"She must be planning to bury Sonny!" Zora exclaimed. The others knew she must be right. It was a horrific thought, but the only one that made any sense. They knew thast the had to something fast before Sonny was under dirt too far!
"Hopefully, she's not being buried because she's already dead!" Grady said in a worried voice. The others groaned and rolled their eyes. They hadn't even thought about that. Until now. Because of what Grady said, they started working faster, but if she was already dead, it wouldn't change anything.
"OK!" Chad said, taking charge. "How about Tawni and Zora go and get the police, and anyone else who could help us out?"
"Then what will we do?" Nico asked after Twni and Zora nodded their heads.
"We keep Marta in the act, but not let her bury Sonny!" Chad was hoping that if Tawni and Zora got the police and so on, he Nico and Grady could keep Marta doing what she was doing, and so when the police came, it was clear that she was up to no good. Tawni and Zora got into Tawni's car and drove away. The boys watched the car drive away, until it went round the bend. They then turned around to find themselves face to face with Marta.
"Well hello there." Marta started. They all took a step back, horrified to see Marta standing there. "By the looks of things, I'm going to need to find some more barrels! Maybe a bigger hole, but I think we're fine there!" The boys, still frozen with shock and horror, could do nothing as Marta got out some rope and tied them all up. She then got out three bandanas and hurriedly gagged the three boys before they could alert the whole city of her plan. She grabbed the rope that was tied around their middles, and started pulling them behind the house. Well, she tried, but they all refused to move their legs. Determined to get them behind the house as quickly as possible, she got out the remainder of the rope, and cracked it in the air. "We could do this the easy way or the hard way. Your decision!" The boys marched behind the house, and aloud Marta to pull them, and tie them to the barrel. Marta then went into the house in search of more barrels.
As they stood there, Chad noticed that if he stuck out his lower jaw, the bandana would fall down. Marta was in such a hurry to put them on, that she hadn't done it properly.
Inside the barrel, Sonny heard the digging stop, followed by a thump. A while later, a bump shook the barrel. Then Sonny heard talking. It even sounded like Chad. "You know what guys," he was saying "I'm really wishing that I'd dropped Sonny off at her doorstep!" Chad's talking was followed by a few grunts. "If you move you move your chin forwards, the bandana may fall off." Chad said helpfully in reply to the grunts. A second later, Sonny heard mumbled thanks from nico and Grady. In spite of the situation, Sonny smiled. By the sounds of things, only Chad Nico and Grady were there, which meant (hopefully) that Tawni and Zora were still free, and might be able to come and get them!
Sonny decided that scince she had nothing better to do, she would see if they could hear her if she spoke. After all, she could hear them. "Chad?" she said "Nico? Grady?"
"Sonny?" came Chad's voice!"
"She's alive!" Sonny heard Grady say.
"What's going on?" Sonny asked "Where am I and what's happening?"
"Well," Chad started "When I dropped you off at the entrance to your apartment, Marta kidnapped you, and you're in a barrel in her back yard. We came here to try and rescue you, but all that's happened is the fact that now, we're caught too. Marta has gone inside in search of more barrels for us."
"On the plus side," Grady said "Tawni and Zora went to get the police!"
"Hopefully the police can get here before Marta has buried us all and covered the hole, and evidence!" Sonny mentioned.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but it might be a bit late now!" Nico said "Marta is coming now with the barrels, and hole sure is big enough for all four of us!"