"What?" all the penguins exclaimed.

"What the hell are you agreeing to?" Amber hollered. Madison ignored her and looked at Satan expectantly.

"So you're in?" Satan asked suspiciously. Madison rolled her eyes and nodded. "You better be, or I swear I will rip your beak off and feed you to the sharks." Satan nodded toward Dr. Blowhole to free her.

Blowhole reluctantly pressed a button on his segway, and Madison's braces disappeared into the wall. She instantly fell flat on the ground. She moaned as she tried to get up, shaking as she did, but soon fell back onto the hard floor. Her muscles ached too much to get up from their forced position.

She attempted one more time and leaned her back against the wall. She cracked her neck, stretched her flippers, and twisted her back to regain feeling and flexibility. She let out a sigh of relief. It felt so good to stretch again. She took a couple of steps forward, so she could stretch her flippers out some more.

Satan made his way to her, and she backed away in caution but her back met the wall once more. Satan swiftly took out a collar he had been hiding and placed it over Madison's head. Before she could take it off, Blowhole pressed another button on his segway, and the collar tightened around her neck. She growled at the two villains.

"A little something to make sure you don't betray us," Satan explained and looked at her with sick satisfaction. "You mess up the slightest bit, and you're dead. You don't think we're that stupid do you?"

Madison snorted and crossed her flippers over her chest. She wasn't scared. At least on the outside she wasn't. Deep down she was terrified.

"You're really going to leave us?" Flora asked with wide eyes in disbelief. Madison slowly and reluctantly turned her head to Flora. She nodded her head with a determined expression. Flora's face fell, along with the other penguins.

Rico looked broken. How could she betray them? After all they did for her and the other girls, and now she was just going to leave them here to suffer? Rico couldn't believe it. It all felt wrong now.

"Come on. We got more planning to do," Blowhole snapped. The dolphin and the penguin left the room with the door closing behind them. Madison looked at the penguins through narrowed eyes. She re-adjusted her hat, so it was firmly on her head.

Amber looked at Madison as if she never knew her. "How could you?" she hissed. Madison grunted and crossed her flippers over her chest again. It wasn't like she could explain herself, even if she wanted to. But she didn't, and they weren't getting anything out of her.

"Why?" Rico grunted out. Madison ignored him and stomped her way out of the room with the doors closing behind her. All in all, she was in a pretty pissed off mood now. Rico looked down, crestfallen.

"It's alright Rico." Skipper patted his back. Rico shrugged the flipper off and turned away from his comrades. That didn't help him at all. What if the whole thing was an act? Rico thought startling. Was it all fake? Rico groaned at the thought and buried his head in his flippers. She wouldn't fake love right?

Amber's earlier fury had died down. She looked troubled now. "How can one of my own soldiers do that to me?" she muttered.

Sara hesitated. "What are we going to do now?" she whimpered.

"I'll tell you what we're not going to do." Skipper stood up in the metal cage. "We're not going to mope around and be a bunch of nancy cats! We're going to take this head on, and we're going to beat into a pulp and make it run home to its momma!"

Amber smirked bitterly. "Hate to break it to you but we can't exactly do anything."

Skipper pondered for a moment. "Rico, got anything useful?" the flat headed leader barked to his weapons expert.

Rico turned to Skipper and coughed up a stick of dynamite. He chuckled a bit as he held it in his flippers. Rico was surprised when it was ripped from his grip. "What?" he grunted out, confused. He looked up and had just enough time to see a claw take his dynamite away and into the wall. "Aw…" Rico moaned in disappointment, slumped, and fell back on his rear.

Kowalski sighed and leaned back against the cage, losing hope. "I suspected that would happen," he mumbled.

Skipper whirled over at Kowalski's direction, looking cross. "Then why didn't you say anything?" he snapped. Kowalski shrugged in response.

"There isn't much we can do right now," Amber grumbled. "We can't use any weapons, we're trapped, and we just lost a fellow penguin."

"What do you think Madison is doing?" Sara asked curiously.

Flora decided to answer that one. "Whatever she's doing, we know one thing," she began.

"It's going to be violent," the three girls finished together.

Madison had just finished her thirst for entertainment. A couple of lobsters lay at her feet, and they were badly injured. A way for her to take out her frustration and keep herself entertained. She rubbed her flippers together in ecstasy. She had her tongue hanging out of her beak as she waited for more. After a couple of seconds she calmed down and casually started waddling through the hallway.

She knew Satan, and Dr. Blowhole was watching her. You didn't need to have a brain to know that. If they wanted to kill her for doing that, then they would have set the collar off already. She looked around curiously. With her now opened freedom, she could do almost anything she wanted. Maybe I could look around… Madison thought.

"Hey!" Satan's powerful, angry voice rang out in the hallway.

Madison stopped and sighed despairingly. Maybe not then… She turned around and saw Satan stomping over to her angrily. She looked up at him nervously as he towered over her. Hey, she was a tough penguin, but Satan was just insanely scary with his size, scars and that nasty attitude.

"Why did you attack those stupid minions?" Satan growled harshly. Madison shrugged in response. Satan shook his head. "We just need you to stay away from those penguin friends of yours. We don't need you attacking our free labor. Just stay out of the way, and nobody gets hurt. Got it?" Satan snarled. Madison's nodded stiffly, which seemed to satisfy Satan more or less. "Don't forget that I have the power to kill everyone. I will make them suffer every second. I will rip their hearts and eat them all in front of you. I'll have them ripped apart, piece by piece, and I'll take the pleasure of doing it. I will then shove their bones down your throat and burn their remaining parts into ash," Satan growled. This scared Madison, and her eyes went wide as she swallowed. Satan smirked darkly, clearly pleased with her reaction. Without another word, he left.

Madison blinked, and she slumped her shoulders that had been tensed up. Though she may not have been the smartest penguin around, she had no doubts that Satan wouldn't hesitate to do just what he threatened and that scared her. Guilt once more washed over. She decided to gather her thoughts and put together everything that had happened before they ended up in this stupid place.

We got captured by Blowholes lobsters and then we woke up in a helicopter…

(Flashback in Madison's POV)

I woke up groggily. First thing I felt was an aching feeling in my stomach. Must have been the fish. I opened my glazed eyes as much as I could. I jumped up with startled eyes the second I saw my friends in cages, staring at me. I could tell Flora was struggling to avoid her claustrophobic condition.

Sara was doing meditation in a cage, which made me notice I was in one as well. Flora was rocking back and forth in hers, trying to avoid a panic attack, and Amber seemed as cross as ever with how everything was working for her.

"Good morning and welcome to planet Hell." Amber crossed her flippers over her chest.

I growled and looked around frantically, briefly forgetting I was in a cage. I went to touch its bars, and I could just feel a tingling sensation as my flipper neared the bars.

"Don't touch that!" Flora screamed. It was too late, and I was shocked by the cage. The electricity ran up my spine, which hurt, but it felt so interesting! I laughed dizzily and fell onto my bottom.

"Is there a way out of this?" Amber asked Flora, dismissing my actions.

"The cage seems to have been made specifically to keep us contained and is going to be impossible to destroy, considering our lack of weapons," Flora responded with her voice quivering.

"No kidding," Amber said sarcastically with her eyes rolling. "We go in and, no matter what we or he does, we won't let Blowhole break us. Got it?"

"Got it," Flora nodded hastily and Sara hummed in faint acknowledgment. I grunted the best I could.

"We stick together. We're a team, and we don't leave each other behind."

(End of Flashback)

Amber's words were stuck in Madison's head. It kept repeating like a broken record. We stick together. We stick together. We stick together. She growled to herself. We don't always have to stick together! Madison shook her head bitterly and trudged deeper into the hallways of Blowhole's HQ.

Everybody in the blank room was currently sleeping to regain energy and it was noticeable that they slept for longer periods of time to keep up their deteriorating strength. Except two certain penguins weren't sleeping, since they were silently arguing with each other.

Skipper wasn't as angry as he tried to appear. "You could have told us," he whispered. "Why didn't you bother?"

Amber turned her head away. "It wasn't any of your business," she hissed.

Skipper felt offended that she couldn't trust him. "Why couldn't you have trusted us?"

"You wouldn't have trusted us. No one does!" Amber's voice started to get louder.

"Keep it down before you wake them all up." Skipper glared.

Amber sighed. "Look, I swear that I didn't intend to harm anyone but the killer, AKA Blowhole." Amber rolled her eyes at the name. "We went to Antarctica and nobody was there, so we assumed they were dead. Anyway, Flora was able to convince me to come back here and start a search. Then we would leave again and give out or revenge to whoever did it, which is again Blowhole. Hate to admit it but…" Amber grumbled out some words that were inaudible to Skipper.

Skipper stood up in the generally small suspending cage, causing it to sway slightly. "What was that?" Skipper placed his flippers on his hips and raised a non existent brow at her.

"I…" Amber grumbled out the last words again.

"A little louder." Skipper scowled, frowning.

"I didn't really want to leave you ok?" Amber shouted finally with her face red from either embarrassment or anger. It was a mystery to how the penguins weren't awake from that. They had probably grown accustomed to it.

Skipper's eyes widened when he realized she only implied him. "Me?" he questioned, actually feeling touched.

Amber, for the first time, looked extremely flustered and embarrassed. "All of you guys! Not you! All of you!" Amber shouted while having to deal with her face burning up. Skipper didn't know why, but he felt something inside him stir. But in a good way. "Either way it doesn't matter." Amber took a shuddered sigh to calm herself down. "Our families are dead. I should have done something." Amber looked at the ground guilty. It just had to be her fault. Everything was her fault!

If she hadn't bothered to save Madison, Flora when they first met, or taking Sara into their team then they wouldn't be here. She might not be here. She might be dead or in jail again but still. It was better then what they were all going through right now.

"There was nothing you could do to prevent their death," Skipper assured, attempting to comfort Amber from a distance. "Either way it was going to happen. It was all part of his plan. You would have done anything for them, but you might not be here if you had stayed."

Amber looked up at Skipper and what he saw twisted his insides. She had the most heartbreaking expression he had ever seen. She looked so frail and defenseless to him that he felt like she was a different penguin in. He saw her in a new light.

"I'm not sure I can take it anymore Skips." Amber shuddered in her metal braces.

Skipper looked at her, confused but concerned. "What do you mean?"

"The pressure, the hate, and basically everything…I can't handle it anymore. When…when this is all over…I think I'm going to leave my team."

I just want to throw all the work I have and have to do out the window! *Sigh* Ugh, the story isn't going the way I wanted it too... Not my best chapter, but I have to get the story moving. What the heck is going on? Amber is finally cracking! She's being a little OOC cause of this, but I just had to make it happen!

Amber: You're just being depressing.

Flora and Kowalski: Monster!

Me: I'm in a bad mood! Nothing new there. Now review or else…

Rico *Pulls out a chainsaw* Muahahahaha!