“Everybody to the Sea Duck !” Baloo roared.

“Who said I was retired?” Ringo pulled out a tattered charter. “Higher for Hire: New partner?”

What followed was a twenty-minute chase through collapsing aqueducts, a fight atop a rotating stone gear the size of a barn, and a moment where Kit—riding his airfoil through a lightning-charged tunnel—managed to reverse the polarity of the generator just as Karnage was about to overload it.

“No way,” Kit whispered.