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Operation: Baby Poof
Chapter 8: Captured
Raff banged his head on the lid of the crate, trying to break free.
No! No! No! I can't go back to those evil, evil animals! No! He thought, banging his head again.
Then Raff felt the crate being thrown and he hit the walls of the crate during the impact of its fall. It felt like he was being loaded into something, and by the smell of it, they were near salty water.
"Let's go." Hans said, watching the loading of the crate into the sub and taking the wheel.
Cindy and Dominic entered the sub and took their stations.
Hans drove the sub away from the Antarctic waters and deeper into the blue.
…
"C'mon! C'mon! Let's go!" Marlene grunted as he pushed the lemurs out of the sub. Maurice wasn't a bother but the two others were chaos!
"It's sooo coold! Can I stay at the floaty under the water boat?" Mort asked.
"NO! We're finding the guys and that's final!" Marlene growled.
Then she heard voices in the distance. She quickly dived into hiding, dragging along the two annoying lemurs and covered both their mouths.
"Let's go." A familiar voice said.
"Hans? What is he doing here?" Marlene asked herself.
Two other penguins were carrying a crate. She heard muffled sounds coming from it.
"What the – " Marlene stammered.
The two penguins threw the crate into the sub and boarded it themselves. Then the sub sank into the blue.
"Maurice, I can trust you, right?" Marlene asked.
"Yes…" Maurice replied.
"Good. I'll go follow Hans. Mort's with me. You'll go with Julien and find Skipper. Tell him that Hans just slipped by with a captive in a crate. And there were two penguins with him." Marlene then grabbed Mort, jumped into the sub and drove it toward the fleeing sub.
"Where is she going?" Julien asked.
"She's going to follow the crooks. Now you and I must find Skipper and the others." Maurice said.
"What are you doing, Maurice? Telling me what to do? You cannot be telling me what to do because I am king. It is I, your king, who is to be telling you what to do." Julien crossed his arms.
"Okay, why don't you order me to tell you what to do?" Maurice said.
"Oh, okay. I can go with that." Julien smiled.
"Let's go find the – "
"Penguins?" Julien interrupted.
"Yes…" Maurice nodded his head.
"No… I meant… I see the penguins!" Julien pointed at the four penguins, sliding toward them.
"Maurice? Ringtail? What the deuce are you two doing here in Antarctica?" Skipper asked.
"Marlene wanted to be finding you penguins and I came along because I wanted to make sure you, my loyal subjects, are safe and… you know… unharmed." Julien lied.
Kowalski tilted his head. "Seems unlikely…" he murmured.
"Okay, you know what? Let's just cut to the chase… A puffin named Hans just slipped by here." Maurice told them.
"Hans? Here?" Private repeated.
"Yes. There were two other big penguins with him carrying a crate that seemed to have someone inside." Maurice continued.
"WHAT!?" Rico exclaimed.
"I told you Dominic and Cindy might not be his parents!" Skipper yelled at Kowalski.
"YOU? But I'M the – "
"Hubbababa be quiet! We'll discuss this when this whole mess is all cleaned up." Skipper put his flippers on his hips.
"Wait… If Marlene was with you, then where is she now?" Private said.
"She went to follow the puffin in the sub we borrowed from you guys." Maurice informed.
"That's great! Because with my new sub tracker app, we can track any sub that belongs to us." Kowalski took out his smart phone and looked at his app.
"A sub tracker app?" Skipper raised his brow.
"I made it myself." Kowalski said proudly.
Kowalski looked at the app for a few seconds then he exclaimed. "AHA! They're heading North. If they continue in their direction, they might arrive in what seems to be Coney Island." Kowalski said.
"The app says all that?" Private asked.
"Yeah! Pretty sweet, huh? It can reveal the condition and number of weapons left and…" Kowalski bragged.
"Kowalski, a quarter in the Show-off jar, please." Skipper ordered.
Private took out the jar and Kowalski grunted and tossed a quarter in.
"Right… Let's go after them then before Hans sees Marlene." Skipper said, boarding their sub.
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"Er… Hans, there's a sub following us!" Cindy reported.
"Blast! It's Skippah and the gang. Bring it down!" Hans ordered, turning the sub around.
Dominic shot something at the other sub.
"Mort! Take cover!" Marlene said, covering the little lemur.
Marlene shut her eyes tight. But nothing happened.
A small grappling hook-like thing broke into the window and held on to the sub, causing water to slowly enter the submarine.
"Oh No! What are we gonna do!?" Marlene asked.
"HIDE!" Mort said, running into hiding.
Suddenly, Hans jumped in with a smug grin.
"HANS!" Marlene gasped.
"Vhat? Vhere are the others?" Hans demanded.
"NOT here." Marlene found the courage to reply.
"Fine then." Hans approached her.
Marlene took a few steps back. "No! Get away from me!" Marlene said.
"Hah! Pathetic." Hans held her two paws together and pulled her toward the hatch.
"GAH! HELP!" Marlene screamed.
She was no match for Hans' strength and soon she found herself forcefully pulled onto Hans' submarine.
Hans entered the sub, dragging Marlene with him.
Cindy and Dominic immediately tied a rope around her paws and feet and threw her right beside the crate.
"Hey! HEY! Not cool, dude!" Marlene complained.
"Be quiet! So we won't hurt you." Dominic threatened.
"What? So it wasn't Skipper?" Cindy asked Hans.
"No. It was this otter, Marlene. She will be of good use…" Hans said.
"But what would Dr. Blowhole want with this otter?" Cindy tilted her head.
"DR. BLOWHOLE!? Ooohhh, this is bad! This is very bad!" Marlene said.
"I said QUIET!" Dominic repeated and Marlene fell silent.
Then Marlene heard a voice in the crate.
"Psst! Marlene!" the voice said.
"Raff?" Marlene recognized the voice immediately and looked through the breathing hole to see Raff.
"I-I need your help… I've managed to spit the cloth out of my beak and wiggle it out of my neck but my flippers and feet are still tied. Anything you can do to help?" Raff whispered.
"Not much cuz I'm in a bit of a knot too, you know." Marlene told him.
"I-is there a-anything sharp around you?" Raff asked.
Marlene looked around. "There is this broken piece of glass…" Marlene said.
"Perfect! Toss it in here."
Marlene reached with her two tied paws and grabbed it then snuck it in the crate.
"Thanks." Raff said.
"Great… now kindly help me!?" Marlene hissed.
"No! If you were free, Cindy and Dominic would see you. I'll find a way to free you, promise." Raff said through a half-closed beak as he rubbed the sharp side of the glass on the ropes on his flippers.
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"Skipper! According to the app, the sub is almost half-filled with water and slowly sinking." Kowalski reported.
"Sweet nun-chucks! Hans must have attacked it! Full speed ahead, RICO!" Skipper shouted.
"GOTCHA!" Rico said, making the sub go faster.
When they saw the slowly sinking sub, they stopped right beside it and Skipper and Kowalski boarded it.
"Marlene!?" Skipper called.
"AAAHh! HEELLPPP!" A high voice shouted.
Kowalski saw a tiny brown lemur splashing in the water and picked him up.
"Sad-eyes? Where's Marlene!?" Skipper asked.
"I went to hide when the rainbow-beak bird went in and got-ed her." Mort replied.
"AND YOU DID NOTHING!?" Kowalski exclaimed.
"No, I did the hiding!" Mort said.
"Urgh, whatever. Let's go. Hold your breath, Mort." Kowalski told him and they went out of the water-filled submarine and into the other submarine.
"C'mon! We have to find that puffin. He's got what could possibly be Raff and Marlene! Let's move!" Skipper ordered.
And once again, the mighty submarine sped as fast as it could through the open blue.
…
Soon, Hans' submarine reached its destination: Coney Island.
The submarine entered a secret passage underwater and parked inside.
"You two bring the crate to doc. I'll bring the otter to her place." Hans ordered, and Cindy and Dominic both carried the crate out of the sub.
Hans dragged the tied up Marlene out and into the secret lair.
"Hans? You're back. Was the mission successful?" a voice asked.
"Partly." Hans said.
"Who's that with you?" the voice asked again.
"Marlene… the otter from the zoo. She followed us." Hans replied.
Then a dolphin appeared on an upgraded Segway with one mechanical eye and a high-pitched voice. "Just lock her in. We'll find a use for her soon." He said.
"WHAT!? NO! LET ME GO!" Marlene screamed before she was locked away.
"Now, where's the main course?" the dolphin asked.
"Here, Dr. Blowhole." Dominic said, putting the crate down.
Cindy unsealed it slowly then suddenly, Raff jumped out and held the two other penguins by the back of their necks, making them arch their backs toward him.
"Okay, who are you really and where did you take me?!" He demanded.
"Oh Rafael…" Blowhole called.
Raff looked at the dolphin to see that he was pointing a gun at him. Raff froze.
"Let them go." Blowhole ordered.
Raff released the two and they took a few steps away from him.
The dolphin forced Raff into a room, chained his flippers to the wall and locked him there temporarily.
Raff and sighed. What was to become of him now?
…
"Skipper, we're here!" Private announced.
"Right. Maurice, take these two…" Skipper pointed at the ring-tailed and small brown lemurs. "…back to the zoo and make sure they don't do anything stupid. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes sir." Maurice asked.
"Good. Now go." Skipper jumped out of the sub with his teammates and watched the submarine swim away toward Manhattan.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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