Sonny had been pushed into the pit last for no apparent reason, and as she seemed to be on the top, she could hear quite a bit about what was going on. Her hopes had risen and fallen a lot since Tawni and Zora appeared to arrive on the scene. They had stayed up after Zora's outburst. She suddenly heard a bump, followed by footsteps coming towards her. She heard hear barrel lid being unscrewed, and for the first time in days, she saw sunlight. She poked her head out of the barrel, just in time to see a policeman be hit on the head with a stone, and crumple to the ground. Looking up, Sonny saw that Marta had used her height advantage, and rage, to fling a rock at the man before he could see Sonny herself come out of the barrel. Tawni and Zora had seen her though. As soon as Sonny stood up in the pit, they called out her name in excitement. Tawni started to run to the edge of the pit, but smartly, Zora held her back. Sonny knew that Zora did not want to find out what Marta would do if she held height advantage over all of them, especially if they had no chance of anyone finding them. "Nor do I!" Sonny muttered to herself as she waved at her friends.
Marta watched, horrified that her plan was failing. She watched as the meddling peeler started to unscrew the lid of one of the barrels. Marta stooped down, picked up a rock and flung it at the policeman before he had a chance to see what or who came out of the barrel. It turned out to be the worst person possible to step out of the barrel. Also, unfortunately, the one person who she never tied up. Sonny. Her two friends seemed overjoyed to see her, and called out her name. Tawni started to run towards the pit. Marta's hopes rose, hoping Tawni would run strait into the pit, then she would only have to deal with Zora. After all, her plan would not fail, once she got Zora in the pit after Tawni, if she held height advantage over all of Chuckle City, Chad and hopefully the only policeman who knew anything about this. Her mind snapped back to reality, and her hopes fell as she watched Zora hold Tawni back. Sonny waved up at them, and started to unscrew the other barrels, and untie the other victims.
Nico and Grady came out, and seemed very happy that Sonny was alive and well. As she untied them, they noticed how pale she was, and rather slower than usual. She finally opened Chad's barrel, and as soon as she untied him, he pulled her into a hug. By the looks of things, he was about to explode with happiness. At the moment, by the looks of things, the Randoms and Chad were more lightly to get to safety than Marta was lightly to successfully commit her crime. After all, at the moment, they had two people on solid ground, and Marta could only ever have one. Nico and Grady had started climbing up the side of the pit; they were followed by Chad, then Sonny. Marta stopped looking worried, and started to look, once again, more confidant that her plan would succeed. Even more so than she did before.
Sonny watched as her fellow cast mates stood on firm ground, closely followed by Chad. As she started to climb up the side of the pit, her legs started shaking, and she felt really dizzy. Sonny tried climbing a bit higher, then collapsed, falling back down into the pit. Chad and Tawni were soon back in the pit at Sonny's side. Nico, Grady and Zora had started to run towards the pit, but luckily, Zora remembered Marta, and held herself and the boys back just in time. Marta stomped her foot in frustration. She had been right in thinking that Sonny would collapse, after all she hadn't had anything to eat and not much to drink since her last date with Chad. She had also been right in thinking that all of Sonny's friends would rush to the pit to help her. She had just forgotten how smart Zora was, and would be less easy to get her to fall into the giant pit, even if it was to help her friend. It would help her and her friends more if she was not in the pit. As Marta looked at her situation, she realised that she was in a worse spot than before. Now it was three against one, rather than two.