The Quest

An Explosive Escape

"We need to get out of here soon!" Timothy yelled.

The pirates had been banging on the door for over five minutes. Timothy had bolted it closed but they were slowly breaking it down. Pendleton was bent over the kegs of gunpowder d working on a fuse.

"Don't rush me Tim! Rushed will kill us." Pendleton snapped. He stood up and showed off what he had made.

"How does this help us escape?" Sonia sked with a frown on her face.

In his hand Pendleton held a firework. Hand made and stuffed with gun powder. It was red and white striped made with random objects around the treasure room. Out of it was a fuse made of a rope that was in the treasure room. On the bottom was a golden ring that hung from the rocket. It had two fins on the bottom to help stabilize it's flight.

"It helps Sonia, by shooting us out of here. We can't climb down the wall, they would just shoot us with arrows. What we do is hook our climbing hooks to this ring and light it. We fly out of here and get a head start on the pirates. We fly towards the harbour and sail out of here. Since we know how to get here we tip off the navy, they raid the place and we collect Clarent afterwards."

Timothy couldn't argue. It was the best plan any of them had and the pirates were close to getting in.

"Let's do this." He said.

He hooked himself to the rocket and so did Sonia. Pendleton lit the fuse and connected himself to the firework. It launched and carried them with it. Right as they took off the pirates pushed down the door. They took in the scene for only a second. Right after the tower was blown to pieces. The extra gunpowder had ignited and blown the tower apart. Jewels and gold rained down over the whole city.

Timothy was unaware of this as he was flying connected to a homemade rocket toward pirate ships. The rocket launched at a slight downward angle, aimed at the harbour. He could see the ships getting bigger and bigger as they flew at them.

Pendleton looked up at the rocket and yelled over the sound of it. "We need to detach now or its gonna blow!"

He unhooked himself and fell into the ocean. Sonia was next and she fell into the ocean beside him. Timothy's hook wouldn't let go. He yanked on it and it wouldn't detach. The gloves he wore were melded with the hook so he couldn't let go. He could hear the rocket was close to exploding. He pulled one last time and it tore the ring off the rocket. He fell through the air down towards the ocean. But because he let go later than the others he fell onto the deck of a ship. He landed with a thud and laid there for a second. A pile of ropes had broken his fall but it still hurt bad. He laid there until Pendleton and Sonia showed up.

"Come on Tim you gotta get up! We need everyone to help us sail the ship, so we can get put of here. He ran off and started prepping the ship. Sonia pulled Timothy up onto her shoulder. She dragged him to the helm so he could steer and hold himself up. She ran off to help Pendleton lift the anchor. The wind caught the few sails that were raised and they started moving. The ship slid out of its moor and they picked up speed.

"We did it. We got The Demon Slayer back and we caused some havoc in Rusteel's HQ."

"I wouldn't speak to soon." Sonia said as she looked off the back of the ship.

Behind them picking up speed and gaining on them was the Shocker. On the bow stood Rusteel in his blue captain's coat. It caught up to them quickly as it was filled with a crew.

"I believe you have something that I own." Rusteel yelled as his ship pulled up near them.

"I think you actually stole it so I'm going to hold onto it. And while we're on the subject of stolen merchandise where'd you get that sword at your side?" Pendleton yelled back.