Chapter 8:
Skipper slid up toward the door Dr. Blowhole ran in. He took a look inside and saw that the room was dark. He slowly stepped inside. When he took about six steps inside, the doors shut behind him and the lights came on, revealing an aquarium that was bigger then most aquariums. Skipper saw Dr. Blowhole escaping through a pipe that led into the ground. Skipper then shot at the tank with his AK-74u (Which he had strapped on his back), leaving three holes inside of it. Dr. Blowhole quickly swam out and some blast-doors closed off that pipe, to prevent any leaking of the entire aquarium. Then Dr. Blowhole jumped out of the water in a flip, landed back in the water, and bobbed his head out of the water to talk to Skipper.
"Skipper," Dr. Blowhole said, "Don't you ever give up?"
"I don't even know the meaning of that word." Skipper said.
"So defeating me is beyond a friends life?" Dr. Blowhole said.
"Almost." The lead Penguin answered.
"I could've told you that was pointless Skipper. But it's feeble to try and reason with you."
"Your right Blowhole. I'm not a penguin to be reasoned with."
"Well then, I guess there is no point on continuing this conversation."
"Right. Enough talk, let's go!"
Then Dr. Blowhole jumped into the water. Skipper slid on his stomach towards the giant aquarium and dived in after him. He then realized his weapon didn't work under water, so he dropped it and it sank. Dr. Blowhole rammed into Skipper and smacked him right against the glass. Skipper pulled himself together and did a kick to Dr. Blowhole, but Blowhole moved out of the way. "You forgot Skipper," Blowhole said with his head out of the water, "When you're under water, your moves are pointless." Skipper knew this, so he tried to get out of the water, but then Blowhole dived back in the water, got under Skipper, pulled him back down under water with his mouth. Then Blowhole proceeded to bash Skipper with his tailfin. Skipper was being knocked about by Blowhole, but he was able to land a few hits in by slow kicks and punches. But every hit Skipper made, Blowhole made about three. Skipper didn't know how he would win this fight.
Meanwhile, The team was in the parking garage next to disabled trucks waiting for Raymond and Skipper. Marlene was very worried for Skipper. She didn't want to lose him. Tanya was watching the door, waiting for Raymond to come in. She knew Raymond was Spetznaz, so she also knew he could take hits without feeling them. Erik was talking to Kelsi about some random things, while Private and Rico were treating Kowalski's wound. Kyle was sitting down starring at the ground thinking about some things and Darla was thinking about Maurice.
"Tanya," Marlene asked, "Since we're out of harms way, I want to ask you some questions."
"Okay," Tanya said, "What is it?"
"Well…if all of you are here, then what about the zoo?" The Otter asked.
"We got it covered. We put stuffed dolls in the habitat. Alice won't even tell we're gone." Tanya answered.
" Oh good," Marlene said relieved that Alice won't even suspect them missing, "now my next question…"
"What is it?" Tanya asked looking at Marlene.
"Do you…. forgive Raymond for what he done?" the otter asked again.
"I do forgive him," Tanya said, "But the real question is does he forgive himself."
"Why would you say that?" Marlene asked eagerly.
"Ever since he lost his team, he's been covering his feelings with masked emotions. He watched his whole team die in front of him. You don't know how bad he feels. I have a feeling that if he loses me, then he has nothing to live for…" Tanya said worried.
Marlene felt shocked by this. She never knew Raymond was like this. She never knew how hard it was to lose some of your closest friends. She knew Skipper lost Manfretti and Johnson, but Skipper never said he watched it. Marlene now felt bad for Raymond, seeing his friends die right there. She also felt a little happy that Raymond had someone like Tanya by his side. "Take good care of him." Marlene said patting Tanya on the shoulder.
"Thank you." Tanya said smiling.
"Now one more question…." Marlene said.
"What is it?" Tanya said.
"Where are you hiding Max?"
"Well…" Then, Tanya's Walkie-talkie started to pick up a signal.
"Hey! Tanya! Are you there?" A familiar Russian accent said.
"Raymond?" Tanya said worried.
"No no. It's Reznov. How's the mission?" The bear said over the Talkie.
"Oh…" Tanya said, "We got the prisoners. Now we're waiting for Raymond and Skipper to come back."
"Good. We'll be there in about 10 minutes."
"Roger that, and one more thing, where did you hide Max?" Tanya asked.
Then Tanya heard her Captain chuckle on the radio, "We found good hiding place with another cat. He loves it in there."
Then, they heard screaming and scratching on the Talkie. "HELP ME! THIS GIRL IS CRAZY!" Tanya heard Max scream.
"GET BACK HERE," She heard a female voice yell, "WE HAVEN'T FINISHED OUR DATE YET!"
"NOOO!!!" Max yelled.
Then, she heard Reznov laugh, "Young love." He answered.
"Good. See you here. Out." Tanya said laughing a little from Max's predicament.
"Aw man," Kyle said hearing everything, "I wish I had a girl friend."
"Don't worry," Darla said reassuringly, "There's someone out there for you."
Then all of a sudden, they heard Raymond on the Walkie-Talkie.
"Tanya…" Raymond said weakly.
"Raymond? Oh God, are you okay?" Tanya said shocked.
"Skipper…needs help…. he's fighting…Dr. Blowhole…get over here now…" Raymond said weakly over the Walkie-talkie.
"Okay. What about you? Are you alright?" Tanya said.
Raymond started to breath heavily on the Walkie-Talkie, "I'll be okay…. just going to…. rest my eyes…. for a while…." Then she heard Static on the Walkie-talkie.
"We need to save him!" Tanya said.
"I'm coming with you!" Marlene said.
"Okay, everyone else, stay here." Tanya said to the group. They nodded and Marlene and Tanya ran toward the door and to where Skipper and Raymond were.
While they were running, Dr. Blowhole was throwing Skipper around like a beach ball. Skipper couldn't fight back because he never actually trained for underwater combat. Skipper then remembered the time when he knocked King Juliens crown off with the Corkscrew move. Then, he finally got some inspiration. He flew upward fast in the water, jumped right out and corkscrewed back down, right into Dr. Blowhole. Blowhole felt this impact and hit the ground of the water very hard. Then he came at Skipper, but Skipper jumped out of the way and Dr. Blowhole rammed into the side of the tank, leaving a big crack. The crack grew bigger and bigger from the water pressure, and it broke into a hole, flowing all the water onto the hard floor, also throwing Skipper and Dr. Blowhole onto the floor as well. Skipper was able to get up and saw Blowhole on the ground, gasping. Skipper then pulled out his Ballistic knife, which he had strapped to his vest, and placed the tip of the knife on Dr. Blowhole's head.
"Look Skipper," Blowhole said gasping, "Look at what you're throwing away. Is it really worth it? We could have taken this world and made it in our image."
"We could've," Skipper said, "But I had a different image. And image without you." Then Skipper thrusted the knife into Dr. Blowhole's head, instantly Killing Dr. Blowhole. Skipper then got up and started to walk out, leaving the knife in Dr. Blowhole's head. When he exited the room, he saw something on the floor from a distance. He got closer and saw Raymond lying on the floor, facing the ceiling in a pool of blood.
Skipper gasped and said "Raymond!" And ran toward his dying friend.
Side note: Wow, talk about Dramatic. Well, there are only two more chapters now. And in one of the chapters, someone's going to sing to someone. Wait for that now…
Also, I'm kind of using Dr. Breen as Dr. Blowhole a little. If you've played Half Life 2, you would know…
And one more thing, I know I'm kind of making Raymond emo, but how else was I going to put the trauma of losing his friends in this? Certainly not by making him happy all the time. But if he does lose Tanya, he will go emo. Trust me. Anything else…. nope that's about it. See you next time!