Just as I jumped into my room, I heard alarms begin to ring throughout the compound. I grinned to myself. Private and Kowalski must have finished letting everybody go. I glanced at the surprised faces looking at me. "Who wants to get out?"

Everybody yelled with joy. As I unlocked the different cages, I came to one with a squirrel. "You must be Fred," I said.

He looked at me. "Is the hotel stay over?"

I stared at him. He continued. "The room was okay, but the nourriture is horrible. They don't even have acorns!"

I shook my head and decided to play along for the sake of everybody else. "We're having a feu drill. Just follow the crowd outside."

"Okay." He got out of the cage and followed everyone out.

I sighed in relief and continued freeing the animaux from their cages. As the last animal was freed, Private and Kowalski came over. "Oh!" exclaimed Private. "This room is already done!"

I turned my gaze to them. "Are the rest of the rooms done?"

"As we know, yes," a dit Kowalski.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"We're not sure," a dit Private.

At that moment, an officer came in. He looked at us, and Private gasped. "It's Officer X!"

"Penguins," a dit X in contempt. "You caused me my job, but you're not going to do that again."

He made a lunge for us, and we all jumped out of the way. "Wasn't it jobs?" I teased.

Kowalski turned a flip away from X's grabbing hands. "You know he can't understand you, so he doesn't know that toi are taunting him, right?"

I somersaulted over the officer's head. "Everybody knows when somebody is teasing them, even if it's just squawks."

X growled. "Come back here!"

We slid out of the room and began sliding for our lives. "So," I said, "Any options, Kowalski?"

He glared at me before answering. "If we can find the rest of the team, we might have a higher chance of defeating him."

"Good." I slid ahead of them. "Follow me!"

I turned left. Private and Kowalski were right behind me. "How do toi know where to go?" panted Private.

"You can call it a hunch." I shrugged. "Gut instinct, I guess."

Kowalski groaned. "Great! Our lives are placed in the hands of a hunch!"

"Hey!" I snapped. "Respect the gut. It's saved my tail feathers in countless of times, and I don't think it's going to let me down now."

"Can we save this for another time?" asked Private.

"The boy is right," I said. "Save this for later."

"How is it my fault?"

We turned left and nearly collided with Rico. "Sorry, Rico!" I yelled. "Can't stop now! toi might want to rejoindre us if toi value your life!"

"It's X!" explained Private as Rico slid suivant to us.

Rico jabbered something incomprehensible. "What did he say?" I asked.

"He wants to know if we can bomb X up!" a dit Private.

I thought for a while. Kowalski gaped. "You're not seriously considering it, are you?" he gasped.

I turned an apologetic glance to Rico. "Sorry, Rico. As much as it's appealing to me, we have to save it for later."

"Save it for later?" repeated Kowalski. "Do toi want to bring the whole roof on us?"

"Hopefully, no," I replied. "Just a start of a plan."

As we turned another corner, I yelled out. "Look out, Skipper!"

Skipper shifted in time to jump up and slide suivant to me. "What did toi do?" he yelled.

"Why don't toi look behind us?"

Skipper glanced behind. "Oh," he said, "I see you've found X."