"Baloo we need to go back to the Sea Duck right now! I think Jock and Dumptruck got a
hang of things."
"And Kit?"
"We can't shield him from this forever. Besides we would really need him along the
way."
"Alright, let's go then and…I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but let's go get
Karnage back!"
Nanook and Baloo run by the pirates to retrieve Kit and head towards the Sea Duck.
""Baloo where are we going?"
"We're going back to Cape Suzette."
"Huh? Why would we want to do that?"
Nanook takes over knowing that Baloo might say too much.
"Because Khan is planning to regroup there and we nee to cut him off."
The Sea Duck soars through the sky in a desperate attempt to catch up to Khan. Baloo
stares into the sky deep in thought. Nanook takes the opportunity since Kit is in the back
to talk to the well known pilot.
"So what's on your mind Baloo?"
Baloo blinks out of thought to face the husky.
"Huh?"
"You've been in deep thought since we left the Iron Vulture."
"I don't know. How did such a normal day turn out to be a day that will forever change
our lives?"
"I know what you mean."
Baloo returns his eyes to the sky and smiled at his second home and quickly frowns.
"No…"
"No what?"
"You don't know what I mean. I was going to use this day to remember. I wanted to
propose to Becky. Buy a house for all of us to live. We were finally going to be a
family. Now look at us. We could be killed leaving Becky and poor Molly alone."
Tears can be seen streaming down the bear's grey cheeks.
"Kit will never be the same. He had to watch his friends die today and was given no time
to remorse, and to top it all off I have to explain to Kit what Khan's real intentions are."
Nanook taking in every word leaves the bear with his thoughts.
"I had a family once."
"Did you really?"
"Yea, they were my world. Then…they were taken from me. It was just like any normal
day, just like this one. I was too busy at work that my wife had to go and pick up our
kids from school. I was told a car came out of nowhere. They laid there for hours, they
were still alive when they arrived at the hospital. My son was the first to go…, then my
wife, and then finally…my poor baby girl…she tried so hard. I stayed with her for hours
on end. One day she woke up and told me she saw her mommy and her big brother. I
knew she was leaving me so I took her cross and never held her so tight."
Nanook couldn't help but cry softly. Baloo was speechless. What could he say. To
watch your family die one by one. He would never wish a fate like that even on his worst
enemies.
"That's when he came into my life."
"Who?"
"Khan, he promised me the world. He said he refused to watch a man of my great
intelligence go to waste. So I paired up with Khan."
"So what made you decide to switch sides?"
"Do you want me to be honest with you? I fell that the pirates are a family and that Khan
is the car that wipes them out. This time Karnage is the one to be forced to watch them
die. Khan will never understand what it means to lose everyone you care about. All he
cares about is his company."
"Looks to me that you developed a soft spot for the pirates."
"Seems to me that you adopted one."
"How did you.."
"That's what I'm paid for Baloo. To define the enemy. Know everything there is to
know about them, even down to their weak points."
"So what's Khan's weak point?"
"Sorry didn't get the chance to check his profile. Trust me I tried and it takes multiple
passwords to get through."
"Sigh…I guess we have to make the best out of what we got."
With that they are interrupted as the doors open.
"Baloo look! Khan has already reached Cape Suzette!"
Baloo and Nanook take a glimpse to find that Khan's ships have already entered into
Cape Suzette. Naook takes Kit by the arm and runs to the back of the ship.
"Kit I need you to get up high enough to determine exactly how far are we from Cape
Suzette."
Kit runs to the back and grabs a hold of his board and makes his way to the back.
"You sure you can do this?"
Kit jumps on the board and grabs hold of the ropes. He turns and smiles at Nanook.
"They don't call me Kit Cloudkicker for nothing!"
Nanook returns the smile and presses the switch. The pressure forces Kit to take to the
skies. Kit surfs the skies just enough to get high altitude.
"NANOOK! WE'RE ABOUT 15 MINUTES AWAY!"
Kit sees a horrid look on Nanook's face and turns his head away from Cape Suzette to
find out what he was looking at.
"Oh no…"
Right behind them the Iron Vulture emerges from the clouds to be followed by hundreds
of air ships of a variety of other pirates.
Nanook runs for the radio as Baloo stares in disbelief to find there are pirates behind
them.
"Hello? This is Nanook calling form the Sea Duck! State your mission."
Baloo and Nanook stood in silence as there is a response from the radio.
"To assassinate Khan, retrieve Karnage, and to destroy Cape Suzette."