Chapter 5

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Pretzel was dozing off in his station when all of a sudden, he heard something weird from his headset. He tuned it to the sound source so he could hear properly, but he still didn't know what is was. Confused, he began speaking to Hercules by saying,
"Hey, uh, Commander? You might want to hear this"
Meanwhile with Jean-Luc, he was translating part of the Sheepdog's Journal to Hercules and Judo.
"/Follow...the...leviathan...and soon...you'll find the path to the gateway/!" he translated, impressing the St. Bernard and chow chow. As this was happening, Pretzel kept calling for Hercules on the intercom. Annoyed, Hercules then said,
"Yes Pretzel?"
"I'm picking up something weird on the hydrophones...I reckon you should listen"
"Put it on speaker"
Pretzel did that and the sound ended up making everyone, especially Jean-Luc, nervous.

     The sound was coming from the dangerous force that was following the submarine, but no one knew that yet.  It was getting closer and closer.  Hercules and Judo went up to Pretzel to try and identify the sound.
"What is it?  A bunch of blue whales...?" asked Hercules
"Nuh-uh.  Bigger" replied Pretzel.
"Hmm...sounds metallic...." said Judo as she adjusted some dials.
"Could it be an echo from a rock?"
"Do you wanna do my job?" sarcastically asked Pretzel.
Jean-Luc then came in and asked,
"Is it me or is it getting louder?"
This causes everyone to look up, but then the noise suddenly got quiet.  Thinking they were in the clear, Judo said,
"Well, whatever it is, it's gone now"
Hercules then announced,
"Helmsdog, bring us about, tighten our search pattern and slow us-"
BAM!  A sudden force stopped the submarine, sending everyone back!  The dangerous force, the leviathan, was beginning to attack!

     In the engine room, Pom Pom was running through a hallway as other engineers were scrambling to upstairs.
"Make way!" She shouted.
The leviathan continued to attack the submarine.  When Pom Pom made it to the main hub of the engine room, she could see that water was beginning to fill it immediately!
Meanwhile with Hercules and Judo, Hercules said,
"Tell Snickers to melt the butter and bring out the veggies!  I want this lobster well done and served on a silver platter!"
"Load up the torpedos!  Everyone to their battle stations!  Wah!" said Judo as she suddenly got pushed back by another submarine attack.
Many dogs got into little sub pods and began to prepare them for launch into the sea.  One of these sub pods was controlled by both Mackenzie and Winton.
"Steady everyone...don't panic!" said Hercules on the intercom.
Meanwhile with Jean-Luc, he was flung onto a window from the leviathan and that's when he got a good look at it.
"Sacré bleu!!  It's a machine!!" he exclaimed when he realized that the leviathan was technologic.
Back in the engine room, Pom Pom closed a door by turning a valve in order to prevent anymore water from coming in.
"Launch the sub pods!" shouted Hercules.
Suddenly, the sub pods launched from the submarine and they began to make their way to the leviathan to attack it.  From their headsets, the sub pod dogs listened to Hercules say,
"Fire!"
and then they fired torpedos at the leviathan, briefly freeing the submarine from its grasp.  Seeing this, Hercules announced,
"We're free now, all ahead!"
The submarine began to get away from the leviathan, but not before Hercules ordered dogs to shoot torpedos from the submarine itself.  After being shot with said torpedos, the leviathan ended up shooting a laser at the submarine, and it went right through it!

     The laser caused the submarine to start falling apart, causing Pom Pom to begin making her way to the bridge.  She climbed a ladder and some dogs helped her up as she said,
"Get me to the bridge!"
As Pretzel was talking about engineering, Hercules heard Pom Pom say on the intercom,
"Hercules!  We took a big hit down here!  Water is filling up fast and I don't want to be here when it hits the boilers!"
"How much time do we have?" replied Hercules
"20 minutes if we're lucky!"
Pom Pom suddenly felt another hit.
"Make that 5..." she said as she began running.
"You heard the little lady, move it!" announced Hercules.
"Move...where...?" asked Jean-Luc as he got dragged to somewhere by some dogs.
"Pretzel, sound the alarm!" said Judo.
Pretzel was in his station again, talking to Coco on his cellphone.
"Coco, just because you're the youngest in your family doesn't mean you can't stand up for yourself" he said.
Really angry that he was on his phone, Judo shouted,
"PRETZEL!!"
He finally put his phone down as he said,
"I'll call you back.  No, I'll call you"
As Jean-Luc was making his way to a specialized escape pod, Pretzel announced on the intercom,
"All hands abandon ship"
"Move it!!  Sometime today would be nice!!" shouted Judo as she guided everyone.
The young Labrador met up with Pom Pom and Chloe as they made their way to their seats.
"Come on!  Grab a seat and buckle in!" said Judo as they did what they were told.
She then got into the control center with Hercules.
"Lieutenant, get us out of here!" said Hercules.

     The leviathan prepared to attack again.  Judo was struggling with a lever, prompting Hercules to shout,
"Lieutenant!!"
"I'm working on it!!" she responded.
It took a bit, but the chow chow kicked the level, launching the specialized sub pod into the sea.
"Hang on!" said Judo.
The submarine was completely destroyed by another laser.  Despite this, the leviathan chased the specialized sub pod and all the other sub pods.
"Where to Johnny?"
"We're looking for a crevice of some sort!" replied Jean-Luc as he held on tight to the Sheepdog's Journal.
Hercules quickly spotted the crevice and shouted,
"There!  Take us down there!"
Judo then communicated with the smaller sub pods by saying,
"Everyone, make your craft 20 degrees down angle!"
"Right behind you!" replied Winton.
The sub pods did what Judo said and everyone made their way to the crevice, but not before the leviathan attacked a few sub pods.
"What the?!" shouted Winton.
"We're getting killed out here!" said another diver.
All of the sub pods made their way inside the tunnel just like Jean-Luc described and while some of them made it, others were destroyed by the leviathan's blasts and attacks.  Jean-Luc was feeling terrified as he said to himself,
"Ce sera bientôt fini, ce sera bientôt fini!!"
The sub pods that weren't destroyed managed to barely escape the leviathan and its lasers.  They then made a curve and began going up.  Judo steered the sub pod up as she could.  Meanwhile with Mackenzie and Winston's sub pod, it had gained a crack on the window but they were able to make it out of the tunnel alive.

     Soon enough, everyone that had survived arrived at the air pocket, coming out of the ocean.  They all exited their sub pods to see where they were.  Judo shined a large light and sure enough, everyone had arrived at the entrance of Atlantis.  It looked crumbled, but still quite impressive.  Everyone got everything out of the sub pods and onto the land of the air pocket, but they needed a breather after what they had just experienced.  The point was, they were one step closer to Atlantis now.

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