Captain Private

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Chapter 8

Marlene struggled, trying to get free, but the ropes were too nicely knotted for her to escape. All hope was

lost for her, until she saw Skipper, coming to her rescue. After Skipper had reached her, he swam down and

tried to pick up the rock, that Marlene was tied to, but it was too heavy for him to lift. Next, he tried untying

the rope, but his flippers were too slippery. Just then, Skipper got an idea then swam off, leaving Marlene

by herself. A few seconds later, Skipper had appeared with Rico's pocketknife and began cutting the rope.

About ten minutes later, Marlene was free and could swim up to the surface, but fainted halfway up. Skipper

took notice of it, grabbed her paw then helped her up to her cave at the top. Once they both popped out of

the water, Skipper laid Marlene down on the rock, which lead to the entrance way of her cave, and listened

for a heart beat.

While Skipper and Marlene were still in the otter habitat, the other penguins were still trying to hold off

Tank. Private tried reasoning with him, but instead of Tank heeding what he said, he judo kicked at him. The

young captain saw him and dodged the attack.

Then, out of the blue, he started shouting out orders. " Alright team," Private shouted. " It's time to

Commence Operation: Peek-a-boo." Just then, Kowalski jumped up on Tank's shoulders and shielded the

large penguin's eyes. Rico took his fencing sword, walked up beside Tank, and tripped him with it as soon

as he walked forward, causing him to fall onto his face. Next, Rico coughed up some extra ropes and passed

them out to the other two penguins. Together, the three penguins tied up Tank then tied him to a lamp

post, making sure that he was unable to escape. Next, they set off a silent alarm, for wild life animal control

to take him away. Afterwards, they ran to Marlene's habitat to find Skipper sitting beside Marlene, with a

concerned look on his face. They all ran up to the two of them with their jaws dropped.

" Skipper," Private whimpered. " Is Marlene…"

" No," Skipper muttered, sadly. " She's still alive. I just don't know what to do."

" What do you mean you don't know what to do," Kowalski raised an eyebrow. " You took that CPR class

last year, during the summer. Don't you remember?"

" Yes," Skipper began irritably. " But, I failed it. Don't you remember?"

" Only because you were afraid and ran out of the classroom," Kowalski announced then paused. " Skipper,

now's your chance to redeem yourself. Try giving her artificial CPR."

" Yeah? About that," Skipper responded, slowly, shaking. " The class didn't teach artificial CPR. It only taught

regular, mouth-to-mouth CPR."

" Then give her mouth-to-mouth CPR then," Kowalski stated, glancing at the lead penguin. " Look, Skipper,

the rest of us haven't taken that CPR course, yet. As a matter of fact, we're not scheduled to take it until

next week. So, her life rests in your hands."

" I don't know, Kowalski," Skipper sighed, quietly. " The closest I've ever gotten to the dummy in CPR class,

without passing out from fear of embarrassment, was two-inches away from it's face. I don't think I can do

it."

" At least try it," Private spoke up as the others turned to him, staring awkwardly. " Please, Skipper, for

Marlene's sake. I promise to cover my eyes if it makes you feel more comfortable." The young captain

covered his eyes. " There," Private smiled widely. " You see? They're covered. Just like I promised."

Skipper smiled at Private then took a deep breath, accepting defeat. " Alright. I'll do it," the general penguin

mumbled. " For Marlene's sake." He moved closer to Marlene then leaned his beak over her mouth.

Suddenly, his stomach began churning, violently, as fear of humilation came to him. Skipper grew terrified

then lifted up his head, trying not to throw up.

Kowalski noticed it and put his flipper on Skipper's shoulder. " It's okay, Skipper," he patted him, slowly

working his way up to a shout. " Take your time. It's not like you're really trying to save someone's life

here!"

" Okay! Okay," Skipper stated irritably. " Sorry. It's…it's my nerves. They almost made me throw up."

" I have an idea," Private stated, still keeping his eyes covered. " Why don't you pretend like you're blowing

up a balloon?"

" Private? That's ridiculous," Skipper scolded, putting his flippers on his hips. " If I can't master performing

CPR on a dummy without feeling embarrassed. What makes you think that I'm going to master performing

CPR on a living, breathing thing, huh?"

" You could at least try it," Private retorted, convincingly.

" Alright. I'll try it," Skipper took another deep breath, again. "Here I go, again."

The general penguin looked down at Marlene as a blush took over his face. Suddenly, after a few moments

later, he leaned down. Eventually, his beak touched her mouth and he performed CPR. He had nearly

fainted, due to feeling embarrassed, but kept in mind that this was for a good cause.

Afterwards, he moved away from Marlene's face, but still leaned over, looking at her. Marlene coughed up

water and opened her eyes. " Skipper," Marlene murmured as her vision cleared up. She saw that Skipper's

face was leaning over her's and blushed. Skipper moved back to give her some space, but mostly because

he was on the verge of fainting and did not want Marlene to see the blush on his face." Skipper, where am

I? What happened?"

" You're on the rocky surface, at your habitat," Kowalski answered quickly for Skipper, who was still trying to

get rid of his blush. " Also, you nearly drowned, but Skipper saved your life."

Marlene widened her eyes then looked over at Skipper, who was now back to feeling normal. " It's true,"

Skipper shrugged then glanced over at the young captain, who was still shielding his eyes, not even paying

attention to anything around him. " Private? You don't need to cover your eyes, anymore."

" Okay," Private uncovered his eyes, smiled widely, and ran to hug the otter. " Marlene, you're alive!" He

squeezed the otter tightly." I can't believe it! My balloon idea worked!"

" Balloon idea," Marlene raised her eyebrow. She got up off of the ground, standing up, after Private

released her and stepped backwards.

" Please, don't ask," Skipper grumbled then looked over at his team. " So, men, how did the battle with

Tank go?"

" We won and now wild life animal control is on it's way to come and claim him," Kowalski stated, flatly.

" Plus, he's tied to a lamp post, over there, right now, so he can't get away," Private added as he pointed to

where Tank was tied up.

"Thank goodness," Skipper wiped his forehead. " He nearly gave me a heart attack, especially after going

through all of this, today."

" He did," Marlene kept her eyebrow raised, skeptically. "How?"

" Well," Skipper stated, thinking. " He nearly killed my team and I, for one. And two, well...he nearly killed

you, too."

Marlene glanced at Skipper, worriedly then smiled. " Well, you don't have to worry about having a heart

attack, anymore. Now that Tank is going to be long gone."

" True, but," Skipper began, but was cut off by Private, who was watching something, over in the distance.

" Skipper," Private shouted and pointed. " Look! Animal control's come to take Tank." The other penguins

and the otter turned their heads toward the direction that Private was pointing. From there, they saw two

men walk into the zoo, with nets and a cage. Both of them scratched their heads trying to figure out how to

get the penguin untied from the lamp post. As soon as they figured it out, Tank wiggled free, knocked out

the two men, who were trying to catch him, and dashed off. About a few seconds later, he disappeared

over one of the zoo walls, running into the park behind it.

Skipper glared over at Marlene, who had watched Tank jump over the wall. Marlene glanced back at him

with her eyes widened. " I just jinxed that," she stuttered, nervously. " Didn't I?"

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Oh, great. Tank got away. Anyways. Coming up next in Chapter 9. The penguins and the otter formulate a plan to capture Tank and take him to the Wild Life Animal Control. Please stay tuned and find out more. BTW: In this story, the zoo is suppose to be closed during lunch time and the wild life animal control just takes the animals away and sends them else where. Anyways. Thank-you for reading this message.