Kidnapping Skipper ch. 5

by

Mastermindhunter

Destiny pushed Kowalski's flippers against his chest, once the screen was off. Kowalski's eyebrows were in a straight line. He then tapped his foot on the floor with his arms crossed. He gave that older brother vibe off pretty well. "Oh, come on. It's not like you don't have a crush on a dolphin Kowalski. Besides you all started fighting him first." Kowalski's blood was boiling over, and took a deep breath to calm down. "Alright, my silky googley porpoise says that you all have a stamp of some kind. I would really appreciate seeing it." They nodded, and glanced over to Rico. Rico made a face before regurgitating the long scrolled up paper. The ribbon was still on it. She picked up the piece of paper. It felt like brand new parchment. Whoever sent it was definitely trying to get her attention She slid the ribbon of, and unrolled it. She looked at the upper right hand corner at the stamp. She looked like she was shove out of reality for a few moments, when she stared at the simple ink on the paper. The iceberg had not changed at all, nor did the shattered piece of glass. The stamp looked the same as before.

Destiny slowly looked up at Private, and Private noticed that she was hyper ventalating. "Is this the note you found where you all saw Skipper last?" Private nodded once slowly. That's when she was staggering around. She was dizzy, and finding it hard to stand up straight. She was about to fall until Private and Rico grabbed her wings to hold her up. Kowalski got close to her to watch her eyes to make sure they didn't roll in the back of her head.

They didn't Still she was breathing rather eratically. Kowalski tried to grab her attention. "Destiny. Come on. Stay with me. Breath Destiny breath!" That's when she couldn't hold it in any longer. She vomitted all over the floor. The girls came over, and cleaned her face off. They fanned her body, and tried to help her up. She started breathing evenly, and looked back at the stamp. She took it in her grasp, and slowly crunch it under her wing as angry scowl appear.

"No." she growled. as she crumpled it up and threw on the wall. "no, No, NO NO!" She shouted angrliy as she knocked all of the contents of the coffee table on the floor. She was very aware of who took her brother no doubt. "WHY NOW!?" She slammed her wings as fists against the wall. The girls watched. They all looked at as if she had snapped.A deep intake of breath, and jagged sigh was heard throughout the HQ. She looked at the wall, her flippers slowly sliding down. Private was going to ask who it was, but Destiny had already started to speak. "It's him." she growled. Her face turned towards the three infront of her. "He's back." She looked at the girls. They all whispered little gasps of "Oh dear"s and "But how"s. She looked at the boys, and then said the name she never wanted to say again. It's my arch enemy's calling card. Professor Shard."

The girls noise level elevated. Destiny was now starting to look the way Skipper did when he was angry. The girls were starting to get rather frantic. Skipper always was popular with the ladies. A tall statuesque penguin ran up to her and the other three. She was well over the height of Kowalski for sure. "Are you certain it's Proffesor Shard?"

"Afirmative." She whispered it rather softly. It seemed more like she was whispering to herself rather than the other penuin. She then turned toward the boys, and whispered. "We must go after him. You know he would do the same for any of us." The taller penguin nodded, and called all the penguis to the center of the room. There were other penguins coming from different rooms all around them. The boys had never seen so many penguins being led by one alone.

"Alright. Call out the ones you prefer to take on the mission. I'll make sure that their jobs get doubled around the clock." Destiny shook her head quickly and held out her wing that meant that she didn't want to preform the same operation that the taller penguin had in mind. The taller penguin looked like she didn't understand. The other females didn't understand either. They just stood there looking at their commanding officer. She obviously had a different idea in mind.

"No I'm not taking any of our girls." Destiny smiled, and turned to the the boys infront of her. "I'm taking the boys." The tall penguin just stood there, as if she didn't understand why. "I'm quite serious. If we are going up against Prof. Shard, then we might want to take the smallest group we can. We have to stay sneaky, and keep a low profile. These boys were able to walk right on up to me, without any of you all catching them. It took me until the time they walked right behind me for them to be caught. Trust me. I know that all small group will be more difficult to find than a dozen." She laid a shoulder on Rico. "Besides, if these boys were trained by my brother, then I know I can count on them. Skipper might be my brother, but Skipper is their commanding officer. He means just as much to them as he does to me." Her blue eyes turned to Private. Private smiled to the compliment.

The amazon like female of the group start sputtering. "Whuh- but you can't take these boys. They are amatures. We've got soldiers that are ten times more stealthy than these guys." She got her face down low, and close to the tiny penguins in a threatening manner.

"Well if you think so, then ask the penguin, that's right behind you, and is about to put you in a haedlock." Just then Ricogripped back tightly as the tall penguin was gripped back in a forceful grip. His elbows were around her wings while his wing tips were behind her head. She gasped at the ninja like quickness. Destiny smiled at Rico's unstobbable end to amaze her in every way. "So it's agreed. I'm taking Skippy's team, and we'll- Uh Rico you can let her go now." Rico nodded with his tongue slightly sticking out. The large penguin gasped for breath as Rico looked over at the scruffy girl penguins. They had high pitched giggles once again. Rico smiled, and raised an eyebrow. He looked at the girl in the middle and made a pointing gesture. She gasped, and sighed at his casanova vibes. Destiny rolled her eyes and proceeded to give her team orders.

"Cocoa!"

"EH!" A medium sized penguin walked out of the crowd. She had spikes of feathers sticking out of her head. They pointed in almost every direction you could think of. It reminded the boys of porcupines, or those humans that wore all types of crazy clothes, with hair that stood in the same way.

"I need all my traveling weapons in my burlap pouch immmediately." Suddenly without a moment to spare the penguin regurgitated a brown sack, and held it open. She then threw up all types of weapons. One looked like a bomb, while others looked like dynamite. One was a grenade, and there was even one that looked like small dagger. While she was busy looking around for weapons in her stomach, the next penguin was called out of front and center.

"Pershephoni!"

"Yes Destiny?" A penguin that was slightly taller than Rico, but smaller than Kowalski jolted out from the crowd. She was wearing a white lab coat, and had goggles over her face. She was covered in what appeared to be ashes. When she lifted her goggles, her large eyes could be seen. Under her right arm, she held a clip board with a little heart in the corner. Inside the heart, it had. D. B. + Persephoni 4 ever. She was the same penguin who was holding the clip board, and asking the other penguins about chemicals earlier. This must have been the head brains of the group. She definitely looked like she knew exactly what she was doing.

"I need you to take measurements of each of the boys. They will be gone, thus we need four penguins that are similar in bone structure, eye color, height, and weight to fill in for them. Whoever matches those qualities most, you need to send to the central park zoo immediately." She nodded, and pulled out a tape measure, and wove it around Privates round belly. Private giggled at the tickle of the tape measure. Destiny smiled at the cuteness of Privates behavior.

She then called out one last"Private!"

Private thought she was talking to him, but when he looked again, there was an innocent looking girl that was slightly taller than Destiny. She had perfect cheek bones, and she smiled innocently. When she spoke, her accent was thick and British. "Yes love?" There was no doubt that she was origonally from a zoo in Great Britain.

"I'm putting you in charge of things until I get back. Can I count on you taking a firm hand over the group?" She smiled raising an eyebrow. The female Private smiled widely and cheered

"Of course! You can surely count on me, Destiny." She smiled as she put her wing on her hips. Destiny walked up to the map weilding group, and looked through the scolled up papers, until she found a map of the western half of the United States. Next she grabbed one of California, and another one of Nevada. She walked up to Cocoa who was still regurgitating the needed weapons into the bag. She then tossed in all the maps, and tied it across her shoulder to her hip. She stared to Persephonie who was still measuring all the boys. So far Private was already done. She was wrapping half of Kowalski's head in tape measurement. His nose holes were covered in yellow tape measuring material.

He tried to speak. "Do you thigk that you cad do dis? Webe deber had to rescue Skipper bafore." Kowalski garbled through a clogged up nose. Persephoni had written down the measurements, and wrapped it around Rico's head like a head band. Destiny looked at Kowalski like he was kidding

She pulled him down by his chest feathers. "I don't really have a choice, Kowalski. I know for a fact that I will get my brother out alive, but . . . I don't know if I can get myself out." Her grasp on Kowalski's feathers eased up slightly. She looked down at little dissappointingly. Rico looked at her, and laid a hand on her shoulder, with a smile. Private waddled over with a smile of his own.

"Rico's right Destiny. As long as we're with you, we won't let this professor Shard chap lay a claw or wing, talon, flipper, fin, . . . what is he again?"

"A polar bear." She raised her eyebrows, in a rather uneasy gesture. her voice sounded flat, but heavy. Private's body tensed up a little bit. A polar bear? They were going up against the world's largest land carnivore? He shivered a little with nervousness, but regained his composure.

He smiled back to her. "Well as long as you're with us, we aren't going to let you become polar bear chow. Right men?" Private smiled to the two other boys in the group.

Kowalski nodded quietly. "That's right. We're a team. Are duty is to protect our squad, and as of now, that includes you, Destiny." He laid a wing on Private's which covered Destiny's left shoulder. She smiled at the boys. She gave the three of them a hug.