1400 hours (2:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time)

Zoo Carousal

(Skipper's POV)

We ran away from the devastated Carousal and rushed past The Aquarium and The Insect House. X was right on our tails holding out his electric baton. Petunia was separated from us in the chaos but the former Animal Control Officer was too focused on us to care. We ran past The Discovery Center, The Event Pavilion, The Conservatory entrance, the entrance to The Children's Zoo, The Food Truck Lot, the new Gift Shop, and The Seal Encounter Habitat. We failed to notice the massive weapon raising from The Event Pavilion Stage...as we were to busy being chased. We also failed to notice Dr. Blowhole hiding in some bushes smirking.

We moved past the Elephant Café and the entrance to "Jurassic Zoo". X was chasing us relentlessly through the entire zoo expansion. We slide past the front of The Zoological Society Building as we sped towards the archway that lead back to the main part of The Zoo. X blocked our path and activated the electric Baton.

"You're not getting away that easily punks!" X said.

"Blast!" I said, "Should have tried the sewers..."

"Your not sliding out of this one," X said.

"I'm afraid entry through here will cost you Xtra!" X said.

"His one liners are getting weak," Kowalski whispered.

"The one-liners a couple years ago were better," Kowalski said, "Their actually quiet funny once you figure them out. I especially like the ones with clever puns."

"He probably had better writers back then," I said.

"Writers," Kowalski said, "Now it sounds like some amateur Fanfiction Author is writing his lines."

"I know that wasn't my best line," X said almost as if he could understand us, "But do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with these clever one-liners. Especially ones with words that have an X in it. I try and come up with a better one later."

"Rico! You know what to do!" I said.

Rico hacked up a smoke bomb to cover our mistake. But as Rico was about to throw it X fired his ankle tag gun. Rico mouth got clipped as X then swung his baton electrocuting Rico. Rico dropped the smoke bomb and a poof of smoke blinded us. There was a struggle and a bunch of punches and kicks and when the dust settled we found ourselves in a cage with X standing over us.

"You think I don't know the old escape under the cover of a Smoke Bomb tactic?" X said.

"And also you should try entering through the smoke of a Smoke Bomb," X said, "That has a better effect."

"That is true," Kowalski said, "It is epic when he does that."

"Less admiring more escape options," I said.

"Ka-boom?" Rico said.

"We might be able to escape through the sewers," Kowalski said.

"He'd be expecting that," I said as X picked up the cage.

X picked us up and walked through the archway. We walked past The Camel and Kangaroo Habitats...and The Koala Habitat.

"I'm telling Leonard the good news," Joey muttered.

"Not on you life over grown rabbit!" I screamed.

"Joey thinks he's been insulted!" Joey said as he kicked the wall of his habitat down.

One seething glare from X stopped the kangaroo in his tracks. Joey shuddered as he remembered the beat down X gave him last time. Joey slowly started to back away under X's intense gaze.

"Right, sorry mates," Joey said looking terrified, "J-Joey's going back o-over there. Crikey he's terrifying."

X carried us pass The Lemur Habitat where Clemson was sleeping on Julien's Throne. I guess he got so caught imagining himself as a Lemur King he forgot about whatever plan he was doing. By the time Clemson woke up X was already ushering us through The Front Gate. Waiting in The Parking Lot was a plain white commercial van instead of the Red custom Psycho-mobile (Which is kind of a relief).

"You lucked out Penguins," X said, "The Van is still being serviced after our last encounter. Oddly, having a flying van is not illegal. Strange right."

X put the cage down and opened the back doors, "Now I'm getting my job back and with this video and photographic..."

X held up a piece of the merry-go-round, "...and physical evidence they'll definitely believe me now..."

"OPTIONS!" I screamed.

X had undid the animal enclosure inside the vans cargo area. He opened the internal cage and got out a wire snare and started to turn.

"The Second he opens this cage," Kowalski said, "charge."

"Fast rush," I said, "he could easily overpower us."

"Not if we act quickly," Kowalski said, "We have chance to catch him off-guard and escape."

X started to reach for the latch on the cage as we tensed for battle. Suddenly there was a whoosh sound and X went down in front of the cage. We could all see the Dart in his shoulder. Classified stood over the unconscious body of Officer X dart gun in hand.

"Classified!?" We said as Eva undid the latch on the cage.

A white colored Sky-crane Helicopter with a massive magnet underneath appeared above us. The magnet quickly picks up the white commercial van a flyby of a North Wind Jet providing sound cover.

"Not my name," Classified replied, "We received a tip that X nabbed you..."

"Who?" I said.

"A mutual friend," Classified said mysteriously as The North Wind made their exit.

"I would leave before he wakes up," Corporal said as they disappeared around a corner.

The Sky-crane flew off as the commercial van was winched into the air. The North Wind Jet with Corporal at the controls followed it into the horizon. X started to stir and we quickly made our escape before he could regain consciousness. We had just made it back into The Zoo when we get blasted by gas and pass out.

(Blowhole's POV)

"You were supposed to nab them while X was chasing them!" I snapped looking at the unconscious Penguins.

"Sorry," Clemson said, "I fell asleep!"

"Now once The Pen-gu-wins wake up," I said, "wait at least an hour before you knock them out again and bring them to The Event Pavilion Stage!"

"What am I supposed to do with them for an hour!" Clemson said.

"Make them suffer," I said.

"And what are you doing in the meantime?" Clemson said.

"Powering up the weapon of course," I replied.

"They better not escape before the weapon is done powering up," I said, "Or I'll change the weapon's targeting to your face!"

"They won't I have just the thing to ensure that..." Clemson said ominously.

If I wasn't a villain I'd probably be shuddering right now, "Well, whatever it is it better work," I said.

"Oh it will," Clemson said ripping a tarp off something.

I took one look at the thing and I smirked sadistically, "Oh your good," I said.

"No," Clemson said, "I'm Bad."

(end of chapter ten)