(Y/n) POV

(Y/n): Easy big fella.

      I am with Aviva trying to help a Bald Eagle who has been shot in the wing, it's scared and wants us to go away.

Aviva: (Y/n), be careful.

(Y/n): Easy. I'm just here to help.

     To ease the eagle I take off my coat and shirt to show I'm not hiding anything and continue to approach. I get within arms length and the eagle snaps at my hand and draws blood, I keep my cool and keep talking to it for another hour. Eventually, the eagle gets used to my presence and I take a good look at it's wingand thankfully it can be mended but it will never fly again. The eagle allows me to remove the birdshot and re-align it's wing bone, then wrap it to keep the bones in place.

(Y/n): There we go. Thank you for your patience, now to get you to safety. Come on.

    I pick up the eagle and Aviva and I head back to the Tortuga to take the eagle to a wildlife sanctuary in Wyoming.

3rd Person POV

      Unbeknownst to our heroes, they were being watched by sinister eyes.

????: So, (Y/n) once again foils my money making plans. I need to get rid of him if I want to make my fortune.

(Y/n) POV

Aviva: There you go. Just rest here until your wing gets better.

(Y/n): I know a rehab facility that can care for him for the rest of his days.

Jimmy: Why not return him to the wild after his wing gets better?

(Y/n): The sad truth is the eagle will never be able to fly again, if we returned it to the wild, it would die of starvation because it lost it's ability to hunt.

Chris: It does happen sometimes but they will hopefully live comfortably.

(Y/n): I'll take him to the rehab center tomorrow.

Aviva: Need help transporting him?

(Y/n): I'll be okay. Thanks though.

Timeskip Next Morning

       I am taking the Createrra and secure the bald eagle in the back and drive to a wildlife sanctuary and rehab center.

Bill: (Y/n)! Good to see you.

(Y/n): Good to see you Bill. Think you got room for a Bald Eagle?

Bill: Always. *checks eagle* What happened?

(Y/n): Either trophy hunters or, more worringly, poachers.

Bill: Aw, poor boy. Well, good thing you helped him when you did. We'll take care of him from now on.

(Y/n): Thanks, keep me updated.

       It takes me the rest of the day to return to the Tortuga, but I park in the cargo bay and walk up to the crew quarters, I flip on the dim lights.

(Y/n): Hey guys. Hope it wasn't bor- Whaaa!

      The place is trashed, chairs are overturned, monitors are broken, plants burnt and the Creature Power Suits are still here.

(Y/n): What kind of party happened while I was away?

     I start trying to gather clues about what happened, starting in the Central Command Center.

(Y/n): These monitors weren't just broken, they were shot. *moves to dinner table* The crew didn't even get to eat supper. *thinks* There was a scuffle, the crew were caught unawares, but how? The motion sensors should've picked up the perps movements, unless someone hacked them, or just shot the sensors.

     From this I start to get a sense of what might've happened.

(Y/n): The crew were sitting down to dinner when the motion sensors went off but immediately went offline. Koki was here at the monitor checking when the perps suddenly entered and took out the computers, the crew was caught unprepared and tried to hide, they were hunted and captured by who, I don't know.

*faint thumping*

     You heard that too right? I quietly walk over towards the faint noise, I grab a broken pipe and find the sounds source under the floor in the cockpit. I reach for the plating and lift it open.

Jimmy: Ahhhhh!

(Y/n): Jimmy? *Jimmy continues freaking out* Jimmy! It's me!

      Jimmy stops screaming and looks at me as I shine my flashlight .

Jimmy: Oh, (Y/n), it is you. I thought you were them.

(Y/n): Who's them?

Jimmy: I don't know. But they knew you.

(Y/n): What? How?

Jimmy: I-I don't know, as soon as everything started I hid here and all the while I heard them mention your name often. I'm sorry, I was really scared, if I wasn't-

(Y/n): Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Jimmy. But I need you to think back, did the perps mention anything, plans, motives, etc?

Jimmy: Um, hmm. Something about stopping you from interfering in something with a scheme about elephants and ivory.

(Y/n): *groans* Poachers.

Jimmy: What do poachers want with the crew?

(Y/n): I'm not sure. But I've never known poachers to be sane nor reasonable people. They will do anything to get their money. We have to find out where the crew was taken and find out what the poachers are planning. Can you help me get the computer's working again?

Jimmy: I'll try.

      We start to set about fixing the computers and as I am figuring out some wires, Jimmy asks-

Jimmy: Hey, (Y/n)?! There's something beeping here in the middle console, you didn't turn anything on did you?!

(Y/n): *confused* No! Can you find out what it is?!

Jimmy: Uhh.... Found it! It's got a timer on it!

(Y/n): *GASPS* Jimmy get away from it! NOW!

      I get out from under Koki's console and rush to Jimmy and pull him away and take a look at the device.

(Y/n): A bomb.

Jimmy: Oh man! What do we do?! What do we do?!

(Y/n): Calm down, I can diffuse it.

      I get to work and try to disable the bomb quickly, I asked Jimmy to check the rest of the Tortuga for any others.

Jimmy: *comes back* I couldn't find any others, (Y/n). How you doing?

(Y/n): Almost.... *cuts last wire* Got it! Whew, that was close.

      Suddenly, the main monitor switched on and there is a darkened figure obscured by a spotlight.

????: Hello (Y/n). Been well?

(Y/n): I know that voice.

????: You should, you have interfered with my operations for long enough.

(Y/n): Where are my friends?

????: Oh, your friends are fine, for now.

(Y/n): Meaning?

????: Well, if you look on your monitor, you'll see your "friends" in various life or death scenarios. Can you save them in time, I wonder?

      The figure pulls up the crew in different locations, Chris is in a net connected by an old rope above a pit of vipers, Martin is tied to a rock about to be set upon by a flash flood, Koki is in a acrylic box slowly being breached by the pressure of being deep beneath the ocean and Aviva is in a African river surrounded by hippos.

(Y/n): You will regret crossing my path.

????: We'll see. Clock's ticking. *monitor turns off*

Jimmy: What do we do now?

(Y/n): Get the Tortuga running again, save our friends, stop the poachers. Do you know how the Tortuga runs?

Jimmy: Yeah, Koki taught me how to run it.

(Y/n): I'll try fixing it, you run it when I tell you to.

Jimmy: I'm just worried about the Wild Kratts crew.

(Y/n): Let's focus on saving them, I need you to focus.

Jimmy: Sorry. Okay, I'm ready.

      3 hours later and Jimmy and I finally have the Tortuga running again.

Jimmy: Where to first? Koki?

(Y/n): Unless she suddenly learned how to breath underwater. Move it!

      Jimmy gets flying but because the autopilot is out he has to fly us manually. I get all my Creature Power Suit on and ready all my discs in the pocket of my cargo pants.

Jimmy: (Y/n), I found Koki's cooridinates but the Tortuga can't swim underwater!

(Y/n): It's alright, Jimmy. I'll take it from here.

Jimmy: How?

(Y/n): With the help of an old friend. Keep the Tortuga airborne.

      I dive into the water and within seconds swim next to Giganto and slip in the Sperm Whale Power Disc.

(Y/n): *touches Giganto* Activate Creature Powers!

      The Creature Power Suit activates and makes my Sperm Whale suit, I then take in a huge gulp of air and start diving. I use my echolocation powers to find Koki's box and it is already half full with water, I need to get her to the surface quickly.

(Y/n): It's alright, Koki. Try to relax, you don't have a lot of oxygen left, just relax and I'll get you out of this.

I manuever the box so that I can push it from underneath, slowly but surely I push ever closer to the surface and radio Jimmy.

(Y/n): Jimmy!

Jimmy: Go (Y/n).

(Y/n): I have Koki, bring the Tortuga low and be ready to free her.

Jimmy: Bringing her down.

       After just fifteen minutes, we finally surface and Jimmy uses the lifting cable to get Koki into the Tortuga, I deactivate my suit and board.

Jimmy: Where to next?

(Y/n): Martin, that flash flood is on it's way.

     Jimmy gets the Tortuga moving and I smash Koki's box and let her out.

Koki: About time, guys. What took you so long and what's going on?

(Y/n): I'll explain later. Can you keep the Tortuga airborne?

Koki: Yeah, of course. But what's going on?

(Y/n): Promise, I'll explain, but the rest of the crew need us.

Koki: Fine.

     Jimmy flies as fast as the Tortuga can go and gets us to Martin's location on a North American river within the hour. I release a rope to the ground so Jimmy can keep the Tortuga in the air because the landing gears still don't work, I slide down the rope and see the flood is on it's way.

Martin: (Y/n)! Oh boy am I glad to see you. Get me out of this would you?

(Y/n): I have to block the river first. *hears rustling in bushes* Huh?

     Then from the forest another old friend appears.

Martin: Sticker!

(Y/n): Just who I need. *slips disc into suit* *touches Sticker* Activate Creature Powers!

      My beaver Power Suit forms and I start chewing up fallen logs and form a makeshift dam, I then use mud to pad it down just before the flood hits. The flood does hit and the dam holds just long enough for me to free Martin  and get aboard the Tortuga, I try to catch my breath because I am running ragid.

Martin: So, why do I feel like a pawn in a game.

(Y/n): To the poachers, that's all you are.

Koki: Excuse me?! Not cool!

(Y/n): They're really only after me. They don't want me to get in the way of something and so used you to keep me busy while they pull off a mass creature genocide. *breaths heavily*

Koki: Well, that's not going to happen.

Martin: Yeah, just tell us what you need us to do.

(Y/n): Guys?

Jimmy: We're a team and in a team, no one person takes a hit for the rest.

Martin: That's right. I'd even go so far as to say we're like family.

(Y/n): Maybe.... you're right. Let's save the others then figure out what these poachers are after. Let's grab Chris then Aviva.

Jimmy: Right.

(A/N): Hey sorry it's been so long, I wanted this to be good and engaging and I've been coming up with new story ideas and drafting them out but now I'm going to devote more time to my current stories. Hopefully, you still enjoy my content and I'll see you next time. PEACE OUT!!!