Three consecutive blasts ruptured the ship causing everyone to fly everywhere. Adeline's chair tipped over causing her to hit her head. Despite the new sensation of dizziness she focused on following everyone up to the control room where Nemo was taking the wheel. It took her a bit more time to get there than the others but with a combination of crawling and hobbling on the now slanted floor, she managed to make it and grab hold of something to keep herself from falling back.

"We're taking in too much water!" Nemo shouted, "The controls are not responding."

"Primary engine room is almost full, the bulkhead is open, valves are jammed," one of Nemo's men informed him.

"Seal it off!" he ordered.

"But there are men in there, Captain!" the man argued.

"For the greater good we must seal it!" Nemo insisted.

Water began to pour in causing the floor to be even slipperier and some of Nemo's men were taken out of the control room. "What are you talking about?" Adeline heard Jekyll yell over the commotion.

She turned her head to look at him and he was staring at his reflection, probably talking to Hyde. "Jekyll," she cried causing the doctor to look over at her. "Give him a chance, he couldn't possibly make anything worse." He gave her a small straight lipped smile before disappearing out of the room.

"Where's Dr. Jekyll?" Mina asked a few minutes later.

Before Adeline could answer her question the ship began to push forward rather than be pulled down and within moments, they resurfaced. Adeline grinned, "He was saving us all."

"Well, we best get this ship cleaned up," Quartermain suggested as they made their way back into the drawing room.

Sawyer swooped up Adeline on his way earning a small surprised yelp from her. He smirked and she smiled at him before he set her down one of the chairs the others had set properly. He then walked off to help right the room with the others.

After a bit, Jekyll returned receiving appraising looks from the other member of the League and even a thumbs up from Quartermain. "Let's not make a saint out of a sinner, next time he may not be so helpful," Jekyll advised, obviously uncomfortable with praise. He noticed one of Nemo's men attempting to repair the map. "Can we still follow Gray?"

"Well we were the faster, now we're the tortoise to his hare," Quartermain explained as he and Jekyll righted another chair.

Jekyll nodded, "So we're done?"

"No," Sawyer disagreed from across the room. "We're alive, and if M has any ideas to the contrary, that gives us an edge."

"Now we have the element of surprise," Adeline agreed from her chair.

"Captain!" one of Nemo's men suddenly barged in. "We're getting a signal." Everyone began rushing out of the room.

"Tom!" Adeline called causing him to turn around with a smirk and retrieve her from the chair.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you enjoyed me carrying you around," Sawyer said.

Adeline tried to hide her blush, "In your dreams, Sawyer."

The American just shook his head as they joined the others in a room off to the side of the control room where Nemo's man was listening intently to the telegraph.

"It's morse code," Quartermain observed.

"What's it say?" Mina asked.

"Hello, my freaky darlings," the man answered.

Adeline's eyebrows shot up in surprise, "Skinner?"

"Uh, hiding on board little fish with Gray and M," the man continued. "On way to base, East by Northeast, follow my lead."

Nemo turned to another crewman, "Get the tracking system up and running so we might follow Mr. Skinner and the Nautiloid." The man nodded and they all followed Nemo back into the control room. "Until we can repair the ship, we won't be able to catch up to the Nautiloid. Not to mention many of my crew will be injured."

"I'm sure we can all pitch in to help. Jekyll and Mina can take care of the injured and I can help with repairs down in the engines once Jekyll binds my leg, plus Quartermain and Sawyer can help wherever they are needed," Adeline suggested.

Quartermain nodded, "Sounds good, let's get to work."

Jekyll escorted Adeline down to the medbay and splinted her calf to allow the bone time to heal. "Now, since it wasn't a clean break it should mend a bit faster but you cannot overexert yourself or it won't heal at all," Jekyll told her.

The young brunette nodded, "Got it. Now I best be getting to work. And so should you." They shared a smile and left the medbay going in opposite directions.

It took Adeline a little longer than it should have to find the engine room but eventually she was able to locate it. She found the chief engineer and after a bit of arguing over her abilities, given her gender, he gave her a task to do and after seeing how well she was able to do said job, he gave her more tasks that required a bit more skill not all of Nemo's men possessed.

The young girl went to bed that evening exhausted. They were probably about halfway through repairs and her leg was throbbing dully. She ignored it and tried to sleep despite her racing thoughts of all the repairs she had yet to do.

The following morning she got up early, swiped just a bit of breakfast, and headed down to the engine room. She was surprised to see Sawyer talking to the chief engineer but ignored the heat in her cheeks and headed back to the pipes system she had been working on the previous evening. She was deep in concentration when she suddenly felt a tug on her hair. She whipped her head around to see Sawyer's retreating form and pursed her lips. If he wanted to play childish games, she could do the same.

Later, towards midday, she had finished repairing another energy conductor and was heading back to take a look at one of the electrical panels when she noticed Sawyer working with one of the crewmen to stabilize a network of pipes. She grinned mischievously and waited for the right moment and sharply poked him in the side as she passed. She heard his sharp intake and smirked as she continued on. This continued on throughout the day with the two of them bugging each other but it was all in good fun.

They were making quite a bit of progress and were nearly finished by the late afternoon, a lot of the new pipes just needed some adjustments. Adeline was struggling to reach a screw to tighten when she felt a presence behind her. She turned around to find Sawyer very close to her. He looked above her and used the wrench in his hand to tighten the screw for her. The Brit gave him a small smile, "Thank you."

He grinned down at her, "My pleasure." He took a step away and noticed that she was leaning heavily on her right leg. "You really should rest that leg."

She glanced down for a moment before meeting his brown eyes, "It's fine, Tom."

He gave her a disbelieving look, "You don't want to overdue it, Addie."

"I'm fine, I can handle myself," she insisted perhaps a little too harshly. "Thank you though, for caring."

He nodded, "I best get back to work." She was about to turn back to her work when he stepped forward and kissed her forehead. "Just take it easy, okay? We're gonna need you when we catch up to M."

Adeline nodded numbly, "Alright." With that he walked away and Addie got back to work, trying to keep Sawyer and his incredibly soft lips off of her mind.

The ship was completed by the early evening and they all met in the control room to set the ship back on course. "Good work, all of you," Quartermain praised before turning to Nemo. "Captain."

Nemo nodded, "All ahead, full!"

The ship surged forward with ease and grace earning a few smiles from the League and the crew. The League gathered in the drawing room once more to pour over a map of their course.

"If Skinner's headings are correct," Nemo announced, "we will pass through the treacherous straits of Tartary and enter the Amur River which empties out into the frozen lakes of Mongolia, virtually inaccessible by outsiders. Nevertheless, we should be able to navigate the Nautilus close enough to the known settlements. I shall provide the cold weather clothing for all of you."

Quartermain nodded, "Very well, let the hunt begin."

They arrived in Mongolia within a few days and the top deck of the Nautilus burst through the ice allowing the League to walk upon it, now dressed in their white wool coats.

Quartermain lifted a pair of binoculars up to look out over the vast icy terrain. "Those settlements, all deserted."

"Fear, no doubt," Nemo suggested.

"Or forced," Adeline added.

"We had best continue on foot," Quartermain declared. The members of the League nodded and they packed up weapons, extra coats in case the temperature dropped, and plenty of food and water to keep them nourished. Then they and Nemo's men set out across the ice. The journey wasn't terrible, but it difficult with Addie's brace sinking into the snow. Eventually she had to brace herself against Sawyer to keep from getting stuck.

After a few hours they came upon a huge fortress with dozens of smokestacks billowing thick black smoke. "M's summer retreat," Sawyer observed sarcastically earning a grin from Adeline.

"This is where Skinner signaled he'd meet us," Quartermain reminded them. "So we wait."

"Mr. Q., there's a cave just down the way, we can take refuge there whilst we wait for Mr. Skinner," Mina proposed. Quartermain nodded and they all went into the surprisingly spacious cave. Sawyer and a few of the crew gathered firewood and built them all a nice cozy campfire.

Adeline sat by Sawyer as the blonde watched the fire. Quartermain had insisted on taking the first watch, and considering his hunting experience, no one questioned it. The wind picked up for a moment and echoed off the walls of the silent cave. A sudden shiver ran through Adeline causing Sawyer to glance up at her. He gave her a questioning look and she shrugged in response. The blonde then wrapped his arm around her and pulled her closer to him to help warm her up.

"Tom…" she groaned. He just chuckled, she sighed and leaned her head on his chest.

A soft but audible sounded from the entrance of the cave. The League members shared a look and got up to make sure Quartermain was all right. "We heard a noise," Mina told the older man.

"It was nothing," Quartermain assured them.

Nemo scanned the horizon, "Just an old tiger sensing his end."

"Perhaps this was not his time to die after all," Quartermain theorized.

Adeline felt someone playing with her hair and assumed it was Sawyer but when she looked up his hands were in his coat pockets. Suddenly Mina gasped and jumped as a snow covered figure appeared. "I've been waiting all week to do that," the familiar voice of Skinner admitted.

"Get a grip, man," Quatermain growled as Adeline noticed Jekyll's expression harden.

Skinner shrugged, "Well, I thought I just did." Mina then slapped the invisible man. "Ooh, Mina."

"Report!" Nemo ordered.

"Well hello to you too. And need I remind you I am naked in the snow. I can't feel any of my extremities, and I mean any of them," Skinner announced.

Adeline rolled her eyes, "A bit too much information, Skinner. Come on inside, we've got some extra clothes you can wear."

After they got Skinner some clothes they sat down around the fire to here Skinner's tale. "With all the suspicion on the ship, I knew you wouldn't believe I wasn't the spy, well I thought it was best to disappear."

"So what are we dealing with?" Quartermain questioned.

"The fortress is vast, the furnaces produce iron for making M's weapons of destruction. They're pieced together on the factory floor by an army of ruthless men who share in his vision. But the worse was to come. In the dry dock, M's best minds, pervert Nemo's dream."

The Captain looked astonished, "The Nautilus?"

"Nautili," Skinner corrected, "there's eight for now. They've even made some progress on some Addie's mechanical designs."

"What about the kidnapped scientists?" Adeline requested.

"M holds their families hostage, the men work or the women and children die," Skinner explained.

"Monstrous," Nemo growled.

Adeline felt sick to her stomach. "Well that isn't the half of it," Skinner continued. "The scientists are forced to work night and day to make new versions of us. Invisible spies, an army of Hyde's, vampiric assassins, M leaves for Europe today with a sample case of the chemicals to sell to the most eager nation."

"I'll not let my evil infect the world," Jekyll declared.

"Do you think any of us feel differently?" Mina questioned lowly.

"Chimney pipes lace the buildings, a bomb in the furnaces would make quite a bang. But someone needs to blow that place to hell, and I am least likely to be scene," Skinner practically offered.

Quartermain gave the invisible man a hard look, "Skinner, I didn't know that you were such a bare faced liar, all that time pretending you weren't a hero?"

Skinner smirked, "Oh shut up or I'll come to my senses. And besides anymore like me and I'll lose the franchise." Adeline smiled a bit before Sawyer stood up, cocking his gun.

"No," Quartermain told the American, "this cannot be a hunt to the death, more's the pity. We must take M alive if he's secrets are to be uncovered."

"Not Gray," Mina insisted harshly, "he's lived long enough." Adeline didn't doubt the vampire.

"Oh I'll handle him," Sawyer announced.

Mina shot him down, "No."

Quartermain turned to the League now that Skinner and Mina's tasks had obviously been doled out. "Nemo, you and Hyde will free the prisoners. Sawyer and I will deal with M. Adeline, since you are injured, I want you to get up to the factory floor, disrupt the engines creating the weapons and ransack the files for proof of M's secrets." All three nodded in understanding.

Sawyer turned to Skinner, "Skinner, once you're done placing the bombs, get Addie out." The invisible man nodded in return with a small smirk as Adeline stared confused at Sawyer.

Quartermain sighed lightly, "All right then, let's get ready. The game is on."