Ch.5: Psyhcotic Impulse

Skipper had never been inside a jail before, or even a ward, but in this place he could swear he saw the two of them combined. Most of the animals in the cages he passed were sleeping, but those that weren't scared him to death.

They clawed at their prisons. Growling, snarling as Skipper walked past. Skipper was surprised when he noticed that one the pyshco prisoners was Max the Mooncat. His claw nearly grazing Skipper's head as he rolled out of the way.

"What in the world have they done to you?" asked Skipper, to all the animals, but recieved no response, until that is...

"Skipper?" asked a familiar female voice.

Recgonizing it instantly, Skipper slid over to a nearby cage, and inwardly sighed in relief when he saw Marlene still seeming in her right mind.

" Yes Marlene, it's me," said Skipper.

" Good" said Marlene, then surprised Skipper with a punch to the gut " that's for imprisoning me and focring all of us to behave like savage animals,"

"What are you talking about?" asked Skipper " I'm not the Evil Skipper. I didn't send you here. The only reason I came was to bust you and Rico out so we could put a stop to the evil me,"

"Uh huh" said Marlene, crossing her arms " prove it,"

" Okay" said Skipper, thinking " Kolwaski once stole one of your hairbrushes to conduct experiments with lice,"

"He what!" shouted Marlene " no wonder I was itching so bad that day, aside from the posion ivy icident,"

"Please" said Skipper, holding out his flippers " don't even remind me of that,"

"Hey wait a minute" said Marlene, pointing at Skipper " you remembered! When you first threw me in here, you said you could no longer remember anything because Blowhole erased them from your mind,"

"Why that lying porpoise!" said Skipper " he told me that he only got rid of my emotions. I should have figured he would done thorough job. Now I'm stuck in this nightmare dimension, trying to stop an evil me from going out of hand,"

"Well, you'd better be careful" said Marlene " Dark Skipper has agents everywhere. He's not going to be easy to take down,"

"I know" said Skipper, picking the lock to Marlene's cage " that's why I need help. You with me?"

"Always," said Marlene, shaking paws as soon as she got out of the cage.

"Good" said Skipper, returning her shake " Now, let's go find Rico,"

With that said, Marlene and Skipper charged further down the corridor until they reached the Arena where, from the sounds of the crowd, some major event was taking place. A pyschotic laugh indicated that they were heading in the right direction.

Once they entered the lights of the Arena, Skipper and Marlene found themselves facing the shocking sight of Rico being surrounded by a group of five wolves. All five canines teeth were bared and ready to rip the poor pyshcotic penguin apart.

Rico produced his signature chainsaw out of his gullet, but it wouldn't be enough to stop what was standing before him.

Skipper looked up into the crowd watching the fight, and saw Savio sitting there watching the procedings. It didn't take long to guess that the serpent was another one of the Evil Skipper's minions.

"Come on we got to help him," said Marlene, about to rush off to Rico's rescue, when Skipper pulled her back.

"No" said Skipper, pointing up " if Savio sees us it's all over. We need to blind those canines so that we can free Rico,"

"Any ideas then?" asked Marlene.

Skipper looked around the whole arena. Blacking out the lights wouldn't probably work, cause wolves could see in the dark. That would just be giving Rico a disadvantage. Their were some ropes hanging from some of the metal bars, and that gave Skipper an idea.

Quickly whispering his plan to Marlene, the penguin and otter went to work. From up above in the stands, Savio was enjoying seeing the torment of the pychotic penguins face, as one of the wolves managed to smack away his chainsaw, and another took a good slash out of his side.

One more strike, and the fight would be over. All five wolves circled around Rico, all ready to deliever the killing blow, when a whirl of miracles flew out of the stands.

Ropes flung out into the staduim, lassoing around the wolves necks, and stopping them from hurting Rico any further. Rico and Savio could hardly believe what happened when Marlene suddenly rushed into the staduim, and urged Rico to follow her out.

Not willing to let the bloody gladiator get away, Savio slipped through the bars of the arena, and chased after Rico and Marlene. His head had almost reached them, when another lasso sailed out, and stopped him in his tracks. His tail met a similiar fate when he was still recovering from the shock. Before the serpent knew it, he was all tied up to a metal pipe.

Skipper suddenly appeared before Savio, sporting a wicked grin. The serpent's eyes widened in surprise.

"Tell your Boss I said 'Hi' won't you?" said Skipper, then left to chase after Rico and Marlene.