"HELP! HELP!" Donald yelled at the top of his lungs. "My friends are escaping the cell and leaving me here all alone!"
The sea monster pirate guard opened the door. He was shocked to find only Donald wrapped up in chains and there was no Jose Carioca or Panchito Pistoles in the cell at all.
"Where did they go?" the guard demanded.
"The far end wall!" Donald cried. "That's where they've gone to!"
The guard went to the far end wall and saw a dug-out tunnel. Then he climbed into it and crawled through. "You think you two can get away from me? Well, you're wrong."
Donald chuckled as he looked up to the ceiling and winked. His two friends Jose and Panchito were hanging on the ceiling lights to hide from the guard. Then they descended to the ground by using Jose's umbrella.
Then the Three Caballeros all chuckled.
"If only he knew that he was actually getting away from us," Donald said.
Then Jose freed Donald from the very loose chains that the sea monster pirate guard didn't even bother to check before he went into the tunnel that they all dug, while Panchito put a poster over the hole. It was a poster of the Three Caballeros when they were on one of their (failed) tours in the past.
Then the Three Caballeros got out of the cell and looked the door behind them because the guard left the key in the keyhole.
"So, what now?" Donald asked.
Jose and Panchito shushed him. Donald forgot that he didn't say what he said as quietly as he should. He thought that it was because he was so relieved to be out of that cell.
"We find the nearest room with the uniforms and grab whatever uniform we can to disguise ourselves while we explore the ship to look for a way to escape it," Panchito said.
"Like this room here?" Jose asked.
Panchito and Donald looked at the door he was standing next to. It said, 'Uniform Room.'
"Well done, Jose," Panchito said. "Now, let's go and try some clothes on."
He went into the room and Jose and Donald followed.
Soon the Three Caballeros were wearing sea pirate disguises and were exploring the ship, looking for a way to escape it. Panchito was wearing a sea captain's uniform and hat and Jose was wearing a first mate's uniform and hat but poor unlucky Donald was wearing a cabin boy's outfit.
The Three Caballeros weren't having a lot of luck of finding a place to escape, but the good news was that none of the sea monster pirates noticed them at all. They just blended in with them.
"We need to find something soon," Panchito said. "We can't just keep walking around the ship."
"Yeah," Donald agreed. "My feet are getting very tired."
"No, Donald," Panchito said. "I meant that our pirate friends will notice us and we will be spotted and our cover will be blown and then we'll be back in our cell or worse."
"Hey, you guys," Jose said, who was standing next to a door. "In here, quick. Just trust me."
Donald and Panchito decided to just listen to their friend and follow him into the room he insisted they enter.
The room they went into was completely full of wooden barrels.
"This room full of barrels is very nice, Jose," Panchito said, "but how is it that going to help us escape the ship? There's no window on the wall and there's no hole in the floor."
"In the barrels, of course," Jose replied.
"But if we hide in the barrels, won't it be being in our prison cell?" Donald asked.
"I can see why you think that, Donald," Jose said, "but at least in here we'll have more freedom and no one can control us here."
"Is that so?"
The Three Caballeros turned around to see that Admiral Daniel Beakship was standing there.
"Sorry, sir," Panchito said, putting on a pirate's voice to avoid giving away his normal voice. "We had no idea you were there."
"Well, now, you do," Daniel said. "And why are you in here playing games instead of helping the rest of the crew find the prisoners who have escaped?"
"We were checking if they were in here, sir," Jose said, putting his own pirate voice.
"And then we tried to think like them like where they could hide and all that stuff," Panchito said.
"Well, you had better put them to go use now," Daniel said. "Come with me now."
"Sir, with all due respect," Panchito said, "we haven't finished searching in here for them yet."
"We only need two more minutes to finish this room, sir," Jose added.
"Well, you had better not waste those two minutes," Daniel warned. "After that, you had better not still be in this room. Get back out there with the rest of the crew and find those missing prisoners! Understand?"
"Yes, sir," Panchito and Jose said, as they saluted.
Donald didn't say 'Yes, sir' because he knew that if he did, he would blow their cover because of his unusual voice and he couldn't put on a different voice, without a Barksian Modulator from Gyro Gearloose and he wished he had one right now. But he did salute with his friends.
"Good. Well, what are you losers waiting for, a bubble bath? Finish searching this room!" Then Daniel left the room.
"Quick!" Panchito said. "Into the barrels."
They got into whatever empty barrels they could find. Then they heard the room's door open. Through the cork hole of their barrels, they could see Daniel had returned with a few sea monster pirates. They kept still and held their breath as they watched and heard them search the room and checked the barrels. When it came to checking theirs, the barrels were shaken to check the weight.
"Room completely searched, sir," one of the sea monster pirates reported. "There's no one in here and all the barrels are full."
"Right," Daniel said. "Well, there are other rooms to search, so go and search them!"
"Yes, sir," the sea monster pirates said.
Then they left the room.
"All right!" Donald cried. "We're in the barrels and we lost them! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Oh, boy!"
"Shh!" said the other two caballeros.
"Sorry," Donald whispered. He had forgotten that he was meant to keep quiet. He thought it was because he was just very happy to be out of his cell and he had managed to successfully fool that awful Daniel and his entire nasty navy for the first time since he got captured by them nearly two weeks ago.