The grave realization that Skipper finds out about his former idol, who he thinks is working for his evil nemesis Dr. Blowhole—sends him into a state of trepidation. As determined as he is, Skipper will do anything, try anything to save his friends, even if it means taking out the traitor Buck Rockgut in a fight for honour. It takes awhile to let himself believe that Buck Rockgut had betrayed him. He is a smart penguin, but he's methodical and careful.
But if he wants to win a battle, the leader penguin must maintain his composure and must avoid getting caught up under pressure—where he's losing hope every minute that passes by.
"Alright no more Mr. Nice guy, time to take you hostiles out one and for all" says Skipper, eyeing each and every one of his opponents, thus provoking them.
"What are you guys waiting for, get him!" instructs Buck to the lobsters.
The lobsters simultaneously lunge at him with their powerful pincers, but Skipper counteracts their offense when he uses the sideswipe manoeuvre as a way to avoid getting hit. He succeeds, taking out numerous foes in the process. Meanwhile the Buck impostor just stands motionless with his flippers in his chest, amused at the fact that Skipper is able to fend off more than a dozen lobsters. The impostor knows that when time will come that the lobster minions admit defeat; Buck will step in to fight Skipper. But for now, he stands in the sidelines, delighted to see his foe getting ripped to shreds by the lobsters.
Skipper manages to punch one lobster in the gut, tackles another, grabs the third one by the head and kicks him to the side. His keen eye senses one approaching him from behind, aiming its sharp, pointed pincers, but the penguin counteracts it by grabbing hold both of its arms and Skipper uses him as a baseball bat to hit nearby lobsters around him. After he's done swinging his foe around, Skipper throws him aside. Next the penguin then uses a roundhouse kick against the incoming horde, knocking them out in a single kick, gaining another victory for Skipper.
"You guys are no match for my penguin superiority, surely by now all of you would have given up challenging me." Says Skipper, possibly trying to intimidate them through his words.
The lobsters don't take kindly to his negative words and they become more persistent than ever to beat him in battle. Skipper is given no other choice but to fight back the numerous hordes of lobsters. "This is getting out of hand, I need to end this now and quick." Says Skipper.
"Oh you won't be going anywhere, as long as you're still alive these lobsters will just keep coming in groups ha-ha-ha" replied Impostor Buck with a sneer grin.
In reality, Skipper didn't have trouble fighting them at all. It's just that when Skipper tried to fight them off, they just kept coming and attacking him. The nonstop battle was already tiring out the poor penguin and he really needed a smart tactic he can use to ditch his foes. He couldn't care less about these lobsters, all he wanted right now is to get out there as fast he can and find his missing friends.
Unfortunately for him, his mind right now is busy being occupied in combat mode, and he fails to notice that Buck has finally step in to the battlefield to end this fight once and for all. "Time to end this now, don't worry Skipper, it won't be long before you're out of your misery."
Buck propels a smoke bomb through the air and soon the whole room is covered in a very dense, thick black smoke. This became a disadvantage to Skipper as he could barely see what was going on around him; it was blocking each of his senses including his sense of consciousness.
Then all of a sudden a flipper slices through the smoky fog and with one jab on the head, Buck manages to knock the rampaging Skipper out of his misery. The penguin fell to his knees and slammed unconsciously onto the ground. Skipper takes one blurry sight at Buck when he morphs himself back to his real body.
"You're, you're..." Skipper faints before even completing his statement.
"Finally he's out; I thought he'd never gone down. Alright darlings, take him to the boss. He's gonna need Skipper" said Darla.
"Yes Ma'am" the lobster gave a salute before following orders. They drag Skipper's unconscious body up the stairs and into the dark hallway.
Meanwhile as Douglas pilots the robot, he notices that the underground lair was rising to the top, slowly revealing itself to the penguin. The entrance doors open and out comes a horde of lobster warriors barricading the entrance to the lair. They were prepared for a fight and wouldn't let anyone enter the building inconspicuously.
"Well that makes things a lot easier, it means I won't have to break in the facility after all. This I could not resist" said Douglas as he calls the lobsters for a fight. He would go so far as to even call the lobsters for a fight "Hey over here guys, you want a fight, I'm over here."
"Guys we have intruders, get him!" said lobster601 as he summons every available lobster reinforcement to help them in fight off the intruder. Moments later, it wasn't long before hundreds of lobster warriors come out of hiding and start attacking the robot that Douglas is piloting.
"No turning back now, come and get me you stupid lobsters" calls Douglas.
The penguin manages to blast them off one by one, but not before they start clinging to his robot. The lobsters start pummelling the robot to pieces before driving it to the ground. Struggling, Douglas reaches his flipper to the electric shock mode button and succeeds, electrifying any lobster clinging to the robot. He regains his composure and starts blasting the lobsters that are blocking his path. "No lobster can defeat Colonel Douglas."
Douglas finally enters the facility for a full five minutes before he realizes that he has no idea where he is headed.
"Where are you Skipper? (Sighs) I hope I'm not too late to save everybody, especially my buddy Leon, whom I know is still missing"
For the slightest moment, there is a sadness caught in the corners of his eyes, he wonders about the fate of his friends, where they are right now in this facility—this is what he's been thinking all night. Douglas almost loses hope about planning to save the world form turmoil, maybe that glory faded a long time ago, maybe it has taken all these light-years to only reach him now. Even now, he cannot tell himself what is going to happen.
But, he is brought back by a heartfelt realization that—what happens to the world if good guys like him give up so easily, will there still be peace, at all? Douglas tells himself that whatever happens, he would ensure that evil never overcomes its main goal.
Douglas' deep thinking was interrupted when a lobster in recon duty spots him. The lobster quickly informs his co-workers via walkie-talkie that an unauthorized person has entered the facility.
"Code red, code red, we have an intruder in sector 1, I repeat intruder in sector 1. Hey, you there, freeze" said the lobster who is in pursuit of Douglas.
"Me, freeze? Oh come on, how 'bout you freeze instead" replied Douglas, then uses the freeze ray on him, eventually sealing the lobster on ice, eventually he realizes that reinforcements are approaching and the only way to delay them in their tracks is by closing the door found behind Douglas. In haste, he deciphers the code to block the entrance.
"Come on code, hurry up. They're coming" mutters to himself.
The penguin succeeds, blocking the entrance thus preventing anymore clash between him and the lobsters.
"Now that that's done, I have to act quickly and get the heck out of here" said Douglas "Hang on guys I'm coming." The robot can be heard thumping noisily on the floors.
While inside the Anechoic Chamber...
"What's that smell?" asks Buck, whiffing out the smoke coming from inside the chamber. They exchange expressions before realizing what is transpiring inside the chamber.
"It's carbon monoxide" Kowalski says also whiffing the smoke.
"You mean the stuff that comes from fire?" asks Buck
"Yes, the poisonous, toxic gas that comes from fire" replies Kowalski
"But how, there's no fire in here soldier" says Buck, confused as to how carbon monoxide developed in the room without the element of fire.
Then Kowalski explains how carbon monoxide is formed inside the chamber. "No, but this place is highly absorptive of radiation, it will generate heat within the chamber. If this cannot be dissipated adequately there is a risk that hot spots may develop and the temperature may rise to the point of combustion."
"Then we have to get out here now, give me some options here" says Buck
"You kinda remind me of Skipper. Oh how I missed him." says Kowalski "But how, we can't even break the door open and the windows are made of plastic"
"Well then there's only one thing we can do now soldier"
"And that is?" asks Kowalski sarcastically
"We ask for help. HELP! Anybody help!" shouts Buck desperately trying to attract some attention.
"I hope you're right about this Buck, even though no one could hear us, it's still not an excuse not to call for help"
"HELP!" they scream in unison, hoping that someone will come to their rescue.
While roaming around the facility, Douglas sees smoke coming from the air shaft, the smoke leads him to room that's currently on fire. It was then he knew that the smoke had originated in the room just a few miles from his current location. He immediately rushes to their aid. Douglas pilots the robot and bursts thru the front door of the anechoic chamber. The smoke makes it harder for him to locate Kowalski and Buck.
"Where are you guys?" asks Douglas
"Over here, help us please" Kowalski faints from the smoke and falls flat to the ground. Buck is still holding out strong from the flames but still persists coughing because he inhaled some of the toxic fumes. After a while he finally gives up and faints on the ground in a supine position.
Douglas is horrified seeing two fellow penguins unconsciously lying on the ground. There was no time to waste as he proceeds to drag them out of the chamber, pulling their limp bodies close to each other against the strong concrete walls. He frantically grabs a fire extinguisher hanging on the side— and uses it to put out the fire, thus saving Kowalski and Buck from a fiery end. Douglas jumps out of the robot machine and approaches the two weakened penguins to make sure they're okay.
"I put out the fire, you guys all right?" asks Douglas. He fears he may already have been too late as they lay motionless on the ground. Silence filled the area. All of a sudden a response came from one of the penguins. Douglas breathes a sigh of relief.
"Yeah just dandy I guess" replies Kowalski
"Wuh, thanks for saving us, and by the way who are you?" asks Buck, still dizzy from inhaling the smoke.
"Do you have amnesia or something Buck, It's me Douglas. You know, one half of the pair you saved from those lobsters? Hey wait, if that means you didn't remember any of it, someone is trying to impersonate you" says Douglas. He gasps in horror.
"Sorry I don't really remember saving you, the last thing I remember is that someone clobbered me on the head with a baseball bat. When I woke up I was inside a prison cell. Hey wait, where's Becky, Stacy and Leonard, what did you do to them, are you some sort of hired assassin?" said Buck, pulling Douglas towards him.
"Umm no, I'm not an assassin, I'm the guy who just saved your lives from that fire!" scowls Douglas.
"Oh yeah, thanks for that. But just remember, even though you saved us that still raises suspicion, I'm keeping my eye on you kid" says Buck
"Yeah good luck with that, anyway how did you meet Stacy, Becky and Leonard?" asks Douglas
"I found them when I infiltrated this lair, I took off their hypnotic bracelets—
"And you escaped the lair, thus saving them from the puffins control, yadda, yadda, yadda" interrupts Douglas, having heard the story before from the Impostor Buck.
"Wait how'd you know that, you weren't spying on me weren't you; ha I knew it you're a hired assassin, get ready for a fight soldier" says Buck in his fighting stance.
"Whoa slow down there, let me explain" said Douglas
"Perhaps it's best if we should let him explain what's going on Buck. We don't want to get off on the wrong foot do we?" said Kowalski, trying to convince Buck to calm down and let Douglas explain his side of the story.
Buck rolls his eyes in disbelief, but hesitantly agrees to Kowalski's plea.
"Fine, explain your side of the story soldier" says Buck.
"Well first I should say that someone out there is using your name and your body to impersonate you, to make you look like you're the one committing the crime. And when I say your, I am referring to Buck over here"
"Do you know who this impersonator is?" asks a curious Kowalski
"Unfortunately no, and I bet he's behind the kidnappings of both the badgers and the koala" said Douglas
"How can you be sure soldier?" asks Buck
"Well it's because the last time I saw those three—they were with the Impostor Buck. After we heard screams, I figured it was your impersonator who kidnapped them."
"Hold on there, did you say we heard?" says Kowalski
The strategist was quick to figure out that Douglas had a partner. Though he's not too sure if it's one his teammates or someone he hasn't met yet. Yet his curious nature propels Kowalski to know more about Douglas unknown friend.
"Umm yes, we, why are you curious all of a sudden friend?" Asks Douglas
"Just curious I guess, I thought it was one of my teammates that you were talking about" replies Kowalski
"Teammates?, Oh you mean my friend Skipper, actually I was with him until the sewer we were in collapsed on top of me. Skipper might have escaped but I didn't, the structure fell on top of me, burying me under it. Fortunately I survived that and Skipper now believes I am dead, so now I'm coming to rescue him, wherever he is right now."
Without a doubt, Kowalski becomes excited to hear the news that Skipper was with Douglas. And the strategist finally has the chance to reunite with his old penguin buddy and leader for such a long time.
"Skipper is here, Skipper is here, woohoo! This is the most exciting moment of my life. Look out world, Skipper and I are going meet again soon" said Kowalski as he jumps nonstop for joy and jubilation.
"Hold on there friend, why so jumpy all of a sudden? Do you know Skipper?" ask Douglas curiously
Kowalski replies "Know him? Were teammates in the zoo actually. Together with Private, Rico, Skipper and I, the four of us form an awesome commando team back in Central Park Zoo, going on dangerous missions and saving civilians from harm" replied Kowalski with a sunny smile.
"Right, and you are?" asks Douglas
"My manners sorry, I'm Kowalski, the strategist, gadgeteer and the brains of the group"
With Kowalski giving himself the introduction, Douglas returns the greeting. They exchanged glances at each other. Neither of them knew each other as of this time.
"Nice to meet you Kowalski, I'm Colonel Douglas; I was tasked to investigate your zoo's disappearances, and my mission together Skipper led us here to Japan, we're here to save Private, another teammate of yours" said Douglas
"Yes we know, we met Private earlier and he didn't look to friendly to see us, he left us to rot in the chamber" adds Kowalski
"That's unfortunate Kowalski, but you have to remember that Private isn't really himself, it's the hypnotic bracelet that controlling your friend" said Douglas, assuring Kowalski that Private will be back to normal soon.
All of a sudden Buck intervenes in their conversation, telling them that now is not time for personal acquaintances to meet and greet each other. Instead they should be focusing more on saving their friends and the world from an evil dolphin. To make things worse, the lobsters who were in pursuit of Douglas earlier finally found an alternate route and they almost caught up to him.
"There they are get them!"
"Oh great not those guys again" says Buck in an annoyed tone.
Douglas comes up with a brilliant idea, he'd be the one to distract the lobster horde while the still recuperating Buck and Kowalski go ahead and search for Skipper. From there, they can help him fight off Hans the Puffin and his evil hypnotized minions.
"You guys go ahead, I'll take care of these lobster jerks. I'll catch up with you later" replies
"But what about you?" says Kowalski "There too many of them, you can't fight them all by yourself?"
Kowalski is fearful for the situation Douglas is putting himself through. The penguin is willing to defend his friends in the name of justice.
"Not if I use the robot to blast them off into space, now go and hurry" replies Douglas
"Good luck Douglas" says Kowalski. Douglas nods his head to his friend Kowalski before turning to face the lobsters. The two penguins then head off to the opposite direction to find Skipper.
"Alright lobsters, It's time we settle the score" said Douglas and ends the scene.
Meanwhile the unconscious Skipper finally wakes up, he realizes that he is tied to chair while his flippers are tangled in metal cuffs. To his left, also tied to a chair and tangled in metal cuffs, are the unconscious Becky, Stacy and Leonard. Apparently, Hans has a reason for tying them up in chair. The old puffin enemy claps his flippers while slowly revealing himself from a shadowy disguise.
"Hans" says Skipper
"Skipper, how nice of you to finally us" says Hans. Then the puffin laughs maniacally thus ending the scene.
To be continued...