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"Owie!" Skipper woke up to a shriek. He quickly sat up to see Kowalski leaning over, rubbing his head.

"Curse you, short ceiling, and big brain!"

Skipper stood up, which he was able to, due to his short height. He glanced around at the bars surrounding them, and a sleeping Private, Rico, and Marlene. "Where the peanut butter winkies are we, Kowalski?" he exclaimed.

Kowalski, still rubbing his head, replied: "Some sort of lair,"

"What villain?"

"Well, I've narrowed it down to the Red Squirrel, Dr, Blowhole, or Hans."

"Hans would never use sleeping gas. It's gotta be that squirrel."

"No, the Red Squirrel has been locked up ever since we caught him several months ago."

Suddenly, Private sat up. "Where are we? What happened?"

"Someone rigged the Winkie box," Kowalski answered.

"What villain?" Private asked. "It couldn't be Hans. He doesn't use sleeping gas."

"Yeah!" Skipper advanced Kowalski. "It was the Red Squirrel!"

"I don't remember his lair being this big," Private said, standing up and looking through the bars if the cage. "Are you sure it isn't Blowhole?"

"Nah. We destroyed his lair a few days ago," Skipper responded.

"Unless he has a backup one!" Kowalski finished, then looked at Skipper for recognition. "A, um, a backup lair. You know..."

"Yes, Kowalski. We get it. Now, when's Red gonna to emerge from the shadows and tell us his evil scheme?"

The three penguins stood in silence for a few seconds, only interrupted by Rico's loud snoring.

"He's not coming. Kowalski, options on getting out of here!" Skipper exclaimed.

"Well, I'm sure Rico's got something up his sleeve!" Private answered.

"He was talking to me," Kowalski muttered to Private.

"Still," Skipper said, "Rico, up, soldier!" He shouted, awakening his sleeping teammate.

"There's a lock, we could use a paperclip," Kowalski said, pointing to a padlock keeping the cage closed.

"Awn it!" Rico exclaimed, regurgitating a paper clip and handing it to the scientist.

Kowalski twisted and turned the paperclip into a key-like item and pushed it in the lock. When it didn't turn, he pulled it out and reshape a it into a different key. Then again. And again.

"Oh, for goodness sakes, man!" Skipper shouted. "Rico, strategically placed dynamite!"

"Awn et!" Rico hacked up a stick of dynamite and threw it out if the cage, and being the expert in those arts, was able to make it explode only the front if the cage, allowing the penguins to step out.

Private looked back, triggered by Marlene's loud snore. "Should we wake her up?"

"Nah. Marlene's strong, the lady knows her stuff," Skipper answered, "Plus, this will be a mission just for us."

"Wait, is Private still leading?" Kowalski quickly asked.

"Not during a mission involving hostile enemies! Now, everyone, quiet!"

The team made a circle, and crept around, ready to attack any side at any time. They walked around the large hall in almost blackness, besides the lights every few yards and the flashlight Rico had provided them with. After walking several feet, they passed a lifted set of floor, with a large red button on it.

"Stop!" Skipper whispered, and pointed to the button. The team dismantled from their positioning and crowded around the button.

"What's it do?" Private asked, whispering.

"Press it and find out," Skipper replied.

"What? But it could be triggering a giant evil machine!"

"We are in a villain's lair," Kowalski commented. "Who knows what sort of maniacal invention it could be hooked up to!"

"Then Rico will press it!" Skipper said, and Rico gladly pressed the button. It made a beeping noise, then the ground descended below them.

"An elevator?" Private exclaimed, noticing that they seemed to be another floor down.

"Fascinating," the brainy penguin noted.

Then, the team realized that in front of them stood another red button, labeled with the word: 'Danger'. But luckily, neither Skipper nor Rico could read.

"Rico, do the honors," Skipper said, pointing to the new button, that Rico then pushed.

"If my calculations are correct, we should go down another level," Kowalski explained, and they all waited for the floor to descend again. But it didn't, instead a cranking noise was heard and more lights came on in the dimly lit room, revealing a large, giant laser gun invention.

Skipper gulped as the large pointer of the diabolical machine moved inches in front of his beak. "Kowalski, analysis," he pondered.

"Well, this is defiantly NOT the Red Squirrel's lair," the scientist answered, as all of them backed away from the machine.

"Then who's left?" Private asked timidly.

"The last one!" the penguins looked up to see where the voice came from. A villainous man in a lab coat walked on the ceiling, steadily towards directly above them.

"Or should I say first!" He laughed evilly.


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