Okay, I know my writing has turned into mostly dialogue. Sorry about that. I'll try to improve my writing quality lol. Also, this is it, the chapter you have been waiting for... The great rescue! Prepare for a long chapter with many POVs.

Annabeth:

We had searched for hours. Frank had turned into an eagle, Leo had rode Festus, Hazel had ridden Arion, and I had taken the ship. We all scanned the desert for any sign of a building. We now knew Percy was in some kind of building, not just in the middle of the desert, thanks the Grover's IM. Gods, Percy was in a cage. I bit back my rage.

Suddenly, when we were reaching the edge of California and Nevada, the ground dipped sharply down and into a deep valley with white cracked ground. Death Valley.

I searched the valley for a sign of any person or a building, but all I saw was more cracked ground. Suddenly, my eyes rested on a shimmering circle of land, about a mile or so across.

Was it the heat? Or was it something else? Something like the Mist covering up a building?

I IMed to Frank, Leo, and Hazel. Soon, they were back aboard the ship.

I pointed at the shimmering section of land, and said, "I think it's a building covered by the mist."

"That would make sense I guess," said Hazel.

"Okay, I'll start up the fog generator and bring the ship closer," said Leo.

"Good idea," said Jason.

We peered at the ground from our cloud cover.

There! A whitewashed building shimmered into existence in front of us. It was huge, and a sign on the front of it said, "HRDTF8, Human Recombinant DNA Testing Facility 8"

DNA testing facility? Why had a DNA testing facility captured Percy?! I would kill them all if they had messed with my boyfriend's DNA. What if they had made him forget everything again. The though made me want to tear out my own hair in rage. If they laid a single finger on him... Well, I would sent them straight back to Tartarus where they belonged.

I saw three burly men standing, their arms folded over their chest, guns hanging from their sides. This had to be the place. In the waterless lands. That was the desert. And this mist hidden laboratory where they did DNA testing? Sounded like a place where those werewolf guys would come from.

Which meant Percy was in there. And we had to get him out.

"Battle plan?" asked Jason.

"Umm," I thought. Then, a plan started to form itself in my head like clay in a potter's hands.

"Well I have an idea, but we'll need to get closer to find out if it'll work,"

"Aye, Aye, Captain!" said Leo, and parked the Argo II. The rope ladder fell down, and everyone but Calypso scrambled down it. She knew how to steer the boat apparently. Don't ask me how... I have no clue. I could barely make sense of the crazy thing, but she piloted it like she had been doing it her whole life.

Before the werewolf guys noticed, we were all crouched up against a side wall, the rope ladder already back on the ship. I looked at the cracked earth where the plaster met the ground, and finally spotted what I was looking for.

"Bingo!" I shouted.

"What is it?" asked Hazel.

"A mouse hole, I said pointing at the small hole chewed through the plaster. "Exactly what we need."

"Ummm, how is a mouse hole going to help us get into this place?" Leo asked.

"Uh oh..." said Frank, anticipating what was coming next.

"Yeah, sorry Frank but you're the only one who can turn into a mouse," I said shrugged.

Soon, we had a large rat outfitted with a tiny cloth bag. The bag contained three tubes of Medea's Sunscreen SPF 50,000. I put in three, just in case there were other innocent people there who needed saving. Because our plan was, send in Frank with the sunscreen, and have Leo torch the place with Festus.

I added a note after a second thought. Then, off Frank the rat ran off into the mouse hole, and we got slathered with sunscreen.

Max:

Out of a dark corner, a rat scurried into my line of view.

I sat bolt upright. It had been over five days since we had ate anything. They only gave us water.

I sat absolutely still as the rat came closer. As it emerged from the shadows and came within reach of the cage, I lunged , grabbing hold of its wormy tail. It screeched, and bit my knuckle drawing blood, but I held fast. I picked up the squirming thing and was about to bash its head on the floor, when I noticed it had a piece of cloth attached to its back.

The rat squirmed and look towards Percy, as if saying, "Help!"

Percy just stared, and asked, "what's that on its back,"

The rat suddenly burst free from my hands, and as he fell into my lap, he started to change. A millisecond later, I grunted as a couple hundred pounds were suddenly pressing into my lap. A panicked boy had appeared out of nowhere. He looked like a sumo wrestler, but I sensed he was weaker inside than out.

"Ahh!" I yelped, and swatted at him.

The force of my blow knocked him back into the bars. I stood up and backed to the other side of the cage. Who the heck was this guy? I narrowed my eyes. Baby sumo wrestler looking dude, who went with Percy and Hazel to Alaska. Frank right?

"Frank!" cried Percy!" and ran to hug his stunned friend, who was still staggering from the blow.

Before Frank could turn around, he kept hugging him and tucked in his wings. He raised his eyebrows at the others, so we all tucked in our extra appendages. I guess Percy wasn't ready to talk about it yet.

"Percy!" yelled Frank, his eyes gleaming. "I knew we'd find you!"

"Where's everyone else?" I said.

"Oh, right, I forgot, take this," he said, and handed me three tubes of sunscreen. At least that's what I think it was. It said in big letters on the front, Medea's Sunscreen SPF 50,000

Umm... SPF 50,000? I was pretty sure SPF 50,000 didn't exist, and Percy had told me about Jason, Piper, and Leo's experience with the sorceress Medea.

Percy took one and started spreading it all over him, including on his clothes and hair.

"Umm..." I muttered. "What are you doing?"

"Max," he said. "Demigods only use this stuff when we absolutely have to. It's extremely hard to come by, because it makes you immune to fire for thirty minutes. But if you don't want to be bald, or end up naked, I suggest you put it on your clothes and hair too,"

Gazzy laughed out loud and Fang scowled. What was up with Fang. He kept giving Percy untrusting looks, and glaring at him when he was asleep. It was getting kind of old.

We shared the remaining sunscreens, and Frank turned back into a rat and left. He left Percy a note. Percy, unfolded it, and smiled sadly. I love you too, Wise Girl," he mumbled to himself, and propped his head on his knees.

"So, why are we needing to be immune to fire?" asked Gazzy.

"Are there going to be bombs?" asked Iggy, excitedly.

"No Iggy, shut up and let him talk, geez," I said

"Well, Iggy's actually pretty close to the truth. Speaking of that, I got to remember to tell Leo to hide the ballistae. Although, knowing him, he would probably take you straight to them the moment my back was turned," he laughed.

"Ballistae?" asked Iggy, curiously.

"Are those a cool new type of bomb we've never read about?!" cried Gazzy.

"Well, kind of. Well, more like a missile that explodes on impact," Percy said.

"AWESOME!" they both cried in perfect harmony.

"We must find them, and find this Leo dude!" said Gazzy.

"Totally!" shouted Iggy.

"Anyways," Percy interrupted, that's not what's happening. The note Annabeth wrote me said that Leo was going to torch this place to the ground on Festus.

"Wait? Festus the happy dragon?!" cried Gazzy.

"Umm yeah..." said Percy.

"OMG, Max, I want my own bronze dragon that shoots fire and becomes a carry-on suitcase!" exclaimed Gazzy.

"Gazzy, grow up," I said laughing. Then I frowned, and said to Percy, "So he's just going to burn this place up?"

"Yeah, sounds like it. But don't worry, we'll be perfectly fine with our sunscreen.

"But Percy, there are other mutants here," I said exasperatedly.

"Oh. I didn't think about that. Maybe we should try to bring them the sunscreen?" he asked hopefully.

"I don't think..."

BABOOM!

The ground shook, and Percy shuddered. "That would be parts of the School blowing up," he said, after the second boom rattled our bones. I saw flames licking down the hallways from the small window in the door. I heard whitecoats screaming, Erasers howling as they burned.

"Say bye, bye whitecoats!" Nudge screamed joyously.

"Say bye, bye Erasers!" cried Gazzy and Iggy in two part harmony.

"Say hello, Annabeth," mumbled Percy, joy leaping in his eyes just saying her name. I realized just how much they had been through, how much love that created for each other. They loved each other more than anything. Another flame burned in his eyes, a flame of hatred towards all that hurt his family and friends. We shared that one in common.

Then, a blast blew our cages into the wall, hard, and I slumped to the ground, sinking into the shadows like a ghost.