Kidnapping Skipper ch. 6

by

Mastermindhunter

Kowalski, Private, and Rico headed back out to return to their zoo so they could get some supplies of their own. Kowalski jumped up to the closest bus for Central Park they could find to head back. He helped up Rico, then Private. When the massive bus started up, they darted back a bit. They eventually adjusted to the speed, and held on tight. Private had felt a little better finally meeting Skipper's older sister. He didn't even know that he had a sister, but still it was nice to know now. It was a little shocking to find out that she had liked Blowhole. Didn't she know that he was their arch enemy? What was his appeal, anyway? He only had one eye. Not to mention he was sort of insane, well in Private's mind. Rico seemed like it didn't bother him that much. It seemed to bother Kowalski alot, though. Why was he acting like a big brother?

"Umm Kowalski?" Kowalski turned to Private, with an expressionless glance.

"Yes Private?" It seemed like the qestion was really hard to put into words. He knew the words to use, but they seemed like they were glued inside Private's mouth. It must have been because he saw how upset it made him. Still, he thought that if anytime, now would be the right time to know. Well jeez, he would have to find out eventually.

He mustered up all the strength he could, and just came out with it. "Why do Destiny and Blowhole like eachother?" Rico turned to him. He suddenly wished he hadn't asked that question. Rico started stroking the area near his scar. It must have had something to do with his scar. He never knew how Rico got it exactly. He always thought it rude to ask. He could tell he hit a nerve with Rico. Kowalski's face turned tough, but not necesarrily angry. It just seemed like a stressfull topic. Private had to know, though. If Kowalski wouldn't tell him, then he would probably just ask Destiny herself. There wasn't anything wrong with asking questions, and Private knew that was a very good question.

"Well it's sort of a long story. It's also a little scary. Are you sure you want to hear it?" Private looked to the side. Did he want to hear it? He figured he could handle it. He nodded, swallowing the lump in his throat. It formed when he heard the words "scary." "All right. It all started when Destiny had first decided to visit Coney island."

(flashback to years past)

Destiny tried to pull puppy dog eyes on her little brother. "Are you sure that you don't want to go Skippy?" Destiny asked on the island platform of the Central Parks penguins exhibit. Skipper raised his eyebrow, and looked at her as if she couldn't be serious. Kowalski watched the younger sibling put his flippers on his waist.

Skipper's eyes turned to slits as Destiny pleaded kindly for her little brother to spend some time with her. "No thank you. There are orcas, seals, sharks, and other monsters there. You would be wise to stay away from that aquarium." He pulled Kowalski over to the side, and whispered in his ear. "Kowalski, I've decided to make you the big brother of Destiny. When you see something suspicious, you get me." He turned back to her as if they said nothing about her

"Aww come on, Skippy. They're all in tanks. I can assure you, we'll be safe." Skipper just shook his head, and jumped back into his hatch. "Fine! I'll just go alone. I hope I fall in love with a mammal!" She shouted with pouting in her voice. She jumped away from the HQ, and left the zoo. None of her team wanted to go either. Well, how much trouble would there be to where she would need their help? She walked along the huge grassy area of Central Park, and went to the closest train station. Underneath, she walked up the stairs, trying not to get stepped on. It was rather cold in the train station, but she managed. When the train she needed opened up, she dashed in, and hid under some seats. The sign said the Q train would take her to the aquarium. She hoped it was right.

What type of animals would there be? There couldn't be just predators. She was sure there would be other animals there, but she never bothered to learn of other marine animals. This would be interesting. She laid down and rested her eyes underneath the booths, hoping to make it to the aquarium soon. She must have dosed off because she was soon there. The sun was down. It seemed to be around nine o clock Outside the ferris wheel glowed in bright lights. When the train stopped, she ran out, and climbed down the stairs quickly. The aquarium wasn't to far away. Once she made it there, she hid behind a trash can. On the floor was a crumpled up flyer. She tried to flatten it out, to see what it was about. It showed an animal she had never seen before.

For tonight ONLY! Come see the spectacular Blowhole in his fifth award winning show of RING OF FIRE! Tickets are three dollars a piece! Show starts at nine thirty.

Destiny had never seen an animal quite like this. It seemed like it was a marine mammal. What was the harm of seeing a new animal? The clock nearby said nine twenty five. She had ran over to the aqua theater that everyone was running towards. She went under a seat, to see that a human walked in front of the stage on a pedestal that was only a few inches higher than the water level. She had beautiful blonde hair, and was in a black form fitting wet suit. Her blue eyes matched the color of the bottom of the tank. Destiny could only see the bottom, but a bluish grey colored blur was moving underneath the surface of the water. "Alright ladies and gentleman. Now is the moment you've all been waiting for. The star of our show, and no gentlemen. Not me." A few men were cheering shamelessly. "No, I present to you . . . " Just then the big blur under the water jumped out, and onto the platform. "Blowhole!"

It was unlike anything Destiny had ever seen. It was like a killer whale, but not quite. It was bluish grey, and had a pointy like snout. It's body was long and slender. It had a wildly happy grin on his face. The aquatic like music played through the large speakers. It held it's tail fin high above it's head. With a flick, it landed straight back into the large pool. The dolphin had balanced itself on it's tail fin, and did a backflip, into the water. This was amazing. What was this creature called? The human that was above her said "Now that's a very talented dolphin, right there." A dol-phin? Wow. This must have been a whale that didn't eat penguins. Maybe this wasn't even a whale. It looked a little bit like a whale, but not entirely.

She watched this amazing animal do flips, and leaps, as it ate fish, tossed in by the human trainers. She was enjoying this new animal. Just then she heard right next to her left ear a "Whoo Hoo!" She nearly jumped out of her feathers when she looked to the side. Rico was watching the show right next to her. He must have apparently followed her to the aqua theater this whole time. In the middle of a cheer. Destiny clicked Rico's beak shut with her wing.

"Jeez, Rico! Do you want to get us killed?" He looked confused, but stayed quieter. She pointed to the dolphin. "Have you ever seen one of these things, before?" Rico tilted his head, slightly, and responded with a head shake. "The humans call him a dolphin. I've never seen one of these things before. He's handsome, don't you think?" Rico made a gagging noise. "Well, aside from what you think, I think he's the most graceful animal I have ever seen. Oh I want to talk to him so much. I bet he's really smart to be hanging around with humans." She leaned her head against the leg of the chair. What a beautiful animal! They watched for a full two hours as the marine mammal flipped and did nifty tricks

"Now ladies and gentlemen. The moment you've all been waiting for. We present our audience with the famous RING OF FIRE!" The dolphin, who's name was apparently Blowhole, changed his face. He looked down a little depressingly. Of course the humans couldn't tell that he apparently didn't like the thought of it. Right before the two hidden penguins, there was a huge iron ring overhead of the water. It was lowered at just the right height for Blowhole to jump through. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with what was happening, until of course the ring was engulfed in flames. Destiny was totally startled when the huffing sound of the flames started up. The two birds eyes got wide in horror. The dolphon named Blowhole closed his eyes shut, and was taking deep breaths through his hole on his head. After his preparation, he backed up a little, and started darting head first toward the ring. With a thrusting leap he spinned through the furious lit iron ring. When the dolphin landed back into the pool, everyone clapped with a riotous cheer. Destiny didn't think it very fair. Blowhole didn't look very joyous. His eyes were sad when he gave an exhausted smile to all the ignorant humans. Destiny felt really bad for him. Such a marvelous animal shouldn't have to do such a dangerous stunt for humans.

That's when everone looked up to the ring. Blowhole tilted his head staring blankly at the ring. Something wasn't right. It flashed a large white color, then the licking flame that surrounded the iron crawled over the rope holding the ring overhead. The rope was burning over the ring. The humans inside the pool were frightened. That's when all the audience started gasping at the shear fright. Blowhole was looking at it, his mouth hanging open widely. All the humans darted towards the exit of the aqua theater. Screams of ladies, hollars of men, and shrieks of children were all around them. It was shear pandimonium. Rico and Destiny tried staying close as not to get stepped on. The humans inside the theater were frantically trying to get out of the water, and tried to go get help. That's when the long string of spotlights overhead started sending sparks raining like glowing pieces of heat. Blowhole held his flippers over his head. The sparks were raining down near the water. Rico had tried to pull Destiny toward the exit once the humans cleared out.

"Are you out of your mind? There are still humans in that pool! We can't just leave them." Destiny tried pulling her wing away. The blonde woman that introduced Blowhole to the audience, was still in the water. That's when the ring's cord snapped. It made loud clanking sound as the heavy iron fell. The girl was hit in the back as it's rim slammed straight into her back. She suddenly started sinking to the depths of the pool. Blowhole saw it, and immediately dove head first down to the depths. She tried effortlessly to get herself out from under the ring, but it was too heavy. Blowhole bit into the heavy ring, and tried to heave it off with his mouth. He lifted up enough to where the human could escape. She eventually pulled her legs out of the trapped confines of metal. She grabbed Blowholes dorsal fin, and he swam to the surface so she could breath. He went over to the rim, so the other trainers could drag her out. They all grabbed her and ran.

Blowhole was left alone. He looked around trying to find a way out, but he was trapped. Destiny ran towards the pool, but she wasn't quick enough. The lights overhead had gotten hit with flames. The explosion shook the ground underneath them. Blowhole was blown back by the right side of his face. The penguins got blown backwards. Out of the blast, a shard came shooting out straight to the left of Rico's beak. It slammed into his face cutting it deep, causing it to bleed. Destiny was terrified. She grabbed a heavy bandana, which was left by one of the humans apparently, and held it up to Rico's beak. It was bleeding heavily. She rolled it up, and tied it against Rico's beak so it would stop bleeding, at least just little anyway. "Are you alright Rico?" He nodded holding the side of his beak that was cut. She knew it would possibly leave a scar. That's when she remembered the dolphin.

She had jumped over to the platform near the pool, trying t look around the pieces of metal that were once the theater. That's when she saw it. The dark bluish gray blur was under the water. She jumped in, and looked over to him. He was knocked out, and a puffy cloud of red was coming from the rigt side of his face, near his eye. He must have bit hit by a piece of debris, just like Rico was. She thought quickly, and dove down. Destiny tried to get under the huge animal, and started swimming upwards. The weight of the dolphin animal was excrutiating. She eventually got him to the surface. She pulled him toward the platform, so he would stay propped up. He was halfway out of the water now. The lower part of his body was submerged. She had grabbed a heavy jacket, and dipped it the water. She then held it up to the side of his eye. The bleeding was far worse than Rico's was. Whatever Rico had would be nothing in comparison to this animals damage.

Rico walked up to Destiny. She handed him the jacket, and he pressed it against the cut that hit his face. Destiny grabbed a nearby bucket, that was filled with dead fish. She then tosed the fish into the water, and filled the bucket with water. She ran over to the unconsious dolphin, and pourred it slowly over him. She didn't know much about this animal, but if it was a marine mammal, she knew it would need to have water poured over it, as so it wouldn't overheat. The beatiful animal was breathing through it's hole, but as the hours passed the humans didn't return. It seemed hopeless at the moment, but it was Destiny's job to help animals.

All night they kept pouring water, and kept pressure over the eye wound. The fire behind them was slowly dying, but the heat kept radiating. In what seemed like an eternity, the sun came up from the horizon. The dolphin was sitting there quiet, but both penguins jumped when they saw the dolphin caughing. He was slowly coming back to consiousness. Destiny smiled as she poured the bucket over the mammal. He groaned from the pain he was in. Destiny looked at him in the eye, and smiled. He stared back her. "Oh what happened. All I remember is the explosion, but nothing else." He groaned to her.

"You passed out. Your eye is cut, but you're safe now. I pulled you out." She took a small rag and dipped it in the bucket, and smeared the water under his eye.

"So I'm alive?"He looked at her, and smiled as he held his flipper toward her wing. She touched it, and smiled as she ran her other wing along his snout. She laid her whole bady against the side of his face that was untouched. He laid his flipper on her back, and closed his good eye. "Thank you so much. You saved my life." She let out a high piched chirping like purr. He sighed as she hugged him closley. That's when they heard the voices of human males. She looked startled, then smiled when she slowly slid her wing of his cheek. Rico ran, dropping the jacket. "Wait when will I see you again?" He shouted, laying there.

"Uhh . . . I'll see you in the aquarium vet office tonight, but I must go!" She whimpered as she was being tugged away from the theater by Rico. She followed, as she heard the humans going to the dolphins aid. They were going to help him most definitely. She smiled as they crowded around the dolphin.

(Present day)

"Oh dear." Private was quite shocked. Kowalski nodded his head, with his eyes in a sad gaze as if he was out of it for a little while. Rico held his wing up to his beak, as he let out a deep sigh. Well this made sense. They trusted each other because they both saw each other do selfless acts to save lives. Still why would they fall in love? It was kind of akward feeling. Private wouldn't worry about that till later, they had now arrived back to Central Park.