14. The Last Vengeance

"Private, you're alive?" Skipper asked weakly, looking around. All his friends stood with a worried look in front of him. Skipper felt a stinging sensation in his stomach. He nearly killed himself, because he thought that his friends were dead.

But he was wrong. All of them were with him now. "Skipper, why did you do that? Why did you try to kill yourself?" Kowalski asked agitated. Skipper sighed. "I thought, you are dead and I didn´t want to live anymore as I realized that you were gone. My life makes no sense without you, guys." muttered Skipper.

"We were so worried about you, Skipper. Please don´t do something like that ever again." Private wept and hugged the leader more tightly. "I will always stay with you. Whether I live or die, my friends." Skipper said in a trembling voice, because it was very difficult for him to talk about emotions.

"Well, at least everything found a good ending." said Raven stirred. "Who are you? Were you trapped here too?" Skipper asked because he didn´t know Raven yet. The black cat just nodded, because this place caused nothing but pain to him too. "He helped us to save you, Skipper. For this I´ll be eternally grateful to him." Private said, looking over to Raven. "You have saved me too. I don´t think that I would have survived any longer in this hell." replied the cat.

Suddenly, the Penguins and Raven heard something behind them. But they noticed too late that Officer X regaine consiousness again. He quickly grabbed the small Private and held him tight. "So what are you going to do now? Either you all surrender or this little guy will die." Officer X said angrily and held the syringe at Privates neck, which he wanted to kill Skipper with before

The other ones felt how their hearts stopped beating for a second. With such a sudden attack, they didn´t expect at all. "Let him go, immediately, or you will rue the day when you crossed our path for the first time." Skipper growled angrily. Slowly the leader got on his feet. He was very dizzy, but he managed to look threatening to Officer X and the others.

The officer just laughed because he saw no threat in Skipper. "You´re kidding me. You're as good as dead anyway, Penguin. And then you want to spread such ridiculous threats." Officer X laughed cruelly and pushed the small Private still closer to him, as he tried to fight back. But Skipper was at the end of his patience. Officer X had inflicted terrible pain to him, but he would never allow that he was doing something to Private.

The leader walked up to the officer and the needle of the syringe got dangerously close to Privates neck. "Skipper, no." muttered Kowalski, who knew that Skipper couldn´t fight at all at his condition. He was afraid to loos him and Private if something should go wrong now.

Skipper took a deep breath and gathered his remaining strength. Then he quickly jumped on the officer and pulled Private out of his hands. The little boy fell to the ground and watched as Officer X rammed Skipper the syringe in his abdomen. "No!" Private screamed in horror and the others were paralyzed from the shock.

Skipper landed back on the table and went to his knees. He breathed heavily and pulled the needle out of his belly. The leader got dizzy spells, but he tried to focus, because he wanted to get his pay back finally. Skipper started attacking again, ignoring any pain he felt.

He struck and punched Officer X right in the face. His sunglasses shattered and he backed away. He got some splinters in the eye and screamed loudly. Skipper saw his chance now to get his vengeance. He went up to the officer and beat again and again. There was nothing left in him but pure hate and anger. He let all the pain and frustration out on him.

The others could´t move a single inch. They never had seen Skipper beeing so angry and violent before. The two squared off in a fierce battle, but gradually Skipper felt that his strength left him. He saw everything blurred around him. The poison crept through his veins, and robbed him his last forces, but he attacked more and more.

The others saw that Skipper was getting weaker and were quickly at his side to help him. They knew that he would die now, after receiving the injection that was actually meant to euthanize him before. Officer X crashed after a last desperate strike by Skipper against the wall and remained there motionless. A small trickle of blood ran down his face.

The leader was standing right in front of him and gasped. It's over, now. No one can save me from my fate anymore, thought Skipper after feeling his body getting numb. He almost wasn´t able to breath anymore and he felt an unbearable stinging in his heart. Then, without warning, he collapsed before the eyes of others and lost consciousness. "Skipper. No, please!" Private cried and ran to him. "No, you can´t die. No, please don´t. Kowalski please help him!" cried the little penguin and panicked.

Kowalski was on the spot immediately and saw that he couldn´t do anything against the poisoning. He examined Skipper's pulse and respiration, which were getting weaker with every minute passing by. "Hurry, please do something." Private cried, knowing what Kowalski's scared face meant. The scientist tried to speed up the pulse of the leader with a light heart massage again, but it didn´t work at all and he gave up.

He knew that he wasn´t able to do anything to save Skippers life, after the deadly poison already raged in the leaders body. "Private, I can´t do anything anymore. It's too late. Even if I would have an antidote it´s too late to get his conditon better. The poison is already too long in his body. Soon his heart will fail and I can´t prevent this. It's over. I think it is time that we say goodbye to him, guys. " Kowalski murmured, and tears dripped down his beak.

Note: I know this sounds like an ending, but it won´t. It´s just an unexpected twist of the story to keep the tension up. So please keep reading and reviewing. XOXO