"What is this very rough contraption?" Monty asked.

He and the Rescue Rangers were in the seats of the Speedy Cloud. Despite their safety harnesses tightly securing them, they did not feel safe and they were feeling very rough and they were not enjoying it, except Dale, of course.

"Welcome to the Speedy Cloud," Chip replied. "And if you think that's rough, it's only going to get rougher."

"Yeah," Dale cried happily. "And the rougher it gets, the more awesome it gets. Am I right, Chip, or am I right?"

"No!" Chip snapped. "You are one hundred percent wrong!"

"I have to agree with Chip," Monty said, as he started to feel more and more nauseous by the second. Even Zipper was starting to feel sick.

"How dare you insult Cy-Had's genius?" Dale snapped.

As for Cy-Had herself, she didn't have time to listen to the Rescue Rangers' banter. She was in the small cockpit and she was doing all she could to fly the Speedy Cloud away from Lady Annie's Air Army, which was hard enough without the banter of the Rescue Rangers. Though she locked herself in the cockpit and she had the comms to the passenger aisle turned off, she could still hear the very loud banter from the Rescue Rangers coming behind the door.

She turned the comms on. "Guys, I really must have quiet now, if it's all impossible!"

Then everyone went quiet.

"Thank you."

"No problem, Cy-Had," Dale said.

"Dale, she told us to be quiet, so be quiet!" Chip snapped.

"I was!"

"No, you weren't!"

"Yes, I was!"

"No, you weren't!"

"Yes, I was!"

"No, you weren't!"

Cy-Had was glad that the chipmunks finally stopped arguing; she just preferred that it didn't take one of the Speedy Cloud's wings to get hit by fire, as she saw on one of the camera screens on the cockpit, to do so. The cockpit had six camera screens for her to check the whole of her rocket plane because the windshield could only show her ahead.

She checked the other screens and she saw on one of them that the dragons of the Air Army was behind the Speedy Cloud and started to fire more fireballs at it, but she tilted it to dodge them. They hit the other dragons, griffins, firebirds and the other flying soldiers in the Air Army.

"Can you warn us next time, please, Cy-Had, love?" Monty yelled though the door.

Cy-Had turned the comms back on again. "Sorry about that, guys! But when an entire air army is after you, you really have to concreate!"

Then she pressed the blue button on the cockpit and she saw on one of the cameras the rocket plane's water gun come out and fire water at the wing on it and put it out. Then she felt something on the rocket plane. She saw on the same camera and she saw that some dragons and griffins were on it and trying to scratch their way into the machine with their claws.

"I'm gonna spin the rocket plane now!" Cy-Had warned the Rescue Rangers. Then she spun the Speedy Cloud around a few times and she was glad to see on the screen that the dragons and the griffins that were once on it were now off it.

"Boy, that was rough!" Monty complained.

"Well, at least, she warned us this time!" Dale said.

There's just some people you can't please, no matter what you do, Cy-Had thought in her head as she shook it. Then she saw on one of the screens firebirds firing fireballs at the Speedy Cloud. She flipped the rocket plane over and fired its water gun at them, scaring them away.

All this tilting, spinning and flipping was really making the Rescue Rangers very sick and struggling to take any more of it, except Dale who was enjoying every single moment of it.

"Hold on very tightly, guys!" Cy-Had cried to the Rescue Rangers. "We're approaching our destination!"

"With those bad guys behind us?" Monty asked.

"Shouldn't we lose them the first?" Chip asked.

"Hey!" Dale cried. "Cy-Had knows what she's doing! So, trust her!"

"Thanks, Dale!" Cy-Had cried. "Now, hold on tight! Here comes the roughest thing I have to do yet!"

"Woo-Hoo!" Dale cried. "Bring it on!"

The other Rescue Rangers knew it just had to be done, so they just held on as tight as they could. Dale cheered loudly as he could and the other Rescue Rangers screamed as loud as they could as Cy-Had made her rocket plane zoom higher in the sky and flip the longest back loop ever and then zoomed back down towards the ground. Then they found themselves somewhere outside of the Gibson Desert and in another place that looked like Cy-Had's hideout.

"Are we back in your secret hideout already, Cy-Had?" Dale asked.

"One of them, Dale," she replied, after she flew out of the cockpit room. "This is my Australian hideout." Then she lifted the safety harnesses above the Rescue Rangers.

"Do you have hideouts all over the world?" Chip asked.

"Even on countries that haven't been discovered yet?" Dale asked.

Everyone just silently headed to the exit ramp of the rocket plane.

"Boy, am I glad that's all over with," Monty said, as he and Chip wobbled as he walked down the ramp. Even Zipper couldn't fly properly because he felt sick from the rough ride. Dale walked sadly on the ramp, but he was only sad because the ride was over.

"I hate it when the ride's over," Dale said.

"Oh, shut up, Dale!" Chip and Monty snapped.

"When do we get to ride the Speedy Cloud again, Cy-Had?" Dale asked as she flew down the ramp.

"We only use it when we need to, Dale," she explained. "I shouldn't really use them at all, except when I really have to."

"Why's that, Cy-Had?" Chip asked.

"Because our enemies can sense us when we use any vehicle at all, even a cart being pulled by a horse. Now, I built this machine and used this rescue mission as a test to see if they couldn't sense us, which I'm glad to say that it was a success. They didn't sense us when we arrive in the desert, they didn't sense us when we entered their hideout and they're not sensing us now when we lost them."

"Genuis, Cy-Had!" Dale cried. "Plus, that was the greatest thrill of my life!"

"Thanks, Dale," Cy-Had said. "But remember, we mustn't take advantage of it or any of my other inventions and we must only use them when it's absolutely crucial. Now, why don't you and Chip give your old friends a tour of this place? It's exactly the same as the American hideout was."

"May I ask why you can't give them the grand tour yourself, Cy-Had?" Chip asked.

"Because there's something very important I have to do," Cy-Had said. "I'll be back with you as quick as I can." Then she zoomed straight into her private quarters.

Wondering what she needed to do that was so important, Chip and Dale went ahead and showed their old friends the hideout.

"This place is very cool," Monty said, as they and the chipmunks sat down at the cafeteria table and they ate Grabetto, Gippsland Blue and Riverine Blue among the many other Australian cheeses after the tour finished.

Zipper agreed with Monty about liking the place.

"So have you guys seen Gadget since the Rescue Rangers were finished?" Chip asked.

"Sadly, no," Monty replied. "We've tried all forms of communication with her, but she hasn't replied back. But wherever she is and whatever she does, I hope she's okay."

Chip, Dale and Zipper agreed.

"Oh, by the way, I forget," Monty said. He took off his coat, which revealed a brown rucksack.

"Where did you hide that rucksack, Monty?" Chip asked.

"Oh, it's a trick I learned since the Rescue Rangers finished," Monty explained. "Ain't that right, Zipper?"

Zipper nodded.

"Too right." Then Monty opened it up and chucked the contents to the chipmunks.

The chipmunks were surprised when they saw what their mouse friend threw at them. It had been years since Chip wore his light brown fedora hat and his dark brown bomber jacket and Dale thought he would never wear his red and yellow Hawaiian t-shirt ever again. Their clothes fitted them like gloves and it only felt like yesterday that they last wore them. They burst into happy tears. Even Monty and Zippy were crying happy tears too. None of them could remember the last time they were this happy.