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Antarctica, 0900 hours, leopard seals home
Hunter and her dad were walking-or sliding-towards a ship that had gotten stuck in the ice. "I wonder what they were doing."
"That looks a lot like the ship that I got stuck in when I met those penguins in New York."
As they were looking at the ship, a few lobsters stuck their eyes above the water's surface. A claw was raised and motioned for them all to begin going forward. The few lobsters got onto the ice and stopped. They began helping up several more lobsters get onto the ice. It seemed like it would never end.
Hunter and her dad started hearing screaming and went as quickly as they could to the other seals. They noticed the attacking lobsters tying up the other leopard seals. "What's going on?"
"I'm not sure sugar."
One of the lobsters noticed the, and yelled to the others, "HEY! THERE'S TWO MORE UP THERE!"
"Let's get to the ship! It's our only chance!" Hunter and her dad hurried towards the ship, but the lobster's were gaining on them. Hunter's dad stopped and turned around. Hunter noticed her dad had stopped and turned towards him. "Go on. I'll hold them off as long as I can. You escape."
"But, daddy-"
"No 'buts'! Just go and try to find those penguins that helped you get here."
"Okay." Hunter then continued towards the ship. She looked behind her and seen her dad fighting for his -and her- life. She seen a net that was lowered and jumped in it, hiding herself under all the fish. It started to raise and she noticed another ship, an ice breaker, coming towards them to break it free. Hunter looked down and seen the lobsters running from the ship. She sighed as she was dropped into the ship.
New York, 1100 hours
The quintet of penguins waved to another group of people that quickly left. DB let out a yawn and all the other penguins turned towards him. "Guys, I'm just feeling a little weak. I could still take you all down. Just, not as easily as before."
"Exactly. We need to get you back into training to make sure you don't lose any of your training."
"Skipper. I'm losing my skills faster than any training could bring them back. Trust me. I've been going out at night to train the way I have been for the entire time I've been training. It got me to my level in only a couple of years. In just a few days, I've lost almost an three months of training. So, I won't be able to keep up my training. We need to find the root cause of this, and don't say it is Striker!"
"Blowhole."
"I'm not too sure."
"Why not!"
"Well, it just doesn't seem too likely to me."
tree hide out
Striker is still watching the video. "I can't see what is causing DB to get weaker."
The video ended and Blowhole came back. "Could he be suffering a disease? He does seem to be tired, like someone that's sick."
"I've never seen him like this when he got sick while I knew him. Could your prisoner answer the question?"
"I asked. He's never seen him like it before, either."
"So, we're stuck on square one."
"Yes. He won't be as effective in finishing my mission for him now."
"Well, I'm going to go back to the zoo before they notice me gone and they start accussing me again." Striker quickly left and headed back to the zoo.
zoo
DB had snuck out of the habitat to go to Alice's computer. Once on it, he began to look up arrivals at the zoo, arrivals at the docks, and different kinds of diseases for penguins that could possibly explain what's going on. He wrote down the arrivals and he wrote sown any diseases that he needed to look up more on. He quickly left and turned out the lights and turned the computer off.
He went back to the habitat and the other penguins looked at him. "Well, there aren't going to be any new arrivals for the next week. There's going to be a ship arriving at the docks in three days, so we need to check that out. I've also found some diseases to look up later."
Johnathan jumped onto the platform. "Well, I've been checking soemthings out and I can't find anything."
"I keep telling you, it's Blowhole!"
"And we keep telling you that we highly doubt it. He is not smart enough to get in here without us knowing it."
"Um, the statistics of you not seeing him actually show that it is very likely for him to get into this zoo and do something to you without you knowing it."
DB closed his eyes and shook his head, giving a small smirk. "Kowlaski. I've actually had a thing started to see how often I've been right and wrong. It has been kept for as long as I've been in charge of that organization. Well, a little longer, actually. We actually have bets on when I'll reach thirty marks in the wrong column. It was fifty, but that's too few for there to even be a possibility. We don't make bets on how long it will take for a certain number of marks to be in the right column because of how often I'm right."
"How often is that?"
DB pulled out a tablet that showed the number of marks on the right column. "This good enough to answer your question?" The others were just shocked. "We recently digitized it to make it easier. Now, when night comes, we'll be going back into Alice's office."
"Alright." DB quickly pushed Johnathan into the water as some humans came up. The penguins began the waddle and wave routine and stopped once the people left. Johnathan climbed out of the water.
"You could have warned me."
"More fun not to." DB smirked. Johnthan pushed him into the water. DB simply floated on his back, still wih the smirk. "I'm a penguin, remember?" Johnathan just chuckled and left. "See ya later."
Night time
The group of penguins were in the office and looking up the diseases that DB had written down. "What about that one?"
"I looked at it earlier. It doesn't have any symptoms that I have." DB clicked on another disease. "Nope. I don't have all those symptoms." He then crossed out one of the things he had written down.
They were interupted by someone. "Hello, Private."
They all turned and seen someone that the penguins hadn't seen for a while. "Cupid?"
DB's expression turned to shock. "Well, I'm gonna let you guys talk. I'm gonna go get some air." He left and headed towards the badger habitat. He threw a rock into the opening and woke up Striker. Striker came out and befor ehe could say anything, DB grabbed him and went to the top of the clock tower. "We've got a situation."
"What?"
"Look towards Alice's office!"
"A reindeer. So."
"That is Cupid! She and Private had a little thing when they were stuck in Madagascar!"
"Ooohhh."
"Exactly! Blowhole, you hearing this? Good."
"So, what does this mean?"
"Do you remember yesterday?"
"Yes. I remember it vividly." Striker began to laugh. He stopped and his eyes went wide as he came to a realization. "Ooohhh. Now I see what you're getting at."
"Exactly...Seriously, Blowhole? You don't see what we're getting at?" DB put his flipper to his head and shook his head. "Look. You do remember what happened, right? Good...Now, what are you wanting me to do? Correct again...Now, Private and Cupid had a thing, so, what does that tell you is going to happen? Exactly. Wait, What do you mean by that?" DB's eyes widened. "YOU WHAT!?" DB sighed. "Look, you know that me and the penguins will have to fight you and I won't hold back since I need them to think that I'm not working for you."
"Wait what did he do?"
"Blowhole attacked Antarctica. We'll wait three days before we start going there."
"Why three days?"
"That's when Hunter will be arriving."
"what do you men by that?"
"Hunter escaped the attack and is coming here."
"Well, I guess that means we'll be having a roadtrip."
"Ya. Wait what did you say? Oh. Okay. At least you were expecting me to fight as hard as I could. Alright. So, you won't be there, but you're lobsters will be. Good to know. Now, why did you attack Antarctica?" DB listened and his facial expression changed to an 'Are you kidding me' look. "Really? You couldn't tell that? Wow. And I though Kowalski had trouble seeing love. Alright. We'll get to the tree base and spy on what's going on." The tow headed to the tree base and went down the slide. The lights came on and the screen immediately became a video of what was going on at Alice's office. They noticed that it was only Private and Cupid talking, while the other three penguins were looking angrily at the two. "Where's the audio?"
It came on with Private talking first. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Well..." Cupid began getting nervous and she rubbed the back of her head. "It's because I wanted to...um...see you." Cupid began blushing.
"I'm..uh..glad to hear that." Private began blushing with embarressment.
"Well, it's good to see you, but we have some important buisness to take care of." Skipper was obviously not happy about Cupid.
"SKIPPAH! She came from a long distance away. We should be nice to her because of it. We should offer her some place to stay."
"Fine. She can stay for a few days."
"Um, actually, I'd need a place to stay for a week. I'm kind of out of the dust that allows us to fly."
"Why a week!?"
"That's how long before any of the other reindeer will come to get me."
"FINE! But, I don't like it."
The screen switched to Blowhole. "Well, what do you think is going to happen?"
"Well, young Private's going to have to listen to his heart and choose one of the three. Mind if we talk to Informant and make bets." The screen switched to a figure that was hanging upside down. "Hey, how you doing?"
"I'd be doing better if he didn't keep sending a bolt of electricity through my body to keep me weak. At least I get enough food."
"Well, we want to make bets on who Private will end with."
"Cupid. That's the most obvious."
"I think it will be Mother duck."
"I'm betting on Hunter."
Striker looked at him. "But, even you pointed out what happened yesterday."
"I know. That was before I knew Hunter was coming. Well, let's get back to the zoo." The duo left Blowhole was back on the screen.
"This just keeps getting more and more complicated."
Well, now you know what Blowhole has planned and why I need you to vote. I put their bets in based on the way the votes are going. Please, visit the poll and vote. Someone, please take the third story of the series. Review.
