[A/N: I'm not entirely pleased with how this chapter turned out, but I figured I better get a new chapter out soon. I promise the next chapter will be better, but please enjoy the chapter anyway. Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix and Disney.]
Juliet cracked her eyes open. Her head was pounding. As her eyes adjusted to the semi darkness she could make out the outlines of Akio and Clementine lying not far from her. "Akio, Clementine are you guys alright?" They'd been going through space when Juliet had lost control of her glider and they'd ended up crashing into this dark world. She heard a collective groan as her answer. It felt like her clothes had changed; her legs and arms were bare. Pushing herself up from the rock she'd been leaning against Juliet saw a puddle and looked at herself in it to see that she was wearing a blue skirt that was long in the back and short in the front with a matching top with one shoulder strap. On her face were three blue stripes on her left cheek.
Akio came stumbling out of the darkness followed by Clementine. Their clothes had also changed. Akio was wearing an olive colored tank top with suspenders and trousers of the same color with boots. Clementine was wearing a dress the same shade of light blue as Juliet, but the stomach was cut out. On her stomach was a blue circle with little triangles around it making it look like a sun. Akio looked over at Juliet and felt his cheeks heat up. "So do you know where we are?"
Juliet went to reach into her pocket when she realized that her clothes had changed. "I don't have the map anymore so no I don't know where we are." She heard yelling off in the distance and turned to the direction that the noise was coming from. "I'm sure if we go to whoever is yelling they could tell us where we are."
They began to run after the noise coming out onto a cliff. Standing on the cliff's edge were two groups. One of the groups was wearing large masks.
"Holy cats who are these guys?" The speaker was a tall muscled grey haired man.
"They got to be Atlantians." This time the speaker was a tall scrawny looking guy with glasses.
"What? That's impossible," said a tall blond woman.
"I've seen this back in Dakota. They can smell fear just by looking at you. So keep quiet," said an old man who was missing teeth.
The leader of the masked people said something unintelligible.
"I think its talking to you." Muttered a small round man who was wearing goggles. He was pulling on the shirt of the tall scrawny guy.
Again the leader said something that no one could understand.
The scrawny guy began to speak in the same strange language to the leader prompting her to remove her mask. This time he said something in French to which the girl responded with gusto.
"They speak my language." This seemed to excite the little goggle wearing man. He motioned for the girl to lean down which she did. He whispered something to her which must have gotten her angry and she punched him in the face.
"I like her," said a muscled black man as he clapped.
"About time someone hit him I'm just sorry it wasn't me." The speaker this time was a girl in overalls.
The scrawny guy had noticed Juliet, Akio, and Clementine by this time. "The girls look like Atlantians, but you not so much." He was looking at Akio when he said this.
Juliet licked her lips a little nervously. "Well we're not Atlantians. We're not from here actually. My name is Juliet and this is Akio and Clementine."
"Well, I'm Milo and they are Cookie, Miss Packard, Audrey, Sweet, Vinny, Mole, Helga, and Commander Rourke."
"How do they know all these languages," asked Audrey.
"Their language must be based on a root dialect just like the Tower of Babel." Milo theorized.
Rourke put a hand on Milo's shoulder. "Well maybe English is in there somewhere." He took a step forward. "We are explorers from the surface world. We come in peace."
"Welcome to the city of Atlantis." The leader of the now unmasked people held her arms out gesturing at a city that was sitting atop a waterfall. "Come you will speak with my Father." She took Milo by the arm and began to pull him away.
As they crossed a bridge over a cavern of molten lava Akio turned to Juliet. "Do you have any kinds of good feelings about this place at all?"
"No, not yet, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I mean we just got here." She turned to Clementine. "By the way Clementine did you change out appearances again?"
"It wasn't mean this time. Maybe you change appearances in some worlds, but not others."
Akio nodded in agreement. "Remember we changed when in Timeless River and that was before we met Clementine."
They soon entered a large throne room with a pond in the middle. Sitting across from the pond was an old man with a beard that went to the floor. The old man presumably the king began to talk to the girl who was the leader of the Atlantians in the same language.
Rourke unlike Milo wasn't kneeling. "Your majesty on behalf of my crew my I say it is an honor to be welcomed to your city."
Milo coughed to try and get Rourke's attention. "Um excuse me commander…."
The king turned his attention to Rourke. "You presume much if you think you are welcome here."
"Sir, we have come a long way looking for-"
"I know what you seek and you will not find it here. Your journey has been in vain."
"We are peaceful explorers' men of science."
"Yet you carry weapons." Even in his blindness the king had been able to see the pistol at Rourke's hip.
"Our weapons allow us to remove obstacles that we may encounter."
"Some obstacles cannot be removed with a mere show of force. Returned to your people you must leave Atlantis at once."
"Your majesty be reasonable."
Milo thought now would be a good time to pipe up. "Sir?"
"Not now son."
"Trust me on this we better do as he says."
Rourke turned back to the king. "May I request that we spend one night that would give us time to rest and resupply. Be ready to travel by morning."
The king took a moment to ponder this. "Very well. One night. That is all."
"Thank you your majesty."
As they turned to leave the king called out. "You…..key bearer come here a moment."
Juliet looked around the room when she realized that she was the one he was talking to and walked back over to him. "Your majesty?"
The king was kneeling down to sit back down on his thorn and it looked like it was taking a great effort for him to do so. "You possess a great strength, but the darkness is growing ever stronger. The dark man was here. He told me of your coming. The key will bring destruction to the worlds it visits you must leave as well."
Juliet remembering the warnings of Mama Odie and Grandmother Willow found herself believing the king. "I don't know what you mean by the key bringing destruction, but if you want us to leave I'll leave tomorrow with them if it's acceptable." She saw the king wave his hand in dismissal. "Kida thinks outsiders would be beneficial. I see them as dangerous."
Akio waited until Juliet was back before he whispered to her. "The king thinks we should leave too?"
"Yep and frankly now since that girl must be his daughter and I didn't get the feeling with her she must not be one of the seven pure lights and we should move on."
As they left the throne room Juliet saw Milo and Kida going off together. "Maybe we could poke around a little bit. I am curious about what that Rourke guy is looking for. I think it would be a good idea to follow Milo and Kida for a start."
Soon they were following Milo and Kida by crawling along a stone pathway under a small waterfall. They came out into a small underground room that was covered in vines.
"I have so much to ask about your world." Kida sounded more excited than both Akio and Clementine had been. "You are a scholar are you not? Judging by your diminished physic and large forehead you are suited for nothing else. What is your country of origin?" She took Milo's glasses from him and put them on. "When did the flood waters recede?"
"Wait a minute I got a few questions for you too. Let's just do this you ask one then I ask one then you then I then you then I."
"Very well what is your first question?"
"Well ok. How did you get here? I mean not you personally, but your culture. How did all of this end up down here?"
"It is said that the Gods became jealous of Atlantis. They sent a great cataclysm and banished us here. All I remember is the sky going dark and people shouting and running. Then a bright light like a star my Father said it called my Mother to it. I never saw her again."
"I'm sorry. If its any consolation I know how you feel I lost my-wait a minute wait a minute. Back up you remember because you were there? That would make you 85…..88 hundred years old."
"Yes?"
"Well, hey looking good." Milo cleared his throat looking a little nervous. "Do you have another question for me?"
"How is that you found your way to this place?"
"Well I'll tell you it wasn't easy. If it wasn't for this book we never would have made it." Milo reached into his bag and pulled out an old book which Kida almost imminently snatched up.
"Ok second question. It says your people possess a power source."
"You mean you can understand this?" Kida was flipping through the pages of the book.
"Yes I'm a linguist that's what I do. Now getting back to my question."
Kida thrust the book into Milo's face. "This you can read this?"
"Yes, yes I can read Atlantian just like you." Milo watched Kida study the book for a few seconds. "You can't can you?"
"No one can. This has been lost to my people since the time of the Maebelmoc."
"Oh great flood."
Kida pushed the book back onto Milo's chest. "Show me."
As Milo began to read realization came over Kida's face. "Follow the narrow passage there you will find the fifth marker."
"Yeah, yeah that's it. How was my accent?"
"Boorish, providential, and you speak it through your nose. Here let me show you something." She took Milo by the front of his shirt and pulled him over to something that was covered with a tarp. With flourish she pulled the tarp off to reveal a strange fish looking vehicle.
"Looks like some kind of vehicle."
"Yes, but no matter what I try it won't respond."
"Perhaps if-"
"Way ahead of you." Milo leaned down to examine the vehicle. "Let's see put crystal into slot."
"Yes, yes I have done that."
"Gently place your hand on the inscription pad."
"Yes."
"Ok did you turn the crystal one quarter turn back?"
"Yes."
"While your hand was on the inscription pad?"
"Ye—no…."
Milo chuckled under his breath. "Well there's your problem right there. That's an easy thing to miss. You deserve credit for even getting this far." He saw Kida put her hands on her hips in annoyance. "All right give it a try."
Kida put the crystal she was wearing around her neck into the hole on the vehicle while placing her palm on the inscription pad. Both her and Milo watched in awe as the fish vehicle began to glow blue and lifted off the ground.
"This is great. With this thing I can see the whole city in no time at all. I wonder how fast it goes." Milo had only put one his fingers on the inscription pad when the vehicle sprang to life and shot forward.
It bounced off the walls as it bounced around the room before crashing in a corner.
Milo looked sheepishly over at Kida. "So, who's hungry?"
Juliet turned to Akio and Clementine. "Let's go take a look around the city. Maybe we can find out something about whatever the king was talking about."
Akio had been thinking about what the king had said and couldn't make any sense of it. "I've been traveling with you for some time and I've never seen you bring any destruction of any kind. In fact you're the opposite of destruction. Maybe, maybe he knows something about the seven pure lights and he just doesn't want to tell us anything."
Clementine rolled her eyes. "You should hear yourself Akio. That sounds like something I would say."Her eyes went out of focus ever so slightly. "Actually that sounds like it might have something to it…..and here I am agreeing with you."
As they reentered the city Clementine noticed that Akio seemed to be giving Juliet quiet a lot of attention. She pretended to be more interested in a stall full of strange looking food. "I think I'll give you two some alone time."
Juliet looked back at Clementine with a confused look on her face. "Why would we want to be alone?" She turned back to Akio. "We were just going to go see the king to see if he can tell us anything about the seven pure lights."
Clementine felt her face go red. "Oh is that all? I guess I could go with you if that's all you're going to do."
Approaching the throne room of the king Juliet noticed the absence of guards and peeked through to see the king still seated on his throne all thought he was slouched over. "It looks like he could be sleeping maybe we should come back later."
"Come closer key bearer." This came out in a hoarse whisper.
Juliet pushed the doors open and began to walk through when she heard the king speak again.
"Your friends must wait outside."
Akio and Clementine looked between each other before taking a step back. Akio looked over at Clementine with a trace of worry on his face. "What do you think he's going to tell her that we can't hear?"
"Hopefully it will something helpful with looking for the seven pure lights."
Juliet found herself still standing at the far side of the room while the king stayed seated on his throne. She could feel him staring at her with blind milky eyes and shifted her weight from foot to foot. "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"You were the one who came to me. Tell me key bearer what is it that you seek?"
Biting her lip as she tried to find the right words Juliet took a couple of steps forward. "Your highness, do you know anything about the seven pure lights?"
The king didn't look at surprised at her question, but propped himself up a bit more. "The seven pure lights have been sought after for many years by the darkness in order to fulfill its purpose. What would you do with them?"
She hadn't really thought about why Erik wanted to find the seven pure lights besides bringing the darkness to an end. "So the darkness can be stopped. Isn't that reason enough?"
The king staggered to his feet. "You do not look for the seven pure lights for yourself? You do think you do it for someone else, but the one who wish to help has evil intent."
Juliet raised an eyebrow when she realized that he was talking about Erik. "I don't know what you're talking about, but-" She was interrupted by an explosion that came from the entrance to the throne room.
Standing on the other side of the destroyed doorway was Vinny and Cookie who stepped aside to reveal that Helga had Kida in a strong armed grip.
"Tell them to drop their weapons….now!" Helga waited until the king had given the order before turning back to the rest of the crew. "Spread out search everywhere."
Rourke had Milo by the front of his shirt. "You've got to apply yourself son you've got to be missing something."
"Well there isn't. It just says the heart of Atlantis lies in the eyes of our king."
"Well maybe old king Cole can help us fill in the blanks." Rourke released Milo and walked up the king. "How about it chief where's the crystal chamber?"
"You will destroy yourselves."
"Maybe I'm not being clear." Rourke balled up his hand into a fist before punching the king hard in the stomach.
Sweet leaned down to examine the king. "Rourke, this was not part of the plan."
"Plan's change, doc. I suggest you put a band-aid on that bleeding heart of yours it doesn't suit a mercenary." Rourke walked up to the King's throne and sat down knocking over a bowl of fruit. "Well as usual diplomacy has failed us. Now I'm going to count to ten and you're going to tell me where the crystal is." Rourke cocked his gun and aimed it at the king. "One….two….nine…." A sudden look of realization came over Rourke's face as he gazed at the pool behind the king. "The heart of Atlantis lies in the eyes of our king. This is it we're in." He tossed the book he'd been holding back at Milo.
"Rourke, for the last time you've got to listen to me. You don't have the slightest idea what this power is capable of."
Helga had released Kida and was going after Rourke. "True but, I can think of a few countries who'd pay anything to find out."
Rourke stepped into the middle of the pool to have it start sinking down.
The platform sank down into the underground until it stopped before another larger pool of water. Above it was a ball of light that was surrounded by giant stone masks.
"Jackpot," exclaimed Rourke.
The group was staring up at the crystal in awe.
Kida felt her chest tighten as she stared up at the crystal. "Kings of our past." She collapsed to the ground in prayer.
Rourke was unmoved. "Thatch, tell her to wrap it up we got a schedule to keep."
Milo looked over at Helga who was looking down at Kida. He stooped down and touched Kida's shoulder. "Um Kida….I'm sorry." This seemed to snap her out of the trance she'd been in.
Rourke walked up to the water's edge and kicked a pebble into the water. He looked up to see the crystal begin to glow an angry red.
"Come on let's get this over with. I don't like this place." Helga was looking around nervously.
"All right Thatch what's next?"
As Milo spoke to Rourke, Kida saw the crystal around her neck begin to glow and lift off her chest. Her eyes began to glow as she began to walk towards the pool.
Milo tried to walk after her, but was stopped by Rourke who put his hand up.
"What's happening?"
"All it says is that the crystal is alive I don't know how to explain it. It's their deity."
As Milo and Rourke continued to argue Kida turned to face them; her eyes glowing white. "All will be well. Don't be afraid Milo Thatch." She said this in Atlantian.
Rourke was staring at Kida with his mouth open. "What did she say?"
"I don't know I didn't catch it."
Kida turned around again and began to walk out onto the water. She stopped when she went under the crystal. The light above her narrowed down until it was directly above her and enveloped her whole body. Kida began to lift off the ground slowly drifting up into the crystal until she disappeared. The crystal began to glow brighter and spin faster. After a few seconds the stone masks around the crystal began to slow down; the crystal growing smaller and more humanoid in shape.
The crystal figure began to sink back down to the water.
Milo went to go towards the figure when Rourke put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hold your horses lover boy."
As the crystal figure began to walk towards them the stone masks began to fall into the water.
Rourke put a hand out when Milo gestured for him to stop.
"Don't touch her."
As they returned to the surface Rourke had Audrey lock the now crystallized Kida into a vault.
Juliet looked over at the vault as she tried to peek through the little window. "What happened to her?"
"Somehow she joined with the crystal." Was Milo's response. He turned to scowl at Audrey who scowled right back at him. "So I guess this is how it ends. Fine you win. You'll be wiping out an entire civilization, but hey you'll be rich. Congratulations Audrey, I guess you and your Dad will be able to open that second garage and Vinny your family will be able to open a whole chain of flower shops. Because that's what it's all about money."
Rourke jumped out of the truck he'd been in. "Get off your soap box Thatch you've read Darwin its natural selection we're just helping it along."
"Commander, we're ready," shouted Helga from atop the truck.
"Yeah give me a minute. I know I'm forgetting something got the cargo, the crystal, the crew. Oh yeah…." He swerved around and punched Milo in the jaw sending him to the ground. "Look at it this way son you're the man who discovered Atlantis and now you're part of the exhibit." Rourke turned and began to walk back to the truck. "Let's move people."
"That was an order not a suggestion," barked Helga. "Let's go."
Audrey looked like she was going to start the truck for a minute before she sighed in defeat and kicked the door open. In a huff she got up and stomped over to Milo to help him up. She turned angrily to the rest of the group. Slowly, but surely the rest of them began to walk over to where Milo and Audrey were.
"We're all gonna die," remarked Mss Packard.
"Oh you can't be serious." Rourke looked at the group in his rear view mirror.
"This is wrong and you know it," snapped Audrey.
"We're this close to our biggest payday ever and you pick now of all times to grow a conscious."
"We've done a lot of things we aren't proud of robbing graves, plundering tombs, double parking, but no one got hurt. Well maybe someone got hurt, but no one we knew." Vinny was listing these things off on his fingers.
"If that's the way you want to do it fine. More for me."
Milo looked back at the Atlantians who'd been watching the whole ordeal; the light from the crystals around their necks was going dim.
"We can't let them do this."
Vinny grabbed Milo by the arm. "Wait a second."
There as an explosion and a few seconds later the bridge connecting the city to the island on the other side was collapsing into a lake of molten lava.
"Ok, now you can go."
"Milo, you better get up here," called Sweet off in the distance.
Juliet, Akio, and Clementine followed Milo back into the king's throne room.
"How's he doing," asked Milo.
"Not good I'm afraid. Internal bleeding. Nothing more I can do."
"What a nightmare and I brought it here."
"Now don't go beating yourself up. He's been after that crystal since Iceland."
A sudden look came over Milo's face. "The crystal! Sweet that's it. These crystals have some kind of healing energy I've seen it." He jumped when he felt the king's hand go over his.
"No, where is my daughter?" He heard Milo stutter. "She has been chosen like her Mother before her. In times of danger the crystal would choose a host of royal blood to protect itself and its people. It will accept no other."
"Wait a minute choose? So this thing is alive?"
"In a way the crystal thrives on the collective emotions of those who came before us. In return it provides power and longevity. Power, as it grew it developed a conciseness of its own. In my arrogance I sought to use it as a weapon of war, but its power proved too great to control. It overwhelmed us and caused our destruction."
Milo looked like he was in shock. "That's why you hid it beneath the city. To keep history from repeating itself."
"And to keep Kida from suffering the same fate as my beloved wife."
"What do you mean? What's going to happen to Kida?"
"If she remains bonded to the crystal then she could be lost forever. The love of my daughter is all I have left. My burden would have become hers when the time was right." With the last of his strength the king removed his crystal from around his neck. "Now it falls to you." He handed the crystal to Milo. "Return the crystal. Save Atlantis. Save my daughter." The king's hand slid from Milo's and fell to his chest. He lay still.
Sweet put his stethoscope back into his bag. "So, what's it going to be?"
"Excuse me?"
"I followed you in I'll follow you out. It's your decision."
"My decision? Let's review how effective my decisions have been. Let's recap: I lead a band of plundering vandals to the greatest archeological find in recorded history, thus enabling the kidnap and or murder of the royal family, not to mention delivering the most powerful source known to man to a mercenary nut case who's probably going to sell it to the Kaiser. Have I left anything out?"
"Well you did set the camp on fire and drop us down that big hole."
Milo threw his hands up. "Thank you…thank you very much."
"Course it's my experience when your this far down the only place to go is up."
"Who told you that?"
"A fellow by the name of Thaddeus Thatch."
Milo looked down at the crystal with a renewed determination on his face and marched out of the throne room.
"Where are you going," asked Audrey as she watched Milo stomp out.
"Going after Rourke."
"Milo that's crazy," retorted Audrey.
"Didn't say it was the smart thing, but it is the right thing."
Juliet found herself going after Milo when she felt Akio grab her arm.
"What are you doing? Shouldn't we just get out of here while we have the chance?"
"Why and miss out on all the excitement that's going to happen? This Rourke guy deserves to go down and I want to help Milo do it."
Audrey sighed under her breath. "Come one we better go before he hurts himself."
They got down to where Milo was in time to see him crawling onto one of the fish vehicles.
"Milo, what do you think you're doing," asked Audrey.
"Just follow my lead."
Juliet crawled up onto another one of the vehicles and was followed by Akio and Clementine. "It's a good thing these things are big or all three of us wouldn't be able to sit on one."
"Well I'm impressed." Mss Packard didn't sound very impressed.
"Its simple all you got to do is-"
"Yeah yeah I got it." Audrey had crawled onto the back of Milo's vehicle and put her hand on the inscription pad. The vehicle jerked and shot backwards knocking into a wall.
"Gently."
"Hey Milo, you got something sporty like a tuna?" Vinny called up.
"How is this done," asked an Atlantian guard.
"All you gotta do is use the crystal. Kida showed me." Milo walked over to a hammerhead shark and put his crystal in the slot before turning it a quarter turn left with his hand on the inscription pad.
As the vehicles began to take off Milo started his speech. "All right we're going to rescue the princess, we're going to save Atlantis, or we're going to die trying."
Juliet felt Akio tighten his grip around her waist. "Are you doing alright back there?" Her response was an enthusiastic whoop from Clementine and a groan from Akio.
As they flew over Rourke and the rest of the mercenaries Juliet and Clementine began shooting fire, blizzard, and thunder magic at them while Akio threw his disk.
Down at the bottom of the balloon Audrey was trying to cut the cut chain that was holding Kida to the balloon when Helga released a missile to drop on them.
"All right Milo any last words? Yeah I really wish I had a better idea than this." Milo brought his shark vehicle down close to the balloon when he noticed that Juliet was flying close behind him. "You be my backup." He saw her give him the thumbs up. Milo swerved and jumped off the vehicle just as it crashed into one of the balloons.
Juliet followed suit, but had to do likewise a safe distance away so that her vehicle wouldn't crash.
Rourke noticed this almost imminently. "We're losing altitude lighten the load."
Helga threw a canister off the balloon. "That's it unless someone wants to jump." She saw Juliet from the corner of her eye and suddenly threw her foot out to try and kick her off. "Never mind I think I found something else to get rid of."
Juliet blocked the kick with the Keyblade and successfully knocked Helga off balance.
This time instead of kicking Helga tried to punch Juliet just barely missing her cheek. "Why don't you just quiet while you're ahead little girl." She pushed some of her blond hair from her face; a smug sneer on her lips.
Rourke seemed to be board of the fight between Helga and Juliet and took Helga by the shoulders. "Ladies first." He threw her over the side of the balloon.
Helga thanks to her cat like reflexes was able to grab onto a support beam on the bottom of the balloon and swing herself back up again kicking Rourke in the jaw in the processes. "You said we were in this together." Another kick. "You promised me a percentage." When she went to kick Rourke again he grabbed her foot.
"Next time get it writing." With a thrust of his arm he knocked her from the balloon. "Nothing personal."
Milo came swinging down at that moment and kicked Rourke in the head sending them both falling down to a lower level of the balloon.
Rourke recovered quicker. "Well I've got to hand it to you you're a bigger pain in the neck then I thought was possible."
Milo tried to punch Rourke only to have his fist thrown back in his face and fell even further.
"I consider myself an even tempered man. It takes a lot to get under my skin, but congratulations you just won the solid gold kewpie doll."
Down on the ground Helga was rolling onto her back and reaching into her back pocket. She pulled out a gun and aimed it at the balloon. "Nothing personal." With the last of her strength she fired it sending a flare up at the balloon hitting it dead on.
Rourke saw the break in case of emergency box with an axe in it and broke it. He swung the axe at Milo's head who was able to duck in time. "Tired Mr. Thatch? That's a darn shame." The axe came down again breaking the glass of Kida's compartment.
Milo saw this and broke off a piece before Rourke seized him around the neck and lifted him into the air. Quickly before Rourke was able to do any more damage Milo cut the commander across the arm with the glass.
Juliet jumped down in time to see crystals working their way up Rourke's arm as he tried in vain to push them away. Thinking it was safe she turned back to Milo with a relieved look on her face.
"Thank heaven." Milo was also looking relieved until Rourke's crystallized arm came up and grabbed at the bracing that Milo had been on.
Juliet swung the Keyblade at Rourke's head hitting him in the temple.
In a rage Rourke turned to her to attack, but as he did so the propellers that were above him were knocked loose and beat him in the head sending shards of crystal everywhere. Some of them hitting the chain that had Kida's compartment.
Milo, Juliet, and Kida's compartment fell off the balloon landing hard on the ground; Milo rolling extra far and hitting his back against the compartment. A fire ball was coming down after them prompting Milo to push the compartment as quickly as he could.
"The volcano she awakes," exclaimed Mole.
"Hey I had nothing to do with it." Vinny doused the explosive he'd been holding.
"This would be a good place not to be," Cookie remarked.
"No we have to get her back or the whole city will die." Milo attached a chain to Kida's vault.
"And if we don't get out of here we'll die." Audrey grabbed the chain from Milo and tossed it up to Vinny who attached it to his vehicle.
"It's the only way to reverse this just do it."
As they took off the chain on Kida's end broke. Milo quickly hopped off the vehicle and rewrapped the chain around the body of the vault before climbing on top of it.
Following the rest of the group out of the volcano Juliet pulled their vehicle up higher until they were flying over Atlantis. "I think this would be a good time for us to leave. There are no seven pure lights here and…." What the king had said was still bothering her. "They'll be all right they probably have some trick up their sleeve to get out of this mess."
As they flew off they were able to see giant stone statues coming out of the water and forming a shield around the city. The light that was coming from the crystal was blinding as they left the world.