"Not here. Look your side."
"Hang on. Nothing."
"Well, check that pocket, Tom."
Meanwhile, in a groggy state, Tintin is coming to her senses as Elma(Tsukasa) and Tom are searching her body.
Then, a familiar person walked through the cage and said, "Have you found it?"
"She doesn't have it," Elma said as Tom also said, "It's not on her, boss. It's not here."
"I knew it! Sakharine stole the ship! She ordered Tsukasa and her men to ransack the flat!" Rui said, leaving many of the girls to agree with Rui.
"I'm betting that she's also responsible for the ambush last night," Futaba said in a serious tone.
"Not here? Then where is it?" Sakharine said in desperation.
"Where's what?" Tintin groggily said.
Sakharine rattled the cage with her cane and said to Tintin, "Oh I am tired of your games. The scroll, from the Unicorn."
"A piece of paper like this!" Sakharine said as she waved her scroll over Tintin's head.
"It appears that even she has a copy of the scroll," Akira said as Mei Fan replied, "But shouldn't her ship's mast should be broken?"
"If you recall Mei Fan, Sakharine must've repaired her ship after she found the tube inside it," Michiru explained, making the rest of the girls agree with Michiru's theory.
"You mean the poem?" Tintin said.
"Yes."
"The poem was written in Old English."
"Yes."
Tsukasa and Tom looked at each other, wondering what Tintin is talking about.
"It was inside a cylinder."
"Yes."
"Concealed in the mast."
"Yes!"
"I don't have it."
"She really is trying to make Sakharine angry, isn't she?" Nana said with worry, while some of the girls are really surprised that Tintin's telling everything to Sakharine.
"Well, she is being honest that she doesn't have the scroll," Tamao said.
Fed up, Sakharine motioned her cane and Elma pulled the cane revealing a swordstick from it, and pointed it to Tintin.
"You know the value of that scroll. Why else would you take it?" Sakharine said in a threatening tone.
The girls were surprised that Sakharine is holding such a dangerous weapon.
"Where did she get that!" Tamao said in shock.
Yuyuko then noticed the sword and it resembles a shikomizue, a hidden sword weapon in Japan.
"Two ships and two scrolls, both part of a puzzle," Tintin said, realizing the reason why Sakharine needs her model, "You have one, you need the other."
"But that's not it. There's something else," Tintin said as Sakharine went closer to Tintin and said, "I will find it, with or without your help."
She then said to Tintin saying, "You need to think about exactly how useful you are to me."
The girls now see Sakharine as a very dangerous woman. Seeing how she told Tintin of how useful she is in her quest to complete the puzzle.
"I'm wondering, are you considering a villain's role in future plays, Fumi-san?" Tamao said to Fumi, leading her to wonder as well.
Her counterpart is showing what a vile villain is and she does notice that her face both plays as a hero or a villain. She has partaken some roles as a tritagonist or a protagonist in her past plays with Tamao and her friends. Maybe she can play as a villain in future roles.
Elma sheathed the swordstick as the three of them went outside of Tintin's cage.
Meanwhile, Snowy peeks out of the doorway and when the door opens, he immediately hides from them.
"We'll deal with him on the way," Sakharine said leaving Alma and Tom to agree.
Alma then proceeded to close the door, not knowing that Snowy managed to get inside unnoticed.
Snowy finally found his master as she went towards her.
"Snowy! It's good to see you, too," Tintin said as she then said to her dog, "See if you can chew through these ropes."
"Good job Snowy!" Shiori said in delight as she begins to think if she can adopt a dog like Snowy.
Snowy then started to through the ropes as the scene changes to the Ksraboudjan sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.
"She's lying! She must have the scroll. The question is, what has she done with it?" Sakharine said as Elma explained, "We searched him all over, boss."
"I want you to go back down there and make her talk. Break every bone in her body if you have to!" Sakharine said in anger.
"That's just ruthless Fumi! You wouldn't do that in real life do you!" Tamao said in worry.
"Like I'll ever do that! Except if Ichie were to pull her pranks on me..." Fumi said, leading the said girl to quiver in fear.
"Nah... I'm just joking!" Fumi said in a cheeky smile, as Ichie sighed in relief.
"That's nasty!" said Tom as Irene reminded them saying, "You know the stakes. You know what we're playing for. Just do it!"
"Ms. Sakharine! Ms. Sakharine! All hell has broken loose!" said a portly man as he ran towards the said woman.
"It's a disaster! The captain has come around."
"The captain!?" some of the girls said in shock.
"I thought Sakharine owns the ship!?" Misora said leaving Claudine to say, "She must've paid the crew to follow her instead."
"What!?" Alma said.
"She's conscious. She's accusing you of mutiny. She says you turned the crew against her," the man said as Alma replied, "Sounds like she's sobered up again."
"Well, don't just stand there. Get her another bottle." Sakharine instructed them as the three of them began to go downstairs.
"They're giving her alcohol just to take control of the ship!?" Tamao said in anger, knowing that the captain's crew is willing to betray their captain for money.
From it, many of the girls promised themselves that their greed would never blind them. Even if the whole world is the reward.
Meanwhile, Tintin bolted the storage door with a crowbar and covered its window with a wooden board.
She then started to look for a way to escape and noticed its porthole. Tintin went to push one of the crates until she heard a growl from it.
The girls jumped in surprise, seeing that the crate is housing a dangerous animal, to begin with.
"Everyone, I'll be honest. I don't want to know what's inside that crate!" Kaoruko said, quivering in fear as to who knows what's inside of it.
Tintin backed away from it as she carefully pushed the crate and opened the porthole, noticing that one of the ship's upper portholes is open. She then heard a rumbling voice, that is seemingly drunk.
"Tintin better escape from their clutches." Karen said in confidence.
"Of course... I do believe in what you said, Karen." Elle said with a smile.
And then, Elma and Tom reached the storage as Alma tries to open it but to no avail.
Tom notices it and says, "Jiggle it a bit, it's stuck."
"Jiggle?" Elma wondered.
"Sorry Tsukasa, it'll take a lot more than that to open that door," Rui said as Tsukasa replied, "I'm guessing my counterpart is about to find out."
Tom tried to open the door as Elma realizes what's going on.
"What are you doing? Get off!" Elma said as she pushed Tom off the door.
"It's not stuck, you idiot. She's bolted it from the inside!" Elma said in anger as Tintin heard that her captors have arrived.
"So you want to play like that then, do you Tintin?" Elma said as she told her crewmate, "Get the TNT."
"What's a TNT?" Lalafin said as Michiru said to her, "It's basically a term for dynamite."
"So they'll blast the door open?" Karen said.
Seeing that Alam will blast the door, Tintin immediately went to work in creating an escape plan.
"Broken crates. Rope. Champagne. What else do we have, Snowy?" Tintin said, knowing that she needs to improvise.
In the meantime, Alma placed a bar next to the door, as Tom slowly places the dynamite at the door.
"There are other ways to open this door. They'll be swabbing the decks with your innards when we're done with you." Elma said.
"Geez, I think my counterpart must be dead-serious in threatening Tintin like that," Tsukasa said knowing that her counterpart really wants Tintin dead.
At the same time, Tintin is fashioning a grappling hook while Alma is preparing to light the dynamite.
On her first try, Tintin tried to throw the hook at the porthole above her but it ended up hitting her head.
With the dynamite lit, Alma immediately stepped back but in the meantime, Tintin decided to put more force into throwing the hook.
"Come on Tintin, hurry up!" Rui said in suspense.
"Man, this getting me all riled up!" Futaba said in excitement gripping the seat with her fingers.
As the dynamite is nearing its explosion, Alma decided to step back and stay behind Tom.
"Don't move," Tsukasa said as Tom replied with a "What?".
"I didn't know you're scared of explosions Tsukasa-chan." Misora teased as Tsukasa replied, "Well in my counterpart's defense, she doesn't want to get hurt in the explosion."
And in the moment of truth, Tintin hurled her hook and managed to land on the porthole, hitting a blonde girl at her back leading the dynamite to explode.
"Wait, who's that!?" said some of the Frontier girls.
"Could that be me!?" Aruru said in excitement.
"Let's go!" Elma said, leading the charge as they heard the sound of a gun firing.
"Looks like Tintin found a big gun in there!" Futaba said with a smirk on her face.
She may not experience doing an action scene with a prop gun, but any action scene is worth watching if done correctly.
Immediately, all of them began to fire back at Tintin, thinking that she rigged a gun in place.
"She's got a big shooter!" Tom said as one of the said 'bullets' hit him.
"She's got me!" Tom said as he dropped to the floor.
"Wait a minute... why is he not dripping blood?" Claudine said in wonder.
Noticing that the bullets are corks, Alma said to them, "Hold your fire."
Tom and Alma then entered the room, discovering that Tintin rigged the champagne bottles to burst open.
The girls were surprised and impressed by Tintin's creativity, especially in creating a diversion.
"That's so cool!" Aruru and Karen said, seeing that Tintin was able to buy herself enough time to escape.
"She must've heard about the dynamite so she made the champagne bottles burst when the door opens," Junna said.
"But still, what a waste of good champagne," Claudine said.
Alma looked at the place and said, "She ain't here. She's vanished."
Until, the last bottle burst open, hitting Tom straight to his head where drops into the floor.
The girls laughed at Tom, seeing how misfortunate he was when he got hit by the bottle's cork.
"She's hiding. Search the ship. Quickly!" Elma said to her men.
Meanwhile, a familiar face is seen but was blurred by the bottle. The said girl then grabbed the back of her head, massaging it since it was hit by Tintin's makeshift hook.
And from it, the energetic Aruru said to the audience, "I'm finally in the story!"
"Geez, Aruru, can you keep it down!" Misora said as some of the girls are trying to watch the movie.
"Sorry, Misora! It's just that I'm appearing in a story such as this!" Aruru said to her childhood friend.
Aruru is always a sucker for stories that are new and adventurous to her. She always loved stories that she was cast in, especially "Captain Twins".
Aruru began to come to her senses until Snowy jumped at her table, scaring Aruru as her head went to the birdcage.
"Ah! A giant rat from Sumatra!" she exclaimed.
"Your imagination must be really big when you think Snowy is a big rat, Aruru." Misora said.
"Maybe my counterpart has a wilder imagination than me!" Aruru said.
But as Tintin makes her way into the room, Aruru immediately gets the cage off her head and began eyeing Tintin with caution.
"So, you think you could sneak in behind me and catch me with my trousers down, huh?" Aruru said, who's wielding a telescope like a sword.
"Aruru are you trying to hurt the person that could save you!?" Rui said to the blonde girl.
"Hey! She's defending herself!" Aruru said to Rui.
Tintin immediately grabbed a stick from the desk as she blocked Aruru's telescope.
"I'd rather you kept your trousers on if it's the same to you," Tintin said, as Aruru began fighting Tintin with her telescope.
"I know your game. You're one of them." Aruru said, trying to land a hit at Tintin.
"Sorry?" Tintin said.
"I've gotta admit, the Aruru's counterpart is really sloppy in fighting Tintin." Futaba remarked, knowing she's seen better swordplay in the theater.
"She must've been their prisoner so long that she must've been tired." Claudine said.
"They sent you here to kill me, huh!?" Aruru said, swinging her scope downward to Tintin.
She managed to move away from it and jumped on top of a chest.
"I don't know who you are!" Tintin cried out, trying to convince the woman to stop attacking her.
"That's how she planned to bump me off. Murdered in my bed by a baby-faced assassin!" Aruru said whereas Tintin jumped over the swing and Snowy biting the woman's foot in hopes of stopping her.
Many of the girls are now starting to get annoyed that Aruru's counterpart is still attacking Tintin.
"Baby-faced!?" Rui said feeling that she's been insulted leading Aruru to say that she's sorry that her counterpart has disrespected her.
"Assassin!? You've got it all wrong! I was kidnapped by a group of thugs." Tintin said as she dropped her weapon leading Aruru to drop her weapon in anger and sadness.
"The filthy swine! She's turned the whole crew against me!" Aruru said with tears flowing through her eyes.
"Who?" Tintin said to the woman as she said, "A sour-faced woman with a sugary name. She's bought them all off, every last man."
"Sakharine!" Tintin exclaimed.
Many of the girls are now feeling sorry for Aruru's counterpart that she's the only one on the ship to oppose Sakharine.
"I hope my counterpart gets revenge against Sakharine," Aruru said, as she's seething with anger.
"Don't worry Aruru, I'm sure she'll get her revenge." Misora said.
"Nobody takes my ship!" Aruru said leading Tintin to realize that she's standing next to the ship's original captain.
"You're the captain?" Tintin said in surprise.
"Of course I'm the captain. Who else could I be?" Aruru said as Tintin shushed her to stay quiet.
"Wait! You're the captain of the ship!?" Tsukasa said in surprise knowing that there's no way a drunk like her would be the captain.
"Maybe it's because of how much my counterpart is drinking. It's another reason why they made her useless." Aruru said leaving all of the girls to understand that a drunk captain is useless on her own ship.
The captain explained that she's been locked in her room for days, with whiskey as her only source to survive whereas Tintin opened the door with ease.
As Aruru turned to see the door unlocked, she said, "Oh... Well, I assumed it was locked."
"Well, it's not." Tintin said, showing that the door was never locked, to begin with.
"I think your counterpart must be really stupid to not notice that, Aruru." Misora said in a kind but understanding tone.
"I know but... Can't she even try to check if the door's unlocked!?" Aruru said in desperation.
"I believe that she's must've been too drunk to notice it." Shizuru said.
Tintin then decided to leave the room and said to the prisoner, "Now you must excuse me. If they find me here, they'll kill me. I have to keep moving. Try and find my way off this drunken tub."
"Tub? Tub?" the captain said stammering as to what the young lass said.
"Well, she's not wrong with that." Tamao said knowing that the captain is just drowning her sorrows with alcohol.
But as Tintin exited the room, a crewmate saw her leading Tintin to hit him with the cane. The crewmate dodged it and punched her in the gut as he tries to choke her against the steel wall.
"Come on Tintin! Fight back!" said some of the Stage Girls.
While the captain is thinking about what Tintin said, Tintin punched the man in his face but the man was able to use Tintin's weapon against him.
"Help him out other me! Help him out!" Aruru said, trying to convince her other self onscreen.
"Tub?" she said as she opened the door and punched the crewmember in the face, bouncing off the pipe and right into the door.
"Nice one other me!" Aruru said.
Tintin thanked the captain as the two of them began to haul the crew member inside her room.
"I'm Tintin by the way," Tintin said as the captain introduced herself saying "Haddock. Arsenia Haddock."
"Wait what!?" Junna said in shock.
"No way! I'm playing as Lady Frances' descendant!" Aruru said as her counterpart's ancestor is a respected sea captain.
"There's a longboat up on deck. Follow me." Arsenia said as she grabbed her captain's hat.
Tintin was shocked by the captain's name and said, "Hang on a minute. Did you say 'Haddock'?"
"That's what I said!" Junna said, leading Nana to say to her, "Junna-chan, please calm down. It's not the end of the world you know."
"Sorry, Daiba-san. I'm just surprised with everything that's all." Hoshimi said, leaving the girls to wonder why Sakharine would target Haddock's ship.
Meanwhile, Sakharine pinned Alma to the wall and said to her, "How could you let them escape? Find them. Find them both."
Elma then said to Sakharine, "Don't worry, we'll kill them, ma'am."
"No. You can kill the girl. Not Haddock." Sakharine said.
"Why in the world would Sakharine keep Haddock alive?" Rui said.
"Maybe she believes that she could lead her to the Unicorn's secret perhaps?" Tamao said, leading all the girls if Arsenia knows about the Unicorn's secret.
Tom then complained saying, "What? She's just a hopeless old soak. We should've killed her long since."
Sakharine took notice and grabbed him using her cane and said, "You think it's an accident that I chose Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew," wherein she continued to do the same to Alma, "Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident."
Then, a peregrine falcon flew to Sakharine and began to feed it, "We go back a long way, Captain Haddock and I. We've unfinished business. And this time, I'm going to make her pay."
The girls were very suspicious as to why Sakharine is dead set in going after Haddock. It would be possible that she wanted to take the Unicorn's secret and rub it in. Or Haddock must've done something that would incur Sakharine's wrath.
"That's a nice bird, Fumi-chan!" Ichie said.
"I'll admit... my counterpart must've enjoyed falconry," Fumi said leading her to wonder, "Maybe I should try having a bird?"
On another side of the ship, Haddock is leading Tintin across the Karaboudjan.
She said to Tintin, "We have to reach a locked door at the end of this corridor. This is gonna be tricky."
"You wouldn't happen to be related to the Haddocks of Marlinspike Hall, would you?" Tintin said to the captain.
"Why did you ask?" Haddock said to the journalist.
"I think Tintin is trying to learn more about the Unicorn from Haddock," Akira said leading Michiru to say to her, "Yeah... She could learn something important from the captain herself."
"Maybe she knows about Lady Frances' story!" Aruru said.
Tintin then described the ship in question until Haddock pushed her to the wall in anger and said, "What do you know of the Unicorn?"
"Not a lot. That's why I'm asking you." Tintin said.
"The secret of that ship is known only to my family!" Arsenia said as she continued on saying, "It's been passed down from generation to generation. My granddaddy himself, with his dying breath, told me the tale."
"So the secret is only known to Arsenia's family?" Karen said.
"Maybe that secret should never be shared outside of the family." Nana said.
"And?" Tintin wondered until Haddock said one word, "Gone."
"What do you mean gone?" Tintin said.
"I was so upset when he kicked the bucket, I had no choice but to drown my sorrows. When I woke up in the morning, it was gone! I'd forgotten it all." Haddock said, leaving Tintin baffled about what happened.
"How could you forget something so important! That's your legacy!" Tamao said, seeing that the captain had to drink to forget.
"Grief can make us do many irrational things, Ms. Tamao. All of you girls understand it right?" Edward said melancholically.
Knowing the girls, they have gone through the worst of their times. Even Fumi and Tsukasa felt pity for the captain because of her grandfather's death.
"Everything?" Tintin said as the captain explained that she forgot every single word.
"Well, is there somebody else in your family?" Tintin said to the captain as she followed her "Maybe they would know."
"Lady Frances had three sons. All but my bloodline failed. I am the last of the Haddocks!" the captain said to Tintin.
"Did you say, three sons?" Tintin said until one of the crewmates began to open the door above them.
"Wait a minute... Did Haddock say three sons, as in the three sons from the poem?" Karen said, leading the smartest of them to start piecing the puzzle.
"No... it can't be!" Akira and Junna thought as the two of them realized the answer.
The two of them hides under the stairs when they heard about the prize of capturing Haddock and killing Tintin. Snowy growled at what the men said but luckily, Tintin told Snowy to stay quiet.
Luckily, the man who heard Snowy thought it's just his imagination and proceeded to move onward.
"That was close!" Shiori said with a sigh of relief.
"I hope Snowy won't cause any alarms at the ship." said some of the girls.
Haddock and Tintin started to move up the deck, Tintin said to Haddock, "I know what Sakharine's looking for."
"What are you raving on about?" Haddock said to her.
"It was written on the scroll. 'Three brothers joined. Three Unicorns in company sailing in the noonday sun will speak.'" Tintin said as the captain wondered what she's talking about.
"Lady Frances didn't make two models of the Unicorn. She made three!" Tintin said.
"Three!?" Rui exclaimed, leading many of the girls to realize what the poem is all about.
"So Lady Frances made three ships for her three sons!" Junna said leading Akira to follow through and said, "And those three sons will inherit the Unicorn's secret."
The girls were in awe of how Lady Frances has concealed her lifelong secret through her model ships. Aruru and Karen are very excited as to what kind of secret Lady Frances has kept for her bloodline.
"Three ships for three sons." Tintin said to the captain.
"Excellent!" the captain said.
The two of them went through the ship as Tintin now knows that Sakharine is after the third model.
Meanwhile, Haddock tried opening a door, realizing that it's locked.
"Barnacles! Someone locked the door!" Haddock said.
"They're so close!" Rui exclaimed.
"Well, is there a key?" Tintin said.
"A key?" Haddock said as she exhaled her breath leading Tintin to cough a bit.
"Yes, now, that would be the problem." Haddock replied as Tintin staggered a bit from the captain's breath.
"Does Aruru always brush her teeth?" Rui said to the Frontier girls.
"Of course I brush my teeth! I always brush it three times a day!" Aruru said in reply.
"Yeah... sure you do..." Misora mumbled to herself.
Sure Aruru is her best friend but, every now and then, she's the one who has to keep on reminding her to brush her teeth.
The two of them entered a room, revealing it to be the crewmates' quarters as Haddock pointed to Tintin to a bunk above them.
"Mr. Jaggerman! Top bunk in the center. Keeper of the keys. Careful, mind. He's a restless sleeper on account of the tragic loss of his eyelids." Haddock said as the said person was shown who is sleeping with his eyes open.
"He lost his eyelids?" Tintin said in disbelief as the captain replied, "Aye. Now that was a card game to remember. You really had to be there."
"How in the world does one loses their eyelids!?" Claudine said in shock.
"Saijo-san, it's best that you shouldn't dwell on this." Maya said in reassurance.
Tintin then began to go to the bunk when the captain told her, "I'd do this myself, Tintin, but you've got a lighter tread and less chance of waking the boys."
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Tintin asked the captain, where some of the sleeping crewmates slide downward.
"You've nothing to worry about. Provided they all stay asleep." Arsenia said.
"Those guys must be heavy sleepers if they don't wake up from that." Karen said.
"Since they're in a ship, it can be tiring for them. After all, a ship needs a functioning crew 24/7." Junna said.
While Tintin is sneaking up to Jaggerman, Haddock began warning Tintin about the crew members especially Mr. Hobbs, who is handy with the razor, and Mr. Gitch who was sacked as a shepherd for his 'animal husbandry'.
The girls were a bit weirded out when Haddock tried to warn Tintin of the crewmates that she should avoid.
"Well... that was... um... interesting..." Junna said in a deadpan way.
"Your crew really is unique Aruru." Mei Fan said.
"They're unique alright, but... They don't compare to my friends!" Aruru said leading the rest of her friends to smile.
As Tintin reached the top bunk, she tried to reach for the keys but to no avail leading Haddock to sigh.
She looked at Snowy and decided to use him to extend her reach. Snowy was about to grab the keys but noticed a sandwich.
"Not the sandwich. The keys!" Tintin said to Snowy but when Snowy grabbed the sandwich, the shark that Tintin's holding onto snapped and Tintin fell below Jaggerman's bunk while a sleeping crewmember dropped onto her.
"Are you trying to wake them up Snowy!" Rui said.
Claudine shooked her head and said, "It seems he prefers his instincts rather than the task at hand."
Tintin gets the man off of her and tries to get the keys but because of the shark, the rest of the crewmembers fell on her. And by some miracle, they all stayed asleep.
When Snowy tries to help his master, a hand reached out from the pile as Tintin manages to get the keys.
The girls all breathed a sigh of relief seeing that Tintin managed to grab the keys and not wake up the crew members. Even though she was squashed by them.
Haddock was ecstatic as Tintin tossed the keys to the captain. She then raced to the door as Haddock remarked how amazing Tintin was when Tintin said, "Hurry up, Captain! We have no time to lose."
"Bingo! Just the necessities of course." Haddock said as the room was revealed to be the storage room of the ship's liquor.
When the girls saw that Haddock is after some whiskey, they were all annoyed that the captain put through Tintin a lot of trouble.
"Incroyable! She just made Tintin go to the trouble to get the keys all just for some whiskey!" Claudine snapped in anger.
"You have got to be kidding me..." Misora said in an irritating tone, leading Aruru to chuckle a bit.
"Maybe she's just thirsty?" Aruru said meekly.
"Just give it up Aruru. There's no way you can defend her like that." Tsukasa said to the girl who in turn felt sad that she's not helping at all.
Haddock proceeded to grab some of the whiskey leaving Tintin dumbfounded.
"To the lifeboats," Haddock said to Tintin as she wonders if she's just wasting her time with a drunkard.
Meanwhile, the Karaboudjan's crew is assembling a freeway for a seaplane while some of them are still searching for their captives.
"What's the plane for?" Karen said leading many of the girls to wonder if it's for an emergency.
While chugging whiskey, Haddock opened the door and noticed that one of the crewmen is in front of her where Tintin and Haddock immediately stepped back.
Noticing the bottle, Tintin grabbed it to knock the crewman out but Haddock grabbed the bottle before Tintin could hit it.
Luckily, the man was knocked out and Tintin ended up hurting her hand.
"Do you care for that bottle more than your life!" Fumi screamed, seething with anger.
"Maybe she's just trying to help Tintin? What would happen if Haddock didn't grab the bottle." Aruru said in defense of the captain.
The trio left and made their way to the lifeboats. Tintin and Haddock began to push the lifeboat to the water when Tintin immediately crouched down with Haddock.
The two found Elma and Tom who are still searching for them as they enter a room.
"It's Elma!" Haddock replied as Tintin asked her if that's the bridge.
"So my counterpart's name is Elma?" Tsukasa wondered.
"Aye, on the other side of the radio room," Haddock said when Tintin replied, "Radio room?"
Tintin immediately went to the said room as she told the captain to alarm her if the crew were to find her.
"Is she going to try and call for help?" Shiori said.
"Not likely. Maybe she's trying to give a lead perhaps?" Karen replied.
Tintin made her way to the room and eavesdropped on the pair. She heard them saying about the Milanese Nightingale.
"Milanese Nightingale?" Tintin wondered as Elma said to Tom, "Pray this cheers her up."
"Milanese Nightingale?" the girls all said.
"Do you think it's their secret weapon?" Lalafin said as the rest of the girls now wonder what kind of weapon are they talking about.
As the pair leaves the room, Tintin immediately searches the room for some clues when Snowy is fighting against a rat for the sandwich.
She then noticed the index card with the word "Bagghar".
Tintin then noticed a brochure that spells out "Sultanate of Bagghar". She then reads the brochure as she said, "...ruled over by Sheikh Omar Ben Salaad, whose love of music and culture is matched only by his love of..."
But when Tintin turned the page, she saw something on the brochure that led her to say, "Great snakes!"
"Wait a minute! What did Tintin saw!" Fumi said.
"There's absolutely no way she saw the Unicorn in that brochure right!?" Karen said leaving many of the girls to be shocked if Karen's assumption could come true.
Tintin then pocketed the brochure and checked the map in the room. She then pointed at the Port of Bagghar located in Morocco.
She then saw the instrument for the radio wherein she began to use the radio to call for a signal.
"Edward-san, what kind of instrument is Tintin using?" Tamao said as their host said, "That instrument is used for Morse code. It is one of the leading ways of communicating with other people around the world at that time. They use lines and dashes as their alphabet in creating words through the radio."
The girls were very interested in Edward's facts about Morse code, especially Junna and Michiru.
Meanwhile, Haddock called out Tintin hoping that she's done when a crew member appears from the boat.
"Hey! Put your hands up!" said the man in which Haddock do so as the boat fell to the waters leaving the poor man dangling on a hook.
"And let that be a lesson to you!" Haddock said to the man.
"Good job me! That'll teach them a lesson!" Aruru said with pride.
Haddock then proceeded to check the other lifeboat and began to push it to the water.
Meanwhile, Tintin is busy typing on the radio when suddenly Tom entered the room and found Tintin.
"He found Tintin!" Rui said.
"Tintin run!" said some of the girls.
"In here! She's in here!" Tom cried out as Snowy leaped towards Tom and bit his arm.
Tintin then punched Tom and grabbed his gun.
"Nice punch Tintin!" Aruru said.
"She really has a good punch didn't she Rui?" Tamao said leading the said girl to blush.
"Ehehehe... Thanks for the compliment, Tamao-senpai." Rui bashfully said leading her to wonder if she should learn some boxing.
Suddenly, a crewman found Haddock by the boat and pointed his gun at him wherein Tintin whizzed past by him leading Elma and the man to open fire at her.
The girls are now at the edge of their seats as Tintin dodged the gunfire.
"Who knew a chase scene with guns could be this awesome!" Futaba said with a smile.
Snowy immediately went towards the lifeboat as Arsenia is trying to push the boat to the water.
Tintin ran to the lifeboat, dodging the gunfire when she came across one of the crew's members.
The crewman swings for the fences but Tintin dodged it as she hits his knee and pushes him aside.
"Tintin must be really good at this. I hope I can improve my kendo skills in the future." Rui mumbled to herself.
Seeing Tintin in action makes Rui feel that she's not reaching her full potential. Maybe she can learn a thing or two from these viewings.
The crewman gets up and began to fire at Tintin. Snowy saw that the man is firing at his master and whines, hoping that his master is alright when Haddock boarded the boat leading one of its lines to cut.
Luckily, Haddock grabbed a hold of the boat and grabbed Snowy before he lands right into Atlantic waters.
"Snowy!" Shiori said.
"Don't worry Shiori-chan, Snowy'll be alright!" Michiru said, calming the girl and hopes that the cute dog won't fall.
Tintin started dodging the gunfire as she slides downwards to the deck when a crewmember saw her.
The crewmember fell down the staircase as his fellow crew went upstairs.
Tintin returned fire to her pursuers and noticed that the lifeboat is dangling on one line.
Elma shoots Tintin but missed as Tintin shoots the searchlight's handle, immediately turning it on as it blinds her pursuers.
"Man, Tintin's getting more awesome by the second!" Lalafin said.
"She must be really adaptable on many occasions," Akira said as her fellow classmates agree.
"I hope I can be just like her!" Rui thought to herself.
Tintin jumped to the lifeboat amidst the gunfire as she shoots the line when the trio lands onto the lifeboat when it crashed on the water. The crew tried to shoot at them but it was too late as the lifeboat is way beyond their reach.
Sakharine noticed that they escaped as Tintin and Haddock rowed the boat hoping that they bought enough time to escape.
"Turn this ship around!" Elma said to the man as the man began to turn the ship around.
"Tintin hurry up!" some of the girls said.
Elma slides down the stairs and fires her flare gun to the sky.
The flare whizzed through the air as Tintin ushers the captain to stay hidden in the boat.
"There she is!" one of the crewmen said as Elma immediately shone the spotlight on the supposed boat.
"Oh no! They spotted them!" Rui said in horror.
From it, Shiori started praying that a miracle will occur, hoping that Tintin and Haddock will be captured instead.
"Now! Full speed!" Tom said to the helmsman as the Karaboudjan is speeding towards the lifeboat.
Elma chuckled, hoping that Tintin and Haddock will drown once the Karaboudjan crushes them.
Tintin and Haddock immediately lie still on the boat, hearing the Karaboudjan as it is heading towards them. Both of them closed their eyes until the ship crashes onto the lifeboat, splintering its wood across the ocean.
When the lifeboat crashed into the Karaboudjan, some of the girls are in shock, seeing that the Karaboudjan has laid waste to Tintin's lifeboat.
"No Tintin!" Rui screamed in horror as she turned to Edward with teary eyes.
"Edward-san! Please tell me they're not on that boat!" Rui said to her, hoping that Tintin and Haddock are able to survive the crash.
"Look! Down there!" Tom cried as the searchlight showed them what's left of the lifeboat.
But miraculously, another lifeboat appeared revealing Tintin and Haddock as they silently peeked from their hiding spot.
"They're alive!" Rui said, jumping for joy that they're alive and well.
"Oh, thank goodness they're alright!" Junna said with a smile.
Tom is still checking for Tintin and Haddock until Sakharine grabbed him and pushed him to the railing.
"Idiots! You idiots! What have you done!?" Sakharine said to Tom.
"We killed them, boss like you wanted!" Tom said to Sakharine leading her to tell him, "No! Not what I wanted! I needed Haddock alive!"
"Whoa, Sakharine! Calm down!" Ichie said in a joking manner as she continued on saying, "You didn't know that they survived, didn't they?"
"She really must have a vendetta against Haddock if she'll be the one to personally dispose of her," Akira said.
"Wait a minute, boss! There are two boats missing!" Elma said, showing Sakharine that two of the lifeboats are gone.
"So, that one must have been a decoy," Tom said as Sakharine releases him for her grasp.
She then tried to look for them until she grabbed the index card, revealing that Tintin must've seen it.
"They're onto us and our destination," Sakharine said as she pointed her cane to Tom saying, "Find them! Make absolutely certain they never reach Bagghar!"
Tom immediately follows through as Sakharine looks onward, hoping that Tintin and Haddock won't reach their destination.
Meanwhile, the crew removes the seaplane's cover as they prepare the plane to take off.
"She must've had a good reason why Sakharine doesn't want Tintin and Haddock to get to Bagghar," Maya said, "It could be because of the brochure Tintin saw from the ship."
"Even so, that chase scene is really awesome! I hope I'll see some more of them in the next part!" Futaba said in excitement.
And cut! Man! 6400 words... Maybe I need to limit myself in typing such many words in a chapter!
Anyway, college has been really hectic cuz of the assignments but even so, I'll do my best in uploading chapters for this fanfic of mine.
Leave your comments and reviews and once more, I'm William DeGrave and see you in the next chapter!