Chapter 6 – Lone soldier

A/N: All the main characters have grand roles in this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own PoM. Dream Works and Nickelodeon do. I only own some of the OC characters in this story.

~PoM~

"I still don't understand why you had to come along Buck. The Red Squirrel is my case now" said Nigel he walked beside Buck through the snow-covered park.

"Not a chance, Twinkle toes. I've chased Red for about fifty years and he was my case first. And now that he escaped again it's my job to bring him back!" Buck replied while scowling.

Nigel sighed. "Fine, but now that you mentioned it I'm quite curious, how did he escape again?"

Buck placed his flippers behind his head and shrugged. "I don't know myself. They had him completely locked down back in HQ. He probably slipped out when the guards fallen asleep or something" he answered and Nigel nodded in understanding.

Suddenly a shower of darts was shot at them and they both jumped out of the way to dodge it.

"What was that all about?" Nigel asked. Suddenly a crimson-furred squirrel with an eye patch came from behind a bush and stared at them amusingly.

"Hello my arch-enemies, It's been a while. I'm glad you two old fish belchers came waddling right into my trap" The Red squirrel stated.

"Who you're calling old?" Buck growled. "Red you're more ancient than any of us!"

"I AM NOT OLD! " Red shouted, causing his back bone to snap. "Oh my back!"

"See"

"Well no matter. I have you two where I wanted and now I'll make you my prisoners. MINIONS ATTACK!"

Nothing happened.

Red sighed and pulled out a note pad. "Note to self. Before running into any situation hire some minions" he dismissed the note pad and ran off to a random direction.

"You're not getting away from me this time Red!" Buck exclaimed and belly-slid after him.

"Buck, wait!" Nigel cried, but he ignored him. All he wanted was to capture The Red squirrel and he didn't want the penguin spy to get in the way. The Red squirrel dashed through the park towards the street sidewalk while Buck followed him.

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Meanwhile, Nigel came to a halt when he lost track of both Buck and The Red Squirrel. Panting, he looked around for any sign of them, but all he saw were trees and snow. "Where did they go to?" he thought.

"Why don't you leave the searching for us Old Timer? You and your pal are both coming along with us anyway" said a voice from behind him. Nigel spun around and saw two penguins walking towards him. The first one looked like Rico but less fat and had bright yellow eyes and wore a red piece of cloth around his head (Like a pirate) while the other who was a bit taller than him was muscular and had emerald green eyes and his left eye was scarred.

Nigel stepped back and took a fighting pose. "Who are you two?"

"Name's Jack and this guy here is Dave" he pointed to himself and then to his partner.

"We have orders to capture you and your other friend so it's best for you to surrender" Dave said as he and Jack took a fighting stance. The three penguins then began fighting.

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Buck soon caught up to The Red Squirrel outside the park and engaged a fight with him. Red attacked the penguin and tried to damage him with his claws; Buck avoided his attacks and countered with a kick making fall backwards into the snow.

"I've gotcha now Red. There's no way you would runaway this time" Buck said in triumph. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain go through his back and made him cry in pain and fell on his face.

Meanwhile Zoo keeper Alice was on her way home, hugging herself for warmth, and complaining about the weather when she suddenly heard a nearby squawk.

"Huh?" she immediately recognized it as a noise a penguin would make and ran to its source.

Buck lied on the snow, feeling so much pain in his back. He painfully glanced back and saw a shady penguin figure staring down at him. He held a dagger in his flipper and his left eye was glowing red. "You seriously couldn't beat him?" the penguin asked Red.

"He caught me off guard okay?" The Red squirrel countered.

For some reason Buck found the penguin's familiar to him, but couldn't say where. The penguin was about to carry him when a red-haired woman came running towards them which forced the two animals to flee the scene.

"What happened to you?" Alice asked as she knelt to the wounded penguin, though she knew he can't answer her. She took off her thick, green jacket and used to carry him in it.

"We better get you to the doc before your condition gets worse" she said to him as she ran back to the zoo, hoping that the doctor hadn't left the zoo hospital yet. Buck slowly closed his eyes and drifted into sleep.

A/N: Sorry if the chapter was short again but I promise the next one will be longer.

Alice is taking Buck back to the zoo so how do you think the zoo animals will react when they see him again and what about Nigel? Please drop some reviews!