Chris and Martin both jumped off the Tortuga, praying their lives would not be doomed as they tried to glide over quickly.
The glide was successful thank goodness, but, it was a bit loud when they landed. So, every villain down in the cockpit could hear them land on the roof of the jet.
Donita smiled, "We have guests... Gourmand, how about you go and serve our them some lunch?"
Gourmand adjusted his chef's hat, with an evil grin, and headed out of the room.
Martin and Chris where tip-toeing through the dark halls, wondering where they were going, and where Kitty and all the locked up animals were.
As they where walking down the hall, they chatted a little, whispering back and forth.
Martin couldn't remember the last time he had a good conversation with his brother since the shooting incident.
"So bro, when were you going to tell me you had a crush on Aviva?" whispered Martin as he checked behind door to see if Kitty was in there. She wasn't.
"Well... I guess I just wanted it to stay to myself..." Said Chris looking around a corner, "You know, like how you wanted your feelings about Kitty to stay secret..."
Martin laughed quietly, "Good point. It's good to have you back bro." he patted his brother's shoulder.
They both smiled, and focused again on what they where there for. As they went down the many halls, closets, and extra rooms devoted just to clothes, they finally came to the last hall, feeling as if they had just walked through a lions den.
Chris groaned, "How big is this jet?"
"I dunno... but we're not leaving without Kitty..." said Martin standing straight.
"You not leaving anyway!" came a voice from behind them, it was Gourmand! He was carrying a bowl of batter in one hand and then a egg beater in the other, "You Kratts brother's aren't leaving without having some lunch!"
Martin and Chris blinked. Martin smiled, thinking Gourmand was literally talking about eating, "Really? Well that's great, I'm starving!"
"Um... Martin..." said Chris wide eyed.
"Let me see, I'll have a ham sandwich, with some spaghetti, and-" Martin kept listing out things he was hungry for.
Gourmand stood and stared, as did Chris. Though, Gourmand snapped out of it first, and swung the egg beater, sending batter off, hitting Martin in the face.
The batter covered Martin's mouth mainly, and was very hard to get off. So while Martin worked on pulling off the sticky batter, Chris went to fight Gourmand, dodging all the blows of batter.
"You dead meat, Kratt!" shouted Gourmand, tossing more batter at Chris.
"We'll just see about that..." said Chris dodging the blows.
Gourmand was about to toss more sticky batter at him, when he noticed that his bowl was now empty. Martin finally was able to get the batter off his face, and went over to join his brother.
Chris laughed, "Run out of batter Gourmand?"
Gourmand growled, and threw the bowl and egg beater down, "No matter, I can take you both down with my bare hands anyway!"
Chris and Martin both crossed their arms, smiling and exchanging glances. And before Gourmand could say another word, he was knocked out by two fists, from the two Kratt brothers.
Chris smiled, "It's nice to be back, saving animals, defeating villains, and not to mention actually getting out of the Tortuga. I mean, it's nice for a little while, but, no Kratt likes being kept away from nature for to long..."
"Understood..." said Martin, "Now, let's find Kitty."
They both nodded and started going down halls again, and checking inside doors. Finally, they came to one door that looked promising. When they opened it though, it was pitch black inside. Martin stepped into the darkness a little and squinted, "Can you see anything?"
"No... I can't. But hold on, I think I brought my pocket flashlight..." said Chris, reaching into his pocket, pulling out a silver flashlight and turning it on.
Inside the room was a story to behold. One could see a broken bird cage, on a small table, in a huge cage. Then, you could see a luxurious couch, and a notepad. And as the flashlight passed all these things, something sparkled near the cages. Martin went to go pick the small object up.
"What is it?" Chris said as he walked over to his brother.
"It's glass... Really thick glass..." said Martin turning it around in his hands.
"Look! There's more over there!" said Chris walking carefully through the shards of broken glass. Finally, he came to a circular metal base, which still had a bit of the glass in it the way it was suppose to. Another metal base, was directly above the first base, on the ceiling. Chris called over to Martin, "Bro, come look at this! it looks like at one time this was some sort of circular glass cage..."
Martin blinked, "The questions are, how did it get like this? And what was in it, in the first place?"
"Dunno... but, we can't think about that now, let's go and find Kitty so we can leave... I don't have a good feeling about this..." said Chris standing up straight by his brother.
They both headed towards the door, when one more thing caught Martin's eye, "Hey... what's that?"
"What?" asked Chris as he stopped.
"That! In the trash can!" Martin said as he went over to the small plastic trash can and picked up something that made him freeze. Kitty's communicator.
Chris saw what his brother was holding and his mouth dropped open.
Martin looked back at his brother, his face showing a sign of fear and worry, "You don't think Kitty got hurt in all this mess... do you?"
Chris couldn't answer his brother, the answer seemed clear in all the damage. "We... we should keep looking..."
Martin nodded, and held Kitty's communicator close to him as they both walked out.
But, the instant they both stepped foot out the door, a large cage dropped down around them.
From behind the bars, Martin and Chris could see Donita, Dabio, Zach and Gourmand laughing.
Chris whispered to Martin, "Where does Donita get all these cages?"
Martin shrugged as Zach stepped forward and smiled sinisterly at the brothers, "Ha! We finally have you two trapped! I told you Donita, we didn't even need your silly hostage."
Martin growled, "Where is she?"
Donita blinked, "Whoever are you talking about Martino? Oh, that's right, the dumb girl called Kitty I shall use for my fashion."
"And my inventions." Zach joined in.
"And when these to are done with 'er, I'll use her in a tasteful meal..." said Gourmand, who seemed to have the most sickening plan.
"Your insane! That's cannibalism!" shouted Chris
"We'll I guess we're all insane, because your Kitten has shown me alive animals are way to squirmy, poachers had the right idea all along." said Donita with an evil grin.
"It's not Kitten, it's Laura. And she is not dumb, she saved me and Chris's lives! You can't do such terrible things to such an innocent person!" Yelled Martin madly.
Donita gasped in delight and disgust, "Martino, I see you must have feelings for Kitten... this makes everything so terribly perfect..."
Martin was able to grab Donita by the neck from behind the cage of the bars, "What have you done with Kitty?" he growled loudly.
Donita gasped at being pulled and choked, Dabio stepped in and punched Martin back against the cage releasing Donita.
Chris helped Martin up from the floor, as Dabio helped Donita.
Donita growled herself now, "Now you've done it Martino! Because of that little shenanigan, you'll never see your precious Kitten again! You hear me?"
Martin looked down, and felt himself get weaker. Chris's eyes became furious, he hated seeing his brother beat up, mentally and physically.
Just as Chris was about to shout something at Donita that was surely to make her kill them, Dabio had turned on the lights in the room Chris and Martin had exited a few minutes ago.
Donita gasped upon looking inside the room, "Where is she? Where did she go? That glass cage was unbreakable to any animal in the world!"
Martin and Chris both blinked, and looked back at the room. Martin's voice grew stronger, "Kitty was trapped in that glass cylinder? That... That means she escaped! She's alright!" Martin stood straight now, without the help from his brother.
Zach blinked and became furious, "Well, she won't be safe for long, I'll send my Zach bots out and-"
But Zach wasn't able to finish what he was saying. For at that moment, a roar so great, came from down the the large hallway, it shook the whole jet and was loud enough for everyone on the Tortuga to hear too.
Martin and Chris both looked at each other, out of all the animal roars they had ever heard, this one matched none. The roar was terrifying none the less.
"Mommy!" screamed shaking Zach as he jumped in Donita's arms, who was also shaking. For now they could see what was coming down the hall.
And it wasn't anything of this world... at least, not anymore... or might have been...