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~Normal POV

"Hunter and Bea have the kids, they even made some friends. We're going to get them all out together," Trevor explained after putting away his communicator.

"That's good with any luck we'll get out of here in no time; dear you take the left side I'll take the right," Jacqueline said, addressing her husband Larry.

He nodded in response and moved into position. Larry and Jacqueline were still together after all these years it seemed. They were even working together on a new V.F.D. program that allowed volunteers to adopt orphaned children into the organization so they would be safe, and have a place to call home. Sunny and Trevor led the two volunteers to the door that they had eavesdropped on earlier. Jacqueline and Larry readied their spyglasses.

"Ok, we're going in there, and we'll do whatever it takes to get the kids out. Sunny, you two go find Beatrice and get your family out of here," Jacqueline commanded.

Trevor nodded and motioned for Sunny to follow him back through the tunnels. Before she did however, Sunny stopped and looked back at the two older volunteers with a small smile.

"Jacqueline, Larry, it's good to see you guys again..."

They smiled at her. "It's good to see you too Sunny," Larry said, "I'm glad you're so grown up."

Sunny waved to them before running off with Trevor leading the way.

"Which way was the exit?"

Sunny quickly pulled out their map, "If we just keep going we should get there eventually. If only Quigley were here, that man has a photographic memory when it comes to maps."

Trevor hurriedly pulled her along with him once they heard the sound of scuffling coming from the torture room. Jacqueline and Larry must have begun their assault which meant they had little time to waste. According to Larry, Kit has other volunteers working to seal off the other exits to the tunnels so they can't be used anymore. They had to make it back to the ruined headquarters fast.

~…

"Auntie Beatrice, where's Aunt Sunny," Nikki asked.

"She'll join us eventually," Beatrice replied as they opened the exit door, "We should meet her outside."

"Alright kids, be careful sidling along the walkway here," Hunter said.

He led the way as they maneuvered the narrow walkway once more. Hunter helped each of the kids get over the rest of it one by one until they were all safely across. Beatrice joined them and they all breathed a collective sigh of relief from being out of the mountain. The two teens led the kids over to another area of the stream to wait for the others.

~…

Sunny and Trevor made their way out of the exit at last. They followed the waterfall walkway back out to the headquarters to find something they wished they hadn't found.

Standing by the Stricken Stream was Beatrice and Hunter standing protectively in front of the six children. And in front of them was Dr. Winston Orwell holding out his cane sword towards them menacingly. The doctor turned to Sunny upon hearing them arrive.

He smiled evilly at her, "Well, well, well... Sunny Baudelaire, I presume? All grown up now I see?"

Sunny instinctively pulled out her spyglass and nudged Trevor to go to the others; it wasn't a weapon necessarily, but it'll do. "Let us go."

Winston pointed his cane sword at her, "I can't do that. Do you recognize this sword?"

"Yes I do," Sunny replied, "It was Georgina's."

Winston faltered for a moment; he almost looked mournful, "Yes Georgina, my dearest sister."

"Funny she never mentioned you."

"How would you know? You killed her."

"Georgina backed into a saw-blade by accident! I didn't do anything!"

"You are still responsible for her death," Winston smirked, "And avenging her will be a sweet bonus."

"How did you find out we were here?"

"I have eyes everywhere. I knew where your family lived; I knew who you were, and I knew about your closeness with Kit and Dewey's little brat over there as well. You think the fire-fighting side has all the resources? We villains have our resources too. Ever since I saw my sister's grave I knew I had to continue her work for the fire-starting side of the schism. And I've nearly accomplished that task. Your volunteer friends may have gotten my patients out of the caves, but they're still under my control."

Sunny glanced worriedly at the others. There was very little way out of this situation without a fight. Then she remembered something. Something very important that had helped her siblings in the past when she was facing down a very similar situation. She pulled out her communicator.

"Jacqueline, are those kids alright?"

"They're safe, and the hypnotism machine is destroyed, but we need the code word to snap them out of the trance," Jacqueline answered, "We just reached the outside mountain trail and the last exits are being sealed off."

"Inordinate."

"What?"

"The code word is inordinate!"

There was a pause before Jacqueline replied, "It... it worked! They're all back to normal!"

"Good now get them out of there as fast as possible," Sunny replied, "I have a sick doctor to deal with."

She put away the device as Winston stared at her in shock. "How did- But you-"

Sunny smirked, "You're too much like your sister, Doc. You both use the same code words on your patients. Next time try thinking of a harder word. Guys, get the kids away from here; I've got this!"

Trevor gave Sunny a worried look, "But-"

"Don't argue with me! Now go!"

Winston attacked. Sunny only had her spyglass to defend herself in this sword fight, but at least the kids and the others were safe. She noticed them run downstream as she fought off the mad doctor.

"Georgina was a crazy, evil, bitch! And you're no better!"

"She was a genius; a true role model for the villains of tomorrow!"

"She worked with Olaf!"

"Count Olaf, that bastard broke her poor heart and left her to die under a bridge! I'm shocked she gave him a second chance!"

"I've seen what your technology does!"

"Then you've seen why I have to continue her work! I'm going to make an army of hypnotized fire-starters and use them to get the fortunes of V.F.D. protected families. Just like how Georgina would have wanted!"

"You're a sick, twisted, old bastard," Sunny replied as she had cornered him in the fight right where she wanted him: next to the Stricken Stream, "And you messed with the wrong family!"

With one shove, Dr. Winston Orwell fell into the rushing waters of the Stricken Stream and was washed away by the rapids. The paths branched off in two different directions at one point and she could see the vague shape of the older man being rushed down the right path rather than the left. She remembered from the time when she, her siblings, and the reunited Quagmire triplets rode a boat down this very stream and had taken the left branching path to reach the sea. She didn't know where the other path led, but was sure that the man wouldn't be troubling anyone else ever again, regardless of what happened to him. She took a deep breath and looked down to see that he had dropped his cane sword.

Sunny leaned down and picked up the devious weapon. She then snapped it in half and tossed the pieces in the stream, never to be seen or used again by anyone else. She quickly ran down the path by the stream to the area where the others were waiting.

"Aunt Sunny!"

Sunny skidded to a halt and immediately wrapped her arms around Nikki, Lizzie, and Sam in fiercely tight embrace.

"Are you ok? Did they hurt you?"

"We're fine," Lizzie answered, "They just kept us locked up that's all."

Sunny breathed out a sigh of relief, "Oh, thank god. Your parents are going to kill me when they find out what happened here..."

"It wasn't your fault that we got taken," Sam said, "They knocked us out before we could call for help."

"Yeah well I'm still going to be grounded for a century for lying to your parents about everything being ok," She looked up and noticed the other kids standing behind Beatrice, "Who are they?"

Her nieces and nephew perked up. "This is Drake, Lucas, and Lily," Sam answered pointing to each of them, "They're our new friends and they wanted to escape with us."

"This is our real aunt, Sunny, and her boyfriend Trevor," Nikki explained, "Beatrice is a close family friend, but she's not related to us, and Hunter is Trevor's friend."

Sunny smiled, "Well it's nice to meet you all. I'm glad you managed to find some good people in there."

Beatrice smiled, "Speaking of escaping, it looks like our ride is here."

She pointed to the water and sure enough an object rose from the murky depths. It was a submarine. Sunny helped the others all climb onto the surface as it waited for them to board. And on the top hatch leading inside were the gold letters that spelled out its name: Queequeg.

~End of Chapter!

I wonder how long it'll take for people to catch the reference I made with Winston's name...