange.

"I don't think that's been powered on for ages!" Cam noticed.

"Okay, that's one part," Alice told Fierce Fox. "Now go up. Going that way will take you to the room with the hydromedusae." Fierce Fox headed that way. She came to a room with many different dark grey layers and platforms. There were pink power-points in the wall that were connected by pink cords. The power-points powered different doorways. Beneath Fierce Fox were a collection of glowing hydromedusae.

"Just get a hydromedusa to follow you," Alice explained. "Once one does, lead it over to a power-point thing. That will open a door somewhere else. Make sure you do this to all the power-points. Once you've got all the doors open, grab the pieces. Watch out for electric eels, and make sure the hydromedusae don't sting you."

"Here I go." Fierce Fox replied. She drove down to the Hydromedusa: the strange, jellyfish like creatures. One of them began following her. She drove away at a relative speed: not too slow, not too fast. The creature bobbed up and down in the water. Fierce Fox stopped in front of a power-point. The creature attached itself onto it, charging it up. A door opened beneath Fierce Fox, in a small area created by dark grey walls.

Fierce Fox went to retrieve another hydromedusa. She led it into the area. At the back of the area was a power-point; the hydromedusa attached itself onto such thing. On the floor was a piece, which Fierce Fox grabbed. She grinned proudly and went to get yet another hydromedusa. She led it to a clear space in between the walls. There was a power-point there. Fierce Fox let the hydromedusa attach to it, while avoiding the eel. That opened a door above her.

Fierce Fox drove up there. In front of the small area was a glyph, which Fierce Fox snapped a picture of. Then she drove into the small area, picking up a large piece of stone.

"Just a few more hydromedusae," Alice told her. "This part's the hardest because you have to dodge an eel. After that, there's another glyph you need to take a picture of. Then it's the next room." Fierce Fox nodded and let a hydromedusa follow her. It opened one door in another area on the right. Fierce Fox grabbed another hydromedusa and opened the second door. Well, not before avoiding the electric eel blocking her path. But she succeeded.

After that, Fierce Fox got another hydromedusa. She used it to open another area that contained a glyph and a power-point. She took a picture of the glyph and used another hydromedusa to power the power-point. The power-point opened the final door, which contained a containment. Alice explained that Fierce Fox needed to put the final hydromedusa in there, which she did. The containment glowed.

"Astonishing…" Cam observed. "The energy from that fish is powering something somewhere else!"

"You're done here!" Alice congratulated Fierce Fox. "One more room left."

Fierce Fox grinned. "Let's do this."

~ALICE~

Cam and I watched Fierce Fox from the sub's camera. I have to admit, when the SUIs came out, I was blown away by the art style. The Poptropica creators had really raised the bar. Despite the fact that there were too many glitches. Mission Atlantis was no exception: the backgrounds were detailed, the ocean was beautiful, and the creatures were beautifully animated.

Fierce Fox was now in the shark room. The name alone made me shiver. There were lots of areas with small, red fish. They were kept behind walls of pink glass. Fierce Fox had to get as many fish as she could so she could lead the shark to a containment. I was so happy I didn't have to go on such a treacherous mission. The only thing I had to worry about was getting a sunburn. In a way, I felt unproductive. But what could I do? It might be too stressful for me.

"Collect as many of those red fish as you can," I instructed Fierce Fox. The camera showed that she was moving upwards. "You'll need to break some of those glass walls to reach them. If you see a glyph, take a picture. If you see a piece of stone, pick it up. Once you have enough fish… go up to the shark and lead it down to the containment area."

"Alright." Fierce Fox replied. Cam and I observed her actions through the camera. While Fierce Fox was grabbing a fish, I noticed something in the corner. Something black with glowing eyes. Shivers crawled down my spine.

"Do you see something in the corner?" I asked Cam. He squinted.

"Nope," he answered. "Just water." He gasped. "Hey! Take a picture of that glyph!"

I sighed. "I hope so." After Fierce Fox snapped a picture of a glyph, she headed off to get more fish. I saw those haunting eyes following her again. Except they seemed to be watching me. I chewed my lip.

"This is fantastic!" Cam squealed. "We've discovered a whole city! This'll make me beyond famous!" He stared at me. "Are you okay?"

"I think there's something following Fierce Fox," I told him, tapping my chin. "I don't know what. I…" I sighed. "Oh, there's always something or someone following us. They just want me because I'm the prophesied hero."

"Really?" Cam asked. He observed the screen. "I don't see anything out of place." His eyes widened. "Fierce Fox is approaching a shark!" Indeed she was. A large, terrifying, goblin shark appeared on camera. It gnashed its teeth. Fierce Fox turned around and started racing away at full speed. I heard the shark consume something in the background. Fierce Fox continued moving. She was quick, even in a sub.

Eventually, she caught the shark in the containment. Cam gasped.

"Goblin sharks have been around for 125 million years!" he exclaimed. He frowned. "Why was it trapped here so long?"

"Maybe it was waiting for me." Fierce Fox jokingly answered. A few small, red fish were still swimming around her.

"Fierce Fox," I spoke up. "It's time to open that doorway." Fierce Fox nodded and returned to the first room. I explained how to put all the pieces together; she did. That was one part of the puzzle. The second part had to do with the glyphs. There were pictures of the glyphs around the doorway; Fierce Fox had to press them in the order she found them. The door twinkled and open: pink light burned out the camera. And I saw those haunting eyes and heard another scream.

"What have you found?" Cam demanded. "Tell me what you see!" He sounded both panicked and intrigued. Fierce Fox didn't reply. "Are you there? Come in!"

"She's not there," I sighed. "But we'll see her again." I paused. "I hope."