Sam watched her friends as they slept soundly, while her thoughts had kept her awake when she started to go over the events that had happened hours before in her mind. Sam knew that what happened tonight was unusual and just plain cruel for someone like Darla. While Sam continued to wrap her mind on the events that had occurred as a shuffle of movement came from one of the bunks in the wall. Skipper noticed that Sam was still awake as he jumped out of his bunk and walked toward her. As he walked toward Sam to sit with her, Skipper heard several more shuffles of movement. Skipper turned around to see Jonah, Layla, Erika, and Kowalski standing behind him.
"Why are you guys awake?" Skipper whispered to the animals standing behind him.
"Probably the same reason you are, Skipper." Jonah answered.
"So, you guys couldn't sleep because of the events that happened tonight too." Skipper asked the group.
"Yes." the group of animals muttered.
"Hey guys." a voice spoke to them.
Skipper turned to see Sam looking at them and nodding her head to tell them to come sit with her. Skipper and the others walked toward Sam, sitting down against the wall by Sam. Sam looked at all of them once they were sitting on the ground.
"Can't sleep, either." Sam questioned the group of animals sitting on either side of her.
"Yep." Jonah, Layla, and Erika replied.
"My mind can't seem to stop going over the events that occurred tonight." Kowalski confessed.
"Mine too." Skipper and Sam sighed as they agreed with Kowalski's statement.
"Why are you guys still up?" a voice squeaked as two figures jumped from the bunks in the opposite wall from where the group sat.
"We can't sleep, Private." Skipper addressed as he watched Private and Rico to come sit by him.
"Can't stop thinking about the events that occurred tonight." Private guessed.
"Yeah." the others admitted to Private's response.
"Only thing I don't get is why Darla wanted revenge against us anyway?" Private wondered, looking at the surprised stares of his friends.
"Darla said why she wanted revenge, Private." Layla uttered to Private in shock.
"I don't think ruining her mind control plans was the true reason for her revenge." Private stated.
"What other reason could there be, Private." Skipper protested, looking at Private in confusion.
"Darla said she had several reasons for her revenge." Private pointed out to his teammates and the guardians in their animal forms.
"Ok, we know the first reason and what are the other reasons, Private?" Jonah put in as he looked at Private with a stare of disbelief.
"The second reason is that Darla wants to know everything dealing with magic, which makes you four targets." Private continued.
"Darla does rituals and magic, but it doesn't mean she is obsessed to find out about different and stronger kinds!" Erika and Layla exclaimed to Private in disbelief.
"Alright, maybe not obsessed, but honesty, how many of villains have the four of you faced that didn't want to know how powerful your magic is!" Private shot his statement back at Layla and Erika.
"Uh, fine, you got us with that one." Layla and Erika groaned, putting their heads down in defeat.
"Come on, I would love to know how many." Private began.
"I would say at least ninety-five percent of the villains we have faced want to know how strong our magic is." Sam calculated.
"That is a large percentage of villains, I can't imagine how many villains the four of you actually faced!" Kowalski implied, sounding shocked by the percent.
"Come on Sam, you really think that only five percent of the villains we have faced don't care." Layla insisted.
"Yes I do, because when any one of us is captured by an enemy, our enemy tries to find out everything about our magic." Sam informed Layla and the others.
"True, but Darla is different." Layla argued.
"How exactly?" Sam asked Layla with a quizzical look.
"Darla didn't try to kill us and the penguins." Layla explained.
"True, but she did hurt all of you with a dagger!" Sam announced.
"But you healed our wounds with your powers!" Layla said in a shout.
"Yes I did heal all of your wounds, but Darla wanted to make me angry by hurting all of you!" Sam retorted.
"And that is another reason for Darla's revenge." Private spoke up.
"wait a minute, what." Sam and Layla burst out.
"Another reason for Darla to get her revenge was to get Sam angry to see her magic at its strongest." Private described to Layla and Sam.
"It makes sense, but the only way to find out is to talk to Darla." Sam grunted in displeasure.
"I don't think I could talk to Darla for at least a few days." Skipper and Jonah muttered.
"But what if Darla comes here to apologize?" Private asked.
"Then, we will let her apologize." Sam and Kowalski answered together.
"I think if we went to see Darla now, we might get the strong urge to beat her up." Erika and Layla stated to the group of animals.
"That is a good possibility." Kowalski confirmed.
"Then, our plan is talk to Darla a few days from now, unless she comes here to apologize." Skipper acknowledged.
"Yes it is." the group replied.
"Now that's done, I think we should try to get some sleep." Private insisted to the others.
"That sounds nice." the group sighed as they laid down on the ground.