On ICARUS, the senior staff were going to leave the station for a teambuilding exercise.
"Let's go," said Philip. "Everybody in. ICARUS Leadership Success Session started at 15:00 hours."
"Let me just say again that this is a waste," Sledkin grumbled. "I don't need to spend six hours during trust falls in a hotel ballroom to be good at my job."
"You're right; you need at least double that," Clara joked as she climbed into the helicopter.
Sledkin glared at her as she climbed into the helicopter.
"Thank you, Dr Sledkin," said Philip.
"We should be back early tomorrow," said Olivia to the Dragon Riders. "So we are expecting you all to be on your best behaviour. What does that mean?"
"Eh, stay out of lab areas, clean up after ourselves?" said Tom. "I think that's about it."
"I believe the answer she's looking for is no dragons on the surface while they're away," said Eugene.
"It's not that we don't trust you," said Olivia. "It's just that this is still all new to us, and, smart as they are, the dragons are still wild animals. Dragons down below is one thing, but out here, around our state-of-the-art science facility?"
"So we can hang with them in the Lair?" Jun asked.
"Um, let's give the dragons a break while we're gone, okay?" said Olivia as she climbed into the helicopter.
"And as chief of security, I don't want to risk anything happening while I'm not here to handle it," said Philip. "We clear?"
"Crystal clear," said D'Angelo. "No dragons until you get back."
"Frankly, Mr Baker, I am grateful to have such clear guidelines while you're gone," said Eugene as he leaned against D'Angelo's shoulder.
"Everyone has their babysitting set up. Can we go?" Sledkin asked impatiently. "Let's get this over with."
Philip then looked at D'Angelo. "D, a word?"
D'Angelo nodded and walked over towards him, causing Eugene to fall flat on his face.
"Listen, D, while I'm away, I need you to be responsible for the others, all right?" he said, gesturing to the other Riders. "I know they can get a little rambunctious, but I'm counting on you to be the voice of reason."
"You can trust me, Pop," said D'Angelo, standing to attention.
Philip smiled at him. "I know I can. All right, son."
He boarded the helicopter, and everyone watched as it left the base.
Later that night, everyone was hanging around in Jun's dome; everyone apart from Alex, who was looking through her laptop, were playing cards.
Eugene then suddenly burst inside. "Dragon party time!"
"Eugene!" Jun groaned.
They heard growls and looked above them to see Thunder and Webmaster climbing through the skylight. Then, they saw Blade with Wu and Wei at the window.
"Ah, guys!" Jun groaned.
"What are you doing?" Tom asked, looking at Eugene.
"Saving this from being the lamest night ever," said Eugene as Feathers and Plowhorn poked their heads with the door.
"Eugene!" said D'Angelo as he rose to his feet. "We can't have the dragons in Rakke Town while our parents are away!"
"What's the big deal?" Eugene asked. "We hang out with our dragons every day and never have any problems."
Everyone looked at Eugene with raised eyebrows.
"Well, no big problems. Besides, we'll just hang out here. What could go wrong?"
"Famous last words," James sighed.
"Uh-uh, no way," said D'Angelo, folding his arms. "Our parents trusted us, and we're not going to break that trust. Right, guys?"
The other Dragon Riders looked at one another awkwardly.
"Right?" D'Angelo asked, not liking those expressions.
"Actually, D, Eugene might be right," said Jun.
"I cannot believe those words just came to your mouth," said D'Angelo, stunned.
"Must be the end times," James joked.
"Junebug coming in for the big win!" Eugene cheered.
"I know what our parents said, but is hanging out with our dragons that big of a deal?" Jun asked.
"They'll never even find out we broke this stupid rule," said Eugene. "And if they don't know we broke it, it was never broken."
"It's not about them figuring it out," D'Angelo argued. "It's about trust and responsibility. Back me up, Kullersen."
Tom sighed. "Look, D's, right? I want to hang out with them, too. But our folks are still warming up to the dragons. If they find out, we went behind their backs…"
Eugene then drew a raspberry. "Lame! Do what you want. But we're going to hang with our dragons. If you don't like it, you can leave."
James rose to his feet. "I'm with D'Angelo; we can't take the risk that our parents will find out about this."
Tom, James and D'Angelo then left the dome, and D'Angelo looked at Plowhron disappointedly.
"I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed," he said as he walked by.
Webmaster then roared at Plowhorn and Feathers, telling them to get inside.
Tom, James and D'Angelo continue to play their card game at D'Angelo's dome. While they were playing, they could hear the party at which the other Riders were throwing in full swing.
Tom sighed as he looked out the window. "I bet they're having a lot of fun over there."
"You know what's not fun?" said D'Angelo as he placed the card on the table. "Sacrificing your integrity."
Tom looked at his hand and placed a card on the table, but he couldn't help but look back at the party being thrown in Jun's dome.
"They're going to wake the dead that racket," said James, who placed a card on the table himself.
Tom smiled. "You know what? You're right. I should go check on them, just to make sure they don't do anything too crazy."
"Okay, but that just gives us more time to strategise," D'Angelo warned as he placed a card on the table.
However, when he looked back up, he saw that Tom had already vanished into thin air and looked at James.
"He's not coming back, you know," he said as he looked at the cards in his hand.
James was right as Tom and joined the party in Jun's dome, and everyone was cheering his name.
Tom ran across the room and jumped into Webmaster's web and was now hanging upside down. However, their cheers immediately vanished when they saw that both D'Angelo and James had entered the dome.
"D! James! Oh, you, uh… both made it," said Tom awkwardly.
D'Angelo raised an eyebrow. "Giving it low-key, huh?"
"To his credit, he lasted far longer than I expected," James smirked.
D'Angelo then looked at the others. "Is this how we earn our parents' trust?"
Tom then fell off the web and landed face-first on the floor.
"Oh, lighten up," said Eugene. "We're just having some fun."
"No, he's right," said Jun, looking ashamed.
"Yeah. Sorry, D," Alex nodded.
"Sorry, man," said Tom as he picked himself up. "I got carried away. All right, guys, let's call it a night."
"What?!" Eugene stared. "Come on, don't listen to the party pooper!"
However, Tom merely bumped fists with D'Angelo, and they all left, escorting the dragons away.
"Wait, and everyone else's fun, D'Ange-lamo," Eugene grumbled.
"Ruining your fun?" D'Angelo glared. "I am doing what is best. If the dragons mess something up, or something went wrong…"
"Which it wouldn't," said Eugene.
"It's not just about getting caught, Eugene. We have to take some responsibility. Our parents specifically said no dragons. They are trusting us."
"D'Angelo's right; there are too many things that could go wrong by bringing the dragons out here," said James.
Eugene groaned. "Of course, you agree with him; you hated me the moment I first joined."
"I don't hate you," said James. "I just think you're obnoxious and disrespectful. Every single time a disaster happens, you're in the centre of it, and it ends up to us to fix your mess."
Eugene scoffed. "Please, you're exaggerating."
They then heard the sound of a sheep, and all the dragons looked towards it as it grazed on the grass. It stopped eating when it suddenly noticed six dragons looking down at it.
"Uh, hey, everybody?" said Jun nervously as she noticed the expression on the dragons' faces. "I think we have a problem."
The sheep then suddenly scampered off.
"Uh-oh," said Alex.
The dragon then suddenly took off chasing after the sheep, and the Riders quickly chased after them, trying to stop them.
"Enough!" Tom yelled as Wu and Wei tossed the sheep. "Stop playing with the sheep!"
The sheep galloped over towards the station with a dragon in hot pursuit. It quickly ran down the stairs, and Feathers followed, only to get wedged. The other dragons decided to fly beneath the stairs apart from Thunder, who went down the stairs once Feathers unwedged herself.
The sheep suddenly ran but found its path blocked by Plowhorn, Wu, and Wei. It then ran into the hand, and the dragons soon followed.
"We've got to get them out of there!" said Jun as the other Riders arrived.
"No! Keep them in the hangar!" D'Angelo yelled as he ran down the stairs.
"Shut the door!" Alex yelled.
"Don't worry, I got it," said Eugene, rushing into the hangar.
Once in the hangar, he could see the dragons chasing the sheep around and quickly made his way to the newest junction box. James and D'Angelo had just entered the hangar when they saw Eugene just about to fiddle with it.
"Eugene, stop!" D'Angelo yelled as Eugene slammed on several buttons. "You don't know how to…"
They then heard an alarm, and the hangar doors started to close.
"And it's too late," James sighed.
The sheep then quickly scampered off and ran towards the closing doors. Plowhorn, Webmaster and Feathers collided with one another on the slippery floor. Thunder, Blade, Wu and Wei escaped the hangar before the doors closed, but everyone else wasn't so lucky.
"Uh-oh," said Alex.
"What happened?" Jun asked.
Inside the hangar, Eugene was rather pleased with himself.
"Ah, crisis averted. And nothing went…"
Suddenly, the emergency light went on, and they heard the sound of doors locking. The lights then suddenly came back on.
"Oh… What was that?" Eugene asked.
"That was the sound of the hangar doors locking us in here!" D'Angelo yelled.
"Locking us in?" Eugene blinked. "No way. We just…" He then began pushing buttons on the terminal but only succeeded in turning it off. He then looked back at D'Angelo and James. "What do we do?!"
While D'Angelo and James tried to come up with a way out of this mess, Eugene continued to fiddle with the terminal.
"Would you stop that?" said D'Angelo. "You're just going to make things worse."
"I am trying to help," said Eugene.
"Your help is exactly what we don't need!" James yelled.
"Yeah, your help got us locked in here in the first place," D'Angelo agreed.
"Hey, I was just trying to contain the situation after you crashed our dragon party and sent the dragons on a sheet rampage through town!" Eugene countered.
"Are you seriously trying to put this on me?" D'Angelo stared.
"Well, this wouldn't be happening if you did break up the party. Case closed."
D'Angelo looked as if he was pulling his hair out. "Seriously?!"
"Eugene, none of this would have happened if you hadn't bought the dragons up here!" James pointed out.
"I was saving us from complete boredom."
D'Angelo now looked as if he wanted to strangle Eugene, but he was saved by the ringing of D'Angelo's phone.
D'Angelo answered it. "Tom, we're locked inside. Eugene sent the hangar into lockdown."
"Allegedly," said Eugene.
"Is there a way to disarm it?" Tom asked.
"There is a code, but my dad's the only one who knows it," said D'Angelo. "We got to get out of here before he gets back. If he finds the dragons locked in here with us…"
"Wait a sec," said Eugene. "Problem solved. Webs could just blast us out. All right, buddy."
"No, wait!" D'Angelo yelled, jumping in front of Webmaster. "If we dragon blast the doors, it will leave scorch marks. They'll know the dragons were here."
"Plus, it will be very hard for us to explain why the hangar is missing its doors," James added.
Eugene sighed. "Forget it, Webs."
"There has to be a non-blasty way to get them out," said Tom, turning to Alex. "Alex, can you hack the system?"
Alex rubbed her hands together. "I thought you'd never…" She then saw that she wasn't wearing her satchel bag. "Oh, my tablet—I don't have it!"
"What?" Jun stared. "Where is it?"
"It wouldn't be by any chance inside your satchel bag, which is currently on Feathers?" James asked.
"Oh," said Alex.
Eugene fished around her bag and pulled out the tablet. "All right! Found it!"
Tom looked at Alex. "Alex, do you think you could talk them through hacking into the system using your tablet?"
"No way," said Alex, snatching his phone off him. "Put it back, Eugene. If you so much as smudge that screen, I'm going to delete all your social media."
Upon hearing that threat, Eugene cringed and immediately gave the tablet to D'Angelo. This caused him to drop the phone, but James was able to catch it before it hit the ground.
"Alex, please?" Tom pleaded. "We need to get them out. If we get caught, our parents might not ever trust us with dragons again."
"Oh! Fine," Alex groaned. "But I'm not kidding about those social media accounts. I will erase his existence. First, you need the passcode." She pulled the phone away from Tom and Jun. "it's 9866."
James was holding the phone to D'Angelo's while he operated the tablet.
"I'm in," said D'Angelo.
"Okay. On the first screen, there's an app with a wrench," Alex instructed.
Eugene then looked at the tablet and noticed an app with a skull and crossbones. "D, wait. What's that? Look super mysterious."
"It doesn't matter because that's not what we're looking for, Eugene," said D'Angelo.
"D's right, our main priority is getting out of here before our parents return," James agreed.
"Come on, she gave us the passcode already," said Eugene. "That's basically permission."
He then went to press the app.
"Eugene, no!" D'Angelo and James yelled.
It was too late. Eugene had already pressed on the app. "I hope it's full of embarrassing…" His smile soon disappeared when they saw a skull and cross bones appeared on the screen, followed by monstrous laughter. "… selfies."
"Did you guys find it yet?" Alex asked and heard the monstrous laughter on the phone. "Wait a minute. Are you guys going through my stuff?"
"No, because that would be wrong," said D'Angelo as he and James glared at Eugene.
"You pressed the self-destruct app, didn't you?" said Alex dryly.
"Why would you have a self-destruct app?!" D'Angelo asked incredulously.
"To stop snoopers like you from snooping! You snoopers!" Alex snapped. "Now the tablet's frozen."
James entered the call and looked at them. "So much for plan A."
"That is so messed up," said Eugene. "Where's the trust?"
"Considering that you're the one who wanted to look at embarrassing selfies of Alex, it would seem that her self-destruct app was necessary," James glared.
"Great. There goes our only way out," said D'Angelo, glaring at Eugene. "Oh, my dad is going to find us in here and probably ban dragons from the surface for good. Way to go."
D'Angelo then made his way over to Plowhorn, who gave him a comforting growl.
"Thanks, girl," D'Angelo smiled, patting her.
Webmaster then nudged Eugene. "Don't worry, Webbs. We'll get out of here." His eyes suddenly fell upon the terminal, and he got an idea. "And I think I know how."
He then made his way to the terminal and began messing with the wires, which caught the attention of D'Angelo and James.
"What is he doing now?" D'Angelo asked.
"I dread to think, but he can only make the situation even worse," said James.
"Uh, I can hear you, and I'm getting us out of here," said Eugene. "You're welcome."
"You don't know what you're doing," said D'Angelo.
"Yes, I do. I watch a lot of crime shows, okay?" said Eugene and continued messing with the wires.
"Eugene, this is entirely different than hotwire in a car," said James.
"Would you start before you break something?" said D'Angelo.
"I am going to break something," he said, smiling. "I'm going to break us out."
D'Angelo and James groaned, knowing that this was not going to end well.
On the other side of the hangar, Tom and the others had a plan to get them out as well.
"All right, Pal," Tom said to Thunder. "If you can let out a small zap, it might be enough to short out the locking mechanism. Think you can do it?"
Thunder growled, telling him that he could.
"Will that work?" Jun asked.
"Maybe," Tom shrugged uncertainly.
"Theoretically, it could," said Alex. "But alas, I am without my tablet and therefore useless."
Tom then looked at Thunder. "Remember, just a tiny little…" Thunder then let off a lightning blast, which was anything but tiny.
Tom stared at him. "I said tiny! You call that tiny?!"
Thunder roared, saying yes.
At the same time, Eugene was messing with the wires when a bolt of electricity suddenly shot him back.
"Eugene!" D'Angelo yelled as he and James rushed over to him. "Are you okay?"
Eugene sat up with his hair sticking out. "My mouth tastes like pennies."
"You're lucky that all that happened," said D'Angelo, helping him up. "Why won't you listen?" His eyes then turned to the terminal, and he instantly got an idea. "Hold up. Eugene, your poor judgement might have actually helped us."
"It really must be the end times," said James as D'Angelo pulled out his phone.
"I'll take that apology whenever you are ready," said Eugene smugly.
Outside, D'Angelo had just finished relaying his plan to Tom.
"Roger that, D," he said, then turned to the others. "Okay, the bad news is that Eugene got a little toasted by Thunder's blast." Everyone immediately gasped. "But don't worry, he's fine."
"Good boy," said Jun, stroking Thunder.
Alex snorted.
"The good news, D'Angelo found another way out," Tom continued. "His dad keeps a security overwrite key hidden in his work boots. If we can get it to him, he can open the door."
"Sounds easy enough," said Jun.
"Yeah, but even if we find the key in his dad's dirty boots, how are we going to get it inside the hangar?" Alex asked.
"Uh, good point," said Tom.
"Yeah. Kind of a design flaw."
Jun sighed and looked at Wu and Wei. "Got any ideas, you two?"
Wu and Wei lowered their heads, and Jun saw the ventilation shaft and got an idea.
"Hold on," she said. "I think I have a way in. You guys get the key. Leave the rest to me."
She then mounted Wei and then took off.
Tom and Alex immediately made their way towards D'Angelo's dome with Thunder and Blade.
Meanwhile, to fight the boredom, Eugene was now mounted on Webmaster. The two of them were hanging upside down on the ceiling where the drones were.
"Can you not do that?" D'Angelo asked. "Those are state-of-the-art drones, not monkey bars."
"Here comes the fun police again," Eugene muttered.
"Fun police?!" said D'Angelo incredulously. "Did you forget how we got stuck in here in the first place?"
"Yeah. You crashed my super-cool dragon party," he said.
James looked at D'Angelo. "Guess that answers your question."
Webmaster flipped right side up and accidentally took one of the drones off with his tail.
"No!" D'Angelo cried.
Plowhorn quickly flew up and grabbed the drone before it hit the ground and gently placed it down.
"That was close," said Eugene awkwardly as he dismounted Webmaster.
D'Angelo glared at him. "See? If that would have hit the ground, you know how much trouble we'd be in? This is exactly why I follow the rules. Breaking one leads to breaking another, and then you end up trapped somewhere you weren't even supposed to be, with dragons you weren't supposed to have. And your dad will totally find out and never trust you with you ever again!"
"Wow," Eugene blinked. "I get it. But that sounds really boring. You've got to relax a little. I'd rather have fun and get in a little trouble than never do anything, dude."
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but Eugene does have a point," said James, folding his arms.
Both Eugene and D'Angelo stared at him dumbfounded.
"Did he just agree with me?" Eugene asked.
"I think he did," said D'Angelo.
"I agree that you should relax a bit, D'Angelo, and it is common for us teenagers to break a few rules," said James, then turned to Eugene. "However, you really need to consider the consequences of your actions. There is a big difference between bringing your dragons to the surface and watching a film until midnight."
"Come on," Eugene groaned. "Look, as long as you're not hurting anyone, what's the big deal?"
"The big deal is—if they don't get the key, we're going to be in a lot of trouble," said D'Angelo. "But I guess that would affect you because you never take responsibility for anything."
"I can be responsible," said Eugene.
James burst out laughing. "You responsible? Name one time when you took responsibility for something."
Eugene began to open his mouth but closed it as he could think of a single thing.
"Thank you for proving my point," said James, walking away.
D'Angelo then walked away from Eugene. "Just leave us alone and don't touch anything, okay? We don't need things to get worse."
James groaned. "You had to say it. Now things will definitely get worse."
Eugene looked at both D'Angelo and James as they walked away and turned his back on them, feeling somewhat ashamed.
Outside, Tom and Alex soon returned to the hangar doors on the backs of Thunder and Blade. Alex chose to ride on Blade, though she found the experience rather unsettling.
Jun was already waiting for them at the doors. "Got the key?"
Alex held out her hand, showing the key. "Grossest boots ever."
"Yeah. A little warning about the smell would have been nice," Tom agreed.
"It was almost as terrifying as riding on the back of Blade; he flies a lot more fiercely than Feathers," said Alex.
Blade growled indignantly.
Tom then looked at Jun as she took the key from Alex. "Did you find a way in?"
"I sure did," said Jun as she lowered Wu's wing, revealing a Terrible Terror on the back of the two-headed dragon.
Upon seeing the Terrible Terror, Tom and Alex begin to have doubts.
"Your solution to not getting in trouble for bringing the dragons up here… is to bring more dragons up here?" she said.
"No!" she said. "Yeah… kind of. We'll tie the key around the Terror's neck and send it in through the vents. How hard could it be?"
"I don't think D's going to like this," said Tom.
"They're right on the other side of the wall," she said. "It's going to be fine."
Tom then called D'Angelo and began to explain Jun's plan to him, and he reacted exactly as he imagined.
"Jun wants to what?!" he yelled. "There are too many ways that can go wrong. Think of something else." He then suddenly received a text from his father. "Hold on. I got a text. 'Leadership Success Series training ended early. On our way home.'"
Eugene then quickly placed his head over his shoulders. "Okay, cool. So let's go ahead and do the 'send the dragon through the vents' plan now. Thanks!"
"All right. Sending him through," said Tom.
Eugene then quickly entered the call before D'Angelo could say anything.
D'Angelo instantly stared at him. "What do you think you…?"
"Our parents are coming home," Eugene pointed out. "Do you want to get out of this or not?"
"We are running out of options," said James.
D'Angelo was about to say something when they suddenly heard the sound of the Terrible Terror through the vents. However, the sound suddenly disappeared, and they couldn't see any trace of the Terror.
"Uh, where did it go?" Eugene asked.
"Sh," D'Angelo hissed.
"Looks like we now need a plan C," James sighed.
The Terrible Terror soon exited the vents and landed in the control centre. He then flocked to the control console, accidentally pressed several buttons, and began playing with them.
Linda was going about her work when suddenly the lab door opened, and moments later, every door began opening and closing like they were possessed. She instantly ran away screaming.
Outside, Tom and the others heard the alarms going off and the alarm lights flashing.
D'Angelo and the others, meanwhile, were still waiting on the Terrible Terror, unaware that one of them had become active.
"Terror still not through," said D'Angelo on the phone, and then he heard the alarm. "What's that? Is everything okay?"
"We're going to have to call you back," said Tom and hung up.
"Wait!" D'Angelo yelled. "Hello? Tom? Uhh! Could this get any worse?"
"Can you please not say that," James begged.
Eugene then saw a drone heading straight towards D'Angelo and James.
"D! Jim! Look out!" he yelled and tackled the two of them to the ground.
They looked up and saw the drone flying around wildly.
"Man, we're so totally roasted," said Eugene. "There's no way out of this?"
"Why is this happening?" D'Angelo asked. "What are they doing out there?!"
In fact, the problem was not out there but rather inside the command centre as the Terrible Terror was pressing every single button it could find.
Suddenly, more drones became active, and the three of them quickly hid behind the ramp with the dragons.
"I should have just had the dragons make a flame under the fire alarm and set off the second we got stuck and accepted the consequences," said D'Angelo.
"What would that have done?" Eugene asked.
"When the fire alarm is triggered, it automatically opens all the emergency doors," D'Angelo explained.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Eugene stared. "That's been up option the whole time?"
James also looked at D'Angelo incredulously. "You mean we could have gotten out any time we wanted?"
"Yeah, let's get out of here," said Eugene.
"Guys, causing a false fire alarm is the ultimate act of rule-breaking," said D'Angelo. "It strains resources, puts others in danger and violates trust. Not that I expect you to care about that Eugene. Besides, it doesn't matter now. My dad's never going to trust me again anyway." He then bent down towards Plowhorn. "Plow, let's set off the alarm."
"Wait!" said Eugene. "Maybe you shouldn't do it."
Eugene and James stared at him.
"Why the sudden change of heart?" James asked.
"I want to get out of here, too," he said as he looked back at them. "But let's just say I don't have the best relationship with my dad, and I don't want D'Angelo to ruin what he has with his." He then looked at D'Angelo. "Your dad really trusts you, and that's actually pretty cool. So if you don't want to pull it, I won't push you."
"Well, you are only supposed to set off the alarm in case of a real emergency," said D'Angelo and then one of the drones flew by. "I'd say this qualifies."
"Yeah, I think this would qualify," James nodded.
D'Angelo then turned to Eugene. "Want to do the honours?"
"Swick it!" Eugene smiled. "Webmaster, flame it!"
Webmaster then fired off a burst of flames, and instantly, the fire alarm went off, opening the hangar doors.
Once the hangar doors were open, they immediately ran outside and began making their way back to town.
"If we get the dragons back, I might be able to drive the water from the spring," said D'Angelo and then he saw the chaos outside. "Oh, no!"
Every single light in the station and town flashed erratically, and now the drones were flying around aimlessly. Tom and the others were standing there watching the chaos.
Linda was trying to get into the elevator, but the elevator closed on her, and she stepped onto the threshold. Now, she struggled to push them back so they didn't crush her.
"Why? Why? Why?" she asked.
"All right. Crisis averted," said Eugene.
Everyone looked at Eugene as Pete ran past with a drone chasing after him.
"Ah, leave me alone!" he yelled.
"Or not!" said Eugene.
"This is bad," said James.
D'Angelo then received a text from his father. "My dad got an alert about the fire alarm. He wants an update. They're landing any minute." He then looked at Tom and the others. "Did you guys find the Terrible Terror?"
"We're thinking the Terror might have something to do with this," said Jun.
"All the systems are managed in the control room," said D'Angelo. "The Terror has got to be in there."
"You know your way around the control room better than any of us, D," said Tom. "You think you can reset it?"
"Yeah, but I'm going to need an extra pair of hands to contain the Terror," he said, looking at Eugene.
"Uh, why me?!" he asked.
"You started this, and I want you where I can see you," said D'Angelo.
"Make that two of us," said James.
"All right, while you three get Rakke Town back to normal, we'll try to stop the drones before they cause any more damage," said Tom as he mounted Thunder.
Then he, Jun and Alex took off on their dragons and began to gather the drones with the aid of Plowhron, Blade and Webmaster.
Jun was able to freeze-blast one of the drones and ended up getting caught in Webmaster's web.
"You truly are Eugene's better half," said Jun, looking down at him.
"Like them up and sort them out, Pal," said Tom as he and Thunder chased after some drones high in the sky.
Thunder then blasted to drones with a lightning blast.
"Two in a row," said Alex as she flew up beside him. "Cool! Sing 'em to sleep, Feathers."
Feathers then unleashed a sonic blast, taking down three drones at once.
On the ground, Plowhorn and Blade began to gather up the drones.
Meanwhile, D'Angelo and his team reached the control centre, where they found the Terrible Terror standing on the central computer console. They then carefully and slowly approached the Terror so as not to frighten it.
D'Angelo then looked at James and Eugene. "Don't make any sudden…"
"Gotcha," said Eugene as he launched himself at the Terrible Terror.
"Eugene, no!" D'Angelo yelled.
Naturally, he missed the Terrible Terror, quickly scampered off, and ran towards the door.
D'Angelo growled in frustration. "Get the Terror! I got to shut this down."
Eugene groaned. "Oh, my legs are tired!"
"Come on!" said James, practically dragging him away.
D'Angelo then quickly accessed the computer terminal and shut down everything the Terrible Terror had activated. He switched off the alarms, caused the lights to flicker longer, and freed Linda from the elevator.
Linda sighed in relief and sat down, only to be flipped into the corridor when the elevator closed its doors.
Outside, Jun refitted the ventilation shaft, and Alex fixed the damage Eugene had done to the main terminal in the hangar.
The three of them then reunited up in the air on their dragons.
"Looks like D stopped the chaos down there," said Tom.
"And all the drones are rounded up and back in the hangar," Jun added.
"Uh, not all of them," said Alex.
They turned and saw one of the drones flying away, and to make matters worse, they saw their parent helicopter flying back in the same direction.
"Any word from D'Angelo on the alarm?" Olivia asked, looking at Philip as she flew the helicopter.
"Nothing yet," said Philip.
"Again, I am so, so sorry about earlier," said Carla to Sledkin, who remained quiet. "I had no idea how trust falls even work."
Unbeknownst to them, Alex, riding on a cloaked Feathers, grabbed the drone without them noticing.
"Oh, that was a close one," said Alex as Feathers became visible.
They quickly got all the drones inside the hangar and soon met their parents on the landing pad.
"You're back!" said Tom.
"Tom! Is everything okay?" Olivia asked.
"Where's Jeanie?" May asked.
"And James?" Clara asked.
"And where's D'Angelo?" Philip asked.
"Asleep," said Tom.
"Playing games," said Jun.
"We haven't seen them," said Alex.
"All right," said Philip suspiciously. "I'm going to check out the alarm before I head home."
D'Angelo had finally managed to get the operating system back under control and soon went to find James and Eugene, who were still chasing after the Terrible Terror in the science lab.
By the time he rushed in to help them, Eugene had finally managed to grab the Terrible Terror, and James made sure all the beakers that had been knocked over were back in their proper place.
"Everything's shut down," said D'Angelo. "We've got to get the Terror back home. We might actually get away with this."
"Cha! That's what I've been saying!" said Eugene.
"You have, we didn't notice," said James dryly.
D'Angelo suddenly saw his father down the corridor and quickly jumped back into the lab.
"It's my dad!" he panicked. "Game over! There's no way out of this."
The Terrible Terror then screeched, and Eugene quickly placed his hand over its mouth.
D'Angelo took a deep breath. "Time to face the music, D'Angelo."
"No, I take the heat," said James.
Eugene sighed and handed the Terrible Terror to D'Angelo, much to the surprise of him and James. "Hold this."
He quickly jumped in front of the door seconds before Philip stepped through the threshold.
"Chief Baker, how was your retreat?" he asked.
"Eugene, what are you doing here?" Philip asked. "This area is for authorised personnel only."
"Actually, Chief Baker, I have a confession," said Eugene, scratching the back of his head. "I came here to reset the fire alarm I set off."
"And why did you trigger the fire alarm?"
"Well, I was out walking and thought I smelled something burning. And to be honest, I get pretty nervous when my mom's not around. So I pulled the alarm in a panic. Turns out there was no fire. Just my overactive imagination."
"Hmm," Philip frowned. "False alarms are serious, Eugene. They strain resources, put others in danger, and violate trust."
"I am so sorry, Chief Baker," Eugene apologised. "Won't happen again. I learned my lesson."
Philip then yawned. "Well, that answers that." He then walked off with Eugene in tow. "Come on. I'm going to bed. And you'd best do the same."
D'Angelo sighed in relief, and James still looked shocked at Eugene. The Terrible Terror then screeched, and D'Angelo quickly placed his hand over its mouth.
"Sh!" he hissed to the dragon.
Philip had escorted Eugene outside the station and began making his way back home.
"Goodnight, Eugene," he said. "Remember what we talked about?"
"Will do, Chief Baker," Eugene waved. "Thanks for the valuable lesson. I'll carry it with me as I endeavoured to live a fruitful life."
Eugene then scampered off when Philip was out of eyeshot and made his way to the side entrance, where he met James and D'Angelo.
"All right!" he cheered.
"You don't have to do that, but I appreciate it," said D'Angelo.
"Looks like you can take responsibility, who knew," said James.
"Uh, yeah, I took responsibility," said Eugene proudly, turning to D'Angelo. "But seriously, you shouldn't have to take the heat of my rule-breaking. And maybe tonight would have been easier if we listened to you in the first place. Less fun, but easier."
"Yeah. But I can see how bending the rules can be a little fun to sometimes," D'Angelo admitted.
"And I suppose if you can learn to be responsible, I can learn to be more accepting," James added.
"Now I just have to find a way to speak this key back into my dad's work boots," said D'Angelo, holding out the overwrite key.
"You'll figure it out," said Eugene.
"Let's be honest, it's not the hardest thing we've done tonight," said James.
They then suddenly heard the sound of a sheep, and the Terrible Terrors eyes immediately laid upon it. The sheep then suddenly scampered off, and the little dragon soon followed after it.
"Okay, if my dad sees that dragon, we can't be friends anymore," said D'Angelo to Eugene.
Instantly, the three of them began chasing after the Terrible Terror.