Disclaimer: I don't own Happy Feet or any of it's characters. Look at link in profile for the leopard seal clip in the movie if you feel you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Regular Note: Really the links are there, along with part of the skua scene...if you're interested.
I initially never owned the soup Ramen, but my sister insisted that I name a character after it...God! I'm hungry!!!
Part 1
Chapter 15
"Get me out! Let me out and fight me like an alien!" Ramen challenged. He got no response. "What? You don't understand me or something? And you aliens are supposed to be smart..."
He felt the plastic/metal thing being set down and it opened. Ramen got out and found himself in an antartic room. He faced the alien and charged it. However it ran out and closed the door.
Ramen looked around and gasped when he noticed something.
"Oh no...No..." he muttered, backing away with wide eyes. The room was filled with other crabeater seals.
Ramen tried to break out, but it was useless.
"NOOOO!!!" the anti-social pup screamed. "Why?! Why?!"
---
Mumble saw Rojas and tried to get back out, but the hatch closed. He gulped in fear and turned to the leopard seal, who smiled and growled.
"I'm guessing it's feeding time. At least these aliens know what my favorite food is, I'll give them that." he said hungrily.
Mumble moved away slowly.
"This has to be a mistake." he muttered. The aliens wouldn't just force him here just to get eaten, would they?
Rojas moved closer, so Mumble wouldn't have time to think about it much.
"Really? I don't think that." the seal said.
"Of course you don't. You wanna eat me!" Mumble exclaimed, his panic increasing. Rojas chuckled as the penguin retreated from him. But in this confined space, Mumble had nowhere to hide. Penguins can only run for so long.
"Eat you? What would make you say that?" Rojas asked tauntingly, slowly getting closer.
"The fact that you keep comparing me to food!" Mumble answered, trying to keep his distance.
"Force of habit. And besides, I call Whisper 'Sausage', and yet she's still alive."
Rojas continued. Mumble was silent for a moment, busy climbing up an iceblock, well out of the seal's reach.
Rojas quickly lost interest. He went into the water and found that he was feeling a lot better in the water, the pain automatically disappearing. Probably because there was no gravity to press on his wounds.
He swam to the invisible wall and saw a hallway beyond it. He found it to be extremely strong and he couldn't leave a mark. He surfaced and looked at Mumble.
"You've been abducted by aliens before." Rojas said. Mumble was surprised to think that Rojas knew that.
"How-" But Rojas didn't let him finish.
"I know things. So how did you get out?"
"The aliens just let me go." Mumble informed. Rojas exhaled heavily in a huff and dove back into the water.
---
Whisper was crying to herself. She wanted to go home. She wanted to be free and never see the aliens again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with Rojas and Ramen.
"Daddy! Where are you?!" she shouted. "You said that you'll come and help if I yell, but you're not here!"
She sniffled and looked around herself. She hung her head.
"Nobody's here..."
---
Ramen had confined himself to an isolated corner in an equivalent of a seal feedle position. He wants to stay as far away from the other seals as possible.
He was muttering inaudible things to himself. He's never been more scared in his life. He'd rather stay with hungry leopard seals than with his own kind.
"Things can't get worse." he muttered. He then saw that he was being approached by an adult female that looked vaguely familiar.
"Hello there." she greeted. Ramen stared at her for a moment and screamed. The female flinched in surprise. "What's the matter?"
"Get away from me!" Ramen yelled, as if he was facing a terrible demon.
"That's no way to talk to your mother, Ramen."
"What?!?" Ramen exclaimed. The seal nodded. It can't be...
---
Whisper was about to fall asleep beside an Emperor penguin plush. It wasn't real, she knew that, but she felt better being with something that resembles something she knows.
She suddenly remembered that she wasn't allowed to sleep here. Rojas said that it could be dangerous. So she stayed up and preened herself.
Suddenly, an alien appeared and whisper stopped and began to cry. It was walking straight for her. She was picked up and removed from the room.
"What's going to happen to me?" she muttered to herself. She could only wait and hope.
---
"How long did they keep you here?" Rojas asked. He was still swimming along and Mumble was still high on his iceblock. Mumble looked down at the seal.
"I'm not sure. Probably a few months." he answered. Rojas dove back under and blew some bubbles in thought. What's going to happen in those few months? Was Whisper okay? Where was she?
He heard Mumble say something and he surfaced.
"Run that by me again." he said.
"Why did you take her from me?" the penguin asked. Rojas knew he was referring to Whisper. He smiled.
"For certain things." he said.
"What kind of things?"
Rojas paused and gave a toothy grin.
"Things." he said vaguely, not helping the slightest. Mumble gave up. The seal wasn't going to tell him anything.
Rojas chuckled and slowly submerged. The moment he did, he heard a tap. He looked at the invisible wall and saw an alien. He quickly swam up to it and aggresively gaped his jaws, showing off his teeth.
The alien held up a baby Emperor penguin and Rojas immediatly stopped his threats. It was Whisper! She saw him and smiled.
"Daddy!" she exclaimed with outstretched flippers, happy to see him again. But Rojas couldn't hear her. This particular wall was sound-proof. However, he was happy just to know she's okay.
He nodded at her and went for some air.
"If you want to see Whisper again, come on in." he said to Mumble. The penguin hesitated. He was thinking that it was a trap to get him into the water so the predator could eat him.
Rojas smirked. "Suit yourself." He swam to Whisper and just spent all his breath looking at the little chick. When he went back up for a breath, he saw Mumble had gotten off the block and was now at the water's edge.
Rojas smiled and submerged. He swam towards Mumble and lunged at the penguin. Mumble yelped as the seal took him under. Being in the powerful jaws, Mumble was convinced that his life was over.
However, Rojas just took him to the invisible wall and surprisingly freed him. The penguin was about to swim away when he saw Whisper.
He was stunned, staring at his child, who stared back.
"Is she really-?"
Rojas nodded. Mumble slowly swam towards Whisper. It felt like he was meeting her for the very first time. The little chick smiled.
"Can she hear us?" Mumble asked. Rojas shook his head.
"No. She can't hear us like we can't hear her." he explained. Mumble nodded. Rojas was telling the truth all along. Whisper really was here.
The alien began to move across the invisible wall and Mumble and Rojas followed it. However, it walked out of sight down the hall.
Hey, Nausicaa of the Spirits, that's exactly what my friend said when she read the previous chapter! It was so funny. Anywho, thanks for putting this on your favorites and for reviewing!
And thanks for reviewing Padme4000!
Can someone help me with the title of this chappy?
Preview:
Ramen tried to confirm if the mystery female really is his mom. Whisper encounters a dangerous long-time natural enemy. And Rojas finally get's his jaws on Mumble. How will Mumble escape?
