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Rebecca sighed. “Wildcat, fuel the Sea Duck . Baloo, no loop-de-loops over the temple of doom.” The flight was smooth until it wasn’t. As they crossed the Storm Belt, the sky turned the color of a bruise. Lightning struck so close that Kit’s airfoil glowed. But the compass—now floating in a cup of water in the cockpit—pointed unerringly upward.

Baloo clapped him on the back. “You know, for a retired juice bar owner, you’re not half bad.” talespin complete series

But when he lumbered outside, he didn’t see Don Karnage’s Iron Vulture or Mad Dog’s raiders. Instead, a battered, smoke-belching cargo plane—a vintage Condor-19 —limped through the city’s cliff-side defense cannons, its landing gear groaning. The plane belly-flopped onto the Higher for Hire dock, skidded through a stack of empty fuel barrels, and came to rest against Wildcat’s tool shed. Rebecca sighed

When a mysterious old friend of Baloo’s crash-lands in Cape Suzette with a damaged compass that doesn’t point north, the Higher for Hire crew discovers a forgotten floating island—and the ruthless sky pirate who’s been waiting for them to return. The evening began like any other in Cape Suzette. Baloo was napping in the Sea Duck’s cargo bay, a half-eaten cheesesteak cooling on his chest. Kit Cloudkicker was practicing airfoil loops around the hangar, while Wildcat attempted to teach a pelican how to use a torque wrench. As they crossed the Storm Belt, the sky

“Of course! You think my men cannot shoot down a Condor-19? Please. I needed a guide. This island has more traps than a cheese shop has mousetraps. But now—now I have you. And soon, I have the Heart of the Sky. With its power, I will make Cape Suzette float . Then sink it. Then make it float again. Just for fun!”