Chapter Six
Rescuing Kowalski
Skipper soon arrived in Hoboken in the early evening.
He followed the co-ordinates from the piece of paper torn from Kowalski's clipboard, until he saw a warehouse looming in the horizon.
Skipper waddled over to the warehouse entrance, but before he could even touch the doors they opened outwards and behind them revealing Dr. Blowhole on his segway wearing a helmet that resembled Kowalski's telekinesis helmet
"Skipper, I'm so glad you could make it, please come in." Dr. Blowhole urged Skipper.
"So why is your lair in a dump like Hoboken?" Skipper reproached Dr. Blowhole's accommodation choice as he entered the lair.
Once inside, Skipper immediately noticed Kowalski holding his shrink ray and aiming it straight a him.
"It's got agreeable vibes, it's close to New York and it might be a good place to recruit some new minions." Dr. Blowhole remarked.
"I don't think you could find minions nearly as repulsive as you, even in Hoboken." Skipper said sadly as he stared at Kowalski.
Skipper knew that he was outgunned, making his hope wane by the minute.
"Very amusing Skipper, but tell me what is black and white and red all over?" Dr. Blowhole insinuated.
"Uh... a penguin with a sunburn?" Skipper guessed.
"WRONG! IT'S YOU!" Dr. Blowhole shouted.
As soon as Skipper heard those words he attempted to dive away from Blowhole.
But Dr. Blowhole took hold of Skipper with his mind thanks to the helmets abilities and slammed Skipper against a wall.
Skipper groaned from the impact and slid to the floor, temporarily immobilized.
"Did you ever imagine, that it would be one of your own men who brought about your end?" Dr. Blowhole wondered.
Skipper remained silent.
"No I didn't think so, friendship is overrated in the end..." Dr. Blowhole snickered.
"Any last requests Skipper, before Kowalski shrinks you and I crush you with my segway?" Dr. Blowhole asked with false consideration.
"Yes... let me speak to Kowalski." Skipper made his request.
"Very well, I see no harm in that. You'll find that he won't be very co-operative with you though."
"Kowalski, why are you working for Dr. Blowhole anyway?" Skipper cried incredulously.
"Because he treats me with more respect than you ever did" Kowalski answered with contempt.
"Really? But we ALL disrespect each other once in a while, some more than others and I'm sorry about that. But who are you going to listen to? Your superior that you've served and trusted for years, or a bottle nosed FREAK that you've served for four days and probably forced you to build inventions against your will?" Skipper questioned his second in command.
"I...I don't know!" Kowalski's flippers flew to his head in confusion.
"Use that logic of yours Brainiac and listen to my words." Skipper encouraged Kowalski.
"Don't listen to him Kowalski! That's an order" Dr. Blowhole ordered menacingly.
"... Skip... argh!" Kowalski turned his head towards Skipper and uttered the first consonants of Skipper's name when Dr. Blowhole noticed his change in loyalty and momentarily relinquished the helmet's hold on Skipper and picked up and slammed Kowalski into Skipper as punishment for his treachery.
Skipper used his lighting fast reflexes and jumped out of the way before Kowalski's body could slam into him.
Skipper jumped on top of Dr. Blowhole's segway and kicked the dolphin in the face.
The sudden movement took Dr. Blowhole by surprise and unable to stop himself falling, he fell to the ground head first, rendering him unconscious.
Skipper then pressed all the buttons on the segway simultaneously and held them down.
"Let's hope it works, just like in the movies." Skipper wished.
"Inceptionator overloading in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..." A booming synthetic voice announced and a shock-wave of energy burst from the segway and dispersed across the room, rendering every animal in the warehouse unconscious.
All the animals woke up within an hour, looking dazed and discombobulated.
"Why does my head hurt and why am I in a warehouse?" Dr. Blowhole asked and rubbed the back of his head with his flipper.
"What happened here? It smells like charred fish in here." Skipper remarked, as undoubtedly the shock-wave of energy had burnt even the stolen anchovies in the crates.
"My educated guess is... that Dr. Blowhole stole some anchovies and we tracked him here and then the anchovies spontaneously combusted and we mysteriously lost our memories in the process." Kowalski suggested.
"I'll go with that." Skipper agreed.
"If you don't mind Blowhole, I'm feeling a bit sore so let's just skip the whole I will return with my revenge speech and then I try to stop you and then you escape thing OK?" Skipper requested.
"Yes I agree, but I'll see you around yes?" Dr. Blowhole asked.
"Yeah, yeah sure thing, see you next time villainous scum." Skipper made his indifferent goodbye and he and Kowalski exited the warehouse, too tired to bring back the damaged anchovies and made their way home.
After the penguins had left, Dr. Blowhole was left to his own thoughts.
"I can't seem to remember much of my encounter with the penguins.
Hey that would make a great idea for an invention! I could make it take people's memories away.
Maybe I should call it a Mind Jacker?" Dr. Blowhole thought...
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