June 19th 2016
10:00 A.M. Austrailian time
off Austraila's Northern coast
(Skipper's POV)
"Kowalski status report," I said, "we haven't got any closer to New Zealand!" "Skipper this storm is historic if we make one wrong move we could get blown off course!" Kowalski said. "So steady as she goes then," I said. "Yes," Kowalski said. "whoo!" rico said grabbed the wheel and doing all types of extreme manvouers with the superplane. "Rico!" I shouted. "Rico he said steady! Steady!" Kowalski shouted. "aw," Rico said going back to a normal forward direction. But sadly rico did this a little to late and a massive updraft sent us up into the jet stream. But we just happened to end up In the most dangerous part of the jet stream.
Our plane was not designed to fly up in the jet stream and we got taken for a ride as our destination got further away. "Rico get us out of the jet stream!" I shouted over the wind, "we need to get to Profosser Blowhole's secret lair!' Rico got us out of the jet stream and out of the storm revealing clear skies, bright sun, and clear waters. "Kowalski where are we?" I said. "Well the navigational equipment got ripped off by the jet stream," Kowalski said, "I don't even have a compass…" Rico hacked up a compass and Kowalski held it up, "Rico you magnetized this to the deck!" Kowalski shouted. "sorry," Rico said. "How did you do that?" I said.
"There's no stars, no moon," Kowalski said, "no useful magnetic compass, no gps, I find using the sun to be a bit inaccurate and….anyone have a viking sunstone and/or shadowstick on them?" we looked at Kowalski blankly. "I guess not," Kowalski said. "We'll just use our internal biological compasses," I said. "Alright mr. instinct," Kowalski said, "which way is North…" "Blast my internal compass keeps pointing me towards antartica!" "The the opposite side of antartica is north so which why is antartica," Kowalski said. "That way," I said. "Then North Would be that way," Kowalski said, "then east and New Zealand would be that way…" "Land ho!" Mason shouted.
"Well that was easy," I said. "Wait Skipper that isn't new…" "initiate warp drive!" I shouted. "But that isn't…" "Not if I say initiate warpdrive," I said. The plane rocketed towards New Zealand and appeared over the island. "Hmm that's odd I don't remember the coast of austriala being that far away from New Zealand," Private said. "That because this is the…" "Our landing spot," I said, "We're coming for you Blowhole's dad!" the chimp landed us in the middle of a clearing in the rainforest. "Now according to Central Penguin Intelligence…" "Central Penguin Intelligence," I said, "stop coming up with new organizations that we're working with…I'm already unsure if we doing missions for IPSA or North Wind!" "Don't worry Central Penguin Intelligence is a division of the IPSA," I replied.
"oh," Kowalski said, "but I'm still not sure this is new zea…" "Skipper's Log," I said, "we have arrived in New Zealand on the lookout of the hideout of blowhole's Father, Professor Blowhole…It nice a little humid…and intelligent sources place Professor Blowhole's base in the this area!" "Skipper," Kowalski said, "as I keep trying to tell you this isn't…" "Quiet," I said, "we're being watched." And suddenly a mob of Komodo dragons charged out of the bush at us. "Run!" I shouted, "up the tree! Up the tree!" We scrambled up the tree and made it to the uppermost branches. "Well boys looks like New Zealand has a invasive Komodo dragon problem that IPSA forgot to mention to us." "That's because we're not in New Zealand!" Kowalski said, "as I was going to say before you interrupted me that this…IS THE ISLAND OF KOMODO!"
"the island of komodo…as in the Indonesia island of komodo?" I said. "Yes," Kowalski said. "And we're in the middle of Komodo National Park!" I said. "Yes," Kowalski said. "And we're surrounded by a mob of the World's largest lizard!" "yup," Kowalski replied, "so I would get our affairs in order." "We need to get back to the superplane…and head back to New Zealand." "We can just swim to the next nearest island," Private said. "We can't island hop all the way by to new Zealand!" "And their another reason we can," Kowalski said, "the nearest islands to this one…Rinca, flores, Gill Montang, and Padar…are all part of the Komodo's range." "Blast," I said, "the only other option is to…" "Their approaching the superplane!" Private said. "And their going to to start tearing the chimps aparts if we keep hiding in this tree!" I said. "Don't worry," Private said, "the super-plane just…" A bright flash of light blinded us, "Warp drived away."
"Actually if you come down here we're going to tear you apart," a familiar voice said. I looked down, "King Komodo…" "But wasn't he…" "Reduced to a million ice fragments?" he replied, "not…that komodo claimed he was me but sadly he was mistaken…And Now you have the pleasure of facing off against the real King Komodo lord of the dragons of Komodo." "We're are getting off this island," I said. "if you get off this island your going to be swimming in my domain," King Komodo replied. "the "king" komodo we faced in the zoo was a deranged maniac," Kowalski said, "who knows what the real one is capable of." "Now if you surrender to me now and allow us to escort you to the royal court…then I won't pump you small avian bodies with vemon and bactria." "We surrender," I said. "Skipper," Private said. "Do you want to become his dinner," I said. "but maybe we can…" "Private this Komodo dragons are still predators," I said, "there's not going to be a friendly killer machine in this crowd…their not going to be a komodo dragon equivlant of hunter on this island." We climbed off the tree and amoung our reptilian captors, "Now there a group of wise penguins who don't want their lives to end…prematurely," King Komodo said, "especially you…" He stared a uncomfortably long time at Private, "Young Private." all the komodo started to force us along, "Now be the good soldiers you are and come with me," King Komodo said with a hiss, "you don't want to miss the feast…"
(end of chapter one)