I would advise to read 'King Julien is a girl's best friend' to understand this story completely.

Chapter 14-

With the destruction of the world on pause, all the penguin agents moved on outside. Skipper scoured the area, scanning his eyes along the wasteland. The clouds of smoke still lingered above them from the volcano. Shielding his eyes from the spotlight of sun, that had only just about managed to pierce through the fog, and straining them to see, Skipper starred at the horizon. The other penguin agents noticed what he had seen to, their eyes widening in horror. Marching forth towards them was a huge cluster of enemies, which spread out along the horizon. Enemies came ever closer, every where as far as the eye could see. Skipper turned to look at The Major.

"Dr Blowhole must have summoned them. Stand your ground men, we must fight to finish this" the boss demanded. The agents exchanged their fearful expressions for a look of determination and grit. Their fixation on the purpose was plain to see as they lowered their brows and tensed their beaks shut. Skipper glanced back at his team. Private quivered in fear, whimpering as he huddled up to Kowalski. With a look of solicitude, Skipper walked to the young penguin's side, placing a flipper around him and pulling him close. Private excepted this gesture and put his flippers around his leader, forming a tight grasp in the hug. Skipper rested his beak on the top of Private's head as the young penguin nestled his face into the leader's chest. He let out a sigh, looking at the horizon, watching the army of enemies come closer from the distance. They were now more visible and the penguin agents were able to start to recognise the faces, even though the distance between the two teams was still quite vast. He let his glance slip away from the horrifying sight, turning his head to face Kowalski and Rico. They forced a forlorn smile as Skipper nodded to the respectfully. With a whimper from Private, Skipper pulled away, but kept his flippers on the small penguin, just averting them onto his shoulders as he bent down to his height. He looked at Private, deep into his eyes.

"Understand that I was always proud of you. You remind me so much of Manfredi that sometimes I actually forget that you are only so young. If you and I are not to make it out alive, I hope you can go out remembering that I am so proud of you" Skipper gulped, swallowing the tight lump in his throat. Private nodded, managing to pull together his words as he attempted not to cry.

"Yes, Skipper...I-I always knew S-Skipper...".

The leader took a deep breath in, composing himself as he let go of Private and turned to the other half of his team.

"Rico; my brother in black and white. There's not been a second when I regretted recruiting you. You've defiantly bought a whole new character to the team, a character that I've never seen or worked with before. I have no doubt that you'll fight well in this battle, but if you are the only one out of us who makes it out alive, promise me that you'll control your psychotic spells for your next team. I fear that they might not be as understanding as I was..."

"Aye, Skipper.." Rico sniffed, his eyes welling as his leader's words touched his heart.

"And Kowalski, well, what would I do without you? You've been a great friend, like a brother to me. I always doubted your inventions but who else would have the intelligence to even begin to make one of your crazy whacked up experiments? You deserve so much more then Doris, I just hope you survive to realise this".

"For you Skipper. I shall fight for you..." Kowalski saluted, disguising his sadness with a disciplined expression. Skipper stood back to look at all of his men.

"It's been an honour serving with you, boys. I hope to see you all at the other side..." he announced, finishing off his speech before turning his back on the to see the army. They were getting frightfully close now, but Skipper showed none of his fears.

"This is all my fault..." Kowalski choked, rubbing his eyes, not allowing himself to cry. Skipper spun back around and grabbed the taller penguin by his chest.

"Don't say that! Do you hear?! Don't you ever dare say that!" he scolded.

"I'm sorry Skipper, but it's true! If I had never had gone out to find Doris, this never would've happened! I should have just listened to you!"

"Too right you should've, but that doesn't matter now. We are far past the point of blame. If we had to blame something, it would be that potion" Skipper comforted. Kowalski's face lit up.

"The potion...The potion! Skipper, that's it! That's the answer!"

"If you've forgotten, Kowalski, you've already tried using the potion Doris to like you" Private snivelled.

"Yes, I know, I don't mean for that... What's every mans weakness?" Kowalski continued.

"Hippies?" Skipper grumbled.

"Peanut butter winkies?" Private inputted, cheering up a bit.

"Kaboom?" Rico grinned.

"No, no and what? No, all men have a weakness for women" Kowalski beamed, rubbing his chin in thought.

"HA! Not me!" Skipper sniggered, puffing out his chest, receiving a raised eye brow from h taller penguin.

"Oh really, is that so? *Cough* Miss Kitka *cough* Marlene" Kowalski teased. Private patted him on the back, thinking that his friend was actually coughing.

"Are you alright there, Kowalski?" he asked. Kowalski shrugged Private's flipper off of him.

"Fair enough" Skipper admitted, rubbing the back of his neck, "But how is that going to help us in a battle?"

"The girls could be a distraction and, as we've seen when Julien tested the potion, the guys won't be able to resist but to flirt with them...But the potion is back at the lab..."

"Correction, there is no more potion, you smashed it in your paddy!" growled Skipper.

"Paddy? It was merely a moment of anger relief..." Kowalski defended.

"Temper tantrum" Rico taunted, joining in with Skipper's attempt to tease the taller penguin. Kowalski let out a groan.

"Anyway, did you really think I would get rid of it all? No, there's more back in my lab. Also there's the girls at the zoo that can help us"

"So you're saying we should go back to HQ to get the potion and the girls to help us with your plan. Are you sure this will work?" the leader questioned.

"There's a percentage that it might..." Kowalski hesitated.

"What percentage is that?" he urged.

"50/50..."

"But we can't just leave. What about the battle? We'll look like we're fleeing" Private inputted, following after Skipper's sigh.

"Kowalski, Private, Rico, you can go, I'll stay here to fight".

"No way, we're not leaving you!" the young penguin gasped.

"PRIVATE! That's an order! Now go before you all get caught up in this battle" Skipper demanded. Rico placed his flipper around Private, pulling him away from the crowd. Kowalski stood and starred at his leader.

"I-I...I just want to say...Thank you... You're the greatest leader we could've ever had. You can't even begin to fathom the amount of respect I hold for you". A simple nod was Skipper's only answer, turning away from his friend as he struggled to keep himself from crying. "You're my best friend...And I don't know how I would go on without you..." Kowalski continued, about to walk away. These words warmed Skipper's heart, his eyes sparkling as hey turned watery. He turned once more to grab his friend, this time pulling him into a hug. No words were said, just a tight brotherly hug to express all their feelings. Skipper pulled away, hearing footsteps approaching the group. With a glance over his shoulder, Skipper was bought back into thought of what was actually happening. He pushed Kowalski away, gently yet showing a firm request.

"Go. Go, now".

Kowalski obeyed, running over to catch up with Private and Rico. Skipper took in a deep breath, puffing out his chest, starring at the evil army that now stood before the penguin agents. Dr Blowhole drove his Segway forward.

"Pen-GU-ins! I'm glad you are all here to witness the fall of the pen-GU-in species, obviously you won't survive for the annihilation of the human kind but it won't be much to look at".

"What makes you so sure that the side of evil will become victorious?" The Major questioned, his voice making the feather's on the back of the agent's neck stand up.

"Because, the dark side always cheat" he grinned maliciously, giving a signal to the other villains, who then pulled out their weapons which resembled cannons that were light enough to be rested on a shoulder and fired out bombs. The penguin agents grasped their weapons and gadgetries, which weren't as powerful as the other side's. Skipper narrowed his eyes, putting on his belt which held grenades.

"It's on..."