Private was woken up suddenly by a loud slamming sound outside of the HQ's secret hatch. He scurried up the ladder and opened the hatch to see Joey the Kangaroo towering above him, while Joey looked down at Private with a frown. Joey was hoping that the lead penguin or the penguin sheila would have answered, but instead he staring down at the young, sweet looking penguin. He had never asked the penguins for help before because he had never needed any help from anyone and frankly, he thought the penguins were odd. He noticed that the small penguin was looking up at him as he waited for him to say something. Joey knew that the lead penguin's name was Skipper, while the penguin sheila's name was Sam and that the other penguins' names were Kowalski, Rico, and Private. The penguin staring at him looked pretty young, probably the youngest out of the five penguins, and knew immediately that this penguin had to be Private.
"Oi Private, is Skipper or Sam around cause I need help from either of them?'' Joey asked in a gruff tone of voice.
"Sorry Joey, neither of them are here, but what do you need help with?" Private questioned.
"It's my favorite beach ball, I kicked it into the tree in my habitat and it's stuck." Joey replied.
"We can help you get your beach ball back, Joey. Just wait here for a second, I know the perfect person for the job." Private answered before closing the hatch.
Everyone was just waking up as Private slid down the ladder and waddled toward Layla to ask her if she would help Joey out. Layla began to stretch as she saw Private waddling toward her to say good morning like he does every morning. Private said good morning to his girlfriend, and then asked her if she was willing to help Joey the Kangaroo out with his problem. Layla replied to his question with a simple "yes" and followed Private up the ladder to help Joey.
"Joey, this is Layla and she said that she will help you get your beach ball out of the tree in your habitat." Private announced.
"Really, you will help me get my beach ball out of my tree, Layla." Joey exclaimed in a happy cheers.
"Of course Joey, it should only take a few minutes." Layla acknowledged as the three of them leaped over the fence and headed for Joey's Habitat.
Layla, Joey, and Private stared up at Joey's beach ball as Layla thought about what would be the best solution to get the beach ball. It was stuck in the highest branch of the tree and didn't even move when Joey kicked the tree with his strong hind legs. That's when Layla figured out that she should try to get Joey's beach ball by using her telekinetic powers. She concentrated long and hard on the beach ball for a second until a small beam of green energy burst out of her hands and directly at the beach ball. Layla lower the ball right into Joey's paws, while he looked at her in shock and just utter joy because he got his beach ball back.
"Thanks, Layla." Joey announced in a happy tone of voice.
"No problem, Joey." Layla uttered as Private and her headed toward the brick wall of Joey's Habitat.
"Hold on a second you two, where are Skipper and Sam?" Joey said suddenly that made Layla and Private freeze.
"Why would you ask us where Skipper and Sam are, Joey?" Layla asked, looking a little taken back by what Joey said.
"Because I asked Private if Skipper or Sam could help me, but he said that neither of them were in the HQ." Joey explained.
"Oh well, it is kind of a long story, Joey." Layla stammered.
"I have a feeling that you two don't want to say what happened to Skipper and Sam." Joey stated as he looked down at the chimp and penguin.
"Ok, we'll tell you what happened to them, Joey." Private muttered sadly.
"Three insane villains captured them four days ago, Joey." Layla informed Joey.
"I'm sorry, but I bet they will escape from those three insane villains and be back at the zoo in no time." Joey added as he tried to cheer Layla and Private up.
"Thanks for the pep talk, Joey." Layla and Private replied.
"You're welcome." Joey said as he watched Private and Layla head for the Penguin Habitat.
Kowalski and the others were eating breakfast by the time Layla and Private had returned from helping Joey the Kangaroo. Kowalski noticed that Private and Layla looked a little upset as they came to sit down next him. He asked Private why he looked so sad and Private told him that Layla and him were asked about what happened to Sam and Skipper by Joey. Private, with some help from Layla, told the others that they had informed Joey that Sam and Skipper were taken by three of their psychotic villains four days ago. The two of them also told their friends that Joey had a strong feeling that Sam and Skipper would escape from the villains and return to the zoo in no time.
"That's interesting, I never thought Joey actually liked or cared about us." Kowalski confessed as he looked at Private and Rico.
"But, what if Joey is wrong about Sam and Skipper escaping our villains successfully?" Jonah spoke up.
"Then, our teams will have a gaping hole in them." Erika calculated in a sad tone.
"Come on guys, we can't start doubting our leaders too soon!" Layla burst out.
"We aren't losing our faith in our leaders too soon, Layla, but we're just saying that Sam and Skipper might not escape from our villains." Private replied, while the others just nodded in agreement.
Sam and Skipper felt sleepy, miserable, and angry as they sat on the cold cement floor in a large torture room of Dr. Blowhole's Lair. Both of them were tied together by thick ropes, while they waited for Seamus and Devlin to arrive. Blowhole and about twenty of his lobster henchmen were watching their every movement just in case, the two of them came up with a last minute plan toward freedom. But Sam had no plan for a last minute escape because she couldn't outrun Devlin, Seamus, Dr. Blowhole, and his lobster henchmen forever. Actually, all that Devlin or Seamus would have to do is fire an energy beam at Skipper or her and they would be captured again. Skipper was facing some of Dr. Blowhole's lobsters that were making sure that Sam and himself didn't move an inch as he heard a groan come out of Sam's mouth, which told him that Devlin and Seamus had finally made an appearance. Then, without any warning, Skipper felt as if the two of them were being lifted into a standing position. All he heard next was some familiar crackling sound and a loud scream of pain, knowing immediately that Sam had been hit by at least two energy beams from her villains' staffs. The two beams of red energy had hit Sam square in the chest and as a result, Skipper and her were blasted backward a few feet before falling to the ground and landing hard on her right side.
"Sam, are you okay?" Skipper asked grumbled mutter because the side of his face was pinned to the floor.
"Other than the feeling that someone just stood on my chest and refused to get off, I'm great." Sam groaned as she sat up.
"You're not going to be feeling great for long, Guardian." Seamus spoke up in a gravelly voice.
"Wonderful, how are you two going to torture me this time?" Sam replied as she looked at Devlin and Seamus as they walked toward her, while Skipper was still tied to her back.
"That's thing about you, Sam, you don't have any regular irrational fears that we could use against you to torture you. You are more complex than that because your irrational fear is seeing someone you love or care about get hurt." Seamus announced in a sly voice as he knelt down right in front of Sam.
"Where is your speech going, Seamus?" Sam growled.
"Untie them, Devlin, I want to give Sam a little demonstration." Seamus ordered as Devlin cut the ropes that bound them with knife and grabbed Sam by the wrist, while Seamus snatched Skipper off the ground and slammed him onto a lab table, watching as metal cuffs pinned Skipper to the table.
"Here's that needle you wanted to use, Seamus." Dr. Blowhole spoke suddenly as he handed Seamus a long, thick needle.
"Now, my demonstration can begin and listen carefully to this, Sam. You're little penguin boyfriend here has a big irrational fear of needles, which makes him an easy torture target for us. But how does his fear intertwine with yours, you can't stand to see him get hurt and he doesn't want to be in pain from this bone marrow needle. Sam, I am going to give choice in the matter, which is tell us something that you don't tell too many people or watch Skipper scream in pain." Seamus declared.
"Sam, don't tell them anything, I'll be fine!" Skipper exclaimed before Dr. Blowhole stuck duct tape on his beak.
"I'm sorry, Skipper, but I can't watch you being tortured with a bone marrow needle." Sam admitted.
"So, choice number one it is then." Dr. Blowhole.
"Something I don't tell alot of people is that I consider the night that Devlin was brought back to life to be my worst memory." Sam confessed.
"Now, that memory is definitely something that should be relived for you, Sam." Seamus stated with an evil smirk as he injected the bone marrow needle into Skipper's left side, while Skipper let out a muffled scream of pain.
"Stop hurting him, I thought if I picked choice number one that you wouldn't hurt him!" Sam shouted at Seamus as he removed the needle from Skipper's side and watched as some blood flowed out of the wound.
"I thought after fighting so many villains you would have figured out that villains always lie, Sam." Devlin smiled at her as Seamus and him noticed tears forming in her eyes.
"Well, isn't that touching, I think this is the first time I made you cry because I hurt a guy that you like or should I say love, Sam." Seamus snickered as he wiped a single teardrop from her cheek.
"Yes, this is the first time that you made cry because you hurt a guy and I love the guy!" Sam yelled at Seamus as he took a few steps backward and Devlin let go of her wrist, but she didn't seem to notice.
"Love is beautiful isn't it, Sam, but remember that love hurts too." Seamus said quickly before blasting a red energy beam at Sam's stomach with his staff.
Sam was blasted off of her feet and into a hard concrete wall, losing consciousness as she fell to the floor. Seamus looked quite pleased with himself as he noticed that Sam was not moving, but she still had a pulse when he checked it. He saw long gash on the right side of Sam's head that was bleeding profusely and several cuts on her arms and face. Meanwhile, Dr. Blowhole and Devlin just stared Seamus, and then back to Sam's motionless body in shock as they tried to figure out how Sam was knocked out by just one energy beam. Skipper let out a frighten gasp as he watched Seamus drag Sam's motionless and bleeding body toward a wall that had metal wrist cuffs in the middle of the wall. He flinched when Seamus slammed Sam against the wall, while the metal cuffs wrapped themselves around her wrists. Then, Skipper noticed that Devlin had taken out a little bottle of some unknown liquid from a secret compartment in his staff, took off the cap, and put the bottle right under Sam's nose. Sam opened her eyes immediately as a foul smelling odor filled her nostrils- the scent reeked of garlic and dirty gym socks that hadn't been washed in ages.
"Ugh, what the heck did you put under my nose, Devlin!" Sam groaned as she stared directly into his face.
"A potion that makes any unconscious person wake up instantly." Devlin explained simply, while Blowhole had ripped the duct tape off of Skipper's beak.
"Well, that potion definitely works." Sam replied.
"And now that you have rejoined us, I think it is time that we relive your worst memory, Sam." Seamus stated with an evil grin.
"Oh joy, I must be luckiest girl in the world." Sam muttered.
"Call it an early birthday present from your worst enemies." Seamus, Devlin, and Blowhole cheered in creepy high voices.
"You're birthday, when is your birthday, Sam?'' Skipper asked.
"It's in two days, I'm going to be twenty." Sam answered as Blowhole stuck a strip of duct tape onto Skipper's beak again.
"Okay, enough of this birthday jibber-jabber!" Seamus huffed as he watched Devlin pick up a cutting knife and head toward Sam, while he plastered a strip of duct tape across Sam's mouth.
Sam felt extremely frighten as she thought about what would happen to her, but she was more concerned about Skipper because he was still pinned to the lab table with Blowhole right next to him. Her eyes grew wide when she saw a small rolling table next to Blowhole with a variety of needles and medical knives on it. Then, she faced Devlin again and just stared at him for a moment until her eyes slammed shut after a sharp, stabbing pain erupted in her abdomen. Sam knew Devlin had just stabbed her with that cutting knife in his hand and knew he was going to do it again at any moment. Seamus wasn't pleased with Sam at the moment because he had been hoping that she would have screamed in agony, but she didn't. He walked toward Skipper and Blowhole, while Sam seemed to be watching his every movement- he stopped right next to Blowhole, picked up a needle, and held it above Skipper's abdomen. He nodded to Devlin for him to proceed with the torture, but to stab Sam slowly this time. A few seconds later, a lovely sound reached his ears- the sound of high-pitched screams of pain from his troublesome foe, but he still stabbed Skipper's abdomen to hear more sweet sounds of their foes screaming in pain. He gave Devlin a simple order after he removed the needle from Skipper, while Devlin ripped the duct tape off Sam's mouth, which made her let out a small yelp of pain. Then, Devlin made a couple of quick slashing movements and Sam just began to break out into bloodcurdling screams that left Skipper feeling absolutely terrified. Skipper wanted Sam's torture to end as much as she did, but Devlin kept on torturing her with his cutting knife until Seamus started electrocuting her with some electrical sparks that burst out of his staff. He looked up at Dr. Blowhole, who had a vision of terror on his face- like he didn't expect this kind of torture was going to happen. Seamus finally stopped torturing Sam when she was covered in her own blood and looked like human ragged doll that was broken and barely alive.
"Now, we'll just give her this potion that will bring back her healing powers because the dose Blowhole gave her last night has worn off." Devlin replied as he injected the potion into Sam's bloodstream.
"Let's get these two back to their room, so they can rest." Seamus said as he grabbed Skipper by his feet.
"Yes, even prisoners need their rest." Dr. Blowhole muttered as he tried not to sound terrified of his villainous partners.
PENGUINSFAN19'S ANNOUNCEMENT SHOW!
Penguinsfan19: Hello, Everybody! If you're reading this story right at this moment, then that must mean I've updated Chapter Ten of Love is the Sweetest Revenge! I have Joey the Kangaroo, Layla, and Private here with me today!
Joey: Oi
Private and Layla: Hey, Everybody!
Penguinsfan19: How did you like the chapter you guys!
Joey: Not too bad. I made an appearance in it, but Sam did get tortured big time.
Private: Good chapter, but is Sam going to be all right?
Layla: PLEASE DON'T KILL OFF MY FRIEND, PENGUINSFAN19!
Penguinsfan19: Chill Layla, I have no plans to kill off any character in my fanfictions.
Layla: Oh, right, sorry I yelled at you.
Private: Hey, no one is going to die!
Joey: Please review this fanfiction!
All of us: See yeah at the end of Chapter Eleven!