Ch.7: Dark Seeds, Blooming Hate

When Skipper awoke, he found himself chained to a small little lab table, barely able to move. The surroundings of the ruined zoo were gone, along with any signs of his comrads. Vauge memories dashed across Skipper's mind, as the tough penguin tried to recall how he had got here.

(FlashBack)

With the few remaining survivors of the zoo, and Blowhole, Skipper and the others prepared to face off againist Evil Skipper and his team. Skipper immediately went after his evil self, while Hans and Savio attacked the other animals.

Private and Rico were knocked away by Savio's swinging tail, while the lemurs were being taken out one by one by Hans. Blowhole did nothing but stand there on his scooter, while Marlene followed Skipper and his evil self fighting up to the bell tower.

The penguins combat moves were matched blow for blow, each one of them taking a hit and a punch. However, the Evil Skipper used a few dirty moves to take advantage of the fight, tripping Skipper up, and pinning the helpless penguin to the ground.

Seeing her friend in trouble, Marlene charged at Evil Skipper, and knocked the scarred penguin off her friend. With the joy of Marlene's aid, Skipper hopped back into the fight, taunting his evil self.

"You've lost this" said Skipper " there's no way you can stop all of us,"

"I bet I can" said Evil Skipper, with a wicked grin, then called out "Blowhole, Destroy!"

The whole battle was suddenly disturbed as Blowhole's eyes turned blood red, and he turned the weapons on his scooter againist the resistance. Private and Rico were caught off guard and severely injured, while Savio managed crush the lemurs in his coils, and then one by one, swallow them whole.

"Amazing isn't it?" said Evil Skipper, to Marlene and his counterpart's shocked faces " my Blowhole robot has been spying on the Resistance for years, since I disposed of the orginal dolphin. I had planned to get more torment from them by taking them out indivually, but seeing your horrified expression was more than enough,"

Skipper's blood began to boil at the words of his evil self's taunt. He couldn't belief that his own mind would stoop so low as in taking the life of a harmless being.

Before he could turn around and yell out himself, Kitka suddenly swooped in and flew off with Marlene. Distracted by her cries Skipper lowered his guard, leaving Evil Skipper just enough time, to knock the good penguin out cold.

(End FlashBack)

Skipper was suddenly snapped out of his memories as his evil self walked in with Hans and his Blowhole robot stalking in behind him. The grin on his beak was absoutely nasty as he approached Skipper, bloodlust shining deep in his eyes.

Hans and the Blowhole-bot immediately went to the labs computers, while the Evil Skipper whispered creepily in his counterpart's ear.

"Nightmares become real don't they, since you defied their exsistance. This is the world you have you created for yourself in your mind, and I am determined to make it real,"

"My mind?" said Skipper confused " you're saying this all in my head? There's no way I would thinking about all of this stuff,"

"Denail" said Evil Skipper, seeming to grow larger with each outburst of rage " I control this body! You belong to me! And you will never lock me away with your weakness again!"

Meanwhile, in the real world, Kolwaski, Private, and Rico were silently monitoring the unstable conditions of their fallen leader. The collision with the bell had been more serious than they thought.

Mumbled words started pouring out from Skipper's beak. His muscles were tensed, and the conditions of his heart were off the scale. By the time Marlene had finally gathered the courage to go over the penguins habitat again, she reached them just as their yells of panic echoed from the room.

Whatever terror Skipper was experincing in his mind had rose up to the next level. His heart was flat-lining!