on his shoulders, Sky Captain knew they could never reach the fuses -
certainly not in time. Blackmetn sex the crackling trail of flame raced along, blackmetn sex eating up
the blackmetn sex fuse, sizzling toward the stored dynamite. Totenkopf had enough
explosives here to blast away half the mountain... as they were sure to
find out in a few minutes.
Sky Captain and Polly ran to the thick metal door, blackmetn sex hammering on it with
their fists. "Kaji!"
blackmetn sex Among the equipment piled next to the gunpowder barrels, Sky Captain
spotted a rusty pickax with a weathered handle. He blackmetn sex grabbed it, hefting the
tool in a heavy arc. "Move!"
Polly ducked, and the blackmetn sex pickax came down to blackmetn sex strike the door with a bone-
reverberating clang. Sky Captain shook his head to clear blackmetn sex the ringing in blackmetn sex his
skull, then raised the tool and drove it down again and again. The sharp
blade scored only a few shallow scratches on the blackmetn sex armored hatch, nothing
that qualified as blackmetn sex so much as a blackmetn sex dent. The tip of the rusty pickax bent
upward, blackmetn sex useless.
In disgust, Sky Captain dropped the pickax and knelt to feel along the
sides of the hatch, blackmetn sex probing for some blackmetn sex gap in the frame. He couldn't pry with
his fingertips, but maybe he could cram his own knife into a crack and use
blackmetn sex it like a crowbar. Nothing. Frustrated, he pounded his fist against the
metal.
Polly lifted the lantern, swinging it around so she
could search the
walls, the floor, the ceiling. She hoped to find a ventilation shaft, a
trapdoor, any means of escape, but blackmetn sex quickly came to the blackmetn sex realization that it
was futile. "Joe? Just tell me something."
Sky Captain spotted a stray blackmetn sex stick of dynamite
lying at the base of the
gunpowder barrels. He ran over to grab it. Overhead, the fuses continued
their inexorable blackmetn sex burning.
"In Nanjing" - she swallowed, not sure she wanted to know the answer -
"You were running around on me with someone, weren't you?"
"No, Polly." Sky Captain's voice was firm,