Inside two cages were the hundred colony penguins. The girl's family and their colony neighbors. They were all listening intently onto a specific penguin.
"We got the escape plan ready," Zero announced to his fellow penguins. "Ness, I need you to come with Max and Danny to find Amber and everyone else with her. Jackie, we need you to find anything that Blowhole might have taken with us within our limited amount of time. With the assistance we got, we will all finally be free and Blowhole and Satan will be dead!"
All the penguins cheered at the speech. They were going to be free after months in their little prison. They were rarely given any food and haven't seen the sunlight in a long time, not to mention the night sky. There was no fresh air, so that was another thing to look forward too. They were excited with the plan to go into action.
"We need to make sure that they're dead," Zero told them when everyone calmed down. "If they survive, it would only spell trouble for us."
"What about Madison? Isn't she with them?" Elizabeth asked with wide eyes.
Zero waved her off, "Don't worry about her."
"Now who's going to come with you to do the job?" Ted asked Zero.
"Um, how about… Terra?" he suggested hesitantly. He immediately regretted it. Why did I pick her?
Terra looked at him with her regular sassy attitude. "I'm only going if my sisters come with me!"
Zero growled in Spanish, "Freaking perra, es mejor que lo cierre!" Most of the penguins didn't know what he had said but the ones that did were laughing at Terra's expense. "Fine!" The Yellow-eyed penguin threw his flippers up. "Do what you want, I don't care!"
"So, how do we get out of here again?" Danny asked.
The door to their prison room was suddenly opened and Zero said with smugness, "I know what I'm doing."
(An Hour Later)
"I'm telling you, if we can find a self destruct button we can get out of here!" Amber told Flora.
Flora shook her head, looking unsure but discouraging Amber's every idea. "But that may lead to our destruction," she reasoned. "What if we didn't make it out in time or if the time limit wasn't enough? There might not even be a time limit and the button is on Blowhole's segway! We would be dead!"
Amber glared down at the ground. "Good point…" she grumbled. Her confidence was deteriorating every second along with her hopes that she would remain leader but this was only discouraging her. It wasn't helping with her ideas being shot down and all.
"We need a well thought out plan," Kowalski jumped into the conversation. "We have to think of every detail, calculate every move."
Skipper didn't seem any more confident then anyone else was but kept his air of authority. "We can't do much without weapons," he sighed.
"And every time Rico hacks up something, it's just another thing for Blowhole to take," Amber added. So far Blowhole's claws had taken: four sticks of dynamite with each fuse being blown out, a chainsaw, a whacking stick and a rock. Why Rico had a rock in his stomach was beyond her.
"Well can't we-" Skipper stopped when the only metal door in the room opened. The girl penguins gasped in surprise. There stood Max, Danny and Ness.
"I told you it was this one!" Danny stated triumphantly. The other two penguins rolled there eyes.
Sara was utterly surprised but thrilled. "Danny?" the young bird squealed. She thought he was dead!
Amber's features twisted with disbelief with this turn of events. "Max, Ness?" she tilted her head, fairly surprised. Wasn't he and Ness supposed to be dead? "Is that you guys?" the silver avian inquired with confusion and surprise.
"Yeah it's us," Max told them briskly. "Glad to see all of you girls but c'mon we got to go."
"We can't exactly go," Flora grumbled. "We're stuck."
"Not for long." Ness smirked. He pulled at a small rectangular radio and pushed a button on it. "Alright, let's get this show on the road."
"Alright, let's get this show on the road."
"You heard the penguin, lets go," Zero whispered. The bold penguin jumped out of a room with three others. Jenny, Bella, Terra; Flora's sisters. "Remind me again why I had picked you three to come with me?"
Jenny blinked her eyes at him and leaned toward him like a flirt. "Because you care," she told him, tilting her head to try and look adorable.
"If you want to call it that," Zero growled and pushed her aside. He started running down the hallway in pursuit of Satan and/or Blowhole with Flora's sisters not too far behind him. "We just got to find those guys and destroy them so they won't hurt anyone ever again." He swiftly turned around a corner with the sisters stumbling and clumsily chasing after him. That was at least one thing they had in common with Flora at this point. Their clumsiness.
Bella seemed to get more annoyed by every second. "This is stupid!" she shouted.
"Just shut up and follow me!" Zero stopped abruptly as he came into a metal door. "This is-" he was cut off as Bella was thrown at him with Jenny and Terra tumbling onto him next, "-it."
"Look at that door," Jenny gasped.
"It's so big," Bella stated the obvious.
Zero rolled his eyes. "How on earth are you three related to Flora?" he pushed the girls off of him and slowly approached the door. He raised his foot and smashed it against the metal. The door was sent flying into the room, which resulted in three yelps of surprise.
Zero stepped in and took in the sight. Blowhole, Satan and Madison were hanging around multiple monitors that were showing different parts of Blowhole's HQ. Satan smirked when he saw the room where Amber and her team were. He could see Max, Danny and Ness in there as well. He seemed smug after seeing Zero and the three females behind him, like they couldn't possibly beat him.
"Who was watching the monitors?" Dr. Blowhole questioned angrily. The two evil masterminds looked at Madison. She shrugged, but Zero could see the slight upward turn at the corners of her beak.
"Alright now, I'm going to be simple with this…ATTACK!" Zero shouted. He jumped at Satan with the triplets jumping onto Blowhole. Madison just stood by, amusement completely written on her face as she inched over to the monitor. She pressed a couple of keys and pressed 'Enter' just in time to look back up at Blowhole, who was giving her orders.
"Don't just stand there, do something!" the dolphin shouted at her.
Madison smiled wickedly and tackled one of Flora's sisters. Oh how she always wanted to do that.
Ness stared up at Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private suspiciously with them doing the same. "So who are these guys?" Ness asked.
Amber seemed amused despite their situation. "Some friends," she responded.
Skipper gazed at Amber. "And who are these three?" he asked her with a raised brow and pointed a flipper to the three penguins.
"Names Ness," Ness told them.
"Danny is my name." Danny smiled politely.
"I'm Max," the large bird introduced. He looked around, irritated, and tapped his foot impatiently. "What's taking them?"
Flora tilted her head to the side, confused by what he meant. "Excuse me?" she asked.
Max still seemed irritated when he answered, "We're basically waiting for this place to blow and get out of here."
"What?" Private yelped.
Ness looked at Private. "This place is going to have a nuclear power meltdown," he explained.
Sara cocked her head in a confused manner. "What?"
"Ka-boom," Rico grunted.
Just as he said that, the room was lit up with a flashing red light and the speakers started going off. "SELF DESTRUCTION IN TEN MINUTES! SELF DESTRUCTION IN TEN MINUTES!"
"How are we-" Sara was cut off in mid scream as the braces over their feet and flippers disappeared. She shrieked as they fell onto the floor. Even in a situation like this, it didn't stop the laughter erupting from Max's beak.
Amber looked up and glared at him. "You are definitely Madison's brother!" she shouted over the loud speaker.
Max stopped in his laughter as the cage that was holding the male penguins crashed down. Their yelps of surprise and terror went over the blaring sound of the alarm. The cage crashed to the ground and was broken and crushed in the process of the impact from the highly thick metal ground.
"Kowalski!" Flora shouted in fear of his condition. She stumbled over to the pile, not use to waddling at the time, and did her best to move pieces of the completely crushed cage away so she could find him.
"They need to work on their cage construction…" Amber muttered under her breath and ran over to Flora to assist her. "That's not how you do it. You do it like this!" Amber practically ripped the piece's away as she dug her flippers in and was getting much more progress then Flora had. The silver avian was relieved when she found Skipper. She parted the steel bars and helped Skipper out. "Good, I thought you were dead," she chuckled.
Skipper seemed amused by this. "It would take a lot more then that to bring me down." He chuckled along also.
"Will you two stop flirting and help us out!" Ness shouted over the loud sounds echoing in the room.
Skipper and Amber blushed furiously under their feathers. "We're not flirting!" the two both shouted at the snickering penguin. They joined the other flightless birds to find the other hidden penguins'.
"Kowalski," Flora sighed, relived, when she found him. She shifted some of the metal away, so he could stand. He immediately hugged Flora and held her tightly in his flippers. Flora happily returned the gesture. Kowalski sighed happily as she nuzzled his neck feathers, despite everything going on around them at the moment.
"Are you alright?" Kowalski asked, concerned.
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Flora laughed, making Kowalski smile nervously. "But I'm much better knowing that you're alright."
"I'm glad you're okay," Kowalski told her with care. He smiled and brushed his beak against her in a nuzzle, which she happily returned.
Danny looked down at his cousin, still moving the pieces of metal away. "Are they together?" he asked Sara.
"Yes," Sara quickly replied as she desperately tried to find Private. There was a small whimper nearby, making the young bird rush in that direction and haul some metal away. She squealed when she found him underneath. "Private!" She yanked him from the pile of metal and grinned when Private gave her a large hug. "I'm so glad your okay!" the young female avian cried out.
"Don't leave ever again!" Private cried also. The two hugged each other tighter if it was possible.
"I won't, I promise," Sara pledged.
Danny raised a brow watching them. Sara has found someone…wow, didn't see that coming, he thought.
"I seriously can't find Rico!" Amber shouted to the penguins, the alarm still cursing their hearing.
"Wait a second," Skipper pondered thoughtfully. "Rico! Wherever you are, cough up a stick man!"
Only few seconds passed before a large explosion came from the middle of the wreck. Once the smoke from the explosion cleared up, Rico took its place. "Woo hoo! Ha-ha!" The maniac fist pumped his flippers and started doing a little dance. "Booyah! Again, again!"
Skipper smirked. "That's Rico."
"SELF DESTRUCTION IN SEVEN MINUTES! SELF DESTRUCTION IN SEVEN MINUTES!"
"Let's get out of here!" Amber ordered.
They wasted no time in running the hell out of there.
"We need the escape pod!" Blowhole told Satan. The two were both struggling to shake off the penguins attacking them at the moment. Madison was standing by again and was still amused by the events. Everybody ignored the ticking timer of the self destruction but the villains.
Blowhole was finally able to throw the three female penguins at the wall. Blowhole quickly assisted Satan and knocked Zero over with his segway. "We must leave now," Blowhole told him. Satan nodded, and the two quickly started out the door to find an escape route.
Satan turned to Madison. "You coming or what?" he barked. Madison shook her head and faced the four penguins in front of her. She got a mischievous glint in her eyes and cracked her neck.
Not wasting a second more, Satan quickly ran and got ahead of Blowhole and got in the escape pod and pressed the button before Blowhole could get in. Satan waved a flipper and was shot out of the headquarters while Blowhole cursed. The mad dolphin shoved lobsters aside and went in the last escape pod, not allowing anymore crustaceans inside and tried to press the buttons which weren't working, only frustrating him and affecting his survival chances.
All the while, Zero allowed the two to escape and faced Madison. "You ready for this?" he questioned.
Madison only chuckled darkly.
"A dead end. Perfect," Amber grumbled.
The penguins stood in front of a dead end in one of the many tunnels in Blowhole's HQ. Their feet were constantly switching from the metal floor, which was getting hotter by the core that was activated to self destruct. Now Amber regretted not having a map of the accursed place. Not that one was even made from her knowledge.
"SELF DESTRUCTION IN FIVE MINUTES! SELF DESTRUCTION IN FIVE MINUTES!"
"We don't have time. Rico!" Skipper shouted at his weapons expert.
The psychopath instinctively hacked up a stick of dynamite.
Kowalski and Flora waved their flippers frantically. "No that might-!" Both were cut off as the dynamite blew up in their faces.
"It might what?" Amber questioned, blinking away dust that resulted from the explosion.
"That!" Kowalski yelped as shards of metal started collapsing all around. "Look out!"
Sara and Private screamed in fear and did their best to dodge a couple of large pieces of metal. Amber didn't react quickly enough and was soon under pounds of hot metal. She howled in pain and thought she could hear a couple of cracking sounds from her bones. She struggled under the metal but couldn't manage to free herself.
"Amber, I'll help you!" Sara started her way over, but Amber stopped her.
"No, get out of here!" the silver avian growled as she continued to struggle and attempt to get out from under the metal. She did her best to point to a large gaping hole that led to the outside world, making a gesture for Sara to run out there.
"But Amber-" the young bird tried to argue but Amber wouldn't have it and yelled, "No get out of here!"
"We're not leaving you!" Flora tried to get to Amber as well but it was all in vain because of Amber's stubborn attitude.
"I don't care, just go. I'll be fine!" Amber reassured and struggled from the metal.
"But-" Flora tried to argue but Amber was sick of it and ordered, "No! As your commanding officer, I order you to go and take everyone with you!"
"Amber please-" Flora pleaded desperately. She didn't want to lose her closest friend.
The CO felt her eye twitch. "Stop it Flora! Just go! Right now! Don't disobey my orders," Amber ordered sternly but softer so it might get the message to the second in charge.
By this point Flora had tears threatening to come down from her eyes. She reluctantly pushed a crying Sara to the exit. The other penguins slowly and reluctantly followed also, knowing Amber wouldn't let them help her either.
"SELF DESTRUCTION IN FOUR MINUTES! SELF DESTRUCTION IN FOUR MINUTES!"
"Amber…" Sara choked on her sobs. She didn't want her leader to die. Not like this or ever in her lifetime.
"Run! You don't have much time!" Amber grunted and continued to fight her way out of the metal, which wasn't proving to help her condition. There wasn't any progress and her death seemed to be in place for her. The penguins ran out of the exit, and they couldn't help but glance at Amber, who was so close to outside and freedom.
The penguins all hissed in discomfort as sunlight came into their eyes. It was nice to feel the suns warmth again and breathe in the fresh air but the light was blinding. Flora and Sara got dizzy as they tried to get a safe distance away from the soon to be exploding HQ. Then suddenly, they collapsed onto the ground.
"Sara!" Private quickly ran over to the fallen penguin and picked her up while Kowalski did the same with Flora.
The intellectual looked at Flora worriedly in his grasp. They were very dehydrated and required food. They would probably die soon if they didn't get any into their system. It was just then Kowalski noticed something. "Where's Skipper?" the scientist asked.
"Get-" Amber try's to pull her self out of the metal. "-Out-" she pulls again. "Here!" Amber gasps and finally stops, giving up from being too dehydrated. The heat wasn't helping either. She cringed when another lose board of sharp metal clashed to the ground.
"I'm not leaving without you," Skipper told her sternly with an air of stubbornness. He waddled up to her and began pulling her out. Although he wasn't having any more success then what she had from earlier.
"Skipper, just get out of here. I care a lot about you, and I can't have you dead," Amber said softly but commanding. "You mean a lot."
Skipper stopped pulling and looked at her. "Wait, what?" he asked.
"Just get out of here while you still have a chance!" Amber shouted, refusing to answer in any other way.
Skipper shook his head stubbornly. "I'm not leaving unless you're with me."
Amber glared as she inquired, "Why are you so determined to get me out of here? After all we did, why?" Skipper didn't answer her and continued to try to pull her out.
"SELF DESTRUCTION IN TWO MINUTES! SELF DESTRUCTION IN TWO MINUTES!"
The alarm had stopped minutes ago and was only left with a blinking red light and the loud countdown.
"You're going to die if you don't leave now." Amber hardened her glare, wanting to penetrate his stubborn actions.
"I'm not leaving," Skipper grunted and kept pulling, which was making her bleed from the sharp edges.
"I'll be fine, just leave me here. It'll be ok," Amber reassured with a cringe, trying to resist every cut she received from the metal. "Someone needs to take care of my team when I'm gone."
Skipper stared at her. "No matter what you say, I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying here till you're free."
Amber faintly smiled at that, but she was still rather angry with everything he was doing by just risking his life. She continued to stare at him helplessly when he continued to try and pull her out. But something caught her attention. Another lose hot, sharp metal plate was dangling around. Her eyes widened as it finally snapped and started falling right at Skipper.
I'm not responsible for the Penguins of Madagascar breaking your property. Some of the penguins are just extras, so don't worry about them. Like Ness!
This was a cheesy chapter, I know. I also know this isn't my best story, and I could be doing better, so I apologize. I also found out that Rico blew up my wall again. -_-
Rico: Kablamo!
Me: Stop blowing up my walls! I'm getting tired of fixin' them!
Rico: Ka-boom, ka-boom, ka-boom!
Me: I'm getting worried about him. Anyway, please review!