StoriesAreMagic- Yea, I guess I am. Thanks for the review, but you'll have to read on to find out.

Cheycartoongirl8- or Cartoongirl and so did I, but I changed it last minute for a surprise. Ah but Blowhole, how do you know she isn't really leading them into a trap so you can destroy them yourself or use them as bait? That's the thing, you don't :D

Galaxina-the-Seedrian- Hey, even I don't know...but then again, she did blow up the HQ, try to kill Skipper, almost smash Private as an egg, Kill Manfredie and Johnson- I'll stop there. In this case, you have a right to be paranoid.

hipturtle15- We'll have to read and see, I don't even know what she's doing! And I'm the Authoress! I don't know, we'll have to get Skipper to investigate!

sweety kneul- And here's a third one! yea, poor Chase...Why'd he have to die! I liked him!

Sky Fireheart- I did try to make it unexpected and surprising... I know, poor chase :'(

Tenma Matsukaze- Hmmm...I don't remember writing that? ;)

TheSkySpiritsTalentShow- Actually Skipper, AT did. If you don't believe me you can go back and read your review of chapter 13. There's your proof. HA!

madagascarmaster- Ahwell you better get used to it Pri. Yea, Being an official own charecter must suck bad. well, it's not like you can do anything about it X)

Skipper leaned down on the ground over Chase, pressing his flippers down over the bullet wound in an effort to slow the bleeding.

This was not good. He had seen wound's like this is in the war...none of the inflicted survived more than a few minutes after.

"N-no good...Skip" Chase gasped out. A small river if blood flowing out from the side of his mouth.

Private took deep breaths, trying to stop the tears from falling. "Sk-Skippah?"

Skipper looked up to meet Private's eyes, the look on Skipper's face was enough to tell Private the truth.

The wound was fatal.

Chase chuckled weakly at their faces "T-toldja"

Skipper shook his head, refusing to believe this was happening. He took a long look at Chase's face, the scar standing out. Almost taunting him, Chase had survived that wound... Only to die at this.

"Sk-Skipper?" Chase chucked out, his breathing growing more laboured with each word.

"Yea Chase?"

"W-where's Sha-Shauna?"

Skipper turned and looked over his shoulder, seeing the young badger staring at them, shaking her head in disbelief.

Chase smiled slightly "H-hey Shauna"

The dam broke, tears raging out of Shauna's grey eyes as she slowly walked over to the small group.

"C-can you guys g-give us a sec?" Chase asked, looking up at Private.

Private looked at Skipper who was standing up, silently telling him to do the same.

Private lifted chase's head of his lap before gently setting it down on the dirt covered ground and following his father around to the front of the stable.

Skipper sat on one of the up turned buckets of animal feed, the same thought running through his head.

I promised her

~/\~

Kowalski stared at the outstretched flipper, expecting it to slap him in the face before Karen began her savage whipping. Her flipper shot out, Kowalski closed his eyes and cringed, waiting for the impact of the flipper against his flesh.

Instead, Karen grabbed Kowalski by the top of his flipper, pulling him up from the ground.

He wobbled unsteadily on his feet for a moment, eyes still shut.

Kowalski waited for the impact of the lashing of the whip. But all he was met with, was the padding of Karen's feet as she walked out of his cell and over to the one facing him, he opened his eyes to see Karen as she lifted the keys to the lock and opened the cell door, pushing it open.

She turned back to Kowalski.

"Are you gonna stand there with your beak flapping or help me get your pal up?"

Kowalski shook his head in extreme disbelief at what was happening, also realising that his beak had been hanging open.

Karen rolled her eyes at the penguin.

Seriously, this is supposed to be the smart one?

"Look, do you want to get out of here or not, cause if you just keep standing there like an idiot a lobster will realise the camera's down and alert Blowhole, then they'll be on us like bees to honey"

"Why are you helping us?"

Karen grew annoyed by this penguins lack of priority.

"I'll answer that later-"

"Why not now?" Kowalski cut her off.

"Because if we don't get out of here soon we won't live till later!" She shouted at him. Kowalski cringed slightly at the desperate tone in her voice.

Karen took a deep breath to regain her composure "You're not my objective"

"Objective?"

"Forget it, now help me get scarboy out"

Kowalski glared at her, rolling his flippers into fists "His name is Rico!"

"Fine, help me get Rico out" Karen ran into the cell and placed her flippers on either side of Rico's head.

He lay on his back on the hay off the cell, unmoving.

Kowalski looked between the two, noticing Rico's flipper twitch…

Three twitches!

"Rico now!"

Suddenly Rico's eyes snapped open. He kicked Karen up against the wall before jumping to his feet and wrapping his flippers around her neck.

Karen gasped. Shocked by the sudden change of events "H-how…"

Kowalski stepped forward into the cell. "Rico's classic technique. When playing unconscious, his flipper will twitch three times to ask if it's safe to attack" Kowalski smirked slightly as Karen glared at them. "Now tell us EXACTLY why you let us go"

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"Private?" Skipper looked down at the face of his son. Privates blue eyes rimmed with red from crying. This wasn't the best time to ask it…but he had to know "What happened?"

Private gulped heavily "Ch-Chase…we were walking around, asking some of the animals if they knew where we could find a map…then there was a gunshot and all the animals scattered…Chase and I were fine the first time, then a second one rung out…It was aiming at me"

"How do you know that?" Skipper asked, shaking his head in shock.

"B-because Chase shouted, then he grabbed me and started pulling me away. We only reached the back when he pushed me behind him and…and…"

Skipper nodded. He didn't need to hear anymore.

Then something hit him.

"Blowhole"

"What?" Private rubbed his eyes, looking up at the leader sitting on the upturned feed bucket.

"It must have been a minion of Blowhole. He must have heard about Chase and Shauna helping us."

"Then why would he aim for me?" Private asked, fresh tears brimming "If I'd been hit the Chase wouldn't-"

"Don't think like that!" Skipper shouted, was his son really thinking this was his fault?

"But it's true!" Private argued.

"No it's not!" Skipper jumped down from the bucket and sat down beside the young soldier, wrapping a flipper around his neck. "Now listen to me. This is not your fault. Things like this happen, it's one of the reasons I didn't want to tell you who I was. I was afraid you'd be dragged into this" He admitted honestly, without realising that he was telling Private his deepest secrets. His only focus on getting Private's mind off what was happening.

"I didn't want you to be brought up in war. With all the killing, losing loved ones, family, friends, even strangers…I wanted to keep you away from all that…I didn't want you to go through what I did. My mother died when I was a hatchling, she was in the war. Then my father disappeared a year later" Skipper bit back the tears, not ready to lose his composure. "I was raised by the penguin general who was a close friend of my mother. He taught me to fight, how to look after myself. He even got me a special place in the academy, that's where I met Manfredie and Johnson. We were the rejects, the ones no one thought would make it to the battlefield"

"But you did" Private added, remembering Skipper's talk with Marlene "You beat Blowhole and ended the war"

"We thought we did, but yes. We became the top unit" Skipper smiled fondly. Then the smile suddenly slipped off his face as Shauna came back.

She stared at them with unfamiliar grey eyes, the previous hopeful shine replaced by a hard glare of mourning.

"He's gone"

ATTENTION ALL READERS!

I put up a poll on my profile, I was thinking about making a sequal to this when it's over but I want to know if anyone will actually read it if I do so please vote on the poll.

And, great news! Next Chapter will have Karen's version of Skipper's flashback! :D

Hope you're as excited as I am, cause there'll also be a surprise!

Hope you'll like it, Review please!

~Donakiko