The next morning, Jessie had forgotten all about the day's incident before. She was at the table with the kids. Bertram was complaining about making breakfast as usual. It was at the table that Ravi reminded her.
"Jessie, what was up with your behavior when Cody introduced himself?" Ravi innocently asked.
Jessie gasped. The memories all came back again. They flooded into her mind.
Zack laughed an evil laugh. "You people disgust me," he cackled. "I'm going to sink you all into the bottom of the ocean, and you can't stop me!"
"Why are you doing this?" Cody asked. "Haven't we been your friend?"
"What if I wanted more than that? I want infamy! You should've always known I would've followed a life of crime!" Zack cackled maniacally.
"You should've," Bailey pointed out. "Not now, Bailey," Cody said. "Zack, I want you to undo everything you've done and go back to bed! Don't do this! You can make something of yourself!"
"It's too late! All I have to do is press Enter on this keyboard, and you people will all sink to the bottom of the ocean! I will escape in a getaway helicopter, and gain infamy! Muhahaha!"
Cody leapt in front of the keyboard, but Zack let him fly by. He pressed the Enter button. It was dark. lightning struck. Zack cackled maniacally. Exactly 12 hours from when he pushed the button, ten o'clock AM at the ship's location, the ship would sink, and there would be no survivors, except him.
As Cody tried to get up, there was a sudden blinding light. By the time both he and Bailey could see, Zack was gone.
"Jessie? Jessie!" Ravi kept trying for an answer.
"Forget it. She's just remembering her old boyfriends!"
"Yeah!" A dazed Jessie agreed. "One of my old boyfriends! That's right…"
"Are you sure? Usually when you meet one of them, they run away screaming, not the other way around," Emma said.
"Yes, it's JUST another boyfriend," Jessie said. The meal went on uneventful.
Cody and Bailey ran to the room where Mr. Moseby slept. "Whoa. Classy room," Cody said as he went into the room. "What's the big idea?" Moseby asked, annoyed.
"We just saw Zack messing with the SS Tipton's controls! The ships going down in twelve hours!"
Moseby stood for awhile, silent. Suddenly, he burst out laughing. "You expect me to believe that nincompoop is sinking the ship! Ha! The irony. It's just the kind of thing he would do as a joke, but he's not smart enough to even drive the ship, much less sink it. Ha! The irony! Now you two are in trouble for waking me up. Go back to your own business. Do whatever you want, I don't care, just leave me out of it!"
Moseby pushed Bailey and Cody out of his room. "This isn't good." Cody moaned.
"Are you sure?" Bailey asked. "Moseby's right. Zack IS too dumb to change the ship's course."
"He wouldn't joke about this. He's trouble." Cody said. It was an eerie night, as lightning struck over the dark ocean.