"Kowalski options," Skipper hissed.
"Uh, give me a sec," Kowalski said, and Karen looked surprised that they were discussing their back up plan in front of her.
"Ok, got it, run!" Kowalski yelled.
"You heard the man, move!" Skipper threw himself onto his belly and belly slid out of the way, as did the others.
"Attack!" Skipper yelled, and the five of them closed in on her. Karen spun around, randomly firing the rocket launcher.
"Skipper, it has seven shells, she has three shots left" Kowalski yelled to his leader. He had built it while he had been talking to Skipper, and both of them decided it would be safer to make a limited amount of shells for it, in case this very thing happened.
"I'll kill every last one of you for making Blowhole look like a fool!" she snarled, she aimed the rocket launcher at Skipper who had stopped mid slide.
"Come on then, shoot me," Skipper gave the secret signal. A careless shrug with his flipper behind his back giving them the come and get me sign.
Kowalski stopped fleeing and right before Karen fired, he attacked her.
He slapped the back of her head, and kicked her in the spine, she dropper the weapon, spun around and punched him in the face, sending him flying backwards. His distraction had been enough.
"Rico, the launcher!" Skipper yelled. Rico was the closest to the launcher. The Mohawk penguin nodded and raced towards it.
"No!" Karen yelled, turning back from fighting Kowalski to race for her only chance of victory.
Rico grabbed the rocket launcher and stood up, Karen exploded into him, and then Kowalski heard the familiar click of the trigger.
The shell flew from the launcher and headed in a straight line, right towards Manfredi.
"No!" Johnson and Skipper screamed in chorus. Manfredi, eyes wide with terror starting to flee, but it was too late, it hit him full force.
"Ha! We win, Blowhole will win, wait until he hears this!" Karen yelled over her shoulder as she bolted away from the habitat. Skipper and Johnson seemed frozen to the very spots where they stood.
Luckily Rico and Kowalski still were able to move.
"Rico, blow up the Launcher," Kowalski ordered, seeing the horrified look on his leader's face, and realizing that he wouldn't be giving any orders for a few moments. Rico nodded and threw up a stick of dynamite and there went the rocket launcher, silently Kowalski vowed to never make such an invention ever again.
Then together Kowalski and Rico approached Manfredi who lay on his side, covered in blood.
"He's alive!" Kowalski yelled and slowly began to try and staunch the flow of blood from the ragged wound of Manfredi's side.
"W-we need to get him to the vet," Skipper rasped, finally coming out of his shock. Johnson still stared numbly at his brother.
"But, the zoo's closed, how do we do that?" Kowalski asked. For a moment, Skipper didn't say anything, he just stood and stared at his injured 2nd n command and very close friend.
"Rico, in HQ, there's an orange computer that when we type things in, it says what we need it to say, go get it," Skipper ordered, slowly becoming himself. Rico went back to HQ.
"What do we need that for?" Kowalski asked. Skipper walked over to them and examined Manfredi's wound.
"Kowalski, go get a phone, we're calling the vet," he said. Within a few minutes the vet was on his way to the zoo, believing that one of the zookeepers who were never around when you needed them, had found one of the penguins badly injured, outside of the habitat.
They watched as the vet came into the zoo, then they went back and dragged Johnson away from his brother, reassuring him that once the vet had him, he would be alright.
They spent the most of the night in the HQ, thinking quietly to themselves about the day's events.
Finally it was Johnson who spoke up.
"Skipper," he said, his eyes usually sparkling with humor and mischief were now burning with hatred and fury,
"Yes Johnson," Skipper rasped, Kowalski suddenly noticed that his leader looked much older when he was upset like this.
Skipper's P.O.V
"I want to go after Blowhole, if that spy of his had never come here, Manfredi would still be fine," Johnson said, his eyes now pleading as well as angry. Skipper himself wanted to go after Blowhole immediately following the attack, but had forced himself not to, believing that Johnson would want to stay near his brother.
"Are you sure you want to leave your brother right now?" Skipper asked, his tone suddenly showing his authority.
"Yes, as you said, the vet will take care of my brother until we get back," Johnson replied firmly.
"Then we're going after Blowhole," Skipper said, he motioned for Kowalski and Rico to join them, and then silently they left the HQ, and the zoo and then headed after Blowhole, towards his last hideout where he would surely be.
Hm, seems they've forgotten the egg, but oh well, anyway what did you guys think?