"My n-nose is f-frozen!"

Cinder unraveled her scarf and wrapped it around Entropy's neck. She took it gratefully and pressed it against her red nose.

"I don't think we're going to find it this way," Jack admitted, shading his eyes and looking around the horizon. "Hopefully Stryker and Zephyr are having more luck."

"Oh, sure!" Entropy snarled, shaking miserably as they turned around and started back to the beacon. "Because those two will do something more than argue."

She let herself fall behind Jack and Cinder with a small smirk on her face. Cinder caught wind of this and gave her a quizzical look, but Jack seemed too focused on his remote.

"I'm going to have to work on this some more," he said, tapping the screen as Entropy walked behind Cinder. "It's not going to be useful until we can actually see what we're-"

"Oops," Entropy said as she bumped into Cinder.

Cinder yelped as she slipped and grabbed onto Jack's jacket. He caught her around the waist before she landed on her back, pulling her close and helping her catch her balance. Entropy skipped ahead of them with a big grin on her face.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked Cinder as she pushed her hair away. He looked up at Entropy. "Hey, Enny! Where're you going?"

Cinder looked up to tell him she was fine, but stopped herself and tilted her head. For some reason, his face had caught her attention. His eye slash thing had always struck her as cool, but now, it seemed to cause his crimson eyes to glow a bit more. Even when he looked down at her she was unable to turn away. They were so close Cinder had to squint passed the fog of breath that brushed against her cheeks to make out his pale face. She only slightly understood why her heart was pounding so much.

"Cinder?"

She snapped out of her trance when she realized that Jack had let her go and was now staring at her with concern.

"Are you okay?" he asked again.

"Uh...yeah," she said, then brushed some of her hair behind her ear and added quickly: "Y-Yeah, I'm fine. I-It just surprised me a little..."

"Good," Jack sighed, running a hand through his hair to spike up his hair again. Cinder's heart raced a little at this. "You had me worried for a second."

Her face reddened and she straightened her back.

"Sorry 'bout that," she said quickly, spinning around and stuffing her hands in her pockets. "Well, we'd better go find Zephyr and Stryker, you know?"

Jack tilted his head and started to say something, then stopped when he saw how fast she was retreating. Cinder shot a look at Entropy as Jack ran to catch up to them. Entropy stuck her tongue out and giggled at her, seeing from her friend's red face that her plan had worked. Jack managed to catch up to her and keeled over a little.

"Sooo," Entropy started, leaning over to see his face. "How was holding Cinder like a bride?"

Jack instantly shot up and turned red, refusing to look Entropy in the eye.

"You did that on purpose...didn't you...?" he guessed quietly.

Her giggling told him he was right.

"D-Darn it, Enny!" he yell-whispered, knitting his brow as he looked ahead at Cinder. "Stop playing matchmaker! I think it made her mad!"

"If yous say so," Entropy said coyly, a knowing smirk on her face.

"Guys!"

They looked ahead at Cinder, then ran up when they saw that she had stopped on the other side of their beacon.

"What is it..." Entropy started to ask.

They found what she was staring at. A huge crater was in the ice, trailing passed where they could see. It led the way Stryker and Zephyr had gone. Jack turned and stared at the Jack-bot that had set up the pole.

"It didn't..." he stammered, pointing in that direction. "...You told them what was happening, right?"

The robot stared at him for a second, then the eyes seemed to look upset.

"It wasn't in...my programing..." it beeped.

Jack sagged at this, then turned to the girls. After a second they all were dashing across the ice, shouting for their friends and praying they were okay.