Ch.6: Inviting Evil

Meanwhile, the Evil Skipper, and his villianous partner in crime, Hans, were just returning to their headquarters from Execution Square, when they encountered a little problem in the lobby.

At the front desk were Savio and Kitka, both demanding Kolwaski to see Evil Skipper at once, unaware that he and Hans had just arrived behind them. Kolwaski was trying to calm both the animals down, but was having little luck.

The genius's eyes almost lit up with relief as he spotted Evil Skipper and Hans by the front door.

"Sir" shouted Kolwaski " I'm glad you're back,"

Savio and Kitka immediately turned thier attention to the scarred penguin, their eyes set in a glare.

"What seems to be the trouble here?" said Evil Skipper, ignoring his minions glares.

" He says that he saw you free some prisoners from the arena, and then tied him to a wall" said Kitka, pointing a wing towards Savio " but I saw you at the zoo earlier today,"

"What are you talking about?" said Hans " he was at Execution Square with me,"

"No" said Kolwaski " he was right here in the office. And he left me a message to deliever,"

"What message is that?" asked Evil Skipper, he was getting more confused and angry with every sentence.

"That a face from the past has come to ruin your future," said Kolwaski, seriously, even though he was laughing on the inside.

"Mine had a message too" said Savio " saying to say 'Hi' to my Boss for me,"

All was silent for a few minutes as Evil Skipper slowly put together the facts. And when he did his eyes instantly narrowed in anger.

"Hans! Savio!" said Evil Skipper " we're going back to the zoo. Kitka, tell the boys in the lab to prepare for testing. We got a penguin to catch,"

Meanwhile, in the safety of the ruined zoo, Marlene, Skipper, and Rico finally pulled off for a breather after blowing up the shock collar factory and fleeing the blast. Skipper was a little relieved that he destroyed at least one part of this horrible world, but still, so much more remained.

" Skipper?" asked Marlene concerned, looking at the penguin.

"Why did this happen Marlene?" asked Skipper, more to himself than to her. " A simple training excerise turned into this. I'm now being attacked by the same weakness that plagued my team,"

"Love," said Rico, remembering the lesson.

"Love?" said Marlene confused, then turned to Skipper " but Skipper, love isn't a weakness,"

"Of course it is" said Skipper " my heart's in terrible pain,"

"You didn't let me finish" said Marlene, taking a seat beside the penguin " it's only a weakness if you let it be a weakness. Love has an unbelieveable strentgh you can not even imagine. An immortal strentgh. And until you find the key to unlock love's true power, you'll always be weak,"

Skipper gazed at Marlene both with shock and curiousity. The otter's strange words somehow made sense.

"Love's true strentgh huh?" Skipper thought " how powerful can it be?"

His thoughts were soon interrupted though by an unexpected ambush. Jumping out of the shadows of the ruined zoo, a one-winged, scarred Private called out to his fellow revoltuionaries to attack Skipper's group. Which just so happened to be; the Lemurs.

Caught by surprise, Skipper, Marlene, and Rico immediately went into defense mode, fighting againist the quick moments of their former friends. Private aimed for Skipper right away, while King Julien and the others attacked Rico and Marlene

Skipper tried to calm down Private by saying he was not the Evil Skipper, but the no longer cuddly Private was even listening.

An appraising set of eyes watched the whole amusing display with a smile on his face. He would have to see them continue fighting all day, but unfortunately, they had a schedule to keep.

Pressing his flippers to one of the buttons on his scooter, Dr. Blowhole shot out a stationary beam that stopped the whole fight in its tracks. When Skipper saw that Blowhole was here he was surprised, but Private looked downright furious.

"Blowhole!" shouted Private " Why did you that? This is the Evil Skipper!"

"No it's not young Private" said Dr. Blowhole " I've met this one before. He came from the past,"

"The past?" asked Maurice, as Blowhole gentley lowered them down " but how?"

"I don't know that yet" said Dr. Blowhole " but it will be interesting to find out,"

"Well I say he is just a phony!" yelled King Julien " he does not even look like the bossy penguin! Just look at that beak. And those eyes. And those feathers uh! Black and white! What are you a 50's cartoon?"

"Same ol' stupid Ringtial " said Skipper with a sign " why didn't I let Kolwaski embalm him why we had the chance?"

"Huh!" gasped Private " you are the real Skipper. The evil version would have never remembered that time,"

"That's what Blowhole's been trying to tell you guys," said Marlene.

"Yeah" said Rico " he rescued us from the fight ring,"

" Then I'm sorry about the confusion," said Private with a regretful bow.

"There seems to be a lot of that going on" said Skipper " I don't know how I may have got into this world, or how I'll get back to my own. But as long as I'm here. I'm going to make sure that evil me doesn't do anymore damage,"

"Oh," said a suddenly eerie voice that made all of the animals turn around. Their eyes widening in fear as they saw Evil Skipper, Hans, and Savio standing dangerously in the moonlight.

"And just how do you plan to stop me?"