Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
"I am, but you're not," Hanson told him grimly. "Get your notes straightened up. Run those centrifuge tests and set up the still so we can get at that vitamin count early in the morning." "Tomorrow morning? Aw, for gosh sakes, chief, why don't you take a day off sometime, or better yet, a night off. It'd do you good to relax. "Never mind Myrtle, just have that equipment set up for the morning. Good night." He strode out of the huge laboratory, but his mind was still on the vitamin research they had been conducting, he barely heard the remarks that followed him. "One of these days the chief is going to have his glands catch up with "Not a chance," Pete Brent grunted. Brian Hanson wondered dispassionately for a moment how his assistants could fail to be as absorbed as he was by the work they were doing, then he let it go as he stepped outside the research building. "Oh, I see, sir. No rebels, of course. Sorry to have disturbed you. Have a good—Good night, sir," he saluted and left. Brian closed the door in puzzlement. What the devil had that flat-foot been smirking about? Well, maybe he could get his bath now. eyes. Brian just stared at her in numbed fascination. That was what the "All right, joke's over, you can beat it now." the laboratory from now on. He sank back into the soothing liquid embrace of the bath and deliberately set his mind loose to wander in complete relaxation. "She ... why ... why ... she left, of course. You don't think I was "Listen, bud, we don't do the thinkin' around here. You come on along and see the chief." Brian had had about enough. "I'm not going anywhere to see anybody. That wasn't Myrtle, that was Crystal James, old man James' daughter. "Oh, it's all right, chief. You can trust me. I won't give you away." "There's nothing to give away, you fool!" Brian bellowed. "I don't know "Come here, you idiot!" Brian screamed after his erstwhile assistant. "Pipe down there, bud," a guard's voice cut in chillingly. Brian retired to his cell bunk and clutched his aching head in frustrated fury. For the nineteenth time Brian Hanson strode to the door of his cell and rattled the bars. "Listen here, guard, you've got to take a message to McHague. You can't Brian's eyes almost popped out as he saw a gloved hand reach around that way!" he yelled wildly. "Guards! Help!" right! He had to get out now. He wouldn't be able to explain this away. few seconds the door swung open and they were fleeing silently down the "They're just ahead of us," Brian yelled. "Come on!" before a blackjack caught up with him and he folded into a corner. The electric eye tripped a screaming alarm, but the broken key in Brian's hands opened the complicated lock in a matter of seconds. They brilliance as the floodlights snapped on. Brian faltered to a stop and Crystal James pushed past him. Brian felt as though his stomach had fallen down around his ankles corner. Brian and the rebels bundled into them and took away with a "What are we stopping here for?" Brian demanded. "We've got to get "That's just what we're doing," Crystal snapped. "Everybody out." and that gave them the edge on Brian. They followed Crystal down into the garage's repair pit. "What do we do? Hide here?" "That's what you think," Crystal snapped. "McHague's legend got my Brian was startled at the icy hardness of her voice. crumbling, fallen in in some places and signs of new work where the rebels had cleared away the debris of years. Brian struggled into a zippered overall suit as they followed a twisting, tortuous course for half an hour, switching from one tunnel to another repeatedly until he had lost all conception of direction. Crystal James, at the controls, seemed to know exactly where they were gash in the wall of the cavern. Brian followed Crystal into the smaller "Wait a minute, how do we get out of here?" Brian demanded. "We're going to crash! That gap isn't wide enough!" The sides of the gap rushed in on the tips of the stubby wings. Brian braced himself for the crash, but it didn't come. At the last possible Crystal held the ship in its roll and completed the maneuver outside the mountain while Brian struggled to get his internal economy back into some semblance of order. "Oh—I see," Brian said weakly and a few moments later he really did An aërial torpedo exploded in front of the rebel ship. Crystal's face set in grim lines as she pulled the ship up in a screaming climb. Brian "That's what you think," Crystal muttered. "Those children don't play "You must be mistak—" He slumped to the floor as Crystal threw the "I guess that was a mistake!" Crystal yelled as she fought the controls. Brian almost got to his feet when another wild maneuver hurled him back "That's them," Crystal said with satisfaction. "How are the others "Look! They're hit!" Brian felt sick. The slower rebel freight ship staggered drunkenly as a torpedo caught white flowers of half a dozen parachutes blossoming around it. Brian outrage. "They didn't have a chance!" "Don't get excited," Crystal told him in a dead, flat voice. "That's Crystal's answer was to yank the ship into a rocketing climb. The "Just follow along, suckers," Crystal invited grimly. talons of gray rock missed and fell away again as Crystal nursed the " Brian gasped. "Well, we got away that time. How in thunder "Into where?" Brian demanded. All he could see immediately ahead was "You leave the flying to me," Crystal snapped. of the mountain face. Brian yelped and cowered instinctively back. The came running. Crystal tumbled out of her ship. rushed up to Crystal. "Wait, you fool. They may not even have seen us." But he was gone, "Who was that crazy coot and what is this place?" Brian demanded. opening Crystal's ship had left. "He hasn't got a chance! We'll be "They got him!" Crystal's voice was a moan. "Oh, the fool, the fool!" "We might as well just wait," Crystal said hopelessly. "It won't do us around so their rocket exhausts sweep the entrance to the cavern," Brian suggested doubtfully. She looked at him steadily. "You sound like the only good rebel left. We can try it, anyway." concealment. Then Brian and Crystal cut loose with the drives of the Crystal was white and shaking, her face set in a mask of horror, as she "Oh, let them shoot us! I can't go through that again!" verging on extinction. He dashed to the other ship and repeated the Crystal screamed. "Brian! There's more police cutting in around the Brian clambered out of the ship and glanced at the glowing points in the rock where the police were cutting their way through outside "It's time to check out," Brian shouted. Crystal led the way as they fled down the escape tunnel. The roaring "The whole side of the mountain's sliding," Crystal screamed. "Run!" Brian shoved her and they plunged madly through the thick tangle Crystal went down as the ground slipped from under her. Brian grabbed Brian and Crystal struggled painfully to solid ground. Crystal gazed scrambling through the jungle up the mountainside. "Where are we heading for?" Brian grunted as he struggled along.

<question>:
What would have happened if Brian didn’t escape with Crystal?

<options>:
A Brian would have given Pete extra work to punish him for the prank.
B Brian would have turned in Crystal and the rebels.
C The police would have thought Brian was working with the rebels.
D Brian would have continued his vitamin research.

<answer>:

C