Chapter 6

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Everybody met up with Mighty Eagle at Eagle Mountain as Leonard is in front of a projection screen before he said to the group, "Each of you has
been selected because you're the best in your field." "Oh." The others said, touched by that until he added, "That we can find." "Oh." They said as Leonard shows Eagle Island as he said, "Your skills will be put to the test facing this. As you can clearly see, this is a vol-" "Volcano!" Red butts in, taking the lead as he said, ""A volcano" is what my assistant was going to say." Leonard looked upset and said, "Assistant- You're the assistant!"

The two did a tug-o-war for the stick before Silver clears her throat and corrects them, "Actually, it's a composite volcano. You can tell by the height and the apparent vent clusters." "Whoa..." Jason, Miles and Lillie said before Red said, "Okay, forget I said "volcano." This is a... It's a super-weapon!" The group gasped before Poppy said, "Weird, because it looks just like a volcano." Leonard then said, "Yep, and here's the scary part. This is their psychotic leader!" Courtney pushed a button on the remote to show the leader, but it showed a selfie of Leonard instead, much to the group's disturbance.

Leonard took notice and nervously said, "Ooh! How'd that get in there? Ha, ha. Next." More selfies of him appear which Chuck finds it entertaining as he eats some popcorn while Gale tried not to laugh as Leonard yells, "Courtney!" "I mean, you took them." Courtney said as Red takes the remote from Leonard and pushed a button, revealing Zeta and said, "THIS is their psychotic leader." Mighty Eagle shows fear as he looks at the photo of a painful past as he whines and screams.

The others look at him as Red said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey. Buddy, do you know her?" Mighty Eagle tries to deny, "What? Me? No. No, definitely not, absolutely not. Never seen her before in my life. Who is that? I don't know!"

He gives a nervous grin as Red said, "Not terribly convincing, but movin' on." "So, what's your brilliant plan, dad?" Jason ask sarcastically as Red answered, "All right, here's what we're lookin' at, folks. Step one: Travel undetected to Eagle Island. Step two: We're gonna break into the super-weapon. And step three: Deactivate the superweapon. Once we break in there..." Jason whispers to Silver, "No plan." "...hopefully, before both islands are destroyed and we all die, so that's, uh... That's it."

Silver raised her hand and ask, "Right. So I just have a few questions." "Why? I explained everything. It's a foolproof plan." Red points out, but Silver continues to ask, "Yeah. How do we sneak onto the island? What is the super-weapon and how do we deactivate it?"

"And when you say "escape," how do you plan to do that? This is a crucial thing to figure out." "Agreed." Gale said as Leonard asked, "Why isn't she in charge?" "Told you she's super smart." Chuck said, which annoys Red before Stella turns to Mighty Eagle and ask, "Mighty Eagle? Do you have an Eagle Island map?" Mighty Eagle denied and lies, "What? No. No, there's no map."

He backs up to a banner and knocks it, revealing the map of Eagle Island as Courtney said, "Oh, it's a map." As the others look at the map, Willow hears something and ask, "Um, guys? Do you hear that?" The others look around as Gale ask, "Hear what?" "Some kind of whistling sound." Willow said as Chuck spoke, "It almost sounds like a..." He imitated a whistle as Lillie and Silver check outside while Silver holds the map. They gasp to see something coming and said, "Hey, guys?" They look outside to see a giant ice ball heading towards them as Red and Stella both yelled, "Run!"

They ran from the giant ice ball as Mighty Eagle said, "Emergency exit, all the way down!" Chuck ran faster and reached the door, but stops to find a dead end at the other side and said, "Well, that's not safe." The others ran towards the door as he yelled, "Wait! Stop!" Red nearly fell when Stella grabs him by the arm, pulling him back as Mighty Eagle came running behind and said, "Everyone hop on!" Everybody jumped onto Mighty Eagle as he flew out just as the giant ice ball destroyed the mountain, flying above them and hits the ocean. Back at Eagle Island, Zeta, Glenn and Debbie watch the destruction from the monitors.

"Rewind it. Rewind it. Play it again. Play it again. Play it again." Zeta said as Glenn replays the footage of the giant ice ball destroying the mountain before Zeta said, "Ha, ha. Yes, baby! We knocked the top right off of that! Glenn, you didn't mess it up this time."

The other eagles cheered as Zeta adds, "That should send him runnin'." Debbie looked confused and asked, "Wait. "Him"? Who you sendin' running?" Zeta went quiet as Glenn also ask, "Yeah. Who's "him"?" Zeta then lies, ""Them." I said "them." Stop asking me stupid questions."

Debbie looked down and said, "I am so sorry." The others he's onto Mighty Eagle as Miles said, "Thanks for saving our lives, Mr. Mighty Eagle!" "Well, you can always count on-" Mighty Eagle said  before he crashed into another mountain, falling down as everyone else screamed before Red unravels the map and said, "Everyone grab the map!" Everybody grabbed onto the map as the map glides them down before Poppy yelled, "Hey, it's working!" They glided through a gap as they breathe a sigh of relief, only to hear something tearing up. "Please tell me that was your pants ripping." Chuck said as Bomb answered, "I don't wear pants!" Everybody yelled, "None of us wear pants!"

They look up to see a hole appearing at the top of the center of the map as they all fall down, screaming. Silver looks at the hole and looks at the ground. Doing some calculations, she pinpoints the time that they'll hit the ground as she said under her breath, "Eight-point-one seconds." She looks up and let's go of the map, flying up as Chuck yells, "Silver! No!" She dives down towards the hole, holds onto it and takes out her Super String. She tied up the hole as it inflates again, getting the group to land safely onto the ground. Chuck held onto Dahlia as she blushed from that as Willow landed on top of Bomb, both a bit flustered from that while Stella checked on Jason, Miles and Lillie for any scratches.

Red gets up as he rubbed his head, seeing Stella with the kids as he breathed a sigh of relief when the group heard Mighty Eagle screamed and said, "My mountain!" They see the mountain completely destroyed as Gale said, "This isn't good." "What do we do now?" Lillie ask as Silver and Red both said, "We gotta stop that super-weapon." Silver was first to jinx Red as he groans.

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