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Chapter 2: A Date With a Diabolical Dolphin

I slowly drifted back into conciseness. Trying to sit up, I realized that my hands were tied behind my back. Wait a minute, why were my hands tied behind my back? Suddenly it all came back to me- the strange noise, the lobsters, Mary passing ou- Mary! Where is my cousin?

Rolling over on my side, I did my best to sit up with out the use of my hands. Which, trust me, is a lot harder then it sounds. After a couple of minutes of struggling I accomplished my goal and sat up.

I looked around. I was in a large, metal cage in the middle of a room. Surrounding the outside were at least fifty lobsters, all doing a particular task and not paying the slightest bit of attention to me.

Searching the inside of the cage, I finally found Mary behind me. She was still unconscious, and I could tell by the way she was lying and how much my side hurt that we were just thrown carelessly into the cell. Using my feet for momentum, I slowly pushed my way over to her.

"Hey Mary," I whispered shouted "Psst Mary! Mary wake up! Mary. Maaaaa-rrrrry!" Hmmm... not working. Time for a new tactic "MARY WAKE UP!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

The lobsters all stopped whatever they were doing, and stared at us startled. Mary woke up with a jump.

"Ah! Please don't take my Barbie away!" She shouted, sitting straight up with wide-eyes. I shot her a questioning look.

"Uh... Just pretend I didn't say that." I nodded skeptically.

She looked around and spotted the lobsters, who had gone back to work "What the heck? Where are we?"

"I don't know." I said simply.

"Why are we in a cage? Why are we tied up? Why-"

"Look Mary, if I knew, we probably wouldn't be in here." I said, slightly annoyed.

Before Mary could respond however, the doors at the end of the room opened and all the lobsters came to attention instantaneously. A dolphin on a moped came in through the door, surrounded by four lobster bodyguards. He stopped in front of the cage and started chattering away in what I assume was dolphin talk. He started waving his arms around in crazy gestures and continued to talk, though I couldn't understand a word he said.

"Any idea what he's saying?" I asked Mary.

"Not a clue." Mary answered, just as confused as I was.

The dolphin stopped short when he heard us. Realization flashed across his face and he ordered a random lobster to do something. The lobster walked over to a nearby table and grabbed two metallic collars with buttons and lights. He then crossed the room over to the cage door, unlocked it, and walked over to us.

Realizing what he was about to do, we started to struggle in our ropes. But he was to quick, and before we could eve protest, he snapped the collars onto both of our necks. He walked out of the cage and locked it again.

The dolphin pressed a button on his moped, and Mary and I screamed out in pain as a wave of electricity coursed though our bodies. He smirked in satisfaction of our pain.

"Hello pathetic humans, do you understand me now?

Mary nodded while I, ticked off, yelled "What the heck was that?"

"What? The electrocution?"

I nodded angrily.

Once again he smirked "That was my animal translator device. It activated part of your frontal brain that hasn't been used since your primal days and made it so you can understand any animal."

Ok, I hated to admit it, but that was pretty cool.

"Why are we here? What do you want with us?" Mary asked bravely.

"Let me start with introductions. I am Dr. Blowhole - "

Mary and I burst out in laughter. Between gasps of air, I sneered "Doctor? Yeah right! Where did you get a doctorate?" At the same Mary said "Blowhole? That's such a stupid name for a dolphin!"

"Shut up! It's not that funny!" He yelled, but we continued to laugh anyway "We'll see who's laughing after this!" And with that, he pressed another button on his moped and our laughs soon turned into screams of pain as we were once again electrocuted.

"Red one, bring them to the table!" Blowhole ordered the lobster nearest to him.

The same lobster from before opened the cage, grabbed us, and dragged us over to a nearby table where we were we strapped in. We were too weak to do anything about the whole way. We each had a brace on our wrists, ankles, and stomach. Towering over us was a large laser. I gulped. Dang, there was no way out of this. I was officially starting to worry...

"That is one big laser..." Mary said in awe.

"Yes. Yes it is, isn't it? I bet your puny human brain is wondering what it does, am I correct?"

"Well that's a big obvious duh!" I retorted.

"Tut tut. Sarcasm in one so young is bad for the liver." Blowhole scolded.

That was one way to confuse me "What?"

"Oh never mind! This laser will shoot a beam at you that will change you into whatever animal your personality reflects most. I just needed some humans to play test subject for me." He said, smiling evilly.

I stared blankly ahead while I considered this. While turning into an animal seemed pretty wicked, I could, you know, die or something. He did say he was testing it, which usually led to bad results, and quite frankly I didn't trust the guy. Shocking me for laughing at him probably led to that. But anyway, whatever happened, I would accept my fate with dignity. That, and sarcasm.

"Why us?" Mary asked suddenly.

"Well I needed some humans to test the laser, and you just happened to be the first two humans to walk down that alley and into my lobster trap."

Mary sent me a death glare. Heheh, oops. I was about to open my mouth to apologize, but suddenly there was a loud explosion that echoed throughout and shook the whole room. I looked over to the source of the noise to see a large whole had been blasted in the wall and four short figures standing in defensive stances.

"The gig is up, Blowhole!" Shouted the second shortest figure.

As the dust created from the explosion cleared, I realized they were penguins. Penguins? Seriously? They don't even live on this continent! This was officially the weirdest day in my life.

"What? How did you peng-oo-uins get past my security system? Ugh, never mind. Lobsters, attack!" Blowhole ordered.

The second shortest penguin jumped into action, it was obvious he was the leader "Rico, attack formation Alpha- Beta-Charlie-November now!" He ordered. A penguin with a scar on his face and feathers that looked like a mohawk started attacking the lobsters.

"Kowalski!" The leader penguin requested, and the tallest one snapped up from his clipboard "See if you can disable that laser!" The tall penguin nodded and waddled over to the computer.

"Private, I want you to go free those humans!" The leader ordered the cutest, and from what I could tell, youngest penguin.

"What about Blowhole, Skippah?" The boy asked with a British accent.

"Leave him all to me." He said with a smirk. Then he lunged toward Blowhole as the short penguin waddled over to us.

"I don't know if you can understand me or not, but I promise everything will be alright" He said assuringly.

I nodded my understanding as he began to work on the restraint on my left hand. He managed to get it off.

I flexed my wrist, glad to have circulation back in it "Thanks. My name's Aly. That's my cousin Mary."

Mary, who was watching the fight, looked over at the mention of her name "Hey," She greeted.

The young penguin smiled at us "My name's Private."

With a grunt he broke the brace on my right wrist. I reached my hand out to shake his flipper, even though I didn't think he knew what to do. To my surprise, he extended his right flipper to shake mine. I looked up into his eyes only to have his soft blue eyes meet mine halfway. I sat like that for a minute.

"Nice to meet you." I whispered.

I wanted to sit like that for an eternity, but Mary's fake cough caused Private to break eye contact and look over to her.

"Um, do you think you can the rest of the restraints off while I help Mary?" He asked sheepishly.

I nodded, slightly disappointed, as he made his way over to Mary. Behind his back, I sent Mary a glare and she shrugged sympathetically.

As I worked to get the brace off my middle, I looked over to the fights in progress. The mohawk penguin had almost defeated all the penguins, and the leader was currently tumbling with Blowhole. It looked like a pretty even fight.

I broke the brace around my waist, and I couldn't help but cheer out loud. Suddenly all eyes were on me. Blowhole, abruptly realizing he was fighting a losing battle, raced back to his moped. He got on, and a protective bubble formed around him as he began to take off of the ground. Now where can I get me one of the those?

"You won't get away with this, Blowhole!" The leader yelled.

"But I will Skipper," He said with a maniacal laugh "And I will get my revenge too."

"Oh yeah, how!" I yelled across the room.

He looked at me, and I suddenly wished I hadn't opened my mouth "Like this, ignorant human!" He boasted.

He pressed yet another button on his moped- I was really starting to hate the stupid thing and its convenience- and a loud voice came over the intercom "Self-destruction sequence initiated. 30 seconds to self-destruction." Oh crap.

Then he pressed another button. At first I wasn't sure what it did, until I glanced at the laser and noticed it was powering up.

"Shitoki mushrooms!" I cursed out loud.

"Save the humans or save yourself? The choice is yours, Skipper." Blowhole said with a maniacal laugh as he descended into a pool and escaped.

"Self-destruction in 15 seconds"

Mary, Private, and I worked feverishly to get the remaining braces off. I broke the one around my left ankle as they broke the one around Mary's wrist.

"10 seconds to self-destruction. 9, 8, 7..."

The laser was about to shoot. I broke my last restraint.

"6, 5, 4,"

I turned to Private and Mary to help them. They were having trouble with the brace on her right ankle. With my help, we broke it too. We got up to run.

"3, 2, 1. Bye-bye!"

Several things happened at once. The lair exploded into a into a rain of concrete as the roof caved in. A sharp piece of the ceiling made contact with my skull as the laser shot out a beam at Mary and I. I heard Private scream, and I faded into black nothingness.

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