Off to Mexico (4)

that Rae raided the pirate ship armoury before it sank! Rae begins pulling weapons out of her bag and distributing them to those assembled.

6th kept up the torrent of gun fire going, while Rae passed out the guns to anyone who had some idea how to use them.

"A few!" Rae shouted back, tossing her a couple of pineapples. 6th pulled the pins in both granades,and tossed them under the feet of the T-rexes.

As soon as the guns stopped fireing, the T-rexes started to advance. They didn't get more than a few feet, before the granades exploded.

"There's still more coming!" shouted Rae, and she and 6th began firing again. There were only four T-rexes left, and the gun fire was doing little to stop them.

"Oh Frell this!" 6th shouted. She threw her gun down and leaped(gee, this Leaped thing is rubbing off on me now!) over a pile of debris, heading for the nearest T-rex.

"Rae, cover me! Don't fire unless I'm about to get eaten!" 6th called, storming over to the T-rex. Rae sighed and set her sight on the T-rex's head.

"HEY!" 6th shouted, kicking the T-rex's leg. The T-rex looked down at the tiny woman who stood glaring up at it.

It leaned down and sniffed her. 6th didn't move, but when the T-rex opened its mouth in front of her, 6th slammed her fist on the T-rex's nose. Startled and in some pain the T-rex pulled back.

Suprisingly, the T-rexes all stopped moving and looked at each other, then at 6th. 6th looked back up at the dinosaurs. The biggest T-rex walked over to 6th and sniffed her, then lay down in front of her.

"Hey, guys! He's purring!" 6th yelled. She patted the T-rex on the nose, and the big dinosaur gave her a toothy smile. 6th scratched him under the chin. Then she climbed up on the T-rex's head. It lifted up, and 6th, riding high, waved to the gang.

Rae shouldered her gun as she walked over to another T-rex. "Hi lizard. Are you going to be nice?" The T-rex sniffed her, and then flicked out a big sticky tongue and licked Rae.

"Yuck!..." Rae tried to wipe off the dino saliva, but at that moment the T-rex lowered its head, and made a motion that it wanted Rae to climb up. Rae sighed, and hauled herself up on top of the T-rex's head. She waved at the others. "It's ok!" she called down to them. "They've decided to behave!"

"So..." 6th yelled over to Rae. "When do you think we'll be getting back to civilization? I don't know about you, but I could use a shower, some new clothes, some real food. And after all this, I could REALLY use a drink!"

Everyone looks at the leader of the natives. "How are you going to compensate us for the T-Rex's that you killed?"

"I am with the PETTR…." The leader continues when he sees the gang have no idea what he is talking about. "People for the Ethical Treatment of T-Rex! And you are all in violation of our laws!"

Chief! Rae's got you covered!" Rae reaches into her bag and begins pulling out some of the less valuable (to her) articles that she plundered from the pirate ship. "Gold coins, jewelery, chalices, Rae's got ya' covered!"

"Sorry, about your pet Dinos. It must be something in the air of Adventure Movie Land. I've been acting really wierd lately."

"Wait Rae." she turned to the Native leader. "Excuse YOU?" she cried in Rightous anger. "WE are GODS! We decide what is right and wrong! WE saved you from the god of the Volcano! WE saved your sorry hides from the menace of the T-rexes. How DARE you insult US!" the Natives cowered back from the furious Mouse.

"We could decide to wipe your existance from the map! And you dare to speak to us as if we were equal to you! If we want to kill T-rexes we will, for the greater good, and if we decide you are not worthy of being around, we can and will unleach our terrible wrath upon you!"

The Native leader bowed low before Mouse. "Forgive us O goddess. I forgot myself for a moment. We are you're humble servants. Please, there is no need for you to get wrathful." He clapped his hands and called out to his people "Bring the goddesses (And the gods) some food. Let us show our appreciation for them with a festival!" The natives scurried away to prepare a feast.

Mouse turned to the others, and shrugged, embarrassed. "Sorry guys. I guess the power of being a goddess went to my head. We can heap treasure on them before we leave. I just didn't think that gods would get talked to like that by the people who are supposed to be worshipping them."

"Good going Mouse!" 6th called down from her perch on the T-rex's head. "You guys go on and party. I'm gonna take Rex for a spin around the island. See if I can find anything that might help us get back to Mexico!"

6th leaned down to try and look the T-rex in the eye. "What do you say, big fella? Want to take me for a ride?" The T-rex snorted, and began lumbering off.

Rae whispers. "I hate to be a party-pooper, but we should leave as soon as possible. I'm a big believer in not overstaying my welcome. If they found out we're (mostly) mortals, we're in trouble. Don't you agree?"

Leaving the others to deliberate, Rae wanders off to see the sights of the village and impress the villagers with her bottomless bag of holding and her pulse rifle.

“No time for that psycho-babble! Let’s get off this island and get back to Mexico!!” shouts SweetiePie.

“Rae, we’ll get into this when we’re back on the continent, sipping Margaritas, and listening to salsa.” Mouse slings her arm around Rae’s shoulders companionably. “Think you can hold out until then?”

Artickat, Spyral and Malachi rush to hold back 6th, who is looking at Sweetie like he’s toast. Sweetie hops behind Kara and shrieks “Help me!! She’s lost it!” Kara looks at him and sternly says “No, Sweetie, I think YOU’ve lost track of what’s going on here. Let’s try to keep it a little flexible, shall we?” Sweetie looks back at the group and apologizes.

Meanwhile, the T-Rex’s have become as docile as lambs. Mouse looks up at one and wonders *hey can these guys... swim?*

in the water. Do you think we can talk our hosts into lending us one?" Rae shuffles her pack on her shoulders. "One can probably carry all of us, plus supplies. I'll go talk to the chief. He seems quite fond of me. Plus, I want to give him some of this loot anyway."

"So I have room for all the feathers I'm going to get when I pluck your carcass!" Rae snaps, advancing on the bird. "Don't tempt me, fluffy!"

Sweetiepie glared after Rae as she set off to talk to the chief. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that this adventure was HIS idea and that HE was in charge. It was bad enough that Sixth thought that she was the leader of this little group. Now RAE was getting big ideas. It was intolerable!

Riding on the Rexes was a bad idea. Even if they COULD swim (which the bird found highly doubtful) they could never make it back to the continent. But it WAS high time they left this island and got on with their quest.

"Well, I don't think anyone else noticed, but back when we were on that pirate ship we were being followed by a submarine."

"Simple, we cruise around the island on the flying carpet and look down. The water here is so clear we will be able to see anything under it. Including a sub."

"That's a marvelous idea Spyral." Sixth enthused. "Artic, you and Mouse and Kara fly around the island and look for this sub. Take Sweetiepie. When you see the sub send him back to tell us. Then lead it back here to the beach. Spyral, Rae and I will capture it."

"Oh brother." muttered Sweetiepie. "I can just see this plan now. It will probably involve bathingsuits and frontal nudity. Yeah, that'll work. Not."

So Kara, Mouse, artic and the bird flew off to find the mysterious sub while Sixth, Spyral, Rae and Malachi made preperations on the beach....

floated gently just off the coast of the island, it's remote cameras and spyeyes watching all that progressed there.

In his cabin HE sat before a 10 foot wall screen and watched the remote footage of the villiage encounter yet again. The gun play the exploding dinosaur, even the splashs against the viewing screen as little bits of the animal chummed the waters....

As the little sub watched pieces of dinosaur bleed and sagged in the water around it. The first shark appeared shortly thereafter....

Rae, Sixth and Malachi were talking at the waters' edge about some sort of trap that would capture the submarine once Mouse, Kara and Artickat led it to the beach.

Taking a minute to himself, the one-winged angel sat down on the soft warm sand and thought back over the past few days' events.

*These ladies are really something.* He marvelled at the feelings that somehow all seemed to be new as well. *Although, I could do without the bumps and bruises*

As he finished , the chief followed by a large group of natives emerged from the trees and walked down to the beach. Spyral stood, folding his wing behind him inconspicuously.

The chief stopped directly in front of Spyral, the little girl peeking from behind his knees. "We would see your wing, Oh mighty Winged One."

"Um, well..." SPyral started, but before he could finish, the little girl darted forward, grabbing his wingtip and pulling it out for all to see. Small droplets of blood lightly fell onto the sand.

The natives surrounded them and the chieftan said "Bring them back to the village. We shall burn them as an offering to the TRUE gods, and beg their forgivness for being deceived." The natives poked at the gang to get them moving.

"Ok, we'll go...You don't have to poke us. Hey!" she cried, as some of the natives shoved Malachi forward. "Leave him alone! He's old!"

6th and the others were hustled back to the village. Under a heavy guard, they watched the natives prepare for the sacrifice.

6th nudged Rae. "You know, I could probably kick their butts, being as strong as I am...But they'd probably kill you guys..."

"Don't." Rae said. "We'll think of something..." she trailed off as a native shoved her towards the stakes in the ground.

6th, Malachi, Spyral, and Rae were tied up to the stakes, and heaps of wood and brush were piled at their feet, as the native drums started playing.

"THAT'S IT?" shouted Spyral. "That's your plan? Scream for help? Who is around to help us?" But 6th kept screaming.

"6th will you shut up?" Rae barked, as the natives advanced on them, torches held high. "You're not doing anything with that screaming except give me a headache."

6th stopped. "Do you hear that?" she asked, as the natives bent down to light the piles of wood under the gang's feet.

There was a thud...thUD..THUD...THUD..THUD advancing on the village. The T-rexes burst through the jungle, roaring. The giant beasts advanced on the natives and the gang. Though the natives had their spears, they were no match for four angry T-rexes. The natives all fled, screaming.

The T-rexes turned to the helpless gang. The biggest T-rex leaned down to 6th and licked her, then gently pulled the ropes off of her with his teeth. 6th gave his nose a huge hug, and kissed his scaly skin.

"Oh thank you!" she cried. She picked up a dagger from the ground, where a native had dropped it, and began sawing through the ropes holding Spyral. The T-rex helped, and soon the gang was free.

"Sorry about the headache, Rae." 6th grinned. "Let's get back to the beach. And this time, you'r coming with us." she patted the T-rex's foot.

"Let me leave some of this treasure for the natives. Maybe they'll see we didn't mean them any harm." Rae started dumping treasure in a pile. 6th walked around the perimeter of the village, after making sure Malachi was ok, and Spyral's wing was taken care of. She looked around at the native huts, and noticed the medicine woman's hut near where she was standing. "I'll just take a quick peek." 6th said to herself. "Never know where you'll find something useful. She peeked in the door.

Animal heads, masks, shrunken heads, wierd little totems and thousands of small leather pouches hung from the walls.

6th wrinkled up her nose at the odd smell coming out of the hut. She noticed that one wall was empty save for a circle of shrunken heads surrounding a small leather pouch. 6th pulled the bag from the wall and opened it carefully. It was full of a black powder. *I wonder if this is what I think it is* 6th thought and hurried back to Spyral.

"Well, there's only one way to find out, and I'm sure not going to sprinkle any of this on MY head!" Spyral said, handing the bag back to 6th. She tied it to her belt as Sweetiepie came winging back towards them.

"Well, anyway we found the sub. SO..." the parrot cocked his head at 6th, "What's your great plan this time, Your Royal Pain In The..."

The rest of the gang are flying on the MC over the area where they have spotted the sub. "Do you see all those sharks? It's like a feeding frenzy with all that Dino chum in the water!" Mouse squeaked.

"SHARKS!" artickat digs her claws into the MC so there is no chance of falling off. "I'm not going anywhere NEAR the water! NO WAY, NO HOW! No...I don't think so...ain't gonna happen!"

The others just stare at artickat as she continues to babble to herself. "JAWS...dun num..dun num..dun num..dun num..."

"If you can fly one of us over the sub, and drop us on the top of the hull, we can use that halo of your to make a small portal big enough to pour this shrinking powder into the interior of the sub. It should circulate pretty fast, then whoever is driving that thing won't be able to reach the controls anymore and we can take the ship with ease," Sixth proclaimed proudly of her plan.

"Y'know," Sixth tells the bird,"I hear from good sources that Spyral has a wonderful recipe for Fried Squab!"

"I think I may have an even better way to get that sub, and I don't think sharks will be a problem. Rae, do you have any rope or chains in that bag of yours?"

Rae opened her bag and began digging. "Hmmm..." her head and half her body disappeared down into the bag as she dug deeper. "I got both. What do you want them for?" she said hauling out the ends of both chain and rope.

"Excellent!" 6th grinned. "This will save Spyral having to fly on his hurt wing. Wouldn't want to damage you." she smiled at the Angel.

"Now since we have those beasts here, all we have to do is rig up some harnesses with the rope, attach them to the chain, and fly out on the MC and hook the sub. It's surfaced, so we shouldn't have a problem. Then the T-rexes can pull the sub into shallow water. It's a little sub, 4 T-rexes should have no problem hauling that thing up here. We can use some of this powder to subdue whoever is in the sub. I just wish I knew that it IS shrinking powder, and not something else. Does any one have anything they wouldn't mind me testing it on?"

"Sounds good to me." 6th shrugged and KaraS pulled out a crown form Spyral's wing. 6th set the crwon on the ground, opened the bag of powder, and sprinkled a tiny bit of the black powder on it. The crown shrank down before them, until it was the size of a ring.

"Let's get to work! Mouse, you and KaraS tie this end of the rope to this end of chain. Rae, you fly out with Artic, and get this other end of chain attached to the sub. Malachi, Spyral and I will do the harnesses." The gang hurried to their tasks.

Rae got the sub hooked with little problem. She had several padlocks in her bag, and with the chain wrapped, and locked several times, someone would have to come out of the sub with heavy-duty bolt cutters to get it off, and Rae could always scoop them up in a fly-by if anyone came out. She and Artic sat on the carpet, hovering above the sub, on the look out for anyone trying to do just that.

Mouse and Kara had no trouble with the knots, and finished, came over to where 6th was trying to get the T-rex to let her put a harness on him.

"Now you know I won't hurt you." 6th said patting the T-rex on the side of his head. "I'm not going to tie you up. We need your help to pull that sub up here. Can you help me?"

The T-rex looked down at 6th with an expression of adoration. He lay down, but kept his head slightly off the ground. With the gang helping, they got the harness over his head. The other Dinos were just as quick to help, and soon all four dinos were harnessed and ready to pull.

"OK, PULL!!!" 6th yelled and the T-rexes pulled forward. The sub, which had been sitting idily, began to move forward.

"Doing ok?" 6th asked the T-rex. He nodded his head again. *I'm beginning to think this lizard understands every word I say* 6th thought.

Having watched the gals approach the tiny electronic brain of the sub had withdrawn the perescope in hopes of not being noticed, thus it missed the actually hooking up of the chains. However it could not miss the sudden change in direction.

Gears turns, electrons moved, sensors were read and a foreign contact with the hull was quickly registered. Unable to see the nature of the contact and being only of limited intelligence without outside instruction the "brain" of the sub registered the contact as sea live and iniated an immeadiate responce programmed into its data banks.

Amassing an electrical charge to freighten off whatever was holding it the minisub loosed the current and it surged into the contact...and inadvertantly up the chain and into the T-rax innocently pulling at the other end...

Still sensing foreign contact the minisub increased the charge and began repeating the process! Meanwhile at the monitoring station alarms were going off! :)

The combination of shock at receiving an answer to her question and the roar of the voice in her head, caused Sixth to almost fall from her place atop the T-rex.

"Heyyy!" Spyral rushed over looking up at Sixth. "Hey, You okay? You're not having a relapse from that snakebite or something are you?"

She looked down at the T-rexs' head as it came to a halt on the beach. Leaning closer and quickly ckecking to make sure none of the others were watching, Sixth spoke quietly to the Rex. "Did you say something?" she whispered.

*YES, MY QUEEN* the voice roared in her head once again. Wincing in pain, Sixth began to slide from her place again.

"I've got her....ooof!" she heard Spyral say as her fall was broken and her cheek seemed to rebound off of something soft and fluffy. "Easy...I've got you...I've got you..." came Spyrals voice again.

Before she could answer, however, *I FEAR THAT WE MAY HAVE INJURED HER*, a voice boomed like the tunder of the Gods in Spyrals' head. He winced visibly in pain, raising his hand to his forehead.

Regaining his composure, Spyral opened his eyes to see Sixths' looking into his. "You heard it too...Didn't you!" It wasn't a question.

*WE APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR DISCOMFORT, MY QUEEN* the voice returned, sending the entire group struggling to remain standing thru the mental onslaught.

Straightening quickly and holding up her hands to the lead rex, the one she had been riding, Sixth said, "WAIT...Just WAIT!". Silence.....

Steadying herself, and making sure all were fine, Sixth faced the lead rex once again. "Please, just don't say...I mean...Whatever you're doing...It's just too loud..." she said.

The rex turned its head slightly, *Is this better, my Queen?* the voice came, this time at a tolerable level.

Holding her hand up to silence Rae, Sixth took a step toward the giant beast. Ignoring its' question of concern, she asked instead,"Why...Why do you keep calling me that....'Your Queen?"

Sixth looked back at theothers who were in a state of stunned silence, looking from her, to the rex and back again. She looked back to the rex who continued.

*He came to us from your world. A refugee from his kind. He taught us the MindSpeak, that we might better share our own thoughts* The rexes head lowered a bit. *He...left us three years ago...taken by a storm. But before his death, He told us of another who would come to us. To be our Queen.*

*The King gave us certain signs...signs by which we might identify our Queen when she came. Things that would come to pass...things about you....which would show us our true Queen.*

*She would be one of great beauty and strength. One who would stand before us in battle, and show no fear....And she would lead us to conquer a great beast of the water* At this, the rex motioned to the now forgotten sub.

The 'Scapers could only stare in stunned silence at Sixth, who in turn, stared at the bowing rexes....staring and saying nothing.

Slowly, Spyral reached out his arm and placed his hand on her shoulder. Sixth only kept staring forward, as if she had lost all feeling....

"Listen, lady!" the bird shrieks. "You dumb dames are ruining all of my plans! I need that jaguar! Ooooff!" Rae hits the bird on the back of the head, knocking him across the beach.

Rae and Spyral walk off a ways, and return a half-arn later. Rae has a small bald spot. Spyral has several black feathers in the areas where he tore out his white ones.

"It's a good look on you." Rae's saying. "They'll at least stop the bleeding, and probably fall out when new feathers start to grow."

"What?" 6th jumped to her feet, and hurried over to the rope that was laying in the sand. Placing her hand on it she jumped as a jolt of electricity passed through her.

"Oh lord...Does it...Are you hurting?" she called to the T-rex. The dino shook his head as the gang hurried over to 6th.

"There's an electrical current coming form the sub." 6th explained. She called to the Dinos "Can you haul that thing up here? Like, Now?" In answer, the four T-rexes strained forward. The sub, which had been pulling away, was jerked backwards toward the beach. The T-rexes hauled to sub into shallow water, where it stopped, beached on the sand. They had trapped it. The gang cheered, except for 6th.

"Rae, I don't have a knife on me. Will you cut the Rexes free?" 6th sat back down where she was, as Rae quickly sliced through the ropes.

The dinosaurs shook themselves free of the harnesses. The gang gathered around 6th. No one said anything. 6th's mind was whirling with thoughts.

*What am I gonna do? I can't stay here! But...I...really like those dinosaurs...I wonder...* 6th got to her feet.

"I'm going for a walk...I have an idea, but I might not be back for a bit...you guys see if you can figure out how to get in that sub without being shocked. I...there's something I have to do." She turned to the dinosaurs. "You three," she said pointing, "Stay here and guard my friends. And you," she patted the lead T-rexes foot, "Come with me. There's someone I need to...talk to."

"Ok, guys." Rae said "6th needs some time to think. Let's get that sub open, and see if we can take it back to Mexico."

"You know," Rae said. "That thing is too small to hold us all anyway. Should we even bother trying to get it open?"

"There's a combination lock up here." he reported. "Just press the buttons in the right sequence and it'll pop right open."

"I'll bet Sixth can." artic said. "She's a spy. Breaking and entering should be all in a day's work for her."

The small parrot grinned. "You still have that shrinking powder, right? Just shrink down small enough and everyone will fit."

The main thing is to get off this #$%^%$# island. Christmas is coming people. If we want to steal, er, liberate that jaguar we need to put on the speed. Time is of the essence. Let's moooooove.

*nothing you ever say or do is stupid, my queen, and I will bite the head off of anyone who says otherwise.* Thor said

“Ok, thanks. But no head-biting unless I say so, Ok?” 6th said, patting Thor. The dinosaur leaned down to look at 6th closely with one eye.

“I...can’t, Thor! I have got to keep the gang safe, and make sure they get home alright! I have a mission, and I can’t just leave them hanging like that.” A tear rolled down Thor’s scaly cheek.

“but...but what if I can’t get you unshrunk! I came out here to go see it the Native Medicine woman had any growing powder, but If she doesn’t...you’d be stuck small forever!”

*If she does, you can shrink or grow me to what ever size pleases you. If not, I will be small. Only don’t leave me!*

*there were too many of us before. If I leave, there will be three males left to keep the herd. Three is a perfect number.*

“You know, because I...blew up some of you.” 6th hung her head. If she had known that the T-rexes were that nice, she wouldn’t have ever thrown those granades. Thor licked her.

“S’ok.” 6th kissed the tip of Thor’s scaly nose. “I like you too. Just don’t ask me to marry you or anything. I’d never work out, ok?”

“We can talk about that later.” 6th said “Right now, we have a native village to visit! I think it would be impressive if I rode in on your head. Is that ok with you?”

*Anything you desire, my queen. You need never ask my permission.* Thor rumbled as 6th climbed up on his head.

The natives had all gathered together to look at all the treasure Rae had left for them. They didn’t seem to know what all the shiny stuff was. Thor roared to get their attention. The natives all looked up in terror at the giant T-rex looming over them. The chieftain spied

“It is the false dreamer goddess! Kill her!” Thor stomped one foot as the natives advanced, and roared again. The natives dropped to the ground in fear.

“No one is going to be killing anyone!” 6th yelled down to the natives. “I have a deal to offer you, chief. I know you want us gone, and we’d be happy to oblige you. But I need something from your medicine woman in order for us to be able to leave. If she has it, we’ll go. If not...” 6th shrugged, leaving it open. She hoped that the natives would want them gone badly enough to give her anything with no trouble. It worked.

“I took some of your shrinking powder. I’d like some more, and whatever you have that will reverse shrinking.” 6th called down to the medicine woman, who hurried off towards

“Let me down, Thor.” 6th said quietly, and the lizard lowered his head down to the ground. 6th hopped off and met the old woman.

“This is more shrinking powder.” the medicine woman said, handing 6th a bag. “And these are what will reverse the shrinking. NOW will you go?”

The old woman sighed. She motioned forward a young warrior from the crowd. The old woman sprinkled some of the black powder on his head, and he shrank to about a foot high.

She then sprinkled some of the red powder on his head. He grew rapidly back to his normal height. Even his clothes had grown and shrank with him.

“This powder will shrink anything. But this red powder will only grow things back to their ORIGINAL height! It can’t make anything bigger than it already is. Remember that! Now

please leave, you have caused enough trouble here already!” the old woman shooed 6th back to Thor, and 6th climbed back on.

“Of course! And you were very good at being threatening to the natives!” 6th patted Thor on the head. Grinning a toothy grin, Thor walked back to the beach, joining up with the gang again. They arrived just in time to hear Sweetiepie berating the gang.

“What took you so long?” Sweetiepie yelled at 6th. “We’re in a hurry here! All you ever do is waste my time, you stupid...” Thor cut him off with a roar, and caught Sweetiepie’s tail feathers between his teeth.

“No it’s Ok. Let him go THIS time.” 6th laughed. She turned to the others “I got more shrinking powder, some growth powder, and Thor wants to come with us!”

*My queen said it is a good name for me* Thor rumbled in everyone’s head. *I will rejoin you momentarily, my queen. I must talk with my brothers, and tell them what you have

*You requested that I join you on your mission, and that my brothers stay here and protect the herd, did you not?*

“yeah...I guess I did...Ok, go on!” she looked at the gang. “Figure out how to open that sub open yet?”

oh goddess of the dinosaurs." KaraS said. "You're a secret agent. Can you open the lock on the top of this sub?"

Everyone watched as Sixth fiddled with the buttons for a few minutes. Then, with a hissing sound, the hatch opened. Sixth looked inside.

"There's not a lot of room in there." she said. "But I think I can get the hang of these controls." she slid down into the sub's interior.

Everybody looked back and forth at eachother, waiting for someone else to volunteer. Finally, Spyral sighed.

Quickly, Sixth shrunk everyone else and carried them up, into the sub. They found Sweetiepie waiting for them inside.

"Here we go." Sixth said standing up on top of the sub. She sprinkled the black powder on his head and watched him shrink down. Then she retrieved him from the beach and placed him, carefully, inside the sub.

"No," Sixth said. "I have to be full sized to operate the controls. It's not going to be comfortable in here but we can all just grin and bear it until we hit the mainland."

Sweetiepie fluttered up to Sixth's shoulder and watched her as she set the course and nudged the accelerator, sending the little sub surging forward, back toward the beach.

Thor made a grublimg noise and lurched upwards from his position at 6th feet. Sweetie squawked again and flutered over to hide behind Kara.

Sweetiepie made himself lost in Spyrals wing. Women! was the only admonishment they heard. "Careful in there bird.! That tickles!" Spyral offered at the new sensation. After all the wing was alive.

6th was feeling rather elated, and well she should. It was not every adventure that went as well as this one had. Treasure, survival, new members, survival!She was also getting careless.

The navigation of the sub was controlled electronically. And the electronics were controlled by the artificial brain. Small numbers in the plot calculations began to change as the intrepid spy entered her data. What came back wasn't accurate...not exactly.

This was indeed an unexpected event but HE was pleased that the gang had decided to capture itself. It would save him the trouble later.