Clair woke up in what appeared to be the same bed, but in this room, the door had a normal lock on it. No hacking it this time. Clair sighed in frustration. Clair tried to get up and once again, there was nothing that tied her up. She tried the door, but it was locked. She got up and started pacing, trying to think. Oh, why hadn't she grabbed her Creature Pod? She had been in such a hurry, she had even left her dog Rocket behind!

Soon, what looked like a doggy door opened at the bottom of the locked door and a tray of food slipped through. Clair's stomach growled, but she refused to eat food from Zack. Then she had an idea. "I can probably fit through that doggy door! I'm small enough," Clair said quietly to herself. She waited a few moments, and then checked the doggy door. It wasn't locked! She slipped through the opening with only a little trouble when trying to get her shoulders through, but was soon out in the hallway again.

She began searching for the room her dad was in, but didn't have any luck. She was about to give up and go search for help when she saw the door that led to the room her dad was in earlier. Clair listened carefully but didn't hear anything. Clair opened the door slowly and peeked in. All she saw was her dad, but he was lying completely still with his eyes closed on a table, all tied up with ropes. He also had a strange metal device around his neck.

"Dad?" Clair whispered.

Chris slowly opened his eyes and turned toward her. "Cla-" he started but was stopped by his own wincing.

Clair's eyes grew big. "I'll help you, dad!" she said softly. She creeped over to her dad and started untying the ropes. When the last rope was off, Chris still didn't move. "Oh, right. That awful collar! I'll get it off. It'll only take a second…" Clair said, already trying to figure out how the collar worked. After about 5 minutes of Clair messing with it, the collar popped off. "There you go dad! Now let's get out of here!" Clair waited for her dad to get up, but he didn't.

"Clair, I-I'm too weak. That collar was a shock collar. It shocked me whenever I made a sound… It was so painful…" Chris croaked. "Go. Get the others. I'll be fine."

"No! I'm not leaving you! I'll drag you if I have to…" Clair said, trying to convince her dad to get up. "I can't leave you," Clair whispered.

"I guess this is when I help," a deep rumbling voice that Clair recognised as Larry's said.

Clair whipped around. "You kidnapped me! Why should I trust you now? Leave us alone!"

Larry looked hurt, but proceeded to step over to Chris and pick him up just like he had picked Clair up. Chris moaned in pain, and Larry winced as if he had been shocked himself.

"Let him go!" Clair said through gritted teeth. "Or I'll-I'll-"

Larry snorted. "You can't do anything to me, young lady. Just be quiet and follow close behind me."

Clair looked at Larry suspiciously but finally sighed and gave in. She realized that there was no way to get her dad out without help, and she realized it would be almost impossible at the moment as her dad had fainted while laying across Larry's shoulder. "Ok," Clair said with submission, "but I still don't trust you."

Larry sighed and said, "Come on, then," as he headed out of the room. Clair followed Larry closely, not wanting her dad to be out of sight.

They walked through the maze of tunnels, but all of a sudden, an alarm went off!

"They know that we're gone!" Larry said hurriedly. "We have to hurry! Come on!"

Larry started jogging, and Clair had to go fast to keep up with him. "How do you know your way around here so well?" Clair asked Larry, her voice full of suspicion.

"I've been on a few missions for Zack before," Larry said calmly.

"If you work for Zack, why would you help us? What's in it for you? Why do you care so much?" Clair peppered Larry with these questions, her voice filled with anger and distrust.

"I never knew that Zack meant to hurt you and this man, who I assume is your father," Larry said sadly.

Clair's face turned red with anger and frustration. "That still doesn't answer my questions!" Clair said.

Larry sighed. "I once had two daughters. They were twins," Larry started slowly. "One day, Child Protection Services took them away from me, claiming that I couldn't support a family. I tried to prove that I could take care of them, but nothing I did pleased the people who took them away. I promised myself that I would one day get them back, and in the time that it takes to prove myself that I am worthy to take care of them, I wouldn't let a child get harmed or taken away from families that loved them," Larry finished.

"Then why would you kidnap me?" Clair asked, her voice and face changing to sorrow for the man who had his children taken away, but her voice was still edged with anger.

Larry took a deep breath. "Zack told me that you were his adopted daughter, and you ran away. I wouldn't have believed him, as I had never heard of Zack having a daughter. But he sounded so sorrowful about it, that I had to help him somehow," Larry took another deep breath and let it out. "I'm not proud of what I did, especially now that I know that this man, your real father, was harmed," Larry said with sorrow and pleading. The huge man was asking for forgiveness, without the words.

Clair sighed, her anger gone. "Well, I suppose that answers my questions… But, how did you figure out that I WASN'T Zack's adopted daughter?"

Larry gave a sad smile. "Well, this morning, I woke up with a strange feeling. I felt as if something wasn't right… And as I was eating breakfast, I realized what it was… I realized that you looked a lot like the man Zack had me capture the other night. And then I realized, that by taking you and your father, that I had broken my promise to myself, that I had broken up a family. So I waited until I knew Zack didn't need me, and came to help your father escape. After I got him out, I would find the rest of your crew and tell them what happened, hopefully being able to free you. That was the original plan, anyway. I'd rather die than split a family apart…" Larry looked away at that last part, embarrassed and horrified by himself that he had split this family to pieces.

Clair reached up to put a hand on Larry's arm. "Well, you're putting this family back together. That's what counts, right?" Clair gave the large man an encouraging smile. "My name is Clair, by the way."

Larry gave a small smile back, then went looked serious. "The exit is just a few more turns away. We have to hurry!" Larry and Clair sped up and went around the bend, only to find an army of Zackbots waiting for them.