Chapter 5, Missing in Action Summary

Commander Root is smoking a particularly smelly cigar. Foaly is trying to antagonize him by arguing that Root should put it out. Root asks about the alert that Foaly has given him. Foaly says that Captain Short is missing. Her locater was seen across the ocean and the coastline. It shows that she went to site fifty-seven. They lose the picture from her helmet but Foaly says that they still have the sound. He boosts the audio and Root can hear a human voice asking Holly to surrender and talking about the secret ritual. Foaly notes that one of the Mud People messed with the camera and the picture was lost after that. Foaly and Root go back to the camera feed and go through it slowly, seeing in slow motion a hypodermic dart fly through the...