walking back to the camp, and Jenna stayed as far away from him as possible. Balto intended to tell her he was lying, but he couldn't with Nikki standing right there.

“Oh well, she'll just have to hate me for a few more minutes.” he thought.

When they finally got back to the camp, Nikki said “Alright Balto, you come with me. As for you, miss, you'll have to be going back into the pit.”

“No,” said Balto “I'll watch her for a while.”

Jenna looked at him in disgust.

“Don't worry Jenna, it'll only be an hour or so.”

Nikki took Balto out of earshot from Jenna and began explaining their plan.

When Balto was finally away from the rest of the convicts, he turned to Jenna.

“Look, when I told Nikki I was joining again, I was lying, alright? I had to do that so we could get off this bloody island.”

“You.. what... huh?”

'Boy, Jenna, that sounds real intelligent' thought Balto.

“They're going hijack a helicopter. Their plan is to hide, and make the camp look like it's deserted. They're hoping that the men inside will come out of the copter to take a closer look around. As soon as they all leave, Nikki and his team will jump them. When they do, we hop aboard the helicopter and fly off while they're busy fighting. Okay?”

“Uhh, okay.”

Balto could just picture Jenna with the words 'Clueless' behind her, and Jenna herself going 'Duhhhhh.' It was a lovely picture. However, his overactive imagination was interrupted by the sound of helicopter blades.

“Ze plane! Ze plane!” cried an old Russian goose.

“It's the helicopter!” said Nikki. “Everyone, into the forest! Balto, you ready for this?”

“Yep.”

He turned to Jenna and whispered “Okay, nows the time. Remember, head for the helicopter after the convicts have attacked the crew.”

The helicopter landed in the clearing. At first, nothing happened. Then, the doors on the side opened up, and half a dozen men stepped out. All the convicts tensed themselves and prepared to leap. Balto however, noticed something.

“Jenna! Those guys have guns!”

“What?”

“Those men that stepped out the helicopter have semi-automatic weapons!”

“Then... are we still planning on taking the helicopter?”

“I don't know. Only if every man is subdued. Hopefully our 'friends' over there hiding in the bushes don't see the guns and still jump them.”

Then, it happened. Six dogs,two polar bears, and two geese, all leaped out at the armed men, tackling them all. Looks of shock appeared on their faces as a semi-automatic went off, nearly hitting one of the dogs.

“Now Jenna, now or never!” Balto shouted.

The two of them ran out from the bush they were hiding in and ran across the clearing toward the helicopter. “Only fifty more feet” thought Balto. And then, a mere fifteen feet from the helicopter, Balto fell over, with a sharp pain in his side. He looked down and saw a red spot growing on his shirt. He looked up and saw that the armed men had fought to their way to their feet, and one of them had shot Balto in the side, and began running toward Balto and Jenna. As he was running, he lifted his weapon and took a shot at Jenna, who had been trying to help Balto to his feet. As soon as she realized what was happening, she ducked behind the copter, feeling regretful that she had to abandon Balto. The man kept running toward Jenna, and fortunately he hadn't noticed that Balto was still alive. As he ran past him, Balto kicked at the man's leg, who then fell over onto the ground. When the armed man tried to get up again, Balto crawled over to him and kicked him again, and grabbed his weapon. The man spun around and tackled Balto. They began wrestling, each one trying to get the gun out of the other's hand. Right when the man gained the upper hand, Jenna leaped at him with a large stick and whacked his temple with it.

“Come on, hurry up!” she said.

She lifted Balto to his feet and helped him hobble over to the copter, going as fast as she could. However, even in the fray of flying bullets and general mayhem caused by the convicts and policemen's fight, Nikki noticed them getting in. He quickly ran over to it just as Jenna was closing the door. He swung a stick in and stopped the door from latching, then opened it back up and jumped in just as Balto took off. He wasted no time in showing Balto how mad he was. He threw his stick at Balto with all his might. Balto ducked and it flew into the windshield, busting just about all of it. Balto tackled Nikki into the floor. Now the helicopter, with no one at it's controls, began slowly descending. Jenna quickly jumped into the pilot's seat, and began learning how to fly a helicopter. Jenna managed to get the helicopter's altitude back up, but with all the wind blowing on her face, she made one slight mistake. She accidentally hit something in the cockpit that made the entire copter jerk to the right, causing Balto and Nikki to roll into the door. And, unfortunately, Nikki didn't completely latch the door shut when he entered. The door flew open, and Balto and Nikki both fell out. Balto grabbed one of the runners (you know, those thingy-muh-bobbers that look like skis on the bottom of the helicopter?), and Nikki grabbed onto Balto's leg. Now Balto, having been shot in his side, didn't have the strength to pull himself up, but Nikki had no problem with it. He pulled himself up Balto, then onto the runner. He stood up straight, and then he turned to Balto and stepped on his hand, and not very gently either. Balto shot out with his other hand and grabbed hold of Nikki's ankle and pulled it out from underneath him. Nikki fell backward on the runner and landed on his back, while Balto finally got himself onto the runner. Nikki got up, enraged even more than before, and swung at Balto. Balto ducked, then charged at Nikki's stomach with his head. Nikki fell on his back again, but got up into a crouching position and grabbed Balto's shirt. He pulled hard and Balto began falling on top of him, when Nikki stuck his feet out and kicked Balto again. Nikki scrambled up and got a hold on the door handle and yanked it open, planning on getting inside and taking care of Jenna as well, when Balto suddenly got up and grabbed onto Nikki's shirt collar and yanked very very hard on it. Nikki flew back and teetered on the runner for a moment, then fell off. Balto watched as Nikki fell into the water, and smiled at how big of a splash he made. The wouldn't be enough to kill the guy or anything, but it sure wouldn't feel good. Balto climbed inside the copter and looked at Jenna.

“I think it's time I took back the cockpit. Your flying makes me nervous.”

Two months later...

Things had finally been fixed up. The convicts were taken off the island and put in a maximum security prison, and all the guards that came on the helicopter had been picked up as well. Balto, however, had begun flying 747's rather than buying another Cessna. As for Jenna, she told the oil company about the large supply of oil on the island. Her boss had been so impressed by the size of this deposit that he offered Jenna a promotion. She didn't accept it, but instead quit her job and learned how to fly 747's as well, and eventually became Balto's copilot.

Author's note: If you actually liked this fanfic (yeah right), than watch for the sequel, 'Countdown', coming soon.