Chapter 13

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They looked over the blueprints to the secret-weapon as Silver explained, "Okay. That's the heart of the super-weapon, and if you look closely, you can see that it's powered by air pressure. Moisture around a composite volcano instantly vaporizes, sending a plume of highly pressurized steam to the surface. That steam is contained by the pressure chamber. And that's the part we need to destroy. Only problem is, it's surrounded by armed guards. Bomb, Poppy. Do you think you can take out those guards?"

"Awesome!" Poppy said before Bomb speaks, "Some of 'em look kind of tough." "We'll manage, big guy." Poppy encouraged as Silver continued, "Chuck, Dahlia and Willow, I need you three to disable the security cameras. There's a bunch, so you'll have to work fast." "Fast? Don't even worry about it, sis." Chuck said as he cracks his knuckles while Dahlia and Willow nodded.

"Red, you, me, Stella, Lillie, Miles and Jason have to get inside one of those ice balls." Silver said before Red spoke, "Inside an ice ball? I... Sure. Okay." The kids were excited as Silver turns to the rest and said, "Leonard, Courtney, Garry, and Gale, do you see that giant lever near the orange lava tube? I need you to pull it. That will create a ramp so when me, Stella, Lillie, Miles, Red and Jason roll down in the ice ball, we'll be launched through the air at the perfect trajectory to take out the super-weapon. Got it?"

"Hm, not bad Silver." Gale said as Silver puts her wing down, saying, "Okay, everyone put your wings and hooves in." Everybody puts their wings and hooves in the middle as they say in unison, "Go, team!" Everybody split up and into their positions. Chuck, Dahlia and Willow took care of the security cameras with neat drawings on sticky notes attached to the lenses, Bomb and Poppy took the guards out, LITERALLY in a bar, Leonard, Courtney, Garry and Gale scaled their way towards the lever and the family and Silver crawl through the vents for the ice-balls. Lillie peeked into one and said, "Oh, I think this one's it." She opens it, but it revealed the same seal that stole Zeta's food having dinner with the frozen dog. Very confused, the group closed the vent slowly.

They finally reached the vent where the ice-balls are made while Bomb and Poppy took care of the guards. Silver spoke through the communicator on her wrist, "Okay, Gale. Time for Plan X." Gale spoke through the screen, "Yeah, while you said "Plan X", Leonard thought you said spandex." "Spandex?" Silver and the family questioned. It shows the group wearing glittering pink spandex. Meanwhile, Zeta and Debbie were in the lobby at the countdown reached three minutes to launch.

"Three minutes to launch. Debbie, we are starting over, girl. This is like New Year's." Zeta said to her daughter as Debbie said, "Oh, my gosh, yes, okay. I'm gonna get some glitter and decorations. This is gonna be so much fun!" Debbie ran upstairs to get the decorations until she slipped from the ice. She grabbed the box of decorations with a smile, but it disappeared when she sees the pool toys deflated and the cage room opened.

Holding up the deflated toys, she calls out to Zeta, "Zeta! We have a problem." Zeta looks at the deflated pool toys and widens her eyes, saying, "Oh, my good...Aah! Go find them!" Back with the family and Silver, they looked down at the hatch where the ice balls will form as Silver explained, "Okay. That's where the ice balls are made. We've gotta jump in that hole at the exact moment that the jaws open up." Stella looks at her and ask, "Are you sure about this, Silver?"

"Uh. Actually, no. Goin' with my gut this time. And please, just call me Silvi." Silver answered, which the family didn't expect until an announcement was made. "Attention, all eagles. The prisoners have escaped." Debbie spoke through the microphone as the Eagle guards stopped dancing and went back to work.

"Guys, guys, guys! Whoa, hold on! We're not done hanging out and having a good time." Poppy tried to convince the guards to stay, but they already left as Bomb spoke through the communicator, "Silver, we've got a problem." Silver and the family waited for the latch to open as Silver said, "Jump on the count of three. One, two..." The latch opens as they yell, "Three!" They jump down into the latch just as it closed. Red's head feathers got caught on the door as he pulls them in.

The latch opens and ice forms around the family, enclosing them inside the ice ball. They cheered as Stella said, "It worked!" Lillie looked around and asked, "Where's dad?" "Ha, ha. We did it!" Red said while he hangs above by his head feathers. He got down as they began to roll towards the lava injectors before Red said, "I got this one." He goes to the left, making the ice ball lean away from the injectors, but the others leaned to the right when the ice ball got too close to the ledge.

They began to roll down as Red said, "Well, it's all downhill from here." In the middle, Leonard, Courtney, Gale and Garry reached the lever as Courtney asked, "Okay, now what?" "If my calculations are correct, we should be tall enough to reach that lever if all four of us-" Garry was about to explain until he and Gale were knocked back by an ice ball. Leonard and Courtney looked over to see Gale gripping tightly on the ledge and her other wing holding onto Garry by the spandex, his rear exposed as the duo grimaced in disgust before Leonard said, "Uh... Hang in there!" "You think?!" Gale yelled as Leonard and Courtney moved away from another ice ball as they looked at the lever before Leonard said, "Okay, new plan." Silver looks at her watch and said, "We need to get to 65 miles per hour." The family worked together with the steps before Red said, "At least we're gonna get all our steps in."

"Not the time for jokes, Red." Stella said as they kept running. They have 2 minutes left until the super-weapon is fully charged as Silver spoke through the communicator, "Leonard. Is the ramp elevated?" Leonard tried to reach for the lever while on top of Courtney before he answered, "We're working on it!" The two tumbled down as Leonard tried to come up with another plan to reach the lever, while Courtney takes her headphones off, tossed them up and tied the lever with it. "Hey, Leonard." She said, gaining his attention as he saw what she did and said, "Oh, that could work!"

The family kept running faster as Jason asked, "What speed are we at?" Silver checks her watch and said, "We're maxing out at 59 mph. We need to get to 65!" Leonard and Courtney tried to lower the lever for the ramp to rise up, but the lever breaks in half as Leonard spoke through the watch, "Silver, the lever is broken." "Broken?" Silver repeats as Stella asked, "Leonard, don't you have any gadgets you can use? We're almost at the ramp!" Leonard gets an idea and ran to where Gale and Garry are still hanging as he asked, "Guys, any way you can bring me the gadgets?"

Gale and Garry looked at him, dumbfounded before Garry answered, "No, there isn't." Chuck, Dahlia and Willow were at the hall before Red spoke through Chuck's communicator, "Chuck, I need Garry's backpack!" "On it." Chuck said as he speeds past the two and ran up the spiral as he called out for Garry and Gale. "Chuck, over here!" Gale yelled as Garry throws the backpack up. Chuck caught it and ran towards where Leonard and Courtney are. Silver looked at her watch as they reached 65 mph and said, "Yes, we've reached 65 mph!"

Down below, Glenn moves the big red button under Zeta's feet as the team has fifteen seconds left. Chuck avoided the lava-filled ice balls and laughs until he lost his footing and slipped on the backpack, shooting it up. "Leonard, it's now or never!" Silver yelled as she and the family were almost there. Leonard sees the backpack and leaps for it, taking out the Eagle Caller and tossed it to Courtney as the Eagles began counting down to ten. Courtney placed it in the middle as Red and the others bounced from the gadget, launching them up and towards the secret-weapon. Everything went slow as Zeta looks up to see an ice ball falling towards the weapon. Red was the only one having his eyes closed before he held his family protectively.

They also grabbed Silver for protection as they smashed into the weapon. They tumbled off and laugh triumphly, until they saw that they only made a dent on it as Silver said, "It didn't work." "I-I don't get it." Red muttered.

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