Through the Looking Glass: Chapter 6-C
Silver: Chapter 6
The instant Banjo woke up, he ran into the kitchen to find that he had overslept a little again and finding Tooty, Kazooie, and Silver all awake and beginning their day. The kiss was temporarily pushed back in Banjo's mind as he realized that his friends were in ever present danger.
"Oh, morning Banjo!" exclaimed Kazooie a little more cheerfully than she usually did. "I was wondering when you'd--!"
"I don't have time for that," shouted the bear as he rushed back into his bedroom and tore his rucksack away from the coat rack roughly.
"Whoah, Banjo, what's the rush?" asked Kazooie.
"I don't have time to explain!" said the bear frantically as he ran towards the door. "Kazooie, I'm going to be in Showdown Town, and if I'm not back by noon, then I want you to take Tooty, Silver, and the Chaos Emeralds to the Jinjo Village!"
"Let me guess," replied Silver. "This 'Rouge' person told you something?"
"And bad things are gonna happen!" added the bear as he opened the door. "I'll be back as quick as I can, and if I'm not here by lunch, I already told you what to do."
With this, the bear ran out of the house, slamming the door behind him roughly. Kazooie and Banjo looked at him before Silver stood up.
"There's no way I'm letting him go alone," said the hedgehog. He trudged along to the door when Kazooie stopped him by standing in front of the door.
"No," said the breegull. "Not while your ankle is--!"
Before the bird could continue, Silver simply dashed out, nearly knocking the door clear off of its hinges. With a little help of his psychic powers, Kazooie watched as Silver followed Banjo to the portal to Showdown Town. There was a brief argument where the two had come together, but they had soon entered the portal together.
"Oh, dear..." said Tooty softly. "This isn't a good thing...
"You can say that again..." replied the breegull, who was less than impressed with these developments. "I just hope they know what they're doing..."
Tooty nodded in agreement as she looked down on her breakfast.
Silver and Banjo had both slid down the slope, and thankfully this time Trophy Thomas was not wandering around at the base of the slope. The hedgehog looked to the honey bear.
"You wanna split up?" asked the hedgehog. "It might get things done faster that way."
Banjo shrugged. "Whatever works. You go find some people and I'll find some more. Bring them to Mumbo's workshop; he's always in there, and he should have a few machines around somewhere."
"Okay, got it," replied Silver. "What... exactly did she tell you again?"
The honey bear looked at the hedgehog in desperation. "She said a robot army is going to invade! Now let's move!"
Bear and hedgehog then took off in two different directions. The silver-furred hedgehog only hoped that he would find somebody fast and before the danger that Banjo had foretold had arrived. The telepathic rodent knew the meaning of danger, and he knew this would be a small feat to put together, but he was sure that whatever happened could lead to a bad timeline, and so he was determined to put a stop to whatever was going to happen next.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt himself bump straight into somebody. Looking down, he realized he had just bumped into Trophy Thomas again. Bottles was standing right next to the cheetah, and as the overly egotistic cat stood up the hedgehog could feel the icy glare from underneath the sunglasses.
"What the hell is it with you?" he asked vehemently. "Why do you--?"
"I don't have time to explain!" replied Silver, undaunted by the prideful cat. "Listen, we've gotta get out of here."
"What?" asked Bottles from where he stood next to Trophy Thomas. "Why? I don't see anything wrong!"
"Banjo said something's going to happen!" replied the hedgehog. "And it isn't anything good, either!"
The cat shrugged at this. "Oh, him?" asked the cat. "Well... I dunno, but I always thought he did seem like a bit of an idiot."
Bottles' mouth was wide open at this revelation, shocked by the cat's truly low opinion of the honey bear.
"Excuse me!" replied Silver angrily. "How do you think he got Tooty back? And wouldn't you think the same person who brought her back would also tell him of stuff?"
The cat lifted his shades, winking at the hedgehog. "Well, she can always--"
Before the cat could finish, the hedgehog simply held his hand forward, and the blue rings on his gloves glowed as suddenly Trophy Thomas found himself surrounded in a turquoise aura. When the cat levitated from the ground on Silver's direction, however, he suddenly realized he had messed with the wrong person.
"Now will you shut up and listen to me?" asked Silver angrily as he held the cat telepathically in the air.
And right before the cat could reply, a loud explosion was suddenly heard. Silver, Bottles, and T.T. all looked to see a slight spot of flame from L.O.G.'s game factory where a shell had exploded against it. Before anybody else could reply, a bevy of explosions suddenly rang out, plumes of red flame flying from the sides of the factory.
"Oh, no!" said Bottles. "What's going on?"
"Robot invasion, that's what!" replied Silver as he let Trophy Thomas down quickly.
The cat was wide-eyed, so much that even with his shades on people could tell this was so. "Oh, damn it, now I'm gonna look like the idiot here!" he groaned.
"You can save the self-pity episode for later," replied the hedgehog as he released his telekinetic control over the overly prideful cheetah. "Now, we've gotta get to Mumbo's warehouse, and fast!"
Without another word, the three of them took off running. However, they had not gotten quite so far when suddenly a bunch of robots came from nowhere right in front of them. All of them looked a bit like foot grunts if they had been invented by somebody quite intelligent, probably the Eggman that Banjo had told him about.
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Bottles as they ground to a halt. "This can't be good!"
Silver, being one to act fast instead of stand there in shock, put his telekinetic skills to use as he lifted the ringleader of the particularly small robots with his abilities. The robots were left to stand around in wonder before Silver launched the leader at all of the robots directly behind him. A loud series of explosions occurred shortly after as the robots behind were all obliterated. With a little collateral damage on the side, there was a path cleared for Silver to run through. Soon after, he grabbed Bottles and Trophy Thomas in his arms with the help of his psychokinesis, and ran right through the hole he had created in the robot group.
"Next time, don't say anything, do something!" replied Silver. "We don't have time for questions right now!"
The silver tinted hedgehog kept on running. However, Trophy Thomas spotted something through the corner of his eye that caught his attention. When he turned to look, he saw a floating robot that looked ready to shoot at them with a small turret gun.
"Look out!" he cried, indicating the robot to Silver.
Just after he shouted this, the robot let loose with a stream of bullets. Silver, getting a little frantic, began to move from side to side to dodge the rapidly oncoming projectiles. Bottles was thankfully short enough to stay out of the bullet's range, but Trophy Thomas found that a few of the bullets were flying straight into his hair and out, leaving a few singe marks that were easily noticeable amongst the blue on the rest of his head.
The hedgehog kept on running, and when the robot finally ran out of ammo, Silver launched Bottles at it telekintetically.
"W-w-w-wait!" shouted Bottles as he was sent flying at the robot.
Before anybody could do anything else, the mole had collided with the robot. The contraption then fell straight to the ground before exploding. Bottles was then left plummeting to the ground before Silver held his hand back up and held Bottles telepathically.
"I guess robots always break when you fling things at them," he said as he slowly recalled Bottles to his person.
"Yeah, let's not run into any more of those things," replied Thomas as he rubbed his head.
Bottles was dazed for a second before he came back within Silver's arms. Looking ahead of him, however, he saw the garage door to Mumbo's warehouse open.
"Wait, there's Mumbo's warehouse!" cried the mole. "We're safe!"
The silver hedgehog noticed this too, and he made a beeline straight for the open garage door. However, once he had run inside, he found that Bottles had spoken just the slightest bit too soon, for inside Banjo, Humba, and Mumbo were all trying to grapple with a rather large group of the robots similar to what had ambushed Silver earlier. Looking at this, the hedgehog let Bottles and Thomas down.
"You guys get to somewhere safe!" he commanded.
As Banjo noticed the hedgehog's entrance, T.T. and Bottles both ran away from Silver to heed his command.
"I'll handle these guys!" exclaimed the hedgehog, holding his hands in front of him.
The turquoise aura surrounded the robots again, and this time they were all sent levitating. Silver made sure that Humba, Mumbo, and Banjo were not in the group he had levitated, and then he turned around slowly, holding his hand behind him as he looked out to see a bunch more robots headed in their direction.
Letting out a yell, the hedgehog then brought his hands out, cutting off his psychic connection with the robots after he had his hands all the way in front of him. In response to this, the robots were sent flying out of the garage and out into Showdown Town proper, crashing into the robots that were trying to get towards the garage. While they were stunned, Silver brought his hands up in the air quickly, and just when the turquoise light surrounded the garage door Silver brought his hands down. In response, the garage door slammed shut with a loud boom, and darkness overtook the entire garage.
After a few seconds, a light went on, and then Silver was seen on his knees, panting from exhaustion as Banjo ran over to the telekinetic hedgehog.
"I hope you didn't push yourself with your powers," replied Banjo as Bottles and Trophy Thomas came out of the place they had hid behind to avoid the robots being flung.
"I didn't," replied Silver as his panting slowed. "Trust me, if I did, I would've passed out by now."
"Yeah, remind me never to be around you when evil robot armies come after me, thanks," said Trophy Thomas.
"So, you have any idea about what that was all about?" asked Bottles, holding his hand in front of him.
"Oh!" exclaimed the bear. "I got visited by that woman I saw in my dreams, and she warned me that Dr. Eggman was going to send his robots here."
"Strange robots after strange jewel?" asked Humba.
Banjo nodded. "Yeah, they are," he said. "They would've headed straight for me, but the woman was able to change the coordinates. I came just in time, it seems."
Bottles shook his head. "Couldn't she have sent it to some other place?" he asked irritably.
"She didn't know Showdown Town was here," replied the bear with a shrug. "I have a feeling that if she knew she would've changed it to somewhere else."
"Where strange jewel at?" asked Mumbo.
Silver shrugged as he finally had the energy to stand on his legs without too much trouble. "We left them at Banjo's house," he said. "That way Kazooie and Tooty can run away with the Chaos Emeralds if things get really bad here."
"Oh, speaking of that," said Banjo, drawing Kazooie's wrench from his blue backpack. "Mumbo, what's the best airship model you have?"
"Oh, bear want airship?" asked the shaman as he moved over to a certain part of the garage. "Here. Mumbo give you this."
The group of six advanced towards a rather large airship model that Banjo remembered constructing during his last confrontation with Grunty. The airship was rather large, and Banjo had found very little use for it as he found that the ship kept on travelling too far in the air. However, for the trip that Banjo supposed would take a while to get to Angel Island, he figured this model would serve his purposes well.
Slowly, the bear went up to the airship, admiring the many helicopter blades on it. Slowly, he touched the magical wrench to it, and a scarlet light surrounded the airship as Banjo did so. Smiling, he stored the wrench in his rucksack.
"I don't need it now," he said as he brushed his hands together. "However, I will need it later."
"Oh, so you were planning on doing a vehicle recall after leaving this place?" asked Bottles as he thought of this. "Why?"
"I'll tell you later," said Banjo. "For now, we've gotta get out of this town."
"I just hope nobody breaks this thing first..." replied Trophy Thomas uncertainly.
"Mumbo go get land vehicle," said the shaman as he walked towards another part of the garage.
The remaining five people walked into the center of the garage, and then the sound of an engine starting was heard as headlights came on from within the garage. Slowly, Mumbo drove a rather large car up to where the five others were, Banjo blinking as he recognized the shape.
"Hey, didn't this use to be Grunty's?" he asked perplexedly.
"Computer man gave witch's car to Mumbo," replied the shaman.
Banjo nodded as he walked to the car. "Things are about to get crazy," he said, grinning as he hopped on.
Uncertainly, the rest that were in the garage followed, Banjo, Bottles, and Humba all helping Silver climb into the car as they knew he could not aggravate his leg in this state.
"At least I won't need my telepathy to hold my leg up while I run," said the hedgehog as he shrugged.
All five of them were seated in the passenger seats which Mumbo had apparently installed since he had acquired the car. Banjo sat next to Silver, and they all faced the garage door, apprehension in their faces.
"So, we just break down the garage door?" asked Trophy Thomas.
"Mumbo pay for new door," replied the witch doctor. "This door too old."
"And besides, the robots might be outside waiting for us..." added Silver. "It'll help distract them."
"Humba hope we get to portal fast..." said the shamaness uncertainly.
The shaman nodded, looking at the door directly ahead of him as he put his foot on the gas pedal.
Within a few seconds, the pedal had been depressed by the shaman, and then the car raced straight through the garage door, knocking it down with an incredibly loud clang. Sure enough, there were a lot of robots waiting for the group to come out. However, the loud noise that had accompanied the door flying into the air and crashing down onto the ground provided enough of a distraction that Mumbo was able to drive the car head-on into the crowd of robots that had gathered. The car that used to belong to Grunty pretty much drove straight through the crowd and into a clearer patch.
"Whoah!" shouted Trophy Thomas, raising his hands in the air in glee. "This is totally radical, dude!"
"Can it!" replied Silver as he looked ahead of him. "We've still got plenty of things to blow up!"
And Silver was right, for then more of the flying robots that had fired bullets at them appeared again. Thankfully, they had a difficult time locking on to their moving targets as Mumbo kept on swerving around, so they had time to think of a plan. Silver glanced to Bottles briefly before Banjo stood up. Supporting himself against the guard rails of the speedy vehicle, he grabbed a strange grenade-shaped egg from within. He looked at it curiously, and then when he looked into the bag he found several more eggs in the rucksack
"Wow, I never though Kazooie kept these in here..." he said, scratching his head.
"Don't just look at it!" shouted Bottles desperately. "Throw it before Silver gets any ideas!"
The bear was briefly startled out of here. Quickly aiming, he tossed the grenade egg in his hands at the robot that was directly in front of Mumbo. An explosion rang out, and the group passed underneath the flames quickly. Not wasting more time, Banjo tossed another egg, this one slightly off the mark as it collided into a building.
"Damn it, let me try!" shouted Silver as he telepathically held the rest of the grenade eggs in the air right as Banjo had pulled a few more out of the rucksack.
The silver hedgehog then let the grenade eggs fly at the robots with his telekinesis, and then Banjo found himself ducking, the explosions passing over him harmlessly. Humba and T.T. had both just sat there, Humba too afraid to say anything and Thomas having too much fun to care as Banjo sat back down.
And then, just a few seconds after this episode, they saw the slope that led up to the portal to Spiral Mountain. It was in clear sight, and thankfully the robots had not seemed to notice it yet.
"Quick!" cried Silver, pointing to the slope. "Get over there!"
Mumbo turned the steering wheel very quickly, causing the vehicle to nearly tip over before it corrected itself. Before long, the group was travelling up the slope to the portal to Spiral Mountain. Safety was just within their reaches, and everybody was tense in anticipation.
"Come on... come on..." whispered Banjo as he patted the side of Grunty's car.
This would have had no effect on the vehicle's performance, but it made him feel better when they were out of Showdown Town and in Spiral Mountain. Silver was at the ready by the time they had gotten out of the portal, and he then telekinetically severed the wires to the control panel that governed the portal. The portal suddenly died on them, and Bottles was left to yell at Silver.
Or, he would have if not for the large robot that had rushed after them just after the portal had lost power. They suddenly noticed this robot on wheels going straight for them at a ridiculously high speed, such that if Silver had not used his telepathy on the robot immediately it would have run the car right over.
"Damn it, do something!" shouted the hedgehog as Mumbo noticed this and began to drive circles around the mountain that was the area's namesake. "I can't hold this guy back for much longer!"
The bear nodded, but when he looked into the bag to find more of the grenade eggs, he found that there were no more in the bag. Frantically, Banjo looked for anything that he could use as an improvised weapon.
"Don't just stand there, do something!" shouted Thomas as he looked behind him.
"I don't have any more grenade eggs!" shouted the bear in reply. "What do I do?"
This question was answered for him, however, for then an explosion happened at one of the robot's legs and it slowed down slightly. This was good for Silver, who now did not need to use as much telepathy to hold the robot back, but it was still threatening to overtake them with disastrous results. Banjo turned to face the shaman who was driving the automobile, looking at him desperately.
"Mumbo, can't this thing go any faster?" he cried.
"Mumbo drive car as fast as Mumbo can," replied the shaman as loudly as he could over the roar of the engine and the chaos being caused by them.
Another grenade shot was heard, however, and this time the robot was leaning over on its side, and now it was having difficulty keeping up with the car. Silver released his telekinetic hold, and panting softly he was glad when the robot now barely moved fast enough to keep up.
"Wait, where do those explosions keep coming from?" asked Bottles, pointing out something as they went around the mountain again.
Thinking about this, Banjo realized the mole was right; there was no really viable explanation for where the explosions were coming from, and so they would have to wait.
They did not need to wait much longer, though, for then a third and final explosion at the robot's legs destroyed one of the wheels. This in turn sent the robot tumbling away. Mumbo had turned a corner as soon as he could, however, so Silver saw no need to use his telepathy at all. The robot rolled right into a mountain, where a massive explosion billowed up from the rock. Mumbo slowed down, taking Grunty's car all the way to what Banjo realized had been the pathway to his house to see what was happening.
What he saw surprised him greatly; Tooty stood there with Kazooie in what he realized was breegull blaster position. The female bear looked up at Banjo and his friends, smiling as the bear jumped down from Grunty's car as Thomas, Bottles, Humba, and Mumbo all followed. Silver had hoisted himself onto Banjo's back, and as soon as he was on solid ground again he put his hands on his knees and breathed deeply.
"How did you learn how to do the Breegull Blaster?" asked Banjo immediately before Silver could complain about his telekinetic powers nearly exhausting him.
"Kazooie gave me one of those orbs the L.O.G. gave you guys..." replied the bear, letting go of the breegull as she shrugged. "I guess it helped in the end..."
Banjo bent down, hugging his sister lightly. "I'm glad it did," he said, patting her back.
Trophy Thomas looked at this scene with an unamused expression on his face. Thinking about what else there was, he crossed his arms in front of him, looking at the bear with slight disdain.
"So, what now?" he asked.
"Oh!" said Kazooie as she walked right up to the prideful cat. "Actually, we were just going to head to the Jinjo Village to hide when you guys showed up."
Tooty then held the Chaos Emeralds up from where she had put them in her pants. Banjo nodded to this, glad that his sister had taken his advice shortly before leaving.
"So what's the story now that you're here?" asked the breegull as she hopped into Banjo's rucksack.
"Okay," said Banjo, appreciating the company in his backpack. "So Rouge also told me that the Master Emerald is close to here."
Banjo's breegull friend gawked at this. "You mean, the Master Emerald?" she asked in disbelief.
"Yep," said Banjo. "I was thinking of going to Cloud Cuckooland, because she said we should go to the highest point I knew of to find it!"
Humba nodded to this. "Humba sense big heap energy," she said. "Such energy not here before."
Silver by this time had gathered his energy back. "Why don't we just Chaos Control up there?" asked Silver.
The honey bear shook his head and pointed at the depowered portal. "Because then those robots will trace us to here," he said.
"Yeah, I'd rather get caught later than sooner, thanks," added Trophy Thomas as he shrugged. "Besides, you destroyed our only way back to Showdown Town, so they'll have a hell of a time finding this place without that."
The grey hedgehog nodded at this. "So we go by foot then?" he asked.
Banjo shrugged as he began moving. "It shouldn't be that far," he replied. "Now come on, we've gotta get out of here before more of those robots come."
"What Humba and Mumbo do?" asked the shamaness suddenly.
Kazooie crossed her arms in front of her, a flat expression on her face. "What do you think, hut girl?" replied Kazooie. "All of you better come with us right now!"
Trophy Thomas had already taken this hint, and so he walked just behind Banjo and Tooty. Silver and Bottles followed behind them shortly after, and then after the two shamans looked at each other they shrugged and followed along.
It had been a lengthier trek to the bubble elevator to Cloud Cuckooland than Banjo had thought it would be. Especially a problem was that Banjo had suddenly remembered that most of the crew could not get up there without Kazooie's suction shoes. Thankfully, Silver had volunteered to go up first with Kazooie, and once he was there he was able to levitate the entire rest of the party to that point. It was quite a bit faster, and so the group moved over to what lay underneath the little arch that they had to pass under to access the bubble elevator.
When they saw the bubble, however, the entire rest of the group realized that Banjo and Kazooie were both not kidding that the elevator up to Cloud Cuckooland was in fact a bubble. Surprised, Silver went forward, and then pointed at the thing.
"You're seriously telling me this is what's going to get us up to Cloud Cuckooland?" he asked incredulously.
"Trust me, you haven't seen anything yet, parrot face!" replied Kazooie. "Just you wait until we actually get up there!"
"Humba think island in sky really strange," added the shamaness.
Trophy Thomas nodded as the rest of the group came forward. "But how the hell are all of us gonna fit in there?"
Banjo shrugged. "I dunno," he said. "I haven't checked with this many people before..."
"Well, let's find out, yeah?" asked Bottles as everybody moved close to the bubble elevator.
"Okay, on the count of three, we all jump in," said Banjo as the group gathered in a circle around the bubble and held hands. "One... two... three!"
The entire group then jumped right into the bubble. Somehow, it was able to hold all of them in it as it levitated into the sky shortly afterwards. Everybody found this awkward except for Banjo and Kazooie. Tooty, who was quite frightened, grabbed her brother's arm and held onto it, while Bottles did essentially the same thing.
Their trek up to the sky went on for a rather long time. Banjo guessed this was because of the weight of its load, but eventually the bear saw them pass right through a hole in a floating strip of land that had some way of heading to a mountain. The bubble then ejected the entire group onto the ground, which oddly enough seemed to be growing grass on it. From where they were, the group was able to see a golden pyramid, a purple mountain with a bee hive on top, and a whole bunch of flowers scattered all over more floating platforms than the mind could take. Silver gawked at this, shocked at how everything seemed to look in this strange place.
"W... what the hell is this place?" he asked uncertainly.
"Oh, I dunno," replied Banjo with a shrug.
"But it's so... nonsensical..." added Bottles as he pointed out into the strange structures that he was seeing.
"Yeah, well, get used to it, goggle boy!" crooned Kazooie sarcastically.
Humba had looked around her when she suddenly noticed a small shape far off in the clouds.
"Huh?" asked the shamaness. "Strane floating rock not there before..."
All eyes turned to Humba, and then to the mysterious rock that she had seen. It was partly obscured by clouds, however, so Banjo squinted to look at the floating rock in greater detail. As the clouds cleared, however, he found himself opening his eyes in a slight shock.
"Wait a minute..." he said.
And then, when the clouds cleared, they saw a body of land that floated in the air. It was all supported by a large upside-down mountain of dirt that seemed compacted in place. On top was so much green that they could only be trees.
The honey bear assumed the best and pointed at the floating rock.
"That's it!" he exclaimed excitedly. "That must be Angel Island! That's where we have to go!"
"Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah!" replied Trophy Thomas, holding his hands up quickly. "Are you sure it's the right place, dude?"
Kazooie shook her head, shrugging. "Sorry Banjo, but I gotta agree with sun face over here," she said shrugging. "How do we know it's the right place?"
Mumbo then walked forward, motioning to the island with his staff. "Mumbo sense great power from strange floating rock," he said. "Mumbo think big thing there."
"The Master Emerald..." added Silver just under his breath.
Tooty nodded at this. "Okay, so we know where we need to go," she said with a nod. "Now, how do we get there."
"Ah!" exclaimed Banjo as he raised his finger. "Kazooie, the vehicle recall!"
The breegull's eyes widened as she brought her magic wrench out from the bag.
"We're going to be doing the machine thing again?" asked the breegull.
Bottles shrugged. "Well, that's only if you wanna fly all the way over there while carrying all of us," he said sardonically.
Everybody looked to the usually mild-mannered mole in surprise. Silver, who was still unused to the inhabitants of the present, had simply stared at the mole, wondering why everybody was confused.
"Point taken," said the breegull simply.
She then waved the wrench in the air, and as a red aura surrounded it, the airship that Banjo had set to the recall earlier then appeared close to the bubble elevator. The airship gleamed in the sunlight, the brown paint scheme glinting brilliantly high atop the world. A bunch of helicopter blades were apportioned on top of the rather large vehicle, and there was so much room inside that it was sure to fit everybody quite well. However, they noticed that the propellers that adorned the top of the airship had been tampered with, most likely by the robot army that had taken over Showdown Town, so Banjo was quick to run over. Silver simply shrugged.
"I guess this is the best we could do," he said with a shrug. "I'm just glad these robots didn't do anything else to this thing..."
"Can it, parrot face," retorted Kazooie from her place inside Banjo's backpack as she held up the wrench. "It'll be just a quick repair job! Look and see!"
And then Kazooie waved her wrench in the air again, and this time a red aura surrounded the helicopter blades. Slowly, the blades were mended together, and then when they looked completely fixed the breegull stopped waving her wrench around. Everybody looked at this in amazement as Banjo turned to them.
"Well, what're we waiting for?" asked Banjo as he jumped into the airship.
Tooty was the first one to run to the airship, the rest hesitating slightly. Then, Silver, Trophy Thomas, and Bottles climbed into the airship, followed by Mumbo and Humba. They all nodded to Banjo, and then the ship was off, flying off towards the flying rock that they were sure was the home of the Master Emerald.