September 23rd 2015

Rockefellar Center, NYC

7:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time

(Skipper's POV)

The North Wind had dropped us off by the ice staking rink's secondary maintainence shed. "I am detecting a hollow space under this maintainence shed," Kowalski replied. "Rico weapons check," I said. Rico began to hack up random weapons, "Private snacks!" I said. "Let's see," Private said, "swiss delight, nalla cream, a bag of cheezy dibbles, and a peanut butter winkey." "Peanut butter winkies when were you going to tell me that there back?" "They just reopened the wally winky plant today," Kowalski replied. "Okay then," I said, "onwards." I pulled Private aside and said, "Dibs on the cheezy dibbles." "What about the winkey?" "Save it," I said, "in case we need to dodge lasers or something…or you can eat it now and doom us later." We entered the shed and leaned against the wall.

"Easy does it men this could well be a trap," I said. "Rico coin me," I said. Rico hacked up a quarter and I rolled it to the center of the shed where that was holes in the ground. Spikes went of from the ground and the square in the center flew towards the ceiling. "See I guess that Dave isn't as smart as he thinks he is…" I said as the floor fell beneath us, "Ahhhhhhhh!" We found ourselves hanging upside down in the strangest secret base I ever seen. "UM…" Private said, "I don't think the Peanut Butter winky made it Skipper." "Curse you Dirk!" "Dave," Kowalski corrected. "Curse you DAVE!"

""Now that is just hurtful," Dave said, "And I was so happy to see you again." We feel from the inverted shed and landed on the ground with a thud. "Well Penguins it's been a long time," Dave said. "Well, Well Dave," I said, "it has been a long time." "Well, Well, Well Too long," Dave replied. "Well, Well, Well, Well…" "Enough," Dave replied. "Prehaps you are wondering why it is that I laid that ridiciously complicated trap for you?" Dave said. "Let me guess," Kowalski said, "your going to show off you new lair theater system High Definition with Surround Sound, then show us a picture of something that's delicious dipped in butter, then give it a exoskeleton of some kind of shiny metal." "And then your going to use a magnet to take all of our weapons, then fire lasers at us, and then we going to beat you…" I said, "And then you going to run away while activating the bases self-destruct followed by us escaping with half a second to spare and having a story that nobody would believe even with the mission file in front of them."

"By the way Blowhole already did all of that," Kowalski replied. "So how did we do Punk?" I asked. "You're in the ballpark," Dave replied, "Which as why I'm going to go thru all of that anyway." Kowalski let out a groan. "Well tell you when I could show you," Dave said, "Henry! Bake on! We're still going to need that victory cake!" And then a big screen with HD and surround sound appeared as predicted. And then as predicted a crab appeared on screen. "Delicous dipped in butter what's you point?" And as predicted he plans to put some kind of metal on it's claw. "Without you penguins around to foil my plans," Dave said, "I will rule land and sea!" "We get the gist," I replied, "Rico weapons…nothing metallic though."

"I wanted to use my gaint magnet!" Dave said, "And I don't have any lasers!" "Then what's the fun in that?" I asked, "what bad guy doesn't have lasers in his base?" "Nicolas why don't we have lasers?" Dave asked. "We're working on it*" he replied. (*Translated from Octopusnese) "So I guess we skip the dodging lasers part," I said, "and cut straight to the battle!" "Octopi Attack!" Dave said. "You mean Attaaaack!" Kowalski said. "No I mean Attack!" "Um why aren't your octopi attack?" I asked. "Yes why…OH MY CAMAIRI!" An army of Chromeclaws arrived and knocked out all the octopi and Dave." "I have Avenged..." Blowhole said, "What are you pen-gu-wins doing here?" "I might ask you the same thing Blowhole." "Well Dave did make the mistake of building his new base directly over mine," Blowhole replied. "What?" I said.

"Anyway," Blowhole said, "Lobster capture them! Time to take them down to my base." The lobsters captured us before we could do much of anything. Red one and a few of the other lobsters grabbed us and threw us down the hole the chromeclaws just made. "Chromeclaws!" Blowhole said, "Guard this hole! Don't Let any octopi down here!" The Chromeclaws roared in response then watched the unconscious octopi intensely. "I Knew you couldn't stay away from this," Blowhole said, "good thing I have a surprise for you pen-gu-wins!" "Oh you shouldn't have," I replied from down in Blowhole's new base.

(End of Chapter One)