Author's Note: Don't penalize me for making another story! The ones I'm already doing are almost over anyway! And THANK YOU THANK YOU PoMlovah611 for all your BRILLIANT help because I can't Kowalski like you! You helped A LOT!
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~Natty.
Everything had been normal. Well if you could call having the entire HQ to yourself normal while the rest of your team was out on some errand or affair. They'd left before dawn and hadn't come back yet, leaving the analyst with a lot of marvelous science time. Oh how life was treating him well in this moment as he mixed these two chemicals together. Nothing could ruin this lovely afternoon for him.
"Oh hello neighbor!" The lab door was kicked open as a certain king just waltzed right in like he owned the place.
Kowalski sighed as he put down the beakers. Well, he had indeed spoken too soon. "Julien, what are you doing here?"
The lemur smiled obliviously, walking up to the lab table taking the welcome of one that was warm instead of one that was most unwelcoming. "I was coming to be telling you something from somebody else!"
"A message? From who?"
"Oh, from Blow-Joe."
You could only imagine the analyst's reaction to hearing that. "WHAT!? Wh-what did he say?"
"He was telling me he is having de bossy pants penguin."
"Impossible... Blowhole couldn't have captured Skipper! Th-that's just impossible. And of all people why you to send the message to me?" Kowalski crossed his flippers over his chest and tapped his foot on the ground, no longer believing one bit of what this lemur was saying.
"Fine…do not be believing me. Why would you even be believing Blow-Joe's partner in crime in de first place?" the lemur shrugged and turned to leave.
"Wait! Blowhole's partner? Now? I thought you were a double agent..."
Julien again shrugged with a grin and laughed. "Farewell, silly penguin heh... Be having luck stopping me."
Kowalski's eyes shifted right and left. "No, please! Julien! Wait! Skipper might be in danger! I can't believe I'm saying this, but please take me to them!" he begged.
"Awwww! Am I having to?" The king moped and pulled out a small cardboard packaging, eating the pellets from inside of it. "Dat was so not being part of de job description okay? He was telling me all I had to do was to be making sure I was telling it to you and then eating this poi-shun. Whatever it is." Julien looked at the box with the picture of the dead mouse on it, still not knowing what is was. It didn't taste very good but he started to put another in his mouth.
"Are you completely-" he paused, knowing what he was about to say was true. "Don't eat that! It's poison! It'll kill you!" he said, hitting the back of Julien's neck, making him spit out whatever he ate. "Just take me to where you got the message."
The lemur glared but complied. "Okay FINEEE. Be coming with me then." Julien huffed and took out another pellet.
Kowalski slapped the pellet out of the lemur's paws. "I said don't eat that! Do you want to be killed!?" he said, grabbing the box.
"But it was being a present from Blow-Joe!"
"A present!? The present he gave to you is death, you idi-" The tall penguin stopped, realizing that if he made a wrong move, the lemur might not take him to Skipper. "Urgh... Just leave this box alone. I'll examine it later on. Right now, please just take me to them..."
"But I am hungry!" Julien argued sadly.
"Have a fruit or something!" he said, handing him a banana he got from nowhere. "That 'gift' simply won't satisfy your hunger. Now can you please take me to where you received the message?" he pleaded.
Julien gulped down the banana and nodded with his mouthful. "mmYeah mOkay." Before starting to lead out the lab door, throwing the peel carelessly behind him. It slapped onto the tall penguin's beak.
Kowalski sighed then picked the banana peel off his beak, throwing it away before running after the lemur.
They'd managed to make it topside and over the wall when Julien looked behind him at the penguin before bolting down the zoo path as fast as he could, trying to lose the bird.
"Julien!" Kowalski yelled after the mammal, sliding on his belly. This way, he was faster than the lemur. "JULIEN!"
Julien ran faster, but knowing he wouldn't be able to outrun the penguins sliding, he did what lemurs do best. He leaped.
"JULIEN! YOU BETTER COME HERE RIGHT NOW!" Kowalski shouted.
The lemur spared a glance back, which was a mistake since he rammed into a bench. "Ow! Oh who would be even putting dat there anyway?!"
"Aha! Gotcha!" Kowalski exclaimed, pinning him down on the ground.
Julien struggled in the bird's grip, glaring and kicking. "Stop it! Be getting off already!"
"WHY were you trying to shake me off your trail?" he demanded, not letting go of the mammal.
The lemur scoffed. "Dat is SO not what I was doing…"
"Mhhmm, right... What were you doing then?"
"Eh…I was definitely not leading you to a trap if dats what you were thinking…" Julien said with an eye roll.
Suddenly in the distance there was a scream from Private.
Kowalski's eyes widened in fear as he heard the scream of his teammate. "PRIVATE!? PRIVATE! WHERE ARE YOU!?" Kowalski called out, standing up and off the lemur, looking around for the origin of the scream.
Julien attempted to use this as a chance of escape, but it was failed as the tape recorder fell out of his fur, landing on the play button and again Private's PRE-RECORDED scream came through the air. The lemur blinked down at it.
Kowalski looked at the tape recorder then glared at the ring-tailed lemur right in front of him. He pointed at the tape recorder. "What is this!?" he snarled. "...Some kind of joke!?" he paused, thinking this through. "And where did you get that scream!?" he asked, worried.
"I would not be lying to you if I was saying I can be explaining dat…" Julien started slowly.
The tape recorder fell to its side and Skipper's scream played.
The lemur blinked. "And dat too…" He moved to pick it up but it played again:
Rico's scream.
Julien frowned. "Okay…I cannot be explaining dat one because it didn't even sound like words…"
"Then explain!" Kowalski demanded.
"I am not being able to tell you where they are!" Julien told him.
"You imbecile!" a high-pitched voice hissed from inside the lemur's ear piece. Guess whoooo? "Why do I even USE you for my schemes in the first place?!"
Of course this was heard by the analyst. Kowalski narrowed his eyes, grabbed Julien's earpiece and wore it himself. "Blowhole?"
"Greetings Kowalski...how are you feeling? Scared yet?" the voice responded back.
"Ah, so it is you... what's your scheme this time, Blowhole?" the analyst growled.
"This is how things are going to play out over the next couple of days. You will do whatever I ask and in return, maybe I won't harm that team of yours…" Blowhole said and one could tell he was thrilled.
New agonized screaming started from the earpiece. It was Skipper's and it was live.
"Skippah!" Private's voice shouted. "No!"
Rico shouted in alarm in gibberish to this as well over the speaker.
The dolphin laughed. "Maaybe…"
The penguin gasped at the sound of Skipper's scream. Kowalski gulped. No, he shouldn't... Plan... need a plan... Hmm... if he let this play out a bit... maybe... just maybe... "A-alright, Blowhole, just... don't hurt them..." his heart was pounding, awaiting the dolphin's reply.
As if on cue to that last statement:
"AUGGHHHHHHH!" His leader screamed.
"Sorry, what was that Kowalski?" the dolphin mocked, wanting to hear the analyst agree to his demands again.
"Stop! Please! Don't hurt them! I'll do whatever you want just please..." Kowalski pleaded.
"UGH!" Skipper cried. "Don't LISTEN to him!"
The analyst apologized into the speaker. "I'm sorry Skipper but I can't let you guys get hurt!"
"ACK! You MANIAC!" The leader choked as his throat was jabbed again and started to shout obscenities at the dolphin but was quickly silenced.
Private was heard whimpering.
"Ohhhh Kowalski?" Blowhole sang. "I'm ready to give you my demands whenever you are…"
"R-right..." the analyst nodded even though he couldn't be seen. "What do you want me to do?"
"Make the imbecile give us a little privacy." the dolphin said, meaning the idiotic lemur.
"Uhm... J-Julien, would you be so kind as to leave? I'm kind of... busy here..." Kowalski said to the lemur.
The lemur blinked but shrugged. "Eh." He walked away. "I am not understanding this whole double spy-guy thingy anyways."
"He's gone, Blowhole..." said Kowalski when the lemur king was out of earshot.
"You will not believe how hard it is to dispose of that lemur…Well you will." Blowhole laughed. "Soon…mwa-ah-ah-ah-ah!" he cackled in amusement.
The brainiac gulped. "So wh-what do you want me to do?" he asked with uncertainty. He wasn't sure if he should be following orders from this evil dolphin but if it meant saving his friends...
"I want you to kill King Julien…"