Chapter 32: Crash landing

The large bazooka looking device that Mr. Wolf grabbed out of the trunk was a portable high-tech heat seeking missile launcher with a digital display sighting screen. Everyone was blown away to see it.

"Woah! Where'd you get that Wolf?" Snake asked

"And what are you gonna use that for?" Tarantula asked

"I'm gonna use this to bring the rocket down. It's our only choice left." Wolf explained

"WHAT!? Are you insane Wolf!? You're gonna shoot down the rocket!? The very same rocket that the kid is trapped in!?" Snake exclaimed

"Yeah Wolf! You're gonna hurt Jet that way! Or kill him!" Diane exclaimed in sheer worry

"Now don't you guys worry. I know it sounds like a very bad idea but this is a heat seeking missile launcher. The loaded missile inside will only go for the rear engines of the rocket and hopefully bring it down in one piece instead of pieces. Trust me I don't wanna do this either but we're out of time and we have no other choice whatsoever. We have to shoot down the rocket. Unless you guys have better ideas." Mr. Wolf said

The bad guys all brainstormed as hard as they could but could not think of any other option and had no choice but to agree with Wolf.

"You know what, I'm out of options here." Tarantula said

"Same here." Piranha added

"Let's just hope your plan works Wolf." Snake said

"I'll keep my fins crossed." Shark said

"Alright then. Let's do this." Wolf said as he rested the launcher on his shoulder and peeked through sighting screen before aiming up at the sky

Mr. Wolf was about to get a lock on the rocket when Diane stopped him.

"Wolf wait!" Diane said

"What is it Diane?" Wolf asked

"*sigh*...At least let me do it." Diane requested regretfully as she held out her arms for Wolf to give her the launcher

Without a word, Mr. Wolf gladly hands over the launcher and Diane puts it up on her shoulder. Diane then aims the laucher straight up at the rocket and the digital homing system gets a lock on the target with a red indication square appearing on the screen.

Diane takes a deep breath and puts her finger on the trigger. She was ready to take the shot but was very hesitant. Diane tried to pull the trigger but her finger only twitched in response. She clearly didn't want to shoot the rocket down with Jet on board.

"Come on Diane you have to do it! We're out of time!" Mr. Wolf urged

"I-I'm trying!" Diane said

Meanwhile up inside the rocket

Jet was now fearing for his life and losing all hope as he rode in the cockpit of the rumbling vessel propelling away from earth. Jet squirmed in his jumpseat with all the duct tape keeping him restrained.

"Almost reaching 37,000 feet." Marmalade said as he was focusing on flying with the control yoke stick in his hands

As Marmalade was busy on flying, Jet remembered that he was a small wolf pup with small sharp canine teeth. That's when he got a very clever idea.

"Oh my gosh. Why didn't I think of that before." Jet said in his thoughts

Next thing that happened is Jet started to chew on the duct tape that was restraining him and it was tearing and ripping easily much to his delight.

"Om nom nom! *Ripp* Nom nom! *Tear*" Jet chewed away through all the duct tape with his sharp teeth slowly getting himself free

After a few minutes without Marmalade knowing, Jet had successfully freed himself from all the duct tape and got out of the jump seat. Now his next move was to sneak up on Marmalade and surprise attack him and bring down the rocket in the process. Jet didn't care about putting himself in danger at this point. He wasn't going to let Marmalade win and he wasn't going to let himself get taken all the way up to space.

Slowly and carefully, Jet inches his way up the cockpit towards Marmalade before he makes his move and leaps right at the unaware guinea pig in the pilot seat.

"RAAAH! *Chomp!*" Jet screams out of fearless rage as he pounces onto Marmalade from behind taking him by surprise and biting him hard on his little guinea pig head with his little wolf jaws

"AHH! WHAT THE!? HEY GET OFF OF ME YOU BRAT! OUCH!" Marmalade screamed in pain as he struggled in his seat with Jet having his teeth locked onto his head like a real vicious dog

A raging struggle was now in session between the two. Jet kept on biting and biting fearlessly with his sharp little wolf teeth as Marmalade tried to fight back and get the wolf pup off of him.

"OUCH! AH! YOU LITTLE MUTT! YEOW! YOU BITE LIKE A CHIHUAHUA! OW! LET GO OF ME ALREADY! GAHH!" Marmalade screamed as he struggled in his seat

The ensuing struggle of course caused Marmalade to lose control of the rocket as it quickly moved off of its course and went into a nose dive plummeting rigth back down to earth . The fast and steep nose dive was causing some warning alarms to go off in the cockpit. Marmalade knew his plan was already foiling but he couldn't get control of the rocket with Jet biting all over him.

Meanwhile back down on the ground

Diane and the bad guys could see the rocket going out of control in the air and nose diving back to earth.

"Huh? What's going on? The rocket is going out of control." Diane said as she lowered the launcher down and watched in confusion

"Yeah. It's going haywire." Mr. Snake agreed

"Could it be malfunctioning?" Mr. Wolf asked

"This is not good! It's coming back down too fast!" Ms. Tarantula said as she pointed

Everyone all watched in horror and confusion as the rocket was speeding fast towards the earth right before...

*CRASH! CLATTER! GRIND! SCRAPE! SCREEEEECH! RATTLE!*

The rocket made a hard crash landing perfectly along a large and wide isolated sandy beach on the shoreline of the ocean far away than the bad guys could see. Luckily the rocket made a belly slide landing in one piece instead of falling straight down like a stone as Diane previously feared. The rocket slid and grinded fast along the sandy beach leaving a big dug up trench trail behind before it rammed right into a cliffside rock wall.

*BAM! BOOM! CRASH!*

The hard impact into the cliffside wall caused the now destroyed rocket to explode up into a super large fireball like a handful of fireworks going off all at once. The rocket sat on the beach in a mangled scrap metal mess as flames emitted out of it sending a huge smoke column up in the air.

Meanwhile the bad guys along with Diane all gasped in horror as they saw the smoke from the crash and having a pretty good idea on what just happened.

"Oh...no!" Diane said in grief thinking that her poor pup got severely hurt or killed in the crash

"Good lord! Quick everyone in the car! We gotta follow that smoke!" Mr. Wolf said

With that, the bad guys and Diane immediately hopped into their muscle car and started speeding towards the direction of the crash site as fast as they could without hesitating. Mr. Wolf had the pedal all the way to the floor as the car went as fast as the engine could allow it to go. Along the way, Diane was praying hard and keeping her fingers crossed hoping that her pup survived the crash.

"Oh please be okay. Please let my baby be okay." Diane prayed in her thoughts as she rode in the passenger seat

After driving fast for 10 minutes, the bad guys finally reach the crash site at the isolated beach with the ocean waves gently brushing up and down the shoreline. Everyone was all horrified to see Marmalade's rocket in a severely damaged state. Even though it was a good thing that Marmalade's plan failed badly, the crash almost didn't look survivable for Jet.

"Jet!? JET!" Diane called out as she got out of the car and quickly ran down to the beach followed by everyone else

Everyone all ran up to the destroyed rocket on the sand as smoke was emitting from all around it. The flames had ceased a few minutes ago.

"JET! JET CAN YOU HEAR ME!? WHERE ARE YOU BABY!?" Diane shouted as she started digging around the mangled metal

"Where are ya kid! We're right here for you!" Mr. Snake said as he helped to search through the wreck

"Jet! Are you around here!?" Mr. Wolf called out

Everyone else immediately all helped to look for Diane's pup in the wreckage. Mr. Snake and Diane were searching around the mid-fuselage area, Mr. Shark was searching around the cockpit nose, Ms. Tarantula was crawling around the insides of the rocket through small cracks and tight spaces, while Mr. Wolf and Piranha were searching around the beach in case Jet happened to have gotten thrown clear from the wreckage.

After 10 minutes of desperate searching with no signs or sounds from Jet, Diane got exhausted and lost all hope as she fell to her knees on the sand.

"No *sniff* I-It can't be." Diane said in sheer heartbreak

Diane was getting close to facing the fact that her poor pup was indeed killed in the crash and was about to cry into her hands when suddenly...

"HEY GUYS! I FOUND HIM!" Ms. Tarantula yelled out getting everyone's attention

End of chapter 32

Author's note: I hope you guys are loving my story so far. As a reward for your participation and patience, I posted my first art picture of Jet on my deviantart page. The name of my deviantart will be in my bio. Go check it out and see what Jet looks like. Hope you guys enjoy! ;)