Blowhole was currently eyeing the monitors, watching as the female penguins fell asleep. Since there wasn't anything interesting about that, it would be perfect to continue his multi stage plan. He pressed a button and a lobster came in shortly after. "Red one, bring in three of the prisoners," he ordered.
The lobster nodded in acknowledgment, skittered down a corridor, and went to fetch some of their prisoners they had captured a while ago. A few minutes later, the lobster brought three penguins in shackles into the room. "I got three prisoners doc," the lobster told Blowhole. He tied the chain attached to the penguin's shackles to a nearby metal bar so they couldn't escape.
"Excellent, you are dismissed red one," Dr. Blowhole dismissed. The lobster quickly exited the room with a door closing behind it. "Now what do you know of the female pen-gyu-ins?"
"Why should we tell you?" a male penguin snapped. He had ebony feathers with a white chest and had strange yellow eyes. There were patches where he had lost feathers and his ribs were showing due to lack of food. His eyes were glazed over since he hadn't seen sunlight in a long time. He also had a large noticeable scar over his chest where feathers had stopped growing.
"Or else you will face certain death," Blowhole answered coldly.
One of the other male penguins, the shortest, swallowed. He had ebony feathers with an ivory colored chest. He had green eyes and patches where feathers were missing with his ribs also showing. "What do you want to know?" the short penguin asked nervously, tapping his flippers together.
"We can't tell him," a rather large penguin told them. He was a fat flightless bird and had ebony feathers with a belly that had dulled to gray over the time he had been imprisoned. He had ocean blue eyes and, just like the other penguins, he had lost patches of feathers and his ribs were showing from lack of food. "We promised not to tell, remember?"
"I can easily kill the female pen-gyu-ins if you don't tell me what I wish to know," Blowhole growled at the three male birds. That hit them hard. He could easily dispose of them, and it would be their fault just because they didn't tell him what he wanted to know.
The large penguin sighed and repeated the smaller ones words. "What do you want to know?"
Dr. Blowhole smiled evilly. "What had they done in their past that you know of?"
"Can't we just take the subway Skippah?" Private asked.
"Private, he'd be expecting that! Now let's fly," Skipper ordered.
The penguins started shaking their tail feathers to fizz up their bottles of soda. The tops popped off of the soda bottles and the penguin team took off on their jetpacks to save their female correspondents.
"When do you think we'll get there Kowalski?" Skipper asked.
"The estimated time is approximately two hours till we arrive," Kowalski replied.
Skipper was not satisfied. "Not fast enough."
Dr. Blowhole had learned some very interesting information when he was done. "Very interesting. Now what are your relationships of these penguins?"
"I'm Sara's cousin," the shorter penguin answered nervously.
Dr. Blowhole then asked, "Name?"
"Danny," the flightless avian, Danny, replied.
"And you?" Blowhole asked the large bird, who was on the yellow eyed penguin's left.
"Madison's brother. My name is Max," Max told him reluctantly. What was the point in keeping everything a secret anymore?
Blowhole turned his gaze to the yellow eyed penguin, who was in the middle. The penguin, already knowing what he was going to ask, said, "Amber's step brother, my name is Zero," Zero spat the words at the dolphin, as if he wasn't worthy to hear this information. He was by far the least informed on Amber's past.
"Blowhole, have these penguins been any trouble?" a voice asked in a mocking way that the penguins failed to notice, except for Zero.
The penguins looked shocked as a fellow penguin came into light. "What are you doing? Run for it!" Max shouted.
"Why would I run?" The stranger gave a disturbing smile, preferring to stay mostly in the shadows.
"So that fish doesn't get you!" Danny shouted.
"I am not a fish, I'm a mammal!" Blowhole exclaimed angrily. "I breathe oxygen and everything!"
Zero looked at the mysterious penguin angrily. "You're working with him aren't you?" he growled.
"Yes," the penguin answered simply like he honestly didn't care. He didn't appear fazed by any of their words.
"What?" Danny and Max gasped in disbelief.
Zero glared fiercely and pointed an accusing flipper at the stranger. "I never did trust you! Amber was right, we should have thrown you out of the colony!" he roared.
"Lobsters, take the prisoners away," Blowhole ordered into a microphone. He didn't want to deal with the annoying avian birds anymore.
The penguins shouted and put up a struggle. Multiple lobsters began shoving them out of the room as soon as their chains were untied from the metal pole. "You're a traitor, how could you do this to us-!" Zero's voice was cut off when the doors slammed shut behind him.
"All is going to plan. I'm learning some interesting things about our little pen-gyu-in friends," Blowhole snickered.
"When will your foe come?" the mysterious penguin asked impatiently and crossed his flippers over his broad chest.
"Doc, doc!" a lobster came in. "The penguins are in a one hour radius of here."
"Excellent. When they come, I will start my plan, and their teams will be destroyed!" Blowholes maniacal laughter mixed with the penguins own laugh.
"So...can I have my lunch break now?" the lobster asked.
Blowhole may be a bit OOC but nobody's perfect. Especially me.
Holy crap their family is alive! Well three of them at least. Max and Danny return! This wasn't my best chapter, but I'm running out of ideas already. Sorry that it was so short, but I want to get it moving, and yet get the right information in.
Sara: Sounds complicated. But I'm so glad Danny's ok, I missed him!
Me: He is only feathers and bones!
Sara: It's still good to know he's alive...