"Oh, bien sûr, nous serions heureux d'aider un ami, n'est-ce pas Serafina? (Oh of course we'd be happy to help out a friend, right Serafina?)"said Bengino as he enthusiastically looks at Serafina for approval to which Serafina sighs as she says "oui je t'aiderai... mais tu dois m'aider avec une faveur qui m'appartient (yes I'll help... but you have to help me with a favour of my own)" to which ARG-05 immediately translates to the Captain "they said they'll help us if you help Serafina with a favour of her own". The captain thinks of it for a second before nodding, making Serafina motion to the captain to climb up into the window which he does after a few failed attempts.
Once they've gone through the window which leads to a large circular hallway, Serafina begins walking to the right of them as she says "suis-moi (follow me)" which they do. Serafina stops at a door before opening whilst saying "c'est la chambre de ma sœur, la reine des Viators, donc fondamentalement, nous sommes au courant de Squinty et de sa rébellion à Crowehurst et ma sœur a un peu peur de lui, donc ce que je veux que vous fassiez, c'est l'intimider pour qu'elle accorde un pardon à Bengino car seul le la reine peut faire ça, tu peux le faire comme tu veux tant que tu ne tues personne mais je serai à la fenêtre, Bengino est là quand tu l'as fait (this is my sister's room, the queen of the Viators so basically we're aware of Squinty and his rebellion in Crowehurst and my sister is kind of scared of him so what I want you to do is intimidate her into giving Bengino a pardon as only the queen can do that, you can do this however you want as long as you don't kill anyone but I'll be over at the window, Bengino is at when you've done it)".
Before ARG-05 can reply, Serafina has already left. "So, what did Serafina say?" asked the Captain before ARG-05 immediately replies back "she wants us to pretend to be Squinty and intimidate her sister into making her pardon Bengino by any means necessary besides killing and she'll be waiting for us where Bengino is".
"Any means necessary huh? ARG-05 do you still know how to make TNT?" said the Captain grinning as he came up with an idea. ARG-05 switches to his confused expression as he replies, "yes why?".
"I have an idea, how about we explode the wall, getting everyone's attention and leave a forged letter threatening the queen to pardon Bengino or else because if she's scared of him surely, she'll say yes" said the captain as he inspected the wall. ARG-05 smiles as he says, "good idea as always Captain you write the note while I make the TNT". ARG-05 grabs a flare gun in the emergency storage within the captain’s life support system and begins to disassemble it before grabbing out a spray can and using it to make something which looks like a sticky bomb with a timer before he attaches it to the wall. Meanwhile, the Captain writes a letter addressing the queen which reads: 'dear queen of viators, please pardon your criminals otherwise it will be more than a wall I'll take out - Squinty'. The captain places the letter on her bedside table before lifting it into the centre of the room before motioning to ARG-05 to start the timer on the TNT which he does, giving them 60 seconds to get out of there.
The captain quickly rushes out of the room, making sure he doesn't forget his coat before bolting over to Serafina who says "l'AS-tu fait- (did you do it-)". Before Serafina can finish her sentence, she is cut off by a loud boom coming from her sister's room and the quick marching of guards and her sister. There's a brief pause which is quickly broken by a blood curdling scream coming from the queen of viators as she yells "Fais juste ce que dit la lettre, je me fiche de ce qui fait que ça arrive, nous ne pouvons pas laisser Squinty ruiner notre pays (Just do whatever the letter says, I don't care what just make it happen, we can't have Squinty ruining our country)". Serafina smiles as she says "bon travail (good job)" before both her and the captain climb out of the window and meet with Bengino.
Once they meet up with Bengino, Serafina asks ARG-05 "Alors qu'est-ce que la faveur exactement? (So, what the favour exactly?)". ARG-05 glitches for a second as the Captain puts the coat back on before replying "ok si longue histoire mais le capitaine a rencontré Merlo et Pavona qui sont les enfants d'Avvoltoio et fondamentalement l'ex-femme d'Avvoltoio a emmené les enfants et là maintenant dans un château et le capitaine veut vraiment les sauver pour une raison quelconque, nous avons donc besoin d'aide pour pénétrer dans ledit château (okay so long story but the Captain met Merlo and Pavona who are Avvoltoio's children and basically Avvoltoio's ex-wife took the kids and there now in a castle and the Captain really wants to rescue them for some reason so we need help to break into said castle)". Serafina looks at Bengino, smiling, before saying "oh ça devrait être un morceau de gâteau (oh that should be a piece of cake)".
Fast forward to when they're in front of the castle, Serafina and Bengino look at the castle in awe before Serafina retracts her statement as she says "Ok clairement ça ne va pas être un morceau de gâteau (Okay clearly it's not going to be a piece of cake)". Serafina looks over to the captain and asks "Salut ARGOS? pouvez-vous traduire cela au capitaine, mais a-t-il des idées sur la façon d'entrer dans cet endroit? (Hey ARGOS? can you translate this to the captain, but does he have any ideas on how to get into this place?)". ARG-05 almost immediately begins translating as he says, "Hey Captain, Serafina wants to know if you have a plan yet?". The Captain nods before saying "yes and by the looks of it, it'll be the only plan which could work so tell Serafina and Bengino that what we're going to do is first get to the gate by getting Serafina or Bengino to swim us across as it looks too far for me to swim but I'll explain the rest of the plan once we get to the gate okay, you still got some leftover TNT because we're going to need it".
"Okay Captain-'' said ARG-05 waiting a few seconds to translate before announcing "Hé Bengino, Serafina, le capitaine a dit qu'il avait une idée, mais nous devons d'abord traverser le lac et vous devrez transporter le capitaine (Hey Bengino, Serafina, the Captain said that he's got an idea but first we gotta get across the lake and one you will need to carry the captain over)". Serafina nods and both her and Bengino go into the water before the captain hops on Serafina's back and they swim across. Once they're across, the captain begins speaking "okay so here's our options to break down the gate, first we could try kicking it down, second would be to use your claws to break it or just using the TNT, can you relay that to Serafina and Bengino and let me know what option they want to go with?"
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"Of course Captain" said ARG-05, leaving a pause before continuing D'accord, voici les options que le capitaine dit que nous devons casser la porte, nous pourrions a, essayer de l'abattre, b, utiliser mes bras pour percer ou c, simplement l'exploser avec de la dynamite, il a dit que vous pouviez choisir (Okay so here's the options the Captain says we have to break the gate, we could a, try kicking it down, b, use my arms to break through or c, just explode it with dynamite, he said you two could pick)". "Je pense qu'il faudrait peut-être y aller, Serafina, qu'en penses-tu? (I think we might have to go with kicking it down, Serafina what do you think?)" said Bengino as he looks over to Serafina. Serafina face-palms before replying "Non, l'abattre n'est pas une bonne idée, je dis que nous allons simplement l'exploser pour ne pas avoir à perdre notre temps à l'abattre, quelle est la prochaine étape du plan après avoir franchi la porte? (No kicking it down is not a good idea I say we go with just exploding it, so we don't need to waste our time kicking it down, what's next in the plan after we get through the gate?)"
"Okay Captain, so they've decided to go with exploding the gate. Also Serafina wants to know what's going to happen after we get through the gate?" said ARG-05 as he passes the leftover dynamite to the captain.
"Alright good, tell them to step back so they're not in the blast radius as for the rest of the plan, I'd say we first try to convince Oca and Tacchina to let Merlo and Pavona pick where they want to live and if they get aggressive grab Merlo and Pavona before running away" said the captain, attaching the dynamite to the wall.
"Hé les gars, vous voudrez peut-être reculer un peu pour que vous soyez hors du rayon de l'explosion également Serafina pour le plan, le capitaine a dit d'essayer de communiquer avec eux d'abord et si cela ne fonctionne pas, attaquez ou fuyez (Hey guys you might want to step back a bit so you're out of the blast radius also Serafina for the plan, the captain said to try and communicate with them first and if that doesn't work either attack or flee)" said ARG-05 as they both walk back and Serafina nods whiles ignites it and turns over to them. Once the dynamite explodes the gate, they all walk through the gate and begin searching for Merlo and Pavona, only encountering a few people who were no match for the group. During their search, they hear almost inaudible talking from what the captain could assume to be a dining room judging on how close it is to the kitchen. The captain counted to 3 with his fingers so Serafina and Bengino could see what he meant before kicking down the door revealing Merlo, Pavona, Oca and Tacchina.
However, this time something was very wrong, which the captain could very quickly tell from the fact that Oca, Pavona and Merlo were all tied to their chairs with a metallic ribbon and the fact that Merlo was mouthing the word 'run' to him. But the Captain didn't back down, even when Tacchina, sitting in their chair and swirling a drink said in a monotone voice "It took you and ARG-05 long enough and oh that's cute", they point to Bengino and Serafina who look ready to maul them before continuing "you brought friends, that's no problem it won't help you in the long run anyways".
Tacchina snaps their fingers and before anyone in the group could react, the same metallic ribbons which were keeping Merlo, Pavona and Oca tied up, grabbed them, and captured them. Tacchina snaps their fingers again, causing an Loculator which the captain remembered to be that Loculator as the one who stared at him in the alleyway, walk out and places Serafina in one of two empty chairs before walking over to the captain, ripping his coat off and wiping the paint off of his helmet before placing him on the other empty chair. The Loculator then walks over to Bengino and goes to put him in one of the empty chairs before realising that all of the chairs are full and quickly deciding to just leave him on the floor before walking over to Tacchina and standing on their left. Tacchina stands up and goes onto the table before walking over to the captain’s chair and asking, "it's been a while since we last met, did you miss me, William?"
The captain is confused as he swears that he's never seen Tacchina on another flight as he questions them "no in fact I don't think I've ever met you besides a few days ago birdbrain so I-". Tacchina cuts him off by chuckling before saying "oh well I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you don't recognise me, I mean after you don't even recognise her, do you? I wouldn't be surprised it has been exactly 11 months and 14 days since you last saw me perhaps, I should change into something you would definitely recognise". Tacchina snaps their fingers at the Loculator who hasn't moved at all, causing them to nod as they grab a raggedy brown coat, drooped over the now empty chair before standing up revealing that they're not a Loculator as Tacchina's eye go pitch black and they fall, completely emotionless.
The person quickly cuts through the coat they were wearing, revealing a raggedy astronaut suit, similar to the captain but with the word 'Nebula' written instead of 'Cozmos'. The captain’s eyes widen in both shock and horror as he watches the person put the brown coat on and rub the paint off as a black and red glitchy mess which resembles one of ARG-05's expressions fills most of the helmet to the point you can't barely see the person inside. "MISS ME OLD FRIEND?" the face exclaimed, leaving the captain completely speechless. "... you're ARG-04 aren't you then does that mean that" the captain begins to tear up "that's Sophia?" said the captain, completely shocked, he finally recognised her, but he couldn't understand how she was alive. "Oh, don't act so melodramatic it was your fault I got stuck here in the first place but then again I guess you were always one for dramatics" Sophia sneered.
Whilst Sophia is talking to the Captain, ARG-04 notices Bengino lying on the floor staring at him in shock making Sophia cut her conversation short as he asks, "Oh why didn't you tell me that we didn't have enough seats for the other guest". Sophia goes silent for a second before responding "I-I didn't find him important enough to bother getting another chair". ARG-04 doesn't respond as he walks over to Bengino, menacingly standing over him before saying "oh I forgive you, this pathetic creature doesn't matter anyways". ARG-04 notices Serafina glares daggers at him, making him smile before deadpan staring at her as he grabs a spear from the wall nearby and uses it to impale Bengino straight through his lower back, leaving everyone in the room speechless besides Bengino who was groaning in pain. ARG-04 walks back over to the Captain as Serafina screams Bengino's name whilst ugly-crying.