ELI walked out of one of the cabin rooms and looked at the door at the end of the hallway.
He saw the door open and a girl walked out.
Then he realized that the girl was Irina.
Irina walked down the hall toward Eli and stopped in front of him.
They looked at each other for the first time in years.
Eli was surprised by Irina's clothes and he almost didn't recognize her.
Eli said—
—"Hey, Irina. Aren't you surprised to see me?"
"Should I be?" said Irina.
"It's good to see that being a Princess hasn't changed you much."
Irina scoffed.
"Please." said Irina rolling her eyes.
Eli was happy for her and he smiled.
"What's that smile for?" asked Irina.
"For you." said Eli.
Irina gave him an annoyed look and then she heard one of her servants walking over toward them and they both looked over.
Irina's Servant came up to them and said to Irina in Russian—
—"My lady, the Policeman wants to speak to you and a guy called Eli."
"All right." said Irina in Russian.
Eli looked at Irina with a questioning eyebrow raised look.
"The Police Captain wants to speak to us." said Irina to Eli.
"Come on." said Irina and started walking down the hallway.
Irina and Eli walked into the main lounge room where everyone else was sitting and standing around.
Mason was standing by a large table in the middle of the room and was looking at a map.
He saw Eli walking in and called him over.
Mason asked Eli for help to make a map of the whole island.
Eli helped Mason create a map of the island and they tried to find out where they could be keeping the girls.
Then, Mason called everyone over and began to tell everyone about everything that Waters had told him about what the Government was planning to do and what Waters was doing to stop them.
Mason told them all that Waters was looking for the detonation device to prevent them from setting off the nukes.
He told them that the Government plans to detonate the nukes after they have collected enough energy from the volcano to last them several decades.
Then they would get inside the bunker under the volcano and detonate the nukes.
In the mean time, the Government would move everyone in the city to one location before they detonate them.
Once Waters had destroyed the detonation device, they wouldn't be able to set them off without themselves being caught in the explosion as well.
Mason then started to explain his plan to have one group evacuate people from the city and another group evacuate the kids on the fishing ships.
While he and another group went to look for and save the girls on the island.
Mason then asked everyone which group they wanted to be in.
Alex and Ana looked at each other as Mason was explaining the plan and they both knew that they did not like Mason's plan.
Maja and Victor said they wanted to help evacuate people from the city.
Mason asked Maja and Victor if their parents were in the city.
Victor said that his parents were brought to the island and killed in front of him to torture him.
Ana looked sympathetically at Ennio and felt even more sad for him.
Maja and Nina said that their parents had also died from illnesses.
Irina said she would help evacuate the kids on the fishing ships.
Rob, Eli, Lauren and Amaia said they wanted to go search on the island.
Mason told Alex and Ana to go with the group going to evacuate the people in the city to help convince them all that they need to evacuate.
Then he told the Twins that they needed one of them to go with them to the island to take the submarine back and not leave it on the island to be found and destroyed.
And to use the submarine to evacuate people back to Irina's ships without the Police knowing about it.
Alex volunteered to drive the submarine back and Judith went with him.
After they had said their goodbyes, Rob, Eli, Lauren and Amaia went into the submarine with Mason, Alex, Ana, Judith and Kristofer.
THE SUBMARINE ARRIVED ON THE ISLAND BEFORE THE SUN STARTED RISING and everyone minus Alex and Judith, left on the island with weapons and the map.
Judith hugged Mason and he held her with the possibility that it could be the last time that he would hug her.
Mason told them that they would contact them by radio as soon as they had found the girls.
Alex, Ana and Judith returned in the submarine to Irina's ships and got back onto the ship.
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