Skipper sighed; he was sitting at a table in an all animal club somewhere in Africa. He watched the other animals dance happily or just talk and laugh with one another. He sighed again, he missed his friends, but his anger towards Hans was even stronger than anything. Hans had betrayed him. Even worse, he had failed his duty and promise to Slade to stop Deadshot, at least he had stopped the president from eating that poisonous sand-witch, even if it meant he was now public enemy number one.
"How can I stop Deadshot, if I can't even stop Hans from escaping" Skipper muttered miserable.
"Hey you ok Mr. penguin" a monkey of some sort asked him, her green eyes curious.
"I'm fine, and please don't call me that"
"What should I call you then?" the monkey asked.
"Skipper's fine" Skipper told her.
"I'm Minka" she said. "Now why are you so sad?"
"I'm not" he spat.
"No need to pretend, it's kind of obvious" she squeaked, "and as an employee of this bar I have to make all customers happy"
"It's nothing that you can help with Longtail" the nick name just slipped out before he could stop it.
Seeing that he was embarrassed, she merely smiled and said: "I don't know, but I know one thing that a lot of times makes animals smile when I show it to them, come on" She helped him to his feet and led him through the bar and into the basement.
"So what's so special about this place" h asked bored and tired. She took something out of an old box and handed it to him.
"Huh?" it was a book, a fairly large one at that. On the cover was a large white baboon with a sword in hand.
"Whose the monkey?"
"His name is General Shinjin, he's a legendary fighter. When someone had someone coming after him, they would call him and he would help them" she purred lovingly.
"Where can I find him?" he asked.
"Oh, uh. Sorry, he uh you know, passed on" she said awkwardly.
"Oh right, um so this book-" he motioned to the book.
"It shows how he lived, in comic form, cause well, none of us can read" she said. "Go ahead take a look" Skipper opened the book and glanced at the first page, it showed a young monkey sitting away from a large group of baboons. That's how I feel right now Skipper thought.
"Shinjin was my great-great-great grandfather; he had this old saying that has been passed down in my family. He always said: that if you fail once and then fail again, you're doing it right. Nobody's perfect, and that one should always be learning throughout their life, if they do it allows them to do things that others could never do, which means that the more you learn the more dangerous you become." Minka had no idea how much those words of her precious General Shinjin meant to Skipper. Skipper flipped through it and stopped on a page when he saw that they had drawn out the monkey doing a move he had never seen before. He then had a brilliant idea.
"Hey Minka, can I stay down here to look at this, you know till the club closes down for morning" he asked, lying on his belly to look at the book.
"Sure, I'll be upstairs if you need anything" she said headingup the wooden stairs to where the main area of the club was. He waited a few moments to ensure she wasn't watching and jumped to his feet. He glanced at the book and started to copy the move, he brought up both flippers and began to do a front flip but instead of flipping, he landed on his flippers which flipped him onto his back. He landed heavily and ungracefully on the ground.
"This is going to be a long night" Skipper said happily. It would take him a few tries to get down each move, or maybe even more, but one thing for sure was that he would have new experience and maybe just maybe that would be enough to stop Deadshot, after all like that monkey had said, the more you learn the more dangerous you become. Hopefully it would be enough.
Ok so if you guys didn't know or didn't watch Lunacorn apocalypse or the dr. blowhole's revenge. The move one, General Shinjin was one of Skipper's idols and he did study his moves so I had to put something about the monkey in.