Last chapter found our heroes doomed to crash into the ocean as their seaplane ran out of fuel for some plot-developing reason. Now they were forced to take drastic measures.
Joe quickly flung open the door and began calculating the speed of the boat below (slow-ish). Nancy counted the number of parachutes (zero; Russians don't need parachutes) and Frank calculated the probability that they would all die horribly (0; they never die in this story…oops, spoiler).
Having seen these comforting numbers, Joe jumped, shouting wildly, out of the door toward the boat below. The harrowing descent, whose final impact should have broken bones, ended rather better as Joe fell into a roll which, of course, saved him from even the slightest discomfort. Nancy jumped after him and he caught her, which as everyone knows prevents people from getting injured in a fall.
After viewing what could have very well been the end of his two friends, even though he knew it wasn't, Frank came to a startling realization.
"A seaplane. A seaplane! Brilliant!"
Yes, he was in fact flying a seaplane whose sole difference from other planes was its ability to land on water. And they were flying over a sea. It's a wonder none of them thought of this before Joe and Nancy could heroically jump from the plane in order to both save their lives and apprehend the enemy.
Nancy shielded her eyes against the setting sun whose grand hues reminded her of iron oxide (the red kind with some orange and yellow mixed in).
Joe looked in the same direction and determined that the colors looked like a slurpee (cherry flavored with some lemon and orange).
As they began to argue about whose view was better, they spotted a suspicious looking man at the helm of the ship.
"Look, a suspicious looking man." Joe whispered.
"I think we should get closer look." Nancy insisted.
"Right." Joe agreed, "I'll go around to the right and you go around to the left."
"No, I think I should go around to the right and you go to the left."
"Why?"
"Because I want to go to the right."
"But I called it first!"
"NOSE GAME!"
A shadow fell over them and a booming voice announced rather forcefully, "How about neither of you take the right and instead I take both of you below deck for a chat."
Joe and Nancy both made sounds of protest however the sound of the man cocking his gun was really the only relevant sound.
As they were herded into the bowels of the ship Joe declared, "You'll never take us alive!" and made a heroic lunge toward the gun-wielding man.
Unfortunately this merely led to him being hit over the head with the gun. Unconsciousness followed swiftly. Nancy saved herself the headache and allowed the man to tie her to a chair and watched in amusement as he struggled to likewise tie up her friend.
What will happen next? Will Nancy be able to bargain for her life? Will she try to save Joe too? Will Frank land the plane successfully? Does the nose game ever work? Find out next time.